¥ ' THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, J § : v ANUARY 16, 1915. Ae - wm DR. BROWN - LANDONE MADE A STIRBING ADDRESS IN TORONTO LAST WEEK. Canadian Club Gets Vivid and Un- censored Glimpse of Grim War. -- ! New France is Anglo-Saxon In Its {Calm and Stolid 'Character, Toronto Globe 2 ! Dr. Brown-Landone is an American by birth and a, Frenchman by adop- tion, the incarnation of the spirit of Lafayette .and Rochambeau, but he spoke to the Canadian Club in the name of humanity He made an ap peal for the unequipped hospitals of Northern France, which burned into the mind of his audience of fully five bundred business men, and fanned into flame the fires of a resolve to rise and meet the need of the suffering thousands in the war-ravaged districts of France and Belgium. «It 'was the message of a zealous missiopary from the scene of carnage, delivered with all the pent-up feeling of ane--who for the 'first time sinee arriving in America was able to speak with perfect freedom. For the past two months Dr. Brown-Landone has been working in the United States, but because - of pro-German sympathies theré and for the sake of the practical ends of his mission, 'he has been obliged to veil much of his appeal with- the artful expressions of diplomacy. 3 Yesterday the meinbers of the Cana dian Club' saw conditions in North France, in the memories of many, the France, in the memories of many, the garden and art place of a- continent, was shown as the hospital of Europe, attempting the stupendous and awful task of -caring for 500,000 wounded 'soldiers, besides many thousands of homeless women and children. Prof, E. J. Kylie, who occupied the chair in the absence of the president, Lesslie Wilson, introduced the speaker of the luncheon as the representative of France, his presence being a wor thy tribute to '"'our two heroic nl lies" on the western battle frontier of Europe. ~~ Two Million Votes Count. Dr, 'Brown-Landone first touched upon the insidious influences of the German vropagandist upon the = pub- lic sentiment of the United States, and said that the fear of tUo million and said that the fear of two million German voles in the neighboring re public was a big power behind any actiof on the part of men who were professedly in sympathy with the cause of the allies. The speaker then told his audience of "a new France," which had be- come really Anglo-Saxon in charac- ter., In edueation, science and in the physical development of the French people, British ideals had been emi . lated 'in France. 'During the past fif teen years football, the speaker said, had: = gained such a. place' that last year 10,000 football teams Were in cluded in one great federal .organiza- tion. This had bad a profdund ef- fect upon the French mind. During the whole mouth of tension previous to the war French people had beer characterized by the same stolidity und calmness which -prevailed in Bri- tain. Belgium on July 22nd was pictured by Dr. Brown-Landone in graphig, language as the most remarkable na- tion, « economically, in the. world. On August 23rd he had visited Belgium again, and \the picture was a horrible contrast with that:of the previous month. Of the thirty cities in Bel- ium sixtéen were in absolute ruins. RE forty thousand population, only twes- ty buildings were left standing. Then followed a description. of the forts which fell before the attack of Ger- man siege guns and which all the world nad belisved impregnable. Germany Ready For Siege "Germany is not beaten," declar- ed the speaker. "She is prepared for defensive" war, and let there "no mistake, she can feed herself. For thirieen years Germany has been changing hey crops, so as to be ablé to feed herself in ag case of emer gency. Two years ago 84 per cent. of the fields of 'Germany were in the hands of women. Germany, by re- ducing the manufacture of beer and wine, will to able to. raise 87 per cent. of all the meat she needs, and 93 per cent. of the wheat She has abundant supplies of coal and am< munition, . "The German was prepared, but France and Britain were pot ready for the giruggle into which they were thrown so suddenly. The Bri- tish fleet was prepared, but in France; where in six days 1,400,000 men were mobilized, 400,000 men had to be sent batk to await equip- ment of guns. and ammunition." The German military officials fur- thermore, according to Dr. Brown- Londone, are not using the best soldiers at the front. many uses only her veteran troops in driv- ing her wedges,' he declared, "and she is at present fighting behind a ring of old and young mea "who have ben pressed into service." This point was