Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-12


district attorneys once. and what we
could expect II we ever found ourselves
therein. His vofcing seemed to excite the
jealous ire of the good patriarehal Arab.
George M. Randall, he Of the frozen north
land, beyond the circle and without the
pale Of the Zemzem wells, who, once hav-s
ing got the floor, presumably on account OF
his pull with the serif, proceeded to freeze
the oasis up by relating what dire fate
awaited any unlucky Arab who should fall
within the lines or attempt to rush his
guard Finally water was given him to
drink. and the shock caused an immediate
subsistence. Sheik F. A. Grant, seeing his
opportunity, got the floor while the serif
was busy with his friend Rajah Randall.
and, feeling that the militaire had not been
done justice, proceeded to enlighten us on
the best and most feasible way of going
down to the sea in ships, of finding rocks
and removing same and the latest meth
DDS of docking transports. Major Glenn,
allowing that civilians had no right to
speak out in meeting, arose on point of
order, and discoursed on what he knew
about military law, or Courts-Martial l
Have Been Up Against Capt. Pershing
got the floor and gave a true account Of
How Found Them; Or The White Tribe
The Joys Of Convict's Life John s.
Leech on How to Run a Mergenthaler
Linotype: Eugene M. Barton on The Best
Way to Hold Them Up and I Want Ny
The Limit; or, How Many Years Can
Give Them for Estafa;' DIR. n. Eugene
Stafford on My Partnership With Dr. Fer
rier; or, What I Can't Do to Them He
Cam Capt John A. Crawford on How
Bagged Guillermo; or, My Boys in the
Bosque-If You Want to Know Anything
Come to Me- Charles H. Burritt on How
to Locate Mining Claim in the Philippine
Islands; or, No. 342, the Mother Lode OF
the Archipelago Excuses were read from
Arabs Israel Putnam, e. c. Mccullough,
Col. H. II. Bandholtz and DR.. F. N Fer
rier, who asked to be let off from the
fine, which excuses were laid on the ia
bic. The Arabs all attached their names
to the scroll and the scribe asked per-
mission to print edition de luxe with
photographs and signatures
Superior Lodge, No 81. X. of P, held its
annual meeting for the nomination OF Of
ficers Saturday evening The second rank
was conferred and a list of candidates 1or
office presented to be voted on at the an
nual election, which will occur December ~.
Ex-Representative James O'Donnell was
the principal speaker at the annual memo
rial service of the Saginaw Lodge OF Eiks.
His speech was particularly. interesting
one. He said in part: Death is the day
break of an eternal morning. When the
last sad office is concluded we say earth
to earth All visible nature is material.
The moon and the stars have their glorles.
Earth to EARTH the earth feeds mans
body with things material and his soul
with splendors and pageants. faithful from
age to age with the infinite bounty of Eden:
She Yields her treasure tHe cuiilliIS VI
his hand and woos his heart with her Sc
crets. At his coming she comforts him
with her kindness and wonders. and when
he must rest from his labors she takes him
home to her bosom. Mother Earth. mother
earth that never dies nor deserts us; sweet
est of all the faces we see in the misty
tourney: stanchest of all the friends that
strew our pathway with blessings; true IN
their joy and their sorrow to all the chill
dren of men Though yearning heaven al
lures US, what wonder We dread to leave
her when we come to the journeys END
But when all is over, when mortality puts
on Immortality, the semblance of humanity
is piIlowed on the bosom of the loving
mother of us all, the earth But
there is no death This life IS not all.
Back of deaths semblance is the potency
of a splendid new birth. Even In nature,
in winters chilly grasp. trees, plants, flow
ers, each according to its kind, guards
within itself that eternal mystery when
we call life. The sky above us VIII never
he so beclouded as to conceal the star of
hone Hope is the messenger or falth, the
CONSIDER of the weary heart-a great physi-
clan near at hand; in days of sorrow, wear
mess and trial. hope lifts us In her rest.
ful arms and her sweet consolation lends.
Senator Teller has introduced a bill in
the Senate providing that the Secretary of
the Interior be authorized to set apart a
tract of land, not exceeding seven acres IN
extent from and out of the mineral LANDS
in Eureka mining district, Gllpln county,
such lands having been heretofore returned
to the land office at Central City as mineral
lands to be used by the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows of Central City as ceme-
terry Nothing contained in the grant is to
be so construed as to prevent future APP
plications for the extension of lode claims
within the confines of the cemetery and
claiming the mineral found. All mining
operations within the bounds of the land
set apart to the Independent Order of Odd |
Fellows for cemetery purposes are to be |
conducted beneath the surface and SO as
in no way to disturb the graves of the dead
buried there to mar the surface of the |
ground.
At the recent session the supreme coin- |
ell of the Royal Arcanum voted to hold |
their next annual meeting at the St. Louis |
worlds fair The exact date is not fixed, |
but it will be in the latter part of May, |
1904.
Hope Lodge, No. 20, F. A. A. NJ, last !
evening installed its new officers and aft |
erward enjoyed banquet at the Hotel |
Raleigh. The new officers are as follows: |
Alexander Wolf, worshipful master; John |
H. Won Hermann, senior warden: Edward |
Y. Davidson, junior warden; William A. |
Craig, secretary; Nathan 8. Meyer. treas |
urer; John II. Hoffacker, senior deacon; AL |
Ian S. Searle, junior dea con; John ]. Hill, |
tiler.
After the installation the members of the |
lodge attended banquet at the Raleigh. |
The new wOrshipful master, Alexander |