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About Conyers weekly. (Conyers, GA.) 1895-1901 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1895)
SlflUGGLERS ARE HAPPY. fBEJS •cot season is at its biaght. THE ATLANTIC LINERS P^VORABLE TO THE WORK. Oh* f«ne to Grief After Work. I H«« lM_g o«< a* Elaborate Plan. j This is the season of . the ... year „„„ when , fhe fashionable smuggler reaps a gold en ihe harvest. month of toeptember er^there tnere is" is no no way of computing in dollars and cents, bot that tt is a very large sum those familiar with the working of the cus tom-house iea rush from Europe ’ The homeward » BOW at its height. Golden Americans _hn * have v been pleasuring all summer SJ d rubbing their shouiders with roy Id and the nobility of the Continent ar,d Great * Britain are being landed by the thousands - every week hv by t>1 the „ great „ r „. t incom ng s ean V ‘ hole immpctors of the „ New -york York custom custom is large enough all the rest of the me vear, ys, to cope successfully with the p «. amateur o ’ . h . is al oge el L during rush ' - matter of cold fact it is . the As a no vice at smuggling who does the most mischief. It Individually, he does not Jarful as much in at one time, as the sue professional but he is so numer ous that in the aggregate it is the amateur who fleeces the Government the most. Besides it is a very difficult Z matter to detect the amateur, where a the “ .Imrative professional can be caught up In numbers' ease round one hundred thousand tourists went abroad in the early summer and are now returning. people who claim to know say this I vast army will smuggle goods to the j value of ten millions. Many will smuggle nothing, but the rest will more than make up for this honesty. All Like to Smuggle. The society girl who can work in a dozen yards of almost priceless I lace without paying tribute to Uncle | Sam regards the work as a master¬ piece. A millionaire who has more money than he knows what to do with thinks it a fine thing if he can smug¬ gle a few costly jewels for his wife, or daughter, and forever after those jew¬ els will be greatly esteemed, because of the questionable halo of romance surrounding them. Even the men who are appointed to uphold the law can a J # IN • "■=* The Smnggling Dog. not resist the temptation of beating Poor old Uncle Sam out of a few dol iars. A weii-known judge, who is now dead, got the most intense pleasure In telling how he smuggled a few yards of indifferent satin by sewing It inside the lining of his coat. That ihere is anything dishonorable about cheating Uncle Sam in this way never °ecurs to the transgressor. It is an exciting game to play at and few tour¬ ists particularly the experienced ones can resist its fascinations. Women Are the Cleverest. Of the professionals, the cleverest and most successful by far, are the "■omen who take advantage of this Particular season to ply their trade knowing that in the great rush of in¬ coming passengers they are the less •iable to detection. In the old days woman smuggler employed false bottoms in her trunks to conceal valu¬ ables and the more artful wore shoes With high heels hollowed out the spaces •bus made filled with unset jewels. These ruses are antiquated now. The up-to-date smuggler is a very e fever woman and in one trip during live Jbe busy season can earn enough to expensively for the rest of the lear. One of these young ladies board by s. Liverpool steamer accompanied a maid and a large St. Bernard She posed as a wealthy society woman with a rich father in one of ‘be Western cities. She did not say ^ discreet in so many words as she was very and quIte exc i us i ve as t o the ^quaintances she made on the way over. ®be learned with much chagrin the rules of the ship prohibited the keeping of her dog in the state room, so that the St. Bernard was consign¬ ed to comfortable quarters In the for¬ ward part of the vessel. There his young mistress visited him three or four times a day always bringing some dainty from the Baloon table. The big dog looked for these visits and gulped down the dainties with eager haste. The other passengers thought It real womanly and generous of the young lady in taking so much trouble about the comfort of the St. Bernard. The Need of a Dog. When the steamer was within twen¬ ty-four hours of port the young lady suddenly discovered that the dog was not well and she ordered the stewards not t0 ive hlm anythlng * to eat Th fl °f seeme<J tQ be ln norm health exce that eVery h0Ur he grew more restless with hunger. The ship would arrive at Q Uarantlne about three ln the after noon and on the morni S day of the trfp the ytmng , ady obtain . ed the captain’s consent to remove the d ° to