YEAR 82 NO, 20 BRITISH VOLUNTEER ARMY GREATEST EVER SEEN ve Annesley Burowes Sap More Britons Hae Jie Colors | but a fool would deny it. in Five Months Than in Twenty-Five Months in Civil War. Annesley Burrowes, in Detroit Journal. What puling «cry is this that comes Across the frozen foam ? It is the men of rgiand strong, he men who stay at home, While Irish, Welsh, Canadian, Scotch, Hindus and Japanese, Are fighting in the trenches red, Or in the trenches freeze. Ob, hear our "loving mother" " "Come, rescue me, 1 pray, While I sit on the dewy grass And watch the football play.' Extract from a recently ool ed poem, cry That is ove of the most cowardly lies gver put in verse. 'he man who wrote Jt might well be proud of its cleverness, "but he wasn't proud enough to put his name to it. He Just. called himself let the li Fhgland 1 'straining 'every néeve in this war, and why would * she not ? Doesn't her existence depend upon the jssue ? Would she not be insane to do less than her best ? . How childish, then, is this yam- mering about * indifference-a slander which is not seen in verse alone, but is being spread through the spoken word by thousands ope malignance ia only exceeded by their ignorance of the truth. Today, Dritajo has a million and o quarter men in training or at the front and $00,000 more for home de- fense, and every man of them is a soldier of his own free will. There isn't a ecomseript in the lot. Those figures come from the best possible source-~the only source "that is. worth congidéring--Kitchener, the man who made that army almost from nothing. "J.J." and Is World's Greatest. In all the history of civilization no nation ha hae ever ra a volunteer ary like o this, aUill less has it been nein the 'space of five monthe, ae 'done it. United States Raised to pass conscription laws, and Uncle | Sam resumed the work of making | patriots by compulsion. Each township had to produce its | quota, and if volunteers were nof | forthcoming, lots were drawn, and each lucky ome had to go to war, | or pay. Got 50,000 Men. In 12 states this law 50,000 fighters. It also produced nearly $11,000, | 000 contributed in $300 lots by citizens who wouldn't fight | In New York, the men who were drafted in July 1862, not only re- fused to go to war, but fought Hke wildeats to stay at home. They blamed the negroes for tie A An - produced { ANNESLEY (BURROWES. belie 40 the public Tibrary, and if the young ladies to di you--as she dug them ever a time that ao have rushed to arms re- they didn't. fm stayed at home. ties would bring these gress had to resort to orced 8 scription--just as Russia ahd Germany and. France ky. but there were who could not be brought Sven us conseripts substitutes, and George ,. himself, excorjated w= deserters frdm = Bur- goyne's #rmyssput blue coats on them, BONS them out to fight for Amerie liberty. It mein 18132. Love of country t bring. esvugh voi- unteers: Houfities would not buy enough fiteers, and again tho Ulited resorted to conscrip- and re€rujted its army by force, The ivi. WAr was a great occasi- on, & war for country and for hu- ify ai I, but six months af- ly of volunteers had DW the demand. Again 8d to be offered. The man, began at $300 went higher and Nghe, 1 it reached $1, 500 Jer man. "©" And uot even bounties could bring the fast enough. Twenty months Alte Bull Run congress had war and proceeded to take. | it out of. their: hides. «Chey aud tigi. SFmpaliliors. 