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Piipr . cy , it is a shame of out brotherhood and the permanent source ot' discord and scandal within our holy circle . Some years ago I declared that I could not acknowledge it as a regular , just , and perfect Grand Lodge , but as the very contrary of all Masonry , and some months ago I made the proposition that the German Granel Lodge should no longer acknowledge , it , and have no connection
with it at all . This Grand Countries Lodge has excluded from the whole fraternity the venerated and merited Bro . Schiffmann , because he has written some historical articles of great value , but the German Grand Lodges have not acknowledged this unjust verdict of exclusion , and have
nominated Bro ' . Schiffmann as honorary member . So , I hope , you will now he clear , that only the Grand Countries Lodge ( Swedish Rite ) is to be expelled from the fraternity . I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , J . G . FINDEL . Leipzig , May 14 , 1877 .
PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND . To Ihe Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir anel Brother , — A short time since I accidentally met with Mr . Emanuel Deutsch ' s Report on the Operations of the Palestine Exploration Fund , and I was so much interested in perusing his observations on the singular marks
discovered on the foundation courses of the great wall of underground Jerusalem , that no apology is necessary for introducing them to the notice of your readers and the Craft in general . These marks were discovered ninetv feet below the present surface of the city , and Mr . Deutsch in reference to them says : — " I have come to the following conclusions . 1 . The signs cut or
painted were on the stones when they were first laid in their present places . 2 . They do not represent any ' inscription . ' 3 . They are Phoenician . " He considers them to be partly letters , partly numerals , and partly special Masons' or quarry signs . Some of them are recognisable at once as well-known Phoenician characters ; others , hitherto unknown in Phoenician epigraphy , he was able to
identify on undoubted ' antique Phoenicean structures in Syria such as the primitive substructure of the harbour at Siejon . He also observed these marks on the bevilled stones taken from ancient edifices and built into later work throughout Phoenicia . A striking and obvious instance of this is the ruined citadel standing above Saida , the stones of which are old Phoenician stones immured in their present place
at subsequent periods . These stones teem with "fantasies identical with those of Jerusalem . The signs have never been noticed before , Mr . Deutsch having been the first to point them out to the excavator of the Ashmunazar Sarchophagus . He further states that although he found extremely well preserved painted frescoes in Phoenician tombs , all the stone marks just alluded to were cut , not
painted . Mr . W . K . Loftus , in his " Researches in Chaldea and Lusiana , " g ives six columns of builders' marks found by him in " Shushan the Palace , " now Shush . Those he g ives are from composition bricks , and the marks , when not scratched in the wet clay while the composition was soft , are frameel with dark-coloured enamel , or are laid on
in glaze . It also appears that marks of a similar kind occur upon many aucient stone buildings in the East , as at Takte Suleyman , near Pcrsepolis ; also at the base of the sculptured rock of Bisutun ; in blocks near the Zenderund , and in the garden of the Chehil Situn at Isfahan ; and especially on the walls of Al Hadhr , near Mosul . It is not improbable that those observed in the Chehil
Situn were derived from more ancient structures erected by Adeshur Bubezan , A . n . 230 . With regard to others o similiar kind elsewhere , it has been suggested that they are the marks of Chaldean masons . However this may be , if is curious to find them existing on edifices far apart , and erected at various periods from 335 li . c . to the end of the sixteenth century of our era . In the ninth plate of Dr . Aveling's " History of Roche
Abbey , " founded in 1147 , there are fifty-nine Masons ' marks , very clearly given , all found at Roche . In my reading I have also found some very interesting information about Freemasons as ecclesiastical builders , but my present communication has already encroached so much on your valuable space that I must defer this subject to a future occasion if you will kindly allow me space for the purpose . 1 am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , W . E . N . No . 766 .
A QUERY . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " "Dear Sir and Brother , — Is a respectable and well-conducted man ineligible to be made a Freemason on account of his being illegitimate by birth ?
