The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-04-17
rhe Daily Hrsdsersfk.
SIDNEY SUG&S..
PUBLISHES AN6 PROfR1EfoR.
About ODD Fellowship.

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aRd sucMan a6aive interest, talasn
tAaD6h,- ID ske66R giving A.feW facts
as to the origin and history of Odd
Fellowship may not be out Of plAce
at this time.
In M misty SasE, Centuries Be-
fore h@Dn4h of our Saviour and a
past when Epheaus and Damascus
were yet young; there existed Be-
cret scsieties,s thgE Vzisted among
thAPAeidAss sAthAtkdhSand G6tAs,
AAAwHAtN@ @ose secret societies
were similar to the Odd Fellows OF
today is merely supposit0f9 or
conjectural. Whether Odd Fell
lowship had h1 origin prior to 1919
In merely o question as to differ
ence Of opinion. But this we know
thRt on t6e' 26th of April
1919, five men, noble, grand and
Kef0ie IN Ehe. broadest sense OF the
term met in the city of Baltimore
and organized the Grst lddSS Of
Odd Fellows on the American con-
tinent. Is it not better to claim
Odd Fellowship as a child of our
great. grand and glorious western
continent, and a child Of our ad-
vano6d civilization and progress,
thGn 10 trace its pafentAge to a
time when classic literature was at
the zenith of its glory and the
grossest imdAofaaitF held high ear
nival amOnY the devoters OF that
literature. Perhaps some one will
say that the origin Of the frater-
nifty was 30 humbfe- and obscure
net&inR good OF great could pos
sfblk Result tllerefr6m, bat let us
take into consideration the fact
that the Savior had for his birth
place the mager. The much wor-
shipped Mdkamsd Of the Turks was
unknown. uAtif his lHes history and,
reEfHf6ds opinions were given to
the world in the Koran. The crys-
tal spring on the mountain side is
the ioeaitskn head of O. stEeaAlet
thx& PUSHES along as Il imbned
withllifs, untilImestiHg other silvery
threads Of water and these in con-
juiDtibnEn Gliding aaohg through
NOOK and Granny, ever swelling by
new occasions till ere long a rivu-
letN YormSd And at I15t d mighty,
turbid, Leacherous river ON whose
bGAom the stalwart ships Of the
riGhbat nations ptoxdfS float and
yea 4Ais- majestic river Is but tllel
aggregation of many humble be-
ginings. The immense coral reefs
tl& 1ka6d. ont, aA the In fa&ed
Seylla and Charibdis upon which
many . noble ship is wrecked,
driven thither BY the fury .of'the'l
king whose destroying elements
ana a-ahroAd-o On .tha faOa ot.the dssp,
shrieking like unclaimed demonsis
bAffhe wo1k of AhAAfine AaihaaaSo
sdafl as to be scarcely perceptible
to the hnstdtdsye. Like unto these
have bsen the birth, growth and
almost complete perfection Of
AmsriCan Odd Fellowship
Having. spoken Of its origin it is
presnmahle that we desire to know
what are its ,0ARces-AAd objects.
XIiibsskAAEssti object'oH Oad Fsl-i
lowship is to teach a spirit of be-,
nevolenN . dhd not only to tAach Il (
bat bring1t into practice in every
day liAtS and In order TO teach
thistAeee3eee-leeseA Of -dePesitiHg4i
something every week in the saw
ing bank Of Oad Fellowship, for
the relief Of the sick, distressed and
needy iaureQ4irod uOtAnd, prasticsa |
bJhch MankaG a ahs fraternity.
Some one viii say, Why not de-
pcSit 6dpOS6hS in D. bAakf Banks
sometimes falkland Hre very rarely
able to pay q hundred cents on the
d6HIR But wien IN cd Fellow
deposits his sum in the savingsl
bank Of his fraternity, he is moral
lvs earbAiA OF -eettiAs, back fdll
saAhel elan4 AAA ahditibhAl happDrt Of
o million honest, true-heart- !
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