The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1907-07-02
IN NEWPORT
Knights of pYthidS EIabOrdteIy OBJ
serve Memorial Day by Decoration
OF Graves of Their Dedd-0rd-
lion by Col. ]. |. EdrIywine.

Over 5000 Knights of Pythias, Uni
form Rank, marshaIled by Brigadier
General j. E. McCracken, made a fine
display Sunday afternoon in a parade
over the principal streets of Newport,
Kentucky. There were visiting Knights
from Bellevue, Dayton, CovingtOn,
Ludlow, Lexington, Paris and other
points III Kentucky. The parade was
enllvened by several bands of music
and also in the procession were decor
ated wagons containing 80 young girls
VINO strewed flowers on the graves in
Evergreen cemetery. The splendid ora
ton was delivered by Col j. l.. Early
wine, of Paris. Below we print in full
Mr.. Earlywine's remarks:
With lythmic tread, with martial
music, with heroic sword, you have
marched to the Silent City, not to dis
turb the dream of the sleeper, not
with view to coerce. not upon a mis-
sion of conquest. but to lay upon the
altar of troubled sorrow the forget-me-
nots of the long-ago.
Man is dual being carrying within
himself two diametrically opposite
natures. Within the deep, still cham
bers of his heart, lie success and fail
ure, victory and defeat. immortal life
and eternal death. You have assem-
bled, clothed in the garb of knights,
because your order stands for the valor
and chivalry of the past and the pro-
gress and enlightenment of the present.
The armour of the true knight is not
the beaten brass nor linked steel which
covers his heart, but the armour of the
true knight is his heart itself.
With your spotless plume you can
gain the plaudits of the listening
thousands with your daring sword you
can cut away the panop.y Of State
with your fearless lance you can pierce
the heart of empire. And yet, you
can not restore the color to faded
flower, you can not bring back to the
wings of the insect the gold which
your fingers have filched.
Mighty armies have shaken empire to
its foundation, nations have come of
barbarism and flashed like the hurtling
meteor across the armament of time
structures of enduring granite, brazen
brass and yellow gold have been erect
ed which in the shadows have crum-
bled and the pelting of the pittiless
years have beaten into Oblivion.
Man. created in the image of his Gre
ator, may, with his science, discover,
may with his oratory persuade, may
with his logic convince, may with his
genius convert. may with his determin-
alton conquer, but the success he at
tains, the empire he builds, the victory
he achieves pass away as a summer S
evening fades into twilight.
He can find, with inquisitive glass.
the outermost star that wheels upon
the frontiers of eternity; he can tun-
mel through the granite Of the eternal
hills. he can span with web Of steel
the yawning waters; he can breathe
mis- genius into dull cold marble that
will live on after he is gone; he can
depict upon dumb canvass the tints of
dawn and the rubies of the sunset; he
can touch the heart-strings with the
song of his eternal longing. And yet,
he can not dry the tear of grief nor
still the trobs of the aching heart. He
can not take from death his scepter
not awaken the dull cold form OF eter-
nal sleep.
From the tomb of nineteen centu-
ries the past is rolled away and we
behold the only Knight the world has
ever known the Jew of Nazareth.
The motto emblazened upon his
escutcheon was forgiveness. His plume
was Purity, his sandals Kindness,
his armour the Golden Rule, his lance
was Charity and his sword was-Love.
We will leave his Divinity, his God
head TO the ecclesiastics. The Worker
of Miracles, the Feeder of Multitudes,
the Tanner of Gallilee, the Watcher of
Gethsemene, the Teacher of PARALLELS.
the Healer of Lepers we will turn over
to the church, and look upon Him to-
day simply as a man. as the Jew of
Nazareth. He was the very bravest
man that ever lived and yet the humb-
lest-the most exalted that ever trod
the earth-and still the meekest. He
denounced in solemn and terrific Ian
guage the shortcomings Of those high
in Office and yet was the defender of
the defenseless He that IS without