ET do HGH SN _ The ines of this vest number have been | Toroets, Osnads, where it This order bias ramifosticrs in Cansdn, | Anither fraterpal insaranoe order bae been foouded sod it's besdquariers i» tight here in Da Bois, The pame of the pew fnstitation is the American Order of Foresters, and it ie the bust trateroal meurance order wu the world, It partakes of the character of | both an insnrsues order snd a secret society. mark 8 baw epoch in [raternal fusgravce a8 wall as a new ers in the secret sooty world. Not: long xines 8 lodge of the Todepsn dent Order of Foresters. s [rateiba near ADO nocrety, wie instated 10 PDaBow, ihe stler was lonvded tin Newark, N. J, p dune 17, 1874 und 10 IRR], 1t was re-organ 4 pod ne besdquascters removed to still reromind Englspd, Bootiand, Ireland, other Brit ish proviooss, and the United States On May 1st, 1895 the membersbip of the order was approximately 76.000, of which pearly 50.000 were in the U aited States sent all this tims to Toronto, where the Sapiems Lovage is located, spd from [Us justitation 1s belteved to} 1 with one of the largest memiersbips por s-sned by any loos] lodge, bat it wse Aw termined to hoild the aharter open fur one month te fore slosioe 1 Experisnced org-przers will st anos «4 ter thin field and snboriinate Jewmigrow thie Amerioan Order of Fore ters ow i aring the sare which will be taken fo pitiate pos hat med of and sharantar, as weil au of perfect ohye - asl hesith, whieh inrteris main BEOeRERT by the rigid medieal examinations 16 sn jacted, { while the parely Amerioxn character of | to ausiat it to supplant the I. O. B.. or Ulan vdinn order, as weil as attrast to teal! many of those not of & some shat gimiiar character. if goovk standing £ rots, Conia, Nov, Fr appeared that fad 13 i tor the Masopin © * T 3 2 gatizad an rapidly ae is possible, pons | which ail members will, of care, be | 1 bw sosnrancs fastare of the | nel ardaf is ons of saperior exoelisnos, | Cdaroe 184 1D TUS | tha organization, it we helisved, will tend | BAR OB GTN, (oir mes 0 The year, Ris | 58D, it is pow osiled, as | BZN 447.120 Toe work of the new order is bexntifa’ and impressive, and ite literatura, wil ¥ {the order, of hota of ®hwl are represent | i i connect wl with the older jodges or girders | # 1 : basring sithar the aoat of arms or sas of La ra wil soon bw fa the fueid hy moat od the American eagle, sarmonaisd by i the thirteen stars representing the origi | foe Ere 0 mere : GEN FSIS OF skate aed retwad § ArEE ad Pri om «Past ry ic Pats ma mer of the Tra eo ews {30 , wind ie ow ther WAY Yim co mrad sewnral *" 4, 13, the Bn prane sips Ma ol Ld ha minis Debogs y. ov. DA. KR. Haeh, the i 'hapian, Is tre [resident Mt A 4 lergy en, xan oof The BoE 8 qian? and poplar iu H o0, =i Mano aud bus taken fiw KR. 1. degrees, Fo give wn vies of the magni de io whol be pieAoind © Mar aoe oe BE BG DY momiers f sireh ord os oe qe vrsfly un few Suave: Ton ndepeni €) turf Rorenters, ow abont 21 year: parla wn nes = 1 morn ry fevefis f rhe Feemudent of the vii Fentors i Ll igremes bein Pew awd Lat E vaya ats pad A Py § ebin i: Fhe 1a pm ay N PL the fratuboa: (rgatiBstions Belomiae Erint Peal. Bad ow fetal membwirahig as re THEY E ite Avprars. marta nf le Eg t 1 38.000 twig proetaet Ayy Pipe mewerai reeir® Fatt ated i Zr KE iporease fomuration £1 ¢ Frou stinwn to ast: blishment, Forty orders wears move pad, minoe thar Live avoen f gn-- show thal thers is | kml foot © F aD 00 AF eternal GisOrs on coder And the prometors of the Amwrioan Larder of fore ders will attempt lo phaos it fia organ of a rear the top ss posable the ponolies of This Stele anid will oon mendes Aperstions Bs iniuing Fates as ING, AY AND BY” TEN HOW PIN THE SWEET CAME TO BZ WHY Ita Author Tells an Interesting Story of fis Composition Within an Heur After the Ides Came Foor Geutliemen Were Ringing the Song. In Richmond, a Jittle town of less | than 1.000 inhabitants, almost cn the southern boundary line of [linols, lives | the anthor of ‘In the Sweet By and | He is a practicing