Dakota County Horalfi
DAKOTA CITY, flltt.
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John H. Rtam,
Many a man curses hla lurk who
never had any.
Don't worry, and you'll have noth
ing to worry you.
It takes a clever oculist to cure an
rgotUt of hla I trouble.
It has rnme at least. There la a new
llaease culled aeroplanltls.
Nat Goodwin found Wall street al
most as precai Ions , as matrimony.
Collector Loeb haa certainly 11.vl9
himself unpopular with the people who
can afford to pay.
The only people who really seem to
enjoy living clone to nature are those
who don't have to.
When a young couple are married
they are made one, hut It takes some
time to find out which one.
The discovery that chemistry can
convert eage brush into valuable prod
Beta Is In line with the progress of
the age.
History teaches us that the main ob
ject of mobs In monarchical revolu
tions Is to dethrone the king and raise
the deuce.
"De world." Rays your Uncle Eben,
"Is Bumpin' like a lookln' glass. You's
g'lneter get better results If you smiles
Aan If you makes faces."
Quick marriages have been tabooed
In Rhode Island, but It Is never any
trouble to step into another Stato from
any part of Rhode Island.
Mr. Itoosevelt la being mentioned
for a third term. Hut since he has
made the acquaintance of the singing
topi such talk may not sound like
music to him.
A Boston Burgeon thinks man run
be made a thing of beauty by the use
of the knife. But haBn't the barber,
with bis razor, been doing that for
many generations?
There are 64,000 more people in the
aervice or the United States than there
were a year ago. This Is another of
the reasons why a good many people
iuidk uie world is growing better.
The King of Sweden has recently
been working as a stevedore for the
purpose of finding out how the labor
era of hlg country feel. He has taken
a wise course. The quickest and surest
way to find out how a laborer feels la
to labor for a while.
Tom L. Johnson, Mayor of Cleve
land, recently married a man and wom
an and purposely left out the word
"obey" when he read the service. Ho
explained that he did not'w!nh to help
make liars of people. Mr. Johnson Is
evidently an observer and r. philoso
pher. Agricultural schools for women are
proving their usefulness In France and
Belgium. The course Is as a rule
brief, and the schools are "ambulant"
ones, that la, they move fro.ni one part
f the country to another. There are
lectures an agriculture and household
conomy, but special attention la nald
to dairy work, the making of cheeso,
and putting up foodstuffs and pre
serves, in France the schools are un
der the Department of Agriculture.
Are not men in the mass more In
veterate gossips than women T Shake
apeare'i citizens do the real gossiping
In his plays, even though he followed
tradition in personifying rumor as a
dame "If my gossip Report be an hon
est woman of her word." You will
And as much lively and inane chit-chat
In any man's clubhouse as In any wom
an's. The hotel and theater lobbies
seethe with the gossiping of men. No
Village sewing society or mile society
can equal the Incessant buzz at the gro
cery store, and when It comes to down
right, earnest, unflagging dissection of
reputation and pernicious tittle-tattle
there Is no body of women In the land
that can hold a candle to the foolish
adult chatterboxes at any political
headquarters.
Not long ago It wns the fashion to
decry the woman's club as a place fre
quented by careless mothers and un
easy spinsters, who preferred discuss
ing Browning and Ibsen and Meredith
to keeping their houses clean and
their men-folk happy. The ground haa
been cut from under that reproach by
the practical work done by various
clubs for the public good. Playgrounds
for children, vacation schools, the pro
motion of health by Improved water
supply, by more thorough street clean
ing, by more scientific systems of
drainage, by better disposition of garb
age, by protection against flies and
mosquitoes, a vigorous campaign
agalnBt hideous billboards, high build
ing and the imoke nuisance, and the
gain for beauty by the preservation of
trees and the Improvement of parks
and lawns these are but a few of the
activltlen In which the eight hundred
thousand club women have been en
gaged during the last year. Women
are wonderfully fitted to take up the
task of ameliorating modern condi
tions that Is, of contriving schemes
ty which the evils of modern llfu
ahal! be reduced to a minimum and Its
blessings multiplied. The woman's
club Is a most convenient and power
ful agency for such work. The club
women of the country have the force
of an army and the adaptability of an
Individual. Their good service for
town and state Is well begun, und
promises to extend yet further in the
solution of social, civic, sanitary and
educational questions.
