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Show MEMORIAL SERVICES. An Instructive and Pleaainjr Open Sea-BionoftheA. Sea-BionoftheA. O TJ. W. Held Last Evening. Even-ing. U the special memorial session of the A. O. U. W. lodge last evening, held in the beautiful lodge room in the Excelsior block, there was a fair attendance. at-tendance. These memorial sessions are a new ieature, and are to be held once a year hereafter. The session of last night was the first held. A ses-j-ion was held by each subordinate lidge in all parts of the United States The prayers, the words of condolence and the maiu portion of the ceremonies wr the a.tme in each lodge, prepared and printed by the supreme lodge. -The services were in honor and remembrance re-membrance of brothers of the lodge who have departed this life during the last year. The Provo lodge haB lost none of its members by death since its organization. Last night there, was only one vacant draped chair in remembrance re-membrance of the founder of the A. O. U. W. order, John Gordon Up-church. Up-church. The seryice3 referred tencerly to all departed brothers and friends and encouraged en-couraged living brothers and friends to live l.onast, upright lives of purity, and to do good when and wherever it could be done. In addition to the regular services R. A. Barney, Wm. Geddings and H. E. Rawlings each delivered de-livered addresses descriptive and eulogistic eul-ogistic of the objects of the order aud good work done by it. Its motto is "Charity, Hope and Protection." The order is a band of brothers sworn to uphold and support each other and their dependants and to extend charity to all mankind, to encourage hope for a blessed future and to protect themselves them-selves and their near and dear ones from want and sufl'ering. Brothers and their families are aided in time of sickness and suffering, and each member mem-ber of the lodo;e is insured for $20CD which his widow or others depending upon him gets at the time of his death. Rev. LaVake, not a member of the order, was present and was asked to address the meeting. lie delivered a beautiful and touching oration, filled with beautiful wort's and figures of epeech on the vacant chair. When the speaker referred to the vacant high chair where the resebud of the family u&ed to sit, and to the old yacant rocking rock-ing chair where mother used to sit, many tears glistened in the eyes of his hearers. i . Miss Brereton sang "Safe in the Arms of Jesus." Messrs. 11. S. Pyne, J. H. Boshard, W. D. Roberts and II. E. Giles sang, "Nearer, My God, to Saintly Race Ho If68- Said ono of a group of i rfmen in the cafe of the Brower Housi' a night or two ago: "I shut up an old. chap who was railing against the wickev, less of racing horses yesterday, and he vas shut up so tight that he stayed shuE t as long as I was about. It was on the ferry crossing cross-ing to go to the track, an-i he was holding hold-ing forth at a great rate-to three young men who sat near him and! who had been discussing the day's carci. They didn't appear to mind his lector -h in fact, they seemed to rather enjoy it-V-but nevertheless neverthe-less I thought I'd chip til and make a bluff at shutting off his s eani. . "So I opened the last issue of ''Goodwin's ''Good-win's Guide,' and said v. a solemnly as 1" could, 'Sir, you must be in error about the utter wickedness of tl e turf, because this little book shows tL it many racing men select 6aintly names lor their horses, as, for instance, St. Anthony, St. Augustine, Au-gustine, St. Croix, St. Cyr, St. Elmo, St. Hubert, St. John, St. Leona, St. Lucas, St. Luke, St. Maxim,' 3'.. Mark, St. Michael, St. Pancras and St. Patrick, all 1 of which are running this season.' All the old fellow said after staring at me to astonishment for a moment was: 'Well, well, wrell! Bless my soul!' and he was beard no more." jJew York Herald. The Grand Duke Alexis' right arm is adorned with a dragon which covers it almost entirely from the wrist to the elbow. The new Duke of Saxe-Cobnrg-Gotha is tattooed much the same way, while the Duke of York has a couple of crossed flags upon his forearm. King George of Greece, his second son and hi3 nephew, the czarowitz, are each of them tattooed. Besides these there are amon" the tattooed princes Queen Marguerite of Italy's brother, the Duke of Genoa, Archduke Stephen of Austria and Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of Emperor William. Princess Waldemar of Denmark, wife of the sailor son of King Christian, has a beautiful anchor and a crown tattooed on her arm, halfway between her shoulder and her elbow, and which of course is conspicuous whenever she wears a low dress. Her h:-sband likewise has naval emblems tattooed on his arm, and so, : too, has King Oscar of Sweden, who served for many years in the 'iivy before ascending the throne. His sons- have followed his example. Boston Herald. |