Lord Rosebery On Enterprise.

new , " and I would like to suggest to any •* ' Landscape Spoiler , that if for reasons best known to himself he is wishful to retire from the field , now is an auspicious time to declare his intention . I am fully convinced there is very little interest taken in the matter by the general public , and it is to them I call , and if the few who are desirous of keeping this "A Beautiful World , " would

worry their minds more about the ugliness and squalor of streets where people have to dwell , they would be better occupied than in trying to gratify their present whim , and by so doing depriving farmers , fishermen and others from getting a little help . There has been a lot of exaggerated rubbish written and spoken as to what advertisers intend doing ; they have to exercise judgment as

to what amount to spend on any one system , and I question when Ladas wins the Derby if the amount of her gains for her illustrious owner would provide with sails all the boat-owners who have applied to me . I am sorry to have disappointed so many and benefitted so few . Again , it is against the interest of any advertiser to put up these expensive boards too closely , and my fixers , I am

sorry to say , have erred in this respect in some few instances , which will have to be rectified as my agreements expire . They have orders to avoid interfering with any " nice bits of stuff , " as a Liverpool lawyer once described a lovely view to me , and this reminds me how differently landscape effects individuals . I was about two years ago having lunch at thc Hotel at the head of

Lake Coniston , and a lady and a gentleman wero seated at the same table . Their conversation was not conducted in a whisper , and I was interested when she remarked to her companion— " See I my dear , that is the Coniston Old Man , " and his answer , which was brief , bears out my argument , for it ran— " What I that wretched thing . " Yours faithfully , THOMAS BEECHAM . St . Helens , 21 st May 1894 .

Across The Border.

ACROSS THE BORDER .

THE Grand Master of Scotland officiated at the Installation ol Bro . T . Hope as Provincial Grand Master of Linlithgowshire on tha 16 th inst ., being supported by a large number of Grand Officers . After the ceremony of tho day Sir Chas . Dalrymple briefly addressed the newly-installed Provincial Master on the

importance of the occasion , and the interest which attached to it , making a graceful reference to the former holders of the Office . Brother Hope roplied in appropiate terms , expressing his desire to maintain the honour of the position and further the interests of Masonry in the Province .

Subsequently , on the invitation of Bro . Hope , the Brethren of the Province met him at dinner , over 130 sitting down , and the usual Loyal toasts being afterwards honoured . The Provincial Grand Master said he had the honour to place before them a toast which he knew all present would join heartily in , and would feel heartily the good wishes that tho toast implied .

He thought there would bo as much heartiness on the general principle of the toast—the Grand Lodge of Scotland—as there would be in the application when he came to couple with it the name of the Grand Master of Masons in Scotland at the present timo . Ho believed it was his first visit in that Province since ho had been Grand Master of Scotland . But Sir Charles Dalrymple

boro a name well known throughout Scotland , and as well liked as known . He was called upon in the interests of the Craft to take up the highest and most distinguished position in the Craft somewhat suddenly , and he had no doubt some would have feared to face the thing with the many useful works with which he is engaged . It was a serious and important position ; it was tho

highest position a man could attain to but it was therefore a position that required careful thought and energetic working , and he believed he was speaking within the mark when he asserted that Sir Chas . Dalrymple not only accepted the position , but set before him a high standard and was working up to that high standard in the way in which ho was doing his duties as Grand

Master . He felt that Masons all over Scotland ought to feel their deep gratitude to Sir Chas . Dalrymple . He would hardly call their attention to the fact that Sir Charles was afc the present moment on what by courtesy was called a holiday . Well , he believed the holiday consisted of performing the functions of his office upon every day of the week during which that holiday was supposed to extend .

Sir Charles Dalrymple , in replying , said he did not know who invented the custom of interposing a song between the speech that was made by the proposer of a toast and a speech in reply to the toast ; but it was a benevolent invention because it gave a man who was unaccustomed to public speaking an opportunity of collecting his thoughts , and considering how much of thc speech

that had been delivered before his might work in with his remarks . He noticed their chairman drew a distinction between the personal and collective character of the toast , and for his part he should have liked if he had dwelt more upon the subject of Grand Lodge than upon his endeavours to fill the chair of tho Grand Lodge ; but it was not unnatural on the part of a friend of his that he should

say on an occasion of this kind something kind and indulgent about him . He recognised the truth of what he said that the invitation to accept the high Masonic position which he held was quite unexpected by him . He had said it before , and he might say it again , that if he had had notice of the honour that was to have been conferred upon him he should have been inclined to say he

was a busy man and unable to do it justice , because he had all his life been against figureheads . He was against a man filling a high position and not doing the work—and the post had been so well filled by men not so busy as he was that he felt by contrast that it might be difficult to fill the duties adequately , but with the assistance of particular friends he had done his best to fulfil the

Across The Border.

duties , and although their host and chairman had spoken ironically of the holiday which they wero at present enjoying , he would jut ifc to anyone present could they enjoy a holiday better than in the company thev were in that dav ? If he never spent a holiday worse than he had spent that day he would be thankful . But of course there was tlie more serious sido

of the matter ; because he always felt not only was it right to go where rue was asked to go au i perform as well as one could the duties ol the office , but the hope was always felt that the visit of Grand Lodge , especially of such a deputation as was with him that day , led to the encouragement of the district which they visited , and he hoped that would bo tho result of their visit here .

