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:' ■ 4 .i ilMHiil ,1 THE MAS0N1(W0UENAL “ MORE LIGHT.” la .Engtafld.special or commemorative Lodge’jewels caaaot now be legally worn without the express sanction of the Grand Master. It seems that the wearing of these signs of distinction had grown to such an extent as to threaten to bring the Fraternity into disyreiite because rf oer much display. Hence this edict ol pro hibition has been issued. In Masonic trials the acuser of a Mason must himself be a Master Mason in good standing. It is not necessary that he be sworn. It is deemed that hia obliga tion is sufficient guarantee that he will not wilfully wrong a worthy brother. When others than Masons.are introduced as witnesses they may be -sworn...but as we have no, poiwer.ito compel a witijens to testify under oath his simple affirmation may be taken. The character of ihe wit ness for truthfulness should always be considered. Testimony snould never be taken in open Lodge, but always before a committee appointed for the purpose. Neither of the three Masonic penalties— reprimand, suspetis.son or expulsion— should be inflicted without written charges, specifications, notice and due tria. Ac ion on ciiaiges must be i egiiu at a regular communication, but special communications for the prosecution ol and final action on the case may be des ignated at a regular meeting, o) which all the members in the Lodge’s jurisdic tion must have due and timely notice, that they may govern themselves accord- Lack of Sociality. American home life is too gloomy. We take no time to entertain and amnse each other. Not seldom doe-i it hippen in some houses that a meal progresses in dead silence, except when it is necessary to SDeak about the dishes, or to help some one to potatoes or pie. This is almost as bad as rudeness or quarrelling. There ought to be bright, genial, sparkling talk, in which the children should be allowed to join. There is no sense whatever in compelling an intelligent child to sit like a deaf mute at the table ; though, on the other hand, children should not monopo lize the conversation, nor be allowed to ask strings ol irrelevant questions. When tie family meet at table, there should be free and uiireslraineil intercourse between its members. Every one should prepare for the table by some simple process of dressing. The hair should be smooth, the binds Washed, the general appear ance of each individual inviting, and each should try to be as agreeable as pos- .sible to each other. It is quite wonder ful how a little freshening of the toilet freshens up the soul as well as the face. So far, we ought to be luxurious. If the mother sees to it that her school-boy sons ahvavs come to dinner with clean hands nails, and that her daiighte;s never daw dle into the room in tawdry finery or soiled w.fapyers, she will do more than she dreams of in the work of making them grow into real gentliemen and ladies. The table itself ought to hs-t'ie .k festive look. Flowers have a spesiitl grace cm the breakfast board. A dish of fruit, nicely arranged, pleases the eye as well as the palate at dinner. Clean linen, ever though co.arse, and whole plates,and cups, with bright glass and silver, help the appetite along. A few well-cooked dishes, however plain, nicely served, will promote health and happiness better than a great variety ruined in the preparation. Pi'of. C. A. Pape, asjed 4u. was yesterday found dead in Baltimore, He was a Profes sor of music and languages. Papers .showed he was a member of Eagle Lodge, Hillsboro, N. C. A letter from liis wife in his pockets was dated Tuggle’s Tanks, no State given. How to Calculate Interest. The following rules are so simple and so true, according to all business usages, that they sheuld be posted up for refer ence. There being no such thing as a Irac- tion iu it, there is scarcely any liability to error or mistake. By no other arithmet ical process can the desired iniormation be obtained by so few figures : idix per cent—Multiply any giving number of ilollars by the number of days of iuteresf desired ; sep.irate the right hand figure and divide by six. the result is the true interest on such sum tor such number of days at s'x per cent. Eight per cent—Multiply any given amount for the number of days upon which it.is. desired .to a.scertain the in terest of such sum for the time required, at eight per cent and divide tlie whole by 45. Ten percent—Multiply the same as above, and divide by thirty six, and the result will be the amount of intere.st at ten per cent. - - The ArchjBoicgy of the Craft. Although it has been customary, in tracing the history of Masonry to date its first ocrporale beginnings from tlie pe riod when the Temple of Solomon was reared in majestic s.leiioe upon the mystic mount of Moriah, yet it is undonuted that tlie Craft rnav claim an antiquity higher far than this. Tlie Masonic art is of course as ancient as civilization. Man was a builder I'mg betbre lie had learned to live peacefnlly and in social intercourse with his fellows, and the rude hut of the savage is the parent of tho.se majestic structures which in every age have up held the dignity of the