Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1894, Page 17

NATIONAL GUARD THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OOTOBER 13, 1894—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 1 ett) ss THE NEW THE NATIONAL GUARD Facts Concerning the Visit of the Jersey Marksmen. CT RIFLE RANGE THE DISTRI What is Being Done at the New Armoty Building. DISHONORABLE DISCHARGES New Jersey soldiers will be here in force im less than two weeks, for Gen. Spencer has written to announce that on the night of Wedresday, the 2ith instant, Gov. Werts and staff, accompanied by state offi- cials and a rifle team of eight or ten—in all about thirty lively sand Spantards—ex- pect to be in Washington. The match, be tween a team of Jersey sharshooters and some of Washington's best, will ake place on Saturday,the 27th,at Marshall Hall. Noth- ing more than this has, as yet, been ar- ranged for, but a program is being outlined which will, it is believed, insure to the vis- ftors a very pleasant time. Neither of the teams will do any range practice prior to the day of the match, an understanding to that effect having been reached by the team captains. The Jersey aggregation will, however, have the use of the brigade rifle gallery whenever it so desires on the two days prior to the contest. Inder these circumstances, phenomenal scores are not \to be expected, but there will be an interest- ing fight, and, in view of the fact that Jersey carried away the N. R. A. inter- state trophy this year, the visitors are likely to make things warm for the District boys. ‘The match will be quite unlike any other rifle competition, tn that neither of the com- Petitors will care very mich which wins; at least, that is how it appears on the sur- face. As a matter of cold, underground | fact, it can be stated, though, that the Dis- trict riflemen will not knowingly permit their friends from Jersey to carry away ihe honors if such a possibility can be avoided. And it ts fair to presume that New Jersey | occupies a similar position. Within three { or four days all the defalls will probably be | arranged, and they will then be made pub- | lic. A timited >umber of eMicers of the Dis- | trict National Guard will be invited to join | im the festivities that are to follow upon the match The invitatturs will be issucd | @s soon as possible after the corupletion of | the program. | ‘The New Rifle Range. The rile range problem is being solved Slowly, but satisfactorily. Examination of the available sites has resul'ed in boiling | thines down until there are but two or three survivors, and the chances are that within a few days the site which, all things considered, appears to be most available Will be selected and d=finitely taken posses- | sion of. Officers of the department of ritle tice never knew how many range sites ence {in and around the trict of Columbia until after The Star had Dublished the fact that a suitable range was being sought for. Since then there has been a positive rush of people, each of whom seems to be confident that he has | the only thing that woukl fill all of the re- quirements. The principal ditfic countered was lack of distance. and ‘yard ranges car be foun Score of localities, but ranges of 1,000 or more yards were comparatively scarce. In Miew of the fact that the new smail cal- | iber ritle will scon be issued to the National Guard, t was necessary that a range of at least 1.4 yards should be provided. Remarkable Carclessness of Officers. For some reason or other—far from being appareut—the reopening of the brigade rifle | gallery has not been appreciated a3 it ‘Was supposed it would be. Although the gallery has been opened for nearly three Weeks, the amount of work done there'n is practically expressed by the figure “. To- night the «gallery closes fer the season of 184, and the locking of the door at 6 o'clock will shut out a good many men who tmaleht had they taken advantize of the opportunity afforded them, have qualified as sharpshooters or marks . For these failures no blame can be attached to the department of rifle practice, which has in every way possible endeavored to encour- Age the completion of scores. There is no Violation of confidence in stating that ofti- cers of the department of rifle practice are Strongty inclined to the belief that a large Proportion of the regimental, battalion and company officers have been remarkably careless, have shown practically no inter- est in the matter during the past three weeks. Discharges Honorcble and Dishonor- able, The dishonorable discharges of Privates Clarence M. Agnew and Raphael S. Roche, both of company C, second battalion, have been revoked and honorable discharges Branted in their stead. « The following named have been dishon- orably discharged: Clarence Berkley, fifth battalion. James T. Carroll, private, company D, first separate battalion. Wiliam Hawkins, private, company D, Arst separate battalion. William H. Henderson, private, B, fifth battalion. Robert A. King, private, company B, engineer é corps. Charles Lewis, private, company B, first