Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-18

| lie ldullS Ol our DIOlu6TS We VIII
write on the sands; their virtues on
the tablets of love and memory
| am not jiner, but if l ever jine
the jiners | will begin with the Elks,
and probably end there.
Without any special written code or
creed, the Elks stand for certain
standard of intellect and ethics The
man with an elks tooth on his watch
chain, or the antlers in his button
hole, has no quarrel with the world
He accepts life, and finds it good He
may not be so very wise, nor so very
good; but since he knows he is not
wise, and is ready to admit he is not
very good, he is wiser than he knows
and better than he will acknowledge
The true Elk does not condemn, dis
! parage, nor rip regulations up the
back.
| Realizing his own limitations, he is
lenlent in his judgments toward those
who have been tempted by fate beyond
their power to resist. This quality of
mercy, ! have noticed. is strongly i'm
planted In the Elk nature. Your Elk
never weeps over his own troubles
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| tears of pity are near the surface
The Elk loves children, respects old
age, and, so far as | have seen, doesn't
incline especially toward indifference
to feminine charms In many in
stances ! have imagined the Elk re-
| vealed just appreciation of the ele-
waited spheroid Yet in all your life
you never saw one of these horny sons
| q ElkHnm off a
| into the grape-his irrigation is all in
/ the line of good-fellowship And his
worst fault lies right herein this line
of conyiviality; he sometimes over
! does it,
! But | believe this will hold no lit
tie pismire apology for a man ever
! Joined the Elks-he would not feel at
home among them. To be an Elk you
must have faith in other meh, faith in
yourself, and faith in the universe.
The Elks all look alike, and are all
of one age. Just what that age is,
have not yet made out, but 1t lies
somewhere between thirty and fifty.
/ No Elk ever is over fifty, no matter
how long he has lived and none
weighs over 200 pounds They all have
the joyous, boyish, bubbling heart of
youth, and no Whiskers. LilaCs are
ont of their line, and Galways are ia
| booed
| never saw an Elk who was very
rich excepting in kindness and good
cheer, nor did | ever see one circum-
navigating on his uppers They all
have all the money they need even
if not all they want. They make mon
ey, and they spend it, and the more
they spend the more they seem to
make. Keep the change" Is a re-
mark the Elk always has in electro
type.
have been occasionally panied by
hearing Elks relate stories that were
slightly bamboge-tinted on the edges
but although these tales of persi-
fage had Neufchatel flavor, yet
there was always enough attic salt
supplied to redeem the mass from NOR.
tifying microbes
The Elk is not troubled about saw
ing his soul-in fact he is not trou-
bled about anything. Perhaps that is
his one distinguishing feature-he does
not worry nor shake the red rag of
Wordy theological warfare He be-
lieyes that everything is all right--or
nearly so-and that his task is to do
his work, and not bother other folks
any more than he has to- When Ali
Bahia said: Blessed is the man who
does not bellyake,' he had sixteen
pronged antlered Elk in mind
An Elk takes his medicine some
times with a rye face-but he always
takes his medicine. Often he over
comes temptation by succumbing to
it; and if he trips and falls he is UP
and joins in the laugh of the bystand-
ers.
You cannot down man who can
laugh at himself. The Elk stays right
in the game, never heard of one re-
firing from business when Death calls
for an Elk, the Elk is apt first to sell
him a bill of goods, and then they
shake the dice to see who shall pay
Charon's toll.
The Elk does not seek to pry into
the future. for he realizes perfectly
well that if he waits, he'll know all
about it. And for similar reason he
does not chase after women, for he
knows if he doesn't, women will chase
after him.
And they do.
There Seems to be little danger that
this fraternity will evolve into rei-
gion Most religious people take their
religion seriously. bur the Elk takes
his with settler He knows that truth
Is point of view. that all is relative.
that nothing is final or absolute nor
can it be in world where nothing is
permanent but change. So the Elk's
religion is Now and Here; to partake
of all good things in moderation; to
give out love and kindness because
these things come back, and to sup
ply scrap only to the man who re-
peatedly asks for it, and will accept
nothing else-this as a matter of ac-
commodation.
To do good Is the first prong in an
Elk's creed. And he realizes, being
wise, that the best way to benefit your
self is to benefit others
AS for myself, | am strictly on the
hose-cart, SO do not affiliate very
closely with the boys; but If | were
flying light and wanted to borrow ten
or twenty. mebbe I'd tackle the first
Elk met without apology or explana-
ton, And my needs would be to him
a command, for he is not clannish and
he knows no higher joy than to give
the other fellow lift.
And all these things | have here re-
corded are set down as matter of
truth forgetting the fact that once at