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AN ENGLISH WRITER ON THE
WAR SITUATION,
What the German Emperor Relies
For and What He Is Sure ,
To Get. •
"In the spring," the Kaiser has
been hinting. to his tired people, "will
come peace,"
The words sound very comforting in
the ears of his soldiers, who have no
longer the same' enthusiasm for war
that' they had sixteen months ago,
when Paris seemed within their grasp,
says a writer in London Answers.
They are a very gullible lot, these
Iluns, and they forget, that on the
debit side of the Kaiser's promises
are already heavily overweighted.
They were to be back in the dear Fa-
therland "before the fall of the
leaves"; they need have no fear, they
were told, as to a second winter cam-
paign; they were assured Russia
would' give in when Warsaw was en-
tered.
Method in His Madness.
None of these things has happened;
yet they are ready to believe .the
smooth words of the same voice tell-
ing them there will be peaee in the
spring.
Not that the Kaiser would not be
glad to have peace, not merely in the
spring, but any time between then
and now. He may be mad, but there
is considerable method in his mad -
hese.
A good chess player knows when he
Is beaten, and does not go on to be
mated. The Kaiser looks ahead, and,
though his armies occupy much of
the Allies' territory, he sees only too
well that the task of holding these
enormously -extended lines must
prove, before Long, too great a strain:
for the depleted manhood resources
of Germany to sustain.
Before the vision of the Kaiser
passes the spectre of his great proto-
type, Napoleon, who, within eighteen
months of his entry into Moscow,
was an exile in Elba.
Peace in the spring would suit the
Kaiser very well. He could afford to
be generous to the Allies. His terms,
we might be sure, would be particu-
larly favorable to us, because our pre-
parations have planted a wholesome
dread in his heart, and because he
knows that we have a habit of going
on to the end, and that, though we be-
gin badly, we generally end well.
Germany Hard at 'Work.
Also the remark of the acute Ital-
ian observer lurks unpleasantly in his
mind: "The British only win one bat-
tle in any war, but it is the last bat-
tle."
But vrhat the Kaiser hopes for and
what the Kaiser believes he will get
are two different things. He hopes
for peace in the spring; he prepares
for greater exertions than ever in
the spring.
Germany is full of fair words,
whose note is the reasonableness of
peace at the present time; .the words
are to hearten the soldiers in the
trenches, and to impress such neutrals
as are not alert to German guile.
Germany is also full of newly -train-
ed troops, who are to make a last at-
tempt to break through to Paris. Ger-
man instructors are busy drilling raw
German recruits, and German engin-
eers are feverishly repairing baps in
the line to re-establish railway com-
munication between Berlin and Con-
stantinople. The Near East, which is
one great whispering -gallery, mur-;
niurs: "Egypt in the spring."
Tho German mind is incapable of
any honesty. When IL. Germans talk
loudly of peace, it is time to prepare
for war; when they hope for peace,
one knows instinctively that they be-
lieve the reverse will happen.
Potsdam's Biggest Bluff.
„
Peace in the spring,"is the big-
gest bluff that Potsdam has yet per-
petrated. If it deceives the German
people, it does not hoodwink the Al-
lies, who are just beginning to get
into their sta'ide in this war.
So far from there being peace in
the spring, the most terrible fighting
yet witnessed in the campaign will
take place. All the signs point in this
direction.
Germany is saving her young men
for a great offensive in the West, and
is rising her third-class elderly troops
to make good wastage. Russia is
equipping enormous armies, and is
calling up youths, who will be twenty-
ene in 1917, a year before their time.
Japan has mobilized her industries to
supply the millions of Russian troops
With munitions of which they stand in
great need—viz., rifles and heavy
gene.
The war factories of America are
pouring a constant stream of muni -
Lions into Russia's far -Eastern base,
and when the British munition effort
reaches its fullest scope, and our
twenty new arsenate axe in full blast,
we shall be able, with the supplies
from Japan and America, to equip
any number of Russian troops up to
six one.
Italy is constantly calling up ne
claeses to the eiders, and long befere
the spring the Serbians, whom she i
to rearm and revictual, will provid
200,000 of the bravest and most $ea
coned trooiis in the Balkans. `.Ch;
Belgian army, drawing new forma
teen, and passing all able'bodied
Frenchmen into her armies; while
Britain and the Colonies are making
a feverish effort to have the Empire
represented by anything between four
and five million men.
