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Masonic Anecdote. *
boarding-pike made fearful havoc among us , and an unresisted slaughter tore along our deck , till the heaps of dead and dying made the only barrier for the few remaining . A chance word in French , and a sign of Masonry , rescued me from the fate of my comrades , and my only injury was a slight sabre-wound in the fore arm , which I received in warding off a cut intended for my head . The carnage lasted scarce fifteen minutes ; but in that time , of
all the crew that manned our craft—what between those who leaped overboard in wild despair , and those who fell beneath fire and steelscarce twenty remained , appalled and trembling—the onl y ones rescued from this horrible slaughter . A sudden cry of " She ' s sinking ! " burst from the stranger ship , and in a moment the Frenchmen clambered up their bulwarks—the grapples were cast off—the dark mass darted onwards on her cource , and we drifted away to leeward , a moving sepulchre .
Two Venerable Brothers.*
TWO VENERABLE BROTHERS . *
THE writer of the following interesting anecdote is the Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Ohio . AA ' e would almost make a journey to the residence of the venerable Bro . McLane , for the pleasure of taking him by the hand . Dr . Barney says : — '' AA'e have in Ohio , two venerable Brethren whose names I should be pleased to see published in your Magazine . The first is Capt . Plugh Maloy , aged about ninety-three , now living in or near Bethel , Clermont
Co . He ivas initiated in the year 1782 , iu Gen . Washington ' s marquee . Gen . Washington presided in person , and performed the initiating ceremonies . The other is Bro . J . McLane , now in his one hundred and seventh year ! His diploma is dated , I think , in the year 1762 . Pie has consequently been a Mason eighty-one years ! In his hundred and . fourth year , he received , in a Chapter at Maysville , Ky ., the several degrees conferred therein !"
Theinvisible Shield.†
THE INVISIBLE SHIELD . †
1 HAVE been much pleased with the little stories and incidents that you have from tihie to time published in the Magazine , and I hope you will continue to insert them , as they interest many readers who are not of us , but who are induced to pry into our books , to see if by chance an idle word may not have escaped us , whereby they may catch an idea . The " Invisible Shield" has interested me much , and could those females whom I have heard often and again abuse the " Masonic tie , " see and hear what I have both seen ancl heard , they would stand upon the house top and proclaim far and ivide , that the " Invisible Shield" has been
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Masonic Anecdote. *
boarding-pike made fearful havoc among us , and an unresisted slaughter tore along our deck , till the heaps of dead and dying made the only barrier for the few remaining . A chance word in French , and a sign of Masonry , rescued me from the fate of my comrades , and my only injury was a slight sabre-wound in the fore arm , which I received in warding off a cut intended for my head . The carnage lasted scarce fifteen minutes ; but in that time , of
all the crew that manned our craft—what between those who leaped overboard in wild despair , and those who fell beneath fire and steelscarce twenty remained , appalled and trembling—the onl y ones rescued from this horrible slaughter . A sudden cry of " She ' s sinking ! " burst from the stranger ship , and in a moment the Frenchmen clambered up their bulwarks—the grapples were cast off—the dark mass darted onwards on her cource , and we drifted away to leeward , a moving sepulchre .
Two Venerable Brothers.*
TWO VENERABLE BROTHERS . *
THE writer of the following interesting anecdote is the Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Ohio . AA ' e would almost make a journey to the residence of the venerable Bro . McLane , for the pleasure of taking him by the hand . Dr . Barney says : — '' AA'e have in Ohio , two venerable Brethren whose names I should be pleased to see published in your Magazine . The first is Capt . Plugh Maloy , aged about ninety-three , now living in or near Bethel , Clermont
Co . He ivas initiated in the year 1782 , iu Gen . Washington ' s marquee . Gen . Washington presided in person , and performed the initiating ceremonies . The other is Bro . J . McLane , now in his one hundred and seventh year ! His diploma is dated , I think , in the year 1762 . Pie has consequently been a Mason eighty-one years ! In his hundred and . fourth year , he received , in a Chapter at Maysville , Ky ., the several degrees conferred therein !"
Theinvisible Shield.†
THE INVISIBLE SHIELD . †
1 HAVE been much pleased with the little stories and incidents that you have from tihie to time published in the Magazine , and I hope you will continue to insert them , as they interest many readers who are not of us , but who are induced to pry into our books , to see if by chance an idle word may not have escaped us , whereby they may catch an idea . The " Invisible Shield" has interested me much , and could those females whom I have heard often and again abuse the " Masonic tie , " see and hear what I have both seen ancl heard , they would stand upon the house top and proclaim far and ivide , that the " Invisible Shield" has been