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YOL. II.
Opening Ode for Eoyal Arch Chapters.
Where burns the Sacred Fire.
Each heart, with pure desire,
Bring tlioiigiits ct'Love!
Who Willi atfeclions cold.
Would hicliot praise withhold.
When Hope’s best joys unfold,
The blis' above?
CnoRUs. —Who, witli affections, etc.
While to our Heavenly King,
Hearts filled with love we bring,
Come join in praise.
’Neatli llea /eirs’ broad arch of blue,
Wiiere dwell the free and true.
There our liet vows anew
In anthems raise!
CnoKUS.—’Neath Heaven’s, etc.
Death in a Dishcloth*
A lady says in the Rural World:—•
'When some ol you are sure to be down
with typhoid fever; when neighbors are
neglecting their own work to nurse you ;
when doctors are hunting in cellars and
old drains for the cause, let me whisper
in your ear. Look to your dishcloths. If
they be black and stiff and smell like a
“bone yard, " it is enough—throw them in
the fire, and henceforth and forever wash
your dishes with cloths that are white,
cloths that yon can see through, and see
if you have that disease again. There
are sometimes other causes, but I have
smelled « whole house full of typhoid
fever in one "dishrag.” I had some
neighbors once-olever, good sore,of folks;
one fall four of them were sick at one
time with typhoid fever. The doctor or
dered the vinegar barrels whitewashed,
and threw about forty cents worth of car
bolio acid in the swill pail and departed.
I went into the kitchen to make gruel—I
needed a dishcloth and looked about and
found several, and such “rags f’ I burned
them all, and called the daughter of the
house to get me a dishcloth. She looked
around on the tables. “Why,” said she,
“there were about a dozen here this
morning;” and she looked in the wood
box and on the mantelpiece, and felt in
the dark corner of the cupboard. “W'ell,”
I said, T saw some old, black, rotten
rags lying round, and burned them, for
there is death in such dishcloths as those,
and you must never use such again.”
I “took turns” at nursing that family
four weeks, and I believe those dirty dish
cloths were the cause of all that hard
vvork. Therefore, I say to every houl^e^
keeper, keep your dishcloths clean. You
may wear dresses without ironing, your
Bunbonnets without elastics—but ^you
must keep your dish cloths clean, a on
may only comb your head on Sundays,
you need not wear a collar, unless you
go from home—but you must wash your
dishcloth. You may only sweep the floor
“when the sign gets right;’ the window
don't need washing, you can look out at
the door; that spider web on the front
porch don’t hurt anythir g—but, as you
love your lives wa.sh out your dishcloth.
Let the foxtail get ripe in the garden (the
seed is a foot deep anyway), let the holes
in the heels of your husband s footrags go
undarned, let the sage go ungatheied, let
the children’s shoes go two Sundays with
out blacking, let two hens set on one
wooden egg-but wash your diseloth clca?i.
GREENSBORO, N. C„ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1876.
NO
i A Modern Lady Freemason.
I
j A curious case has occurred in Huugaiy,
j where a Oounte.^s liadick as been reci.dved
j as a Freemason in an llnngaria-i Lodge, un-
j der tlie Grand Client of Hungaiy. She is
described as “a highly educated lady, and
well \crsed in Masonic literature” especially
having studied Ma.~onic history and ritualism,
she appli d for initiation; we an-further told
slic w’as “ballotted for and regularly initiated.”
