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From the Louisville, (Ky.,) Masonic Journal. The Masonic Prayer, “Gofl bless the mystic brotherhood !”j A dying Mason cries, “ ’ Twill give my orphans clothes and food, And dry their weeping eyes. A passing angel caught the word, As from the lips it fell; Then soaring like an uncaged bird, He reached the upper realm. The seraphim around him pressed Asking, sought to know, What wo''d he brought among the blessed. From mankind down below. The angel then spoke out the prayer To the shining host so free •One shoot from all the crowd was there, “God grant! So mote it be.” The eelio of this prayer rang cle,ar, Throughout broad Heaven’s dome; A whisper came, “To God is dear The ilason and his Home.” Ill tlie German Empire, there are at present in existence 8 Grand Lodges, with 325 Subordinate Lodges and 5 in dependent Lodges, Their classifications are as follows: In Berlin the Grand Lodge of the three globes. 111 Subordinate Lodges, Grand Londeg Lodge with 82 Lodges; Royal York with 49 Lodges; Grand Lodge of Hamburg v/ith 23 Lodges; Grand Lodge of the Sun at Beyreuth with 22 Lodges; Grand Lodge of Saxony with 18 Lodges; Eclectic Circle with 12 Lodges; Grand Lodge of the Union at Darmstadt with 9 Lodges and 5 Independent lodges, alto gether 331 Lodges. The kingdom of Prussia contains 220 Lodges, or two-thirds of all German Lodges, of which three globes has 103; Grand L. L., 63; Royal Y'ork, 46; Ham burg, 1; Eclectic Circle, 6, and Union, 1. Of Lodges working under Berlin Grand Lodges there are si .x Lodges in Frankfort on-the Main' and one in either Hanati nr Wiesbaden. German Lodges are in activity in 269 cities, and one is in a village, of which Berlin has 17; Hamburg, 13, Frankfort- on-the-Main. 6 Lodges sixteen cities each 2 Lodges, and the balance of cities each one Lodge, Germany has in a population of 41,100 000, 331 Lodges, or one Lodge to 124.242 inhabitants. France basin a population of36,100,- 000, 248 Lodges,or one Lodge to 141,536 inhabitants. The word Freemason is found in a stat ate of Edward VI. of the year 1548. In the year 1506, John Hylmerand William Vertne, Freemasons., were engaged to “vaulteor doo to be vawlted with free stone, the roof of the quere of the College Roiall of our Lady and St. George, within the castell of Wyndsore, according to the roof of ths body af the said college.” This appears in an indenture dated June 5, 21st year of the reign ef Henry VIII. So saith the Philadelphia Keystone. The surplus funds of the Illinois Be nevolent Society amounts to $53,412.26, Dogs in the Lodge. It w.as at Bllow-i LotUe, .at Billows, P.0, and Bro. P, Billows was W. JI. How everybody that knows Bro. Billows can put his hand on a mm wiio always has dogs around him. In the darkest night you can tell when Billows is coming by meeting his advance guard of dc gs. Amongst his canine friends. Billows liad a venerable “purp” named Jack, a dog tlial ru mor actually averred actually slept with him. so close was the tie that connected canine and human -Jack and Billows went to cluircli together. Seated near the pulpit. Jack seem ed at least the bel ter listener of the two, fo ■ while Billows went to sleep under Rev. .Tin nersou's discourses, Jack always kept wid awake and his eyes on the in-eacher. At th Lodge, Jack always took his station ne ir tlie Senior Deacon’s place. And an ineffable niii- sauce lie was. The Ijodge got fearfally tired of him but nobody would be the first to speak of it. He was constantly jamping up and barking outside. Whenever the Senio.