By the spring six million men—
three and a half millien Allies, two
and a half million Germans—should
be faeing one another in the West, In
the East, five million men—three mil-
lion Russians, two million Austro;
Germans—should be at grips. On the
Austro -Italian Front two million inert
should be locked in deadly< combat;
while in the Balkans a million and a
half men should be' fighting to decide
whether the Crescent shall still wave
o'er the minarets of Constantinople.
Britain's Answer.
"Peace in the spring" means that
fourteen and a half million men will
be fighting possibly the decisive bat-
tles of the' greatest conflict in his:
tory.
Twenty months will have elapsed
since the day when the first Uhlans
crossed the Belgian frontier, the van-
guard of a huge army, assured of vic-
tory by all the resources that forty
years' resolute preparation could give.
The German army then was at its
zenith. By all human calculation, it
stood to win. In the spring of 1910,
when Professor Muensterberg, the
friend of the Kaiser, says he.knows
there will be;peace for certain, Ger-
many stands almost as good a chance '
of being beaten as' she did in August,
1914, of conquering Europe for bar -,i
bar•iem.
We have been slow, and we have
made many mistakes, but'we have
also done things well. We nre not
spellbound by this latest German plot;
we know what, indeed, the spring will
bring forth. Two thousand Govern-
ment -controlled war factories 10
Great Britain, working at full press!,
sure, are the best answer to the Ger-'
ntan bluff.
I have before me a letter from a
gunner at the front:
"When the Germans worry us with
their Jack Johnsons," he writes, "we
send over ten to their one!"
Five to One.
My friend may be exaggerating a
little; but it is true that we can com-
mand double the shells that the en-
emy can spare, and if the propheey of
M. Millerand, the former French Min-
ister'of War, comes true, in the
spring or thereabouts—and thore is
no reason for the contrary—we should
have five shells to every one of the •
enemy's.
Do you know what five shells to
every one of the enemy means? It
means that we can smash his most
elaborate defensive organization,'
sweep away his wire, and leave huge
gaps for our wonderful infantry to
pour through. It means that, as our
men advance, we can cut off the Ger-
man reinforcements from the main
body by an impenetrable curtain of :
fire.
The Kaiser knows this. Only too
well he realizes the forces against
Germany that should ripen in the
spring. He wants peace before Ger-
many is beaten. He wants peace while
the German armies still bivouac on
enemy soil. He wants peace before
his deluded Huns become dangerously •
weary of the incessant fighting; and,'
above all, he wants peace before the
economic strain on his people becomes I
too intolerable.
"Peace in the spring!" How little
does it correspond with. the realities'
of the situation! Peace, forsooth,
with the certainty of fourteen and, a'
half million men then struggling for
mastery, with the advantage for the
first time on our side.
DOGS LOCATE ZEPPELINS
Became Uneasy During Latest Raid
Over England.
of Scarborough,
The bombardment
g,
; England, over a year ago by Getman
lcruisers•led to some interesting state-;
ments as to the sense of hearing pos-;
sessed by pheasants, and there can
be little doubt that the senses of birds'
and animals are in some instances al-
most uncanny.
I In one of the latest Zeppelin raid
nights, a man who possesses a ken-
nel of retrievers said tht about the
CORFU AND KAISER'S HOUSE IN ALLIES' HANDS NOT STRAFING
ENGLAND NOW
GAS MGT MARE
IN THE TRENCHES
'CUE MOST MERCILESS WAR IN
HISTORY:'
College Professor Writes of Services
as Sergeant in French
Army.
The horrors and tribulations of life
in the trenches are vividly depicted
,,in a letter written from Champagne
to Professor Weston of Williams Col-
lege, by J. Norton Cru, once professor
of French at the same institution, who
is serving as a sergeant in the French
army. Unmolested and undisturbed,
Professor Cru scribbled the epistle in
an underground passage while the en-
emy's big shells exploded above.
Gas is the only thing that is really
feared in' the trenches, according to.
hlr. Cru, and the forces are kept bus-
ily engaged combating gas attacks.
The war is characterized by him .as
"the most merciless in history." No
truce, even for the burial of the dead,
is allowed, and consequently innu-
merable corpses are rotting as they
fell' months ago in "no man's land."
Extreme difficulty is experienced in
procuring sufficient quantities of wa-
ter. • When ground is won from the
enemy this difficulty is increased be-
cause the Germans, knowing the ex-
act locality of the water pumps, keep
firing salvos of shrapnel all around
them. As told by Mr. Cru, the sol-
diers because of the scarcity of water
do nob wash for weeks, the little pro-
cured at great peril being used for
making coffee, one cup of which is at
times allowed a man.
