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spoonful of butter and mix it with
' ,a like quantity of flour, .and add.
slowlyy to the milk and. eanute•
im•k p ,
nook i until it thickens, and season
to taste, .Chesnut% too, snake a
splendid soup, Boil one quart of
Paled and blanched cheenuts in
been pints of spilt water until quite
soft;t pass through a sieve and add
two, teateponfule of butter, or eel,
eral,bableepoonfule of sweet *ream,
and season to taste. If too thiek,
add water,
Olebmeal nut loaf can be screed
Bold in place of meat for Sunday
night tea. Put two cups of water
in a saucepan. When boiling add e
cupfu•I of oatmeal, stirring until
thick; then stir in a cupful of pea-
nuts thathave been twice through
the grinder, two teaspoonfuls of
salt, half a teaapoonftel of pepper
and a tablespoonful of butter, and
pack into a tin bucket with a tight-
fitting lid, 4nd steam for two hours;
slice down when. cold. This will
keep several days if left in the coy
ered tin and kept .in a cool place.
A delicious sandwich filling oan he
made from chopped raisins and nuts
'nixed with a little orange or lemon
juice. Cooked prunes may be mead
instead of raisins.
With Nuts In Lieu of Bleat.
Although many aro trying to oli,,
aminate, so much meat from menus
-on :cement of its soaring cost, the
;person who perforans hard labor
'must have in its place something
which eentains the chief eonstitu-
• •enta of meat, protein and tate, oe
+the body will not respond to the de-
mmnde made upon it beaauee of low-
ered vitality from lack of food ele-
ments needed. Scientific analysis
has proved that flute contain more
'food value, to the pound than almost
.any other food product known, Ten
•cents worth of peanute,, for exam-
ple, at seven cents a ,pound, will
-furnish more than twice the protein
and six times more energy than
•eould be obtained by the same out-
lay for a porterhouse steals at 25
+cents a pound.
One reason for the tardy appre-
.eiation of thanutritive value of note
is their reputation for indigestibil-
ity. The discomfort from eating
them is often due to insufficient
mastication and to the fact that
'they. are usually eaten when not
needed, as after a hearty meal or.
late at night, whereae, being so
.concentrated, they should consti-
tute an integral part of the menu,
rather than supplement an already
.abundant nt,eal,. They should be
used in connection with more bulky
•carbohydrate foods, such as vege-
tables, fruits, bread, °nicker,, etc.
'Too concentrated nutriment is of-
ten the cause of digestive dieturb-
ence, for a certain bulkiness is
sesentiel to norimal assimilation.
On a eriep winter morning a dish
'of nut scrapple is very appetizing
and just as nutritious as that made
of pork, To make it, take two cup-
fuls,of cornmeal, one of hominy and
a tablespoonful of salt, and cook in
a double boiler, with just enough
boiling water until it is of the con-
sistency for frying. While still hot
add two cupfuls of nut meats which
have been put through the chopper,
pour into buttered pan and use like
-other scrapple, Peanut omelette is
a delicious way to serve nuts. Make
a cream sauce with one tablespoon-
ful of butter, two tablespoonfuls of
flour and three-quarters of a cupful
of milk, poured in slowly. Take
from the fire, season, add three-
quarters of •a cupful of ground pea-
nuts, and pour the mixture on the
lightly -beaten yolks of three eggs.
Fold in the stiffly -beaten whites,
pour into a hot baking dish, and
'bake for twenty minutes.
