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week's collections. So that, no matter how much 

 may be specially given, the officer cannot receive 

 more than the value of $6 per week. The 

 officer cannot collect any arrears of salary, as each 

 week has to pay its own expenses ; and if there 

 is any surplus cash after all demands are met it 

 must be sent to the ' war chest ' at headquarters." 

 —" The New Papacy " (pp. 35, 36). 



Evidently, Sir, " headquarters " has taken to 

 heart the injunction about casting your bread 

 upon the waters. It casts the crumb of a day or 

 two's work of an emissary, and gets back any 

 quantity of loaves of cash, so long as " captains " 

 present themselves to be used up and replaced by 

 new victims. What can be said of these devoted 

 poor fellows except, sanda simplicitas ! 



But it would be a great mistake to suppose 

 that the money-gathering efficacy of Mr. Booth's 

 fiscal agencies is exhausted by the foregoing 

 enumeration of their regular operations. Con- 

 sider the following edifying history of the " Rescue 

 Home " in Toronto : — 



" It is a fine building in the heart of the city ; 

 the lot cost $7,000, and a building was put up at 

 a cost of $7,000 more, and there is a mortgage on 

 it amounting to half the cost of the whole. The 

 land to-day would probably fetch double its 

 original price, and every year enhances its value 

 In the first five months of its 



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