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line runs through the middle OF prin-
ciDal street When a man wants 20
smuggle something across the border.
especially a small article such as dia-
mond,f he wraps il I'm a newspaper or
puts ii in a letter. 4 hen he walks
from the Mexican side of the street
over across the boundary and mails
the paper or letter in the United
States.
Only the most constant scrutiny of the
mails by postoffice customs officials pre-
vents wholesale smuggling. Even then
there is no doubt many diamonds and
pieces Of jewelry are sent through with
out payment of duty.
Opium smugglers are a prolific source
Of trouble TO the customs authorities,
a especially on the Pacific Coast Puget
Sound is an unusually good field for the
epium smuggler. There are something
like 1900 miles of coast line In the
winding and tortuous sinuosities OF
Puget Sound. 1t is al most impossible
TO guard all this line efficiently.
The Chinese are especially given to
the smuggling of opium. They buy it
at a low figure on the Asiatic coast.
bring it to this country. and If they
can run the customs gantlet dispose
of il with ease at a high profit.
Il deserves to be said the Chinese are
not the only offenders. however. Sail
ors frequently bring in opium and sol
diers returning from the Far East
often do little specuIating on their
own account by getting into the Illicit
opium traffic.
Owing to the large number OF Chinese
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and the number of hop Joints" on The
Pacific Coast, the sale of smugs1e.i
opium in that region is never difficult
In fact. customs officers say the habit
of smoking opium is growing to such
a degree that the narcotic can be sold
with ease i'm almost any large city Of the
country.
Drugs in a Pillow.
One of the devices the Chinese use
with success TO bring in opium is a small
pillow. When the Mongolian sets out
to come TO this country he brings with
him a number of little. oblong pillows,
on which to rest his head when he sleeps
on deck. A careful inspection of the in
terror of these pillows viii frequently
disclose a quantity of opium.
Another article which the Chinaman
frequently smuggles in the same way is
playing cards. These are manufactured
at low figure in China. and can be sold
in this country at a considerable profit.
Chinese Shrewd Smugglers.
No smoother smugglers are known TO
the customs officers than the Chinese
They give endless trouble in the Philip
pines, where the merchant classes enter
in quite large numbers. The America
customs officials have become so used
TO the oily ways Of the Chinese that they
treat them with scant consideration
when it comes to examining baggage
The same is true on the Pacidc Coast
and The Canadian border
Anything the yellow man has in the
way Of chests or boxes is rummaged
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TENTS ERECTED.

