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TO OUR READERS . The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , in eluding postage : United America , India , India , China , & c Kingdom , thc Continent , & c . Via Brindisi . Twelve Mcoiths 10 s . 6 d . 12 s . od . 17 s . 4 d . Six „ 5 - 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 s . 8 tl . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may be paid for in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KENNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and 1 ther business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books foi review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application tc thc Publisher , 108 , Fleet-street , London .
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TO ADVERTISERS . The FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . ADVERTISEMENTS to ensure insertion In current "week's issue should reach the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , by 12 o ' clock on Wednesdays . SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS . Whole of back page £ 12 12 o Half ,. „ ... ... 6 10 o Inside pages 17 ° Half of ditto 400 Quarter c'itto 2 10 o Whole column 2 10 o Half „ 1 10 o Quarter „ 100 Per inch 040 _ These prices are for single insertions . A liberal reduction is made for a series of 13 , 26 , and 52 insertions . Further particulars may be obtained of the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
E . KING . —A working man will , we fear , find Freemasonry too expensive for him . He can of course be introduced if properly recommended . The age is 21 . Bro . HOGG has recently published a posthumous work of Bro . Dr . Oliver , " The Pythagorean Triangle . " C . J . P . —Many thanks for note . As you surmised , the P . G . S . had forgotten .
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BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . "Hull Packet ; " "West London Express ; " "The Scottish Freemason ; " " The Westminster Papers ;" " Corner Stone ; " " Transactions of the Supreme Council ot the 33 for the Southern Jurisdiction of thc United States of America ; " Risorgimento Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Scotland ; " Broad Arrow ; " Australian Freemason ; " " Report presented to
the Grand Chapter of the Rose Croix Degree in Ireland , June 19 th , 1878 j " " Hints to Sufferers with Diseases of the Eye ; " "Masonic Herald ; " "Hebrew Leader ;" " Appendix to Contributions to Natural History , and Papers on other Subjects ; " " The Hornet ; " " Testimonials to the Efficacy of Hydropathy in the Cure of Disease ; " "Canadian Craftsman ; " "Night and Day ;" " Masonic Herald ; " " Appendix to Contributions to Natural History " ( New York ) .
Births, Marriages And Deaths.
Births , Marriages and Deaths .
BIRTHS . ALTMAN . —July 29 , the wife of Albert J . Altrran , of a son WATSON . —July 26 , at Spring-grove , Isleworth , the wife of W . Farnell Watson , ol a son .
MARRIAGE . LONG—BOYLE . —August 1 , at St . George's , Hanoversquare , by the Hon . and Rev . Walter W . Ponsonby , M . A ., rector of Marston Bigot , assisted by the Rev . Thos . H . Tait , M . A ., rector of Hilperton , the Rev . Walter E .
Medlicott , M . A ., vicar of Swanmore , and the Rev . Edward CapelCure , M . A ., rector of St . George ' s , Walter Hume Long , Esq ., of Rood Ashton , Wilts , to the Lady Dorothy Blanche Boyle , fourth daughter of the Earl of Cork and Orrery , K . P .
DEATHS . DENCE . — August 5 , at Rosedale , Sydenham , John Dence C . E ., of Rosedale , and 28 , Mark-lane , E . C ., aged 41 years . HENNIKER . —August 4 , at 48 , Upper Grosvenor-street , London , the Hon . Mary Eliza Henniker , widow of the late Hon . and Rev . William Henniker , and youngest daughter of the late Edward Farnham , Esq ., pf ( Juornr don House , Leicestershire . R . I . P .
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THE FREEMASON , SATURDAY , AUGUST 10 , 1878 .
Our American Pilgrims.
OUR AMERICAN PILGRIMS .
