f TIE SUNDAT OREGOXIAN, rOKTLAXD. AUGUST 13, 1911.
HongKong Secret Service Man Tells of the Artful
ness of the ChlnKles Is Concealing Opium and
Evading Capture Persia the New Source of Illicit
Supplies for China ClocKs with Secret Compart
ments That Made an Oriental Millionaire The
Sham Hawser That Was PacKed With Dream Pro
ducerFat Eurasian Wife Who Smuggled Thirty
five Pounds of Opium Through Every Third Day
for a Year Mate's Tale of Opium Buried in Coal
That Got to the Boilers In Error, to the Discomfiture
of the Coolies Who Handled It Detectives Search
ing for New Schemes Now China Has Prohibited
the Drug-
HOXOKOXO. July JS. (Special.)
With the suppression of th regu
Itr opium traffic In Chn. iinof
fltrt look for th extended develop
mnt of an active industry by llllolt
ways. Persian opium will b th cbll
supply, for Prrsla la laereeslog th
growth of th poppy a fast India
Is reducing- it. '
"For ways that rt dark and for
tricks that ar vain" tb heathen Chi
ne is indeed peculiar, and In ao thing I
this mors clearly demonstrated than la
opium smugs-Una;. But the Ah Sin who
couldn't find a better place) than his
sleeve to conceal hts contraband opium
In would have short shrift as a mug
glr.
- -Gold Is where you find It,' as the
old proapectors say. 'and even then It
Isn't always there.' The earn might be
said by th searcher for smuggled
opium." "
Thus spok a member of th Hongkong-
secret service whom I chanced to
meet at Macao. I bad heard that owing
to (he absolute prohibition of the Im
portation of th drug Into America,
smuggling Into .the Pacific ports had
Increased tremendously, and I was anx
ious to learn bow the thins; was worked
from the Chinese end. So I encouraged
my new-found friend to go on.
"W always look for It where w
least expect to find It." be continued,
tilting back comfortably In the wicker
lounging chair on th promenade deck
of the return steamer, where we had
repaired, with our coffee, "but our
usual find Is only the place that It oc
cupied". Ail these coastal steamers ar
burrowed as full of holes to hid opium
In as an old teredo eaten pile. W
know these nooks and crannies and
cosey corners aa well as the Chinks
who made them, and when we're tipped
off that contraband opium la going hy
a certain steamer, of course w go otT
and rake ber with a fin tooth comb.
"Ninety-nine times out of a hundred,
no opium. Then, perhaps, lb Cblnbles
get In a row over fan-tan on tha ran
to Swatow and there officers get word
from an "unknown friend that it might
Interest them to look behind say th
third panel aft th first starboard cab
In port. Result a hundred pounds or
more of thin, bright tins of opium and
a lot of protestingly Innocent Cbinkles.
Do you think that wmlsd that par
ticular cubby hot? Don't bltev it.
We didn't miss a squirt loch of honey
combing on th old bulk; but by th
same sleight-of-hand work that nearly
always beats us. they managed to pass
It around from one place to another
while we were on th search.''
Crafty Hiding Place. '
I told what I had heard of th clever
ness of th customs officials of San
Francisco and Seattle; of bow cans of
opium had been fished out of tha water,
floating to a fisherman's buoy; "how tf
lad been found under the mattress of
in unsuspecting captain who, up t th
moment cf Its discovery, was threatea
.ng to hav th inspectors discharged
for daring to search hie cabin; of how
opium had been found concealed la th
sewel posts of th companion waye in
gg. In sacks of floor and la bolts of
Ilk.
"Speaking of silk and opium. aald
th detective, "there was ratber aa
amusing Incident occurred at Amoy
last year. A merchant of that city
was Importing flowered silk from Can
ton via Hongkong, and la on of his
shipments, to bis great surprise. Inside
of a nunia or eosen ot in sone, ne
Tales From
erse
WISDOM.
Mayor Gaynor. at a dinner In Brook
lyn, condemned certain Ideas of civil
service that a German visitor from Ber
lin bad rcommendd-
Thoee ideas may do well In Berlin."
