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Show Salt Lake City Firms when answering these advertisement the name ot ihis paper. Mention Gillette Razor Blades Pkc&r lettes dozen 25c; Tree Btu'dT?1 i Razors $3.00 up: Novelly cntalo he Co.. 135-37 Regent St.. SaltL,i,7 (;' AGENTS WANTED KrStt-TTv S23.S0 up. BiB money for riihl , Clh 613 Mclntyre Building, Salt Lake c'",, ItAniOMAnAZIXK Broadway, Salt l.nke City. Utah. 1 Vcs' TK.I.F.GltAl'H SCHOOL I.earn Teleirrauliy. Great opportiniiti., n easy (vork. I'osiliuns secured . -;, " .t',CI"" learn. Hundreds of Eiaduatea. Ol.lesi , '"" school. Write for free catal,,", c "'i1 1' Telegraph Col low, KB S. Main. Sl Lakt "Best Heat Under the Sun" The most modern and economical horn, heating plant (Pipe or Pipelcss) K be installed in practically anv hum. Write for FREE booklet on j Home Heating. " 'mic Attractive proposition for dealer in I every town. m GRANITE LUMBER & HARDWARE CO. 1084 E. 21st So., Salt Lake City I HOW i AVALANCHE IN SWISS ALPS t DESTROYS ALL THINGS. A mountain climber, In discuss- Ing the accounts of recent avalanches in the southern alps, resulting in destruction and (- death, says: The cause of these sudden descents Is not far to seek. On the higher slopes there, have J been six or eight weeks of clear, jjj almost uninterrupted frosts, j which have caused the existing snow to become loose and J powdery. i Now, under pressure of the j recent heavy falls of fresh snow, this loose under snow has given way, and vast masses of J It, gathering volume every j moment, are plunging down the j mountain sides, overwhelming 4e , ...... jj. sneep ana uniortunate tourists j and burying all that comes in their path. j This type of powdery ava- lanche, serious enough to life and limb, Is as nothing com- :jc pared with the real avulanche built up of accumulations of snow that may have commenced years ago. These vast accumulations oc- j cur on the plateaus or less steep Inclines. The pressure of each succeeding season's snow turns the under snow to ice, and jjc winter after winter the mass Increases in Weight and volume. jjt A moment arrives when, ow- J ing either to pressure from higher levels or the mass grow- S ing so immense, It overcomes J any resistance that holds It. Or, due to an exceptionally mild J summer, the lowest stratum J sjc against the mountain side Is melted and a sort of water cushion la formed upon which the whole glides forward. J There are other causes, but for some reason such as these J the colossal mass commences to J move slowly downward toward j the valley. If the pace Is slow It is known as a creeping T- avaiancne ana can ue aeiji u" i der constant observation. There J is little Immediate danger from it and peasants and farmers can be warned of the approaching peril. j j Sometimes, however, an aval- J anche of this type will within a $ few hours of having become J loosened hurl Itself downward with the speed of an express J train and a noise exceeding all i imagination. Nothing can with- j, stand It. Farms and home- steads are swept away or buried, j ? forests of fir and pine are crashed down or carried away like so much straw; cattle, J rocks, railways are all carried before It until either It comes t to rest in lower levels or hurls $ Itself over perpendicular walls t of rock Into the valleys be- J neath. J |