Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-12-07
THE ELKs Of PRESCOTT.
The Annual EuIogy Upon Dead Mem
bers of the Order.

The Annual EuIogy Upon Dead Mem
bers of the Order.
Prescott. Dec. 6. (Specia)- an
nual memorial exercises of the Elks or
Prescott took place at three O'Clock
this afternoon at the Congregational
church. The principal address of eu-
logy was delivered by Brother Dennis
A Burke who said:
Exalted Ruler. Beloved Brother Elks
and visiting friends: This is the Elks
memorial day. BY the constitution
and laws of our noble order this, the
first Sunday in the month of December
is dedicated and set apart each year as
memorial day, as a session of sorrow.
Standing upon this bank and shoal
of time, profoundly grateful to thac
Supreme Being whom we all recog-
niZe, that during the past year only
one dear brother has left our ranks
and gone to the farther shore We may
this day felicitate ourselves that our
beloved order greets the coming of an
other memorial anniversary serene an1
intact. and if there is only one dead
brother for whom today we are wont
TO weave garland. we may, neverthe-
less. weave chaplets of flowers of sun
shine to gladden. the hearts of the liv-
ing.
Brother William F. Devices. initiat-
ed into our order April 4, 1890, died
December "a, 1902. aged 33 years. He
was an Elk in all that the word implies.
AS an Elk he always wrote his broth
er's faults upon the sand cherished his
virtues upon the tablets of memory.
-FgI,9
sir, may we not appropriately pause
here a moment and lay an humble
chaplet upon the grave of the great
founder of our noble order-a grateful.
tender word of tribute to the memory
and character of Charles Algesnon
Sidney Vivian? This distinguished
brother was born in England in 1876.
Came to this country in the flower OF
young manhood. Founded the Ben
evolent and Protective Order of Elks
in 1865, but for some reason was never
made its Grand Exalted Ruler and
died at Leadville, Colo, March 90, 1880.
of pneumonia. Thus he died whilst yet
in youths enchanted kingdom; ere the
roses of life's purpling hills began to
fade. and the friends of his youth were
about him. Possessed of a genial buoy
ant disposition, a sunny and compan-
ionable nature, a heart as tender as Il
woman's. a sympathy so all-pervadinS
as to extend aid to crippled bird, and
a soul so pure and brave that it knew
no fear and suspected no guile.
He is said to have possessed a bright
and cultured intellect and gave much
promise of the golden fruitage of true
greatness in the nigh approaching ma
ture life. But his rarest, richest gift
was the genius of song. He had Il
wonderful voice and sang in sweetest
strains songs of tender, weird, fascin-
ating magic that touched the heart,
captivated the ear and won the affec
tionate regard of his companions. The
gifted and lamented William Buchanan
wrote from Lcadville, in the spring OF
1880. that when Vivian died the whole
population including the grizZled min
ers. turned out to his funeral. No.
wonder that such a man founded the
noblest order in all the calendar of
charities.
Sir, we believe in spiritual as we'll as
material forces. Our noble founder
and brother. the peerless Vivian, phys
ically is dead but his spirit still sur
wives in the halls of Elkdom-inciting
all our brother Elks to a higher, pur-
er and happier life. Avaunt! Our
brother is not dead! and today we lay
upon his grave this immortello: The
stars go down to rise upon some fair
er shore"
In the great Corcoran art gallery at
Washington city, is a picture of Char
lotte Corday standing behind the
equare, rusty old iron bars of her pris-
on cell-on the eve of her execution.
rr,l-
clasping the rusty iron bar-the most
marvellous picture of heroic, classic
beauty ever drawn by the hand of di-
vine art, or painted by the inspired pen
of poetic genius. At first you see MOTH
ing remarkable about this picture.
There she stands a plain. but match
lessly beautiful woman, looking yon
full in the face with unquailing nerve,
her great liquid blue eyes beam
all heaven in their steady glance, the
only sign of pain being the slightest
pinch at the center of her arching
eyebrows But the longer you gaze
upon that picture the more enchanting
it becomes; the more you find to love
and admire, for it is a true picture OF
q deathless character, to which hero
ism could hardly add q chaplet, over
which virtue could scarce breathe
sigh and TO which beauty herself
would blush to lend a charm. Thus
you gaze upon this picture until fancy
weaves its weird, subtle meshes and
Charlotte Corday stands before you in
the full flush of vital, matchless roy
al womanhood-the queen of all
Earth's uncrowned queens.
And so it is with our noble order.
The more it's grand principles are