Tog Democratic Pate] om, Setiefonte, Pa., April 9 1909. The Way Uncle Sam Is Swindled Through the Mails. WATCHES IN WEDDING CAKE. A Scheme That Was Disclosed by a Gleeful Girl Who Could Not Hold | Her Tongue—Gloves That Came One at a Time and Corsets In Sections. Too few people think it a erime to swindle the customs. For that reason any bright and brainy persons think hard how to get goods from abroad swithout paying toll to Uncle Sam. As most of the successful operators in! this line are women, who have mor: | time to think about such things than amen, it can be imagined that the cus toms officers have to be eternally alert | to protect the government. i The avenues through the steamship | passcoger route are pretty carefully guarded, and as comparatively few | people go abroad the great mass of | dwellers in this protected land are de- | barred from sharing in the humorous fittle game of hide the diamond or smuggle the silk. But there is an- other avenue that is being used enthusi- astically by the anti-duty aggregation. It is the United States mail With the immense volume of foreign mail. delivered to this country it is manifestly impossible to open and ex- amine every package that seems to | contain newspapers or merely a bulky | letter to see whether or not, some duti- | able article is concealed therein. So | far as it is possible, however, it is! done, and the addressee has to go to | the postoflice and pay duty om the | amount at which the dutiable article | is appraised. The custom house experts at the! postoffice have their hands full check- | mating the clever moves of those who are constantly devising new ways to | disguise dutiable things as innocent | dooking parcels. | “We used to pass cakes through | svithout question,” said one of the ex- | aminers. “It seemed too bad to lay hands on a Christmas pudding sent by relatives in England to some exile in this country. It also disturbed the sen- timental side of a customs officer to demolish a section of wedding cake that had been sent from the old howe in Germany to Fritz in America. So we let these sacred things pass through. But one day we had an awakening. One of the customs men heard that a neighbor had obtained a new watch from abroad. It had come through duty free, and the gleeful gir who was wearing it could not keep quiet about the clever way the post. { office had been deluded. It seems the | 1 watch had been baked right into the cake and had come through withou! discovery. Now, this forced us to take | some step to prevent a repetition of | such smartness, and ever after that ‘we held on to all cakes or pudding- | that came In packages through the ! mail. A letter is sent to the. parson to | — — nts — wo | glove to match it. The trick was sim- | corset ready for wearing. | bottles of transparent liquid where the whom the package is addressed, and this person (it is almost always a wo- man) has to come to the postoffice and cut the cake or slice the t In front of the customs a catch a Tartar occasionally? Well, yor may take it for granted that any one who would try this trick is a Tartar. to begin with, and so we don't get off without a scene when the cutting time" (CASTORIA. comes. “A trick that fooled us for a time | was the sending through the mail of one glove a trifle creased to give the idea that it was merely a worn glove that had been left in Europe by a tour ist. With the glove would come a let- ter to that effect, ‘You went awa; without one of your gloves,’ ete. Of course we passed it through unsuspect- ingly. But we got so many of thesc that it began to look suspicious. 8 we held on to one of them, and by the next mail there came another glove from the same address to the same person. The glove was the fellow to the other. Then we got another lef: hand glove and later the right hand ple and admirable in its simplicity. Gloves were being sent through in quantities, one at a time. “But the queerest trick we exposed the other day. A woman was accumu- lating a large stock of fancy corsets without troubling about the duty that should have been paid on them. The trick was to send half a corset through the mail. We knew of no rule about paying duty on half a corset. It ap- peared to us to be a mere remnant of the up to date woman's attire and not important enough to consider as duti- able. “So we passed the half corset along and thought no more of it. But half corsets began to drop in with all too great frequency. It looked as though corset remnants had suddenly attained considerable importance in some one's estiwaticn. So one of the men put i up to his wife, and she took some- thing less than a fraction of a second to puncture the scheme. The half cor- set was useless in itself, bu when the other half arrived there was a French “We find fine silks done up in pack- ages of herbs, watches, diamond rings and bracelets concealed in the leaves of books in holes cut for the purpose and separate diamonds hidden away 1 gem Is scarcely visible. No doubt «any dutiable articles escape us, but we are getting wiser every day to the tricks of the mall smugglers.”—New York Tribune. VAY EYV ALY BVDV AY AV AVAVATAVAEVYAVYA AVA Remorse Caused Suicide. Harry S. Blunck, eighteen years of age, committed suicide at Trenton, N. J., by taking a dose of strychnine. Blunck was arraigned earlier in the day on the charge of having robbed a local grocery store, and his suicide is believed to have been brought on by remorse. $2500 Stallion Burned. An Arabian stallion valued at $2500, Fred Atherton, a race horse, and other stock perished in a fire which de- stroyed the stables at the country home, near Pittsburg, of R. C. Hall, president of the Pittsburg Chamber of Commerce. Montgomery & Company, Men's Outfitters. Castoria. The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER you {ia this, All since its Counterfeits, and has been made unaer his personal supervision Allow ne one to deceive “Just-as-good'’ are infancy. imitations, and pat Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Chil- drep—Experience against Experiment. WHAT IS CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. « subs ance, [ts age i= its guarantee, It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcot. It destroys Worms and allays Feverish- ness, It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colle, It relieves Teething Troubles, cares Constipation and Flatuleney, It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowe!s, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend, GENUINE CASBSTORIA ALWAYS THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Bears the Signature of CHAS, H. FLETCHER THE KIND YOU HAVE ALWAYS BOUGHT In Use For Building Lots For Sale. Over 30 Years. 