Down in a Tunnel.
•
The letter is as follows:
"I ant writing you by the flickering
light of a candle end, seated in a red
velvet armchair dragged out of some
ruined house. It is 'broad daylight
above, but I ata in a kind of tunnel in
the bowels of the earth, access to
which is gained by a series of stairs
leading down from the trenches. This
tunnel is wide enough bo accommodate
on each side of a central passage a
series of bunks one above the other,;
ship fashion, and some of us are •
lucky enough to have straw mat-
tresses. And so, away down under-
ground, I am writing tranquilly while
big shells are bursting up above.
"In this vast plain we have little
fear of attacks, for it would take time
to cross the intervening space be-
tween the lines, and our artillery
would hays -plenty of time to act ef-
fectively against the assailants. On
the other hand, the plain is very fav-
orable for the use of gas, and this is 1
the only thing we fear; consequently
we are busy protecting ourselves
against gas attacks, and we have now
found many ways of combating this
treacherous method of fighting.
time the Zeps. were over his locality
his dogs were plainly uneasy. Short-
ly after eight o'clock, he states, the
dogs commenced to growl and then
to snarl,
"I could hear nothing unusual,"
he states, "beyond the low growling
of the dogs, and in the darkness noth-
ing could be seen. I was unable to
quiet them in any degree. By and
by they did calm down, but it Was
only for' a few minutes that there
was peace, for the dogs suddenly
jumped' up and repeated their antics,"
aware that there had been a Zeppelin
raid, but later, on making inquiries,
he found that at the time his retraiv-
ers commenced to show signs of irri-
tation the Zeps. were actually in the
vicinity. The keen hearing of the
dogs had undoubtedly located the in.
vaders.
Qualification.
W She—Father doesn't want me to
marry you. He says you are too'
s thrifty.
e He --Why, of that's the case, he
- ought to like me, alt?
She.:. -But you are so spend -thrifty,
- dear,
'ire .tura snows the town (:A LOal,,, as stu., 31.0+0 t..a +. 't Vr.
The Kaiser's yacht, 1iohenzollern, 1s seen at the lefp, while the v.•-
iel at the right is tho English royal steamer Alexandra, on which
the Britieh royal family. have 0 requently vLtted their relatives in
Greek waters. The :meat house shown 1n the- lower picture la. the
Acihilleion (the home of Achiile5) built for the 7Dmpress of Aus-
tria, used by the.German Kaiser as a summer resort, and `recently
seized by the Allies and used ns n hosnital. far Ser"', ^iclle':s.
Both pictures aro reproduces; from The Christian Advo,ytte.
difficulty to the tranquil life of the
trenches. That day they took a large
number of prisoners whom we saw
pass by, piteous, lamentable, exhaust-
ed by our informal bombardment. I
can still see those Africans bearing the people of Brussels are concerned,
their wounded to the rear somas the the German occupation constitutes a
field where big shells were raining moral as well as a physical martyr -
down and throwing eruptions of earth dem,
into the air. They walked with their A private correspondent whose let
rapid, lithe step, impassive in that
ter has reached the Hague through a
hell.
BRUSSELS IS SPY INVESTED.
Agents of "Kultur" Manage to Keep
Themselves Busy.
So far as a considerable number of
Dirt Falls in the Soup.
"We live as though hygiene had
never been invented. I must say that
a man thinks little of germs when he
is bombarded with big shells, and he
eats with appetite, although much dirt
has fallen in the soup from the nar-
row sides of the trenchlike lanes that
lead from the kitchens, a mile or two
in the rear, up to the firing line. Some-
times water has to be fetched from a
pump after a long journey through
winding trenches; sometimes when the
ground has been won from the en-
emy he knows where the -pump is and
keeps firing salvos of shrapnel all
around it.
"Now, Champagne is very dry (no
pun intended), and we experienced
lately the scarcity of water and the
decided objections the Germans had
to our approaching the pumps. We
went unwashed for two weeks, the lit-
tle water we got at peril of life being
used to make, coffee, just one cup a
day for each man. Sometimes when
I come to think of it I can't believe
that I have been here for more than
a year playing my part in the most,
merciless war in history.
"For the first time no truce is al-
lowed, no white flag is used, no possi-
bility of burying the dead or of pick-
ing up the wounded, except at peril of
life, and that is why so many corpses
are rotting as they fell in `no man's
land, that weird stretch of ground
between the linee; that is why so
many wounded cry vainly for help
and are left to die a horrible death
after two, four' or even six days of
agony. T have seen such things and
still cannot believe it.
