To SUBORDINATE LODGES: Beneficiary Statement OFFICE OF GRAND SECRETARY AND TREASURER, The following is a statement of receipts in the Beneficiary Department for the month of February, 1904: 66 136 50 54 00 196 25 751261! 1471 50 2 66 50 3 723 75 4 216 25 131) 5 277 50 6 232 75 7 154 75 8:414 25 9 259 00 68 93 00 133 134 25 11 201 25 12 301 50 13 76 36 00141 437 50 206 56 50 271 94 00 336 91 00 401 263 25 466 77 353 25 142 78 124 00 143 14 317 25 79 64 50 144) 15 80 206 50 145 74 50 598 76 75 599 73 50 600 78 50 70 75 532 29 75 533 209 158 50 274 105 25 339 58 50 404 91 50 469 80 00 534 223 00 210 59 75 275 258 75 340 234 25 405 352 50 470 147 00 535 81:135 50 146 425 00 211 238 75 276 186 75 341 180 25 406 41 00 471 38 50 536 68 50 601 128 25 82 248 25 147 159 00 212 129 75 277 105 00 342 165 50 407 145 25 472 537 73 00 602,254 50 83 198 00 148 154 50 213,176 25 278 22 00 343 59 00 408 161 75 473 538 109 75 603 61 50 149 702 50 214 518 75 279 163 00 344| 409 114 50 474 132 00 539 114 50 604 42 25 150 223 25 215 328 25 280 95 50 345 141 50 410,167 75 475 540, 605 135 75 83 00 216 102 75 281 179 50 346 23 75 411 181 25 476 63 50 541 95 00 606 42 75 185 50 217 173 50 282 24 00 347 104 00 412 142 00 477 77 00 512 607 62 00 125 75 218 235 75 283 112 75 348 115 50 413 38 00 478 202 75 543 247 50 608 130 50 219 182 00 284 443 75 349 337 75 414 117 50 479,122 25 544 147 25 609 1:2 25 220 500 25 285,329 75 350 91 75 415 102 25 480 36 00 545 99 25 610 181 50 221 174 50 286 351 27 50 416 172 25 481 188 75 546 43 50 611 50 75 74 50 222 191 00 287 662 25 352 101 50 417 92 00 482 136 50 547 78 25 612 84 00 223 238 108 75 353 97 00 418 320 00 483 548 60 75 613 75 50 143 25 224 72 75 289.173 50 354 204 75 419 108 00 484 136 00 549 614 180 50 159 50 225 56 75 290 107 50 355 174 50 420 485 791 50 550 36 50 615 66 25 30 00 225 272 25 291 109 75 356,204 50 421 56 75 486 94 25 551 127 25 616 59 00 366 25 227 59 75 292 44 25 357 73 25 422 97 25 487 16 25 552 144 50 617 70 75 98 240 50 163 147 00 228 390 25 293 358 80 00 423 50 00 488 63 75 553 58 00 618 47 00 34 236 25 99 522 25 164 101 25 229 288 50 204 147 25 359 58 50 424 96 25 489 554 71 00 619 35 121 00 100 68 50 165 56 00 230 607 50 235 250 25 360 132 50 425 74 25 490 158 75 555 52 00 620 70 25 36 171 50 101 305 75 166 276 50 231 362 50 296 182 25 361 90 00 426,263 50 491 45 50 556 55 75 621 38 00 37 174 00 102 104 00 167 105 50 232 201 00 297 148 75 362 131 00 427 71 25 492 210 25 557 180 00 622 135 00 38 92 50 103 168 103 25 233 142 75 298,146 50 363 388 75 428 493 116 00 558 141 00 623 122 50 39 115 00 104 152 50 169 317 75 234 109 25 299 152 75 364 429 137 00 494 118 75 559 198 50 624 86 50 40 298 50 105 78 50 170 112 75 235 369 75 300 430 153 75,495 69 75 560 625 58 75 41 875 105 72 00 171 101 50 235 380 00 301 102 25 366 63 50 431 496 58 50 561 95 50 626 120 50 42 38 00 107 208 00 172 83 50 237 410 75 302 260 00 367 132 00 432 211 00 497 147 25 562 185 50 627 50 25 43 168 50 103 146 00 173 245 00 238 225 25 303 89 50 368 110 25 433 67 50 493 104 25 563 144 50 628 63 75 44 217 00 109 202 75 174 1052 50 239 304 240 75 369 132 00 434 173 25 499 39 50 564 87 25 629 37 00 45 110 122 75 175 393 00 240 306 00 305 83 75 370 30 50 435 87 50 500 84 75 565 69 00 630 72 50 46 57 00 111182 00176 167 00 241 290 00 305 261 50 371 115 50 436 207 25 501 182 50 566 179 25 631 74 50 47 195 00 112 63 00 177 146 00 242 223 00 307 141 00 372 113 75 437 31 75 502 192 25 567 87 25 632 60 00 48 270 25 113 163 50 178 334 25 243 93 00 308 74 50 373 126 25 438 103 75 503 104 00 568 100 50 633 83 00 49 114 68 25 179; 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Amount. Beneficiary Assessment Notice No. 124. To the Treasurers of Subordinate Lodges: PEORIA, ILL., April 1, 1904. Dear Sirs and Brothers-You are hereby notified of the following deaths and disabilities: Assessments for death and disability claims are hereby levied as follows. For each beneficiary member whose name appears on the rolls of membership on April 1, 1904 (also for all beneficiary members having taken a withdrawal or transfer card after Jan. 1st, and for all members who died or were totally disabled since that date), carrying a Beneficiary Certificate of THREE THOUSAND (83,000.00) DOLLARS you are required to forward the sum of FOUR DOLLARS AND TWENTY-FIVE (84.25) CENTS; for those carrying a Certificate of Two THOUSAND ($2,000.00) DOLLARS you are required to forward the sum of Two DOLLARS AND SEVENTY-FIVE ($2.75) CENTS, for those carrying a Certificate of FIFTEEN HUNDRED ($1,500.00) DOLLARS, you are required to forward the sum of Two (82.00) DOLLARS. For those carrying a Certificate of ONE THOUSAND ($1.000.00) DOLLARS you are required to forward the sum of ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY ($1.50) CENTS, and for each member carrying a Certificate of FIVE HUNDRED (8500.00) DOLLARS you are required to forward the sum of SEVENTY-FIVE (80.75) CENTS. Saidre mittances to reach the Grand Lodge not later than April 20, 1904, as provided in Section 61 of the Constitution. Yours fraternally, BROTHER GRAND HODGE DECEMBERIE 1878. OPTOCO W. S. CARTER, G. S. and T. SPECIAL NOTICE.