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bravely against all difficulties and sue
ceeded in educating himself for the
church.
Visitors to the Rhone valley are
generally interested in the remarkable
water conduits. or 'bsses." as they are
called by the natives. which are found
in nearly every side valley and bv
which water is conveyed from a con-
siderable distance to the villages and
pastures.
By means of these irrigation channels
the fields are kept green even in the
hottest weather. Delightful woods
fringe the extensive pastures, which are
covered with soft, velvety grass on
which nature has lavishly strewn AL
pine blossoms. But the natives of CONS
have no time for sentimental flower
study. and men. women and children
toll hard il summer to gather their
not overabundant crop of hap. The
dairy and cheese industries are cult
waited with great care. In the Binnen
and F'iescher valleys. two small side
valleys in this district il used to be
the custom to keep cheeses of this kind
Tor many years a sort of family
HEIRLOOM. Specimens of them, some
dating back to the seventeenth CEN
tury, are still shown in the city hall OF
Fiesch.
A few innova tions have thus pene-
trated this rural region. but they have
in no way affected the home life of
the natives. Tiny chapels, churches
and waysde shrines are dotted along
the ROAD everywhere, Tor the deNoui
people of CONS have no greater inter
est in their lives than their religious
duties.
Continuing the journey over many
viaducts and bridges toward Gletsch.
visitors pass the pleasant village OF
Lax, and little higher up Fiesch. the
starting point for the summer resort
of yishf
sion of an hours duration may be
taken to the Fiesch glacier. and
other, even shorter walk. leads to the
curious village of Ernen. Not far from
the latter is the hamlet of Muhlibach
the birthplace of Schinner
Village after village sends its greet
ing at the yet unfamiliar sight of Wis
itors. and very soon they reach Nun
ster. the chief community of the dis
trict A little higher up lies Ulrichen,
a military station opposite the Eginen
Tai Il valley leading TO the important
passes of the Cries and Nufenen, used
in olden days by Italian wine mer-
chants for the transporting of wine to
Berne.
Fir woods line our way to Gletsch.
and huge gray boulders are scattered
on the ground. The campanula. AL
penroSe. saXifraga and many other
sub-Alpine flowers form together a
large bouquet.
Gletsch is the present end station of
the railway. The Grimsel leading to
Meringen, will i'll years to come also
have its railway. hut at present the
diligence still travels twice a day in
each direction through that Alpine
pass.
Gletsch. as its name implies. is in
closest vicinity to the glacier of the
Rhone: in fact. the terminal face of
this majestic ice cascade is but half
an hours walk from the railway sta
tion, with path following the stream
up to its cradle.
The journey to Andermatt and
Dlsentis touches many spots which
have classic repute for their beauty,
as well as for their historic associa-
tions. Realp, Hcspenthal Andermatt
and further on the quaint Grisons ham,
lets all have some charm of their own.
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fore asking a question. The officers
answer is short and crisp. Hes no
longer pinochle- game Brown, or Jones.
or Smith. OF n sudden he mas pecotiie
Lieut.. Jones, or Brown. or "mith. .hit-
ed States coast guard service. SIT
The launch is ready and you tuhpte
aboard. awkWardly enough. put no
more awkwardlE, perhaps. thah any
other landsman. The men IN 'he
launch give you a leg and perhaps
they're grinnins inside. but there $
some more saluting. some more snanpy
orders and answers and Your niue
clean-rigged launch swirls til" water
at her stern and heads toward that meet
of motor boats anchored in the channel
off the foot of 9th street.
r
Slowly the launch, with the lieutenant
in the bow, moves up to a motor boat.
You notice. perhaps, that she has no
light astern. but is dipping up ana
down in the gathering darkness with
but a single white light in the fore
part of the vessel. No one is aboard
her. The launch heads toward the
wharf and boathouSe. \ rough looking
man answers the lieutenant's hail.
what dyou want" he groNlS.
He knows we'll enough the meaning
of that trim clad figure in the bow of
the cutters launch, but it would be poor
1ongshore ethics to betray such
knowledge.
Boarding party-cutter Apache" an
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7N sheltered little harhor at the
III foot of 9th street southwest. just
III north of the spot where the big
x Norfolk steamers swing out into the
Potomac for the nightly run southwark.
rides at anchor motor boat fleet In
the evening when the big vessels boil
up the river mud with their propellers
ard paddlewheelS these little motor craft
dip and lift with the rocking sweils. and
when night comes on and the darkness
falls their white lights dance with each
passing wave.
Between Washington and Colonial
Beach there are many groups of these
pleasure craft, clustered together in
