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

sell, J. N. Mansell, J. E. Moulton, II.

Moulton, J. F. Snow, E. Snow, E. Kelley, A.

B. Kelley, B. B. Tatmao, II. O.

Kyle, F. II. Higley, A. T. Illgley, C.

C. Annis, B. Annis, BI. Jenkins, J. U.

Kyle, T. Orchard, II. M. Orchard, J. B.

Allen, II. A. Ensign, J. R. Feaglns, D.

W. Norton, Mr. and Mrs. A. McNeal.

Mr. Swallow helped greatly in getting the order in Glen Elder organized. We found him a gentleman in all the word implies, and we can commend him to all as a man of honesty and integrity. Glen Elder Republican, May 25th, GLEN ELDER ORGANIZED. Messrs.

T. J. Burgess and J. E. Tarkes completed the organization of a Knights and Ladles of Security lodge in our city last Wednesday evening with forty members, and closed the charter.

These gentlemen deserve great credit for their untiring efforts in getting a lodge organized. They met with some serious obstacles, but through their tenacity of will they overcame them all, and today we have one of the strongest fraternal insurance orders in town. The following are the names of charter members: O. L. Taylor, N.

Taylor, 31. J. 3IcBlalr, I. 31cBlalr, Grant BlcBlalr, Lillie 3IcBlair, 3Iadlson E. Todd, Lillie Todd, C.

E. 3Iacy, F. F. Blende, C. Blende, J.

A. Proctor, Ella Proctor, T. J. Porter, Celia Porter, R. G.

Heard, E. A. Heard, C. Eberle, A. Eberle, O.

Ilouts, II. L. jhornton, Fannie Thornton, Albert Welch, Welch, 31. Pickering, Blary Barrett, C. A.

Sullivan, John Dickinson, 3Ir. and 3Irs. A. Sapp, BIr. and Blrs.

A. German, BIr. and Blrs. G. Cannon, BIr.

and Blrs. W. II. Hall, BIr. and Blrs.

O. F. Haight. Blessrs. Parkes and Burgess, while in our city, through their honesty of purpose and honorable carriage, gained many friends who saw them depart yesterday, with many regrets, but also wishing for them success, as they are deserving men.

Olen Elder Republican, May 25th. WHATONEOFOUR FOLDERS DID About two weeks ago Hon. John Showalter of Wellington, Kansas, was in Newton, Kansas, on a business visit, and while there BIr. Laverty, one of our organizers, handed him a yellow folder. After his return home he found the folder in his pocket, and reading it, became interested in the plan of the Knights and Ladies of Security and wrote the National Secretary for further information and the location of the nearest Council to Wellington, if we were not going to establish one there soon.

He stated that while the plan was superior to others, yet he doubted if there was room for another order in the town, as nearly all were represented and business was dull. An answer to his letter was sent asking him to make the effort and ascertain, after a canvas, if Wellington people could afford to do without a Council of the order, and the result is that a Council of from fifty to seventy members will be organized in that city on June 1st, and BIr. Showalter writes under date of Blay 29th, that forty-five are now ready and more to follow. Folders are furnished free of charge to our Councils for distribution. The Knights and Ladies of Security, like all other successful business enterprises, has to adopt business methods and insist on their being observed.

In the matter of members paying assessments, reserve fund or dues, the interest of the many cannot and should not be jeopardized by the carelessness and neglect of the few. The dues and reserve fund for this quarter were due on the first of April and should now be in the hands of the local treasurer, and members do their financial secretaries and themselves an injustice in delaying their payments to the last moment besides running the risk of neglecting it until past the time for paying and thus rendering their certificates void and requiring the action of the Council to put them in good standing. On the notice you receive this month from your financial secretary will be found all the Indebtedness due the Council prior to July 1st, and it will be a wise policy to make the payment as soon as possible after the notice is received and prevent the possibility of its being overlooked. Choose your words carefully when about to give advice to a friend against any life insurance organization. It will be a sad reflection to see his wife and little one in want because the day of his joining was put off too long as the result of your thoughtless words.

When you are about to influence a friend not to join one of the fratenal societies, ask yourself if in the eventof his death you will be willing to contribute a hundred dollars to the support of his family. This is what fraternities agree to do and what they are doing every day. Does your Council need some printed matter for distribution? If so, write to J. Bl. Wallace, National Secretary, and it will be forwarded free of charge.

The Jewel, 50 cents a year. which a dance will be given in the hall, and ice cream and cake served in the banquet room. The committee In charge of the entertainment are working to make this meeting worthy of patronage. All friends of the order are cordially invited to meet with the Council on that evening. SHAWNEE COUNCIL NO.

3. Our Council keeps up with the procession. However, it takes pretty lively stepping to be found in line with the average K. and L. of S.