2iodet od through the street Of New York |, for three days, wmaltreating, torturs ing or killing every uegro they could lay their hands od, and when the supply of negro men ran out, they wreaked their fury on nekre childrep, burning and sacking . the asylum which had been erected for black orphans. During those three red days the men: wouldn't fight for théir country eausell the destruction of a. milion and a half dollars' worth of the coun try's property, and the loss «of no less than a thousand of their coun trymen's lives. In the greai draft of July, 1864, there were chosen by dot 232,000 men, of whom only 30,008 ever join. ad the colors, to whom there should be added 28,000 substitutes hired by citizens who wouldn't fight, and $400,000 contributed by gentlemen as """ecommutation" for the same reas son. » Algo, there were 66,000 of "the original draft. who skipped out. for parts unknown, rather than fight The. provost marshal -does not say why, or where, but siniply that they "failed to report". Many other thousands were exempted from sep |g vice for one cause or another. In the draft of December, 1864, chosen nien joined the army, While more than 10,000 - wouldn't 'fight. They hired substitutes and stayed: at home, These facts are not offered "toldis- prove that Americans are the freest, 'bravest and most patriotic of L Peo Dles. } Tow Far fom it. | keep pushing | erackie-brains, and Berocy: every pensiqhs.of "KINGSTON, .ONTABE | of. Americans who came forward and volunteered like . men, and fought like patriots. And other thousands who took all the bounty they could get, and ng fougin like patriots. And others who hired out as sub-1 stitutes, and fought like patriots. And 'still others who were dragg- {ed from home, and driven to war by the draft, and they fought like pa- triots too. They were good fighters. Nobody But these figures are offered to | prove that there is no such thing in | the whole civilized world as a whole { nation of volunteer fighters, Snéers Misplaced. Aud the people who sneer at the English because every man doesu't drop his business, and drop his fam- ily, and grab a gun---these peoplé are misplacing their sneers. They've got another sneer coming. In time of war--a great war--uthis | heto business pans out. about as fol | we, tid it's the same in every conn- re volunteers are employed: "he first call arouses two or three hundred thousand fire-eaters, blood- lovers and glory-seekers, hearth.de fenders and plunder-huntets. Thy to the frovt fur a month or two, and then they stop. Theil come the serious men, . who have thought it all oger, and reached the conclusion that they ought to | fight. 'And by. and bye they are all } used up. Then cqmes a lot of fellows who ape ashamed uot to fight, or whe are drivel to fight by the covert sne@rs of girls who don't like them much, or by sarcastic paragraphs in the] newspapers. @hen the spellbinders and cart- tall orgtors get busy. - Brass bands make @ great noise, and colored pos- ters apg stuck in the shop windows. These doings wake up all kinds of enlistments - in- crease a bit. After a while, bounties are. offer- ed, a lot of canny, forehanded fello are willing to risk "having thelr heads shot off for the cash mo- ney in it. : By, that time most of the men who want to fight, or think they ought te fight, or can be bought, or teased, or shamed, or