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HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1896.
NO. 8.
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Mrs. ,f. P. Hell, Onuateatomie, Kan.
it I ft: of tin: editor of The Graphic, the lead
In: local paper of Miami county, writes
tr troubled tcith heart tliaeaae
for six years, severe palpitations, short
ness of breath, together Willi such ex
treme nervousness, that, at limes I would
th floor neariy all nhrht. We
jnsuiu d ties best riie'lie&l talt-nt.
Thev n'liei there tctzu o lit !jt for me,
that I liad organic tii.M-aso of tlio lu art for
which thero was no reii.tdy. t l:ad read
y(;iir advertisement in The Graphic and
ayi;ar:i;'(), as a ia:,t resort, tried one bottle of
r. Miles' Xrtr t :i ra fur V.w. Iletrt,
which ronvinccd me that tliero was true
merit In it. I took threo, bottles each of the
Heart Cure and Restorative Nervine, and
it completely cured, tne. I nleep
well at nirht, my heart beats regularly and
I have no inure b.'noi iierins; spoils. I wish
to say to ail who are suJTerin as I did;
there's relief untold for them if they will
only Rive your remedies just one trial."
Dr. Miles Heart Cure is sold on a positive
puaranu e thai the lirst. boll lo wiil oeneflt.
AlldruCKistsseUitatfl, 6 bottle3 for $5, or
It will lie Bent, prepaid, on receipt of price
by the Ur. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Lnd.
Dr. Miles' Heart Cure
Restores Health
FRANCIS A. MACON,
Surgeon Dentist,
I IKXDERSON, NORTH CAROLINA
All work in operative and mechanical
dc:.i-,try. No charge for examination.
Ollice : Mr. Uoyd's oIt rooms, over
Cooer iV- Mitchell's store.
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Oilice: In Harris law iuildin; neat
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A LILY. T. BARNES.
Undertaker & Embalmer,
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Fine and Mciloni Grade Fiirnitnre, k
TtCKKH ltrtl.ltlNti,
nHNDHRSON. N. C.
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Try tticm and be Convinced ol
! their ExeellenGe.
. 1 ( iaar.iiucetl to give Satisfaction, viz :
Parker's Headine.
Cure for lleiulache, Neuralgia, &e.
Parker's Cougliine.
I Kelieves r.roncliitts, Coulis, Cohls, -c
Parker's Liver Pills.
S.tfe, Mild and KlTective.
Parker's Healing Salve.
For Cuts. Burns, Bruises, old Sues, A:c
Tobaccos.
-s different brands in stock. Also choice
line of Cigars.
Low Pricks on Stationery, Brushes
ami Drutiirists' Sundries.
I Your trade is respectfully solicted
i.
IW. W. PARKER,
Wholesale and Retail Druggist,
HKNDKRSON, N. C.
I GET THE BEST.
' That's the Kind I Keep.
11 would most respectfulb inform the
public tli.it 1 am at my same old stand,
near l)orev's tlruj store where 1 have a
complete assortment of
WHISKIES BRANDIES,
"WUCTES.
TOBACCO, CIGARS, Sc., ftt.
Nothinc but TU1JE GOODS allowed to
come in my house. My
PURE OLD CORN WHISKEY
?els,,anvt,linK 5n Henderson, the so
caued Cooper Corn not excepted. All I
ask w a trial, and you will be convinced.
T-U.rne,'s are LOWER than the lowest.
lthJI5 CASH. Give me a call.
S. S. WHITTEN.
HENDERSON. N. C
PROSPEROUS MEXICO.
AN INTERESTING ARTICLE BY JUDGE
WALTER CLARK.
He Discusses the Silver Question and
Draws a Contrast Favorable to the
Republic of Mexico Says theCoun
try is Prosperous and Going For
ward By Leaps and Bounds.
I Correspondence News and Observer.
I am gratified at receiving the News
aud Observer regularly, being thus
able to keep up with the movements
of life at home. I have travelled pret
ty thoroughly through the Northern
States of Mexico, meeting people of
all ranks as well as countless numbers
of our countrymen. The latter are
everywhere, and in everything, and
steadily increasing in numbers, at
tracted by the great prosperty here,
which is in painful contrast with the
long continued " depression in the
United States.
I leave to-day to travel through the
Southern States ot Mexico, and on my
return thence, will leave for home to
be present at the opening of our spring
term.