Council, but we do it by having a number of initiations each meeting and new applications always on hand. In the near future this Council will lead all similar organizations on the North Side, we believe. We have heard it whispered around that a new Council with over a hundred charter members is to be started on this side. Go In, boys and girls, for we would like a little friendly competition. We have learned from the experience of other orders here that good, and only good, has come from similar efforts.

We have had our cup well filled this month as there were five Tuesday nights, and on the fifth, the hall not being occupied, we took advantage of this and held an extra meeting in the way of a social and literary entertainment and ice cream festival. If you were not there you missed something. The program was good, the cake and cream excellent, and the dancing and music enjoyable. And when it came to the Bale of cakes, Dr, Warner was in it. M- NEOSHO COUNCIL NO.

10. NeoBho Council is still on the land and among the living. At our last meeting we had two initiations and six applications. The 8th is our regular meeting and there will be Bix to initiate and several applications. We are making a strong effort to build up the order.

The last printed matter I got has done us more good than all else we could do. At our next meeting I hope to get a large subscription list for the Jewel, as all of the members that are now taking the paper will renew their subscription at the expiration of time, July 1st, as all are well pleased with the paper. I look for quite a large increase in our membership within the next month or two. Wishing the K. and L.

of S. success, I remain, Yours in W. S. and E. E.

Rice, Cor. Sec. SPRING VALLEY COUNCIL NO. 77. Baxter Springs, 31 ay 22, 94.

On Friday evening, May 18th, a very pleasant surprise was given the president of our Council. Our president had been absent about two weeks and he wrote that he would be with us on the evening of the 18th, therefore, about twenty-five K. and L. of S. members assembled at the hall with Ice cream and cake which they had prepared for the occasion.

When our president arrived, a table draped in white and decorated with beautiful flowers met his gaze. After his arrival the Council was called to order, after which we had the pleasure of taking into our order Mrs. McGuire and son, Otis, which makes about twelve members we have taken into the order since the 1st of April. After closing Council work we repaired to the dining room where refreshments were served and all spent a very pleasant evening. The surprise was a success and the whole 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 we hope it ipay render stronger the ties that bind the K.

L. of S. of Spring Valley Council No. 77. Mrs Sarah Hoppes.

ELSMORE COUNCIL NO. 86. Since our organization on April 5th, we have held weekly meetings which have been well attended. Owing to the fact that the secret work is new to ub we have been endeavoring to become more acquainted with the work before soliciting membership, and at every meeting the members seem more pleased with the order. We have had one Initiation and we are anxious to increase our members.

To this end our first entertainment was given on Thursday evening, May 10th. A short program consisting of vocal and Instrumental music and some choice recitations were rendered. One recitation by Mrs. J. Decker was much appreciated by the audience judging from the applause it received.

During the evening we were addressed by Brothers J. P. Decker and A. M. Morrlsen who spoke well for the interest of the Council.

As a result we expect some new applications in the near future. Yours fraternally, Cyrena J. Milby, Cor. Sec. M- -M- -H- CAWKER CITY COUNCIL.

J. M. Swallow, deputy national president of the Knights and Ladles of Security, completed the organization of an or der at Cawker. The charter closed with thirty-two members, and all are of the best social standing. Following are the names: G.

G. ifcConnell, G. McConnell, L. A. Litle, M.

A. Litle, G. W. DoveN. Dove, R.

Bohrer, S. Bohrer, W. B. Man FROM THE COUNCILS. CAPITAL COUNCIL NO.

1. I think Capital Council has been rather unkind to me this month, in doing or saying so little that Is reportable. I do not wish you to understand that we have had dull meetings, by any means; on the contrary they have been enjoyable, but of the kind that must be experienced to be appreciated. Our dance was just like all such gatherings, only in the matter of badges. They were the cutest things of the kind I ever saw.

Perhaps I am behind the times, but the editor has kindly promised to print a copy, and I give it, thinking, perhaps, it might furnish some one with an idea which may be useful in getting out dance cards. The following is the card: THE ofUS THE BEST IN HjjPJ. The world, tegrof uoy tnod dnA The cards were heavy, white, ragged-edged, and were tied to the gentlemens coats with bebe ribbon. If you are good at deciphering puzzles you can easily read it. The tickets were twenty-five cents, and the cream and cake, which were excellent, ten cents.

The committee cleared several dollars for their entertainment fund. We have decided to set apart the third meeting night of each month as the night for socials and entertainments. We have Initiated several during the month and have a larger number of names in the hands of committees and ready for initiation. We want to initiate fifty on the 12th of June. Two of tur Knights declare themselves good for thirty, and I believe have fifteen of them already.

