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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price 2 u . » It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information , relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , including postage : United America , India , India , China , & c . Kingdom , the Continent , & c . Via Brindisi . Twelve moaths ios . 6 d . 12 s . 6 d . 17 s . 4 d . Six „ 5 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 s . 8 d . 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 other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for
review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further inlormation will be supplied on application to the Publisher , 108 , Fleet-street , London .
Important Notice.
IMPORTANT NOTICE .
It is very necessary for our readers to advis us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them . Several P . O . O . ' s are now in hand , but having received no advice we cannot credit them .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages » s 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 ... £ 11 12 o Half ,, „ 6 10 o Inside pages ... ... ... ... 7 7 ° Half of ditto ... ... ... 400 Quarter ditto ... ,. 2 10 o Whole column ... ... •••... ... 2 10 o
Half ,, 1 10 o Quarter ,, .. ... ... 100 Per inch 050 These prices are for single insertions , A liberal reduction is made for a scries of 13 , 26 , and 52 insertions . Further particulars may be obtained of the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
VESTUR . —Your communication is an advertisement . BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Brief , " " Die Bauhiitte , " " Keystone , " " Citizen , " " Alliance News , " " Broad Arrow , " " Hull Packet , " " Royal Cornwall Gazette , " " The Belfast Morning News , " "The Freemason ' s Monthly , " " Rcpoit United Grand
Lodge of England and Agenda Paper , " " Report ol Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire , " "New York Dispatch , " "The West Middlesex Advertiser , " "The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette , " " Masonic Review , " " The Hebrew Leader , " " Bulletin du Grand Orient de France . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . Gd . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ] BIRTHS . DUNCUM . —On the 24 th inst ., at Broomfield , Weybridgeheath , Surrey , the wife of Mr . William Duncum , of
a daughter . LAKE . —On the 25 th inst ., the wife of Mr . Edward Lake , Bury St . Edmunds , of a daughter . TAYLER . —On the 24 th inst , at 224 , Lewisham Highroad , the wife of Mr . Francis T . Tayler , of a daughter .
MARRIAGE . Miiu . ER—KROLI .. —On the 21 st inst ., at the Parish Church , St . Botolph , Aldgate , London , Bro . Capt . A . Miiller , Lodge " Gcrmania , " Shanghae , to Doris , eldest daughter of Mr . Ernst Kroll , 15 , America-square , London . No . cards .
DEATHS . GUNNEI . I .. —On the 20 ' . h inst ,, at Lexdcn , George W , Gunnell , son of the late Mr . George J . Gunnell , aged 48 years . QUISCEV . —On the 25 th inst ., at South Hackney , Mr . J . Harcourt Quincey , in his 80 th year . RL ' MSET . —On the 25 th inst ., at Clevedon , Mr . John Rumsey , aged 86 years .
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THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , AUGUST 30 , 1879 .
The Royal Masonic Pupils' Assistance Fund.
THE ROYAL MASONIC PUPILS ' ASSISTANCE FUND .
Such is the name to be given to a " fund " about to be started , under very high auspices , and to which Bro . Dick Radclyffe has called our attention , being in one sense , we believe , the founder of it . Among several distinguished
brethren who have already given their patronage to it we find Bros . Lord Skelmersdale , D . G . M . ; H . R . H . Prince Leopold , K . G ., P . G . W ., Prov . G . Master Oxon ; Earl of Rosslyn , K . T ., P . G . M . Scotland , 33 ; His Grace the Duke of
Athole , K . T ., Past Grand Master Scotland ; Rig ht Hon . Lord Henniker , P . S . G . Warden , S . G . W . M . M ., P . P . G . W . Suffolk ; Sir Daniel Gooch , Bt ., M . P ., Prov . G . Master Berks and Bucks j Rev . C . J . Martyn , P . G . C ., Dep . Prov . G . Master Suffolk ; F . Adlard , P . M . 7 , P . Z . 2 14 ,
P . P . A . G . D . of C . Essex ; Sir John Bennett , Grand Stewards' Lodge ; \ V . Biggs , P . Prov . G . Secretary Berks and Bucks ; F . Binckes , P . G . S ., Sec . R . M . I . B . ; R . Bradley , Prov . G . Secretary Berks and Bucks ; Colonel Frederick Brine , R . E , P . M ., 30 ° ; J . O . Carter , Sec . 200 , P . Prov .