Yours fraternally , ENQUIRER . [ Undoubtedly , by the old rules of the operative guilds the candidate must be born in wedlock , anil be the issue of a lawful marriage ; and the " filius nullius" was inadmissible . The rule of the Craft is adverse to the reception of all not born of "honest parentage . "—ED . ]
MASONIC CLUBS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Would you kindly inform me , through the medium of your journal , if there are in or about London what are called Masonic Clubs , as I am told there are
many . A Masonic Club , I am told , is a Lodge of Instruction held without a warrant on Sabbath evenings by brethren
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that cannot attend Lodges of Instruction , with a warrant , during the week , and are called Masonic Clubs because neither the M . W . G . M ., nor any private loelge , will issue a warrant for a Lodge of Instruction to hold its meetings on the Sabbath dav . If you would kindly state if such meetings are held by the brethren in London I would feel greatly obliged . Yours fraternally ,
T . B . N . B . —The Masonic Club held at 101 , Queen Victoriastreet , I presume is altogether of a different nature to those to which I refer . —T . B .
THE MACE FUND . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — We have much pleasure in announcing that the result of our appeal on behalf of the above fund has been so far satisfactory as to have enabled Mr . Mace to have studied at Queen's College , Cambridge , for the last six
months . He has passed his preliminary examination , and will be sufficiently prepared by a few months' further study to undergo his final examination prior to presenting himself for ordination . We feel that , having gone thus far , the brethren will not allow the fund to lack support for so worthy an object
as assisting one of our Masonic boys , who , having carried off the si ' . ver medal and Maybury prize at our school , pursued his studies at his own expense , after his day ' s work was done , in the evening classes of King ' s College , London , and there , by hard work , gained the Divinity prize , several first-class certificates , and the associateship of that
college . We feel , therefore , justified in appealing for further subscriptions , which we hope to receive early , as the funel at present is entirely exhausted . We are , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , W . PoiiTi . ocK DADSOV , Treasurer . FREDERICK BINCKES , Secretory .
THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Referring to the leading article in the Freemason of the 12 th inst . on " The Struggle in France , " I would beg leaye to remind you that for very many years Craft lodges have existed and worked in France under two
separate jurisdictions , namely , the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite , and the Grand Orient . Now , whatever the Grand Orient may think fit to decree , or its lodges to practise , the Supreme Council and the lodges under its jurisdiction , are bound to acknowledge the Great Architect of the Universe , a , id this was mc . st explicitly acknowledged by the delegates sent from that body to
represent it at the Lausanne Congress in 1875 . It is now as ever the rule of the Rite . In Belg ium the Supreme Council possesses the undoubted power of establishing Craft lodges under its jurisdiction , but for weighty reasons that body was anxious to follow the example of the Supreme Council of England , and leave the government of the Craft degrees to their Grand
Orient . Should the Grant Orient ot Belgium , however , follow the example of France , it is possible that the Supreme Council , which also is bound by the treaty of Lausanne , will assert its rights and powers . Should England , therefore , be forced to cease Masonic relations with one or both of the Grand Orients and the lodges under their jurisdiction , there is no reason why the
large number of Craft loelges working undt-r the authority of the Supreme Council of France should be included in the same measure , nor why it should be extended to those which exist , or may be established under the Supreme Council of Belgium . Would it not , on the contrary , be but right to extend the hand of fellowship to those Masonic bodies which are
combating for the fundamental princip les of Freemasonry , and who acknowledge the Deity even as wc do ourselves . As many lodges will thus exist which English Masons can conscientiously visit , ttere can be no valid reason or necessity for petitioning the Grand Master of England to establish English lodges in foreign jurisdictions .
