Original Correspondence.

disuse , and noyv practically the entry into the meeting of that Order is as opon and unguarded as the most inveterate cowan can desire . Attention having been called to the important subject , improvement ought at once to follow , and in order to that result I have troubled you yvith this communication . Yours right fraternally , J . C . G . L .

AN APPEAL . To tlie Editor ofthe " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — May I be permitted to again bring before your readers the name of George Samuel Cox , who is a candidate at the forthcoming election of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys . If the poor boy is not successful on

the 15 th inst ., he yvill be unable , on account of age , to again offer himself for election . The case is a most deserving one , and is strongly recommended by , amongst others , the Rev . J . Huyshe , P . G . M . Devon , Vice Patron * , Bro . L . P . Metham , P . G . D ., D . P . G . M Devon ; Bro . the Rev . C . J . Martyn * P . G . D . C , D . P . G . M . Suffolk , Vice Patron , Long Melford , Suffolk ;

Brc . Hughan , * P . G . D ., Vice Patron , Truro , Cornwall ; Bro . the Kev . Dr . Ace , * P . P . G . C . Lincolnshire , Laughton , near Gainsborough ; Bro . Rodda , * P . P . G . Reg . Devon , East Stonehouse , Devon ; Bro . W . M . St Aubyn , * 1 , Brick Court Temple , E . G . ; and the Charity Committee of the Province of Devon .

Proxies yvill be thankfully received by any of the bretfr ren yvhose names are marked thus , * or by yours frater nally , J . EnyvAitn CURTEIS , P . M . 189 , P . Prov . S . G . W . Devon , Vice President of the Institution St . George ' s Hall , East Stonehouse , Devon , 3 rd October , 1877 .

Sketches Of Masonic Character No. Vii.

SKETCHES OF MASONIC CHARACTER No . VII .

Some of us may have heard of Kissengen . Though knoyvn to the Romans , and of mediaeval reputation , it yvas only towards the beginning of this century that it came , so to say , into European celebrity . Our countryman and Bro . BRO . RICKETTS AT KISSENGEN .

Dr . Granville , a Past Grand Officer , first brought its great merits before our English travelling and valetudinarian public , and to the last hour ' of his long career he yvas a firm believer in its curative and sanative gifts . As some of our readers may also knoyv , it is in Bavaria , and lies in a loyv valley , bordered by hills , contiguous to the River Saal , and during the height of thc season is filled

with . a most numerous , if often motley crowd of healthseekers , water . imbibers at the meritorious and effective sources of the " Ragotzi . " " Pandur , " and " Maxbrunnen . " The sojourn there in successive years of piinces and potentates , of dons and diplomatists , has added greatly to its reputation , yvhile the repeated visits of crowned heads have extended its " high praise far and wide . For several

years the Empress of Austria paid a visit to Kissengen , much to thc delight of al ! its visitors , and whereas yvhen the locale yvas first made knoyvn to Englishmen and Englishwomen in Dr . Granville's yvork on "The Spas of Germany , " it yvas an insignificant little village , practically it his now become a very large toyvn , ( still increasing ) , suited to the wants of thousands of the " Badegiistc" yvho

throng to it from all parts , from May to September , year by year . Our friend , Bro . Ric ' tctts , the worthy Secretary of thc " Calliope " Lodge , has recently been a great sufferer from indigestion , and yvas ordered to Kissengen . Some of his friends do say , indeed , that despite the complaints of an indulgent wife , Bro . Ricketts is a little too fond of a

good dinner and late hours , and that , as he himself observes , being a " free citizen , fond of society , and immersed in the vortex of fashionable life , " he has suffered accordingly . Whether this be Irue or no , we are not in a _ position to say here , but we do knoyv him to be a very warmhearted and kind-hearted friend , a zealous Mason , one who , like Master Shallow , has had his " layvsuits , " and

yet is a vice-president of all our charities . He is very popular , both in tbe lodge and in the family circle , where an agreeable yvife , and some merry girls of daughters , form a great centre of attraction to Masonic and non-Masonic bachelors . Well , Bro . Ricketts has just come back from Kissengen , which he duly reached , via the good city of

