The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-12-07
SOLEMN EXERCISES
BY CAIRO ElKS
WITH PRAYER, ORATORY AND
SONG THEY PAY TRIBUTE
TO THEIR DEAD
OPERA HOUSE THR0NCED
Bv Members and Their Friends
Grafton BY Hon, r 8. Posey--
Cairo Friends CeIiver Eulo-
qies or Dead Brothers.

Cairo Friends CeIver Euo-
gies or Dead Brothers.
cairo Lodge No. 651 B. P O. p
held memorial service at the opera
house Yesterday afternoon in hon,
of its departed members and par
tierlarIy the two who died during
ithc present year Charles L. Hessian
land Marion {. Wright The service
was held from 3 to 1880 o'clock. and
wa one of the most impressive the
lodge has ever held
The opera house was filled with
members ana their friends. AMI on
the audience. SOLO Just Fer To-
these who were to take part in TIE
exercises. The program as published
Yesterday was followed, except that
/ the Grafton of Hon. r. b. Posey was
given earlier Mr. Posey was intro
Idtc5d by Mayor Parsons whose guest
| he had Leen, and his Grafton was
mastery, a poetic tribute TO the
dead and to the Elks as a benevolent
lorder The music was all beauti'
lfrlly impressive. There was quar-
Etette. "One Sweetly Solemn Thought
I by Mrs Holt. Miss Leila Miller
| Messrs. Eethel and Kleb, an ode by
the stage were the OFFICERS and
day" by Kyle Emf: solo, Together
Thou and l." by Edw Allen, quar-
tette. 20, That l Had Wings Like a
Dove" and the closing Ode. Rev 5.
lC. Ohrum of Cairo Baptist church
offered the opening prayer, and Rev
IL. G. Dee of the First Methodist
church pronounced the benediction
The prominent features of the oc-
easion were the eulogies pronounced
upcn the two members OF the order
who had passed away during the
present year. both of which We're
given by members who had been in
timate associates of the dead during
many years of their lives, and who
loved them as brothers Mr. Chas.
10. Patier. who succeeded the subject
OF his address as president of the
New York Store Mercantile Co.,
spoke as followe OF
Chas. {. Hessian.
Brother Elks:-lt was a holy ami
wholesome thorght that prompted
the originators and promoters If the
Society of the Benevoi INT Protective
Order OF Elks to incorporate into
their bylaws and regulations an az
ticle which sets apart one day in
each year to eulogize the life and
character of those members who dur
ing the passing year have gone on
before 10 that home whence 40
traveller returns to hold up as a
shining example the many lOvable
traits OF heart and mind of the de-
ceased for the inspiration and stimu-
footsteps. II is with a sense of con
secration and feeling OF deep per
soLal grief that we come here today
to pay a tribute of respect to the
memory of Charles +. Hessian. a
man whom ! have known all my life;
a man with whom I have spent so
many long years in close aud init
mate business relationships. He
who was one of natures noblemen
one OF the noblest works OF God-an
honest man. Praise before the face
is open disgrace. but fulsome hattery
of the dead is little short OF mock
cry. The old Romans had a saying
De morris dum-nell nisi bonum tsay
of the dead only that which Is gOodD
but propose to myself the task to
speak Of the deceased's good quail
ties. and Il he had any others ! have
ae>er been able TO discover them.
AT the outset I confess my IN
ability 20 10 Justice 70 the character
aud merits at my hero and ! say
lthis aGvisodlv for he ever apueare ]
% me 10 be- a prince among the sons
TOT men 20 would require the silver
Itorurc off Henry Grady. a man who
/ Wa a COmummate master OF words.
I wh, was -0 suffused with the divine
/ anlatus that t g. said Dc could draw
/ angels down DE- could take tbs
II American language OF ours and make
it roll in ripping waves AMI bound
ing pillows like field Of golden
grain ripening beneath the RAYS of
a raulgent summers sun but as ]
could not be expected 20 approach
within speaking distance of one who
was endowed hv Heaven with such
trarscendeut genius. J beg that ysu
allow mc to speak of this plain and
simple man I'm ms plain anI simple
way a. J knew him and as ] think
and feel
Charlie - iiessian was born Of
Irish pareutage BE first opened hi.
ewes 20 light Of day in Mound City
Illinois in the year 1862 az q tim,
that tried mems souls at "a tim.
when the carse ~ the irrrmeliah'.
tconfiet between the states was ra
ferfed 90 the arbIfrsmeuf rf Obi
sWcrd and Ulen tho verdict rendere.
was accepted rs final When a ehf.
bis parents moved t0 Cairo Befou
be was ten year- 0f age be- was fe
i Irired of the care Of hts devoted an,
i afecticnste mother. who uas haraf
Of the rise ~ reason 4 feu year
i later she died His inluleuet. OH