her sta teroom. By this ... time .. the .. dog . was ready to ££ f ls . \ ,, tamper he woodwork . ordinarily , , he was smooth so , hungry ar-" even became and the other pa « sengers gave him a wide berth. They attrlbutedu to m health broug ht about hy long confinement. His young ™ lst f ss sa [ d he would . be all .. right , ,, as be ^t ashore. Then in the privacy of f her stateroom this very sweet young lady took a necklace of forty odd large diamonds and seeure ly fastened them under the long hair . . forelegs The of the dog. ^ a " easy harne f task ‘ he _ Ey bru tbis te ™ tlm * made * be sWp tblS bad passed Quarantine ; and the cus in ; pect0rs who ta * e * % * i0n s of pa f angers and boarded the J*™ }j!£.* t 1 "* an f ?} tbe read solooa ? tbe to ™ tou ake 5 lst t the ! were cus ' ° ath rega rd ’ n ^ the * po “« s!ons - The young , lady was Che of the J rst . to apka & . et °wledging though with the ownersh this task, p IrM un e 0 8 a /", out U V A Carefnl Arrangement Back in the stateroom again she never left the dog for an instant. It was arran g e( j that when the vessel was docked the maid was to remain on the pier until the inspectors had finished perfunctory examinations of L* Wi 3 I * v a iii i e l I Diamonds ia Her Hair. the baggage, while the mistress and dog were to be driven immediately to the hotel. It was argued that the surly temper of the now half-starved j dog would keep every one at a dis¬ tance and prevent any of the Inspectors I doing anything more than glance at him. This was a fine arrangement, but unhappily a stewardess on board the I ship, a woman of long experience with all kinds of travelers, had about sized up the maid and the mistress. These stewardesses, and in fact all the crew , 0 f a big steamer are always on the lookout for smugglers, as the reward from the Government in event of a seizure is usually a very generous sum. Few passengers know this and are prone to talk on the trip across of how they are going to beat Uncle Sam. Had a very rich St. Louis brewer known of this he might have gotten through successfully a couple of weeks ago with about $2,000 worth of dutiable bits of jewelry. But the jewelry was seised on the pier and the St. Louis gentle¬ man may now have to pay a fine of $4,000 and go to jail in the bargain. The rich brewer is stui wondering where the Inspectors got the Informa¬ tion and if he ever finds out, he may discover that some shrewd employe of the ship gave the tip which Is causing him so much trouble. The young lady and the dog reached the pier safely. She told the maid to wait until the luggage had been pass¬ ed and turned to walk toward the car¬ riages at the head of the pier when a little man In citizens’ clothes stepped up and said: “One minute Miss. How About the Dog. "Don't go near him; he is very cross and may snap at you, cautioned the young lady, feigning great interest in the safety of her questioner, “He’s only hungry; we’ll soon flx that." Turning to a near-by steward he said: “Here, John, run on hoard and get a big dish of food for this dog.” The food was brought and the 2 a< 3 y, the dog and the maid were es corted to the office of the superintend- ent of the pier. Then the dish of food was placed before the excited dog and while he was gulping it down, the little man ran his hands carefully over his body and in less than half a min¬ ute discovered the diamonds. No one said anything. The young woman’s nerves were well strung. She knew that it was all up. The inspec tors knew that they were dealing with a clever professional. The diamonds were worth between $7,500 and $8,000. As she was taken away to be arraigned before a Uni ted States Commissioner she turned to her maid and said In French. “I was a fool. If I had put them in the mld die of a chunk of meat the dog would have swallowed them all right. Then they would never have found them. But I became attached to the brute and didn’t want him to be cut open jo recover them. I hate you now, you brute," and giving the dog a sound kick in the ribs with a neatly shod foot, said she was ready to go. Other Varieties. Although the Government has its special agents scattered all over the world, particularly In the European centers, the best Information cornea from the ship, The great modistes who send over girls to bring back wardrobes worth five and six thous¬ and dollars are easily kept track of v Aorvt when they employ women in fashionable society to do the work. Such a woman can claim that the gowns are her own and unless the ln spector Is very certain of his ground he will not run the risk of subjecting her to the rigorous scrutiny of the search room. Many women moving in the walks of fashionable life increase their in¬ comes materially