Among the Interesting papers read
at the convention of the American Civic
Association at Cincinnati was one by a
woman landscape gardener, Mrs. Me
Crea, who has devoted herself to the
beautifying of railroad stations and
their Immediate surroundings. "Art
and the Railroad" was her topic a
strange one at first sight, but full of
significance to those who happen to
be conversant with the facts back of It.
In a great city the railroad station as
a "gateway" presents one set of prob
lems, from which dignity and beauty of
design and form are by no means ex
cluded. In the small country town or
village the station Is apt to be looked
upon as something useful rather than
ornamental, and In thousands of places
any shanty "does" as the railroad "de
pot." Yet nothing Is ho pleasing and
so sure to command admiration as a
pretty, appropriate country station,
with clean, Well-kept grounds, grass
and flowers. They seem to form part
of the landscape, to proclaim tiie love
liness, peace and charm of the coun
try. Such stations and grounds are a
good Investment for the railroads and
the communities. And it is gratify
ing to know that in the Northwest hun
dreds of little stations have been trans
formed and beautified by trained land
scape gardeners who are regularly em
ployed for the work by the railroads.
Undoubtedly the railroads, In spite of
their smoke and dust, can do some
thing for art In the regions far re
moved from picture galleries and mon
umental structures. They are under
taking more and more to teach scien
tific farming, and they can do some
thing for landscape gardening and the
cultivation of love of harmony nnd sim
ple beauty.
TYPICAL TRENCH "ROULETTE."
Source Whcucr Nome of World'a Ileal
Comedian Have Ileen Kvolveds
Do you know what a roulette Is? In
general, It means a gypsy caravan,
but Us scope has become enlarged and
sometimes it means a whole traveling
theatrical company. Some of the best
comedians in the wholo world have
been evolved from the roulette, says
Molly Seawell In Scrlbner's. That
was Peiinot's beginning.
His roulette consisted of threo long
covered wagons. The rear wagon con
tained such rude nnd trifling sta;o
accessories as Perlnot's plays de
manded. But Perinot, Ilko Thespl.s
In his cart, did not require much
scenery, in this last wagon rode the
Polllon brothers very good actors,
both of them, and handy men besides.
Henri was tall and broad, while Gus
tavo wns so small, beardless and pret
ty that he could do women's parts ex
tremely well.
In the next wagon rode, with the
bedding and trunks, that excellent
woman, Mine. Toutant, with her hus
band and her eon, Auguste. Mme.
Toutant was stout and large walsted,
but a capable actress. The audiences
laughed at her when she waddled on
the stage, but before long her comic
antics made them forget her stout fig
ure and double chin, and they saw
only her fine eyes and heard only her
rich voice. Toutant himself was a
dull, respectable man, and Auguste,
the son, was as near nothing as could
Ui well Imagined. He was beautiful
heyond expression, perfectly obedient
to Mme. Toutant, as, Indeed, was
Toutant himself, and bis beauty was
an excellent foil to the fascinating ug
liness of Perinot.
In the first wagon rode in state
Perinot, the proprietor of the whole
outfit. With him rode Columbine.
She had another name, but it was
generally forgotten by everybody, In- ;
eluding herself. Columbine was pick- j
ed up on tho roadaldo one summer i
morning when she was 16 years old. '
She was In rags and her toes were
peeping through her shoes, and she
was weeping vociferously as she
watched a regiment marching away to
the next town.
Conatltatlonnl Kim to lie Saved.
