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Otlice on South K'm St:eel, Irs' do'r Ciiortii of the Patriot (.Mlice. We call special attention to tt-e article from the Masonic News, on the subject of ■'The Master of a Lodge” and his duties , ii.s such, to be found on the '4th pane of this paper. It is a subject of vital ira- f,ortance to every Lodge and everv Mas- :ter,.and is here plainly and sensibly ■treated. The time for official ignorance .and incapacitv has passed and none 1 nt those .lulp proficient ami qualifie i should ■be elevated to that responsible position, ,The,subject-vviU be continued next week. ■‘.‘Good Farming,— \ farmer, Mr. Fos ter, in Iredell county. N. C., turned out on a plantation that is classed as medium only, daring the year 1875, with his son and four colored laborers : 13,600 i onnds of pork, 1,500 bushels of corn, 900 bush- .cls of oats, 798 bushels of wheat, 10,000 pounds of leaf tobacco, besides hay, fod- .der, potatoes, &o. Mr. Foster slaughtered a hog which .weighed 790 pounds. He killed one a rfew years since wliich weighed 812 pounds ■He h IS now a lot of fine beef cattle ready ffor market.” ,We are pleased to see the above still .going the rounds of the press, as it is hoped that it will stimulate others of our worthy farmers to ‘‘do their level best” to rai.se an abundance of that class of pro duce that goes to make home independent. Many of oar Eastern friends have de- jiended on cotton until it has nearly bankrupted them, while by such unwise .example hundreds have been driven from .the farm. Make your rural home at tractive to your sons by its evidence of ■.independence. . Help. THE MASONIC JOURNAL THE MA.S0HIC JuUENAL weeks, send us one or more additional names, it will at once double our present list and put us squarely on om feet, much good you have dove and how much have saved. you nd t Easter.—Easter will fall this year on Thursday, Feb. lO 1876 on the road to success. And we feel that ^ 9,1^ E. A. WILSON, Editor & Pioprietor. this can be easily done, and is not asking too much of any. There are many Masons in the State who are regular readers of the paper but who have not yet subscribed. The JoDR- .N.AD is doing a good work for the Order, and we hope these hrethren^will at once send in their subscriptions and help to the tide that will bear us on to suc- what we swp ce.'s. The paper i.s far from being wish or intend it to be, but the desired improvements will depend upon the en couragement we receive from our friends. Of course the majority ot the brethi er. can each secure several nameo, by a lit tle effori, as many have alre-idy done, and we do make thi.s earnest appeal to them to do ell they can foo' us at this par ticular juncture of our greatest need. The Garden. Strange subject, you will say, for a journal like this, but the desire to benefit In all sincerity .and earnestness we ..again appeal to the Lodges and to our .subscribers to help us. We have ymt to learn of a single subscriber who is not ])leased with the Journal, so far, and we feel that it is not asking too much of I them to aid us in- extendin.g our circula tion. The'paper, now in its'infanoy, is carrying a heavy burden and struggling manfully for success, and with the heavy duties that devolve upon us as manager, editor, localizer, proof-reader, -'ifec., we have no time to go out among the Lodges to solicit subscriptions. Now, if each ..subscriber iviil, within the next three al, clas>es of onr readers induces us t.o pen these line.". There is nu institution of domestic economy of more real value to the household than the "well regulat ed" kitchen garden ; and yet, among soiitlieni firmerc, especially, none more sadlv nealected. With us, as a rule, the garden and giirdening i.s left to the inaimgement of the madam, it being regarded as a matter unimportant of it,=plf and entailing a u.se- les waste of time that the thrifty faimer can ill afford But let us see. Is the kitchen gardeti ofanv real praclisal val ue tothefamilv and if so to what extent? We believe every thinking farmer will agree that at. tlie least calculation, one third of the family diet should be vege tables—of various kinds, and .such as are grown in a well regulated kitchen gar den and adapted to all seasons of the year. Presuming, tlien, that every sen sible man desires to make all he can at home, in