separate battalion. . M. Magruder, private, company B, third battalion. George W. Martin, private, corps of field private, company B, company music. Frank 3. Moor, private, company B, fifth battalion. Herman J. Niedfeldt, private, company A, Arst battalion. | Louis W. Rencher, private, company B, Gfth battalion. - Howard C. Rothery, private, company B, ergineer cor James Li. Scott, private, company D, first | separate battalion. tenjamin N. Taylor, sergeant, corps of Geld music. William Terrell. private, company B, first separate battalion. Edward Thomas, private, first separate battalion Charles H. Washington, private, company B, first separate battalion. i Thomas Washington, private, company B, first separate battalion. Frank Wooster, private, company B, en- gineer corps. Activity at the New Armory Building. Before the passing of another week the new armory building adjoining Convention company D, be under roof. The walls are all in place, and on Thursday last work on the gable begun with a rush. An incressed force Peobeichias oe plomber eecticinn | Second lieutenants (mounted), $4.1 (gat Dis- | men, | dion! | last. plans of the bullding, in detail, have here- tofore been described in The Star. The Method Pursued in Ohio. District guardsmen who are criticising the action of Maj. Suess of the fifth bat- talion and Capt. Story of the second sep- arate company in enforcing attendance at driily should pay special heed to the pen- alty that ts being visited upon Private Dearth of company C, fourteenth regiment, Ohio National Guard. Private Dearth dis- obeyed orders, and left the city. He was court-martiaied, dishonorably discharged from the service and sentenced to fifteen days’ imprisonment in a pen erected in the | center of the armory building. The prison- er is not allowed to leave the little coop, even for exercise, and he is constantly un- der the eye ot a guard. ‘The Corcorans Were Disappointed. There were forty disappointed young sol- ters in the armory of company A, second battalion, on Saturday evening last, when Capt. Edwards informed his drill team that the competition announced to occur at Rich- mond on the 10th instant was Se off. ad drilled each night, for over four weeks, and felt sure of capturing, the virginia city. pate been completed with a railroad company for a special car, and everything looked bright for a pleasant and successful trip, but It did not come to pass. As a solace, however, the company at large tendered the drill team a smoker on Thurs- day evening last, at which sorrow was for- gotten and a general good time enjoyed by every one. A Rifle Match in Brooklyn. The thirteenth regiment, N. G., 8. N. Y., of Brooklyn has issued an Invitation to teams of four from any company, troop or battery, or the fleid, staff and non-commis- sioned sta‘t of regiments or battalions in the National Guard naval reserve of any state, or the U. S. army, navy or marine corps, to participate in a military team competition, to be held at the Thirteenth Regiment Armory rifle range during “fair | week,” 184. Organizations are privileged to enter one or more separate teams. Re-entries are allowed. The en- trance fee 1s four dollars per team. ‘The arms to be used are the regularly issued rifle of the organization. Five shots at 4 yards, standing, and five shots at 0) yard: prone, head’to target, must be fired. The | 5 firing will he over a one hundred-yard range at a reduced target. The prize to be com- peted for ts a solid silver trophy. The District will not be represented at the above competition for two reasons. One j ts that the New Jersey riflemen will be in Washington on October 24, and the local shooters naturally desire to be at home to meet the visitors. Another reason, and It is of considerable magnitude, !s because the Brooklyn competition ts no test of marks- ip. Re-entries are allowed, which many advantages over outsiders. ‘feld Day Pay in Massachusetts. The annual mobilization of the troops of the National Guard cf Massachusetts took place ou Tuesday last. For the day's duty the troops were paid as follows: Brigadier generals, $ ; Neutenant eclonels, — $&. A 5 (mounted), $5.53; (not 5; adjutants, quartermasters, eons, paymasters and inspectors of rifl Practice, $5: first Heutenants (mounte $4.75; first Meutenants (not mounted), $4.17 Neutena: ts (not mounted), $3.59; non-commissioned staff offleers, $2.50; mmers and buglers, $3.50; other enlisted $2. Mounted officers and soldiers, ad- al for horse, $4. chaplains, ors, $2. Notes. Company C, second battalion (National Fencibies), held tts first regular drill after the summet’s rest on Thursday evening Although the champions did not show up in startling numbers, the exhibition given by the faithful few, who interpreted tactics under the direction of Lieut. Mosher, able, considering the fact that the men Lave not dritied since their return from Little Rock in July last. The members of company D, fifth bat- talion, Lave elected First Lieut. England captain, Private James frst lieutenant, and Sergt. James EK. man of company C, fifth battalion, second