1 am , dear Sir and Brother , ONE or THE ENGLISH DELEGATES TO THE LAUSANNB CONGRKSS . [ We do not profess to understand how the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite anywhere can claim to establish Craft lodges , though we are glael to note the statement of our esteemed correspondent . —ED . ]
FREEMASONRY IN PERU . The following has been . forwarded to us for publication : — " An answer to Mr . Artidi Martin ' s extracts from the ' Bulletin ' of the so-called Supreme Council of Peru , pages 137 to 139 , of the Chaine d'Union for March . " Dear Sir and Brother , —
I take the libeity of addressing you under this fraternal title , although you elo not deign to use it in your extracts when referring to me 1 beg to inform you that I am no doctor , but merety a brother Mason . After extolling the Peruvian brethren with complimentary gallantry , for which accept my thanks , although I do not hail from the section of the fraternity that you defend , or whose publications have served you for extracting your
information , but rather representing the Grand Orient of Peru , in the name of which I permit myself the liberty of addressing you now . Allow me , as a Mason that should always speak anil write the truth , to protest also , as a resident of Lima for the last twenty-three years , and have never been absent from this city during that period for six months in succession , against your assertion of having ; seen in this capital , in the processions , women
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dancing before the same , disguised and masked ( travesties et masquees ) in the streets of Lima , to the airs of dances from " Traviata , " or any other tune or tunes . Probably you may have seen the Indians on some festive occasion , masked and disguised , dancing in the streets in commemoration of some of their ancient usages , but it appears strange that during my long residence here I
have never seen the burlesques that you refer ' to in the rei ligious processions in Lima . Notwithstanding the state of ignorance of the population of Peru , they have not found a " Miraculous Virgin of Louteies , " nor the salvation of their souls by the celebrated waters of that place , which is imported here from France . Your astonishment at learning that from the Entered
Apprentice ' s Degree to the Thirty-third pays into the treasury of the so-called Supreme Council 4743 'francs , may be increased when you learn that although 10 , 000 Masons have been initiated in Peru , the aforesaid body has not got a foot of ground they can call their own ' , nor even a house on lease , and this after thirty years' administration , whereas a symbolic lodge ( Peace and
Concord , No . 445 ) installed ten or twelve years since by youi humble brother , in union with two others in Callao , have built a Masonic Hall vshich has cost them 100 , 000 francs . I must request you to take note that the majority of the members of the so-called Supreme Council of the Thirty-third and last degree of the A . and A . S . Rite in Peru are foreigners ,. and the Peruvian brethren cannot be
blamed for the sins of others , as Dr . Antonio Sausa Ferrcira ( Sov . G . Com . ) is a Portuguese , and his son-inlaw , Richarei H . Hartley , says he is an Englishman ; these two worthy Sov . G . J . G . G . have managed to get and keep hold of that lodge , and as to the funds , all 1 can say is that they have not five hundred francs in the world , either in cash , stock , or valuables .
You will find this corroborated by reading the bulletin , No . 23 , of the Grand Orient of Peru , which I have the honour to forward by this mail to your address , and therein you will see , pages 490 , 492 , 503 to 509 , why the Grand Orient of Peru still exists , the Bulls of the bod y that receive its life from the Grand Orient not producing any effect against us .
The Masonic Hall in Lima has existed in the Calle de San Francisco since time immemorial , say for the last thirty years ; the address printed on the official paper of the Grand Secretariat of the Grand Orient of Peru is that of San Francisco . Probably this may he the reason wh y the brethren that publish the Calendar of the Grand Orient of France may have supposed that all regular Masonic
bodies in Peru held their communications and meetings in the Lima Masonic Hall , Calle de San Francisco . But I appeal to t ' lose illustrious brethren to say whether I ever gave them the address , as you appear to insinuate . The decree that you mention from the spurious bulletin in question , of the building of a Masonic Hal ) , will never proeluce any other effect than the consignment of it to
printed pages . Referring to your last extract about the History of Freemasonry in Peru , 1 have the honour of being its author and compiler froin the archives of the Grand Orient , and that the second anil last parts of that history were never
seen by the members of that so-called Supreme Council till they saw the former in the pages of the Chains d'Union , and will read the last part in the Freemason when published . This is not the only one of my compilations , that the said brethren have laid hold of , having others belongin g to yours fraternally ,
ARTHUR M . TINSLEY , 33 , W . M . Order and Liberty Lodge , No . 1 , P . Z . R . A . Chap . Agemcmnon , 16 7 , G . M . of the Grand Lodge of Peru , and G . Sec . of the Grand Orient of Peru .