pbysicien and | By." ix ander 60 years of nge. The immortal | bymp was written when he was only 81 and is the single song of his life. During the civil war a wave of moral elevation and intellectual activity paws. ol over the country. In this grand awakening of the conscience there was a food of music-—martial, religions, do- mestic. Gieorge F. Boot and Stephen J. Foster were both writing songs that Nved. nnd Sanday school bymns passed | ent of the driveling period into ove of | elevated simplicity, Just at this time Rampel Fillmore | Pesnett wae gradosted from Ann Are bear, Mich , and begun & newspaper ca. reer at Elkhorn, Wis, on The Independ- &nt. poser, was living in the same town, and {t was only a few months pcfora the editor and tha wmosician were oolisharat Hig volunteers returned ta Elkborn to open a drag store and rmme his perse writ. fn He Mrs Webster began in {RR7 to work om a Sanday school song The Signet Ring.” which was afterward published This period of his itfe bu the most his experiences to Dr Nor bene ago he tod the whale #tory to an interested groop af listeners, and 5 £% x bok, one ali his eyes filling with tears as he vindi- © Hy ORInnIes Ween given to i% entest hin friend fr nrrenoy the shamef that Mr Webster wis drunk when he wrote the music, and it that wa ware both ps Hi sory puather accoant Has 310 1 I am thankial ane of tha noblest men that ever lived wen fine, sensitive moni, with the fra drouk. od justice 1 JP Wahster: the musical com- | The war ptervannd, and Lienten. | ant Bennett of tha Portieth Wisconsin | : Yiews of Amerion Sir Walter Besant, in commenting on | Mr. Ball Caines viesrs of Ametica and : published in The Daily Ubromiclo, says! LO Wa don't know the American prople in | thin country, snd wo ooght to know | them ; they coma over bers by the thon. mand, by the buidred thoosand, and we | do nothing to entertuin then or 10 make | their zequaintance, or to show them | that we should like to know them. Are | we ashamed of onrselves—of oar homes | wer our women, espesiaily-—that we do pot want to show ourselves to them? We ave no reason to ba nshamed. | "The English woman is not #0 intel. | jectoally cultivated as the American, | but she pend not fear comperisom. As | for the people generally. I am right giad | to see Hall Caine procisiming the troth i abont theml—that is, that they are ‘al | most childlike in their siugirness of | heart, easily moved by simple things, | the youngest minded and the youngest | beartwl people in the world. i *“As I did pot say this myself, 1 copy 'it, 1 atenl it, and I adopt in The ma- terial greatness of Americn talibs away | ope’s breath ; the kinduess of the Amer- joan takes sway coe's power of criti. | olem. Unie does not go away from a de ! lightfnl evening and begin at onoe to | carp and meer and inninne (» suaestions. ! Omly, if by any machinery we pond do | something to make the American visitor | feel at home with ns, wa shook be do- | ing a great thing for sumelves. I don’t {want him to Ie introduesd to belted saris. but I want American oen and women of calturs to bo able easily TO | meet English men and women of cal ture. : 8 Losing Senss of Color, The buman ove, thoogbh friined to distinguish colors, may by want of use forget bow to distingnish them. The nnigne exper Gan of Dr. BR Harley, 7. Rk =, eatatilishes the fart that paler ean be ‘forgotten, an well ax learned, by human sight. : Dr. Farley, io onder to save the sight of one pyoe=dir perisps Of bed heewhen | ape was injored, velontarily lmaared himself in a room mide yistally dark for pine months \ The fortitads which enablnd him to "reams! Dreams!” Soom afier Diernsli bad quitted the agtive arens of the house of commons for the “piided mansolenm'' of the house of lords be was visited at bis hone by his friend, Lord Gower. The two men sat by the fire in the grate, and the sa premier taiked of bis own polit jeal cniwer. At last he ceased talking. and gazimg stetractediy into the buru- ing coals muttered, * Dreams | Dream !’ related 1 the London Spectator, The monmfal, half sodible exclama- tion: fs seggestive. Apparently it indi. cated that he who had for long. labori- ous years devoted himself 10 his conotry found in that fact no solid setisfaction. Is that the usual fate of retired states de 1'he incident is quoted hy Mr. Tocker- man as a thon provoking addition to Sis sccount of an interview with Wil Ham H. Seward, published in ‘Person. al Recollections of Notable People While Mr. Seward, in 1572, was mf- fering from paralysis at his home in Au- | bam, N. Y.. Mr. Tockerman went out | of Jain way to pay his respects to the vet- | wrun statesman. He found him unable {to ame his arms and lege, bot with his { mental faculties unimpaired. For the i tw) days the goest sujoved the states | man's hospitality he was entertained with reminiscences and anecdotes | When he was departing, Mr. Seward | tock brim aside and ssid 1 Now tell me {what I oan do for you. If | possess any {infloenes with the present sdministra tion, 1 am at yoor servien | Mr. Tockerman replied that the only i metvien he comid do for him was to get | better health at his sarbest coipvenience, i and to st the world bese from him oes | oRlipomnily. | "Do yon mean tosay. ' asked Mr ; Saward, ‘that sim cise oat of your {wig to visit a broken down old man ike [ ma withont a single iterektod motive | bevond that of seeing mint’ | Henpoticed that his guest was annoyed by the implication, aud added, with famyntion, © 1 do not have many such vis ites nowadays = Yanth & Companion. The Vagos Lanrvals. It would ba pleasant to think of Spen- sar as post laureate to Queen Elizabeth and there are those who do so, Dit striel eritiniam canpot allow the claim It ia which pisos the organizers employed 16 | ; : ; ¥ : : soir as the one has bess thorongbly oan adopt this conrse and the mgrnnity bY | ope that Spenser. becaine a coartier and Fah separsted commanities the United States smavats sod travel | trom The order is & good one, bins been fried by time nnd hes proven thas far highly snceeslal, Al the time of the institation of the lo | eal Jodge it occurred to somes gentleman : here that an order somethiog of tie sats character, combining the best feat: urea of I. O. F. aud several other {rater ‘pal and jusarance societies to which sev: eral membars belonged, snd which the broad experience of many meo in widely . sod exiendiog over years commended, which should be distinctively American in origin, name, sharscter and sttribnles, was & thiog io be desirnd snd one which wonld mest the appitoval uf sil those seeking membership jo wach an order. _ohurier members. These were sa /oilows: { The thought wae father to the act and ooulerenoss reistive to {he establishment | ¢ each sn order beguu shoot the Hib of Jovember, 1595. ; It wae decided to orzaniz®, and the pane of THE AMERICAN ORDER OF FORERT RES, was determined apon. / ZX COAT CF ARMS OF THE ORDEK. Appliedtion was made for a charter for such an intended iostitntion. This was granted op Dec. 19, 1505, and on tha 26h P of that mouth a Hnpreme Lode of the abisve order was organized with fifteen SUPREME 1 DOE OFFICERS. Willis W. Kerr, Sapreme Chief For- "John B. Steele, Past Soprems Chief a DO. Hatchineon, Vie Supreme Chie! tart and Gomes: George W. T zier, tury Forester. rank Hutton, Seq, Recording Beere- Financial Becre- George E. Gri, Treasurer. : O. A. Wilson, 3. D., Supreme Physi et R. Rich, I. D., Chaptsin, The eoheme the new order 1s for a atste or jaris ction, snd subordinate of I'sb, 4, snd is known ae 1, AMERICAN ORDER OF DUBOIS LODAR, Nh ¥ he: | Tus officers of the new and initial lodge i & | M.. DuBois; Elk Chapter, No. 2%, Rida Yeuango coanty. and baildiog sod losn expert. He is the tro riog of Americanism. The mot tei of the order 1a Lobartas, Fidaiiias ef, | Reenritas, aad the initinia of these words ! (Bos onto reg own whieh it hee hereto appears ss wail as thoes of The order, ob | the grest seal of the Saprems Lodas, : cut of which appears herewith, The prevent time seams an Opporiane | ove for the sstablisbment of