Ti , ee VOLUME IL. NUMBER 5. BELOIT, KANSAS, MAY, 1901. Field Work in the North. It is our pleasure to report since our last writing new camps organized at Pillager, Cass county, and Elk River, Sherburn county. In both of those places the Neighbors are widely scat- tered but loyal and enthusiastic. At Pillager we were entertained at the Minn., was our next destination. | make Woodmen understand that we Here in the presence of between two/organize under the Royal Neighbor and three hundred invited guests we|not Modern Woodmen by-laws. installed the officers of the Royal; Neighbor Rowand’s letter called | be as is implied by that order of busi- Neighbors. A midnight supper was ont a good laugh in our home, when|ness. Under ‘‘Opening’’ and ‘‘Closing served and ten applications received. ! we read how she wished she had ‘‘ter- |Ceremonies’’ we studiously follow the At White Bear Lake officers were in-|ritory that could be as easily worked | ritualistic work. Under ‘*Reports of stalled and one member initiated injas that of Mrs. Lawson’s who could The Good of the Order. The ‘‘Good of the Order’’ should be conducted on a plan where results will home of Mrs. E.N. Cady, superintend- ent of schools for Cass county. She was elected oracle. Elk River Camp was organized December 26. On the even- ing of January 3 twenty Neighbors from Dewey Camp, 1,024, Anoka, visited them with all working paraphernalia. A week later Riverside Camp, Elk River, returned the visit. We only wish all new camps could have such help. On January 3 it was our pleasure to visit for a second time the Woodmen camp at Maple Lake. We found Deputy Supreme Oracle Kelley just com- pleting a camp of Royal Neigh- bors. We can wish for this new camp nothing better than that they may become as _ prosper- ous as their brother Woodmen. January 5 we had accepted an invitation to assist in a public entertainment and joint instal- lation of officers at Maple Lake. This camp is less than a year old, but had more than doubled in numbers. Everything, floor cloth, badges, banners and robes have been secured. The stage was beautifully decorated with the banners of both orders. A week later found us with our new camp at Pillager.. From there we went to Akeley. This was the first camp we had the pleas- ure of organizing. This visit is full of sad memories, the hearts of all Neighbors being stricken with grief for their oracle and her husband, who had passed to that ‘‘Higher Life’’ only the month before. They had been the life of the camp and their deaths coming within a few weeks of each other, was a great blow to the camp. They were both beneficiary members, and having no children their insur- ance goes to their pareuts. In their large hall, draped in deep mourning, we installed the offi- cers to fill their vacant chairs. Our next work was at Nevis, Hubbard county, where we were ably assisted in the installation of officers by Neighbors from Akeley. Their help was greatly appreciated by the Nevis Camp, who served an oyster supper at the hotel at midnight. Pine Cone Camp, at Nevis, has had many drawbacks and much to overcome. The town itself is less than a year old. In less than a week after its organization their saw mills burned and a number of neighbors were obliged to seek employ- ment elsewhere. They were organized in the school house and during the summer months held meetings at the homes of members. Now the Woodmen have a fine hall, of which the Royal Neighbors have free use. Forest Lake, the beautiful parlors of Neighbor Clark, their recorder. At this place after a few days’ work, five members organize a camp after two and a half days’ work.’’ The laugh was caused because we had only a short time be- were reinstated, four social members |fore remarked we wished we had as applied for insurance, and three new! good territory as Indian Territory ME OFFICERS Ryo members were initiated. At Nick- erson, Pine county, a public entertain- ment and lecture was given Saturday evening, February 9, and several ap- plications were secured. I have been greatly interested in the letters in THE RoyAL NEIGHBOR from our deputies. To Neighbor Briggs we would say that, as our territory joins, we would like to give you a ‘‘neigh- borly grip.’’ We understand the diffi- culties which you meet and overcome in your work in this new northern ountry and you are doing nobly. To Essie Burt we would say we have experienced just how hard it is to! must be. In regard to this two and a half days’ work, let usexplain. Our expenses to and return from that north- ern tewn was about twenty dollars; our hotel bill while there two dollars aday. The Woodmen greatly aided us in our work, and yet the argument used by many at our State Camp against electing deputies as delegates to the Supreme Camp was ‘‘they make enougk out of the order and can afford to pay their own way.’’ We are sorry to say we were the only deputy in Minnesota who had the honor of being elected delegate to the Supreme Camp. Mrs. ADA M. LAWSON. Standing or Special Committees,’’ and ‘‘Ceremonies of Adoption, ’’ we strictly follow the ritual, and the law and spirit of the law, never imagining we could deviate or neglect any part of the work. But are we as careful when working under the good of the order? Many times I fear not. This is true, notwithstanding the fact, that this order of business is as important as any, indeed, I believe that any camp conducting. the ‘Good of the Order’’ properly cannot fail to prosper. Let us think of it a moment. Webster says ‘‘good’’ means ‘‘advancement of inter- est.”’ What a-volume is ex- pressed in those few, words. Each camp, no matter how small, is a branch of the great family—the society. We should always have in mind, that it is not only our own camp that is affected and influenced by the manner in which we conduct our ‘‘Good of the Order,’’ but the whole society. Sometimes some of us actually plan to bring matters, not at all calculated to make others happy, before the camp, and strange to tell all this ‘‘bringin’ up’’ was to be done under the ‘‘Good of the Order.’’ Surely we have never given it a moment’s thought, or our hearts would fail us, and we could not thus desecrate this, the grandest, the most sacred of all order of business. Some- times we have spent considerable time in studying up technical points in parliamentary law, knowing that by exercising this knowledge we could ‘‘rattle’’ our presiding officer, and strange to tell, the ‘‘Good of the Order’’ was the time selected for this ‘‘rattling’’ process. Let us labor constantly and untiringly to change these methods. If we have bitter words to utter, un- kind acts to perform, or feel duty bound to argue and wrangle, if we must do these things, let us Choose some other time than under the ‘‘Good of the Order. ’’ Let us count that camp meet- ing lost whose closing ceremony finds no action done by which humanity has been benefited and uplifted. One need not be a philanthropist or a philosopher to do this. A nicely told story, contain- ing a good moral—a simple melody—a poe.a—anything, if there were but one thought we can carry away that is ennobling and elevating. Let our words and thoughts be pure and our actions noble, ever remembering that life carries with it great responsibili- ties, and that sometime the book we are day by aay writing for ourselves ‘will be opened. Mrs. C. KE. ALLEN,