The climate is nearly perfect. Straw
berries are ripe, and flowers of all
kinds bring ten cents a basket. They
say it is no warmer here in summer,
and never sultry, as these table lands,
embracing 500,000 square miles two
thirds of Mexico average 7,000 feet
above sea level, over three times as
high as Asheville, and the'snow on the
taller mountains never melts.
This country is developing more
rapidly, probably, than any other on
the planet, and could not help being
prosperous as matters stand. The dol
lar is exactly the same value it was ten
or fifteen years ago, not having been
artificially doubled in value by legis
lation, as has been the case with us.
Consequently cotton is still 13 cents
per pound and wheat $1 per bushel,
while fixed charges, as taxes, passenger
and freight rates, public and private
debts, etc., remain actually (as well as
nominally) the same. With us in the
United States, by virtue of thelegis
lation in favor of the bond-holders,
these fixed charges, while nominally
the same are, in fact, doubled, as it
takes twice the amount of cotton, corn,
wheat, etc. , to pay them. One does
not get a full idea of the enormity of
this transaction till he gets here and
sees the prosperity ol this country and
sees the very capitalists, who by secur
ing this legislation, have doubled the
value of their United States bonds,
investing the principal and interest of
their enhanced value in this country at
old prices, thus securing $2 of proper
ty here for $1 loaned the United States
Goveri ment that is, they sell Si, 000
United States bonds for gold, buy $2,
000 of silver, which remains at the
old value, and invest in 2,000 of
property here.
The looting of Rome by Genseric
and the Vandals of India by Hastings
and Clive, of this very Mexico by Cor
tez and the Spaniards, or of Peru by
l'izarro, all pale into insignificance,
compared with the magnitude and
injustice of this robbery practiced upon
the seventy-five millijns of the Amer
ican people in the interest and by the
procurement of the half million of
millionaires and their agents and de
pendents through the simple device of
so controlling legislation that every
dollar of National, State, city and in
dividual indebtedness is doubled by
doubling the value of the dollar. Gen
seric, Clive, Cortez, Pizarro risked
their lives and had brave men behind
them, and they at least pillaged for
eign nation. But this crime has been
the manipulation of the tools of the
bond holders; there has been nothing
heroic and the only greatness in it has
been in the magnitude of the plunder,
which surpassed all that has ever yet
fallen to a conquering army in the
wealthiest country.
There was no excuse tor it, since
silver, when demonetized, was worth
more than gold, and there has been
nothin4 since to depreciate it. That
silver, in fact, has not depreciated in
the least may be seen right here in
Mexico, and throughout the 50,000,
000 of people living on this hemis
phere, south of the Rio Grande, in all
which countries the silver dollar will
pay for as much taxes, as much rail
road freight and passenger fare, as
much public and private indebtedness
as formerly and fatni products and
land bring as much as ever. Neither
has silver depreciated with us, but it is
the gold dollar which has been doubled
in value; hence debts, public and pri
vate, railroad rates, etc., are actually
though not nominally doubled, while
the produce has to be sold at half price
to pay them. Kvery farmer who sold
arpound of cotton in the United States
last year was in effect taxed 6 cents a
pound, or 30 a bale, and 50 cents in
the bushel on whear. The robbery
perpetuated on the farmers of the South
by this legislation procured by the ma
chinations of the combined capital of
London and New York, on the cotton
crop alone, of 7,000,000 bales at 30
per bale, is ?2 1 0,000,000 for the one
year of 1 S95 alone. The profits reap
ed by the capitalists by the legislation
which has doubled the value of their
claims against the public, and indivi
duals, is practically beyond computa
tion. It ''fatigues the indignation" to
consider it. The wonder is not that
there is widespread and incurable de
pression, but that we can continue to
exist under such a state of things.
Were we not the wealthiest and most
energetic and most patient people on
the face of the globe, we would sink
under it.
It is by no means certain we shall
continue always to be the most pa-;
tient. Those who have thus pillaged .
us, and who, elated with their success
so far, threaten so still further con-j
tract the currency by retiring the ;
greenbacks and thus still more increase
the value of the dollar, may learn a
lesson right here in Mexico. The
Catholic church, by three centuries
and a half of a policy as deliberate and
as carefully planned as that of the !
monopolies and the money power in
the United States to-day, came to own
absolutely one-third of all the proper
ty in this country, and controlled the
balance. The masses were kept in ig
norance and the leaders and the intel
ligence of the country were intimi
dated or bought. But there comes
an end to such things. In 1857 the
property of the church was confiscated.