Africans Take Prisoners.
"At tho beginning of the war we
had to co-operate ono day with the
Moracean5, These are star troops for
attack, bub they adapt themselves with
the wounded,
• friendly diplomatic channel, says that
I saw the post for
a worn a the German system of espionage has
where a crowd of Africans, dressed ; reached such a point that the more
as weat see them in Tunis, were lying nervous minded of the- people live in
on stretchers on the ground, raising a state of perpetual dread.
themselves on their elbows to drink i "There is an ariny here of more than
the coffee which the nurses .poured out teen hundred spies;" he. writes.
for them and smoking cigarettes with „Mese are well paid, but they are
a tranquil air, their clothes covered paid by results; the live extravagant -
with earth, their bandages red with l, and when funds are low more vic-
blood, which filtered . tluegh. Others tims nest be made. There are spies
lay stretched out, dying amid the of Query grade and species.
whirling of the motets of the Red
Cross ambulances ready to carry them ! "There is the, roeiety woman, such
to the railway stations. !as that relative of von Bisaing who
All that filled and blocked the main succeeded in forming a little court
street of a .little ruined village.' The ofher own and who herself attends
German lines were formerly at the; the society teas in private .houses
very edge of this village, now they and at the fashionable confectioners
are far Miele, and out of curiosity I in order to exercise her espionage;
visited vrhat was once our first line. there is the one-time factory agent
In the wire entanglements I saw who, taking advantage of his pre-war
what remained of three Germans kill- connectionsworms himself into fin-
ed months before. Only skeletons and suets; and
industrial circles; there is
fragments of uniforms and boots re the officer's or professor's wife who
mained. i frequents middle class coteries; there
is the demi-mondaine who keeps an
A Shot From Wife. ` eye on the theatres, the cafes and the
McGinnis is no Adonis,' and his boulevards, and there are men in
temper is in direct ratio to his lack hundreds who penetrate like ants into
of personal beauty. Mrs. McGinnis the innermost recesses of private life.
also is rather peppery of temper The letters we receive from our
and is rather inclined to "get back" dear exiled 'friends we may neither
at her husband during the course of keep •nor answer, for a domiciliary
a quarrel. visit may be made at any moment,
One such alternation had been had and on the slightest pretext, or none
soon'at all, both men and women may be
the other evening, but things
hurried away to the kommandantur,
quieted down and McGinnis had re -
and thence to prison after a mockery
gained his temper and thought his of a 'trial.'
wife had, too. But hewas speedily 1 "Two days ago I was reading the
undeceived. y
i Mac had been playing with the ba- war. repent posted at the corner e
by and observed, "Every time the ba -the BoulevardleThere B e were,ire„an the Rue
by Iooks into my eyes he smiles." Royale. we a silent ;lata
group. Aman joined us and began
w pain u
"Well," said his wife, with an ons- to read the news aloud Ith • f 1
inous gleam in her eye, "it may not slotyiises, almost spelling out the
words, Coming to a number he read
'seven thousand' instead of seventy
thousand,' the words appearing on.
be exactly polite of baby, but shows
he has a sense of humor."
Probably Father. the notice board.
A young Hien and a young woman He got no further. A man forming
lean over the front gate. They are part of the group placed his band on
lovers. It is moonlight. He•is about his shoulder and dragged' him along
to leave, as the parting is the last. to the kommandantur. We were
He is about to go away. They swing lucky to escape arrest for having
on the gate. "I'll never forget you, heard him makethe blunder.
he says, and if death should claim "In the tramway car from Brussels
me my last thought will be of you. to Tervueren I saw a man arrested
never see anybody else or love because he carried a parcel wrapped
them as long as I live,' They part. in a copy of a London paper, the date
Six years later he returns, His of which wes September, 1014.
sweetheart of.former years had mar- "In the Rue de Flandre I saw two
r
rued. They met at a party. Shehad brewer's men being matched off as
changed greatly. Between the Glances prisoners because, after unloading a
the recognition took lace. Let me , y -
6 p heavy barrel of beer, they had re
see," she, muses, with her fan beating marked, "The Keiser himself could
a tatoo onher pretty hand. "Was it not do it as neatly."
GERMAN'S BEGINNING TO SEE
THR LIf,IIIT,
Intrigues of Von Tirpitz Perry
Threaten the imperial
Chtt;icellor,.
