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r â-º7 i .^axâ€" Hints for the Home X)ontul of butter a«<l mix it with like quantity of flour, and a<l<l rIowIv to tlic indlk and peanuts ; oook until it thickc'ns. and season to taste. CihesniUa, too, make a splendid soup. Boil one quart of pjeJed and blanch'ed chesnut* in three pints of sailt wat<"ir until quite soft ; pa.iS through a sieve and add two tcHH(K)nfuls of butter, or sev- oral iabU'!--'po<)nfulR of sweet crea'n, and season to la^te. If too thick, add water. Oatmeal nut loaf can be si-rved cold in place of meat for Sunday M'ith Nuts in l.ieu of >Ie;it. .\lthough many are trying to eli- iiiinat* a-o much meat from menus on account of its .s«)aring co;t, the person who perf-orma hard labor must have in its pkce something ,,,:gi,t ^tji Put two cups of water whicli cv,.ntains the chief constitu- j ;„ ^ saucepan . When boiling add a *nt9 of meat, prot-ein and fats, or i r„pf„i „{ oatmeal, stirring until the h»xly will lu-t resixmd to the de- j ^^l[^.]^ . ,),en ^^â- ^r ,;„ ^ cupful of p-a- niands ma<lc uiM)n it bex'ause of low-; n„tj, (f,,,j. .{.^^.^ i,„p„ i^\co throug'h ered vitality from lack of fix^J ele- (,i,g j^rinder, two t«a9poonfuls of ments needed. Scitntifii' analysis UaJt, half a teaspoonful of pepn"? has pr-.vcd that nuts contiun niorej,,„<i ^ t '.blespoonful of butter, and fwd value to the pound than almost; p^ck into a tin bucket with a tight- any other food product known. Ten I fitting lid, and fteam for two hours.; cents worth of peanuts, for e.\ani- Uijce down when cold. This will pie, at seven cents a pound, wjll j^ppp several days if left in the cov- furnish nx^ro than twice the protein j.r<,<] jj,, ^^^j (j^pj ;„ ^ ^ool plac*". and six times more energy than ^ <ipiipi„„s j,,,,,^}^.^,), filing ^a„ l,p OLiuld be obtained by the same out- 1 j^^^^^, from chopped raisins and nuts lay .for a porterhouse steak at 25|mixod with a little orange or lemon cents a fniund. juice, t'ooked prunes may be used One reas«)n for the tardy appre- , instead of raisins, oiation of the nutritive value of nuts is their reputation for indigcstibil- ity. The discomfort from eating t.liem is often due to insuiRcient ISUNBAYSCHOJL STUDY mastication and to the fact tliat they arc usually eat«n when not needed, as aft«r a hearty nieai or lat^ at night, whereas, being so conc?nt rated, they sljpuUl consti- tute an iiitcgr.il part of the menu, rather than s.ippfeinent asi already abundant meal. They should be u.sed in connection with more bulky carboh\drate foods, such as vege- tables, fruits, bread, crackcirs, etc. Too concentrated nutriment i« of- t^n the cause <if digestive di^»turb- ance, for a certain bulkiness is crsenrial to noiTnal assimilation. On a cri'^p winter morning a dish of hut .scrapple is very appetizing and just as nutritious as that made )f pori:. To make it, taki' two cup- .vim'uo.vciiim; i»kufk( tion. ful and s oi cornmoa!, one ol liommy a tables|xionful of s.ilt, and cook in a d luble b.iiler, with just enough boiling water until it is <:f the con- sistency for frying. Wtiile still hot add two cupfuls of nut meats which have been put through the chopper, pour into iiuttered pan and use like ^ther scrapple. I'eaniit omi^lette is a delicious way to serve nuts. Make a cream saute with one tablespoun fill of butter, two tablespo<jiifuls of Hour and three-quarters of a cupful of milk. iKiured in slowly. Take fro'n the fire, season, add three- quarters ot a cupful of ground pea roits, and pour the mi.xture on the li'dilly-braten yolks of three eggs. Fold in the stiffly-beaten whites, rioiir into a hot baking dish, and hake for twenty minuteH. Nut ha'li 's another gfKxl break- fast di>-:h. Chop fine cold boiled pital >ey and any <jther vegetable which is on hand and put in a but- tered frying pan, heat quickly and llioroiighly. sail to taste, and just before renijving from the fire, stir in lightly a large spoonful of pea- iiut meal for each person to be s; rved To prepare the meal at lio.iie, procure raw nuts, shell them an<J put in the oven just long enough to loosen th<! brown skin ; r\ib these off and put the nuts through the grinder adjusted to make meal ra iher than an oily mi.xture. This put in glass jars, and kept in a cool place, will be goixl for weeks. It iniy, too, be uK*d as thickening for soups or sauces, or may Ix' added in equally small ((uantities to break- fast nuiflTins and griddlecakes. Po- tato soup, cream oi pea, corn or ns[)aragus and bean soup may be nia<h after the ordinary receipts, omitlin,< the butter and flour, and nddiig four tablespoonfuls of pea- nut mial. One family had a nut turkey for ChrLstmas instead of ordinary tur- key, iiiH<b by ini.