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fhink Of it: 'Next Sunday is Easter! Are you prepared to greet
the day properly? Easter should mark a new epoch
in your wardrobe. Us the natural desire of everybody to appear in
new garments Easter Sunday, and if you have not selected your
clothes and are undecided we would be pleased to see you here. We
can put you in order in thirty minutes with everything that s new and
fresh in Suits, Top Coats, Trousers, Vests, Hats and Haberdashery,
and you will be as well dressed as any one in. the Easter parade.
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Have You Seen
Our New
Spring Suits?
Coats cut extra long,
shapely shoulders, wide
trousers with all the
lat6 kinks in the cut
and tailoring. The
swellest suits of the sea
Bon are here
$15, 18, $20, $25
Top Coats of Every
Length and Color.
Suits for Young
Fellows
who have the nerve to set the
pace for their elders. Correct
materials, cut with every fea
ture top-notch
S10 to $20
The Boys' Easter Suit
He ought to have a new one
surely. He'll put it on with a
spirit of pride Easter morning
and it won't cost much if you
bring him here
$5 to $10
we've all sorts of handsome
clothing and toggery for the
little fellows, with no extrava
gant prices attached.
When You Go Forth
in your Easter splendor be
sure your tie is "correct."
You'll find more different
things here in neckwear than
you'll find at other stores. We
are the neckwear store of the
town
50c, 75c, $1, $L50, etc
Dont
let the Easter sun shine down
upon a rusty hat on your head.
It is the time to change and
6oft or stiff, we have the hat
to please you
$2,50, $3, $3,50, $5, $6
Shirts
The minute the weather lias a
6pring-like appearance that
minute you begin to think of
negligee shirts. The spring
styles are ready
$1, $1.50, $2, $2.50
It Is Impossible
to mention all the furnishing
we have in stock for the com
fort and ' adornment for men
and boys, but a look at our
windows will prove to your
entire satisfaction that wo
have the very article you want.
Girls and Children's
Tarns and Caps,
50c to $5
Shirts Underwear Hosiery Night Robes Pajamas Suspenders
Gloves Canes Umbrellas Collars Cuffs Etc, . . .
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OWNING, KING & CO.
R. S. WILCOX,
, , Motiager
Misses' and Girls'
Tailor Made Coats
are one of the features of our
Easter showing, and we would
be pleased to have you exam
ine their many virtues.
IDEA OF AN EASTER SERMON
Immortality the Only True Guiding Star of
Hope for Mankind.
PROOF IS WANTED BY THE HUNGRY SOUL
Does Not Rest Alone on the Testimony
of tbe Weeping Mary tad the
Eleven Disciples Who Stood
avt Vacant Tomb.
The grave cannot pralee Thee;
Death cannot celebrate Thee.
Aroused from profound meditation by the
Query of a friend. Gladstone responded: "I
was thinking of the first five minutes after
death, and what It means to be good friends
with God." Not Infrequent are the times,
nor brief, when every man who thinks and
very woman who loves turn toward the
future with an agony of desire. "Thither
all footsteps tend, thence none depart.
Prom that bourne no traveler returns. No
wave of that mysterious sea has ever been
touched by the shadow of a returning sal!."
Whence he came and whither ho Journeys,
man does not know. Life Is a shoal of
time, rounded by a sea whose tides for
ver ebb. Msn Is beset by a multitude of
foes, but worst of all he must bear his
burdens, endure his sorrows and make his
flght for existence, all the while knowing
that he is under the sentence of death, an
Inexorable verdict pronounced by secret
council in the mysterious chambers of the
sky.
Death Is tho august mystery, pondered
by every age and solved by none. Before
tt the daring and Intrepid feet of science
pause and mark time with meaningless
shuffle; Philosophy lays aside Its wisdom
and gates with the eyes of Ignorance, and
from It Religion flees for comfort Into the
arms of Faith. Death robs nnd makes
no restitution. It strikes the music of
the lips of love with everlasting silence
and chills the caressing hand, until neither
marblu la so rigid nor Ice so old. Born
at sero, governed by forces generated In
an unauthorised ancestry, the unwilling
heir to appetites, passions and desires that
scorch sud wound, denied the Instinct of
the bird and beast and flower, man 1
forced by an Invisible power to bet in hi
Journey along the highway called life,
toward the abyss culled death.