The old elm at Corydon, undei
whose rugged limbs the State consti
tution was drawn up ninety-three
years ago, and which for a while
seemed doomed to destruction, tins at
last found a permanent caretaker In
the Corydon organization of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion. This old elm, which has always
claimed the attention of visitors to
the first State capital and has been an
object of reverence for loyal Hoosiera,
Is called the constitutional elm be
cause, of its connection with that Im
portant event in the history of Indi
ana. At present, it is ln'an excellent
stutu of preservation, although there
is evidence of some past neglect In
curing for It.
The trunk of the constitutional elm
Is five feet In diameter at the base
and the branches have a spread of
nearly 120 feet. A forestry expert re
cently estimated that the tree Is now
250 years old and Bald that with prop
er care, barring destruction by the ele
ments of course, the elm uhould flour
ish another hundred years. Indlauap
oils Star.
I'.nKland'a Patron Salut.
The story of England's patron Balnl
Is surrounded by a mixture of truth
and fable which defies definite sifting.
He Is generally believed to have been
born ut Lydia, but brought up in Ca
padocla.and suffered martyrdom lu the
reign of Diocletian, A. D. 303. The
legend of hid conlllct with the dragon
may have arisen from a symbolical or
allegorical representation of his con
test with the pagan persecutors. Wheu
our crusaders went to the east In lij'Jti
they found St. George elevated to the
rank of warrior saint, with the title
of the "vlctoioua," and as they be
lieved that they were Indebted to hliu
for aid in the siege of Antlocn they
adopted him as the patron of soldiers.
Edward III. was thus led to make him
pation of the Order of the Garter, aud
so gradually St. George became the tu
telary taint of England. London
Mall.
I II-1 lined.
"Ever try this keep a smiling propo
sition?" "Tried it ouce. hut with poor suc
cess. Unfortunately, I started the ex
periment ou a day that the boss felt
grouchy." Louisville Courier-Journal
Opinions
THE GRANDEUR IN CHERRY'S TRAGEDY.
L.I Us reflect for a few
U splendid qualities in human nature. Peo
ple are too prone to see Us 'evils instead
or its goodnesses. 1 uey become preju
diced, purblind. They see only the little
ness, the selfishness, the ptishfulness, the
greed, the avarice, the sensuality that are
to be found more or less in all of us. They overlook
the reverso side or the shield the bigness, the self
sacrifice, the generosity, the heroism, the Godlike that
are also to be found in all of us more or less. They
see the bad and overlook the good. Color blind, they
see the black and not the white. But human beings
In the mass are not ho bad.
At Cherry, 111., It was only a crowd of rough, un
couth, untutored miners who were penned iip in the
muck nnd the horror of the fire-swept mine. It was
only another set of rough, uncouth men who attempted
to quench the fires and to rescue those who were dying
a horrible death. Now tee what happpened: Down
there In the pit of terror were men managing to write
farewell notes to their dear ones, commending them to
the blessings of God, cheering them with messages that
they would meet death bravely, recording the uncon
querable human hope that some day,' somewhere un
deraGod's providence, they would meet once again with
all tears dried, all sorrows purged away. Up above
men were risking their lives by digging down into the
mines to rescuo their fellows, to restore singed and
maimed wrecks of men to their wives and bairns. It
was Just the everyday heroism and goodness and un
unRclflshness that was coming out into clear relief. The
story of Cherry, III., is a very great tragedy, but even
while It wrings all heart:), doesn't It make you Just
love human beings? Pittsburg Press.
WHEN FACING DEATH.
HE rescuers In the t'herrv ennl ixlna hin,
VI I out the letters of farewell written by the
I imprisoned miners who were facing death.
hi uiie aner auomer or mese declarations,
made under fear of death, occurs the as
sertion of confidence of an after life. "We
shall meet again," these poor miners write
to wife or son or friend. The two Italians, who desired
a brass band at their funeral, expressed the faith that
life Immortal awaits them on the other side.
This faith, supreme and triumphant is the breasts
of these poor miners, burled underground, menaced In
the gloom by firedamp, with death in Its most grisly
form touching them, Is a fact, a truth, as much as is the
cognition by the senses of a sound, a sight, a smell.