by these means. One of them was caught by an inspectress who asked her to put on some of the gowns she had In her trunk. She was a woman of medium height while the gowns had been made for very short women, very tall women, fat women and thin women. The inspectress saw at once that the gowns were of all sizes and shapes. One of the cleverest smugglers ever caught was a woman with a magnifi¬ cent suit of hair. She made two or three trips a year and it has been es¬ timated that in each trip she smuggled about $20,000 of unset gems by con¬ cealing them In the heavy rolls of Iher hair. FOREIGN NOTES. Luminous ___i paint is used to light the cars on the line from the Luxembourg to Sceaux in Paris. Rosa Bonheur at seventy-three is paint¬ ing a large picture representing a fight between two stallions. Hoy, a 40,000-acre island in the Orkneys, with the famous pillar of rock, the “Old Man of Hoy,” 300 feet high, at its north¬ ern end, is offered for sale. Great suffering was caused during the recent English army manoeuvres by the regulation boots, which, being ill fitting and stiff, pained many of the men. Dean Farrar's successor as Chaplain to the House of Commons will probably be his son-in-law, the Hon. and R&v. John Stafford Northcte, 'third son of the first Earl of Iddesleigh. the Au¬ Labor seefs to be a drug in stralian market; farm laborers are paid $2.25 to $2.50 a week, boys from 37 to 75 cents a week, balers $3.75 and woodchop pers $1.25 a week. At Altdorf, Where, according to the legend, Gessler’s hat was set up in the market place, a colossal bronze statue of William Tell has just been unveiled by the President of the Swiss Federation. Don Jaymede Pourbon, the eldest son of Don Carlos, will marry, it is said, the eldest sister of little King Alphonso. She was Queen Mercedes for the six months before her brother was born, and is now 15. still ahead of China’s civil service is ours. At a recent examination there were thirty-five candidates over 80 yeaTS of age, eighteen of them over 90, who had been passing examinations all their lives without getting an appointment. Bremerhaven is to have a new million and a quarter dollar dry dock. It will be 870 feet long, 85 feet broad, and 31 1-2 feet deep, and will be ready in 1898. The German empire and the City of Bremen will each contribute one-half the cost. Am Awful Blander. There can be no possible excuse for the blunder perpetrated by the Associated Press on Saturday in sending to all the afternoon papers served by it the false news mat the Valkyrie had defeated the Defender ln the first race. To add, if possible, to the enormity of the blunder the Associated Press dis¬ carded its own service for this occasion and sent West and South the balloon news of The World. Why was this done? Why did The World publish false news? How much was there in it, and for whom ? Enormous sums of money were at stake on the result of the race. Did some one who had placed his money on the Valkyrie want to gain time to hedge? These are questions which are being asked everywhere, but no answers are given. warned by the sad decep¬ The people, place little tion of last Saturday, should confidence ln the treacherous bulletins of the Chicago Associated Press.—New York Mercury. Cholera. Hawaii. London, Sept. 15.—The Standard will tomorrow publish a dispatch from Hono lulu, dated Sept. 4, saying that since August 18, there have been 40 cases of oholera and 31 deaths from the dnseaae. All the victims were native Hawaiians. A strict quarantine is enforced. Business is going on as usual. A Damaging Frost. Concord. N. H., Sept. 15.—The mercury dropped to 30 above zero this morning, the lowest point touched since spring. There was a heavy frost this morning and much damage has been done to gar¬ den truck and other unharvested crops. DAVID B. BILL. Presidential Possibilities Analysed by nn Expert. Here is David B. Hill, earnest, per¬ manent candidate for the presidency of the United States. What sort of a man is this who asks sixty millions of of civilized creatures to take him for leader? He is a strange man to be such an applicant. He is not a great writer, great lawmaker, great or origi¬ nal thinker, great soldier, great inven¬ tor, great philanthropist, great poet, great lawyer, great orator, great re¬ ligious enthusiast or great anything which in the popular mind makes a | man a national leader. He is not mag netic or sympathetic; he has no vices, even, or weaknesses to appeal to weak and vicious humanity. He does not drink, he does not smoke, he is not marired, he is not dissipated in any way, he does not gamble, or even eat to excess. He cares nothing for money, for fine clothes or good horses. The fellowship of jolly companions bores