\ing <iiie quart of siftc'l dry breadcrumbs witli one pint (,f chopped Knglis^h walnuts- any other kiixl of nuts will do and one cufiful of pine nuts, simply washed ari<l dried, aiui ad<Iing a level teaspoonful of sage, two of ealt. a tablesp<]<)nful of choppe<! [wrsley, two raw eggs, not beaten, an<l siiHicicnt water t^) bind the ina.ss (ogetber. Then form into the sh-ipf of a turkey, with pieces of n;u>aroni t.) form the leg bones. Urush with a little but-ter and bake an hour in a glow <jven, and serve with drawn butter sauce. A <Iin- ner roast made of nuts an<l cheese contains the elements of meat. ('oo,l two tablesp<jonfulR of <'hoppcd onion in a tables|V)onful of butter and a little water until it is tender, then mix with it one cupful each of grated cheese, chopp<'d Ivnglisb wal- nuts and bread crumbs, salt an<l pepper to taste and the juice of half a lemon ; ino.i«t/en with water, using (Jiat in which the onion has been oook«><l ; put into a t^hallow baking dis/fi, an<l brown in the oven. Hiok- ory nut loiaf is another dish which can take the place of meat at din- ner. Fix two cups of rolled nut», a cui)ful each of celery and milk, two cups of bread crumbs an<l two eggs, season and shape, then bake twenty minutes. Serve with a gravy made like other gravy, with the/ ad dition of a te««poonful of rolled nuis. Peanut soup for supper on a cold night serve* the <louble duty o^ •timulating the ga«tric juices to ()uiok action by it.s wiamith a.n<l fur- ninhing pi-otein to the body to re- pair its waste. Pound to a paste a .-•upful of nu.ts from whirtfl the skin lins been reniove<I, add it t.o a pint ,1 Mii'k, And wa.ld ; melt a. tablc- LuikIoii Police Coiiiparrd With Tlitise of Parts aud Berlin. In humor, in urbanity, is 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 Cijustantly marvel at the easy skill with which he solves his problem. The Paris policeman never looks anything but "sloppy," and bis notion of controlling traffic at crowded street crossings is enough to make the observer shout with laughter. >ro 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 i:, all that is really necessary to impress you with the belief that, in case of need, the Paris i>oliceman would always, with much noise and nieludraina, 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 thev are fairly smart. The men are polite, control traffic inexorably, and see to it that Berlin is one of the cleanest an<l most or- deily of cities. But as reasoning individuals, the Berlin policemen are hardly to be counted at all. When anything hajipens 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- chnnically enforced by the man on the beat. No argument or persuasion pre- vails. There is the regulation, and here th(! instrument to enforce it ; the human element is entirely ab- sent. Both Italy and France are, as to their police, more buniun. HAH AMJ WKATIIKK. Prcsenl War Does Not IlilTer >lueli From Old CaiiipaigiiM. Throughout the area of the great war, the weather from day to day is playing its part in the camjiaign. Modern inilitarj' tactics ; modern armament; modern methods of all kinds, have not in any way elimin- 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 of the stories of pr'.;- viouM years in the same countries. In I.'JHO. the Spanish, as related by Motley, enc<iuntered such terrible rains on the Meuse that they le- treatcd. A previous fall nf Namur in KV.yi, was largely due to heavy rains which prevented the Knglish from crossing the river and meet- ing the besieging French army. The F'liglish 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 Marlihorough wrote (1708): "Till this fn)st yields we can neither break ground for our batteries nor open our trenches." The l'"rench, in Poland, in 1800-07, found mud three feet deep; drenching rains; driving slleeit ; melting snow and icy streams. In the Franco-Prus- sian war of 1870-71, over the Hame historic ground in France, we read oi torrential rains ; icy roads ; mud- dy fields, and of sufferings on ac- count of cold. So the story goes on, from age to age, .from one war to the ne'xt. 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 T-ho speak evil of you : fear lest you rliould do evil. INTERNATIONAL LESSON. JAM ARY 17. Lesson Ul. The I'lill of (iidroii. Judg. (S. 11-40. (.loideii Text, Psa. 05. 4. Verse 11. Sat under the oak which is in Ophrah. â€" This is ar other instance of a sacred tree par- ticularly used on a great oc<;asion. Oideon was beating out wheat in the win«press.â€" A mu&t unusual proceeding, as the wine was pres.se'd out frequently in the inner clelt of a rock arranged in the nature of a winepress, whereas wheat was thrcsjied out on a fiigh place as in d.icated above. To hide it from the Midianites.