The Masonic Veteran.

And , last of all , there may be conditions under which there will still be many P . M . ' s for whom no employment can be prescribed . Cannot they find employment for themselves ? Our lodges ought to be valuable , social , and even constitutional factors of the community at large . Without interfering either in politics or in religion , there are many ways in which

the dignity of the Order can be advanced , and the lodge come to be regarded as a real force in the life of the community . Just as the unemployed are likely to become a danger to the State , the existence of a large number of distinguished

brethren in the lodge for whom there is no prospect open is bound in the long run to have a prejudicial effect upon the fortunes of the lodge . When their Masonic zeal impels them to be regular in their attendance they not unnaturally become critics , and cases are not unknown where the Master

finds his worst troubles come , not from those below the dais , but from those who are on it . The east is the home of matured and thoughtful wisdom , and throughout all history the world has been illumined by wise men who have come from the east . Therefore our Past Masters must not think

that because their hands have ceased to wield a gavel their opportunities for usefulness are gone , never to return . On the contrary , they have but closed one chapter of their Masonic experience , but there are many more before the book be closed .

We have not considered at any length the wearers of the purple , but it ought to be understood that the distinction they have attained to only strengthens the obligation under which they lie to their lodges . The honour has not , as a rule , been clue to the Provincial Grand Master ' s perception

of their singular merit , but to his sense of what was due to the worth of the lodges they represent , and at the very least it may be said that one good turn deserves another .

At The Sign Of The Perfect Ashlar

At the Sign of the Perfect Ashlar

The M . W . Grand Master , accompanied by the Duchess of Connaught and the Princesses Margaret and Patricia , paid a visit on the 19 th April to the Masonic Boys' Orphanage , Clonskeagh , Dublin , where they were received by Sir James Creed Meredith , Deputy Grand Master of Ireland , and shown

over the buildings . Her Royal Highness afterwards inspected the boys , numbering 90 , and it was announced that they would be given a holiday when the King visited Dublin . < s > 0 ® The ' coming Festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for

Girls on the nth May , to be presided over by the Provincial Grand Master for Cheshire , Bro . the Hon . Alan de Tatton Egerton , M . P ., will , we trust , prove a success , although , judging from the number comprising the Board of Stewards this year , a falling off from last year ' s amount must be

expected . Although numbers do not always represent strength , such a reduction as 3 60 to 370 from the figures of last year cannot but be indicative of a smaller total of subscriptions . There is still , however , time during the next week to recover much of the lost ground , and we trust that

in the result our misgivings will have been proved to be unjustifiable . < S > < $ > © The appointment of Mr . Justice Warrington as Deputy Grand Registrar comes to him almost at the same moment as his elevation to the bench , and his reception at Grand Lodge , when he with the other Grand Officers of the year

was appointed , was distinctly enthusiastic . The new judge has , since the retirement of Mr . Renshaw , K . C , had the largest practice in Mr . Justice Kekewich ' s Court , and he had almost , since he first took silk in 1895 , divided the bulk of business with that gentleman . At the most there were only about half a dozen " eligibles , " two being members of Parliament

and two ex-Liberal M . Ps . —so small is the field of choice according to present methods of selection . The new judge has the advantage of what on the bench is considered youth , being only some fifty-two or fifty-three . Educated at Rugby and Trinity College , Cambridge , he was bracketed first in the second class of the Classical Tripos in 18 73 .

< S » < 5 > «!> The installation of Major G . C . Davie as Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire , will take place at Exeter on Wednesday , June 13 th . The brethren have been anxiously waiting this announcement , and the great respect in which

the new ruler is deservedly held will probably ensure a record attendance from all parts of the province . The ceremony will be performed by the Right Hon . T . F . Halsey , M . P ., Deputy Grand Master , who will be accompanied by several other distinguished Grand Lodge Officers . The installation of Bro . F . B . Westlake as Deputy will immediately follow that of the Provincial Grand Master .

© >© © The announcement in the press that the veteran Provincial Grand Master of Warwickshire , who has , as usual , with Lady Leigh , been wintering on the Reviera , is in the best of health , will give much satisfaction to all the brethren of his province ,

as well as the Craft generally . He is returning this week , and has already made several public engagements in connection with Birmingham Charities and Masonic functions . It will be remembered that Lord Leigh celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his appointment as Provincial Grand Master of Warwickshire about two years ago .

© © © Lord Grenfell , who is to succeed the Duke of Connaught as commander of the English forces in Ireland , is descended in the female line from the piratical St . Legers , whose bloody accomplishinents in Ireland in the sixteenth and seventeenth

centuries earned for them a most unenviable reputation among the native Irish . Lord Grenfell ' s grandmother was granddaughter of the Elizabeth St . Leger who was initiated as a Freemason in a room in Donei-aile Court , which is part of the property Lord Castletown received with his wife , the daughter of the last of the St . Legers , Lord Doneraile .

& o <@> The Scientific Lodge , No . 58 , Cambridge , celebrated its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary on Monday , April nth , in a manner which will be memorable to all who were privileged to take part in its proceedings . After the

transaction of business and the initiation of a candidate , an exhibition of Masonic curiosities and properties of the lodge from 1760 to 1904 had been arranged by Bro . A . R . Hill , P . M ., and was of an interesting character . The central exhibit was a beautifully bound volume of manuscript records of the

lodge ' s proceedings from 1760 to 1803 , which contained many quaint entries . Two of the old minute books were exhibited , showing particulars of the initiation of many distinguished brethren , including the Duke of Devonshire when Lord Cavendish ( in 1853 ) , his Grace ' s grandfather ( in

1802 ) , and Sir John Gorst ( in 1855 ) . Further records opened for inspection related to the visit of the late Duke of Sussex to Cambridge when his Highness was Grand Master of the Order in 1818 , and the stylish uniform worn by members of a Cambridge lodge ( now extinct ) in 1793 . Other objects of

interest were an old copper plate presented by the late Bro . Place when Secretary in 1770 ( and it is interesting to note that the front page of the lodge summonses is still printed therefrom ) ; a Masonic punch ladle , presented by the late Bro . John Swan in 1830 ; some Masonic champagne glasses ,