Show THE KNIGHTS OF THE TEMPLE the transit of the knights tem clars of this territory and the pacific tat on their road to the grand conclave in chicago haafeen attracting a good deal of attention in this town and it may be of general inter cat to say a few words concerning this wide anraad and influential cor horation po ration though the days of chivalry be dead says the S F chaw Isle though the modern climso after the nimble dollar has replaced the olden search after moor and saracen though the wellborn well born youngster of nowadays becomes a baal clerk in broad cloth instead of an esquires in steel and though tho plain of the modern idyl floats upwards the flood to on a fancy macli land marries somebody else the ins bat bind us p the day tournament fighting and ballad building of ho lilies and langu ors and rosca aud raptures of the old poetic tenth century days are not a few As if under he com mon place bi suit af pf nowadays was concealed a heart that longingly back to the days of glisten armors of feath and gallant honor no secret order is conceived and fostered nowadays whose mystic rites and solemn ceremonials aro not borrowed from the quaint archaism immortalized in gallant poesy and historic legends nights of more varieties than the crusaders of eleventh and twelfth cen gariea kuer meet weekly aarl the almost numberless but towering above he rest anore powerful older and more firmly rooted than all it associates the or of he temple take the leid far back in the year bay tho the two founders order ot the through and equino diness journeyed poverty between jerusalem and the jordan defending the holy be and pro teching the pilgrims seven other joined and the council of in increased their number and them to defend at the peral of their lives the christian church tho ol 01 the conception tho approved tion of the old and new incerpi ota and the various other articles of faith in 1148 they were permitted to wear alie red cros on tho left brentt and it before the little hand of was nine not lang to ns many thousand to france grew germany england and all over the world tha arder spread and afterward a a brotherhood the brotherhood of freal ims all and in al binds at the I motho arps at chicago Chic conclave which ugo will in few day benoe exhibit the grandest reunion of Knights thal ilg probably ever been tho order before the seen brini public in very interesting wicy As tho in the american alem ylem of the of ri though cinalli atone in comparatively influence J and by aba character hAr acter of the men weight ing it the compoc number of sir knight in the united hiat ij at arih thousand i |