Still he knew they came at great inconvenience to themselves . They came partly to support him , but partly also out of a sense of the importance of the occasion that had brought them together . As he had heard their Chairman say the speeches should be short , he would closo by reminding them that the prosperity of Grand

Lodge was the prosperity of Freemasonry throughout the country , and therefore let them remember that the besfc way to support Grand Lodge was to seo that all the daughter Lodges of tho Province with which they were connected wero as efficient as possible . That was the best way of showing their friendliness to Grand Lodge .

Continuing , Sir Charles said he might be allowed to pass next without the intervention of the song to propose the next toast , and he might say the toast of the evening , the Provincial Grand Lodgo of Linlithgowshire . The Provincial Grand Lodgo had existed since something like 1827 so far as its erection went , but he believed it did not come into working order till 1832 . They had always had

great men in tho country to preside over their proceedings , and although , as he had said at an earlier period of the day , the P . G . Lodgo had had its ups and downs , still it had had its periods of steady progress too , aud nothing showed that better than the figures which were before them on the card . They had there Lodges of the very oldest date , and Lodges of very recent creation , so that the

G . L . of Linlithgowshire had kept moving all theso years , and had kept up to date . The great thing was to keep moving and endeavour to havo the separate Lodges of tho Province in as good working order as possible . He anticipated with great confidence that the installation of tho new P . G . Master would be the signal for a new working up . When they got a new man he was anxious to acquit

himself well , and when his election had been , as he had understood it was in this case , unanimous , there would be a general desire to rally round him and secure that his appointment should bo the signal for going ahead in all Masonic matters . He had a much more compact Province to rule over than he ( Sir Charles ) had in the West . The question had been raised some time ago as to what

counties m Scotland bordered on the sea . There was not a stormy sea between any Lodge and another in Linlithgowshire . In his Province they might have a deputation from one Lodge to another , and on the way tbey were in danger of suffering from sea sickness ; and as some of the Brethren present with him had to visit Islay in a day or two , he hoped they might not have to enjoy an experience of

that kind . Their P . G . M . had no such experience to face ; he had no terror , except that terror which they had all experienced that night of having a camera directed againsfc him , and with the greatest possible doubt as to the result . It gave him great pleasure to see so many young Masons around him that night . It gave him

great pleasure to see so many young Masons coming forward to bear their part , for it gave them the hope that when the older men were withdrawn from the scene , or ceased to be presentable , they might take their place and do what they could to promote the prosperity of tho Masonic Craft in Scotland .

The toast was received with enthusiasm , and accorded full honours . The Prov . Grand Master , in reply , said the Prov . Grand Lodgo of Linlithgowshire had every intention of doing their best to keep up the high dignity of the Order to which they belonged . They desired to see Masonry honoured in the country , and they desired to do their duty as Masons in that sphere of life in which it had pleased Providence to place them .

The Medical Profession And Freemasonry.

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND FREEMASONRY .

DR . BALFOUR COCKBURN has been elected to the Provincial Grand Mastership of Guernsey and Alderney . Medical men are to be found as foreign or colonial District Grand Masters

bnt never before , as far as we are aware , has a member of the profession attained to so high a rank in the Masonic hierarchy as that achieved by Dr . Balfour Cockburn , who is to be warmly congratulated on tho receipt of this mark of favour from the Most Worshipful tho Grand Master His Royal Highness the Prince of

Wales . There has always been a strong bond of alliance between the profession and the Craft . Portraits of many distinguished physicians are to be found on the walls of the Freemasons' Hall in Great Queen Street , and it should be remembered that theso worthies were distinguished and leading Masons long before a Grand

Lodge was ever thought of . One of the best conducted and most successful of the Benevolent Institutions of the Craft—the Girls School—was originated and founded by Dr . Ruspini in the days of the Georges . Dr . Balfour Cockburn , now Provincial Grand Master

of Guernsey and Alderney , is a retired army surgeon , who served throughout the Crimean campaign and was for many years in the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Engineers , retiring as a brigadesurgeon in 1881 . — " British Medical Journal . "

Bro . Oxley P . M . has accepted the invitation of the Doric Lodge of Instruction , No . 933 , to work the ceremony of Installation at the regular meeting on the 29 th inst ., at the Plough Tavern , Bow Eoad .