Ad01002

PERRIER = JOUET & Co ' s . CHAMPAGNES . FINEST VINTAGE RESERVE-CUVEES . THE FAVOURITE MASONIC BRAND . Agent—A . BOURSOT , 9 , Hart Street , Hark Lane , London .

Ar01000

Published monthly . Price Sixpence . Rates of Yearly Subscription ( including Postage ) : — The United Kingdom , India , Amcrica , \ s . d . and the Colonies j ... -7 & Binding Cases for Vol . I . are now ready , price 2 s . 6 d . each .

The Editor , to whom all literary communications should be addressed , wilt be pleased to receive interesting photographs as 'well as items of news and comments thereon , and to consider suggestions for lengthier articles . All Business Communications should be addressed to THE

PROPRIETORS , MESSRS . SPENCER & Co ., 15 , Great Queen Street , W . C . All Applications for Advertisements to be made to WALTER J , LTD ., 5 , Queen Victoria Street , London , E . C .

Ad01004

lij ^ l ^ ^ . ^^^^^^^ M pi ^^^^^^^^^ fc . ^^ . flfipiiiific ILLUSTRATED .

President Mckinley.

President McKinley .

THE unspeakabl y sad event which has turned the thoughts of the whole civilised world to the bereavement of a great nation is one that especially calls forth the sympathy and sorrow of the Masonic Brotherhood . In such moments as these , we in common with the English-speaking race in all countries , are thrilled by a quickened sense of

kinship , all the more felt because the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon race are knit together by community of language and other ties of sentiment and tradition . But in addition to these , we of the Craft have the closer ties of fraternal union , which , so to speak , brings us almost

within the sacred enclosure of the family circle . President MCKIXLEY , like so many of his predecessors , from Washington downwaids , was a Mason , and it is a remarkable and striking coincidence that the last victim of political hatred , occupying the Presidential chair , was himself a Alason and an old comrade in arms of the dead President . General GARFIELD

and Major MCKIXLEY were both veterans of the great civil war , both fought side by side in that titanic struggle , both afterwards attained the highest position in the State , and both shared the same fate at the hands of the assassin . The late President , although a member of our Order , and , as we have

reason to believe , sharing fully in the aspirations and aims of its members , was prevented by the many calls on his time during a busy life from taking a prominent part in Masonic work , but that he exemplified in his life and action the highest

principles ot Masonic virtue is beyond dispute . Bro . MCKIXLEY ' high character in public and private life , and the ever growing confidence with which-he inspired his countrymen and the world at large , will be more fully realised than they have ever been before , now that he has passed away . He was in a marked degree a typical representative of the

aspirations and opinions of the American people , and his entire devotion to the interests of his country gained him their fullest confidence . He has left his mark upon his time , and his loss will for a long period be deeply felt by his fellow countrymen . As Englishmen , and members of the Craft universal , we share that loss , and tender to our American brethren especially our fraternal and heartfelt sympathy .

TH 1 '_ I . ATK PRESIDENT . When , only a few short months since , we had to mourn the loss of our beloved and venerated Sovereign , among the shoals of messages of sympathy from individual Masons and resolutions of condolence from private lodgesand Grand Bodies ,

which came to our Grand Master from all quarters of the globe , there were none more spontaneous and heartfelt than those from the Brotherhood beyond the Atlantic , and now in their hour of national sorrow their grief is shared b y the English Craft . That grief is intensified by the sympathy

which is felt on all sides for the sorrowing widow whose devotion to her husband presents a pathetic spectacle of domestic life which appeals to every English household . The people of the United States gave Bro . MCKIXLEY their full confidence when they elected him for a second time President . They appreciated and respected the dignity

and the simplicity of his family life , and the tragic ending of his honourable career will for ever ensure him a loving and permanent place in the memory of his countrymen . We trust the authorities of Grand Lodge will not be slow to embody the sentiments of the English Craft in an official expression of their heartfelt sorrow , and that either at an

Especial Grand Lodge to be called for the purpose , or , if that be not practicable or according to precedent , at the next Quarterly Communication a resolution embodying these sentiments will be submitted to the assembled brethren .

The continuity of Masonic interests in connection with the Presidency is happily preserved in the person of Bro . MCKIN ' LEY ' S successor , Bro . Colonel ROOSEVELT , who was initiated into the Order so recently as January last . It is not , perhaps , quite reasonable to expect that he , any more than his predecessor , will find much lime to devote to the Craft ,

but copying the example of His MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII ., he may well constitute himself practically , if not in name , " Protector of the Order . "