The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-20
Volunteer Army Holds Regular Street
Service In Tent at Hamilton
in Yesterdays Pro-
gram.
ENTERTAINING LECTURE
Some Things About ArIstocracy, Pro.
fiteering, Irish Question and
British Sentiment are
Told.

There was strong innovation yes.
! terday in the stereotyped chautau'
| qua when four members of the Vol.
unteer Army of America, from tho
barracks at Indianapolis, Ind, gave
typical street service such as they
, would give on corner in some city.
The Volunteer Army is organized
along the lines of the Salvation
/ Army; it came into existence be.
| cause various members of the Booth
/, family had a difference of opinion
| as to the policy and conduct Of the
! Salvation Army. Ballington Booth
! and his wife, Maud Darlington Booth,
established this branch, the volun.
teer Army of America. The Volun.
teer captain said yesterday that in
! their chautauqua tour they were
not putting on a concert or a lee
ture, but conducting a typical re-
/ ligious street meeting. There were
four in the party--a woman perhaps
, seventy years Of age, the captain and
his wife and young man who
played the piano accomplishments
| They sang hymns, and six or eight
| descriptive ballads of erring boys
and praying mothers. They all had
that peculiar quality of voice cult
waited by street singers, by which
| they can be heard at the distance
| Of city block. Their music was
all tuneful and appealing, and great
| ly pleased the audience.
The captain in his talk told of the
! activities of the Volunteer Army in
| the prison work which has made
Maud Darlington Booth famous. He
told of the establishment of the five
homes known as Hope Hall, where
paroled and discharged prisoners are
welcomed and cared for until they
can find work. The Volunteer Army
helps to find positions for men who
have done time, and stands sponsor
| for them until they make good. He
said seventy per cent do make good.
Twenty-one thousand men passed
through Hope Halls last year. They
came from state and federal prisons
all over the United States.
The lecture Of the evening was by
DR.. Arthur Walwyn Evans, on the
subject, 1.-THE Language Of Liberty"
He is one Of the best lecturers on
the American chautauqua platform
and one Of the hardest to reduce to
cold type. His vivid personality his
characteristic mannerisIns, his rapid |
speech and his English colloquial-
isms formed combination which |
will make the audience long remem-
Der the man as well as the message !
he brought. Incidentally in his lee |,
ture he gave an impersonation of a
"rooter' at baseball game, with a /
man at the bat and two on bases in !
the ninth inning, which would win |
him fame in a vaudeville stunt.
Doom Of Arlstocracy.
In his lecture he told how England /
had, year by year, lessened the power |
Of its once dominating aristocracy. |
He said, "A noble lord is blue |
blooded man in red-blooded age; he |
is an antiquity and a relic" For |
eight hundred years there have been |
in England Just two classes, but |
thousands Of clasifications. The two |
classes are the aristocracy and the I
democracy, and they are at eternal /
war.
This evening the Keokuk Concert |
band will play at 7:15. At 8 o'clock |
Turner's orchestra will play short |
program, and at S:45 a home talent !
play will be put on by the Hamilton !
Dramatic club.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 Gard |
ner's Jubilees will give a concert, |
and in the evening at s O'Clock they |
will give the prelude, followed by !
Charles Crawford Gorst, the birdman !
who gives a unique entertainment :
reproducing the songs of birds and I
telling bird lore.
Among the Keokuk people at the |
autauqua have been Mr.. and Mrs. /
E. r. Renaud, Mrs. John H. Cole, |
Mrs Edmund Jaeger, Mr.. and Mrs. |
w. j. Fulton, Marshall N. Fulton
Miss Harriet Fulton, the Misses
Kate, Myrtle and Elizabeth Megchel- /
sen, Miss Jennie Young, Miss Mary /
Young, Mrs Milestone, Miss Mary !!
milestone, Mrs. Ralston and Allen
COLLISION.