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MASONRY IN MAINE. J. A. Locke, M. of S. & G. O. Published quarterly by Stephen Berry, Wm. J. Burnham, Grand . Lodge Elections. George E. Taylor, Grand . No. 37 Plum Street, Portland. Wm. O. Fox, Grand Treasurer. Twelve cts. per year In advance. Papers stopped Monmouth, 110, North Monmouth. Chas Henry L. Paine, Grand Secretary. when time is out. ([^“Postage is prepaid. H Foster, m; Nahum Spear, sw; Leonidas J. A. Merrill, Grand Eng. & Architect. Pettengill, jw; J W Foss, s. B. F. Andrews, Grand Hospitaler. Francis T. Faulkner, Grand Standard Bearer. Advertisements $4.00 per inch, or $3.00 for Central, 45, China. Ora O Crosby, m; half an inch for one year. The money should be William S Hunnewell, sw ; Marshall B Ham- H. B. Brown, of Ceremonies. remitted to insure insertion. mond, jw; Willis W Washburn, s. S. F. Bearce, Grand Captain of Guard. No advertisement received unless the advertiser, Warren Phillips, Grand Sentinel. or some member of the firm, is a Freemason in Forest, 148, Springfield. Charles R Brown, good standing. m; Louis C Stearns, sw; Charles II Tuck, The -in-Chief, in his address jw; John A Larrabee, Carroll, s. gave a very interesting and valuable history " JERUSALEM'S ASSIZE.” Star in the East, 60, Old Town. Mellan of the in this State. A Austin, m; Stephen S Haynes, sw; Rod- ney C Penney, j w ; Charles A Bailey, s. Dedications. BY BRO. A. J. JI. DUGANNE. Plymouth, 75, Plymouth. Grenville Man- On the evening of Tuesday, August 20th, sur, m; Wm H Conant, sw; S P Gifford, the new hall of Arundel Lodge, at Kenne­ Godfrey of Bouillon was crown’d jw; C Butman, s. King on Judea’s hallowed ground; bunkport, was dedicated in ancient form by Yet, though royal power he bore, Trojan, 134, Troy. Abner Hodgdon, m ; Grand Master Edward P. Burnham, assisted Never a kingly crown he wore. T W Hawes, sw; Mil ton Carlton, jw; AC “ Crown of gold,” Sir Godfrey cried, Myrick, s. by Bro. John S. Derby as Deputy Grand “ Ne’er shall bind my mortal head; Scottish Rite. Master; Bro. Joseph Hill, Master of York Well I wot ’twas crown of thorn By my Saviour here was worn 1 ” The elective officers of Maine Consistory Lodge, as Senior Grand Warden ; Bro. George So, with helm of encrown’d, were chosen in December last at the triennial Littlefield, Past Master of York Lodge, as Godfrey ruled on Judean ground; Junior Grand Warden; P. G. M. David Car­ Title sole would he assume, meeting. The remaining officers have now ” Guardian of the Holy Tomb! ” been appointed and assigned. We give the gill, as Grand Chaplain, and Bro. Warren But from Antioch unto Tyre, Phillips, as Grand Marshal. Ruled he under God’s desire; complete list: And the Holy Land he won, Marquis F. King, 33°, Commander-in-Chief. A new hall was dedicated for Baskahegan From Moriah to Ascalon. Henry L Paine, 32°, First Lieut.-Com. Lodge, at Danforth, and the officcrs installed, Tower and town and castle strong, John M. Caldwell, 32°, Second Lieut.-Com. by Charles I. Collamore, on the afternoon of Godfrey won and kept full long; Rufus H. Hinkley, 32°, Min. of State & G. 0. And in all remotest parts, October 15th. There was a dance and col- Won and kept his people’s hearts. J. A. Merrill, 32°, Grand Chancellor. Samuel F. Bearce, 32°, Grand See. & K. of S. lation in the evening. Never a knight for knightly meed, A’bion Keith, 32°, Grand Treasurer. Never a serf for ruth to plead, Never a friend or foe preferred Geo. R. Shaw, 32°, Grand Eng. & Architect. FiRE. — Masonic Hall at Biddeford was 1’rayer to him but prayer was heard. James H. Eaton, 32°, Grand Hospitaler. damaged by fire Oct. 5th. The third floor Gordon R. Garden, 32°, Grand Mast, of Cer. Till from Tyre to Egypt passed, was occupied by Bradford and Word that David reigned at last; H. B. Brown, 32°, Grand Standard Bearer. Word that royal Solomon John C. Small, 32°, Grand Capt. of Guards. Palestine Lodge. The ceilings and walls Ruled as Godfrey of Bouillon. Warren Phillips, 32°, Grand Sentinel. were ruined by smoke and water, and the And he said, “ I will ordain It will be remembered that the bodies of furniture somewhat injured. The armory Laws to live beyond my reign; Laws to deal, by nature’s plan, the Scottish Rite lost all of their working was but little injured, the uniforms being en­ Justice—unto man and man! paraphernalia at the fire in 1876, but since the tirely protected by their cases. The lodge “ Equal laws for rich and poor, completion of the new halls, have been ac- Equal rights that peace endure; was insured §1,500, and the Commandery Equal light for all to scan. tively engaged in preparing for work. Three §1,200, which will cover their losses. Love to God and help to man.” of the bodies have completed their arrange­ Then with hand so strong to smite, ments and commenced work, conferring de- Visit to Augusta.—St. Omer Command- Clerkly scroll did Godfrey write; And he called its rubric wise, grees on several candidates. The Consistory ery of Waterville, and Dunlap Commandery His—“Jerusalem’s Assize! ” has not yet completed the necessary arrange- of Bath, visited Trinity Commandery at Au­ For that scroll by heaven impressed, And these laws of heaven’s behest, ments for work, but quite a number of candi- gusta, October 2d. They made a trip down Give to all men right to claim to Hallowell, where they were all entertained Justice—at Jerusalem! dates have been elected and are waiting to at the residence of Sir Knight James Atkins, Justice—at that Temple gate, receive the grades in that body. As a large Where, of old, the Master sate; working force is needed to render the work Jr., and returning to Augusta had a banquet, Justice—from each Templar Knight, Sworn for aye all wrong to right! properly, it is to be hoped that all the mem­ and a ball in the evening at Granite Hall. Godfrey sleeps where breezes stir bers who are able to assist in any of the As the time draws near for the masons to Palm leaves o’er that Sepulchre; parts will tender their services, in that vacate their old lodge room for the new Tem­ There his hands were laid to rest, Crossed upon his knightly breast. the grades may be conferred without delay. ple, the question suggests itself as to what they will do with their old quarters. In 1892 But wherever a Templar Knight MAINE COUNCIL OF DELIBERATION met the built the French roof upon the Keeps his oath to help the right; Wheresoever a Mason’s word at Portland, July 30th. The following is the High school building, and took a lease, after Boldly for the weak is heard; the old English fashion, for ninety-nine years. list of officers elected and appointed : The terms of the lease specify that it shall be Wheresoever with brother’s hand, Man helps man in everj' land. George W. Deering, Commander-in-Chief. used for masonic purposes, and when vacated There shall Godfrey’s spirit rise Henry H. Dickey, 1st Lieut.