The late Southwark Conference created a demand for Compressed Tea beyond all expectations . Eminent Analysts declare it is only when tea is in its pure and native state that it will yeild to pressure under hy draulic power . The London and Provincial Press unhesitatingly assert that if you want a cup of tea in perfection it must be brewed from tea that has been
Compressed . Economists advocate the use of Compressed Tea , and say if you want to get double the value out of your tea use it Compressed . Testimonials in thousands speak highly of the increased value and advantages in using the finely selected teas of the Compressed Tea Company ( Limited ) . Families are making constant applications for the smallest wholesale quantity supplied , and say , " We
are : compelled to send to the warehouse for Compressed Tea ; because the tradesmen in our locality appear to know nothing of it ; and as one pound weight of Compressed Tea goes as far as two pounds weight of loose tea , we hope you will supply us . " Sold in handsome cabinets—lib . 2 s . 6 d ., 2 lbs . 5 s ., 4 lbs . 10 s . —got up specially for the Easter trade as samples , carriage free to any part
of the kingdom . Works and Warehouse , 3 6 , Southwarkstreet , London . Arrangements have been comp leted whereby Tea dealers can have there own blended anu selected teas Compressed at a nominal cost per pound for compressing . All applications for Agencies for the sale of Compressed Tea , or from traders desirous of opening up wholesale depots for the sale of Compressed . Tea throughout the kingdom , must be addressed to the Secretary .
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Piipr . cy , it is a shame of out brotherhood and the permanent source ot' discord and scandal within our holy circle . Some years ago I declared that I could not acknowledge it as a regular , just , and perfect Grand Lodge , but as the very contrary of all Masonry , and some months ago I made the proposition that the German Granel Lodge should no longer acknowledge , it , and have no connection
with it at all . This Grand Countries Lodge has excluded from the whole fraternity the venerated and merited Bro . Schiffmann , because he has written some historical articles of great value , but the German Grand Lodges have not acknowledged this unjust verdict of exclusion , and have
nominated Bro ' . Schiffmann as honorary member . So , I hope , you will now he clear , that only the Grand Countries Lodge ( Swedish Rite ) is to be expelled from the fraternity . I am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , J . G . FINDEL . Leipzig , May 14 , 1877 .
PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND . To Ihe Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir anel Brother , — A short time since I accidentally met with Mr . Emanuel Deutsch ' s Report on the Operations of the Palestine Exploration Fund , and I was so much interested in perusing his observations on the singular marks
discovered on the foundation courses of the great wall of underground Jerusalem , that no apology is necessary for introducing them to the notice of your readers and the Craft in general . These marks were discovered ninetv feet below the present surface of the city , and Mr . Deutsch in reference to them says : — " I have come to the following conclusions . 1 . The signs cut or
painted were on the stones when they were first laid in their present places . 2 . They do not represent any ' inscription . ' 3 . They are Phoenician . " He considers them to be partly letters , partly numerals , and partly special Masons' or quarry signs . Some of them are recognisable at once as well-known Phoenician characters ; others , hitherto unknown in Phoenician epigraphy , he was able to
identify on undoubted ' antique Phoenicean structures in Syria such as the primitive substructure of the harbour at Siejon . He also observed these marks on the bevilled stones taken from ancient edifices and built into later work throughout Phoenicia . A striking and obvious instance of this is the ruined citadel standing above Saida , the stones of which are old Phoenician stones immured in their present place
at subsequent periods . These stones teem with "fantasies identical with those of Jerusalem . The signs have never been noticed before , Mr . Deutsch having been the first to point them out to the excavator of the Ashmunazar Sarchophagus . He further states that although he found extremely well preserved painted frescoes in Phoenician tombs , all the stone marks just alluded to were cut , not
painted . Mr . W . K . Loftus , in his " Researches in Chaldea and Lusiana , " g ives six columns of builders' marks found by him in " Shushan the Palace , " now Shush . Those he g ives are from composition bricks , and the marks , when not scratched in the wet clay while the composition was soft , are frameel with dark-coloured enamel , or are laid on
in glaze . It also appears that marks of a similar kind occur upon many aucient stone buildings in the East , as at Takte Suleyman , near Pcrsepolis ; also at the base of the sculptured rock of Bisutun ; in blocks near the Zenderund , and in the garden of the Chehil Situn at Isfahan ; and especially on the walls of Al Hadhr , near Mosul . It is not improbable that those observed in the Chehil
Situn were derived from more ancient structures erected by Adeshur Bubezan , A . n . 230 . With regard to others o similiar kind elsewhere , it has been suggested that they are the marks of Chaldean masons . However this may be , if is curious to find them existing on edifices far apart , and erected at various periods from 335 li . c . to the end of the sixteenth century of our era . In the ninth plate of Dr . Aveling's " History of Roche
Abbey , " founded in 1147 , there are fifty-nine Masons ' marks , very clearly given , all found at Roche . In my reading I have also found some very interesting information about Freemasons as ecclesiastical builders , but my present communication has already encroached so much on your valuable space that I must defer this subject to a future occasion if you will kindly allow me space for the purpose . 1 am , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , W . E . N . No . 766 .
