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THE MASONIC JOURNAL
“THE AGER.”
(By Prof J. P. Stelle, editor of the Fro-
gressivc Farmer and of the agricu Itural
department ofthe Mobile Fegister.)
Once upon an eveningbleaiy,
While I sat me dreamy, dreary,
Jn the sunshine thinking over
Thingsthat passed in the clays of yore;
While 1 nodded, nearly sleeping,
Pp my back, like water seeping—
Seeping upward from the floor.
‘•’Tisa cooling breeze,” I inurniured,
•‘From the regions neatb the floor—
Only this and nothing more.’’
Marvel of Tattooing.
Hemarkable Subject From the Hands of
the Skillful Chinese 'Tartars.
Oh! distinctly I reincmlier
Jt was in that wet Seplember,
tVlien the eai'th and eveiy member
Of creation that it bore
Had for days a)id weeks been soaking
In tlje meanest most provoking
I'oggy rains, witliont joking,
We had ever seen before;
Jro I knew it must be very
Cold and damp beneath the floor—
Very cold beneath the floor.
So I sat me nearly napping.
In thesmisliine, stretching, gaping,
Craving water, but delighted
IVitli the breeze from iieath the floor;
Vnd I lie stretehing growing bolder,
j\nd myself a feeling older—
Older than I’d felt bef >re;
Feeling than my joints were stiffer
Thau they were in days of yore- ■
Stiffer tliau they’ve been before.
All along my back the creeping
Coon gave place to rushing, leaping,
-Vs if countless fjozen demons
Had concluded to explore
All the cavities—the ‘'varmints’’
'Twixt me and my nether garments.
Up iny hair and downward
Tliroiigh my boots into the floor;
Then I found myself a shaking,
Gently first but mc.ie and more—
Every moment more and more.
’Twas the ager and it shook me
Into many clothes and took me
Sliaking to the Kitclien—every
Place where there was warmth instore;
Shaking till the dish was sliattered,
Shaking till the tea was spatteied.
Shaking and w'ith all my wanning
Feeling colder than before;
Shaking till it liad exiiansted
All its powers to shake me more—
Till it could not shake me more.
Then it rested till the morrow,
Tlieii resumed witli all the horror
'That it had the face to bornv.
Shaking, shaking as before,
.\iid from Hiat day in September- -
Day that I shall long rememter—
It has made diurnal visits,
Shaking, shaking, oh so sore!
Shaking off my boots and sliaking
Me to bed, if nothing more—
Fully this if nothing more.
And to-day the swallow.s flitting
Hound my cottage see me sitting
Moodily within the sunshine
Just inside iny silent door.
Waiting for tlie ager, seeming—
I.ike a man forever dreaming,
And the sunhglit on me streaming
'I’hrows no sliadow on tlie floor:
For I am t.io thin and sal'ow
To make shadow.s on the floor;
Kaiy shadow—any more '
Maxims for Masons.
Sucli as boast most usually fail much.
Hasty climbers have sudden falls.
Give your friend oounnil with caution.
Many go out for wool and come back
shorn.
Keep good company and be one of the
number.
Scorn to do a mean action.
He that sowest brambles must not
breafoot.
He that the shoe fits may put it on,
'When the witches wished Macbeth ‘all
Kail,’ was it because they thought he i
would have a stormy reign? j The instrument used in tattooing, the
.... I captain §ays, was divided into three parts
There is a Masonic journal published | The part holding the fluid was slit like a
m Alexandria, Egypt. ' pen, four inches long and an inch and a
Gapt. George Oostentenus, a descend
ant of a noble Greek family, from the
providence of Albania, arrived in New
York yesterday in the Suevia. From
the head to foot on every inch of his body
incliidin.u even the scalp and the soles of
his feet, he is a mass of the most artistic
and elaborately colored tattooing, in let
ters, signs, figures of quadrupeds, birds,
fishes and reptiles. Captain Oostenteniis
is tall, dark complexioned, of superb
physique, and about forty-five years of
age. He does not read English, but con
verses fluently^ in his own tongue, and in
the Italian, Arab, Turkish and Persian
languages, and speak.s a little Fiench and
German, and a few words of english. The
climate here affects him so that he keeps
muffled in a coarse suit lined with fur, |
with a soft round cap pulled down over
his forehead, and a thick pair of gloves
on his hands. His heavy beard only par
tially conceals the tattooing on his weath
er-beaten face.