Heutenant. Candidate Sergt. James C, Sergeant of company B, fourth battalion, has success- fully passed tue examination to the grade of captain of infantry, and is entitled to the privileges conferred upon candidates for promotion to that grad Capt. Frederick Dalton of company B, fifth battalion, and First Lieut. Harry A. Blandy of company B., second battalion, have tendered thelr resignations. In obedience to the orders of Maj. O. L. Suess, commanding the fifth battalion, twenty-one members of that organization were placed under arrest last evening for unexcused absence from drill. Three men reported voluntarily and four could not be located. Those taken tnto custody were lectured by the major, and they all promts- ed to be model soldiers in the future. —_—__. WAS NOT A MIND READER. What a Car Driver Told a Woman Who Ww juttoaing Her Glove: From the New York Herald. Out in the middle of Amsterdam avenu near “6th street, stood a fashiunably dres: ed woman, her attention riveted on her gloves, which, in the American style, she had not begua to put on until her front dvor had closed. There was no doubt of her intention tu take a car bound down town, but which car was a question the casual observer could not answer. Along came a 6th avenue car—one of the box varlety—with both deors open to catch the cooliug breeze. The button on madam’s slove was refactory, and she never raised her eyes. The driver glanced at her, but ho signal to stop met his gaze, and he con- tinued to urge hiv panting beasts. Sud- denly there was a shriii, high pitched, in- @ignant yeli that pierced the atmosphere. “Stop! Stop!” and running along the smooth asphalt was the form of the afore- said fashionable woman. The conductor “caught on,” pulled the bell, and ihe car came up short, with a jolt. Panting, puffing, and all out of breath, madam flounced ing There were plenty of seats, but not yet did she care, for she kept straight along the aisle to the front dcor, and there, standing, she began an at- tack on the driver. “Why didn’t you stop for me?” came from her quivering lips, in short “You didn’t raise your hand, mum,” sald the horse pusher. “But you knew I wanted a car. I'll re- port you.” ‘Then the driver turned, and with a quiet dignity and a queer twinkle about his eyes, said: “Madam, this company only employs drivers to handle the front ends of their cars, it can’t afford to engage mind read- ers.” ‘The woman sat down, but at Broadway she was the first to ask for a transfer. ———. - + e6-—__ He Was Tired. From the Chicago Record. Mr. Kickers (at 7 p.m.)—“Marla, can't you go down stairs and bring up the fire shovel? talk." I'm too tired and worn out even to ges pag ot a politica! club, dancing on a rah! Wow! Three cheers ‘Swipers! 1 bi-yl-yi—wow!” i] @ the New York and Brooklyn teams | Neat i capiains | mounted), | assistant | second | | with a sigh and fad a ARMORY. GUARDS OF THE TREASURY, They Keep Watch and Ward Over the Coffers of Uncle Sam. Most people who have lived all their Hives in Washington have never noticed three lit- tle wooden houses, hardly bigger than dry- goods boxes, which stand at the corners of the treasury building. Each of them is only about six feet square, with a table, a chair and a pitcher and basin for furniture. In- quiry develops the fact that they are occu- pied by watchmen. ‘These watchmen constitute the “outside guard” of the treasury, It is their business to patrol the streets around the building. Three of them are on duty at night, and one in the day time. Every half hour each one of them ts required to touch a bell which notifies the captain of the watch that the patrolman ts on duty. This outside guard has been maintained for so long a time that nobody seems to know when it was first established. No ac- tive duty has ever been required of it, though there have been occasional false alarms. But there is notelling what ‘ine night an attempt might be made to burglar- ize the coffers of Uncle Sam. If such an atcempt were made, however, the only practicable way to carry it out would be by minirg. From the cellar of a house across 15th street a tunnel might be run, with proper calculation, directly into the great strong-room in the basement of the treasury. Once arrived there, the rob- bers, if undiscovered, would find themselves overwhelmed by a literal embarrassment of riches. Embnarassment of Riches. Imagine the state of mind of an enterpris- ing burglar with $155,000,000 In stlver and gold immediately accessible! Unprotected, save by a steel lattice, he beholds 100,000,000 silver dollars in a single gigantic box. But of what use Is this vast accumulation of glittering wealth to him, weighing, as it does, 3,000 tons? He can only gaze upon it turn to the gold vault, which is defended by two massive steel doors. The burglar of a generation ago would have regarded such doors as an imprecna- ble obstacle. Net so, however, his succes- of today. In the competition betwpen xfe bullder and the safe breaker the is away ahead thus far. With his machine drills and high explosives he can make his way into the