Masonic Jurisprudence.

above ways , it is filled by the Senior Warden first , ancl so on . As to that part of the address that has reference to " members of lodges of other jurisdictions seekine admission as members of lodges in this

jurisdiction without a demit , " they are of opinion it is the better policy to alloAV subordinate lodges to be the judges in these cases .

The Nemesis: A Tale Of The Days Of Trajan.

THE NEMESIS : A TALE OF THE DAYS OF TRAJAN .

By BHO . A . ONEAL HAVE , KM ., K Gal ., Corresponding Member of the German Society , Leipsig , Knight 'i ' emplar , Scot . ; Author of" The History of the Knights Templars " " Vara Queer ; " " Gatherings in Wanderings ; " "Songs and Ballads ; " "Poemata ; " "Legends of Edinburgh , '' ' Sfc , § "c , Sfc . ; Poet laureate of tlie Ganongate , Kilwinning ; P . M . St . Stephens ; P . P . Z . of St . Andrews , R . A .

Chap . ; Sfc . ; § x . ( Continued from page 348 . ) CHAPTER VIII . IN THE BATHS OP OARABALLUS . Nil ibi plebium : nusquam Temesaia videbis

. / Era , seel argento felix propellifcur iinda , Argentoque cadit , labrisque nitentibus instat Delicias mirata suas , et abire recusat . —Stathts . Nothing there's vulgar : not tlie fairest brass In all the glittering structure claims a place . From silver pipes the happy waters flow ,

In silver cisterns are received below . See wherewith noble pride the doubtful stream Stands fixed in wonder on the shining brim . Surveys its riches , and admires its state , Loth to be ravished from the glorious scat . The Baths of Oaraballus the Senator ivere the

favourite resort of the literati of Rome . Thither did they repair to interchange thought , set afloat good stories , utter premeditated impromptus , and cut up with all the venom of n- modern critic , their more successful competitors for the wreath of

fame . The use of the Bath as a place of resort , became common during the time of Augustus , and Maecenas built a splendid one . These baths in later times' swelled into extravagant proportions , Titus , Caracalla and Dioclesian expending large

sums upon their erection . The floors were paved with tesselated marble and precious stones , the roofs Avere curiously vaulted and richly painted , and Avere upheld by pillars of the costliest materials . The Avails Avere covered with arabesques

and bas-relievos . To such a pitch did this extravagance go that Pliny Avished good old Fabricius had been alive again to see the Avomen have thenseats in baths of solid silver . Amongst the constant attenders of the Baths of

Oaraballus , Avere Murtius , Balbus , the pamphleteer Lucius Cenna and Julius Mamma the poet . The tivo first were intimate friends , bub the last tivo hated each other witli a perfect hatred . "HOAV marches rliy great tragedy , Julius ?"

asked Cenna , one clay as the poet , Balbus , and he lounged in the baths . "I hear thou has given up plagiarising from Sophocles , and turned to till the falloiv of thy brain . " "Friend Lucius , " replied the poet , "thy

researches into the mud and structure of the Cloaca Maxima , have given thee a taste for the slime of envy , and the teeth of asps . " " By Apollo , Julias , thou soarest too high for me . I confess that I love the ancient works of

Rome , Avhether they be of the mind or of the hand . My work on the Cloaca Maxima Avill be read , when all thy doggerel lines will have passed from the memory of man . " "Ha , ha , ha , Lucius , thou arfc such a Avag , "

said the poet , Avrithing under the Avords of the pamphleteer , and stinging in turn , " they say in Rome that ; thou art truly great upon Seivers , bufc that no oue can read thy Avorks from the fearful stench which emanates from the papyrus , upon

Avhich thou hast laid thy hand . " "Oh , " replied the pamphleteer , in his turn annoyed , "let them speak ; the ladies tell a different tale . "

"Nay , then , again thou art Avrong , my friend , for the ladies too declare that thou hast a peculiar odour about ; thee , Avhich all thy bathings and perfumes cannot do away AA'ith . I am not fastidious myself , but I must confess thou art rather

high flavoured ; the dames indeed speak the truth . " " Thou arfc a fool , friend Julius , what dames did ' st thou ever speak to bufc some sorry trull of the Suburra . Go to Avith thy dames , an obolus

Avould purchase each of them . " " Let me tell thee , thou foul mouthed sludge drinker , thafc the fairest dames of Rome have hung upon this arm , and been enchanted Avith my conversation . There Avas Parthenissa , my modesty

forbids any further name , who almost died , when Lcelia wooed me from her . " " Thy modesty , thou brazen-faced liar—why I knew Parthenissa , her father Avas the Carnifex , the common hangman . I have seen thee sneaking

out of the city of a night to his house beyond the Avails , to dally with thy clear . I am glad to hear that thou hast escaped the squint-eyed Siren ' s