In said, "but 1 don't think they'd do
well here. We are opposed to freaks,
and thla new sort of civil service exami
nation is as freakish as Old Sleuth's
"Old Sleuth, the detective chief, was
one xaminlng a new applicant for th
detective bureau. He tbrust Into the
young man's hand a pale mas of ruffle
and lac and cambric a woman's skirt
and:
- -Find th pocket la that, he aald.
"But th applicant shook his head.
" "No, chief. h admitted frankly.
That beyond m.
"Then Old Sleuth slapped btm heartily
on the back. v
"'If you're smart enaugn. my boy. be
cried, to know it's no us to look for
the pocket In a woman's skirt, you're
tmsrt enough to b a detlcelv. Her s
smart enough to b a dtectlv. Here's
F-UTIIKCLXESS.
Faithfulness and patient Industry are
valuable qualities, even In offlc boy.
Her Is a story to'd of a lad who pos
sessed them. '
Th manasr turned to th nw boy.
"Here. George." b said. "Go Into
th next room and look up 'collaborat.
Th bey disappeared, but did not return-
The manager put the letter aside
and took op some other duties. Pres
ently be remembered the boy. and went
out to look for hlo. He found him
etudylng the big dictionary with great
Intentnee.
-What ar yow doing. 0orgr" he
asked.
The boy looked around.
I forgot th word yoa told me. sir."
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found long. rattened cylinders of tin
full ot opium, around which were
wound Just eaough silk to cover them.
Th contraband drug aggregate) .sev
eral thousand dollars In value. Evi
dently In seme manner confusion had
arisen' among the smugglers as to
which 'bolts contained the opium, and
th wrong ones had been taken to th
merchant-' " . '
"But that was nothing to th smug
gling Inachln' they had rigged up on
eoupl of Chinese steamers that Tan
down to Saigon and Bangkok a few
years ago. A 'public-spirited' Chinese
merchant of the Trench port ma4e the
steamship compaoy an offer to- Install
clocks In the saloons, smoking-rooms,
and svea In th statrrom. If In return
be was allowed to plsc an advertise
ment of bis firm of rice and sugar im
porters upon-their dlala Whether to
company "stood In' or not w never
foufd out; but t any rat th offer
was accepted. Th advertisement on
the face of the clocks wss sufficient
Axcuse for th presenc of the clocks,
ven in the staterooms, ajtd the fact
that th clocks In sven th second-class
cabins were large enough for hotel of
fices was remarked merely aa a piece
bf mingled Oriental enterprise and ec
centricity. "The fact that "advertising pays.' even
in China, soon became evident, for not
a year had gone by before Hop Ling
had built a new bom for himself,
doubled the size of his godowns In Sai
gon and Bangkok, and established new
branches In Singapore ad Manila. Then
he started a knitting factory equipped
with foreign machinery; then a rutber
plantation; then a bank: then one day
a coolie, staggering tindsr a package
labeled, lacquer ptacque,' stumbled on
tks steps at. Hongkong and sent a half
dosen disk-shaped tins of opium roll
ing down to dock.'
Opium la Clock.
"Several similar packages of lacquer
plaques' were waiting In aa unassum
ing UtU sampan alongside th dock,
and It was recalled that other bad
gon off to tn B th night before.
Well, w' searched the eld hulk from
stem to stern, from keel to brldg,
without finding a trace of anything
suspicious, and tha chances ar that,
for all th good It would hav don us.
w might have been searching yet If.
In tapping a stateroom wall to sound if
a panel bad been sawsd. I bad not
chanced to notice that one of th big
clocks was sagging on Its fastenings.
"Thinking th banging might hav
loosened some of the screws. I put ray
band up to steady It while It tapped
again, and th weight of It gave the
thing away In aa instant. fcach of
the It er morglft clocks was mad
with a neat compartment in th back
Just large no ugh to take in on of
those ten-pound cakes of opium, and
to aur careful searches for bidden re
cesses In th walla w bad never been
observant enough to notice that all th
clock war three-quarters of an Inch
thicker than they should hav been."
- "The eioeka were of e common Ger
ms a type .and .manufacture, 'but th
eompartmeur bad been so cunningly
added by CbiheJ workmen that the
Joining was only evident upon the clos
est examination. . ...
