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VOL. II.
Plum tho He rew Lealor
Hark ! ’Tis the Last Trump.
MRS. MARY L. A. K. MtTNDAT.
There’s mouniiiig in nur my-tic hall.
For Iheiv’s a vacant place—
A missing voice—a proud tbot-fall,
And kind familiar fa('e—
Far from our transient sphere away,
Hatli pa-sed to climes of endless day.
From out tlie firmament of thought,
A spirit star liath fled;
Jt-cohmia strong with beauty fraught,
Hiitli fallen among the dead;
A sacred taper liath expired,
A weary soul to rest retired.
Thon’..t laid aside the trestle board,
Tlie comparste and square ;
Tlion hast resigned tlie purple robe
For briglii.er raiments tliere—
Tlie toil is o’er —tlie work is done,
Tlie capstone laid—tiie trinmjili won.
Thon’.st parsed within the inner veil.
In that bless’d Lodge aliove;
And thee will angid wardens hail,
In Ffllow.ship and Love;
■Wliere many a liarp’s serr.pliie tone,
Shall sound around the “the great white
throne.”
Thine ark is safely wafted oe’r
The surging waves of time ;
Tliere ttiou slialt qiialf increa.sing love.
From streams and points sublime;
Rivers o;' joy there flow along,
Like one niiccasiiig tide of song.
Brother, within tliy lethean tomb,
An evergreen we fling ;
As fadeless shall tliy s])irit bloom,
In one perennial spring;
Then rest thee on—until thy dust again.
The last Trump wake,—“So mote it be,”
Amen!
-iri.-inrr—
Good Morning.
Don't forget to say “Good morning 1”
say it to yoiir parents, your brothers and
sisters, your school mates and your teach
ers—and say it cheerfully and with a
smile; it will do your friends good.
There’s a kind of inspiration in every
“good morning,’’ heartily and smilingly
spoken, that helps to make hope fresher
and work lighter. It really seems to
make the morning good, and to be a
pvophecv of a good day to come after it.
And if this is true of the “good morning,’
it is also true of ali , kind, heartsnme
greetings. They cheer the discouraged,
rest the tired one, and somehow make
the wheels of life run smoothly.—Ex.
A Useful Eivf.b.—The Truckee (Cal.)
river has more available power than all
streams of New England combined. It
is a stream of pure mountain water with
an increasing flow of 18,000 cubic feet per
minute, through a narrow valley for fifty
miles ; it never freezes, never overflows
its natural banks, and is so confined by
narural barriers that it can never endan
ger bridges, dams, buildings, or property
of any kind. Have such a stream run
ning fifty miles beside a railroad, and
between two States, and think of its
manufacturing advantages.
GREENSBORO, N. C„ DECEMBER 1, 1876.
NO 6.
“Masonry has Been of no Ser
vice to me.”
This was the remark ol a rtimittcii Mason
the other ilay wlien asked to visit tlie L Mge,
giving tills as an excuse for neglecting his
duty ns a brotlier. It is very evident tliat
Masonrv tiad not conferred its due benefit on
tills brutiior; (hat he ouglit not to have been
inad;‘a Mason; that he never compreliended
tiie import of the question, “Ls lie actuated
by unworthy inoiives in seeking admission
into tile Lo ige ?”—tliat he iiad entered tiie
precincts of the cruft for gain or advancement;
tiiat lie had not a favorable opinion of Mason
ry as an exalting, ennoliling institution; that
ids nature, grovelling for worldly gain and
lionor, had been disapp liuted; and tliat he
tias not the essential requisites to make a Ma
son of the lieart. How can a sordid and sel
fish mail compi ehend the mysteries and teach
ings of sucii a science ?
lie wiio inquires iiow he can do good and
benefit his fellow men in tlie Lodge; who
views tlie institution as a means of extended
n.sefiiiness, a monns of iiei-soual cultui’e, a
means of reducing tlie selfishness of man, a
source of liigU mental enjoyment and disci
pline, a ni'ans of good will and peace to our
race, a bond of union and protection to the
unfortunate, a source of consolation to the
w’eary pilgrim—siicli a man wil’ love and
appreciate JIasonry. He will not attempt to
make Masonry tlie instrument of exempting
liim from toil for himself, liis family, and man,
but only as a grand means of effecting more
by bis latiors, wliieli lie intends to continue so
long as life endures. To tlie Masonic toiler
we add, do not be discouraged at the appar
ently sliglit results of your labors. Be assur
ed yotir lalior is not in vain, nor spend your
sfreiigtli for naught; “for your wori- is witli
tlie Loi'd, and your recompense with j our
God.’’—Fa:.
