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ft \Xs **&* xx. -A fc- 7m. mmm «uyMh/vkA U*WAA»X«.W WJjVAW.'.WW.1 tZm ... xj 1 General Ietain ai the head of bis ifrencli mmy euMtriiig Metz. 'J—Some of the hmj orphans from the .\«*w fork Foundling asylum recently sent to homes in the middle West. 3—IJritish soldiers releused from German prison tamps disembarking ut Hull. HAPPY YANKS RETURN FROM WAR WITH WOUNDS WHEN THE TURKS GAVE UP Vf'AI'V^vVvX'X Some of the cheering hoys that returned to their own country alter many months on tin- other side ire seen In this photograph on the deck of the sixth returning troop transport, Kepresentatives from all parts of this country were among the returning fighters that landed at Hoboken, and they were not downhearted because of their Wounds. 'vIst3" Photographs ore beginning to come showing the surrender of the Turkish troops in Mesopotamia. In this one are seen some Turks coming into the British lines with the German cry of "kamarade." AMERICAN HARVESTER IN FRANCE I fegH£r0, v« ft-#*** "Western Newspaper union 9 '$ This photograph gives an interesting view of un American three-horse drawn harvesting machine being used In a wheat field In Prance /Phoio^by ..^Mlirn N«w*p*perjunion THE HOPE PIONEER yxccccx*n^My^.w.Vf:Xffl&f&FP. fettoMK ....... •*^V,.-.'.ol-l-lvAv\:vv.1 .\^\v.\vWwA ^&y,:g $*,(£ Western Newepaptr I FREDERICK H. GILLETT Frederick 11. Gillett ol' .Massachu setts will be the next chairman of the house appropriations committee, onf of the most Important committees ir hnt body. He will succeed John .1. Fitzgerald of New York. Not So Very Sudden. Her little brother was entertaining in the front room the young man whc had just called. "Look here," he said suddenly, "ar( you going to propose to my sister to night?" "Why, 1—er—er—what do .VOL mean?" asked the youth with SOUK agitation. "Oh, n-.)tliin' only if you are yot aren't going to surprise her. She's bribed me to go to bt-d at half-past seven. She's hung foui Cupid pictures on the drawing-room wall, moved thf sofa over In the darkest corner, got pa and ma to promise to go callin' next dcor, and has shut the dog in the eel lar. You'll get her til right only li she starts talkln' 'bout ItB bein' sudden tell her It don't work with you. 8ee 1' IMPROVED UNlfOBM INTERNATIONAL SMfSfllOOL LESSON (By REV. P. E. FITZ WATER, D. D., Teacher of English l-llble In the Moody Bible Institule of Chicago.). (Copyright, 191S, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR DECEMBER 29 JOSEPH CARES FOR HIS KIN DRED. LESSON TEXT-Genesls 47:1-12. GOLDEN TEXT—Honor thy father and mother.—Ephesians 6:2. DEVOTIONAL READING—Psalms 34. ADDITIONAL, MATERIAL Genesta 15:16-50:26. Since we took the birth of the Sa vior for our Christmas lesson, today, Instead of a review, we will go back and take up the alternative lesson for December 'J2. It will be more profit able to complete the study of Joseph in his attitude toward his kindred than to undertake the review. I. Joseph Sends to Canaan for His Father (4fi :17-2S), After Joseph had- made himself known to his brethren he sent them back to his father i«i Canaan with the good news not only that he was alive, but that the Lord had exalted him to be lord over all Egypt, and that his fa ther and brethren with their families should come down to Kgypt where he would give them the best of the land and that they should cat of the "fat of the land." This illustrates how one. day Jesus Christ shali disclost.' his identity to his brethren the Jews, anil that his exultation at the right hand of the Father was to make preparation for 'hem against the awful day ot trial which shall be visiied upon them (Acts 3:10-21). II. Joseph Meets His Father in the Lsnd of Goshen (-10 :2!)-:!-l). Jacob experienced a double delight —that of seeing his beloved sun whom he had long mourned as dead, and of being welcomed to the new and strange land by its prime minister. Joseph in structed his father and brethren how to place their request before l'liaraoh. Since their occupation was that of shepherds lie knew that some tact should lie empli. .. (I in their approach to the KI:ILT. for "every shepherd is an abomination unto ihe Egyptians." III. Jacob ant! Five Sons Presented to Pharaoh (17:1-7). Though Joseph \ijiis high in author ity he was not ashamed to bring his father and brethren into the presence of the great l'liaraoh, even though lhey were humble farmers. 