And It Is most clearly present to us mortals at the mo
ment of our direst need. It visits every man In his
extremity, even that one of us who fancies he has some
philosophy that prompts him to deny validity to its in
spiration, and who, In consequence, struggles upon his
death-bed to resist its uplifting and consoling power.
There Is another life. That is the affirmation of those
Jap children are not allowed in
school until after their sixth year.
The number of postofilcea In opera
tion in Canada during the fiscal year
ended March 31, 1309, was 12,479.
European distributers or sponges
are heavily overstocked, and a consid
erable drop In prices Is expected be
fore long.
The women of Alllngtown, Conn., have
organized for the protection of their
village from fire. They are to hold a
country fair, the proceeds of which
will be used to buy apparatus. They
wilt also form a woman's brigade of
the fire department.
The tobacco grown in the United
States, Is of two general types or
classes: (1) cigar tobacco, and (2)
chewing, smoking, snuff and export to
baccos. In 1908 something more than
150,000,000 pounds of cigar tobacco
was grown In the United States and
nearly four times the amount of the
other types.
"About the most economical corre
spondents I've heard of," retffarked
Assistant Postmaster Ray Floyd,
"were two women who Btopped at a
window downstairs the other day and
wanted to know If It would be all
right If they both were to write to a
friend on the same postal card and
thus save a cent." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The cigar tobaccos are grown mostly
In New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Wisconsin, though there Is a con
siderable and rapidly Increasing pro
duction of this type In Georgia. Flori
da and Texas. The tobaccos used for
chewing tobacco, snuff and export are
produced heavily In Kentucky, Ten
nessee, North Carolina, Virginia and
South Carolina.
Dr. Gertrude I (alley, a graduate of
the medical department of the Mel
bourne University, has been reappoint
ed medical officer or the public schools
In Tasmania. Dr. Halley Is the first
woman to occupy such an office, and
Is reported to have given such satis
faction that a movement has been
started to appoint women to all such
offices to the exclusion of men.
To get rock for the Morena dam In
southern California one of the biggest
blasting operations on record has Just
been successfully carried out. A tun
nel 125 feet long was first driven into
the face of the granite In this cham
ber was placed 3S,9."i0 pounds of pow
der and dynamite. This was exploded
by electric fuses, and dislodged 120,
000 cubic yards of rock. Engineering
Record.
SHE CANNOT REASON.
Nevrrtbeleaa, Woiuaa la the tireat.
eat Korea for (iuud lu I he World.
According to to Judge Peter Gross
cup, of the United States Circuit Court
of Chicago, a woman never makes a
real success of a business career un
less by gome kind of an accident. U
tact, she never carries It through to
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. $
of Great Papers on Important
tiimncnu nn thn
a finish. Listen, ye business women
to the words of the learned Judge.
"Woman," he states impressively
"has neither the patience nor (he ca
pacity tor gamerim; great masses of
detail. She will not properly assort
classify, and permanently distinguish
the separate items. If she gets any
amount of detail together the next
thing you know she Is down with a
headache from puzzling over it and
Instead of making it serve her purpose
alio gets tangled up In it and It floors
her. The only correlation of detail
that she knows is the relation of
feather to a hat, of a velvet band to
the bottom of a skirt, of tho relation
of red to lavender In a color scheme
for costuming.
"She does not appreciate values and
she has no respect for abstract prin
ciples. If a woman loves a man he
can do no wrong. If the laws of the
universe Interfere with her own ends
the laws must be modified or set aside,
This being the case, she cannot pos
stbly have a place In the profession of
the law. What kind of a judge would
a woman make by the time two law
yers had got to work on her heart and
sympainies: mo last thing that
would have any weight with her In
the decision would be the law and
Justice.
