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Show KNIGHTS OF HONOR. St. Louit aud the Supreme Lodge General Gen-eral CoMlp. Says The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: St. Louis has again secured the supreme lodge headquarters without any opposition, and from the expressions made by tho supreme lodge representatives generally concerning St. Louis city, her hospitable citizens aud her solid business enterprises the chances are that for years to come the headquarters will remain in Missouri. This fact alone should stimulate the various lodges of the order in this city and state to increase the membership by securing the applications of tho best citizens, and to encourage the holding of more open meetings where the excellencies of the order may be shown to invited guests. Although the proposition to reduce the age limit to 45 years was defeated in the late session of the supreme lodge, there is a strong probability that the question will again present itself. Were the matter left to the subordinate lodges it would meet with an emphatic condemnation. All that is necessary to show the vulue of the oldor members is to direct attention to the June circular, which contain a list of 152 deaths, fourteen of whom joined the order between 20 and 30 years of age, and precisely pre-cisely the same number between 50 and 55. The former had an average duration of membership of aeveu years and seven months, and averaged payments of $145.22, hile the older members had an average of ten years and one month and payments of $040.17. The value of the latter class in the payment of assessments was more than four to one aa compared with the former. Boston Globe. The death rate in the Knights of Honor decreased duriug the year, it being 12.6 per 1,000 iu 1889 against 13.5 in 1888. It is said of a medical examiner of one of the lodges that in filling out a certificate certifi-cate he inadvertently wrote his name in the blank space reserved for "cause of death." |