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The Oakes times., 1910-11-10
Nss. Family.

New Family.
Mamma" !" asked the little boy. "who
are the HighwatersY'
''Highwaters?'a answered the mother.
II don't know any such family. Why
do you askT
Well. l heard Mr.. Perkins ask papa
II he'd be over to the little game to-
night. and papa said he'd be there In
spite Of Helen Highwater." Chicago
Post
The Oakes times., 1910-11-10
Blind Gospel singer Dead.

Los Angeles, CAL, Nov. 6.-William
Victor Baker. who was known
throughout the English speaking
world % the "blind gospel singer z
was found dead In bed by his wife.
He was seventy years old. Baker
toured with Moody, Chapman and
The Oakes times., 1910-11-10
POLITICAL PRISONERS FRET
Action Taken to Commemorate .Estah
lishment Of Portugal Republic.

Lisbon, Nov. 6.-Every political
prisoner in Portugal has been liber-
ated and the prison sentences Of all
criminals were reduced one-thir!!
The new republic was proclaimed
one month ago and the freeing of the
political prisoners and the reduction
Of sentences lor the criminal prison
ers were decreHd to commemorate the
event.
The Oakes times., 1910-11-10
Three Boys Burned to Death.

Harrington, Neb., Nov. s.-:Yhree
boys. Ernest Peterson. aged three
years; Clarence Peterson, aged five,
and Leo Peterson. aged fourteen, the
latter cousin Of the first two. were
burned to q crisp IN the farm home Of
Peter A. Peterson. living three milss
northeast OF this place.
The Oakes times., 1910-11-10
STRIKERS NEED ASSISTANCE
Destitution Among Garment Workers
at Chicago.

Chicago. Nov. Squared to action
by a flood of stories of destitution
among the thousands of garment
workers who are on strike here local
international leaders met to arrange
for a general canvass of all the labor
bodies Of the city to secure means to
drive the hunger from the doors Of the
toilers.
The Chicago Federation of Labor
has already sanctioned the move and
it is believed the response will supply
funds for the long battle in sight.
The Oakes times., 1910-11-10
NEGROES SEIZE A BOOTH

OKIahom1 Blacks Insist on Votlno
Despite Grandfather" Clause.
Muskogee, Okla, Nov. "a tele.
phone message to the Times. Democrat
from Coweta, Okla, states that ne.
groes took possession of voting
booth In schoolhouse in a negro set
tlement four miles from Coweta. The
white election officials were thrown
out OF the polling place, the negroes
declaring they would vote despite the
grandfather clause"
The Oakes times., 1910-11-10
CANADIAN ASYLUM BURNED
Six Hundred inmates Removed with
4 Al

SIX HUNDRED Inmates Removed With
out Loss Of Life.
Winnipeg. Nov. GA woman inmate
playing with box Of matches caused
the destruction of the insane asylum
of the Manitoba government at Bran.
don and rendered 600 inmates and 100
attendants homeless.
The loss is estimted at $5O0,000. In.
mates were from Alberta and Sas.
katchewan as we'll as Manitoba. Hon.
G. r. Caldwell announced after care
full investigation that no life had been
lost
The Oakes times., 1910-11-10

ConteattBent y slways pGrchsd q 4
~ round q ths ladder Just abovs yots.
The Oakes times., 1910-11-10
FAMINE FOLLOWS STRIKE

General Tleup Cuts on Supplies os.
Spanish Town.
Cerbere. France. Nov. 6-AdviceS
from sabadall, Spain, say that the
town is stricken with famine as re.
suit Of the: general strike, which has
cut of supplies. The population 10 ex.
cited and disorders are frequent. 5ss
The Oakes times., 1910-11-10
SENSATIONAL BANK ROBBERY 4

eeattie (kan.) People in Running
Fight With Bandits.
Beattie. Kan, Nov. 9.-Five bandits
robbed the vault Of the State bank of
Beattte and escaped on horseback
after a running fight with score of
townspeople in which more than fifty
shots were exchanged and one of the
bandits wounded
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Lot The Times Print II
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-03-27
AN EASTER SERMON
BY DIR. Rowena Morse Given by Request Today in New
York at the Pulpit of Robert Collier and Delivered
Last Sabbath at the Unitarian Church in Keokuk.

