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S ATURDAY , J ANUARY 13 , 18 94 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

Those pupils of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls who spend their holidays at School have been in luck ' s way . Last Saturday afternoon Bro . Lord Mayor Tyler and the Lady Mayoress entertained them at luncheon in the Long Parlour of the Mansion House , and then

treated them to a dance in the splendid Egyptian Hall , the children ' s happiness being completed by a conjuring entertainment by Mr . Strode , and the ever-popular magic lantern exhibitition provided by Bro . A . A . Wood , Chairman of the Library Committee of the Corporation .

* * * A somewhat similar entertainment was given by Bro . Alderman Sir David Evans during his Mayoralty , while Bro . Alderman Savory , Bart ., has many a time and oft played the part of genial host to our Girls at his residence in Surrey . These and similar acts of

kindly hospitality on the part of our Civic magnates are greatly appreciated , not only by the children—who , we may be sure , must have felt themselves at least a foot taller after their visit to the Right Hon . the Lord Mayor of London—but also by the Executive of the Institution and its numerous friends and supporters .

Bro . Lord Mayor 1 yler and the Lady Mayoress deserve the thanks of the whole English Craft for this act of thoughtful kindness towards these children , in whose diaries Twelfth Day , 1894 , will doubtless stand conspicuously marked with the reddest of red-letters and all in big capitals .

We learn with much pleasure that Bro . Lord Skelmersdale is to be installed W . M . of the St . George's Lodge of Harmony , No . 32 , Liverpool , on the 24 th inst . His father , the Pro Grand Master , and Bro . the Earl of Derby , both passed through the chairs of this lodge .

We have very great pleasure in announcing that on Tuesday , the 9 th instant , the Grand Duke of Hesse arrived at Coburg , and was formally betrothed to the Princess Victoria Melita , the second daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburir Gotha . Both are grand-children rf her Majesty the Queen , the Grand Duke being the son of the late Grand Duke Louis by his

marriage with the Princess Alice , the Queen's second daughter , while Princess Victoria Melita is the daughter ofthe Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg Gotha ( Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom ) . Both thcGrand Duke and Princess were born on the 25 th November , the Grand Duke in the year 1 S 6 S and the Princess in 1876 . # # #

Among the many rights of jurisdiction which most , if not all , of the Grand Lodges of the United States claim to exercise , none appear to us so preposterous as those relating to non- affiliates and non-Masons . The former , as our readers are aware , are men who have

joined our ranks and then ceased to be subscribing members of a lodge or lodges ; the latter , as their name betokens , are men who have neither joined our ranks nor , as far as we know , ever evinced any disposition to do so . That any body of men rightly claiming to exercise supreme authority over its subordinate branches and their members should extend that right

to men who have retired from their ranks or never joined them , is a * malter which , as Lord Dundreary might say , " no fellah can understand . " Nevertheless , they appear to understand it extremely well in the different Masonic jurisdictions in the United States , and not only assume but exercise the right with an audacity which might put to shame the Cza , r of Russia or any other autocrat of our time .

* True , there arc dilliculties about the unhappy nonaffiliate for which , up to the present time , no generally satisfactory solution , so far as we know , has been found . This class of being is said to be on the increase , and , in spite of the numerous menaces and entreaties which

are addressed to him , the non-affiliate persists in holding aloof from a society from which , for reasons of his own we have no right to pry into , he has seen fit to withdraw . Worse still , this abandoned creature persists in residing somewhere , and as there are many thousands of Masonic lodges in the United States * it is tolerably certain that unless he takes up his quarters

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in the middle of the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean , on the summit ol the Rockies , or in the reserve lands set apart for the Indians , he must reside within " the jurisdiction " of some lodge , which , in its turn , is under " the jurisdiction " of some Grand Lodge . * * #

In England , no such difficulty as this about the nonaffiliate has ever arisen , or is likely to arise . He has been , is , and ever will be left severely alone . But we are only a practical people , the Americans are sentimental as well as practical . We have no difficulty of

this sort , because we have created none ; they have it because they have created it , and , having done so , they are continually puzzling their brains as to how they shall cope with it . We say—Do as we do , and you will be all right ; but Bro . Jonathan has not yet got to the end of his cable-tow , and is still scheming how he shall

deal with the creature . Perhaps , if the non-affiliate could be utilised as a clothes-prop , or a washing , or sewing-machine , or for"busting up " aewcasoraring , his sin of non-affiliation might be forgiven him ; but this is hardly possible in the present state of civilisation in the United States .

# # # Thus the difficulty about the non-affiliate remains , growing almost daily in intensity , and threatening to derange the minds of all the 800 , 000 subscribing members of Masonic lodges in the States . We wonder

which will become tired out first—the non-affiliate who , obstinately persists in increasing and multiplying his species all the States over , or the grievance-monger , whose attack of non-affiliate on the brain is becoming ever more and more acute . As for the non-Mason , so long

as he remains where he is , no harm will come to him . The fact that he is living within the jurisdiction of some lodge of Freemasons neither lessens his appetite nor disturbs his repose , for the best of all reasons , thrt he knows nothing of its existence . But the moment

he exhibits a desire to become one of us , that moment will he expose himself to the thousand and one rules and regulations , Grand Masters' rulings , dispensations , decisions , to say nothing of a few score of landmarks and ancient charges , which the more enterprising spirits

in American Freemasonry are daily inventing for the disciplining—or shall we say the hirassment—of their lodges and members . But why not try the other tack , Bro . Jonathan , just for a change ? Why not leave people alone , especially those *" vit * h whom Freemasonry has no concern whatever ?

* * * But not to prolong these remarks which , in the language of the late Artemus Ward , are " meant for a gonk , " there is indeed a serious side to this question of the claims advanced by Grand Lodges in the

United States to certain kinds of jurisdiction over nonaffiliates and non-Masons . We have before now referred to those affecting the non-affiliate ; here is the latest instance concerning the non-Mason which has come under our notice , and which is quoted from thc Home Journal by the Canadian Craftsman . A

resident in Pennsylvania offered himself as a candidate for the mysteries and privileges of Masonry in one of the lodges in that State and was rejected . He then went to reside in Missouri , of which State he obtained the rights of citizenship , renewed his candidature for the privileges of our Order , and was accepted .

On hearing this , the Grand Master of Pennsylvania at once opened a correspondence with the Grand Master of Missouri , complaining that one of the latter's lodges had violated the jurisdiction of . his Grand Lodge , and stating that he had proclaimed the

rejected of Pennsylvania as being rather more objectionable than Satan , and generally condemning everything and everybody Missourian all round . As a matter of course , the Grand Master of Missouri returned the compliment , pouring forth whole volleys of

condemnation of everything and everybody Pennsylvanian , the only sensible act in this tremendous conflict being the refusal of the Grand Lodge of Missouri to " retaliate and refuse admission to all Pennsylvania Masons . " How the quarrel has ended , or will end , we know not , and we venture , with all deference to the two

Grand Masters and their jurisdictions , to add , neither do we care . The whole thing is so trumpery as not to be worth the price of the paper that has been spent and the ink that has been spilt over it . If Grand Lodges must quarrel , let them at least quarrel over matters which are not too contemptible to be noticed .

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Connaught and their children have been spending a few days at Clarence House , and on Tuesday evening they visited the Theatre Royal Drury Lane for the purpose of witnessing the pantomime of " Robinsjn Crusoe . "