The church party called in the English,
the Spanish and the French, and the
latter gave them an Emperor. But
the French have been driven out, the
Emperor has been shot and to-day
throughout this great country, four
times as large as France or Germany,
the Catholic church does not own a
foot of soil or a dollar of money. The
very church buildings, hoary, some of
them, with nearly fourcenluries of use,
belong to the government, and ser
vices are conducted in them only by
permission of the authorities elected
by the people. Not a priest can walk
the streets in his official robes. Mexico
remains Roman Catholic in her re
ligion, but when the alternative was
presented, whether the church should
own the country or the country own
the church, Mexico, in spite of centu
ries of veneration for religious author
ity and the influence of consolidated
wealth and the ignorance and poverty
of her masses, was able to vindicate
the rights of her people. What this
priestly monopoly was to Mexico, the
money power is to the United States.
The multi-millionaires, the bond hol
ders, the trusts and monopolies already
own over one-third of the property of
our country and are reaching out for
the rest. Many leaders they nomin
ate and elect to office, others they
intimidate or corrupt. But people,
while patient, are not ignorant, and it
the course of the nonopolies and com
binations continuous unchecked, they
will wake up some morning to find, as
the Catholic church did here, that the
sovereign people own the country and
all that in it is. The Catholics here
venerated the church fully as much as
we ever did the rights of individual
ownership of any species ol property,
but the welfare of the people is the
highest law, and when that becomes
imperiled as it was in Mexico by the
money power in the shape of the
church, and as it is in the United
States by the same deadly enemy in
the guise of multi-millionaires and mo
nopolies, the manhood and the brains
and the honesty of the people wiil as
sert themselves and we shall not go
down under the same enemy that de
stroed Rome, and so many other na
tions in the past. The world is older
and wiser.
The gold dollar in the United States
may well be called a mythical dollar.
Not one man in a hundred ever ses
one. It is not used to buy corn, or
wheat, or flour, or railroad tickets, or
dry goods. It is only for the sacred
use of the idle rich when they wish to
measure by a high standard doubled
in value, the principal and interest of
bonds, which, on their face, by the
contract, are payable in coin it,
in either gold or silver.
In drawing these lessons from the
past experience and the present pros
perity of Mexico, there are those who
will say Mexico is inferior to the
United States in education, in civili
zition, and in many other respects.
And so it is and so much the worse
for the objectors. For if Mexico, not
withstanding all these disadvantages,
is prosperous and going forward by
leaps and bounds by keeping her
standard of values at the same level,
so. much the greater is the condemna
tion of the men who, in spite of our
grea'. and manifest superiority, have
brought the curse and blight of a long
enduring depression upon us by rob
bing the wealth .producers in the
interest of the wealth consumers,
through the device of doubling, by
crooked legislation, the value of the
dollar. And if Mexico, with 350
years of priestly rule, 300 of which
were also under a foreign yoke, and
500 more passed amid international
dissensions, could assert themselves and
throttle the gigantic money power
which oppressed them, what cannot,
and what will njt, 75 millions of the
foremost people of the earth lie .able
to do when satisfied that they owe it
to themselves and their posterity to
break the yoke which galls them.
Much more might be said, and more
forcibly. Walter Clark.
City of Mexico, Jan. 15, 1S96.
Woman a
Woman is a conundrum most decidedly.
Still we do not propose to give her up.
Let a woman have her health and spirits
and she is the s mshtne of the house. But
suppose she is sick, w hat then? Why then
th-?re is a shadow over all the house.
Happily in thousands of homes, suoh
shadows have been removed. Thanks to
j Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, the
diseases and weaknesses incident to their
: sex have been removed, and with health
restored, their bright spirits have come
back, and the household has passed from
the winter of its discontent to a glad sum-
: nier of eomfort, O, suffering women, for
your own sakes, and for the sakes of those
about you, use these simple means and be
; healed. The only remedy so effective in
' nervous and geueral prostration, "Female
Weakness," periodical pains, irregulari
ties and kindred ailments, that it increases
in sale every year.
