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MAKES FORTUNE
BY SMUCGLING
MADE HIS FIRST MONEY DEALING
IN RUSSIAN RUBLES-THEN EN
GAGED LN SMUGGLING RUBBER
F«OM FINLAND AND GETS RICH
QUICKLY.
Stockholm. Sweden.—“ You want to
know what people smuggle? Go up
the river then, and you will soon find
out. They smuggle nearly everything,
so it is rather difficult to answer the
question offhand.” So said a custom
house officer at Haparanda. the little
Swedish town on the frontier of Fin
land. to Herbert Ericson, a Swedish
writer, who went up the Tornea valley
to investigate the smuggling stories.
“While I was waiting for the Over-
Tornea train to start a motorcycle
chugged into the station yard." said
Ericson.
“That is one of our rubber barons."
remarked an acquaintance to me. A
rubber baron, in Haparanda talk, is
a man who suddenly gets rich on
smuggling rubber in from Finland. I
was in luck, for the baron—Karlsson
I will cal! him—traveled north in my
compartment. He was a pleasant fel
low. He did not remind me of the
smart speculators I had met in Norr
land. He even looked embarrassed
when T began to talk about smuggling.
Clerk Before the War.
“Presently he told me that at the
outbreak of the war he had been a
clerk In one of Norrland’s coast towns.
He had earned his money in rabies.
“It is not generally known that
many hundred Swedes have made big
fortunes out of rubles. It happened
like this: After the occupation of
Poland and other regions of Russia,
the Germans found that the population
refused to take marks In payment for
such supplies as were paid for. The
people demanded rubles, and rubles
the Germans did not have. The only
way of getting them was through
Sweden. The Russian government
permitted no more than 500 to be tak
en out of the government by each
traveler, but with the Incentive of a
good reward smugglers were not lack
ing. The Haparanda agents bought
up these rubles and sent them down
to Germany by bales.
“When the Germans had bought all
the rubles they wanted Karlsson tried
to smuggle drugs to Finland. That
failed absolutely. He met with a dis
aster at the outset. His first consign
ment of several kilos of acetylsalicy
lic acid and 100 clinical thermometers
was seized by the Swedish customs au
thorities and a heavy fine was Im
posed.
“So he got into touch with some
Finnish merchants who. for a price,
guaranteed to have a large quantity
of rubber rings on the Swedish side of
the river at a certain minute on a cer
tain day.
“Entering Into relations with a firm
In Stockholm and finding that he could
make many thousand kroner profit
thereby, Karlsson told the Finns to go ■
ahead. One night he went to Mattila.
where the rubber was to be ready.
Mattila is a tiny station on the Hap
aranda-Over-Tornea stretch of rail
way, and almost on the bank of the
river.
No Sign of Customs Officer.
“When he arrived there was no sign
of a Russian custom house officer
across stream. The revolution has al
tered matters. The Cossacks wh f
used to patrol the Russian shore had
disappeared. The new guards appoint
ed by the revolutionaries found It more
Interesting to stay In Tornea K< rl>«aon
picked up the rubber. This wag only
the first of a chain of such transac
tions he managed with financtal suc
cess.
•‘Karlsson has meticulowdy taken the
K»s*d* no smuggled to the Swedish cn»-
toms authorities to Li assessed for
duty. Quantities' c? tin, flow ntjj lln-
have similarly come over thi
gfverTor men? Tin give*
Tinas Bfi 1 C--li ,
easy where a druggist had eoae to
grlefbj {aklne delivt-qr j,.,j
heavily for a tLotisau4rilbi o/a clteap
Alloy. The flour smuggling teems to
indicate that the Finns etgsgcd mn«'
be blackguard* „ particularly bb
hosious type, for they ship flour out
of their land while they know that
tens of thousands of their fellow
countrymen are nearly starving and
that their government Is sending out
commissions full of piteous appeals to
other lands, America Included, to spare
them a little flour. It seems curious
that these commissions eould not have
tarried a week at the frontier and or
ganized a guard to put a stop to the
drain of flour there."
PHONE COMPANY PUTS
: | BAN ON HUN MESSAGES
■ t Brookfield, Mo. Complying
; [ with the request of the Linn
- r county council of defense, the
’ l Bell Telephone company of this
■ t city, has Issued an order to all
I | patrons of its system prohibiting
• i any other language than English
' 5 over the telephone lines.
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WHO’S WHO
i 1* SLUTER COrSTT!
SOLDIERS ENDORSE
HARRIS FOR SENATOR
ATLANTA, Ga., August 27. —On his
return from a gratifying tour in
Souvh Georgia during which he spoke
in Crisp, Dooly, Pulaski and Wilcox
counties, Wm. J. Harris, candidate for
United States senator, declared ha
had had most satisfactory receptions
everywhere and that he felt more con
fident than ever of victory in the
primary of September 11.
Mr Harris expressed the opinion
that the 'ace is nor wholly between
hlrnsc'-f end Senator Hardwick, and
that bluer candidates cannot possib.y
have t -v effect except to help Sena
tor JJarlwick.
IndiCul-ug the attitude of Georgia s
soldiers in the National Army toward
•be i .-».’»nt campaign for senato-,
Mr Hanis found in his mail upon bis
return 'he following interesting let
ter:
■•American Expeditionary Force.,
“August 3, 1918.
‘ Hon. W J Harris,
Washington. D. C.
■ Dear Sir:
“Being a Georgian and also one of
your political supporters who cannot
be present to cast my vote for you.
as it would be my pleasure to do
were I at home, I am doing the next
best thing I am writing you to ex
press my hope that you will be our
next senator. The Georgians with
whom I have had the opportunity of
discussing the situation back home,
without exception, concur with me in
my views.
“Again wishing you success, I beg
to remain.