That sounds just a wee bit grouchy,
doesn't It, but tho Chicagoan doesn't
.mean It that way In the least. In fact,
that's Just his method of leading up to
me roiiowing nicety-expressed opin
Ion:
"Woman cannot reason, but sho Is
not Inferior to man on that account
As a matter of fact I think man and
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"wu t-ijuw, uui ii mere was any
uinerence u would be in favor of
woman as the superior. It is woman
who administers to the sorrow and the
neglect of this world. She Is the force
that makes for culture, for comfort,
for good cheer, for preservation of the
conventions and morality, and for sen
timent. All of the heroes of this
world are such because women have
Idolized them and lifted them to the
pinnacle of being heroes. No man was
ever Intrinsically a hero. Only
women make him so.
"She has her greatest Justification in
the Inspiration she affords to man
He goes forth to accomplish something.
and he knows that he will find all of
his own Joy In accomplishment, all of
the appreciation which his being de
mands reflected in some woman. It ts
this Joy tn his Joys, exultation compar
able with his own exultation tht
keeps him keyed up to any sort of au
compllshment."
BATTLE WITH SKEENA INDIANS.
Klaplo Village and C'lilefa Taken br
t'anada'a Border 1'olloe.
After a five hours' battle which be
gan at daybreak a force of fifty
clal police under Chief Constable Malt-
land-Dougall and embracing virtually
ail the male Inhabitants of Hazelton
on the Skeena river, captured the In
dian village of Klsplox and made
prisoners seven chiefs of the tribes,
who have been Inciting the related na
tions of the Skeena to war upon the
whites, obstructing railway construc
tion and selling supplies and stopping
provincial road work. Chief Coiwubl
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who are about to die. The affirmation Is quite as worthy
of acceptance as the affirmation of any sense. What
has the Intelligence to do with it? Nothing at all. For
sentient knowledge is confined to phcnomenlstio Im
pressions, and cannot, does hot, go beyond, behind. The
ego that receives the sense-Impressions, that recognizes
their existence, receives also the physical impressions,
those which" transcend the perceptive organs, even as
the violet rays escape the sight, but alter, nevertheless,
the body's chemistry.
Faith better than knowledge, and differently. Is ca
pable of Intimating the nature of the reality, of which
phenomena are but attributes of one of many kinds.
Faith rose majestic In those miners' consciousnesses at
the supreme moment that must visit us each oue and
faith was Justified. Minneapolis Journal
THE TEXAS RANGER'S FINISH.
HE Texas ranger has lost his vogue. The
most famous band of free lancers the
frontier ever boasted Is slated for oblivion.
Kit Carson's scouts, next greatest in point
of historic Interest, are a fast vanishing
memory. They had a more picturesque
figure for their leader than the rangers
ever followed into the thick. Buffalo Bill's hunters and
guides faded out of existence along with the buffalo herd
they did so much to exterminate, but the redoubtable
Buffalo Bill himself still lives to show us how It was
done with rifle and lariat.
In the days when Western Texas was the El Dorado
of gun fighters, cattle thieves and malefactors of stolen
wealth lu general, the Texas ranger reached the zenith
of his usefulness. Hid mission was the preservation of
at least a semblance of law and order at any cost. At
all times a mounted policeman, with a State commis
sion, subject to orders from Austin, the glamour of the
name Texas ranger attached to him a wider field of
action than he filled. But what duty called to do suf
ficed to satisfy the longing for adventure in most men
who were attracted to the command by the prospect.
Roosevelt's regiment of Rough Riders, as is well
known, was largely recruited from the rangers, or men
who had belonged to that body. Their exploits In Cuba
are a matter of history and anecdote. Washington Post.
HOUSES ON WHEELS.
WORCESTER bank man says his bank
holds mortgages on seventy houses whose
owners spent the proceeds of their notes
on automobiles. Doubtless there are oth
ers. But if persons wish to go into debt
for luxuries It might as well be for auto
mobiles as anything else. At that, in
many cases It is possible that the investment Is a wise
one. for whith it will pay to hire money. On the whole,
however, such transactions suggest the cynical sign of
the saloonist: "If drinking interferes with your busi
ness, quit your business," Lowell Courier-Citizen
Maltland-Dougall makes no report of
casualties to Superintendent Hussey.
but private telegrams say firing was
practically continuous from daybreak
until noon.