- Dea con -‘welcoined and accomodated” a visiting brotlier. Jack liad to go and make a life-long acciuaintanoe witlr tire stranger tlirougli the sen-^e of smelling, sometimes to toe. stranger’s neifable disgust. And wlien at tne raising of Rev Bro. Jimiersoii, Jack, “oast liis black ball” so to .speak, by mounting the aforesaid ecclesiastic’s prostrate body and tearing his flesli and so a'arming him tlmt the good man uttf.red an exprL‘^siou tliat from anybody but a preacliei- would Iiave been deemed profane; I say til it when Jack tlins violated the harmo ny and decorum of the Masonic Lodge it was thouglit tc' be liigli time to exclude tire dog fi'om tlm tire Lodge. Tire reformation was hrouglit .about, if I have tlie story correct, iu tlie following way. Jo llig doll, an old and rongli brother wlio disliked do.e.'S ever since he lost fifty sheep on one niglit Irv dogs, formed a conspiracy, and eleven otlicrs united avith liim. At tlie next regular meet ing of Billows Lodge, after the Lodge had hocii opened, in came .lo folloavcil by his dog. A ciir he was of portentous magnitude and evil disposition. Seeing Jack near the northeast it was strictly iu acoord- aiice with the evil disposition of Jo’s dog to fly at Billows’dog witliout a ayord of warn ing, and then and tliwe to tost tlie thickness of his (Jack’.s) liide. Over went the sj-mbolic lesmr ligiits. Over went tlie altar witii the symbolic greater liglits ,ali in a muddle. The Junior Warden, an irascibie frater, tlirew his gavel at tlie coinhatauts, but only hit tlie Senior Deacon wlio was stooping over tlie dogs endeavoring to separate them. At tliis liard feelings were engendered. It wa,s some time tiefore tile “unpleasantness” between the two dogs subsided and then only by tlie n.se oftlieliot poker. Jack, badly chawed up, took refiigeunder tiic W. M.’s eliair, while the ot'ier dog was kicked under a heucli by Jo lligsdon. Scarcely was the “reading of tlie minutes” res-ained wlieii tiiree hretliren came in togetlier, each with his dog. At tliis sigfit, ■iack'simply harked and lay still. Evidently he had enougli. But Jo Higsdon’s dog (which liis name I forgot was Bose) being merely warmed by liis late encounter pitclied rin-ht in and tackled tlie new comers Iiefore tirey could possibly understand his intentions. Over again went the two sets of liglits, over this time went the stove. It required a joint effort of officers and mcmliers of Billows ! Lodge to keep tlie peace. Need tins painful tale be prolonged ? Nine more Master Masons were yet to come in, each having liis faithful dog “to bear liim compa- ly.” Nevei .igaiii was the reading of lho.se id utes resumed atttat communication. Pour dogs having run five dogs under the Secreta ry’s table it was but a plea.sing pastime for tiie nine to throw the table over, spill the ink, de range tlie papers and play .smash generally among the ai-chives. Finally every Ma,son caught up a dog, windows -were opened and the whole thirteen, iiicludiug Jack, went earthward to resume their argument on terra ,firma. Tiien after a little excited discussion in the Lodge it was moved and seconded iliat “the Tyler hereifter he forbidden to admit cowans whetlier two legged or four legged in to the Loii.ge room ” Uiuuiimously adopted, and recorded !—Louisville Masonic Journal. Stick to a Legitimate Eusiness. Well directed energy and enterprise are the life of American progress; ’out if there is one lesson taught more plainly than others by tlie great failures of late, it, is tlmt safety lies in st'Ckihg to a legltivmi.tc business. No man — ri'-inufic’.urer, trailer, or b.-mker—has any moral right to be so energCoic and enterpris ing as to take- fro'.n hi’4 legitimate basiiiess the capital ivhic'a it requires to meet an emergen cy. Apologies are sometimes made, for firms who iiave hxili'd, by recurring to tlie important experiments they have aided, and the unnum bered fix'ldso,' enterprise whore they have freely scattered their money. We are told that individual losses sustained by those fail ures win be as nothing compared with the hemdits conferred on the community by their libeality* in comributing to every public work. Tliere is little force in such reasoning. A man’s redations to a credito’’ are vastly differ ent from his relations to what is called the public. The demands of the one are definite the claims of the other are just what the man may make them. The iiistories of honorably successful busi ness men unite to exalt the importance of sticking to a legitimate business ; and it is most instnicrive to see that, in the greater po;tion of the failures, the real cause of disast er was th'* branching out and bej’'ond a legiti mate business, in the taking hold of this and {hat tempting oiler, and, for the sake of some great gain, venturing where they did