The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-05-31
A SOLEMN coNcLAvE.
Bin Nye. ia Denver opiaioa. !

Bill Sye. in Denver 0psnion.
 The regular semi-mcnthly meeting el the officers and mcmbess ct the Home fce Disabled Batter and Hoary-heAded Hcsel Hash occurred last Sasrrdax even ing. and wzs called to order by the Most Esteemed Toolymuckahi.
 The minutes of the proceeding meeting were read. and afser the Most Highly Es- tcemed Breath-Tester had passed around ts ascertain whether cr not those present were quah6ed to remain. and the usual roii-cail and singing of the opening ode having been attended 10. the Nest Es- teezned Toolymuckahi announced that the society would resume the discnssion Of the question of finance which had no, been concluded fully at the last session
 Brother Oatmeal Baker, from omeieste Pagoda. No s6s al Sidney. Nebraska, rose and said mat as a visiting membea of caurse he had no bu>inexs with the financial affairs of neighboring mosque whose guest he vas, but inasmueh AS he had been called upon by the Mos; Es- teemed Toolymuekahi 10 make any sng- gessions he saw it, he would simply say that at thetr own pagoda, in Sidney. the Home had been greatly assisted in its Farewell Festival and Scuffie for Scads by the adoption ef vo,ing scheme sy which a watch was voted to the most pop ular railroad man. He said that II had been the custom for some time for L aion Pacific towns to put up lantern or a watch worth Sr $ 10 be voted 10 the most popular railroad man, and i, worked tip-,op. although in late years of course the railroad men were beginning to drop on 1t. He said tha, they got one of those winding watches that cost |; 10. and you w'nd them up four times A day, and you have to be pretty lively or they will run down while you are winding them up. This watch bfough, in s97 for the treasury of Omelette Pa gcdA, No. ,oS
 Brother Charley Kitchen. of Blanc Mange Tabernacle. No. ; Omaha. Ne braska, said that poker and fifteen ball pool had been used with some success Tn thcir society for the purpose of aiding its tottering treasury. but he, for one. favored something more gentecl. The general public did not regard hf,een-ball pool as strictly au fait and au revoir h was
  He favored some harmless thing like voting a two-dollar doll to the hand somes, child. No man who loved his child would do less than to blow m from three to thirty dollars, 10 back up his judgment He believed in playing upon the pr,de and vanity of the average sucker and making our society wealthy Another good scheme. he suggested, was to vote gilt locket 10 the most beautiful young lady. He knew of one town where this was done to aid a church. and though ii broke up the church, the loekei sold for S.,o and cost ninety-nine cents. He said il his society would make him treas urer, and then make s5oo and break up m row. he would try 10 soothe his broken heart In some way and suffer on.
 The Mos: Esteemed Toolymuckahi then rose and sad the tune for discu had expired He wished to say word previous to putting the question. The motion, as 1t now stood, was 10 aid the treasury by one or two evenings devoted to what he might call festival and hoo raw. The programme was to arrange a series of genteel bunko and confidence games by which to get something for nothing. He would put the motion, bu, he desired in all candor to say that his resignation as Mos, Esteemed Tooly- muckahi would follow an agreement to the motion.
 This announcement fell with a sicken ing ,hud upon inc ears of those present
 The motion ~as then put. Ayes, B nays, :
 The Most Esteemed Toolymuckahl then, more ID sorrow than ii anger stepped down from the dais. s,rode ma jesueally into the ante-room. leaving the lodge m the hands Of the Mos, Esteemed Supernumeray Toolymuckahi, pu, on the s35 spring ovcrcoat of visiting mem ber and stole out into the embrace of the silent night.