Under this appellation , archaic and Templar at the same time , our good brethren from America are now on their wanderings , and we wish them heartily all health and happiness , all comfort and convenience , in the agreeable pilgrimage which lies before them . They are at
present , we believe , in Paris , and though there they cannot , unfortunately , associate with the French Freeirasons as with us , inasmuch as for them France is almost an unoccupied country , Masonically speaking at the present hour , yet there is much that they will truly and greatly
enjoy at Paris . He must be a dull or perverse mortal who does not like Paris . We leave out of consideration to-day those numerous questions which always crop up when we mention Paris , social , moral , and special , but we will say this , that Paris has countless charms in every respect
for the man of intellect , and the man of taste . No one can loiter in the Boulevards , or stand in the Tuilerie Gardens , or drive round the Bois de Boulogne , or walk up to Pere la Chaise ; no one , we repeat , can visit Notre Dame , Versailles , and the historic streets and art collections of Paris
without being alike pleased and struck , fascinated and impressed . And then in addition to this , when we live among French people , we see how they have been misunderstood and often undervalued , and how that really and truly there does not exist on the face of the earth a more
industrious , sober , peaceful , home-loving people . If life varies in its outward aspects materially in Paris , as it does , from our English habits , so much so , as to mislead those who are content with the surface of things , no one can live in Paris without liking Paris , just as no one
can sojourn tor a season in La Belle France without becoming deeply impressed with the higher qualities of the French people . So first at Paris and then on their onward career , we wish our American Pilgrims everthing that
health and arrangement , good digestion and warm hearts can bring them . "We trust that when they return to us in September , en route for their native land , theirs will be both pleasant associations and refreshing memories of their lengthened Pilgrimage .
The International Gathering.
THE INTERNATIONAL GATHERING .
Our thoughts will still return to that hospitable and successful undertaking . We feel sure , the more we think about it , that thanks to the happy idea of Bro . George Kenning , ( may his shadow never grow less ) , that pleasantest of meetings will be productive of much good in
more ways than one to Masonry m England and the United States . That assembly , at any late , had this one great merit , that it sought to draw together , and did draw together , American and English Masons as brethren and as friends , true and cherished , and that it sought to weld
together even closer than before , those links of amity and interest , of sympathy and affection , which if our Masonic principles be worth anything should bind those on this side of the Atlantic with those on the other side of the Atlantic with one Masonic and mystical cable of brotherly
union and goodwill . Such assemblies are few and far between in our lives , and there are none of us living , likely , humanly speaking , to seethe same again . Let us cherish its memories and rejoice to think that we were permitted to be present . One of our good brethren said that evening that we did not come together often
enough , and live in little Masonic circles of our own . That is most true , and is a fact that we may well bear in mind as pointing to salutary amendment and not unwelcome change . The party which was assembled by its kind host will probably never get together again in life , but let it remind us of that union , and friendship , and
The International Gathering.
kindness , and sympathy , and concord , and charity , which if they often seem to desert this nether earth of ours , yet live , or ought to live , at any rate , in goodly strength and grace , in the true Freemason ' s heart .
Rumours.
RUMOURS .
" Dame Rumour , as the old proverb has it , is a very " lying jade , " and just now is very busy in our good Masonic body . Perhaps it is the special season of the year , perhaps it is the hot weather , perhaps it is " many other things , " which predispose us to canards , and land us on
the fruitful short of gossip and rumour . But though as the schoolmen would have said of old , " de apparentibus et existentibus eadem est ratio , " yet as no evil is without a remedy , pace our good medical brethren—we will prescribe a " little common sense , carefully mixed with
prudent reserve , just now , for all our readers and friends . Rumour has it , loudly and whisperingly at the same time , that the heavy hand of the law has fallen on '' unscrutinizing scrutineers , " and that said worthies don ' t like it at all , and declare that it is after all only the case of the
" pot and the kettle . ' Rumour has it that we are to be favoured with " piquant revelations " and " striking facts , " which , whether they turn out to be short stories or long yarns , will , no doubt , vastly amuse our Masonic body . Rumour has it thatsome brethren , who think
themselves passed over in Grand Lodge appointments , talk too often and too loudly about it , while not a few , who are anxious for the purple , are stated by Rumour to be equally indiscreet as to their hopes and expectations for the future . Rumour has it that
there will be a contest for the Grand Treasurership , whenever it takes place , and that a certain distinguished brother is pretty certain 1 of success . Rumour saysjmany other things which we think we need not repeat here , as it is quite sufficient to note the fact that such rumours do exist . We
do not ourselves attach much credit to these various items of gossip and small talk , knowing how prone Masons , as well as other people , are to indulge in such little absurdities , and we arc inclined on the whole to put them all down to the hot weather and the end of the season , which
two things seem to us to account for anything abnormal or peculiar in our Masonic arrangements just now . To one rumour we think that we can give absolute denial , which is the alleged existence of a " Clique , " about which some of our brethren have been taking so much lately ,
and shaking their heads so emphatically . Those of us who remember our lamented Bro . Aytoun ' s story of the Clique in a Scottish borough will agree with us that any such amiable institution in English Freemasonry will equally and speedily come to grief . So , as our brethren are forsaking the metropolis and lodge life , we can safely say ,
" listen not to idle canards and childish rumours , but go your way and enjoy yourselves as good fellows and good men—north , south , east , and west . " When we all meet pgain inSeptemtem , if we do , we shall soon find out how little there is of truth , and how much of falsehood , in idle rumours and amusing canards .
