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Show GENERAL BOOTH IS 1 FACING BLINDNESS ; i i Now York, Juno 5.--"In a few hours, i comrades, I may ho under the painful compulsion of announcing that the ( general Is hopelessly blind," aro tho i words of General William Booth in a j cablegram fiom London last night ad- t dressed to all members of. the Salva- , tion Army In America. "If the unex- pected blow regarding the loss yf my I ; eyoa has not actually fallen, as re"- I ! ported by tho newspapers," says the '. head of the Army, "it Is hovering drui- I gerously near, instead of the restora- vl tion of my sight which I had hoped , fi for apd which I knew you havo ear- ' ?I nestly prayed for, (he doctors I ell me I am on tho eve of entire blind- I ness." jvK |