After a years effort along purely
educational lines, the Washington
Committee for the Prevention of
Consumption" has at last been en-
abled, through the generosity of one
of its members, to employ the
means most approved by modern
science for combating this evil-the
outdoor, CT tent, treatment for the
victims. The initial tent has been
erected at the Washington Asylum
Hospital, ard others will be added
as means and time afford. Wash
ington IS therefore prepared to fol-
low Eew York and other large com
munities in an intelligent crusade
against this deadly evil.
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nance. They have brought pressure TO
bear on Congress and the Commission
ers. to effect the speedy erection. before
any other building of the proposed
Municipal Hospital. of the tubercular
ward. as providing for the greatest need
of the community. The greatest pro-
gress. however. was at the meeting or
the committee on January % last, when
an impetus was given TO the work which
must yield large results.
The meeting was well attended and
enthusiastic Ii was decided to make
two recommendations TO Congress; one
that the Health Office be provided with
the additional force necessary TO furnish
free microscopical examination OF the
sputum OF suspected cases the other
that provision be mace for the registra
ton Of consumptive patients, and thai
this - required for tubercular cases as
for cases Of scarlet fever. smallpox.
diphtheria, and the like, all of which
diseases together do not cause the NOR
tality Of this~onc
Since then tIjs has been brought to
the attention OF the Medical Society Of
the District of Columbia. and the Ma
tional Homeopathic Medical Associa-
tion. and it is understood that both
hearty support TO the movement
At this meeting. too. General Stern
berg read a letter he haC received fro.l
Henry Phipps. the millionaire. who has
erected in Philadelphia the largest and
best equipped hospital for consumptive
patients In the country. known as the
Phipps Institute. Mr.. Phipps, express
ing his appreciation Of the efforts OF the
committee, incloscd his check for 81. $50.
which greatly encouraged the members
Of the committee.
Mss Tuckerlan's Enterprise.
The most signal feature of the meet
ing. however, was the cont. ibutiOn by
Miss Emily Tuckerman. Of 800. 10 be
used Immediately for the erection. IN
the grounds Of the Washington Asylum
Hospital Of a tent for the outdoor
treatment Of consumptives. similar T.,
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One method practieed 70 some extent
by women smugglers is TO have an old
gown, or a cheap one trimmed with
costly lace when on n trip to Europe or
some foreign country. In this way
women have been known to get through
the customs lines with hundreds of dol
lars worth of rich laces.
Concealing Place in Soiled Linen.
Diamonds are sometimes smuggled
through by women, who put them in
with soiled linen, soiled handkerchiefz
and the like, thinking the customs OFF,
cials will not take the trouble of maxi
ing a search of clothing that is ready
for the laundry.
Being moved by the spirit of duty. the
customs officer does not always allow
his feelings of elegance to prevent him
from a ruthless search Of everything
the fair travellers trunk contains. some
times it is necessary to compel women
suspects 10 submit TO being searched by
women inspectors.
Not long ago two women were detected
lnrOush a search by women inspectors
or smuggling tuTs. One had stuck her
loot through a rich fur muff and was
thus conveying the article past the Gus
toms officers. Her companion hat
aoopted similar Eietnods to carry rich
fur garments.
1t occasionally happens that a woman
Is discovered in the endeaver to wear
Two dresses across the border and some
times women inspectors find lingerie
worn that contains more than its due
share Of lace. Even diamonds are some
times carried fastened in the folds OF
dainty petticoats and other undergar-
ments.
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contact with a person. place or thing
which has been intensely contaminated
with tubercular matter to give rise to
an implantation-
The home and the workshop are the
two places where environment OF
sufficient intensity Of contamination and
contact of long enough duration for i'm
plantation most readily can exist Prob
ably three-fOurths OF all cases of tuber-
culosis which are contracted from per
son TO person are contracted in the
home and the other fourth is contracted
in the workshop
Tent System.
This tent system has been used to
great advantage by those dealing with
consumption in other cities Of America
and Europe. the idea of using II in
Washington being taken from the plan
that was in operation in New Work for
about a year under the direction of
Homer Folk, charity commissioner
under Seth Low.
He began taking patients out Of the
hospital and putting them in tents
erected within the hospital grounds
These tents have wooden floors and are
heated either by steam or by stoves
Ihey are constructed so that their sides
may be raised or the canvas at the top
taken of, exposing the patients to the
sunlight
The patients have shown steady i'm
provement ever since they began to
live out Of doors. Those who were
known to be incurables have improved
and several have become almost entire
ly we'll
They stay out in summer and winter
and a number OF those who moved from
the hospital to the tents a year ago
have not slept under a roof since.
These points had been brought out in
a talk before the committee, when
Miss Tuckerman asked what il would
cost to equip such a tent. On learning
that one could be constructed for 500
which would accommodate ten persons.
she promptly gave that amount 1t is
probable that her effort viii be follow
ed by the appropriation Of a part Of the
money received from Mr.. Phipps to the
construction OF other tents
The testimony OF a patient Of the
modern method is of interest
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Intelligent Probing Into the Great White
Plague Now Going On in the District
of Columbia Develops Manu-
Facts Hitherto Unknown.

