Non-Affiliated Masons.

ground of inability to pay ? Any man that can pay 50 dollars or 100 dollars initiation fee can pay from 4 dollars to 6 dollars a year as dues . We have known members of lodges Avho never paid one cent of dues from the time of their

initiation , although in circumstances that would be considered good , and at the end of two or three years Avere suspended . Such members as these are mere drones on the hive of Masonry , and any lodge Avould be justified in suspending them from all benefits of Masonry .

The Mason's Grave.

THE MASON'S GRAVE .

The following waif is found floating about on the sea ot literature Avithout parentage : — "In all ages the bodies of the masonic dead have been laid east and west , with their faces towards the east . This practice has been borrowed

and adopted by others , until it has become nearly universal . It implies that when the great day comes , and He who is death's conqueror , shall give the signal , his ineffable light shall first be seen in the east , he will make a glorious approach ; will

stand afc the eastern margin of those graves ; and with mighty ' power—that grasp irresistably strong" , which shall prevail—will raise the bodies Avhich are slumbering therein . We shall have been long buried , long decayed . Friends , relatives , yea , our

nearest and dearest friends will cease to remember where they have laid us . The broad earth will have undergone wondrous changes , mountains

levelled , valleys filled . The seasons will have chased the earth over in many a fitful round . Oceans , lashed into fury by the gales of to-day , will , to-morrow have sunk like a spoiled child to their slumber . Broad trees with broader roots ,

will have interlocked them , hard and knobbed as they are , above our ashes , as if to conceal the fact of our having lived ; and after centuries of life they too will topple down to join their remains with ours , thus obliterating the poor testimony

that man has ever laid here . So shall we be lost to human sight . But the eye of God , nevertheless , will mark the spot , green Avith everlasting verdure of faith , and when the trumpet blast shall shake the hills to their bases , our astonished

bodies shall rise , impelled upward by an irresistahle impulse , and Ave shall stand face to face Avith our redeemer . "

The Ancient And Accepted Rite In America.

THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE IN AMERICA .

We have received a handsomely printed volume containing the " Proceedings of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General of the Thirty Third and Last Degree , Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for the Northern

Jurisdiction of the United States of America , Grand East Boston , N . Lat . 42 ° 21 ' 22 " , E . Lon ., 5 ° 59 ' 18 '/ in annual Session , held at the City of Cincinnati , Ohio , commencing on the sixteenth day of the Hebrew Month Siva A . " . M . \ 5630 , answering

to the 15 th day of June , 1870 . Josiah H . Drummond , 33 ° of Portland , Maine , M . P . Sov G . Commander ; Daniel Sickels , 33 , ° of New York , 111 Secretary General , H . E . The work is published , under the authority of the Supreme Council , by

the NeAV York Publishing Company . From it we learn that the Supreme Council assembled in the Senatorial Chamber of the Masonic Hall on the

day above mentioned , the officers present being Bros . Josiah H . Drummond , M . P . Sov . G . Com . ; John L . Lewis , P . G . Lt-Com ; Clinton F . Page , Grand Minister of State ; Heivan Ely , G . Treas . General ; Daniel Sickels , G . Sec .

General ; Samuel C . Lawrence , Grand Capt . of the Guard ; E . C . Hamilton , G . Master of Cers . ; H . S . Goodwin , G . Marshall General ; R . H . Foss , G . Standard-Bearer . The folloAving were representatives of States : —111 Bros . S . C . Lawrence , for

Massachusetts ; N . H . Gould , for Rhode Island ; C . W . Carter , for Conueticut ; O . Welsh , for New York ; D . B . Tracey , for Michigan ; E . J . Cam , for Ohio ; H . A . Palmer for Wisconsin . The 111 Bro . R . M . C , Graham represented the

Supreme Council of the Southern jurisdiction of the United States ; and John Bro . the Rev . Albert Case , the Supreme Grand Council of Ireland . The reading of the minutes was dispensed with , having been printed and distributed amongst the members .

Several members were excused attendance , having given sufficient reason for their absence . A memorial Avas presented from J . M . Hubbs , J . J . Gorman , and W . 0 . Black , of NeAV York City . Those brethren represented that a doubt

having been expressed as to the regularity of the manner in which they had received the thirty-third degree they petitioned the Supreme Council for a recognition of the rights and standing to the end