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Show Ilullas of Oar CoU Toilet. In addition to feoding tho hungry, paving the Imperiled and guiding tho lost, it Is also tht revenue cutter'a duty to suppress mutinies, preent smuggling, enforco the neutrality laws nnd tho quarantine regulation, protect merchant mer-chant veainU from itratic.il attacks, trotect wrecked property and guard tho timber rwaerves of tho United btates against deprodattons. Tho constant con-stant and frequout Inspection of tno vut flft of merchant tcsstls that trades along our cooaI forms 11 very tm-I-orUnt duty of the service, and 0110 which, If not performed, woull lfol lowoil by a very general neglect cf the customs and navigation laws. Kvenwilh tho rigid and constant In-spt-ctiona, from 1,000 to 2,000 violation, aro detected each year and rcjiorUM to tho procr authorities. It isnotnlono In the examination of tho slJp's documents docu-ments and ho avcrtoinlng that she has no smuggled articles on board, that she ii engagctl In the trado for which she li licensed, that her m trine documents are in force, that her regularly authorized caj tain is In comnmnl, etc , Out tho Importance of the boarding duty U most strikingly shown. Scribncr's. |