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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-08

Another great occasion OF relig-
ious revival has closed. Many of the
people have seen the light that
shines forth from the tower of be-
lief, and II they stand stoadfast in
the faith they now hold, guiding
life's craft according to the direc-
ton of that Pilot who never falls.
they will finally reach safe an
chorage In the haven or the blest.
But the plan of salvation, While
based upon acceptance, calls for
work You must take heed lest you
fall" And then, too, forgiveness
must be expected in proportion as
forgiveness is given. And forgive
us our trespasses as we forgive
those who trespass against u.s. Is
the keystone In that prayer handed
down by the Master to his disciIl 81
and through them to all the world.
There is no condition In this for
gIveness. 1t can be full only as 1t is
made full. But faith, associated Will,
work, viii give the victory. Any
sacrifice that YOU may be required
to make is as nothing compared to
that which has made possible your
salvation. Many others have heard,
yet needed not, the still small voice,
being almost persuaded" and yet
too proud to surrender. But almost
cannot avail; almost Is but to fail;
sad, sad. the bitter vail almost.
bur lost" The evangelists have done
a great work, and the christian peo-
pie OF the city have supported them
in their campaign against evil, and
the whole people must feel the up
lift that has been spread abroad In
the community 1t is not always the
greatest good that is first manifest
ed May we all live as He directed,
giving especial heed to that last and
greatest commandment. Thou shalt |
owe thy neighbor as thy self"
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q. W. MCKNIGHT. Managing Editor
W. A. CWNBY City Editor
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Military Idea Develops.

1t was about this time in the first days
of the Salvation Armys life, that the
military aspect of organization was per-
fected. 1t was not because of this. how
ever, that the title general fell to the
leader of the movement. 1t was merely
an abbreviation of the designation which
he had received as general superintend-
ent of the Salvation Army"
With the adoption of the military aspect
new life seemed to have been injected in
leaps and bounds as soon as the post.
corps and uniform became a part of
the organization. .Hallelujah" choruses
sprang up everywhere. and the distinctive
sort of religious services drew and held
attention. The methods became known
in every city and town in England. With
in two years workers were sent to the
United States and Australia.
There was no halt once the interna-
tional campaign was undertaken. and
within brief space practically all of
the continental countries had become in
terested in the work. and the delegations
from these places were present when the
organizations international congress was
held in Alexandra palace, in London, in
1856.
This meeting followed soon after
Booths return to England after receiving
singular honors in the course of three
month tour of the United States and
Canada. Another great welcome was ex-
tended to Booth, when although aging
rapidly. he returned for visit to this
country in 1902 and 1903. Mrs. Booth
died In 1890.
So great was Gen. Booths faculty of
handling and inspiring men that Marshal
Wolseley once declared that the British
organization. distribution and control
from the Salvationists.
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SON OF A CARPENTER.
Gen. Booth Born in Nottingham,
England in 1929.

Gen. William Booth was the son of a
Nottingham, Eng. carpenter. He was
born in the city April 10, 1899.
He chose preaching for a profession
and studied theology under a private tu-
tor for the Methodist New Connection
Church. In 1852, when he was twenty
three years old, he entered the ministry.
but was not formally ordained until six
years later.
In the meantime he was appointed to
taste of evangelism and it appealed to
him. To his imagination and ambitious
mind the work of ministering week after
week to the same congregation palled
he longed for fresh fields and a con-
tinued fight to win men and women to
Christianity.
While travelling through the country,
particularly in London, Gen. Booth was
struck by the poverty of the people in
the slums. From observation he con-
certain extent allied, and that to do the
most effective work and to get the best
results he should transfer his efforts to
the poverty-st denizens of the
slums.
July 5, 1855, Gen. Booth took the first
step which led afterward to the forming
Of the Salvation Army. This effort was
first styled the Christian Mission, but it
sowed the seeds for the great interna-
tional army of faith which was to follow.
The name OF the organization was
changed to the Salvation Army, and Gen.
Booth began the gigantic task of estab-
fishing regular army to fight sin and
poverty. From a humble beginning in
London this great organization has
grown until it has S.973 corps circles,
and societies established in fifty-siX coun-
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teen years / have received word from
my sister Eva Booth
Asked if he would reply to the letter of
Commander Booth acduanting him with
the serious condition of his father, he an
sWered:
L have nothing to say.
Then he added: Il learn that my father
is sinking rapidly. When the sad event
of his death arrives l may have a state
ment to make. Until then. no.
That was all. Down at Salvation Army
headquarters Commander Eva Booth was
distraught with grief and could not be
seen. Speaking for her, Col. William
Peart said:
ION August IA l personally wrote to
Darlington. telling him of his fathers con-
dition. There was no answer We waited.
When last night dispatches came from
London indicating that the general Lad
not long to live, Commander Booth ner-
self wrote to her brother, telling him all.
AS far as we know, Darlington has ig-
nored the news of his fathers health
This was the situation just before news
came of the generals death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-21