What llts Has Done.
The wonder Is, that man aspires and
achieves. The wonder Is, that he should
strivf and endeavor within the shadow of
this universal tragedy. Tet he continues.
Amid the forces that threaten and visit de
struction he has founded empires and
heaped guilt as high as heaven; he has ex
plored the earth, the sea, the sky; he has
turned deserts into gardens and marked the
trackless waste of oceans with the definite
paths of commerce; he has silt his veins
above the roots of freedom and plucked the
cardinal blossoms of liberty bordering thj
crimson highway of war. Amid the crum
bling ruins of life's hopes and ambitions.
In the face of the sealed silence of hU un-
replying dead, conquered yet victorious ter
rified yet Intrepid, baffled yet unbeaten. In
consistent yet Incomparable, man faces the
problems of life with a song In his heart
and a laugh on his lips; Imperiously chal
lengea death and boldly defies Its cutas
trophe.
Man loves, therefore he hopes. Dmd
seated In his nature la the only Instinct that
Justifies the existence of a moral universe.
It is tbe Instinct of Immortality. Annlver
sarles are monuments as well as mile
atones, and to this Instinct for Immortality
man nag erected the monument called Ea
ter. Forgetting that the day was a world
festival among all who worshipped at the
shrine of the ancient Teutonic goddess of
spring, the church has claimed this anni
versary for her own. Despite the faot that
Moses and Job each held a brief for Immor
tality, the Investigations of men .prior to
the discovery by the weeping women at the
tomb are pronounced meaningless. Macau
ley declares the crowning glory of Chris
tianity to be "that It has wiped the tears
from the eyes which had failed with wake
fulness and sorrow; lent celestial visions to
those dwelling under thatched roofs and
shed victorious tranquillity upon those who
have seen the shades of death closing
around them." Frederick W. Robertson,
the most brilliant of British clergymen,
whose early death Is an Insoluble mystery.
once closed a sermon with the words:
Search through tradition, history, the
world within you and the world without
except In Christ there is not the shadow
of a shade of proof that man survives the
grave."
Where Easter Sermon Fails,
These statements Illustrate the Idea with
which the church celebrates Easter, and
the method, purpose and argument of the
Easter sermon as It Is. As the year re
volves toward Easter, the drama of the
Journey to Jerusalem, the passion of
Gotbsemane and the tragedy of the cross
are reviewed. Lent, with subdued call.
bids men cease from strife and contests.
pursuit of Joy and love of laughter, to
contemplate the fact of death. Tnen Easter
comes with its flowers, music and ex
hortation to persuade us that there Is no
such thing as death. The arguments of the
sermon are based upon the open tomb,
the weeping women, the mystified disciples
and the reappearance of the crucified
prophet who called Himself, and whom I
believe to be, the Son of God. The failure
of the average Easter sermon Is that It
deals with the resurrection as an episode
in history and not as a manifestation of
God ever In the world. Its weakness Is
the attempt to base the solution of the
most portentous problem of human life
upon the credibility of a single event. Im
mortality Is of supreme importance to
Christianity. The loss of Jesus of Nasareth
would be a calmlty, the loss of the Idea of
Immortality would be a catastrophe to hu
manity. If man Is not Immortal then It is
not material whether there be a God or
conscience, a heuven or a hell. Without
immortality the Incarnation and atonement
are not worthy of discussion; and the per
son of Jesus becomes merely a beautiful
figure upon the canvass of life, without
motive or propulsion. Credible as we may
retard their testimony, to rest the case of
Immortality upon the evidence of the
eleven apostles, the weeping women and the
600 or more disciples. Is to place It upon
disputable ground. The credibility of the
resurrection hinges for proof upon argu
ments for immortality, rather than does the
question of immortality depend upon the
fact of the resurrection for Us solution.