Surely the rest of us ought to be able to bring in the other twenty. Our conductor told us one evening that it made him feel very badly to go to the parlor to look for candidates and find none, as he has had to do two or three times since he has been serving. He thought he should have to resign if it occurred that way often. He also urged us to look after the persons whose cards we were the means of bringing in. He had sent his name to this Council two years before he became a member; he had been examined and gone to the hall, but failing to meet the man who took his name in or any one he knew, turned around and left.

lie knew he was cranky but lots of people were just as mean as he was, and he spoke the truth, didnt he? One of our brothers told us of one of our organizers meeting a business man on the train, and after a time, beginning to talk insurance, his companion turned very cold and would not talk, so he handed him a folder which he read, and coming back to our organizer said that he didnt take much Interest in hiB talk about insurance awhile ago, because he was carrying $20,000 already and thought his wife would take him before a judge to be examined for insanity if he took any more, but he never saw anything like this. He said it was the best plan he ever heard of and he wanted all he could get in it. So all we have to do is to get people to look into the matter and they will ask for the privilege of joining instead of our having to coax them. We have now 107 Councils and over 8,800 beneficiary certificates now written. We have quite a time getting our dancers and musicians to the Council the same evening.

On the 22d we had a good attendance and everyone seemed so full of life and happiness that those who could dance found it almost impossible to keep off of their feet, so one brother kindly played the mouth organ while he helped in the dance. Then on the 27th we had a violin and organ; but alas! between the High School commencement and Prof. Gentrys trained animals, most of our light-footed people were absent and we old fogies were left to enjoy ourselves the best we could and get home early for once. Our sick and wounded are reported as convalescent. Next Tuesday evening, June 5th, is election and we want all the members present to have their say or forever after hold their peace.

My sisters, did you notice in the last Jewel an article headed, A Womans Mistake? If not, I think it will pay you to look it up and read it, and the principle applies to some of the brothers, too. Just let me add one word to it; the more we think and talk of our annoyances the larger they grow, and then get some one to sympathize with you, and as one sister expressed it to me, then they do grow. A Sister. TOPEKA COUNCIL NO. 2.

Topeka Council, during the past month Increased ten in membership, and has several applications In hand for this month. The entertainment committee announced at the last meeting, Wednesday evening, May 30th, that on Wednesday evening, June 13th, they will give a literary and musical entertainment, after wnkm; Jl jmh arm L. OF S. aiw tw -m a -w-m JUMli. Jj4u aiJf jjit For the first time in three months we have an assessment In the Knights and Ladles of Security.

Other orders as far we have been able to ascertain have had leaBt one assessment each month so far 1894, while many of them have been obliged to hare double headers. The Knights and Ladles of Security have had but two deaths in 1894 and we are grateful to an over-ruling Providence that has wonderfully preserved the lives of our members. Sister Arena E. Smith, whose death necessitates the present call, was one of the early members of Emporia Council, joining Nov. 2, 1892, and was an honored and active member of the order, faithful all times to its best interests and devoted to the cause it advocates.

At a meeting of Emporia Council, a committee consisting of W. J. Combs, L. Barrlck and C. P.

Colburn offered fitting resolutions which were unanimously adopted by the Council, and from which we quote: Whereas, God in Ills Infinite wisdom has called from our number one of our most respected members, Sister Arena E. Smith (formerly Conway) the wife of our Brother Ransler Smith, therefore be it Resolved, That in this act of Divine Providence this Council recognizes the loss of a faithful and zealous member; her husband a kind and loving wife, and her little children a devoted and loving mother; be it further Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt sympathy to her sorrowing husband and little children and to all her sorrowing friends; and we especially commend her little children to the tender care of Him who has promised to be a father to the fatherless and a help to those who put their trust in Him. This call covers all deaths to date. Financial secretaries will make their report promptly to the national secretary the 10th of June, and send a notice of assessment to their members of a call being made. It was the life agent who stopped the mechanic at his labor, the merchant at his ledger, and the adventurer at the threshold of his voyage and plead with him for the dependent wife and the young mother until the mans strong heart throbbed with the recollection of the betrothal kiss, and the native grandeur of the mans soul awoke to the consecration of an effort of self-denial, which placed him in the list of womans most noble champions.

Steadily she has been enriched by the result of this divinely incepted service. Nobly she has reared her children with the aid of it, and today the American woman is the recognized standard bearer of her sex the world around, as she is encouraged to look hopefully forward to be one day the recognized political, as she is now the social and intellectual, equal of man. In the cruBade of life insurance it is the white cross alone that has been worn. It is the Gonfallon of Peace only that was borne aloft. No blood has flown at its behest; no martyr sacrificed to advance its cause.

