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THE MASONIC^ JOURNAL
THE MiSOmO JOURNAL
GREENSBOEO. N. 0.
Thursday, Dec. 2, 1875
E, A. WILSON, Editor & Pioprietor.
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reeeire and receiat for SuIisorirtioTis in our alisenco.
Rf.me mbfk the Grand Lodge meets in
'.Raleigh next Monday, the 6th inst., at 7
o'clock P. It. Every Lodge in the State
should he represented, as much business
of importance is to be transacted.
We are sorry to part company editorial
with our friends of the Reidsville News^
Messrs. Bethel and Reid, who have sold
that paper to John R, Webster, a former
proprietor. In parting with brother.s
Bethel and Reid, we do so with unfeigned
regrets, having entertained relations of
the highest regard for them during the
short period of journalistic intercourse.
With Mr, Webster we are unacquaint
ed, but judge from his salutatory that he
•will keep the News up to its present high
standard.
Thakxs—^To Past Grand Master,
i'brother Sereuo P. Nickerson, Ifditor of
the New England Freemason, for com
plete files of that valuable Magazine from
Jan. 1st, 1874, to September 1st 1875 in
clusive. This is a valuable acquisition
to our library, of which we will make free
use in future.
Also—To Companion R. P. Earhart,
Grand Seoietary, for a copy of the Pro
ceedings of the Grand Royal Ach Chap-
ter-of the State of Oregon, held at Port
land, June ilth & 12th, 1875. Pressing
duties prevent a more extended notice
this week.
Our esteemed cotemporary, the Phila
delphia Jewish Fecord, copying our stric
tures on the unmasonic practice oleleo-
itioneering for afEoe in the Lodges, adds
the following timely comments :
•‘These remarks are most appropriate,
as the season for elections in the Masonic
Lodges is close at hand. We agree fully
with Brother M'ilso,n in hisjust stricture
as to the unmasonio practice of election
eering for office. By this means, fre
quently, imodest merit ie set .aside and
the sQcnesefi'il aspirant is o.ie who does
no credit to his Lodge. If any stranger
should visit the ante-rooms of our Tem
ples and Halfe or even in the Ledge
Rooms while called off, during the month
■of December, lie could almost fancy him-
■self in the lobby of a political convention.
And the grievance increases with .ad
vancing years and often the most con
temptible tricks are resorted to, in order
to oust faithful officers who deem their
past services should entitle them to re
tention or advancement without effort to
secure votes. Let the Grand Lodges take
measures to prevent this crying evil and
begin at home.”
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While in Goldsboro last week, brother
H. 0, Prempart showed ue his commis
sion of appointment as Tyler of our Grand
Lodge, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Mayor Jos. H. Separk of Ral
eigh. Brother Prempart has previously
heldjthe position of Grand Tyler for sev
eral terms, and makes a most efficient
and courteous officer.
On The Wing,
Last week we took a coveted respite
from our daily office toil by making a fly
ing trip to our former Eastern home.
Leaving home at 2 o’clock in the morn
ing is anything but pleasant to a tired,
overworked man, but the prospective of
pleasure and recreation sent us willingly
forth. We spent the early hours in inef
fectual efforts at sleep, and by 7 o’clock
were fully prepared to make savage on
slaught upon the rich viands with which
Mrs. Troy’s table (breakfast and supper
hou.se at Morrisville) was abundantly
supplied. Thus appeased and refreshed
we were ready for anything that might
turn up.
At Raleigh we were joined by our ge
nial friends Pool o! Our lAving and Our
Dead, and the ubiquitous Woodson, now
of the Wilson Advance. With them our
time passed off pleasantly, and in due
season we were at Goldsboro where we
met many friends.
On the Eastern train we were thrown
with rather "mixed” company. A par
ty of Quakers were on board, bound for
Beaufort, several lawyers were going to
Kinston court, and Gaylords negro min
strel troupe were going to Newbern—^to
"bust,” which they did, and ought to have
done long before, judging from their
physique.
