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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-05-03

Some fashionable women have
another new fad-cigarette smoking.
Is it possible that New York women
have adopted the habit of their sisters
of the Orient aud are learning to
smoke? Without going into the
question as to whether it is delight
ful thing or very slovenly thing for
women to smoke, it is interesting to
know what the facts are.
Some time ago a smoking room was
opened by two enterprising Turks. 1t
was interesting because it vas new, and
its success meant, of course, that at
least some New York women were Gig
arctic smokere.
What next? Will we soon have
cafes, smoking rooms, billiard parlors
and bars all over town fer the pro
gressive" woman?
"Will you come in aud have a
smoke?"
Fancy one woman asking another
this question, aud then let your fancy
90 further. aud here the one asked
say:
"Well, l dou't mind if do.
How won Il il seem to see the smuk-
ing room of theatre between the acts
filled with women pulling cigarettes or
see women sitting in n restaurant
after meal gracefully invoking the
aid to her digestive organs of some
form of tobacco. II seems strange
to think of il, but it is not so I'M
probable as it might at first appear.
Woman has been making II fight for
hloomers, bicycles and kindred things
supposed not long since to belong to
men alone, and rs she had more than
fair success, there Is no reason why
she should rot 90 to almost any eX-
tent to attain rights and privileges,
and. to quote an old saw, ''When Il
woman will she will, you may depend
ont, and when She won't she won't,
and there's an end ont.
The coming woman or the twentieth
century girl, will probably be a crea-
ton as vet undreamcd Of, and if her
constitution will stand il and the
present indications are not misleading,
we can expect to hear among women
rs commonly rs among men, Lets
go and have smoke" The express
sion is not rare now, but NS yet there
are only two places where women haz-
urdous enough to chance comment can
go and smoke to their hearts content
Women predominate in the crowd as
scmhled. Some smoke the Turk
ish pipes called "chibouks,' others
lazily puff at the bubbliug "narsi-
leh, " while others content themselves
with the perfumed Turkish cigarette.
What are we poor men coming to ?
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31

Water Power Now Used to Light
Mountain villages With Electric.
fty.
IAN over the Tyrol, Switzerland md
the Alpine country generally you find
to-day a curious conjunction of the
modern and the medieval In the VII.
l. &c streets, the stores and the innss
said q traveller to a New York Sun
man. I'm the smallest, the most re-
mote and the most ancient villages In
the Bayarian alps, the Tyrol and the
Bernese Overland you find the streets,
the stores and the inns and not infre-
quently the houses, supplied with cleo
| trio lights. / revisited last August Q
little village back in the Tyrolean
mountains, near Innsbruck. which Is
one Of the most characteristic mediae-
val communities one could well find.
The people live In the houses of their
grandsires and follow their customs
and ways.
This year I arrived there in the
evening and was amazed to find the
| streets as brilliantly lighted as Broad.
way, where formerly the only light was
from a swinging horn lantern here and
there. There were clusters of incan
descent lights strung across h streets
every few yards. The little inn had q
complete installation n so had the
few little shops. l was prepared to
learn that the formerly quiet village
had become a fashionable watering
4 D. IL hHI-fN xrnn nc nIfnA
| and as slow, Anticipated and out Of
date as ever. Later, as l.
| about the Tyrol and Switzerland, I
found the same change everywhere.
1T Is very natural that is should be
| so, too, for In all that region there Is
| power In superabundance running to
| waste on every hand. From every rock
leaps a cascade and over every cliff
roars a waterfall; there are stream
that flow evenly, with a steady, small
power, and torrents hat thunder down
with tons Of force. The village OF Muir
ZEN, perched on the edge Of a cliff OPP
posite the Jungfrau. at a height OF
5000 feet above sea level, has a very
| complete electric lighting system and
power enough within a few hundred
yards radius to light half Of New
l 1Ork. Inc NLlldSeS Set dSiA h6he go
most free.
This is, so far as I could learn, the
very first use TO which the vast water
power in the Alps has been put. Hith-
erto 1t has all run idle. Materialistic
travellers often wonder why Switzer-
land is not a big manufacturing coun
try. Alas! 1t soon may be, now tho
patient plodders there are finding what
a wonderful capability for work Is In
the waterfalls"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31
ALARM CLOCK FOR LOVERS.
Latest Device for the Relief of Suf-
fering Households.