they may have on the question.
Poets, romancers, philosophers, as
we'll as preachers, have taken it up,
held it in every imaginable light, ali
eager. to bring the great enigma one
step nearer solution. Rich and poor,
high and low, are bordering it, and
you will hardly find person on whom
it does not press.
We are apt to fancy that in this
matter people have always thought
and felt as we do The question of
a future life is so directly personal
to every one, and springs up SO nat
urally and inevitably in our minds,
we hardly see how anybody who has
ever lived could avoid it. But there
are whole tribes of men who seem
never to approach the subject as we
do. And these are not always the
most degraded tribes either. To some
hundreds of millions of at least par
TALLY civilized people in the east, the
/ idea of immortality as we understand
| the word is altogether strange. The
people of Israel throughout their long
career as a nation, eminently relig
ious as they We're, gave very little
thought to this matter. They left nj
utterance to indicate anything like The
interest and anxiety now so common
ly manifested. The prophets ant
other writer's show great concern 70
the future of the nation, but next t.
none at all for the future of the in
dividual The Old Testament in fact
is almost destitute of reference t.
the immortality of the soul Wha
little is said about it shows, on
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were to have nc part. Remember
the record nowhere tells us in so
many words that he was raised from
the grave or the tomb. That was an
after thought, thoroughly confusing
the whole idea. The resurrection OF
Jesus. as originally taught, appears
to have had nothing to do with His
body; the thought was that the soul
of their leader had been raised out
OF hades, out of the underworld of
departed spirits-raised, as it is re-
peatedly said in the record as it
stands, from the dead 1t was
Jesus who, more than any other, had,
while He lived, dissipated the shadow
that hung over the future life, and
in His own person a grateful world
registered the triumph of His idea
Thus was expressed truth which
was at the same time the symbolism
of a larger truth. Not only to them
was Jesus raised out Of that dreary
underworld, but with Him they
! thought came forth all the sainted
I
The life beyond was no longer below
/ the earth it was above. Jesus had
assembled. they believed, on high, and
opened the gates of heaven to all be-
levers. Gradually the old notion of
an underworld was forgotten, and
1 people, thinking of loved ones gone
| before, looked up and not down.
No doctrine of religion is first be-
! lieved because it is written or spok-
! en-: it is first written or spoken be-
cause it is already coming to be be-
1 lieved. The belief of considerable
number precedes any clear enuncia.
ton. We must not imagine that
4 Jesus broke to an astonished world
4 That, as every other noble teaching
of the gospel, had it's antecedent
stages of growth, and had been sub
stantially reached by thousands of the
spiritually minded, so that on the
lips of Jesus 1t was no news. What
was observed in Him was certain
notable emphasis of the doctrine. He
himself. was ripe fruit of ages Of
spiritual culture and growth. He was
the fulfillment of the la wand the
prophets, and more especially was he
the final exponent of certain exalted
conceptions of human nature and hui
man destiny which for few cen
turtles before Him had been getting
strong hold upon the minds of men
The saying that He brought life ant
immortality to light must be taker
to mean only that He threw npor
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Life is full of euigmas, but why the
most engrossing of these should be
precisely the ones which can never be
solved is the most pulling enigma
OF all Questions of ourselves, whence
we come. whittier we go; questions OF
the universe, its fniteness or Its IN
finiteness. it's origin, its end; ques-
tions of matter and mind, their re-
lations. their interdependence-
these we are forever recurring and
forever remote from any complete
solution The failure of all who have
gone before us to answer definitely
does not keep US from going over the
ground again and again, interrogating
everything in us and out of us for
some final response. Of these press
ing problems the most pressing, the
one that viii never be put to rest, is
that which comes directly home to
each and every person, the problem OF
human destiny This life-to what
does 1t bring US? Does death close a
chapter only, or does it finish the
book? The interest of this question
intensifies as the centuries go by
Never has so much concern been
manifested about Immortality as in re
cent times. never has there been such
earnest seeking for the evidences
This means of course. that the doc
trine is widely called in question
Every child seems to be horn nov
with that text Of Job on its lips: j
man die will he live again" Al
the old arguments have been recon
sidered, and physics and metaphysic
have been ransacked for any bearint
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world prison-house the departed soul,
which was little more than vacuous
shadow, was forever immured 1t
needs TO clearly comprehend this no.
ton, or we shall often go astray in
our Interpretation of the old books.
The ancient Jews and pagans alike
believed that the soul did not alto
gether expire with the body. but it
was left a poor, tenuous, insubstan-
tial thing, doomed to wander forever
in a drear shadow-land away under
the earth. 1t was a state at best to
be commiserated to be welcomed only
in cases where life here had become
extremely unhappy, worse than the
life that now is. Often it seemed
more dreadful than extinction The
tales of Tantalus and Sisyphus. eter-
nal sport of the gods, have yet a
mournfnl spell that hints the gloom
! hanging in various depths of dark
! ness over the land of shades to which
all went and from which none return
| ed. This hades was not the grave; 1t
was not hell, in the christian usage
/ of that word, for good and bad alike
went there: it was vast cavernous
i receptacle deep under the earth for
all departed souls. Occasionally a
philosopher modified the conception
and made it tolerable. but to the peo
| pie, and apparently to the poets, II
| vas dark dismal even hopeless