Nut hath is another good break
fast dish. Chop fine cold boiled
potatoes and any other vegetable
which is on hand and put in a but-
tered frying pan, heat quickly and
thoroughly, salt to taste, and just
'before removing from the fire, stir
in lightly a large spoonful of pea-
nut meal for each person to be
served, To prepare the meal at
home, procure raw nuts, shell them
send put in the oven just long enough
to loosen the brown skin; rub these
off and put the nuts through the
grinder adjusted to make meal ra-
'the'r than an oily mixture. This put
in glias jars, and kept in a cool
place, will be good for weeks. It
may, too, be used as thickening for
'soups or sauces, or may bo added in
•equally small quantities to break-
fast muffins and griddlecakes. Po-
tato soup, cream of pea, corn or
asparagus and bean soup may be
made after the, ordinary receipts,
omitting the butter and flour, and
adding four tablespoonfuls of pea-
nut meal,
One family had a nut turkey for
Christmas instead of ordinary tur-
key, made by mixing one quart of
sifted dry breadcrumbs with one
pint of chopped English walnuts—
any other kind of nuts will do—and
one cupful of pine nuts, simply
washed and dried, tad adding a
level .teaspoonful of sage, two of
Galt, a ta•tlespoonfpl of chopped
parsley, two raw eggs, not beaten,
. and sufficient •water to 'bind the
mass together. Then form into the
shape of a turkey, with pieces of
ina•caroni to foam the leg bones.
Brush with a little butter and bake
an hour in • a Glow oven, ,and serve
with drawn butter sauce, A din-
ner roast made of nuts and cheese
contains the elements of meat. Cool
two tablespoonfuls of chopped onion
in a tablespoonful of butter and a
little water until it is tender, then
mix with it one cupful each of
gt'nteci cheese, chopped English wnal-
ttuts and bread crumbs, salt and
pepper to taste and the juice of half
a lemon; moaeten with water, using
that in which the onion has been
cooked; put into. a ,.hallow baking
disih, and brown in the oven. Hick-
ory nut leaf is another dish which
see Ioke the place of meat at din-
ner, 'Fix two cups of rolled nub%
a cupful cath of celery and milk,
two cups of bread -crumbs and two
eggs, station and shape, then bake.
twenty minutes. Serve with a gravy
mnclo ]rite other gravy, with the ad-
dition of to tenspoonfud of rolled
note.
Pelmet soup for supper on a cold
night serves the double duty n'f
stimulating thegastric julree tc
quick action by its, warmth and fur-
nishing protein Is the btxly to re-
p,at1• its waste. Pound to at• .pacts
cupful of nuts from whiM the skim
has been removed, add it to a pint
of milk, and scald; melt a table-
•
APPROACHING PERFECTION.
London Police Compared With
Those of Paris Aird Berlin.
In humor, in urbanity, as in per-
fect control of his district, the Lon-
don policeman is the nearest ap-
proach to perfection, writes Mr.
Percival Pollard, who, in "Vaga-
bond Journeys," has a word to say
of the various policemen of the
world.
To the stranger, the policeman
seems the politest of all Londoners,
-Chiefly, however, it is in his control
of traffic, awheel and afoot, that he
is unrivaled. When you consider
the narrowness of the streets, you
constantly marvel at the easy skill
with which he solves his problem.
The Paris policeman never looks
anything but "sloppy," and his
notion of controlling traffic at
crowded street crossings is enough
to make the observer shout with
laughter. No one minds him, and
his attempts to regulate the speed
of the Parisian cabby only result in
a slanging match. Observation of
Parisian street traffic is all that is
really necessary to impress you
with the belief that, in ease of need,
the Paris policeman would always,
with much noise and melodrama,
arrest the wrong person.
The police of Berlin are vastly
better than those of Paris. They
do not look as well, according to
our notions, as the English "con-
stables," but they are fairly smart.
The men are polite, control traffic
inexorably, and see to it that Berlin
is one of the cleanest and most or-
derly of cities. But as reasoning
individuals, the Berlin policemen
are hardly to be counted at all.
When anything happens to you
more serious than crossing a con-
gested street or losing your way,
you are fairly certain of running
hard against a city ordinance, me-
chanically enforced by the man on
the beat.
No argument or persuasion pre-
vails. There is the regulation, and
here the instrument to enforce it;
the human element is entirely ab-
sent. Both Italy and France are,
as to their police, more human.
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WAR AN1) W.1;A:1'JIEB.
Present Aar Does Not Differ Stitch
From Old Campaigns.
Throughout the area of the great
war, the weather from day to clay is
playing its part in the campaign.
Modern military tactics; modern
armament; modern methods of all
kinds, have not in any way elimim
ated the weather element as' a fac-
tor of the greatest importance.
