Show r t 1t 1 III 1I I SII I 1 III A 0 I rlninl I 1 alatln I rnrr ling r + y I 1 ttJ 1 10111 II ihn 111I1 I 1 J trvl 1 h nnen rr then w t rl I I I knnwlne all the dr I II I If 01 th r 0 Ih tare nrh urn Iv do Ih trot ran I i tale e slip I until ire F Pal I itaitrnphe when h I I 1110 I the r h < I If man colors lain I A miror of trim Ir In I relionnbh iire lo br caught > t ltd and m 0 winning to ether I ft down her the particular or ton after deluding the niMonu of DiUI nf Fiance for rue and year I 510 it U > t trapped all iirlnurlr month bra I wu Innocent 1 am I a tut mixed M 10 wrul the monl of thla i lit should be In looking oar the inn from beginning lo end It seems I 10 mo that the Inference 1s I that one hould never bo Innocent II a nun ear ixi4 whoa ho li I doing wrong and In ought when bin tnntlMK are pure the olivlou metal l It I nnl nt nil of the kind 1 rare lo attach In the tad of I any tinrv I have to loll 1 do like lo luuc I K nice comfortable correctly inoillril moral with which lo flnlh allY artuie I t may togln and II In I a great Wlef in me that lbo moral In thin call U not at all what II hould be li > r > ears and years I have deluded lb > frem h diatoms oMelala In the root In i > r tobacco 1 think of mono that III In wrong 10 muuI as n general ruse but I cannot Imagine It wrong to brine Into nn unenlightened country ilk 1rame tobacco that a while man can I Mnoke I alwaya calculate Isle number of il Iq a I nhaH IM III any purl of France and i hen i take a twooume pocket for 111 h toy sort n couple extra In rate I shall i mtot A friend fimlililng for a Rood minks tort tbli qimnilty I hat licirr 1 nd any difficulty In smuggling Inn r Hi great Kuropenn I rcpubll A a the llruro la I entirely for ny own ion t uiiifin end aa I aw not n cltiien 01 I I in ami M I hall Im alor1 Cc i Iti itv the hotel keener in what em I irt I chance to be 1 i toe e mr err nine by pointing mil the e tarts In I and 11 mutt pay that my inniclenco b inn u tiitonnblc one ilum not Judge I an harshly I In lbe matlrr It la l need 11 I pcrliup I In mid Ibai ihi > French 1 I I < IlInlnt doe not ogre with me In all tht 10 therefore la I onler not to IK d i 1 the government more than lan la-n iry place thtse package about tor Iroan i In inch a way tint an pan Inn Trench frontier I live the gov Olllu i nt na Illllr bother ai ponlbll r rat P I opened ttio trunk and showed him the paring 01 tobacco lc tiad of paring the government thus then or having mr tobacco con fu nt i < d I have for many years ten dcied to Km nee adtlee that la I much root t aluable thou any duty they might extra t from me but republic ore noted no-ted i u 111 ungrateful and Franc la I non no-n niloo for the hai pilJ not the illguiMl attention to my counsel I lute shown her that no country In Ibo world hat crrr beroino great that hai not bad plenty of tobacco of the beat quality and at cbvap prlcea France foollthly coca on bending mllllona nn Hi army and on Its navy ni If that I really I amounted to something Tho trouble with Franco He entirely whit 110 tobacco and alto will bo thrnihod nut ol her boots every limo oho la I tackled by a country that uicil gnarl 1 I and cheap tobacco Thtro la I Italy for luitanro aa an nwfut etample It HIM It poMlblc viler tobacco Jlmi Tronce I and III custom oniclala are even strict rr than those of the repub Ic What li thr rotiillT Italy lion l the verge of bankrupt bank-rupt > and It would fall an rosy prey I In ci n the emalleat counlr In lu I cry < hat i Htm Rood tobacco SwIUer laM uJ Holland aDd llflcliim are snmil lounlrlna yM they attain their I In hIII i < IKIICC entirely through having good < 1 tobacco at reasonable prices Unltierland took In and clliarnud so CKH of the French troop that the ler man wero chasing towards the close of the Kranro1ruwlin war If the 1reuhi bail not tiled vile tobaeoo they would not In the fret plan have been tinned b > the IruHlani and In tho erond pare Ihejr could not have In ditnrmeil by a little country like Swlti crlumt were II not for the fact lust the 1iI bad the beet tobacco at oicttHl Ingly low price OB the other hand look at America at Knglnnd and at lermany they imoonqiiernlile conn I tre Imply because they UK the beet I toliiiin Krnnrc a I have regretfully fIirl t has paid no attention tn my advice ad-vice I but ban MiuAndered mosey on n nwirM trivially like the urmy when It might by n stroke of the pen make toliu o free all over the Und It Ihoul < 1 not tu forgotten that It n In Napoleon III who Introduced the tottaion 1110 nap y In France and that white the ti gn u Sapolcou was conquiilni ill 1 the Out III I i iobatco was hour urn iluiper In Crninc than In any purer country burette rin other day I was on my way to BvlttiTlnnd I rxprurd to Iw ablo to ntlxT no IIl1nl tear through lo Verne null M hoitRh I knew tobacco ti < heap and grand In lo Him