"The tins had been made at a little
shoo on the Pray. As ths opium turned
-out to b stuff that had been purchased
through th proper channels, w had no
concern with It- Of course, we sent
th Information on to Balgon. wner
Mop Ling, having also been Informed of
SOMW - TOE -
Humorous Pens
he replied, "an I'm looking through
th book to find It."
Th manager gasped.
"How far hav you got?"
"I'm Just finishing the second page,
sir." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
WHERE THE DEAD GO.
Major S. Harris, on of th Austral
tana who fought in th South African
War. - visited British Columbia and
finally settled down In Vancouver,
eays the Argonaut. Now he tells of
a man In his province who went over
to see London for th first tlm last
year and was being shown through
Westminster Abbey. He got into con
versation with a tourist agent who
was showing a party about, and at In
tervals th man who waa explaining
asked the British Columbian questions
about Vancouver. "1 suppose that in
your country you bav no place like
the abbey?" he suggested.
"No." replied the other.
"Then what, may I ask. do you do
with your Illustrious dead"
"First." replied the British Colum
bian, "we appoint a commission to see
whether the man is really dead, and
then If th commission decides tn th
affirmative we send him to the Legis
lature." HORSE LACGHTS.
He was a raw recruit. Just enrolled
In Crack cavalry regiment, and pay
ing his first visit to the riding-school.
"'Ere yer horse. said the Instruc
tor. Th recruit advanced, took th brldl
gingerly and examined bis mount with
great car.
"What's It got this strap round It
for?" he asked, pointing to th girth.
"Well," explained the Instructor,
solemnly, "you see, all our horses 'are
a VI A
I --df 1 knk 'Termo? men
l i 'ur: v -VV ' t si 1 Jfeg - " )
'-.; I ' i ul i , ' ' " " '- "" "Mr-"'i"'"'y"'i'' I
what had. happened., ram aboard, de
clared the opium and had It taken to
his godown. Th clock remained on)
'th 'U ' and her sister ship for a year
or. so. but -were of no further use in
augmenting Hop Ling's rapidly grow
ing fortune, the realization of which. I
suppose, jaa what prompted the old
chap to have them taken out a few
months ago and presented to a French
mission In Tunnan-fu. "'
"About the nerviest piece of work
that I ever heard of was the echems
that the Japanese officer of Toyo
Klsen Kaisha San Franclaoo mall boat
stumbled upon Jast. Bummer. H hsd
noticed, without attaching any impor
tance to it. that every afternoon a Junk
had been coming alongside and passing
an unusually heavy hawser up to th
popp, where It v. wa taken In and
stowed by sdm of th crew under th
direction of -one of the- bo'sn's. One
'or twlc in th forenoon h had seen
a similar hawser being passed over
board to a Junk, which afterward put
off to the shor with it,
"Chancing to b o th poop th even
ing befor sailing, h bethought him
self of the big hawser which h had
seen coming aboard again that after
noon. Ho went to look at It and found.
. . i- it .e twtsted
tO ni llirprnv, mm t -
bamboo fiber and. therefore, as far as
mooring a i.uu ton iiair w,w,
waa concerned, of no more use than a
skipping rope. Stooping to examine the
make of the big line It was as thick
... . - .v. 1 M V I 1 0- h 1 ivi
inrougn ii -. ... .- -
caught tha glint -of metal at a point
wnr it maao . eni v "' "
stanchion, and a moment later hlg knife
had brought to light-a long, slender
oyltnder. about the stxe of a Urge
kodak fl!n tin, containing, of course.
, k.ri hn woven
OPIUIII, ! '
around a solid core of soms kind which,
on removal, left a hollow Into which the
cans could be forced. one,after another.
-"The ship's off leers selxed What was
In the hawser about $200 .worth
but. were unable-to locate any of that
whlob must hav been taken. on be
fore, and I have since heard that the
inspeciure J it cu -
ter luck when they searched the steam
er upon Its arrival at that port.
Wiles of a Ft Woman.
""One of the queerest cases I ever had
anything to do with was that of a wo
man wb spent all her tlm traveling
back and forth between Hongkong and
Evilow. She was the Eurasian wife
or one af th wive of a Chin mer
chant in Swatow. and would have been
lira
QUIPS - AND
a keen sense of humor, an' as they
sometimes 'av sudden ft of laughter
when they see th recruits,. w put
bands round 'em to keep t 'em from
burstin' their sides!" .