tn HERE is a battle on in the District
Of Columbia. and it Is a fight to
the finish, without surcease or
quarter. On the one hand is arrayed the
countless legions Of an invisible foe.
known as the bacilli of tuberculosis, or
consumption. which, from its ravages
in the ranks of human life. especially
among the Caucasian races. has come
to be known as the Great White Plague.
Against its insidious phalanxes are ar
rayed a number of intelligent, philan-
thropic men and women, whose allies
are education and common sense. Which
has the better chance of victory. and
what are the weapons employed in this
unequal contest?
So great are the inroads made by this
disease that we find the medical profess
sion and others interested In the aIIevia-
ton OF human suffering engaged in or
ganized efforts 70 suppress it all over
the world. On January Is an exposition
was opened at Baltimore. attended by
the leaders In this fight, where a week
was put in most proftably in comparing
methods and results. The fight is by no
means a modern one. however. Hip
pocrates. i've centuries before Christ.
wrote Of IL. and recommended a treat
ment similar to that now in vogue
Galen, too. saw that fresh air was the
one specific in the days OF the Roman
empire. But their teachings fell on
deaf ears. and until very recently the
practice Of physicians was to keep the
patient shut up IN a warm and close
ROOM feeding him on noxious drugs.
The Beginning.
The crusade against consumption in
this country was inaugurated in New
York by the organization OF a committee
20 disseminate knowledge OF how to re-
duce the danger among the ignorant
classes. and this plan has come to be
adopted by other large communities. It
is a little more than a year ago that
the Washington Committee for the Pre-
ventiOn OF Consumption was formed at
the instance OF Secretary Weller, OF the
Associated Charities
This committee is composed of DIR
William G. Woodward. Health Officer Of
the District Of Columbia. chairman: Gen.
George NJ sternberg, vice chairman:
Rudolph Kaufman. treasurer; Charles
+. Weller. secretary. and the following
subcommittees:
Lectures-Dr. d. Percy Hickling. chair.
man; DR.. G. w. n. CustIs, Rabbi Louis
Stern. the Rev. John Van schaick. lr
DR.. c. J. West, the Rev. d. E. wisemau.
W. s. Dufheld. f. II. Hunter.
Care and treatment-George NJ. Stern
berg. chairman; DR.. c. NJ Kober. John
F. wilkins. Emily Tuckerman. Miss Il
i. Washington.
Finance-Thomas W Smith, chairman.
Col. George TruesdelI. William F. Gude
William +. Downey.
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those in use in New York ana elsewhere.
This sum was turned over TO DR.. -.
Percy Kicking, head Of the Washing
ton Asylum Hospital. and by him was
put to such good purpose that. despite
the weather conditions. a tent has been
placed in operation.
The full significance Of Miss Tucker
mans enterprise can hardly be over
estimated. The actual living.in the open
air has been found by eu authorities 10
be the one specific for consumption.
I'm his address at the Baltimore expo
sition. Dr. Lawrence i. Flick, head of
the Ph.pps Institute. had this TO say
on the subject.
Tuberculosis can be cured in any
climate. All that is necessary is life
The Washington times., 1904-02-28
LATEST BATTLE WITH TUBERCULOSIS
TUBERCULOSIS KILLS

One IN every persons in the world;
One
One hundred fifty every year. United
States
One million and ninety thousand persons every year. world
Three thousand persons every day, the world;
Two every minute n world;
Seven hundred and ninety Washington
One in every of aeachye
There Washington today.
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remorselessly in spite of protests. Some
times careful examination is made of
the person of the Chinaman. as it is an
easy matter TO hide a valuable lot of
diamonds in a Chinese queue. or to con-
ceal them in some way In the flowing
garments of the celestial
But for WAYS that are dark and
tricks that are vain the heather Chi
nee has no monopoly when 1t comes to
smuggling. The experience of customs
officers is that of all the offenders with
whom they have to deal the women
smugglers are the most difficult and en-
barrassing to encounter Women of
high social standing for some reason
seem to think it no crime 70 import
valuables in the form Of diamonds Iaces.
furs and the like without paying the
Government a cent Of duty
When caught they rely on the defense
lessness Of their sex to excuse them.
Not long ago it developed that women
on Fifth avenue, in New York, had been
buying Smuggled furS. Just to what
extent they were accomplices with the
parties who were getting furs in by an
underground route from Montreal IS n
question, but il seems impossible that
they did not know the goods were snug
gled.
Influence Brought to Bear.
When the customs officers swooped
down and seized the goods straightway
there arose a wall from the injured. and
influential fathers and b others were
unsuccessfully enlisted in the cause Of
getting Uncle Sam 10 bt gallant and
generous to his erring daughters and
give them back their furs.
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IN the open air. proper food well regu-
lated and carefully disciplined conduct.
and, in more advanced cases, properly
directed rest and exercise. People who
can command these things in their
homes can be cured in their homes
People who cannot command them
should be treated in sanatoria Most
people can be treated better in sana-
toria than In their homes.
Sunlight. air and water are the ma
ural enemies of the tubercule bacillus.
Sunlight and air kill il and water dis
solves # out of its cache, so that light
and air may get at it.
Houses Of one kind and another are
the ordinary means Of spreading tuber-
culosis. The home is the most frequent
means and the workshop the next This
is so because 1t takes prolonged intimate
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DDS OF smuggIers. Nearly
every day information comes
20 the officers Of the customs division OF
the Treasury Department Of some novel
scheme worked out I'm the fertile brain
OF one OF the army Of sharps OF both
sexes who are perslstently striving to
mine under the tariff wall around the
United States.
So many new plans are devised and
50 many old devices are modified and
used anew that the experienced special
agent OF the customs service IS never
surprised at any method employed 20
circumvent the customs regulations.
Fed With Diamond Filled Sausage.
A few days ago a report was made to
Assistant Secretary Armstrong Of a
strange and effective method employed
by a diamond smuggler 10 get diamonds
across the border at Detroit He pur-
chased several thousand dollars worth
Of diamonds on the Canadian side and
then looked around aIsd bought up a
small and mangy-looking dog for 50
cents.
After allowing the dog 20 starve a
little more completely than Il had al
ready he fed the animal a piece Of sau-
sage I'm which the diamonds had been
placed. The smuggler and the dog then
proceeded 60 20 across 70 Detroit.
The customs officers saw nothing sus-
picious in Dlain-looking man and
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EXPERTS OPINION