the way of family support, how oan he better go about it than by raising a full .supply of all the vaiious vegetables used ill the familv ? Then, again, if these be of equal value with the crops with which are purchased those articles that take the place of veg etables, whv not raise the vegetables at 01103 and save the time and the dis count expended in the purchase, of the other articles ? Again, while being more atiraotive to the appetite (nature yearns for nature’s food) has it not been clearly demonstr.it- cd that a proper supply of vegetable diet is far more healthy and invigorating lhari that unvarying, feverish dish of smoked bacon and fat pork. Considering all these things, where is the plat of ground in all the farm that yields such rich returns ? Cannot spare the time 1 Interferes -with the crop! Indeed!! And isn't it a part of your crop, and a valuable part, at that2 Then, our suggestion is that, in addi tion to the regular kitchen garden around the residence, under the management of the madam, ,vs is the rule, each farmer should have a good sized garden plat off on the farm where he can cultivate it in common with his other crops, and thus between the two keep a full supply of cheering, appetizing, health supplying vegetables. But it will make too much 1 , I them and because Easter day is regulated not by a solar, but by a lunar cycle—the cycle that legiUales the Golden Number. Now, by a solar calculation a day always begins at midiiiglit; but by lunar calculation it begins at noon. If therefore, the Paschal moon falls on a Saturday after 12 M., it is counted as falling on Sunday, and then Easter Day is, under the rule in the prayer book, the Sunday following. This is wliai, happens in the present year. The Paschal full moon falls on Saturday, April 8, it 2:43 P. M. It is therefore counted a.s falling on Sunday', April 9, and Easter Day is the Sunday following —i. e. April 16. It may be added that should the lull moon fall on March 21 be fore 12 M. that full moon (counted as fall ing on March 20) would not regulate Easter Dav, but the one following. This happened in 1819.—Ex. Virtue in Whistling.—An old farm er once said that he wotild not 'have a hired man on his farm who did not Lab- ituallv whistle ; be always hired whist lers. Said he never knew a laborer to find fault with his food, liisbed, or 00m- pbaiii of any little extra work he ivas asked to perform. Such a man is gener ally kind to children and animals in his care. lie would whistle a chilled limb into warmth and life, and would bring in his hat full of e gs from the barn without breaking one of them. He found such a man was careful abo'ut closing gates, putting up bars and seeing that the nuts on his plow were all properly tightened, before he took it into the field. He nev er knew .x whistling hired man to kick or beat a cow, or drive her on a run into the stable. He bad noticed that the sheep he fed in the yard and shsil, gathered around him, as he whistled, without fear. He b'lid never employed a whistler who was not thoughtful and economical.—Ex. Interference in Grand Lodge Affairs. GEO. FRANK GOULEY. Of late year," several Masonic Grand Bodies have -pning up in Europe and in South America iiiioii a very questionable basis. Some of tliem have never been recognized, except tiy irregular Grand Bodies, yet they call themselves Grand Lodges or Grand Orient,", and assume all the importance of regularly constituted organization, and generally, are the first to interfere in affairs of which they know little or nothing. Among other perform anops, they have begun to dictate to AmMicaii Grand Lodges as to whom they shall recognize or exclude. Most of these bodies are but the out growth of the exploded Memphis Kite, or other Kites, set alloat by tlis Grand Orient of France, and w'lio is generally the first to extend recognition to them. Recognition by such Grand Orients or Grand Lodges of clandestine and irregu lar Grand or subordinate lodges in the United States, does not amount to any thing, and the commissions they is.sue to Representatives in those bodies, are not worth the parchment they are written upon. There are, however, some German Grand Bodias, who have formed what is known as the ''German League,’’ who have threatened to recognize the claiides tine Grand Lodges in this country, as they have been by the Grand