Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-05-02
Great Council Of Red Men
Completes Its LabOrs Tonight

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occasions he attracted the attention
OF mountaineer. who became very
much attached to him and followed
him around from place TO place. Bob
Taylor told him IL he was elected he
would take him with him TO Wash
ington, and the election being ac-
complished. he sent for his friend
and they started for Washington.
Taylor took sleeper, and his friend
rode In the day coach. When at last
they were approaching the capitol,
about midnight, the mountaineer
looked out and saw the bridge span
ming the Potomac, with two rows of
lights ON the sides and the lighted
avenues extending beyond, he rush
ed back to the sleeping car, awoke
Taylor. and said. For Gods sake get
up; there's the d--est torchlight
procession come TO meet you you ever
saw
whenever / go to a town | al
ways try tn find ont all about Il; I
have an abundance of curiosity. That
is why | am such ladies' mani This
afternoon as was strolling through
your streets, ! asked a passing pe-
destrian. What is the altitude of
Bluefield? Well said he. after
: much thought, There's a good deal
OF difference of opinion, but it's pref
ty evenly divided between the Meth
odists and Baptists!'
This matter of Introduction is Of
ten very embarrassing: the expecta-
uons OF the audience cannot always
be fulfilled. The occasion is liable
TO he like that OF which John Allen.
OF Mississippi tells when he was about
! TO make Fourth of July address.
! A young graduate, recently admitted
TO the bar, was making a spread
eagle Introduction, Introducing him
as Americas greatest statesman; a
second Daniel Webster or Jno. C.
/ Calhoun; the man whose name Ia n
household word, land suddenly turn
ing to the famous speaker. said !:
| s'hfs W NV ~ NouI
was one time In Des Molnes.
and the newspapers OF the following
day had my picture. with words.
Hon Griffin, OF Georgia" Another
paper noted my presence with the
~. s. Senator from Virginia"
Several times | have lost my Iden-
I A
Great Incohonee, was once intro
/ duced as the Great Pat Marooney, ="
and on one occasion, in Texas, as tho
Great Incubator" This latter IL
tie was not so far wrong. as | was
Matching a good many Red Men
about that time
AT another time there vas ne
of those initiation Germ n bands
playing before the meeting opened.
They played that air so reminiscent
of the Midway" When the Chair
man came to Introduce me. he said
Ladies and gentlemen, we will now
have the peasure OF listening to the
Great Hoochee Chochee
So that at the present ,inlc do
not know who the ID am. I
roll all night and the next morning
! buy the newspapers 10 see who am
that day
II has been my nappy knowledge
as Red Man to travel from the
waters of the turbid Atlantic to the
rock-ribbed coast OF Maine: from the
/ placid waters OF the Pacific, where
they lap California's golden strand ,
/ TO the land wher spicy breezes OF
the Gulf WOO the southern pines: and
nowhere do I find a warmer welcome
than in our warm southern cline.
II am glad to see the evidences Of
! prosperity in your city. As saw the
/ the evidences Of enterprise ana swim
progress, your churches with their
spires kissed by the rising sun. your
public school buildings, your smoke
/ indicating the busy industries. I
/ thought ieIgion edu,auon and in
dustry are the handmaidens Of free
dom. friendship and charity. the
\ principles of this order.
The Improved Order of Red Men
is a patriotic, social and fraternal
organization. whose grandeur of
principles, liberality Of benefits and
beauty Of effect has no superior In
Amecica
4 propose tonight to speak brief
. ~ Of the early history Of our beloved
order
Many years ago. philosopher.
unwrapping the myriad of bandages
around the Egyptian mummy found
grain Of wheat His curiosity be-
I ing aroused he planted the seed. IL
\ was propagated and carried far
\ North. Now. after 300 years, the
imprisoned ssprout Of that wheat IL
supporting 10000 lives by the fruit
ful germs so long buried in that
house Of death.
I'm t775 in the city OF Boston was
sowed the seds of freedom. The coil
and the season were propitious and
under the guiding nand Of friend
ship and charity Il grew into a