A QUERY . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " "Dear Sir and Brother , — Is a respectable and well-conducted man ineligible to be made a Freemason on account of his being illegitimate by birth ?
Yours fraternally , ENQUIRER . [ Undoubtedly , by the old rules of the operative guilds the candidate must be born in wedlock , anil be the issue of a lawful marriage ; and the " filius nullius" was inadmissible . The rule of the Craft is adverse to the reception of all not born of "honest parentage . "—ED . ]
MASONIC CLUBS . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Would you kindly inform me , through the medium of your journal , if there are in or about London what are called Masonic Clubs , as I am told there are
many . A Masonic Club , I am told , is a Lodge of Instruction held without a warrant on Sabbath evenings by brethren
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that cannot attend Lodges of Instruction , with a warrant , during the week , and are called Masonic Clubs because neither the M . W . G . M ., nor any private loelge , will issue a warrant for a Lodge of Instruction to hold its meetings on the Sabbath dav . If you would kindly state if such meetings are held by the brethren in London I would feel greatly obliged . Yours fraternally ,
T . B . N . B . —The Masonic Club held at 101 , Queen Victoriastreet , I presume is altogether of a different nature to those to which I refer . —T . B .
THE MACE FUND . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — We have much pleasure in announcing that the result of our appeal on behalf of the above fund has been so far satisfactory as to have enabled Mr . Mace to have studied at Queen's College , Cambridge , for the last six
months . He has passed his preliminary examination , and will be sufficiently prepared by a few months' further study to undergo his final examination prior to presenting himself for ordination . We feel that , having gone thus far , the brethren will not allow the fund to lack support for so worthy an object
as assisting one of our Masonic boys , who , having carried off the si ' . ver medal and Maybury prize at our school , pursued his studies at his own expense , after his day ' s work was done , in the evening classes of King ' s College , London , and there , by hard work , gained the Divinity prize , several first-class certificates , and the associateship of that
college . We feel , therefore , justified in appealing for further subscriptions , which we hope to receive early , as the funel at present is entirely exhausted . We are , dear Sir and Brother , yours fraternally , W . PoiiTi . ocK DADSOV , Treasurer . FREDERICK BINCKES , Secretory .