A young man stood In the portlco Of
an apartment house In Washington
park, Brooklyn, the other evening, and
on the step above him stood a pretty
girl. 1t was late and the street was de-
serted. Despite the darkness 1t was ap-
parent to the occasional passerby that
the young man had the daintily -gloved
right hand of the young woman within
his own. while his left hand rested
ove 1t like a cover to keep 1t guarded.
The young man was apparently trying
to say good night and the young
woman evidently could not hear him,
for she was bending her head close to
his. They 5000 In that attitude for
nearly fifteen minutes, and might have
been discoyc ed In the same pose 6y
the gray / W of the morning had not
something interviewed.
That something was round and bright,
and it came OFT of n sixth story win
dow. 1t descended slowly, the o
light shimmering on lis silyery surface
and making it conSpicuous. Soon ii
could be seen that IL was on a string
and was being lowered by an elderly
woman When it dangled over the por.
tico there was a sudden bur-r-r-r-r-ring,
and the young man and young woman
parted like an oyerstrailed hawser.
The young man seized the round and
bright object, which was still ringing,
and held its face to the electro light
The hands on the alarm clock were
clasped Mt midnight. He raised his hat
to the young woman, nurmured two
words In a low tone, and disappeared.
The alarm clock WAS hoisted up quick
ly, but the young woman was up stairs
before II finally reached the open win
dow.-Nsv York Sun.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31

Smuggiers7 Thousands Of them.
They swarm along the Canadian Dor
der from ocean to ocean. 1t may be
the track Of a solitary sledge on the
frozen St Lawrence, or a fishing
schooner beating into a quiet bay
where there are no fish; or, II you like
O well dressed woman hiding a small
fortune In gems In the rug with which
she protects a sick pug from the cold
as the train nears the frontier-the
methods change from time to time,
for In novelty, oftimes, there is safe
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31
Track

but 1t promises great returns. He cal
culates to a nicely, does the wicked
free trader" the chances Of profit
and loss. Ii he carried his goods I'D
the waterway, In wholesale quantities
he might have all seized and confis-
Gated at once. He knows better. Big
schooners sail from the free haven of
st. Pierre, richly laden, and without
a port before them. That Is the trick.
When they have gone far enough,
down goes the anchor and up goaY the
q%uietest OF signals. The spot is Sc
Guided. The big schooner rides alone
without a light beyond those carried
by the most honest merchantmen.
But in the night smaller boats come
alongsld@sloops, rowboats, any craft
OF small capacity, and which a
float In shallow water. The cargo is
distributed quickly, until 1t becomes
n hundred cargoes. Then the big
schooner beats back to the free port
OF st. Pierre, and the smaller craft
take their chances of landing where
they may. One or two may be cap
tured, aud the cargo confiscated. The
majority escape, and the profit On the
stuff that Is landed In safety easily
CcInpcI safes for the losses and leaves
q haT dsolpe margin.
The chief article struggled there Is
liquor. The Car adiaDs, by avoiding
the duty on whiskys and alcohol, save
an amount which Is sometimes as
high as 81 or So q gallon and profit ac-
cordirgly.
some Maine Devices.
Whiskys, cigars and tohGcca, too, to-
gether with precious stones, are the
things which seem most tempting 10
he frontiersmen In Maine and New
Brunswick. There Is many a load of
hay that oes over the border with a
big jug OF whisky hidden within. A
load of wood or an apparently empty
packing s often serves the same
purpose. From Passamaquoddy Bay
he boundary lines run for forty miles
up the st CroiX river, thence thivtv
miles through a chain of lakes called
the Schoodies, eight miles through a
sparsely settled agricultural region,
sixty miles along the st. John river
through Lake st. Francis and then
through a wilderness down to the New
Hampshire line. The geography Is a
temptation in itself. The old cathedral
town Of st. Andrews lies but two
miles from the Maine border and a
railroad OF which RUSSELL Sage, Is now
the chief owner, connects II with the
ports OF st. John and Halifax, both of
which have steamship connection with
England and are constantly receiving
English goods. Busting Calais, In
Maine, faces St Stephen In
New Brunswick. with Q toll
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31

