FRENCH IN ALGERIA
Have More Troops in Oran Than
Any Town in France.
Streets Are Full of Soldiers in Pictur
esque Costumes, Including Arabs
in Their Flowing White
Garments.
There are more French soldiers to i
be seen in Oran than in uny town In
France. Those in France are ut the
front or in the points of concentration
near the front. They are there right
enough, but one does not see them—
ut the front—because they are In the
trenches. But In Algeria It Is differ
ent. The streets are full of Soldiers;
so the cafes, the street cars, the stores,
the docks, the public gardens. The of
ficial figures give the population of
Oran at 130,000. To the casual visitor
there seem to be at least liulf as many
soldiers besides.
And they are all French—French or
French colonial, not allied troops.
Besides, the casual, familiar army
types, tl/ere is every kind of exotic
fighting man, including native troops
from Indo-China, looking more like
Japanese than anything else, and uni
formed as ordinary French colonials
of the line. There are the zouaves,
with their baggy red breeches and
khaki puttees now o’ days, instead of
the white gaiters of the old parade
days before the war. Their short,
black-braided jackets, sashes and
blouses, however, are unchanged.
There are the Chasseurs d’Afrique—
the African light cavalry—with sky
blue uniforms and red fezes, the most
elegant of French military horsemen.
More gorgeous, however, nre the
“tirailleurs,” the sharpshooters, equal
ly In sky-blue uniforms, faced with
yellow, and also wearers of fezes. On
nctive service this magnificence is sup
planted by khaki and khaki fezes upon
which a star and. crescent Indicate that
the wearer is a follower of the prophet.
More characteristic of the country are
the “spahis”—Mohammedan troops, of
ficered by Frenchmen. They wear
flowing scarlet cloaks and the soldiers
wear turbans and native costumes; the
officers, unequal to coping with the
turban, content themselves with fezes,
but sacrifice nothing of the resplendent
scarlet cloak. The most picturesque,
and the most numerous, are the
"goums,” the Arab cavalry regiments
raised by the Arabs themselves. They
wear the flowing white garments, the
“bournous” of the desert.
At tea time any sunny afternoon the
Boulevard Seguln, the principal street
of Oran, is crowded with these uni
forms, and more besi«k». The terasse
of the Cafe Continental hasn’t a va
cant table, and the tables cover the
sidewalk almost to the curb. There
are no regulations about the hours at
which drinks may be served In Algeria,
for the war is far away and the garden
of Africa Is for those who are sent to
rest, to forget the war for a while,
for the convalescents and for those
who stop a few days or a few weeks
between service In Macedonia or Egypt
or wherever else the world of war may
send them.
There are French sailors In Oran,
too, for Oran Is France’s nearest naval
port to the Straits of Gibraltar, and
the great amphitheater harbor so full
of ships of commerce, whose enlarg
es! wharves are piled with stacks of
grain and acres of wine casks, is also
an important naval base.
Two Billion Bricks a Year.
At the annual meeting of the Amer
ican Ceramic society, J. B. Shaw of
Alfred, N. Y., told of some very suc
cessful tests he had made in making
paving brick from blast furnace slag.
These bricks were worth about $35
per thousand In 1915. They may be
successfully made of almost any blast
furnace slag at a cost of $5 to $7 per
thousund. He figures that there is at
present available about 16,000,000 tons
of slag annually in the United States,
after leaving 2,000,000 tons for cement
manufacture. This would provide
2,000,000,000 bricks for permanent good
ronds every year—say, for 1,000 miles
annually of 50-foot road.
Time and again failure litis been en
countered in the effort to make paving
brick in this manner, but the problem
seems to be fairly well worked out
now. The slag must be treated hot as
it comes from the furnace, and the
brick must be heated out of contact
with air or steam lest it become brittle.
Ellwood Hendrick.
Signboards in Japan.
It is not known when the signboards
first came into use in Japan, but pre
sumably it was not long after the in
troduction of writing, though that
would not be necessary among a peo
ple wrfere pictures and designs pre
ceded ideographs representing them.
Indeed, Japanese writing, like Chinese,
consists of signs rather than expres
sions of sound, says T. Nakayama, M.
Coligny writes in the Cincinnati En- j
quirer. The national ideographs are
for the eye rather than the ear; to be
seen rather than to be heard.
There is no mention in Japanese his-!
tory of the fact that In the reign of ;
Emperor Godaigo (1319-1339) each gov
ernment official set up a door plate sig
nifying his name and occupation,
which may be regarded as the first
mention of signs in Japan.
The Minimum.
Kidd—Now that your daughter has
graduated from her domestic science
school I presume she gives her mother
a little help?
