Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-04-30
|. Q. Q. F. Anniversary.
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records of the earth the story of your
endeavor, and even your names sound
no more in the ears of men, the good
you have wrought will still remain, the
priceless heritage of the human race,
furnishing forth the foundation for
nobler deeds, for purer ideals, for
grander conceptions of the great prin-
ciples of o. F. 49,
yesterday is forgotten and tomor-
row we know not of, but the time spent
in the endeavor to cast a CLEAN of SUI
pernal glory into the dark vale of hui
man life, in pointing out through the
darkness of sorrow and adversely the
stars that shine in heavens blue canopy,
is time spent in building our own future
happiness. In those moments do we
build an immense reservoir of bliss, Joy
and happiness, from which we will
draw ever and anon hours of happiness
and comfort. Although our fondest
hopes may have been wrecked on the
rocks of despair, yet this storehouse of
happiness, erected through the practice
of friendly deeds, love acts, truth and
charity, will cause hot tears Of joy to
spring to our eyes as they are recalled.
AS we in fancy revert to those mo.
ments we stand entranced with an in
effable peace and happiness which we
cannot measure.
"That memory has become an insep-
arabic part of life. We love and cher
ish it to- the end. We will cry out in
cessantly, not aloud, but in our hearts.
Thanks and honor to the grand and
glorious teachings of 0. F.
Every year, every day, carries
away something dear with it, as we are
borne onward in the never ceasing
stream Of time, warm heart CRATE
fully devoted with all it's powers to F.
L. and I. will enable us to approach
the grave like one who wraps the
drapery of his couch about him and lies
down to pleasant Dreams
Il believe that the world is growing
better, that the day will come when F.
L. and T. like the wings of Saturn, will
encircle humanity. l believe that this
blessed day will dawn through the in
strumentality of Fraternity.
Gas the moon reflects in lesser de-
gree the light of the sun, as nature and
the universe reflect a part of the wisdom
of God, as the biblerefiscts part of the
character of Christ, so does F. reflect all
that is god-like, noble and holy in man.
"When the rulers of the earth have
resigned unto other hands the sceptre of
authority, and the cities that now are
have taken theii places beside Ninevah
and Tyre, when sntiquarians trace with
infinite toll on ruined monuments and
fallen pillars the history of this proud
republic as they trace that Of many by
gone nation, which imagined itself the
specially elect of God, The immortal
things that were not ton to die; when
Macauley's New Zealandor muses. on a
broken arch of London bridge ard
watches the solitary herdsman tend his
sheep on the site of the worlds metlop-
oils, as he doss today where Bablonian
Gardens once did hang, and the LORDS and
ladies of Ninevah rolled in G lded char
lots over cloth of geld. Then amidst a
new civilization built upon The rirs of
selishness will the work begin end robly
caraisd forward by 0. F. and cher fra
teras organizations and hold humanity
bound with the sillsCE c. II Of T. L. 6 r.
To these ladies whose faces grace tits