The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-20
SMUGGLERS' TRICKS.
HAVE MANY CLEVER DEVICES
 FOR HIDING GOODS
Pasteboard Cannon Balls Filled With Brandy-DOgs Carriers Of Fine La0es-Spirits Concealed in Bear SkIn-ParrOt Betrayed the OrnithoIO- gist.

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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 seaboard closely watched, it cannot be carried out to any extent successfully.
 Now and then revenue men are out witted, but rarely on a large scale, and never can contraband trade be car ried on for long undetected. It is not at the present day worth mems while to apply their minds to the overreaching of the coast guard, says Chambers Journal, and consequently the art is in it's dotage and decline.
 Attempts are made occasionally to outwit the preventive officers, as when vessel came into the Coine some years ago with its cordage of twisted tobac- co, but it 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 thru it about they draw il 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 gard by carrying about baby. This was actually a bottle or jar of brandy which she drew off from a hidden re- ceptacle of the smugglers. You've a ! very quiet child there: never hear il cry" said one of the gards to her That may be-" replied Nanny, but warrant you he's got g deal o, spirit *ir him." And he let hkr pass. i In Cover, at nangonneth, the run i ners of smuggled goods had contrived g most ingenious cache. A little stream falls in cascades from the mountain i above. They diverted the stream formed cellar under the spot wher> the water splashed down, we'll covered i with broad states above, on which they cast torrent rubble and in this hid theli kegs. But a storm brought the stream down with such violence that one nigh 1 it tore away the roof and revealed tht concealed run goods. @4 %s l When Joseph Bonaparte was King O Spain a good many individuals, ever those highly placed, enriched them selves at the expense of the revenue 1 One day a contrabanddista met { Brigadier at Segovia, about to return with empty caissons to Madrid. . 7 1 Look here, my friend" said he, '' want you4 to convey for me Il quantit. of cannon balls and shells to the capi tal--as mary as your horses can draw. Then he showed him piles of these mti nitions of war. The Brigadier demurt 1 red the weight would be prodigious 'Bah!" replied the smuggler. They are all of blackened spasteboard and art full of velvets, tobacco, brandy ant liqueurs. Get them safe into the Pradl and you shall be paid for your pain! seventy-five louis dor They will le cannon balls pass the barriers withou taxing them" < ,,'.:.t ...i !
 The br!gadier agreed, and managed t get them into the Prado at Madrid ii
 
 unloading the goods lip rode%an officer F. "Hello." said he. The very thing VI want. I have orders to send a convo! of shot to Seville wanted against thos dogs of English" And he confiscatei the lot; but, finding them remarkabl. light, broke one, and forth gushed tn finest cognac.
 In Paris for some time by an ingen ious contrivance a good deal of win and spirits was passed beyond the bal riers without paying duty. A subterra mean passage had been made from tn village of Les Vertus, near St. Denis in the house of @ citizen, and 1t led int the cellar of a blacksmith near tn Fibre St. Laurent. The passage wa lined with blanks we'll greased. ant kegs were sent rolling along it file with every kind of merchandise. tha ought to pay toll at the octroi. At tn blaeksmith's there were extensive eel lars in which these goods were stored But one who was in the secret betraye, it., and the officers of the law. cam down suddenly on the blacksmith. pen etrated to the cellars, and with the con tents loaded seventeen wagons. ~ At the present day a great source O annoyance to the Spanish frontie guards is the extensive smuggling tl1a goes on from Gibraltar, and dogs ar trained as the mediums. They hay laces and all kinds of English produc sewn around their bodies and are le loose. They know perfectly whithe they are to go, and the guards fire o all such dogs that they see coursin over the country. In the same way i Perigord dogs are educated to poac truffles, which they dig up and hide il we'll known caches, where their master can recover them. ., .'
 On the Swiss and French frontier a Italian piled his trade. He had a bea and monkey that sat on the back c bruin. Sometimes he was in France sometimes in Switzerland. But actual ly the beast he travelel with was, a ass. The receptacles had been forme adapted to his sides and back, an these were filled with brandy, and tn whole was covered over with the ski of huge bear. AS the snowman with his beasts passed the frontier one day, as ill luck would have 1t, his bear gave voice.
 "Hello!" said the custom house off cer, What a very remarkable bruin that brays like a donkey!" and so tn,