The swear-off is already wearing
off.
TOBACCO
A Valuable and Instructive Treatise on the Sub
ject by an Expert.
The First .Stages of the Crop The Preparation and Sowing of
the Plaat Beds A Paper of Interest to the New Beginner.
The following extract is taken from
a treatise on tobacco culture written
by the late Maj. R. L. Ragland, of
Halifax county, Va. It will be of in
terest and value to tobacco growers
generally, and especially to new be
ginners. In future issues we will pub
lish other articles, following the sub
ject up in regular order through the
various stages of the crop as it prog
resses from the plant bed to the curing
barn:
There are two modes for raising
plants, in hot bed or cold frame, one or
the other of which has preference ac
cording to locality the former being
more practiced north of forty degrees
latitude, while the latter is preferred
south of that line. We will here give
both, that planters may choose for
themselves:
PREPARING THE PLANT BED.
For a hot bed, select a southern or
southeastern exposure, sheltered on the
north, dig and shovel out a space five
by twelve feet or any required length,
to the depth of eighteen inches. Place
straw to the depth of three or four
inches in the bottom of this trench,
and cover with fresh unrotted manure
from the stable to the depth of six or
eight inches; then cover the manure
with soil (woods mould is best) five
inches deep. How '.o cover the
bed with canvas will be presently de
scribed. Tobacco seed is sown on the bed
thus prepared at the rate of two tea
spooufuls to a bed five by twelve feet.
To sow regularly, mix the seed with a
fertilizer, ashes, or plaster, and sow in
drills three inches apart. When the
plants have pretty well covered the
surface of the bed, remove the canvas
during the day, a d only replace it
when there is danger of frost, or to
keep off the flea-bugs. There is the
advantage of having earlier plants by
this mode and perfect security against
the flea-bug, which will repay for the
additional cost of raising at least a
portion of the plants needed for the
crop by this safe mode.
But there is no question that open
air beds are cheapest. And where
this mode of raising plants is practica
ble it is greatly to be preferred f (r the
main supply of plants. It is well es
tablished opinion that plants raised in
open air stand transplanting better
and usually grow off quicker than
plants raised in hot bed or cold
frame.
On the selection of a proper locality
for a plant bed, and its preparation
largely depends the timely supply of
strong, healthy plants, without which
it is impossible to raise a crop of fine
grade. The planter, therefore, cannot
be too careful in choosing a sheltered
spot, neither too wet nor too dry, as
rich naturally as can be found, and lo
cated so as to possess different degrees
of moisture.
Go into the woods original forest,
if possible and select a spot near a
branch or stream of water, embracing
both hill-side and flit, and having a
southern or southeastern exposure,
protected by woods on the North.
Burn over the plat intended for plants,
either by the old or new method. The
first consists in placing down a bed of
wood on small skids three to four feet
apart on the ground well cleared and
raked. Then fire this bed of wood
and permit it to remain burning long
enough to cook the soil brown for half
. . . .... , , , , ,
an inch deep. With hooks, or Old
deep.
hoes fastened to long poles, pull the
burning mass of brands a distance of
four and one-half or five feet, throw
on brush and wood, and continue
burning and moving the fire until the
bed is burned over. Never burn when
the land is wet. It will require from
one and one-half to two hours to
cook the soil.
Or, better still: Rake over nicely .
,' , , . , , , .
the plat to be burned, then place down
poles from two to four inches in di-1
. .u j 1 w, ..,,
ameter, three and one-hall to four feet ,
apart, over the entire surface to be
burned. Then place brush thick. v
over the plat and weight down with
wood, over which throw leaves, trash
Or other combustible material; over
this sprinkle kerosene oil, and set the
the whole on fire and burn at one op
eration. But any mode of burning the plat
will suffice, provided that it is effect
ually done. After the plat has been
burned and has cooled, rake off the
larue coals and brands, but let the
ashes remain, as they are essentially a
first class manure
rhen coulter over
the plat deeply, or break with grub-,
hots, and make fine the sod by repeated
chopping and raking, observing not to
bring the subsoil to the surface, and
remove all roots and tufts. Manure
from the stable, hog-pr or pmltry
house, or some reliable commercial '
fertilizer, should be chopped into and,
thoroughly incorporated with the ;
soil while preparing the bed to le
sown. Experience has demonstrated ,
that it is better to use both.