Gen William Booth, the COMMANDMENT
chief of the Salvation Army in London:
Ger. Burlington Booth deplores any
reference being made at this sad time -
the estrangement between himself and
father. which arose purely on matters Of
government and principle seventeen
years ago. He prefers to be silent re-
garding the Salvation Armys treatment
and statements. save TO say that he has
always treated his father with the defer.
ence and duty due To q great man.
His eldest sister and second brother
are also out of the movement, and he
has knowledge of any effort having
been made during the last days or az
any time toward reconciliation. :
This is no personal quarrel. but 4
matter of difference in works. lie would
have gone to his sister Eva, but when
he and his brother attempted to Offer
their sympathy at the time of Mrs
Bootn-Iucher's death they We're met WITH
rebu.-. He has sought 10 avoid th'S
public appearance of disagreement. HIS
sympathy has been written with affec--
tionate solicitude 10 his brother, Bram-
well Booth, in England"
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FUMIGATE IMPORTED PLANTS.
Rare japanese Specimens for Pana-
ma Fete All Must Be Treated.

All of the rare plants which the Japa-
nese will send over TO the Panama Pacific
exposition will have TO be thoroughly
fumigated before being brought into this
country, as the result OF the signing b.
President Taft yesterday OF the national
plant quarantine law.
H. Yamawaki, Japanese commissioner
general of the exposition. has been in
formed by Secretary OF Agriculture Viii
son that all plants brought here for the
exposition would have TO be fumigated,
even though it might kill the more deli
cate varieties He said no exception TO
the rule could be made.
The plants TO be sent to this country
by the japanese are to be planted on the
Preside i'm San francisco. where they viii
remain after the exposition, a gift from
Japan 10 this government.
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struck fire among his mission workers
Their work became the passion of the
lives of Mr. and Mrs. Booth. Thelr
labors led them into the lowest districts
of East London. Still they pushed their
work forward and seemed ever to find
greater consolation when among the So
cial outcasts of the city. In his seven
years work as a Methodist preacher,
Booth, speaking to all classes and creeds
of men and women. had acquired
knowledge of the habits, thought and
dialects of those who were his audiences
in the first days of his new work. HIS
organization fourished and expanded be-
yond even the greatest hopes of himself
and his wife. He would preach any
where, SO long as he had an audience
on street corners. in saloons, in dance
halls
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-21
W|CKERSHAM' RET0RT
TOBULL MOOSE LEADER
Replies to Col. RooseveIt's
Criticism of Trust Busting
Under Taft.

