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Correspondence.

He can hardly mean , although he seems to insinuate it , that the Lodge La Cesaree have the laws of the Order in the French language . I know for a certainty that such is not the case . The laws by which they are ^ governed are written in English , a language unknown to the majority of the membei'S of Lodge

Les Amis de l'Avenir . Then , again , it was not an attempt to introduce bylaws not in accordance with the English constitutions that led to the secession of the members of Les Amis de l'Avenir , inasmuch as they never seceded—they did not wish to leave their English nor their Irish

lodge . Had they really been desirous of seceding , they would have given their resignation , and the Grand Lodge would have been spared the trouble and annoyance of a Masonic investigation which has led to no possible good . In conclusion , I would have " P . M . " know that

although I am as loyal as he may he to our constitutions , I cannot , without deep-felt regret , nay , without shame , see an act of intolerance and injustice perpetrated without sympathising with the oppressed , and tendering them the true hand of fellowship , and that in doingif I do not obtain ( do 1 court it ) the

so , nor admiration of ' ¦ P . M ., " I have that which I prize a great deal more—a conscientious satisfaction of having done my duty . Yours fraternally , Jersey , Nov . 30 . J . "W .

Cholera.

CHOLERA .

TO THE EDITOH Or IK ? . rEEF . 5 IASO . VS MAGAZINE AST ) ItASOXIC snitr . oit . DEAR SIR AXD BROTHER , — While due preparations are made by the authorities how to prevent , next spring , the possible dangers arising from the reappearance of the cholera , allow me , in true Masonic good spirit , to suggest an idea how , by very simple means , courts , lanes , and corners , which proved by past experience the propagators and conservatories of the miasma , could be cleansed , and thus made

. We know that the atmospheric envelope of the air , which in concentric layers , parallel globes within globes ( strictly mathematically -J R TT - y < *¦) , surrounds the earth , is from layer to layer of different thermal character . Be the lowest the warmest at times ( midday and evening ) or the hiher ( at

mid-, g night and morn ) , the two are never of the same temperature . Thus , by the law of the reconstruction of the thermal equilibrium , a continual operation is going on , which tries to equalise throughout the air the homogeneity of atmospheric temperature . This process of equalisationhowevercan be

-, , pro duced more violently and effectually , by connecting the highest and the lowest layers by a simple tube ( the paper tubes of Colonel Szerehney ' s would be the cheapest ) , and thus the accumulated miasmatic foul air , which , localised and inhaled , would form seed fungi of microscopic visibility , themselves easily

decomposed by heat within the body , and decomposing the blood lungs themselves , would be by the artificial draught produced by the paper tubes far above the dwellings , and by the seaward winds swept towards and into the sea . Daring to know and to advise the application of natural laws , whose chapter astute selfishness stole , and transformed into patents , I now and again draw

my brethren ' s attention to the immense power that exists in magnetism ( the continual effumation of the earth magnet , or the central loadstone ) , and in electricity , the radient heat of the sun ( whose ancient appellation was Electros ) , whose burning and decoraposing power sulphur , amber ( hence called electron ) ,

pitch , tar , petroleum easiest absorbs , which is the cause why grass , turf , straw , wood , coal ignite and burn , while earth , stone incapable to hold electricity , cannot , except impregnated with the above or similar chemical elements . Magnetism ( loadstone is the essence of it ) radiating a cold sensation , prevents the

miasmatic tubers to develope into ripeness , and the electricity ( mechanical , while galvanism represents chemical electricity—a clumsy distinction , both being chemical ) , if applied in large quantity locally—prevention localising the corrupt material—electricity clevelopes , ripens , and brings to decay the mass within short time , and thus makes it ever after

. Charcoal , the finer the more effectual , strewed on a heap , or over the contents of a sewer or cesspool , forms such a medium , preventing the nauseous and dangerous effluvia , and if electricity , or cheaper , a more effectual galvanism , is brought to act by a'rainification of its poles beneath the carbon , the decomposition is accelerated . Quicklime does both .

Electro-magnetism is the vital fluid—death the conquest of magnetism over electricity . If , then , the hospitals are hermetically closed against electrical air , ( sunny atmosphere ) , such a magnetic conquest is assisted instead of prevented . Cholera patients ought to be exposed to the early sun of spring in the public

parks , only to prevent the wet of the ground to give them rheumatic diseases . The patients ought to be laid on endless gutta percha rugs . When the atmosphere is more equally heated in the warmer season , in case the cholera continued into mid-summer , the cure ought to he just the reverse : cold-water washings ,

lying in the shade , and even the use of magnetised water , inwardly , and of ice-water , would prevent the further development of the disease , and give the organism time to overcome the crisis . Any food which grew in the sun is a conveyor of electricity , while food grown in shade , and in or near the ground , contains more magnetism , as seen in the crystalline

texture of such food . Salt and every acid contains magnetism . Thus , in early spring , fruit will be recommendable , in the heat of summer it becomes dangerous . Besides , it was found that all produce grown and matured hi the cholera season propagates the disease . Let our professors of chemistry , repeating and

confirming , or refuting the Viennese Professor Reichenbach ' s confused researches of the magnetic ( crystalliform ) , or electric ( amorph ) , character of the elements of chemistry , and some drugs for the further elucidation of the question say what chemical elements and what food is magnetic or electric , so as

to find its application as preventative , medicine , or food for the benefit of our brethren at large . Hoping you will find a space for this , my new , and I hope not last , work of love , I am , dear Sir and Brother , Yours faithfully and fraternally , JULIUS ALBERT ROOELITZ . 3 , Guilford-place , Russell-square , W . C .