Dapite tho fact that the Canadian
government has ridiculed the sugges
tion, residents of the north country
apprehended serious trouble all along
the Skeena as soon as winter sealed
the waterways, the Indians nursing a
grudge aa to game laws and fisheries
regulations,, which they consider in
terferences with their bases of sup
plies, a Victoria (U. C.) dispatch to
the New York Sun says. The trouble
was fanned Into flame by agitators,
who have been preaching all summer
the legal right of the Skeena nations
to all the land along that river.
Lately a conference with Special
Commissioner Stewart and Indian Su
perintendent Vowell. the former sent
from Ottawa, proved abortive, the ex
travagant claim being firmly adhered
to by the chiefs of the 4,000 people of
the Skeena nations that their country
has never been won by conquest or
alienated from Its aboriginal possessors
either by treaty or sale and that the
whites have, therefore, no status of
ownership.
rne government peremptorily dis
missed petitions for the re-establish
ment of old tribal boundaries and can
eellatlou of all reservations and
spector Green and others in July and
August last predicted an uprising with
the advent of winter unless a strong
force of tho royal northwest mounted
police was sent In. Thla suggestion
too, was ridiculed, although many res
idents sent out their women and chll
drcn, fearing for their safety.
Navigation on tho Skeena had
closed but two days before signs of
Impending eruptions became so obvi
ous that the chief consitable for the
district determined to strike first. He
swore In all the men of the country
ana attacked Klsplox, the stronghold
and capital of the malcontents. IncI
dentally. It is reported that Gun-Ad
Noot, an Indian murderer, who, as
sisted by all the natives of the north
country, has defied capture during
three years, was prominent in a rec
ord battle, although had he been
among the prisoners Superintendant
Hussey would undoubtedly have been
so advised.
Another cause of trouble with those
Indians has been the crossing of the
native cemetery at Klsplox by the
urana trunk raclfle Railway. The
natives demanded compensation at the
rate of $500 for each chief, $300 for
each squaw aud $100 for each child's
body removed. The government threw
out the claim and granted the railway
crossing tights on condition of a new
cemetery being provided, the bodies
moved with reverence and $1,000 paid
as lump consolation.
Aaaoraaea.
"Sir, you offer me, you say, a for
tune, but before I accept you I must
be Assured It is clean money. Is it?"
"It ought to be. madam; I made It
In soap." Baltimore American.
When some people say of others:
Tie's a lucky dog!" that Is their way
of complaining.
i" " B -atSSw 'l 3-aWSTOU.a' K
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In the days of the Georges smug
gling was so popular a calling in En
gland and the pmuggler so popular a
gentleman even with Eome of the land
ed gentry, In whose ancient country
mansions special chimney recesses
have been found especially construct
ed to shield from detection the Im
ported brandies which had slipped into
the country without reporting to the
king's customs officers, that even the
sedate and high-minded Scotchman
Adam Smith, classified the contraband
traffic as a trade albeit one of great
hazard. That the smuggling of the
eighteenth century had reached a high
degree of perfection Is shown in the
laws aimed at those engaged in the
practice, writes H. B. Chamberlain, in
the Chicago Record Herald. Vessels
carrying undeclared goods were for
feitable, as were the goods; high in
ducements were offered to informers
who would betray their fellow work
ers; persons maimed in arresting
smugglers were entitled to a reward
of 50; informers guilty of sordid,
selfish treachery were given the same
amount for each person convicted on
...eir testimony and the informers
were granted immunity. Smugglers
were whipped and transported to the
plantations. In 1746 assembling to
run contraband goods was made pun
ishable by death as a felony. As the
offender, multiplied and the popularity
cf tli smugglers mado It difficult to
capture them, counties were made lia
ble for their deeds.