1. I'haraoh's Question (vv. -1). lie Inquired as to their occupation. They answered that both they and their fa ther were ."hepherds. They went a lit tle beyond what they were asked by i'liiiraoh and instructed to do by Jo seph. They requested the land of Goshen, for I hey knew it was a good place for pasture for their (locks. 2. Pharaoh's Instructions to Joseph (vv. 5, (!). lie told him to make his father ami brethren to dwell in the best of the land—even Goshen, and that if he knew of any men of ability among them to give them the charge of his cattle. He assumed thai since Joseph was so capable and trustworthy that some of his brethren would also possess suitable qualilicaiions of ad ministration. IV. Jacob Blessed Pharaoh (47:7 10). Though Jacob was a pilgrim in Kgypt, dependent upon l'liaraoh even for food to eat, in the dignity of his faitli of what God would do with him. and through him. lie pronounced a blessing upon the great Kgyptian king. The less is blessed by the greater (He brews 7:7). Though conscious of his place of superiority through the divine covenant he did nor manifest ofliciotis ness, but rather the desire to convey a vital blessing. lie recognized that hjs was the channel through which great blessings would come to l'liaraoh. in accordance with the Ahrahamic cov enant (Genesis 12:1-.'!). Israel is one day to be Ihe chnnitcl through which the blessings of salvation shall How to the Gentile nations (lionians 11:12 15). V. Joseph Nourished His Father and Brethren (-17 :11, 12). According to the instructions of Pharaoh. Joseph placed his father and brethren in the best of the land and made provision for them. Jesus Christ will one dny, when the famine of the great tribulation is exceeding sore, be reconciled to his brethren, the Jews, and will give them a possession in the best of 'the land and nourish them. Christ is now seated with the Father on his throne, and one day will reveal himself to his brethren the Jews and will feed them on the "fat of the land." Jacob lived in Kgypt 17 years. When the time of his death approached he exacted from Joseph a promise that he would bury him in Canaan. lie blessed Joseph's sons and Issued a prophecy concerning his own sons. General Order No. 1. It has been given as a binding order to every man worthy of the name and who respects the stamp put upon his being by God, his Father and Creator, never to become the slave of men. Bondage is the supreme shame and su preme misery, for a inan conscious of his nobility and divine origin.—Charlea Wagner, In Christian Herald. From Innermost Being. The things which come to us not uureiated to us, but grow out An« are from WHILE "GEORGE" LOOKED ON Party of Tourists Helped Pretty American Woman to Kiss the Real Blarney Stone. Three or four of us made up a little party to go to Blarney castle to Im prove our ability in the art of talking by kissing the Blarney stone, says Capt. Albert 11. Wonhatn in "Spun Yams at a Naval Otlicer." The say ing that a«i roads lead to Home applies somewhat Blarney, too, but the Irish miles—I cannot think how they reconcile them "Vvith the miles record ed by the taxicat" Indicators! However, we go? there, and, bound ing up the stone Stnirs, reached the top of the tower. Tv-o persons were already there, an old wati and one of the loveliest women I oyer saw. We were rather pressed for time, and so proceeded to kiss the stone. The Blarney stone faces the outside of the tower, about three feet down. If you wish really to kiss it you must be let down headfirst, do the trick, and be hauled up. All round the top of the tower Is a hanging parapet project ing about a foot from the line of the tower wall, built to enable the defend ers, when the castle was attacked, to pour boiling water or melted lead on top of the enemy operating on the front door. Having let one another down, we finished under the wondering gaze of the lovely woman. "Excuse me, gen tlemen," she said, "but what have you been doing?" We told her. With a disdainful look she turned to the old fellow and said, "There, George, I told you that," pointing to a meek-looking stone inside, "was not