A good tobacco fertilizer mixed with
equal quantity of ooultry-hoe dr p
pings and thoroughly incorporated,
makes a most excellent manure for
plants, and so does a compost made
CULTURE.
with selected chemicals, stable manure
and rich moist earth. The latter when
composted in ti 1 e is the best and
surest. But beware of using manure
contiining grass seed. The judgment
of the planter must guide him in the
amount of furtilizing material to be
applied at this stage; but it is well to
remind him that the tobacco plant
rarely responds to homcepathic doses
of plant food, but that the allopathic
usage suits it best.
TIME OF SOWING SEED.
The time for sowing varies with the
latitude, variety, season. Between the
parallels of 350 and 400 north latitude,
compassing the great tobacco belt, beds
may be sown any time between the 1st
of January and 20th March, and the
sooner the better for' bright grades,
which ought to be planted early to
mature, ripen and yellow, preparatory
to being cured early in the fall, when
the most successful curings are usually
made. Yellow tobacco ought to be
planted out in May, but June plantings
usually do best in heavy dark grades.
The planter will consult hisinterest by
sowing at a proper time to suit the
grade he desires to raise. Plants set
out after the 10th of July rarely pay
for growing and handling, and if not
planted by that time, it will be wise to
plant the hills in peas, potatoes, or
something else.
Sow at the rate of a tablespoonful of
seed, which is about half an ounce, on
every fifty square yards at first sowing,
and later resow with a heaping teaspoon
ful over the same surface, to secure a
good stand. Injury by frosts or bugs
may require a third or fourth sowing.
Sow a little thick rather thao too thin
to meet contingencies, and secure a
good stand in time.
The best way to sow the seed is to
mix them thoroughly with a fertilizer
or dry ashes, and sow once regularly
over the bed, reserving seed enough to
cross-sow to promote regularity. The
tobacco seed is the smallest of all farm
seeds, and consequently requires a light
covering. If the seeds are sown be
fore the 20th of February, the best
way is to firm the surface by treading it
over closely, but if sown later, sweep
lightly over with a brush or light rake.
Then run surface drains through the
bed, with inclination enough to pass
off the water. To do this properly,
run them off four or five feet apart
with the foot, then open with a narrow
grubbing hoe to the depth of three
or four inches. Then trench deeply
around the outside of the bed, to ward
off surface water and prevent washing.
MULCHING AND COVERING.
Hog hair whipped fine and scattered
thinly over the bed attracts and retains
.. oisture, protects the plants from frost
and acts as a manure. There is no
better covering for a plant bed but
unfortunately it is rarely ever in full
supply. Fine brush should, be placed
thickly over the bed, or, if not handy,
cover with straw or chaff, free from
grain. A covering of some such ma
terial is necessary, or the young plants
are likely to be killed by frost or suffer
from drought, and they thrive better
with some protection.
IS ITTRUE, O CHRIST IN HEAVEN ?
rThe authorship of the following beauti
ful lines is attributed to both Mrs. Helen
Hunt Jackson and John B)yle O'Keilly.
As each of these gifted writers has passed
"behind the veil" the verses perhaps have
peculiar interest on this accouxt. 1
Is it true, O Christ in Heaven.
lhat the highest suffer most;
j mat the stronger wanuer furthest
1 Anil most hopelessly are lost;
; Tliat thn mark of rank in nntme.
is capacity ior pain;
Ami the anguish of the singer
Makes the sweetness of the strain?
Is it true, O Christ in Heaven,
That whichever way we go,
vVallsof darkness must surround us.
Things we would, but cannot know,
That the Jufinite must bound us,
Like the temple veil unrent;
Whilst the finite ever wearies,
fSo that none's therein content?
1" tlfu. O Christ in Heaven,:
lhat the fullness yet to come
is Si( glorious and so perfect
That to know would strike us dumb;
That if ever for a moment
We could ierce l)eyolldthesky
ith these poor dun eyes of mortal
W e should just see God and die?
The little da'.ihter of Mr. Fred Webber,
Holland. M;m., had a very bad cold and
cough which he had not been able to cure
with any thing. I gave him a 25 cent bottle
of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, says W. I.
