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Show Suicide Bureau a Success ; Many interesting pages from the 1 great book of life are to be found in the report of the operations of the Salvation Army's anti-suicide bureau. Since it was started 4,754 persons have called to lay their embarrassments embarrass-ments before Colonel Emerson, and have asked him to "show cause" as the lawyers say why they should not put an end to their lives. The largest number put down the cause of their trouble to financial reasons: after this come drink or drugs, and melancholia. melan-cholia. The applicants come from almost every class except the workers. There are clergymen, missionaries, military officers, doctors, solicitors, schoolmasters, school-masters, clerks and company promoters. pro-moters. They have all been dealt with according to their needs, and such help has been given them as their cases seemed to demand. Legal and medical advice has been afforded; creditors have been reasoned reason-ed with; reconciliations have been brought about with relatives. And the work, according to General Booth, has been successful beyond highest expectations. London Chronicle. |