St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-10
the SALVATION ARMY.
Its Rapid Growth in Every Civil
ICED Country in the World.

cinnati a large gathering Of the Salvation
Army to welcome Commander and Mrs.
Ballington Booth. The local organizations of
Cincinnati, Coyington and Newport were
out in full force, gaily uniformed, and
marched like an actual army, with bands and
banners. Representatives were present from
all the camps or barracks OF the army, now
to be found in every town and city of the
whole Union. 1t is unnecessary to say that
the meeting Was orderly in the extreme,
though accompanied by the shouting and en-
thusiasm that distinguishes all the gather
ings of this strange but rapidly Increasing
order.
Only few years since the men and women
who appeared on the streets in the uniform
of the Salvation Army were hooted at by
boys, regarded with contempt by respectable
people and ridiculed even by members of the
church. Ordinances against holding public
meetings on the Streets and other "unlawful
gatherings" were enforced against these
people in many of our cities. Preachers Of
fashionable churches were inclined to regard
them as religious charlatanS and even the
more democratic church organizations were
slow to see the possibilities for good in the
Salvation Army.
Against all this opposition and ridicule,
and in the face of the laws that were en-
forced against it, the Salvation Army has
gradually won its way to respect, and demon
strated that it has found field for useful
ness beyond and below the reach of the
churches.
Black sheep there certainly have been in
this army, and their misdoings have been ex-
aggerated for the purpose of bringing it into
contempt. Still the leaders and their fol-
lowers, sadly ignorant in many cases, but the
ma ority intensely in earnest and impelled to
effort by noble purpose, have kept steadily
on their way until they have won the conf
dence of former skeptics, and the respect of
all who have studied their methods or given
any thought to what they have done and are
doing in this and other lands.
The Salvation Army carries the comforts of
religion into the slums and brings its truths
before people who never enter church, and
who would never learn the glad tidings of re-
ligion in any other way. The outcasts of
both sexes, they have made their wards.
They have lifted up the fallen; they have
strengthened the weak, and encouraged the
Respondent. Working out of sight, among
pass without notice, but the student of social
statistics must have noticed a great change
for the better in the substratum of society,
and particularly in the fields where the Sal
walton Army has been at work.
It was the good fortune of the writer Of
this article recently to make a tour round the
world, and while confessing that at the time
of his departure from home he was not in
clined to look with admiration on what he
considered the antics of the 'hallelujah
lasses," captains, and majors, and colonies Of
this army, yet in other lands, and at the sug-
gestion of strangers who, like himself, were
formerly opposed to the Salvation Army, he
was led to investigate their methods.
In Honolulu he found troops of native
Hawaiians dressed with the red shirt and
peaked cap, with the legend salvation
Army" on it, and these natives, he was told
by our consul in Hawaii, were vastly better
than those who did not wear the uniform.
Even in FIJI, which but few years ago
was the land of the cannibal, there are native
troops of Salvation Army men, and the old
warlike spirit of these people has been vastly
changed for the better by the refining and
elevating association of the officers, who have
been sent from England to drill and train
them.
ALI through Australia and New Zealand the
the Salvation Army is doing splendid work.
In Auckland, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide
and other towns of Importance they have es-
tablshed houses of refuge for the care of the
fallen women, and, by an arrangement with
the different colonial governments convicts
who have served their terms are consigned
to the guardianship OF the Salvation Army.
These ex-convicts, without any regard to
their religion or their past life, are given
comfortable homes, taught trades, and in due
time provided with work, and the records
show that where formerly fully seventy per
cent. of these convicts were returned again
to prison within one or two years, not five
per cent. of those cared for by the Salvation
Army have relapsed.
One may laugh at the high-fown military
titles of these people, and call their religious
feryor 'tanimal excitement, or ignorant en-
thusiasm," yet we cannot hide from ourselves
the fact that they are doing noble and an
elevating work among those classes which
neither our political or religious organiza-
lions can reach. C. r.
WHY ARE We THIRSTY?-The sensation of
thirst is caused by a lack of fluids in the
system. In state of health it indicates that
the body wants moisture. We should dis
tinguish natural thirst from that caused by
stimulating foods and beverages which pro.
duce fever in the organs of digestion.
Thirst is caused by failure Of the salivary
and other glands to secrete proper amount
of fluid for use in the stomach. 1t is posi-
bic to quench thirst not only by the ordinary
means, but through the blood vessels and the
skin. Much of the water drank passes out
through the skin by means of the blood YES
sells, and is known as unconscious perspira-
ton. It is a well-known fact that the loss OF
blood is always followed by intense thirst;
this thirst is one of the most narrowing feat
ures of a battlefield. as every old soldier
knows. The reason for it is that the blood
vessels being drained of their moisture, the
skin becomes parched, and every pore is
changed into thirsty mouth. Thirst accom-
panies feyers, but its causes are local, being
due to dryness in the throat and mouth, the
result OF high temperature.
The value of an egg does not depend SO
much on the size as on the quality of the
yolk. The yolk is largely composed of
nutritious oil, and unless the hen is in prime
condition this oil is deficient. or Of a poor
quality.