The Western Jewel and Home Journal from Topeka, Kansas • 8

1 K. AND A Miwa-ir him waiTBjr' "i' i iMainii mm uinawi Minin mu nri'ir a umm du. mmu a the past have been afraid of something, they could not explain why, and have talked such hollow talk of a reserve fund In the pockets of a large membership. The folly of their reasoning and the wisdom of ours can be seen In a hundred towns of Kansas everyday nowj where the organizers of the Knights and Ladles of Security are organizing with large Councils of twenty to sixty of the best citizens, while other orders are either loosing or standiog still. The Reserve Fund plan of this order is the one thing which commends It to thoughtful, careful men everywhere, and they are becoming members of this order when they have never been induced to do so before, and why? Because of the Reserve Fund feature.

be preparing, for it looks like he might soon be called upon. I am happy to state that our own Council is growing in numbers as well as interest. Arrangements were made to surprise the wife of one of our brothers whose business keeps him out of town most of the time, with a good pounding, the evening of the 20th. It was a success, and a delightful evening was spent by all who participated. The resignation of our second vice president was accepted on the 24th, and Sister C.

R. Smith installed as her successor the 1st of May. We are to have another entertainment the 8th, probably a cake and ice cream social and dance. We decided to make an extra effort to Initiate all the candidates whose applications have been approved but who have neglected the initiation, and all the new ones we can get between now and then, on the 15th. Will all the brothers and sisters who have friends included in that list please try to get them there that A ball has been started rolling to procure an unfurnished hall for at least the three Councils this side of the river, and the national Council.

We tried to give it an Impetus by having a committee of three appointed to confer with the others for that purpose. We thought it would be a good thing for the Knights and Ladles of Security to own their hall, especially as we were Informed that the A. O. U. W.

had spent enough in their several lodges as rent to have built them a home if they had affiliated better. A Sister. SURPRISED THEIR PRESIDENT. On Tuesday evening, April 17th, a very successful surprise was inaugurated on the president of Columbia Council No. 50, Knights and Ladies of Security, at the residence of J.

M. Wallace, 319 West Sixth St. About forty of the members of Columbia Council met at the residence of Mrs. Emma Tallman and marched in a body to the residence where they were met at the door by their president, Geo. P.

Wallace, who was bo completely taken by surprise that it took some time before he could compose himself sufficiently to invite the happy party in. The evening was spent very pleasantly, and music was furnished by Mrs. John 8. Rhodes, Messrs. Winn and Wright, and others.

Ice cream, cake and fruit were Berved at 10 oclock. The surprise was a success, and the affair not only caused a very pleasant evening to be spent by all present, but deepened and strengthened the fraternal spirit that permeates all good Councils, and rendered stronger the ties that bind together the Knights and Ladies of Columbia Council No. 50. An encouraging feature and one that shows that the plan of the Knights and Ladies of Security commands the attention of thinking people, Is the number of letters received at the national office commencing, One of your circulars has fallen into my hands, and making further Inquiry about the order. Before me are two of whlc I make extracts.

From the special agent of one of the best old line Insurance companies: Kansas City, April 28, 1894. Dbar Sir: In looking over your circulars I rather like your plans, in fact it is the only fraternal order plan that I could endorse. 1 want about $3,000 more insurance. If you can take me into your order as a member send me the amount it will cost to join at once, at age 40, and blank application, and I will at first opportunity be examined. You will see I am writing insurance, and the best old line company in America, in my honest belief, Is the Please address ber were present at the organization, and the balance will be on band at their next meeting.

Bro, Ellenwood has proved his ability to do good work and he will prosecute the work for the present in Nebraska and we expect good results from his efforts. We welcome Belleville No, 87 to our fraternity and trust their union with the Knights and Ladles of Security may prove in every respect profitable and pleasant. Narka, April 27, 1801. Dear Sir and Brother: Enclosed find report of Belleville Council No, 87, which was duly organized last night by your humble servant. Belleville Council is truly a credit to our noble order as it is composed of the best citizens the town and county affords.

1 have worked bard and faithfully in Belleville and have thoroughly advertised the order there. The members of No. 87 are more than pleased with the order and will work with a willingness and earnestness that cannot fall "to extend its limits. I have now enlisted in the work here with me, Mr. Chauncey Perry, president of No.

87. We hope and expect to organize a Council here in. this little town on Saturday night of next week. I shall take Mr. Perry with me to Nebraska next week.

