The age-herald., 1900-10-05
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE

Startling news comes from Europe. X rush" cablegram announces that Emperor Bill has changed the angle of his mustache This news if true, certainly denotes a great upheaval in the royal mind. It Is said that the ends of the mustache instead of pointing upward as heretofore towards heaven like twin lightning rods, are now waxed horizontally, and point east and west. The barber who suggested this change has had the same copyrighted and is making fortune waxing the mustaches of the army officers in the same way
 If there is anything strictly original about the Emperor it is the way in which he has worn his mustache It has become classical. It has been photographed by every photographer in the Kingdom, and kodaked by every loyal subject It has been painted in oils and water colors and none of these portraits or photographs would have had the slightest value if the mustache had not been at the right angle Now the Emperor by one twist of the mustache destroys millions of dollars worth of photographs and paintings-for who will buy one of these obsolete patterns? As well try to sell a woman a puff sleeve shirt waist when tight sleeves are in vogue.
 Boom! boomi boom! boom went the drum of the Salvation Army. A more monot- onous and unmusical sound could not be ina gined. The army consisted of two women. One carried the drum and the other a flag. They did not intend to be funny. They did not realize that if they went on the minstrel stage and went through the same performance they would be the hit of the evening"
 After marching and counter-marching the army finally deployed into divisions of one and halted at the corner of Nineteenth street and Second avenue. Here the two women knelt down in the mud, and one of them began to pray. A curious crowd gathered around them.
 The prayer over, the other started to preach "It Is true that there are only two of us here tonight" she said, but God is here, and He may be able to touch the hearts of you people. If you will but repent He will in no wise cast you out. tell you this because the Lord told me- It is in the Bible It is the word of Jesus, and it is true. You do not have to become a Salvation Army soldier to be saved. You be salvationist-believe the word of Jesus," etc., etc.
 Few people know, or care to know, any thing about these people. They are so far beyond the pale of society" that Vanity Fair never troubles its head about them. The cry of the unfortunate seldom reaches the hearts of the happy. It Is d mistake. however, to think these people are fakirs, working for themselves On the contrary they are unselfish and work for others
 It may be of some interest to tell some- fhfnO Of hn tyn nrIri ri,1ur i., I3ir mingham. She Is from Nashville, the daughter Of merchant, and four years ago was IS fond of dress, the theatres and dancing as any woman. Then she became converted. She joined the Salvation Army in spite of her mothers objection. T am in 1t to stay,'' she says, until I am called to Heaven. I have seen life in every shade since being in this work. Oh, the sin and misery, the poverty and woe come in con- tact with. Not a day passes but some poor man or woman comes to me in need of a meal or place to sleep. I go everywhere. I have been thrown out of saloons but [ go again for I bring message of saliva .on, and God takes care of his own, as well as the Devil.
 We need hall in Birmingham At pres ent the rents are so high we cannot afford one, but we hold meetings on the street every night at o'clock. What we need here is a food and shelter depot, like they have in other cities, place where we can give bed and food for 10 cents. It will take 5000 to start it. We will have to buy beds, clothing, in fact everything. Our ob- ject is to do good-to keep the tramps and homeless boys off the streets"
 This soldier Is a good woman. She is doing a good work People go to the Sal- vation Army for help who would not feel respectable enough to present themselves to the average minister and ask for aid. If any one woed like to experience novel sensation by doing good they might in some way assist these people.
 If a man has no money and desires to get rich, the matter is much more simple than is generally supposed. For instance, one way Is to rent or buy some old farm house in the 1oneliest most God-forsaken spot he can find. If there are no neighbors within ten miles so much the better. The only requisite is that the place must be within fifty seventy-ive miles of big city. Then he needs also one or two fierce bulldogs to attack any stranger who should venture near The mans fortune Is now as good as made All he has to do Is to advertise his retreat in the city papers as a rest cure, get few nerve broken bank- CTS or business men in his retreat, and give them complete rest. Rest cures are the thing. A man works himself to death. goes without meals, worries about his business until he Is a wreck. Then he takes rest-usually at 5 per day. It costs money to rest when you need it very bad. It Is only the old story: When you can get things for the asking, you don't want them; when you can no longer get them this way you are willing to buy them.
 
 Another way of getting rich without capi- tai is to start fund for the relief of the India famine sufferers the Galveston needy. All the stock in trade that is nec- essary is to sign the prefix of Rev" to your name, then start the ball rolling by organizing a relief committee, acknowledge each subscription promptly in the news papers and the thing works of itself. All the donors ever expect Is to see their names in the papers with the corrtct amount of their subscriptions. No one ever thinks of asking for an accounting. In fact, after having seen their name in the paper the matter passes from their mind and in time the very fact that re- lief committee ever existed is forgotten.