OVE-MAX POWER.
In a Fourth of July oration In Den
ver. N. C. Goodwin once remarked on
the small meana wherewith Washing
ton had achieved such-great ends.
"When I think.' said Goodwin, "of
Washington's terrible handicap, my
mind goes back to the town of No la
Chucky.
"An actor-manager was to appear
for one night In Nola Chucky. and ac
cordingly he wired the proprietor of
the Nola Chucky Opera House-
" "Will hold rehearsal tomorrow
noon. Have stage manager, stage car
penter, property man and assistant
chief electrician and all the stage
hands at theater prompt to hour.'
'He received this telegram In reply:
" 'He will be there.' " Washington
Star.
DAXGEROCS.
In the struggling days of Tuskegee,
Booker T. Washington found that he
would have to use an old chicken house
for a schoolroom.
"Uncle," he said to an old colored
man, "I want you to come down at
o'clock tomorrow morning-and help me
clean out a henhouse.'
"Law. now, Mr. Washington." the old
man expostulated, "you all don't want
to begin cleanln' out no henhouse roun'
yer la de daytime." Success Maga
stne. HYPOCHONDRIA.
-Why do you consult a doctor when
you are so careless about taking his
advice?" asked the physician.
"Well," rerlled the hypochondriac
"It's worth what It costs to find a man
who la willing to sit down and listen
to my troubles." Washington Star.
very good-looking but for a decided
tendenoy to obesity. We told each oth
er every now and then for & while that
a figure like that would bear watching,
and watch it we did: but as It did not
seem to vary .perceptibly going and
coming, we ceased to be suspicious of
It or its owner.",
"We noted that for over a year she
never missed a boat In either direction,
but. a I have said, since the adiposity
was stationary, going and comiag,.she
passed without suspicion. Then on
day I had to run up to Swatow on busi
ness, and something put it into my
head that it might not be amiss to give
her a bit of a Jostle In the crush of tha
gangway. Bustling down as though in
a great rush. I gave her a good, sharp
dig with my elbow as I passed, to go
careening off like a billiard ball from a
bosom about as -billowy aa that bulk
head. "I waited for her on th landing. '
" 'Pardon me. madam." I sad, 'ut
wouM you mind telling me If that was
you I ran against, or. waa it something
ur . ''
For a moment aba looked blank, as
though . pretending not to understand;
then, quick as a flash, she broke Into
a ravishing smile -and, laying her hand
on my elbow and leaning close' In a'
confidential, atsterly sort of way, whis
pered Into any ear in slightly broken
Kngltsh, '
"'Yes. eet es aTl mi."
'Aa Instant later she had Jumped
Into - four-coolie chair,- which ap
peared to have been watting for her,
and was whisked off at a swinging
trot. -
"I blew my whistle and made a few
high signs, and a young policeman
stopped th chair Just as it wss diving
Into a serpentine nullah of a side
...... Tam rt4nilfa lstAP sha vu In
th city Jail and we found upon herf
four' eight or ten-pound "pads' of
opium. Tnirty-nve pounaa m opium
smuggled every third day for more
than a year foots up a good many
thousand dollars of profit.
"The woman was as thin as a
broomstick, yet so cleverly waa her
outfit constructed that her make-up aa
a buxom dam of J00 pounds or mora
had not excited more than passing
comment from us who make a pqjnt of
scrutinising all fat people. It consist
ed of several seta of tour olled-sllk
bags each, fitted to the place they
wan designed to occupy In a manner
that would hay awakened the envy of
a Parisian ' modiste. Somewhere in
Hongkong the opium waa carefully
molded to tn snap or tn paa n w
'Wb.at'r y oomln' horn with your
milk pall empty for?" demanded th
farmer. "Didn't th old cow give any
thing?" - -
"Yti." replied hlg boy: "nin quart
and on kick." Sacred Heart Review.
"How many of yon boya." asked th
Sunday school superintendent, "can
bring two other boys next Sunday?"
There waa no response until a new
recruit raised his hand hesitatingly.