A Scandinavian correspondent of
the London Times writes; "I recently
had a visit front an old university
friend, belonging to a neutral country,
who has lived in Germ any since the
begilting of the war, has associated
with well iiformed industrial elides,
and consequently has acquired some
inside knowledge. According to him,
the most striking fact is the change
of tone which has taken plaee in Ger-
many.
"The 'Gott strafe England' sonti
merit is 0 thing of the past. The pre-
arranged declarations in the Reich-
stag about the Baralong affair do not
really count. Many university men
who signed the various mad declara-
tions. about German innocence and
British perfidy at 'the beginning of
the war now feel positively ashamed.
They excuee their foolishness in put-
ting their names to :them by saying
that they diel not know the exact
wording.
Seeing the Light.
"The 'Liberals' also begin in pri-
vate to admit that the German ver-
sion of the diplomatic prelude to the
war tragedy will not stand closer ex-
amination' andthey even recognize
Germany's responsibility toward Bel-
gium.
"The intrigues of the Von Tirpit'r,
partyhave been and still are a dan-
ger cloud threatening the Chancellor.
Admiral Von Tirpitz has been inclined
to retire, but his staff has so far per-
suaded him to remain. His inspired,
press campaign agaihst the Chancel-;
for is not only carried on by Count
Reventlow, but to various foreign
newspapers have been furnished in-
sidious articles. It is reported, how-
ever, that the Kaiser shares the views
of the diplomatists- and disapproves
of the Zeppelin raids on England,
which; in his opinion, are senseless,
being of no military importance and.
only calculates to' make friendly re-
lations with Britain more difficult af-
ter the war.
Mischievous Peace.
you or your brother whom I need to
know?" "Really I 'don't know,' he
says; "probably my father."
Why They Grew
Lulu wee watching her working
among the flowers. "Mamma, I know
"I could cite hundreds of astonish-
ing facts, but it would bore you, as
they are all more or less of the same
category."
.. Somehow at engagedcouple mu -
wily flowers grow," she said; they ally think all the insane Peoria nue
want to get out of the dirt," its asylums,
"This eventually is still hoped for
in Gorman diplomatic circles, which
cling to the belief that a peace, what-
ever its outward appearance, can be
so arranged as to .create future
trouble between Great Britain and
Russia.
"The German diplomatic service is
still the fovorite object of abuse
among the German public. It is
understood that the Colonial Secre-
tary, Dr. Self, regards himself as the
only possible Foreign Secretary after
the war and is confident of defeating
the ambitions of Count Von Bern-
storff, German Ambassador at Wash-
ington."
98 PER CENT. SOLDIERS CURED.
Report From the American Women's
War Hospital.
Ninety-eight per cent. of the wound-
ed soldiers treated at the American
Women's War Hospital have been cur-
ed or improved, according to a report
just issued on the eecond, thousand
cases handled by that, institution. The
hospital is at Paignton, South Devon,
with Sir William Osler as consulting
physician and Dr. Penhalloty as chief
surgeon.
The report shows that of the sur-
gical cases sixty-three per cent. were
cured and thirty-three per cent. im-
proved. The same percentage of
cures and improvements was secured
in medical cases. In .the thousand
cases there were but five deaths, or
considerably less than one per cent.
The promptness with which relief is
given to men on the battlefield im-
mediately' after they are wounded is
brought out by the statistics of the
-report. Of the total wounded cases,
one-quarter of them had received
immediate first aid field dressing, and
an additional thirteen per cent, had
received this field dressing within fif-
teen . minutes. Another twenty-five
per cent. had been treated on the field
within one hour of being wounded,
white a small remaining percentage
were treated within a few hours, and
a very few after a long delay of for-
ty-eight and seventy-two hours,
Gas -poisoning' is one of .the princi-
pal causes of the cases treated, and
while typhoid has been largely reduc-
ed, there were seven cases. The num-
ber of amputations was fourteen,
which, considering the number of seri-
ous cases, was an exceptionally favor.
able showing.
As showing the different classes of
wounds received in action, the follow-
ing percentages were given on porfor.
ating wounds: shrapnel, 12 per cent.;
shell, 2 per cent.; bullet, 89 per cont,;
grenade, 1 per Cent. Its surface
w einds the percentage of ehrapnei in-
jury is greater and of bullet injury
less. The wounds from bayonets is
the smallest, being less than one per
Cent.
FACT STRONGER
THAN FICTION
ADVENTURES OF A SOLDIER
, FROM CANADA.
