The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-18
MAKE The DEVIL QUAKE.
The BOOth-Tuekers Are Here
for That Purpose.
The Commander Tells of His
Experience With BrOdie.
He and Brodie Went Summing To
gether in New Xork-The Meet
ing at Hamilton Hall.

/ Tucker who have so recently arrived
from England as the heads OF the Sal
walton Army in America. in place of
/ Ballington and Maude Booth who
started an army of their own because
/ Ballington's father, the general-in-
/ chief of the army wished him to ac-
! cept another field.
/ The Booth fuckers are on their
I way to New York from San Francisco.
/ About three weeks ago Mrs. Booth
I Tucker whose title is consul went to
/ the coast to investigate the condition
Of the Army there. While in Califor-
/ mia she was taken seriously i'll and the
! commander was summoned This is
their return trip. She is not yet strong
/ but attended the afternoon and even
+ ing meetings at Hamilton hall with
her husband and spoke at both OF
them.
MRS. Booth Tucker is the second
/ daughter of General Booth.
The party is completed by Major
/ Malan, the Italian tenor, who was Gen
eral Booth private secretary. and Ma
/ jor Alice Lewis, secretary to Consul
! Bo0th-Tucker.
1 Commander Booth-TucBer is a spare
4 ~ built man Of perhaps As years, his
4 face is of the sort described as hatch
] ct, his nose is prominent but not large
and his eyes are of gray and the pierre
/ ing sort, though kindly. He wears a
! mOustache and small goatee blonde in
/ color. His head sports a bald spot the
! settled with thin curling hair, none of
/ it yet gray.
Ills wife is tail and slender also and
I bears evidences in her face of her re
! cent sickness. Her eyes and hair are
! brown
Both of them wear the well known
uniform. The commanders suit con
sits of blue Prince Albert coat. be-
meath which is a red sweater with the
insignia of the Army and his position
on his breast and on his shoulder
! straps.
/ Mrs Booth Fucker wears in addition
! to her blue dress a white silk sash that
! floats gracefully from her right Shout
der to a bow at her left side
Both wear the same ready smile that
lights kindly at every handshal1e and
/ almost every sentence
They arrived Saturday night from
/ Atchison where they held short meet
! ing Saturday evening About rs mem
i bers of the Topeka Army met them at
i the train and sang a Salvation well
The commander responded with
+ short speech delivered from one of the
] baggage trucks at the Santa. Fe depot
/ carriage to the home OF Judge j. Il.
/ Clark in Potwin where they remained
and Col j. w F. Hughes took them in
/ while in town
God bless you. brother" said the
/ commander to q, Journal reporter how
/ is it with your sOul?"
I am newspaper reporter" said
/ the journal man.
7 beg your pardon said Mr. Booth
/ Iucker and nothing more was said
about souls during the conversation.
The Booth-Tucker's are not too i'm
+ pOrtant to talk to newspaper men and
treat them nicely which is more than
/ can be said truthfully of Mrs. Balling-
ton Booth
This trip through the west has been
/ very satisfactory to US" said the com
I mander, and we find great reason to
/ be encouraged. The recent circumstan-
/ ces surrounding the withdrawal of Bal
/ lingbon Booth from the Army and his
/ establishment of the American Volun-
1 teers have been very distressing but
I we find that the change has had little
( effect upon the Army. OF the 1000 Of
/ hcers not more than SO have deserted
us and of the GOO corps in the United
States we lost only six
THE trouble was simply this. Bal
! lingtOn Booth was ordered to new
! fields by his father and refused to go.
For that the general deposed him. 1t
J was q severe blow to the general but
/ he was determined to treat Ballington
just as he would have any other Off
Ger in his command not his son.
.'Au of General Booths children but
! one are actively in high places in the
Army, not because they are his chill
dren but because they are able to fill
the places. One daughter is an inva-
lid and while she wears the uniform
she does no outside work.
Eva Booth, my wife's younger sis
ter. is at the head of the army in Can
ada. She is q remarkable woman and
has done every bit of the work from
the bottom up. Her stunning expert
ences and the stories of the times she
has been fought by the throwing of
stones have been published fully in the
newspapers.
Il was. before Z came to America, at
the head of the work in India, where
lived prior to my conversion. I was a.
judge on the queens bench in India as
my father had been before me. I was
converted in London fifteen years ago \
and eight years ago married
Miss Booth We retained her
name as a means of more closely iden-
| flying ourselves with the army.
Il am becoming Amerfcanized rapid
/ ly. I admire the country Almost the
very first thing I did here was to go
through the Sums of New York with
that celebrated gentleman, Steve Bro
die. believe Brodie has a good heart
He was much interested in the misery
he met and really tried to do good.
We viii spend Monday and Tues
day in Kansas City and then go direct
to New York"
The three meetings yesterday We're
not very well attended The comman-
der is an easy graceful ta1zer His
voice is pitched high but is not tire
some and his SMILES are to the point
sssin is to the heart" ne said; like I
understand Kansas mud is to the feet
1t has a Suitability.
"Quakers We're not called Quakers be |
cause they quaked but because they
made the devil quake. Let as all go
through life making the devil quake"
when / made up my mind to 60 to
/ heaven he said IT made up my mind
I would go right and would be known
when I got there. I wanted my man
sion to be No. l. No. / avenue, right
at the corner Of Glory square and not a
little tunbledown cottage away out in
/ the suburbs. I wanted to be so well
/ known there that when arrived I
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