ON SMUGGLING.
Our smugglers no longer run kegs of brandy into dark caves on moonless nights (writes an English journal). The modern evader of tho Customs has concentrated his ingenuity on saccharin, and you can bring a lot of saccharin in a very little space within an innocent tin of biscuits or keg of butter. Only a few belated smugglers try to bring in tobacco free of duty, and it is very difficult to stow tobacco in lucrative quantities beyond tho reach of th© official eye. Smokers will be glad to know that the contraband tobacco is no longer consigned to what used to be known as the "Queen's Tobacco Pipe" — the kiln of the London Docks. It was an awful wabte of incense. Nowadays, if you ar3 a criminal and a lunatio and are accommodated at Broadmoor, you get your tobacco from the Customs for nothing. And any tobacco that is below your criminally luratio taste is used for the discouragement of insects in Kow Gardens.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 10
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167ON SMUGGLING. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 10
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