-Commander. by the order it will revert to the central O’er “ Jerusalem’s Assize.”—N. Y. Advocate. T. J. Murray, 2d Lieut.-Commander. school district. In order to retain possession, 42 MASONIC TOKEN OCT. 15, 1878. n case of accidents that may occur in the , sical Qualifications’ in your July number. sonic Temple Sunday, Sept. 1st, and was uture, it is proposed that King Solomon The fact is not new to me, for you will find largely attended, Grand Master Browne con­ Council, No. 1, shall occupy the room with all the old furniture, &c. The French roof it in an article of mine in the June Masonic ducting the services. He leaves a widow in fs owned by and Corinthian Jewel, But Bro. Hacker discovered but half I feeble health. Rev. Bro. A. S. Fiske deliv­ Royal Arch , and cost about §2,000. of the fact; the so-called American masonic. ered an able address, which is given in full —[Belfast Journal. landmark: of Jreebom is also wanting in the by the San Francisco Masonic Monthly. Schumacher is to fresco the new masonic Strasburg Constitution. And that is not all. hall at Belfast. The Forgo (German) Constitution of 1562 or We regret to learn, from the San Francisco 3, printed in Fort’s history, is also minus of Mosonic Monthly, that Charles Louis Wiggin, Harwood Lodge, of Machias, with invited those landmarks. I told Bro. Woodbury of the Grand Recorder and able Chairman of guests to the number of two hundred, had a these facts several months ago, and he ex- the Foreign Correspondence Committee, has clambake at Pond Cove, Englishman’s River, claimed ‘ Strange ! very strange ! ’ been expelled from masonry on complaint of August 28th, driving over, the eight miles, “ There is, however, one error Bro. Hacker the Grand Officers of the Grand Chapter and in a procession of fifty-six teams. The Union labors untjer which requires correction. You Grand Commandery, on account of irregulari­ speaks of it as a delightful excursion. say, * He is confident that it (sound limb) ties in his administration of office in those was put in at the general assembly in Eng- Bodies. New Lodge.—September l6th, the AI. W. Grand Alaster granted a dispensation for a land, in 1663, when Henry Jermyn, Earl of The MasoNic Newspaper. — The first new lodge, to be located at West Paris, by St. Albans, was Grand Master.’ Now, in the first place, ‘the assembly’ and St. Albans number of Wm. J. Hardenbrook’s new ma­ the name of Granite Lodge. George W. sonic paper, issued in New York, has come Hammond, W. M.; George AV. Bryant, Grand Mastership belongs to the realm of masonic fiction. It originated in Anderson’s along. It proves to be a four page paper, S. W. ; and Charles AV. Chase, J. AV. brain; and second, the law of sound limb is each page 10 x 14 inches. It is not too large Ammi M. True, who was drowned by the much older than 1663, for you can find it in for binding, though the margin is rather too upsetting of a boat while gunning, was a in the Halliwell poem, written in the first narrow to admit proper trimming. This member of the masonic fraternity at Augusta, half of the 15th century, and it was continued paper, published weekly, will give a good cur- and was buried with masonic honors Septem- in all subsequent constitutions. However, all rent history of masonry, and ought to pay ber 20th. that does not make it a landmark.” the publishers.

PORTLAND and St. Alban A. J. Wheeler.—Among the victims of Dakota.—Annual session of , celebrated the 24th of June by an excursion yellow fever in Memphis, is Andrew J. June 11, 1878. Geo. H. Hand re-elected up through the Notch, and a dinner at the Wheeler, the editor of the Masonic Jewel Grand Master; Charles T. McCoy, of Bon Crawford House. Past Grand Master of Tennessee, and Com- Homme, elected Grand Secretary. St. John’s Commandery of Bangor, visited mander of Saint Elmo Commandery, of Skowhegan, August 7th, and were received Memphis, who died September 7th. At the Colorado. — The annual session of the Grund Lodge of Colorado was held Sept, 17th. by DeMolay Commandery, who gave them a I previous visit of the pestilence he won a Roger W. Woodbury, of Denver, was elected reception at Coburn Hall in the evening. national reputation by the gallantry with Grand Master; Edward II. Collins, of Den­ On their return, 8th, they were received by which he stood at his post as Secretary of ver, was elected Grand High Priest; Irving St. Omer Commandery at Waterville, who the Masonic Relief Board. Again lie un­ W. Stanton, of Pueblo, Grand Commander; marched them through the town and gave flinchingly met the dreadful enemy, but this and Ed. C. Parmelee, of Georgetown, was them a dinner in the town hall. time fell an early prey, but not until he had visited thousands of sick rooms to minister re-elected Grand Secretary of all three bodies. September 11 th, Portland, St. Alban and to the sick and dying. He nursed his wife The Pilgrims Abroad.— Bro. Kenning, Blanquefort Commanderies made an excur- through an attack of fever which was very the proprietor of the London Freemason, gave sion to Saco, where they were met by the severe, and when she was out of danger he a dinner to the Pennsylvania visitors of Mary Bradford Commandery and the Biddeford was taken down, being exhausted with his Commandery, at the Freemasons’ Tavern, Band and escorted to the steamer Augusta. labors. July 31st, at which many distinguished The steamer made a run down to Saco Ferry He went from Norridgewock, in Maine, to English masons were present. From the re­ Beach. Here a grand collation was in wait­ Memphis some twenty years ago, and has ported speeches it is evident that they had a ing, which was heartily enjoyed by all. After there attained a position and a reputation good time. From their landing in Ireland, eating, the spent the day in roaming which will keep his memory forever green July 15th, they received a series of welcomes. about the place, telling stories, &c. They in Tennessee. Grand Commander Foster, At Londonderry, the Provincial Grand Lodge left at 4.30 o’clock and took the steamer for a of Tennessee, has issued an order that the gave them a supper. At Belfast, Dublin, sail down to the Fool and returned to the Commanderies shall drape their standards Glasgow and Edinburgh, similar receptions city. Arriving at Saco they had a short and jewels, and wear a of mourning in were tendered. At York, Ancient Ebor Pre- parade, and then the visitors took the train his memory. ceptory worked the Templar Order for their for this city. Another circular from the Grand Com- edification, and gave them a banquet. mandery of Tennessee brings the sad news Greenleaf Lodge, from Cornish, came to The visitors from Alleghany Commandery, of the death of Edward R. T. Worsham, Portland, August 27th, and went to Little received equally warm receptions ln Glasgow Past Grand Commander and Grand Repre­ Chebeague Island in the steamer Meta. and Edinburgh. sentative of Maine, who also died in Memphis, East Machias CenteNNIal.