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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH OUR COMIC SECTION 0 Along the Concrete Vista Along the Midi Canal. (Prepared by the National D.Geographic Society, Washington, C.) southern France, where a ACROSS recently devastated area, lie the Lateral and Midi canals, connecting the AtA lantic and the Mediterranean.. this unique sightseeing trip through delightful country can be made along these waterways In a canoe. The start is made at Bordeaux. With its almost six miles of wharfage. It Is among the few big ports which have troubled to beautify their water fronts. Its broad, thoroughfare with here a promenade, there a public park, .and yonder a towering pair of columns dedicated to Commerce and Navigation, illustrates for the benefit of many another slummy water front how may bring beauty out of business. From Bordeaux for. 25 miles the Garonne river forms the waterway. The Lateral canal starts at Castets, and parallels the river to Toulouse. Though navigation hasnt usually much to do with hills and dales, that landsmans phrase aptly describes a canal trip. The waterway which stretches from near Bordeaux to the Mediterranean that is, the conjoined routes of the Lateral and the Midi canals is regulated by 118 locks. These give a drop on either side of Castelnandary, the highest intermediate point. Thus, the canoe voyager goes uphill to Castelnautlary, then down dale to the Mediterannean, averaging 10 feet of accent or descent each time he passes, a lock. Beautiful Country. The Lateral canal leads through a smiling countryside of gently rippling hills and of close cultivation, with tobacco plantations and vineyards alternating. Regiments of staked vines align themselves across the fields at the queerest of angles, a planting system aimed at securing the maximum exposure of sunlight. Here and there some picturesque houses village, its Fifteenth-centurdominated by a ruined donjon, mirrors itself in the Garonne. The canal and its river feeder parallel each other for 120 miles, and It Is but a short stroll whenever one wants a glimpse of the latter. Their courses intersect at Agen. One suddenly finds himself cruising between two seemingly ' endless walls of masonry, and the scenery begins to drop out of sight. First the trees, then the dim hillsides, sink disquletingly away Into nether space. It Is the aqueduct, which floatB barge traffic high in air across the wide valley of the Garonne. ' Prehistoric Neighborhood. From Agen an Interesting pilgrimage can be made to Les Eyzies grottoes where can be seen the habitations of Pleistocene man. It was in the early sixties that Les Eyzies grottoes yielded finds of flint and horn implements, human skeletons, and bones of extinct animals. Subsequently these formed a basis for calculating the chronology of the Stone age. Between the rude representations of animals, scratched by primitive man on his caves walls, and the art which caused Moissacs cloister columns to bloom with flowerlike beauty, lies all the mystery of the timeless miracle of mental evolution. Long before one enters the Canal du Midi at Toulouse, one realizes how well named is Frances Midi." This is the French word for midday. In summer and autumn It Is a country of withering heat, shuttered houses, white d foliage, under roads, and a brilliant, cloudless sky. Toulouse alas for the betraying charm of its name sprawls commonas if place and disconsolate-looking-, depleted by centuries of sunstroke. Of the medieval city that was the seat of a powerful countship and the scene of religious wars, little remains but Sb Semins Romanesque pile, named for Sb Saturninns, who was dragged . quay-paralleli- tree-shade- THE FEATHERHEADS toU ACT LIKE For Example PWHATS WERE Tb IT WAS A36HElJ&VbuREAUlE WAT U S WOMAN HAS SUED R3Rf5b,01-AXJ- MDO I' FAULT aboot?-w- e nAMASE WAS HERS, THE car wAStfr more wan-$2 5S?.' D WITHOUT" OWE SPICK OF, ,bO Kjorrv AlD-HMAR- 2G0-mI- l-Wr JNSoBANCfi. ! '4 620-fo- AND WE fc&TV that SUED EM WAS WILLING 16 AT W SETTLE: TOR. TIME IT HAPPENED, BUT HO!-JO- E , , $SD BURR WOULDN'T TAKE THE BLAME, ADD SO THEV USWT TO COURT AND A JORV d Ie ot y JDS FOR.$WOO! canal-carryin- VNtNIfll The Way It Goes Flatbush Holy smokes, look at poor old Mlllionrocks ; poor as a church Where did all his money go mouse. a difficult moment a smile from me will get much more courtesy than a grin from a professional chauffeur. Washington Star. to? Bensonhurst Went Into the umbrel-'l- a Insurance' business. Went broke the first week. The Ultimata Object l8rs. Goodsole We should avoid all these modem vanities and frivolities lest we be weighed in the balance and found wanting. Mrs. Weighed and and found wanting? Why, thats just what Im trying to accomplish by strict dieting. Woodby-Slimm- Eat and Grow Thin Mrs. Skelton Yes, I keep slender although I eat everything thats put before me. Mrs. Woodbe Slimmer How do you manage to do it? Mrs. Skelton Where I board they put precious little before me. A BETTER MAN er -- Feminine Pleasantry Ethyl Last night Bobbie asked me to marry him and make him the happiest man in the world. Methyl Which are you going to do? Harry He was crazy about the architects daughter did he marry her? George No she had other plans. 