used to impress the niee- essity of a more adequate medical equipment in the hospitals eof ner- thern France. Not only was the hu- man suffering there =o appaling, and made such a crying call upon all humanity for assistance, but to the allied nations it was very. important that as many of their wounded sol- diers as possible be returned to the fighting-line. "Thousands will die in_northern France," he "simp- 1¥/ for the ldck of bandag tection from the ¢old blasts channel. On the other hand, 000 men can be sent back to fight in the trenches if they cian be wro- vided -wth the simplest hgepital Ne- cessaries." He Meady For Sacrifice "In America people have been for many years giving of their abun- dance You must learn to give, ev- en if it menns sacrifice," said the speaker i Ann Morgan in New York, he had employed 600 women, who could find no work in other ways, to 'make up surgical kits, and she has sent 100,000 pack- ages of to. the 'hospitals in Europe. Materials of all kinds that be used for dressings and as cloth- ing for the wounded are needed more than nioney. "Assurgical kit," said Dr. Landone. "will mean very often the saving of *a man's life." Panama Fair Attendance, The paid admissions to the Pan ama-Pacific International Exposition since the gates were installed on Sept. 9h have been $101,000, The largest single day's admissions wero $18,000 for the, hall of all Natious on May 2nd. The largest atten- dance for a single day when there has heen no programme within the grounds was on Aug. 2nd when ¥; 250° persons paid admission, repres- enting $2,066. The average month- ly attendahece is tow more han 50,- 000. these econld When we ask heaven to bless others we must not insist upon it doing so n_Termonde, for instance, a city of in our 'way. FREE! 1st Prize, $50.00 in Cash. 2nd Prize, $40.00 in Cash. ! $200:00 * IN CASH AND 100 VALUABLE PREMIUMS GIVEN AWAY 3rd Prize, $35.00 in Cash. 4th Prize, $25.00 -in Cash. 5th to 9th Prizes, each $10.00 in Cash. send it 16 us. tor ve all . of ime, but nA . matter. you have to 2nd write on A ae Cl or he | Many have done this ee Nhe acon and arepliad 1 and neatly, as in Case of ties, both writing und neainess will be considered fiEmres as will be h wil of " rite these: nine as there are TWO. 4 it is worth your § iste mark the 1 have found all | UNDRED to take a little cut out faces wee are enrgrears 1 LE be- | mentary stirring in her heart like i | A Burned Barrier | Down the dust white eountry road | ped Doxy, 'palpitating and panic | stricken, her. €yes bent on a volume! ol smoke that was rolling up frew | the sheep dottéd pasture. She went 'cross lots' 'and -eome to the char- red remains of the old farmhouse, where a knot of neighbors, helpless and wondering, gathered round the pathetically small pile of rescued housebold effects. 5 Doxy. was not a young "woman, but she was the type that time touched gently. - Her eyes were soft and gray and expressive of a past but phforgetten time. Her optimis- tic fatalism was not wanting in this hour of trouble. "I don't see how you managed to save so any things," she said to her Ariends, each of whom at fhis encouragement began to point out what- he had snatched from the flaines, . "See, Miss Darton," cried a lad] trivmphantly thrusting a tin can in- to her hand, "I hearn you say as how this 'ere was yer bank, so 1 grabbed it fust thing." "Oh, Jim, there is $50 in it!" Her father, Seth Barton, now ar- rived on the scene. His heart was full of memories which were smoth ered in the philosophical remark, "Never could have saved her in this wind!" "You and Doxy home with us and vited the nearest neighbor. The others iollowed suit in this proffer of hospitality,tendering wide | open doors 2 "You are so kind, but we'll s right here," said Doxy in response to each invitation. "Our barn up- stairs is fitted up snug as a fireside, you know." Her father's stoical face bright- ened. He had a catlike clinging to home--not from love of every heart beat for it," as in Doxy's case, bul because he could not bear the thought of uprooting and trans- planting. The neighbors carried the goods and chattles to the barn and help- ed Doxy arrange a temporary home, while the men. were aiding in the evening work their wives prepared th& supper Any event, joyful. or calamonitous, in the djstrict was deemed an "occasion" worthy of a general repast. After supper they departed for their homes. Seth settled down to his evening pipe and weekly paper as if nothing had hap- pened. Then Doxy in the soft shadows of the dusk stole out and went through the garden to the blackened ruins of tottering walls anr crumbled