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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
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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 ’
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is al oge el L
during rush '
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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
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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
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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
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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.