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EDWARD WALSH. ROYAL VIZIER.
C. W. IiltITT, JOC.
mHE Dramatic Order Knights of
Khorassan, seven years old last
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social orders of the country,
springing to prominence alines'
Immediately upon the organization of the
Imperial palace at Chicago, September L'ti,
1895.
It was organized by a number of repre
sentatives to the supreme lodge Knights of
Pythias who found within the parent or
ganization much that was good, but that
there was a place for sociability and fur
dramatic initiation, which, under the laws
of the order could not be introduced, anil
that among the members of the knights
there were many congenial spirits who were
willing to Join hands to promote a society
where sociability would be the chief aim and
where they could commune with each othir
for mutual benefit. The essential qualifica
tion for membership in the dramatic order
Is prior membership In the Knights of
Pythias and under the present laws for
feiture of membership in the Knights of
Pythias forfeits membership In the Knights
.of KhoraBsan. At the some time the twi
organizations are distinct In their work and
government, neither exercising authority
over the other, and the Knights of Kho
rassan asking for no recognition from th3
Knights of Pythias.
As stated by its members the fundamental
teaching of the dramatic order Is the
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I I mo from the Aleutian Islands,
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piuB icuier in iuu muiuaii
eleven belonging to the Indian
school at Carlisle, Pa. A popu
lar notion regarding the Eskimos is that
they are sluggish and phlegmatic, but
Schauchek plays football with a courage,
agility and endurance that surprise other
members of a team which has a fine repu
tation In the three necessities named.
The late Prof. Virchow was one of the
guests of the Victoria university when
Lord Lister received an honorary degree.
The large aullence which witnessed the
ceremony was astonished to see Lord Lis
ter stop suddenly in the address which he
was delivering, and shake his fist fiercely
at Prof. Virchow. Lord Lister, who Is no
orator, had his speech written out on a
number of sheets of paper, and Vircho v
before the meeting had expressed a great
desire to see the manuscript and had takn
the opportunity to throw the papers Into
hopeless confusion.
In an article In the Century on Mark
Twain's birthplace, Hannibal, Mo., Rev.
Henry M. Wharton effers fresh evidence
that the man we consider a crank today
may turn out to be the prophet of tomor
row. The prototype of that Colonel Sellers,
at whom millions have laughed, was a
neighbor of Mr. Clemens, and one night
In a public address toll his audience the
time would come when we could take a
train at Hannibal and ride to Puget Suund
withou a change cf cars. The villagers
laughed his assertion to scorn, for then the
only means of travel they knew were a
wheezy little steamer and an antiquated
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Dramatic Order
ROBERT P. SEYFER. (Sit AND KM IK.
Hit. L. A. MERRIAM, ROYAL PRINCE.
ARTHUR A. HEATH. SAHII1.
brotherhood of man. This lesson is Im
pressed upon the initiate at the first cere
mony and through the entire service it is
repeated In different terms. The initiatory
ceremony is sal 1 to be, from a literary
standpoint, the most complete and well
rounded of any order in the United States.
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People in the Lime Light
stage. Now a modern express train passes
Hannibal every day for Puget Sound. Per
haps the millions Colonel Sellers saw in a
cure for opthalmia In Asia may yet be
realized.
Mrs. Hanna, wife of the senator, settled
a labor dispute in a hurry the other day.
A Cleveland house owned by the senator
was being painted by a force of sixteen
men who did not belong to the union. Offi
cials of the painters' union came to see
the senatcr, who was not at home. Mrs.
Hanna heard what they had to say, drove
to the house at once and ordered the men
to quit work. They obeyed hfr promptly,
and that night every one of them Joined
the union. Employes of another firm fol
lowed 6uit ne'xt day and the painters are
considering the advisability of electing
Mrs. Hanna an honorary business agent
One of the queerest of French authors,
Clovis Pierre, has died this week. He was
a poet whose talent would have received
recognition doubtless even If the contrast
between his vocation and his avocation had
not tickled the fancy of the Parisians. He
lived and wrote his poetry at th morgue,
f which he was registrar. He was a
merry soul who found most of his Inspira
tion In the corpses In his care and who
used to describe himself as the manager
of a big hotel well known In Paris, which
was a quiet place of rest for trave-lers from
all countries. He dwelt at the morgue for
thirty-two years before he retired on a
pension.
Thi re are two Jeihn Smiths in the ltttlo
town of Prella, Kan., one very stout and
Ihe other very thin, and they were good
Knights of
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J. V. KYFE, SECRETARY.
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O. L, BARTON, ESCORT.
Much of the work is unwritten and all of it
is delivered in a manner which requires the
highest dramatic ability on the part cf of
ficers. For this reason ami the great ex
pense attending the institution of a temple
the Jurisdiction of the temples now in ex
istence Is extended over territory eompara-
friends until one day last week, when the
thin John gave the thick John a severe
thrashing. The neighbors were much as
tonished at the row, but laughed wheu
they learned the reason. A green goods
letter came to town addressed to John
Smith. It was delivered by chance to Btout
John, who read It and, seeing a chance for
a Joke on his namesake, marked it "Opened
by mistake" and put it in thin John's mail
box. The latter resented the Implication
and lost no time In hunting up the Joker.
Th n the trouble began.
Vr. Sage's office Is In the building occu
pied by the National Rank of Commerce,
in Nassau street. In an anteroom sits bis
faithful guardian and confidential man, Mr.
