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ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . To THE PATRONS , VICE-PATRONS , VICE-PRESIDENTS AND L IFE G OVERNORS OF THE R OYAL M ASONIC INSTITUTION FOR BOYS . The Friends and Supporters of B ROTHER EDWIM STORR , P . M ., P . Z ., & c , request you to kindly note that should a vacancy occur , he will , at tl . e proper time , dul y offer himself a Candidate for the post of Secretary . Chairman of Committee : R . W . BRO . SIR R . N . FOWLER , Bart ., M . P ., Past Grand Warden of England . Cop ies of the formal application of Bro . EDWIN STORR stating his Masonic services , together with cop ies of Testimonials from the General Manager of the London and County Bank , and Messrs . James Pain and Sons , covering the past ei g hteen years , will be forwarded with p leasure if desired . By order of the Committee . W . M . STILES , W . M . 198 7 , M . E . Z . 19 , & c , Committee Rooms , Hon . Sec . Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet Street , E . C , J a 11 nary iSth , 1 S 00 .

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THE GERM THEORY AND CURE OF DISEASES . Hotel Victoria , London , W . C , September 20 th , iS 8 g . RAUAM ' S MICROBE KILLER CO . Gentlemen , —In justice to you I will state I have been taking your wonderful remedy , the MICROBE KILLER , for a very characteristic case of gout ( podagra ) in my l e ft f o ot , complicated with general rheumatic symptoms . As an external remedy it gave me almost immediate relief from the great heat and pains in the foot , when all other local applications heretofore used had failed . I have been taking it also internall y , and have every reason to believe that , as an internal remed y , it assisted in removing all symptoms of the gout . I have been undergoing your treatment so short a time , and such quick relief afforded , that from my own experience I can cheerfully and heartil y recommend it to all suffering from rheumatism and gout as an extraordinary remedy . I am , yours sincerely , FREDK . H . WINSTON , Late United States Minister to His Majesty the Shah of Persia . WM . RADAM'S MICROBE KILLER , 111 , OXFORD STREET LONDON W . l ' amphlets and Testimonials of cures made free on application .

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ANY odd or spare form of Masonic Summons will be welcome by a Brother making a Collection of them . —Kindly send to COLLECTOR , care of the Editor .

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EXAMINATIONS . — Payments based on results . — Preliminary , legal , medical , scientific , matriculation , chartered accountant , and Civil Service , male and female . The dullest and most backward got through . Private lessons in mechanics , physics , practical chemistry , and biology given . For list of successes and honours apply to Mr . HENRY WAITE , 342 , Strand .

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DOYAL ALFRED AGED ^ MERCHANT SEAMEN'S INSTITUTION . Office of the Institution : 5 S , FENCH UR CH STREET , LONDON , E . C . Patron : Vice-Admiial H . R . H . the DUKE OF EDINBUR GH , K . G ., K . T ., K . C . B ., & c , & c , & c . Patroness : H . R . & LIT . the DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH . President : R . S . DONKIN , Esq ., M . P . Chairman : Admiral S IR F . L EOPOLD M C C LLVIVCK , F . R . S ., D . C . L ., & c . Vice-Chairman : Captain DAVID MAINLAND , F . R . G . S . Secretary : VV . E . DENNY , Esq Deputation and Travelling Secretary : WILLIAM HARRIS SAUNDERS . The object of the Royal Alfred Institution is to provide a H OME or P ENSION for the Merchant Sailor when old , destitute , and friendless . Pensioners at present in the Home , Belvedere , Kent , 102 . Out-Pensioners at all Ports in the United Kingdom , 195 . Applicants for Pensions , 237 ; Vacancies , 25 . 355 Men admitted into the Home at Belvedere , 480 Men Out-Pensioners , up to 30 th June , iSSS . 212 Applications Deferred for want of Means . FUNDS URGENTLY NEEDED . There is room in the Home for nearly 100 more Pen sioners . Thousands of British Seamen belonging - to the Craft will doubtless be pleased to aid their many distressed Brethren , including hundreds of Sailing Masters , when Old , Destitute , and Friendless . Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secretary , VV . E . DENNY , 5 S , Fenchurch-street ; Messrs . WILLIAMS , DEACON and Co ., Bankers ; or by W ILLIAM H ARRIS S AUNDERS , Organising and Deputation Secretary . Biidi / c House , Tufnetl Park , N .

To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

The following communications unavoidably stand over : CRAFT : — Derwent Lodge , No . 40 . Royal Naval Lodge , No . 59 . Royal Gloucester Lodge , No . 130 . Unity Lodge , No . 132 . Brunswick Lodge , No . 159 . Lodge of Sincerity , No . 174 . Yarborough Lodge , No . 244 .

Lodge of Sincerity , No . 292 . Perseverance Lodge , No . 371 . Lodge of St . Martin , No . 510 . Lodge of Hope , No . 574 . Lodge of Independence , No . 721 . St . Kew Lodge , No . 1222 .

Axnunster Lodge , No . 1730 . Albert Edward Lodge , No . 17 S 0 . Masonic Ball at Liverpool . Masonic Ball at Chorley .

