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The Tupelo journal., 1908-04-10
OBJ Darvel, Ole Deanina
ano 9be Power Of the
R,esurrection
William Croswell Doane
Bishop Of HIbanp

an outlook beyond the grave and CON
sole us in the hour of bereavement.
God forbid that there should be any
shadowing of this hope. But the prac.
teal question concerns our daily life
now.
Humanity stands to-day, as it has
stood for all these centuries, facing
the fact of the wonderful life that our
Lord lived here on earth, with the
strange and inexplicable combination
of fleshly reality without the restraints
and h%indrances of the flesh. And that
means, in the first place, the pattern
set, and in the next place the power
given to us to live our lives on higher
lines.
Translated into plain English, the
great Easter thought is that we may
not be absorbed and immersed in
merely earthly, temporal, carnal
thoughts and things. Life, never more
than in our day, is crowded with bust
ness, with pleasure, ever where it Is
not choked with indulgence and sue.
cess.
The idlers and loungers, with no
thought but amazement, are far too
many.
The craze for accumulation of ma.
teria wealth is wearing out the
strength and dulling all the finer facul-
ties of men and women And the
carelessness and idleness of people
who, with opportunities of service to
society and the demands of home du.
ties, waste daylight hours and turn
night into day with games of chance,
a~ccentuated too often with the covet-
BUSINESS of gambling, are a reproach
to the best inheritances and instincts
of Americans.
"You have no leisure class in Ameri-
ca" an Englishman said once to an
American girl.
YES" she said, 1--WE have, but we
call them tramps.
Leisure there ought to be. Men and
women there must be who are free
from the strain and strenuousness of
ln~cessant occupation, but it ought to
be a leisure for intellectual cultiva-
ton, for philanthropic interest, for
the storing of energy, physical, mental
and spiritual, which shall benefit mai
kind.
Awake thou that sleepest and arise
from the dead!" This is the Easter
call, the Easter cry.
Hiding even one talent in the nap
kin of refined Incidence or self-indul-
gence or burying it in the dirt of
s~ensuality and sin, either one makes
an Improbable servant" and lays up
against the second coming of the Lord
an account of wasted powers and lost
opportunities which will then be be-
yond recall.
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Old EouY Ways.

"The way my father did and my
grandfather did, is good enough for
me; l don't take much stock in those
new tangled IDEAS" Hoy many in the
retail trade apparently take this view
of things? What percentage of bust
ness men are making progress by fol-
lowing in the footsteps of by-gone
generations? 1t is not a wise and
good idea to use tallow dips and pine
knots in IN electric light age? What
would an intelligent man think of the
western farmer who would undertake
to reap his wheat field with a sickle?
But still many are in the same boat
when they try to do business as their
fathers and their grandfathers did.
There are certain principles that one
may follow; can be honest, give
square measure, be sociable, favor
friends, and all those little things, but
to do business in the old way means
failure unless one is located in a
backwoods place where there is no
competition. The up-to-date merchant
Is the mar who gets there, and it Is a
dif1cult matter to find the place to-
day where advanced methods are not
necessary.
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.W"
THE STORY.
THERE lay the mantle at his feet
urhoro II bod fa11op