Frankforton-the-Main , where he took the railway to his destination . Alas . Time , inexorable time , takes us back to a season when , in an " Eilwagen , " it took seventeen long hours to reach Kissengen . Of that once happy party hoyv feyv remain I Sad , often , are the memories of old age I Bro Ricketts , who is a sensible fellow , tells us that not only has he returned , " wonderfully set-up , " but that the

" water" has made a neyv man of him . He complains of " thc early rising , light breakfasts , lighter dinners , and nothing at all for supper , incessant exercise , and the sameness of daily life . " But he adds philosophically " When a man is really out of sorts , he ought to go to his doctor and look out for himself , and I have no doubt that I am undoubtedly better for Kissengen . " The truth is

that much of the " Kur " at Kissengen , in addition to its " life-giving streams , " is to be attributed to early hours , light food , and regular exercise . When we consider the heavy meals , and retardation of those meals , belonging to modern English life , it is only a wonder that anybody's constitution can stand the yvear and tear upon it . A heavy

breakfast , a heavy luncheon , a late and heavy dinner , to say nothing of intervening " tea " and continuous " nips , " lender the modern Englishman and Mason ' s life aconstant trial to all the digestive powers of the human frame . The simple fare and healthy exercise , and the early hours at Kissengen , even the " Bouilli , " so much denounced ,

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and the " Gcrstenchleimer " so unjustly depreciated , are an admirable change for John Bull , yvho folloyving the traditions of Bulldom , does not object to turtle soup and a fine haunch of mutton , yvho turns up his nose at li ghter entrees , and sticks heroically to "the Roast Beef of Old England , Sir . " But Bro . Ricketts , being a man of enlightened views , and kindly sympathies , wishes

through the Freemason , to make known to some suffering brethren , yvho about June always wears a yclloyv and careivorn look , that for them he knows of no mere healthreviving , care-dispelling , liver-amending spot than Kissengen on tbe Saal , in Bavaria . And if the voyager is sentiments ! as yvell as dyspeptic , he can take a look at "Wiirtzburg , aiid Augsburg , and Nuremburg , he can enjoy

a very lovely country , and come home , ( not at a great cost ) , yvith health in his looks , and elasticity in his limbs , and no longer gouty or grumbling , heavy , or asthmatic , he has once again , by the mediation of kindly nature , recoverea the inestimable blessing of health . Like a good true Freemason , and a better citizen of this world , he has also learnt the ever valuable lesson , that yve are never to despise the

contrasted habits and manners of other nations , but on the contrary that we are to study and be willing to adrr : ire them , one and all , ready to "take a leaf out of their books" conscious of the unchanging truth , that no one people in the wide wcrld has the monopoly of comfort , or convenience , or happiness , or enjoyment , or good food , 01 anything else .

Multum In Parbo, Or Masonic Notes And Queries.

Multum in Parbo , or Masonic Notes and Queries .

R . W . Bno . COLONEL J . B . MACLEOD MOORE AND THE KKIRIITS TEMPLAR . I have had my attention particularly directed to the tyvo last addresses of that p . ble Bro . Colonel Moore , before the Great Priory of Canawa . Much of the addresses must prove a yvelcomc boon to the fratres of the Order , and yvill be the means of spreading abroad reasonable vieyvs

of the character and scope of the society . Historically , however , the last address especially requires revision , especially as to the Masonic portion . It is not correct that the Earl of Eg linton granted a yvarrant to yvork thc Knights Templar Degn-e in Ireland , by authority of the " Mother Lodge Kilwinning , " Scotland . My friend , the R . W . Bro . J . H . Neilson , has fullv exploded such a notion

in the columns of the Freemason ( having discovered the records of the body in question ) , and proved to the satisfaction of all concerned that the warrant yvas only granted for the Craft Degree , though the members diel yvork without authority some of the Hautes Grades . The text ol the yvarrant alone dispels any idea of the connection of the ancient " Mother Lodge Kilyvinning " with Templar or any other degree above the Third , and our learned Bro .

