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A Cnl-8ld Town In Franc.
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ONR nmjr tr Frnnr either
IhrouKb III front duurt or III
back (Jixira. The flrnt Inchi-lr
trnlna do luxe, bustling cltlot,
big hotel, od prraonally cimducilng
guide j and the nnttmml frontdmir
ti'lt ar Tutihd to whltcncaa for
your anticipated irrlrat.
Th aroond Irad jron, by unfr-
qurntrd path, past th back door of
family life and natlv rustoma, No
body know you'r condng, to you gW
the potluck'ind warm welcome accord
ed to in Uhiected guest
The back-door voyager, whoa pa
tron Mint I tlotiert I.oull Sterenson,
ba a con firmed preferenc for doing
tt afoot or astride donkey or bi
cycle; but newer way la by rami.
8ub recent toyag began at 8L
Mil lo, Ilrlltany. Wide, wet aanda
wher red-caiied flshermeo mend
tbelr net, tangl of narrow afreet
top fortified rock whoa turreted
rs tu part a are grim with an age-long
beating back of the aea and tea-born
Invader that I 81 Main.
I. Itunce, an Inlet of the aea at 8t.
llulo, wa th (tartling polt- " '
placid aptwarlng channel when th
tide la In, hut when the tide turn th
Tery bottom seem to drop out. Th
tidal rise In La nunc I between 23
and SO feet according tn th aenton.
So rapid I th rise that flreton form
er fishermen declare that a horseman
on th flat the water atarta In
(gnnot escape It
At U (hateller la the flrst lock
which aeparatet the turbulent Itance
from the llle-et ttance canul. "Canal"
aeema almost a libelous description of
thoae Idyllic at ream. Instead of torn
Inflexibly straight cut. Imprisoned be
tween atone embankments and sug
gests of aewage. Imagine sylran
winding Innumerable, water llllea
afloat, bank bordering poplar a-marcb
against th aky, and fur ahead th
aubaqueou ghost of om woodland
embowered bridge dipped In th
mirroring vista.
Olnan and Beyond.
Dlnan la th Drat town of Impor
tance to be reached on the llle-et-Itance
canal. The clnp of sabota re
sounds through th quaint street
whose Fifteenth century bouse walla
and carved tacadea beflttlngly frame a
arena of snowy-capped old women and
ahovel-hatled old men, with their
shrewd, kind fnce of apple-red fresh
ness. Never were aucb old folk aa
these Breton peasants old, merely,
like aom seasoned vlntag of "Im
prisoned sunshine."
Keyond Dlnan all la "little country,"
aa the French any, with here and (here
a cluster of red roofs, or a distant
spire, or lock keeper' house, to add
their churin to thnt ennoe-temptlng
atrenm. Everywhere there are lock.
At one stretch there are 13 within
four mile.
Lock are constructed for slr.nbl
bonis, not for canoe. Hut th good
natured lock-keeper modern t th
water Inrush by opening th sluice"
gradually. In fact, locking through
and especially tn "descending" locks,
wher th water sinks to I lie level of
th stream ahead become even an
absorbing, picture book experience.
Down you go, gradualty losing tight
of the world, a th lock wall rise
towering about you. The ponderous
gnte ahead of you, closed Ilk aom
big, btuck book cover, set you to won
dering what Ilea behind them. Then
alowly they open the hook covert
part and some new and charming
picture, a Corot or perhaps a Cailu,
la disclosed.
At Itennes en leave th canal and
enter th Vlluln river. It I another
lovely at ream, which wind It way
through a flexuoua, closely shorn land
of, one might almost any, natural golf
links, t'erhnp It I an Indirect com
pliment to lh beauty of French wuter
way thnt thla one should be culled
Cgly river.
At Iledon the Paris-bound canoeist
enter the Nuntes a-Hrest canal which
atretche to tlie Krdre river, a tribu
tary of the Loire. Thlt latter river
la entered at Nnnlea and i followed
upstream for nearly 200 miles to
Orleans.
Avoid the Loire 8ands.
The Loire I noted for It snnd.
Though the French gins and cement
Industrie work overtime and the
dredge do their best, their united ef
forts at exhausting the sand of the
Loir are about aa effective at "seven
mntds with seven mops sweeping up
a aea beach. It la hopeleaa, ven for
a canoe; th best plsn la In ship th
craft to the middle Loire, where the
chateaux are many and th aaud
slum I a are fewer.
Lnngeiils, Luynea, Ambolae, Chan
nioiit, lllols outstrung Jewel on th
river bank of th Loir I Yet they
are Jewel which were fashioned and
aet on their rlver-eommandlng belghta
at different period and with different
alms. Nevertheless they hav an his
torical bond, sine most of them occu
py th site of rtomsa camps, from
which Uiey derlv their names.
Langeals I a corrupted form of
AllngHvia, and Miilll (lh older nam
of Luynea) I but a slight modification
of Malfclum. Hut Cuius declined to
remain a Itoman colony, and by de
gree these allea fell Into the band
of th early Frenchmen. Thereupon
they erected fortrewea, and lb Ito
man being out of th way, proceeded
to battl among themselves.
Luynea' grim walla and nnornameat
ed tower give us a fair Idea of what
thla military fort res waa la lb
Twelfth century, when th powerful
noble warred igslnst each other and
even against the king.
Around Langeala centered the great
baltlea betweeo the counts of Anjoo
and the barons of Touralne. From be
hind Its walla Itlchard of England
(who waa alio a count of Anjou) de
fied the crown, and for centuries the
Kngllsh continued to nse the caalle aa
a base fr gentlemsnly brigandage,
until the uuhappy neighborhood
bought them off with 2.UW gold
crowns, stipulating that the fortress
Im destroyed. Thereafter hard Dated
I juls XI, having quelled his unruly
vssssl and unlfled France, rejiullt for
himself a modified Langeala the
raatl It standa today.