THERE lay the mantle at his feet
i where it had fallen.
AS Elisha lowered his eyes from the
heavens it was the first thing he saw.
Slowly he stopped and touched rever-
emily the rough garment of sheep.
skin.
Elijah with God! His mantle left
behind!
Elisha did not at once lift the gar.
ment from the ground. There was
something so sacred about it. He
knew it was for him. He understood
prayer had been heard and that the
yearning of his heart was to be salts
fed, but al overpowering sense of the
great trust imposed upon him, and a
consciousness of personal unworthi-
ness coupled with that spirit of true
humility which comes from close fel.
lowship with God forbade any thought.
less haste.
To take Elijah's mantle-Oh, how
much it meant! Would he be equal
to the exalted trust? Would the man
tie in his hands be to the honor or the
dishonor of God and the memory of
the great prophet upon whose shout
ders it had rested?
AS he touched it re~verently and
then drew back and lifted his eyes
to heaven in silent appeal there was no
thought of supersitious regard or idea
that in the garment itself rested any
supernatural power and charm. He
knew it was only a sign, a token
given him by God that he was to fill
the place left vacant by the transla-
ton of Elijah. And yet the life and
character of the one who had worn
the garment had become in a sense
a part Of the garment itself, so that
1t was a constant and eloquent re-
hinder of the way the prophet had
walked, the manner in which he had
wrought. and the higher, holier life
after which he had sought, so that It
was sacred with memories which
could but stimulate and spur on to the
highest and best endeavor.
AS Elisha stood thus, the deepening
influence of that miraculous hour
reaching to the utmost recesses of his
soul, there came the memory of the
first time in his life when the mantle
Of Elijah had touched him and he had
suddenly awakened to a conscious
ness of Gods call. Then had come an
citation, a consciousness of self-impor-
lance, and a spirit of eager, .%self-confi-
dent purpose in the exalted place God
had called him to fill. And he had
been impatient for aggressive. service.
But the years of discipline under the
faithful ministry of Elijah had
chastened his spirit and brought him
low before God, so that God could ex-
alt him. And now Elijah had gone
and his mantle lay at his feet.
"Oh, God" he exclaimed, as the in
fuences of that hour were borne in
upon him; thou God of Elijah, quick
On me by that same Spirit IN which
The Tupelo journal., 1908-04-10
Life of the Town

Home trade is the life of any CITY
or town. 1t is the consumption by
home people that counts. In any Civ
en- district the number of stores and
shops requisite to supply goods for
the population is regulated by the
laws of demand. Good business men
do not select as a site for any enter
prise OF a commercial nature a town
where all the wants are supplied.
There must be sufficient trade to sup
port all who are tradesmen. It is
estimated that fully 10 per cent. of
the retail trade of the country sur
rounding the towns of the west is lost
to the local retailers by going to the
mail-order houses. Ten per cent. is a
large proportion. In numerous locali-
ties the percentage of mail-order
house business is greater. In the
rural trading centers fully 80 per
cent OF the local trade comes from
the farmer class. If this trade be
diverted to the mail-order houses, or
to the cooperative store, it can be
easily understood what the results
would be to the merchants. 1t is the
duty Of every merchant, every local
newspaper, every business man-and
every farmer, but he hardly realizes it
to work diligently and earnestly for
protection and home trade.
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sERMoNETTE.

The sleepy saint never 10
ready to receive the special unc-
J ton of Gods spirit.
I Desire for special blessing
J must be REINFORCED by the ef-
I fort which will bring one to the
! place where the blessing can be
I bestowed.
Gods gifts of special power
I and grace r never carelessIy
J bestowed.
I 1t is only he who asks who
! receives; it is only the seeker
I who finds; it is only to him who
! knocks that the door of blessing
! is opened.
Ask, seek, knock. These are
! the progressive steps which lead
! from desire to possession; from
( aspiration to realization.
To ask is an admission of a
( lack and a desire for the salts
J flying Of that lack; to seek is the
( test Of the genuineness and
! quality OF the desire; to knock
( is the settled purpose of the
! heart to obtain at any cost.
( 1t is only to the watchfuI eyes
] of the saint that visions of
( heavenly messengers are given;
J it is only upon those whose feet
! press persistently the pathway
I of duty, no matter how f%ootsore
! and weary those feet may be-
I come, that the descending
! mantle of Gods special grace
I falls.
! Between promise and fulfill
I ment, between the call and the
! commission there r often
I many hard, weary, trying years
! of service which are essential
! to preparedness to receive the
! promise and execute the commits
I sion. As we contemplate the
! inspiring picture of Elisha re-
I ceiving the mantle of Elijah,
! thus betokening his exaltation
! to the high place of service left
! vacant by EIijah's translation,
( we excIaim: "How signally
! blessed Of God that such honor
( should be placed upon him."
! But we must not forget the
( years of waiting, of toll, of priva-
! ton, Of persecution, of suffering
( through which he passed to
! prove his fitness to receive the
( high commission. That was a
! great day in EIisha's life when
! while blowing in the field at
! AbeI-meholah Elijah came and
( called him to the office Of
! prophet in Israel. But there
( was a wide stretch of years be-
( tween that call and its realiza-
J ton; a stretch Of years which
I were to prove to be the school
! Of discipline and training for the
I great mission he was to fill. 1t
! is ever thus. Gods call Is
I heard, the vision comes Of great
J service, and then comes the
I struggle to attain the place
! where the call and the vision are
I 20 have their fruition.
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PURCHASED EXPERIENCE.
Dealing Away from Home causes VI.
necessary Expense and Annoyance.

