Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1911 — A Vain Precaution. [ARTICLE]

A Vain Precaution.

Lord Talbot De Malghlde was talking In New York about the thoroughness of the customs investigations. "The smuggler ” he said, “Is bound to be detected if he txtoa his little game In your metropolis. The smuggler’s precautions agalnjA detection at this admiral-managed-: port are as vain and ludicrous aatho ■precautions of the dreaming IriahwiSn. .-An Irishm*# JKow, once dreamed that be was vUftlng the late Queen Victoria. “ wjj ’’ ‘Will you have a drink?* the queen said to him. *1 will,’said the Irishman. A drop of Irish, av coorse, hot ¥y preference, your majesty.* "So the queen put on the kettle, but when the water Kboiled, the noise awoke the dreanwtU "’Holy Bt. Patrick!’ said he, 111 take it cold nett Hine!’ ”