Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-06-22
IN REMEMB RANCE
Local Fraternal Bodies Meet to
do Honor to the
Departed.
EXERCISES wERE HELD YESTERDAY
at Cemetery in Morning,
Knights of Pythias at Hall
in Afternoon.

Yesterday morning the Noodmen
camps of the city united in holding
the annual memorial exercises for the
departed ones. Camps 1850. 300, 20
and 90 met. at Woodmen hall at n.
M, and, accompanied by the drill
teams in uniform, Bleuer's band and
company of little girls dressed in
white and carrying banners, formed
parade up Second avenue to Seven
teenth street, where cars were taken
to Chippiannock cemetery. Capt w.
III. McConochie was in charge as mar
shall of the day.
Arriving there the members assem-
bled at n favorable spot in the Gene
terry grounds and the program that
had been prepared was carried out.
with DIR. j. f. Myers acting in the ca
pacity of master of ceremonies. AZ
ter an Invocation by Rev. w. b. Me
Kee the Woodmen quartet sang and
IL. NJ. McCaskrin. speaker Of the day.
delivered thoughtful and appropri-
ate address. Mr.. McCaskrin said in
part:
MIR. McCaskrIn's Address.
Life is bounded by birth and death.
Humanity is bounded by success and
failure. And strength and weakness
are the boundary lines Of human
achievement. Few of us stop to think
that we know nothing of our birth.
and none of us have fixed the time of
cur departure.
Eve are all so interested in human
ity that we forget the boundary lines
Of our life. Then | would have you
remember that birth and death, sue
cess and failure make up all the ele-
ments of origin and destiny. We do
not control our birth; we cannot con-
troll our death. Then. again. l would
have you remember that the only
control we have over our lives is a
choice to seek success or failure. 1t
is the great choice we have to settle
our achievements.
(Which road will YOU take-the
stony road to failure or the road to
succeSs?. The one leads downward;
the other leads upward. The one de
stroys; the other builds. The one who
leaves the world better for his living
lis success; the enc who hinders and
leaves the world worse than he found
it is a blunderer Il failure.
Then, again. let me warn you to
evade the road to failure. Those who
take that downward course walk
along the stony highway of life gath
ering thorns of disappointment and
are finally wrecked upon the rocks of
failure. Those who walk along life's
smooth highway to success can gath
err the flowers and roses of achieve
ment and weave them into a crown of
glory to themselves and to humanity
There is no middle ground; YOU are
n success or You are a failure. Nhu.I
help or hinder; you build or destroy.
Then the great question you have to
answer is, What am | doing for hui
manity?' If you are against humani-
ty. you will say, Am l my brothers
Keeper If you are helping humani-
~, you will know it by the praise you
have-the honor that mankind gives
you.
''Your obligation will help you to
answer the question. ! believe that
we all hope To advance humanity. /
hope we all try to observe our obi
cations. Our interest i'm fraternity.
our interest among our brothers and
sisters should leave no doubt. and our
interest in the dead should place our
standing beyond n question.
1T is well for us to meet to honor
those whose lives have given us so
much. They fought the same fights
we fight. lived the same lives we live.
and by their achievements gave to us
all the pleasures and liberties we en-
JOY. They gave us the great lessons
that we must learn. They placed hui !
mainly on the high plane we find il. !
Our lesson then is in honor of the HUI
man living and the human dead. Let |
us leave humanity on a higher plane |
than we found it. and then build. not
destroy; succeed, not fail
Decoration of Graves.