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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 vic- 

 tims. What can be said of these devoted poor 

 fellows except, sancta simplicitasi 



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 enu- 

 meration of their regular operations. Consider 

 the following edifying history of the " Eescue 

 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 ex- 



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