The Ancient Order of the Pyramids from Valley Falls, Kansas • 4

i- THE PYRAMID. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PYRAMIDS. Published Monthly at TOPEKA, KANSAS. Commence now working for a gold prize. There are few things that gold will not buy.

We offer gold for new members. Who will win it? Guaranteed Circulation, Monthly 10,000. You can do no kinder act than to induce your friends to join our Order. Our plans and methods are unexcelled. EDITORS a.

ft. Dr. C. S. Our prizes are not rings or bowls, but bowls of gold with the genuine ring to it.

Go for a handful of it. Entered at the Poet Office at Topeka, Kansas, as second class matter. Communications for our columns must be received on or before the 20th of each Month. The invention of insurance is credited to the Lombards of Italy, although in the time of Cicero there were instances of cargoes being insured. A limited number of acceptable advertis-ments will be received at the following rates, per month.

1 Column, $20, One half Column, $15, One fourth Column, $10. Less space, $2 per inch. Editoral or reading matter 50c per line. Concordia Kan. Oct.

13, '98. Hon. A. K. Rodgers, Topeka Kansas.

Dear Sir and Brother: This is to certify that on the 10th day of this month we received check for the full amount of $1000 to pay certificate No. 5148 A. O. of the P. issued on the 26th day of May 1897 to Ida Mae Lemonds of Am-enti council No.

72 payable to T. J. Lemonds her husband, and considering that Bro. Lemonds lives at Lenora about one hundred and fifty miles from here and a further fact, owing to the undertaker being absent in Kansas City, the death certificate did not come back from brother Lemonds for nearly a month. We consider this prompt enough.

Hoping that it will be many days before we will need call for like assistance, we remain Yours in T. J. E. W. Whipp, N.

P. J. W. Ferguson, Scribe. Brother F.

P. Long of Oklahoma, spent the last week of Oct. at Royal Temple headquarters. The 12th Annual Session of the National Fraternal Congress will be held at Baltimore Md, Nov. 16-19, 1898.

Early in September our Royal Prophet, brother E. S. McClintock took up, with the various passenger Associations, the mat-tt of reduced rates to the Fraternal Congress that meets at Baltimore Md. Nov. 15th, Tiie request has been granted and visitors who pay full fare going will be returned at one third fare.

Local ticket agents will furnish detailed information. mmmmW K9 Seasonable advice: If the stovepipe has fallen down and the cook has gone off in a pet, put up the pipe, wash your hands, and then read the third chapter of James. You have many friends for whom you "Would do a great good. Induce them to become beneficiary members of the A. O.

of the P. and thus earn their lasting gratitude and that of their We take great pleasure in the fact that no member of our order in Colorado has died since councils were established in that state. This speaks highly for our state Inspector and for his deputies and medical examiners. Occasionally our organizers complain of unfair treatment from men acting for other orders. We do not care how sharp competition is, or how zealous the organizer is to build up his own order.

But unfair and umgentlemanly conduct is disreputable and should never be resorted to. At the recent session of the Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. held at Topeka, the matter of establishing an Odd Fellows home was referred back to the subordinate lodges.

The city of Topeka offered a very desirable property for such a home and we join heartily in urging its location here. Father Boy nton saj-s. "Let us paddle our own canoe," keep to the lee of old liners, letting them drift where they may. The fra-ternals should continue to be the refuge for the common people, where they can get life protection on co-operative lines, together with fraternal and social benefits at the lowest possible cost. We take especial pleasure and pride in the rapid growth of fraternal insurance.

All the orders that are based on sure foundations and properly managed are prospering, for which we are glad. We do not want everybody to join our particular order. Our plans are so fair and just and we furnish insurance at so near exact cost, that we are sure our membership will increase satisfactorily in the future, as it has in the past. There has been a bill introduced in congress, providing that the government issue to soldiers and sailors a policy of insurance against injury and death. No premiums are to be paid and such benefits are to be accepted in lieu of pensions.

Such an agreement to pay for injuries or death would be an advanced and liberal step, as such benefits would be paid in accordance with the letter of the policy, and not depend on the uncertain and usually slow mov-ments of pension laws and bureaus. What more appropriate emblem or ornament in the council chamber than a beautiful U. S. flag. Do not forget that The Pyramid will present one to the council that secures the most beneficiary members before New Years day.

S. McClintock, Royal Prophet. (Founder.) Officers ot Uemplc. E. S.

McCLINTOCK, Royal Prophet, Kansas City, Mo. LAURA O. BASKIN, Royal Priestess, Junction City, Kas. ALPHEUS K. RODGERS, Royal Scribe, Topeka, Kansas.

ADDIE B. PARKER, Royal RecordinR Scribe, Springfield, Mo. ARTHUR S. ANDREWS, Royal Treasurer, Washington, Kas. JAMES L.

HARRIS, Royal Herald, Joplin, Mo. JAMES E. KLOCK, Royal Messenger, Helena, Mont. JOHN A. LEWIS, Royal Guardian, Pana, 111.

E. PERCY PERRINE, Royal Sentinel, Tarko, Mo. ARTHUR S. ANDREWS, Royal Inspector. Washington, Kas.

CLARENCE McCLINTOCK, Medical Director, Topeka, Kan. While it is possible that some one council may win the first prize in each class, it is probable that some largeDcouncil will win the first prize in the 1st class and some smaller council will win the first in the 2nd But nothing is impossible. Let every council get right into the harness and work for the prize in each class. We had the pleasure of spending an evening with Silver State Council at Denver, Mountain and Plain Festival week. We expected to find a pleasant hall and to meet a band of most excellent people.

We were not disappointed. The various chairs were occupied by accomplished workers, the wide awake State Inspector being present and in the Noble Prophet's chair. It was a gala night in Denver, being Carnival day and this reduced the attendance to a minimum. But everyone present was both willing and capable of entertaining their visitors, and we have seldom spent so pleasant an evening. Socially Silver State Council is unexcelled and the enthusiastic manner in which all its members enter into i the ritualistic and entertainment Royal Finance Committee.

FLETCHER P. LONG, Walthall, Ok. OSCAR C. KNOWLES, Topeka, Kas. CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON LAWS: HOWARD C.

RASH, Salina, Kas. CHAIRMAN GOOD OF THE ORDER: THOMAS J. ANDERSON, Topeka, Kas. CHAIRMAN APPEALS AND GRIEVENCES. JOHN T.

SHOWALTER, Helena, Mont. CHAIRMAN MUSIC COMMITTEE, i ISABEL L. McCLINTOCK, Topeka, Kas. CHAIRMAN FLOOR WORK COMMITTEE: THOS. E.

McMILLIAN, Hutchinson, Kas. Officers bonded in the National Security Company, New York. In a certain sense and degree, your council is injured whenever you absent yourself from its meetings. Whenever you are present and assist in the work and join in the social features of the council room the strengthtof your council is added to and more apparent. You owe it to your fellow members and the order to be in your place at all "times.

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