G . D . of C . Berks and Bucks ; Baron Fielder , P . M ., P . G . S . W . Berks and Bucks ; J . Jacobs , P . M . 4 82 , P . P . G . Reg . Staffordshire ; George Kenning . P . Prov . G . D . Middlesex ; W . H . Lucia , G . S . B ., Prov . G . Sec . Suffolk ; Andrew
Pears , W . M . 8 65 ; Robert Roberts , W . M . 209 , Prov . G . J . D . Berks and Bucks ; H . C . Tombs , P . G . D- ; A . Withers , W . M . 21 r ; and others . Many more will no doubt soon join the movement , and it will easil y be got into working order . Its object is practically to " look after "
our pupils leaving our excellent Schools , and assist them in meeting the difficulties and dangers of life as they start on their journey . It appears to us a practical scheme , and one likely to commend itself to all who interest themselves in our Masonic orphans , and who feel
that the associations of our lodges , and the p leasures of Masonic social intercourse , are enhanced and expanded in wonderful measure when we seek to extend to the poor children of those who once were our " mates and confreres " in many a p leasant gathering of "auld langsyne , " the kindly
hand of Masonic charity , or the warm sympathies of Masonic benevolence . There is nothing about this plan grand or pretentious , chimerical or Utopian . It is a plain and practical developement of what is right , needful , and trul y considerate . In all similar praiseworth y movements ,
for some time past , in this country , there has been existing , happily , a growing conviction that our duty to the orphans we seek to educate , that our interest in them , cannot and do not cease with the conclusion and limits of the " school age . " AH over the land great anxiety has been evinced
of late years to discover a method and elaborate a plan , by which our g irls and boys on leaving school might find a continuance of culture and care , friendly help , and genial " surveillance , " if we may so use the word , by which in the most dangerous period of life they may be shielded
from the temptations which lure , and the perils which beset , young and ardent minds , bursting out with the feelings and vigour of youth , and emancipated from needful control or kindl y advice . This is the main point of this new Masonic scheme , as we understand it , and as such we
g ive it our warm approval . Our Institutions grant a sum for outfit and advancement in life , but there they stop . This new society will seek to carry on the good work , and watch over the progress of our pupils from the time they leave their respective Institutions , and will seek to find suitable positions for them , and in every way
act as friends , counsellors , and helpers to those who from their peculiar position as orphans are too often friendless , and require much fostering care to enable them to reap the benefits of that admirable education which has been g iven to them . We are aware that this is not the best of times to make appeals or to found new charitably .
The Royal Masonic Pupils' Assistance Fund.
institutions , but we think the useful , the needful , and the practical so predominate in this simple and straightforward scheme , which we print elsewhere in detail , that we have thought well to call the attention of our readers specifically , if
shortly , to it . As the Society increases in size and commences its work in good earnest as we doubt not , we shall from time to time have much p leasure in noting its reports and reptrting its proceedings , for the information and gratification of our readers .
Charity Reform.
CHARITY REFORM .