'Very truly yours.
‘ G B. WALKER.
Lieut. Co. B. 58th Engineers"
"I am constantly receiving letters
like this from Georgia soldiers,” Mr
Harris said, “and there isn’t a doubt
but that practically all of Georgia's
soldiers and sailors are for me. This
letter was written before President
Wilson’s letter eagne out. and un
doubtedly now Georgia’s soldiers and
sailors will stand more strongly than
ever back of their commander-in
chief. President Wilson.
“Georgia soldiers from Camp
Wheeler cam® to me in Macon Satur
day night, and assured me that prac
tically every Georgia boy in that camp
was for me. These are soldiers who
I are soon to go to France, and they
i strongly resent the efforts of Con
tractor -I- R Smith to dictate to the
people of the state, calling on and
irging them to go contrary to the
wishes of the commander-in-chief,
President Wilson.
“Congressman Howard is now run
ning in only three counties south of
Macon, and he hasn’t a chance to car
ry a single one of these. These loyal
Georgia voters are rapidly learning
that a vote for Mr. Howard means
practically a vote for Senator Hard
wick. They are finding out that the
ra<e is between myself and Senator
Hardwick, and that the only way to
, def.-at the junior senator is by taking
up my tause. They are doing this
• more and more every day as is abun
ddiiC,.,- proven by our correspondence
, >nd the former supporters of other
I candidate* who are coming every day
Real Estate
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into our headquarters. |
“They know now that I am standing |
solidly back of our soldier and sailor
boys and their commander-in-chief,
while Howard Is standing with the
contractors wh o are paying the ex
penses of his campaign.
“Over in Mississippi Governor
Noel's friends unwisely insisted on
his running against the administra
tion candidate. Harrison. If they-had:
had the Neill primary law there as j
we have, the probability is Noel’s can- (
didacy would have meant Vardaman’s,
election.
•‘Hardwick supporters are well
aware of this, and they are, of course,
encouraging Howard to remain in the
race.
“But the loyal Georgia voters are
not going to stand for this. That is j
why they are centering on my candi
dacy, because they want to stand b>
President Wilson, commander-in
chief of our army and navy. That is
why 1 am going to be overwhelmingly
nominated for United States senator ’
on September 11.”
Mr. Harris commented upon the ■
fact that Mayor J. R. Davis of Quit-j
man. who was a classmate of Sena-1
tor Hardwick's in introducing him to (
his audience there, publicly stated
that he was for Mr. Harris and that
Mr. Harris would carry Brooks cutin-
I
t.y overwhelmingly. j
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and you say “Set ’em up again.” f
Buy a can of Luzianne Coffee. If
you can’t honestly say that it’s the SF
best cup of coffee that ever passed *
your lips, tell your grocer you’re not
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Please try Luzianne. You’ll like
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*T am glad you
are using the Long /
Distance Bell Tele- L
phone in your bus
mess. There’s noth
ing like it for saving time and traveling ex
penses. It is the source of direct profit and
satisfying results.
“Very often I talk to salesmen and to
customers on important matters. That’s
one advantage of the Bell Telephone. You
can sit in your office and bring the world to
you.
“Thanks for the order. By using the
Long Distance Telephone you enable us to
save twenty-four hours on the shipment.
Yes, it certainly is wonderful.”
Every Bell Telephone is a Long Distance Station.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY
P. E. Westbrook, Manager
JAP CONCENTRATION
ON USSURI FRONT
IS NOW COMPLETED
LONDON, August 26—Japanese
troops have completed their concen
' tration on the Vssnri front, accord
ing to dispatches from Vladivostok
j At Engeneuka. sailors supported by
Armored cars, attacked the Bolshevik
forces in the face of heavy artillery
: tire and routed them.
The strike at Vladivostok is term
inating in a fiasco as striking labor
ers have been paid off and Chinese
j substituted for them. At the arsenal
shops a serious clash between strik
' ers and non-strikers occurred but al
i lied patrols intervened. The dispatch
says that the Bolshevik agitation
among various elements of workmen
’ is subsiding.
It is reported that Aemricans have
privately loaned the city of Vladivo-
I
, stok 3.500,000 rubles, taking the tram
’ ways as security.
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t‘ HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING,
taterl*r Deceratiag.
-et My EatlmatM.
JOE FITZGERALD.
IM E. Lamar St
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G c • ’• ‘ '
VOLNEY WILLIAMS
FOR
Railroad Commissioner
_ ■ ! «
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for Railroad Commis
sioner, to succeed Hon George Hill
yer. who is not a candidate for re
election, subject to the State Dem
ocratic Primary to be held in Sep
tember. The consideration of the
voters of the state is most respect
fully requested.
vol .N E V W 11.1.1 AM S,
Waycross, Ga. Esstewr HcES■
The Tifton Gazette says: "Volney
Williams is a candidate for Rail
road Commissioner. If elected he \
will make a splendid official. For VkF .
16 years ho lias edited the Way- ra'
cross Journal Herald, and has ever Mt
been active in movements for the '. A*.
best, int-rest of the state. He comes V-w
from one of the greatest railroad
centers of the state, and from a sec
tion that has no representation on
the Commission He was a member of the State Democratic BSxecte
utive Committee in 1910-11, and at present is a member of the Georgia
Legislature. No better material could be found.”
GINNING NOTICE
Our Gin will be closed on Sat
urday, the 24th, Monday, the 26
and Saturday, the 31st of August.
This is in accordance with instruc
tions issued by the Fuel Adminis
tration, ,
All gins in this zone will be
closed Saturdays and Mondays in
August ar d December.
i AMERICUS Op. (O.
FARMERSCOTTON OILCO.
REAO THE L-R,WANT>ERTISEHENTS
TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1918,