Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
ELKS' TRIBUTE TO The DEAD
Memorial Exercises Most Elaborate in His
tory Of the City,
ADDRESSES AND MUSIC OF HIGH ORDER
New TheRter, where Exercises Are
Held, deliberately and Beauti-
fully Decorated for the
Occasion.
ADDRESSES AND MUSIC OF HIGH oRDEI

| Occasion.
The faults of our brothers we write upon
| the sand;
Their virtues upon the tablets Of love and
| memory
with oratory of marked eloquence and
| much OF high excellence, Council Bluffs
lodge No. 5Sl, Benevolent and Protective
order Of Elks gathered at the New theater
yesterday afternoon and paid tribute to
the memory Of its departed members, eigh-
teen in number since the lodge was insti-
tuted seven years ago, and four of whom
had passed away during the present year.
| The eighteen deceased members whose
memories their living brothers revered yes
terday afternoon in eloquent eulogy and
| beautiful music are as follows:
Thomas B. Baldwin, January p. 1906;
James r; Doty. August u, 1903; s. Farms
September O. 1901; II. w. Findiay, March
3, 1909; Fred W. A. Geisee, May 5, 1904;
! Hayerstock, May 6, a9O2; Charles Lunkley,
! April 10, 1905; Karl W. Mayne, June 10. 1905
! G. G.. Potter October 81. 1904; DR.. F. NJ
October IS iss H. r ~? suc SSaR fS'PFSbngeR
i i, 1893; John T; Tidd, January 49, 1906; DR..
| iI11e0uoTe a, Irulson, November 10, 1898;
! Edwin II. Walters October u, 1906; A. w
! Wyman, July 2, 1903.
The memorial services were the most
elaborate ever held by the Council BLUFFS
! Elks. The theater was most beautifully
| decorated with the colors Of the order.
purple and white, intertwined with black
while the stage was banked with palms and
ferns and immense clusters of white chry-
santhemums AS the name Of each de-
parted member was read from the scroll
1t appeared on an electric lighted tablet I'm
the center of the stage and there remained
oil -
EuIORy for Departed.
state Senator c. G. Saunders, who de-
livered the eulogy, dwelt at length upon
the death of Edwin II. Walters, who at the
time Of his demise, in October, occupied the
ONCE OF exalted ruler of the lodge. and
mat OF John Schoentgen, whose death fol-
lowed that Of Brother Walters I'm less than
week. Mr.. Saunders address, in part.
was as follows:
Nineteen hundred years ago their lived
and walked beneath the palms of Palestine
our Elder Brother. Born of a kingiv race
He was a child of poverty and a creatufe
20 Him and no couch brought rest to His
b noqIDieu brow or peace to His throbbing
prain' For three years His mission was
70 10 good to minister to the wants of his
| ISloW men and to proclaim the story Of
Inc Inc c bb1thers infinite love and mercy for
me chlluren OF men. He lived for mankind
put AT the end He met the agonIes az
Gethsemane and the awful death of the
cross. His enemies believed His grave
! was the end but from His mission. HIS
cross ana His sepulchre there comes 70 me
tRst new and strange teaching. do unto
others as we would that men should do
! unto. you." and across the Centuries. from
Slnal 70 the cross, and from the cross to us
: neighbor as myself" Because OF that cr Lms
{ and the command OF Sinai the Benevolent
ana and, Ptroteetiye Order Of Elks exists and
Q ! hood and today in loving memory of ths
a good and the true who have gone on before
e we hoid this lodge of sorrow and turr
+ back the page upon which is written iii
stoTy OF the lives and deeds of our dc
> | parted brothers
. There are eighteen in all. Some Of Their
Iell asleep Just as young manhood wa,
Z opening the gates Of opportunity, other,
a oled az the meridian Of life, when success,
8 was within their grasp and ali about then
, | were those things that make life dear anC
!. others with heads whitened by the snow
y shadows lengthen and fail ere they howe,
y down beneath the achievements of a spien
go go 111ga man passed on to the gates o
II We cannot consider in detail this after
- noon me lives that they lived or the goo,
q this fraternity bespeak in terms more forci
4 PIE than human words that they were eve
. and swift 90 give an upIift to mankind
~ men DO not fear DEATH but rather OF
Z llyion. The thought that we shall be for
!. gotten and remembered no more is wors
r TO contemplate than dissolution. And be
cause there Is implanted in every man
Posom the desire for Immortality. thes
ID whose deeds we extol, lived and exemplife
g the grand principles Of this fraternity
our absent brothers were beloved OF a
10 ana their departure has left to the Twin
m q precious legacy in the lives that the
N lived and the deeds that they performed
ly Atwelps Memorial Address.
lg Hon. William H. Atwell. district attol
II ney OF Dallas. Tex, sustained his reputatio
e Of being one Of the most eloquent speaker
II in Elkdom, his memorial address being on
m Of the finest efforts ever listened to
i an audience in this city. In part he spok
~ as follows;
I'd Love and honor are siamese han,
err maidens. There can be no honor yyithni
IN rove ana there can be no perfect love Will
a out honor The true Elk is honorable,
u which massive word there are no two mea
Is, ures The same stick with which he mea
ures his own faults he takes the dimei
slons or the slips of his brother n
tongue never fashions doubtful suggestion
es Inc nome, the name, the fortune, the IA
rs Oh me brother Is as sacred as though Il
is there no standing one foot on the lar
and one on the wave. Now with a hil
aiming view, and now with the low nj
heart must be above its storm OF clouds
ty passion.
b.. This day is the Il O'Clock of the year
every Elk on earth. Elkdom Is a civ
'S' army, organized in the midst of model
up commercial strife, the officers and soldie
ds OF Mhlch wear no uniform, carry no si
90 arms and shed no blood. They battle d
We the purity Of the home, they have no n,
a but the stars and stripes, they believe
ty, Almighty God, and their law book is Il
- Bible "
ay The silent cities OF the dead are lionel
lld cold, dreary, territories, TO which each
las US breads 10 go, and yet -ynen We mo,
Cd there, II there are living, throbbing mon
- ments in the breasts OF our comrades IN,
40 are better than chlseled granite or cary,
nd marble. Whether our dead have fulfill,
al the measure OF the law is not for us
answer. BY teaching we FORGET the
faults, and remember their virtues "