The church must always deserve the tri
bute of Macauley, but foreshadowings of
the labor of science Indicate that the state
ment of Robertson will not be regarded In
the future as historically true.
Hope la Science.
F. W. H. Meyers. In his masxlve and
fascinating work entitled. "Human Per
sonality and Its Survival of Bodily Death,"
asserts that "man has never yet nppllHl
the method of science to the problem of
his own survival of bodily death," and this
Is true. Again he says: "If a spiritual
world exists, and If that world has. at nnr
epoch, been manifest or even discoverable,
then It ought to be manifest or discoverable
now." Reaching forward from this premise
he gains a conclusion that seems sure and
reasonable, and which must at least com
mand the serious attention, If not the en
dorsement, of science. The Beyond must
henceforth occupy"- the minds of men In
their search for conclusive proof of a mo
tive for existence. It Is no rash assertion
of religious Impulse, no vagary of a dis
eased mind to assert that we are on the
verge of the greatest discoveries In the
history of mankind, which shall come from
our explorations of the realm of the soul
and the territory beyond the boundary of
death. Science Is slowly translating the
alphabet of the occult and unseen, nnd
soon we shall be able to read the story of
the travels of the subconscious self.
Immortality as an idea Is a fact. . As a
fact It Is worthy of consideration as the
earth, the sun or man himself. There Is
an aristocracy of ideas. They axe few and
of ancient lineage. Tbey have passed
through the crucible of reason, survived
the trial of Incredulity, and forever con
form to the potency and purposes of na
ture. They have come to us over the
graves of traditions, past the tombs of
superstitions, and through the crumbling
ruins of persistently defended but Van
quished theories. When, therefore, an idea
has been reviewed by all the world, sur
vived all mutations and persisted In the
face of constant objection, when It has
been confessed and defended wherever mon
have thought and aspired, It can safely
stand before the austere tribunal of reason
and claim seal of approval. The idea of
Immortality has taken Its place In the
aristocracy of reason's realm. Knowledge
has not made it Irrational, discovery has
not disproved It, science has not discred
ited It.
Whence Came the Ideaf
Whence came this Idea? We do not
know. It Is not the child of religion, the
creature of philosophy ncr the product of
science. Imagination did tiot create It. Im
agination Is the artist of the soul. It may
take the materials provided by the senses
and weave them Into wondrous forms and
colors, but It cannot create those materials.
This Idea of Immortality Is old. In the
British museum Is a piece of clay, upon
which is rudely drawn the figure of a niau
sitting upon a skull. It came from a pre
hlstorio period, from a people of whose lan-
Gossip and Stories About People of Note
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Rendesvoua for Poets.
AMES WHITCOMB RILEY," the
Hoosier poet, and John Dickey, a
close personal friend, have pur
chased Bear Wallow Hill, In
Brown county, Indiana, and are
going to improve the site with a mag
nificent house, which will be a kind of In
tellectual summer resort.
It Is proposed to set out 6.000 frutt trees
early this spring, and when the Improve
ments are completed the resort will be
opened for people who wish to spend a
quiet month or two in an atmosphere and
amid scenery which have Inspired some of
Riley's most beautiful poems.
Bear Wallow, so named from the bears
that wallowed on Its green slopes and rocky
sides. Is one of the most picturesque spots
in the state, being very high and sur
rounded by wild and rugged country. An
lnterurban traction line has been projected
through the country and will run at the
base of Bear Wallow hill, making It easily
accessible from the cities and towns of the
state.
The house to be ereoted upon the crown
of the hill will be three stories high and
will contain twenty-seven rooms. Here It
Is the purpose of the Hoosier poet to
gather around him men and women who
have made the country famous for litera
ture, and though the doors are to be shut
to none. It la understood that the intel
lectual will find the place specially adapted
to their desires. Mr. Dickey Is now on the
grounds superintending the preliminary
work, and the building will be begun and
rushed to completion as soon as the
weather will permit.
