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MASONIC TOKEN. WHEREBY ONE BROTHER MAY KNOW ANOTHER. VOLUME 3. PORTLAND, ME., OCT. 15, 1890. NO. 14. Published quarterly by Stephen Berry, Commandery Elections. J. N. Winslow, J. Ambrose Merrill, Z. K. No. 37 Plum Street, Portland, Maine Portland, 2, Portland. Geo E Raymond, Harmon and Hermann Kotzschmar. Twelve cts. per year in advance. c; Chas I Riggs, GEN; William S Corey, Lewiston Commandery visited Skowhe cg; John E Sawyer, PRElate; John S gan Sept. 21, and were entertained by De Established March, 1867. 24th year. Russell, Rec. Constitutions. Molay Commandery with a banquet and Advertisements $4.00 per inch, or $3.00 for ball. At the banquet Past Grand Master half an inch for one year. Reliance Lodge, No. 195, at Green’s Land- W. R. G. Estes presided, and the first toast ing, Deer Isle, was constituted under its No advertisement received unless the advertiser, or some member of the firm, is a Freemason in charter, and its officers installed, In public, was “ Our Templar Guests.” good standing. Sir Knight Estes said it was a pleasure to July 16th, at 3 p. M.,by Grand Master Chase, call to respond to this toast the companion assisted by Deputy Grand Master Taylor of his early childhood, who played truant SUMMER IS GOING. and other officers. About 400 people were with him from the same country school, present. A supper was given in the even- gathered acorns with him in the same woods, Summer is fading ; the broad leaves that grew ing at Music Hall. So freshly green when June was young, are rambled on the banks of the same river, falling; Bay View Lodge, No. 196, at East Booth- gathered apples by moonlight, [Laughter] And all the whisper-haunted forest through bay, was constituted by Grand Master Chase, The restless birds in saddened tones are calling, from the same sweet apple tree of a neigh From rustling hazel copse and tangled dell, Thursday, July 24th, at 3 p. m. One hun “ Farewell, sweet smmer, bor’s orchard, [Continued laughter] and both Fragrant, fruity summer; dred and fifty masons and ladies were Sweet farewell.” present. After the constitution a supper was had tried to court the same girl, but only one was successful. [Applause and much Upon the windy hill in many a field. served. In the evening the officers were The honey-bees hum slow above the clover. installed, atwhich two hundred were present. merriment.] One who had attended the Gleaning the latest sweets its bloom can yield, same Quaker church in which during the And knowing that their harvest time is over, Pilgrim Commandery, at Farmington, will Sing half a lullabj and half a knell, sermon their parents had slept, Oh, so peace “ Farewell, sweet summer, be constituted Oct. 17th, by Grand Com- Honey-Laden summer, ful; who in Masonry was near to him in Sweet farewell.” • mander Fuller. official relation and who filled the Grand The little brook that bubbles ’mid the ferns, New Lodge of Perfection. Master’s chair acceptably and well. “ All O’er twisted roots and sandy shallows playing, Seems fain to linger in its eddied turns, July 10th, a dispensation was granted for hail to the early friend and companion of And with a plaintive, purring voice is saying, Delta Lodge of Perfection, at East Machias. my youth, Eminent Sir Fessenden J. Day, Sadder and sweeter than my song can tell, “ Farewell, sweet summer, Herbert Harris is Master and the following of Lewiston, whom I now introduce.’* 1 Warm and dreamy summer, Sweet farewell.” brethren are also members: Gleason R. Sir Knight Day was given an ovation, Campbell, Edw. B. Curtis, Cyrus W. Bev- and he retaliated on Sir Knight Estes in a The fitful breeze sweeps down the winding lane, With gold ami crimson leaves before it flying ; erly, Henry R. Taylor, Samuel N. Camp- manner greatly to the liking of all present, Its gusty laughter has no sign of pain, But in the lulls it sinks in gentle sighing bell, Fred J. Campbell, Wm. M. Nash, James lie said he was sorry that the sins of his And mourns the summer’s early broken spell. E. Tuell, Henry H. Smith, J. Hovey Robin- youth had been visited upon him here, for “ Farewell, sweet summer, Rosy, blooming summer, son, Elbert E. Wiswell, John W. Chandler, none of the Lewiston Knights had ever Sweet farewell.” Moses Tait and E. Howard Vose. Bros. M. heard such accusations against him. He So bird and bee and brook and breeze make moan, F. King, Deputy, Albro E. Chase, Master would admit that he once gathered apples With melancholy song their loss complaining ; I, too, must join them, as I walk alone of Yates Lodge, at Portland, and Wm. C. by moonlight, but remembered that the Among the sights and sounds of summer’s Mason, Master of Eastern