The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-20
Smuggler's :
Ingenious Tricks
Have Many Clever Devices for Hiding
Goods.

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Smuggling effectively is one OF those
| fine arts that have decayed at least In
| England, where. as we have duties on
little else than tobacco, tea and spirits.
| and where we have a seaboard closely
watched 1t cannot be carried out to any
| extent successfully.
Now and then the revenue men are
outwitted. but rarely on large scale.
and never can contraband trade be
carried on for long undetected. II Is not
| at the present day worth mems while to
/ apply their minds to the overreachinR
| OF the coast guard. says Chambers Jour
mel, and consequently the art Is In its
| dotage and decline
| Attempts are made occasionally to out
| wit the preventive officers as when a
vessel came into the Colne some years
| ago with its cordage OF twisted tobacco,
but Il was found out OIL cans are made.
/ or were made. with an Interior consisting
Of. an inverted funnel OF tin. When the
| officers put stick through the neck and
turn II about they draw 1t out and find
| that the rod has been in oil. But the
Upper bulging sides of the can contain
| smuggled spirits.
| An old woman died lately at Causand
who for long hoodwinked the coast
| guard by carrying about a baby. This
was actually bottle or jar of brandy,
which she drew OFF from hidden re-
ceptacle OF the smugglers. you've
| very quiet child there: l never hear II
s!5y cry said one Of the guards 70 her;
1
warrant you he's got deal o spirit in
him." And he let her pass.
In Cover. at Llangenneth. the runners
| OF smuggled goods had contriyed most
Ingenious cache little stream falls in
cascades from the mountain above. They
diverted the stream, formed cellar un-
der the spot where the water splashed
down. well covered with broad states
rubble and in this hid their kegs. But
storm brought the stream down with
such violence that .one night II tore away
the roof and revealed the concealed run
goods
When Joseph Bonaparte was king of
spain a good many individuals even
those highly placed. enriched themselves
attthe expense Of the revenue.
One day contrabandsta met Briga-
der at Segovia, about to return with
| empty caissons to Madrid.
Look here. my friend" said he, "I
| want you to convey for me a quantity of
cannon balls and shells to the capital
| as many as your horses can draw" Then
| he showed him piles of these munitions of
would be prodigious BAH" replied the
| smugger. They are all of blackened
| pasteboard and are full of velvets, to-
baceo; brandy and liquors. Get them safe
your pains rs louis dor They will let
cannon balls. pass the barriers without
taxing them"
The, Brigadier agreed. and managed to
the night; but as those In the plot were
unloading the goods UP rode an officer.
'Hello!' said he. THE very thing we
want. / have orders to send convoy of
shot to Seville wanted against those dogs
| OF English. And he confiscated the lot;
| but, finding them remarkably light broke
| one, and forth gushed the finest cognac.
| In Paris for some time by an ingenious
! contrivance a good deal of wine and spir-
| its was passed beyond the barriers with
| out paying duty. A subterranean passage
had been made from the village Of Los
/ Vertus, near st. Denis, in the house of
| citizen, and it led into the cellar of
| blacksmith near the Foire ST. Laurent.
| The passage was lined with planks well
| creased. and kegs We're sent rolling along
| II filled with every kind of merchandise
| that ought to pay toll at the octorl At
| the blacksmith's there were extensive
| cellars in which these goods were stored
| But one who was in the secret betrayed
| II, and the officers Of the law came down
suddenly on the blacksmith, penetrated
| 70 the cellars. and with the contents
| loaded seventeen wagons
| At the present day a great source Of
annoyance to the Spanish frontier guards
Is the extensive smuggling that goes on
| from Gibraltar, and dogs are trained as
| the mediums. They have laces and all
| kinds OF English produce sewn around
their bodies and are let loose. They know
| perfectly whittier they are to go, and
| the guards fire on all such dogs that they
| see cOursing over the country. In the
same way in Perigord dogs are educated
| 70 poach truffies, which they dig up and
| hide in well-known caches, where their
masters can recover them.
On the Swiss and French frontier an
| Italian piled his trade. He had a bear
and monkey that sat on the back of
| bruin. Sometimes he was in France
| sometimes in Switzerland. But actually
the beast he travelled with was an ass.
| Tin receptacles had been formed adopted
TO his sides and back and these ware
1te.d rstf urasta -
covered over with the skin Of huge
| bear.
As the Snowman with his beasts passed
the frontier one day. as Ill luck would
| have IT, his bear gave voice
| "HeloI' said the custom house officer
what very remarkable bruin, that
brays like a donkeyi" and so the trick
| was discovered.
There lived near the French frontier a
| learned ornithologist who not only him
| self had collection Of rare stuffed birds
but he also was consulted by amateurs
| and by learned societies throughout Eu-
| rope when collections were sought to be
| made up, and he undertook to procure
the specimens that were desired in
| France or Germany or England Conse-
| quently there was constantly Going on a
| trede In pathological specimens over
| the frontiers. and usually our savant ac-
companied these. as they were rare and
| valuable and liable to injury If roughly
handled. Now. 1t so CHANGED that he
bought live parrot, with which 1t en-
| tertalned him to converse. After n meal
he would stand by the perch and say
Poll. pretty POLL When you are deaJ
| ! Will stun you with laces,n or else.
Poll. | will stun YOU with eau de CO.
logne. Now It fell out that once our
naturalist was conveying a collection of
| specimens across the frontier. and nm
| luckily he had his parrot with him. At
the custom house. all at once II screamed
out: Pretty Poll When you are dead
will stun you with lacel Polll POLL
When you are dead l win stuff you with
eau de colognel'
Il will trouble you" said the custcm
house officer. ito let me investigate your
collection OF stuffed birds"
Aver said the ornithologist bitterly
Pretty POLL I shall wiring your neck
for telling secrets"
MY husband is the most unselfish of
men, exclaimed Mrs. Youngwifa II "a "a
him whole box OF cigars and he onlv
smoked one and gave all the rest away 2
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