The Western Odd Fellow from Osborne, Kansas • 5

Western Did Fellow. CORRESPONDENCE. TO WESTERN ODD FELLOW, Osborne, Kansas. Gentlemen and find enclosed resolutions passed by our lodge on the death of Brother John Barringer. Our lodge is in a flourishing condition.

The officers installed for the present term are as follows: N. Ira Chase; V. J. H. Det.

weler; Dr. L. M. Hoyt; F. A.

Bean; R. S. N. S. W.

Quick; L. S. N. C. F.

Knapp; R. S. V. Jas. Boughman; L.

S. V. W. W. Davis; W.

C. Munsell; Warden, J. C. Harris; Jno. Morgan; R.

S. F. H. Richarson; L. S.

M. C. Allison; I. Z. Gibson; O.

J. B. Cain; Rep. to G. T.

W. Rea. Obituary. CEDARVILLE. July 30, 1887.

Wednesday, July 20th, 1887, of typhoid fever, John Henry Barringer, aged 29 years, 3 months, and 25 days. John Henry Barringer was born March 25, 1858, in Williamson county, Illinois. He had only one living brother, James Levi, born in the same connty and state. It seemed that John was the greatest earthly source of comfort the parents had left them, and they feel very loth to give him up, to be resigned to the will of God, especially as John was a great lover of religious worship, apparently from childhood, always taking great delight in going to church and hearing the gospel preached. The parents 1 feel that they are not far behind him, but soon expect to meet him in the paradise of God, with their four little girls who have gone before and have a full hope of composing a part of the family of God in heaven, His mother has been a great sufferer for the past twenty-five years or more, and the father who has been dropsically afflicted for the past sixteen months, yet these present afflictions will work out for them in God's way, "a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory," They believe in the community of the entire church of God in love.

The funeral services which occurred on the 22nd, witnessed the largest procession ever seen in this part of the state. It was conducted by the order of Odd Fellows, of which order Barringer was a member. The Kirwin and Gaylord lodges were in attendance. The services were conducted in the Christian church by the Revs. Newell and Baker.

There were seventy-nine vehicles formed in procession at the church and were joined by several more on the way to the cemetery, besides many others on horseback. The Odd Fellows did all that human power could do for the comfort and recovery of Bro. Barringer, watching at his bedside night and day until all was over; they then laid him to rest with all the tenderness and respect it is possible for men to show to a loving brother. IN MEMORY OF J. H.

BARRINGER PASSED BY CEDARVILLE LODGE No. Whereas: The Great Ruler of the Universe has, in his infinite wisdom, removed from our midst our worthy and esteemed brother, John Henry Barringer, Resolved: That the sudden removal of such a brother from our order leaves a vacancy and shadow that will be deeply realized by all members of the Lodge and will prove a grevious loss to us and to the community, Resolved: That, with deep sympathy with the afflicted relatives and friends of the deceased, we express our earnest hope that even so great a bereavement may be overruled for their highest good. Resolved: That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the bereaved parents, also that they be published in the Cedarville Globe and WESTERN ODD FELLOW. Signed, T. W.

REA, L. W. M. C. Horr, MUNSELL, (Com.

Passed through pain and sickness here To a home of gladness there. Passed through weakness and decay, To the realms of brightest day. Passed the vale of tears and cares, Now a golden harp he bears. Passed from crowds of people mortal, Gone to join the throng immortal. Passed away from earthly strife To a glorious crown of life.

Passed the shadows of the night Into blissful joyous light. Passed from friends and parents dear, Now he to his Saviour's near. Passed from all this world calls sweet, Now he walks the golden street. REV. JOSEPH BAKER.

Memorial Day Proclamation. SOVERKIGN GRAND LODGE OF THE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS OFFICE OF THE GRAND SIRE. To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Pursuant to instructions contained in the resolution of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, adopted at its annual session held at Boston, September, 1886, (Jonrnal, John H. White, Grand Sire, do hereby request all subordinate lodges under our jurisdiction to assemble at their respective lodge rooms on the 20th day of October, 1887, the anniversary of the death of Thomas Wildey, Past Grand Sire, and engage in appropriate memorial exercises to be conducted in a manner appropriate to the occasion. Should a different day be more convenient, any lodge is permitted to hold such services on any day such lodge may select.

Information has been received of the death of the following past officers and members of the Sovereign Grand Lodge since the last annual communication, with date of death and age respectively. Dec. 23, 1886, William Walker Moore, P. G. District of Columbia aged 84 years.

