Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-02
ANNUAL MEMORIAL
SERVICES HELD BY
OTTAWA ELKS LODGE:
HON. LEE ONElL BROWNE DE.
LIGHTS LARGE AUDIENCE WITH
HIS MEMORIAL ADDRESS FOR
FIVE BROTHER ELkS.

Yesterday afternoon the lodge room
at the ElKs hCme was filled for the
annual lodge of sorrow. Music was
| furnished by the Elks quartet and BY
the Elks orchestra, and a solo was
sung by Miss Vera Ham which was
greatly enjoyed.
! The address of the afternoon was
made by Hon. Lee O'Neil Browne, who
is one of the best orators in the state,
and always proves to be one of the
/ best drawing cards here as elsewhere.
Mr.. Brownies address yesterday was
no less pleasing than his many other
addresses delivered in Ottawa and his
audience was just as appreciatiye and
/ held just as well at the close OF his
address as though he had not been
! speaking for five minutes.
He paid tribute to the five members
| of the Ottawa Elks lodge, Emile Bois-
senin, w II. Stead, w f, Carr, Carl
Orsihger and Wallace Sanders, who
have died during the past year, saying
in part:
The good that men do lives after
them. Truth, great underlying prin-
ciples, crushed to earth, shall rise
again Life at best is tleeting, but {
mere breath, as It were, Ior is it not
written, Man that is born OF woman
is Of few days and full of trouble; to
tree; tomorrow he is cut down, cas-
into the oven and withereth,' Blu
the good done in tnat life lives On ant
on through all eternity. Human iitt
comes and is gone; and. after tht
lapse Of the nine days usually allotted
to the discussion of the average
human event, the curtain Of oblivion
the mantle of foreetlulnes5, falls 81
lently but surely between the eyes o
the community and the finished exist
ence of that piece OF human clay tina
, was but is not, and thereafter, eve
as a memory, there will be few menJa
galleries In which that picture will b
hung. That liIe is as tale tha
is toid--a work that lis finished and i
ended.
Years ago a man, an American, IA
from his native land, poor, miserable
desolate. cut OF the ashes Of hi
heart desire, up from the yearnn
, and longing OF a soul bathed in tn
. tears OF sorrow and despair, gave {
the world song, song that wa
caught up and echoed by milio
voices in the home and by the llre5idt
Home, Sweet Home Its words al
it's sweet refrain will live and b
freshly sweet in the hearts of men a
long as human hearts live and feC
4 within them the Quickening throb {
n the red ode of life. He who penne
q those lines whose sad heart breathe
>. the notes Of that beautiful song, h;
h Joined the innumerable caravan AL
q has long ago passed over to where u
:. home he longed for was awaiting hil
!. Not a single monument, not "A Fit
slab of marble. serves to mark h
g last resting place. He IS forgotten
a the word, the curtain is drawn, al
~ few there be Of those who sing
% who hear sung the beautiful class
a which he gave to the world, who C;
tell the name of the author But Il
IN song itself, dear old Home, Swe
- Home! 1t is as new today as Il W.
,a when Alice Cary sang 1t years ago,
p the days when many of those he
m present We're still unborn.
"a The Benevolent Protective Order
Elks is founded and rests upon pr
.e ciples as grand, as true, as beauti
- and as pregnant with the essence
all that is noble and true, sa the |
mortal laws of God himself For [
laws of God spell love, love in all u
greatest OF all great words, impol
2 or intends, and Elkdom is nothing
- not love, fidelity, faith, hope, char
and nobility Of soul And OF all the
WI the greatest the best, charity.
ci' which is not meant ostentaticus g
ih' ing to the end that the giver may bG
n in the limelight of publicit, and v
eu' the petty acclaim for the moment
nd hie fe,1owman Not that tind
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