Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-05-16
PINE BLUFFIAN
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end estrange your hearts to those noble attributes, the chivalry, gal 1antry and copious cordiality so char acteristic of the old time Southern community which caused the name of Dixie to be perpetuated ill song and story and rendered here the won der and admiration of the world While We sojourn in this Elysium ot gastronomic bliss and among a seo- pie of that nature. We know "W2i- come ever smiles and farewell gccs out signing"
 Today there are gathered in your midst representatives of an order founded upon no creed, political or religious. save the practice of mans humanity to man. The order of Elks unlike any other great fraternity, does not lead you back through the dim vista of the past forgotten ages. nor does it turn the musty pages of history and tradition to show ID you the time and place of it's origin. But in the last century. to the greatest city of the grandest nation Of the earth, and in a rude and humble 'e1e- ment that spoke of meekness and simplicity, and in scene fragrant with that all prevailing and venign in- cense that issues from the cardinal varitues. Charity. Justice and Broth erly Love and Fidelity, do We find the manager of our infancy
 An actor lay dying in the East. far away from home and friends, and around him clustered a small com pany of his associates. ministering to his cares and comforts. as the light of his existence fl 'ckered and his soul ebbed away When he died. they pre- pared to give him burial befitting his life and character and commen- surate with their love and esteem. Repairing to the nearest church. all
 
 Man of Sorrows and the One ac- quainted with grief, these young men were ushered into the presence of the minister and the servant of God, and there made their mission known. This man of the cloth shook his head, and spoke conventionalities and the rules of his church, and then show ing this little group the steep and thorny road to Heaven, while he the primrose path of dalliance trod,, told them they might secure the services of the minister of the little church around the corner. This was too much for the brave-spirited, stout hearted young men, and they swore by the eternal God, by Him without whose knowledge not even the spar row falleth. that they would organize a brotherhood of man, founded upon the everlasting pillars of Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity. in which they would not be met with shrug or cold blast of winter when a fellow mortal and joint heir of eternal life should fall over the precipice into the dark river of death. The moving spirit of that noble band
 was Charles Vivian, the father of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, to whose memory the Pion- ger Poet, Joaquin Miller, has ascrib- ed this series of tender heart throbs, which embraces within it's graceful rythm the true spirit of Elkdom, and contains within it's beautiful sent1- ment that standard of Brotherly Love which every true Elk strives to at tain:
 Who makes two blades of grass to grow,
 Two blades of grass, where grew but one,
 Is greater than Napoelon;
 Or he who wrought his overthrow, And chained his chafing soul in thrall But he who plucks up wrinkled care And plants a smile of pleasure there, Plants two red roses in the sun, Where dim and doubtful grew but one
 Is, greater, nobler far than all. "I count this sunny, loving boy, This laughing Vivian who drew All hearts to his, because he knew The curse of care, the pay of joy,
 The patron saint of chastened pride, 1 To babe or mother, young or old,