some safe anchorage. and TO the De-
partment of Commerce and the coast
guard service falls the task of inspecting
these vessels To make sure that motor
boat owners not evading. in some
detail the laws of the bureau of nav
isation which relate to craft Of this kind.
Now is the open season for the motor
boat. The motor boat owner. these days
is as popular as the man with Il seven
passenger touring car. All winter long
the boats, with their chugsing gasoline
engines and their automobile smell, have
been laid up on shore. but the coming of
summer has scattered them over the
Potomac.
The powers that be in the bureau of
navigation of the Department of Com
n,erce, we'll as the rulers OF the coast
guard service of the Treasury Depa rt-
ment. know that when summer comes
the time has arrived also for motor boat
inspection. The Department OF Com
nlerce has a vessel, the Tarragon which
occasionally comes to the assistance of
the coast guard service in patrolling
these motor boat fleets. but the bulk of
the work this year will fall upon the
coast guard.
Such being the case, the owners of
motor boats will observe. some fine
summer evening. a low w-decked. rakish
craft of undoubted official lines come
slipping swiftly up the river. She will
slip into the channel. drop anchor. and
the WiSeacres among the motor boat
men will cast an anxious eye over
their equipment for possible violations
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a while. the Lieutenant. confides
They get careless unless YOU keep
close watch on them. The law requires
motor boats of this class to keep the
board. He was merely getting careless
but his boat will pass the regulations
without trying. in another twenty-four
hours"
The launch draws alongside 4 third
boat.
There's a man working away here
too and the lieutenant questions him.
How many life-preservers aboard?"
six" answers the man. sullenly.
where's your fire eXtinguisher?" de-
mands the lieutenant
Broke" returns the other.
Where is it?" persists the laurch
officer
Took it home to get it fixed
''All right" agrees the lieutenant.
'Lemme have your name and address
What's it to you?' suddenly bristles
the sullen one.
You'll find out. if take your boat in
tow" returns the lieutenant, without
parley.
The man takes a moment to consider.
and then gives the information
As the launch steams back to the
cutter. after the conclusion of the in
spection. the lieutenant puts away his
notebook and gives you some pointers
on the fine points of inspecting motor
boats
First off," he says. you want to go
after motor boats in the evening, just
after sundown. You can make an in
spection trip any time, but that's the
best time. Usually the owners on
board then. and You can size up his
lights better after they're lighted.
The regulations provide different
lights for different classes of boats
and the matter of whether a boat is
riding that is, anchored-or is un-
der way also makes a difference. The
crime unforgivable, however. is the
man who takes out a party III his
boat without fire eXtinguisher. In
nearly every case of this kind the Of
fender is given the limit of the regu
laton, d hundred dollar fine. This is
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the only ofense for which the DEPART
ment cannot mitigate or remit fine
and II there is any ground AT all for
action we make cut 4 report against
the offender. and he's called to time
in quick shape.
Things are fairly quiet along the
river here at Washington this year.
The regulations are being observed
pretty well. But a few years ago we
had a lot of trouble with persons who
wouldn't live up to the rules It's
not as hard to make a motor boat
owner live up to the law as the man
who runs an automobile. The automo-
bile man wants to speed, but the mo-
tor boat owner hasn't any rules to
bother him along that line.
-;
I'VE slip up TO Washington once or
twice in the course of a summer. and
on the way up we take a look at any
little fleet we may find on the way.
Naturally, wherever you find n fleet OF
any size you're LIABLE to find some one
who Isn't living ~ 10 the regulations.
but outside of the regulation covering
fire eNtinEuishers It's not often they
are fined up to the hundred-doIlar
limit
BY that time the launch has reached
q
up the side. the launch is bois,ea
ABOARD and the lieutenant gets into
street clothes for a trip uptown to see
the sights of the capital
You lean back in the street car and
look AT the young lieutenant beside
you. He's plain Jones or Brown or
smith again, and except for the set OF
his shoulders dthe set OF his law
there isn't great deal to suggest to
YOU the snappy young officer who. =
half-hour before. was bossing his
launch around the channel. looking for
motor boats and the men that own
them.
But that's the way the Apache viii
do. some of these summer nights and
once again the lieutenant viii pay a
call to the motor boat fleet with his
steam launch and his crew and his
questions and his notebook. It's the
open season ROW for motor boats.
Evening star., 1915-06-27
Only on the Surface.

