The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-04

from Illinois. The head clerk, Maj.
Halves is a prominent figure in fraternal
society management. During all the time
he has been head: clerk of the Woodmen,
directing the affairs of the head office,
with 100 clerks under him, he has never
been opposed for reelection, but has been
unanimously chosen at each succeeding
national convention. Head Concul North
colt also is unique in this respect.
& From the fact. that in Minnesota re-
side $4,000 of the soeiety'sz 400, 600 members,
and from the fact that Hone Is. d. Smith,
of Mankato, is a candidate for reelection
to the office of director, not to mention
St PauPs candidacy for theonext head
camp, the Kansas City convention will
arouse great interest in this state. and
returns from here will be eagerly awaited
by the Woodmen .-.., 80
s.. st. PauFS eleven camps will send dele
cation of over 200 rooters for the meeting
in 1901
Missouri Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Ne
braska, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Kan
sas have in the aggregate 350, 900 of the
AGO. 900 .Woodmen, and from these states
Will come the bulk of the attendance at
the national convention. Minnesota alone
Will send 1000 Woodmen and twenty eight
delegates, each district delegate repre-
senting 900 ''Neighbors'' on the member
ship as computed to Dec 81, 1898
Woodman week at Kansas CITY will not
De given over entirely to business Be-
SIDES the addresses by the orators named
there will be big picnic on Thursday.
1naugurated by q grand Woodman pa
race, when at least 10000 uniformed
Woodmen will be in line The picnic will
be under the auspices of the Authwest-
ern missouri Log Rolling associations
Woedman picnic socfety-which Will hold
It's annual picnic at Kansas CITY on
Ihdrsday OF next week The convention
Will adjourn in hoApr of the event and
Will close the day by a grand Woodman
Dali IN convention hall, where over 1,50o
couples can dance at one time.
over 100 Foresters' teams, the uniformed
rank or Woodcraft, will compete in the
Foresters' drill contest. These teams
Will come from twelve states. The frst
prize In this contest is $1,000 There will
also De a Woedman band contest and
elghty bands have already put IN en-
trance money for permits to shatter Mis-
sourfs atmosphere. The first prize will
be $780, PFC III
ENTERTAINING THE CROWD.
EiaDorate preparations have been made
by the eight Woodmen camps of Kansas
City, reinforced by a general executive
committee of Kansas City leading Gift
zens' 10 entertain the big crowds
committee Of members of the Kansas
City board of trade has in hand Mans m
reproduce for the week the briIuan+ ~
lumlnatfons and decorations of tho fa-
nous Karnival Krewe paeeantries +h.+
two years ago made Kansas Citv IA
nous. Hon. John Sullivan. general at
torney of the FraternaI Aid associ6a+io-,
VINO Is president Of the general exec,1-
1--WE committee, has devoted all his tina
Tor the past two months to making ar
rangements for this meeting, which he
claims will be ''the greatest civic demon
strdtlon IN the history of the American
republic" ''-'
The closing, but for the Woodmen +ba
most intensely interesting feature of the
national convention programme. will o.
cur on Friday evening, when the big CON
Vent1on hall will be turned into a 1odea
room and class of 500 Candidates will
De initiated. The head officers Of the
Soeiey Will preside and the degree team
OF sun Flower Camp No. SO. Toneka
Kan, will exemplffy the work The
candidates will ride the goat Cor goatsl
IN relays Of twenty-five until the entire
class or 800 is exhausted While on tbis
number OF the programme 1t NAV inter-
est members of secret societies to know
something of the goat as an historical
accessory OF the lodge. Everybody knows
the goat as the embodiment of all nm
iShments and terrors to aDnlicants for
NPPiiScHlS LOT
secret society honors, but few know az
what period in history this animal tod IN
strument of torture became popular Ono
version is that the Croppie boys of an
cient and more recent Irish history ara
responsible for the goat The Irish meas
ants or the mountain regions in famine
ana eviction times lived largely on
goats milk and goats flesh, and when
. .nese ANIMALS an were seized for rent, as
they oIten were, the outlook became
desperate indeed.
IRiSHMEN AND GOATS.
me English constabulary discovered the
stfons bond of union that existed be-
tween the Irish peasantry and their
s s.,a, ana made a practice of selling the
bfliies wherever found Then n was
that the Croppie boys sprang into exist
ence and the goat became their Bible. so