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THE MASONIC JOURNAL
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' Office on Sontli Elm Street, drst door
nortli of the Patriot Office.
Our readers will find the promised Syn
opsis of the Prooeeding.s of our recent
Grand Lodge, on the 4th and 5th pages
■ of this number.
When ordering this paper friends will
please renjember that it is positively
against our rule to enter the name of any
one on our books as a subscriber until
the money is received. By so rsmem-
bering you will save much trouble and
unpleasantness.
A Frenchman, named Prof, De Lagar-
liere. has been running a bogus Masonic
.Lodge in Boston, and found fools enough
i in that city to put about $500 into his
I pockets, at the rate of $10 and $15 each
;for initiation. Worse than all, these
■ptoor dupes .are all known, and their
i,names and residences registered and pub
lished. We regard them on an equal
floting, on the score of honesty, with the
. dealers in counterfeit currency.
We return thanks to brother Mo.Kay
Dugan for a copy of his “New Year's
' Gift,'’ published at Osage Agency, Indian
' Territory, It is intended to show the
doings of the Agency for the past three
years, and to show which we make the
-following extract
tThree years ago last spring the Agency
was located here, and looking over the
work accomplished in that short space of
time it seems .almost incredible, and es
pecially, so, when we consider that the
work is'the oivilizrlion of the Osages.
lln: the spring of 1872, the traveler would
-only'have seen an unbroken prairie over
'.which,roamed the savage, either npon
.the war path or in search of game. Now
■we find a village containing stores, a
iflouring mill, wagonshops, a magnificent
■school house, &c. ; and in the vici.iity of
■the Agency are many farms 'upon wh.ich
are Osages engaged in agricultural pur
suits and stock-raising. Perhaps one of
the most interesting features of the Agen
cy is its school, which has an attendance
of over eighty children, mostly full
bloods, and under charge of “Uncle”
Benjamin Miles who has employed two
teachers. This is a step in the right di
rection, for it is easier to train the young
than the old, and the interest manifested
by the children shows that much has been
.and.can be accomplished.
OuTEASEOUS.—The report comes to us
through the Press of the outrageous con
duct of the court officials at Jacksonville,
Florida, where three unfortunates have
been confined for over two years in the
county jail for the pitiful sum, each, of
$lU court cost. This of itself is an inhu
manity that should not he tolerated in
any civilized community, and the brut
ish officials should be made to feel the
keen lash of the law which they so wan
tonly outrage.
Besides, we learn that these prisoners
have, daring this time cost the county
nearly $900. It would have been a mer
cy to them and their families to have
farmed them out ior the amount, besides
an overwhelming saving to the county.
How aptly the old adage of gnat and
camel applies here.
Credit.
This is one of the vexed questions of
newspaperdom, and, perhaps, there never
was an editor, in modern times at least,
but who has had unpleasant experience
with it. By the rule of promiscuous
slashing, as practiced in some offices,
many an arti"le is made to go the rounds
of the press without any paternity, or
what is far worse, with snob as would
make the author blush for shame should
he see it.
Of course, there is a large class of mat
ter that will always float around without
special authorship, and is not worth any,
but the plan of gobbling up all the best
editorials and letting them pass coinage
before the public as original with the pa
pers publishing them is, to say the least., a
species of thievery that should be frowned
down by the honest press of the country.
Frequently we see articles of merit and
value, which from their remote position
from the original departmsnts of the pa
pers, we know to be copie.l, and wishing
to publish them -we are at sea as to whom
to give the proper credit. What shall
we do ? credit improperly or give no cred
it? The latter, we Ihinlc is preferable;
but in justice to ourself and with a de
sire to aid in abating the evil, we shall in
future credit all such class of matter to the
papers from which we take it, and leave
our contemporaries to “catch thief’ for
themselves. If all the papers will adopt
this rule t he evil will soon be cured.
the above paragraph.
Maso-iry knows no creed save that em
blazoned upon its own banner ;
“Faith in God,
Hope in Immoktality,
C-HARITY TO ALL MANKIND..'