humbugged--all these are atthe front, There's nobody home but the bay- onet-haters, and they won't go out. So the army people round them up like cattle, and drive them off to the firing line, where they fight as well as {he rest of the ¢rowd; and when it's over, and we look back | through the haze of memory, they all | look alike to us. You can't Fo bounty, umper. > from the, Ly: draw| the fo size: Donations--The | the slory-seeker | zg, rel have h 0 bo bp tish army," hughs ' conxed . cheated thenr in, hut British law has never. ferted them in since British history began. into the Br. | tain had 70,000 'men under arms She got them without 'a dollar 'of sians, 'there was not a conseript in the lot. With the present war only five moiiths old, nun has has. a million and a quarter soldiers under arms, sworn in for foreign That is almo lion more thaa ed for the Civil far months. So. peither now, mor in. the past; bas Britain any 'cause to feel shame for ber people's alacrity in entering the service, or 'for their courage in the face of the enemy----neither for tie <drish, the Scoteh nor the-Eug- lish, Englishmen to-day are fighting and freezing fn the trémehes with a cour: age not suesdded § that = of any other: soldiers earth." Every county .in Euiland' from Land's End to the Tweed has contributed {ts hest and is pouring out its blood in this. struggle. : The dispatches show it, apd the death fist preves it, and what otfier evidence cond be as good? -& quarter of a ited States rails five times five RED CROSS SOCIETY, : Bing fomssth The Ladies Ave Still Busily Working Foy Cause. Gifts to the Red C Society | Jan. 10th to Jan. I 7th ey knitted chol {bands, Holos, 3 ni olera , 1 pair CH Mrs. J. F. Mortbu,. Front Road, . 2 pair socks; Hin ] oNeil, 6 pairs int: E. B. Siti iss gro yy lets; Hee, NiY., % 1 knitged Smythe, Clinton, NY... 1 ted scarf; Miss I. oY. Kellogg, Clio N. i rd rN Mo. isp, nit and; Hide ¥ Tania Se 1 Plarvs im ca Mrs: J. HA Hii air socks, ' r . ir wrist. lets, 4 knitted po Mrs. C. Smith, Inw #2 pairs > wool donated ri by Mrg, Lyon Mrs. D. Marting 14 n Hawilton, 3' caps, 6 pairs wristlets; per Mrs. Levi - Browne; Verona, 16 pai sucks, hy women of Verona; iss Kelly, 1 pair socks, 2 pairs mitts, 3 pairs cuffs. * 1 Socks--Mrs. Maxwell, 1 pair; Mrs. George--Niles; -Wolfe- Island Island, 3 pairs; Mrs. Thongs Payne, 2 pairs; Mrs. Cliff," 2 pairs; Mrs. 'Graves, 2 pairs; . Asselstipe, 4 pairs; Miss Creigh- ton,. 1 pair; Mies De Witta, 3 pairs; Smith, 8 pairs; Miss hal Ee 1 x i Wrist Of 'course these things don't hap- pen precisely in the form and order! named. There are fire-eaters who | couldn't get away with the first rush, and serious men who started early or thought it over for two years, and home-lovers who required a lot of shaming; and canny boys who resist- ofl the bounty until it overwhelmed them----but, on the whole the gener above stated. The same course is run wherever a vast army 8 regiired, and where volunteers are depended on to fill it: | Great Britain already has begun and if the war lasts long enough, Great Britain will run' it to the fish all except the bounty part. | The biggest bounty ever paid in the British army war a shilling = man; a d that shilling was counted in as the first day's pay. ! But'Germany and Austria will have. nobe of the volunteering busi: ness; there is no such foolisfiness in those coyntries. Sm-- Different