him; he flees it. He does not collect pictures, china, postage stamps or old coins. He takes no physical exercise. Strange creature to hope to rule over this nation. Long years ago, before political am¬ bition froze his blood, he played base¬ ball, and today his mind, except on the side of political ambition, has not grown beyond the baseball stage of development. He watches a baseball game, yells at sliding baseball players and mourns over errors with youthful enthusiasm. What a strange mau! Yet among the candidates he is taken seriously, even those who like him least. He is taken seriously because on this earth serious effort and powerful will are so rare that the man who possesses them must make himself felt and his am¬ bitions respected, were he the very coldest and least distinguished of hu¬ man icicles. We cannot hope by examining the brain of this candidate to find out much about him, but his body is here carefully cut up by an able artist. The study of that may interest even if it does not instruct us. There is less of Hill physically than of any candidate whom we have yet had the pleasure of dissecting in this candidates’ series. He weighs probably as much as Harrison, but his weight is in his skeleton, not in his flesh. He is cut away in all directions. His legs are small, his hand is bony, his stom¬ ach caves in where the stomachs of alt previously examined candidates stick out. If we say that cunning is Mr. Hill’s great quality his face will support the statement better than it would any other. Take his eyes. Keenness and penetration and cunning mark them. Like Harrison’s, they are kept half closed, that Hill may look out and not let others look in. Across the top of the nose there are small wrinkles, the wrinkles of cunning, and the nose itself is a cunning nose. See how it runs down to a point and at the end hangs below the nostrils and down over the mustache. That is the nose of a man of cunning. It is a fairly well-developed nose, but it is far from being a great one. Hill’s ear Is more like Hill’s charac¬ ter than anything else about him. It is a cold, pointed ear. No fox need be ashamed to wear ears just like it. It is a thin ear. No well-padded lobe gives it softness. The bony rims around it are as though made of tin. It Is the most pointed ear among all the ears of candidates. It seems to be a listening ear, forever kept pricked for the voice of the people. Its owner lies awake at night wondering wheth¬ er it will ever hear the summons that he longs for. Mr. Hill’s chin is a good chin. It Is the best part of his face except the top head. It is a strong chin, and he would have a strong, if cunning, face were it not for his mustache. That mustache spoils him. It has no char¬ acter; it is the mustache that any man might have. It is neither good not bad. It is common. What his mouth is like only he knows. It ought to be a mouth with thin lips to go with the rest of the face. Perhaps It is and perhaps it isn’t. The mouth of man ; s a little separate man all by itself. may quarrel with all the other j par tg 0 f the man’s should face and tell know us tb j n gs that we never without it. If Mr. Hill would shave and let us read the secret of his mouth, if it has any secret, we should be greatly obliged. Mr. Hill has a top head that is worth study. The artist has flattened it on top a little more than he should have done. It Is a head that Seems to have been copied from one of those old spherical domes. It Is free from bumps and it has a great deal of room. Re¬ member that bumps do not mean strength. They are strong compared with the hollows that accompany them, but they are only bumps because of the hollows. A rounded skull free from depressions is the ideal skull. It means a well-rounded brain. In his roomy top head Hill stores the facts which he industriously learns by heart, and in the Senate, without the natural tal¬ ent possessed by some even in that mediocre body, he looms high up. Mr. Hill should have some imagination, for a roomy top head means imagina tion if it means anything. Perhaps that ^accounts for his unfading belief that he is to be the man of destiny if Cleveland ever gives up the job. Hill’s back head Is weak compared with his top head. It is pretty good, as back heads go. It would be con¬ sidered a fine back head in European countries, where their back heads are very bad as a rule, but It is no sort of back head to compare with that of made of leather hanging out on the sides, the boot that wrinkles at the ankle and wears off the skin when it gets wet. It is the great American foot-destroying boot, and Hill weans it. Hill wears the conventional top hat. which takes on a hard look with him. Sometimes, at ball games, he wears a straw hat. This he puts far back on his head. He knows the first names of all the players, and they all ad¬ mire him. His collar and tie are sim¬ ple, and free from any character save that of simplicity. Simplicity marks his exterior everywhere except about the head and face. The most wonderful thing about Hill, not excepting even his lack of any marked achievement, is his lack of any positive weakness. The Germans say: “No mountain without a valley,’' by which they mean that a man cannot be very strong in one way unless he is very weak in aether. Mr. Hill ought to worry about this remark a little and learn at least to smoke. The Ger¬ mans are a wise people.