The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-13
EDITORIAL NOTES


Mrs. Maud Banington Booth, ftthe|
angel of the prisons will pass her
forty eighth milestone to-day. The
beautiful and kindly woman who, as
founder and head. of the Volunteer
Prison League, has accomplished a
great work in the reformation of Grim
mails, was born in Surrey, England,
the daughter of a clergyman, on Sept.
49,, 1865. Her maiden name was
Char1esworth, and she was well edu-|
Gated in England and Switzerland. She
had just passed her twenty-f1rst birth
day when she became the bride of
Ballington Booth, the son of General
William Booth, founder of the Saliva
ton Army. A few months after their
marriage the couple came to America
to engage in the work of the ttarmy,''
After the disagreement between Bal
lington Booth and his father, and the
resignation of the former as com
mander of the Salvation Army in the
United States, Mrs. Booth joined with
her husband in the organization of
the Volunteers of America, a rival Or
ganization.
The greater part of Mrs. Booths
mature life has been devoted to the
cause Of prison reform, and the sal
walton of convicts Through her
Volunteer Prison League she has been
instrumental in reforming hundreds of
criminals. Mrs. Booth firmly believes
that the majority of the men incarcer-
ated behind the gray walls of our
prisons may be transformed in body,
mind and spirit, and made over into
honest and useful citizens, if given a
fair chance to make good More,
she has proved her theory in many
cases, and has shown up as a lie the
old, proverb, 'Once a thief always a
thief."s
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only daughter, who recently became
the bride of Prince Ernest Augustus
of Cumberland, will celebrate her
twenty-hrst birthday to-day. She
and her husband will soon become
sovereigns, as the federal council of
the Fernan empire has decided to
end the regency of Brunswick, under
which Prussia has governed the con-
quered Hanoverian province for near
Iy half a century. The royal newly
weds will make their formal entry into
the capital, Brunswick, as reigning
Duke and Duchess of an independent
federal state, on the first of Noven-
Der.
Brig.-Gen. John Joseph Pershing,
the hero of the recent battle of Bag
SAX is a native of Linn county, Mo-,
where he was born ffty-three years
ago today, Sept. 10, 1860. Probably
no fiercer battle has been fought
since the American occupation of the
Philippines Gen. Pershing said of the
engagement with the forces of the
t'Datto'' Anil, the irreconcilable sui
tan of the island of Moro, who COM
bined the occupations of pirate and
brigand with those of king. The
movement for disarming all the Moros
ledd to the battle at Bagsak, where
Anil made his last desperate stand.
Before going to Orient General Per-
shing served in campaigns against the
Apaches and the Sioux and at Santa
go, and afterward organized and be-
came the first chief of the bureau of
insular affairs.
Rev. Charles William Gordon, inter
nationally famous as the author of
BLACK Rock "The Sky Pilot "The
Foreigner" and other novels, was
born in Ontario 1fty-three years ago
to-day. He was a missionary among
the miners and lumbermen of the
Canadian West from 1890 to 1893.
Since then he has been pastor of a
church in Winnipeg. The gifted cler-
gyman-author is of Scottish descent,
the son of the Rev. Daniel G. Gordon,
who settled in Canada in the early
'40s.
The first Faneuil Hall in Boston was
completed and presented to the town
III years ago to-day, Sept. IS, 1742.
The building was the gift of Peter
Fsaneui1, a merchant, and was a mod
est structure designed to serve as a
public rnarket-house. Except for his
pubIic-spirited gift, the name of the
honest merchant would long since
have vanished from the mem cries of
men. Few other men have gained
imortaIity at so small a price. The
first FaneuiI Hall was burned in 1851,
and was rebuilt in 1863, just q cen
fury and a half ago. For time it
was used by the British as a theatre.