Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-12-05
MEMORIAL SERVICE
OF THE BENEVOLENT PROTEC.
TIVE ORDER OF ELKS.
impressive Ceremonies in the Acme Opera
House, Sunday Afternoon.-An Eloquent
Address by Hon. J. II. Shively. and a
Touching EuIosy by Col. ". }. Fife that
Held the Audience SpeIIbound. -Excellent
Music,

In whatever part of the world the
benevolent Protective Order of Elks has
an organization, the first Sunday in
December is observed by that order by
appropriate exercises in memory of their
departed brothers. In conformity with
this rule of tie order, Grays Harbor
Lodge No. 593 held public memorial
services in the Acme opera house, Sun.
day afternoon.
Grays Harbor Lodge attended in a
body and occupied the center of the
house, marching from the lodge room
promptly at 80 o'clock. The opera
house was filled by the public, whose
attendance was amply repaid by the
interesting and impressive ceremonies
and eloquent addresses.
The stage was beautifully decorated
with the national colors, the royal purple
color OF the order and potted palms.
The stage was occupied by Ion. J. II.
Shively, Col. W. j. Fife and Revs. Nc
Dermoth and Crawford, and the follow
ing officers of the lodge: II. c. Watkins,
exalted ruler; H. II. Falconer, esteemed
leading knight; l.. NJ. Roser, esteemed
loyal knight; II. A. Hayes, esteemed
lecturing knight; Geo. a. Black, secre-
tary; w. r. McFarlane, treasurer; Geo.
J. Wolff, chaplain p. NJ. Littlcr, esquire;
+. Pfund, tyler; W. +. Crammatte,
inner guard.
After an overture by Castrino's Or
chestra, the program as published by the
HERALD last week was splendidly rem
dered. The singing by Mesdames S. NJ.
Anderson and Fred H. Green and Mr.. +.
Pfund and DR.. Scammell being particu.
larly we'll received.
The address was delivered by Hon. J.
II. Shively, one of the ablest speakers of
the state, which reputation was fully
sustained upon this occasion. He dwelt
at length OH the aims and objects of the
order in a manner deeply interesting to
the members of the order as well as to
the large ndmber of non-members pres
emit, and paid feeling tribute to the
memory of the only member of Grays
Harbor Lodge that had passed to the
great beyond during the year, the late
Adolph r. Olsen.
Col. W. J. Fife, of Tacoma, delivered
the eulogy with all the great dramatic
force for which he is noted. Col. Fife
said in part:
"SophOcles, the most renowned OF the
Grecian poets, almost equally distin-
guished as dramatst, statesman and
philosopher, closed career of eighty
years, which the world has called brill
liant, five centuries before the birth of
our Savior. But unenlightened by Christ
ianity there was not happy paradise of
tod opening before him. And as he
sank into the rayless grave, he left be-
hind him the following pathetic testi-
mony:
MANS happiest lot is not to be;
And when we tread life's thorny steep,
Most blest are they who earliest fall
Deceu. to deaths eternal sleep"
Alexander the Great, we are told, be-
ing upon his deathbed, commanded that
when he was carried forth to the grave
his hands should not be wrapped, as was
usual, in the cere-clothes, but should be
left outside the bier, so that all might
see them, and might see that there was
nothing in them, that they were empty;
that he, born to one empire, and the
conqueror OF another, the possessor,
while he lived, OF two worlds, OF the East
and OF the West and of the treasures of
both, vet now when he was dead could
not retain the smallest portion OF the
wealth; that in this matter the poorest
beggar and he were at length upon equal
terms.
Plato represented his admirable Socra-
ties, after an unjust condemnation to
death in the prison at Athens, cncom-
passed with noble circle OF philosophers,
liscoursing Of the souls immortality,
and that having finished his argument
for it he drank the cup Of poison with
an undisturbed courage as one that did
not lose, but exchanged this short and
wretched life for blessed and eternal.
FOR this he argued, that there are two
ways OF departing souls leading to two
contrary states of felicity and OF misery.
Socrates died like a philosopher. but
Jesus Christ died like god.
An English noblcman was once eXp!ol-
ing among the catacombs OF Egypt. He
came to one mummy case which bore 4
date OF 1000 years before. On unwrap-
ping the many folds OF linen from the
shriveled form. he found in the blackened
hand dahlia bulb. For all these ages