Takes Life Easy.
Of Joseph Chamberlain a critic says:
"He Is one of the most restful men I have
ever met. There Is not flurry or haste or
bustle In his manner.- He la what our
grandfathers would call 'a dry stick.' His
voice In conversation has a quixsical tone;
his wit Is dry; his manner Is that of a
shrewd and somewhat bored ooeerver
rather than that of an active participant.
He leans back In his chair, sitting rather
low, his hands folded, his eyes studying
those about him with quiet, contemplative
Interest. He never appears eager to make
a point In conversation and one only be
comes aware of the quickness and wake
fulness of his mind by some shrewd re
mark which brings general conversation
back to the point from which It first set
out or to some definite conclusion."
office, when the president of the road
dropped in one day with Information that
the general manager had resigned. "Do
you know of a good man for the placeT"
the president Inquired of young Morton.
"What Is the salary?"
"Well, It will depend somewhat upon the
man," was the reply.
"H-m-m. If you will pay enough I do
know of a man, Just the one you need. He
knows the railroad business from the bot
tom up and is a mighty hard worker In
the bargain."
"Name him, and If he answers the de
scription we will make him a generous
offer."
"His name, sir, is Paul Morton."
He got the place.
At a dinner In New York the other even
ing President Paul Morton of the Equita
ble heard this story related and did not
contradict It, so It may, perhaps, be re
garded as at least measurably true. He
had been working Ills way up in a railroad
Xo Great Difference.
Johnny Mine, a Klckapoo linguist and
philosopher, whose real name Is Mah-me-qua-che-mah-che-mah-net
and who can
speak ten different languages, Is in Wash
ington In the Interest of the Mexican branch
of the tribe. He Is said to be the most ac
complished Indian linguist In the world. He
has some rather uncomplimentary opinions
about the white man's governmental meth
ods, but he thinks the white man's wife
Is a person entirely above criticism. "Not
much difference between the white squaw
and the red, man," explained Johnny.
"They both paint, white squaw with white
paint and red brave with red pulnt. They
both have to wear feathers when they're
dressed up; Indian, he wears eagle feath
ers, white squaw wears any kind of feath
ers she can get. White squaws not much
different from the Indian."
Incident In General Schoaeld's Life.
The death of Lieutenant General Scho
fleld recalls sn amusing episode in the
general's career. While at West Point
young Schofield was one of the star men
of his class, and during the last year of
his course he was one of the Instructors
of cadets. One day he propounded Mn all
solemnity the following question to tli
cadets:
"If a man on the equator were to climb
up a pole 100 feet high without any clothes
on, how wide a brim would he have to
have on his hat to keep from getting sun
burned?" When the authorities learned of Gercral
Schofleld's question he was promptly
turned out. lie came to Washington, nnd
through the Influence of friends succeeded
at last In persuading the War department
to give him, a trial by court-martial. The
trial went against him, however, and he
was formally dismissed. But he after
ward succeeded In being reinstated. His
experience, however, taught him a lesson,
and- be Indulged. In no more pranks. In
later Ufa, when be became ecret.ary of
war, he spent a pleasant afternoon one
day In reading the official records of his
little Joke, his subsequent court-martial,
his dismissal and his eventual reinstatement.
Children's Story Teller.
To perpetuate the memory of the chil
dren's story teller, Hans Christian Ander
sen, the old building In Odense, on the
Island of Funen, In which he was born,
is to be restored and kept as an Andersen
museum. In this house In Hans Jensen
street the visitors will see his bedstead,
his writing table, his armchair, his um
brella, photographs, books which he read
in his Infancy, his school certificates, his
diplomas and decorations. The visitor will
also see there a collection of engravings
which American children had sent to him
more than thirty years ago on learning
that the news of his death had been
"somewhat exaggerated."
A Born Kin sr.