-All remittances must be made by BANK DRAFT, MONEY ORDER, OR EXPRESS ORDER. Members initiated on or after February 1st, are not liable for this assessment, Treasurers are required to forward 82.00 Grand Dues for each new member initiated on or before April 1, 1904. It will be noted in the right hand column that the above claims are all paid and the date of payment given. Woman's Virtues That are Vices. ashes of defeat on his head as if he wore It is in the domestic circle that woman's sympathy is, at once, the greatest and the worst thing in the world. There is nothing else that is so comforting, so soothing, so restful, as to feel that there is one person who will make excuses for you if you fail, who will hide your shame from even your own eyes if you turn coward and shirk your duty, who will gloss over your weaknesses, and lay the blame of your faults on others. This has ever been held the part of a noble, devoted and sympathetic wife. And yet it is doubtful if it would be possible for a man to have a heavier handicap in the race of life than such a woman. Somewhere in every man's career there comes a time when his heart faints within him, when the battle seems going against him, and he feels like throwing down his gun and surrendering to fate. He is tired, worn, discouraged. The conditions are so hard. The goal is so far off. He is bleeding from a hundred wounds, and weak and faint. At a word he would turn and beat an inglorious retreat, and it rests with his wife whether he runs up the white flag, or turns and girds up his loins and struggles on to success. If she is of the sympathetic kind, she bedews him with her tears; she pities him for having to work so hard; she is sorry for him because he has to deal with such sharp, shrewd men; she blames social conditions, politics, the weather, for his failures; she condones his giving up by laying it on his health, and she assures him she loves him just as well and admires him just as much with the the victor's crown. Of course, she means merely to comfort him, dear blundering saint, but his deadliest enemy could do him no more vindictive wrong. She is enervating when she ought to strengthen; she is administering an anaesthetic when she ought to be sousing him with a tonic; she is weakening him when she ought to be giving him a brace. When a man is discouraged is no time to pity him, and tell him he is a poor, persecuted martyr, and that he can't succeed because the world is down on him. It is a time to breathe hope and courage into him, and to make him feel that he can succeed in spite of the world. In Mr. Howells' beautiful story of Silas Lapham, the old millionaire paint manufacturer, in talking of the way he struggled up through all sorts of hardships from poverty to wealth, says that it was 65 per cent. of peroxide of iron in his wife that was at the bottom of his success, not the 65 per cent. of peroxide of iron in the paint. And the same thing is true of millions of other American men. It has been said that there is a woman behind the door of every man's success. If there is, rest assured she isn't a sympathetic woman who is whining through the keyhole, "Give it up if it's hard." She is a woman of nerve and backbone, who, like the Spartan woman of old, is crying out, "Come home with your shield or on it." Woman has been called a ministering angel, but her services to the world would have been greater if she had had less sympathy and more backbone.-Dorothy Dix, in "The Twentieth Century Home." The Domestic Diplomat. The feminine domestic diplomat is a person of unlimited tact and good sense. She has what-not-to-do reduced to a science, and above all she is attractive. It is observed: That she never describes her aches and pains. That she never dwells on unpleasant reminiscences. That she never apologizes for the food. That she never corrects the children in Rule 2-Awl men mus wair thair ole kloze and high hats. No gent with a biled shurt will be allowed tu cum unless he pays a fine of five sents. There is goin' to be butyfull singin and playin by our members. Good hulsum vittles will be furnished free. Evry one brakeing theas rules will be fined. the presence of any person, even the Desdemony Brown, Cutea Dell, Hand some Bess, Fairy Queen, BrightEyed Grace, will kollect fines. Fines for Ladyes. No aprun, 1 cent Saylur Hat, 1 cent Wool dress (new), 5 cents Flowers carried, 5 cents The best dressed persun, 10 cents Artikles belongin to your Neighbors, 5 cents Finger wrings, 2 cents Silk Dress, 5 cents, and so forth Fines for Men. Died Mustash, 4 cents Watches (not Waterbury), 1 cent Clean Shave, 2 cents Gold Cuff Buttons, 5 cents Skarf Pin, 3 cents Linen Cuffs, 2 cents Committy will inforce awl rules. Awl members of Hazel Lodge not present will be fined two shilling. These the members proceeded to distribute while disposing of 500 tickets of admission at twenty-five cents each. |