It has been the one mission of peace that has been the conqueror of peace, and today it is untiring in a common faith, as round a common altar, the good fathers and loving sons of the world the generous and true for the endowment of the generations to be. It is for such reasons, gentlemen, I claim for the life agent recognition as a public benefactor. He has been untiring, lie has been zealous, he has been faithful. He has been patient, because he had to deal with stubbornness and procrastination. He has been eloquent, because his heart and his conscience and his mind were a unit on his tongue.

He has been successful, because humanity iB loving and lovable. His every effort increases the worlds wealth; his every success knocks off some further shackle from the limbs of womanhood; his every victory gives to childhood a better world, and to old age the larger guarantees of a peaceful end. Let me ask, then, is the institution of life insurance to be regarded as a business merely, and are we, its exponents, to be regarded in the community at large as but merely business men 1Prof. Wm. P.

Stewart. The above tribute to those engaged in the business of soliciting life insurance ought to lead them to dignify the business by proper conduct. Placing the proper light on them as Prof. Stewart does ought to inspire all to useful men, convincing people everywhere that theirs was not a mere mercenary business. Before persuading your neighbor not to join the Knights and Ladles of Securl.

ty, show him or her something better if you can, or keep away and let our organizers present the merits of the order. mii man mjj jbMfciiftif K. AND aittr nr warm rr nr anr "tfM i- nr rur nw WtoBJAu. aiUti BiiluaJUlu Jlttu ONE ASSESSMENT FOR JUNE. 12 Councils Organized in May.

456 Beneficiary Certificates Issued In May. REVIEW OF THE MONTH. In looking over the results accomplished in May the Knights and Ladies of cannot but be gratified. Twelve Councils have been completed during the month, and active work is in progress on ns many more, while many of our old Councils have made good gains, and from nearly all of them come words of encouragement, and an active effort of their members to promote the interests of the Order, (We ask the co-operation of all our members in advancing the work in June. June promises to be a grand mouth in results.

The interest in the Iteserve Fund plan of the Order is attracting more and more attention and is receiving words of commendation from all who have investigated it). Four hundred and iifty-six benefit certificates were 'issued during the month. Councils were organized at Ileloit, Narka, Cawker City, Jewell City, Engle-vale, Paola, Glen Elder, Palmer, Lebanon, Wellington and Newton, in Kansas, and at Wymore, Nebraska. IMPORTANT, A CHANGE IN AGE LIMIT. The National Executive Committee have, after deliberation and consultation with and advice from a large number of members of the Knights and Ladies of Security, made the following change in issuing Benefit Certificates to take effect on August 1, 1894: Persons to the age of forty-five years can take a Beneficiary Certificate of $500, $1,000, $2,000, or $3,000, at their option.

Persons' to the age of fifty years can take a Beneficiary Certificate of $500, $1,000, or $2,000, at their option. Persons to the age of fifty-five years can take a Beneficiary Certificate of $500, or $1,000, at their option. All medical examinations made in June or July will be under the present age limit $3,000 to fifty years of age and $2,000 to fifty-five years of age. Members of the order who desire to have their Beneficiary Certificates increased, can do so by complying with the provisions of the Constitution. E.

G. Miner, Nat. Pres. J. M.

Wallace, Nat. Sec'y. THE BADGES. Without comment we publish the following letter. Samples will be sent each corresponding secretary aB soon as they are received: St.

Loois, May 30, 1894. J. M. Wallace, 631 Kansas Topeka, Kansas. Dear Sir: Your favor of the 28th Inst, at hand and contents noted.

It will be fully ten days yet before we will be able to ship the badges. There is considerable work on the dies for these badges which is causing the delay in filling the first order. After the dies are once finished we can fill your future orders more promptly. Trusting that our explanation will be satisfactory, we are, ours respectfully, Trebus Steiner. THE WESTERN JEWEL.

We sent to each secretary a proposition to be read to each Council in regard to subscribers for the Western ewel for the remainder of this year. While the response from many of our Councils has been generous and to the full extent of their membership, there are a number of Councils that have not responded. If it has been the neglect of the secretary, we hope he will make amends by reading the circular. We believe the Jewel is a large factor in advancing the interests of the Knights and Ladies of Security, and we would like a monthly copy to be in the hands of every member of the Order. Any subscriptions received prior to June 20th, will be in time to be, placed in our next order.

Send lists and remittance to J. M. Wallace, Natl Topeka, Kansas. Many persons who have been approached during the last year and solicited to join some one of the fraternal societies have put it off, and not a few of those who did bo have died and left their families unprovided for. The time to do anything is now.

Next month you may have a spell of sickness the results of which will leave you in a condition which will preclude your passing a medical examination. You cannot afford to put it off longer. as at in so at R. by.