The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-21
BILL NYE IN CANADA.
Has a Great Deal of Trouble
With Customs Officials.
HIS EXPERIENCE WITH RAZoRs.
The Great Popularity of Mr.. Banting
and His Tenderness to His
Severed Leg.
Copyright, lsae, by Edgar W. Nye.l

In CANADA, Feb. 15.-TSpecial Core
spondence. Once more | have evaded
the customs of neighboring country and
the etiquette of a mighty dominion. l
have never been the slave to the customs
OF my own country; why should l sub
NIT to those of a province?
L have just rearranged my trunk and
tucked carefully back into it the thrilling
narrative of a rich slumber robe which
fiuttered in the Canadian breeze all
the way from Windsor to London.
Custom house officers do not know how
to repack q trunk after they have kneaded
over Its contents, and they shut the lid
wrong, SO that it takes six men and a T.
X. Dederick derrick to open it after one
gets at his 'otel.
l carry with me change of linen and
underclothing while travelling. and have
never before found customs officer who
seemed to think these things would fit
him. So | have escaped. But this time
1t 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, swan-like throat, which looks
so well in full dress with string of red
coral beads around it. He had also the
same homeless tentacles for limbs that
am using, and his feet undulated a good
deal.
l am very neat about arranging my
trunk, and so he seemed to think many of
my things were new just because they
were tidy. My method of packing trunk
was acquired at Heidelberg. When want
anything out of the trunk / upset it on
the bed and thus find it readily.
ha If 10 IL
suit, because it pleased him, presume
1t is nice suit, made in Boston by per-
feet gentleman.
He wanted me to pay duty on a cigar
that | had almost smoked up. He was
going to seize dozen perfectoes that Mr.
Burbank had, but when he found that Mr.
Burbank had chewed each one little be-
fore crossing the 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 of the window. After
wark l asked him why he did that.
WELL" he said. | didn't mind looking
him in the face, but did not want him to
notice my breath. am trying to get it in
Free
He was fat man, and carried massive
watch which he had to remove before he
could get into the car, and he brought it
in in his hand.
1 carry seven razors with me, one of
which | use on each day of the week.
Then 1 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 a twenty-five center in
every town you visit for a year, and out
of the lot you may get a good one. He
does that way. he says, instead of buying
$3.50 razor every little while and only
getting one-tenth the chance to draw a
prize.
| have done that way, but Judge that
Mr.. Jefferson had preceded me and bought
the only good one there was in the town.
Last spring l began to shave myself
because l got tired of reading the Police