But the smuggler of that period Is
no longer extant. Like the Indian
scout, the buffalo nnd the desperado
of the Western plains, ho has been
crowded out by a complicated civili
zation, lie could flourish only In a
thinly populated country, with a coast
offering to him inlets and harbors
where he could in safety land his car
go. In these day3 of the wireless and
populous cities and great trans-Atlantic
steamers he must assume another
form and pursue different methods.
Cunning rather than strength or
knowledge of waves and winds is the
requisite qualification of the modern
smuggler. Hence women are a3 well
able to engage in it aa men. and, In
deed, the facts prove that they seem
to have an especial aptitude in this
line.
The false-bottomed trunk is so old
a device that the unsophisticated won
der why anyone should trust to It.
For surely every inspector knows of
this contrivance for concealing goods.
But, as has been shown by the whole-
oaju uisuiiisai 01 employes rrom the
.. i .. .j i . t i i .
customs service in New York, inspec
tors have not been obstreperously effi
cient In guarding the interests of thel
country.
In theso days smuggling on a large
scale Invariably produces the suspicion
that there has been collusion with the
Government officials. This was show
to be true in a case at New York
Early in November a member of
cheese Importing firm, was sentenced
to a year in prison and to pay a fae
of $5,000 for defrauding this govern
ment of duties by misstating the
weight of cheese imported. To carry
out this fraud It was necessary ;or the
government weigher to falsif his re
port to fit the figures of tho false In
voice sent by the exporter from Eu
rope. Four government wnlghers turn
ed state's evidence and '.Old how thi
had been done, and evr.lence gathere
t i. i i . , i ,
nuui uo mwui3 miu records ot pur-
cunsers corrouoraiea tne stories of
these informers, wl.o were offered ini
munlty from prosecution and retained
In the customs service. The culprit
testified that tie frauds had been su
Ke&ieu lo ,,lm oy me government
welghfrs who shared with him the
money thi;s kept from the government
The $2,000,000 which the sugar trust
has fiaudulently withheld from the
goverument by means of an Ingenious
device applied secretly to the scales
tt weighing the sugar and operated
V employes of the company is an
example of the large scale on which
evasion of payment of duties can be
practiced in this century and country
or large things.
i -1 .
i urn euuveiiir spoons were more
popular than now, women returning
irom Europe sometimes fastened them
to the waistbands of their Inner skirts
or made extra pockets for carrying
them. Women's garments have always
onered good hiding places and it is a
delicate matter to ask a woman pas
senger who appears refined and gentle
to submit to an Inspection. Mistakes
are sometimes made and then vast is
the Indignation. As long ago as 1731
the English customs officers were in
structed, when they suspected "women
of fashion" carrying customable goods
to call In the services of a female
searcher "in whom they could confide."
Now women are regularly employed
for the purpose of searching women
suspected of carrying about their per
son dutiable goods which they have
not declared.
On the continent of Europe, a French
Mrs. Jarley traveled from Franco into
the adjoining countries with her dis
play of wax figures. She had done this
often, but on one of her trips one of
the figures fell, was broken, and dis
closed Its contents to be fine lacs. So
1
each figure then gave up silk or lac
or linen. s
In England oil cans with their Inte
riors consisting of a tin funnel hava
bqen discovered. When the Customs
officer put a stick into the can, turned
It around and then drew It out, he
found thnt it was stained with oil, as
stated by the Importer. But the upper
bulging sides of the can held spiritu
ous liquors.
Another oft-told tale is that or the
ornithologist who prepared birds for
scientific associations and savants of
Europe. Also in ills lonely working
hours lie talked to his pet parrot.
When poll had been up to some
naughty prank he must have Inadver
tently threatened her, for once wjen
he was passing the customs houje this
parrot cried out: "Oh, Poll, when you
are dead I shall stuff you with laces."
And so It was discovered that all his
birds were thus stuffed.