â€" KvpVything which the Israelites pussessed was in grave danger of being taken by the enemy. Under the invmeion of the Canaanites, Is- rael's native law could be adminis- tered only in the extreme south- cast, between Ramah and Bethel, where, as we found in the lesson of January 3, the palm-tree of Debor- ah stood. In the day of Gideon the Midianites swept south from the plain of Esdraelon, bo that the use of the t)hi'eshing-fl(X)r8 was impossi- ble. They putihed eo far that the Israelites bad to hide themselves even at Ophrah. From the plain of Esdraelon a siuccession of open plains lead out, connected by easy passes. It is the widest avenue into both Samaria and .Tiukea. and makes connection also with the plain of Sharon. 12. Thou mighty man of valor.â€" Gideon was not in a particularly good mood ; to think that he, a man of valor â€" that is, a strong and ac- tive man â€" flhould have to hide him- self practically in the cleft of a rock in order to thresh out a little wheat was almost as much as a hardy, .strong young man oould stand. The angelic visitor implied in liis 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. Oh, my lord, if Jehovah is with us. why then is all this befallen us? â€" The angel of tiie Lord came with an assuring greeting, "Jehovah is with thee." Gideon was too devout to repudiate tliis statement. How- ever, he was too sorely distressed not to q\iestion it. and he asks, "If Jehovah is with tlie Israelites, why <loes he not reveal himself as he did to the men of old I" The greatest revelation always in tlie memory of the Israelites was the fact that Je- li<ivah brought the Israelites up out of Egypt. Gideon oould not with- !u)ld the expression that Jehovah, who was witii the children of Israel in Eg.vpt, seemed now to be deliver- ing them into the hand of Midian. 14. And Jehovah liKiked upon him. Here the statement i.s diredt- 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 froim God. Go in t^his thy migiht, and eave Israel from the hand of Midian : have not 1 sent thee 1 â€" Tliere 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 feci immediately that ho has the power to go and save Israel from the bands of the Midianites. This puts an entirely different phase on the fjuestion. 15. Oh, Tx)rd, wherewith shall I save Israel? The thought occurs to Gideon at onc«, however, that he is a young man of very low origin. His family is not only the poorest in the tribe of Manasseh, but he himself is the very least in his father's hotise. 16. .Ami Jehovah sa'd unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one mian.â€" Again Jeihovah pays no at- ti^ntion to the word of Gideon. His remonstrance is in vain. It matters little how poor and lowly he is. He came of a good family «.nd had the essential characteristics fo^r leader- ship. In ({i<I<'<in is another illus- tration of the fact that God is no respecter of persons and that tlie true-hearted and worthy will fiml bis favor, no matter what tiheir con- dition in life liappens to be. 33. Then aU the Midianites and the Anialekites aiul the childi-en of the east assembled theimcelves to- gether.- Not only waa Gideon to face one hordie of inva<ler«, but all of the heathen on tbait side of the valley intended to make a concert against tlie cJhildiren of Israel. And they passed over. â€" They im- mediately 6ntere<l the confines of the Israelites. And encamped in tlh© valley of Jezreel.â€" The word used here for valley means "deeipening." It ia the same as tlie Scotch expression "vale." It is a vaJley as one looks into it from above, and not a valley as one might Btan<l below and lorvk over an extensive plain running away from tiho hills far off to «,n- otheir rise of hill*. The "deepen- ing" (ir "vale," is a wide avenue running up into mountainous coun- tries. So we read of the vti.lo oif Hei)ron, the vale of Klah, of Ajalon, of Je-zreel. These invading armies were not going to meet the Israel- ites on the western border of the plain of Estlraelon by the river Kif^on, but they were going to at- tack thorn ir'>re in the mountainous Country â- and' put them to disadvan- tage by dividing their forces and diapofting of them piecemeal. Israel, therefore, had to nuister not on Mount T.ibor, but at Gilboa. It is interesting to note that the Midian- ites in their battle agiinst Gideon took up practical.ly tlie same posi- tion as the Philistines did in their battle with Saul. J4. But the Spirit of Jeltovah c ime upon Gideon ; and he blew a t limpet.â€" -Although the tribes of israt'l were scattered and working independently, tbey could be gath- ered together at a time of crisis. The blowing of the trumpet, how- ever, was directed to the people of Gideon's own tribe. He wanted to be sure of them first. Afterward Gideon sent mes.sengers to all the neighboring tribe.s, to give warning of danger and to call assistance. And Abiezer was gathered toge- ther after him. â€" This was his own tribe. Tbait his people, who knew him aft belonging to a poor family and of humble origan, rallied to him at once must have been a sign of great encouragement and, doubt- less, a real indication that Jehovah would be with him. 35. And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh. â€" As eoon as he wTa« sure oi his own people, he sent tihn woid everywhere. He par- ticularly, however, sent messengers unto Asher, and unito Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them. They all came up to- ge.Uier â€" as will appear afterwa,rd, a formidable army of thirty-two thou- sand men. 36. And Gideon said unto God.