On tile fact coming to the knowledge of the
GrandOrient of Hungary it ‘‘declan'd the ini
tiation und and void.” on the ground that a
W’oman was “incapable of being a Froema-
son.’’ So the case stands at present; but a
question has ari.^en, wliether. as she luis been
actually initiated, she can be refused admis
sion into a Freemason’s Lodge Wlien w'e
c-tisider the case carefully, two main points
P'vseiits themselves, namely, the theoretical
and the practical side of the question. The-
ori'tically, we appreheinl tiie act of the Lodge
and of the members *vas ipso facto illegal, no
W(unan being capable of admission properly,
and the rules and laws of Freemasonry only
contemplating and dealing’with men. But a
qu' Stion comes in here almost necessarily—
has the Grand Orient of Hungary taken alto
gether the right view’of the casf% and dealt
with it entirely '^jure latomicol'''' Much of
course must depend upon the laws of the
Grand Orient itself, but we are inclined to
think that a doubt may fairly arise as to the
actual pow'er of the Grand Orient to declare
the initiation ‘‘null and void.” It is one
thing to condemn a W. IM. and a Lodge for
an act of illegality 6-d; it is quite another
thing to declare an act, even if illegally com
mitted, '“nnll and void.” And especially is
this the case as regards an initiation. “Once
a Mason always a Mason” is an old Masonic
adage, and W’e confess tluit we do not exactly
undersumd how the countess’ initiation, per
formed ill open Lodge, can be declared “null
and void,” or liowq having been formally (if
illegally) made a Mason, she can be unmade
by any decision Tne Grand
Orient of Hungary could, we apprehend, or
der the initiation to be repeated, but can it
declare it “null and void.” In England w^e
sometimes repeat ceremonies on account of
informalities, or technical defects, but we are
not aw’are of aii}^ decision declaring an initia
tion and the like “null and void” on any
o-round. In fact, we no not see how that can
be done. It is competent for the Grand
Lodge tore-fuse a certificate on the ground of
an improper reception, without which Count
ess IhivUck could not gain admission into a
regular Lodge, but she then continues a “3Ia-
son unattached.”
The whole blame, of course, lie.-on the W.
M. and the Lodge, as they must liave known
that they w'ero acting in defiance of the iiu
changing Masonic law on the subject. iSTo
one could, we feel strongly have found fault
with any decision which the Grand Orient of
Hungary could liavc come to, as to the actual
wrong-doing of the Master and Bij|Lhren of
the offending Lodge. But there conic in here
furtlierand wider questions. Is Countess
Hadick, by the decision of the Grand Orient
precluded from all Jlasonic membership with
: any Lodge? Is the original wrong of tliis ad-
I misdoii SO' great that nothing can repair it?
I Does the sentence of the Grand Orient ot llunr
i o-.u'v so annul Countess Harelick’s initiation,
i tliat she must still be considei'od as a profane ?
I On tlie stiict letter of the law she was inadmis
sible for initiation, but having becti duly
I (t ough improperly) initiate 1, Avliat then? Our
I readers will sec what a nice point of .Masonic
I jurispindence crops up. Now we venture to
' say, looking at the marun- fairly, bnmdly and
liberally, that we are inclined to think the best
course for the Gran I Orient of Hungary will
be to make an exC'-prional cas * of it, to recog
nize the “fait accompli.” thougli with the dis
tinct declaration that the act, being absolutely
illegaler .96, would entail exemplary punish-
mentonany Lodge and i/aster so off.niding
again, and. if n^ed be, to enact a special law
on the subject. Such a course of proceeding
would be better we think, than the declara
tion that the act is ‘"null and void” per .s-e, as
ill that case much may he advanced hy Mason
ic casuists we apprehend, which may give
rise to many and somnwhat difficult qu stions.
At the same time this initiation of a lady is a
curious Lict in itself, at the pesent time, and
de.serves to be bro'’.ght before the knowledge
and attention of our many intelligent i-eaders
and we shall be glad to hear the opinions of
any of our Brethren on the .‘^ubject.—London
Freemason.
A Long Beard.—A member oftlie Hum
boldt (Pa ) county pioneers has a beard live
feet in lengtli. It has beeivgrowing 10 years,
and had it not been for an attack of sickness
it would be several inches longer. Already it
is almost to the ground, and as ’.he owner
walks the streets a crowd of people surround
him at every turn, and boi’(‘ him wit'i inter
rogative incident to such a strange sight. Tiie
pioneer who hosts of this beard signifies his
intention of exposing it to the public gaze
only upon each aniiiversaiy of the society of
which he is a respective member.
Keccntly, at Saratoga Springs, New York,
while Harper, the clown of Barnum’s Circus,
was passing up Broadway, a little ciiildslip'
ped from a three story window:, and came
headlong toward the pavement. Harper, at
the instant, anil, as it would seem providential
ly, caught sight of the child as it left the win
dow above, and witli the alacrity of a cat plac
ed himself in pn.rition to break its fall. When
it came dow n to him lie caught it with a linn
grasp, and not only broke its fall, but held
it fi\-m going to the pavement. The act was
bold and dangerous, hut successful. The
athlete suffered some little injury, but not
enough to speak of in connection with so ex
traordinary a feat.