We do not censure our Hebrew breth
ren for their religious faith, nor arrogate
to ourself the right to set in judgement
upon them because they are Jews, and
we do think that, in a Christian country
and as a member of a largely ascendant
Christian Brotherhood, the Leader is
grossly wrong in flinging its inuendoes in
the face of the great body of Christian
Masons.
“Charity.—A brother having died in
Australia, leaving nothing to his family
but “ pious poverty, God's blessing, and a
father’s prayers,” the Craft there saw
“the necessity of making immediate pro
vision for the helpless and the destitute.”
The result was a donation of £115.—$5,-
75, and a determination not to stop at
that amount. Where is the evidence that
the Christian Oynosurians e ever done
even half as mnch for a destitute widow
and her children '! Scoffing, not reliev
ing the distressed, is their favorite pas
time.”
We copy the above from the N. Y.
Hebrew Leader, to ask of our respected
cotemporary if his intention is to draw j
an invidious distinction between the Aus
tralian Jews and the large body of Amer
ican Christians, by -w'ay of offering insult
to the latter? If so, we respectfully
suggest that the Leader should never
again publish a line on the sublime tenets
of Masonry, nor associate with the great
body of the Brotherhood in Christian
America. As a Mason and a Christian \
Minister we cannot say less than this. j
We know that the churches, Lodges
and Synagogues all fall far short of their
duty in the great work of charity, but is
it right, is it just, is it Masonic to seek to
array one body of the Brotherhood
against another when each, as one, are
engaged in the one work of dispensing that
blesse'l Masonic Charity mentioned in
A Masonic Lecturer in a nj.w Role.
—The Wilson Adeanee le\U the follow
ing good story : There is perha['.s not a
Mason in middle or eastern North Caro
ohna who is wot on intimate terms with
Bernice AValker, the well known, Grand
Lecturer of that Order for the State at
large. To those who have not that pleas
ure, we propose to introduce him. He is
a bachelor from habit, (whether from
choice or not, we are not prepared to
Say), slightly passed the mediocre of life,
of tall bin not commanding stature, mod-
rately good looking, with no hope of
improvement in this particular, a soul as
arge as a meeting house and a fund of
dry wit and quaint humor, sufficient to
fill said buil'ling. This is the man, the
same, who after several months of pro
fessional duty, worn out and fatigued with
the toils of travel, on the day before
Christmas, sought the ho.sfiitable mansion
of Esquire Wm. M. Blatkwell, in the
good ('Id county of Granville, to spend in
quiet retirement the holiday season. He
was met at the gate by his old friend who
bade h im a double welcome. “Ron ray
word” said the squire, “glad to see you ;
why, do you know that Joe and Ben C.
the best bird hunteis in Warren county
will be here to-night? The lecturer was
delighted at this news. Accordingly
about sunset the Warren county sports
drove 11)1 and were escorted to the house
where a general hand-shaking reunion of
old friend.x ensued.
After supper, preliminaries for the
morrow’s bird hunt was in order.
“Ac I am too old now to be ranting ov*i
the fields with you boys. Walker, .you
take my gun and bap, said the Squire.”
“Never shot a gun but twice in my life,”
said the man of the mystic tie. “But you
must,” insisted the Squire.
“No,” said the lecturer, “I'll go along
as marker and game carrier.”
This was agreed upon and early next
morning ihe sports were in the field,
For an hour or so the shooting was fine,
birds were plentiful, the route smooth
and easy and the man of Masonic fame
enjoying the sport liugely,so much that
he failed to observe severaj private con
ferences between the Warrenites.
“Ibis way, M alker, we are going over
now to a new field,” said Joe C. with a
knowing wink to Ben.
“All right, boys I’ll be witli you to the
end, don’t be afraid of my not keeping
up,” answered the old bach.
