Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-12-05
ELKS IN MEMORIAM
Pay Tribute TO Memory of
DEPARTED BROTHER
Roll Call Of the Honored Dead Reveals the
Absence Of Member Of Tonopah Lodge
Who Fails to Answer to His Name.

it's meaning of Zone who loves his
fellow man. and the whole COM
a good citizen.
He was a man of faults, as all
big men are, and we as loyal Elks
could write his faults upon the
sands, but we need not for his vir-
tues were so many that they obliter-
ate his faults from memory. But
forty years of age at the time of
his death, cut down at the height
of his usefulness, yet he had left
the stamp of his personality and
his ability upon the whole state of
Nevada, as well as upon this com
munity
Coming to Tonopah in the early
days of the camp from Eureka, es-
sentially charitable, he gave his
whole time and professional ability
to the care of the suffering during
the plague, and the self-sacrifice
that characterized his early career
continued to the time of his death.
At all times he was ready to hear
the cry of affliction and distress and
to lend his services to those in
need
His death was directly due to an
injury received in the performance
of duty. His suffering he bore in
patience, and death he met with
the unflinching courage that was
characteristic of him.
And so we gather here to pay
him reverence and in memoriam for
our absent brother, write his faults
upon the sands, his virtues upon the
tablets of love and memory
The recitation of "Thanatopsis, .
that famous poem OF William Cullen
fBryant, by c. H. Mcintosh, was one
of the most impressive portions of
the program, and no person could
have been selected to perform this
task than the one to whom it was
assigned. With the hall darkened,
a shrouded figure reposing on a
bier attended by black-robed figures,
while urns cast wierd light over
the setting, the portrayal of the
piece appeared to be realistic, in
every detail.
The Honorable F. H. Norcross,
chief justice of the supreme court
| of the state of Nevada, delivered
the oration. Starting in with the
history of the Elks order, the
speaker dwelt on the principles and
the practices upon which it was
founded. The exemplification of
charity, justice, brotherly love, and
fidelity in the every day teachings,
proved the text, while the practice
of charity to those in need, the sub
ject that received the most atten-
ton. Mr.. Norcross is very fore
ible orator and his address through
out received the marked attention
of his listeners. In part, he said
the following:
Friends says Cicero, though
absent are still present; though in
poverty, they are rich though
weak, yet in the enjoyment of
,, health, and what is still more diff
cult to assert, though dead they are
alive"
And the poet has said:
We'll blessed is he who has a dear
one dead,
A friend he has whose face will
never change,
A dear communion that will not
grow strange,
| The anchor of love is death"
Pursuant to a beautiful custom,
| born of a belief in the immortality
of the soul, and in accordance with
the regulations of the grand lodge
| VI Liz DSHcFOIcuJ anu TTOI6CCIYG
Order of Elks, the fraternity assem-
bles on the first Sunday in Decem-
Der of each year for the purpose of
calling the roll of their absent
brothers and paying a tribute to
their memory.
Upon this day, in spirit, we clasp
hands with our absent brothers
across the impenetrable chasm and
our fraternal circle is once more an
unbroken whole. On this day we
lay aside the cares and responsible
titles of our daily lives and direct
our thoughts to things which are
not of the earth earthly, but pertain
to the life eternal; from the things
that are ephemeral and transitory
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