strongest vault ever constructed. A committee recently appoint- | ed by Congress declared that the treasury | vaults were old-fashioned and far from | burglar-proot. ‘To eecape observation by the watchmen @he hypothetjcal gang of burglars would well to tunnel directly into the gold vault, which could be entered from be- neath, They would have no trouble in car- wav ail the yellow metal found there, | for Uncle Sam is very poor at present, and JUst now this parti strong box contains only $3,689,000 in gol belonging to the government is scattered about in the subtreasuries and mints, The quantity of gold mentioned weizhs | only a little more than 5 hort tons. It could ough the tunn ~ house across the sireet. The burglars could then put it on a wagon a drive away with it. Presumably they wo not care to touch the $4%<aW dollars now stored in the gold vault, nor $4,000 in fractional silver and minor coin, would have no difficulty in melting up the ‘stolen gold and disposing of it as bul- lion, if that were thought desirable. It would hardly be possible for the robbers to get at the vaults airs in which the Paper money is kept. Lf they could do so unobserved, it would be easy enough for w holes and take out $5,- The packages of notes and all labeled with the amounts contain in big red figures, so that the vaiuable bundles could be selected off- hand. There might be trouble, however, in disposing of notes the numbers of which would be promptly advertised by the treas- ury. Regiment of Clerks. Tn case of an emergency at night, there are alw: st eighteen guards at hand in the tre This number—all of them being picked men and armed to the teeth— would be sufficient to overcome any gang of Vurglars. Should an attempt be made to get the better of the watch by force of num- bers, calls for assistance could be sent by telephone to the Marine barracks,the Wash- ington arsenal and Fort Myer. At Fort Myer are four troops of cavalry. During the war a regiment, 1,000 strong, }t ‘The rest of the gold | : was organized in the treasury for the pro- tection of that institution in case of neces- sity. It was composed of clerks, laborers and messengers in the department. There Was a drum corps of messenger boys. Sev. eral of these boys now hold official positions in the treasury, and there are two or three xrandfathers among them. The colonel of the Treasury Guards, as the regiment was called, was F. A. Willet. The present assist- ant United States treasure, James F. Meline, was a corporal. A flag was presented by the ladies of the treasury to the Treasury Guards. This bit of silk was destined to figure importantly in a great national tragedy. It was loaned by the regiment to the owner of Ford’s Theater, and was used to drape the box uccupied by President Li coln on the night when he was assassinat- ed. It was in this tlag that Wilkes Booth caught his spur when he jumped from the box to the stage, thus breaking his ankle. But for that chance he would have escaped unhurt. and very likely he would not have n captured. The National Museum has tried to get possession of the flag, but the treasury will not give it up. It is kept in a glass case on the wall of the office of the captain of the watch. The tear made by the spur of the assassin is about four inches long. a ‘Women as Doctors, From the Chicago Herald. Nowhere in the world is there a place where the modern woman has had and has such enthustastic support in al her ventures as here in Ametica, and the modern woman has not been sicw in improving the oppor- tunities offered her. 1t is hard to mention any field into whic she has not entered to compete successfully with the sterner sex, and in some professions she has completely dethroned man from his former unques- tioned supremacy. There is, perhaps, no profession to which the emancipation of modern woman is more inclined than. the medicals Jt is a little hard to tell why she should evince a predilection for sawing bones or regulating sluggish livers. One wculd naturally think she would prefer some calling having less disagreeable fea- tures about it, but, as the song has it, we didn’t think she would do it, but—she did. America is ceriainly the El Dorado of wo- men physic’ans. They are now to be found in almost every town, small or large. It ta estin ated that there are at least 2,300 wo- men doctors now practicing in the United States, and thelr number Is largely aug- mented every year. This is exclusive of the numerous female dentists, who, of course, call themselves doctors. Most every one of these women has earned her diplo- ma with high honors, and the world at large is much the gainer by these feminine Fato. th that they have Sa ener fictal of thelr calling. Women doctors or age, taken as a class and eae eee, Sar mae of the men in the medical profession, GEN. WILLIAM BOOTH vation Army. THE GREAT WORK ceived It. ORIGIN OF THE “ARMY” + EN. WILLIAM Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, 1s a world-famous man, now that the army has belted the globe with its sta- tions. Few names of living men are iaore widely known and