A Revenue Man Opens Your Grip.
ty, but the smugglers, like the poor,
are with us always.
Here In New York says the Herald
we hear often o. men and women
caught in an attempt to evade the
customs officers, as they leave the big
transatlantic liners, and the crime is
set down by all as serious and proper
fy punishable by heavy fines and long
Imprisonment. IL the job is On a large
scale the community, for the moment
Us shocked.
In the woods and on the waters
along the Canadian frontier Ii Is very
Different. The communities of the bor-
her, be they American or Canadian,
rs surely as they are made up Of fron-
tiersmen, born and bred, are inclineG
TO take q lenient view of such matters.
From &C rhine smuggling becomes an
enterprise, or, at worst, a sort OF
geographical disease at which one
might be shocked were he alone, but
which troubles him little since his
neighbors are infected, too.
The fact now is just what II has been
ever since there has been population
enough on both sides of the border TO
make the evasion OF the tariff u pay
ing business for adventurous spirits
E-Uncle Sam cannot police his long
Aine of border fence, nor indeed do any
more than make a poor blum at IT.
and trust to the moral sense Of the peo-
pile for the rest. And when the fence
Isn't watched the almighty dollar
crowds the moral sense OF the people
no the wall and there's an end to IL.
Give the frontiersman n chance to
ismuggle and he will arrange the mat
Ger with his conscience. He has the
chance, and arrange Ii with his con-
science he surely does, to such an ex-
tent, indeed, that there isn't a heartier
happier chap In al the land.
And how do these smugglers SNUG
gle? Well. I pur that question a day or
two ago to A. l.. Drummond, who used
10 be the head of the United States
Service In New York, and who did
sterling work against the opium car
riers years age, and to Special Treas
ury Agent George +. Cross, down In
the Custom House. Both were smoking
long cigars. Both laughed, blew a
cloud of smoke before them, and said:
-'In any way that strikes them as
safe" Both are men kho know the
smugglers from Maine to the Pacific
ana DOIU ldlElS IL ChO "
extent to which smuggling In a small
way is carried on In spite OF the loyal
but wofully small force OF men which
the government pays to prevent It
Tricks OF Opium
"Just take for example" adjective
Drummond said, 'the tricks devised
by the men who smuggle opium over
the border from Canada The duty
has been changed DOW, 1 sup
pose, but In my day he
smuggier could save $40 a pound
on the drug. Well, what do they do?
You know what an ordinary carpen-
ter's tool box looks like. They will
take such a box and fix 1t with little
panels or drawers, which only a minute
inspection would disclose, or place a
false bottom In 1t. or a false top. leay-
ing room to slip In the thin, oblong
cakes, and then coolly carry the box
over the bridge or border, after the
manner Of an honest workman"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31

But methods. like smugglers, are in
Vulnerable, and vary with the goods
20 be carried and the station and dress
of the person who carries them.
The case with which New York has
had to do most recently, that of the
colony OF Syrian smugglers who oper-
ated In Detroit and Windsor, Ont, and
forwarded their goods to a John Add
El-Nour. the Broadway merchant, who
received and disposed Of them, is one
Of the most common kind, although
Detective Drummond was surprised TO
learn that there had been any extern
siye smuggling transactions in dress
and vT-sl.. rlSr.cS. The -s1lus.,ers,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31
A YOUNG EXPLORER.
Casper w. whitney to Explore the
British

