The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-13

yesterday are used to answer questions
and act as warnings and become
sources OF inspiration for you and ME
to-day.
And memory does all that.
But few years ago a deluded anar-
chist put an internal machine on board
OF one OF the German transatlantic
steamers, intending that it should blow
up the craft in mid-ocean. 1t failed,
but the fellow went raving mad before
the ship touched port, and day after
cay ne walked up and down muttering
TO himself over and over again, i did
it, 1t was memory.
In New York city a few weeks ago
there was a great hotel fire, and the
event opened the way for the exhibit
ton OF the oft-seen heroism of the fire
men, AT the risk of his life and by
almost superhuman efforts one of the
firemen swung himself from the ladder
top, climbed through a burning win
DOW ana then, hanging on, handed
down to the ladder the half-dead form
OF lady guest of the house. OF course
the crowd, cheered themselves abo1t
wild. But the crowd has dispersed,
and the firemen is forgotten. Maybe,
indeed, that the day may come when
loneliness and poverty will have led MIN
over the hill to the poor house We
make that too possible. But even then,
as the sun of his life sinks behind The
western divide, unknown and unno-
tlced, ne will have to spur his blood, to
sur MS honest pride and manhood the
recollection of that day, the memory
i did it,
Such is the influence upon ourselves
of acts done by us.
But we are not alone. No man can
IA a Xy i1,H NV, rI,arS =,
fact is we are toadying copyis-s, and
dent seem to be able to help 1t. Every
time you buy carpet and the salesman
tells you that it is good one and MIS-.
Sl0,OO0 year has one in her front oar
Tor. he not only challenges your indc-
pendence, but plays on the characters
tic and failing that l have just named.
That is one manifestation; but there Is
more subtle one-I mean that strange
molding, unconscious influence that we
have the one over the othC'.
Tonight I might talk of the brothers
and sisters deceased and suggest what
their influence has been. But l frankly
tell you | have not the heart to do so.
How can stranger to his home reckon
up and put into words the influence
that any man had when wife and lit
tie ones We're gathered round him? I,
for one, will not dare to gather forget
lle-lOLS III tHdt fsdEuell. NOT Cdu l
string syllables together to tell of the
influence of that Daughter of Rebekah
as mother in her home. The children
say that she was almost God to them,
and l do not doubt the love story they
tell But it would be blacklist sacrilege
for me ito let that altar be darkened
by a strangers shadow. In the quiet
soemnity of this Memorial evening
each must tell to himself what influ-
ence his friends have had on him.
Let it be mine, courteously and fra
ternally, to remind you that we shall be
truer Odd Fellows if we so act that our
influence upon our fellow members will
strengthen their characters, cheer them
when they are ready to give up the
fight and be such that it continue to
strengthen and cheer them when we
have passed from this grave-gashed
earth, where the slow moving noddng
plumes of the funeral car tell the stern
tale of mans mortality, the darkened
home the MONDAY sun that faded into
moonless, starless night; from all that
to the place where the mists have roll
ed in splendor from the beauty of the
hills