Masonry Among The Indians.

and see if the white race Avill recognise me as they did my ancestors , Avhen we Avere strong and the white men weak . I knocked at the door o f the Blue Lodge and found brotherhood around its altar ; I knelt before the Great Light in the

Chapter , and found companionship beneath the Royal Arch ; I entered the Encampment , and found a valiant Sir Knight Avilling to shield me there , without regard to race or nation . I Avent further , I knelt at the cross of my Saviour , and found

Christian brotherhood , the crowning charity of the Masonic tie . I feel assuz'ed that when my glass is run out , and I shall follow the footsteps of my departed race , Masonic sympathisers will cluster around my coffin , and drop in my lonely grave the

ever-green acacia—sweet emblem of a better meeting ! " Joseph Brandt , the famous Mohawk Indian and

Mason , AA'as still another example of the practical power of our principles . During the Revolutionary war , at the battle of the Cedars , near Montreal , Colonel McKinstry , of the Continental troops , was taken prisoner by the Indian allies in the British

service . After a council , it was resolved that he should perish at the stake , by the usual protracted . Indian tortures . When fastened to the fatal tree , as a last resource , he made the great mystic appeal of a Mason in the hour of danger . The

chieftain Brandt was present , and in a moment saAv , understood , and responded to the sign . He at once commanded the savages to liberate him , and was obeyed . Then with fraternal care he conducted him in safety to Quebec , Avhence he

returned to his home on parole . He survived for several years after , and often , with deep emotion , related how he Avas snatched from the jaws of death by an Indian Mason .

We love the race that gave birth to such brethren ; it is Avorthy of a nobler fate than that which has befallen it . We occupy the Indian ' s inherited hunting grounds ; let them have in return our truest efforts , both as men and also as Masons , for their welfare . —The Gavel ( Toronto ) .

ECCLESIASTICAL GLUTiONs . —The monks of St . Swithen , at AVinchester , were hold enough to carry a protest to the feet of King Henry , eked out by many floods of tears , to the effect that their Lisbon , w ho was also their abbot , had taken away three of their dishes . The king enquired with great concern how many they had left , and , on hearing that they had ten , declared with a round oath that he was contented with three , and therefore kicked out his gluttonous subjects , with a promise that in future their courses should he reduced to the same number . — Food Journal .

Masonic Jottings.—No. 23.

MASONIC JOTTINGS . —No . 23 .

BY A PAST PROVINCIAL GBAND MASTEK . GBASTD LODGE . The assertion that a Lodge Avas a Grand Lodge , if nothing more is said , is merely an assertion that it had an organisation analogous to that of a Grand

Lodge . A lodge may have been a Grand Lodge , and yet it may not have cultivated Speculative Masonry .

SPEECHES IN THE GERMAN LODGES . There are four brothers who have made themselves famous by their speeches in the German lodges—Bros . Draselce , Marbach , Funkhanel , and Schutz .

GERM OP POETRY . GERM OP SPECULATIVE MASONRY . As in the human mind there sometimes exists the undeveloped germ of Poetiy , so in the lodge of an ancient nation there sometimes existed the undeveloped germ of Speculative Masonry .

THR ABBOT A ON HIRSCHAU . He lived in the 11 th century . He is said to be the founder of the German lodges . —See theappendix to these Jottings . HIRAM'S TOMB . Those Avho Avould have our American brothers

escheAV the Biblical Legends , found small encouragement in the pilgrimage to Hiram ' s tombj spring of 1868 .

THE GRANDIDIER THEORY , A learned correspondent thinks that Avhatever Speculative Masonry , developed or undeveloped , Avas contained in the Strasburg Lodge of 1459 , must be considered as comprised in the Grandidier Theory . —See , and consequently reconsider ,

a Jotting , page 184 , and another Jotting , page 229 , and an expression in a third Jotting , page 267 , of the pi'esent volume . AA HAT A BROTHER DID NOT SAY , AA D AVHAT HE

DID SAY . A brother Avrites that , as one of the interlocutors in a certain Masonic dialogue , he did not say that the Germans got their Masonry from the Romans ; but he did say that Masonry is as old

as the first great Indian pagoda . TAVO THINGS . Wherever and whenever a large edifice was building , be sure that these two things were not ivanting—Masonry and Mason ' s marks .

JlETBorOLiTAir Pirns HosnrAL . — -The aggregate number of patients relieved during the week ending June 4 th was Medical , 920 ; surgical . 582 ; total , 1 , 502 , of which 541 were new cases .