fewer still are known to as many strata of society. Gen, Booth is known among men i and women all over the world who, perhaps, never heard of Bismarck or Gladstone, to say nothing of re- ligious leaders of men, Perhaps no one of them, unless it be the pope of Rome, {s so well known the world over as Gen. Booth. Among Christian people Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey and “Father Endeavor” Clark are known, of course, everywhere, but no one of them 1s known among non-Christian people as well as Gen. Tooth. The Salvation Army is not yet seventeen years old, yet it has grown so rapidly and it has accomplish- ed so much that It has succeeded tn arrest- ing the attention of the world in general as perhaps no other similar organization has ever done. Gen. Booth, being the actual director of {ts operations, and in no sense a figurehead, has natuzally become more and more prominent until he now occupies a unique position. It Is not strange that wherever he goes nowadays the people flock to hear him so that the largest )uila- ings are too small for his meetings. It has been so in the European and eastern and Australasian visits he has made, and it is so in his present American tour, which he has recently begun in Canada, and which he is to prolong throughout the United States vntil next January. Curtosity of itself furnishes interest enough to draw the people to see and near h'm. It 1s to curiosity that the Salvation Army first appeals with all its picturesque paraphernalia for chalienging attention. So that Gen. Booth ts only too glad to have the People come from that motive, if they will not come from any bette! Mistakes About Him. Although Gen. Booth’s name. ts so widely and well known, most-people who have not known him have as vague ideas about him as most people who have not known it, have avout the ation Army. This has tts value as stimulating curiosity, but it breeds seme ludicrous mistakes and misstatements which crop out even yet In well-edited news- papers and magazines, Pe been more mi ed thaneGen, Booth, partly but largely through Ignorance, and his in th else, has shared hus exper: movement of our time has a the § ficial vie greater on Ariay, and . the strangest thing a at so much of ft « bers. But the general ne right on doing the w ved God b led them to do, lives quite much as thelr achie have larg nauered the pretudice ag them, thing shows this more strikingly than the Auxiliary League in this country, eppositt Gen, Booth. now numbering more than three thousand members of all religious denominations, in- eluding many prominent clergymen, unie. it be the almost complete change in the at- titude of the newspapers, which, t the way for the church people in recognizing the value of the army and its work. The army ts still attacked In some places, but it has passed through its general persecution and {s now endangered by its popularity. Gen, Booth {3 stil in the prime of lite, for he was only sixty-five in April lest. Ho 4s tall, thin, active, eloquent and impressive. The fact that he and his followers and friends celebrated his “jubilee” of Chris- tan work in twelve days of monster meet- ings and demonstrations in and about Loi don last July has naturally made many people think that he is an old man and wonder how he can stand the strain of his responsibilities. Those who know what those responsibilities are, and who know with what flery zeal he works the year round, wonder as It is, for 1t would seem as though his burdens would break down a far sirenger frame. The general Is carefu) about his diet and about the little sleep he takes, and is as methodical as the demands upon him permit, but with all that it is amazing that he ts able to do what he does. People are always saying this to him, and he replies as he did in his great farewell London meeting, just before he left for this country: “I have no conception how I am enabled to do it save by the intervention and special blessing of Almighty God, and by leaning on the arm of my Lord. in this work He alone sustains me, and I believe He will be with me even unto the end.” The general was able to have a “jubilee” this year because he began his Christian work in the year he was converted, at the age of fifteen. Mounting a chair at the door of a house tn Nottingham, his birth- place, he conducted what was really the frst Salvation Army: “open air,” although it was twenty years befere he started the Christian Mission, and more than thirty years before the Saivatian Army grew out of that. A Sketch of His Career. His father was a méfchant in Nottingham, who had made a sryall fortune, which he afterward lost in an unfortunate specula- tion, dying prematurely while William was @ boy. His mother “was of #0 amiable a disposition and saintly a*character that he regarded her as the nearest approach to human perfection with which he was ac- quainted.” His parents were members of the Church of Engitind, but William, the sole surviving son, already put to business before he was fifteet, was converted in a Wesleyan chapel. From that time on he showed