rzrzr. 8 THE COURIER. T w m TTJ;- I Mr. Daaroy expects to leave St. Eliza beth'a hospital the last of this week. Frieoda of Mica Dora Bacheller will be glad to keow that she is convalescing rapidly. The meeting of the Woman's club Moaday, March 28lh, will be in charge of the Department of Parliamentary Practice. Mrs. Nellie Richardson leader. An interesting program in the form of a Bass meeting has been arranged. Miss Elinor Toung will play Raff's "Spinning Maiden." Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Wells and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Steckley entertained their friends Wednesday evening at the heme of the former in a progressive spelling game in which Mrs. Hill and Mr. Talbot were the victors. Those present were Messrs and Mesdames F. A. Browo, Doty, D. Foster, Talbot, H. aad Theo. Burgett, Upton, Schwake, Wilson, Aitken, Hutchins, Lynch, Hill. Robbins, H. Porter, Jackson, Caeebeer, Sammerladd, M. I. Cbapin, Fitzgerald, Farnham, Preston, Mrs. McPhee; Misses McPhee, De Laahmutt and Farnham. The Patriarchs. Last Saturday night the Patriarchs saat and elected a president, treasurer, execatire committee and master of cere BBoaies. In its nine years of existence it has never before been necessary to elect aew officers at the close of the sessoB, but in the present instance, the president, executive committee and treasurer having violated the printed coastitution of the Patriarchs these were vacant and the charter ibera thoaght best to fill the vacan cies. All the oScera heretofore elected by the Patriarchs have enforced the exact spirit aad letter of the constitution and retired at the end of their term with digni ty aad the approval of the entire mem bership. Among the presidents of the dab who have set an example for their successors for all time are Mrs. Macfar Wad. Mrs. k. S. Raymond, Mrs. R. O. AUHps, Mrs. R. C. Outcalt, Mrs C.H. Isshoff, Mrs. W. B. Ogden, Mrs. C. H. Gere and Mrs. Carl Funke. The attempt aJladed to in the daily papers to force eaauUdatee for membership into the dab after they had been rejected by over? a third of the number of votes cast, would, of course, destroy any social oajsniiatkm, and the only course re maining after the withdrawal from the organisation by the officers, was the elec tion of sew ones by those who stood by the coastitution. The following legal opinion in this connection is of interest: Tha coastitution of any organization or society is the rule governing the satire membership by the members adopted and any willful violation there of is a severance of its members so vio lating the same from that organization. So loagas one member stands loyal and firm to the constitution and rules of each organization that member is en titled to all the privileges and rights thereof. Article third of the constitution pro-, vides for the manner in which special saeetiags may be called, and upon the failure of the president to perform the duties therein charged any five members or the executive committee may call and hold each meeting, and when the presi des! fails to so respond to the duty of granting the request of the five members or the executive committee she can be lightfully considered as having with drawn from the rules governing her office, aad is acting in some other capac ity other than aa officer of the organiza tion which she formerly represented. This rale would apply likewise to members seeking to violate article seven of the constitution. This article cannot be changed only by a two-thirds vole of all the members in meeting regularly ailMi&t fit -. ('yfom S?M' '. w Fa.tf-o Fa oiWTnTsi ,k Rvr Pitty a Trr e y.y LJ I U- V-U-J., nailed. The signing of a petition to sus pend article seven would have no effect other than to cast aside the constitution and open the organization's doors to any person proposed for membership. Tno-e persons standing by the constitution and proceeding directly in the manner as therein directed would be taeonly legall constituted members thereof and would be possessed of all the rights and privileges granted by this torstitutiop." The officers elected were: President Miss Harris. Treasurer Mr. W. B Ogden. Executive Committee Mrs. Ogden and Mies Treat. Master of Ceremonies Dr. R. B. Owens. The vice president, Dr. John White, presided at the meeting, and the secre tary, Dr. T. L. Lyon, was present and preserved the minutes for the next gen. eration of Patriarchs. The Courier will execute all kinds of com missions in Lincoln for the club women of the state free of charge. We will buy carpets, china, dry goods, furniture, hard ware, anything- for sale, and charge the club women nothing for the service- Many merchants will send articles on approval. Send The Courier on your errands. . . . The Battle of Havana. It was daybreak. The commander of the Spanish forces advanced to the head of his column and surveyed the field where the great bat tle was about to take place. His bin ocular gleamed in the light of the rising aun. "Ho!" he cried to his aids with some amazement, "surely the enemy have been very busy during the night. They have brought up phalanx on phalanx, some thousands stronger since last I viewed them." No, sire,' said the aide. "Our spies report the arrival of no fresh artillery or infantry from the detepted Ycnkeeland" "But look yonder!" cried the gorgeous commander in a rage, pointing to the heights along the east "What do you call that?" "That, sire, is the camp of the Yankee novelists, with their respective stenogra phers and drink-mixers, armed with ten. inch telescopes to take notes of the fight which shall take place today." "H'mF grunted the general. "And yonder solid ranks to the westward, pray? More of the same ilk?'' "No, sire. That is the Chase sketch ing class, the ArtfStudents' League and several other representative bodies of limners, sire! They have come to study the red realism of war and paint master pieces" 4 But certainly to the southward yon der," cried the general utterly baffled, "that formidable array of Gatling guns, mortars, Maxims, el cetera, have been brought up in .battle line during the night" "Sire, they are not whatfyou suppose. On the contrary, they are sundry syndi cate kinetoscopes, phonographs, long distance telephones'and other parapher nalia by which 10,000,000 of these same Yanks may see the battle and hear its roar, as we'll as that it; may all be pre served for the'nickle-in-the-slot machines throughout the world for-the benefit of future generations." "Carachm. carambal" growled the gen eral, giving the heights a sweep of his glass, "now I know why these miserable Yanks have prodded us into war. But they don't catch us so easily. Europe doesn't 'play to the gallery for sport. Give the order that there shall be no battle today; then establish a box office at Havana, with instructions to these curiosity-seekers that unless wn get half the gate money there will be no fight. What is the use of our putting ourselves in pawn to the bankers for the benefit of a lot of novelists, artists and kineto scope syndicates? Give the order! Un less half the gate money is in the Spanish coffers by nightfall the dogs of war re main tied up in their kennels." And that is how it happened that, al though Spain lost the battle, within three days she bad paid her war loan principal and interest, and presented Vtzcaya to the President of the Uuited States as a souvenir yacht The Warrior. rnnn u ,u. .- - 2c per roll and upwards, at . . . : J. 1. HOUT's, Richard's Block, (Leming's Old Stand.) MINIMUM