Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-06-15

j NOluble capacity OF WOmans tongue
/ and the terrible sting Of woman's hat,
: arrayed against us. No, Indies, rather
i give us the smiles Of Your approval
J.. None know better than you that when
2 afillctlOn visits II family and in its train
often comes pinchins wants that are
: imperative and require instant relief
; it is given by the order in Way that
. does not humiliate the recipient. but
t gladdens the heart OF the afflicted.
: When the husband and father is help
less and PROSTATE and the cry of the
little ones for bread is heard, and the
tears of the suffering wife flow un.
hidden, from the treasury this society
supplies the means and stills the cry
OF the hungry, dries the tears of the
weeping mother and brings JOY and
gladness to the hearts of the house
hold. No Ostentatious parade ac-
companies the bestowal of our relief,
no published documents certify to our
generosity, but secret and unexposed
to vulgar view, in the hour of disease,
suffering and death, in the city and on
the mountain, in the palace and in the
hovel, when all nature is smiling her
approval or the lowering clouds weep
big tears of sympathy, our brothers
discharge their joyful or mournful
errand. No wounded or insulted pride
disdains the proffercd aid, for the re-
lief extended is not OF grace, but of
right" 1t is confined to no class or
condition of life, but the same measure
is fitted to each. We have no hard
benches for the poor and cushioned
seats for the rich.
Our order seeks to triumph in doing
good. Our reward the thanks of the
widows and orphans whom our acts
have relieved and our sympathies con-
soled; our victory the satisfaction of
feeling that "The drying of single
tear has more OF honest fame than
shedding seas of gore"
When parts of our land have been
visited by pestilence and the destroy
ing angel, with flaming sword, was
hewing down the inhabitants; when
wlld terror dwelt in every heart, and
men Stunned their fellows iost contact
produce contamination when money
could procure no nurses, nor hired
nurses give sympathy and comfort,
then has been seen the courage begot-
ten by dr., and the ministrations of
| brotheri' a. smoothed the dying pillow
and laid aany head to its long rest
by hands hat could not be purchased,
but cheerfully responded to the obliga-
tions assumed in the lodge room
When war ragged through the land, the
prison and the hospital evinced that
the contests of governments produced
no disruption of the bonds of contra
ternity. Flames swept over cities and
the lurid glare showed hundreds of
homeless, foodless and naked people
but the baneful light had not faded
from the horizon ere there flashed
| along the wires assurances of material
aid, with words of sympathy and COM
fort. The waters covered the face of
the valleys and the helpless farmer saw
his fields disappear from sight, with
the results of his labors whirled by the
angry flood to ruin, yet steadily as the
| flood arose, so steadily also arose the
means to relieve him from his present
distress: and he also was babe to be of
good courage. Such is recital of
some of its work. But do not desire
to be understood as intending to de-
tract from the noble and generous acts
done in these and like instances by the
people of this country or 10y kindred
| societies, nor as arrogating for this or
der Il pre-eminence. Whenever occa-
sion has arisen, all parts of this broad
land, and all the benevolent fraternal
societies have responded to the call and
Odd Fellows have been among the
foremost to bear their full part.
Onr membership is represented in
all The learned professions and in all
the industrial avocations of life, among
prominent officials of government and
among all religious denominations.
Our places of meeting form attractive
monuments and are generally referred
10 in words betokening respect for the
order. Our hall on Washington street,
in this city, wherein We now hold our
regular meetings, possesses many at
tractivc features to us who have so
long cxtendos. to each other our fra
ternal greetings therein, but, like our
infant swaddling bands, it is too small
to comfortably cncircle our iull-grown
body.
Olympia Lodge No was organized
July Is, 1855, under authority con-
ferred by the Grand Lodge OF the
United States to Judge C. c. Hewitt.
On March S, 1862, in consequence of
the limited number OF members, the
charter was voluntarily surrendered,
and with the books, regalia and seal, it
was placed in the custody of the Grand
Lodge Of Oregon and Washington.
Under the then existing laws of the
order, subordinate lodges were allowed
five years in which to reclaim charters
: from the date Of their surrender
Knowing the provisions of the law, the
, old veteran Odd Fellow, Christopher
c. Hewitt, the officer vino constituted
} the lodge in 1850, was unanimously
selected to 60 i'll person and reclaim
the charter under which the lodge had
worked for seven years. Accordingly,
on the 1st Of March, 1867, just one
: week before the expiration OF the five
r years of grace, the charter and other
property surrendered were restored to
the lodge, and as Brother Murphy says
{ | in the WASHINGTON STANDARD OF the