Elsewhere. Every man in the British army is there because he was anxious to go, Hing to go. Buf every man in vo ustro-German army is there be- 'suse he had jo 80. a en ealer, a dood-lover, a Horymehor or a bayo-| iet-bater. HE may have been crazy o -fight, or crazy te stay at mn ut it @idn't matter. Nobody asked: idm. When the kaiger sal 'March, he just marched. But when he got to the front he 'ought as well ag his enemy. This is sommonly the case. There Were hundreds of thousands i Unstrupulous recruiting sergeant; al trend of things is pretty much asi Rt BR. F Lr: | Mrs. Barlow, it, | | ra oi, ee Bain Juss May Tog (Ca: taraq rs. Thomas Payne, 1 pair; DP McMéhon, ,- 1 pair; Mrs. McBride, 1 pair; 4 , 2 pairs: Mrs. Drennen, 2 ;+ Mrs. Barlow, 2 pairs; Mian Barns, Mrs. R. E. Burns, 1 pair; Mrs, Kate searves--Miss faker, 1 J 1; Miss Hatta Xk Mrs A eH origi, it rior. ) McBride, Reeves, Ls Mss, B. Det S yagi), 3 Miss Mue- eston, 1; Miss, Burgs, L Yi. Way, 1. Balaclava ecaps--Mps, FHiott (Cata- "IT Nirs. Carey, A Kirkpatrick, pairg mit- tens. Flannel bands--Miss Baker, 48; Miss Lockett, 5; Mrs. 6; Mish xs 1 17; Mrs. Asselstine, Mes. Ellie, 6. Miss Esiord, 3 nightshirte, wamith Red Cross, 9 army shirts, 12 hospital irs wristlets, 4 knit 37 tot ightshirts, 5 cholera ba ; a -------- ---------- The provincial boafd of health is asked Tor 5,000 doses of anti-tetan- us jor the Danadion, houpitals ia | hes them 'in, and |: During the Napoleonic wars Bri- | bounty and, except the' hived .Hes-|' ik tion and thanks to aif those ~| Albert Boyce, 3] C. Chant, Hugh. a- | vin, Mrs. Stover, , | the facts. Over three hundred and sponded to the Kingston 0 Hospital's Christmas { er nine hundred dollars 00 buted. The Board Q 2 sire to express generously responded. names do not a favor by ng the Superin tendent. The following ts a list of contributors: $1--Mrs. Koott, C. MM. A. Hendry, Mrs. Rook, A, Straubenale, 8. F. Kir Herbert Robipson, Mrs. No Name, Mr, Sanger, No Nadie, Ara Mary Orser, E. A. Reés, Mrs. Xr mot, George Rishridge, Jean Patter- son, George Clenahan, John Frangls, Mrs, H.R. Henderson, Mary Boyd, Gladys Caldbagk, G. W. Mahoods I. Zacks, W. G. Anderson, No Name, R. Burns, Mrs. Glidden, bi ,A. Baggs, -- -- Carnovsky, Myvs. de Carteret, R: C. Bell, R. J. Rodger, Franels J. €hown, Thomas F. Thompson, Dr. Bogart, No Name, 3 Pierce, EY as I. Gibbs, W. COC. Smith George, Dr. F. Cays] A. rv Ty Miss VauOrder, 'W. C. Baker, Mrs. 'AT Fair, Wm. Ennis, R. G. Armstrong, R. H. Fajr, Mrs. D. 3. Robertson, Mrs. A, 8 over, Dr. Wil- liamson, Miss Wright, it ee leston, Miss MH. Agi, Heup, Dr. Keyes, Bert Derry, Dr. H. 5. Hae Fre ww. Harvey, R. K. Ovens, atts nek, J. Johmstonm, Mr, Anaje Davidson, H. Reid. bss 'S. S. Cortiptt, ¥. Harding, H. M. Ireland, H. W Jive, J. F. Pound, No Name, H. H. § Y Wade, George F. Dr. J. Newell, Sih, 2 H. A Duslow; i tine, Now ¥ 3 Lee, Rev. J.. Keyes, Alice Gi VG H. Harkness, Sh and Mrs. McCulla, Hugh Creighton, @. E. F. Torrance, d Wormwith, Chaunce 'Dun. lop; Neo -N ne, 4 bie L. Horse, M. A. Slee John Siponin. 1% yo Motion J Mrs. Tames Leslie, B. J.