The story of the present war does
not, thus far, read so very different-
ly from that cif the stories of pre•
violas years in the same countries,
In 1586, the Spanish, as related by
Motley, encountered such terrible
rains on the Meuse that they leetreated. A .previous fall of Namur
in 1602, was largely due to heavy
rains which prevented the English
from crossing the river and meet-
ing ,the besieging French army. The
English in Flanders in 1708-00 en-
dured great hardships on account
of the deep snows, which blocked
the roads. The cold was intense
and the troops, who were short of
firewood, suffered severely. The
Duke of Marlborough wrote (1708):
"Till this frost yields we can neither
break ground for our batteries nor
open bur trenches." The French,
in Poland, in 1803-07, found mud
three feet deep; drenching rains;
driving st1eelt; melting • snow and
icy streams. In the Franco-Prus-
sian war of 1870-71, over the same
historic ground in France, we read
of torrential rains; icy roads; enuel-
dy.fields, and of sufferings on ac-
count. of cold.
So the story goes on, from age to
age, from one war to the next, War
and the weather : they are related
to -day, as they were In the past,
physically, physiologically, psycho-
logically, and as they will be until
war shall cease.
Fear not men who speak evil of
you fear lest you should do evil,
THE SUNDAY SCIIO JI STUDY
1NTERNA'f'IONA1•, LESSON.
JANUARY 17,
Lesson, 111. The Call of Ghieeu.
—Jndg. 6. 11.40. Golden Text,
Pyla. 65. 4.
Verse 11. Sat under the oak
which is in Ophrnh,•-•-This is an-
other instance of a sacred tree par-
tioularly used on a great oocesion.
Gideon was beating out wheat in
the winepress,—A most unusual
proceeding, as the wine was pressed
out frequently in the inner cleft of
a rock arranged in the nature of,a
winepresa, whereas wheat was
threshed out on a high place as in-
dicated above,
To hide it from the Midianites,—
Everything which the Israelites
pceeessed was in grave danger of
being taken by the enemy. Under
the invasion of the Oanaanites, Is-
ratiel's native law could be adminis-
tered only in the extreme south-
east, between R:amah and Bethel,
where, as ve found in the lesson of
January 3, the palm -tree of Debor-
eh stood. In the day of Gideon
the Midianites swept south from the
plain of Eedraelon, so that the use
of the threshing -floors. wee imposea-
ble. They pushed to far that the
Lcraelites had to hide themselves
even at Ophrah. From the plain of
Esdraelon a succession of open
plains lead out, connected by easy
passes. It is the widest avenue into
both Samaria and Judaea, and
makes connection also with the
plain of Sharon,
12. Thou nighty man of valor.—
Gideon was not in a particularly
good mood; to think that he, a man
of valor—that is, a strong and ac-
tive inan—should have to hide him-
self practically in the cleft of a rook
in order to thresh out a .little wheat
was almost tel rnuch as a hardy,
strong young man could stand. The
angelic visitor implied in his greet-
ing that Gideon was not only a
strong and brave man, but that he
also was a devout man, a man of
valor in the full sense.
13. Olt, my lord, if Jehovah is with
us, why then is all this befallen us4
—The angel of the Lord came with
am assuring greeting, "Jehovah is
with thee." Gideon was too devout
to repudiate this statement. How-
ever, he wee too sorely distressed
not to question it, and he asks, "If
Jehovah is with the Israelites, why
does he not reveal himself as he did
to the man of old7" The greatest
revelation always in the memory of
the Israelites was the fact that Je-
hovah brought the Israelites up out
of Egypt. Gideon could not with-
hold the expression that Jehovah.
who was with the children of Israel
in Egypt, seemed now to be deliver-
ing them into the hand of Milian.
14, And Jehovah looked upon him.
Here the statement is direct—not
the angel of Jehovah, but Jehovah.
Gideon's eyes are open to the real
import of the message that is com-
ing to him. It comes direct from
God.
