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LIQUOR FLOWS ACROSS BORDER korthern Section of Maine Being Flooded With Whisxy From Canada. 1 ___?? UWFUl SEIZURES ARE FEW j Comes Across Line in All Forms into ! State Which Was Pioneer in "Dry" I Laws?Many Ways of Fooling the Sleuths. | i i Bangor, Me.?The rate at which Caaadlan and Scotch whiskies are flowing ever the northern border into Maine proves that enforcement of the federal prohibition law hasn't got into its j Stride as yet, for never in all the his- J tory of theoretical droughts have oases j been greener, more numerous or closer j together in this pioneer dry state than "right now, when there is more law than ever before, twice as many "enforcers" and increased penalties, v. Trainmen who come down say that whisky of- all grades and oceans of pure grain alcohol are flowing oyer the border at a hundred places, and that at four principal points the alcoholic in-1 asion amounts to a flood. These four | points are Van Buren, opposite the New Brunswick town of St. Leonards,' on the St John river; Fort Kent, which has easy access to the Canadian village of Clare via a suspension footbridge; :Fort Fairfield, which is but nine miles distant from the New Brunswick town of Andover, and Houlton, which is a near neighbor of the provincial town of i Woodstock. ! Only Occasional Seizures. Occasionally the revenue officers j seize a wagon or sled load of whisky j coming over the international bridge ! from St. Leonards or over the ice at | some more obscure locality, but noth-! Ing Is said about the great number of! "booze" chariots that get by the gov- j ernment's lookouts and which keep the i Ifepeakeasies of Aroostook or the bar- j 'rooms of Bangor supplied. Also, the | St John river being frozen good and [Solid for its entire length, men and, rteams can cross anywhere in the river's j 1100-mile stretch along the border, so : that, as the revenue men themselves! !admit, a standing army with sentinels < , every fifty feet would be required to shut out the flood. j There is so much more money to be imade In bringing in "booze," even a 'few bottles at a time, that hundreds Of woodsmen have quit swamping roads [and chopping trees for the rum-running itrosiness, and ninety-nine in 100 of 'them, knowing the country thoroughly, ihv with their eoods. j Price of Canadian Whisky, i Canadian whiskies that can be bought ifct $3 a "short quart" on the New Brunswick side of the line sell In Aroostook county at $6 and in Bangor at $8, while genuine Scotch Is $4 in Kew Brunswick, $8 in Aroostook and f*12 to $15 in Bangor. Pure grain alcohol, to be had in New Bnmswick at $1 a quart, is "split" with water on this aide of the line, so that every quart yiplds about $16. With the addition of v. a little prune juice and burnt sugar, this alcohol Is transformed into "American rye," supposed to have been brought in from Boston or New York "before the lid went on." Whatever the outcome of the war on "booze," the enforcement of the law will be hardest In Maine, both on account of the state being cheek by jowl with Canada and on account of the seventy years' experience that the people here have had in devising ways and means of fooling the sleuths. REGENERATE NORTH FRANCE Large Sums Have Been Advanced to Restore Industries and Agriculture. Lille.?Perceptible progress toward ! rpjrpneration of northern France j Is shown in reports just made public | here. From Feb. 1 to Dec. 1, 1919, ! 1,250,000,000 francs were advanced tc ; manufacturers, and nearly 2,000,000,f 000 francs were paid as compensation | for war damages. Seed costing 18,! 500,000 francs and fertilizers worth ' 22,000,000 francs were bought foi ' farmers, who in addition received 18,! 000 head of horses. , _________ i ? -4} i Lighthouse Keeper Uses Motorcycle I Sooth Norwalk, Conn.?Per* I forming a feat without prece* I i dent in government annals here, 1 i Capt. Richard G. Hendricks, su* P 1 pervisor of United States lights 1 In this portion of Long Island sound, has been making his r rounds for the last few days on i I his motorcycle, taking a supply ft of oil in the side car. I ? The ice has been so thick that I ; he could not get to them with a r : boat, nor could he, on foot, ear ry a sufficient supply of oil. It is the first time in this state ; that a motorcycle has been j used for such a purpose. j j Tabbies in Fine Fix. 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