Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-04-09

cd away rs socilltors often are, We
care received az friends.
Here IL a beautiful AMI almost uni.
vcrsal trait in woman: her dlsinterest.
ed desire TO serve all mankind--her
willingness to give time and thought
and labor to any undertaking which
she believes Is going to help other men
and women. How often too, Is she
misjudged for her cooperative spirit!
Conceited men accept the offering rs
one of admiration for personal charms.
In n few days We had nearly fifty
names. thirty more than the required
number. We called n meeting In the
Presbyterian Church, organized a
lodge which We called "Mizpah" IN
honor of goodwill. and left with
$3.50 in my pocket. From here ! re
turned to Rochester. not, however, wi H..
out making arrangements to CORES.
pond with the pretty widow. But 1
never saw her again, although she was
the condition of Mizpah lodge.
In the city made my home at tho
Valley House, kept by an Irish woman
named Kelly. This place was not fire..
quented by the wealthiest persons, but
the rooms we're light and fairly well
furnished, and the meals were good.
finally left the place because OF
very mysterious individual who had
his room in the hotel.
He roomcd at the top OF the build.
ing. appeared only at night after II
O'Clock, and then with q mask over,
his face.
He would glide down stairs like a
spectre with his chin down on his
chest, or returning after midnight go
ing up to his room by bach entrance.
Once only saw him without his mask
"a face so distorted by disease thai
my blood fairly iran cold to see It.
know now, from what have learn.
ed since. that this was a leper. and
learned also few years ago, from an
old resident Of Rochester that our
mysterious visitor was a leper, ana
the brother OF our kind.hearted land.
lady. He had wandered among some
of ''the islands," somewhere, and con.
tracted the disease.
Many laborers came here for their
meals. and mornings and evenings the
Office was thronged with grimy WORK.
men. They were Irish Welsh an<
Yorkshire English principally, interes,.
ing enough to an American lad used to
| very different people. spent most Of
my time in the parlor upstairs. where
I had books and writing materials: I
am afraid | spent here all the time
I had money to pay for, going out into
the field when the money was gone,
for. to tell the truth, soliciting from
house to house even in such a cause
as temperance, was very hard work
and wore on a person of my tempera.
ment
The next place tried was Mumford,
a little town not far from the CITY.
When ! reached there had twenty.
five cents in money. but ! wentIstraiyht
to boarding house and took room
for week. made up my mind t,
organize n lodge whether or no; In
fact, must do so In order to get
money for my weeks board.
! ] went to the Baptist minister. who
thought the outlook was discourag.
ing" They once had a lodge here.
but could not keep It up Il was the
old story. lack OF interest and funds
The Presbyterian minister wouldn't
have anything to do with anything
and waved me OF with holy hands,
while the Methodist pastor told me
confdentially that he didn't believe In
'secret organizations" To one know.
Ing that these country lodges were
made mp of boys and girls, this fear OF
ponderable secrets was amusing Most
family secrets are a huge lot bigger
and more closely kept than any ey.
err heard Of In lodge. What the gay :,
light-hearted members Of temperance
societies could keep to themselves
would not hurt society.
But the Baptist minister's daughter
God bless herr, thought well OF my
siege. She put down her name, and
persuaded others for me. SIN, get.
ting names In Mumford was uphill
, work. There was scarcely an old
Good Templar who wasn't decidedly
bad he had retrogaded, lost interest,
and didn't care to join new lodge.
Finally, We succeeded In organizing
what We called the "Myron Dexter"
lodge, named In honor of boyhood
friend Of mine and he accepted II
with the kindliness which character.
Ices a man of sympathy.
Our beginning was small but with
a Worthy Chief like Mary Freeman.
there was no telling how large a lodge
would grow And It was not year
before this lodge became the Banner"
organization of New York State.
When had paid for the charter and
my board. | had 30 to go back to Ro-
| chester on.
II was growing cold now. for De.
cember had come. and the chilling
winds and drifting snow made nv
y work much harder n made mo moro