human intellect. How many ages eiafis.sd before mankind ^ ventured to forsake their rude edifices of timber for those of stone or baked earth, or what -iariDg spirit first thought of poising stones in the air in the enduring form of an arch, it would be to idle con jeoture. From central Asia, which may be regarded as the cradle of the human race, came the first Masons, whose works have existed to the present day. ^ The oaver-i temples of India are probably among the oldest examples of the work of the sculptor, and it would appear that man first burrowed in the rock before he thought of piling stones in the clouds. The researches of Champollioii, Sir Gard ner Wilkinson and other eminent Egyr.t- ologists, have thrown a flood of light up on this once obscure subject, and when the history of Masonry is really written the historian will probably be inclined to regard the pyramids as the proper point of departure, rather than the fair ’ouild- ing which Solomon raised in honor of the Great Jehovah. Egypt, in truth, may be regarded as the ancient university of sci ence and art. The caste of the artificers included the masons as among its most important members, and these, congre gated in vast cities like Memphis and Thebes, acquired a knowledge of the Craft which has never been surpassed by any architects either ancient or modern. Herodotus, who flourished 408, b. c. tells us that Thebes posbes.sed a hundred gates and palaces and temples innumerable. The priests who received the illustrious Gieek traveler, were able to point to a history, carefully recorded, stretching back for ages in the remote past; to a monarchy of manv dynasties, which was preceded by a theocracy probably cceval with Egyptian civilization.—Ex, The Lodge and its Lessons. The ei eat increase of Masonic Ledges proves two things, we think, incontesta bly. The one is, that Freemasonry^ is, in it/eif, a want for theage in which we live It IS a remarkable fact that, in this p.ying and bustling age, in which eyery thing seems to be sicnticed to the dust and dirt and turmoil of public life, an in stitiitioii so peculiar and uiiob.struclive, so much averse to open recognition, and BO difficult of access, should tie so popular with all classes ef society. And vet the secret of such a want, such ajipreciatiou, IS, we think, not hard to find. Freema- soiirv may have itsfiailties and detects, like everything else that is eaithly or hti man, but Freemasonry has this recom mendation—it is a neutral ground tor u.“ ail—an open platform on which the most ditfering and tlie most distant may hapi- pily meet together in peiice and good will, a liitle green oasis in this and wiidernebS uf toil and sirife, in which tne genial and fri“iidly, and the tolerant and the true, and the scholar and the statesman, may find alike le-t for their bodies and refresh ment for their minds. Many ot us who dav by day are toiling at “the form” or in tiie coiinling bouse, in the Senate or in the camp, or are laboring as bread- viinners, tiy the energy of our bodies and brains, to cheer and sii.Mtain those nearest and dearest to ns, can find in Freemason rv many an hour of iiitellectnal improve ment, many a season of faithful work, many a pleasant moment ol social relax ation. Each new Lodge, then, that we found to-day is meant to i>e a centre of light, friendship, loleiation and charity to its members. From it, we trust, some ray ot brightness may iall on our fellow men, --,-\iid if, alas ! it be true that all things here are at the best but ephemeral and transitory, that fade like the dying flow er ind pass likesome pageant of the day, yet let us hope that, from the crumb'ing fragment 01 many an earthly lodge,there may emanate a spirit of futh and benev olence, \ibicli shall outlive both the ma terial fabric and the earthly members, and lie perpetuated in a happier scene of perfect knowledge, of umlimmed light and of eternal love.—JJecke ftown Inde. pendant. Dr. Glass, living near Granby, who is olear’iig up a new farm, has been troub led with a large lumber of I'ig oak stumps. He had heard that salt petre was good for slumps. Accordingly he sprinkled on the top of each .stump about a tablespoon ful of pulverized salt petre. A few days ago he set fire to the stumps, and says they commenced and continued to burn until every stump was totally consumed, roots and all. so that he was able to plow without the least difficulty over the very- ground formerly occupied by the same stumps. He says some of the stumps burned four or five days. One of the mo.st pleasing features of the Grand Knight Templar and Masonic jiaiade ou Tlmr-day last was the appearance iu tne procession of Captain Edward L. Yoimg, one of O'II-oldest eidzeiis, and probably the ol..est Mason in Ihe Stale. He is ninety four years old, joined Norfolk Lodge, No. 1, in 1814, and has belonged toil ever since, being now au hciioraiy niember. He was out in a carriage provided for liiiii by Mr, Isaac Moritz, the Master uf t'ne Lodge, and worelhe apron and gloves in wliich he was initiated sixty-one yeais ago. Although blind, Cap’aiu Young is still hale and hearty, ami tliere is every in dication that he lull live to become a centeiia- I'iaii.