state A shadow of this ancient con
ception seems still to persist in the
| habit so common of referring to g
dead person as poor SO and so.
/ Great was the change that came
over the vision of the future in the
early centuries of our era, through
the influence of christian thought
For the converts to the new faith
hades, that dreary prison-house o
souls, was no more the universal des
tination of souls; the righteous deat
of all generations gone by We're lift
ed in thought out of that dread I'M
derworld, and set in light and glor.
in the heavens above. What SO fit
ting mark and symbol of this spirit
ual triumph as to say that Jesus, tn
great exponent of the new doctrine
had been raised from the dead, tn
J first fruit of them that slept" Rails
ed that is to say, from that state 0
the dead in which believers in Hin
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would say. a preponderance of doubt
But, unlike modern doubt, the uncer
tainty felt by the Bible writer's gave
them no particular disquietude The
author of the book of Ecclesiastes,
who is thoroughly skeptical, looks
forward TO humiliation with the ut.
omst calm. THAT which befalleth
the sons of men befalleth beasts;
even one thing befalleth them as the
one dieth so dieth the other: yea,
they have all one breath. SO that a
man hath no prominence above a
beast But this is to that writer
| only one of the facts to be adduced
that all is vanity Job contrasts a
! dead mans prospect with that of a
| tree which has been cut down. OBJ
serve, it is a contrast, not parallel
! ism, that he has in mind. There is
! hope of a tree, he says, that it will
sprout again, but that of man there
is no such hope. He lieth down and
riseth not, Till the heavens be no
more he will not awake nor be rails
ed cut of his sleep But this pros
| pect was not hardship to Job, for his
prayer Immediately follows: 20 that
thou wouldst hide me in the grave!
Later, when the independence OF
Israel was broken down, and, through
the dispersion of the people and the
influx of other races, the Jews inhal
I aI ha r,f
rounding nations, the doctrine of i'm
mortality found place in their lit
erature. The words Immortal, i'm
mortality" are not met with any
where in the Old Testament; which
is notable fact, considering the
, part these words play in other relig
Gus books Scarce a trace of The
idea is to be found in the great bod!
of the old scriptures. In the lates
addition to them, however. the bool
, of Daniel whose date is now placed
! only 1G5 years before Christ, there il
, a statement of the doctrine In SOM
of the apocrypha1 books, as they arr
called, mostly written in the sam,
century, the subject is treated yer.
much as it might be by believer il
these days. There is much positive
ness Of statement In the end say
the I'd book of Esdras, is shown tn
treasure of Immortality. Says tn
Book of Wisdom, which better dc
serves a place in the canon than som
books that got there: God create
man for interruption, and made hir
to be an image of his own eyerlas
ingness. Again, the same writer says
The righteous live forever more
They only seem to die The
hope is full of Immortality. IS trang
saying after the silence of the oil
er scriptures on this point. 1t is
new word in that quarter, and it can
we well know from where. Plato,
Athens. had not preached to Greel
alone the immortality of the soul
But the thought OF Immortality VIZ
encountered in those days BY the r
ceived notion of hades. In this unde
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these subjects an added light; that |!
in His utterance the world found an .
expression OF its own highest con-
victions; and that the faith of the /
subsequent time, formulating itself I
in the doctrine Of the resurrection, /
made Him its own conspicuous Illus /
tration.
Thus it is that the very assertion !
that Jesus survived death was made /
possible and credible by what was
practically an already established be-
lief in immortality. This belief pre-
coded and made the doctrine, which
in the primitive church was set in
these two propositions: God has
raised up Jesus from the dead In
like manner He will raise up us also
with Jesus" Here is trace of the
old form of speech obviously in the
words raised up we have a relic
of the idea of hades, from which no
mind in that time could be altogeth-
er free The higest trust which be.
fore had gone only SO far as this:
Thou wilt not leave my
i soul in hades," now rested
on vision of renewed and glorious
life under the happiest conceivable
condition. However to the modern
mind this vision may have faded
hades at any rate has completely van
ished When our friends die we new
er for moment think Of them as de-
| scending hundreds of thousands of
miles into the cavernous depths of
4 the earth, and of course have no
| thought of their being raised up out
of such a place. The prevalent
/ thought is, at least as regards the
good, that death is itself resurrec-
ton Of the soul from the body. pas
sage from the visible, earthly state
to the invisible and the heavenly.
The great trouble with all our re-
| Elections on this subject is, we are
apt to demand evidences more posi-
tive than can, in the nature of the
case, be furnished. 1t has unfortu-
nately been the custom of our teach
ers to give wings to the imagination
and TO pain the life to come with
great yividness and distinctness, the
result of which is that
when the actual indications of
mortality come to be pre-.
scented to us they seem vague. in
conclusive, unsatisfactory. But, such
as they are, we mast accustom our
minds to them, and endeavor to con-
tent ourselves with them. In doing
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One OF the first to file an AFFIDAVIT
as to the purity of ingredients con-
tanned In remedy We're the dispens-
ers ofSthe famous laxative tonic, Dr;
Caldweil'k Syrup Pepsin. Price ~
cents OF 81 brittle OF any druggist.
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'Sunkst oranges are so lusciously fresh juicy and
delicious that you enjoy their medicinal qualities Morn
ing noon and night IS orange eating time. "Sunkist
orange or two delicious dessert after each meal and
the same time your spring fever vanishing under the
general toning up process aided by the orange juices.
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ssSunkiSt'' Lemons

