The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-11-12
SMUGGLING ON THE TIDE.
Exceptional Natural Facilities on Both
 Sides of the Maine Border.

Exceptional Natural Facilities on Both
 Sides of the Maine Border
 The recent sale of ten barrels of sugar at Calais, by order of the collector of customs of the port of Passport, called attention to the fact that smuggling IS not entirely thing of the past on the New England border These ten bar rels of sugar were seized in August, from an enterprising citizen of Calais, who forgot to notify the local collector of their importation from the Canadian side of the St Croix river.
 Calais has not had a more acceptable matter for discussion in years than the seizure of this sugar. It was such a joke that everybody smiled at the very thought of it. The story of the seizure is typical of the conditions sometimes to be observed in Calais. The border is so near, and the river between Calais and St. Stephens so inviting to sailing or rowing in the evening, that citizens have been known before now to take a little excursion after nightfall to the St. Stephens side just for exercise and to come back without troubling the col- lector on guard, who might be in need of his evening nap.
 The man with the sugar may have been thus thoughtful of the collector Anyway, on the night of August 10 he went out for a little row on the river. His boat was heavy, but he did not mind that. He was fond of the river. It chanced that on this night a deputy collector of Customs residing in Calais, by names Jones, bad on his mind yachting trip down the river to Passa- maquoddy bay In order to take ad- vantage of the early morning tide, Mr. Jones rose while it was yet dark, to make his boat ready for the trip and put provisions aboard.
 He was at the wharf at the Calais waterfront before daylight, and while getting ready to go on board the yacht he was agreeably surprised to find that he was not the only citizen astir at that hour. A boat was on the river, and in it man. The man was known to MT Jones as a respectable citizen. His boat was large and he had cargo in it. The tide was high, and the boat found a good birth beside the wharf where the deputy collector was preparing for his yachting trip.
 Mir. Jones was interested, and being a kind hearted man, he volunteered to help the citizen make fast his boat When the boat was made fast the man In it began to take out the cargo. It was in barrels, and they were very heavy. MT. Jones assisted him to land the heavy stuff. There were ten barrels in all, and the deputy collector judged that they held sugar. When all were landed it was near daylight, and the forgetful citizen went his way to take some needed sleep before beginning the labors of the day.
 The deputy collector started that day on his yachting trip, but not until he had put the machinery of the law in motion to seize the contraband sugar, for he doubted not that it had come from the St. Stephens side.
 It thus came about that one enterpris ing citizen found his sugar in the keep ing of the officers of the United States when he called for it, and that the same was sold, after being duly advertised as lone lot, ten barrels of Canadian re- fined sugar seized for violation" of sec ton so-and-so of the laws of the United States. When MT. Jones was asked about the