that he had ‘the gift of an evange- lst. Young as he was, he soon e the leader*of a band of zéalous’ young men, who took all their time out Of business hours for evangelistic work. He worked from early morning until 8 o'clock at night for his em- ployers, developing his father’s enterprise and skill, and then he would work until late in the night, as he did all day Sunda; trying to save other men and women. His business abilities gave him promotion when he was twenty from Nottingham to Lon- on the 13th of. to a fellow worker tn Notting- ‘4 still Armer the standard,’ ites; “unfold still closer The Founder and Head of the Sal- OF HIS FE His Devotion to Duty as He Con- RHEUMATISM PREVALENT. Ite Early Stages—Mrs. M. Hill of Galeton, Pa, Finds a Remedy. becomes chronic there are few so hard to cure. ia the object of all rational treatment. cure for this terrible complaint. Galeton, Pa., Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite “One year ago I was taken Remedy, says: searcely walk. Faperite Remedy, and before I bad used the thint bottle the pain was all gone.” Favorite Remedy cures as well chronic, acute or inflammatory rheumatism; and in all dis- wes brought about by impure bieod, or an cess of acid in the blood, such as urinary trou- bles, dyspepsia, constipation, kidaey or liver com- plaiuts, 1t is a well-known spectiic Dr. David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy can be purchased of any druggist at oue dollar a bottle or six bottles for five dollars. sures you of success and a glorious re- ward; your crown is already held out! Then why delay? Why doubt? Onward! Onward! Ouward! Christ for me! Be that your motto; be that your battle cry; be that your war note; be that your consolation; be that your plea when asking mercy of God; your end when offering to man; your hope when encircled by darkness; your tri- umph and victory when att»ckel by death!” It was impossible that such a man could remain in busi uzh he seemed so admirably fit sin it. Not long after his arrivel in London he left business vehind him and entered the ministry, where he had remarkable success from the first. It was in Londen in 18s1 that he met Catherine Mumford, the wonderful woman who afterward became his wife, and who 1s well © moth Salva- tion Army. as he, and after their marriage, they worked together as evangelists with almost Inparaileled success, But the story of Mrs. Hoth fills two large volumes as told in a fascinating way by her son-in-la missioner Booth-Tucker, and there is. not room to ev ‘in to tell it here. As a speaker, a leader and in every capacity she vas her husband's equal, if not superior. No woman in ‘and commanded such audiences while she lived, and followed her funer y 1 when sh six ars ago. Besides all her public work she © brought up her nine children that every © of them became a Christian as a child, and every one except an Invalid daughter 1s now an active officer of the Salvation Army. AN that she accomplishel 1s made the more remark: by the fact that she was herself a lifelong invalt?. 3t ts extremely difficult to summarize the life work of Gen. Booth, lu which his wife took so great a part, but it was well done ia the Conqueror,the Salvation Artay maga- July by a writer who gave what he called “A Jubilee Glimpse of the General.” His Religio “The head of the Salvation Army was converted in the year Ist, when years old," he says, “and from that day to this his life has been spent in unceasing effort for the salvation of others. On three Niffercnt occasions he has literal- ly “left all” to obey the votce of God, and cn two of these oveasions he vpon God, not eniy himseif, but also a dell- wife and a family of young children. He has never drawn from the army funds personal expenses, and draws none new. The financial system adopted at head- quarters is ucted that if he desired ty appropriate 3” cents of tie army money he could not do so without the collusion of different off Work. uny he took his tirst charge as a min- ister in London with the section of Methodist friend, who bow mu hittin and insisted ong And in order to be pittance he had giy position weekly. with u: aur and exceilent ¢ in ISL, after caved as a mint Methodist . »bedience to the voice hot Knowing whith friend nad without too, in spite of the g ure put upon him to re ot God, r he went, arthing.”