—The pro- September 15th. Like Wheeler, he died Edward S. Dana, of New Haven, has posed celebration of the centennial anniver­ while laboring to relieve the distresses of his been re-elected Grand High Priest of Ver­ sary of Warren Lodge, No. 2, at East Machias neighbors and brethren. mont. The time of annual meeting is has been postponed for the present. We William Edward Moody, for many changed from September to June, when the hope that it will not be passed over, but that years assistant Grand Secretary of California, Grand Lodge holds its sessions. Judge John a favorable time may be found this fall. died August 28th. He was a native of B. Hollenbeck, Past Grand Secretary, was LandmaRks.—Bro. Jacob Norton writes, Maine, was fifty-three years of age, and had present. He is in his 87th year, and was under date of July 26th : been a resident of California twenty-five made a mason in 1813, being the oldest in “I was pleased to see the paragraph ‘Phy- years. His funeral took place from the Ma­ Vermont. MASONIC TOKEN, - - OCT. 15, 1878. 43

FkaNk Welch, Grand Master of the Grand general index is given for binding. In addi- j spector General and Commander. He, it is tion to this a table of contents is given each said, created the thirty-third degree, and out Lodge of Nebraska, died Sept. 4th. IIis re- of the possessors of it a Supreme Council was mains were brought to by a Guard of year, which is retained in binding, and on formed. He died in August, 1786. If this Honor, consisting of prominent Nebraska the cover every year are given directions for historical account be correct, it is clear that binding, and a table of volumes showing the Supreme Council of the Southern Juris­ masons, and were buried at Forest Hill Cem- diction of the United States is not the tery Sept. 13, with full and imposing masonic what years to bind together. “ Mother Council of the world.” Perhaps, its honors. He was a member of the 44th.Con- distinguished Sovereign Grand Commander will kindly enlighten our readers on this gress. Swedenborg Rite.—A correspondent of the London Freemason argues that Sweden- knotty point of masonic history. The claim appears irreconcileable with tact, for all these Compass.—Laurence N. Greenleaf, in his borg was not a Freemason, and that the rite degrees, as is well known, were practiced by Report on Correspondence to the Grand named after him is an outgrowth of Martin- the Grand Lodge and Grand Orient of France, ism, or the Rite Martin, which was founded many years before the commencement of the Lodge of Colorado, in commenting on Maine, present century.—{Correspondent of the Free­ says: “ We have used both Compass and by Martin Paschal in 1754. mason, l.ondon. Compasses in our work and lectures, and be- lieve Compass the better word for masons MeridiAN Lodge.—We add to our list of Louis Kossuth, the Illustrious Hungarian histories, that of Meridian Lodge, Pittsfield, exile, visited Cincinnati in 1852, and was re­ whatever lexicographers may contend. It ceived and welcomed with much pomp and has the merit of ancient if not of common by Albion Whitten. This lodge was char- ceremony. While there he was made a Free­ usage.” tered in 1864. Only 150 copies are published. mason in Cincinnati Lodge, No. 133, the late Price 40c. It is to be desired that more of Brother F. Bondman being at that time the He is mistaken about its antiquity. Milton Worshipful Master. The lodge rooms were used Compasses while, Swift, a hundred years tbe old lodges should publish. We are proud crowded with distinguished masons. ’Die after, used Compass. of this list of histories. Maine leads the petition for the degrees ot masonry is pre­ other States, and gets much credit therefor. served with the archives of the lodge, and is in Kossuth’s own handwriting, and in the New BhuNswick. Robert Marshall, of usual form, excepting the close, which is as Must Masters Have Been Wardens?— St. John, was elected Grand Master Sept. follows: “ Being.an exile for liberty’s sake 25th, and W. F. Bunting, of St. John, Grand Grand Master John S. Scott, of Utah, writes : he has no place of fixed residence; is now Secretary. The Grand Lodge agrees with “ I would like to know how many of the staying at Cincinnati; his age is forty-nine Grand Lodges in the United States make it and one-half years; his occupation is to re­ Quebec in the Scottish matter, and earnestly obligatory upon their subordinate lodges to store his native land, Hungary, to its national remonstrates with the Grand Lodge of Scot- choose their Master from among those who independence, and to achieve, by community land. It suspended intercourse with the have filled the Warden’s chair. In the pro- of action with other nations, civil and re­ gressive Jurisdiction of California, where I ligious liberty in Europe.” He was raised Grand Orient of France. was made, any Master Mason in good stand- to the sublime degree of Master Mason on the ing and member of the lodge, is eligible. Of evening of February 20, 1852. It is nearly SCOTLAND AND Quebec.—The Scottish course, the Wardens are usually promoted in twenty-nine years since then, yet his mission Freemason has a strong article condemning preference to other members, when properly is not accomplished. He is still “ an exile the action of the in qualified ; but it often happens that they are for liberty’s sake,” but brave and pure-heart- \ ed, as in more palmy days. the Quebec difficulty, and urging it to act not, and it seems to me that the lodge should be permitted to exercise its discretion in the justly, and conform to well recognized equity. matter, and that it may be trusted to do right. Quebec AND Scotland.