"In the early stages tuberculosis proper
treatment This ought to be
reach of everyone 1t not because the truth
freed themselves Of past to un-
learn The cings
doing than the patntDr
Lawrence ?. Flick Preside of Phipps Institute
The Washington times., 1904-02-28
Money Needed.

Here were the conditions, and here was
the little band OF fghters-without any
money, the most essential wea pom. At
this juncture William J. Kehoe. secre-
tary OF one of the committees Of Con-
gress. becoming interested in the work,
subscribed a sufficient sum to enable
the committee to disseminate educa tive
literature. and to give stereopticon lee
lures In churches and schools This
campaign has been going on for more
than a year.
What good has been accomplished,
only the agents OF the Associated Chari-
ties and the members Of tho Instructive
Visiting Nurse Association, and others
who attempt TO alleviate suffering In
homes, can form any idea Gradually
the people have been taught that con-
sumption is both communicable and pre-
ventable: that the sputum of the pa
tient. if allowed to dry, throws Off some
thousands Of millions OF bacilH from each
patient I'm the course of twenty-foUr
hours. which. inhaled by other mem
bers Of the family. establishes the dis
ease I'm them; that sedentary occupa-
tions and those like cigar making. whore
dust is inhaled, are conducive 20 the dis
ease. and that a victim should obtain
outdoor employment: that every case. if
taken I'm time and properly treated. is
durable. and thus the element Of hope
comes to aid the resisting powers of
the body.
The Washington times., 1904-02-28

Laws and administration - Surgeon
General Walter wyman. chairman: Ad-
miral William X. Van Reypen. NJ. G
seckendorn.
Printing and distribution-Dr. Richard
Kinssman. chairman; DR.. Murray C.
Motter. Rudolph Kaufman.
Local Conditions.
The local conditions We're such as well
to warrant a crusade against them. Sta
tistics showed that Washington ranked
third in mortality from tuberculosis. her
percentage Of deaths from this cause
being exceeded only by Los Angeles and
Denver. both resorts where consump-
tives go in extremis 70 die. The com
mittee found the conditions of alley life
to be as they were recently shown by
the Investigations of Jacob Riis-the
worst in America In view Of the fact
that uncleanliness and crowding OF the
homes Of the poor is the most prolific
cause OF the disease. # was not hard to
grasp the reason for the high mortality.
They also learned that, with all the
hospitals which the Capital City can
boast, but one-the Washington Asylum
Hospita,-would admit a consumptive pa
t.ent, and its equipment is totally made
quate 10 handle even a fractional per-
centage OF the cases.
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Hiding Place a Baby's Rattle.
Wrapped in a Railway Guide.

