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THE OREGON - DAtLY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, FRnTRYlSVENING.- TaK7 28.' lflCg. WHERE TARIFF IS THERE IS lUGGUNG 3Iankind Prone to Sneak . Things Past the Revenue tj Collector and Womankind Charged With Being Yet More So Clever Tricks. Roosevelt called golf "an old woman's game. ' Taft refuses to be bound by any such policy. Nearly all the presidents have been fond of riding on horse- back, (nor than one has been' partial to racing, and Old Hick:- ory not only bet on horse races but put his own horses upon the track. Grunt, in a buggy, was once outdriven la an impromptu - street race by a butcher's boy, 4 and. showed himself a good loser. Mr. Haskln In his next 4 Article will go down the presi- dentlal line and catalogue the- diversions that the executives 4 have most enjoyed. .'.'.-... By FRED DUO J. HASKEV. (Copyright 190 by Prederlc J. Haskln.) Washington, May 18. When the Sugar trust succeeds in evading the payment of something like 1 2,000,000 in tariff duties it is natural that publlo attention should be directed to the practice of smuggling, which is as old em tariffs on imports, and which ap pears to have reached Its greatest per- lection In the United States. By tam pering with the scales at the New York custom house the sugar trust succeeded In 'getting into the country, from 1901 to 1907, duty free - merchandise on which there should have been paid a tariff amounting to 11,260.000. The arovernment claims that on account of the device known as. the "seventeen roles and the Iron hook," it was de frauded on shipments of sugar reaching as far back as 1897, thus making the total unpaid duties reach 12,000,000 and upwards. The trust has made restitu tion of $1,260,000, after suit, and crim inal prosecutions are to follow. Mas Zs a Smngg-Unc If the inventive faculty applied to discovering methods of -evading cub. toma duties Jiad been employed devis ing useful Appliances for the benefit of man, the industrial and scientific progress of the race .would have been far greater. Women are bora smug glers. Tho proverbial mystery which surrounds the dress of a woman, in so far as the masculine mind is concerned, would make it possible for her to carry out everr dan she . laid to evade the customs officers with diamonds. Jewelry and laces, were it not that female in spectors are employed, at all- the lead ing ports. It Is hard to make a man understand that Smuggling Is criminal, and the customs people say that it is impossible to bring the mind and con science of a woman to a realisation of this fact - t Appeal to the Xitfxer raw. The officials relate a story told by a minister of the Disciples 'church, who had a charge in a Maine town. He re sided with one of Hs parishioners a widow, who remarkta to him one day that she was going aaross the border. to a town in Canada topurchase winter outfits for her children. The minister chanced to meet her as she returned and as she did not carry any pack ages, was surprised to hear her say that she had bought the children's clothing. His parishioner thereupon proceeded to show him her underskirt, in which there were a dozen pockets, of goodly size, containing suits for all the chil dren, and other things besides. The clergvman remonstrated with his land lady for violating the law. "It is a man-made law' she replied. "God al lows widows to buy where they can buy the. cheapest." Humpbacked Mast Dshamped. Several years ago a little hunch backed man trotted down the gang plank of a steamer at the New York docks. He was a good natured looking chap and several customs Inspectors who frequented the races made bold to ask him to be allowed to touch his hump, in order that they might have good luck at the track the following day. The anger and nervousness dis played bv the little man aroused the suspicions of the officers and they pro ceeded to search the afflicted stranger. Indeed, they removed the hump, which was found to consist of three porous plasters, beneath which was a tissue paper package containing several hun dred article of Jewelry, valued at thou sands of dollars. The officers were never able to decide whethep the howls of the smuggler while the hump was being removed were due In greater part to chagrin or physical pain. This man had made 27 smuggling trips across the Atlantic, sometimes employ ing one method of evading the law and sometimes another. It was charged that he had shipped the bodv of his old mother from Eu rope, with the coffin containing much Jewelry on which duty should have been paid, but he Indignantly denied the charge. He said it was the body of his brother which he had shipped, and confessed that he had placed on the dead man's fingers 42 rings which would have borne thousands of dollars of revenue had the customs people found them. One - of the most celebrated smug- ::lLioiii Special mtesit$20 The emphatic style, assured poise' and consummate distinction, which set the well-dressed man apart in every gathering, are featured strongly in our absolutely all wool thirty-dollar qual ity, forty-dollar style- GUARANTEED LlOJf SPECIAL MEN'S SUITS AT- LION SPECIAL GUARANTEE