We must fairly confess that , in common , we fancy , with most of our readers , we are greatl y disappointed with Bro . Simpson ' s reply to the Grand Treasurer ' s letter . As regards our own remarks , we do not see that Bro . Simpson attempts to answer them . It is plain to us that
he is altogether ignorant—we say it most respectfully—of the position which Provincial Charity Committees now occupy in the question , and we can only repeat , what we fancy ninety-nine out of every hundred Masons will also say , " if great abuses exist , we do not know where or what they are . " As regards the " investigation " into
cases , which proposed reform . Bro . Simpson took from us , and has now made part of his own little programme , he mentions " information he has received . " We fancy that even in this respect he does not realize what it is he is proposing . There are now certain formalities laid down which must be complied with , and certain pre-requisite conditions which must be satisfied before
candidates can be placed on the list . But that is not " where the shoe pinches . " The only one real difficulty is a comparative question of poverty , of need . And this is a most difficult a .-id delicate subject , as all who have looked into or handled Charity cases can testify at once . It is all very
well to indulge in general propositions , in magnificent utterances and mysterious hints , but what we want is the reality and , above all , the truth of careful , conscientious enquiry . We need least of all the " crotchets of reformers , " or the " hi gh falutin " of the stock sensationalism , the " bombast" of the childish fallacies of the hour . ' •All
that glitters is not geld , ' and all the professions of philanthropy , all the demands for change , the agitated craving for public discussion or popular approval , so rampant and so pretentious often
just now , have not the slightest eflvct on the minds of those who understand their business , who care little for mere excitement or the platform , and who have watched the real wants of such institutions and have realized the
true position of affairs . As regards the " scenes on polling days , '' we think our brother the Grand Treasurer will be as amused as we are with our worth y brother ' s gentle " casuistry " on the subject . For there is a " casuistry , " as we have sometimes observed
before , not purely of Roman origin , not alone practised at Stonyhurst . The illustration in the Graphic or Illustrated London News did not refer to a Masonic Charity , and it is idle , and worse than idle , in a discussion on Masonic Charities to bring in other charities . It is not quite respectful
to the Craft or Bro . Col . Creaton , when asked what ate the scenes at Masonic elections , to be told they exist in other associations . The Craft wanted " particulars " not " generals . " However , we do not wish to seem even to find fault . No proved abuses exist in our Masonic Charities . If our Past Grand Chaplain thinks so , let
him openly say so , and point them out . But if not , llio charge ought to be withdrawn at once , as detrimental to the character and derogatory to the imputation of the subscribers . We have said all this in the interests of our Charities , openly and fearlessly , but , we trust , also courteousl y and fraternally .
Servants' Characters.
SERVANTS' CHARACTERS .
A good deal of controversy has arisen lately upon this very difficult and delicate question , and some amusing letters have been written , and some striking illustrations have been adduced to demonstrate the evils and inconveniences of the present system . Certainly , at present , everything is as doubtful and uncomfortable as
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To Our Readers.
TO OUR READERS .
The FREEMASON is a Weekly Newspaper , price 2 u . » It is published every Friday morning , and contains the most important , interesting , and useful information , relating to Freemasonry in every degree . Subscription , including postage : United America , India , India , China , & c . Kingdom , the Continent , & c . Via Brindisi . Twelve moaths ios . 6 d . 12 s . 6 d . 17 s . 4 d . Six „ 5 s . 3 d . 6 s . 6 d . 8 s . 8 d . Three „ 2 s . 8 d . 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 other business communications should be addressed to the Publisher . Communications on literary subjects and books for
review are to be forwarded to the Editor . Anonymous correspondence will be wholly disregarded , and the return of rejected MSS . cannot be guaranteed . Further inlormation will be supplied on application to the Publisher , 108 , Fleet-street , London .
Important Notice.
IMPORTANT NOTICE .
It is very necessary for our readers to advis us of all money orders they remit , more especially those from the United States of America and India ; otherwise we cannot tell where to credit them . Several P . O . O . ' s are now in hand , but having received no advice we cannot credit them .
To Advertisers.
TO ADVERTISERS .
The FREEMASON has a large circulation in all parts of the Globe , its advantages » s 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 ... £ 11 12 o Half ,, „ 6 10 o Inside pages ... ... ... ... 7 7 ° Half of ditto ... ... ... 400 Quarter ditto ... ,. 2 10 o Whole column ... ... •••... ... 2 10 o
Half ,, 1 10 o Quarter ,, .. ... ... 100 Per inch 050 These prices are for single insertions , A liberal reduction is made for a scries of 13 , 26 , and 52 insertions . Further particulars may be obtained of the Publisher , 198 , Fleet-street , London .
Answers To Correspondents.
Answers to Correspondents .
VESTUR . —Your communication is an advertisement . BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . " Brief , " " Die Bauhiitte , " " Keystone , " " Citizen , " " Alliance News , " " Broad Arrow , " " Hull Packet , " " Royal Cornwall Gazette , " " The Belfast Morning News , " "The Freemason ' s Monthly , " " Rcpoit United Grand
Lodge of England and Agenda Paper , " " Report ol Grand Lodge of Lincolnshire , " "New York Dispatch , " "The West Middlesex Advertiser , " "The Exeter and Plymouth Gazette , " " Masonic Review , " " The Hebrew Leader , " " Bulletin du Grand Orient de France . "
Births, Marriages, And Deaths.
Births , Marriages , and Deaths .