Go in this thy might, and save
Israel from the hand of Mid•ian
have not I sent these 7—There is no
account taken of the complaint of
Gideon. There is no 'time to argue
the matter. Words are of little im-
portance. Action is what is de-
manded. Gideon is made to feel
immediately that he has the power
eci go and save Israel from the
hands of the Midianites. This puts
an entirely different phase on the
question.
15. Oh, Lord, wherewith shall I
save Israel ?—The thought occurs to
Gideon at once, however, that he is
a young man of very low origin.
His family is net only the poorest
in the tribe of Manasseh, but he
himself ie the very least in his
father's House,
16. And Jeliova,h said unto him,
Sorely I will bo with thee, and thou
shalt smite the Midlani,tes as one
man.—Again Jehovah pays no at-
tention to the word of Gideon. His
trimonstranee ie in vain. It matters
little how poor and lowly he is. He
came of a good family ,and had the
essential eharacteristios for leader-
ship. In Gideon is another illus-
tration of the fact that God is no
respecter of persons .and that the
true -hearted and worthy will find
his favor, no matter whet their con-
dition in life happens to be.
33. Then all the Midianites- and
the Amal•akites and the children of
the east assembled themrelvee to-
gether,—Not only was Gideon to
face one horde of invaders, but all
of the heathen on that side of the
valley intended to make a concert
against the children of Israel.
And they pa•seed cues,—They im-
mediately entered the confines of
the Israelites.
And encamped in the valley of
Jezreel.—The word wed, here for
valley moans "deepening." It is
the saute as the Scotch expression
"vale." It is a valley es one looks
into it from above, and nobs valley
as ono might stand below and look
over an extensive plainrunning
away from the bills far off to an-
other riser of hills. The "deepen-
ing" of y ale,' is a wide avenue
running tip into mountainous eoue-
tries. So we read of the i.Ct,le of
Hebron, the vale of Blab, of Alalon,
of Jezreel. These invading armies
were not going to meet the Isimel-
ites on the, wester border of the
plain of 1 sth'aelon by the river
Klstlien, but they were going to at
tack :them m re in the mountainous
country aids put them to disativan
tape by dividing bhelr fortes and
disposing of then) piecemeal, Iar•ael
therefore, tunet. to master not i••)
Mount Tabor, but at Gilboa, "' It i
interesting to note that the Mdiali
itee in their battle against G:d010
t•o„ lc up:, practioully the Amine Pohl
lion as the Philistines diel in thei
battle with Saul,
34. But the Spirit of Jeboval
earns upon Gideon; and he blew a
trumpste—Although the tribes o
Inresl were scattered arid working
independently, they could be gath
eyed together at a time a crisis
The blowing of the trumpet, how
ever, was dieted to the people o
Gideon'a oven tribe. He wanted to
be sure, of them first,. Afterward
Gideon :sent meeaengere to all the
neighboring tribes, to give warning
of danger and to call assistance..
And Ab ezer was gathered toge
they after ham,—This was this own
tribe. Theet his people, who knew
him as belonging to a poor family
and of humble origin, rallied to him
at once must have: been a sign,o
great eneouragement: and,, doubt,
less, a heal indication that Jehovah
would be with bin,
35. And he sent messengers
throughopt all Manaseeh.—As noon
es he wee Imre of his own people,' ho
sent tthe,word.everywhere. He par-
ticularly, however, sent messengers
unto Ashen, and unto Zebulon, and
unto Naphtali; and they came up
to meet them, nes; ell ;came up to-
gether—as will appear afterward, a
formidable army of thirty-two thou-
sand men.
36. And Gideon said unto God.—
The test which Gideon puts to God
in this paragraiph (verses 36-40) is a
most shriking proof of the faith
which the people of tthe Old Testa-
ment had in their God'. If ha was
the true God, he would ehow him-
self in some way, particularly et a
time of so great cris e. The pertiou-
larity with which this test is des-
cribed by the Hebrew writer shows
us how great weight the chronicler
put upon the incident, and also is
evidence of the belief which Gideon
himself had, that if he was to go
out into the conflict he should go
out entirely as the messenger and
in the control and under the guid-
ance of God,
DAYS OF 011) PRESS GANG.