October 21, 1886, Wilson Small, Past Grand Representative, New York, aged 72 years. November 29, 1886, Robert Thompson, Past Grand Representative, Tennessee, aged 61 years. January 6, 1887, James V. Jones, Past Grand Representative, Wisconsin, aged 59 years. January 10, 1887, John G.

Rogers, Past Grand Representative, Illinois, aged 69 years. January 29, 1887, Ira Doe, Past Grand Representative, New Hampshire, aged 60 years. March 3, 1887, John W. Orr, Past Grand Representative, New Jersey, aged 72 years. April 10, 1887, Levi Empie, Past Grand Representative, Kansas, aged 71 years.

June 7, 1887, David McDonald, Past Grand Representative, Wisconsin, aged 84 years. July 9, 1887, Marvin T. Tottingham, Past Grand Representative, New Hampshire, aged 62 years. Done at the City of Colubus, in the State of Ohio, U.S. this 15th day of August, 1887, and of our order the sixty-eighth year.

JOHN H. WHITE, Grand Sire. Attest: Taro. A. Ross, Grand Sec.

Wichita Takes the Lead. No. 93 TO THE FRONT. WICHITA, 8, '87. To SUBORDINATE LODGES, ENCAMPMENTS, CANTONS OF PATRIARCHS MILITANT AND REBEKAH DEGREE LODGES IN At a recent session of Wichita Lodge, No.

93, I. 0. O. it was resolved that we take steps to receive and entertain officers and members of the Grand Lodge at their next session, commencing October 11, next, at Wichita, Kansas. The Noble Grand promptly appointed a committee on the part of Wichita Lodge, No.

93, as T. McMillen, G. Wm. Mathewson, P. G.

W. Fryer, P. W. A. Richey, P.

L. Aspy, P. Wm. Atkinson, V. all of No.

93, to make all necessary arrangements, assisted by committees from Queen City Lodge, No. 256, Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 70, Wichita Encampment, No. 29, and Wichita Canton, No. 5.

At a meeting of above committees it was resolved that we make the next session of the Grand Lodge unequally for hospitality and splendor, and one long to be remembered. We, therefore, submit to you the outlines of the following programme, details will be furnished on the 11th of October: MONDAY, 10th: Extra Session Grand Lodge. TUESDAY, 11. Reception of Delegates and visitors. Session of Grand Lodge.

WEDNESDAY, 12. Parade of Odd Fellows, moving promptly at 1 o'clock. Grand Ball at night. THURSDAY, 13th: Grand Lodge Ses- sion. Banquet at night.

It is desired that all Lodges, Encampments and Cantons in Kansas shall take part in above exercises. We have therefore secured special rates on all roads (one 1 fare for round trip) for this occasion. Many lodges have signified a willingness to participate, therefore we ask that you submit this immediately to your Lodge, and let us know how many will come from your city or district, and if accompanied by a band, please state, so we may be able to make arrangements with hotels and provide other entertainment for the many visitors that will be here. It is desired that all visiting brothers bring regalia so that our procession may be one that all Odd 'Fellows will ever feel proud of, I am Yours Fraternally, J. T.

McMILLEN, Ch'n. P. communications should be addressed: COMMITTEE, Box 728, Wichita, Kas. HANOVER. Hanover Lodge No.

155, I. O. 0. F. Hanover, Kansas, July 28, '87.

W. O. Osborne, Kansas, Dear Sir and have installed our officers for the current term July 7th, '87: Bro. Louis Moll, N. G.

H. Harvorkorst, V. J. Straub, A. Jaedicke, Wm.

Dittmer, John Hilleman, D. Michelson, I. John Adelzeck, R. S. to N.

A. Oswald, L. S. to N. A.

Lubka, R. S. to V. J. Adelzeck, Rep.

to G. Jacob Straub, alternate. Our lodge is in good standing. Meeting every Thursday evening. Brothers in good standing are cordially invited.

Yours in F. L. and J. STRAUB, Sec. Wichita Encampment No.

29 installed the following officers to serve the present term: C. C. M. Acuff'; S. A J.

Applegate; J. Geo. Neff; Scribe, Wm. Skinner; E. H.

Nudd. Everything is in a flourishing condition regarding Odd Fellowship in this city. Masonry Revealed. WICHITA. MRS.

