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sometimes , by apparitions of flesh and blood , if we may use a paradox , who bring back to our minds the age of Louis Quatorze , the Georgian era , or that period in English history which has been so deeply impressed on our minds by the portraits from the pencil of Vandyke . Paces of

this type are , however , rare , and our studies in the picture galleries which we have been privileged to visit have convinced us that the human face changes from age to age . Indeed , a writer in the Art Journal , has recently developed this idea in a most ingenious fashion , and the facts he

brings forward are conclusive proofs in favour of a theory which we have held for years . Our subject , we have said , is undoubtedly a man of the period ; dress him in doublet and hose , or in scarlet laced coat and breeches , with point lace ruffles to his shirt , paint him so on the canvas , shave

off his glossy moustache , and we pledge ourselves that we will immediately recognise his features as peculiar to this century . Yet you might wander through the streets for a whole day without meeting with a better looking or more gentlemanlike person , or with one more stalwart of

frame and symmetrical of limb . His frock coat fits him to perfection , and exhibits a frame of which an athlete would not be ashamed . The dark and piercing eye and the aquiline nose are in perfect keeping with the figure ; the face , indeed , is that of a strong willed , keen and clever

man ; a man , whose legal training has taught him to grasp readily at the leading points of any matter that may be submitted to his judgment . You feel assured that this man will not readil y make mistakes , or if he should occasionally fall into them , he will extricate himself by the aid of a

ready wit , and sound practical good sense . If a discerning stranger were told that he is one of the princes of the Order , he would at once exclaim , " that man is worthy of high command ; he may not be a profound thinker , a great logician , or a born orator , but nature intended him for a

ruler , and he looks every inch a leader of men . " Of his exact rank in Masonry we shall not speak ; we prefer that these sketches shall be somewhat vague , since if we paint skilfully , and from the life , our readers will be sure to

discover the persons who have honoured our literary studio with a visit . It is sufficient for us to say , that our distinguished brother is a great Mason , on whose breast a perfect galaxy of honestly won orders shines like the prominent stars of the firmament . On a recent occasion his

name was in everybody s mouth , and the winged messengers of the press carried his fame to the farthest quarter of the globe . Masons are accustomed to speak , not lese of his administrative qualities , than of the remarkable urbanity which he exhibits to the youngest brother . At the Board

of General Purposes his voice carries due weight , and his Masonic career has been marked by labours , as great as they are beneficent . Possessed of singular capacity for business , and a large share of that wonderful tact , which is often conspicuous by its absence in some people , whom

the irony of fate brings to the top , he has been remarkable as a chairman , and . has conducted the business of the Order with distinguished ability . He is a practical man , who cares little for the theoretical speculations of literary Masons , and has confined himself to those works of

practical benevolence for which our Order has , in these days , become famous . Many a widow has had cause to bless him , and many a fatherless child has been taught " to regard him as a second parent . His strong voice , powerful as the frame from which it emanates , has often been raised

in the cause of the suffering and the oppressed , and if it be indeed true that the good men do in this world lives after them , then his Masonic virtues will constitute his most appropriate epitaph , when he has " gone before " to

a better land . But his fame , as a man and a citizen , is on a par with his renown as a Mason . In the city , he is a prominent figure , and stands conspicuous as one of the great ceremonial officers of the greatest corporation in the world . Some of us can remember the circumstances

under which he was elected to the high office he now fills . The Corporation , at a critical period , were anxiously looking for a man with talent , and personal qualities of weight

sufficient to sustain the old prestige of the City . A vast majority of Civic magnates hailed him as the man for the vacant office , and his career as an official has amply justified their choice . Persons who are conversant with civic

affairs , tell ns that he mastered the complex business of the Corporation in an incredibly short period , and that , with the single exception of the Recorder , no officer is more highly respected within the hallowed precincts of the Guildhall . Possibly his indirect influence and example has