'Teas is hard and Brutalizing Life
in King George's Reign.
There can be no question about
it—life in the Georgian navy was
insufferably hard. According to
Mansfield, "it was brutalizing,
cruel and horrible, the kind of life
now happily gone forever, a kind of
life which no man of to -day would
think good enough for a criminal.
There was barbarous discipline,
bad pay, bad food, bad hours of
work, bad company."
This is putting the case strongly
and to one not born or bred to the
sea it is exactly what it must have
seemed. How then did they get men
to enter the service? There were
several ways in vogue. A captain
on being appointed to a vessel, be-
sides .attending to her armament
and equipping her for a voyage,
had also the responsibility of fur-
nishing her with a crew. He set
about this by establishing a re-
cruiting office ashore, generally at
a .sailors' tavern, and placardmg
the fact through the town and sur-
rounding country with the an-
nouncement that "Captain Blank,
R.N., was now fitting out H.M. ship
So Sand So for a cruise in foreign
waters,"
Following this came promises` of
unlimited rum, prize money and
the King's bounty. 'When the gul-
lible one came to the bait he was
plied generously with drink and
flattery,••the King's gold jingled be-
fore his staring eyes and 'befuddled
brain filled with stories of the joys
of life in the King's navy loudly
bawled in the sea ballads of the
day. That these joys were not un-
known is shown by the fact that the
bounty was at one time above 6350.
When these gentle means failed to
complete his number the captain
sent a fete boat loads of sturdy fel-
low's ashore after dark in charge of
an officer. This party or "press
gang" proceeded to the resorts of
merchant sailors and picked up any
stragglers they found in the streets.
In times of need no male between
boyhood and old'age was safe,
,1, Political Economist.
"I hope you will remember,
'Caesar," said the judge to his man,
"that your vote is about your dear-
est possession,"
" Yaasult," said Caesar. "Alt')
keepin' dat in mind, jedge; but at
de same time, suh, we got this beah
in mind de ,fact oat it don't pay to
make it so dear nobody`kin affohd
to bey it, sale
UM Green Well Named.
Mrs. Gray -The window in my
hall has etained glass in it.
Mrs. Green—Too badl Can't you
find .anything that will take the
stains out?
Teacher (after an impressive les-
son on hygiene)—Notw,. children,
tell me why you should keep your
houses
clean, Inattrntii•e pupil --
Bemuse company may arrive at any
utiinute.
WOMA"N'RUSE RS IUTOF WAS
IIUI:J1N WILD EL511N.t OF 1101.0•
LAND IS NE' cow,.
Grand Duchess Adelaide of femme
burg lits 'fried to Reep
Out of 'Trouble,
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland be
Neves "discretion is the better part
of valor. "Self-preservation is the
rivet slew of nature, she euunselled
iter little cousin, the Grand Duchess
Adelaide of Luxemburg, when the
Germans came, to her borders, af-
ter a' formal, protest. The Grand
,I)otbess allowed thesis: to gu un-
molested bhrougli—•knowing that a
,thrust of the Germae term if she
resisted would push her toy king-
dom aside.. Her people are prosper-
ous and happy, kncriving,puthing of
the terrors and horrors of war.
While . Britain, Germany . and
France,the neHand;
are said to be spendighbors ofing $5,000oll,000 a
„clay upon war -Holland is spending
about half a million dollars, a week
in maintaining ,tthe victims ,of war.
Her people gave,.it willingly through
motives of compassion. .But Queen
Wilhelmina and her Government
must, by the rules of war, receive
it back again with interest from
the Governments to whom the
refugees belong. If desolated Bel-
gium is not able to pay her hoard
and lodgieg,bili, theJiNies will have
to pay it. If the war should last a
year, Holland's bank account will
become increased by quite a respec-
table sum. The longer the war, the
poorer her neighbors will be—but
the richer she.
She Lost Luxemburg.