BOOKS , & c , RECEIVED . "The Tyler , " "Keystone , " "Liberal Freemason , " "South Australian Freemason , " " Boletin Oficial , " " Voice of Masonry , " and " Freimaurer-Xeitung . "

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S ATURDAY , J ANUARY 18 , 1890 .

Masonic Notes.

Masonic Notes .

The following brethren were appointed officers of the Board of Stewards for the Festival of the Benevolent Institution , at the first meeting , on the 2 nd inst . , namely : Bros . H . B . Marshall , P . G . Treas ., Patron of the

Institution , President ; Lieut .-Col . A . B . Cook , acting Vice-President ; C . E . Keyser , Vice-Patron , P . P . G . W . Herts , Hon . Treas . ; and J . Terry , Hon . Sec . * * *

We hear there are now some 200 Stewards for the Festival in February . But though we congratulate Bro . Terry on this further progress he has made in his heavy task , we must point out that the Board is still some 40 below what it was at the corresponding period of last year .

We also take this opportunity ol informing our readers that there are 158 candidates—we have been saying all along the number would be close on 160 and , unfortunatel y , onl y 11 vacancies , seven male and four female . Assuming that in consequence of further

deaths , between now and election day , this number is increased so that , including the three deferred annuitants on each fund , the total number to be elected

reaches the same as last year ( 33 ) , there will still remain 125 poor old folk—brethren and widows of brethren—without means to provide the common necessaries of life .

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This is a d e p lorable picture , and we trust our readers will take it to heart , and help in compiling a goodly bit of subscriptions next month , so that something may be done lo relieve the urgent necessities of these poor old people .

* * * The name of Bro . Stephen Barton Wilson seems almost a part of Masonic history to the majority of the present generation of Masons , although to many the memory of the well-known Preceptor of Emulation is

still green ; but it will surprise a good many to hear that Bro . Stephen Barton Wilson , the younger , vvas on Monday last invested for the 30 th year in succession as Treasurer of the Royal Naval Lodge . We trust the

annual investiture will continue for many years to come , and that it will be long before the worthy and well-known name will disappear from contemporary Masonic records .

The Lion and Lamb Lodge , No . 192 , has obtained the warrant authorising its members to wear the Centenary Jewel , and they are going to celebrate the event by a special banquet , after the next regular meeting of the lodge , on the 6 th prox .

A very interesting function was performed at Lichfield a few days since . The members of the Godfrey de Bouillon Knig ht Templar Preceptory attended the cathedral to present a statue of the famous Templar ,

which has been placed in one of the niches above the Consistory Court . The picturesque robes of the kni ghts , and the presence of the Dean and Chapter , presented an unusual scene in the quiet precincts of the cathedral .

A special Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Masters of Middlesex and Surrey has been called for Thursday the 30 th , at the Ship and Turtle , Leadenhall-street , for the purpose of appointing and investing a Deputy

Provincial Grand Master in the p lace of the late Bro . Frederic Davison , the election and investment of a Provincial Grand Treasurer in place of Bro . Chas . Hammerton , who has resigned , and the appointment of an Assistant Secretary .

The Daily Telegraph of Wednesday , had an amusing article on Freemasonry . The incident to which we are indebted for this exceptional treat is certainl y to bo deplored . It seems that a " Mr . Johnson , a Methodist-Episcopal parson , has been killed while taking the

Royal Arch Degree . He dropped into the vault . " No explanation is given as to how the accident occurred . Cablegrams , as they are called , are usually made as concise as possible , and our contemporary is naturall y anxious lor more li g ht , and it proceeds to ask " Who

killed him ' . What killed him ' . What is a Royal Arch Degree ' . Were the ceremonies so severe , so excruciating , that flesh and blood could bear them no longer ? Did some of the ministering subordinates make a mistake ? Was the torture-chamber—if it is a torture-chamber—made too hot or too cold ' . " and so

on . * * * Then again it asks , " But why was there a vault * ,

Is it to bury the secret or the man ' . Does it symbolise the speedy funeral of the postulant if he fail to fulfil the hi g h and stern duties of the Royal Arch Degree ' . Was the incident part of the performance 'i "

We are afraid the curiosity of our contemporary must remain unsatisfied , and for the very obvious reason that we know nothing more of the occurrence than is generally known , and also because it will never du for us to talk too openly about the secrets of the

torturechamber and the vault , or the mysteries and programmes of the Royal Arch Degree . That it clearly was an accident and nothing more , is shown b y the fact that—in England at all events—when a brother takes the Royal Arch Degree , he is said to be " exalted , " whereas poor Bro . Johnson was fatally abased .

Ho wever , b y way of reasurring our friend , who may be as nervous as he is curious , there are , we believe , some 150 , 000 Royal Arch Masons in the United States , who have survived the dread ordeal , and are as livel y as such dignified Masonic beings can be expected to be , their experience of the vault notwithstanding .

We believe , too , that though the American modes of working , like the ways of Bret Harte ' s " Heathen Chinee , " are somewhat peculiar , fatal drops into the vault form no part of any Masonic programme , any

more than the sudden disappearance of the tubthumping Negro Evangelist into the barrel on which he was holding forth , of whose exploits most of us have heard or read , was a part of his religious exercise ,