| Show A MARTYR TO DUTY Minnie Shea Sacrifices Her Life as a Soldier In the Salvation Army Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch OTTAWA Dec 20The coffined remains of Minnie Shea lie in her fathers house in Hamilton awaiting burial She was not long ago a bright healthy young girl A year ago Miss Shea entered the Salvation and sent officer to small army was as an ofcer t a smal rough settlement near Ottawa The army officers do not receive assistance from headquartr but they are obliged t subsist sub-sist on the contributions of their adherents and the charities of wellwishers in the localities lo-calities where they work She suffered cruel privations there and her health gave way Still she kept at work until at last I her strength left her She wrote to headquarters rSt tt goig I quarters asking tb bo allowed to go home for est The reply came that i rest were needed she must take it where she was for money to pay her way home could not be spared By stinting herself of necessaries neces-saries she contrived to get eaougbAmoney to pay for a railway ticket to Hamilton She was already so far gone In cb sump ton that the doctors said she could not recover re-cover During her long illness she revived re-vived only one letter from headquarters I was from Commissary Coombs I was not a letter of sympathy and encouragement encourage-ment It was a dunning letter The custom cus-tom of the Salvation army is to send its officers of-ficers a supply of army publications and charge the officers with them Iffitho of deere can sell them well and jjodd they may make a small profit If they can but i the literature is not salable the officers must raise money somehow and send it onto on-to headquarters Miss Shea had a lot of this stuff sent to her which she could not sell and she could not raise the money for it and so headquarters claimed that she owed 2 Commissary Coombs letter was written t reproach her for tiot having made good the money and the zealous commissary com-missary Informed her that she was no Christian i she failed so eta do She admitted ad-mitted shortly before her death that she had made the mistake of her life When she joined the army l |