MI OTHER JONES said to a reporter
9V3 at one of the industrial relations
commissions hearings in Washington:
The employers argument in that
case looked very altruistic on the sur
face. 1t was like the young wife in the
new dress at the shore.
BY jingo,' said her husband. as he
slipped on his dinner jacket, you look
nice in that new dress. love. for fact
1t cost me heap of money. though
You dear old thing said his wife.
as she prinked before the glass, what
do care for money. you dear old thing.
when it's a question of plea sing your"
Evening star., 1915-06-27

"A hundred dollars for that you eX-
claim.
That's what it'll be if the folks up
in the bureau of navigation at the Com
merce Department don't see fit to miti
gate it. I'll make a report to head
quarters on this inspection trip and
they'll send it to the department. Near
ly always the fine is greatly mitigated.
He'll probably be soaked SO for his
carelessness, though.
Evening star., 1915-06-27

of the navigation laws. for the ap-
pearance of the ow-decked. rakssh
craft will mean that the coast guard
cutter Apache. Capt. A. l.. Gamble. is
on one of her periodic tours of motor
boat inspection.
It's a trip that's worth the taking
this patrol of the motor boat fleet.
The Apache. which is now cruising the
Chesapeake bay and which is assigned
to motor boat inspection in the Poto
mac. is the official motor boat cop
of the river this year. and from Co
lonial Beach to the 9th street wharf
she will keep a watchful eye for per-
sons who grow careless with fire pro-
lection and life preServers on their
dainty little sea going runabouts.
If you happen to be guest on the
Apache when she slips up past Gies-
boro point some evening and drops
anchor in the channel off the foot of
7th street, it would be we'll worth
while to get capt CANDLES permis-
sion to drop off into the little thirty
foot boarding launch that the men of
the cutter will swing into the water
when the Apache anchors,
Three or four husky coast guard
.'blue- jac ckets' will tumble aboard the
launch to get up steam, and while You
wait for them Capt. Gamble is select
ing one of his leutenants to command
the boarding expedition. which may
result in a few hundred dollars in
fines for careless owners of motor
boats who neglect the regulations.
While YOU wait for the men i'll the
launch. the lieutenant is getting into
his service togs. Already a transfor
nation is coming over him. " hen You
played that game of pinoChle in the
cabin before supper ne was just plain
Smith-or Jones Brown. You Lad
been talking of people you knew,
there had been the usual gossip over
cigars and the game. and altogether,
YOU thought, this lieutenant person
had none of the snobhish manneriSmS
so often associated with naval
SemI-navat officers on or off their ships
That was the lieutenant of the pi-
nochle game. The man YOU see before
YOU is an altogether different man.
He's no longer the plain. human. every
day citizen type of person you thought
you knew. He steps forward. and one
of the men i'll the launch salutes be-
Evening star., 1915-06-27

swers the lieutenant. crisply. Who
owns that launch Itasca"
parley follows and the lieutenant
makes note of the owners name. The
launch chugs back to the motor boat
fleet
He'll get notice tomorrow the lieu
tenant remarks to you, that he's liza
Bile to a hundred dollars fine for hav-
ing no riding light on the stern OF his
boat
Evening star., 1915-06-27

The Owner Such With
Car This Time of YWhat Means Undergo From Officials
Servcee ApheA Patrol the Motor
and Life PrreAccong the Regaonow the
ebyt thee Crew.
Evening star., 1915-06-27

The cutters launch creeps alongside
another boat. y man is tink ering with
the engine
Whose boat is this" asks the lieu
tenant.
The worker at the engine supplies the
owners name and address-probab bl y
his own.
How many passengers can she car
ry?" asks the lieutenant.
Ten. ordinarily replies the man with
the wrench
"All right rejoins the lieutenant,
I'll take a look at your life preserv-
ers''
The lieutenant straddles across to
the deck of the craft under inspection
and goes over the number of life-pre-
condition. He shakes his head as his
inspection goes on.
Don't you know it's against the
la W." he demands, ito have less life
preservers than passengers on this kind
OF. boat"
II left the other equipment on the
wharf states the man.
Well" counters the lieutenant "get
'em on board right away. If they're not
here when / come back I'll report YOU"
The launch puffs away to another
part of the fleet
It's a good plan to scare 'em, once in
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M SHEN the Simplon railway was
MAN inaugurated in 1906 there
\v\v was probably no other city
" " in the Rhone valley which
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-13
Had PeIIagra Seven Years
Thanks God He's Cured

Cowards, S. C.-David G. Pate, Of this
place, writes: II am glad to say to you,
after waiting forty days, that I still feel
like am cured of pellagra. l had this
disease for the last seven years. The
fourth day after beginning your medicine
I went back to work and have been able
to do my work ever since. thank God
for your remedy"
There is no longer any doubt that pei
laera can be cured. Don't delay until 1t
is too late. 1t il your duty to consult the
resourceful Baughn.
The symptoms-hands red like sunburn,
skin peeling of, sore mouth, the lips,
throat and tongue q flaming red. with
much mucus and choking; Indigestion and
nausea, either diarrhoea or constipation.
There is hope; get Baushn's big Free
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money is refunded in any case where the
remedy fails to cure.-Adv.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-13
{ THAT NEVER FAILED
Min Foreman Had Particular Reason
3or Patronixins eawyer's Place
on His vacation"