[ The charge is 2 s . Gd . for announcements not exceeding Four Lines under this heading . ] BIRTHS . DUNCUM . —On the 24 th inst ., at Broomfield , Weybridgeheath , Surrey , the wife of Mr . William Duncum , of
a daughter . LAKE . —On the 25 th inst ., the wife of Mr . Edward Lake , Bury St . Edmunds , of a daughter . TAYLER . —On the 24 th inst , at 224 , Lewisham Highroad , the wife of Mr . Francis T . Tayler , of a daughter .
MARRIAGE . Miiu . ER—KROLI .. —On the 21 st inst ., at the Parish Church , St . Botolph , Aldgate , London , Bro . Capt . A . Miiller , Lodge " Gcrmania , " Shanghae , to Doris , eldest daughter of Mr . Ernst Kroll , 15 , America-square , London . No . cards .
DEATHS . GUNNEI . I .. —On the 20 ' . h inst ,, at Lexdcn , George W , Gunnell , son of the late Mr . George J . Gunnell , aged 48 years . QUISCEV . —On the 25 th inst ., at South Hackney , Mr . J . Harcourt Quincey , in his 80 th year . RL ' MSET . —On the 25 th inst ., at Clevedon , Mr . John Rumsey , aged 86 years .
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THEFREEMASON. SATURDAY , AUGUST 30 , 1879 .
The Royal Masonic Pupils' Assistance Fund.
THE ROYAL MASONIC PUPILS ' ASSISTANCE FUND .
Such is the name to be given to a " fund " about to be started , under very high auspices , and to which Bro . Dick Radclyffe has called our attention , being in one sense , we believe , the founder of it . Among several distinguished
brethren who have already given their patronage to it we find Bros . Lord Skelmersdale , D . G . M . ; H . R . H . Prince Leopold , K . G ., P . G . W ., Prov . G . Master Oxon ; Earl of Rosslyn , K . T ., P . G . M . Scotland , 33 ; His Grace the Duke of
Athole , K . T ., Past Grand Master Scotland ; Rig ht Hon . Lord Henniker , P . S . G . Warden , S . G . W . M . M ., P . P . G . W . Suffolk ; Sir Daniel Gooch , Bt ., M . P ., Prov . G . Master Berks and Bucks j Rev . C . J . Martyn , P . G . C ., Dep . Prov . G . Master Suffolk ; F . Adlard , P . M . 7 , P . Z . 2 14 ,
P . P . A . G . D . of C . Essex ; Sir John Bennett , Grand Stewards' Lodge ; \ V . Biggs , P . Prov . G . Secretary Berks and Bucks ; F . Binckes , P . G . S ., Sec . R . M . I . B . ; R . Bradley , Prov . G . Secretary Berks and Bucks ; Colonel Frederick Brine , R . E , P . M ., 30 ° ; J . O . Carter , Sec . 200 , P . Prov .
G . D . of C . Berks and Bucks ; Baron Fielder , P . M ., P . G . S . W . Berks and Bucks ; J . Jacobs , P . M . 4 82 , P . P . G . Reg . Staffordshire ; George Kenning . P . Prov . G . D . Middlesex ; W . H . Lucia , G . S . B ., Prov . G . Sec . Suffolk ; Andrew
Pears , W . M . 8 65 ; Robert Roberts , W . M . 209 , Prov . G . J . D . Berks and Bucks ; H . C . Tombs , P . G . D- ; A . Withers , W . M . 21 r ; and others . Many more will no doubt soon join the movement , and it will easil y be got into working order . Its object is practically to " look after "
our pupils leaving our excellent Schools , and assist them in meeting the difficulties and dangers of life as they start on their journey . It appears to us a practical scheme , and one likely to commend itself to all who interest themselves in our Masonic orphans , and who feel
that the associations of our lodges , and the p leasures of Masonic social intercourse , are enhanced and expanded in wonderful measure when we seek to extend to the poor children of those who once were our " mates and confreres " in many a p leasant gathering of "auld langsyne , " the kindly
hand of Masonic charity , or the warm sympathies of Masonic benevolence . There is nothing about this plan grand or pretentious , chimerical or Utopian . It is a plain and practical developement of what is right , needful , and trul y considerate . In all similar praiseworth y movements ,
for some time past , in this country , there has been existing , happily , a growing conviction that our duty to the orphans we seek to educate , that our interest in them , cannot and do not cease with the conclusion and limits of the " school age . " AH over the land great anxiety has been evinced
of late years to discover a method and elaborate a plan , by which our g irls and boys on leaving school might find a continuance of culture and care , friendly help , and genial " surveillance , " if we may so use the word , by which in the most dangerous period of life they may be shielded
from the temptations which lure , and the perils which beset , young and ardent minds , bursting out with the feelings and vigour of youth , and emancipated from needful control or kindl y advice . This is the main point of this new Masonic scheme , as we understand it , and as such we
g ive it our warm approval . Our Institutions grant a sum for outfit and advancement in life , but there they stop . This new society will seek to carry on the good work , and watch over the progress of our pupils from the time they leave their respective Institutions , and will seek to find suitable positions for them , and in every way
act as friends , counsellors , and helpers to those who from their peculiar position as orphans are too often friendless , and require much fostering care to enable them to reap the benefits of that admirable education which has been g iven to them . We are aware that this is not the best of times to make appeals or to found new charitably .
