The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-18
MET ON THE LEVEL
ANNUAL SESSION OF MASONIC
GRAND COUNCIL YESTERDAY.


panion in Aniction-Dr. May Submits
an Eloquent Address in Which He Dis
cusses Many Subjects Of Importance, In
Guiding the Masonic Hone-Speaks
Fine Of the Kansas FREQ Mason-IIn-
portant Amendment to Constitution.
The Masonic Grand Council Of the
state OF Kansas met yesterday morn
ing in Garfield hall with a very good
attendance.
The proceedings, Of course, were Sc
rret and Of a nature not interesting 10
the public.
The following officers were elected:
Most 'Ilustrious high priest-A "A
Carnahan, of Concordia.
Deputy grand master-Frank h
Davis, Of Atchison.
Principal conductor Of the work.
II. Connect, of Great Bend
Z Grand treasurer-P. ]. Freling, Of
Leavenworth.
( Grand recorder-A. NJ. Callahan, Of
/ Topeka.
The following officers were appoint
ed:
Grand chapIain-Rev S. E. Busser, Of
Emporia-
Grand captain Of the guard-T. B.
Jennings, Of Topeka.
Grand conductor Of the council-C.
NJ. Jones, Of Wichita.
Grand marshal-G. P. Connor, OF To-
peka.
Grand steward-J. L. Jones, of Yates
Center.
After the election the new officers
were installed and the council adjourn
ed sine die at o'clock.
BY a unanimous vote the following
Telegram was sent to Owen A Bassett
of Ellsworth:
The grand council in annual assem-
bly,, by a rising vote unanimously ex-
tend you greetings with its prayers for
your speedy and permanent recovery.
a NJ. CALLAHAN, G. r."
Mr.. Bassett is an aged and eminent
Mason who recently lost a limb.
The constitution was amended giving
the grand council jurisdiction over
counties where no local councils exists.
The annual address of DR.. May OF
Hutchinson, most iHustrious grand
master of the council, is as follows:
GRAND MASTERS ADDRESS.
Fellow CompanionsSSome hun
dreds Of miles to the westward lie the
mighty rockies, from whose glinting
tops and rock-ribbed sides gush forth
the waters pure and sweet, as If dis
titled in the laboratory of Heaven,
which rushing on their way to the sea,
diffusing life and blessings everywhere
uniting with other streams as pure
from the stream, on whose peaceful
banks, and in whose fruitful valley,
sits the ePerless Princes of the Plains
whose guests we are today, and whose
hands are outstretched everywhere to
extend salutations to US as We come at
the opening OF this, our twenty-ninth
annual assembly. Not many gener-
atoms ago. where you now sit encir-
cled with all that eXaIts and embellish-
es civilized life, the rank blue stem
nodded its tasseled head in the wind
The sunf1ower, the emblem Of our state,
turned its face to the great orb Of day,
and kept watch Of his Journeyings; here
lived and loved another race of beings.
Beneath the same sun that rolls over
your heads, gazing on the same fair
queen of night, that smiles for all, an
other and far different council was
assembled. To these poor sons OF the
then desert, no light Of the Bible had
come, to them the laws of God were
not traced on tables of stone, but in
the book of nature, whose teachings
are never distorted, in the stars that
sank In beauty beyond the crimson
west where earth and sky touched
each other, in the midday flame, from
the blazing sun, in the flower that
blJomed in the nighttime, and with
erel when day was again come, in the
signing of the flower scented breezes,
as they came, laden with the perfume
OF the sunny south lands, in his own
majestic form, on the tablets Of his
heart. In all these was traced the rev.
Citations Of the universe, and to whose
mysterious source, he bent in humble
and silent alteration. A traveller in
iourneying westward came to the base
OF the mountain and saw before him
nothing but impTegnable rocky fast
nessess, which he could not climb.
But there came also a skilled engineer
whose cunning was eqaal TO the skill
of the architect a. the building OF the
first temple, and by following the mys-
terious inclinations of MS instrument
he sought and found a pathway, where
by the mountains mighty crest was
reached. The ribbons Of steel were laid
the commerce of a continent was trans
ported over what to the first seemed
an impossible barrier. So likewise
in assuming the duties of the station
10 which you elevated me one year
ago. ! feel as if there was 10 path
way by which 1 might reach the end
of the journey, but with the assistance
Of the companions, on whose wisdom
! confidently relied. The mountains
heights have been climbed. The diff
fcultieS overcome, and now have We
come to close the years labors-
After enumerating the years dead
Grand Master May said:
To all of our companions who most
keenly feel the loss Of loved ones. who
weep sore in the night time. and whose
eyes still glisten with tears. Among
all their loved ones, with none 10 COM
fort, would we extend our syupathies
cherishinC the confident hope. that hav-
ing faithfully labOred below; now they
are exalted above. and form a part
of that glorious companionship, whose
bliss is Eternal. and whose joy everlast
ing. whose eyes can now see the wise
purpose of the Divine Architect dis
PLAYED in all their Splendor. May the
wintry winds sing sweet requiems over
the turfy mounds which mark their
last resting place.
After giving the work Of the grand
council in detail Dr. May spoke about
the Masonic home as follows:
MASONIC HOME
At our last annual assembly. this
grand body. by unanimous vote, direc-
ted our Grand Treasurer 10 pay 500 Of
the money Appropriated at the session