Casper w. Whitney, a young Ameri-
can, Is now or his way to explore the
great unknown territory of the Brit
ish Northwest. From Edmonton, the
northermost point touched by the
Canadian Pacific Railway, whitney
expects to travel north about 900
miles, then swerye off to the east,
skirt the northern coast of the CONT
nent, finally coming home down the
westerly shore Of Hudson's Bay. and
reaching civilization again at Winnie
peg. Two Indian guides and drivers
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31
John w. Foster.

the best posted man In the country In
diplomacy and international law. He
served in the Union army in an Indian
regiment and afterwards was promi-
nent In state politics. He Is a thorough
scholar and master Of several foreign
languages. Mr.. Foster has lately re-
turned from a trip arouni the world,
during which he spent some time In
China.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31

with gold trimmed and beaded cloth to
Sell, soon found out that they could
place Ii on the market here ut greatly
increased profits IL they could evade
the high protective duty imposed on
that class OF goods by the United States
government They stored their goods
In Windsor, and gradually transferred
them to American territory. In this
they had some ferry employees Is con-
federates, but the women smugglers
did most Of the work, making frequent
trips and wearing beneath their outer
garments a p~rofusion OF false petit
coats. So, gradually the capacious
trunks which were in waiting In De
troit were filed, one after another, and
then shipped without difficulty to New
York. Here the goods were sold at the
usual prices. and the smugglers peck
eted the tariff difference, in addition to
the ordinary profits.
But the hand OF the Syrian trader Is
in this transaction. II Is wholly unro-
mantle. Tie border lands and waters
furnish transactions of greater interest.
IL Is not In double-bottomed valises,
hollow-handled umbrellas, hollow-heel2d
shoes, thick wigs, padded w~aistccats,
k Of soap, generous circles of
cheese aud the other multiple devices
OF the smuggler that the romano lies,
but rather in the homlier methods of
the frontiersman, who, as they say,
adjust the tariff TO suit themselves. that
smuggling loses some of it's sordidness
and gains In the weight Of its advent
ures.
1t Is but a little while since stout
Capt. Bouchard, the king OF St Law
renee pirates, made a running fight
with a revenue cutter and only surren-
dered when his stronghold, on the Isle
aux Coudres, In the lower gulf, was so
hotly besieged that he could hold ont
no longer.
Across the Ice.
Along the wooded stretch OF the low
er St Lawrence and In the thousand
n one sheltered Of the gulf the
free traders have long since been
most formidable as far as the Eastern
country Is concerned. AS for the river
Itself, there are boats In summer and
there Is the Ice In winter. The revenue
cutter cannot be everywhere, even in
summer. In b winter the smuggIer
with a little money to earn will 90
further In Ice and snow, In the dusk Of
early morning and evening, in the night
itsel1, than the reyenu policemen, who,
after all, Is but human and may earn
his salary much as he pleases. II he
discovers a solitary sleigh track across
the frozen river he may surmisc, or he
may e' e watch foI the return OF the
driver. Even then he Is hours late and
finds, if any thing an innocent traveller
with an cupty sledgc. The Innocent
travellers pockets may be heavier, but
that Is his business.
What Is true Of the ice Is true Of the
water. Far down In the gulf is the
free" port OF st. Pierre. One may
land there what he will, free Of duty.
Thus his wares are at the gates of two
protected countries, and safe as vet
from the revenue officials. Will be lose
money by entering them through the
regular channels? Not he. The "un-
foreground passage" Is more risky,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31

and eight dogs to draw his sleds will
be his only companions. He will
snow-shoe the entire distance. That
part of British America into which he
Is going the temperature ranges at
this season, from 80 to 10 degrees be-
low zero. To make this worse. there
is absolutely no inflammable material
during winter, s. for weeks he will be
unable to have a fire. He will have
to a raw flesh most of the time. In
that part OF tn country the b'izZards
are the worst In the world, and it Ia
these the explorer fears most.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31
JOHN w.
To Aid the Chinese Government in
Peace Negotiations.