Among the old miners OF Siskiyou
county q man can get worse whisky
- Sawyer's bar han in any other
place on earth. This is the belief OF
die gold-diggers OF that section. and
dat faith is accepted as orthodox. says
the San Francisco Call.
Regularly every Christmas Billy x,
foreman OF the Gro Ffno mine. takes
his layoff down at Sawyer's. Once
the superintendent asked him why he
always selected that place for his va
cation.
y want to have one yearly drunk,
said Billy, and l want to know just
when am drunk. SO that may enjoy
the sensation"
We'll, can't you enjoy the sensation
In any other portion of the country OF
state or continent" asked the super
tntendent.
mo. When I'm drinking Sawyerf
whisky and 1t begins to taste good
then know I'm drunk"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-13
STUNNED BY THE MExICANS
Caves Supposed TO BE Possessed b.
the Devil" Into Which None
Willingly Enter.

Ancient caves in different parts OF
Mexico often contain the skulls and
bones of former inhabitants, whether
prehistoric or of later times. some
times containing fine fashioned flint
implements.
The natives, as q rule, fear to go
into these places. DO not enter. Sc
nor they will say. as with Anglo
Saxon lack of superstition you deter
mine to explore them; some evil be-
falls those who NEEDLE with the re-
mains of the dead
And IL they are prevailed upon to
assist they cross themselves devoutly
before descending or entering. Weird
tales they unfold afterward Of men
who have gone into such places and
found their exit barred by some evil
spirit, they themselves having been
encountered dead and cold upon the
cavern floor when discovered by their
relatives, who had searched for the
missing one!
According to the poems. the scenes
Of murder or wickedness which may
have taken place in such situations are
enacted again to the terrified vision
of the unhappy witness who had the
temerity to venture into these places
possessed of the devil, for the kine
of darkness Is an ever-present and
active element of the poor Mexican'i
superstitious world"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-13
ABAND0NS 0NE-CR0P SYSTEM
Southern Farmers Are Being Tau0ns
sueeess-Adopt "Hay, Hogs and
Hominy" Slogan.

With assurance that the South has
at last needed the hay, hogs and
hominy" slogan. abandoned the one
crop system, and set about earnestly
to diversity her crops. southern
boards of trade and commercial and
industrial organizations of all kinds
are busy advising the farmers how
to adjust themselves to these new con-
ditions. says an Atlanta dispatch.
Editors, iucators and lecturers
have dinned into the ears of the
farmers the idea that the South can
grow as fine a quality Of hay as the
West. With this idea in view an In
vestigation was recently made. The
farmers asserted there was no mar
ket for the peavine hay.
The commission grain merchants
were then moved on. They acknowl-
edged that they did not care to buy
peavine hay, and gave their reasons.
1t was not cured properly, and. In
addition, possessed fattening quail
ity which made it unsuitable for
work animals. As a result the South
has now a propaganda Of education
on how to cure and bale hay.
A rather unique plan for improv
ing the grade of southern cattle II
being urged. and to this idea the farm
ers have taken readily.
The county commissioners Of every
county in every southern state arr
urged to purchase a thoroughbred
sire of one of the best breeds Of cat
tie for the free use of the farmer
of the country.
Along this same line Of diversin
C, tion it is also proposed that ever.
southern town have market day.
While a complete revolution canno
be expected in one year. the DC
crease OF nearly SO per cent In tn
sale of fertilizer tags this year an
the unquestionably large cut in col
ton acreage show tina King Cotto
is tottering on his throne. The grea
est fear is that a high price OF cotto
next year. due to the crop shortage
will plunge the southern farmer BAG
to where he came from. to the unen'
ing field of white.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-13
COTTON BEING BLOWN AWAY
Use Of Staple In Modern Warfare 10
Something Enormous-Experts
Give Interesting Figures.

Cotton is being blown up now at .
faster rate than at any previous time
In the histor. of the world. The use
of guncotton in up-to-dat, warfare Is
enormous, being used largely in the
high explosives; for instance, the Eng
lish cordite is 81 per cent guncot-
ton.
United States ordnance experts es-
innate that every time one of the
big 15-inch guns of Uncle Sans navy
goes of there is one less bale Of cot
ton, or 500 pounds. One discharge Of
the 12-inch gun consumes 300 pounds
of cotton.
Those same experts figure that 1t
requires one pound of cotton to make
one pound of guncotton, the loss In
weight being accounted for In the
treating of cotton In a mixture OF
strong nitric and sulphuric acid. One
of the estimates that 100000 men
on the firing line use up 10000 bales
of cotton In a week in fairly active
fighting, although guesses on that
score are necessarily vague.
Powder companies have been very
large buyers of cotton.-Wall Street
Journal.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-08-13

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