St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-10-06

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ii cost me only . dollar. Struggled.
dear boy. smuggled.' The youth has
been hoaxed BY his tobacconist He ID
smoking native tobacco, with flavor
ing of cheap Turkish or Egyptian"
"And the ladies?"
1.-THE ladies are born smugglers.
They think it NO harm to defraud
Uncle Sam. They will hide jewelry In
their hair; wrap laces around their
bodies; pack their husbands cigars
among their petticoats. The common.
est device OF the feminine smuggler Il
the false-bottomed trunk. In q box
filed apparently with cheap ginghams
and calicoes may lie the finest dress
that Felix can produce"
"Ars dress.makers the principal
culprits!"
"Tailors arc Just - bad. Their cus-
TONERS compete with them. Tag goes
to Rag At the club and says: You're
going to London. old man. Bring mo
back six pairs Of trousers from Poole. i"
All Of Rags club friends give him q
similar commission. Rag has to bring
back about one hundred pairs OF
trousers. He divides them among his
trunks. With q small douoeur he gets
them safely through the custom house.
Hence Snip. the tailor. would be ruined
II he did not smuggle. too"
"And the wine merchant"
ssWino vnnnChonto AnA h~~Sn~
And besides, Why smuggle II you can
adulterate? Pure wine is only known
to those who live near the vineyards"
"And the picture-dealers!"
Their smuggling is merely erasing
the name Of the painter or otherwise
disdguring the work until it has passed
muster. No; the leading smugglers.
IS said. are people of fashion. They
smuggle instinctively. No matter how
rich the man. he loves to bring over a
few diamonds surreptitiously. No
matter how honest the woman. she
loves to all her trunks with new
dresses for her friends"
HAS smuggling as q trade died
out:'
Not at all. Will Watch. the bold
smuggler. is not as daring as he used
to be. But he still plies his trade in
sailing vessels ON the coast I have
seen ladies Of the highest social rank
in summer resorts OF Jersey receive
visits from women bringing silks and
laces which the purchasers knew to be
smuggled, Their husbands would say:
Take care, my dear. 1t means q
humping fine II you are caught
Wen risk it, they would reply. We
make profit enough by the transaction
to cover far more than the flne.'"
Where do the Jersey smugglers
live?"
''They have cottages on the shore;
bleak huts which . seagull would dis
dain to alight upon. remember how
we raided Jim Alden's place. 'Casso-
wary Jim,' they used to call him. We
saw him enter the hut with three COM
panions, all carrying bundles of smug-
gled cigars. We broke into the hut.
but Jim and his friends were gone.
Where? There was an clubhouse con-
nected with the hut It was as empty
as the hut itself. It had no article of
furniture but seaman's chest There
was no trace Of hiding-place."
''How did the smugglers escape?"
Il sent my men away. bidding them
make rs much noise as they could.
Then I waited in the dark; waited for
hours; waited rs silent as death. At
last l heard a scratching. The sound |
came from a chest in the outhouse.
The bottom of the chest was lifted.
CassOwary Jim's head appeared. The
coast is clear. boys said he. Iwaited
for no more. ! escaped 10 the dark
ness"
"What happened!"
I'VE raided the hut next morning.
The bottom of the chest concealed q |
trap. The trap led to a subterranean
vault There We found stores of cigars |
and gallons Of the best French brandy. |
Are these hiding places common?"
'Quite common. One Of them We
opened by . ring in a stable. The
horses had been tethered to that ring
for years. and nobody had suspected
what was hidden behind it."
'And are the tragedies Of smuggling |
Is frequent rs Of Old?"
mo, only witnessed one real trag-
edy. That was at Bar Harbor, Me.
Among our revenue officers was a
young fellow named Harry. handsome
and bright. who had run away from
home, somewhere down South. We
had heard that a family of smugglers
had just settled down in Bar Harbor,
and We were on the watch for the
head Of the family. whose name we
never knew. It was an awful night.
Through the storm l could see the
forms of women standing on the rocks
Of Mount Desert"
What were they doing?"
''Watching for the smuggler's ves-
sel. l reached their hut alone, just as
hey got home; found they were the
wife and daughter; said
vas stranger. and asked shelter for
The night A few minutes later the
burst into the room; . fine,
hearty old man. His wife rushed into
his arms. He threw her away from
him. LET me alone. said he; there's
blood upon my hands, A clamor was
heard at the door. The revenue on
,ers rushed in and arrested the SNUG
yler. .What haa he dnna1, I cried |