One peculiar phase Of human nature
is shown by how some people will
jump in and buy goods without see
ing what they are getting. Not long
ago a man out in a western state, who
had made a few thousand by farming,
decided to build a new house in his
home town. He was q tignc-fisted,
pinch-the-penny kind of fellow, and
decided that he would buy all he could
in the way of fixings from the mail-or-
der houses. He had the local plumb
er do the lead-piping and a lot of
work that the mail-order people
couldn't do, then ordered his bath-tub
and toilet fixings from a mail order
concern. He priced the tubs in the
local house, then decided that he could
save two or three dollars. He got
his tub and his stand from abroad.
Both came without fixtures. There
was a lot of trouble over freight, and
when the tub was put in place it was
found that nothing in the town could
be had to fit it. Faucets, valves, ETC.,
were ordered from the house that sup.
piled the tub. When they came it
was found they were the wrong size.
They were sent back, and another lot
sent. Then even the local plumber
had to work two or three days extra
to get things in shape. When the job
was completed, it was found that the
cost was some SIS more than the
home man offered to do all the work
and supply the equipment. This is
only n illustration of how money
a be saved by ordering from q
house at a distance.
Some who order from the retail
mail-order houses get a taste of the
real thing. A young man in 6 Ee-
braska town sent G5 cents to n Of
the concerns for a buggy whip. 1t
was represented as cheap at twice the
price. In a week or so he got it by
express, charges only Is cents. 1t vas
done up in a package that the COM
pany didn't charge for, but when eY-
amined, the young man found that
the same whip could be had of his
home storekeeper for SO cents. There
was 5 cents money order and postage;
rs cents expressage and IS cents for
the whip, making a total of $1.45. not
counting the trouble of or6ering-all
this for a whip that could be had ecr
one-third the amount at home.
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STUDY OF HUMAN NATURE.
important to Man Of Business to Be
a Reader Of Character.

How many business men appreciate
how valuable a knowledge Of human
nature really is to them? There are
few things, ven the capital employed
in business, more valuable than the
faculty of understanding the people
with whom one must deal day after
day.
The successful man in every walk
of life Is the man who intuitively
knows how to deal with those whom
he comes in contact. 1t Is the knowl-
edge of human nature and the ability
to read human character that makes
the politician a success, that gives the
public man In every walk Of life the
most useful power in his possession.
II the average business man paid a lit.
tie more attention to physiogomy and
it's kindred studies he would be more
successful. The idiosyncrasies of
mankind are as various as the shells
CT the ocean. Each individual cannot
be understood, but he car be placed
in his class, and a fair estimate Of
him made by the man who can read
the face and understand natural &C
tons.
One of the first studies of the bust
ness man should be his customers.
He should know a little of the charac.
ter of each. He should be able to tell
the well-meaning, honest n from the
dead beat, and know how best to
handle each one. There is a differ,
ence between the actions Of the man
who is always looking for some mer-
chant who will trust him and who
never pays his bills, and the honest
man. There is also a difference be-
tween the dishonest ones, and the
honest one who is a never-to-well, and
always in the hole" Day after day
the daily papers tell Of the smooth
forgers who pass worthless checks,
the country jay. who has a check
cashed or buys goods on some one
e!se's credit. How much could such
work be prevented If the average bust
ness man only could read character
as he should? The wise man will lose
no opportunity to study human nature
and profit thereby. It is a capital
as useful to him as the money he has
invested in his business.
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should it be thought a thing incred-
fble with you that God should raise
the dead?" still has but one answer
namely, that there is no reason why
1t should be thought incredible; be-
cause raising the dead, as the Apos-
tie illustrates it in his Epistle to the
Corinthians, Is the most natural and
usual thing in the world under certain
conditions. THAT which men SOW Is
not quickened except it die"
Life not only after, but through
and by means of death, is the univer-
sal law and the universal event. Only
there must come first the undoing by
decay of the bondage within which the
principle of the seed is held. So long
as 1t Is imprisoned in the shell it is
bare grain" but when it's outer COW
ering is shed in the cocoon, or broken
In the egg, or rotted in the grain, then
the latent life comes forth and God
gives 1t a body, and "to every seed its
own body" So after death and burial,
when the wrappings of this earthly
flesh are dissolved and done away,
the body that shall be-" "the body of
glory" shall emerge in the fullness Of
time.
The miracle or marvel of the resur-
rection Of Jesus Christ, like other
miracles, lies in the fact that it dis
regarded the element of time and also
did away with the conditions of de-
cay. He saw no corruption"
So much for the marvel of it. Now
for the meaning of it.
First of all, of course, it means that
all the dead shall rise and live again.
eff we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even so they that sleep
in Jesus will God bring with Him."
The corollary to the article in tie
creed, "the third day He rose again."
is the article II believe in the resur-
rection of the body, l look for the
resurrection of the dead or from the
dead" One does not need, one would
not dare, to draw away the hearts and
hopes of men from this great and
blessed revelation of Holy Scripture,
this strong and positive assertion of
the Christian faith. But it is wrong
to postpone the meaning of our Lords
resurrection to this final point of hui
man history. 1t has a clear and more
immediate application of what the
Apostle calls "the power of His resur-
rection," dead indeed unto sin, but
alive Unto God. through Jesus Christ
our Lord" This must be recognized
and realized as the immediate practi-
cal purpose and result of the great
fact of Easter Day.
What is it's message to men and
women?
1t is easy to dream a dream of hope
and delight about the future; easy to
have a sentiment and emotion that en-
able us to face physical death with
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Eu5tKr

