News of the Lodges
and Fraternities
Masonic.
Rough Ashler Lodge No. 74, A. F.
& A. M., Omaha Neb. Meetings, first
and third Tuesdays in each month.
J. H. Wakefield, W. M.; E. C. Under
wood, Secretary.
Excelsior Lodge, A. F. & A. M.,
Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third
Thursdays in each month.
Zaha Temple No. 52, A. E. A. O. U
M S. Omaha. Neb. Meetings the
fourth Wednesday in each month. N
Hunter, 111. Potentate; Charles W.
Dickerson, 111. Recorder.
Shaffer Chapter No. 42, O. E. S..
Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third
Friday in each month. Maggie Ran
som, R. M. Elnora Obee, Secretary.
Rescue Lodge No. 25, A. F. & A. M.,
Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third
Monday in each month. Lodge rooms,
Twenty-fourth and Charles streets.
William Burrell, W. M.; H. Warner,
Secretary. -
Omaha Lodge No. 146, A. F. and
A. M., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first
and third Fridays of every month.
Lodge room 1018 Douglas street. Will
N. Johnson, W. M.; Wynn McCulloch,
Secretary.
Keystone Lodge No. 4, K. of P.,
Omaha, Neb. Meetings first and third
Thursday of each month. C. H. Lewis,
C. C.; J. H. Glover, K. of R. S.
Western Star No. 1, K. of P.—Meet
ings second and fourth Thursdays in
each month. J. N. Thomas, C. C.; E.
R Ro.binson, K. of R. and S.
Omaha Lodge No. 2226, Grand Unit
ed Order of Odd Fellows. Meeting
nights, the first and third Thursdays
of each month. Lodge rooms, 2522%
Lake street. G. Brown, M. G.; J. C.
Belcher, T. S.
Friendship Temple, No. 347, meets
the first and third Friday afternoons
at 2:30 each month at Twenty-fourth
and Charles streets, in U. B. F. Hall,
Mrs. Ellen Johnson, Princess; Mrs. M.
A. Walker, Secretary.
WILL WHITE DOMINION
LAST IN EAST AFRICA.
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into British East African territory
have almost invarably been success
ful, and this has given them the im
pression that Germany is going to win
in the long run. That is why even
the blacks in British East Africa are
proving not merely disloyal, but also
rebellious. The blacks are the great
est opportunists in the world. They
will always prefer to join the win
ning side, and it will require a num
ber of crushing defeats of the Ger
mans to induce them to abandon the
kaiser’s flag for those of the allies.
That the British should have met
with many reverses in East Africa
until now is not surprising when one
glances at the map and sees what a
long line of frontier they are called
upon to defend. Until December last
they were mainly dependent upon a
handful of Indian troops, some un
seasoned territorials, some unreliable
native levies, and above all, upon an
armed force composed of the white
settlers, in which even missionaries
were called upon to bear arms.
Send Out British General.
These forces were divided up into
sort of flying columns. But so great
were the distances to be covered, that
it was impossible in most cases to j
forestall a German-African raid
across the boundary line to cut and
destroy the Uganda railroad at sev
eral points far distant from one an
other, sometimes on the same night.
Every successful raid of this kind en
couraged others, and at length the
situation in British East Africa be
anie so serious that the English gov
ernment sent out from London Gen.
Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, with all
artillery, the ammunition, and the
supplies needed for a big campaign,
being, however, unable to spare many
men in the way of reinforcements.
Sir Horace, when he arrived upon
the scene, quickly realized that it was
hopeless to look for any satisfactory
results, with the relatively insignific
ant military forces at his command,
and insisted upon a full fledged army
corps being sent out. The war de
partment in London declared that it
could hot spare the officers or the
men, and thereupon appealed to Gen.
Botha, premier of the South African
union.
llow Smuts Was Anpointed.
Botha at once expressed the readi
ness of the union government to as
sist the imperial government in the
matter and to place at its disposal for
service in British East Africa that
army of veteran troops which served
under his orders in the conquest of
German West Africa. They are all
seasoned men and gladly volunteered
for the enterprise, only stipulating
that they should be commanded by
one of their own generals, either by
Botha or by Jan Smuts, who had been
the former’s principal lieutenant in
the campaign that culminated in the
transformation of German West Af
rica into a British possession. The
mperial government, recognizing the
value of these men in the difficult art
of African warfare, acceded to their
conditions, and accordingly directed
Smith-Dorrien to return home and to
surrender his chief command in Brit
ish East Africa to Jan Smuts.
Admired by Britons.
That a veteran such as Sir Horace,
one of Kitchener’s best men, should
have been superseded by a man twen
ty years his junior, such as Jan Smuts,
who has nothing of the professional
soldier about him, and that other
English generals and high staff of
ficers should not only be willing, but
delighted to serve under his orders, is
sufficient in itself to show that the
new commander in chief in British
East Africa is a remarkably man. He
s by profession a journalist and a
lawyer, and was for several years
’irst of all a reporter, and then editor
al writer, on the South African Tele
graph, then owned by Sir John B.
Robinson.
Bora in the Cape Colony, Smuts
was educated at the Cape of Good
Tope, and after taking a “double
,'irst” at the Cape university, pro
ceeded to England, and won similar
honors at the University of Cam
bridge, where he made his home at
Christ’s college.
When the present war broke out
Smuts took a leading part in the sup
pression of the armed revolt, and af
ter acted as second in command to
Premier and Gen. Botha in the lat
ter’s conquest of German East Africa.
DIDN’T HAVE TO ASK.
Three-year-old Elsie came from the
back door of a neighbor’s home, eat
ing a cookie.
“Elsie,” her mother reproved, “you
must not ask Mrs. Brown for cookies.”
“I didn’t ask her, muzzer,” returned
Elsie, undisturbed; “I know where she
keeps ’em.”
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