y of the country is forcing
upon schools and colleges the necessity of courses in commercial
geography and commerce.

The Commercial Museum, with its wealth of products collected
from every part of the world, is in the position to supply the
necessary demand for the material on which such schools must
depend. It has distributed over 225 collections of such
products, with photographs arranged for the study of commercial
geography, and so is intended to eventually include within its
scope schools, colleges, and universities.

_Salvation Army_.--It is impossible to describe in a few words
the great work and the good being accomplished by the Salvation
Army. Many photographs were exhibited illustrating the work
being done by this noble army.

On Christmas, 1878, in London, this army of Christian workers
was christened "The Salvation Army," consisting then of about 20
workers and about as many posts, with a few hundred members, and
some 3,000 souls seeking salvation during the year. To-day there
are scattered through 47 countries and colonies as follows:

Fifteen thousand separated workers, entirely supported from its
funds; 40,000 unpaid local officers, who support themselves and
give their spare time; 16,000 brass bandsmen (unpaid); 50,000
other musicians, composing thousands of hymns and hundreds of
new tunes annually; 250,000 penitents profess salvation publicly
in the course of a single year; 6,000 centers have been
established, where an average of fourteen to twenty meetings are
held weekly, half in open air, half in buildings; 84,000
meetings weekly; 10,000,000 weekly listeners; 520,000,000
listeners in a year. To the poor the gospel is being preached
everywhere.

In 1880 the first Salvation Army officers landed in New York.
The Salvation Army struck root in its new soil from the outset.
The work has gone on steadily forward, and it is noted
throughout the world for the wonderful spirit of humility and
devotion among its workers, who came to be increasingly widely
recognized. They made rapid strides in America. They founded
homes for the homeless; work for the workless; establishments
for labor bureaus and social-relief institutions; establishment
of industrial homes; workingmen's hotels; working women's homes
and hotels; the establishment of the beautiful F