Are You A Mason.
Amid times like tiiese it matters not what
the answer doubt and uncertainty are
quite as sure to find an entry into one's
thoughts with a positive as well as with a neg
ative reply. The surrounding must corrobo
rate the a’lswerere the mind gains a temporary
make ourself agi-e' able.
But ai'c you a Mason? Have you not for
years done many things to disturb the peace
Old harmony of your Lodge? How many un
kind and unjust remar ks hare you made about
members or Masons? ilo v ra my rime' have
you been emious of your brother, b cause he
was higher or b'tter inforin-Ri tiia i you were?
How many tiine.s have you slandered his good
name? How many times have you s mght to
p a •-”* stumbling blocks in lii.s way, and drag
every one down to your own level? Are you
in office? The more shame for you. Are you
a light in the Masonic fir.Uiiine.ut? 'I’h m look
well to your ways. Charity is a rarity in a
Masonic Lodge—not the charity that contrib
utes dollars an 1 centL b r, tint drxriry that is
kind, thatenvietii not, is not puTe I up, is not
easily provoked, and tlunketh no eyil.
Masonry and charity are sist u*s. The first
lo be true to itscaliing, mu't hive not only
intelligence and learning, but it must also pos
sess the accomplishments of the latter Learn
ing nor rituals will ever make a man a Mason
without charity ; and charity will always find
a reliable guide i ; following whectrueMasou-
ry leads. Reader, ask yours-df
Are you a Mason?
Masonic Jewel.
Power and Value ol Masonry.
At the recent official visit to Win. Parkman
Commandcry, East Boston, tlie g(‘uial B ’oth
er whoe name is borne by that Body made
some e xcellent remarks touching the subject
named at the head of this article. He sliowed
very clearly that the mteresti'd Ma.son must
beboth consciously and unco isciously i.iflu
cnced —that the pledges he takes before Ma
sonic altars, tlie ceremony he witnes.se.-i witiuu
the Lodge room, and thesentiinmt inculcated
in the wliole development of the Masonic sys
tem, must necessarily produce an effect upon
his cljaracter and life. The institution exerts a
moulding and developing influence by no
means fully appreciated in the orainary
thought of its most devoted adherents. Its
power and value in affecting the higher nature
and governing the conduct are not likely to be
over estimated by its admiring eulogists.
In illustration of the proposition laid down’
the speaker related an affecting incidents
brought to his notice, and of the t-rutlifulness
belief. Masonic travelers are as numerous aa | -yyjijch he was personally cognizant;
the -Jiowers of spring, and the i-itualLt reports
everything satisfactory upon an examination.
Masonic travelers and mere ritualisls appear
happily adapted to each other; the i-itualist
finds his beau ideal of ritualistic brilliancy in
many a Jfasonic mendicant or impostor,
sons who go into Masonry for corrupt purpo
ses are determined to be informed in the ritual.
Are they Masons? Of course they are. Only
try them, and be astonished at what they know
Question them. What foily! Amie Vide
Tace. You are but a way station for them to
stop at and take refreshments. They know
your position and use you accordingly.
Are you a Mason? How stupid, if you know
us. to ask such a question! We lecture nearly
all the candidates in our Lodge; we go to oth
er Lodges and lecture them. They call uo
bright. Who doubts it, when we can say every
word of the lectures?
