The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-12-10
Kenosha Lodge Of EIks Holds An.
nuaI Memorial Services at
lodge Rooms Sunday
PRAISE FOR LIVING AND DEAD
The Hon Wallace Ingalls, Of Racine
Delivers Annual Eulogy Praising
the Work of the Great
Fraternal Order

In keeping with the ritual of the
order the Kenosha Lodge of Elks and
i'm fact Elks lodges in all parts of the
United States gathered on Sunday af-
ternoon for the annual Lodge of Sor-
row in memory of the dead members of
the order. The service in I<enosha was
one of the most beautiful and impress
sive services ever held in the city, and
Notwithstanding the lnclement weather
nearly 800 people were in attendance.
The affairs and stations of the lodge
were charmingly decorated with plants
and flowers, and sweetest music and
oratory of purest sentiment was called
into use to recall the virtues Of the
members who had gone before and
whose virtues had been written upon
the tablets of love and memory within
the hearts of the members of the order.
The regular rituaistic service was
carried out by Exalted Ruler James
Millar and the officers and members Of
the lodge, and the music for the after
noon was furnished by the 5temm
Brothers orchestra Mrs. z. w. Haines
of Chicago, Mrs III. e Tanner, Mrs.
r.. a. Welles and J. G.. McGibbon.
The musical numbers were among the
best ever given at an Elks Memorial
in Kenosha.
The main eulogy for the year was
delivered by the Hon Wallace Ingalls,
of Racine, but before he addressed the
company the Rev E. 7 Farrill, pastor
of the First Congressional church. made
short address in which he praised
the work of the order in Kenosha.
Mr.. ingalls, gave an address beauti-
full in sentiment recalling memories Of
the dead members and extolIing the
principles of the order He said in
part:
f'Interwoven with the well spent
life, and at the foundation of the IN
changing law of the universe and upon
which must be builded a successful,
happy and prosperous people, are the
beacon lights of this Order namely,
Charity, Justice and Brotherly Love.
"'These are the virtues which ever
shape and mold the destiny Of the
Order and without which our craft
might be ikened unto a ship adrift
upon a. stormy sea without compass or
rudder
Charity, like the mantle of snow
from the heaven, which hides and yet
protects the earth from winters desc
lation, is virtue without which the
world would be barren indeed, and
human character shorn of it's most
precious jewel. Real true charity finds
its most striking example in the life
and teachings of the immaculate Son of
the Creator of heaven and earth.
No such charitable sentiment as the
perfect One displayed has ever fallen
upon human ears before or since. A
charitable act, which to any extent is
for show, or comment, among men,
comes not within the meaning of the
word at ALL Charity for publication,
kind acts for popularity, giving that
those less fortunate may envy, is like
an advance agent of Christianity with
out religion
Charity should never be advertised
to the public gaze or proclaimed from
the housetops, but rather as secret as
imagination, and as pure in it's motives
as the visions of child. Tt finds it's
way through the dark, forbidding al
ley in the back street to the lonely hut,
or up the long worn stairway to the
attic, and there touches and gladdens
a human heart with the grace and cheer
of this matchless virtue, and as Sc
cretly disappears, with the promise to
come again.
81 may be that without dream of
Imagination one can scarcely approach
a true conception of this priceless
virtue Followed and worshipped as it
should be, the world would be trans
formed into a paradise of peace and
plenty, where every heart would beat
in sympathetic unison, and every
tongue swell the chorus of welcome to
the dawn of perfect day.
But Justice is another pillar in SUP
pOIb % yno IuShOuClOHS VI cur OIueI
and an indispensable strength to our
band of hope established among men.
AS this virtue IS popularity under
stood, it is exemplifed by a female
figure holding the scales Of justice, with
her vision yelled from the hearts, pas
sions and sentiment Of the hour, but
as recognized and administered and in
tended by the principles Of this Order,
which are dedicated to the uplifting
OF humanity and the betterment of the
world, it has higher and mightier