-A Mullins, Mrs. Harkness, da, W H. way, J. P,. hyde. og John Bal ig, me, - | Mrs. bon Mrs. por ' son, J. D. Bankier, W. No Name, L.' A. Sul GB Kate -Asgelstine, FP. Bunck, Perey C. La Cays, PF... Dobbs, Dr. -| Vanluven, W. - M | Dafoe, HW. Watts, '| Henry Cunningham, Charles Stenee, | Marrison, Mr. ~|genberg, J. A. Newman, William An +{ Dundas, $25; H. Tandy, . | P, Boyle, $25; H. W, Newman, $10: 1a Kenaedy, Dora Davey, Mrs. - Vere Hooper, George Hooper, A. Dickson, Jas. Redmond, P: V. Gedye, T. F. H. Matthews, W. A. Yanhorne, Mrs. Claxton, Mrs. Cald »| well, Mrs..1. G. McKenzie, John Jay Allen, F. G. Scott, * Mrs. J cklock, Miss. M. Hickey, Mrs Drennan, Thomas B. Angrove, W Preston, Mr. Treadgold, Mr. anc J. Pigeon, Mrs. Paul, Mr, Fen more, Miss Pearl Martin, Mrs.: A Gardiner, H. E. Gage, Mrs, Irving s Lalu M. Craig. Hunter, H. . Hoaxhill Dup a Pappas Bros., Robert Anglin, Mrs. F Ge Lockett, Mrs. H. Hora, Dr. Ether ington, Dr. A. P. Knight, R. Uglow Mrs. John Nicolle, Mrs. W. H. Ma huod, Frederick Crozier, A. : Knapp CH. Boyes, Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Ro & No Name, S. Hicks, o Tuttle rs. M. Russell, Miss Maude A. Betts, GV; Stuart, F. C. Ireland, Mrs. Ot erndorfier, W. H. Waddell, Myr. Haar * | Frontenac Lumber and Coal company Henry Lee, P. Walsh, Mrs. J, Carsor James Mclnquham, Mrs. W.' Eassor John E. Twigg, T. F. Burke, H. F Metcalfe, H. N. Robertson, Miss Sar Gill, L. Guess, No Name, Miss Loi Saunders, George Baden, No Name G. F. Murton, T. H. Stewart, George Hanson, Poor Widow, Rev. J. Daw son, F. M. Williamson, Joseph Adams Florence and Eleanor Sloan, J. »P Hanley, Percival & Granger, James Berney, Rev. J. Fairlie, 'W. A, Mil: ton. $5--Whatsoever Circle i Daughters, Dr. C. Hy, Bird, W. P Peters, John Gilbert, J. H. Macnee Fred"C. Reld, Dr. D. L. Fee, Jame: S.. Hayden, William Mundell, A. Glov King's *ler, Mrs. BR. C. Carter, John Simpson Mrs. W. W. Kirkpatrick, PD. A. Shaw Archdeacon Dobbs, J. S. Asselstine J. L. Boyes, John Mcintyre, B. W Robertson, Canon E. Loucksy R.A Horsey, F. W. Span derson, W. J. Chapman, Rev. O Crisp, Dr. Loungniore, Campbeliford Dr. Mylks, Mrs. Waldron, Mrs. H. Calvin, C. J, Warwick, Dr. iibors AF. Chown| E. R. Checkley, H. Mac + pherson, John Strange, James Halll » : day, Dr. Ferrier, G. A. Bateman, T Hewitt, Dr. J. F. Sparks, Miss K Fairlie, H. P. Chowan, Lt.-Col. R, BE Kent, Walkem & Walkem, David Hall, $10;. .W. . R. Givens $15; Col. aud Mrs. Giles, $20; Mra : ] Flor, $10. v Mr. y $3; Ontario Fire Dopacimant 3 10; Fenwick & Hendry, $10; N. C. Polson, Jr., $10; Street Methodist church, $2.10; Jas Swift & Co., $10; Dr. H. R. Parle $10; Dr. J Emma Kidd, $3: T. W. Milo, $10: hig Office, $10; W. Newlands & mn, $4; Mrs. E. Mowat, $3; C.J dmark, $10; Jeremy Taylor, $10° d Bros., $3; R. Wallace, $3; H F. Price, $10; Dr, J. Bissonnette, "; t Sunday school, $1.06; <C. jor, $10; T. F. Harrison, $10; x i Friend, $20. KRUGER'S SON IN BORLA. Committed For Trial On High Tres. he son Charge... Pretoria, via 0) fn Ek Pieter Grobler, lament of the Union and a grandeon of Pal been committed for trial on of treason. An official announce: Here sets forth that 71 declined to serve mans ity the southwest dered OUI tha rtialled. ' Roumiania is to: 1of grain, with a pre-arranged I i Be ran which is to y. INDIA WHOLLY LOYAL War With Germany Stamps Out Sedi: tions Germ. London, Fet. 4.--Most hearty loy- y, which has stamped out anygeérm - sedition that ever existed; now HR war, according to Henry Dunster Ba. , Who has recently relinquished post of American cotisul at Bom- to aceept the appointment of States commercial attache at "5s ~ Trou Bebay, and will be here until Sat] ay. when ne"leaves on board the Pett ograd. « Louis for America, said that G. Waahinggion was 80 SPpoued to lying apy farm that refused to establish a i i during his adminis- the cat is away the night is Class Princess the attitude of India toward Britain as a consequence of the "PAGES 2 To 18 FOR SINKING ING SUBMARINE. £3500 Offered To Firs First British Mer chantmaa Performing Feat. Londen, Feb. 4.