The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-02

ods So too. the daring adventures and hairbreadth
escapes Of the stern. silent OF the service
lrmed to the 5eeth, playing their dangerous game Of
aide and seek with death In thrilling raids
deadly encounters live for the part imprisoned
between The muSty OF books but the them
selves still play great game with tat are
finer if less CORY.
Silent watchfu and invisible except when It
reaches TO strike; doubly terrible e the evidocr
because its ways hid, tho Customs Bogie sits
Washington. reaching out the long arm that over
shadows every land
y SNUG. sclf-satisned individual entering the port
OF New York declares dutnble goods worth three
hundred dollars
Are You quite YOU have forgotten notbingl"
asks the inspector. who examines his trunk. The
SNUG individual is quite sure. He suys so with OBJ
vious irritation and when asked pointedly to ac
knowledge his signature uEon the declaration he
Il with shrug
And then n curious thns happens That uncanny
Inspector casually runs hand through Mr. Tourists
baggage and from that cigar case where the traveller
Judged it must be quite safe defty extracts five
thousand dollar diamond. bought of the Amsterdam
cutters In TupstTaat. 10 one of whom casually he
had conhdcd his destination. AS he thinks the lapi-
dairy could have had possible for telling he
dsmsscs suspicion from his mind, but that Is because
he doesn't know about the twenty-five per cent
mission which presently viii find its way
dam.
Or If he has con6ded in lapidaries. it surely
never would occur him suspect that agreeable
tourist from Michigan. that pretty girl con-
descended to n mild Irritation while they doing
the English cNthedrals So the sorely puzzled trav-
eer goes his way vaguely suSpectng that he has
fool enough to play blind mans bun with adver-
sary that meant business. If he does not learn
easily, he may try il again with extra precautions
only 10 come another cropper.
tI,;s ho ,v;yo
understand that he has been watched by hundred
eyes and heard by hundred ears. and that Of these
there thousands whispering supposed secrets by
cable from every port in the world, in every consd-
city and Of the ships that touch Amer
lean ports In Suu. In the far Pacific. the pearl
merchant probably knows the white clad American
consul as good company. That this gentleman may
have official duties he seldom considers, and possibly
he does not the light after the consgnec Of
his crooked invoice suddenly feels the heavy hand
Uncle Sam upon his collar
The happy collector who has picked up rare Bot
tcell copy worth much money IS all too prone 10
Gde his good luck to tbof adabIe stranger who hap
pened to be the ground and who also Is returning
from the Piazza Rosso. in Genoa. Aud then Marie,
that model exquisite at Nine B.'s-now, how could
Mrs A. dream that Goodly portion of the fine
she has to pay her wonderful Paris gown is to be
added to that maden's dot OF course Mrs A has
read of such systems Of espionage in countries
ike Russia but in plain. everyday, matter of fact
United States-why, it's absurd! That horrid In
spector is suspicious of every and he's looking
for false bottoms in ones trunk anyhow. But ii is
curious how he chanced TO pick out The very trunk,
isn't it? \ professional packer stored the gowns in
that trunk Marie had been good to recommend
him rs reliable AS for Marie and that obglng
packer they certainly very everyday persons
possessing neither badges, dIsgmses nor mysterious
manner. Who would be so base as to suspect them?
The Eye Never Shut
And yet these unromantic appearing persons
and thousands or others like than. forming great
army that spreads itself the face Of the world
are the eyes the bogle. They d. not them
selves realize the romance of the mighty system of
which they form part; they have possibly no idea
either Of is complexy. but thcy.eoutrbute
their mite 10 the enormous total. adding here and
there t1ine to the food OF information That pours
into tho Treasury Department from AL directions
Evidences Of the perfect system of espionage which
the Treasury Department at Washington is organlz
ipg In every section OF the globe where Americans
travel arc coming to light in this city almost every
day. aud certainly every week. That Uncle sam
does not guess nowadays is shown by the fact that
when an Inspector questions tho declaration of
Homecoming traveller aud compts MIN to submit TO
The humiliation Of being searched he nnds probably
IN nlnety y-nnc cases of hundred that the man IS
snugcler to a greater or less degree
The customs inspector assigned TO the man Win
the Eve thousand dollar diamond not only kuew that
II there. but probably also the very place where
II WAS secrctcd lie had the trunk already
through the eyes OF the vlgants-scorcs OF men and
women few of whose names appear on The govern
neGt payroll
The foreign copsu!s. the special Treasury agents
'bc .uNilarics and the volunteers make np che four
divisions OF This amazing service. or these the vol
uutrcrs make UP the majority. rhey are motley
array ~ hotel servants ordinary tourists, he police
shin folk. shop clerks propretors al actuated
b. the great Inceutyc OF twenty-five per cent profit
phdhc value OF the goods detected.
TIE cins, OF secret agents known tourists" or
,ecial Treasury agents. among The most effective
These the suspected traveller on footing of
~s'Il equality. which is 10 itself half the battle
rrtcerS are prone to condde such matters as their
'''r hases cnch other and seldom indeed does
tlns method fall to the obtaining OF the min