Our Detective Police.
OUR DETECTIVE POLICE .
We have never had but one opinion on this subject , though probably in that we differ from some of our readers . We wish the detective force to be a well paid , well educated , well-conditioned body of men , placed in such a position
as to be above all external influences , and severed absolutely from all contact with unsafe associations . One of the greatest difficulties of the present police ! system is the " special agency business , " which has no conscience , and no reserve , and apes the habits , and assumes even the name of the police . Some of us may remember a
recent case before a police magistrate , where a special agent got off on the first charge , though , happily , safely landed in the second , because he said he was a " special detective . " As he did not use the word " police" in the first case , as he was proved to have done in the second , he was only convicted on the second complaint . Nothing can be worse for our police
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Ad00608
TO OUR READERS . The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price 2 d . It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , in eluding postage : United America , India , India , China , & c Kingdom , thc Continent , & c . Via Brindisi . Twelve Mcoiths 10 s . 6 d . 12 s . od . 17 s . 4 d . Six „ 5 - 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 s . 8 tl . 3 s . 3 d . 4 s . 6 d . Subscriptions may be paid for in stamps , but Post Office Orders or Cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KENNING , CHIEF OFFICE , LONDON , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bank . Advertisements and 1 ther business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books foi review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further information will be supplied on application tc thc Publisher , 108 , Fleet-street , London .
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TO ADVERTISERS . The FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages as an advertising medium can therefore scarcely be overrated . ADVERTISEMENTS to ensure insertion In current "week's issue should reach the Office , 198 , Fleet-street , by 12 o ' clock on Wednesdays . SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS . Whole of back page £ 12 12 o Half ,. „ ... ... 6 10 o Inside pages 17 ° Half of ditto 400 Quarter c'itto 2 10 o Whole column 2 10 o Half „ 1 10 o Quarter „ 100 Per inch 040 _ These prices are for single insertions . A liberal reduction is made for a series of 13 , 26 , and 52 insertions . Further particulars may be obtained of the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
E . KING . —A working man will , we fear , find Freemasonry too expensive for him . He can of course be introduced if properly recommended . The age is 21 . Bro . HOGG has recently published a posthumous work of Bro . Dr . Oliver , " The Pythagorean Triangle . " C . J . P . —Many thanks for note . As you surmised , the P . G . S . had forgotten .
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BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . "Hull Packet ; " "West London Express ; " "The Scottish Freemason ; " " The Westminster Papers ;" " Corner Stone ; " " Transactions of the Supreme Council ot the 33 for the Southern Jurisdiction of thc United States of America ; " Risorgimento Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Scotland ; " Broad Arrow ; " Australian Freemason ; " " Report presented to
the Grand Chapter of the Rose Croix Degree in Ireland , June 19 th , 1878 j " " Hints to Sufferers with Diseases of the Eye ; " "Masonic Herald ; " "Hebrew Leader ;" " Appendix to Contributions to Natural History , and Papers on other Subjects ; " " The Hornet ; " " Testimonials to the Efficacy of Hydropathy in the Cure of Disease ; " "Canadian Craftsman ; " "Night and Day ;" " Masonic Herald ; " " Appendix to Contributions to Natural History " ( New York ) .
