The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-10
Wbat 7he Salyanon Army
 Zs Doing At Chrzstnas Tide
Caring For the Poor and Endeavorng Make Them Happy Christmas Dinner For Thousand to Be Furnished
 Children to Have Christmas Tree
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

Some fine morning when l am missed from my usual post of duty" said very clever girl, the other day, just tell my friends that they need not send out a search warrant for me, but just look on the first street corner they come to where a drum and a little Salvation Army lassie and an interested few are gathered together, and there you'll find me-"
 Are you as much interested as that?" I asked.
 More than that" she replied enthusi- astically, ''and honest Injun, I would like to join the army the best in the world. Of course it's one of Mr. Gelett Burgess example phrases of the Brc- mide to say that the Salvation Army reaches a class that nobody else in the pressed upon my mind that I can't help but repeat 1t again
 Let me tell you n funny little story that I heard one Of the big men in the Salvation Army tell In our church one Sabbath day when he was holding ser vice. He related how friend of his who was greatly interested in the army had had a dream. He thought that he had died and gone to heaven and when he got there of course he took his nat ural place along with the Methodists. Gathered about were the other denom- inations-the Baptists, the Presbyterians, the Episcoplaians, the Catholics, the Uni tarians, the Congregationalists, and all the others, close at the foot of the throne.
 Finally this man who had always re- garded the Salvation Army with so much : favor remarked that he did not See any of the army people around.
 Just at this point there was borne upon his ears in the distance the sound of the drum, the sweet cadence of tender voice and the words of syinpa- thetic speaker-and at last he know that they were present.
 But why are they not here with us?' he inquired. Are they not well come?"
 ''Oh, yes," replied some one near, but you see, the Salvation Army people are the only ones the Lord trusts out of His sight,
 With the spirit of Christmas perme- ating everything from church to home and back again, at this grand season, l was attracted to the Salvation Army rep resenttive In the usual stand, with the Christmas pot-boling going brayely on yesterday afternoon and as each way farer passed a contribution was depos- ited as on they went.
 It struck me that 1t was very kind and generous impulse that prompted each to cooperate with these good peo- pie in their Christmas work, and so asked Capt J. A. Harvey who, with his wife, is in charge of the Salvation Army work here, to tell me about their plans for the Christmas work.
 we are just as busy as can be- said he, with our preparations for our an- nual Christmas dinner and in the midst of it all I am now on my way to the depot to provide for family to leave town-so you see what a busy life l have.'
 And Is the Christmas dinner to be pro- vided out of what the pot-boiling brings I asked.
 "Oh, yes" said he. ''and whatever con tributions anyone else chooses to make. '
 "How many people will the Salvat tion Army care for this Christmasf asked.
 eve expect to prepare two hundred