The verbal warfare between Col. Roose-
Welt and Attorney General Wickersham as
10 whether the Department of Justice has
done any real work in breaking up the
big trusts received another chapter in
the really OF Mr.. Wickersham to the
criticisms OF the colonel
This is what Mr.. Wickersham has to
say:
In Col. Roosevelts rejoinder to my
statement comparing the antitrust prose-
cutions of his administration with those
OF the present he again conveniently over
looks the fact that the decree in the
Standard Oil case accomplished precisely
what his Attorney General and Frank B.
KELLOGG. the able lawyer whom he re-
tanned as special assistant to conduct that
prosecution, set out to accomplish. If he
VIII pause long enough in his denuncia-
tion TO read what MIR. Kellogg said in his
article in the Review OF Reviews for June,
1917, he will learn that Mr.. Kellogg there
recorded his matured conclusion that, in
ms opinion. the decree in the Standard
oil case accomplished everything that il
= possible TO accomplish under the Sher-
man act
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-21
John Barrett Sails for Home

John Barrett, director of the Pan-Amer-
lean Union, who has been travelling in
England. sailed for New York from Liv
erpool yesterday on the Franconia. Mr..
Barrett is expected to arrive in Washing
ton in about two weeks. While abroad
Mr.. Barrett visited a number of the COM
mercial organizations in Germany and
Skibo Castle. Scotland, where he was the
guest of Andrew Carnegie
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| have quoted was written at a time
when he was supporting Col Roosevelt
candidacy for the presidential nomination
at the hands of the republican party. and.
therefore, cannot he regarded as coming
from a source unfriendly to him. He
completely answers all the contentious
put forward by Col Roosevelt to mini
mize the effect of that decision. ! seri-
ously commend the perusal Of the article
to the colonel"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-21
Body Taken to Oklahoma.

Saltwater, Okla, lodge of the l. o. o. F.
will conduct the funeral services for DR..
Roy f. Burnett. who died at the George
Washington University Hospital Sunday
morning. DIR. Burnett was employed at
the bureau of animal industry in the Az
ricultural Department. The body arrived
at Saltwater this morning accompanied
by DIR. G. w. Hoover, former classmate
by DR.. Burnett
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-21
Scope of Each Decree.

And. again. that the decree went
further than any decree has ever gone
in any cost under the Sherman act
That statement was true TO that decree
when it was entered. The decree in the
ease Of the American tobacco combina-
ton went still further
Mr. Roosevelts statement that these
DEGREES have been received with salts
faction by the trusts-either straight
trusts or crooked TRUSTS about as
truthful IL would he to say that
man who Was threatened with the loss
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PREFERS TO BE SILENT.
Ballington Booth Regrets Reference
to His Differences With Father.

PATCHOGUE. L. L., August 2L-An
Immediate member of the family of Gen.
Ballington Booth. head of the Volunteers
of America, authorized the following
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| of both his legs received with satisfac-
/ ton the Information that only was

of both his legs received with satisfac-
ton the information that only one was
to be cut off
IF the test of success or otherwise i'm
the adnlinistra ton of the Sherman law is
to be the market prices of the stocks of
the distributed concerns after decree of
disintegration. what conclusion would be
drawn from the facts in the Northern
plete accomplishment under the Sherman
law during the Roosevelt administration
As a matter of fact. the market prices
of tt stocks of both the Northern Pa
cific and the Great Northern Railroad
companies increased greatly after the
distribution which followed the decision
of tn Supreme Court in that case and
the Union Pacific interests after such dis
solution sold the Northern Pacific shares
which they received at profit of about
S6S.OCo,- 0-accor lg to the testimony in
the governments suit against the South
ern Pacific and Union Pacific companies.
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Colonel's Answer Criticised.

But Col. Roosevelt answers the infer
ence which might be drawn from that
fact, just as a similar inference in the
cases of the Standard oil and tobacco
combinations is answered, by saying:
We broke up the combination.
THAT is what was accomplished with
the Standard oil, tobacco and powder
combinations. and a number of others
prosecuted during this administration.
Frank 3. kellog's article from which
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Solicitude for Army's Work.

