The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-13
NEW BOOKS

THE BLUE BADGE OF COURAGE, Bv n. n
t1adle!. AKRON, Ohio: The Saalfield Publish
Ing company. Price $1.25.
Colonel Henry H. Hadiey, the author Of
thls work, has for some years been wide
ly known as a strong and successful lead
er in total abstinence and rescue work.
and his experience justifes him in his
earnest effort, as he says, ito show what
young men without money or education,
whose lives are blasted by drink and kim
dred sins, may do, or rather what a higher
power can do with and for them" Serv-
ing in an Ohio regiment during the whole
civil war, he was mustered out in 1867,
after becoming hard drinker. At the
famous Jerry McAuley mission in New
York, he was converted In 1886. and from
that time he has devoted himself to rescue
work, for some years working in the Epis-
copal parishes Of st. Georges and St.
Bartholomew and leading the Church Ar
my in New York and Boston, ultimately
devoting his life exclusively to inter de-
nominatiOnal total abstinence and rescue
work under the auspices of the National
Christian Abstainers' Union, Of which he
is a director. Colonel Hadley has founded
607 rescue missions in New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Indiana. The symbol
of the work is a blue button, standing for
total abstinence from Christian stand
point AS aids to the work the colonel
uses illustrations by stereopticons and the
moving picture device. A portion of the
book relates to Fadley's experience in the
| war. After the war he got very low down
| and in the course of time found himself an
absolute slave to drink, attaining a ca
| pacity Of ffty-three drinks in one day.
| His brother had been reformed at the Nc
| Auley mission and was superintendent
| of ia saved drunkard, and Colonel Had.
| ley went there one evening and through
| the power not of earth was delivered from
| IL +@s- H.
| superhuman courage and strength of will
| to overcome the fierce temptation.
| This book is written in no spirit Of
| boasting. The colonel having found the
| way out Of bondage the most oppressive
and he1lish in the world, makes the
| strongest argument in the record OF his
personal experience and of the emancipa-
| lions Of very many others which came I'M
der his own observation. The book Is
| full of encoura cement for drink-enslaved
men and women. The Colonel is doing
a grand rescue work. To sheer at 1t, as
some do, is sacrilege It is a work which
no towards can do. He who succeeds in
it must actualize the blue Badge
of Courage Then he may rescue lost
humanity from the depths Of sin and deg
radiation.
ON FORTUNES ROAD. Stories of Business:
! By Will Payne, author Of 'The Story OF
| Eva" etc. Illustrated by Fogarty. Chicago:
A. G. McClurg & Co., No. 215 Wabash ave-
nue..
These are extraordinarily good
"stories of business" They will surely
enhance the already growing reputation
of Mr. Payne for strong literary con-
struction. The stories portray phases OF
the business and political life OF Chicago
and reveal the pathetic and romantic side
} of the grain pits, the stock exchange ana
marts of business generally. "a Day in
Wheat" and 1.-The End Of the Deal have
: appeared in the Century, but they Will
bear repeated reading: In these stories,
notably the first, the reader is apt to feel
) some sympathy with old Thatcher and
feel a quivering Of the nerves as he looks
down with Miss Thatcher from the gallery
l into the swishing maelstrom of specu-
lating, bowling humanity beneath him.
l I'm the Panic there is a fine sermon, q
case of conscience, heroism almost com
pleted. The reader will class the Hal
stead street girl among the decided heroes
and say, ''Poor Miss Grosvenor. he
will think she lost the heroic quality Wnen
d. she hesitated about leaving her $1,000 IN
the bank and helplessly said, "Oh, don't
know!'