THE STRUGGLE IN FRANCE . To the Editor of the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , — Referring to the leading article in the Freemason of the 12 th inst . on " The Struggle in France , " I would beg leaye to remind you that for very many years Craft lodges have existed and worked in France under two
separate jurisdictions , namely , the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite , and the Grand Orient . Now , whatever the Grand Orient may think fit to decree , or its lodges to practise , the Supreme Council and the lodges under its jurisdiction , are bound to acknowledge the Great Architect of the Universe , a , id this was mc . st explicitly acknowledged by the delegates sent from that body to
represent it at the Lausanne Congress in 1875 . It is now as ever the rule of the Rite . In Belg ium the Supreme Council possesses the undoubted power of establishing Craft lodges under its jurisdiction , but for weighty reasons that body was anxious to follow the example of the Supreme Council of England , and leave the government of the Craft degrees to their Grand
Orient . Should the Grant Orient ot Belgium , however , follow the example of France , it is possible that the Supreme Council , which also is bound by the treaty of Lausanne , will assert its rights and powers . Should England , therefore , be forced to cease Masonic relations with one or both of the Grand Orients and the lodges under their jurisdiction , there is no reason why the
large number of Craft loelges working undt-r the authority of the Supreme Council of France should be included in the same measure , nor why it should be extended to those which exist , or may be established under the Supreme Council of Belgium . Would it not , on the contrary , be but right to extend the hand of fellowship to those Masonic bodies which are
combating for the fundamental princip les of Freemasonry , and who acknowledge the Deity even as wc do ourselves . As many lodges will thus exist which English Masons can conscientiously visit , ttere can be no valid reason or necessity for petitioning the Grand Master of England to establish English lodges in foreign jurisdictions .
1 am , dear Sir and Brother , ONE or THE ENGLISH DELEGATES TO THE LAUSANNB CONGRKSS . [ We do not profess to understand how the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite anywhere can claim to establish Craft lodges , though we are glael to note the statement of our esteemed correspondent . —ED . ]
FREEMASONRY IN PERU . The following has been . forwarded to us for publication : — " An answer to Mr . Artidi Martin ' s extracts from the ' Bulletin ' of the so-called Supreme Council of Peru , pages 137 to 139 , of the Chaine d'Union for March . " Dear Sir and Brother , —
I take the libeity of addressing you under this fraternal title , although you elo not deign to use it in your extracts when referring to me 1 beg to inform you that I am no doctor , but merety a brother Mason . After extolling the Peruvian brethren with complimentary gallantry , for which accept my thanks , although I do not hail from the section of the fraternity that you defend , or whose publications have served you for extracting your
information , but rather representing the Grand Orient of Peru , in the name of which I permit myself the liberty of addressing you now . Allow me , as a Mason that should always speak anil write the truth , to protest also , as a resident of Lima for the last twenty-three years , and have never been absent from this city during that period for six months in succession , against your assertion of having ; seen in this capital , in the processions , women
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dancing before the same , disguised and masked ( travesties et masquees ) in the streets of Lima , to the airs of dances from " Traviata , " or any other tune or tunes . Probably you may have seen the Indians on some festive occasion , masked and disguised , dancing in the streets in commemoration of some of their ancient usages , but it appears strange that during my long residence here I
have never seen the burlesques that you refer ' to in the rei ligious processions in Lima . Notwithstanding the state of ignorance of the population of Peru , they have not found a " Miraculous Virgin of Louteies , " nor the salvation of their souls by the celebrated waters of that place , which is imported here from France . Your astonishment at learning that from the Entered
Apprentice ' s Degree to the Thirty-third pays into the treasury of the so-called Supreme Council 4743 'francs , may be increased when you learn that although 10 , 000 Masons have been initiated in Peru , the aforesaid body has not got a foot of ground they can call their own ' , nor even a house on lease , and this after thirty years' administration , whereas a symbolic lodge ( Peace and
Concord , No . 445 ) installed ten or twelve years since by youi humble brother , in union with two others in Callao , have built a Masonic Hall vshich has cost them 100 , 000 francs . I must request you to take note that the majority of the members of the so-called Supreme Council of the Thirty-third and last degree of the A . and A . S . Rite in Peru are foreigners ,. and the Peruvian brethren cannot be
blamed for the sins of others , as Dr . Antonio Sausa Ferrcira ( Sov . G . Com . ) is a Portuguese , and his son-inlaw , Richarei H . Hartley , says he is an Englishman ; these two worthy Sov . G . J . G . G . have managed to get and keep hold of that lodge , and as to the funds , all 1 can say is that they have not five hundred francs in the world , either in cash , stock , or valuables .