Please send me a commission for him. Also send me some copies of the license to work for the K. and L. of S. in Nebraska.

Please give Belleville Council No. 87 a good write up in the next Jewel, as I believe the work accomplished in that beautiful little town merits the space it will occupy. Business will call me to Kansos City next Monday, and I may be able to stop off at Topeka and see you, I feel encouraged over the outlook in this section, and shall give the work the best licks I have in the shop" and abide the results. Yours in W. S.

M. E. Ellenwood. Capital Council No. 1.

I have not been able to attend all of Capital Council No. ls meetings this month, but understand they had interesting, lively meetings without me. One evening Bro. Badger, one of our Charter members, now a member of the Council at Horton, was present and made a speech that I am sorry I missed, as he always says something good. On the 17th of April we had a social, ending in a dance that was very pleasant and profitable.

We were somewhat disappointed in our programme, as the leader was suddenly called away only two or three days before. Those remaining did the best they could, under the circumstances, in furnishing music, and Miss Diesher delivered one of her pleasing recitations in the best style, and Dr. Warner made one of bis pleasant talks, although he too was laboring under disadvantage, as a telegram had summoned his wife to the sick bed of her mother that morning, and she had left that afternoon with herBon for Ohio. He spoke of the large number of new faces before him, but said it wasnt new for him to speak at our entertainments, but if he hadnt done some talking and thinking with a few others there would be no L. of 8., so he had a right to talk.

He would only speak of one thing tonight, and that was an accusation he bad heard against the K. L. of 8., individually and collectively, that we were the most selfish people living, we wanted the earth and a fence around it. Well, he would like to have the world in the K. L.

of 8., but didnt care to be fenced in. We were to deny being selfish, emphatically, wherever we heard It, because it was false. Anyone going into business looked for the place best suited to that business and stock best suited to his trade. A lady shopping always took what she considered the best article for her money. In a town not far from here are five men working life insurance, two old line and three fraternity.

It is the business of each of those men to talk his insurance. A man wanting twenty or twenty-five thousand dollars must take from all of them, but the man like most of us who can only take insurance in one or two will go to each of them and select what he considers the safest and cheapest. Are we selfish because we are glad he finds ours the best? Here at home where each one is supposed to ask only his friends to join us is it selfishness to tell him of the superiority of our order and try to get him to take insurance in it when we feel sure it is to hiB advantage to do so? He rejoiced our hearts by telling us that they had just sent supplies to No. 89, which would be organized in a few days. He thought if nearly six months ago when No.

50 was organized anyone had prophesied that in six months forty more Councils would be organized, we would have thought him visionary, but that he hadnt a doubt but that No. 90 would be organized before the expiration of that time. I understand that one of Osage Citys brothers has signified his willingness to go one hundred miles to make a speech at the organization of No. 100. Let him L.

OF S. ti wm a -at a tr mw. a 'in- tw a ijir a -m a vr a nara a-unu nj.iu amia-airi hum i a uuu a jjbjh Ju mw jixhii a-J a' April has been a very fair month. May starts off with chances of Its being the record breaker in the history of the order. Does your Council need some printed matter for distribution? If so, write to J.

M. Wallace, National Secretary, and it will be forwarded free of charge. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. On the first meeting night In June the election of officers occurs in Councils holding weekly sessions. Too much care cannot be displayed in choosing these officers and especially of president and corresponding and financial secretaries.

A Council is largely what Its officers make it, and a Council with earnest, zealous, active officers is always one with well attended meetings and continuous growth. On the financial secretary rests more responsibility perhaps than on any other one officer. He has to deal personally with and make collections from each member, and one of the first requisites of the officer is good judgment, a great deal of suavity and a temper that cannot be ruffled. Added to these virtues he should be a man in whom the members have entire confidence and on whose word they rely. The Knights and Ladies of Security have been very fortunate in having good corresponding secretaries, and the national secretary has yet to make the first complaint of any of them; Indeed, his relations and correspondence with them have been so pleasant that he would regret changes being made.

In the matter of secretaries we doubt very much the propriety of change without there are special reasons for its being done. They are familiar with the routine work, and what to them is now a familiar matter would be to a new officer attended with considerable difficulty and delay. RESERVE FUND. We have before us the proceedings of the supreme body of one of the prominent orders of today. We find in the report of the presiding officer the following: But the great object of this meeting is to solve the problem, how can this order be made to grow? This is the one vital question before which all others sink to insignificance.