mor- tar. All the voices of long ago called to her, most persistently the voice of youth who ten years before had wooed her : ' There had been the lovers' quar- rel, and Jed Knox in a moment of hot headed anger had sworn ihe would never again cross the Barton threshold. Time and events showed him that he was entirely in the wrong and that the quarrel had been of his own making, but he held stubbornly to 'his oath. With quiet firm dig- nity Doxy had refused to see him elsewhere than in her own home. As Jed's stubbornness increased he grew bitter and morose, avoiding all mention of Doxy. She started at sight of a man coming from out the ruins, but in an instant she recognized Sol Opper, the "village carpenter, early in line for a contract. "Sol," said Doxy briskly, "I want you to build me a house as near like this as you ean. "Waal, Miss Barton, tell me how much you ean put into a house." "There's the $560 Jim saved, the bank account. 8 little insurance, some that Hobbs owes us"- After x mental accounting gave the total of her capital shook his head discouragingly. "You can't do it noways for that money." - "Knock out the z:llar," commend- ed Doxy, "and take off the blinds. In the fall I will ute the turkeys for blinds." "The turkeys!" repeated Sel won deringly. y "The money I get for selling them, I mean." When the blinds were. off, the bay windows deducted, the gables y en away, the stairs- removed and a general clearing of fireplace, attic, paint, plaster, lath and partitions had been effected the amount 'of cash available was triumphantly reached. . The architecture appealed to Sol 4s easy to build, but was net in ac- cordance with his ideas of what a dwelling should be. "Your house won't have no in- sides, Miss Barton, but I'll be on hand to-morrow to begin," said he '11 - colme right stay," cordially in- she Sol When he had gone she again re- sumed her twilight reveries. "Miss Doxy!" She started and, turning, saw the figure of a lad so like the youth of the long ago that there was a mo- pain, "Don't you remember me-- Knox?" ? He was Jed's young nephew, who had been used as a child to spend his summer vacation with his uncls, "Little Laurie! A man!" "I hope so," he replied, taking her hand. "I came to-day for a visit after all these years: We just heard of the fire, and Uncle Jed asked me to come and see you and ask if there was anything we could do to help you. Won't you and Laurie your father come over to Uncle Jed's| aches, and a Just fer the night any- aud then I'll join you abd father." It was very quiet. A lone bird called. She fejt solitary and out- lawed. - A third time she was inter- rupted. There was no mistaking the man. Jed, strong and straight, nis grimness soitened, but showing in the lines of his face, came straight up to her z "Doxy, I thought they would never £0. As soon as I sent the lad 1 knéw 1 must come myself. I took a short cut, but the Opper man was ahead of me, and then, Laurie." "Well?" "Doxy, I am here at last. Ihave punished myself all these years, which have not meant'much to you, for you are as young and as fair as the night" "The ght you said vou should never cross our threshold." "Doxy," he chied, seizing her hand passionately. "1 have suffered for it. Be good to me." **Why 'did you come to-night, Jed?" she asked quietly, but with beating heart ' "Why? Because everything brought me. I couldn't keep away." "You came," she said, turning proudly away, "because you Knew that at ast you could come and still keep your oath, because you knew the houses was gone." : "No," he said, with a long breath. "Yeu don't mean that, and you don't{ think so." " She felt his strong arms about her. She was lifted -and carried over the smoking ashes and bricks to the place where the doorsteps had been. He held her closely with his left arm while his Tight hand grasped a blackened beam. In a moment he was standing on the charred thresh- old, pressing her to him in a tigh! embrace, "Here," ness," ** | on and in thing?" "Never mind the Jed. They are goue---like the house." "But we'll have a new house, Doxy, right here, and Sol shall put Now, Doxy, woun't you say some- him to leave off." "I say," cried the voice of Laurie from a distance, "Uncle Seth just found a ten dollar bill in the old dictionary He says he'll bet it's the one he lost ten vears ago!" Tks 2 and 2 he said with forced light- lay my pride at our feet all those things you told ten years now - ~ MRS. ALFRED SBOUTHWORTIIL BROCKVILLE, Who celebrated her ninety-ninth birth- day on Tuesday last His Narrow Escape Friends of Representative A. Mit- chell Palmer of Pennsylvania, well known handsome member for con- gress, frequently twit him ahout the offer he received of au place in the Wilson cabinet. The circumstances, according to the version set forth by certain of Palmer's friends, wers something like this z Woodrow Wilson talked to Pal= mer after the election and said: Mi « chell, I feel as if I would like to have you in my cabinet. In fact, 1 simply must have you in the cabi- net, Now, why wouldn't you make an excellent secretary of war?' "Ah, Mr. President," Mitelell's joeular friends say he said, "hut yvo¥ knom I am ga Quaker and 1 could not accept the war portfolio. 