There is a fact about King Alfonso well
worth knowing. Of all the kings who have
ever lived, with the sole exception of Jea'i
I of France, who lived but a few hours,
he Is the only one to be a king from the
moment of his first breath a veritable
"born king." And since he Is much spoken
of -these days It Is not amiss to know his
name, which Is his most catholic majesty,
Don Alfonso XIII, king of Spain, of Cas
tile, of Leon, of Navarre, of Gibraltar, of
the western and eastern Indies, of the
oceanic continent, archduke of Austria,
duke of Burgundy, of Brabant and Milan,
count of Hapsburg, of Flanders, of the
Tyrol and grand master of the Golden
Fleece.
Tamed a Short Corner,
Congressman Bede of Minnesota still
looks back with horror to an experience
he had with a Scandinavian audience In
his state last campaign.' It was up in the
pine woods and the other orator of the
evening was a stalwart Norseman who was
to speak In his native tongue. This man
failed to arrive and the committeeman
asked Bede: "Do you speak Norwegian
still'" Bede unthinkingly replied In the
affirmative, though he knew only a few
phrases. When he faced the audience of
about 2u0 big, blue-eyed chaps of the Ole
and Nils class he determined to get out
of the difficulty us best he could, so he
said: "As many of you as can not un
derstand English stand up." AH were
ashamed to make such an acknowledge
ment and not a man moved. "All right,
my friends," said Bede, "as It makes me
hoarse to talk Norwegirsi for any length
of time I'll Just address you In Engllih.
which you all know and will appreciate
a well."
guage, religion, government, laws, customs
and habits we are Ignorant. Only this
we know that In the days when thought
first feebly stirred the mind there lived a
people whose Hps, now the . dust of ages,
confessed that inan shall live again.
This Idea Is universal. Every age, every
people that has left a record of tradition,
myth, symbol, literature or hisUry, has left
a record of Its hope for Immortality. It is
not an accident of climate, food or drink.
It Is not an Intoxication of the delirium of
Joy; it Is not a protest against blank de
spair. Among the denizens of the tropics'
voluptuous profligacy and in' the habitat
of the Arctic hunter beneath the seven
stars, along the sallow sand and complain
ing surf, in Druid's shadowed aisle,
wherever men sobbed and laughed, de
spaired and aspired, this hope has been part
of the warp and woof of the experience of
life and dreams of men.
It has never changed. The topography
and contour of continents have been re
formed, nations have come and gone, em
pires have risen and fallen, languages have
flourished and become dead, bibles have
been rewritten, creeds have been restated,
conceptions of God have been revised, while
worlds have burned Into idle cinders that
whirl on useless orbits, yet immutable, un
wearied, unfaltering and unforgotten this
Idea of Immortality has survived the flight
of time and wreck of ages.
Promise of God.
This Instinct for immortality is con
temporaneous with life and matter. With
life and matter it looks toward God for
Its fulfillment. It Is Inconceivable that God
should teach the bird to wing lis fllntit
through the trackless air 16 the desired
clime; teach the bee to rifle the flowers'
secret chambers of their fragance and dis
till into sweetness; to teach the beast of
the field the means of defense and succor
that He should keep faith with these, and
choat man. Nature's unfoldment has as
sured us that the Idea of immortality is a
gift from God, by creative act. To as
sume that God, In a single Instance, could
deceive, is to presume for the entire uni
verse the probability of chaos und insanity.
We can not change the name of God to
friend, of universal beneficence to deceiver,
nor claim that He speaks with perjured
lips. Reason revolts and the soul becomes
sick with horror at the very thought. God
is true. He has kept faith with the planets
and marked their unerring orbits through
the Immensity of space. He has Impressed
the neoesslty of fidelity and truth upon every
atom of the universe. From Incoherent
matter He has formed a world that should
have no significance until tenanted by man.
Every expression of that world moves upon
the lines of truth. God has not kept faith
with matter, and then lied to the thrilled
and throbbing soul of man. This instinct
of immortality Is His prevision and pro
phecy of the fulfillment which He has In
store for us, .