T . . . . , . .
iisi muiiui iwo iasnionabie Uress
makers of Boston were arrestee
charged with smuggling women's ap
parel from France. The customs offi
cials say this is the beginning of the
exposure or one of the cleverest and
boldest smuggling conspiracies ver
hatched to slip valuable imports into
this country. The method fojlo.ved
wa3 to leave trunks unexamined on
board the ship with the understanding
that they would go back to Europo
with their owners unopened. Then
these trunks were quietly slipped off
the ship after tho customs house offi
cials had inspected the other bnggige.
That a widespread rottenness has
tainted the customs service at New
York Is shown In the shake-up recent
ly given by Collector Loeb. It may
be that Inspectors, frightened by the
discharge of their fellows, may now
give honest attention to their work.
But a high and complicated tariff of
fers a temptation to smuggling which
Is difficult to offset.
NOTES ABSENCE OF HONESTY.
Few Article Forgot ten In Cara Art
Turned in by I'aaaenijrera.
The man in the rabbit hutch was
talking.
"It's wonderful what a difference
the pay-as-you-enter makes with lost
articles," he said. "I guess we turn In
nhout. onn-tpnth tho ctufr u-n ncn.l ii
pick up In the cars before we were
confined to this box. You see, we
useu to waiK inrougn tne cars ror the
fares, and if there was an umbrella or
a grip, or anything of that sort, left in
one of the seats we ran a good chance
of seeing it and restoring It, to the
owner. Now we can't do that. We
have to stay here at the rear, and we
have hardly any chance at all to pick
up, anything left on the car."
"But the passengers turn In some of
the things they find, don't they?" I
asked.
There was a great and sad know!
I.
cutsc i iiuw.iu uuLure jn me conduc
,,,1 r . . .
c-
tor's smile.
Do they? Not much," he said.
Ask the man who has charge of lost
articles over at the De Baliviere sta
tion. He'll tell you that we handle
almost nothing there now, whereas we
restored quantities of stuff to the own
ers under the pay-when-discovered
system."
My eye, but what thieves we are!
"Why, I used to pick up an um
brella or two on my car every day,
and now there Is not one handed over
to me in seven days," he resumed.
Here, then, is a valid objection to
the pay-as-you-enter one, we have
never thought of: If is making all of
us thieves! St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
, SWISS TRAMPS FEW.
A l"oor Iluce for the Mao. Who
Doesn't Want to Work.
Switzerland Is not a place for
tramps, because the man out of em
ployment and who makes no efTort to
find work is not tolerated for a mo
ment in that country. The district
authorities will secure him a job at
hard labor and little pay, and such an
offer can be refused only under the
penalty of going to a penal work
house. Theso institutions are under
military discipline, the work severe,
the wages a penny or threepence per
day, and release Is granted only upon
the advice of those In charge. No dif
ficulty Is experienced In determining
ueiween oeggars anu unemployed, be-
vauou a,. icsiiiiuuLc lauuitrs uave pa
nil ll,l,t i
pers given them by the district in
which they live coutaining informa
tion concerning the position they have
held.
In every part of Switzerland are es
tablished "relief In kind" stations for
the exclusive use of respectable unem
ployed. Only those are admitted who
have had regular work during the pre
vious three months and have been out
of employment for at least five days.
These men must be on the lookout for
work and accept any situation that Is
offered, because the chronic loafer Is
soon detected by the police and bis
papers are marked so that he tan
never again seek refuge In a "station."
Exchange.
How to Know the Ttvlna.
The Beverly twins, Fred and Frank.
were such exact counterparts of each
other that none of the neighbors could
ell them apart, and even their motb-
r sometimes had her doubts. The re
semblance Is accentuated by the fact
hat they are dressed exactly alike.
"How In the world cau you yourself
tell which la which. Mrs. Beverly?"
asked a caller one day.
"To tell the truth," she answered, I
can't always; but If I hear a noise In
the pantry, and I call out, 'Fred Is
that your and he says, 'Yes, mamma,'
know it's Frank, and that he's la
some kind of mischief."