Wilhelmina is not Queen also in
Luxemburg because of a freak of
fate. Her father ruled over it, but
when he died in 1890 Luxemburg
refused to set aside the law by
which it was always to be governed
by a male, and the grand duchy, be-
came the inheritance of the Prince
of Nassau, the nearest made rela-
tive, who was made Grand Duke of
Luxemburg. His son and successor
died two years ago, leaving a fam-
ily of five pretty daughters, but no
son. The only heir in the male line
was Count Nlerenb•erg, a grandson
of the first Grand Duke, whose mo-
ther was a Russian woman married
morganatically after the birth of
her two children, The Countess
Torby, morganatic wife of the Rus-
sian Grand Duke Michael, who
lives exiled in England on that ac-
count, is the sister of Count Meren-
berg. He himself is married to the
daughter of the Czar Alexander II,
by a morganatic marriage,
The Luxemburgers, contemplat-
ing a sovereigtn• with such a mixture
of royal blood tainted with the ple-
beian, decided finally that they, too,
would prefer to have a woman mule
over them if she were really royal,
and they chose the eldest daughter
of their late Grand Duke. Adelaide
became a sovereign upon her eigh-
teenth birthday,
Adelaide's Betrothal.
Slit is a high-spirited little lady,
first cousin to Queen Elizabeth of
the Belgians. Without any near
male relatives, bereft of bhe coun-
sels of a father, brother, uncle ex
even cousin, she has during the past
two years gone often to Brussels to
ask the advice of King Albert. In
the question el opposing the pas-
sage of the Kaiser's troops through
her land, .she went for advice to
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland—.and
there the consequently two wise wo-
men among the sovereigns in Eu-
rope to -day.
Last year Grand Duchess Ade-
laide's betrothal was announced to
Prince Henry of Bavaria, a nephew
of the King of Bavaria, older than
himself by ten years and ten days,
anti. a good Catholic lite herself
and the majority of her subjects,
who number altogether about a
quarter of a million. Prince Henry
is fighting ,under the flag of the
German Empire, and this :has had,
doubtless, something to do with
Grand. Duchess Adelaide's acquies-
cence in the Kaiser's wishes.
The little Grand Duchess, in her
little kingdom protected with an
"army'." of 150 eoldieas—who also
perfoi'mr bhe duties of postman, fire -
engineer, eta,—means to be as hap-
py and ms prosperous as she can.
a
SHARP SAYINGS.
Eves when he ean'it make any-
thing else a man can generally be
depended upon to make a fool of
himself,'
The proper time to congratulate
a bride and groom is alter they have
lived together for at least a yeas
and are still happy.
Luck has a ;perverse habit of fav-
oring those who don't depend on it.
When a fellow makes a fool df
hienself he goes on the principle that
what is worth doing at all it worth
doing well.
Distance lends euohantrnent to
the view, especially when we view
the people we don't like.
Love is blind, .or at any rate the
little
rascal doesn't always succeed
in shooting strtngtiel.
A girl should allow her parents
to peek out a husband. for her. Then
sho can ,always blame ie 00 them.
An authority on child culture has
ciiscovered that boy babies learn to
talk first. That Berms quite na-
tnr'al. A girl, always wants the last
word.
GE IERAI, JOSEPH JOFERE
A AIIId'1'ARY GENIUS, BUT NOT
A »IC'1'A'1'OII.
He Hus Shown Unexpected EE
Ilolentiy,, Wisdom, Patience
and Strength.
France has produced in this war a
military,geurus who has no ambi-
t]on to •become a military dictator.
This is an anomaly in the
oountry'e history but General Jof-
fre is an anomaly in many respects.
He is now the moat interesting per-
sonality in France, the absolute
ruler of its inhabitants.
Military* law has superseded civil
law, and' a state' of siege has been
proclaimed throughout the land.
Yet this autocrat, who holds Inc
country's salvation or destruction
in the hollow of his hand, is a sim-
ple, kindly. honest gentleman, who
shuns publicity, popularity, or
riches, giving his life and talents in
the supreme hour of need, If he
lecke the glamor of Napoleon or
Bismarck, his countrymen have in-
vested him with a rare measure 'of
confidence and affection.