Kidder—Yes, just as little as possi
ble.
JL
black silk, drew on h**r gloves prepara
tory to a morning's shopping. Outside
' the big stone house a uove-gray car,
I with two men in dove-gray livery,
waited before the steps.
Then something occurred to the mis
tress of ull this magnificence and she
pressed a bell. “Send Mr. Sudds to
| me, Hutchison.”
When the private secretary ap
peared she sat down. ‘Tve just thought
of something, Sudds, and I guess I'll
get It off my mind before I go out.
Take that chair there 1”
He obeyed.
“It’s about Miss Joanna. She is com
ing today, Sudds.”
“Yes, Mrs. Van Kreeperi"
“It's a little difficult for me to ex
press exactly what 1 want you to do,
but it amounts to this: Her grandfa
ther and myself want her to get mar
ried. Her parents, you know, are
both dead, and the earlier she marries
the better, for we are not going to
live forever and there are settlements
to be made and so on.
“Now, I've tried to talk marriage
to her and so has my husband, but
she just laughs at us. So I have been
thinking that If you. would put the
gravity of the situation up to her,
show her the business side of it nnd her
duty to us, it might bring the desired
result. And incidentally there ure two
young men you might mention. One is
Reginald Crecy, the other Houghton
Vance. Either one would be accept
able to us. They have family and
money nnd all that. You understand.”
Joanna came. The house was alive
and astir with new life before she en
tered the door. Youth, beauty, vital
ity and a certain quality of incorrigi
bility that wgs irresistible came with
her.
She changed her clothes and, trilling
a tune as slio came downstairs, she
stuck her head into the small oilice
off the library.
“Hello, Suddsy!”
“How do you do, Miss Joanna?”
“Oh, just call me Joanna.”
“But Mrs. Van Kreeper would—”
“Oh, can Mrs. Van Kreeper. Yes, I
know she would, Sudds. So don't do
it when she’s around. When there’s
just you and me, though, you do as
I say. I’m going to call you Billy.”
"Oh, Miss— I mean Joanna. What
would Mrs. Van—”
“Never mind, Sudds. I mean Billy.
Come on out and show me the new
shrubbery and the last batcn of pup
pies and everything. Let those let
ters go.”
“Gladly, Miss— Gladly, Joanna !”
“Oh, never mind calling me that if
it's going to give you St. Vitus’ dance.
You can make it Jo if you like. That’s
right. Lock up the desk. Too bad
you're English! You’d have made a
perfectly bully American. Come on
now and tell me what grandma’s got
up her sleeve about Reginald Crecy
and Houghton what’s ills name?”
Sudds found his tongue after a
while. “She wants you to marry them,
Miss Joanna. I mean Jonana—Jo.”
“Mercy! I couldn’t do that. I'd get
cross-eyed trying to keep an eye on
each of them at the same time.”
“Well, she wants you to marry one
of them. I guess she doesn’t care
which.” •
“Oh, just one!”
“And I’m to tell you it's your duty
to her and Mr. Van Kreeper to make a
proper alliance and these men have
money and family.”
“And red hair—that is Reggie has—.
and an awful temper and he’s selfish
as a pig. And Houghton hasn't enough
brains to go in out of the rnin and
he’s sick In bed most of the time. Be
sides, they both drink like firhermen.
You don’t want me to marry them, do
you, Billy? Now answer me in your
own capacity, not ns grandma’s secre
tary.”
"No, Jo!”
"Billy!” after a silence.
“Yes, Jo.”
“Did you ever hear of Capt. Miles
Standish?”
She flushed a furious red and
laughed nervously.
“What kind of a girl do you imag
ine Priscilla was to do what she did?
Little and white and kind of milk and
water?”
“Yes, Jo!”
“And Priscilla?”
“Yes.”
“And Joint Alden?”
“Yes.”
“I never thought so, Jo. 1 always
Imagined she was more like you.”
“Well? How is that?”
“Independent and proud and brave
n-ml the best and dearest girl in the
world.”
“And what did you think of John
Alden?”
“That he was a bally coward. He
didn’t deserve her!”
“That’s what I think, Billy.”
Something in her voice made him
tarn sharply. They were alone in the
heart of the shrubbery.
“Jo, Jo, dear! Look at me."
She turned her eyes full upon him, i
then dropped them qu’.ck'v.
“I love you, Jo,” he cried eagerly.
“Tell me, will you mairy me, dear
est?”
"Yes, Billy, dear. I thought you
never, never would speak for your
self,” she sighed happily as he gath
ered her into his arms.
“Thank heaven,” he exulted. “Now.
I’ll know what to do with that title
| and money I’ve Inherited.”
