The enactment of prohibition in Amierica is having all manner of interesting results. A revival of the romantic trade of smuggling is expected, and the authorities are already taking steps to cope with it. People with a speculative tura of mind are said to have bought up large quantities of liquor and shipped it to ports in other countries conveniently near to the United States, and once prices
try the running of cargoes. So the seally begin to soar they mean to authorities are preparing a fleet of fast motor boats to catch the suiugglers, and it is said that even aeroplanes may be employed. If the report be true of these great preparations for smuggling, these precautions will probably Necessary. The smuggler's outfit will hardly be so romantic days gone by, when a swift sailing lugger, a confederate ashore and a convenient cave were ample, but what it loses in the romantic it is likely to make up in the purely useful. The submarine might be specially effective, likewise the seaplane. And if the die-hards of "wet" America want les-
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