â€" The test which Gideon puts to God in this paragraph (verses 36-40) is a most rtrifcing proof of the faith which the people ol tiie Old Testa- ment hajl in their God'. If he was the true God, he would show him- self in some way, particularly at a time of so great criad*. The particu- larity with which this test ie des- cribed by the Hebrew writer shows us how great weighit the chronicler put upon the incident, and also is evidence oi tlie belief which Gideon himseJf 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 g^uid- ance of GJod. DAYS OF-OLD PRESS GANG. "IVuM a Hard and Hrutalizliig Life in King George's Reign. There can be no question about it â€" 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 t There were several ways in vogue. A capt«in 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 aibout this by establishing a re- cruiting office ashore, generally at a sailors' tavern, and placarding the fact through the town and sur- rounding country with the an- nouncement that "t.'aptain Blank, R.N., was now fitting out H.M. ship So Sand 8o 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 $350. When these gentle means failed to complete his number the captain sent a few boat loads of sturdy fel- lows 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. * A PolUienlEronomlst. "I hope you will remember, Caesar," said the judge to bisman, "that your vote ia about your dear- est possession." "Yassuh," said Oaesar. "Ah'm keepin' dat in mind, jedge ; but at de same time, euh, we got tuh beah in mind de fact dat it don't pay to make it bo dear nobody kin affolhd to buv it, siih." * . Mrs. Green Well ^amed. Mrs. Gray â€" The window in my hall has stained glass in it. Mrs, Greenâ€" Too bad! Can't you find anything that will take th« stains out ? Teacher (after an imtpressive les- son on hygiene)â€" Now, children, tell me why you sliould keej-. your houses clean. Inattentive pupil â€" Becau.ie corapauy may arrive at any aniuuia. WOMim RULERS OUI OF Wti QUEEN WILIIELMINA OF HOL- LAND IS NEITRAI,. Grand DiieheSH .Vdelaidr of Luxcm- burg Has Tried to Keep Out of Trouble, Queen Wilhclmina of Holland be- lieves "discretion is the better part of valor." "Self-preservation is the first law of nature," she counselled her little cousin, the Grand Duchess .Vdelaide of Luxemburg, when the Grermans came to her borders, af- ter a formal protest. The Grand Duchess allowed them to go un- molested through â€" knowing that a thrust of the German arm if she resisted would push her toy king- dom aside. Her people are prosper- ous and happy, knowing nothing of the terrors and horrors of war. While Britain, Germany and France, the neighbors of Holland, are said to be spending $5,000,000 a day upon war â€" Holland is spending about half a million dollars a week in maintaining the victims of war. Her people gave it willingly through motives of compassion. But Queen VVilhelmina and her Government must, by the rules of war, receive it back again with interest from the Governments to w^bom the refugees belong. If desolated Bel- gium is not able to pay her board and lodging bill, the allies 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 â€" but the richer she. She Lost Luxemburg. Wilhelmina is not Queen also in Luxemburg because oi a freak of fate. Her fatlier ruled over it, but when he died in 1890 Luxemburg refused to set aside the l.aw by whicli it was always to b© governed by a niiale, and the grand duchy be- came the inheritance of the Prince of Nassau, the nearest male rela- tive, who was made Grand Duke of Luxemburg. His eon and sucx^ssor died two years ago, leaving a fam- ily of five pretty daughters, but no son. The only heir in the male line was Count Merenberg, a grandson of the first Grand Duke, whose mo- ther was a Russian woman married morganatically aiter the birth of her two cJiildren. The Countess Torby, morganatic wife of the Rus- sian Grand Duke Michael, who lives exiled in England on th«.t ac- count, is the (lister of Count Meren- berg. He himself is married to the daughter of the Czar .