This Easter day is one Of the two
grand festivals of the Christian refig-
ion.
One commentaries the birth of
Christ who was announced as the Sa-
vious and Redeemer of mankind from
the penalties incurred through sin.
This, the other, celebrates the resur-
rection of Christ from death and the
grave, and declares his divine immor-
tality and authority.
The overpowering Importance and
value of the Christian religion in civ
liking, enlightening and raising UP to
better things the human race, are seen
in the fact that the nations which pro-
fess this faith have reached in every
way, morally, physically and socially,
a vast superiority over the peoples
and races which possess other creeds
aud reject the God of the Bible.
Easter is always a Joyous occasion.
and is happily free from the noise, the
unseemly behavior and the debauchery
with which the Christmas festival is
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Missed the Mark

A North of England Clergyman re-
Gently preached against i'll natured
gossiping and spoke pretty plainly
to his congregation on the subject.
One of the members of the congre-
cation to whom he was especially
abiding came up to him after the
service. The vicar thought he had
touched her and that she was about
to express contrition, but she said:
"Ah, vicar, l am so glad you spoke
out, and what a good thing it was tho
Misses - were there to hear you.z
The Tupelo journal., 1908-04-10
Leeches Used In Paris Hospitals,

In the course of a paper before the
French Academy of Medicine Prof.
Grimbert recently stated that the Cen
trail pharmacy, which dispenses sup
plies to the public institutions in Paris
and the department of the Seine, an
nually furnished 10000 leeches for use
in the hospitals.-Medical Record.
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They have right to the promises and
may justly lay hold upon them who
are Gods servants; they who apply
themselves to obey his precepts, these
only can rightly apply his promises to
themselves. Make it clear that you
are Gods servants, and then these
promises are your own no less than
if your name were inserted in the
promise, and written in the Bible
Mantnn
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Symbol of Christianity.

We dare not forget to-day that we
venerate an empty Cross; it is
empty forever of that Burden which
once hung there, tortured, dying,
dead; and banished, too, is that
Darkness of despair, that sad dis
may and disillusion with which il
vas yelled until tho first Easter
morning. The Cross-not the Cru.
cifx-is the symbol of Christianity
Walter Lowrie.
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The promises are a precious book;
every leaf drops myrrh and mercy.
They are golden vessels laden with
the choicest jewels that heaven can
afford or the soul desire. There is
nothing you can truly call a mercy but
you will find it in the promises.-T.
Brooks.
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zIz@EIEs 1z5b go