Further on in this same report we find: uWe must grow. There is no such thing as standing still. What can we do to insure the desired results. This strong language is used, notwithstanding the fact that the present membership is over sixty thousand. Why this cry I Why put so much stress on the one point.

The real facts are that they had upwards of thirty assessments each year for several years, and the suspensions are growing alarming. New members are hard to get, as those who are without are looking for some order with fewer assessments than thirty. Those high assessments keep any order from obtaining new blood, and without new blood it is impossible to live. No one will readily join an order where the assessments reach twenty or thirty a year, when they can be admitted to some of the newer ones with fewer assessments. Are we always to go on in this way, letting the older orderB die and their remaining members go down without the protection they had so long labored for; ever building new ones only to see them come to untimely endings.

It is not necessary and can be prevented, and these orders or societies be made as strong as any other kind of financial institutions, of which we have many and are justly proud. The Reserve Fund plan of the Knights and Ladies of Security offers a solution of this muoh vexed question, and it is the only rational proposition that has been made. We make this unqualified statement, that if you will stop long enough to make the necessary figures you will convince yourself that an assessment order doing a life insurance on this plan will live, and not only live, but will grow stronger with increasing age, and this can not be said of a single order now in existence which has not a Reserve Fund. Who would question the future of the A. 0.

U. W. if they had $10,000,000 of Reserve Fund, and they would have at this time over this amount if they had adopted the plan of the Knights and Ladies of Security twenty-five years ago when they Btarted. It would not be necessary for the Woodmen to have cut their age limit to forty-five had they have had this plan, which would have placed before this over $1,250,000 in a Reserve Fund, which would have earned more than $375,000 up to this time. The Knights of Honor with a like amount would be another formidable opponent, but this is not the case, The builders of 0 ASSESSMENT FOR MAY, 11 new CoQDcils organized in April.

326 applications received in April. Topkka, Kan, May 1, 1804. The accounts of the national secretary and national treasurer have this day been examined and found correct. All monies received by the national secretary have been turned over to the national treasurer and his receipt taken for the same. M.S.

Evans, Chairman Finance Committee. THE REVIEW OFTHE MONTH. The Knights and Ladles of Security have every reason to feel gratified at the progress made In April. New Councils have been established at Manhattan, Milford, Elsmore, Belleville, Glrardi Hanover, Concordia, Yates Center, Fragrant Hill, Wamego and Savonburg, and the prelimlnery work of eight or ten more In Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska is well under way. Several of our organizers were not at work in April, being detained at home by sickness and business affairs, but all are now in the field, and we look for a good report from them in May.

Three hundred and twenty-sia medical examinations were accepted for the month, which, with the exception of March, was the largest number yet received in one month since the existence of the Order. May gives promise of being a month of large results, and if present Indications can be relied on, we will paBS the five hundred mark. We have very encouraging letters from a number of our Councils, and already ten trunks of supplies have been ordered to establish new Councils. We hope the month of May will not pass without some work being done in every Council in the Order. Homer Pond and D.

B. Long, both past grand masters of the Odd Fellows, are members of the K. L. of S. Why delay Insuring? There Is no more convenient time; perhaps at no time will the conditions be as favorable as the present.

The coBt is but small, and the knowledge that in case of your death you have made provision that your loved ones will be protected will repay the outlay. See some member of the KnightB and Ladies of Security in your city; or if new Council is forming in your locality, fill the application blank, be examined and join as a Charter member. Let May be a month of earnest effort and you will be surprised at the result. Many members have never spoken to those they meet daily, and who should carry protection, about becoming members of the order. Should this meet the eye of any one who has been thus careless and forgetful of their obligation, retrelve your neglect by speaking to your friends and acquaintances at once, hand them some printed matter, explain our special features, have them sign an application card, and you will benefit yourself in benefiting them.

1 In a town in which a Council of Knights and Ladies of Security was organized in March last, among those solicited to become Charter members were two brothers. The stronger, and apparently the one with the best chance of long life, finally decided to postpone joining for awhile, and the Council was organized without his becoming a member. A few dayB ago he was borne to his last resting place, sickneBS and death overtaking him in the few weeks since the Council was organized. Another warning has been sounded, and the truth of the trite Baying that "delays are dangerous" has again been exemplified. Do not delay joining the Knights and Ladles of Security or some other good order a single day, if your family is unprotected.