Perhaps the most conclusive argument
against Immortality la the silence of the
dead. Christianity has based Its Idea of
Immortality upon the only rational ground
of belief, In assuming the resurrection of
Its founder. To see the scarred hands of
our own dead moving wljh endless life
would be sufficient argument for each of
us. Why do our dead not return to us?
Perhaps they do, and we do not know
It. Were an apparition to appear be
fore us, we would not believe our senses,
for we are not prepared to receive one
who has come forth from the tomb. The
appearance of J'-sus after the crucifixion,
as alleged, is not incredible, and I be
lieve In the possibility of seeing our dead
return, and the power to commune with
them.
Mistake of the t bores.
Never since the day when tbe Mans
.went to the tomb has man ever made the
attempt to lift the curtain of the beyond
without Incurring the anatnema of the
church. Declaring the Idea of Immortality
to rest upon the resurrection alone, tbe
church has prohibited Its followers from
the attempt to prove its truth for them
selves. The hunger for the unknown has
nover been satisfied by the Christian con
cept of Immortality. Denied the bread of
life, a few have turned to its husks. Gross
mysticism, spiritualism and occultlnm ore
the rude and distorted expessions of thl'l
hunger of the soul for communion with the
unseen. Realizing the mistake of the
church, men are now beginning to apply
correct methods to the solution of the
protiem. Yet, because there shall be only
a few who are willing to pay the price, we
shall perhaps disbelieve them. However,
we shall henceforth receive the results of
their discoveries, not with stake and torch,
but with eager sympathy and encourage
ment. Man will sacrifice truth, conscience, wife,
child and hope of future comfort for the
gain of a moment. The lust for power
and for gold is upon him, and the toll and
burden of the years are not accounted too
great with success as a probable compon
satlon. But where Is the man who is will
ing to give all his years to poverty, self
effacement, meditation and the constant
endeavor to align himself with 'the forces
of truth and purity, for the bure chance
of speaking to his dead, as Mary spoke to
the supposed gardener?
What Is Xeeded.
No, the methods of science have not bcea
applied to the problem of survival of bodily
death. The speech of Webster demands
knowledge of his language; the motif of
Wagner Implies another cultivated auditory
norve; the whisper of Love Is meaningless
to cruelty and selfishness. We expect our
gold and power to buy the mysteries of life.
We think we can barter for the secrets of
the unseen as we barter for a Krmbrandt,
a Cloisonne or a Slradlvarius, forgetting
that all the gold la the world cannot buy an
understanding of tlso secret of their genius,
for that comes by toll alone. Nature Is
Jealous of her Becrets. They are well
guarded. The grent facts and discoveries
of life have not been easily won; the mys
teries of life have been disclosed only to an
hungering few. Perhaps the time may
never come when all will be able to lift the
curtain that hangs before the unknown, but
truly, this last secret of God shall not be
forever withheld. When we are prepared
to pay the price our wounded prophet shall
return to us and, pointing to life, gold,
power and sin, shall say, "Lovest thou me
more than these?"
We ned less of a recital of events than
we do of an inspiring array of proofs for
the reasonableness of the Idea of Immortal
ity on Easter. Fur multitudes life Is an
Inconceivable Insult, an Irreparable Injury.
Existence does not grant compensation for
the inequalities of men. The innocent suf
fer, the promise of early genius Is denied,
wrong Is enthroned and righteousness is
crucified; Nero gluts his lust and Paul falls
before the assassin's knife from the weary
Journey of the year men hasten to Easter
for cheer and strength with which to sus
tain faith and continue rhe contest. Life
and matter come from God. yet more en
during than life and matter Is love, for love
Is God's own heart embracing His world of
agony and aspiration. Because man loves
he Is the child of God and therefore Im
perishable. Because man loves he hopes
and Is content. Immortality la the gift of
God; It Is the child of Love.
"The stars shine over the earth
The stars shine over the sea;
Th' stars look up to the mighty QocL
The stars look down on me.
Tlla "'."-J" ,ha" ,lv ,or m million years
A million years and a dsy;
But God and I will live and love
YVTliVn than stars V, .
WjLH-O jr TReFZh
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