"Well. William?" .
"I can't bring two, but there's one
little feller I can lick, and I'll bring
him or bust his face f er him." -
e , e
Doctor The increaalng deafness of
your wife is merely an Indication of
advancing years, and you can tell her
that.
Husband Hum! Would you mind
telling her that yourself, doctor?
Christian Intelligencer.
Employer I hope you save some
thing out of your salary, James.
Offlca Boy Tes, sir; 'most all of it.
Employer (eagerly) Do you want to
buy an automobile cheap? Puck.
"And what do you sailors do when
you get homesick?"
"We goes to sea agin, mam." Horn
ton Post.
see
"Why. what are you thinking of?
Tou gave the waitress a mark."
"Shut up; she gave me 10 marks
change too much." Fllegende Blaetter.
- e e -
"I'm glad we don't live in China,"
said little Oswald. "It roust be awfully
tiresome to have it dark all day and
the sun shining at night"' Chicago
News.
see
"Henry, tell me th old. old story." .
"W1L It was this way: Our team
(il
! ' I '
Quips and Flings
. V-,j y,f ?Crr-, in I
1 "r 1 . I l;1;'f
wjr '
4
to occupy, and these were waiting for
our lady when she came down from
Swatow wearing pads of of whatever
pads are usually made. When steamer
time came tha opium pads were sub
stituted for tha real ones, while the
latter went home In my lady's -handbag.
..,'.
"No, they didn't do anything to her
beyond assessing a fine and taking th
opium. 1 suppose she has some other
gam by this Rime, or if she hasn't
somebody els has.- Did I 'tell you of
th ooup that a Roumanian dancehall
girl of -Bangkok made' a opinm smug
gling?" No. Well, that was the clever
est scheme of them all. Wait till I
see how the game's going down In the
saloon; I wouldn't mlsa telling you that
yarn for. anything."
But the fascination of fan-tan was
too much for th dtectlve, and he did
not tappearuntil wi were alongside
the dock at Hongkong,, and then only
to borrow 18 cents rickshaw fare to
get to his lodgings. So I missed bis
star" 'story. HIb- .chair waa taken,
however, by the first mate, who had
just been relieved on tha bridge by
the captain, and- who In an odd mix
ture of -cockney, pidgin' English and
sailor argon, toia tne weirucwi mi
was doing fin until the seventh Inning
and then our pitcher blew up." Pitts
burg Post.
.-.'
TaIlor--Has Mr. Owens taken any ac
tion on tkat bill of his yet? .
Colleotor Tes; be kicked m out th
last tlm I called to collect it Bos
ton Transcript
Purist How is
reads "R. E. Vise.
pounder," and you
this? Tour, card
Rectifer and Corn
tell m you ar a
proofreader. ,
R. E. Vise Why, yes; I rectify er
rors and compound words.- Judge,
see
Agitated Old Gent Qulok! My
daughter is overboard! Sav ber and
she shall be your wifel
Blase Person Walt till a wave rolls
her over and I can see- her face.
Puck. .-':.
see
Wlfey (with magaxlno) It says her
that a statut miles Is 6280 feet aad a
nautical mile 6080 ft .Now, why ar
they different, John?
Hub Why r you know, my dear,
that things swell when In th water.
Boston Transcript
e e
"Where is your wife going this Sum
mer?" "She Is looking around for soma place
where none of the women have more
than two gowns. She has three."'
Louisville Courier-Journal.
"This man doea not -seem to know
much about the Constitution."
"But he didn't miss a ball game last
season. Judge."
"Then I guess he's assimilated.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
e e e
Storekeepers-Well, my little man,
what can I do for you?
The Kid Say. when I comes In here
this afternoon with a lady and asks
you for a dollar's worth of your best
chocolate, just pass me out a penny's
worth of them little, things in the cor
ner, will you? Puck.
