It Wasn't A Piano

H. D. Lancaster, 9urveyor of the port at St. Louis, the othcr day swoopod down upou a piano-box at the Wabagh freight depot marlend "Piano - handle with care; Mrs. L. Lewis, Tulare, Cal.," and depositad it in the government warehouse, where it wa openod and found to contain 1,200 tin ram fllled wlth opium aggregating 68r pounds. The opium is prepared for smoking and the duty on it amounts to tö,850. The commercial value is L23,975. Nul witustanding this fact gum opium is Helling in St. Louis for $3.60 per pound, gi ving evidence tbat an immense amouDt.of opium is now being smuggled into this country. Developmonts are promised that will implícate several custom house officials.