Costentenus’ early history is that of
many Albanians. He has always been a
soldier of fortune. Pi 1867 he and elev
en others penetrated Chinese Tartary and
sided with the rebels.
THE PARTY WERE CAPTURED,
and two or three were killed, and the rest
were submitted to an ordeal of tattooing,
which only two survived, Capt Costen-
teims and a Spaniard, who has since died
The operation lasted three months and
was performed daily. Six men held him
down while a seventh wielded a tattooing
aparatus. At the conclusion of the op
eration he regained his health, and was
freed by the Tartars, instead of making
bis escape, as was reported.
This tattooing was done to warn out
side barbarians ofthe danger of penetrat
ing the Tartar’s domains.
Nothing like the captain’s person has
ever been seen in civilized countries. By
the side of his gorgeously- embellished cut-
tide the tattooing of South Sea Islanders
fades into insignificance. The material
used was indigo and cinnabar, the former
introducing a black and the latter a red.
At a first glance the captains body seems
to be covered with a Turkish shawl, but
a dose examination shows that the pic
tures in two colors are produced bv uu-
ntimbered points. On his forehead are
animals and inscription.?, and on his face
star-like figures. On the hands are nu
merous red points and figures resembling
sculptures as well as longtailed, panther
like shapes. The ears are absolutely the
only part of the body free from tattooing,
I even the scalp being embellished. On the
j neck chest abdomen, b ick and extremities
the.skin usa mas.s of symmetrically ar-
ranged and admirably executsd figures of
monkeys, tigers, lions, elephants, pea
cocks, storks,
SWaNP, SNAKES, CRO'JODIXjES,
lizaj’ds mingled with bows, arrows, leaves,
flowers and fruits. Between the figures
are words in Berminian in blue and red
letters, and simple points or stars and cir
des. The original skin is invisible. On
the palms of the hands are indescribable
figures and little figure.^ are on the inside
ff the fingers. On the back sides of both
feet to the toes are blue points, and fram
the toes to the nails are red lines. Alto
gether there are 388 tattooed pictures on
the entire body—on the forehead, 2; neck
8; chest, 50; back, 87; abdomen, 52; upper
extremities, 101; lower extremities, 13V
half wide, coming down to two points.
In the mid le was a cylinder of brass,
four inches long, and on top was a third
piece, four inches long, of iron, with a
knob at the end. Tne three parts were
joined by capsules. The instrument was
inserted between the thumb and forefin-
ger ol the left hand, to guide it. and the
right hand made the punctures with e.x-
treme ra;*idity.
fl’he captain has several scars on bis
body as evidences of his numerous en
gagements, and these show plainly
through the tattooing. He has seen ev
ery country tn the world except Amerioa.
He is going to the Centennial Exhibition.
—N. Y. Snn.
tllASOSIC lOUsif
FOR THE
MASOinO FEATEKKITY
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How THE Scots were Educated.—It
is .said that in the last century every
Scotchman carried in his side pocket a
copy ofthe Book of Proverbs. In mo
ments of leisure, when the plow rested
in the furrow, and merchandise waited
for custom, the little volume was perused
again and again, until its wisdom became
the veiy marrow and nerve of Seotti.sb
character.
“A nation made by a book” is almost,
the correct description of Scotchmen—
and that Book is the Bible
Charity is the real e.ssence of Masonry.
How important then, is it, that this du
ty should be placed foremost in the Ma
son’s chart. Without the practice of this
virtue, the order is meaningless, a delu
sion, and a snare, a sounding brass and a
tinkling symbol, void of substance.
I N. C. and the South.
; T/irre are hi the .South 200,000 Frecmasoiw
1 and ivcog-nizino-tlu* impoiaiive need fora i-..'
, idarnnd peculiarly
I to the demau'ls ot'tlds va^l nunibei- ‘'who ai-e
I linked io,^ -ther by an chain ofdn
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