Feliciana sentinel., 1892-08-27
VACATION SEASON.
Our Chicago Correspondent on
Summer Resorts.

Enects of .DoinE" Europe Clever !
Smuggling Dodge Hotel Fare In
Country and City-Getting
Close to Nature.
rSpccial Chicago Correspondence.1
The summer vacation season is At It's
height. All who can afford the tltne
and expense take their week or two, or
a month or two, ''off'' about this season.
Some who went early are beginning 10
come struggling back. Even sor1e
summer trips to Europe have been fin
ished and the pleasure seekers have re-
turned to work.
1t is a strange thing this running on
TO Europe for a summers outing. 1t
shows how strong remain the bonds
that still bind the American to the old
country. There is still good deal OF
the old colonial spirit extant that binds
one to the metropolis, the mother state
for that is the meaning of the word.
An American, provided he has the
means, thinks no more OF trip 10
Europe than of an excursion from Chi-
cago to San Francisco. He just takes
a lump across the Atlantic for few
weeks, and he never thinks that he Is
doing anything unusual.
How different in Europe. II a Euro
,
, before he starts and takes an ''ever-
lasting FAREWELL of his friends, for he
. knows not whether he will return to
them this side of the grave. Such Is
the sentiment, if not the intelligent
conviction, and we know that our
emotions are stronger than our intel
lects.
/ Speaking with a friend a few DAYS
ago regarding his trip to Europe from
which he had returned only recently,
the conversation turned upon the an
noyances caused by the inspection Of a
travellers goods by customs officers
He compared the trained officials OF a
European government with the Poiltl-
clans employed in New York. and the
comparison was not favorable to the
New York officials. In that connection
he told a story of one of the cleverest
smuggling tricks ever perpetrated'
which / don't think was ever published
before.
The New York revenue officers re-
ceived dispatch signed with the name
of their agent in London announcing
| that a clever smuggler would leave or
a certain steamer. and that he carried
about thirty Thousand dollars worth O
, diamonds concealed under u porous
plaster on his back. or course the Ne"
York officers were on the lookout whel
:, the boat arrived. and n custom house OH
= Ger in citizens clothes called Mr.. Jone
that name will do for the story-asid
and said he wanted to speak to him.
.IIave you anything .dutiable abou
4 your person, MIR. jones'? ne askeo'
= 'No, sir
wen, am sorry, sir but You hav
= been reported to us and we snail nav
4 Mr.. Jones kept his nerve through th'
a ordeal
" Il don't find anything" said tn
officer, but am sure you have some
a thing about you. You will have
d strip
n Mr.. Jones quailcd. He proteste
,s against the indignity, but witho'
,s avail lie was obliged to undrcs
n Still the officer found nothing. :
re- last the porous plaster on the smu
n glcr's back appeared to attract tf
III officers attention. 1t bulSed out
10 such a strange fashion.
ne THAT porous plaster will have
d. come Off" said the officer.
But: my dear sir, the plaster w;
prescribed by my physician. ] car
take il off, faltered Mr.. Jones, nc
thoroughly alarmed.
:Mal<cs no difference. Well get
. phv sician to take it off.
II So the porous plaster was taken I
\ and under it was found a large amou
III of diamonds which were promptly &C
E | Tscatad. Mr.. Jones was allowed
III | depart for the west
y The diamonds were examined II
found to be paste. Instead OF TIM
thousand dollars they were not wor
ten dollars.
Here was a conundrum. Was
smurgler himself swindled in buyl
, the diamonds? The mystery was I
cleared up till some months later, wh
= a letter arrived from Mr.. Jones. WI
ten at some little place in the nor
west. The writer explained that
sent that cable dispatch from Lond
.h. himself in order to deceive the \
-ho York customs officers and put the pa
NV diamonds under the porous plaster
nd carry out the scheme. The real {
-ily monds, which were actually wo
a., thirty thousand dollars, he carried l
IN bar OF soap and smuggled through
mo cessfully.
tho The celebrated summer resort
ing mate of Chicago did not live up to
ath reputation until long after mitlsumi
,lo- this season. Still I cannot help wont
fell ing why people go out INTO the couu
fore the way tneS geheraliy 90 or go "
rim fashionable summer resorts iro'u
off, region around the great lakes: -"
lin recreation does one ma IN gong
res little town where IL Is JUST as ho'
jes' hotter than IN 'he metropolis
lone where he Is not use9 10 the way Vi
pic. and tries to keep up city mann
ken city diet and city comforts. If ther
ring hotel it will not give him cou'
cted food. 1t will attempt to give city t
vous and not being able to keep expcn
had cooks and walters will make a fai
bere IF it. | have often thought if the c.
next try hotels would only give their gu
,tion pain but good country dict, instea