Bro. Rudyard Kipling.

Bro . Rudyard Kipling .

Or the many eminent men in literature and art who are members of our Fraternity , not the least distinguished among them is Bro . Rudvard Kipling . His soul-stirring lays have won for him a permanent place in the hearts of English-speaking men and women , and it is not too much to say that his simple directness of style and his genius for getting at the heart of things have made him one of the most widelv-read authors of the daw

Bro . kiphng was born December 30 th , 1865 , at Bombay , India , and is not vet forty years of age . He is the son of J . Lockwood Kipling , himself an author and a scholar . He was educated at the United Service College , Westward Ho , in North Devon , England , and was but sixteen when he returned to India to sub-edit the Lahore Civil and Mililarv

Gazelle . Four years after he had undertaken its sub-editorship , he was initiated into Freemasonry at the age of twentyand-a-half , and was made a Master Mason in 1886 , in Hope and Perseverance Lodge , No . 782 , at Lahore , Punjab , India . His first work , " Departmental Ditties , " was published about the same time , and his description of how they came

to be written is of no little interest . " Thev ( the verses ) came , " he says , " without invitation , umnanneredly , in the nature of things ; but they bad to come , and the writing out of them kept me healthy and amused . . . . Bad as they were , I burned twice as many as were published , and of the

survivors , at least two-thirds were cut down at the last moment . Nothing can be wholly beautiful that is not useful , therefore my verses were made to ease off perpetual strife between the manager extending his advertisements and my chief fighting for his reading matter . Thev were

born to be sacrificed . Rukn Din , the foreman of our side approved of them immensely , for he was a Moslem of culture . He would say , ' Your poetry very good , sir , just coming proper length to-day . You giving more soon . One-third column just proper . Always can take on third page ! ' " Bro . Kipling is a stickler as to his methods , and it is known that he thinks nothing of rewriting his works four or live times before he is satisfied of its fitness . " Plain Tales

from the Hills appeared in 1887 , and "Soldiers Three" in 1888 . It was in the latter year that Bro . Kipling joined the Independence and Philanthropy Lodge , Xo . 391 , meeting at Allahabad , Bengal , India . In 188 9 he left India for England , travelling by way of China , Japan and the United States . Since when he has produced the books which have made him

famous ; we refer more especially to "Barrack Room Ballads . " The severe illness during his sojourn in this country , from which Bro . Kipling only recovered after what was literally a light for his life , and the excitement and consternation it caused the world over , will be fresh in the minds of most of

us . The daily papers vied with each other in obtaining the earliest intelligence of his progress , and tlie sickness of a great monarch could not have excited more attention . Bro . Rudyard Kipling has not failed to give his Masonic experience in India , and "The MotherLodge , " a poem which

appeared , in "The Seven Seas , " published in i 8 i ; f ) , will thrill the heart of every craftsman , and more particularly those of us who may not perhaps have travelled beyond these shores . He savs in one verse :

" We achi t good regalia , An' our Lodge was old an' bare . But we knew the ancient landmarks , An' we kep' ' em to a hair ; And looking on it backwards It often strikes me thus ,

There ain ' t such things as infidels , Excep' per ' aps it ' s us . " and again" Full oft on Guv ' ment service This ravin' foot hath pressed , An' bore fraternal greelin ' s

To the Lodges East and West Accordin' as commanded From Kohat to Singapore ; But I wish that I might see them In my Mother Lodge one :: more . "—!\ c : s ! one .

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PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE OF SURREY . THE HONOURABLE MR . JUSTICE BUCKNILL , P . Q . W .,

R . W . Provincial Grand Master . July , 1905 . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Meeting

of the Provincial Grand Lodge will be held at ST . AXN ' K ' SCHOOL , RKDHILL , on Saturday , the 15 th day of July , 1905 at 5 p . m . precisely . By command .

CHARLES T . TYLER , P . M ., P . A . G . D . C , Prov . ( Irand Secretary , N . H .- -Morning Dress . 2 , B ; tuk Buildings , Woking .

Banquet al 6 . 30 p . m . punctually at Ihe M . AKKKT HALL , RKDHILL . N . B . —Banquet will be provided for thasj only who

have taken tickets ( price 5 s . exclusive of wine ) , for which application must be made to the Asst . P . G . Sec , W . Bro . W . A . LATHAM , at 179 , Blackfriars Road , 5 . E ., before Sth July .

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Extract from . . TRUTH, June 26 th , IQ 02 . MR . L \ HOUCUKI ; H tells the following story of the l : ite Lord Acton , Regius Professor of History at Catnhridgc : "Some years ago Lord Acton wrote me a letter in the interests of those who suffer from sea-sickness . He was , he said , a had sailor , but lie had recently crossed to Holland . A heavy gale prevented landing , and the boat on which he was pitched and tossed outside ( he harbour during the entire night . He almost alone was not sea-sick , for even ( he captain and many of the crew were . He ascribed his immunity to having taken a dose of Yaiiatas before embarking . 1 published the letter , but at his request 1 did not say by whom it was written . I , too , am by no means a good sailor . If it is rough , I am always j . 'st going lo be sick , if not quite . The other dav I bought myself a bottle of flu ' s remedy and look it . Although very rough between Dover and Calais , not onlv was I not sick , but 1 looked on with ( he air of the hardv and seasoned tar , whilst most of my fellowpassengers succumbed . As Lord Acton is now dead , I think that his pei'smal experience may be useful lo many . " YANATAS may bs had of all Chemists , 2 9 and 46 a bottle . Prepaid 3 d . extra from STABKIE , 7 , Grand Hotel Buildings , W . C . AA ^^ mmmmmim ^^ mi ^^ iB ^ nBa ^ Bmaami ^ MammmxsATiiiiwmu «¦