land I tin igl i I v nld I i Ir I the prcrnnllon of putting a few packngei of my own particular par-ticular brand 01k top of Ui trunk It woo a rVmlab thing la da knowing Dint 1 hud lo p ii tinniii i Prance ad whu I gel in Hi i iiu i 0110 In London and format I t > old only rtgltf the trunk nn fur an li I hotilil Hi n lime taken the inHino nut If I had Ibought shoat It We arrive I In Earl n little after a clock In the evening 1 i i ni I the li In If I fe Irne from a taboo 00 the n hr II I II II III rlt at 1111 no ilrr win t lilt lime enough li t get ii romfnrlal e dinner and nth It airoM Ports from one alalion to the olh < r but It allowed no great margin for Clinton amlnatlon I I I When the vlllale who act for the French government ala mo If I had I I anything to declare 1 I old that I didnt I eiactlj kiiiw I hud some tobaeeo but H WM not crested fur see In Frame I waa gnln ID tithe the nlKlit trnln tn thorn If I 0 mid I I nit UM lunar HMOHH forts In Him I opened the Ir ink mil allowed him the I nob gee of lolnci o He ahnnk Lla head > l rend gatliiTlng Hip Hi-p ck Rii in bin hand he departc I looping me then with the nprn trunk lie returned after a while with a man offlclal who wan evidently a higher sad behind this higher I official cute another of the lame rank aa the grog I Why dldn you declare this tobacco tobac-co pall Ibo offlrlal to me I did dec are It I anawcred I told him I sae going through lo Rwltt I er Iaad with It and none of It can to be opened roTh ro-Th ofTUIftl said nothing but the Iwo undenimppera altackeil the box and turned nut every mortal thing that was In II I don carry much ittgltage when travel alone but Ihla trunk contained the virlotn articles of wearing apparel I I I that bdnncl 1 lo my family It bad Men packed with much care end the heap It made on the bench where they examine luggage In Pads waa something 1 I some-thing Appalling It didnt poem lo me possible that any human being could I ever get all those thing back In tits I trunk Molts They found no more to haeco but they alt retired to an office and eeenied to Kiniilll about the mal > ter then the main offlclalii came out nil I uld that Ibis wan a cIa for the chief Inspector Very llrtban get the chief In I peclor here aa quick y ni poulble Hut be hu gone for the night said the oticlol I lo ou mean In tell me I nld that yon are going to make me mtM my j train all on account of a few packages i of tobacco Keep them for Heaven eke and preewit them with my com pllmenu lo the Inapector tomorrow hut let me I user through 1arlt and catch my train lie hook his head nnd the two un deratrnppera began putting the thing hellertkelter back In tho trunk and flndliiff they scull not aitueew down limo lid again they look the trunk and the rett of my baggage and locked It tip for Ibo night I learned that the Inipector would not bo there until 10I I oclock In tbo morning and tint would mako mo mists Ihe morning trnln for Swllierland nino I ugaln offered the pompom oinelal the tobacco but ho mid that It IVAI not n qucatlon of tobacco nt all but of n fine I should probably prob-ably bu howl two thottand franca ho added A man who had concealed two boxes of cigar n Cuban hail that week been fined two thoueand franca and probably my fain would be Um nin I aa Itla It all would depend on Ihe tn ipector i 1 Hut urged I did not conceal the tobacco nt all I told the man II wax there before the trunk win opened The ofllclal utiouk hire head I I Von did not declare II he Hid Thero was nothing for It then but togo to-go tu a hotel which wo did I consulted con-sulted tho hotel proprietor who ad vl1 l ma tn curb my naturally ugly temper and to bo exceedingly deferential deferen-tial lln the morning He Mid that It the Inipectar chino to put n two thouaand franc fine upon mo I should hino In pay It or leuo the luggage there forever for-ever In the morning I was taken before avery a-very dlgnlfleil olllclil who tcrutlnlwd mo with aoma tavcrlly He listened to what I unit l to nay and luckily far mo the Or Inspector did not tell any Ilea about It but admitted that I hod aald I had tobaeeo and had > ald tint I MQI going through to Bwlticrlnud l nnd men tloneil t that the tolnceo was not concealed the thootru cealed but lay In the lop of the trunk Tho olflclal then Hiked mo to how him my tlcketa lo Hwltitrlniul which I did llo finally eamo to a decUlou which Was that I aliould l pay fur n mm lo go neroM Iurla with me and sae my trunk regUtered through 10 Derne and that I ihould pay flfteon franc duty on the tobacco and that I should 1 remember I woo getting off I cry easily t nuppoio I should have been tlinnk tot but then lonio ieople are na tin grateful ai republloa thvnitehc The ting of Ibo cplwde lay In the fact that they actually had the cheek tu charge me a dime fer Inking care nt my baggage all night at the customs warehouce |