possess the same high merits that
have made "Sunkist" oranges
famous. They are firm, full of snap
ply lemon juice. They, too, are
choicest of all the lemons in the
5, 900 groves of the California Fruit
Growers Exchange. That is why
they bear the "Sunkist" wrapper.
The Detroit times., 1910-03-30
DO YOU THINK THERE'S
A DEVIL IN YOUR LIVER ?

command. And with the expulsion OF
the bitter draught the system Is
cleared out" and recovery begins.
Only savages do such things, of
course.
When the baby has the tummy ache
we don't tumble him on our knee.
wrong side up. and pummel his back
while we chant meaningless lula.
by"
When spring comes we don't rush
to drug store and buy lot of bitter
Spring tonic" with which to dose our
selves and our hapless family.
And IL We do It's the protest OF out
ragged nature against the pummeling
and jouncing that relieves Snookums
and Igorrote. 20
It's the water In the herb tea, and
liver medicine and tonic that irrigates
our system, and. like spring rains. pre-
rare for crop OF health.
It's the water In the tea" and not
the nasty taste In the water that cures.
And II YOU don't believe IL. drink
big glass of moderately cool mot
iced) water at least Is minutes before
breakfast every morning during the
month OF April-that Is unless you still
believe in the demon theory and you
think you ought to raise the devil
with your liver every so often.
The Detroit times., 1910-03-30