Joseph Joffre—he has but one
Christian name — is in his sixty-
third year, having been born on
Janpary- 12, 1852, in the little town•
of Rivesaftes, in the Department of
the Eastern Provinces, close to the
Spanish frontier.
Father a Gendarme.
His father belonged to the police
force and served some years as a
gendarme. Joffre's personality is
known through picture postcards
and illustrated papers, but none of
his portraits does him justice. He
is one of those who "take" badly.
Hes strong point—presence—oennot
be adequately conveyed by the
camera, Simplicity and straight-
forwardness of manner are what
strike one most when meeting him
for the first time.
Not a Short Ran.
Picture a man somewhat above
the average height—he stands five
feet nine and a half inches in his
stockings—of great width of shoul-
der, deep -chested, and as straight
as a dart. He is free of all move-
ment or gesture suggestive of set
military training, yet he moves with
an alertness which bespeaks a na-
ture given to decisive action. He
has an odd habit of jerking forward
ever so slightly. the left elbow when
"making a point" in argument.
His physiognomy when in repose
is almost that of a child. A bread
forehead, eyes which seem some-
times blue, sometimes hazel, look-
ing through you as he quietly waits
to hear you out. A strong mouth
with rather large lips overhung
with a bushy moustache now fairly
white. A deep dimple overshadow-
ed by a firm chin; ears small and
lying close to the head; a sunburnt
complexion still wonderfully fresh;
the whole face singularly free from
deep lines for a man of his age
and strenuous life; white hair thick
over his massive brow; head erect
on a short, thick -set neck; eye-
brows bushy and prominent; the
fade almost a perfect oval. The ex-
pression is that of a man who car-
ries out everything on the famous
Latin precept, "Gentle in manner,
strong in action."
Talks Little.
Last, but not least—Joffre turns
the scale at 182 pounds. Hismus-
cles are as firm as those of an ath-
lete; his capacity for physical ex-
ercise is that of a man twenty.years
younger.
By nature he is reserved. He
will sit for hours without speaking,
and when he does talk it is in a
voice low and slow. Only in the in-
timacy of the modest little "hotel"
in the Rue Michel-Ange at Passy,
where he has lived many years with
his wife and her three children, the
off -spring of her first and long -
ago divorced husband, does he un-
bend.
His features express thought ra-
ther than the habit of command,
but their chief charm is that they
distinctly tell you the General is a
nuan• of heart. Indeed, those who
know him well hold that to this
quality of heart is indirectly due the
slowness of the military operations
in Northern France. Unlike Em-
peror William and his myrmidon
generals, Joffre shrinks from use-
lessly sacrificing soldiers' lives,
hence the defensive, and cautious
character of the trench war be is
still tenaciously and' patiently
carrying on.
Cannot Corner This.
English engineers predict that the
San's power will soon take the place
of coal for genertvting industrial
light and heat.. If this. comes to
pass there will be another great ad-
vantage besklet the maternal ones :
No person or or'•genizetion oan get
4 corner on the setae produotion of
heat.
Thy fart that talk is cheat' infla-
enece :some of 08 to indulge in ex
tit s agant assertions.
NEWS FROM $UNSll COAST
tl"II;t'l' 'I'Il(1 WESTERN PK0PI, >T
ARE DOIN4a•,
Progreee of the Great Wel 7'01,1
Ina Feu Pointed
itaregl;tphe...•
Ray von Meciclin, a miner, was
killed at Fernie through being
caught under a cave-in and suffo-
cated,
Two hundred and seventy pigeons
were burned in a fire v'lricli destroy-
ed the place of P. 0. Gibbons, in,
Vanoonver.
North Vancouver may purchase a"
50 -acre lit, on the waterfront, for
8120,000, which will be usedane. the
site for a market.
The Vancouver Central City Mis-
sion, during the month iif Ne,vem-
ber, provided 2,963 froe lunches and
gave free lodging to 1,1002 :men,
All ships of the Blue Funnel Line,
which sail from Vasneouver tins the
United ICingdom, have eepecity
cargoes till next March busked
ahead,
The; fishing steamer Flamingo,
which had, been working on the
northern banks, took into Vancou-
ver 65,000 pounds of halibut, caught
with hand lines,
The Board of Works of Vaneoueer
Veld its relief officer, Rev. Gea;rge
Ireland, that nobody was to get
even a meal ticket in thee .city un-
less it w-ae worked for.