At Kinston we were warmly greeted
by our many friends, and made to feel
"at home agal-i.” Here we spent a short
time at the Masonic Festival very pleas
antly, mingling with our old friends.
This was.certainly the most beautiful
and bountiful entertainment of the kind
we ever atten.led, and reflects unbound
ed credit upon the fair hands that plan
ned and arranged the tables and decora
tions. Two beautiful cakes contended
for a prize, one presented by Mr. A. S.
Padrick and one presented by Mrs. Ida
Harvey, and so close was the contest that
the committee weie unable to decide be
tween them.
We found the Journal exceedingly
popular among its readers in that section,
the general expression being‘‘we can’t be
without it,” for all of which we say,
thanks.
The great cry was no money and hard
times—the hardest since the war—and
all growing out of short crops and low
prices of cotton. When will those noble
farmers learn to exercise common sense
views and produce their home supplies
rather than depend upon the uncertain
ties of a single crop? Our Western sec
tion ie more prosperous and progressive
because of its diversity ot crops and in
dustries. From this oar Eastern friends
might learn a lesson.
Our furlough being out, we leave this
moralizing for those most interested and
turn our steps homeward, where we ar
rived in due season refreshed by the
week’s vacation.
Our Journal.
Judging by the short period it has been
before the public, and the generous recep
tion given it, our Masonic Journal is
beyond peradventure a success. With
every issue our subscription list increases,
but not in that satisfactory ratio commeii
snrate with the expense incident to a new
enterprise.
The paper has been before the Frater
nity sufficiently long for them to judge
of its merits and usefulne.ss to the Order,
and it now rests with them to say wheth
er its labors are of sufficient importance
to entitle it to a proper support from the
Masons of North Carolina and the South.
If so, we ask it at once, and in the spirit
of acknowledged interest which all should
feel in the matter.
As a means of enlightenment to the
members and of communication with the
Lodges it certainly is invaluable, and we
appeal to each Worshipful Master and
others desiring our success to interest
themselves in our behalf among the mem
bership of their Lodges and the citizens
of their communities (for t is a vehicle
ot value to all) and secure us lists and send
them forward at once. Let each one feel
ih&i it is our Journal, 3.qA strive to send
a few names, (with the cash.)
Of course we sliall look forward to the
Grand Lodge, next week, with full expec
tations, for the interest manifested by the
members of that Body will, to a great ex
tent, determine oar success for a coming
year. We .shall regard each member as
a special agent, and hope to receive from
him a good report from his Lodge. Give
US a liberal support and we promise you
value received, "good measure, pies.sed
down, shaken together and running over,’’
Good Advice.
Subscribe for the Masonic Journal.
The editor of the New York Dispatch,
in speaking about the Masonic elections
about taking place, utters the following
wholesome advice :
We have heard frequent mention made
of this, that, and the other ambitious as
pirant, who is canvassing the field in ad
vance, and in person, and through per
sonal and sometimes officious friends—
and not unfrequently injudicious ones—
soliciting influence and support for offi
cial station.
This practice is much to be reprehend
ed. The old maxim that “office should
seek the man, and not man the office,” is
as true to-day in Masonry as it was in the
primitive times of our institution. In
fact we may say that a recognition of this
maxim is to-day more in countenance with
the true principles which should actuate
Masons than ever before.
Our beloved Fraternity was never more
prosperous than now, and we should be
ware lest our present successes blind us
as to the legitimate cause of our conduct,
which a decent self-respect should teach.
We take this opportunity in all sober
ness of spirit to warn the Cr.aft against
those who seek position from any ignoble
ambition ; and to beware of those who
solicit preferment for themselves or
friends, as interfering with the inaliena
ble privilege of each indiviilual elector,
and as evidencing a disposition to engraft
upon the Fraternity something of the po
litical practices that obtain so largely at
the present day in our popular elections.
