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Show avenues of Westminister Abbov. with 1 its tombs and monuments of 'Gothic rciiU.hi re connecting links a ihev mo with the history of England's great or ihe tomb that portray tho memory mem-ory of the hornnsj f Austerlliy. or i;ivoli; or the Sarcophagus ot black Egyptian nmrblc where rest the ashes or the great Napoleon. Who of us hero In our ureal land of liberty view wiinout thought or I Irrmortality the unmarked tombs of cur own loved ones wno wore th- bin-and bin-and the pray as they sleep beneath the shadows of Lookout Mountain or : near the swamps of Chleka;naus:n or i the marble nrches and granite shafts I In the silent city of the dead at Ar-j Ar-j l!-gton .All of this my dear friends I o'd brothers is symbolical of death This goal each and every one of us U unconsciously bin gradually and surely heading for. Impelled by some supreme power. On and on we go awakening at times, we startle at the thought of the hereafter, and then cnln nurroundmg ourselves w.th the 1 'xurles and joys of ;fe we lapse aeln Into that dormant state, but always al-ways unerringly wending our way to that rreat beyond, the niorninff of life. Each -""nd every one of our departed de-parted brothers whose memory we reverence here today si rived to live up to tho teachings of the order they lowd so well. Their cheerful voices will be missed from the lodpe room, by their brothers who knew and loved them, and tho lovfnp ones whom ihey have left be-hind be-hind will be comforted In the know-ledTe know-ledTe that the Owls will always keep thHr memory preen and their loss will be thai of a brother and a friend and when the prent day of jndpment brlnrs topether. face to face, we are brought forth Into this world and we must surely leave It, all things animate ani-mate or Inanimate have a beinnlnp an.l an end it Is the law of nature nnd we must abide by it for It is a nntural law. OilS' BORISL SERIES HELD Tho annual memorial service for deceased members was held by Opden Nest No. 1213, Order or Owls, yesterday yester-day afternoon and a larre number of the members and their friends as s-mbled nt Enple H'o 1 1 on Twen'y-fifth Twen'y-fifth trel to pay tribute of respect to the departed brothers. Since the orpanlzatiou of the local lodge two members have passed to the great beyond. They are Harry W. Syphers and William D P.losser. The memorial services wer held jt 2:30 o'clock after which the graves of the deccaned members were banked with flowers The program of the hall service wa.s aR follows: Selection by QunrlU "Lead Kindly Kind-ly Llpht." Carl alllsen, Jed Rjllantyne, Leo MadPen and C.cn. Donrla,. Oponlnp Announcement, President Thoa. Ixs!lo. Invocation. Irrvecator T. C Ivcson Selection by Quartette. 'Beautiful Isle.' Roll Call, Secretary Jos. Oliver, i Eulogy, Dr. V D. K lei. ' "Nearer My f.od to Thee," Quartette and Audience. Benediction. The eiilnpy delivered by Dr. Estes was a beautiful tribute of respect to the memr.rj of the dceasd members of the bdce. but not only the members mem-bers of the Opden Lodpe but every deceaseil Owl throuph the domain of ihe great order The eulogy In its entirety was as follows: Brother, President, Officers and brothers of Opden Nest No. 1 21 S of th Fraternal Order of Owls Friends and Erethem: This U a day thot every Owls Nest, throughout our Grand Domain, sets apart for remembrance remem-brance and reverence to Its fraternal ded. The custom Is time honored and a noble and beautiful one. as we are banded together as a rroternal order and we reverence thr nie.nory of our departed brothers who have shared with us In our sorrow as well as In our happlnes an;! Joy. When an Owl parses to (he grrent beyond he is not forgotten, for on this day of sweet memory we lay alde ih? cares and pleasures of every dy life and wend our way to the silent city of the dead, there to shed a lovlnp tear and place garlands of beautiful flowers on their graves You can make your life happy or miserable, yealth or fame doo not brin,-: either contentment or happiness, if Is tb pleasure we can give to others which brings us happiness. Kind words nnd goal deeds will do mere than stern Justice and haired. Remember we all have faults and do not Judpe severch those who are weaker than ourselves, but lend them a helping hand and give them another chance A kind word and a helpinp hand fre'ly extended to some poor brother In his hour of adversity will do more to make him an honest :nan and a useful citizen than nil the courts, the piisons or the usual methods of reform; re-form; These are the principals which the Fraternal Order of Owls teach and when we reach that state where we ran live up o ir- precepts of the pclden rule the world will be more t.enutful and when the final day comes we can close our eyes In sleep eternal with the loving assurance we have done our'pbare of good while on earth and will hav no harrasslng