Orient of France, and should they do so, it will end in the absolute severance of all Ma sonic recognition and intercourse between us, as it has with France. If the German Grand Lodges compris- But i you say. Not it sensibly managed. You can lay up much for the "rainy days” of *ing tlmL'eagueTwith their'irousrX’rf winter, and thus make the dining room j Masonic emigrants coming to this coiin- cheerful and inviting through all that ■ *''y’tills .Masonic wall long, dull season ; and then if there is a I those emigrants and the Ameri- surplus, nothing is better.o.r more invi.t- I j ing to your stocli. Try it, and • . I - O ’ '• - v./rt,u, rtll ovw- I haps, the sooner our Grand Lodges take see how ] a decided stand on this question, the sooner will the Masonic powers t> brought to their senses and madetT ' tend to their own business, and tliu. t given a better understanding than tt ' now Seem to have of Amei icaii societ of the principles of Fremasonry an/ 'r the jurisdietioiiai rights of Grand Lc ° It is an inflexible Masonic rule ‘ges, country, that there ran exist but ones'*'* preme i/asonic power in any one St'i' or Territory and the United'States ll Canada, .with their fifty-five Grant Lodges and 600,000 wembersliip, propoi to tell the balance of the J/ason’ic that it must keep its hands off their local Maronic affairs, and that they will enfotj. the laws of jurisdiction, not by . tion in kind, but by absolute severanca of jITasoni’, intercourse with all offendiac Grand Bodies and , their members-!' Voice of Masonry. The Grand Mast.rr. . of Michigan re. ' plies to the question—Has a Lodge fie! right to attend the funeral of a deceased I member in a case where the funeral cer f eraony is not fierforraed by it, hut is cot ducted by tbe Order of Knights Ten. ^ plar ? Answer—The principle involve! 1 in the question propounded is one th- has caused mucli disemssion amor.gleari.! ed and distinguished Masons in many c the Grand Jill isdictions in the counlr;, . It has been very uuiformlv held that :. Lodge has no light to take part wilhaiT) other organization in conducting afniie:-’ ill ceremony, thereby creating iicerenij-i ny which is partly Masonic and part!, the ceremony of some o’lier order, andis' this conclusion, so wisely arrived at, i, most heartily concur. At this poir,:. ‘ liowevci,! must stop. After a nos, earnest and careful examination of lb 1 subject I am unable to concede .the con [ rectness of the rule established by ioe J' decisions which prohibits a Lodge frea simply attending the, funeral of adeceii. ed member as a mourner, when the cere- | inony is conducted entirely by someoli-, er rganization. The unity -of the orgasiia- tion of the Lodge is not thereby desuojeil, nor the beautiful ceremony of our iDst! ^ tiitioii marred, or the dignity of ilasom; lowered. The Lodge in such a case:- j unit simply marches in procession to lb ; grave and, although taking no part u the ceremony, pays that decent respe::' to the memory' of a departed Erotk, which not only brotherly love but ori,- | nary humanity dictates. Having dtii | this—having droppeil the symapthei;:; tear upon his grave, and shown a kind.,- , regard and affection for a Brother.vvloa | death has taken—the Lodge still preser- ing (he unity of its organization, retan- to the place from whence it started tolab; such other or more formal action as ns; j be deemed appropriate in view cf fe bereavement it has sustained. A knowledge of science attained h by were reading, though infinitely Wh than ignoraiide, is knowledge of a vet difi’i-rent kind from that whjcii an,-.- fioth contact with fact.—Huxley. Epitaph on a Candle. A tncIccJ one' lies buried liere, Wlio died ill a d-c/i»ie; lie never rose in rank I fear, Tlioiigli iie was born to sliine- He orce w.is ,/)/’, buttben. indeed- Grew tliiii I'ls any griever; -lie died, the doctors ail agreed, Of a most biir/ibi,? fever. If e'er yon said, ‘‘Go out, I l>my, As inucb iil-natiire showed ; On siicli occasions lie would sa}, ‘■Vy.ifl do, I’m hloived.' In this ids frii'nds do all agree, Altlinii,!rli you think Tin joknig» IVlieii going out 'tis said that lie tVas.very fond oismokiug' Since all religion lie de."pi^d, Let tlie.se few words suffice. Before lie ever was baptized, , Xliey dip2>ed liim once or tn i« ■ PAYS' ADVERTISING
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