You will find this corroborated by reading the bulletin , No . 23 , of the Grand Orient of Peru , which I have the honour to forward by this mail to your address , and therein you will see , pages 490 , 492 , 503 to 509 , why the Grand Orient of Peru still exists , the Bulls of the bod y that receive its life from the Grand Orient not producing any effect against us .
The Masonic Hall in Lima has existed in the Calle de San Francisco since time immemorial , say for the last thirty years ; the address printed on the official paper of the Grand Secretariat of the Grand Orient of Peru is that of San Francisco . Probably this may he the reason wh y the brethren that publish the Calendar of the Grand Orient of France may have supposed that all regular Masonic
bodies in Peru held their communications and meetings in the Lima Masonic Hall , Calle de San Francisco . But I appeal to t ' lose illustrious brethren to say whether I ever gave them the address , as you appear to insinuate . The decree that you mention from the spurious bulletin in question , of the building of a Masonic Hal ) , will never proeluce any other effect than the consignment of it to
printed pages . Referring to your last extract about the History of Freemasonry in Peru , 1 have the honour of being its author and compiler froin the archives of the Grand Orient , and that the second anil last parts of that history were never
seen by the members of that so-called Supreme Council till they saw the former in the pages of the Chains d'Union , and will read the last part in the Freemason when published . This is not the only one of my compilations , that the said brethren have laid hold of , having others belongin g to yours fraternally ,
ARTHUR M . TINSLEY , 33 , W . M . Order and Liberty Lodge , No . 1 , P . Z . R . A . Chap . Agemcmnon , 16 7 , G . M . of the Grand Lodge of Peru , and G . Sec . of the Grand Orient of Peru .
The late Southwark Conference created a demand for Compressed Tea beyond all expectations . Eminent Analysts declare it is only when tea is in its pure and native state that it will yeild to pressure under hy draulic power . The London and Provincial Press unhesitatingly assert that if you want a cup of tea in perfection it must be brewed from tea that has been
Compressed . Economists advocate the use of Compressed Tea , and say if you want to get double the value out of your tea use it Compressed . Testimonials in thousands speak highly of the increased value and advantages in using the finely selected teas of the Compressed Tea Company ( Limited ) . Families are making constant applications for the smallest wholesale quantity supplied , and say , " We
are : compelled to send to the warehouse for Compressed Tea ; because the tradesmen in our locality appear to know nothing of it ; and as one pound weight of Compressed Tea goes as far as two pounds weight of loose tea , we hope you will supply us . " Sold in handsome cabinets—lib . 2 s . 6 d ., 2 lbs . 5 s ., 4 lbs . 10 s . —got up specially for the Easter trade as samples , carriage free to any part
of the kingdom . Works and Warehouse , 3 6 , Southwarkstreet , London . Arrangements have been comp leted whereby Tea dealers can have there own blended anu selected teas Compressed at a nominal cost per pound for compressing . All applications for Agencies for the sale of Compressed Tea , or from traders desirous of opening up wholesale depots for the sale of Compressed . Tea throughout the kingdom , must be addressed to the Secretary .
Hoi . 1 . 0 WAY ' S OINTMENT AND PILLS . —Rheumatism or Neural gia AlTections . —No diseases are more frequent , painful , or difiiceilt j cure than these . From their attack no tissue ot the ; human I > oei > is exempt , no age , sex , or calling secure . It is a blessing , 11 ° ^ " ever , to know that all these siill ' erings m ? y be comp letely an cxpedilionsly subdued by Holloway ' s remedies . The Pills n ? "P n . ^; . ; , in Li teed , ! n < . t h .. ,. > ml » .. < ..- t / , ' i-h .. ii msllctn ami ctenilar paltttei
disorders ; whilst Ihe Ointment cures the local ailments , uie i " remove the constitutional disturbance and regulate the impair ^ function of every organ throughout the human body . The : car neither temporary nor superficial , but permanent and c ° J Jtio „ and the disease rarely recurs , so perfect has been the purincaeie ' performed by these searching preparations . — -A uvr . '