Holden, merchant and postmaster at West
IJiimfield, and the next time I saw him he
said it worked like a charm. This remedy
is intended especially for acute throat and
lung diseases, such as' colds, croup and
whooping cough, and it is famous for its
cures. There is no danger in giving it to
children for it contains nothing injurious.
For sale by- M. IWsey, Druggist.
Guess Again.
I Sin Francisco Examiner.
"I guess it's time to go,"
Remarked at last the bore.
"An excellent guess," she aswered.
"YThy didn't you guess before?"
Just as Horsey as He.
I New York World.
Mr. Stirrups See here, I'm a plain,
horsey man, I admit it. Will you en-
ter f or the matrimonial stakes with
me?
Miss Sid.ller Well, Mr. Stirrups,
I'll be just as horsey a? you, and answer
with a neigh.
MASONIC ADDRESS.
GRAND ORATOR W. H. SUMMERELL'S
ELOQUENT SPEECH
Aefore the Recent Communication of
The Grand Lodge of North Carolina
He Traces Masonry from its Incep
tion and Fitly Portrays the High
Mission of the Noble Order.
Most Worshipful Grand Master and
brethren of the Grand Loage of
iorm Carolina, L,adies and Ucnue
men:
Bearing in remembrance those truly
Masonic virtues, "Silence and Circum
spection" I shall claim your indul
gence for as short a time this evening
as the origin, and achievements of
Freemasonry will permit:
Almost all men know that Freema
sonry 19 a great school, which has
taught for ages the great truths, the
Fatherhood of God, the Brotherhood
of man and the immortality of tht
soul. But these doctrines are dogmas
we hold in common with all civilized
people. Says Senator Chandler: "With
out debating dogmas we all hope, we
all believe, that somehow, somewhere,
sorrow and sighing shall flee away; all
souls shall be saved, and permanent
happiuess shall at last come lo all the
children of men.'" Mr Dick
ens made" the poor, idiotic Barnaby
and the coarse, strong Hugh of the
Maypole Inn, hold conversations about
the wonders of the visible heavens,
and they inquired of each
1. 1 1.
"whence comes the light of
the innu-
merable stars that dot the sky?" When
they are both under sentence of death
and just before the dawn ot day were
led across the prison yard to the place
of execution, Barnaby, looking upward
toward the myriad lights of night, ex
clainiF: "Hugh, we shall know what
makes the stars shine, but all tht won
ders of the Universe shall be opened
to our search."
The origin of Masonry is shrouded
in mystery, arid is traced by different
autiquarians to diierent sources, each
with equal apparent conviction. Some
writer in the Encyclopedia Brittauica
asserts with the usual positivenass of
a "Profane" that the order was born
in the Year of our Lord 1717; but had
you in 1717 asked the oldest Arab in
the deserts whence he had his knowl
edge of the Order, he would have an
swered that his father taught him aud
if asked where his father learned it, he
would have said from his father. And
so it came 111 an unbroken line
from father to son from away back in
the days when Solomon dispensed true
Masonic light and knowledge to all the
East, while the inhabitants of England
were savages in the woods. Brother
Alfred, of Louisiana, claims that we are
dssceuded from the Egyptians, being
the offspring of the Ancient Mysteries
of Isis and Osiris. Brother Coleman,
of Kentucky, following the teachings of
the great Robert Morris, traces the
genealogy of the Order to the PIiumi-
cians, and proves his case to the satis
faction of all who have had the privi-j
lege of hearing him, or the pleasure ofi
reading Ins books about the Masonic
inscriptions upon the ancient wall built
by King Solomon around the base of
Mount Moriah. In prehistoric limes.
judging from iiiccriptious upon obelisks
aud pyramid-. Masonry existed in
Egypt. The priests of Isis and Osiris
initiated into the Ouler. men "worthy
and well qualified," and taught before
their rites became debased by the nd-
admi sion " Of the vicious aud de
praved, the ini'K -1 tal.ty of the soul.
The Greeks a' i Tvrians trading into
Egypt brough' H.ence some knowledge
y these mystei . .- and founded in their
respective countries, societies which
became the source from which flowed
light iind knowledge which still con
tinues to bless and ennoble the human
race, in Greece was founded the Or
der of the Eleusinian mysteries, which
was a most potent agency in dissemi
nating throughout Western Europe n
knowledge and appreciation of Grecian
ott'ilitfi i r urlkiolt tar a i a f i ia
VI lii,ULMiif lis n iiilii s nil til bill? 1
day indebted for most that makes an I
intellectual better than an Ignorant j
man. The Tyrians carried with them J
a knowledge of the practical side of the
lessons taught by the Egyptians, and ,
became skilled to work in gold and ;
purple and blue, and to engrave with ,
the engraver's chisel. They founded j
the Order of Sidonian Architects aud !
placed at their head the great Iluram !