! w ;U
wvr-.vvJt . JaJ?Mii - '
of opium suggllng which I have heard
since coming to ths East. ,
"So Clarksy's been gyvin you' some
uv '4a bloomln" tyles uv th dope-pass-in'
gyme, "as 'e? But ay with all 'is
bally yarns bl'll wager 'e didn't 'tell
you anything queerer than what 'ap
pended to me an" my mateys on the old
Talplng on the Java, run four years
ago." " '
And .then ho went on to tell me. In
language which I dare-not attempt to
render, how some of the Chinese sail
ors of a coaster pf which he' was second
mate endeavored to take several hun
dred pounds of opium from Hongkong
to Batavia by covering the cans, with
coal tar, rolling them in ooal dust and
tucking them away In a corner of the
bunkers. An incipient typhoon - en
countered In th Straits' made a hur
ried retrimming of th unkers neces
sary; in which operation the hundred
dollar lumps of opium were raked down
and mixed up with the four-dollar-a-ton
bitumen near the fireroom. In go
ing under forced draught In an en
deavor to mak Macassar befor the
storm broke, a lot of opium was shov
eled under the boilers by some of the
firemen who were not in
Among ine Poets
A DREAI.
I glanced at a dally paper
That a newsboy thrust in my hand.
And I read of a baseball contest
Twas writ by no 'prentice hand.
But the thing that most impressed me
And made me ory: "I declare!"
Was the fact that in all that story
No word of slang waa there.
It! was briefly and simply written.
And flowed like a limpid stream;
Nobody Vblffed the horsehlde"
, I thought It was surely a dream;
No player "poled a homer,"
And none was- "walked to first,"
And I read that slangless story
In "deepest bliss immersed.
No pitcher was "pelted with bingles,"
No batter was 'whiffed three times;"
In all that detailed story
There were no linguistic crimes;
And when I reached home aX even
I sought It once more and then
I discovered I'd lost that paper;
I'll ne'er, see Its like again.
Denver Republican.
DOX'T.
(Dedicated to a young man who Is about to
spend a week at the beach.)
Don't be foolishly elated.
Don't with pride become inflated.
When a pretty girl has stated
That your dancing is divine:
Keep your reason firmly seated.
Let her words be calmly greeted!
What she says will be repeated
To the next young man in line.
Do not rate yourself too highly
When a pretty maiden shyly
Lets you squeeze her fingers slyly
Where the young moen's light is dim;
When you're back in town and fretting
Some new fellow will be letting
- ',I
ii t fr. r
4f ws-i-
whereunon jome of the "Interested"
coolies, on discovering, what had hap
pened, made frantic endeavors to save
their simmering wealth by raking it
with a lot of burning coal out upon the
fireroom floor, where the whole of them
jvero presently overcome by the deadly
fumes, which also temporarily drove
the engineers from their posts in the
room above. Finally, with the steam
pressure Just sufficient to keep the
screw revolving and hold the ship's
head to the rlBing seas, a stream from
the fire hdse waa-turned Into the stoke
hold, quickly extinguishing the coals
and "freezing" the- opiums while the
ventilators, turned with their mouths
to the teeth of the storm, soon cleared
the fumes and made the air breath
able. .
It was a great yarn, and I was sorry
to have to forego my queries regard
ing the fate of the opium, the asphyx
iated coolies and the ship herself,
through the mate's being summoned to
go down and tell the gamblers that the
light which marked the steamer's en
trance Into British waters was show
ing almost 'abeam, the point at which
all gaming is supposed to cease.
HERBERT J. JEFFREY.
of the Daily Press
bae-iilla him while she's getting
Those same fingers squeezed by him.
Chicago Record-Herald.
. MODERN DISCIPLINE.
Jimmy is an awful boy,
He's full of sinful tricks;
I really don't know what to do
His moral self to fix.
I've had his adenoids cut out.
His tonsils are gone, too.
His 'pendix vermiform's removed
No w what can I do?
I've tried a dozen breakfast foods.
But sad as it maye be,
. They do not work I'll have to do
What father did to me.
Milwaukee News.
THE BATHIXG GIRL.
The bathing girl
Will soon declare
She hasn't got
A thing to wear.
And Judging by
Her garb, forsooth,
We'll all believe
She tells the truth.
Springfield TTnloa.
COOLER WEATHER,
When the sun's relentless rays
On our fevered brows are drumming,
There is rapture in the phrase,
"Cooler weather coming."
When all drooping are the birds,
And we hear the locusts humming.
We appreciate the words,
"Cooler weather coming."
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