When the world was young and all
men were as children, the great mys-
terry DEATH was as awesome a thing
as II Is now.
The wise men among those simple
minded grown up children OF that day
studied death and disease with fear
and awe.
Finally IL was decided that all dis
ease was caused by the presence In
the victims body OF an evil spirit or
demon Everybody believed that. and
so the practice of medicine was
founded. Doctoring on the basis OF
the dcmoniac theory is still practiced
on the earth today. Among tribes
which we usually refer 10 as savage"
this is the only school OF medicine.
The Zulu and the lgorrote sleeps bit
ter roots and leaves I'm hot water and
gives the tea" 10 the ailing. Per-
hans the nauscous mess Is made more
villainous by adding the gall bladder
OF bird or beast Then the sufferer
Is rolled or beaten. and an awful din
Is raised by humping tomtoms. shrill-
ing pipes. clashing cymbals and rails
ing the devil" generally.
Well. the patient either dies or out
ragged nature expels the awful dose
with every means OF purge at her
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Baffled again, but by no means dis
mayed, Burles strolled down into the
hall. A young footman. hated and
coated. as IL waiting for somebody,
stood there. Burles placed the note
In his hand. and the man touched his
hat. Burles strolled 10 the open door.
AS the footman passed from the house
Burles sneezed gently, twice. He had
the satisfaction OF seeing a slight.
dark figure I'm black apparently spring
out OF nothing, and follow the foot
man at n discreet distance. Burles
was quite satisfied with the success
OF his stratagem. There was nothing
for II now but to hang about the
house till such time as Ailsa might
return. After that. there would be
plenty OF work TO do before daylight.
Burles went thoughtfully up the
stairs again, and back TO the boudoir,
just as Lady Altamont was leaving.
followed by her maid. She looked
vexed and disturbed. and not too
well pleased at being called away.
Some bothering business" she
said. Everything seems to be going
badly just at present. Wait here for
me. for have a lot 70 say TO you yet.
shall not be more than 90 minutes"
The Detroit times., 1910-03-30

at supper. II was no bad opportunity
TO examine the mysterious room lead
ing out OF the boudoir. AS Buries
crossed TO the door II opened In his
face. and out OF the darkness beyond
emerged the figure OF John Stern. he
made sudden dash at Burles and
caught him by the throat Apparently
the sudden light had dazzled his eyes,
and he took Burles for an enemy
rather than a friend The detective
fastened 10 reassure him.
Pardon" Stern painted. 81 could
not make out who you were for the
moment. | dare say you wondered
what had become OF me. But ! have
not been idle. And precious good
thing IL Is that came here tonight.
Something like murder is being
done"
Actual crime?" Burles asked.
More mysterious women assaulted.
eh2"
Not quite In that way" Stern whis-
pered But IL anybody happened 10
DE lying ri the point OF death, and II
these responsible deliberately left her
10 die. what would you call it?'
We'll. 1t would be manslaughter. 10
say the least of It," Burles replied,
What do you mean"
BY way OF reply Stern signihed 10
his companion TO follow him into the
room beyond. IL was pitch-dark In
there. but Stern seemed 70 know the
way He fumbled along 70 the fire
place-a large, open type OF CRATE. and
whispered to Burles TO listen.
From somewhere came the sounds
OF somebody moaning. II was a long,
low moaning, as OF somebody who is
in trouble. a woman's voice asking for
something Burles listened for a
time, and then demanded TO know
what II all meant.
The woman upstairs" Stern ex
planned hoarsely THE stranger who
was nearly killed here. She is In the
room overhead. They have discharged
the nurse, on some ingenious pretext.
and that poor creature Is all alone
Horrible. call II. II you could expose
these people"
Burles nodded: he knew exactly
what John Stern was going 10 say
Only he wanted little more definite
information TO work upon.
"All In good time he said Il want
you to tell me what makes you so sure
that these people have discharged the
nurse. That looks pretty black against
them. OF course. but want 10 be sure
OF my ground before proceeding fur.
Their. II you can give me any ev;.
dence-"
III you are not disposed 10 believe
me-" Stern interrupted CURLY, TASK
Miss LEROY. She has been in this
house once already tonight, In fact
she has been making herself au fait
with the corridors. Just as have been
doing myself. | saw her there. and I
also heard what took place between
Lady Altamont and the nurse. I dare
say IL was put up job between her
ladyship and that precious besotted
husband OF hers. Anyway. the nurse
complained that Sir Charles was al
ways pottering in and out OF the bed
room, ana that she was not going 10
stand IL. She also intimated pretty
plainly that she knew things were not
quite as they should be. and that she
would keep her mouth shut II II was
made worth her while"
This is exceedingly interesting"
Burles muttered. please 20 on
(ro he Continued.)