We herewith guarantee the Lion special suit at $20 to be made of absolutely pure wool cloth, with first class trimmings and non-breakable fronts, warranted lo'keep its shape. If the coat of a Lion special suit at $20 should lose its shape by fronts breaking or curling within one year from date of purchase we will cheerfjully give the wearer a new suit in exchange. THE LION CLOTHING CO. 1? mm omm Charge ' Purchases Saturday and Monday Will Be Billed on 1 iAccount 166-176 THIRD ST. -j STORE OPEN DAY UNTIL NOON " glers with whom the customs officials have had to deal was a wan named Lasar, who. up to a few years ago, made the evasion of customs laws his profession. His chief accomplice was a woman, who would meet aim at Mont real when he came over from Liver pool with smuggled diamonds. She, tan. wore a nettlcoat of many Dockets. and In these she would secret the pack ages of stones and run the gauntlet of the inspectors st the border. Lasar smuggled hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of diamonds, first and last, selling them. It was proved, to eminently respectable dealers In New York. He did not always employ a woman as accomplice. On one occasion, while on the deck of a steamer from Liverpool to New fork, he encountered a nurse maid who was giving a baby an air ing. He affected to be much attracted to the child, and the day before the steamer reached New lork gave the baby a rattle. But when the steamer had landed Its passengers, a customs inspector observed Lasar exchanging the baby's rattle for another. An ex- amination of the toy which Lasar naa taken from the child showed that its "rattle" was produced by many thou sands of dollars' worth of diamonds. Bride and Groom VlcttmUsd. On one trip across on a Montreal steamer Lasar formed the acquaintance of a bridal couple from New York, and by the time they had reached Montreal thald si Anita fnranr1 hail rloened sur- ficlently to permit him to request the couple to deliver certain packages to a man in New York whose address he gave. He assured the pair the articles were of little value and not dutiable, but impressed upon them the import ance of not allowing the customs In spectors at the border to see them, as to do so might occasion delay and em barrassment. The result was the pair were taken Into custody, owing prob ably to their guilty appearance, and the groom actually languished in Jail for about a month before he could es tablish the fact that he was only a smuggler's victim and not a guilty prin cipal. Bid Jewels la Xsr Hair. Some years ago the customs officers at New York receive a tip to the ef fect that a certain man and his wife were en route to New York with diam onds. The pair were questioned closely by the inspectors when the steamer landed, but it was Impossible to elicit anything like a confession. Finally,' the two were separated, and in a few minutes the wife was told her husband had confessed that she had the diam onds. She broke Into tears, removed her hat, took the pins from her hair colled on her head, and when the mass dropped down there lay revealed a 1 chamois bag which was found to con tain diamonds of great value. Laces bear a heavy duty and many at tempts are made to smuggle them. Not long ago a woman who reached New York on a steamer from France, was found to have her body and legs swathed in the most costly laces hun dreds of yards of them. She said she put on the laces to protect herself against the cold! New York dress makers are much given to the habit of coming back from Paris wearing so many garments beneath their street dress that the slenderest of young things have all the portliness of middle age. $20,000 In His Bhoes. " A Chicago man who was searched by customs officers at New York was found to have in his shoes 42 gold chains, 112 diamonds, and 43 pearls, a total value of 320,000. Another man, when searched, was found to have something like $20,000 worth of diam onds concealed In pockets on the in side of the leg of his sock. Garters of nis own aesign naa given way, ana tne diamonds, being allowed to descend into his shoe, made him limp in a manner that aroused the suspicions of the of ficials. . Oassie Chadwick, the woman whose operations In "flimflam finance" at tracted universal attention a few years ago. Is said to have smuggled $2,000,000 worth of diamonds and jewelry through the custom house at New York. Once she was detected, lut was allowed to make restitution of the duties. She al ways made her trips abroad -in company wun ner son anu aaugnter. ne is said to have sold her goods to dealers In I'lttsnurg ana Cleveland. Bo manes All Oons Out of It. Smuggling- in bulk, that Is, the meth od of landing an entire cargo at some ohpeure spot, and getting It hence Into the commerce of the country, is no longer practiced, according to the of ficials. The revenue cutter service em ployed by practically every country with a seacoast, haj put a stop to this1 method of beating the customs. It was a much more picturesque method of smuggling, and has furnished the sub lect Of much stirring fiction. While it Is not possible to Tiave a revenue cut ter to guard every possible landing place a smuggler might