Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-29

had four large legs constructed by his car- penter for it, as the legs on the piano were rather frail and weren't stout enough to stand much of a sea. When those new legs were made for the piano he had them hollowed out, and he used to come into Boston and New York with 1, 800 Havanas in each leg of that piano. It was good dodge, and he came into port many 8 time and landed his 5000 cigars safely after the departure of the Gus tom House officers. But he finally paid for his fun. On one voyage the bark experi- fenced gale, and among other things dam aged were two of the pianos legs. They were split from top to bottom. The Cap tain saw, of course, that the piano racket was up, and he had {, 6,000 cigars to hide some where else. He hid them in the forecastle, but they were found by the inspectors, and the Captain was arrested, tried, and fined $1, ,000 I haven't heard of his doing any smuggling since"
 After few puffs from his cigar, a Bath man who is interested in shipping began an auecdote. "Captain," said he, ''that story of yours reminds me of something in about the same line in which I was interested. A friend of mine, who was master of 6 large ship, promised he would bring me home some excellent liquor on the next voyage he made, and he accompanied the promise by the boast that there would not be any duty paid on it either. Well, had not thought MuCn ADOub bu0 u1dbIcE uubQ Ouo ohf ! noticed in a Boston paper that the ship had arrived in port. But the next days issue of the same paper contained an inter esting story of the manner in which the Custom House officials discovered that about half of one of the spare spars which the ves- sel carried was hollow, and that the hole con- tained fifteen gallons of liquors. never got my five gallons and my friend got four months in jail, while the ship made the next voyage under the charge of the mate"
 A little, short man now took up the con- versation, and said: 'sI remember 6 pretty neat thing once which was done in this very port only a few years ago by the Captain of one of the ships of the Hougkton fleet. He came across from Liverpool, and on the voY- age he treated the soldiers unusually we'll so we'll, in fact, that when the Captain asked twelve of them, shortly before going into port, to do him little favor, they readily consented. The result was that when those twelve sailors walked ashore, each with an imported leather shooting coat on, under his own rough pea jacket. The Captain fol~ lowed them to a rendezvous, where the sail ors divested themselves of the English coats. The Captain set lem up all around several times and parted from his sailors like an old friend"
 No sooner had this anecdote been conclud- ed than another old sea Captain, rich and retired now, broke in quietly with, "Yes, buab Q EOOu SCu0AnOV bub Ab dOA hAW0y work It didn't when I tried it, anyhow. You see, was in England and I bought a handsome shawl for my wife, who was not with me, paying e20 (s10o) for it. When got into New York asked the Steward ess of the ship if she would wear the shawl ashore for me- She said she would, and putting it on, wore it over the side and out of reach of the inspectors. I followed her ashore, but when overlook her, we'll up town, the hussey refused to give the shawl back to me, and threatened to call 8 police man if attempted to take the shawl from her. What could doa l couldn't prove that the shawl was mine, and so was ob- liged to stand there and see that wsman walk off with $100 shawl that Ihad written to my wife about. You may believe that never tried anything in that line again."
 A hearty laugh went round at the Cap tain's expense, and as soon as it had died away the mate of large four-masted schoon- CT, now discharging in port, spoke up: ssTwo years ago." said he, q was mate of a master In Birmingham, England, one day we both purchased silk umbrellas. They were very good ones, and we paid $12 apiece for them. We came across to New York, and after we had been in port few moments the Captain and myself started to go ashore. The day before had removed the covering from my umbrella and had wiped up all dirt could find in my room to make it look | old The Captain had thought this precau tion unnecessary, and we started ashore, | having mine all waving in the wind and the Captain having his with 8 silk wrapper round it done up in it's original package as well. An inspector stood on the wharf, and as soon as we had passed him he turned and followed us. He stepped up to the Captain and took his umbrella away from him. and later in the day the Captain was fined $25 fol petty smuggling. madder man I never