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STOCKED AN OFFICER
How a Yankee Outwitted a Suppressor
Os Smuggling.
A CONVENIENT SNOWDRIFT,A RUNAWAY
Horse and a Cool Nerve Did the Trick—An
other Proof That the Race Is Not
Always to the Swift.
The boundary line between the United
States and Canada has been the scene of
no end of exciting adventures, because,
the desire to cheat our Uncle Samuel
out of his lawful tariff dues is seme
thing that Si ems to be deeply rootr <1 in
the human breast. There are professional
smugglers, but the larger per cent, I
imagine, are those who, being on the
Canadian side of the line and finding
goods very cheap, cannot resist the temp
tation to try to get them across.
Between Maine and the British pos
sessions is an enormously long stretch of
boundary line, and patrolling it is en
tirely out of the question, but gtill, with
all their slips the customs officers do oc
casionally get hold of a clew and run it
to the ground—sometimes with results
that are not so pleasant. This was the
case with the officer whose story I am
about to toll. At just what part of Un
cle Sam’s farm line it occurred need not
be told. The story starts upon the Ca
nadian side at a secluded spot in the
woods, whei j a man, a horse sled with
an enormously big box upon it, a good
horse and a trunk filled with valuable,
articles mal:" a break for'the American
side of the hue. In some Way an officer
has got wind of the attempted smug
gling, and with a still better horse he
starts at full speed after the mysterious
trunk and the driver of the horse sled.
It was not until some distance acrecs
the line upon the American side that the
driver of the horse sled discovered that
he was pursued.
Far back on a distant hill he saw a
team coming at full speed, and knew
its meaning. He got up steam on his
own craft immediately, and the old sled
slid into and cut of “thank ye Kanns”
in away to make one’s hair rise, but
the driver knew very well that he could
not escape being overtaken. He only de
eired to get over the next hilltop and
out of sight for a moment. When over
the brow of the hill, he suddenly pulled
up, took the trunk up in his arms,
•climbed on top of the enormous box on
the sled, and holding the trunk as high
as he could over the side dropped it in
to a big snowdrift, where it sank com
pletely out of sight. Then the race be
gan again.
Back at the summit of the last hill
appeared the customs officer in hot pur
suit, and now he yelled to the man
ahead to step, but that individual ap
peared singularly deaf and in a great
hurry as well. He kept his horse at top
speed, and looked neither to .the right
nor left. w
A half mile more and the officer had
drawn up close behind, when pretense
of not hearing his profane calls could
no longer be made. The driver of the
slea gazed backward over his shoulder,
and then, in apparently great surprise,
he pulled, up—so suddenly that the offi
cer’s foaming horse nearly plunged
head foremost into the big box.
*‘ Wha-wha-what d’ye want?’ ’ drawled
tthe num ahead.
The reply of the officer is totally un
suiied for publication. “I sw’ar to ye,
I hain’t got a thing here,” said the
driver of the horse sled.
“Then I should like to know what in
hades you were trying to get away from
me for, ” said the officer.
“Git away from ye?” said the other.
“W’y, gosh ‘mighty! I got ter git home
’u’ milk eight caows afore dark, so I
hain’t got no time ter be a-loafin on the
road. ’ ’
“Well, you just haul up,’’replied the
collector of Uncle Sam’s auties, “and
I’ll have a look. I know well’enough
just what you’ve got there. ” i
“Tell ye I hain’t got a thing here but
this old sled ’n box, ’ ’ protested the oth
er ; but the more he protested the more
certain became his pursuer that he had
contraband goods concealed in the big
box, the only opening to which was a’
little dcor at the end, the normal use of
the box being for the conveyance of live
pigs.
The two teams came to a standstill,
and the officer got out and investigated
the turnout ahead. He opened the little
door in the rear and looked in. With his
eyes blinded by the glare of the bright
snow. Jie could see nothing but Stygian
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blackness, no locki d about ror a pole or
stick with which to probe the inky in
terior. Stone walls were beside the road
and nothing else.
The suppressor of smuggling was a
man of action. There was nothing else
to do, so he would crawl in the box and
explore the interior. He did so, when,
quick us a flash, the door flew to, the
button turned, and the horse in front of
the. old sled broke into a run that threat
ened demolition to the whole outfit.