Births, Marriages And Deaths.
Births , Marriages and Deaths .
BIRTHS . ALTMAN . —July 29 , the wife of Albert J . Altrran , of a son WATSON . —July 26 , at Spring-grove , Isleworth , the wife of W . Farnell Watson , ol a son .
MARRIAGE . LONG—BOYLE . —August 1 , at St . George's , Hanoversquare , by the Hon . and Rev . Walter W . Ponsonby , M . A ., rector of Marston Bigot , assisted by the Rev . Thos . H . Tait , M . A ., rector of Hilperton , the Rev . Walter E .
Medlicott , M . A ., vicar of Swanmore , and the Rev . Edward CapelCure , M . A ., rector of St . George ' s , Walter Hume Long , Esq ., of Rood Ashton , Wilts , to the Lady Dorothy Blanche Boyle , fourth daughter of the Earl of Cork and Orrery , K . P .
DEATHS . DENCE . — August 5 , at Rosedale , Sydenham , John Dence C . E ., of Rosedale , and 28 , Mark-lane , E . C ., aged 41 years . HENNIKER . —August 4 , at 48 , Upper Grosvenor-street , London , the Hon . Mary Eliza Henniker , widow of the late Hon . and Rev . William Henniker , and youngest daughter of the late Edward Farnham , Esq ., pf ( Juornr don House , Leicestershire . R . I . P .
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THE FREEMASON , SATURDAY , AUGUST 10 , 1878 .
Our American Pilgrims.
OUR AMERICAN PILGRIMS .
Under this appellation , archaic and Templar at the same time , our good brethren from America are now on their wanderings , and we wish them heartily all health and happiness , all comfort and convenience , in the agreeable pilgrimage which lies before them . They are at
present , we believe , in Paris , and though there they cannot , unfortunately , associate with the French Freeirasons as with us , inasmuch as for them France is almost an unoccupied country , Masonically speaking at the present hour , yet there is much that they will truly and greatly
enjoy at Paris . He must be a dull or perverse mortal who does not like Paris . We leave out of consideration to-day those numerous questions which always crop up when we mention Paris , social , moral , and special , but we will say this , that Paris has countless charms in every respect
for the man of intellect , and the man of taste . No one can loiter in the Boulevards , or stand in the Tuilerie Gardens , or drive round the Bois de Boulogne , or walk up to Pere la Chaise ; no one , we repeat , can visit Notre Dame , Versailles , and the historic streets and art collections of Paris
without being alike pleased and struck , fascinated and impressed . And then in addition to this , when we live among French people , we see how they have been misunderstood and often undervalued , and how that really and truly there does not exist on the face of the earth a more
industrious , sober , peaceful , home-loving people . If life varies in its outward aspects materially in Paris , as it does , from our English habits , so much so , as to mislead those who are content with the surface of things , no one can live in Paris without liking Paris , just as no one
can sojourn tor a season in La Belle France without becoming deeply impressed with the higher qualities of the French people . So first at Paris and then on their onward career , we wish our American Pilgrims everthing that
health and arrangement , good digestion and warm hearts can bring them . "We trust that when they return to us in September , en route for their native land , theirs will be both pleasant associations and refreshing memories of their lengthened Pilgrimage .
The International Gathering.
THE INTERNATIONAL GATHERING .