—New York World. Foreign Notes of Interest. M. Gaston Donnet is preparing an ex¬ pedition into the Sahara in search of the survivors of the Flatters mission. Large sums of money have been subscribed in Paris to help him. Verdi has just finished a mass for the seventh centenary of Saint Anthony of Padu, which falls next month. He is setting to music a number of hymns to the Virgin written by Signor Boito. Sveaborg, near Helsingfors, on the Gulf of Finland has just celebrated the fortieth anniversary of its successful resistance to the bombardment of the British fleet dur¬ ing the Crimean war. Alverez, the tenor, has been engaged by Sir Augustus Harris to sing for three years during the two months and a half of the London season. For the first year he will receive 4,800, for the second $6,000, and for the third $7,000. Two Frenchmen, M. Versepuy and Baron Romans, have left Zanzibar, with twenty-eight Europeans and a large body of native carriers, to explore Mounts Klli mandjaro and Kenla and the country about Lake Rudolph for the French Gov¬ ernment. Fifteen rupees, less than $4, is the re¬ ward that has been given to the native Indians soldiers who were mentioned in general orders for conspicuous gallantry and devotion during the Cihitral campaign. One man, who had thirty-one wounds to show, received the Older of Merit. ROCKEFELLER’S BARN BURNED. Sappone<l to Be the Work of Dia charBed Employes. By Southern Associated Press. Tarrytown, N. Y., Sept 15.—Early this morning hre destroyed the magnifi¬ cent barn and outbuildings owned by John D. Rockefeller, the oil magnate, which are situated on the Bedford road, near Pocantico Hills. The total loss is in the neighborhood of $30,000, which is said to be covered hy iusur a nee. Mr. Bol/.e, the foreman on Mr. Rock ef'eller’s place, yesterday laid off tifteeu laborers who had been employed on the place, and it is thought that some of tl em took revenge for dismissal by set¬ ting fire to the barn. Mr Rockefeller and his family are now in Cleveland. O., and the house is unoccupied. It was stated this morning that dynamite and powder had been found around the Rockefeller mansion, ostmsibly for the purpose of destroying that holding. The Fetes at Rome. By Southern Associated Press. Rome, Sept. 16.—The gymnastic con¬ tests, which opened the teles in cele¬ bration of the occupation of Rome by Italian troops, twenty-five years ago, took place today and were very suc¬ cessful. A number of societies marched in procession to the Pantheon, where they placed wreathes upon the tomb of Victor Emanuel. The processioniats were cheered all along the route. Special attention was paid to the Ger¬ mans who took part In the celebration. Fatal Balloon Ascension By Southern Associated Press Brussels, Sept. 16—A fatal balloon accident occurred this afternoon at Loschenbreek, near this city, An aeronaut named Toulet and three com¬ panions attempted to make an ascent, and when the balloon was in mid-air It exploded. The four men were killed. Silver may be kept bright and free from stains by washing daily in castile soap suds. Keep a piece of chamois at hand and polish the silver thoroughly with it after it has been dried, and you will 'find the use of silver polish needed only occasionally. “Many a Time, Many a Time.” He is coming with a clipping and a won¬ drous air of news. And he rushes in the sanctum: “Here’s the thing you want to U6e— Ohuck full of information; best thing you’ve eveT known!’’ And his tintinnabulation makes you tilt your chair and groan! He is coming, with an eager and a most expectant air. For the prese has been too meager in its praise of one so rare! “Has the Weekly Bugle mentioned him?’’ i (He just dropped in to know.) You sigh and wish they'd poisoned him a hundred years ago! Here’s another—with a poem—she just dashed It off like—that! “Where’s the editor?" (Just show him how the bird* sing on her hat!) Will you publish it tomorrow? (It is sweet enough to thrill!) And, so It goes, dear brethren! (Have you all been through the mill?) --Atlanta Constitution.