Arbear, and no man was permitted to
become an artisan iu Tyre until duly
licensed by the heads of this Order.
Their manner of work was as follow?:
The Master drew his designs iu red
chalk, in which the coasts of lhat
country a? till abound, upon a trestle
board. The overseer of any given
number of operatives wore a plain
aprou without flap or bib; and upon it
copied from the trestle-board his section
of work for the day, and the Fellow
Craft or ordinary workman, wearing
an apron with a pocket at the top for
carryiug small tools, came aud looked
ipou the overseer's aprou aud executed
Ins task in obedieuce to the designs
thereon deliniated. There were also
assistant to these, bearers of burdens
who wore a plain aprou exteuding
from throat to knee, aud fastened at the
shoulder.
Thirty thousand of these men being
sent by Kiug Hiram to prepare tim
ber in the forests of Lebanon for the
temple at Jerusalam, were lost; where,
or how, or why, neither tradition nor
history informs us, aud to supply their
places King Solomon incorporated a
like number of Jews into the Order
gave it the symbolism of Masonry as
it stauds this day and ingrafted upon it
the worship of one true God. Solo
mon was especially fitted to send or
thodox Masonry forth upon its great
mission to the sons of men. He was
pre-eminently a mau of peace, ani
lived in that era when every son of
Israel lived at peace and in security
"under his own vine and fig tree." It
was a most fitting time to found an order
of peace and good works on earth that
was to leach forever faith in Jehovah's
existence, aud a belief that he would
gratify this "pleasing hope, this fond
desire, this longing after immortality
of all his children." veare more in-'
debted to the Jews than most men are
willing to admit, but the fact remains,
nevertheless, that we owe to them our
knowledge of the True, the Beautiful
aud the Good, aud this must needs
have been so, wheu we consider the
fact that they have always sought
peace, and are from remotest times
frung from peacefully inclined ances
tors. There was a light on Jewish
Mountains that uever shone, on Mount
Olympus. The streams of Parnassus
to them were not so clear aud full as
Siloa's Brook that flowed fast by the
Oracle of God. Far up the ages, before
Cecrops founded Athens, it gushed
forth and flowed in its appointed place
at the command of God. On the plains
of the East under the spreading Tere
binth, sits Abraham in his tent, calm,
sequestered, reverent. Far hence be
the sceues of desolation. We hear a
hero sing, and the martial music that
announces his coming is drowned in
the shrieks of orphans. "The laurel
wreath of which he. boasts was nour
ished in eu purpled plains of carnage,
or snatched from the field of the dead.'"
"But the father of the Faithful, taught
by the God of Nature and Revelation.
surrounded himself with far differeut
sceues." "We listen to the music of
the grove; we trace the windings of the
rivulet, we read the name of God in
the starry heaveus, and we follow the
old hero through a checkered life to a
City that hath habitations." The hill
of Zion where God dwelt was the type
of the joy of the whole world, while
Atheus, to the rest of the world, was
the symbol of tyranny. And Masonry,
built upon the teachings of God's cho
sen people, has blessed and ennobled
its millions without one single act of
injustice or oppression. There have
been many religions and many broth
erhoods. From the earliest dawn of
history men have banded .themselves
together for mutual protection and beu
efit; and have committed crimes iu
behalf of their respective creeds from
the contemplation of which, even cru
elty itself would almost turn away with
shuddering and horror. The ancient
Greek, with all his refinement aud cul
ture, and with all his avowed horror
of slavery for himself, sold his captives.
The Egyptian sacrificed his first born
upon the walls of the city wheu be
sieged by his enemies. ' The Assyrian
made his children pass through the fire
to Moloch. The Mohammedan spreads
his faith with fire and sword, aud with
a fiendish debauchery worse than death
itself. The Roman Catholic burns the
Protestant and the Protestant robs aud
beheads the Romanist. The Calvan
ist murders the Armeuian and the Ar
menian flays the Calviuist alive, and
all this and more in the ser-ice of God
and iu behalf of mankiud.
