The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-11-14

Just passed have most seriously intertefed
with what / might have said.
The theme you have given me would
even inspire an Ohio man who 10
supposed TO be on the lookout for
nothing save vacant Offices. II 10
o generous welcome you tender US TO-
night, and / am asked TO respond to Cy.
prus CommAndery. She Is our mother,
aud 10 her We are indebted for our
Knightly existence, and we cherish as
such the men born In one Of the most fer
tile valleys OF Ohio, and our valleys are
loved by o river whose name Is q
part OF the Dominion. We are proud OF
our name, and little did the residents OF
that island In the Mediterranean think
| 900 years ago that body Of tried men
and true would honor and lmmortallze
their island by calling their Commandery
alter II, Cyprus No. 10. We are proud
OF our Commandery. / am proud Of her
record. There is one other thing l am
Proud Of, viz: that OF being selected Of
all Communicates to,be the honored guests
Of Cyrene Commandery otWheeling, and
we say God bless her. Welove the ground
they walk upon. We love them, their
wives, their sisters, their cousins and their
annts, and, as Ruth Of old, we will never
leave them, Their God shall be our God,
where they lodge there shall we lodge.
Entreat Us not to leave them, for whittier
they goeth thither will we go and return
not from following alter them"
This was one OF the happiest efforts Of
the evening, and was rapturously re-
ceiyed. lll..
The next toast was: Thine honored
Lancaster-Age adds fresh brilliancy TO
your knightly Deeds" and responded to
BY Sir knight ]. F, Mcmahon, as follows;
II never made q speech in my life and
am not simple enough to begin now,
However, II l had forty.eight hours 10
prepare might say something 10 astonish
you. Ours Is the oldest Commandery in
the State and stood sponsor 10 In 1888 TO
Wheeling Commandry No. |. She 10 say
the oldest one In the State OF Ohio, and
old enough TO have sense enough 70 have
sent larger delegate tonight. We met
You q year ago In GAINESVILLE, and the
memory OF that visit will neyever be
obliteraten while life lasts, and the &C.
quaintance formed there will last as long
as the organization exslsts. Uf.
For Christian service and true ehiVllrY,
AsIs the sepulehre In Stubborn Ivory"
Was the next toast, and was responded
to by Sir J. G. Hoffman. ITO respond to
toast, by one no better acquainted, seems
a matter Of folly. Although Ely Commad.
cry is not here In person she Is In spirit.
She met you two years ago at Cleveland,
and was under the special care Of that
Comnapdery, and she ayows to all around
this board that she will ever maintain
what she has ayowed. She remembers
til cir knightly courtesy on that occasion
and will never forget It, and yet has the
sword upon which there Is not q bit OF rust
by tear Of regret, and ourmutual feelings
shall be strengthened.
Right Eminent Commander Of the State
Of Maryland, Sir II. W. Marsden, was then
introduced and declined making speech
but proposed the toast, "Cyrene Com.
mandery Young in years, but old In that
grand characteristic Of Masonry, Hos
pitGlity."
Judge Cochran then responded to the
toast, Away with dull care"
81 would entrCat you rather, 10 put on
Your bodest suit Of nlirth, Tor We have friends
That purpose merriment."
Judge Cochran said in response to the
last toast!
Idiscover that this sentiment is classic,
so l must attempt a classic response,
which, to those who known how unlearn.
ed l DIN, will be the most excruciatingly
funny thing l could attempt. G-
When fair Portals chosen lover first ut
tered this sentiment 10 his good friend
GIatiano, the latter had no doubtreturned
from IN election in Belmont" or boat
race, where he had bet on the wrong man,
and had the honnors; so he was entreated
to "put on"-put on airs-of mirth.
The good Sir knights who arranged the
sentiments Of the evening, are gentlemen
fnltely Just, but fellows Of infinite iest-of
most excellent fancy.
They arranged them upon the waggish
theory that up to this periodical .iunGture,
this stage OF the game, each Of you onthis
especial occasion, had been wrapped up in
the nude snlemnity Of borrowed origi.
nality, and !, the most solemn visaged,
nightly knight Of all, with a face siGklied
Ger with the pale caste Of torgetiulness
that seems to say:
''stay me with hagonS
And comfort me with apples,