Over the uneven road went the team at
the top of its speed,, the sled swaying
fearfully and jumping into the air at ev
ery leap of the horse. The man inside
was shaken about like peas in a bladder,
the man outside all the while plying the
whip and shouting: “Whoa!” “Quit
your running away!” “Hi, that!”
“Stop!” and various other remarks tend
ing to acquaint the unfortunate gentle
man iuside with the fact that the horse,
suddenly becoming startled, had run
away.
The end came when the driver at last
got his horse under control and a sorry
looking object crawled out of the little
door.
“Gosh’mighty, ” said the driver of
the horse sled, “it wuz tew bad the hoss
should take it intew his head to run
away jest w’en you wuz in thar!”
But the minion or the law was too
chagrined for utterance, and he limped
slowly back a mile to where his team
Was standing. That night the trunk
Was lifted from its bed of snow by the
light of the moon and carried safely
sway —L< .vision Journal.
TYRAS II DEAD.
Last of Bismarck's Great Danes, Made Fa
mous at Berlin Congress.
Prince Bismarck’s famous hound Ty
ras II died the other day from old ag
He succeeded the historic Tyras, the dog
which attained great notoriety through
his attendance upon his master at the
time of the Berlin congress.
Tyras I lay beside Bismarck at a din
ner which he gave in the Radziwill
palace during the Berlin congress.
Prince Gortschakoff, the Russian chan
cellor, sat on Bismarck’s other side. As
Gortschakoff rose with the other guests
from the table he slipped and Bismarck
caught him.
Tyras apparently thought Bismarck
and Gortschakoff were in a fight and
sprang upon the Russian chancellor. In
an instant the. big hound had Gortscha
koff’s coattails up to the middle of his
back in its mouth.
Bismarck struck three sturdy blows
before the dog would tear loose, and
then it backed under the table with the
coattails still in its grip. Gortschakoff,
who was gouty and feeble, was revived
with whisky and sent home. That is the
record of Tyras, the original, as revised
by Bismarck last fall.—New York Sun.
WILL OPEN THE FEST.
The President Will Touch a Button and
Illuminate a Flag of Glass Bulbs.
President Cleveland has written to
the executive committee of the twenty
eighth national saengerfest,' which be
gins in Pittsburg June 8, that he will
be unable to attend, but that he will be
with the German singers and the mon
ster audience in spirit at the reception
concert and will open the saengerfest
by the touch of an electric button at the
White House.
A flag is to be made of red, white
and blue glass bulbs, which at a given
signal will be illuminated by an electric
wire having a direct circuit between the
saengerfest hall and the White House.
The illumination will take place just
before the reception concert, after the
audience is seated. In this manner the
president will declare the great national
feast of song officially opened.
Fonn<f a Petrified Man.
Peter McNabb of Columbus, 0., a
fern gatherer, found in his wanderings
through a neighboring forest what
seems to be the petrified remains of a
man—probably a prehistoric man. He
says it was brought to light by a recent
landslide. One arm and one leg are
missing, the remaining leg being drawn
up against the stomach and the head
dropping upon the breast. In size it is
a little above the ordinary and appears
to have been buried in a sitting posture.
Hundreds have looked at it, but no sci
entist. has yet examined it.—Chicago
Times-Herald.
To AbollHh the House of Lords.
A manifesto, signed by Mr. Henry
Laboncbrre and 18 other Radical mem
bers of the house of commons, has been
issued.
It announced the formation in the
house of an advanced Radical section,
which will devote itself to promoting
Radicalism among the voters of the
country, primarily centering its efforts
on the abolition of the house of lords
and generally to make parliament a
democratic body.—New York Journal.
They Know a Good Thine-
About 2,000 miles of railway are un
der constrrCction in Japan, and the Lon
don Times says there are signs that
American engineering and material will
be preferred to English hereafter by the
Japanese. Our oriental neighbors will
make no mistake when they order their
railway iron, locomotives and warships
in this country. —St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.
New Kind of Woman.
John Lewis, a popular young man of
this community, and Miss Ida Jones, a
long hollow schoolteacher, were mar
ried last week. —Maryville Times. ,
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