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GLEANINGS .

The Nexo York Times is responsible for the assertion that Florence ' the aotor , has made twenty thousand dollars out of the " Modern Mystio Shrine" during the past year . A MASONIC M UMMY . —Freemasons will be glad to hear of the recent discovery in Egypt , by Professor Maspero , of a tomb qnite

untouched by the defiling and pilfering Arabs , in whioh a square , a level , compasses , and other implements , have been found alongside a mummy . The dead man man was an architeot , builder , and carver of inscriptions , having control of one quarter of the cemetery at Thebes . The tomb was " very comfortably furnished , with linen ohests ,

painted jars , statuettes , aud other articles of use or luxury , and contained two sledges for the transport of mummies and sarcophagi . — Craftsman . The robe of aelf-righteouaness is blacker in the eyea of God than the sins it proposes to cover . —Hebrew Standard .

Truth , honesty , self-control , kindness , are simple and praotioable virtues , yet they are the very foundations of oharaoter , on whioh may be built all line and noble qualities , all generous enthusiasm , all pure and unselfish heroism , all patriotic aud philanthropic devotion .

What we must do is to make the aotual possibilities of life our ideal . It lies in human life not to construct the godlike , but to recognise it , and thus gain it . The seeds of our punishment are sown at the time we commit the sin .

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness , while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth below the horizon .

Learn from the earliest days to inure your principles against the perils of ridicule ; yon can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter , than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death .

All mankind are happier for having been happy , so that , if you make them happy now , you make happy twenty years hence by the memory of it . A Grand Master in one of the Western jurisdictions is just now receiving some criticism because of the following paragraph which

appears in his annual address lately published : " If the writer would bestow one-half the trouble he devotes to writing , and just look into the constitution and code , nine to one , I wager , he would find there

the query answered . " The Illinois Freemason says : " ' Nine to one , I wager , ' may be elegant for the bar-room , passable in common con versation , but it is execrable for a Grand Master in giving a formal account of his stewardship to the body of the Craft . "

" The symbolism of Masonry is the soul of Masonry . Every eymbol of the Blue Lodge is a religious teacher—the mute teacher also of morals and philosophy . It is in its ancient symbols , and in the knowledge of their true meanings , that the pre-eminence of Masonry over all other Orders consist . "

We have had the opportunity several times of late to see the conferring of the Order of the Red Cross and the Temple , according to the ritual adopted at the last Triennial of the Grand Encampment . The new accepted form is not very different from that whioh has been in general use in this section , albeit there are some changes

readily noticed , a few of which do not appear to us as improvements . It is a good thing to secure uniformity , however , and if the new work can ensure this result we should not complain if now and then a change is made which does not seem altogether for the better . As

Bro . Rice , of the Masonic Advance , remarks , " If the food is wholesome it is only a matter of etiquette whether it be eaten with a knife or a fork . The substance is there in either case , and will produce the same result every time . "—Freemasons' Bepository .

_ MASONIC VETERANS OF ILLINOIS . —The Masonic Veteran Association of Illinois has published its first annual report , giving a history of the Association since its organisation 13 th January 1886 , and up to 25 th April 1887 . The headquarters of the Association are in Chicago , and meetings are held in that city in April , October , and

January . Members are eligible twenty-one years after initiation . There have been so far one hundred and twelve members . The Officers are Venerable Chief , seven Assistant Chiefs , Secretary and Treasurer , Register , with Chaplains , Marshals , Stewards and Guard . Brother Gilbert W . Barnard is the Secretary and Treasurer , and Bro . De Witt C . Cregier Venerable Chief . —Mercury .

KNIFE AND FORK DEGREE . —Those Masons who take more delight in the refreshments of the banquet than in the labours of the Lodge , and who admire Masonry only for its social aspect , are ironically said to be "Members of the Knife and Fork Degree . " The sarcasm was first uttered by Dermott , when he said , iu his Ahiman Rezonp 36

, , speaking of the Moderns , that " it was also thought expedient to abolish the old custom of studying geometry in the Lodge ; and some of the young brethren made it appear that a good knife and

fork in the hands of a dexterous brother , over proper materials would give greater satisfaction and add more to the rotundity of the Lod ge than the best scale and compass in Europe . —McClenachan ' s Encyclopaedia .

THE TRUTH . —If the women are not good enough to belong to the Masons , " said a fair one , with pouting lips , the other day , " will you Please tell us why ? " My dear , that is the very trouble . You are too good . The necessity for joar membership does not exist

—asonry was founded to make the men better , and the Lord knows j hey need it . My dear , if any one ever said women were left out of Masonry because they could not keep a secret , you can rest assured ne never wag a oensus-taker , and tried to find a woman ' s age .

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