Let merit be the only test for office,
with capacity and zeal as a necessary ac
complishment. Should this rule of ac
tion he observed in the approaching se
lections of officers in our several Masonic
bodies, we may hope for an enlarged im
provement in the personnel of those who
may be chosen, and, as a sequence, an un
abated prosperity in our beloved Frater
nity at home, and no diminution of re
spect for its standing in other lands.
Tolla Floyd of Syria.
‘‘Then he’ll do it,” exclaimed the man
to whom I had said that we had engagjt;
Rolla Floyd to accompany ns from Da
mascus to Jaffa. "You have been fortn-
nate in securing that mysterious rnj,;
His name is worth a hundred rifles agaimt.
any tribe in Syria.”
Floyd was one of a colony of Americana
who left tiie pine forests of Maine, in the
United states, some ten or a dozen years
ago, to settle in the Holy Land.
His fine athletic form and his wonder,
ful strength, coupled with his invariable
kindness of heart and mildness of temper
soon created a marked sensation among
the natives ; for when finding them in
persona] quarrel and rolling in the dust
like fierce mastiffs, he frequently ruslieii
into the crowd and, grasping the two
.•ombats by the napes of their necks,—one
in each hand—slowiy walked down to the
sandy shores of the mediteranean, and
soused them into the briny serf until
promises of peace a.id reconciliation had
been given. Frequent attempts were
made to rob his express of valuable pack
ages, but he always managed to capture
one or both of the banditts, and compell
ing them to listen to an impressive sermon
on honesty, he always let them off on re
ceiving promises of reformation. By this
kindness in not turning his prisoners over
to Turkish vengeance and entire fearless
ness, he in time became as great an idol
among the desperate thieves and cut
throats as he wac 'among the most up-
right.
With a memory that seems to be with
out limits, he shortly became masterof
the Arabic, so that he speaks it with aii
accurate fluency, acquired by but few no!
born on the desert. In his familiarity
with the Bible be surpasses all men lhave
•iver seen, quoting fi om memory almos;
any verse that may be called for. It is
asserted by those who have known bin
intimately for years that they have never
seen him display anger, surprise, or bois
terous mirth. Traveling as a missionary
throughout the entire length and breadth
of Palestine, and becoming familiar with
every lake, hill, valley, oave, stream, and
mountain mentioned in the Bible, hen
to-day unquestionably the best informed
in biblical history and topography of any-
man living. The American Government
has twice offered him a Counsulsbip; but
his reply has been, “I shall xnakelesi
money but perform more labor among tb*
poor children of God by remaining in the
field.”
Once every month he regularly maker
his appearance in Jerusalem, and takes a
seat in the East as the W. M, of the Koy-
al Solomon Mother Lodge, F. A. M, which
position he has long held by the unani
mous votes of all the members.—ex.
Frof. Kerr in Baltimore.—Prof. W. C.
Kerr, our learned unci iiidcfatigable State gc
ologist, was invited by tli« president of the
American Health Association,, recently in ses--
sion ill Baltimore, to deliver an adclre.ss before
its members on North Carolina topography
and geology. Knowing that the wonders he
would have to tell would seem incredible to
men entertaining the average ortliodox ideas
of our grand old commonwealth, he outlitted
himself before starting with a full etjiiipnieni
ol official map.s, charts and etalisties, and it
was well he did. His descriptions of Nodlt
Carolina scenery, and his statements in regard
to lier resources, seemed to Ids distingnisiied
auditors like fairy tales or snatches from tin'
Arabian Nights. They had never in then'
wildest dreams imagined anything of tlie glo'
ries he portrayed, tlie marvelous lavishing of ^
nature’s richest gifts upon our almost M-
known and wholly unapprecialed realm Hi'
maps and figures were resistless, and the re
sult was that the president of the body and
many of the eminent pi inJits declared their
intention to come at an early clay, and see for
themselves our land of the \>\eit.—Senii«el.