But Masonry has written the pu
rest, fairest page in all human history.
But wronged no man it has defrauded
no man. It has not even giveu rail
ing for railiug. It has inculcated an
earnest belief in God; it has taught
that all men are brothers; it has stood
for hutnau liberty of conscience aud of
action in obedience to law. It has
protected the purity of women and the
sanctity of home. It believes iu the
duty of hospitality, and in the duty of
all men, aud more especially members
of the Craft, to raise the fallen and to
exteud a helping hand to the weak. It
preserved the purity of a belief iu God
the Father when the fires of the inquis
ition were burning day and night.
In the silent watches of the night,
"on high hills and in low dales," Ma
sonry has ever offered prayer and
praise, and not one prayer for ven
geance upon its "enemies, persecutors
and slauderers."
I once heard a distinguished brother
say that were it not for our work in
connection with the Oxford Orphan
Asylum, he would take his dimit im
mediately. If Masonry had only its
forms and ceremonies, its meetings
and lectures, and its ritual, it would
be as silly as the anlics of a babboon,
aud as tiresome as the iteration of a
spoiled child. But the ceremonial law
is merely the garment that clothes a
form as well rounded as the Venus De
Medici, a living, active principle that
wheu men first ceased to be savages,
locked hands with Monotheistic civili
zation and marched with earnest tread
down the track of ages. On that great
day wheu Charles Martel turned back
the tide of Turkish dominion, and saved
the Auglo-Saxon, Teutonic aud Gallic
races from Turkish lust, it was by his
side. It tramped with Napoleon's suf
fering legions oc the terrible death
inarch from Moscow, sharing its last
crumb with the sufferers. In the days
of the Southern Confederacy it was at
Audersonville aud Johnson's Island.
At Salisbury and Point Lookout push
ing its way where even Miss Barton's
noble baud could scarcely gain admit
tance, doiug all iu its power to alle
viate the sufferings of brotherhood pris
oner to brother.
The work at Oxford is one in which
1 honestly believe and I speak with
reverence the very angels of God
would rejoice to participate; but as
grand, and as holy, and as beneficent
as it is, Masonry has done greater
things for the good of humauity than
this. The claim has been made that
the happy issue of the English Revo
olution of 1G38, which deprived the
worst tyrant of modern times of his
throne, and gave civil and religious
liberty 10 the English-speaking world,
was due in no small measure to the
well-matured and carefully concealed
plan of the Masons of Holland. In
the person of Geueral Washington it
fought the battles of the American
Revolution, and helped to establish
in this country an asylum for the des
olate aud oppressed of every clime.
In our own time, under the name of
the Carbonari or Charcoal-burners, it
assisted Garibaldi in depriving the Pope
of his temporal power, and in placing
Victor Emmanuel upon the throne of
Italy. Always and everywhere it has
stood for liberty of conscience and se
curity of law, and battled with all its
might against wrong and oppression.
In our own day, and in our own State,
what a great work Masonry has done!
What a noble work it is still doing!
The love of little children is the purest
and fenderest of all human emotions.
Fresh fromGod's creative hand un-
contaminated by the vices of the world
they break the incrustations of self,
ishness, they touch our hearts with a
Divine polarity, and are themselves
like the inhabitants of the heavenly
world whose ministry it U to surround
the throue of the Graud Master of the
Celestial Lodge above. Huudreds of
these little ones this Grand Lodge has
searched out from the highways and
hedges of North Carolina! fed them,
clothed them, taught them of the love
of God, of the nuritv of wnmnn r ti.
sacredness of home, and of the blessed
iruit ot the puntr of livin-'.
Aud flnallv. if I
personal allusiou, Masonry is dear to
me oecause the truest friends I have
ever had are Masons; because, from
his tweuty-fiah to his ninety-second
year, the ben man 1 have ever known
worshipped at its altars; because I
know that after my brethrcu shall
have dropped the emblem of immor
tality upon me, those who are dearer
lhau life itself to me will be protected
by the broad shield of its lnvn m.,1 ,1nfr-
aud because it has taught, slill teach
es, and will continue to teach until the
end of lime, the broad, the Cntho'i
meaning of "Friendship, Morality and
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