Lyon ( G . Sec . eif Scotland ) , in his grand " History of the Lodge of Eilinburgh , " abundantly confirms the fact that Kilwinning never had aught to do yvith the Hautes Grades , and is never likely to do so , being solely a Craft lodge . Masonically speaking , if the Templars sever themselves from Masonry , or ignore such alliance , they yvill have no status , and be yvithout the only reason tbat can be offered for their continuance . WM . I . Hun 11 AN .

Reviews.

Reviews .

" The Masonic Magazine . " Vol . IV . George Kenning , 19 S , Fleet-street . We have been greatly pleased yvith Vol . IV of this now flourishing Magazine . It makes a very goodly volume , and is very pleasant reading . It . reflects all credit on its publisher , that at a time yvhen Masonic literature yvas at a discount , and English Freemasonry had no serial

representative , he manfully came forward , and as we say , " put his hand in his pocket " to supply the deficiency , and to meet the yvant . We therefore cordially congratulate him on the Fourth Volume , and equally yvish success to Vol . V . ; noyv in course of completion . We feel some little natural delicacy in saying too much in praise of the volume itself , as some might fancy that we yvere praising

ourselves . But this yve can fairly assert , that yve know of no other Magazine yvhich offers more " value received " to its subscribers , and we can conscientiously recommend all our readers , not only to become subscribers , but to purchase thc four volumes noyv available for all our brotherhood . We consider that they make a good investment for their money .

" Garden Requisites and Horticultural Decorations . " Dick Radcliffe & Co ., 129 , High Holborn . We have more than once alluded to the catalogues of this enterprising firm , and yve are very glad to praise and call attention to the merits of their la st interesting catalogue . For all yvho have a garden , or like floyvers ( no better taste can be ) this little handbook will be both of great aid and much utility .

ADMIRAL R ous . —A bust of the late Admiral Rous , executed by Mr . Richard Belt , is noyv being exhibited at the J ockey Club , Neyvmarket .

HOLLOVVAY ' S PIu . s . —Comfort for everyone . It is essential for health ihnt every organ of the body be fully competent and duly prepared for the natural execution of its' appropriate function , yvhich cannot he the case under great transitions of temperature , unless some corrective medicine he taken occasionally . Whe'n the chining winds of spring are succeeded by summer heat , and

this again gives place 10 autumnal chills , the liver and skin can only be maintained in eliicient action by some such alterative medicine as Holioway's noted Pills , yvhich regulate the escalation , coed the sy .-tein , ami fotify the nerves . In our variable climate , and in marshy districts , occasional doses of Ihese purifying coolinp and aperient pills -will prove most efficient pTeserversof health , —[ ADVT . ]

Grand Encampment Of The United States.

GRAND ENCAMPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES .

( Continuctljram page 39 S . ) EIGHTH DIVISION . —O . L . Spaulding , commanding . Aids , George W . Howe and C . Aikman . Band , 15 coml manderies of Michigan : 6 : 2 swords . NINTH DIVISION . —C . M . Morse , commanding . Aids ,

E . B . Myers and H . W . Davis . Nine commanderies of Illinois ; 763 swords . TENTH DIVISION . —J . T . Henderson , commanding . Aids , C . G . Pickering and S . Arnan . Band : tyvelve commanderies of Illinois and four of Wisconsin ; in all 640 swords . ELEVENTH DIVISION . —John S . Casement , command

ing . Aid , Isaac F . Mack . Band ; four commanderies of Neyv Jersey , 200 syvords ; tyvelve of Missouri , 48 o swords one of Alabama , Georgia , Florida , North and South Carolina ; in all , 841 syvords . TvcELrru DIVISION . —H . W . Bigelow , commantiing . Aids , E . T . Waite and T . T . Simpson . Band ; seven commanderies of loyva ; band ; tyvo of Minnesota ; band

nine of Kansas , three of Arkansas , two of W . Virginia , one of Nebraska and Colorado . In all , 1260 swords . THIRTEENTH DIVISION . —W . N . Riddle , commanding Aids , J . A . Norton and Benjamin F . Provost . Band ; Tancred Commandery , of Pittsburgh , Pa ., escorting the Grand Master and the Grand Encampmant , 182 swords The total number of swords in line , 10 , 109 .