thought of what become of us in the world hereafter. In closing friends and brothers I wish to say that today we should remember that life Is but a gentle zephyr that passes with its touch; Tomorrow maybe some pf m will have received the final summons before our dally toll Ig over. "Why then this sorrow and sadness? Why this deepest grief and gloom? Weep not that their toils arc over; Weep not that their race Is run; C,o, grant that we may rest calmly When our work like theirs Is done. Till then we should yield with gladness, glad-ness, Our treasures to him who keeps, m rejoice In the assurance Me plelh His loved ones sleep." The fraternal order of Owls In Us inner-most feeling of brotherly love, ha. consecrated, proclaimed anil set apart Ihe first Snndav in the month of November, when all nature seems mj jjrnnd. to hold sacred communion with its deceased members whom the Supreme Uuler of the universe In His wisdom and Jusiico has ci-n fit to call to their etornal resting placv It li certainly a most beautiful and solemn ervice that cnlls us here to day to weave more closely the Golden links of memory that binds us to our beloved brothers who have gone before be-fore us, to weave, as 5t were chaplcts of fraprant flowers culled from the plensant memories, of our departed friends pnd brothers. It is hard for us while still 'n the full strength of vlourous manhood, treading through life's busy ways, Its pleasures throbbing In our very veins, to come to th- stern realization of tho bitter truth, that some day we too shall Join our departed friends in the silent halls of death. Llfo, that which we el'ne to so ten derly and lovingly, what Is It after all? a sparkling spring that bubbles forth from the mountain side, splashing splash-ing with playful sprays down the precipitous pre-cipitous height, gradually growing, grow-ing, now a rivulet, now a nwirllng stream and now with hurrying flow to the majestic proportions of a mighty river wending Its -ay rapidly to a measureless and infinite sea. A preat wrltter has said. ' Life is but a norrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternlllea " "We etrlve In vain to look beyond the heights; we cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing wail-ing cry; from the voiceless Hps of the unreplylng dead there comes no word but In the nlpht of death, hope sees a star and listening: love can hear the rustling of a wing" This is a sentiment typical of hu man ambition which Hhall live when time shall be no more and calls to mind the Supreme Intelligence which pervades all nature and Hhall never, no never die. Just one short year ago, and two of those whom these exercises are held today and whose loss we mourn were assembled In our mldt. full of life, vicor and healifi and with iho ine, v.or hiiu iieaiin. aim wiui uil" charity that our fraternal oreanl.u-llon oreanl.u-llon had instilled Into them and with a feellnp of brotherly love that has alwavs heen our beacon light and faith, they ministered the same kindly kind-ly thoughts to others that we minister unto the today. No ecomlnms that I might utter today, to-day, no words of fulsome praise can portray the!r real genuine worth as friends and as men. Whatever may have been the'r little lit-tle shortcomings in life, for being human, hu-man, none of us are perfect, 'hey, at least, revered tho beautiful principles of our order; and with us as brother Owls, let only the good they have done live after them. They have gone to their final home, but the sunshine and happiness of their lives Is tadlant sMM. their v'rfus and good deeds we shall ever cherish. But what of the loved ones who have been left behind? fWluil must be their feelings on this solemn and sad occasion? The ever faithful and loving mother; The grief si. Icken widow; wid-ow; the venerable father; the innocent inno-cent little ch'ldrm and the brothers and sisters, for them all Is d.nkest sorrow nnd grief; Ihe vacant thalr. the lonely fireside, no fond carcss. no kindly smile or gentle word and lovingly lov-ingly we must say w It h them In suppliant sup-pliant tears, "Oh for the touch of the vanished hand or sound of the voice that is still." The trim reaper, Death, Is no respecter re-specter of persons. The mighty Sovereigns of the earth as well as the humblest subject, the rlrh and the poor alike must how ij his wishes. The birds In the foreuls, the fbx-ki In the field and nil that Is worldly and even the earth Itself shall be dissolved dis-solved and pass away. The mightiest nations of the earth, the greatest sculptors and palmyra, the greatest literary minds, the minds of gen'ns have all received their deepest deep-est tboj-ht ff1 Inspiration from the memories of the past. Who of n could Mew In silence, without a thought of the hereafter, or the IromorUll'y .f thr soul the shaft of beautifully .chiseled marble that rest over the dead in the Cauio Santo San-to at Genoa; the errk and Komber |