—We have re­ There is little doubt that Scotland will soon Many of our worthy Brethren, however, ceived from Grand Secretary Isaacson, the remedy the difficulty by fraternal action. seem to have a holy horror of violating some ‘ Ancient Landmark,’ the origin of which edict of the Grand Lodge of Quebec, suspend­ The Grand Lodge of England has consti- they cannot trace, and for the continued ing intercourse with the Grand Lodge of tuted, in the North of China, a new Masonic maintenance of which they can give no good Scotland. District, of which Brother Cornelius Thorne reason.” is to be the R. W District Grand Master. The Law of England is that a Brother The first introduction of masonry in the The late District Grand Lodge of China has must have served as Warden for twelve Island of Cuba appears to be due to the ceased to exist, Hong Kong having been months, save on a petition for a new lodge. Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, which granted erected into a district by itself. R. W. Broth­ a warrant, dated Dee. 17, 1804, fora lodge to er Thorne is a very old Past Master of This has been followed by many of our Grand be held in the City of Havana, and subse­ Shanghai, and a worthy mason, and his ele- Lodges, among them , Wiscon- quently six others, the last in 1822. vation to his present high rank will doubtless sin, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, New be regarded with satisfaction by the Craft. York, Michigan, Maryland, Louisiana, Ne- The newly elected Worshipful Master of a lodge in New York hit the nail squarely on Japan.—There are several lodges working braska, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, the head by saying in his opening speech : in the English language, under from Missouri and Pennsylvania. Many of these " Too many members think they have per- the Grand Lodge of England, in Japan. also except extreme cases, which makes it formed all their masonic duty when they come to their lodge once a year and help to practically the same as in those States where A circular from Arkansas brings us the sad elevate their friends to office, and then leave it is recommended to prefer those who have them in the lurch during the rest of the year.” intelligence of the death of the Grand High been Wardens. The Brethren who attend to the annual com- Priest, J. W. Jordan. munications of their lodges, and are absent at Among those which are liberal in the mat- all times, are far more numerous in this juris- The Indiana lodges are promptly paying ter, we find Maine, California, Indian Terri- diction than we could wish. A “ new de­ parture ” as regards lodge attendance would up their heavy assessments for the Grand tory and Oregon. greatly benefit the Craft in many respects. Lodge Hall. If our Brother Grand Secretaries, on read- —[Phila. Chronicle. ing this, will drop us a postal card giving the BRO. T. 8. PaRviN, in his report on present practice in their own States, we will The London Freemason answers two im­ Foreign Correspondence to the Grand Lodge collate them for the general benefit in our portant questions thus:— of Iowa, says, “ A few of the Grand Lodges next. Was Pius IX a Freemason 1 No. page their annual Proceedings consecutively, Is it in order to propose and initiate a Ro­ as we do, but none of them furnish title pages The Supreme Council of the Southern Ju­ man Catholic in 1 Yes. risdiction of the United States of America or a general index.” claims to be “the Mother Council of the He has since discovered that Maine is an world.” How can this be. It was only in­ GRAND COUNCIL OF New HAMPSHIRE.— exception ; but if so careful an observer has stituted in May, 1801. According to history, At the annual meeting, May 13th, Henry P. overlooked it, it is well for us to say that all Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, was Glidden was re-elected M. 1. G. M.; George in 1765, acknowledged as head of the Scot­ the Maine Proceedings are published now in tish Rite, and in 1786, he was proclaimed its P. Cleaves, Concord, elected Grand Recorder. volumes, and at the close of each, a title and chief, with the title of Sovereign Grand In­ The “Convention Work ” was adopted. 44 MASONIC TOKEN, OCT. 15, 1878.

PUBLICATIONS and Grand Council of Alabama refused to If the rite is worth sustaining, let it be sus­ recognize Cryptic Masons made in Chapters. tained in its present shape. If a Council SENT post-paid ON RECEIPT OF PRICE The resolutions of 1829 were emphatically finds itself too weak to go on, let it resign its re-adopted. jurisdiction to its neighbors. Boil down History of 1-10-29 Me. Rest , by Maj. J. M. Gould, 720pp. octavo; illustrated with cuts, In 1853, the General Grand Chapter voted until the proper strength is reached ! That and plans of Battle-fields and portraits of officers, cloth,...... $5.00 that they never had any authority over those is our recipe. Maine Masonic Text Book, Digest and degrees, and would have nothing more to do Monitor, by J. H. Drummond, 350 pp. 12 mo. cloth,...... $2.00 with them. SUPREME COUNCIL N. M. J. That was an ample experience, lasting Memorial of Lieut. Fred. H. Beecher, 48 pp. The annual session of the Supreme Council quarto; tinted paper, gilt edge; cloth, $2.00. twenty-five years, all over the dull times of was held at Milwaukee, commencing on the Grand Lodge of Maine, vol. 1, Reprint, ,1820 the Morgan excitement, and the result shows to 1847, inclusive, in sheets,...... $3.00 seventeenth of September and continuing Vol. 6, 1867to 1869, in sheets,...... $2 50 that the General Grand Chapter will never Vol. 7, 1870 to 1872, in sheets...... $2.50 three days. Vol. 8, 1873 to 1875, in sheets,...... $2.50 interfere in the matter again. Vol. 9, 1876to 1878, in sheets,...... $2.00 Thirty-nine of the forty-seven Active Grand Chapter of Maine, Vol. 4, 1868 to IN MAINE Members, two Emeritus, and many Honorary 1873, inclusive, in sheets,...... $3.00 Vol. 5, 1874 to 1878, in sheets,...... $2.50 the Grand Chapter started the matter as late Members were present. Grand Council of Maine, Vol. 2, 1868 to as 1848, by authorizing the Royal and Select The business was chiefly of a routine 1875, in sheets,...... $3.00 Masters then present to open a Council and character. Grand Commandery of Maine, Vol. 2,1868 to 1873, inclusive, in sheets,...... 3.00 confer the degrees as they might deem Forms of ceremonials for Installation, Con- Grand Chapter of Florida, Reprint 1861 and proper. Robert P. Dunlap, General Grand stitution, &c., &c., were adopted. The ritual 1862, in paper, ...... 1.00 of the fifteenth and sixteenth degrees, pro­ Masonic Token, Vol. 1, 1867 to 1877, with High Priest of the General Grand Chapter, Index, in sheets,...... $2.00 presided in that extemporized Council. His mulgated provisionally last year, was adopted LODGE HISTORIES. title was Most Illustrious Master; Charles without amendment. Lincoln Lodge, Wiscasset,...... 