The Ancient Order of the Pyramids from Valley Falls, Kansas • 1

IIP TBBIBIWPWt 'wutn-it-ra-. i ks hbbb ffi fSHk Motto: Truth, Equity eind Justice. No. 4. ALLEY FALLS, KANSAS, FEBRUARY, 1897.

Yol. 1. Mi Pajer of 'tie MbA Orfier of tie PYRAMIDS. following month but they must pay their first or advanced assessment at the time of the delivery of their bene- insurance, the organizer who talks hir order "having its resrrve md ta member's pockets, is look upon as a fake trying to delude the EDITOR-1 ficiary Certificates. Un you more A.

M. RUSSELL; poopi nto paying for "Soroethitir' Medical Examiners Take Notice. If you will be careful to answer all questions in the medical blank, it will avoid much delay. Answers to every question should be specific. Ditto marks or dashes should not be used.

When the applicant has had any of the diseases named, make a full explanation in the column for remarks. N. H. ARMAN CO- PUBLISHERS VUBLISHED QUARTERLY. add guaranteeing them As sure as one day follows another, the above fate will follow all orders that stick to a 4 'pocket reserve." We Entered at the postoffice at Valley Falls, Kansas, as second class matter.

supposed that fallacy was dead, but we than on any other officer rests the success or failure of your council. If you are prompt in your collections, and keep before the members the necessity of their keeping their assessments paid, you will have a successful council and at one half the labor to you. Make it clear to all new members that no notice of assessments are sent out, and if they do not pay before the 5th of each month they are suspended without further notice. The Wheel of Fate. The wheel of fate turns round and round, To bring to each their weal or woe, Sunshine or shadow, joy or tears; Still on the wheel turns, sure but slow.

In youth we fain would push the wheel, That seems so very slow to move "We would the hand of fate, assist, To bring us fortune, fame or love. In age we all would gladly stay, The wueel, that brings our lot too fast, Of heart aches, full, our moments are, Or bliss, full mete while life shall last. Printed in back of the constitution you will find a price list of supplies. The money must accompany all orders. Address all matters in regard to local Councils and remit all money to A.

K. Kodgers, Royal Scribe, Topeka, Kansas. Then let us try to learn the way The wheel must turn, with measure slow, "With pleasure glad, with pain content, As halting through this world we go. A. W.

Connett, Topeka, Kans. dthat large organizations have been in the last few months, based upon that old thread bare fallacy, and deluded its victims into believing they were getting insurance. We begin to thinh it is tine for a commissioner to be placed in charge of the Fraternal Societies, to protect the people from being duped, by what T. Anthony styled as "Statesmen cut of a ho organize Societies to cheat its members out of their hard earned money. The trouble is, the people don't stop to think.

They don't know the real difference between "reserve or no reserve" and they join "just because so and so joined." The Ancient Order cf the Pyramids stands ready to give every one value received and guarantee that the one who joins U3 will iiot lose any thing, eVen their insurance, which was lost by those who are re-fered to above, as living out the 18 years, this "Pocket Reserve" existed. The writer was a member of said order and got all the experience he wanted in that kind of orders, and having long out lived one, is not very likely to try others of the same kind, but would advise that all who want insurance look up our plan and act according to what age and experience teaefaee. Official Notice. Remember that no notice of assessment will be sent you. Members must make their payments to their Council Scribes on or before the 5th of the month or they are suspended without further action by the order.

The Pocket Reserve. "The 'Funeral Aid' was organized tn October 1869, and closed its career in November, 1887, existing jusf eighteen years. This was one of the plar.ji whereby the insured carried his "reserve" in his pocket and it worked ad right so long as his fellow members did not die too fast, but the time finally arrived when quite a number died "all at once," assessments came in "batches ''instead of singly, and many of the surviving members concluded not to pay. The "reserve" failed to materialize, the membership dwindled rapidly, and tht "Aid's" affairs were wound up. As a matter of fact the members lost nothing, for during the eighteen years of its existence the simply paid when "ome brother died, and his heirs got tne money.

It was a question for the surviving members to determine, whether they had rather be alive at the end of the eighteen years or not; had they died, their heirs would have been the Denefteiaries. At any iaie iuey wart alive, and as they were eighteen years older the cost of carrying their live? bnd proportionately increased. Thi is the disagreeable feature attending the "pocket reserve plan." Take Notice. There have been a few letters received at this office requesting us to pay bills that have been made and contracted for by organizers. We want to serve notice and say once for all, that the Ancient Order of the Pyramids is not responsible for, nor will we pay, any bills that organizers make, as none of them have authority to contract any bills whatsoever for this Order.

When trusting, you trust them, and not us. We pay cash for what we buy or if not make our own contracts and never under any circumstances do we give any organizer oi deputy authority to make any purchase or contract a debt for the order. When they are trusted for board, livery hire, etc. or if the doctoi allow them to collect his fee of the party examined, they are trusting thn personally and not us, and must look to them for their pay. A.

K. Rodgebs, Royal Scribe. To Council Scribes. Assessments are paid monthly without notice. When blanks for making returns are needed they will be sent without charge, upon receipt of a postal card.

Do not fail to forward your assessments as early in the month as possible. Drafts should be made payable to the Royal Scribe. Remit by draft, post office or express order. Do not send individual check. Always make your monthly report in duplicate, sending one copy to the Royal Scribe and keeping one your Self.

Account for each member of your council, always remitting before the loth of the month. All assessments are due on or before the 5th of each month. All members are liable for the current monthly assessment who are members before the 15th of the month, those becoming members after the 3.5th are not liable until the THE ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PYRAMIDS. Shall have regularly one assessment a month, twelve ayear. Should the losses in any one year exceed what twelve assessments will pay-then the Reserve Fund that has been accumulating shall be drawn upon to pay such excess.

YtXi The above from the "National Fellow," gives in a few words the yt of th whole argument for a "Reservt Fund." In this day and age of Lift.