For a mile and a quarter the route lay
over the roughest fields and woods, deep
est gullies, highest fence.s and thickest un
derwood ra Granville county, where it
Came to a brier swamp a half a mile in
width at its narrowest point. The Warren
sports halted just long enough to glimpse
the jaded bachelor in sight, who by this
time had doffed his overcoat, thrown
away his umbrella, and with hat in hand
coming at full sj.eed. Beckoning him on,
the Warren boys plunged into the swamp
and running up a hundred yards found a
path which carried them throngn dry
shod, butthe lecturer went straiglu ahead”,
first in slush mud. then waistdeepij
ter, and often tight in the embrace of'*'
yielding vines and briers. After ft'
most heroic efforts he managed to *
the opposite side and emerged
thicket, hatless, with one boot on, tie left
half of his spike-tail coat entlrol-
, , ^ giw,
vvst open and trousers i;i shreds and slit
The Warren sports hailed him
their point of concealment on the tin
but he bore to the left and when lastseej
was making a bee line in the direction of
Oxford. It was afterwards ascertained
that he flanked this town on the right
and it is to be hoped that ere this hehai
safely landed in the protecting arms of
his fast friend. Buck Blackwell, of Du'.
ham tobacco fame, to whom he can unfold
the burdens of a heart saddened with the
reflections of a Granville county hitd
hunt with a couple of Warren countr
s).orl8 on Ohristmab day.
I. oTo. r.
There are upwaid
Lodges in Ohio.
of
S'A huiidrtii
The Eacampment branch of the Order
in Kentucky has had a large increase ij
membership during the past year.
Illinois will have the Ritual translated
into the Swedish language. They havi
a considerable number ol Swedes in tint
State-
Grand Encampment of
Wisconsin.
The Grand Encampment met at Osb
kosh 01; Tuesday Nov. 30th, John 11
Vivaii, G. r, presiding. Present: I,
11. Hotchkiss, G. H. P. ; T. B. Elliott,C,
S. W. ; L. B. Hills, G. Scribe ; D. Adler,
G. Treas.; O. E. We.dherby, G. J. "W.:
W. Reynolds, Rep. to G. L. of U. S.;
and all of the apijiointed officers.
In the report of the Grand Patriarcl.
it was stated that all the SuboidinaU
Encamj'menta which had not been vieit-
ed by his predecessor last year had been
visited by himself, in which work he lad
been ably assisted by Grand Scribe
Hills, the “Nestor of Odd Fellowship in
Wisconsin.” The office of the Grand
Instructor is one which ought to be es-
tabll.-^hed, and its consideration was ret-
ommended.
Among the decisions of the Grand Pa
triarch, the most impo.-tant was tbi!
which otated the right of a Patriarch ta
receive a withdraw al card before havinj
taken the R. P. Degree.
1 he Subject of nnifo.'-ms was toncheil
upon, and encamjiments recommended to
obt-din uniforms as rajiidly as possible.
It is the opinion of the Grand Patriarik
that the rigid requirements of Eucainp-
meiits in reference to memorising tb«
work, though perhajis originally uiiad-
vis.'ible, ought not now to he departed
from
Three new Encampments have been
instituted during the present year and
two revived.
The receipts for the year were fl,"6P,
of which 81,731 w ere used, a larger
amount than usual having been eipenieet
in printing for the Grand Ericam]'meDf'
The gain in this branch of Odd lellow"
ship during the year has been 175 mem-
bers, wbich is not so great as it ought L
be, and as it may be with judicious work.
The Grand Encampment ought no longer
be a mere attachment to the Grand
Lodge, but should legislate in such )
manner as to change the time of holding
the meeting of the Grand Enoampiuentlo
the montli of June, or some other dnl*
which shall cut it loose from the Grand
Lodge, and insure its complete indepen
dence.
The rejiort of the Grand Scribe shows
that the total number of Patriarchs m
this Slate is 2,12G, of whom 621 aremera-
beis of the Grand .Encamjiment. Iweiij
ty widofr'ed families have beer, relieve'
during the past year with other individ
ual reliefs to members of this branch o
the Order. The estimate of the expense*
for the Grand Encampment for the ensu
ing year is $1,045.