* went out, Lrospects of co stayed there, in the fall of the same year the gei and Mrs. Booth went to C: where within the next eigh y saw in their meetings no " con- version: “Twenty-s y ven years afterward the writer went te that conversed with dozens of peopie who were saved in those da nd heard graphic d= scriptions of various ermvons, Meetings and incidenis of that awakening. In 1865, after four years of success m soul-saving In other parts of Great Britain after che fashion of Cornwall, the general, for the third time, went forth alone, and almost penniless, on the Mile End Waste in London—to go atver the lost sheep in the greatest city in the worll. This step was largely due to dis- saUsfaction with the way In which the con- verts save] in his services had been treated, or rather neglected, by the churches into which he had sent them. “From 1865 to 1878 were the days of the Christian Mission. Among the practices of the Saivation Army, which were developed even in the earlier days of tue mission,were these: The utilizing of women’s abilities, both In meetings and in administration: continuous open-air work; the holding of meetings every night in the week; taking coliections in ‘all meetings; the occupation of buildings and rooms ordinarily used for secular, If not vicious, purposes; making every cause or soclety support itself; utiliz- ing converts as soon as they were saved marching in procession through the streets: making responses during prayers and ad- dresses in meetings, and, later in the mis- sion days, an approach to uniform, and the use of such musical instruments as the violin in the services, “{t is almost imposstble now to conceive the amount of opposition excited by some of these things, or how revolutionary they not only appeared to be, but actually were in those days. “In 1878 the Christian Mission became the Salvation Army, “stations” were called “corps,” the flag was designed by the gen- eral, the motto, “Blood and fire,” was adopted, and Mrs. Booth invented the halle- luj@h bonnet. At the end of that year the army had eighty-one corps and 127 officers, of whom 101 had been saved in its own meetings. “In 1880 Commissioner Railton brought the first expedition that left Great Britain to New York. In 188i the army pioneers start- ed for Australia and New Zealand, and La Marechale Booth-Clibborn commenced our work in France. In 1882 India, Sweden, Canada, South Africa and Switzerland were opened; Germany in 1886; Holland and Den- mark followed in 1887, Norway In 188g, South America, Finland and Belgium in 1889, northern Italy in 1891 and Jamaica in 1892, while this year is to be signalized by the invasion of Spain, Egypt, Palestine, Japan, Java, Demarara and Malta. “Today the forces of the army consist of some 4,000 corps, under 12,000 officers, who hold 30,000 services every week, in forty countries and colonies. The total circulation of its thirty-three weekly and monthly pa- pers, in twenty-one languages, about 50,000,000 copies per year, or nearly a mil- lion per week.These papers, too, are all sold— not given away—and there is not one paid “outside” advertisement to be found in one copy in any land or language. “In 1890 the general published that epoch- making book, “In Darkets England and the Way Out.” This volume contained the largest, deepest, most far-reaching, most statesmaniike and, at the same time, most practicable scheme—for a man who had the Salvation Army behind him—for the aboll- tion of poverty and pauperism that the world has ever seen. the numero agencies described in this book many are at work in almost every country where the army flag waves. In Great Britain most parts of the city colony and the farm colony sections have been realized with consider- able success, and Commissioner Carleton es Too Great a Sacrifice. 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Now, how- | ever, a firm of contractors, by exploding dynamite, 3,000 pounds at a time, ts grad- ually making huge excavattons tn front of the Palisades, which will in the course of a very few months transform the his- toric Palisades from things of beauty to ordinary stone quarries. Nothing that the lovers of natural scen- ery can do will in any way stop the de- structive work from going on. The Palt- sades ere private property, and that of them which is at present being torn by high explosives has been leased by the owners to contractors, w! love of the beautiful pales into insignificance beside their business instinct. Aside from the destruction of the Pall- sades the work going on in the quarries at Fort Lee is of moment on account of the enormous amount of dynamite which is being exploded there. People marveled at the explosion of 500 pounds of dynamite in MIs TYPEWRITER. The Lansing Man Surprised and Set Up the Cigars, From ‘the Detrolt Pree Press. ‘The young lawyer from Lansing was talk. ing to the young lawyer from Detroit about the details of his office business and how he aid his work. “Did you have a typewriter?” he asked, “Of course.” “What kind?” “A daisy.” “A Daisy?” “Yes.” “I never heard of @ Daisy typewriter be fore. “Well, that's the kind mine is.” “What's the cost?” “Ten dollars per week.” “Cracky, I only pay five a month for mine.” “You can’t get one Mke mine for any such figure.” “That's too much to pay.” “Not for the best.” ‘But yours isn’t any better than mine, bet the cigars.” won't want to bet after “Don't worry about that. I know what mine ts.” “But not mine. However, come around but to my office and judge for yourself. The Lansing man went willingly, when the Detroiter introduced him to @ pretty, brown-eyed, demure-faced maiden at the machine, he gave tt up and wanted to add a box of candy to the cigars he was to pay for. ————-+ee- Arranged. From the Detrott Titbune. ‘The Police—“You've got to promise to