! (Copyright, 1916. by the McClure Newapa
! per Syndicate.)
J
Nuts Make Good Substitute
For Meat in the Diet, Says
Domestic Science Expert*
The food vnlue of nuts is usually*
^underestimated. Nuts are rich In both
I protein and fat and may be used as a
meat substitute in the diet, according
to Miss Alice Skinner, instructor in
domestic science in the Kansas State
Agricultural college.
“Nuts should be regarded ns a staple
article of food whose constituents are
in a concentrated form,” said Miss
Skinner. "In using nuts as a meat
substitute it is best to combine them
and some starchy food of considerable
bulk with a milk sauce. When they
are used in bread or in combination
with vegetables and salads they should
be finely ground to make the consti
tuents more easily digested.
“Nuts that are most available oni
the average market are peanuts, black
w-alnuts, English walnuts, chestnuts,
^pecans, Brazil nuts, and hickory nuts.
These huts are found on the market in
several different forms principally as
nut meats, nut oils, nut meals, and as
blanched and white nuts.
“Nuts should be included In the diet
at least once or twice a week for
adults, but should be used sparingly
In the diet for children hecnuse the
food is in such concentrated form.
They may be used in both cooked and
uncooked dishes—saludd, candies,
breads, cakes, custards, puddings, and
baked dishes.”
Notice.
The-Union Saw Mill Company
will pay $50.00 as a reward to any
one, not in its employ, who will fur
nish information «from which any
person shall be convicted of depre
dating or trespassing upon the tim
ber of said Company.
This 1st, day of February, 190G.
Union Saw Mill Co.
By F. W. Scott,
Sen", and Treas
h secretaries
>4 fek dktoto III four years. Mr.
k«r tow bMB to “intensive train*
from ttw he took office :mtl
now has u grasp of the problems
Ills department which a new nntn
mid be many months In acquiring.
Iturally Mr. Bilker has a keen, alert,
jhtnlnglike lulnd, and there is not a
fed of respect in his uiakf-up for
jut it known ns bureaucratic red
be. Keep him where lie is and he
111 work his head off for the army
d the country.—Springfield Kepub*
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RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
St. Louts, Iron Mountain & Southern
LITTLE ROCK ft MONROE RY.
South North
7:45 a. m.Huttig -.3:69 p. m
9:60 a. m Monroe. 2:07 p. m
local. *
Leaves Arrives
11:25 a. m. Huttig 12:30 p.m.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern
PARMERVILLfi ft SOUTHERN RY.
North South
5:22 a. m. Huttig 2:32 p. m
7:21 a. m. Farmerville 6:45 p. m
local, t
10:10a. m.Huttig 2:22p.m.
fArrives Monday, Wednesday, and Fri
day from Monroe and goes to Farmer
ville.
‘Arrives Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day from Farmerville and goes to Mon
roe.
I0DGE DIRECTORY.
ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A.
M.meets every second and fourth Satur
day evenings at 7:30 o’clock. Visiting
Masons always welcome.
T. B. Weaver, W. M.
W. P. Reasons, Sec’y.
HOWARD CHAPTER, No. 122, R. A.
M.—meets every first and third Thurs
day evening at Masonic hall. Visiting
companions welcome.
J. M. Gibson, H. P.
C. A. Berry, Secy.
ZEDEKIAH, COUNCIL. U. D.. R. &
S. M.--Meets every fourth Wednesday
night of each month. Visiting compan
ions welcome. T. B. Weaver, T. 1. M.
R. N. Benson, Recorder.
HUTTIG CHAPTER No. 320, Order of
the Eastern Star, meets every first and
third Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Visiting brothers and sisters welcome.
Mrs. J. A. Brignac, W. M.
Mrs. L. G. Gibson, Sec'y.
HUTTIG LODGE No. 348 I. O. 0. F.
meets every first and third Tuesday eve
ning. All brethern cordially invited.
H. C. Bedford. N. G.
Harlan Sehoiv Secy.
HUTTIG REBEKAH LODGE No. 66,
meets every Monday night at 7:30 o’clock
Visitors are invited.
Mrs. Wilkie Frost, N. G.
Mrs. Murray Maroney, Secy.
SWEET BAY CAMP No. 41 1 W. O. W.
meets every first and third Saturday eve
nings. Visitors made welcome.
Lester Malone, C. C.
J. C. Bridges. Clerk.
Sweet Bay Circle No. 145, W. C..
meets every second and fourth Thursday
night at 7:30 o’clock. Visitors are cor
dially invited.
Mrs. E. S. Etheridge, Guardain.
Mrs. J. C. Bridges, Clerk.
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