Menzies, through whom the aged financier
must be reached. Mr. Menzies Is protected
by a partition having a latticid wire top
with Iron spikes reaching to the ceiling.
It would be impossible for a man to climb
ever these spikes or to throw a bomb be
tween them. Mr. Sage Is not always ac
companied In the stree-ts or In traveling
between his home and office by a body
guard or detective. Frequently he goes
about entirely alone, and seemingly Is
without fear except when In his office.
James Doel, the oldest actor In Europe,
died in England the other day at the age
of 98. He remembered seeing Napoleon as
a prisoner on board Ilellerophon In
Plymouth sound, fcr by lh? time the battle
of Waterloo was fought he was 11 years
old. Hut most remarkable were his mem
ories of the stage In the days when one
mau In a very little time had to play many
parts. He was alnady n actor when
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JOHN N. DENNIS, ESCORT.
lively wide, and the initiatory services are
held not oftener than twice a year, more
frequently once a year. It being a pro
grisslve timple and situated In a prosperous
Btate which can regularly held two cere
monial sessions each year.
Because of the expense and difficulty of
of Publicity
Queen Victoria was but 2 years old, an 1
though he never made a name In leading
parts he played Innumerable minor parts
with such ancient lights eif the stage as
Edmund Kean und Mai ready. He kept an
inn at the time of his death, did his own
marketing, was active and cheerful and
had laid away some cigars to smoke on his
hundredth birthday.
An eminent Scotch surgeon and professor
in the University of Edinbiirg was entirely
devoted to his profession. The poet Ten
nyson had at one time consulted him about
some affection of the lungs. Years after
ward he returned on the same errand. On
being announced ho was nettled to observe
that Mr. Syme had neither any recollection
of his face, nor, still more galling, any
acquaintance with his name. Tcnnun
thereupon mentioned the fact of bis former
visit. Still Syme failed to remember him.
Hut when the professor put his car to tlm
poet'B chest and heard the peculiar sound
which the old ailment bad made chronic,
he at once exclaimed: "Ah, I remember
you now! I know you by your lung." Can
you imagine a greater Humiliation for a
poet than to be known, nut by his lyre,
but by bis lung?
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Ray Stannard Maker describes in the Out
look the sultan as het app.ared in his car
riage on his way to the mi.sque. The ex
traordinary precautions taken to protect
him on this short Journey, and the cere
monies that attend this function, which oc
cur on Friday, are termed by the writer
as "a strange, gorgeous, incongruous spec
tacle. "The sultan wears a red fez: his face
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putting on tin" work the custom has grown
luto an unwritten but Invariable law that
there shall be at least twenty eandidatjrs
for Initiation before u ceremonial session
is held. With this number of initiates ami
u degree team drawn probably from a dozen
towns in the Jurisdiction of the temple,
the work Is started early In the evening
and usually continues all night, closing
with a banquet.
The banquets of the Knights of Khoras
Bati have a'tuliu-d a reputation unique in
lodgidom for their completeness In every
detail. This, as with a few other societies
has given the unenlightened an lileu that
the lodge Is convivial rather than elevat
lug, but according to the evidence of mem
berB, such Is not the case, as the time
devoted to the banquet is short, while the
time devoted to benevolent and charitable
work is long, both in the lodge room and
out, and that the refreshing banquet It
more or less public, while the hard work
which precedes them is known only tc
those who are present.
Afur a ft w mouths of no ceremi.nial ses
sions Moquaddcm temple, the Omaha or
ganization, will hold a ceremonial session
October 14, at whlcu a number of tyros wl'
be initiated Into the mysteries whle
thrown around the Inner sanctuary "J"
order, and the customary banket will D
served to all members, whqji the vernac
ular of the lodge are -known as "votaries."
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is a sickly white, like parchmeut; the uos
is that of an old eagle, long, hooked, high
bridged the Armenian nose, his subjects
will whisper in contempt. His eyes, what
one sees of them, fur he turns his head
neither to right nur left, are deep-set and
black. Those who know him best say that ,
ho has a peculiar way of moving bis head,
as if he were always seeking 10 look behind
him, to pry out secrets, to surprise hidden
motives. His beard is deep blue-black, as .
are his eyebrows; naturally they would be '
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gray, but he dyes the'in, for the sultan must1?"
never look old. To his generals he ieavei 1
all the pomp and display of gold lace and
tinsel; foi himself he is clad wholly in J
black, like a eunuch, without ornamenta-
tion of any kind. 'The Raven,' he has been
called, and the raven he looks. The sultaa
Is not really a very old man only 60 yeart
old -and yet if there is one Impression
above another that he gives, It Is that ol
old age and great weariness. '
"Poor old sultan!"
Rev. Ji hn S. rtrown, who has just died
In Lawrence, Kan., at the age of 97, war
probably the last inembeT ef the idealistic '
coterie which many yiars ago established
the fami.us ci b ny known as Brook Farm j
From an ini ellccl ual standpoint that so-
cialistlc experiment was on a higher plan j
than any other known to history. Anion j
the noted persons c nnecte-d with It were
Nathaniel Haw t heme, Charles A. Dana f
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott
Horace (Sreeley, (S 'orge William CurU
Russell Lowill, Jrhn Greenleaf Whlttler I
Wcntweirth Higginsi n and many others. '
Not all of i In m lived at the farm, buj
th y helped it with either pen, purse of.
visit.
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