Our thoughts will still return to that hospitable and successful undertaking . We feel sure , the more we think about it , that thanks to the happy idea of Bro . George Kenning , ( may his shadow never grow less ) , that pleasantest of meetings will be productive of much good in
more ways than one to Masonry m England and the United States . That assembly , at any late , had this one great merit , that it sought to draw together , and did draw together , American and English Masons as brethren and as friends , true and cherished , and that it sought to weld
together even closer than before , those links of amity and interest , of sympathy and affection , which if our Masonic principles be worth anything should bind those on this side of the Atlantic with those on the other side of the Atlantic with one Masonic and mystical cable of brotherly
union and goodwill . Such assemblies are few and far between in our lives , and there are none of us living , likely , humanly speaking , to seethe same again . Let us cherish its memories and rejoice to think that we were permitted to be present . One of our good brethren said that evening that we did not come together often
enough , and live in little Masonic circles of our own . That is most true , and is a fact that we may well bear in mind as pointing to salutary amendment and not unwelcome change . The party which was assembled by its kind host will probably never get together again in life , but let it remind us of that union , and friendship , and
The International Gathering.
kindness , and sympathy , and concord , and charity , which if they often seem to desert this nether earth of ours , yet live , or ought to live , at any rate , in goodly strength and grace , in the true Freemason ' s heart .
Rumours.
RUMOURS .
" Dame Rumour , as the old proverb has it , is a very " lying jade , " and just now is very busy in our good Masonic body . Perhaps it is the special season of the year , perhaps it is the hot weather , perhaps it is " many other things , " which predispose us to canards , and land us on
the fruitful short of gossip and rumour . But though as the schoolmen would have said of old , " de apparentibus et existentibus eadem est ratio , " yet as no evil is without a remedy , pace our good medical brethren—we will prescribe a " little common sense , carefully mixed with
prudent reserve , just now , for all our readers and friends . Rumour has it , loudly and whisperingly at the same time , that the heavy hand of the law has fallen on '' unscrutinizing scrutineers , " and that said worthies don ' t like it at all , and declare that it is after all only the case of the
" pot and the kettle . ' Rumour has it that we are to be favoured with " piquant revelations " and " striking facts , " which , whether they turn out to be short stories or long yarns , will , no doubt , vastly amuse our Masonic body . Rumour has it thatsome brethren , who think
themselves passed over in Grand Lodge appointments , talk too often and too loudly about it , while not a few , who are anxious for the purple , are stated by Rumour to be equally indiscreet as to their hopes and expectations for the future . Rumour has it that
there will be a contest for the Grand Treasurership , whenever it takes place , and that a certain distinguished brother is pretty certain 1 of success . Rumour saysjmany other things which we think we need not repeat here , as it is quite sufficient to note the fact that such rumours do exist . We
do not ourselves attach much credit to these various items of gossip and small talk , knowing how prone Masons , as well as other people , are to indulge in such little absurdities , and we arc inclined on the whole to put them all down to the hot weather and the end of the season , which
two things seem to us to account for anything abnormal or peculiar in our Masonic arrangements just now . To one rumour we think that we can give absolute denial , which is the alleged existence of a " Clique , " about which some of our brethren have been taking so much lately ,
and shaking their heads so emphatically . Those of us who remember our lamented Bro . Aytoun ' s story of the Clique in a Scottish borough will agree with us that any such amiable institution in English Freemasonry will equally and speedily come to grief . So , as our brethren are forsaking the metropolis and lodge life , we can safely say ,
" listen not to idle canards and childish rumours , but go your way and enjoy yourselves as good fellows and good men—north , south , east , and west . " When we all meet pgain inSeptemtem , if we do , we shall soon find out how little there is of truth , and how much of falsehood , in idle rumours and amusing canards .
Our Detective Police.
OUR DETECTIVE POLICE .
We have never had but one opinion on this subject , though probably in that we differ from some of our readers . We wish the detective force to be a well paid , well educated , well-conditioned body of men , placed in such a position
as to be above all external influences , and severed absolutely from all contact with unsafe associations . One of the greatest difficulties of the present police ! system is the " special agency business , " which has no conscience , and no reserve , and apes the habits , and assumes even the name of the police . Some of us may remember a
recent case before a police magistrate , where a special agent got off on the first charge , though , happily , safely landed in the second , because he said he was a " special detective . " As he did not use the word " police" in the first case , as he was proved to have done in the second , he was only convicted on the second complaint . Nothing can be worse for our police