The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-02
|FLES' MEMORIAL SERVICES.
Tke Lodge Of Sorrow" in Session
& Yesterday.
TRIBUTES PAID TO DEPARTED ONES.
me order of Exercises and Some
thing Of the Status of the Elks
N the City, state and Nation.

this life during the year rapidly nearing
It's close. The lodge OF sorrow" day is
set apart by the Grand Lodge and usu-
ally falls on December /, each year.
\ Houston lodge Is one of the oldest In the
State. Dallas organized the first lodge,
Houston came next and today there are
ten or twelve prosperous lodges in Texas
and the combined membership. In good
standing, Is placed at 1900 or 1900 Hous-
ton lodge has 80 active members In good
standing.
Memorial services were held yesterday
Afternoon and were very impressive. TWO
brothers were summoned hence in 1870,
&, II. Macon and 3 +. Lancaster. Inc
hall was dtaped In mourning and great
clusters OF Gala lilies ana white cnry-
santhemums emolems OF purity. in set
tings OF soinber- nued crepe we're every
where visible. The memoers OF itous-
ton Lodge. No. lol and their tamiiies
participated in the lodge of sorrow" SER
vices, conducted by the following Of
ficers: Exalted ruler, George I. Jones,
esteemed lecturing knight Abraham
Z Cross; secretary. y. *. Taylor; treas
nrer, Hal Bates; tyler Il. c. Burks,
esquire. J. Z. Patrick, inner guard. George
1snmons: chaplain, q. Il. Caldwell.
The exercises OPP ned with organ voluu-
tary. then came the ceremonies from the
lodge ritual. very impressive AMI strtk
ingiy beautiful. A quafteite, composed
OF Miss Bessie Hughes, soprano; Mrs. y.
e Munger contraltO; n G. Munger.
tenor. and Joseph +. Siott. bass, rendered
number OF sublime songs. Roy. H. u.
AYES, rector Of Christ church, ctficiatcd
as chaplain and gave utterance to n very
Ages Cleft for Me" was sung by Mrs
Minger, whose pure contralto voice filled
the hall with Its rounded melody. Hon.
John 5. Stewart recited Walt Whitman's
weird poem The Two Mystcries," con-
sidered hy that singular and always mis-
understood golius his masterpiece.
We know not what u IS. dear, this sleep
50 deep als0 sun,
TIE folded hands the awful ,alm. the
cheeks 81 palC anN chill
The Ills tha' WIN not UT agait though
Nc may call crd sail
The strange White sclituL, Of peace that
settles over sn
We know rot what - means dear. this
desolcte heart pain.
This drsad TO tgkc our daily walk and
walk IN IL araiu.
We know rot 10 what cth,r sphere the
loved N'ho love rs 30.
Nor why yoro lcft go wonder stu, nor
why we DO rot krow
But this we know our loved and dcnl
il they should come this dav--
should core ana ask as, "Wlat is Ne f''
not one OF us could say
Life Is a mystery as deep as ever death
can be.
Yet, OH, how sweet It IS to us this NE
we lSe and scc'
Then might they say-these vanished
ones-ind blessed Is the thought
80 death Is sweet to MS heioveii though
We may toll thee naught
We may not tell IL TO the quick-this
mystery o DEATH
Ye may not ten US II ye would. the mys-
terry of breath"
The child who enters llfc comes not witN
knowledge OF intent;
So those who enter death rnuri 20 as little
chil1ren sent
Nothing IS known. But ! believe that
God is overhead.
And as Me is 10 the living, so death is 10
the dead.
The euloey on the departed brothers
MAS MAS pronounced b. Hon; J. ". Jones.