Are you a Mason? Why do you ask?
phj'‘siciau iu Washington, D. 0., was called to
visit proLssioiially, a young lady taken sud
denly and seriously ill. Employed m one of
the departments, she was comparatively wdth
out friends or resources and when rendered
Ma- j hclplc'S by dis'^ase, her coudition was truly
deplorable. The physician a.^certaitiing the
name of his patient to be the same as that of a
brother Mason in Bos^ton. wdiom heliadmet
some ye:irs prei iously, enquired if she was re
lated to tills person. Being told that she was
the daughter of this fellow Craftsman, whom,
it should be remembered, the physician only
knew as a member of the Fraternity, he not on
ly gave to her skillful professional treatment,
but saw that she wanted for nothing of
care and proper nursing, and when she
was sufficiently rc covered to travel, he
accompanied her on the journey, and was
not content until he had placed her in her
own eastpi'u home. Then, exchanging fra
ternal salutations with his old time Mason
ic acquaintance, lie returned to his work and
I calling, hardly conscious, perhaps of the mov-
We iTiiig power that had influenced him to so noble
a deed in the exercise of a large and generous
nav Lodo-e dues, attend Lodge meetings, nev , hm • • i
» , ’ . , , charity. This incident is but one otathous-
er miss a Masonic procession, and if the Lodge might be adduced to prove tlie
is at labor we are certain to aid in the work— - . .
if at actual refreshments we eat drink and
CLIPPINGS
power and w’orth of Ma.sonry.—Freemasons'
depositor}/.
.... Kid bonnets are tlie latest.
.... Wh debone is getting scarce.
... New York lioiels are reducing rates.
.... 286 newspapers are published in New
York.
.... Sixty-eight corset manufactories in
New York
.... The India rubber tree flourishes in
California.
.... In Wisconsin they eradicate stumps by
the use of giant powder.
.... A lad rif 1C, of Terra Haute, Indiana,
gatlieied and sold $45 worth of walnuts the
past autumn.
.... Mrs. Peters, of Dodge county. Wiscon
sin, broke her forearm while engaged in husk
ing corn.
.... Boston has spent, in the past ten years,
for -widetiiiig and extending streets, $28,278,-
858.
.... A recent snow sroi-m drifted the Troy
(Mass ) roads so badly that teams had to take
the fields.
A California grower has raised four
thou’^and boxes of raisins, worth $8000, on
twenty acres of land.
The soil of some portions of Kaufman,
Texas, has been liberally fertilized by dead
grasshoppers
.... The United Stales ns''s 60,000 tons of
lead each year, and Great Biitain and Spain
alone jorodnee more than this country.
Of five robust young servant girls who
slept in a room in Antwerp where the gas es-
eapi'd, four died and one was saved with diffi
culty.
.... There is this ditference between char
acter and repntaiioii; character is ivliat one
really is, reputation is what he seems to
be.
.... A man must be pretty drunk to go
along the streets holding fast to his boat col
lar with^both bunds to prevent his falling
down.
.... The cost of proclaiming the Queen
Empress of India, at Delhi, is only to. be $1,-
2';0,000 instead of $2,500,000 as was at first
announced.
... Norfolk, Va., claims to be the second
cotton market in the United States, according
New Orleans the fir?t place and Charleston
the third.
.... France Is strengtheiling her seaports.
If there’s going to be a general European din
ner on 'I'urkey. she liopes they’ll allow her to
keep a little of the Brest.
.... Prosperity shines on different persons
much the same Avay tiiat the sun shines on dif
ferent objects. 8orae it hardens like mud,
while others it softens like wax.
.... ^lotives are better than actions; men
drift into crime. Of evil they do more than
they contemplate, and of good they contem-"
plate more than they do
.... To know a man, observe how be wins
his object, rather than how he loses it; for
when xtc fall our pride supports, when we
succeed it betrays us.
.... In Maine, 'viiere there have been sev
en murders within six montfis, they want
hanging restored; and in Vermont, where
there liave been five murders within four
months, they want hanging abrogated.
A man named Reed has been indicted
lor horse stealing in Hardin count}'-, Iowa.
He has (Mnfe-ised that during his career he has
stolen over 2000 liorses and never yet has been
caught with one in his possession.
.... Dr. C. D. Farlin, well known in Mich
igan as a lecturer on Spiritualism, repudiates
his former belief, saying that he can see no
good effect on the morals or intellectual cult
ure of the age by the dissemination of its doc
trines.
.... The tea plant was introduced into In
dia forty years ago, and already about 2000
acres are covered with it on the slopes of the
Neilgbevry Hills. The yield of the current
year has been over 18,000,000 pounds valued
at $10,000,000.