On the arrival of the procession at the Court-rooms it yvas dissolved , and the session of the Giand Encampment yvas commenced by welcome addiesses from Grand Master Enoch f . Carson and Grand Commander R . E . Sir C . A . Wooehvard , yvhich with the response of M . E . Sir James H . Hopkins , yvere moelels in bievity and elo . quence , as yvell as spicy and instructive .

I he report of the Committee on Credentials being disposeel of , the Grand Master then delivered his address . The folloyving is a synopsis : Sir Knights : I have the honour to submit a report of my official acts , as Grand Master , during the past three years , together yvith some recommendations intended to promote the prosperity and increase the efficiency of the

institution yvhich has been committed to my care . Soon after the close of the last session of the Grand Encampment , and in compliance yvith its resolution , charters were issued to De Molay ( mounted ) Commandery , No . 4 , at Washington City , D . C . ; Wyoming Commandery , No . 1 , at Cheyenne , W . T . ; Pueblo Commandery , No . 3 , at Pueblo , Colorado ; Utah Commandery , No . 1 , at

Salt Lake City , Utah ; Baron Commandery , No . 3 , at Key West , Florida . Thc first named commandery was constituted , and its officers installed by me in person ; a service I yvould gladly have performed for the others had not the distance to each been so great . Unwilling to require any of the Grand Officers to undertake such long journeys , I availed myself of the kind services of Sir

Knights residing in the se / eral localities named . I recognise Good Friday as a day especially yvorthy of commemoration , by the members of an Order whose vital principles rest upon the Divine tragedy enacted upon that day , and which , yvith its resultant truths , is constantly impressed upon us in all our ceremonials . Hence , on April 17 th , 1877 , I gave permission to

Washington Commandery , Washington City , to attend church as Templars on Ascension Day—arrangements having been made for a special sermon to them . April 1 oth , 1875 , permission yvas given to Columbia Commandery , No 2 , to attend the dedication of the Masonic Temple in New York . February 5 U 1 , 1876 , permission was granted to Baron

Commandery , No . 3 , Key West , Florida , to parade at the unveiling of a monument , erected by the commandery to its late eminent commander . October 3 rd , 1 S 76 , permission to Utah Commandery , No . 1 , to parade at the dedication of the Masonic Hall at Salt Lake City . 1 have three times granted permission to De Molay

( mounted ) Commandery , No . 4 , of Washington City , to appear in public for inspection and drill . This commandery was chartered as a mounted commandery , and I can conceive of no yvay in which they could be inspected or be exercised in the tactics , except in public . Their byelayvs provide for an annual out-door drill , inspection , and review , and having been approved bv the Grand

Encampment , might render thc consent of the Grand Master unnecessary . However this may be , the necessity for outdoor drill , & c ., for a mounted commandery is inevitable . On June 3 rd , 1876 , I gave permission to Virginia City Commandery , No . 1 , ar . d to Helena Commandery , No 2 , both of Montana , to parade on the 4 th of July . Pro Deo et Patria is an ancient motto of our Order , and during

the Centennial year of our country , it seemed but right that Templars should unite in patriotic demonstrations . On February 16 th , 1877 , I received a request from Cheyenne Commandery , No . 1 , for " permission to appear at an evening party in full dress on Washington ' s birthday . " I replied , consenting , if thc assembly was to be

Masonic , and yvithin the rooms of the Fraternity , but declining , if it was to be a promiscuous party held elsewhere . June 26 , 1877 , I gave permission to "Washington and Columbia Commanderies , Washington City , to act as an escort to Grand Lodge at the laying of a corner

stone . March 18 , 1 S 75 , 1 declined to give consent to Washington Commandery , No . 1 , Washington City , to appear in public on Good Friday for mere parade . I am impressed with the belief that the establishment of a fixed and permanent place for holding the business sessions of the Grand Encampment would be a wise and salutary measure . The archives and property could be