choose, the lit tie vessels are on tne move so con stantly, and are so nearly ubiquitous. that It is impossible for the smuggler 10 ten wnemer one or tne crart is not watching the very spot he may have decided on as the one at which to land ms contraband. . Smug-going Hen. smuggling tnen has become a more or less general practice since the enact ment of the Chinese exclusion law. Many uninamen nave paid as high as $-'500 to be transported across the Can adian or Mexioan border into the United States. The standard price is .said to be $60. The usual way in which it Is accomplished is for the smuggler, gen erally an ex-railroad, man, to make up a party of CelestlalB and store them in a freight car standing In the yards at Vancouver or some Mexican town. The customs seal on the staple holding the car aoors togetner tne smugglers al ways make use of a car which has-been sealed 1s left Intact, although the staptf Is- removed, frequently by tak ing. off the nuts which hold it this be ing aone in some manner not rully un derstood. It occurs sometimes that the Chinamen have to remain In their close quarters for days, and It has hap pened more than once that a dead Chinaman has been found when the car was finally opened. Airships may revolutionize smug gling, but the officials do not greatly fear the use of the air as a field for violation of the customs law. "We shall have airships by the time the smugglers get them," remarked an of ficial recently. "We can patrol the air ah well as the land If it becomes neces sary. " FIGHT WITH MOE0S; ; THREE SOLDIERS FALL (DalM Press Vttti -Wire.) Manila, May 28. A sergeant and two privates of the United States army wars killed an outDost near Keithle; Hv Uonu who snmrised f the Eighteenth Infantry firing before tne soldiers sy, could defend themselves,--according to reports received at army headquarters today. Two columns of Infantry are pursuing the? Moros. The troops were defending friendly natives when the at- lacs'waa maun, on may ...... M... 1 LOOK! SOMETHING NEW! ! f-saws m :rer.teni I Fuel, Time anfl Labor: ! THE MODERN KITCHEN 'MARVEL f . Si The '-, "Caloric. lL trrt jft- ' Solves f the I , Servant ? ?;ft VST, $ Problem T Hygienic Scienific Economic - Saves Ninety -Per Cent PITT B0RX 150 YEARS AGO TODAY London, May 28. In recognition of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of thebirth of William Pitt, whose name is second to no other in the long line of British statesmen, several hand some wreaths were deposited on his tomb today and special memorial exer cises were held under the auspices of various organizations. William Pitt was the son of the Earl of Chatham, who was prominent in the war with France prior to 1763, and lived to protest against the use of force to coerce the British colonies In Amer ica. During the earlier part of his ca reer Pitt was a persistent advocate of parliamentary and administrative re form, but Le became reactionary as many others did. under the influence of the French revolution. KLAMATH COMPLETES RAILROAD DAY PLANS (Special Diipatcb to The Journal.) Klamath Falls, Or, May 28. Under the direction of the chamber of com merce, all preliminary arrangements for Railroad day celebration June 14 are completed. The barbecue will be 'made one of the chief features. Through the courtesy of a wholesale house in Ban Francisco the directors of the chamber of commerce have received 250 pounds of coffee. Merrill citizens have sent word that they will supply two fat beeves for the barbecue. A coffee pot with a capacity of 86 gallons has been made especially for the occasion. Ex cursions are being arranged to points Inthe northern nd of the countv. so that visitors may spend a few days at some of the celebrated resorts. ' Competition money, On street paving saves "Caloric" Fireless Cooltstove If interested, call at our store for demonstration, or send for circular. No more heated kitchens in hot weather and saves 90 per cent in fuel, time and labor XX KADPEiSLY THE HARDWARE MAN 130 FIRST ST., NEAR COR. ALDER Next to O. W. P. Waiting-Rooms Anty Drudge on Education. Katherine "My,how provdked I am, Anty. You wouldn't dream this frock had once been white. Look at ii -now. I sent it to the laundress and it looks almost the color of weak coffee with milk in it." Anty Drudg&"It'a partly yonr fault, Iny dear. You're . a college graduate, but you aren't educated until you know what is best for your clothes. If you had known enough to see that your white frock was washed with Fels-Naptha soap in cool or lukewarm water it would have been snowywhite. The v Fels-Naptha way is the only method of washing to keep white clothes white without harming them." Here's the easiest way that's ever been discovered to wash clothes either in sum-' mer or winter. For the white things: Wet the clothes, soap well with Fels-Naptha, roll - and let soak for thirty minutes in cool or lukewarm water. Unroll, rub lightly, rinse and hang out to dry. That's all; no boiling, no hard rub-v bing, no hot water. This simple Fels-Naptha way of wash ing makes your clothes sweeter, whiter, cleaner than you can get them any other way. 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