Evening star., 1898-07-30
| N THE CH re HE S

Salvation Army camp meeting has be-
gun at Mount Airy, Nd, and will continue
until Monday. August s. Among the dis
tinguished leaders who have promised to
attend are: Consul and Commander Booth
Tucker, commanding the Unite1 States
forces; Lieut.. Col. r. E. Hoz national
colonization department.; Brig. William
Halpin, national junior soldiers secretary;
Maj. and Mrs. Pebbles. commanding south
eastern division; Maj Edith Marshall
Naval and Military League; Ensign j. A
Dearing, divisional junior soldiers secre-
tary; Ensign H. H. Frizzell commanding
the Baltimore section; Capt. H. Core, the
song queen; Cadet A Andrews. the min
strel, and many others. Every meeting of
which there will be several daily, will have
a special feature. The subject of these are
consecutively: THE Spanish-American
War, The Franco-Swiss War" The In
Clan Story, "Woman's War" Sorting the
stun, The Twentieth Century" II WILL
.'Rumdom, Bumdon and Sumdon," The
Ghost Meeting" Booth-Tucker Day: "Auc-
ton Sale of Children" The Burning Ques.
ton instantaneous Salvation ''Th.
Last Charge"
KEY. Rather Gillespie, for long pastor
OF st. Aloysius parish. who a few days ago
left the city for another field of labor. was
before his departure, presented by some of
the young men of the church with a travel
Ing Vallse and handsome shaving and toilet
set inclosed within handsome leather
case, as a token of esteem and rernem-
brance of his many eminent Qualities and
his loyalty to their cause
Many pastors of churches, officers of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Ed
worth LeaguerS, Young Mems Christian AS
sociations, Good Templars, Sons of Temper
anee and other church workers are earnest
ly urged to copy out the following petition
at the head of a large sheet of paper. Sc
cure as many signatures as possible and
SEND in at once to President Mckinley
that the great evils of the canteen system
may be abolished before the war has pro-
ceeded iurther The President has been
appealed to on the subject. and it is stated
mat he is disposed to consider fayorably
an an protests and petitions regarding It:
10 the President of the United States:
w hereas, the so-called army canteen
system. professedly designed to keen our
soldiers from the temptations of saloons
outside of camp, has, in fact resulted in
bringing the saloon temptation directly
Within the camp, exposing thereto many
thousands of young men carefully nutureI
IN temperance principles in Christian homes
and churches and
Whereas, the amount of liquor consum-
ed tine sales often averaging from 800 TO
S2oo day TO canteen) threatens seriously
TO injure the military efficiency of our
troops and to cause widespread demoraIiza-
ton on the return of those troops to peace
full life, and
Whereas, leading army surgeons declare
the use of alcoholic liquors of any kind to
De extremely dangerous to the health and
stamina of soldiers campaigning In a
tropical climate like that of Cuba, there
fore
we, the undersigned, do hereby respect
1uily petition that you will, to the extent of
your authority as commander-in-chief of
the army, forbid the sale of intoxicating
liquors at all post and camp exchanges, or
elsewhere within the lines of the armies of
the United States"
The convention of the Brotherhood of ST
Andrew, to be held in Baltimore at the end
of September, is national not an interna-
| ttonal, gathering and its date was named
to Immediately precede that of the general
convention of the Protestant Episcopal
Church at Washington in order to enable
bishops and clergy who come to Washing
ton but who have never attended cor
vention of the young mcn of the commun-
ion to do so this year. The bishop Of south
ern Virginia will deliver the charge and the