John W. Foster, formerly secretary
Of state, has been employed to aid the
Chinese governments plenipotentiaries
in peace negotiations. John w. Eos
ter represented this country abroad in
various countries for twenty-five years.
When minister to Mexico and Spain
and special envoy t several European
countries ne was OF the greatest serv.
Ice in making treaties. He Is probably
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31

FOR every 10000 inhabitants in the
United States there are 25.l2 miles OF
railroad. In Europe the proportion Ia
Az miles to every 10000 Inhabitants.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31

Prof. Barnard says people make a
great mistake IN coming TO the Lick OBJ
servatory at night TO see the stars. for
they can be seen far better in the day.
time.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31
Willy SMUGGLERS.
THEY RICHLY THRIVE ALONG THE
CANADIAN BORDER

meyeuue Men Cannot Scent whisky
Hidden I'm Loads of Hay, Nor Dfa-
monds Hidden I'm Ladies' shoes
OAHcers Pow eriess.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-31

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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-06-15
MARKET QUOTATIONS.

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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-06-15
SCORES OF PEOPLE DROWN.

Cloudburst In Germany Results In the
Destruction Of Life and Property.
A tremendous cloudburst occurred over
the Wurtemburs portion Of the Black
Forest, In Germany. The downfall Of
water caused the river Eyach to rise and
many houses at Ballingen, Frommern.
Dirrwangen and Lanfen were swept
away. Ten persons were drowned ct Bal.
lingen, seven were killed at Frommern
and nine other persons are missing. At
LAnfen ten persons were killed. The
Black Forest II Q mountainous region OF
southwestern Germany In the grand duchy
Of Baden and the west Of Wurtemburg.
separating the basins Of the Rhine and
Neckar. In many places It 10 300 feet
above the sea. Neckar, Kinsfg, Murg,
Elts and other rivers rise In this region.
The Inhabitants are mainly engaged In
rearing live stock, trading In timber and
manufacturing wooden clocks. toys and
wooden fabrics.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-06-15
KILLED ny CHIN EsE.
Frightfu1 Reports Concerning
MioslOna at Chen9te.

Frightfu1 Reports Conserving the
Missions at Chengte.
A London cablegram says: A special dis.
patch from Shanghai says that II ID al
most certain that massacre Of all the
persons connected with the English,
French and American missions at Cheng.
tc has occurred. Neither men, women
nor children have been spared. 1t Is ad-
mitted that kilograms have been inter.
cepted by the Government, the object be-
Ing to conceal the news Of the massacre.
A French gunboat IL en- route to Woen.
chang to investigate the report. Chengtc
10 situated In the province Of Pc Chi Ii,
100 miles northeast Of Pekin. The people
composing the population Of the city are
Of low order. The fact that Chengte
Is 30 near Pekin, the seat Of the Chinese
Government, makes the outrage all the
more fragrant. When the news Of the
massacre arrived In Shanghai French
gunboat was promptly ordered to Wreng
Cheng to investigate. There are several
English warships here, but none has been
ordered north. The Americans and Eng.
lish will, however, make . thorough in.
vestigation.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-06-15
POPE FROM ABROAD.

Italians May Lose Supremacy In the
Sacred College Of Cardinals.
A Rome correspondent telesraphs that
Il 10 announced there that the papal nun.
clos at Paris, Lisbon, Madrid and Vienna
will DO created cardinals. Tho news
causes much interest In Vatican circles
because II will disturb the equilibrium Of
the prepondcrance Of italian cardinals In
the sacred college. The Pope In announe-
ing the fact said: I'VE hope thus to Gre
ate position more In conformity with
papal interests In the world and to furnish
the sacred college the means to success.
fully surm0unt the difficult and delicate
period Of our succession"