54.0-6t WOULD ¥ oU LIKE Your Money to Earn Twenty Per Cent ? Such a question is almost superfluous. All you naturally want to know is how and where you can get the twenty on your surplus capital. The Opportunity is Here The fact that we own and control a large number of building lots in this prosperous town places us in a position to offer the best proposi- tion in real estate that has ever been offered in this state. We have for sale one new eleven room brick house,centrally located. Lots on Easy Terms Houses rent from $25 to fioo per month. Russell Sage said, “Your Rear Estate WiLL Make Your Op AGE COMFORTABLE." State College has the brightest future of any town in central Pa. Call and see our proposition, and select for yourself one of the choicest iots. Tue Best INVESTMENT ON EARTH 1S IN THE EARTH. FREE TRANSPORTATION TO ANY ONE BUYING A LOT DURING NEXT 20 DAYS CALL OR WRITE LEATHERS BROTHERS, 116 College Ave. Commercial 'phone. OV ATV AVAYV AVY OY AV AY HY AVY There is a great demand for homes and rooms at State College. For Your Easter Suit is the son, known as the ASK TO SEE THE DRESSY DERBY MODEL for the young men, or the Chester Model for the conservative man. If you wish a Two-Piece Suit there “SUFFOLK” all made by the famous HOUSE OF KUPPENHEIMER. For the younger men we are show- ing the Novelty Suits of the sea- Everything New in Hats, and a choice assortment of Neckwear in all the new shades. Montgomery & CO. “L” system. RN State College, Pa. A HOTEL DINNER. The Husband Ordered It, and His Wife Criticised It. On the midnight train ride from town, where he and his wife had been entertaining one of his best patients at dinner and the theater, the subur- ban doctor spoke bitterly: “What a dinner! And it cost $15. The cooking in these big hotels is atro- cious. They smear sauces over every- thing. I suppose it is to hide poor ma- terials.” “It isn’t the fault of the cooking that our dinner was a failure. It was its selection that doomed it.” “What was the matter with the se- lection?” “You should not have done the or- dering. You have your meals chosen for you almost every day in the year. It is the women of people in our cir cumstances who ought to arrange the menus at restaurants. Look what you ordered! Bisque of lobster—a soup with a body of thick white sauce. Sweetbreads—cooked, as usua' cream dressing. V ham with champagne sauce—a brown sauce as thick as molasses. Then for dessert you took a chance on pudding Reine Victoria—candied fruit and lady fin- gers swimming In soft custard.” “Well, how is a fellow to know? Lobster soup, sweetbreads, Virginia ham and pudding Reine Victoria—it sounds fine.” “But a woman knows that it is a wretched combination of splendid dishes. It is the woman's dull duty to choose menus for 365 days in the year. She learns a good deal about selection. Yet when a sum of money equal to a week's food expenses, is to be squandered on one dinner at a hotel it is the man who seizes the ner for four on $1. But men feel too under the county unit law. Lyon & Co. LYON & CO. Carpets, Mattings, and Linoleumns. The New Carpets are all in. The largest assort- ment of Ingrains, in all the new handsome pat- terns in the new colors, green, oak and red, from 25 cents up. A large assortment of Rag Carpets. Mattings. Our line of Matting was never so complete as this season, China Matting from 13%c to 35¢ per yd. Blue Grass Fibre Mattings. This is entirely new, can be used on either side, has designs the same as carpets, and can be wash- ed like oil cloth, soft and pliable on the floor and only 35¢. per yard. A large assortment of Oil Cloths and Linoleums. Lace Curtains In white from soc. a pair up. Ecru Lace Cur- tains from $2.25 a pair. Tapestry Curtains, From $2 50 a pair up. Couch Covers, new col- orings, largest assortment, fancy stripes, $1 up. Easter Opening of Neckwear and Belting. Just received a large assortment of new Neckties and Ruchings. Gold, Silver and Persian Belt- ings. Kid, Silk and Cotton Gloves, black, white and colors. See our fine assortment of Hosiery, black and all colors. Everything that is new in Silk, Wool, Linen and Dress Goods. LYON & COMPANY, 47-12 Allegheny St., Bellefonte, Pa. Beliefonte Shoe Emporium. ARE YOU THE MOTHER OF A CHILD? If so, it is your duty to see that the Shoes it wears are fitted correctly. Ill fitting shoes make sickly children. They weaken the spine and limbs, af- fect the eyes and above all, make a child dull, IT IS JUST AS EASY To have your children’s feet fitted correctly as not, if they are fitted by foot fitters. Fitting Shoes correctly is a profession ; it is just as neces- sary as a doctor in sickness. WE ARE SHOE FITTERS And have spent twenty years of study in it and have the Correct Shoes for Children to wear. Unfortunately, few children reach maturity with- out cramped, pinched and misshapen feet. This is usually caused by shoes sold by unscientific shoemen to thoughtless mothers. Bring your children to my store and have them fitted with a pair of PLA-MATE SHOES And I will guarantee that they will never have any foot trouble in years to come. Mother think this over. Goodyear Glove Hip Fishing Boots, £5.00. YEAGER’S SHOE STORE, successor to Yeager & Davis. Bush Arcade Building, BELLEFONTE, PA. Lyon & Co.
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