The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-17

month prior to his departure and de-
post certificate of registration from
the internal revenue collector for the
dlstrlct in which he resided at the time
OIL registration, and shall make oath
before the collector in writing a fu!l
statement descriptive of his family or
property, or debts, as the case may be,
and describe himself fully, giving his
name, age, height, local residence, oc-
cupat1on, color of eyes and complex
ion, and distinguishing marks, naming
the port from which he expects to SAIL
All this pile of data must be filed in
duplicate and to each attached d more
CT less faithful photograph Of the coun-
tenance of Hop with the customs Of
hcer's name written across the face by
the collector. The collector or MS
deputy, with whom the description is
filed, makes thorough examination as
to whether the applicant is registered,
and after finding that everything CORE
spends with the data given by Hop, he
proceeds to put his official signature
across the Photographic representation
OF Hops face, allowing portion of
the signature so written to drift off on
to q portion of the written description.
This connects the description and the
photograph and prevents substitution.
The papers then go to the internal
revenue collector by whom the certifi-
Gates have been issued for comparison
file in his Office After all the machinery
has been in motion long enough to find
out the secrets of Hops past life, to-
gether with his future intentions, Col
lecter of Customs Browne gathers up al
the pa perS in the case and forwards
them to the collector of the district
from which the departure for China is
to take place. A duplicate copy is
transmitted to Hop and he makes bee
line for the port of departure mention
ed, and presenting them to the collector
at that place, the examination begins
all over again, which, if satisfactory,
results in Hop getting a certificate en-
titling him to return to the United
States. provided he does so within II
months and at the same port from
which he embarked. Hop takes steer
age passage for the home of his fathers
and is as happy as a pipe dream untl
he comes back, when all his troubles pc
gin over again and general compafl-
sor of photographs, descriptions and
other impedimenta is gone through,
and for several days Hop is sickly
shade of blue-green with terror But IL
all the various legal requirements are
found to dovetail together properly ne
is given his certificate and again takes
up his residence in the land of the free
But this time he carefully avoids Great
Falls, Mont.
Next to his pigtail. the most i'm
portant possession of Chinaman is his
certificate without it he has no bust
ness being on earth. and his troubles are
many. Upon demand of a customs Or
ficer at any time he must show his GER
titicate and if he has it not, woe be to
him. Jail is his portion. and until 1t IS
found again and his entire past life IN
ouired into, he becomes a sort of an
international question mark. lnspec-
tor Ernest RingWald of the Gus
toms office at this point has become so
familiar with this branch of the bust
ness that he can spot Chinaman VINO
is minus a cerLfica te merely by watch
ing him spell his name. In most cases
of arrest for this cause the Chinaman
has really lost his certificate or loaned
it to a fellow conspirator to use some
where else. If the first case it is gen
orally proved so clearly and matters ar
ranged amicably: but if the latter Hop
is placed as ballast in some outgoing
steameY-bound for China and the mop
Joints that knew him know him no
more. OF course, there is a way Of
avoiding all this trouble by coming over
the boundary from her majesty's Can
adam domains, and thereby giving
Great Falls and the red tape the go-oy,
| but several accidents and the disagree
able habit the. customs officers have of
| appearing suddenly and demanding the
| requisite certificates has served to
| somewhat discredit that route and its
popularity is considerably on the
Wane.