Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-02-21
OVER THE BORDER.
BILL NYE WRITES FROM CANADA THAT HE
Is INNOCENT.
His Clothes Just Fit Custom House Ofhcer-An
Experience with RazOrs-Staying at
Hotel Kept by Popular Man.
[Copuight 1891 By Edgar w. Mel
In CANADA WITHOUT A CRIME,

E6OTudTy 10.
Once more have evaded the customs
Of neighboring country and the eti-
quette OF a mighty dominion. l have
never been the slave to the customs OF
my own country; why should l submit
to those OF a province?
have just rearranged my trunk and
tucked carefully back into the thrill
| ing narrative of rich summer robe
which fluttered in the Canadian breeze
all the way from Windsor to London.
| Custom house officers do not know how
| to repack trunk after they have
| kneaded over its contents, and they shut
the lid wrong, so that it takes six men
and P. X. Dederick derrick to open it
after one gets at MS 'otel.
l carry with me change OF linen and
underclothing while travelling, and have
never before found a customs officer
who seemed to think these things would
tit him. So l have escaped. But this
time it was different. l saw right away
when this one looked at me that he was
Just my size, though less intellectual.
He had the same long, swanlike throat,
| which looks so well in full dress with u
string Of red coral beads around it. He
had also the same homeless tentacles for
limbs that l am using, and his feet I'M
! dulated a good deal.
am very neat about arranging my
| trunk, ana so he seemed to think many
| Of my things were new just because
they were tidy. My method Of packing
a trunk was acquired at Heidelberg.
| When want anything out OF the trunk
| upset it on the bed and thus find 1t
| readily.
The officer wanted to keep my dress
suit because it pleased him, presume.
| 1t is nice suit. made in Boston by a
perfect gentleman.
He wanted me to pay duty on cigar
that had almost smoked up. He was
going to seize dozen perfectos that Mr..
Burbank had, but when he found that
Mr.. Burbank had chewed each one a
little before the crossing line he said:
"All right; never mind. They are free. "
One man ahead OF me, | noticed,
evaded the eye of the officer, and while
conversing with him looked out the
window. Afterwavd asked him why
he did that.
"Well," he said, II didn't mind look
ing him in the face, but did not want
him to notice my breath. l am trying
to get it in free"
He was fat man, and carried mass
i've watch which he had TO remove be-
fore he could get into the car, and he
brought 1t in in his hand.
carry seven raZors with me, one OF
which use on each day Of the week.
Then have at home special razors for
Easter. Whitsunday and Guy Fawkes
Day. These razors | bought at various
bargain counters through the United
States. Some of them will cut hair.
Mr.. jefferson says that the way to buy
razors is TO get q twenty-five center in
every town you visit for year, and out
of the lot you may get a good one. He
does that way, he says, instead Of buy
ing s.. 80 razor every little while and
only getting one-tenth the chance to
draw prize.
| have done that way, but 1 judge
that Mr.. Jefferson had preceded me and
bought the only good one there was in
the town.