The Doctrine of Transwcssion. —A boy
had been punished by bis father with solitary
confinement for lying. lie show’od on his re
lease that he had been employing his time in
theological reffections, instead of using it for
sch-mortification He asked Ms father, “Pa,
did you ever tell lies when jmn were little?”
The father, peiliaps conscience smitten, en-
d(‘avorcd to evade the que.^tion. But tlie child
persisted. “Did you tell iies when yon were
little?” “Well, no,” ^aid the father; “but
win'do yon ask?” “Did ma teU lies when
she was little ?” “I don’t know, my son ; yon
must ask her.” “Well,” ri'torted the young
hopeful, “one of you must have told lies, or
yon could not have had a boy that would do
it.”
CLIPPINGS.
lie was a tramp. “Of what use is the cask
et when the jewel is gone?” he remarked, as
lie- quaffed tii^ contents of a half-pint flask,
and then shied the bottle at a cat.
.... Leaves are falling.
.... Paris contains 150,000 dogs.
.... An angry man opens his month an i
shuts his ‘yes.
.... Edwin Adams, the actor, is reported
dying in Au.siralia
.... Few London tradesmen get at their
stores before 9 A. M.
.... Small faults indulged are little thieves
that let in greater.
.... I’lie fashionable Neevport peanut deal
er sells twenty bushels a ivvek.
.... Harri.-on county, Texas is developing
as a tobacco-growing section.
.... A Iarg(‘ shoe factory in San Francisco
iias discharged all its Chinese lielp. •
... The ourfewf is still tolled at Stratford-
upon-Avon. Shakespeare’s bir h-place.
Cider apples in any quantity can be
bought at Franklin, Mass., for ten cents a
bushel.
A Springfield (Ma-s.) teacher has been
absent from his school only four times in 10
years.
.... The wages of tlie operative in the TI il-
kiiisonville (Mass.) mill, have been raised 10
per cent.
. Tlie Japanese Government is about to
pi’obiUit all busim*ss parter.-lnp between na
lives and foreigners.
'I’he centennial judges appeal to have
succeeded in dispIeaMiig eveiybody and pleas
ing nobody in awarding their prizes.
.... Score one more for Yale. One of this
year’s graduates has accepted a position as pal
ace car conduet w on a MassaclinsoUs Bail-
roal.
.. As an evidence of ■woman’s confiding
natung it is ment oned that a young lady in
Indianapolis was married the otlicr day to a
Mr. Forget.
.... Distrust is the death oftlie soul, belief
isitslif". The- just shall live by L.ith. Infi
delity is the abandonment of life, a suicide of
the spirit.
.... In the history of thejiirisprudence of
the State of Virginia the Supreme Court’s reo
ords sho'.v that but one case of'dlvoi'ce was ev
er brought before it.
A Texim has a musk hog, or peccary
tliat follo-ws him like a dog. Its kind were
once numerous in Texas, and very ferocious in
their wild conditk n.
The graves of Gmi. Lee and iliss Agnes
Lee, in memorial chapid, liexingtou, Va., are
ornamented witli fresh flowers cveiy morning,
winter and .’^ummei’.
.... One beanti'ful trait in a woman’s char
acter is her invariable readiness to smobtli her
husband’s temperament, even if she has to do
it with an aching heart.
.... When you see a young lady Vith dia
mond earrings ' and a trail going along the
street, witli apcaind of cheese neatly done up
in brown paper under her arm, theres some
thing wrong somcwliere, di pend upon it.
.... There lives at Boston Highlands, Mass.,
a veneraiile dame named Harriet Hawley, who
is 103 years old, and wlio lias never vi-ited a
theatre nor ridden in a railroad cat-. Her
father stood by tlie side of Gen. Warren when
he fell at Bunker Hill.
.... When a inan opens a newspaper on
the pictnr*s of a dozen coal stoves, each oii“
warranted to he the best ever made, and all
others declared to he base impositions, he
iloesn't care fu* a moment whether coal is up
or down Detroit Free Press.
A fish dinner is shortly to be given by
a- New York gentleman interested in sea food.
Bread made of lisli meal, the product of Swe
den, I'llckied sharks' fins from China, and a fish
preparation froin Japan, will be among ilie
dollcacR's.
.... A Kansas youth of 28. who wanted to
m.iiTV a widow of 30, with six cliiidivn, xvas
d(;t(‘i‘red llierefrom by the lady's friends, who
visited liiin one night armed with shotguns
and pitchforks, and requested a lUseontinu-
ance of his attentions.