the Blarney stone, and I have not kissed the Blarney stone! I have not come till the way from America to go away without doing it!" As she said that she looked appcalingly at us, for George did not seem Inclined to rise to the occasion. The end of it was that we lasheri her dress round her ankles, lowered her. and pulled her up triumphant. "There, George, now 1 ca.i go back to America and say that I have kissed the Blarney stone!" she cried. I am hound to say that George, who proved to lie her husband, did not look happy or pleased. His reputation for telling the truth had suffered, and 1 am pretty sure that he wished we never had come. "Boys" Got Good American Food. if the American mother cmlld come face to face with some of the wom.'li cooking meals for her soldier boy at the Y. M. C. A. hut over here it would gladden her heart, says a Lon don (Kng.) correspondent. They would prove to tin* American mother that her boy while here is get ting real good old "Yankee Doodle" meals, cooked by real American moth ers Just like herself. These women—most of them Amer ican volunteer workers—supply about 2,fi(Ml meals a day, besides hundreds of "leas" (yes, mothers, he's got the l-.nglish tea habit now you'll have to give liiin tea every afternoon when he gets back), luncheons and night meals. The "chief cook" is Hon. Mrs. Ar thur Coke, and her specially is grid dle cakes "lit for a king." One month recently she turned out 20,000 of them, six of which were eaten by no less a personage than King George himself. The king and queen recently visited Kagle hut. They gave the king three of the cakes. He cleaned his plate and came back for a "reiill." Real "Sky Pilot." A preacher literally comes down out of the heave tis to preach the Gospel to American aviat-ors In England. He is Bev. Reginald Crew, American Y. M. C. A. pastor-aviator, who flies from one aviation camp to another, holding religious services for the "boys." He has no long-distance rec ord, hut he has llown as far as thirty miles between camps for a prayer meeting. Arriving at a camp, he frequently gives ids Yank birdmcn congregation, thousands of feet below, a preliminary exhibition in the "corkscrew," "loop the-loop," "apple-turnover" and other fancy stunts. That insures their at tention. Then he volplanes to earth, climbs out of his chariot, removes his foot ball headgear and starts "church." The boys call him the "sky pilot." He is a great favorite and they eagerly lloek to services.—Exchange. An Allied Uniform. In a vaudeville theater at one of the French ports there was a comedian who had an act which he called "Le Nouvel Uniforme." He wore a French steel helmet topped with the cock feathers of the Italians. His coat and breeches were of khaki. About his waist was slung a Scotch sporran. He wore golf stockings. The top of one was the pattern of the French flag and the other of the American flag. And he sang a song about the beach at Walkiki—a Frenchman's interpreta tion of an American Idea of Hawaiian harmony! Certainly nothing could have been more allied.—Hoy S. Dur stine, in SScribner's Magazine. No Co-Operation. "I always try to make the best of a bad situation," remarked Mr. Gllth ery. "What do you do when your water pipes freeze and then burst?" "Oh, I sing a little song just to show that I'm not worrying." "That's highly commendable." "But when the water begins to leak on the people who occupy the flat be neath mine to save my life I can't per suade them to Join me in singing,"— CUPID VS. CENSOR By MISS MINNA RICHMOND. Emily Stanton had hurried abruptly away from the Knitting Circle, "i'wai to her dearest pal, Helen Croal, that she hastened for sympathy. "Truly, Helen, I'll not stand being prompted by a lot of romantic Janes, live finished with the club." "Oh. Em, how can you?" pacified the less radical Helen. "Ion't cut loose from a jolly bunch of girls without a fully sensible excuse." "Excuse? I tut I have every reason to do Vo. No seif-respcciing human can stand for this continual rehearsal of Phil Allen's virtues and suggestions as to the part I should play in the farewell affair they plan to inflict upon him. I've a notion to duck down to the cottage till the festivities are at an end." "You'll do no such thing," scored Helen. "The girls are right and