The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-08-03

nj the present time. The traveller
must possess his soul in patience at
the end OF more than one o quest TO
the necessary papers, and ne
learns that in war time the mble
official functionary may be exalted by
circumstance to the importance OF
an ambassador plenipotentiary and Is
to be treated with commensurate pro-
found respect.
The civilian at this writing is not
permitted to cross the channel from
Dover to Calais or from Folkestone to
Boulogne, even on his bath that ne
will go straight through to Paris. He
must lake the longer way from Folke-
stone to Dieppe. Their is a strict en-
barge on letters of introduction, which
must be mailed to ones self in France
that they may be censored, or else lett
behind. l sent nearly fourscore I'M
ealed letters in three ~unsealed pack
ages ahead Of me to Paris by regis
tered mail, and found them intact on
my arrival. BY a regulation effective
April 5, 1918, it is made an offense Tor
any unauthorized person to convey
any letter OF written message to or
from the United Kingdom.
To get on the boat at the Folke-
stone pier there is n gauntlet TO be u
At an memorable iron gate the sentry
asks, Have. "Have o your pass
DOIl ODOu autIlLSSloH, IN you
buy your ticket. you are given an
alien card to be surrendered at the
gangplank. You then go before a
board of three members at the alien
officers table. Your passport is strip
gently scrutinized and stamped. YThr
luggage is then examined, and the
query Is put: Are you carrying any
correspondence" AT the gang-plank
there is another inspection Of the
payn1rt and tho alian 20 rd 10 OiUnn nm
In return, me receives a Carte du
DebarQuement" for the landing in
France.
Ny passport had by this time be-
gun to show signs of a considerable
measure of official consideration. 1t
had been used at the French Vice
Consulate in Philadelphia upon maxi
ing an affidavit hat I was not of
German or Austrian extraction. 1t
had been examined at the French
Consulate IN London, and likewise at
the Vice-Consulate in Folkestone,
where it was stamped with a decla-
ration of invalidity for France un-
less accompanied by a supplementary
document. The latter had the form
OF a separate passport, with my pho
tograph affixed, permitting me &c
travel within a strict limit Of three
days from Folkestone to Dieppe; and
IL was necessary also to obtain a gen
eral passport for France, likewise with
n photograph affixed. All this sounds
much more complicated thar in fac
II proved. and the several transactions
were put through with celebrity and al
most invariable courtesy under condi.
ion that were often exceedingly try
ing for the officials concerned.
The passage from Folkestone t
Dieppe took nearly five hours. Their
mas a wait of an hour at Dieppe Will
the papers and the baggage were ex
amined. The run to Paris was mad
In three hours.
American Tourists Missed.
One feels Immediately a greater ten
sion in the moral atmosphere Of Paris
with the enemy but 60 miles away
Yet the temper of the city, If 1t is no
gay. is not funereal. Paris, like Lon
don, goes sOberly about her vonte'
occupations. But the streets are no
crowded, mourning is more in evi
dence han it is in London, and tn
American sightseer, Baedeker unde
arm, is virtually as extinct as the dod
Or the Irish elk. though the Tourin
Club of France made an abortiv
effort to encourage an American ir
lux The eagerness Of the little shop
Keepers Of the Rue de Rivoli, or tn
larger establishments of the Rue de
Paix or the Avenue de POpera,
proportiOnate. And yet there is
shrug-shoulder ~philosophic acceptant
Of these lean months, and hopeful
ness for h pale blue harvest of q
franc notes when the war is I'VE ar
The Americans, having seen Americ
come back to speak Frenc after tt
school of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Vincennes, Indiana, in the shades
the Sorbonne.
The m%otorbuses have gone to IL
front. So ave $4,000 private aut
mobiles. Your chauffeur is likely
be new at the business, and to ha
a voluble C either for falling
find the address to which you ha
directed him or for not being in III
form somewhere tween the Swi
frontier and the North e
The women are doing the work
the men in many cases, of cour'
There are machine guns stop of I
Arch Of Triumph, where the legen
of Napoleon's battles and ommand
somehow read as though printed