The Royal Masonic Pupils' Assistance Fund.
institutions , but we think the useful , the needful , and the practical so predominate in this simple and straightforward scheme , which we print elsewhere in detail , that we have thought well to call the attention of our readers specifically , if
shortly , to it . As the Society increases in size and commences its work in good earnest as we doubt not , we shall from time to time have much p leasure in noting its reports and reptrting its proceedings , for the information and gratification of our readers .
Charity Reform.
CHARITY REFORM .
We must fairly confess that , in common , we fancy , with most of our readers , we are greatl y disappointed with Bro . Simpson ' s reply to the Grand Treasurer ' s letter . As regards our own remarks , we do not see that Bro . Simpson attempts to answer them . It is plain to us that
he is altogether ignorant—we say it most respectfully—of the position which Provincial Charity Committees now occupy in the question , and we can only repeat , what we fancy ninety-nine out of every hundred Masons will also say , " if great abuses exist , we do not know where or what they are . " As regards the " investigation " into
cases , which proposed reform . Bro . Simpson took from us , and has now made part of his own little programme , he mentions " information he has received . " We fancy that even in this respect he does not realize what it is he is proposing . There are now certain formalities laid down which must be complied with , and certain pre-requisite conditions which must be satisfied before
candidates can be placed on the list . But that is not " where the shoe pinches . " The only one real difficulty is a comparative question of poverty , of need . And this is a most difficult a .-id delicate subject , as all who have looked into or handled Charity cases can testify at once . It is all very
well to indulge in general propositions , in magnificent utterances and mysterious hints , but what we want is the reality and , above all , the truth of careful , conscientious enquiry . We need least of all the " crotchets of reformers , " or the " hi gh falutin " of the stock sensationalism , the " bombast" of the childish fallacies of the hour . ' •All
that glitters is not geld , ' and all the professions of philanthropy , all the demands for change , the agitated craving for public discussion or popular approval , so rampant and so pretentious often
just now , have not the slightest eflvct on the minds of those who understand their business , who care little for mere excitement or the platform , and who have watched the real wants of such institutions and have realized the
true position of affairs . As regards the " scenes on polling days , '' we think our brother the Grand Treasurer will be as amused as we are with our worth y brother ' s gentle " casuistry " on the subject . For there is a " casuistry , " as we have sometimes observed
before , not purely of Roman origin , not alone practised at Stonyhurst . The illustration in the Graphic or Illustrated London News did not refer to a Masonic Charity , and it is idle , and worse than idle , in a discussion on Masonic Charities to bring in other charities . It is not quite respectful
to the Craft or Bro . Col . Creaton , when asked what ate the scenes at Masonic elections , to be told they exist in other associations . The Craft wanted " particulars " not " generals . " However , we do not wish to seem even to find fault . No proved abuses exist in our Masonic Charities . If our Past Grand Chaplain thinks so , let
him openly say so , and point them out . But if not , llio charge ought to be withdrawn at once , as detrimental to the character and derogatory to the imputation of the subscribers . We have said all this in the interests of our Charities , openly and fearlessly , but , we trust , also courteousl y and fraternally .
Servants' Characters.
SERVANTS' CHARACTERS .
A good deal of controversy has arisen lately upon this very difficult and delicate question , and some amusing letters have been written , and some striking illustrations have been adduced to demonstrate the evils and inconveniences of the present system . Certainly , at present , everything is as doubtful and uncomfortable as