—Norfolk Virginian. When a boy has been off all day, con trary tq the expressed wish of his mother, and on approaching the homestead at night, withap anxious and cautious tread, finds company at tea, the expression of confidence ar.d rectitude which suddenly lights up his face, cannot be reproduced on canvass. Mr. Thomas 0, Watson, of Monument al Masonic Lodge, No. 96, has presented to the Grand Lodge of Masons of Mary land, through Grand Master, J. H. B. Latrobe, a sandstone plumb bob of great antiquity, which he stated was found ia the ruins of ihe Temple of Coum Oumbus, in Egypt, by Mr. James E. Tyson, a m.er- chant and gentleman of Baltimore, whose word is reliable. Mr, Tyson is not a member of the Masonic Order, though he desired the presentation to be made to this Grand Body. Egypt is considered the birthplace of Masonry, and it is be lieved this implement of thejeraft was used in the erection of the famous temple where it was found, and which was built more than four thousand years, in the lifetime ®f Abraham, and about four hundred years before the birth of Moses. The gift was. accepted with an appropri ate vote of thanks to Mr, Tyson, and will be treasured as an ancient relic of opera tive Masonry.—[Ba,ltimore Sun., News Gleanings, Yfou’ll biiiid tlie fires or I’ll be tile way tlie Fat Coiitributcr’.-. wife tuibj’ Vice President Wilson and W. .J tor are dead. A (iaiigliter of Siiig'-r, Ihe sewing macy lusin, lias mm.e her debut as a hiirlegHm., tre.-is iu San Francisco, 4 at- The South Carolina Methodist Confei enee meets at Orangeburg Dec. 15tj, Bishop Keener will preside. The 44th Congress of the United meets in Washington next Monday theStl inst. It Ik-8 been discovered tbrt tlie average ft of a flea i- ■ iglu nmntl s, and wl en you see!, man scratelilng lii^baek against theeiigcef, iGiod.ibed doorjrst lell l.im ihgl hi- is.uastft, Detroit ii te Press. ■ Quebec, Nov. 26,—Ex-Aldermaii Cle ment was an eated for complicity in ib murder of Miss Gilmore, for cansii-ji whose death by abortion. Dr. Davis ana wife are sentenced to death. On Wednesday, tlie 17th instant, was lb one hniidred and twenty-second amiiversm of the arrival of tlie Pioneer Moravians in ft Wacliovia tract, settling at OhlTo-ivn. 6 eft, above this place.—Salem P?-ess. Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Islaiij A’ov. 28th.—Two thousand feet of wad near St Peter’■- was carried away by th sea during the late storm, leaving nott- iiig to show that a railway was ever there. From the report of the Second Auditor ofVirginia it appears that thedehtof th.at Slate on the 30th of September,ei- elusive ef the bonds and certificates lidj by the literary and sinking 'upd, w $29,514,426.38, West Virginia’s portioa of this debt is $15 229,370,74. Galvesteu, Tex., November 14,—Th remains of Captain Thomas Wolfe, pilot of the City of Waco were taken chargenl by the Masonic fraternity this moiniiio and conveyed on board the steamsliif■ State of Texas to proceed to Mystic, Cot- necticut. bis forme, home, for intermen:. An Abctio Born Boy—There is nor living in Ottawa county, Kansas, a boy of 13 years of age, who was born furtbei North than any other child born of civil ized parents on earth. He wasbornai the northern extremity of the most norlt ern fishing settlement on the coast of Nor way, Tbe Po.iit office Department e.ctimates an If77,41.5 in execss of last year’s appropiiiitiiiiii Expenditures last year for transporting uuif wa.-i to 871 railroad routes 94 millions; 8t steamboat ronte.« | iiiillioiiB; 7,823 other route- de.signated as star routes, aggregating 192.Cft> miles length, 5| mitlions ; tlie total cost ol inland transportation this year is estinialeil# ISd millions. Ill the U. S. Circuit Court at Riclinioiic Saturday, .Judge Bond pre-iiiling, a motta was made liy Hon. Wni. M. Evarts,of Xe* York, coim.-iel for the Chesapeake & OliioRail road, for tlie dismissal of tlie proci-edirigs ap pointing a Keceiver for the road looking too'- early sale of tlie same. .Judge Bond declinet to lioar the motion at present, and set tin 20tli of December to hear it at AlexaniWi Gliief Justice Waite to be present at thattiuie. Don’t iiENTiON It.—A St. Louis Idlf- says : “I ventured to suggest to a wido''’-' few weeks ago, as we stood by tiie deceusei Nicodemus, that I tlnsught the amount of ™ chicum he had taken lor the gout liaJU"'- tlie removing c-anse. ‘Don’t bed tlie widow ; 'it may he so, but . insnniiiee men snatcli at anytliing totje* of paying their premiums. They migld it out suicide, and I wouldn’t get a penny. Washington, Nov. 29.—The commission J examine various surveys for a snip o- across tlie Istlimus of Darien have s’*"®' ■ ’ a report to. the I^resldent. They arc 9 ion, after a full iiivestigatioii, tliat the -iX' ■ gna route is tiie best. Tliey estimate a - ' ii-oiii tlie harbor of Brite on the 1 Greytowu on the Atlantic, can be eon»u at a cost not to exceed 06 millions. J tioiis of almost au insurmountable na , all but the Panama and Nicaragua ™ut, notwithstanding tlic greater length, lo" .: they give preference to it. Lake Nicar. g on tliis route.
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