SOi. hilCil1S SdlO tHdl up cdtuT-
day Gen. Booth showed solicitude for
the work of the army. He inquired about
the progress being made In America and
India, and specially about the welfare
of the officer sent to China to report
on the possibility of commencing work
there.
I'VE had not expected the end quite
SO soon," Col. kitching continued. "The
general died very peacefully and quiet
ly. without the slightest struggle. His
breathing simply became less and less
until it ceased altogether.
Il think the disappointment following
the non-return of the generals sight was
greater strain upon him than the opera
ton itself. He was very buoyant until
for the worse occurred. After that time
he gradually sank
When Gen. Booth said, from time to
time, that when the wires flashed around
would also carry the name of his success
sor," Col. kitching added, he spoke
metaphorically. The announcement Of
his successor probably will be made in a
day or two"
Ballington Declines Reconciliation.
NEW YORK, August 21-Members Of
the Salvation Army yesterday made an
unsuccessful effort to bring about a
reconciliation between Ballington Booth
leader of the Volunteers of America, and
his aged father.
The effort to bring together father and
son ere the seal of death wiped out the
chance forever, came when dispatches
from London indicated the aged general
could survive but little longer Then
Commander Eva Booth, sister of Balling-
ton. but who has stood with her father
in the ENHANCEMENT, wrote to her brother
Raj
hngton Booth received that letter yester-
day. Al his office on 2Sth street he said:
The silence on Nth street has been
broken at last. For the first time in six
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tries and colonies with about 81, o03 Off
GERS and employees.
Spreads Throughout the World.

In almost every city of consequence
there is branch, with barracks. where
beds are maintained and food is dispens-
ed at a very cheap rate. The Salvation
Army soon found that its ramifications
were so great and so widespread was the
interest in it's work that 1t needed an
official organ. so the newspaper War Cry
was started and is in a fiouriShing con-
diton.
AS a concrete example of the material
benefits of the army 6.327.249 persons are
supplied with beds in a single year. while
in the same length of time nearly 1900
OOO are fed.
Gen Booth made number OF trips to
the United States. and has sent a num-
pie upon various occasions. While in
New York in 1907 he gave out a remark
able interview. in which he said: My
wife has preached and all my children
have preached: now the third begat are
beginning to preach. l pray to God there
may never be a break in the line
While Gen. Booth was optimistic by ma
ture, at times he became discouraged by
his daily contact with the sins of the
world. Two years ago during an address
he predicted the imminent dissolution of
the world by fire because of the great
wckedness of the human race
Gen. Booth was a great believer in the
inherent goodness of women. and often
woman sinned she was led to 1t by
man. He pondered for three years
whether or not he should marry the girl
Of his choice. because he was not sure
he could make her as happy as he
wished
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Results in Blindness.

During the last few years of his life
Gen. Booth had been troubled with cata-
racts upon his eyes. and recently suf-
fered virtual blindness Several opera
tons were performed from time to time.
On his eightieth birthday. while the
light of human vision was swiftly fading.
the aged humanitarian donated 5000, 600
for the founding of a university of hu-
mainly to teach those doing social re-
form work 1t will be erected in London.
Gen. Booth had a tall, commanding
figure and piercing eye. His superb
carriage and his long, flowing beard and
snow-white hair gave him a ply scal ap-
pearance in keeping with his life and his
noble deeds.
1t was small beginning that marked
the religious organization founded by
Booth under the name of the Christian
Revival Association. The association was
born in an abandoned Quaker burial
ground The first meeting was held in a
tent, and a hundred members of the
Christian Mission were enrolled.
Mr.. Booth was debating to a stenog
rapher when he used the words: THE
Christian Mission is a volunteer army"
When he looked over the paper later he
substituted salvation" for volunteer"
as the stronger word, and the phrase
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Women's Shamrock Lawn Hand
kerch;efs. cross barred with Arme-
MAN lace edge and offered at &c
each or 3 for Csc.
One uses so many handkerchiefs
in hot weather that such low price
should be taken advantage of.
Handkerchief Store-Street Floor.
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Unconscious for Two DAYS.