40 B. Smith was Illustrious Master; Stephen An exceedingly affecting and eloquent Lincoln Lo., Wiscasset, Supplement, to 1870,..20 Webber, Laureat; Nelson Racklyft, Master tribute was paid to the memory of the beloved Harmony Lodge, Gorham,...... 40 Arundel Lodge, Kennebunkport,...... 30 of Exchequer; Arthur Shirley, Recorder; ORRiN Welch, of New York, who had died Casco Lodge, Yarmouth,...... s...... 40 Lewy’s Island Lodge, Princeton,...... 25 Freeman Bradford (then Grand High Priest since the last session. York Lodge, Kennebunk,...... 50 of the State), Master of the Guard; Cyril The returns show that in most of the Eastern Frontier Lodge, Fort Fairfield...... 25 Messalonskee Lodge, West Waterville,...... 35 Pearl, Conductor; William Somerby (the States more work had been done than for Atlantic Lodge, Portland,...... 30 any of the six previous years. Mt. Desert Lodge, Mt. Desert,...... 25 only survivor), Sentinel. “ Several Com- Hancock Lodge, Castine,...... 35 panions ” received the degrees. An amendment to the Constitution was Paris Lodge, South Paris,...... 40 Forest Lodge, Springfield,...... 25 The Grand High Priest had announced, in adopted, giving to Councils of Deliberation Crescent Lodge, Pembroke,...... 30 Cumberland Lodge, No. 12, New Gloucester,. .50 his address, that the General Grand Chap- the power to prescribe the territorial jurisdic­ Greenleaf Lodge, No. 117, Cornish,...... 30 tion of Bodies of the rite in their respective Rising Sun Lodge, No. 71, Orland,...... 25 ter authorized and recommended the Chap­ Aina Lodge, No. 43, Damariscotta,...... 30 ters to confer them. Thus encouraged, States. Tremont Lodge, No. 77, Tremont...... 20 Waterville Lodge, No. 33, Waterville,...... 90 Mount Vernon Chapter, No. 1, established A very able report on the question of the Sebasticook Lodge, No. 146, Clinton,...... 30 territorial jurisdiction of the two Supreme Howard Lodge, No. 69, Winterport,...... 30 the fees at §3;00. A warrant to confer the Councils in the United States was presented Somerset Lodge, No. 34, Skowhegan...... 50 degrees was received from the Grand Chap­ Crescent Chapter, No. 26, Pembroke, ...... 30 and unanimously adopted. Drummond Chapter, No. 27, W. Waterville, .35 ter in July, 1848. In the next five years Meridian Lodge, No. 125, Pittsfield,...... 40 twenty-seven candidates received them. The The next session is to be held at Phila­ delphia. Council was opened at regular Chapter meet- WHY WE DO NOT WISH TO TURN ings, and the High Priest, Bradford, invari- The Wisconsin Brethren were profuse in their attentions and courtesies: and to them THE ROYAL AND SELECT DE­ ably invited Charles B. Smith to preside, GREES OVER TO THE showing that he had as much as he could at- the visiting Brethren are under great obliga­ tions for rendering their visit an exceedingly CHAPTERS. tend to in keeping up with the Chapter de- pleasant one. In 1829 the General Grand Chapter re- grees. The Chairman of the Committee of solved that Councils of Royal and Select In 1851, the question of jurisdiction was Arrangements, Bro. JoiiN W. Woodhull Masters had been organized without legiti­ raised, and they voted not to confer the de- and Bros. Henry L. Palmeh, William T. mate authority— grees as heretofore, but appointed a com- Palmer, Gangs, Cottrill, Cahpenter —That those degrees were conferred in mittee to seek information. The committee and many others were unremitting in their some Chapters under the authority of the wrote to General Grand High Priest Dunlap, eflbrts, and were as successful as unremitting, General Grand Chapter, and that it was who had led them into the practice. He Oriental Consistory visited Milwaukee, and “proved that it was the only and sole inten­ answered that he thought the General Grand were the guests of Wisconsin Consistory : a tion of the most Excellent Companions from Chapter had no power to authorize the con- promenade concert and magnificent supper whom those degrees emanated, that they ferring of those degrees. Here the matter were given by the latter to the Supreme should be conferred under the authority of rested. In 1855 the Grand Council of Maine Council and Oriental Consistory—a most Royal Arch Chapters:” was formed, and the R. and S. Masters were enjoyable occasion. —The different Councils in the United re-obligated. Ths Councils continued this In fine, when the visitors came away, it States were cordially recommended to place work of re-obligating, and we remember was difficult to tell whether they were most those degrees under the authority of the healing old members as late as 1862. impressed with the importance and beauty of State Grand Chapters, and the Grand Chap- It would not work any better if tried again. the city of Milwaukee, the hospitality and ters were authorized to make arrangements Mount Vernon was the strongest Chapter in courtesy of her masons, or the graces and for conferring the degrees in Chapters the State; it engaged in the work with en- charms of her daughters. wherever no Grand Council existed. thusiasm under the lead of the General Grand In 1844, General Grand Secretary Gilman High Priest and the State Grand High Priest, The Loudon Freemason says the roll of reported that much anxiety and irritation but the work was found a burden. Only English lodges reaches 1,800, and will prob­ existed in the Southern and Western States half the candidates took the degrees, and the ably reach 1,900 by Christmas, 1879, and because itinerant lecturers were peddling the rite fell into a mild decay, when the Councils that the Order there is advancing with giant degrees out. Also that the Grand Chapter stepped in and revived it. strides. MASONIC TOKEN, OCT. 15. 1878. 45