you are right in your own way, Em. They all think worlds of yourself and Phil, and. knowing how worth while Phil is, they think it's a decided pity tlinfc you don't reciprocate his attentions." "Well, as a match-making agency they are it hopeless failure. When Is this scheduled soiree due to be worked out?" "Next: week, I fancy, for Phil Is soon to be ordered South. You'll surely at tend. won't you, Em?" "I'd like to be 'nm-plus' at the par ty, but 'twould be terribly conspicu ous. I suppose." The much heralded event was nn unqualified success. The old hunch all met to give the khaki-clad youth a rousing sciul-off. Emily, too, attended, but seemed to be less her own cheer fully impersonal self. Petennined to disappoint the match makers. Emily had studiously avoided the guest of honor, except to allow him two dances at the conclusion of w.' icli the soldier asked for and re ceived her promise to write the home news frequently. "Tell you what, Em," said Phil, "a lettfr from home changes the outlook on everything. In the same way the promise of the only little girl to await your return makes the light one well worth fighiinir. Changed your mind any in that regard?" "Phil, this is all war-hysteria on your part. Everyone seems to I hink it's a necessary part of the war program. I ran't he convinced that this signing up while the spirit of patriotism moves you is for the best interests of the parlies concerned. Your war expe rience will make a bigger, more wmi derftjl man of you. You'll come back with changed ideals. For me, there'll never lie any other, I admit but I in sist that you wait to see if I, as your Ideal today, will be that of your ideal tomorrow." "A lot of hunk, Em. You're a dyed in-the-wool Idealist, lie practical, do, when you know that the happiness of both of us Is at stak»." Argument proved futile. Phil had to resign himself with the promise of having a regular correspondent. Un cle Sam's carriers did their share. Al ways good pals, with much in common, their letters were of bulky propor tions. The feeling of eager expectancy of mail deliveries was a mutual one. Emily's missives were cheery and Impersonally breezy. Phil's tended to wax warmer, and contained numerous allusions to the Invincible bachelor maid. Mention was made of acquain tances made in the social life of the camp maids from neighboring towns, etc. Always was their cordial spirit emphasized and the point made that they did not radiate any of the frigid atmospherical chills of a certain north ern miss. All of which Emily read with tin air of amused tolerance. The day came, howev, when this, which Emily had termed silly senti mentality, was a negative quantity. The letters wore interesting anil breezy, but as impersonal as her own. Emily was a surprise to herself. Who'd ever expect that she would miss tin old letters so? A youthfully con ceited remark of a younger brother as to "men being a scarce dainty these days" reminded her that. Phil probably had met many admirers. Even the remark that her letters "truly put the sure in pleasure," and similar comments, failed to convince Emily of Phil's interest. Every letter seemed strangely more frigid than the hist, till Emily decided that they were the products of a camp refrigerator. Strange, she thought, that as Phil grew Indifferent, she became propor tionately interested. She was heart less arid unpatriotic In the extreme, she reasoned. Never, however, would she pretend to complain, for she had been wholly to blame herself. But every cloud has a silver lining, and when this particularly davk cloud of Emily's turned inside out it shook from its folds an unassuming little let ter with a consoling secret worded thusly: "I.ittle girlie, ove"r whom my heart's In such a whirl, greetings! The kind fates hirre seen Lo supplant the effi cient camp nsor, known as Charlie Stark, with a good-natured western benecjlct. Charlie nf a pal at college and' camp is unequaled. I plan to be home in a week. Be prepared to hear about the struggles of a man torn be tween a desire to he an ardent lover and the ambition to not appear as too lovesick a swain in the eyes of his pal. It's a tuff grind. Anyway, I'm a bet ter verbal than written artist. As ever, PHIL." (Copyright, 1918. by MeClure Newspaper. Syndicate.) .US