--The Syren and Shipping Gazelle makes the follow ing anrcuncement: "To the caz- ln, officers and crew of the first British merchant vessel, other than ed cruiser, which succeeds in Anke 9 Germun submarine, Syren ol Shipping Gasette will pre sent thy sum of £500, the mone to se distr:buted Wmong., the. various ecipients. accel ding to their mating, 'We mean, 0° <ourse," says. the an iouncement, 'any vossel which Ct J0t carey gums supplied by the guv- rmmenw.. The who is enter- srising enqwgh 'o provide' himin.!f ~ith Yeapous cut of' his own resour- es will %.e quits eligible." ' "Tae money should soon be ears- 5 At firs'. rlance, perhaps, the dea or a merttant man's delibera «- ¥ attacking a Sar vessel 'may séetu ather bold, but it must' be remem- ered tiat the sul marie 18 the most ulnerable craft afloat' and she car- ies on her' operations under Zreat ificplty. It thotld, therefore, bo asy to devise some method of ar- acking her, and of attacking ner aoreover, with every cliance of si:- sess," ; -- GERMAN BREAD RULES wow. Regulations .Are.. Excessively 'T Stringent = : Berne, Feb. 4.--The new German egulations concerning the baking nd sale of bread 'aud. flour are ex. essively stringent, a' maximum of not Jite 4% pounds of head 'and flour of all descriptions being all that is dlowed to each person per week. Any one consuming more fs liable fo mprisonment not ing 8 nonths, or of a fine not exceeding $375. The association of German cotion spinning works bas resolved to raise rices 20 per cent. : The number of bAnkruptcies in jermany during January was 590, or (63 less than for January, 1914.1 s admitted even by the German press «hat-this swell number must not oc- -asion undue optimism 8% it very -argely 'due' to "the Kreigskredikhan: ém and to the system:..of 'bhsiness supervision recently' {introduced : hy 'he authorities, which, in' érder to nake matters appear in 'as favorable . light' as possible, 'does everything o prevent firms in difficulties actual- y-failing. Nevertheless'many firms shich' have failed lately have done $0 very heavily, and the American lif land, the twa A oats yet to Wiel aaah - »asded through 'the 'water-way yes erday afternoof, of ithent: ma ng fast time. 'Phe trip was witho pecial Tnsidetls a ships :he new chann bh Las beay Itedged throug ed ut Cubaras hid? The Kroo ons, and the { tons, Evacuate Paris, Feb, appears, have: h ing sald about uated Ce Alsace, which Mes at the foot of tamous Hill 4286, 18 slaves of wh were contested with such grim ferocity. fire must have made it un now bombardi: vent the The French are to do so, but melenite treal J to Cernay an a nenbruch, whi fortified and ith | termost 3 rEavance 16 OR To Cure A ~ Take LAXA: Tablets. il it fails to signature i» on non of Rone Gertidns have to the ut- SEE 15 YOUR TABLE] : DAANNERS ? I'M SURPRISE DAT ] Ob ANT You GOT No CET IQUE Tr Ye ? WHERE * | WY, ¥ou Pook > WL-BREAD Bou, vou RE | SERVIC tHE Sreass {HAND You Gave me u ad ; eon AND You Took |: = : + - tab fs welt w 1 Mav sen SEMIN, 3 wou Bs Have . ar Ea ae ; You won the A