GhaND ORIENT.—At the General Assem­ RobeRT BuRNs.—From the Scottish Free­ Portland Masonic Relief.—This Asso- bly of the Grand Orient of France, September mason we learn that the corner stone of a ciation now numbers 833. The last assess­ 9th, the Constitution was amended so as to monument to Burns was laid at Kilmarnock, ment, made Sept. 25th, for Bro. Geo. A. permit the invasion of foreign jurisdictions Sept. 14th, by the Webb, of York Lodge, was the eleventh for which are not in fraternal relations with that of Ayrshire, one hundred lodges being rep- this year and the twenty-third since the Grand Orient. resented, together with a great concourse of start. Bro. Webb died of Bright’s Disease. It was argued that, despite the great spirit people. Seventeen hundred masons were He was admitted Nov. 28, 1877, and has paid of moderation and conciliation shown by the present. The address, by Grand Master §16 10. Grand Orient, foreign Grand Lodges had Cochran Patrick, is very interesting. The M. M. R. A., of Mechanic Falls, num­ shown a spirit of intolerance by suspending bered, Sept. 1st, 1,261. Bro. Webb was also Quebec And Scotland. — The London fraternal intercourse, and that it was neces­ a member of that. Freemason of August 17th, in an article on sary7 to retaliate. Bro. Hubert, of the Chaine • ------Quebec, says that Grand Lodge is clearly The Boston Liberal Freemason, for August, d’Union, and others, strongly opposed it. wrong in denying a lodge the privilege of has a full account of the funeral of James S. The President, Bro. De St. Jean, resigned retaining its old allegiance, and asks if the Bedlow. his office, but was afterwards induced to Grand Lodge of Maine, for instance, had resume it. chartered a lodge in Montreal when that was Albert G. Mackey decides that an It is easy to see that a great gulf is opening unoccupied territory, it would allow its adopted child has not the same claim upon a between French masonry and the English- daughter lodge to be forcibly separated front lodge as a mason’s own child. speaking branch of the Fraternity. In France it? We reply that it would. We hold that the dominant idea is progress. While English Illinois.—Bro. Theo. T. Gurney, Chair­ when a Grand Lodge is formed in a new and American lodges are quietly pursuing man, has favored us with an advanced copy territory by a majority of the lodges in that their old ways and zealously preserving their of his Report on Correspondence to the territory, it is the duty of the other lodges ancient landmarks, French lodges are holding Grand Lodge at its meeting this month. In to join it, and the duty of other Grand Lodges frequent meetings to discuss philosophical his introduction, he says: to turn over their subordinates in that juris­ topics. In the reported meetings in the latest “ We feel perfectly justified in assuming, diction to the new authority. This question that if the present financial embarrassments number of the Chaine d’Union we find one will be coming up all over the world, and no should take lodges out of existence, that have lodge discussing “ The Liberty of Con- had their origin in the morbid ambitions of other rule will ensure harmony among Grand science,” and another “Utility everywhere the past few years, the loss of this moiety Lodges. would not entail ultimate injury to the Craft. present in Masonry.” “In many jurisdictions there has not been It is evident that French masonry, the New YORK—At the Annual Conclave of a notable increase of lodges, while in others daughter of English masonry, cannot force the Grand Commandery, Oct. 9th, Charles there has been a loss. Lodge membership, Holden, of Saratoga Springs, was elected as a rule, exhibits a decline, and principally her materialistic ideas upon the mother, and from non-affiliation. These facts are among upon the immense number of English-speak- Grand Commander. the most hopeful evidences of returning ing lodges all over the world, even supposing i reason and enduring prosperity.” West Virginia. — Annual Conclave of her to have found a groat truth that a)) ro- I Of the Arkansas College, he snys: Grand Commandery, Sept. 25th. Sir J. S. i ligion is really superstition, for it will take “St.John’s College, like most other juris­ Haldemar, of Martinsburg, elected Grand dictional institutions, is a burthen ; yielding centuries to prove it to the world. And if it Commander, and Sir George F. Irvine, of nothing but embarrassment. In the language were true, it is doubtful if the world would Wheeling, re-elected Grand Recorder. of the G. M.: ‘ This institution has arrived be improved by accepting it. Morals seem at that point when it is viewed by the masons of the State very much like the man viewed to be at their lowest where materialism most A OscaR Noyes.—This well-known and his bargain when he had bought an elephant, abounds. America and England do not care esteemed brother died at Norway, Sunday and did not have the means to fit out his to be like Paris. Rome, in her worst days, morning, October 13th, of cancer of the menagerie and run his show. The elephant was too valuable to kill, and would not pay was philosophically materialistic, and Pompeii stomach. He was buried October 15th, a to keep.’ These experiences should be in­ seems to have taken a similar tone, while very large attendance being present, among structive to Grand Lodges, who are so fre­ history shows us that in whatever nation re­ them 112 masons. Portland Commandery, quently urged into these enterprises.” ligion has been purest, that nation has been, of which he was a member, was represented He is opposed to recognizing either of the at the time, the freest and the greatest. by Commander Small and his officers. Bro. Cuban Grand Lodges. The old one, the All human laws have grown out of belief Noyes was agent of the Associated Press, and Grand Lodge of Colon, he objects to, because in divine laws. If the human race has devel- had for eighteen years been agent of the it amalgamated with the Scottish Rite. oped from the brute races, it has had a con­ B. & N. A. Express Co., during which time Of the New South Wales Grand Lodge, he tinuous and healthy growth, and cannot the manager says no error ever occurred in say better itself by returning upon the road. If his department. “Upon inquiry of Right Worshipful D. Murray Lyon, Grand Secretary of the Grand marriage is not a divine institution, it cer­ ANNUAL Dues. — Tbe Grand Lodge of Lodge of Scotland, we find that there are tainly is infinitely superior to the conditions constituent lodges, as follows: Of the Grand England (says the Scottish Freemason), as a which existed before it. The law of prop­ Lodge of Scotland, 28 lodges; of the Grand penalty for non-payment of dues, prohibits erty is vastly better than the customs which Lodge of England, over 30 lodges; of the the delinquent from holding office or voting, , about (’> lodges; prevail among savages who have not yet making a total of about 64 Bodies.” or being a representative to Grand Lodge; adopted it. The commune is opposed to both He thinks their claim to recognition because but he can visit the lodge and enjoy tbe other these institutions, and our masonry is not they had more than 'three lodges ” is not advantages of the fraternity. disposed to accept an invitation to travel back good, as they lacked a majority. He there­ on such a path. Delaware. — Annual session of Grand fore recommends postponing recognition. Lodge Oct. 2d. M. W. John Taylor elected We have received through Grand Secretary Grand Master, William S. Hayes re-elected ColoRed Templars.