Hidden within a railway guide sent
To this country from Germany a deputy
customs collector IN New York recently
found 5000 worth Of diamonds. This
case was an Illustration or the Tact that
the average offender against the law is
The Washington times., 1904-02-28
Before Congress.

Bu- this cducative campaign. however
valuable, IS not enough. aud the com
mittee did not stop there They secured
the passage Of the arti-spitting ordi-
The Washington times., 1904-02-28

half-starved dog. and they allowed them
TO pass with a cUrsory inspection. on
arriving at Detroit the dog was killed
and the owner found the diamonds with
out trouble and disposed OF them sue
cessfully.
Many ingenious plans are devised TO
smuggle diamonds. auG there is no
doubt large quantities Of these valu-
ables are brought into the country with
out the knowledge Of the customs Off
GERS.
Hiding Place a Baby's Rattle.
Not long ago special agents ran down
a man and his wife who had brought
diamonds across the Canadian border
In a babys rattle The diamonds had
been wrapped In cotton and placed in
side the tin box. The baby was given
the plaything. and. Of course was not
molested by the inspector. Subsequent
"A. however. the offenders were discov-
erd
Another method which has been sue
cessfully employed TO smuggle dia-
monds Is to h1 the frames Of bicycles
with the precious stones. In the days
when bicycling was more OF "a craze
than IL is now this was an especially
easy method Of avoiding payment Of
duty.
The Washington times., 1904-02-28

IN oTHING new under the sun"
will not apply TO the meth
DDS OF smugglers. Nearly
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-04-28
Don't overdress Your Child.

Woman's Home Companion.
You can't begin too early to train
girls in taste and sense upon the sub:
ject of dress. The woman who dresses
her little daughter expensively. who
even goes without proper clothing hel
self to deck her girl in dainty, fresh,
fashionable garb, does great wrong to
herself and to her child. The fitness
OF things ls reversed when the mother
denies herself what is due her to give
her child what she does not need
Under such circumstances fine dress II
positively harmful to girl.
If any one in the family Is to be
dressed In fashion and elegance Il
should be the mother. Simplicity II
absolutely necessary for good taste in
all that relates to children. There Il
room for pretty color effects and to,
the refinements of suitability, and ali
that, but departure from plainness ol
material and style In childrens dress
is departure from good form. What
shall be said for the woman who ha.
such small sense of the fitness ofthingl
as to deny herself the dress suitable fol
her In order to put upon her child
what is unsuitable and out of taste?
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-04-28

age. It cures when all other remedies
fail. can heartily recommend Pcrunn
as q catarrh rcmedy."-Mrs. Liner
Fleming
Treat Catarrh in Spring.
The spring is the time to treat catarrn.
Cold, wet winter weather often retards
q cure of catarrh. If 4 course of Peruco
is taken during the early spring months
the cure will be prompt and permanent.
There can be no failures il PcrunH is
taken intelligently during the favorable
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As systemic catarrh remedy Pcruna
cradicates catarrh from the system
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If you do not derive prompt ard satis-
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full statement of your case and he will
be pleased to give you his valuable ad-
vice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus. O.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-04-28
A GREAT SENSATION.

There was big sensation in Lees
vile, Ind, when w. III Brown of that
place, who was expected to die, had his
life saved by DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption. He says: II endur-
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but your New Discovery gave me I'M
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Guaranteed by E. T. Whitehead & Co
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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-04-28
Tired Of Dodging Officers.
Newburn Journal.

Newburn Journal.
A strange case of a conscience strick-
on thief was before United States Com
missioner Hill yesterday. He was
James Virgins young white man and
on December 18, 1900 he stole wheel
belonging to the late Sam Blddle, which
was on government property having
been placed against the postoffice build
at the time.
A few days after the theft he was
captured at Polloe ksville with the BIZ
cycle in his possession, but before the
papers could be served on him, he es-
capped and ever since has been eva1ing
arrest. United States Marshails and
their deputies haye been searching for
him but he foiled them many times.
He has been in Florida most of the
time since the theft.
He voluntarily surrendered himself
to the federal authorities stating that
he was tired of doging officers.
After hearing the case, Mr.. Hill re.
quired him to give justified bond for
$50 to appear for trial in the United
States Court next week. He gaye the
bond.