The Baptist headlight., 1894-05-23
SMUGGLED CIGARS.
TIE Expert Fell a Victim to an Old
Trick.

Tse Expert Fell Victim to an Old
Trick.
The esrecial value attaching to any
article that has come into the coun-
try through some other entrance
than the c. stom house is we'll Illus
trated by story that is now going
the rounds at the expense Of an en-
inently respectfully but innocent
young physician over in Georgetown.
The young gentleman in question
is an inveterate smoker, and, what
is more, knows a good cigar when he
gets a hold Of one Some time ago
one of his friends dropped in on him
for an evening call, and was greeted
with knowing smile, as the young
disciple of Esculap1us pushed
freshly opened box of cigars across
the table to him and said: There
you are, old man: just try one OF
these, and observe that they are
great deal better than you have been
in the habit of smoking" His guest
lighted up and the doctor, twirling
an unlIghted weed between his own
fingers, settled back in his chair to
enjoy the sight of practiced smoker
getting hold Of an unusual treat
The party Of the second part pulled
away for little while with evident
exertion, and when the doctor asked
what was the matter, suggested that
a prescription ought to go with the
cigar. On being asked for the symp-
toms, the smoker said that he
thought a drawing plaster on the
back of his neck would answer bet
ter. The host was about to enter a
remOnstrance against this revilement
of an expensive Havana, when lit
tie squirt of fire chased spiral around
the outside of the wrapper, and then
smOuldered out with an unmiStakable
smell.
The host said he was sorry, that he
guessed there had been a mistake of
some sort, and each of the cOnnOis-
seurs tried another weed with no
better result. And then the story
came out.
The doctor had been in his Office
that morning when a sailor came in
and asked for treatment for burn
Oh his arm. The physician looked at
the hurt, which seemed to be merely
superficial, and gave the son OF the
sea prescription for some ointment
that would help to heal it. He de-
clined to make any charge and The
sailor man, after expressing his graf
itude for the kindness, begged his
benefactor to accept some cigars,
which he took from the inner part of
his REFER, done up in a black wrap
per, with the Cuban arms in gold Oh
the outside.
The doctor lighted one, and as he
afterward declared it was a smoke
for the gods. OF course he asked
where it came from. What smoker
wouldn't?
The willy naval man was a trifle re-
ticent, but finally, by dint of QueS-
tioning, allowed the doctor to draw
his story from him. He had just
come up on a bark from the Indies,
and touching at Havana, he had
been tempted to do little free trad
ing on his own account. OF course
it was not right, but then sailors
wages were small, and he had fam
lily to support, (he did not say in how
many different ports) and--well the
upshot of it was that the doctor
agreed to take the whole of the 500
cigars that he had with him for S25.
The sailor was afraid to bring the
cigars UP through the town in day
light, but agreed to have them at the
house by dark. He had just brought
them.
But the do"tor sadly came to the
conclusion that they had not been
grown or the same side of the island
with the fir t sample. and, what was
more, he was inclined to believe that
the superficial burn, which he had
paid so for the pgivilge of treating,
was artificially produced by mears of
crOtOn oil. Washington Post
Plenty OF Paint.
Alma-Tadema, the eminent artist,