Prisoners of Kamloops Provin-
cial jail sent a letter of apprecia-
tion and va puree of money to Rev.
Charles Ladmor, whu was in the ha-
bit of visiting them. The mt:ted:
was handed over to charity.
A Chicago capitalist whu v as in
B. C. with the object of making in-
vestments, said the property even-
ers of the coast were 'holding t the
prices of four years ago. He
thought they should be };ewer.
Vancouver housewives are con-
siderably exerei-^d been use the
bakers of that city, since the ante -
war flour contracts have rye quit.
are making lighter loaves than for-
merly- and calling it "fancy bre-.1,"
G. W. Howarth, assistant inmete
ger of 'the G.T.P., wlti was in Van-
couver on a tour of inepecti n, sad
that, in his opinion, it was too reels.
to begin bui'dtng the milli, el dollar
hotel planned for Prince Itupet,t.
Jean Moens, a Vancouver p :Hin-
man, went to Belgium enol offered
to enlist in flee army. He etas re-
jected because his eyesight w•- bed.
he has now been notified that he will
be taken, bad eyesight and all.
Chief Justice Hunter, at Varrou-
ver, granted 'leave to presume death
in the case of Mary- Langley, wleo
was lost on the Empress of Ire'land-
A letter written by her the night
before the ship met disaster was
tendered as evidence.
A delegation from the Va teeuv r
Board of Trade waited on Premier
McBride a.nd urged that a dllcp,i-
tion rttould he se-tt from B.C. t
different S•outh.Afriren eountriee,
with the object of op .'ng up
trade relations. C'onsiderrtion ce'as
promised.
Owing to bile war, 13. C. mere
say, there is practically etc, sale •"e r
raw furs this season, and west •.1
the large fur -buying firms leve
,closed clown their winter p -ts its
the north. As a result, the Ir liaa
trappers are fishing instead of fur
trapping;
Three sons of Donald Osmertn, of
Vancouver, left for Er}gla•nd to join
one of the corps of the I3eitish arsiv,
They paid their own pec -sages. The
reason they did not join a C a-r.die;t
corps, was because they tbeughfi ;lute
would get to the front quskrr the'
other way.
Hindus of New Westm, tcr, B.
C., !Jaye formed a Point steck e-m-
peny, with a capital of 9300,013. fee
the purpose of exporting hard
woods from the forests of the Pen -
ie.!), India, into B.C„ to be di -posed
of to menufs•eturers there. Teak.
ebony and mahogany are eonte of
the mere valuabl•c kinds cf eyed to
be imported.
Owing to the fact that a rend es-
tate company, known es Vele Aly. --
sleben & Co„ had not eienplesed
their payments to the Gocetnm -:tt
for lands bought and selb-divid d;
many porohasers of land in 1', nt.
Grey, B,C„ are unable to 'rta.in
titles for the property for which
they ]rave paid, Among the number
ere many living in Ontario and asset -
ern cities,
3
Wl►ere Do You Live;
There etc only- two kinds of peo-
ple in the world—the people ci.ho
live in the shadow- and gloom, aid
those who live on the sunny side of
the street, -These shadowed (Mee
are sometimes called "pessiod its;"
sometimes "people of mc.'.a' li'ily
temperament; sometimes they are
called "disagreee,hle people;" bit;,
Wherever they go their ehaea teris-
tie isthis—their;shadow always tes-
eels on before thein, These people
never bear their own burden, but
expose all their wounds to others.
They are ee busy looking 'flown
for pitfitlls lint] sharp stones and
thorns on nhieh to step that they
de not even knew that there are ,any
eters in the sky.. These folks live on
the want;; vide- of the 'street. And -
yet it 1s only twenty feet to the
other sidewalk, where sunshine al •
-
mayslfral—Re,, D. 1). Gillis. •