—Peter Anderson, Austin, of New York, just returned from Past Grand Commander, and now Sovereign Grand Secretary. Europe, the subscription of Bro. James II. Grand Commander Scottish Kite of Colored Neilson, of Dublin, for eight years. He ex­ Fob Lists of Subscribehs, we are in­ Masons, gives the following historical in­ plains that Bro. Drummond’s contributions debted to W. B. Smiley, Waterville, P.G M. formation in his paper, the Pacific Appeal: to the Token are so valuable that he cannot David Cargill, Livermore Falls, E. T. The higher orders among colored masons afford to lose one of them. Stevens, Auburn. in the United States take their origin from 46 MASONIC TOKEN OCT. 15, 1878. the authority of the Grand Lodge of England. masons) was established in the State of without also making allusions to the organ­ In that country there were but four degrees Pennsylvania, in the Seventh Street Hiram izations of them both. It has been the same in masonry recognized in 1784, at the time Grand Lodge Hall, in Philadelphia, in 1849. trouble with the churches. It has only been that obtained the African Lodge The rival Grand Lodges in that city and the mania of colored prejudices which has , No. 459. State also established similar bodies about divided white and black. The English Blue Lodge warrants were the same time. They were, however, all This tradition we make partly from mem­ empowered to confer the degrees Apprentice, Prince Hall African Lodge Masons, and each ory and partly from records, which we have Craft, Master Mason, and what is now organization then known as the Eleventh seen and been in our possession, but not at termed as the Royal Arch. The Past Master and Seventh street masons in Pennsylvania, present at our immediate command, and if degree was not termed a degree, but merely subsequently granted charters in several any defects, I will gladly stand corrected by a ceremony in seating an elective Master in States, namely: Ohio, New York, Maryland, any one who has been contemporaneous with the chair, etc. In relation to the higher Delaware, New Jersey, etc., for the higher us in the Masonic Order. degrees, tlie Mark Master and Most Excellent degrees. Master are American compilations. The Ineffable and Sublime Masons who In 1797, , author of had obtained these degrees from itinerant Contributions to Masonic Library. Webb’s Monitor, assisted by another*mason, white masons during the prostration of the W. P. Preble— manufactured what is now known as the white Grand Lodges, from the Anti-Masonic Proc. Sup. Council, N. M J., 1877. Mark Master degree out of an obsolete degree political excitement, as mentioned above, pro­ Mass. Council Deliberation, 1878. called “Fellow Craft’s Mark,” or “ Mark ceeded in 1846 to organize in the Scotch Kite N. Y. “ 1878. Man,” which was at one time conferred in degrees, and in 1848 established by conven­ Illinois “ “ 1878. England, and arranged and enlarged the tion in Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, Ohio " 1878. comical and exciting scene in the Past Master an Independent Supreme Council of the Maine “ “ 1878. degree ; and also arranged and beautified the 33d degree, which has been located in that Benn. “ “ 1877. Most Excellent Master’s degree, and placed city ever since. “ Gr. Lodge, N. Y., 1878. the Mark, Past and Most Excellent degrees The records contain these names as found­ “ “ “ Mass , 1876, 1877, March under the sole jurisdiction of Chapters of ers and officers in that year, 1848: Geo. W. and June, 1878. Royal Arch Masons, as now constituted in Hilton, Kev. Edward Johnson, Cyrus Black, “ “ “ Maine, 1878. America. Samuel Paschall, David Jacob, Philip P. “ “ Chap. “ 1878. The Chivalric or Christian Knighthood, as Anderson, James Newman, Samuel Van “ “ Council “ 1877, 1878. existed in England at the time, was conferred Brakle, Randolph Stokes, Peter Anderson, “ “ Com. “ 1875. by the English Blue Lodge warrants, but and others. The present and active officers only upon the most distinguished masons of Stephen Berry— are : John Rhodes, Lieut. Grand Commander, Keystone Vol. II, lacking Nos. 16, 40, 43. the Order, as a high rank of high honor. and Acting Grand Commander, Isaac Phillips, In America, in 1797, when the Massa- History Meridian Lodge, No. 125, Pittsfield. III, G. Sec. of the H. E., and some of the Freemasons’ Repository, Vol. V, lacking chusetts (white) Grand Lodge was formed above, and your humble servant as Sovereign as one of the Independent Grand Lodges of No. 5. Grand Commander, as per minutes last meet­ Freemasons’ Repository, Vol. VI, lacking America, the white masons of America had ing of the Supreme Council held in Philadel- no Knighthood charters granted to them from Nos. 6 and 11 phia, 1876. Canadian Craftsman, July to Dec., 1877. England to open the higher degrees, and they As a whole, the earliest organization of the Loomis’ Journal, Vol. X, lacking No. 2. assumed the higher degrees under their Blue masons in Pennsylvania, as established by Lodge charters, working under their Inde- Masonic Advocate, Vol. X. Prince Hall, dates from the records which pendent Grand Lodges, which they had J. H. Drummond— we glean in 1797. The higher orders com­ formed in the United States subsequent to Kentucky Freemason, Vol. 7, (1874) lack­ 1797. menced as per dates above. ing No. 12. From 1826 to 1835, nearly all the Grand Hence, the colored masons of America are Michigan Freemason, Vol. 7, lacking 1 & 8. Lodges which had been formed after the more legal in their higher degrees than the The American Freemason, Quarterly, Massachusetts Grand Lodge of 1797 became whites. Because, when in 1784 Prince Hall Vols. 1, 2, 3. nearly prostrated and inactive by the Morgan obtained his warrant, that warrant brought Masonic Repository, Vol 5, lacking 10. Anti-Mason political excitement which pre- with it all the Royal Arch and Knighthood Masonic Advocate, Vols. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, lack­ vailed during that period. At that time it degrees, which were then conferred in Eng­ ing nine numbers. was a common occurrence for itinerant white land, and therefore it was Webb and his in­ Also a lot of volumes, magazines, incom­ masons to visit and lecture in the Prince novations which have departed from the plete. Hall colored lodges which had been estab- ancient customs of the Order, and not the Also 300 pamphlets, proceedings four Grand lished in the several States, and they also colored masons of America. The United Bodies in 42 jurisdictions. assisted to confer the Royal Arch, the Grand Lodge of England itself cannot, we Knighthood and Ineffable degrees upon think, well refute this statement. OuR Thanks to colored masons as had been conferred in the The English do not call the three principal State of New York and other States previous officers of their Chapters High Priest, King T. S. Parvin, Gr. Sec., for proc. Gr. Lodge Iowa, to the Anti-Mason political excitement of and Scribe, but in lieu thereof, term them 1878. 