The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-03
ELkS' MEMORIAL.
Services for Departed Brothers
Held at Lodge Room.
Memorial Address Delivered By
John W. Haughey.
GALEN NICHOLS SPOKE
His EulOgy Was Most I'M
pressive and Eloquent.
About 800 Guests Attended the
Memorial Services.

As is the custom. once each year on
memorial Sunday. all signs Indicative of
club life ceased promptly at the noon
hour yesterday at the Elk club quarters
and the members of the order repaired
to the library where an hour service
was held in memory of the departed
brothers,"
The library had been filled with chairs
for the occasion. the window shades
drawn and electric lights burned bright
ly 4rom their sockets about the walls
and from chandeliers suspended about
the room. The lodge room altar had
been arranged in one corner Of the room,
back of which the officers of the lodge
and green vines with vases or white
carnations added to the decorations of
the occasion.
A short musical programme consisting
Of orchestral music and solos was rem
dered, followed by an address by John
W. Haughey and the eulogy delivered
by Galen Nichols. Although the Elk
order has been organized in Topeka for
nearly twenty years and now has a
membership roll of nearly six hundred
the marble memorial tablet in the lodge
room contains the names Of but seven
teen departed brothers, three of these
names ]. B. Johnson Casper G. Glenn
ems and Otto Won Muller were added
curing the year which closed at noon
yesterday.
The services which, are open to the
public We're listened to by perhaps three
hundred who are rarely permitted to
witness the ceremonies of the Elk order.
These services for they are of a reng-
vocation by the chaplain of the order,
William Henderson, and consisted of an
address and a eulogy.
In the eulogy delivered by Galen
Nichols he paid high tribute to the
memories of G. @. Clemens and J. b.
Johnson, two well known Elks who last
year participated In the memorial SER
vices G. c. Clemens delivering the
enlogy last year. Mr.. Nichols said in
part in speaking of Mr. Clemens:
"From his earliest days he was
genius.-with all the strength and
weakness that mark unusual talent
Endowed with great physical perfee-
tions, charming in manners. suave. af-
fable. seductive in his pleading, con-
vincing in his arguments, all gave him
an attentive ear and few a dissenting
voice. Such powers must lead te
tenn Patton very fexibiiity de-
mands it. When youth is trinmphant;
when the blood runs, red and desires
vites a reckless L hf Els when society
frowns little and smiles n1uch;-what
man of, action neglects the harvest OF
pleasure? We might as Well expect
the sea: or the sea. in virtuous peni-
tence, to cease the earessing of the
shore.
ssAnd yet his -imperfeetions were
purely personal. and reacted chiefly on
himself Let the self-constituted
critic rem ember that one unkind word
spoken when the heart Is sick or the
soul at unrest will cause more suffer-
ing than this man caused in his entire
life. No one ever asked help of him
and left empty handed; no one ever
came to him for advice, but he de-
Parted satisfied; no one had a right
eous cause so weak that he would not
champion it; no one was in distress
that his heart did not reach and
even the homeless dog recognized In
him a friend.
sour two departed brothers .ex-
emplify two extreme types in our or
der of Elks. Dissimilar IN age, hopes,
ard accomplishments. One in the
May-day OF life. the other past the
autumnal harvest; one listening to
hope. the other deaf to its fallaeiea
and temptations; one building for the
future, the other only retouching what
he had builded. And yet, they were
alike dear to US as brothers. BY their
dissimilarities they show the feasibility
and amalgamating power of our or
der"