Easter Day! The young year pauses oil the threshold Of the spring
Stops q moment there, and crosses to a world Of blossoming.
Easter Day! The breezes vagrant wander from the South, and set
Loose a flood of odors fragrant-hyacfnth and violet.
Nature, BURSTING from her prison, rises with her risen Lord!
Or the round Of year eternal. 1t is worth a winters ain
Just ito nsten to the vernal wind among the trees again!
It is worth a life o sorrow, just o know, when it is past.
ina a glorious Tomorrow dawns upon the heart at sat
1t Is worth the three days lying in the Sepuhhre alone
lust to hear the angel flying down to roll away the stone!
For thu hope Of future laughter gives to tears their n excuse
Just the row that followed after made the cross of n 81
Lenten sackdoth, Lenten ashes-what have we to d with them.
only thai in contrast flashes brighter Casters adem?
1t is not the blood of Jesus that releases you and me
But lis rsen SOUL that frees US from the dread Of Calvary.
Easter Day! The world expects it-waits the larger Easter dawn
When the "Chrhtus Resurrext" tells of wrongs forever gone
When America. victorious DER a wondold worn-out lie,
Comes atla last serene and glorious, to her greater destiny
Turns her back upon the whining cry that gold alone is good,
Turns Ter eyes up to the shining mountain peaks of Brotherhood!
Hope and trust of all the nations! Thou must burst this gilded shell
Ere unnunbered generations hail thee as Emmanuel;
Thou must kill the curst condition where the nan iced the few.
Cruelty TIL Superstition that the Old must needs be true;
Then, when thou hast trampled under foot the ghosts of gold and greed.
o mayt burst the tomb under-th shall Christ be risen indeed!
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too often made hideous and horrible.
On Easter day even the most disor.
derby classes regard the occasion with
a superior respect if not with rever-
ence.
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The most hardened sinners are
those petrificd by pride Of their own
projections.
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Often the man who sits highest in
church may be wandering farthest
from the Fathers home.
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Quite True.

He who learns from experience sci
dom falls in love with his teacher
Washington Star.
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There are too many willing to serve
the kingdom of heaven in the capacity
of judges and policemen.
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The best way to have a law-abiding
community is to abide by the laws
yourself
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WHEN the mod
ern mind staggers
before the story
of the resurrec-
ton of e S u S
Christ from the
dead it fails to
realize what it's
only actual diff
Guilty is. st. Paul's
question: why
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Observation-Disclosures

Scripture Authority-2 Kings 2:12-15
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-02-24
Bogus Captain is Ex-
tradited Through
Platt'S Efforts

United States District Attorney
Samuel Plat has received words that
Capt. ID. F. Kelly, the bogus officer
Of the L. 5. Army who is wanted in
several localities for larceny, perjury
etc, has been eXtradited from Kan
loops, b. G.. where he was arrested
some time ago and will be taken i'm
mediately back to Chicago, H., where
be will be tried for larceny of gov
ernment check. After his trial there
he will be brought to Nevada to be
| tried for forgery. ),
Kelly made hard fight against
eXtradition from British Columbia
and instituted habeas corpus proceed
| tnss to secure his release His peti-
! ton was refused and he must now
| face the music.
| Attorney Platt feels highly elated
over the result of his work as it is
due in the main to his energies that
j the captain will be held for the crimes
committed by him. Mr.. Platt is in
receipt of several communications
ASKING for particulars of what is be-
/ ing done by the authorities in kelly's
case and intimating that he is wanted
Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-02-24
Grand Jury Hearing Testimony

B. Rickey of the State Bank and Trust
company are:
A. j. Bettencourt, John Cation, R.
T. Bright, NJ J. Blackwell. John
Heidenreich, H. C. kattleman, Geo.
F. Kitzmeyer, Roderick d. Goode, j.
w. Robinson, Geo. W. Roy, Sam Rob
inson, Richard C. Savage. Christian
Smith, Z. G. Winnie, J. w. Virgins,
A. Ambrose and John Adams.
AS soon as the jury was ramed they
Immediately went into session on the
Hickey case and the presenting of
evidence was begun. a number of
Witnesses We're called this morning
and another batch appeared during
the session this afternoon. The jury
will probably take the best part of
the week before returning verdict.
Judge Langan appointed Samuel
Robinson as foreman Of the grand
jury