Som Lovely Chateaux.
Ambolae and Chaumont belong to
the same century as langeala and
show th same tendencies. They are
military ttronghnljs, softening under
ornamentation of pinnacle and carv
ing toward a purpose which became
always less warlike and always mor
luxurloua.
Of till gradual transition th final
tag I seen In the chateaux of Hlols
and Axay-le Itidcaa, where a.it a ghost
of th somhei feudal fortress remain;
wher window, and not loophole,
look out upon park Instead of draw
bridge, and wher ornament expand
Into th emhmlderle of pleasure
palace In which the rustle of silks has
replaced th clsng of mall. Illol U
for the traveler who prefers to hob
nob with th ghost of gorgeous
cardinals and queen and aatln
doiibleled CJiirtlers.
At Orlenns th canal I regained
and atretche off 123 kilometer to th
Seine. At Huge, (till on th canal
at lh Intersection of three, tn fact
begin the presa of canal truffle that
mount by th mil aa Paris la ap
proached. Th French canaJ system date
hack to 10.18, when th Canal de
lirlar was constructed. Sine then
It ha -welled Into a vast complexity
of routes which total more thin S.iKlO
mile of canal and tearly T.000 mile
of navlgnhle river, canalized and nnn
cnnnllxed. It I no exaggeration te any that
traffic may be moved from any on
to any other part of Franc over this
remarkahl system, which entail aa
annual upkeep expenditure of 30,000,
000 frsucs. Its, longest link la the
Canal du Midi, which extends BH0
miles across southern France, connect
ing (he ; Ilhone with the Atlantic
ocean. (
Th 'mrxlmum of traffic la found on
th Murne-au-Ithln canal, which In
11)10 carried 110.000,000 K. T. or kilo
metric ton. A K. T. Is on ton which
lis been transported on kilometer
Multiplying Ihu th tonnage carried
by lh distance It moved, we And In
the ame year a grand total of 773,
000,000 K. T. i th canal traffic of
all France.
Qut'f Natural
"lie quite an auto fiend, Isn't he)
Never aeen without hi car. Always
doing sixty miles an hour or more."
"That m? I taw til in yesterday
without It."
"Where wa her
"He was sitting on the cow-cntchoi
of a trolley cur with i steering whee1
around bis neck.",
The BABY
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No mother In this enlightened g
would give her baby something shl
did not know wsa perfectly bunnlos.
especially when a few drop of plain
Caslorla will right a baby's stomach
and end almost any little II L Fretful
keaa and fever, too; It aeeiaa no time
ntlt everything la serene.
That' th beauty of Castorla It
gentle Influent- aeem Just what I
needed. It doea all that castor oil
might accomplish, without shock to
th system. Without th vll tisl.
IT delicious I Being purely vegeta
sble, yon csn s4v It a often aa
there' a algn of colic; consilpsllon
diarrhea; or need to aid sound, nat
ural sleep,
Jut on wsrolng: It la genuln
rietcher'a Caslorla that phyalclnna
recommend. Other preparatlotia may
be Just a free from all doubtful drug,
but no child of this writer's la going
to test tlieuil llenldcs, the hook on
care and feeding of babies that com
wltb Fletcher's Caslorla la Worth It
Weight in gold.
Children Cry for
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Gift of Goldin Eaglt
to Yellowttoni Park
A large golden eagle, a bird avea
more due and aiajestlc than the bald
eagl shown on th American cost-of-anna,
hss been presented o Tallow
ton National psrk by llirry B,
Itougher of Fort Wtyne, Ind. Mr.
Rougher found th eagl with Ha
wing Injured, apparently by gunshot,
and kept It aeveral weeka until Ita
wound waa healed. Anxloue that th
bird should not be exposed to any
mor pot (hot In a densely populated
region, he sent It oat to the park at
his own expense, requesting thst It be
kept and fed well for a abort lime and
then released lo Sod Ita own borne In
the mountains.
Tellnwatone National park baa fre
quently figured as the source of dona
tion of such anlmala as bison and
elk, but ibis Is on of th few rase
on record wher the process hss been
reversed. This la at least partly du
to th fact that the national nark
service bsa steadily adhered lo a pol
icy of refusing to Introduce snlmsl
er plsnta not natlv to the region.
Tm Curt a Cold in on Day
Tsfc Litatlve DnOMO QUININH Tab.
' Th sotf Provrn Homxlr.
Lk for slsnslur of It, w. Qruv ea
Gamtkttper's Find
A gamekeeper near Alierdeen. Scofc
land, has had a remarkable experlenca
among foiee,
II discovered th lair of a fog
among the heather, and after a good
deal of bunting succeeded lo trapping
the old pair. A few dsya later b
found on the ledge of a rock near the
den Are young fox cub.
It chanced thst he bad at borne a
cat with kitten the same aga a tha
cube, ao ha took twe of them bom
and placed them beside the mother
cat 8he took kindly to her common
enemy, and cared for them. The
young cub have become quite friend
ly wltb tha kitten, and tha cat la
proving an excellent foster mother.
Plana Wedding Not Ntw
These airplane weddlnga are "old
tuff," according to Mrs. Mary A. Doyn
tnn, noted geologist. Fifty-six year
ago Mr, tloyalon became a bride In a
halloo ascension from Central park,
New lork city. That method waa ber
own suggestion. Uvea aa Dow tha
legality of a marriage la tha air waa
quest loaed at th time. .
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M. N. V., PORTLAND, NO. 49-1927,