Experiences of Trooper V. T. Brown
of Strathcona's Horse Most
Extraordinary.
Tlie adventures wliiels have befallen
Trooper Victor Reginald Brown, once
more bring home the truth of the old
saying that fact is stranger than fic-
tion, says the British (England) Ob-
server, •
Early in December a letterreached
this office from Private R. richt,
City of London,. P.O.R,, in which the
writer expressed a desire to"tnank
on behalf of himself and others, a
trooper in Strathcona's Horse, who,
after a great charge at Festubert, in
May last, regardless of the 'risks,
helped the many wounded, of whom
Wright was one. Trooper Brown "
kept his suffering charges supplied
with food and water, to obtain which
he had to run over 200 yards in the
open exposed to rifle fire. Wright
heard that Brown used to live in
Bristol, and' .had relatives living
somewhere in Clifton, and he hoped
that the publication of a letter would
bring it to their notice.
Now, it so happened that at. the
time it appeared in print, Trooper
Brown was on a visit to his brother,
Mr. H. R. Brown, at Westbury -on -
Trym, who is a director of Messrs.
Chas. Wills and Sons;. of Rupert
Street. Some 12 years ago, Trooper
Brown was with that fixm, but he
went to Canada, and the day after
war was declared he enlisted in
Strathcona's Horse. Ile is the young-
est son of Mr. S. W. Brown, late of
Salisbury (now living in retirement at_.
Leytonstone, Essex).
His Adventurous Career.
•
This week Trooper Brown called at
this office to express his thanks for
the publication of Private Wright's
letter, and with considerable reluct-
ance he conceded further details of
his adventurous career. Before the
Fesbubert affair he had been wound-
ed slightly three times. When the
memorable charge on Whit Monday
was made it was found that nearly
all the Germans had cleared out.
Four, apparently were cut off, and
in the bayonet fighting three went
down. The fourth would have shared
the same fate, but for a miraculous
intervention,
Just as a bayonet was about to be
thrust home,. a khaki -clad figure
emerged from a dug -out, and throw-
ing himself in front of the German
soldier, exclaimed: "If you kill him,
you kill Inc." The blow was stayed;
a chance was given for explanation.
A few words revealed an amazing in-
stance of chivalry on the part of a
Saxon. In a previous charge by the
10th Canadian Battalion he had cap-
tured this boy.and had hidden him in
the dug -out, bestowing every care
and attention upon him. Trooper
Brown's souvenirs include this Sax-
on's autograph. c
Another of his stories is of a
wounded man to whose assistancehe
went after the charge. "I asked him,"
Trooper Brown said, "if he could
manage to get back," and he said:
"Yes, but wait a minute. I see a
sniper. Keep still, P11 get him." He
raised himself up on his elbow, and
was bakiifg aim when a bullet took
him right in the head.
I The Sniper Got His Shot First.
I Some time later, while located at
Ploegstreot, known to "Tommy" as
"Pleb Street," Trooper Brown bad a
remarkable escape. With two others
• he set off to get water. They "talk-
ed into" a bursting shell which killed
the other men, and the next Brown
knew was that he was in the hos-
pital. He was paralyzed and appar-
ently in a hopeless condition but at
Dublin Castle Hospital be met with
such marvellous treatment that he is
now as fit as ever.
Trooper Brown was close by when
the brother. of Mrs. Asquith; an offi-
' ter in Strathcona's Horse, was killed,
Brown was present at the funeral,
and was detailed to give a verbal re-
port of the incidents to Mrs. Asquith,
Mrs, Asquith subsequently read in
j Western Daily Press an account of
!Trooper Brown's good work, and she
has written him a letter which he
will always prize,
Have Her Own Way.
"When Wh Henryand I ware mnr'Pied
•Y
Pnt to have my own way in every-
thing."
"Guess you don't." "Indeed
I will! That's the bargain, Don't
you remember I told you, he proposed
to me in a row boat and naked me if
I'd float throuh life with bins just
that way?" £'Yes, but what's that
got to do with' it?" "Well, he was
rowing but I was steering."
The Modern Way.
"Your daughter and. her ,husband
seem very happy." ,.
"They ought to be , Pe and I were
marled. 20 years before we thought
of putting on half the style they're
starting out with."
11 a man ever becomes civilized it
is through the influence of some good
woman,
Painted Over.
She— 1 hero that ruck, has a now
girl.
Fie ---No that's just b's olid one
painted over,
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