1826-7. That generation of colored masons Haggai, Joshua and Zerubbabel. Neither do Geo. P. Cleaves, Gr. Sec., for proc. Gr. Lodge availed themselves of the opportunity of they use veils in their Chapters, and do but and Chapter New Hampshire, 1878. organizing in the Royal Arch under their little more in ceremony than give the Grand Daniel Calkins, Past Gr. Commander, for proc. Blue Lodge warrants about the year 1836, Omnific Word in their Chapters, which suc- Gr. Commandery Connecticut, 1878. precisely the same as tbe white masons of James M. Austin, Gr. Sec., for proc. Gr. Lodge ceeds the Master’s degree, and takes its place New York, 1878. America had done in 1797. The first Grand in the rite as the Fourth degree. And do Fred. Webber, Asst. Sec. General. Washington, Royal Arch Chapter, colored masons, was not recognize the innovations which Thomas Bulletin Sup. Council Southern Jurisdiction, Vol. formed in Pennsylvania, in 1842, under the Smith Webb made in the Royal Arch degree Ill, Nos. 1 and 2; Transactions same, 1878. and title of Rising Sun G. H. R. A. in America, in 1797; and neither do they B. Wilson Higgs, Gr. Sec., for proc. Gr. Lodge Chapter of the State of Pennsylvania, and admit in their Chapters, as a rule, American Prince Edward Island, 1878. from that year as the colored Grand Lodges Royal Arch Masons who work in the Webb Daniel Sayre, Gr. Rec., for proc. Grand Com­ extended in other States, Grand Chapters American Rite, be they white or colored, but mandery Alabama, 1878. were formed over them under the same rule. colored and white American Masons can be Christopher G. Fox, Buffalo, Gen. Gr. Sec., for Neither the white or colored masons of exalted in English Chapters. proc. Gen. Gr. Chapter, 1865and 1868. America ever obtained a charter from Eng- Gilbert R. Smith, Gr. Sec., for proc. Illinois The White Knights Templar of Pennsyl­ Council Deliberation, 1878. land other than their Blue Lodge charters to vania date their organization to 1794; those confer the Royal Arch or Knighthood degrees. Geo. W. Deering, Deputy for Maine, for proc. of Massachusetts to 1797. The former kept Maine Council Deliberation', 1878. The Knighthood degrees were conferred also out of the formation of the General Grand under the Blue Lodge charters by a consti- Wm. R. Bowen, Gr. See., for proc. Gr. Lodge and Encampment of the United States until Gr. Commandery Nebraska, 1878. tuted number of Knights under the sanction 1854-5, and would not go in alliance with it Edw. C. Parmelee, Gr. Sec., for report Corre­ of Blue Lodge warrants. in consequence of Webb’s interpolation in spondence Gr. Lodge Colorado, 1878. The Knights of the Red Cross did not the higher degrees. Jno. W. Woodhull, Gr. Sec., for proc. Gr. Lodge belong to the Christian Knighthood as con­ In short terms, the colored masons of the Wisconsin, 1878. ferred in England. Thomas Smith Webb, United States inherit the same rights from Gen. S. C. Lawrence, for proc. Mass. Council since 1797, also interpolated this degree, the Grand Lodge of England, through the Deliberation, 1878 which is kindred to the Knights of the East Prince Hall charter, including the Royal and West in the Scotch Rite, and made it Arch and Knighthood, as do the whites; and DIED. preparatory to the Knights Templar, as per the history of the American organization of American Kite. the whites since the Declaration of Inde­ In Auburn. Sept. 7th, Coburn G. Dunn, ageil 28 The first Grand Encampment of Knights pendence, 1776, is so closely contemporaneous years. Was initiated in Ancient Brothers Lodge, Templar (I mean by convention of colored that it is difficult to make mention of them, No. 178, Dec. 18, 1877. Masonic burial. MASONIC TOKEN, OCT. 15, 1878. 47 BRYANT AND LONGFELLCW. HARRIS & CO., Established IN 1843. A Superb life-size portrait of either of these poets W. D. 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Importers and Dealers in In future we shall send no blanks or other THE SUNDAY TIMES articles, of which the price is given in our circular DRY GOODS AND WOOLENS, list, by mail, unless the price is remitted with the Gives all the news, both at home order. Woodman Block, cor. Pearl & Middle Sts., and from a,broad. BY-LAWS.—Model By-Laws always in type, so that Lodges can have them at if few Its large local circulation makes it a most valuable CWkiBaileT PORTLAND. D half price advertising medium. alterations are made. Office No. 31 Market Street, (opposite Post Office). I'lARDS of all kinds cut to any size, and sent by GILES O. BAILEY, P.rop’r. JOHN B. HUDSON, JR., V mail or express at wholesale prices. / 1ERT1EICATES OF STOCK, Town Bonds and SIGN & ORNAMENTAL PAINTER, V every description of Ornamental Printing. DR. W. R. JOHNSON, /CHECKS, Drafts and all kinds of Bank Printing No. 26'7 Middle Street, Stamped or unstamped. ABELS of all kinds, very cheap. Apothecary’s D E N T I S T , PORTLAND, ME. L Recipe Blanks, Calendars, &c., &c. Office over H. H. Hay’s, Middle St. Special attention paid to all kinds of Masonic ODGE MUSIC, in Pamphlets, nine hymns—the Painting,.and drawing and recording Marks. All operations in Dentistry performed in the best L best ever issued. Per dozen $1.50. possible manner, and charges always reasonable. BLACARDS & ORNAMENTAL SHOW CARDS Ether or Gas administered with perfect safety. SISE & NEVENS 1 in every style. Colored and Bronze work. ECORDS and other Masonic Blank Books fur­ Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in GRAND LODGE CERTIFICATES R nished or made to order. EALS.—Embossing Seals and Presses, very cheap Can be had at the Grand Secretary’s office, accord­ COFFEE AND SPICES, and of the finest workmanship, by the best ing to vote of Grand Lodge in 1868. Price $1, (or SSeal Engraver in the country. in pocket book form $1.35). The quickest and best CREAM TARTAR, CAYENNE &.C., way is for Brethren wishing them to apply through Eagle Mills, Office 184 A 18G Fore St., "VISITING CARDS printed in the latest styles, the Secretaries of their respective Lodges. V sent post paid for 75c. per packet'50. Money 1KA BERRY, Grand Sec’y. H.H.Nevens. PORTLAND, ME. must accompany the order,