Star Lodge, at “ other feller,” Sir Estes, was always under waning : I, too, have loved the season passing well — Bangor, went down and helped them do the tree and had a good chance to escape “ So, farewell summer, Fair, but faded summer, their first work Oct. 10th. There was a upon the farmer’s arrival, while he took the Sweet farewell.” class of thirteen candidates and a banquet consequences of being up in the tree. He —[Georye Arnold. followed. All but two of the charter mem- apologized by saying that he was young bers were present. MASONRY IN MAINE. then and was led astray by one older and Festivities. more deeply steeped in sin, [prolonged laughter and applause] but he remembered Lodge Elections. Portland Commandery went to Salem, one time when he (Sir Estes) wanted him Jefferson, 100, Bryant’s Pond. Walter Oct. 3d, eighty-five strong, and were enter to go with him to rob a neighbor’s henroost H Small, m; Charles E B Libby, sw; tained by Winslow Lewis Commandery. Henry M Estes, jw; Alden Chase, sec. that he told him another had told him to They marched through the principal streets Plymouth, 75, Plymouth. Walter G keep out of bud company. [Perfect storm and had a dress parade on the common, Loud, in; Joseph I Eaton, sw; Isaiah M of applause.] Whiting, jw; Simeon P Waterhouse, De after which a dinner was served at Frater The speaker tried then to attack the text troit, sec. nity Hall, and speaking followed. They of the toast, but hesitated somewhat and Morning Star, 41, Litchfield Corner. Geo reached home a little before midnight. A Emerson, in; W 11 Tarr, sw; F E then explained that he was somewhat frus Andrews, jw; Irving W. Gilbert, sec. Notes. trated by the memory of “ that girl.” Lebanon, 116, Norridgewock. Edward At the annual excursion of Atlantic Lodge He then very eloquently closed his speech. Lowe, m; Herbert E Hale, sw; Geo E Porter, jw; H C Powers, So Norridge- to Spurwink, Aug. 21st, the five living char Returning 3d, they stopped at Waterville wock, sec. ter members were present: Wm. P. Preble, and were entertained by St. Omer. 106 MASONIC TOKEN, OCT. 15, 1890. Books, Papers, etc. Steinhauer’s sketch of “Jack Weatherwax, ment of the difference between the two — Trifet’s Monthly Galaxy of Music for Hero,” &c. D. Lothrop Co., Boston, §2.40. Grand Lodges is instructive : July, No. 43, contains seven vocal and seven —History of the Crusades, by Michaud. This Premier Grand Lodge, known after instrumental selections, among them the Ban- Geo. Barrie, Philadelphia, Publisher; J. R. wards and in contradistinction to the other as “ Mordern,” for some years made very bury Cross, The Gallants of England, In the Barrie, 17 Milk St., Boston ; M.M. Simmons, little change in the recognized work, but as Golden Eventide, When ye gaud awa Jamie, Agent. $1 a number. it proceeded and developed into a purely vocal, and Sweet Long Ago waltz, instru- • Part 14 gives Dores plates of Ylgazy giv speculative body, with nothing of the old operative element, it re-arranged and mod ing Garthier his life; Godfrey entering Jeru- mental, all for 10c. or $1 a year. F. Trifet, ernized its ceremonies. There is no doubt 408 Washington St., Boston. salem ; Enthusiasm of Crusaders at the first that its course was to drop the old business reception of “Entering” an apprentice by —The Tyler has got away from Grand view of Jerusalem ; Guided by a luminous Angel. Part 15, Richard Coeur de Lion at the reading of the ancient charges and Rapids and is now the American Tyler, pub administration of an oath, which was done Jaffa; Arrival at Cairo of prisoners of lished at Detroit. It admits that it is “ the at about the age of fourteen years; but, Minich ; Christian Cavaliers captive at whilst continuing the ceremony of “Free leading paper of the craft in America.” Cairo ; Crusaders’ war machinery. Part 16, ing ” the apprentice as the first degree, the —We have received the August number Grand Lodge brought in a new second Invocation to Mahomet; the Holy Sepul degree, which was termed “ Fellow Craft.” of The Old Homestead, a southern magazine chre; Battle of Dorylaeum ; Death of Bald The “Ancients” likewise accused the published at Savannah, Ga., and devoted to win, King of Jerusalem. “ Moderns” of having modernized the third literary, musical, fashion and domestic mat- degree—that of “Passed Fellow Craft,” or Book XIII describes the Seventh Cru- Master Mason—and no doubt there were ters. It is the only publication of its char- sade, 1242 to 1245, and opens with a descrip some grounds for the accusation. acter in the south, and is filled with the tion of the Tartars and Jenghis Khan the During the whole time, from 1720 to 1750, choicest original stories, poems, essays, etc.