Gen. Booth was unconscious for forty
eight hours previous to his DEATH The
seriousness of his condition had not been
manifested in the bulletins from the
medical attendants, but his friends knew
he was sinking, and that unless a rally
resulted from the treatment his. death
was but a question of time. 1t is now
known that for week or more the case
was regarded by the physicians a
hopeless one.
Present at the bedside when the end
came were Mr.. and Mrs Bramwell Booth
and their daughter and son. Adjt. Cath
crime Booth and Sergt Bernard Booth;
the generals youngest daughter, Com
missioner Mrs. Booth Helbred and Com
missioner Howard, Col. Kitching and DR.
Wardlaw Milne.
Public interest now centers in the ques-
ton of a successor to the late command
er. Under the constitution of the Sal
walton Army the general dominates his
successor
Gen. Booth did this several years ago.
placing the name in sealed envelope.
which was deposited with the Salvation
Army's lawyers with instructions that it
should not be opened until after his
death. While nobody knew in advance of
the opening of the sealed envelope, what
name the envelope inclosed the general
belief among the Salvation Army was
that it would prove to be that of Bran
we'll Booth, who for thirty years has
been its chief of staff.
Twelve weeks ago Gen. Booth under
went surgical operation for the removal
of cataract in his left eye. For two
days after the operation indication justi-
fled the hope of the generals recovery.
Then, however, septic poisoning set in,
and from that time, with the exception
of occasional rallies, the patient health
steadily declined. The general recognized
that the end was near. and often spoke
of his work as being finished
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-21

Throughout the commander-in-chief's
illness his son. BraEIwell Booth. chief of
staff of the army. and Mrs. Bramwell
Booth gave their unremitting attentions
to him both night and day.
Almost the last words of Gen. Booth
were uttered just before he lost con-
sciousness. He was referring to Gods
promises and, speaking with great diff
Guilty. said:
They are sure-they are sure-if YOU
will only believer!
Bramwell Booth. believing that the
evangelists end was approaching, said
last evening:
THE general is quite free from pain,
but in the last few days he has had in
creasing difficulty in articulation and is
unable to express himself clearly. We
have received messages of sympathy from
all over the world, showing the very
great affection manifested toward him. >
Bramwell Booth specially mentioned
John Wanamaker's message, which read:
Farewell to thee who never thought
of myself, but only of others"
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FLAGSAT HALF-MAST
Salvation Army's Tribute to
Gen. William Booth.
MOURNING FOR ITS LEADER
Noted Commander Dies at His Home
Near London.
MESSAGES OF COINCIDENCE
King George Among the First to Ex-
press Sympathy-Funeral Ar
rangements Not Completed.

LONDON, August 21.-Out of respect
for the memory Of the late Gen. William
Booth. commander-in-chiefo of the Saliva
ton Army, who died last evening at his
residence, the Rookstone. Hadleywood.
some eight miles from London, where he
had been confined to his bed ever since
an operation was performed in an effort
to remove the cataracts from his eyes.
all the flags floating on Salvation Army
headquarters throughout the country
have been half-masted.
| At the international headquarters on
Queen Victoria street, in the center Of
the city, constant stream Of messen-
gers bringing kilograms and letters Of
| coincidence from every part of the globe
| flowed in all day. Among those who sent
messages of sympathy were prominent
personages belonging to the government.
the army the navy and every branch of
life. while dispatches were also received
from kings and other royalties. Cable
grams were received from countries as
diverse as Patagonia and Lapland.
One of the first messages of sympathy
received at the Salvation Army head
quarters was from King George.
Massed Service Day of Funeral.
The obsequies of the late general prob
ably will extend over q week and the
funeral will take place probably August
- or 80. The lying-in-state is to be at
the Salvation Army Congress Hall, Clap
ton. the largest building owned by the
Salvation Army. On the day Of thefuneral
10000 Salvationists will participate in a
massed service in a larger hall which
has not yet been decided on. The hir-
ing of the Crystal Palace is in contem-
plation for the purpose
The name of the successor of Gen
Booth as commander in-chief of the Sal
walton Army probably will be announced
in day or two with much ceremony ac-
cording to the late generals expressed
wishes While he disliked personal pub
| licity, he welcomed anything which kept
the army in the public eye. A melo-
dramatic notice posted on the front of
the Salvation Army headquarters says:
1.-The general has laid down his sword.
| God is with U.S.