5 , Psychology' in Traffic a new car. have Ton Yes, answered Miss Cayenne. , Drive it yourself? I feel compelled to. It attracts the attention of every traffic cop. And In Just a Truce Dora So you made up your quarrel with Tom? Doris Yes, temporarily. Were getting married next month. Spots Didnt Show John, you have gotten a spot on the tablecloth. Why dont you use a red polka dot like mother did? . Hobson Toms a better man since he took to rifle practice. Jobson You dont say? Hobson Yea; that rifle kicked the devil out of him the first week. Officer Only Half Saw Say, didnt you see that nal? Motorist Er, didnt see you. sig- er yea, sir but f dust-covere- . 1 g behind the bull he had refused to sacrifice on Jupiters altar, to recall Toulouses architectural pasb Old Custom Retained. With one other exception what the visitor would expect of that name is discoverable only In histories. This exception Is the curious spectacle of forty citizen patrons receiving nine gold and silver flowers from La Daurades high altar, then defiling d through Toulouse to award these amaranths, marigolds, and other blossoms in a poetry contesb and finally hymning a eulogy on the festivals reputed founder. Dame Clemence Isaure. Such is the May day fete of the an- cient Acadeinie des While floralfestivals of varying kinds are held at Nice,- Cahors, Lyons, Cette, and in Normandy, Catlonia, and Rhenish Prussia, It is only the Toulouslan event which represents an , unbroken tradition of six centuries span. At Toulouse travelers by canal leave the Lateral canal and enter the much older Canal du Midi. Constructed In this canal of two seas represents the earliest step toward the e line. Bepresent route extend the yond that Rhpnes northern canal connections whereby barges can travel Inland from Bordeaux, to French channel ports. The most recently completed canal link in southern France has opened a Marseilles-to-Calalline. This Is 852 miles long, or considerably shorter than the sea route. The Canal du Midi is not only an Important commerce carrier; it is among the most beautiful of French waterways. Immediately beyond It traverses a series of woodland vistas, a ceaseless interplay of lights, shadows and reflections, that change with each turn of this endlessly twisting stream. The Midi cabals picturesque character is due to the magnificent trees which line its banks for more than 100 miles. Here are venerable oak glades, there alleys of plane trees, and yonder pines or somher walls of cypress. Often, Indeed, ranks of these different species parallel each other in a multiplied depth of sylvan' shelter. The lovely curves and green wealth of foliage are alike due to its planners method of mitigating, for the benefit of barge traffic, the sweeping winds of the region. Nothing less than the epithet could convey a picture of the Midis anglers, squatting in endless succession along the canal bank. The approach of boats scarcely stirs them from their piscine dreams. j Scenes. Busy Market-DaCastelnaudray tempts one ashore for that busiest of sights, a market town on market day. One of its leafy squares is reserved for vegetable sellers, a second for poultry and game, and a third for horse dealing. Down one street come cartfuls of huge hampers containing mixed families of ducks and rabbits. ' Down another come peasants bicycling into town, with geese sitting sedately arow in trays otached to the . handlebars. ' Trade is 'brisk, and by noon the world and his wife are walking .homeward with squirming rabbits and cackling chickens under their arms. As for the horse fairs in Rosa Bonheurs native countryside, they are just such animated sights as her famous canvases portray. Carcassonne, on the Midi canal, is two towns In one. The Cite is completely dissociated from Carcassones Vllle Basse, or lower town.. The former is a steep hill. Its crest encircled with mighty walls, hardly less than a mile around, thronged with tall towers tops the epitoshowing candle-snuffme of drawbridge-guarded medievalism, profiled against fleecy; clouds adrift In the blue. For 15 centuries it has stood thus; i The Cite of Carcassonne. high-soundi- arti-fice- . Jeux-Florau- - 1666-168- 1, Atlantic-to-the-Rhon- 20-mi- le s . Ton-lou- se , : spear-straig- ht . fish-abili- ty - y er high-perche- d, -' i |