The log cabin Democrat., 1907-01-17
ADDRESS OF W. A. ISGRIG
Speech Delivered at Woodmen Installation
 Last Week.

| Last week.
 The following is the address de- livered by w. A. Isgrig at the in stallation ceremonies of the Wood men of the World, which were held in this city Monday night ot last week.
 Esteemed Sovereigns of Wood
 craft:
 Our assemblying tonight in one common forest to mingle and to partake together of the festivities of this occasion has deeper and more significant meaning than the mere carrying out of the written ceremonies of our rituals. It IS for the noble purpose of spreading wider and laying deeper the true principles of fraternity, which 1n its deepest and highest sense, means the honoring of our Creator by thus demonstrating our belief in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. We thus obey one of the highest statutes known to man in that of not tor getting the assembling ourselves together. To strengthen the cords of love which bind us together tor good by meeting around the les tive board and enjoying with hear ty good cheer the good things with which we have been blessed the past year. Here we have sweet social intercourse with each other; grasp the warm hands ot friendship that are from this hour to grow fonder; proclaim to the world our loyalty to our beloved orders and cultivate better ac- quaintance between the two great fraternities that are in spirit and in fact brother and sister work ing hand in hand for the better ment of mankind.
 The founder of our beloved order, like the Great Founder ot all things, after he had organized great and loyal band of men into the "Woodmen of the World, saw that "it was not good tor man to be alone" and in due course ot time our sister order, the Wood men Circle" was organized, put ting to work in all organized way, with a beautiful system, band ot of the sweetest, tenderest, truest and best dispensers of charity that the sun ever shone upcn.
 All through the history of human life the evidence is abundant that the women have been the cause and inspiration of all that IS no- blest and best in man. She goes down almost to the valley and shadow of death that he may have existence; for months he IS the object of her constant care and tender ministrations. In his boy hood days the highest joys of his young and buoyant heart are expe- rienced when he can romp and play with some bright-faced las sic; in young manhood the shy and coy maiden inspires him to high and noble purposes and chivalrous gallantry that affords a theme for authors of both truth and fiction, in prose and verse; 1n middle life, the object of his truest affections, she inspires to greatest effort, rejoices with and blesses him in his most brilliant victories and success, or, by her tender sym pathy, soothes his sorrows and comforts him in diversity. In af- hiction when head Or heart is racked with pain, no footstep IS so soft, no voice so sweet, no hand so cooling on the fevered brow, no vigils so constant and seemingly tireless as that mothers, sisters or wife's, and when the brink of the river is reached, his sun going down for eternity, as with angelic love and tenderness she fingers to the end and presses upon his cold lips the parting kiss, which me thinks will be the sweetest memo ry that will go with him to the eternal shore.
 Wherever there is sickness, want and distress there you will find our noble women, like ministering angels, nursing the sick, feeding and clothing the poor, binding up the wound, !e.ding and cheering up the weak and broken-hearted. Their fingers make the first little shirt we ever wear, and the same sweet fingers close our eyes in death and weave together beauti- ful flowers and spread them over the mound that marks our last resting place on earth. They are 3l- G.-oA %o %oool, @,,x 11tc %C