not know the ground, and could not know the pitfall. A ROMANTIC pair, not more than t,000 miles from New York, wej-e blessed with a number of daught *rs. The eldest was called Caroline, the second iMadeliue, the tliird .Eveline, the fourth Angeline, when lo 1 the fifth made its apjjearaiice, and no name could be found with the dc'lred termination. At length mama, wlio had been reading of the fashion? at Sara toga, pounced upon a name popular at that place, and forthwith t!ie baby vas baptized Crinoline. ITe is good that does good to othei's If he suffers for that good he is better still; and if he suffers from them to Avlioin he did good, he is carried to that height of goodness, that i nothing but an increase of bis sufferings can | add to it; if it proves his death, his virtue is ; its summit, it is heroism complete. i .... Patti is in Moscow. Spurgeon is very ill. .... Lucca owns up to 35. .... Avoid long credit-^ in bu-unes-^. .... Canvass back shooting [-> lively. , .... Books with cardinal ri-d covors. .... Unusually cold weather down south. • •• California will try to cultivate her own oysters. ....The best flax grown in the United States comes from Oregon. .... A difference of taste in jokes is a greal; strain on the affections. .. •. An ostidch feather grows to its full size in six or eight months. .... A Virginia couirty that’s always there when they want it—Nottoway. .... The women soldiers of Dahomey wear boots, chew tobacco and swear. .... Massachusetts has only 4588 profes sional mothers-in-law. Keep cool. .... Auber’s remains have at length been removed to Pere la Chaise Cemetery, .... Fifry-two tons uf silk worm eggs are coming trom China and Japan to San Fran cisco. Never let your zeal outrun yourchari- t}-’; the former is but human ; the latter is di vine. Take care to be an economist in pros perity; there is no fear of your not being one in adversity ....American meat is liked iu English market-, and ir, brings from twelve to seven teen cents a pound. The torch which Israel Putnam used when he entered the wolfs ca've is exliibited in the Old Soutli Church. .... There will never i»e any fuss about subscriptions fora monumentto Antonelli. He built one himself six vears ago at a cost of $20,000. ‘‘The Mastodon House” is tlie propos ed title of a new tavern ill the Black Hills. It’s one of those mammoth summer hotels, we suppose. .... “In Norway drunkards are com]ielled to sweep the streets asa penance.” ThatV nothing. Tiiey have to iiold up lamp posts in this country. ....A Lewiston, (Pa.,) female rnmreller, whose business was spoiled by the police i-e- cently, carried her stock in filled bottles in a “panier” with nine compartments, each com partment holding a bottle. .... A South Carolhia vState Senator se cured the pardon of a negro from tlie peniten tiary, and took him into his employ as a vah-t. Last ’veok the ungrateful scamp decamped with $1000 of his benefactor’s mone3^ .... A lady and gentleman created a sens i- tion iu Quincy tlie other da}'by riding throngii the streets mounted on one hoi-se, he b(*fore and she hehind. They were from Ilamiibn), on their wedding tour. The Greeks do not grow enthusiastic over their Ki gin the present crisis of their afhiirs. He is a German, spemls a good share of his 1 ime abroad, and speaks better English or Fi encli than he does Greiik. .,. ('diaries Clark, a patient at the comitv hospital, dioil at Virginia,'Nev., on Saturday, from tiie effects of a shot gun wound received in California iu 1853. Tlie hall haa been im bedded in his lungs for 34 years .... A Californian has offered the law}'ci- $100,000 to ])recnre him a divorce from' his wife. He has either got dead loads of money and wants to see how fast he can use it up, oV his wife wears out shoes awful fast.—DetroU Free V) 'ess. The following is given as a poor man’s breakfa'-^t, near Colton. SanBernanjo Valiev, C'al. : Tea, sweetened with pure, white.' straincal lioney, thick cream and bread, milk, eggs, Hubbard sqmisli, h‘;nh, poniegi-nnate. black Hamburg grapes, Elamme de Tokav graijes, green figs and peache. Cost; of bivalv- fast for man and u ife. 15 cents.
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