1 should like to be in the cabinet, hut not to that position. If you offer to make we secretary of war all I can PN PA rer "That is indeed too bad." the pre- | sident is supposed to have said, "for I had my heart set on having You in the cabinet. Well, we'll see what can be done." So in due course Palmer receiy- ed a formal tender of a place in the cabinet., He was offeted the posi- tion of secretary of war. Floods In Holland. Holland's safety in time of war lies in her ability to flood great tracts of land. Wiliam of Orange flooded the country in 1574, and by go doing drove omt the Spanish in- vaders, The same policy was adopt- ed on the occasion of the French invasion of 1670. A young man is not. justified in tak: ing an eye-opener because he is blind. ly in love. 3 Registered o- MAI ---- Friends, Iroquois News We fully sympathize with our old friend, Lawyer Davy, in his prolest against' the nasty, underbanded way in which he was attacked by certain peticoat:d scandal-mongers and small: souled goody-goodies of the Methodist churclr to defeat him in 7 his manly stand-up fight for the reeveship. Sim ilar tactics were employed by these sam¢ people against Editor Pelton with even more deadly effect, coming, as it did, from the most unexpected source, our blue ribbon friends. If Davy. feels sore over his defeat, how must Pelton feel over his freeze out 7 Gosh! the very thought of it makes - us shiver yet. We felt ashamed and mortified that we slept under the bed the night of the elec tion rather than disturb our wife with the harrowing details. We remember ed her warning to keep out of muni- cipal poljt and if defeated, "don't vou com® here acting like a bear with a sore head !"" "And we felt just like that and then some--a nasty, wicked desire to shoot up the town! We are a good fighter, but a poor loser. So is Davy. Say, 80 would you helieve for several days after, we took a back street to and '!from our office rather than meet our friends, and afraid all the while that we might be taken for"a German spy amd locked up. Apd there are fellows all aver Ontar- io feeling just like that at this min- ute--the defeated candidates ! Our heart goes out to them in their dis tress. You ask: How /does it feel to be thrown down regardless ? Say, did you ever fall down an elevator shaft bump your thinker forty-seven times on the way down, only 'to lose cop- sciousness when you had struck bot tom with a sickening thud ? Well, that's just how the five of us felt on Monday night. A nauseating, self-deprecatory, can't-come-back feel- ing, devoid of humor. Whew, What galled us particularly was the base treachery of our temperance friends; who in all conscience should bave stood by us, even if it involved the throwing of the mantle of char ity over our shortcomings, consid- ering the many times we stood by them in fierce hand-to-hand struggles with the liquor traffic in years gone by. But they failed us miserably, just when we would have given worlds for their support. It stung us: to the quick. We were too proud to ask them for their votes, Why should we have t6 ask for them? We are no - angel, seldom attend church, and slip a cog occasionally in the ryth mic! grind of our otherwise strenu ous" life. 3 Since penning the above we feel a lot better. Our: appetite has improv- ed, and spirits revived. The rest are improving too, all except Davy. it, Powerful Motives. London Sphere. school-teather recently gave hi pupils a lecture on patriotism. He pointed out the high motives which . moved the Territorials to leave Hieir i) saved Gee aim Or : The school-teacher noticed that tone boy did not pay attention to thé } instruction, and as a test question the asked him: t "What motives took the Territor- ials to the war?" The boy was puzzled for a mom- ent, then, remembering the public "send-off" to the local regiment at the railway station; he replied: "Locomotives, sir." Barristers Predominate: In the French Chamber of Depu ties there are 154 barristers .and solicitors. 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