â- \Jexander II. by a morganatic marriage. The Luxemburgers, contemplat- ing a sKJvereigai with such a mixture of royal blood tainted with the ple- beian, decided finally that they, too, would prefer to have a woraadi rule over them if she were really royal, and they choso the eldest daughter of their late Grand Duke. .Adelaide became a sovereign ujKin her eigh- teenth birthday. Adt'lttlde's Betrothal. She is a high-spirited little lady, first cousin to Queen ElizabetJi of the Belgians. Without any near male relatives, bereft of the coun- sels of a father, brother, uncle or even cou'sin. she has during the past two years gone often to Brussels to ask the advice of King Albert. In the question of opposing the pas- sage of the Kaiser's troops through her land, she went for advice to t>ueen Wilhelmina of Holland â€" and there tlie consequently two wise wo- men among the sovereigns in Eu- rope to-day. Ijast 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, and a good Catholic like 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 dio with Grand Duche.ss Adelaade's acquies- cence in the Kaiser's wialies. The little Grand Duchess, in her little kingdom protected with an "army" of 160 soUldorsâ€" who also perform the duties of postman, fire- engineer, etc.,â€" means to be as hap- py aaid as pr*vsperou« as she can. SHARP SAYI?iGS. Even when he can't make any- thing else a man can. genenally be depended upon to make a fool of himself. The proper time to ooogratulate a brida and groom in after they have lived together for at least a year and are still happj. Luck has a perverse habit of fav- oring those who don't depend on it. When a follow makes a fool of bim.self he goes on the principle that what is worth doing at a.ll is worth doing well. Distance lends enchantment to the view, e«ip6cially when we view the people we don't lake. Love is blind, or at any rate the little rascal doesn't aJways succeed in shooting straight. A girl should allow her parents to pick out a husband for her. Then sho can always blamo it on them. .\n authority on child culture has discovered that boy babies learn to talk first. That seems quite na- tural. A girl alwaj-s wants the ia.s.t woixl. GENERAL JOSEPH JOFFSE A MILITARY GENIUS, BUT yoT A DICTATOR. He Has Shown Unexppctod Ef- ttiieney. Wisdom, Patience and Strength. France has produced in thia war a military genius who has no ambi- tion to become a military dictator. This is an anomaly in th© country's history but General Jof- fre is an anomaly in many respects. He is now the most interesting per- sonality in France, the absoluit© ruler of its inhabitants. Military law has superseded cavil law, and a staite of siege has been proclaimed throughout the land. Yet this autocrat, who holds hi» country's salvation or destruction in the hollow of his hand, is a sim- ple, kindly, honest gentleman, who shuns publicity, poptilarity, oi riches, giving his life and talents in the supreme hour of need. If he lacks the glamor of Napoleon or Bismarck, his countrymen have in- vested him with a rare measure of confidence and affection. Joseph Joffre â€" he has but ens Chri.stian name â€" is in his sixty- third year, having been born on January 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 i» known through picture postcards and illustrated papers, but none of his portraits does him justice. He is one of those who "take" badly. His strong point â€" presence â€" cannot be adequately conveyed by the camera. Simplicity and straight- forwardness of manner are whafc strike one most when meeting him for the first time. Not a Short Man. Picture a man somewhat above the average height â€" he stands five feet nine and a half inches in his stockingsâ€" 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 niilit«ry training, yet he ©ovea 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 broad forehead, eyee which seem some- times blue, sometimes hazel, look- ing through you as he quietly wait* to hear you out. .A strong mouth with rather large lips overhung with a bushy raous.tache now fairly white. A deep dimple overshadow- ed by a firm chin ; ears small and lying close to the head ; s sunburn! 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 face almost a perfect oval. The ex- pression is that of a man who car- ries out everything â-  n the famous I^atin precept, "G«' tie in manner, strong in action." Talks Little. Last, but not leastâ€" Joffre turns the scale at 182 pounds. His mus- cles are as firm as those of an ath- lete ; his capa<'ity for physical ex- ercise is that ol 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 nwn of heart. Indeed, those who know him well hold that to this quality of heart is indirectly due the slowneae of the niilitiary operations in Northern France. Unlike Em- peror WilUara and his myrmidon generals, Joffre shrinks horn use- lesily sacrificing soldiers' lives, hence the defensive and cautious character of the trench war he is still tenaciously and patiently carrying on Cannot Corner Thia. Englisih engineers predict tliat th* sun's power will soon take the place of ooail for generating induatriaJ light and heat. If tliis comes to pass there will be another great ad- vantage besides the material t>nes ; No person, or organization can get a corner on the solair produotion of heat. The fact that talk is chea.p in flu. encea somb of us to indulge iii ex. travogant assertions rroinwns^ge.