The Knights and Ladies of Security is not an experiment. Its plans are such as commend it to all needing permanent security. No fraternal order has any advantage over it In its general plan that of assessing its members to pay death losses. No order is managed more economically and with leBS expense to its members, and no order ever founded has made the provision for the future the Knights and Ladies of Security is making. Study its Reserve Fund feature, and the more you study it and Bee its possibilities the more the plan will commend Itself to you, and the more fully you will be convinced that no other society asking your patronage can offer you the permanent security that the Knights and Ladles of Security does.

FROM THE COUNCILS. FORT SCOTT COUNCIL NO. 05. Fort Scott Council No. 65, is still the same interesting, thriving Council that It was at the beginning.

Our officers and members are all wide-awake, energetic brothers and slsterB, who will do all they can to promote the Interest of the order, and as we grow and become more efficient in the workings of the Council our meetings become more Interesting, and we hope that in the future, with our combined efforts (for in union alone there is strength) to become more successful than we have already been in the past. Blanche E. Pond, Cor. Sec. 4-fr -H- -f Shawnee Connell No.

3. Shawnee Council No. 3, North Topeka, has been having very pleasant meetings during the past month, and is still receiving applications for membership. At the meeting on Tuesday evening, May 1st, there were four initiations, eight elected to membership and six applications. Several visitors from Council No.

50 were present, and under good of the order quite a number of short, pithy speeches were made. About twenty six have been initiated into No. 3 since the first of January, and from present indications about twenty-five additional names will be added by the end of the present quarter. Topeka Council No. 2.

Topeka Council had a fair attendance at each meeting during the month of April, and Initiated six new members. The Council has changed its meeting night from Monday to Wednesday evening, and will hereafter meet every week instead of every two weeks. The Council made a wise change, we think, In meeting every week and it will be the means of adding many new membors to the Council. At the meeting Wednesday evening last, the president declared the office of second vice president vacant and Bro. Brown was elected to fill the vacancy.

Bro, Brown is a new member but his work and push in the Council show him to be wide-awake and he will make himself felt in Council meetings. Sister Brown, the wife of our newly elected vice president, has been elected organist, and hereafter we will have music in our initiatory work. Our new corresponding secretary is a daisy, and we venture the assertion that she gets up her reports in better shape than any corresponding secretary in the city. The latch-string is out, brothers and sisters, and If you want to spend a pleasant evening in Council meeting, visit Topeka Council No. 2.

M- CLAY CENTER COUNCIL NO. 67. Notwithstanding the hard times and the existence of several Btrong secret societies in our town, it has proved possible to organize another which counts excellent material among its members and already reveals a promise of steady growth. Our Council is an Infant not yet two months old, yet we have received five new members In addition to our forty-three charter members, and others are continually becoming so interested In this order and the security It offers, that we have just reason to belleye that ere long three figures will be needed to express our number. It is our aim to make our weekly meetings so Interesting that our members will regard enforced absence as a deprivation.

Plans are on foot for social and literary entertainment, and rival societies must be on the alert if they mean to live. It is certainly true that the K. and L. of S. is securing men of established character and reputation who have been too cautious and conservative to enter any of the other secret orders.

This is not a random assertion, but is one which can be authenticated. We, therefore, congratulate ourselves on belonging to such a reliable organization, and we purpose to keep its welfare uppermost, not only in remarks on the good of the order, but In earnest, energetic work. Ida L. Moxom. 4-f BELLVILLE COUNCIL NO.

87. The following letter to Bro. M. Wallace, national secretary, tells the story of the largest Council ever organized since the establishment of the Knights and Ladies of Security. Fifty-seven names were on the charter list; fifty of the num From the chief clerk of a department of one of the largest railroads in the country: May 1, 1894.

Dear Sir: I have before me one of your yellow circulars showing the good points in your order and I would like more light. You have some good features and some that may be good if understood. Please send me copy of charter, fundamental laws of the order, etc. I am thinking of dropping some of the Insurance I carry and taking some of yours. These are given as samples of how the order is' taking hold upon persons who are interested In the subject of insurance.

Scarcely a day passes that one or more letters are not received making similar inquiries. From one town in which we have a Council, two letters were received saying they had seen the circulars, liked the plan and believed a Council could be organized in their place. (I hope this was an exceptional case and that we have no other Council in any town under 2,000 inhabitants that every man and woman in the place does not know there is a Council of Knights and Ladies of Security in the city.) Our new Constitutions have attached rules of order which cover nearly all points likely to be raised at Council meetings. Every member of the order should have a copy and Councils should have a supply on hand to present to their new members at the time of Initiation. ytr.