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had much to do with the growing interest in Masonry which is manifested by city men of the highest standing . We say indirect influence advisedly , for no man is less given to talking shop than our distinguished brother , who is an official and nothing more within the Civic boundary ,

whatever he may bo out of it . Of his future career in the Order it would be idle for us to speculate , " but , " to borrow , with a slight paraphrase , the language of a distinguished writei ' , " if his ambition be on a level with his understanding , if he judges of what is truly honourable for himself ,

with the same superior genius which animates and directs him to eloquence in debate , to wisdom in decision , " even our poor pen " shall contribute to reward him . Recorded honours shall gather round his monument and thicken over

him . It is in solid fabric , and will support the laurels that adorn it . " These praises must not be regarded as the language of mere pauegyric . " They will wear well , for they have been dearly earned . "

Grand Chapter Of Iowa, U.S.

GRAND CHAPTER OF IOWA , U . S .

THE Grand Chapter of B .. A .. Masons of the above State met for the despatch of important business on the 19 th ult ., the Sessions being held at the Odd Fellows ' Hall in the City of Keokuk . At the third sitting , on Thursday , the 21 st , there were present , the following Grand Officers , namely , Companions

Eobert F . Bower , M . E . Grand High Priest . Horace S . Winslow , M . E . Deputy Grand Hig h Priest . Edwin E . Ainsworth , E . Grand King . H . H . Shephard as E . Grand Soribo . Downing Baugh , E . Grand Chaplain .

Wm . B . Langridgo , E . Grand Secretary . Norton P . Story , E . Grand Captain of the Host . Henry R . Kendig , E . G . Principal Sojourner .

0 . D . White , E . G . Royal Arch Captain . Mark R . Gurney , E . G . Master Third Veil . H . J . B . Cnmmings , E . G . Master Second Veil . W . W . Estabrook , E . G . Master First Veil .

Together with representatives of fifty-two out of the seventy-five chartered Chapters in the jurisdiction and of the three under dispensation . After the formal business of opening Grand Chapter in

ample form had been despatched , the M . E . G . H . P . Robert P . Bower very ably , and in full detail , reviewed the occurrences of the year that had just been brought to an end . The followiner were then chosen Grand Officers for the

year 18 / 5-6 , viz . : — Grand High Priest—H . S . Winslow , Newton . Deputy Grand High Priest—Fred Getcbell , Dos Moines . Grand King—A . T . Brooks , Mt . Pleasant . Grand Scribe—A . D . Wetherell , Knoxville .

- Grand Treasurer—W . W . McKnight , Wintorset . Grand Secretary—Wm . B . Langridge , Muscatine . Appointed Officers—G . Captain of Host—A . R . Dewey , Washington . G . Principal Sojourner—A . W . Daugherty , Dubuque . G . Royal Arch Captain—M . R . Gurney , Monticello .

G . Master 3 rd Veil—S . L . Bayless , Keokuk . G . Master 2 nd Veil—H . C . McNeil , Sioux City . G . Master 1 st Veil—Jerome Burbank , Waverly . G . Chaplain—Downing Bangh , McGregor . G . Guard—Theodore Schreiner , Mt . Pleasant .

Standing Committees were also elected , and shortly after Grand Lodge was called from labour to refreshment . At 2 . 30 p . m . the street parade moved off in order of procession along some of the principal thoroughfares of the city to Chatham-square Church , where the ceremony of installing

the new Grand Officers was most impressively performed . Then was delivered the following address , which is so admirable , that we have thought it desirable to

reproduce verhatim et literatim as it appeared in the Daily Gate Oity ( Keokuk ) under date of the 22 nd October , from which also we have culled the above particulars of the proceedings of the Grand Chapter .

P.G.M. Parvin's Address.

P . G . M . PARVIN'S ADDRESS .

The present year of our Lord is , as it were , the centennial eve , and already have the first acts in the drama of its celebration passed in review before the Nation . Ere we shall again bo assembled in annual convocation and conclave , the centennial of the Nation ' s birth will have come and gone . In the near future , so near indeed as to bo almost present , the people of this land of the free and the asylum of the oppressed of all nations ; and not these alone , but all peoples reached by the advancing civilization of the age will be engaged in