Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-15
Pennsylvania,

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Pennsylvania.
dispatch received by the BEE from Gin
cinnati last night saws Howard Douglass,
supreme chancellor of the world Knights of
Pythias, has suspended the entire lurisdic-
tion of the Grand lodge of the state of Penn
sylvania for dsobedienceof of orders. The DISC
bedience consists in refusing to amend the
constitution in certain particulars as has
been previously required Chancellor Doug
lass will cite officers of the Grand lodge to
appear before him January 81, to show cause
why the chancellor should not be upheld
IN THE majority of the secret orders the
relief extended to sick and destitute members
is regulated by a stated amount In many
instances that amount is too small to meet
the eXigences of the occasion, yet 1t is not
often that u member in good standing with
any of the secret orders is permitted to be
inconvenenced by reason of his poverty dur
ing his illness. The receiving of such aid is
| not charity extended but an obligation dis
charged by the lodge. In spite of this, how
ever, it is not pleasant to the object of such
attention to be known as the recipient of aid
which the stranger would cOnstrue as charity,
while those who know appreciate it as the
interest on "a good investment A person de-
pendent on lodge of A., F. and A. M. is
never known outside of the members of the
fraternity, and often not outaldc the lodge
he Is connected with. Their relief is dis
tributed in different way from most other
secret societies. When they learn of
member in needy circumstances, com.
the lodge to visit him. They are not given
any particular sum, but have authority to
supply them with anything they may need.
They provide clothing, Shoes medicine, gro
ceries fuel, etc, and continue to do this, not
for any stated time, but until the object of
| charity IS able to earn a living. In many
| lodges of other secret orders where the re
| lief to be extended is regulated by Il stated
| sum, very proper rule is enforced which
| compcls every member, rich and poor, sick
| for at least week to accept the amount OF
| weekly benefits. This rule has been found
to be meritorious from the fact that members
| not really in destitute circumstances, yet as
| proud as they We're poor, might be taken i'll
| and the weekly benefits of their lodge might
| be of considerable and to them. Yet these
| same brethren would decline to accept this
| aid if their wealthier brethren were per
mitted to refuse it. Thus when the lodge
| provided 81 as a weekly allowance to a sick
brother the richest member of the lodge sick
| the required time and surrounded by plenty,
accepted his weekly stipend with the same
grace of his poorer.,brother, and thus avoided
any humiliating feelings on theApart of the
latter.
Within the past three years the l. O. o. f.
| in the United States has expended $500 OOO
Court st. Louis Ancient Order of Forest
ers, at a special meeting on Thursday even
| ing decided in favor of calling special con-
| vention of the order in America for the pur-
| pose of considering the advisablity Of sever
| ing connection with the high court of Eng
land chiefly on account of the action of the
| foreign high court wishing to change its con-
| sttuton so as to admit colored people into
| the order, The courts of this country, so far
| as known, are opposed to the admission OF
| colored people.
~.
THERE IS a movement on foot to build
| pythian pnGtln nt WASHINGTON ID g.
THE AVERAGE membership of Pythian lodges
| in Nebraska is forty
MAJOR GENERAL CARNAHAM, of the Uniform
| Rank, during 'S7, approved l25 applications
| for the new divisions in various parts of the
country, gain of 100 per cent over any pre-
| ViOus year.
THAT WHICH amounts to almost passion,
| exists among the negroes of this country in
their taste for secret organizations. 1t is Gu
rious too to notice the popularity of titles Sc
lected for these organizations. Among the
number appear the following; Junior Rising
Sons and Daughters of the, Vineyard,
Resolute Daughters of Joshua, Ben
eyolent Sons of the Young Army
ters Young Ladies' Golden Harp of America,
Daughters of the First Star of Jacob Rising
Sons and Daughters of the East, Loving
Daughters of Paradise, Young Rising Sons
Vi nam, DlSltTS VI LOTu DtlSHb ootlctS 4,
Heavenly Called Laborers of the Vineyard,
Originating Sons and Daughters of Business,
Young Home Search Daughters of Love, l
Hope TO BE Righteous society, United Sons
and Daughters of Rising Morning Star,
Seven Golden Candlesticks, Benev-
| olent Daughters of Weeping Mary
society, Following Sons of Abraham, Loving
| Sons and Daughters of Revelation, Grand
United Sons and Daughters of the Living
| Council of the Cross, Young Lambs, Peace
able Daughters of Bethlehem Young Daugh-
ters of the Aid of Shiloh, Young National
| Daughters of Phoenix, Infant Daughters of
Love, United Sons of Adam, Daughters of
the Golden Chariot, Sweet Prospects of
Paradise, Loving Daughters of the Sep
ulchre
| DR.. SAMUEL SMITH, "a well-knOwn Mason
of Minnesota, in a recent public address,
said; 'Nothing ever happens by accident,
and nothing exists unless there is some good
| in it, We sometimes hear of hoary false
hoods. But there are no such things. Those
| very gray haired falsehoods have lived be-
cause of some good contained in them.
Masonry has existed in many generations 10
in spite of the doubts of many wise men as
| TO the results of il, and in spite of lies and
caumnies of blackguards il has existed and
| will exist for generations TO come, because OF
| the good in it. II this is not so, how
could IL have gone through the troubles OF
fifty years agoi II exists in other lands than
ths-we may say in all lands. If men thiGl
alike ana feel alike they must and will come
together. Men must organize because they
are built that way, This organization grows
stronger JUS in proportion as we are drawn