PHILENA SPUCE. The other day I was reading in the Yankee Blade about "Mrs. Simon Ciders'" trials. And as I read, I thought I'd write about some I've had with Aminidab, for one time and another I've had a many with him. I spose old maids have trials, but think they'r trifles compared with married women's, specially if one has a husband she has to coax and flatter, coddle and doctor, watch and so forth it she would get any connubial felicity at all out of him.

Although Aminidab has his spells, I don't wish to be understood as even hinting that I have to do all these for him. But one of the hard trials I had with him was when he joined the Masons. I don'no, though, as I ought to call it a trial when it was the means of my finding out so much about the pestiferous Masons. It's a leading principle with me, and one I'll stick to through thick and thin, that a man shouldn't have any secrets he can't tell his wife. Aminidab knows this too as well a3 1 do, and I don't see what upon earth possessed him to jine the Masons.

He didn't tell me he was goin to, if he had I'd stopped him, but sneaked off one night, and when he came home I found he was a Mason. Well, I thought, after a thing is done, its no use to fret about it, but, says I to myself, "I'll bet a cent I'll get all he knows about the Masons out of him, in less'n a week." It's generally pretty easy to get him to tell anything if you don't ask him right out fair and square, but begin with him in a round-about way, and that's the way I begun with him to see it I couldn't find out something about Masons, but la, you might as well try to pump the ocean dry as to get anything out of him about them, Though I tried everything I could think of for weeks and weeks, still was dumb as an oyster. Well, one mornin' after he'd been to the Lodge the night before, I noticed he had a black eye, and I asked him how he got it. In all our married life I never saw him so flustered as he was then; this convinced me he had got it somewhere among the Masons. He halted, stammered, then took up his hat and finally said: "Last night when was going to the lodge I met that scoundrel of a Tom Flyn, I didn't know he'd been drinkin, and was as savage as a bear, so I asked him to pay that little bill he's owed me for so long, and he doubled up his fist and struck me right in the eye." Then he put on his hat and scooted out doors before I had a chance to say a word.

This he did, I suppose, so I couldn't cross question him. That day I had company to dinner and supper so I didn't have a chance to say no more to him about his black eye. Then when the company was gone a parcel of Masons come after him to go and spend the evenin' with er lodge in another town. So I was left alone that evening to meditate by myself, and I must say, my mind was terribly exercised about Ammidab's having a secret he wouldn't tell me; and about his goin off that night to cut np with a lot of men while I was mopin' by the fire alone. But as it afterwards happened didn't have to mope long, for soon after Aminadab left, I begun to grow drowsy and I guess I dropped to sleep; but suddenly the servant opened the door, and in walked a master good lookin' man, and though I spose I hadn't ought to say it, seein' that Aminidab's my lawful husband, yet I don't think he comes anywheres near bein as handsome as this man.

But I don't want to dwell on this, for I don't think a married woman ought to admire good looks in any man but her own husband. I'm not accustomed to have strange men walk into my sitting room where I'm alone, and it struck me with astonishment to see this one there. So I riz outer my chair and said: "'Good evenin', mister. My husband's gone off with the Masons, and you will be so good as to tell me your business." certainly, certainly, madam," says he, "I am the Royal Arch Mason, and I've come to tell you how your husband got that black eye," I was eager enuff when I heard this, and I asked him to be seated and tell the story. "Well," said he, "your husband is a very aspirin man, and he never will be a small fish in any fry if he can do anything to prevent it, and so when he jined the Masons, he determined to go as high as any of them." I was very glad to hear that, for if there is anything I have tried to impress upon Aminadab's mind, it is the idea of bein aspirin, especially after he got plenty of money and could do so as well as not.

So I was glad the idee had rooted in his brain and brought forth fruit even if it was in a Mason's Lodge. Then this man took out of a box he brought with him when he came in, a lot of things he unfolded and made into stools; these he placed around a good ways apart, in the form of a square. says he, I'm goin to show you what they do when they first go into a Masons Lodge." Then he took off his boots and stockins, jumped on one of the corner stools, and from that to another, and so on until he had gone clear around the square. Then he hopped down and placed the chairs in a straight row as far apart as they was before, then he hopped up on the first in the row, and hopped from one to the other till he got to the end of the row. "There." said he, "my first leaps on these stools was the square and these I last ones the level;" then he stretched out his hands in a sort of eloqutin way, meet upon the level and part up square.