His theme was; The faults OF our bror q
ers we should Write anon the sand their
virtues on the tablets OF love and mem
DRY. NJ. Jones paid a glowing tribute
TO the virtues OF tho Departed and re
minded his hearers taat the good men do
should live after them and thoir virtues
should be ernuiated by those VITO mourn
them. He also urged a closec union col
hearts ard hands IN order thntthc good
may be known. for every man lyus innu.
ence and leaves bis impress upNI those
Win whom he associates IN He+ daily
After song by tho quariette. "TrSlse
Goo front Whom All Blessings FlUF
was given. the entire aSsemblage parltck
paung. Rector AYES pronounced the noue-
diction aud the lodge Of SORROW btocd
adjourned. Tna committee IN charge was
compose OF a Is. Taylor, r. ~. keich-
: Houston Lodge OF l.lks is in a mos,
nonrishing condition. twenty-seven new
members having been Initiated since she
Eiks moved into their present elegant
quarters.
Among the members are George p. Ar
mold, Robert Adair, Sam Alexander. Er-
nest Ascher. NJ. II. Armistead. Robert
brewster. j. c. Baldwin. s c. Brasher
Ed Browne, Hal Bates. James A. Baker
gene c; Blake. sam \. Brown, Eugene
G. Burks, j. H. Barrett. James Beau
mont, William Byrnes, James I. Bell
w. +. Chew. J.. J! Cox. o. ". Crawford
A Chrtsteson. u. s. Cathcart, A. Cross
&. Z. Clark, 2. II. Coombs, ]. II. Camp.
bell r, l. C9ombs, Thomas cronin, !
land. o; H. Caldwell. II. r. Dupree, A.
Blake Dupree Ed f.. Dupree Andrew
Dow; II: w. Downey. K ii. Downey, A
Diehi. George Eilis, Albert Erickson, A
III; $. Fox, Jr., +. T. Fairfield Gus Fred
ericks. George W. Fisher. c. n Gueringer
Gun Grunewald. George Goldthwaite, T.
= Glenn; r. y. Garyin, j., I. Gerw,qod
kins, o. I. Holt 10 p Ho T. n lSha '" r. HHf
Heiner, A. r, c. Hsrndon. s. L.. HAN, II
G; D. Hunter. F. Hacker, W. f. Hum
phreyyille, Louis lllmer. George T. Jones
! Paul Jones, J. ". Jones T.. /, Jonuson
Keller. W. II. Kirkland, A. V. Kellogg
b. r. Latham. James Lawlor. Vernoi
Lemon. John T. Iockman, NJ. Looscan
a: T.. Lucas, L. S. Leversledgc
G M NJ A. Mitchell MasdI r Rllla n s MGTI,;
R r. E; N jsn Never W Il Mu,ysSy
!. f. McComb. James McGee w. III. Nc
Cav, r. p. McGowen. l.. Il. Moves. E
Newbouer, j. 4. OConnor. Hugh /
o'Neii, s. A. oliver. W. G. oliver. s
Peruvian, l.. ], Parks. 81 Packard. job
l.. Patrick, II, Prince. g. A. Quinlan. Il
A. Reichardt, s.. NJ; Rushmore, Rober
II. Baldwin Rice, G. A. Richardson. /
c. Smith. John s. Stewart. A. l., Steel,
+ T.. r. Smith. Il. J. Smith, George Sharp,
j. ]. Sweeney, d. II. stuart @. G.. stree
s. j. Smith. $. T. Swinford. A. X Taylo
r. NJ Taliaferro. r. b. Tailor. W {
Van Week. ]. l.. Watson. w. s. Wal
William windsor. c. j. Wright. J. !
wa,ies, II. #. Warner Harvey T. l
wilson. Ed VI. winstead, q G. warneck
William whyte. ]. G. Williams, G.
Worthington. Justin c. White. II.
Willett.
All IL harmony IN Ellcdom at present ar
the dissensions which beean In New fo'
CITY two years ago and threatened II
time to disrunt the order have bee
chhterated and forgotten,. Charity IS Y
correrstnne OF the benevolent ana fro'e
& tivesO Order Of Flks, and. Ike the 90
Of heaven. their favors fall unon all AK
asspaeing the grief of the widowed. sta
ing the orrhnn's tear. and tightening q
1ahora NJ xtrl,c call hr0f her