There, to do what I have done here in a Masons lodge will make any man a low Mason but to get up higher, as your husband tried to, he must do something harder, and now I'm goin to tell you how that's done. The Master of the Lodge tells two of the tallest brothers to stand together near the door, and opposite to it, with their hands held out before them as far a8 they can reach. Then the man that wants to go up highest in Masonry, is led in blindfolded and barefooted, and with nothin on but his shirt and drawers. The leader pauses before the tall brothers and tell him he can have three minits to find out as much about how they stand as he can in that time. After he has spent three minits feelin round the brothers, he is told he must clime or jump on to their shoulders, and stand there with a foot on each ones shoulder, till they give him a ride around the room six times.

Each time round makes a degree, and if he falls off at any degree he can never go any higher than that in Masonry. If the brothers feel frisky when they're givin the man this ride, they're apt to canter around lively, and its pretty hard for a man to hold on to their shoulders till he comes to the sixth round of it. Now, it happened they did feel so when your husband took his ride, and he fell off at the fourth round, hittin his eye on the boot toe of one of the canterin brothers, it bein a rule when the ridin brother falls for each of the canterers to put out a foot apiece to kinder break his fall. The first time the man rides around the hall it makes him a Royal, the second a High, the third a Hob, the fourth a Gob, the fifth a Lin, the sixth a Mason That is, he is a Royal High Hob Gob Lin Mason, and is as high as he can go until he gets into office. As your husband fell at the fourth round, he can never, no never, be anything but a Royal High Hob Gob." These last words he said very solemn, When he told me all this I seemed to see Aminadab leapin around on them stools and ridin around on them canterin brothers shoulders.

How hie ever did it though, I couldn't tell for the life of me, as hes terrible clumsy, cause hes had the runalegy and the sperm complaint. But that feller was spry. My! couldn't he leap, though? Ive hearn say that men eveluted from anermals, and I guess he eveluted from a flee or a frog. The thought of Aminadab's danger when ridin that way, for he might have fell and broke his neck, and his not gettin so high as he wanted to, and of his Mason name ending with Gob, overcome me so that I screamed right out. My screamin seemed to scare the man, for he took up his box, hustled his stools into it, and skooted outer the room.

I jumped up to foller him out and thank him for telling me so much and bid him good-night. I was so eger to do it, that I didnt see a chair right before me, and stumbled over it and fell on the floor sprawlin. When I fell I hit the lounge and got a great bump on my fored. I had hardly got up and bathed it a little when in come Aminadab. "Why have you come home so soon says I.

"Our horse was taken sick and we had to turn round and come back," says he. Well, I up and told him about the Royal Arch Mason's visit to me and what he told me. When he heard it he looked like a man dazed. but turned it off' and said: "Stuff and nonsense; you was dreamin." But sayin this could not hide his red face and guilty look which told me as plain as the man did his story, that I'd got the secret of Masonry. I might had proof that the man come in if I'd seen the servant first the next mornin.

But he saw her first and when I asked her to tell him about letting the man in, she stared and pretended she didn't know nothin about it. In a few days after she had a beantiful new dress that she never got herself, I know. That dress was given her so that she'd keep mum, and he could make ine think I had been dreamin; that after all I didn't know anything about the Masons. But I guess he'll be surprised when he reads this and finds I've let this Masons cat out of the bag to run at large in the world. -Yankee Blade.

We have sent out personal letters stating that we had bought Mr. Topliff's interest in this paper, and that it was necessary that all accounts be settled to date. Now, we think the amounts so small that each could send what is due us, even if they could not send a year in advance, they could do SO later. We need all that is due 119, no matter how small the amount is. Where Roses Grow.

Sit by my side for a little while, I know by your face to-day Your thoughts like mine are wandering To scenes so far away: You're thinking of the happy time Just one brief year ago, When in the sunset soft we went Where the wild roses grow. The winding road, the farm-house old, Come to me o'er and o'er, The children's glee and merry words As we started from the door, The quiet, homeward walk, our hands Laden with dewey flowers, Which filled each room with fragrance fresh In that little home of ours. 0, many and many a time my love, Shall we gaze on those pictures dear, For a breathing space, then face again Life's duties plain and clear. Sadder, perhaps, but the who drinks The waters dark of grief, Shall drain where others' lips but taste The cup of pure relief. Come, lay aside that troubled look, It holds too much of pain; The present good alone is ours, Regrets and hopes are vain.

0, sad, brier earth, 0, happy earthi If hand in hand we go Through all life's sunset on to where The eternal roses grow! -ELLA C. DRABBLE. The chinch bug eats the farmers' grain, The bee moth spoils his honey, The bed bug fills him full of pain, The humbug scoops his money, Flatonia (Tex.) Argus..