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THE PEN-AND-INK SKETCHES OF ONE FANG. Article 3
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CHOLERA. Article 4
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 5
MASONIC MEM. Article 5
GRAND LODGE. Article 5
METROPOLITAN. Article 9
PROVINCIAL. Article 10
ROYAL ARCH. Article 12
MARK MASONRY. Article 16
Poetry. Article 18
SHADOWS ON THE STREAM. Article 18
MEETINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND LEARNED SOCIETIES FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 16TH. Article 19
THE WEEK. Article 19
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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Correspondence.

He can hardly mean , although he seems to insinuate it , that the Lodge La Cesaree have the laws of the Order in the French language . I know for a certainty that such is not the case . The laws by which they are ^ governed are written in English , a language unknown to the majority of the membei'S of Lodge

Les Amis de l'Avenir . Then , again , it was not an attempt to introduce bylaws not in accordance with the English constitutions that led to the secession of the members of Les Amis de l'Avenir , inasmuch as they never seceded—they did not wish to leave their English nor their Irish

lodge . Had they really been desirous of seceding , they would have given their resignation , and the Grand Lodge would have been spared the trouble and annoyance of a Masonic investigation which has led to no possible good . In conclusion , I would have " P . M . " know that

although I am as loyal as he may he to our constitutions , I cannot , without deep-felt regret , nay , without shame , see an act of intolerance and injustice perpetrated without sympathising with the oppressed , and tendering them the true hand of fellowship , and that in doingif I do not obtain ( do 1 court it ) the

so , nor admiration of ' ¦ P . M ., " I have that which I prize a great deal more—a conscientious satisfaction of having done my duty . Yours fraternally , Jersey , Nov . 30 . J . "W .

Cholera.

CHOLERA .

TO THE EDITOH Or IK ? . rEEF . 5 IASO . VS MAGAZINE AST ) ItASOXIC snitr . oit . DEAR SIR AXD BROTHER , — While due preparations are made by the authorities how to prevent , next spring , the possible dangers arising from the reappearance of the cholera , allow me , in true Masonic good spirit , to suggest an idea how , by very simple means , courts , lanes , and corners , which proved by past experience the propagators and conservatories of the miasma , could be cleansed , and thus made

. We know that the atmospheric envelope of the air , which in concentric layers , parallel globes within globes ( strictly mathematically -J R TT - y < *¦) , surrounds the earth , is from layer to layer of different thermal character . Be the lowest the warmest at times ( midday and evening ) or the hiher ( at

mid-, g night and morn ) , the two are never of the same temperature . Thus , by the law of the reconstruction of the thermal equilibrium , a continual operation is going on , which tries to equalise throughout the air the homogeneity of atmospheric temperature . This process of equalisationhowevercan be

-, , pro duced more violently and effectually , by connecting the highest and the lowest layers by a simple tube ( the paper tubes of Colonel Szerehney ' s would be the cheapest ) , and thus the accumulated miasmatic foul air , which , localised and inhaled , would form seed fungi of microscopic visibility , themselves easily

decomposed by heat within the body , and decomposing the blood lungs themselves , would be by the artificial draught produced by the paper tubes far above the dwellings , and by the seaward winds swept towards and into the sea . Daring to know and to advise the application of natural laws , whose chapter astute selfishness stole , and transformed into patents , I now and again draw

my brethren ' s attention to the immense power that exists in magnetism ( the continual effumation of the earth magnet , or the central loadstone ) , and in electricity , the radient heat of the sun ( whose ancient appellation was Electros ) , whose burning and decoraposing power sulphur , amber ( hence called electron ) ,

pitch , tar , petroleum easiest absorbs , which is the cause why grass , turf , straw , wood , coal ignite and burn , while earth , stone incapable to hold electricity , cannot , except impregnated with the above or similar chemical elements . Magnetism ( loadstone is the essence of it ) radiating a cold sensation , prevents the

miasmatic tubers to develope into ripeness , and the electricity ( mechanical , while galvanism represents chemical electricity—a clumsy distinction , both being chemical ) , if applied in large quantity locally—prevention localising the corrupt material—electricity clevelopes , ripens , and brings to decay the mass within short time , and thus makes it ever after

. Charcoal , the finer the more effectual , strewed on a heap , or over the contents of a sewer or cesspool , forms such a medium , preventing the nauseous and dangerous effluvia , and if electricity , or cheaper , a more effectual galvanism , is brought to act by a'rainification of its poles beneath the carbon , the decomposition is accelerated . Quicklime does both .

Electro-magnetism is the vital fluid—death the conquest of magnetism over electricity . If , then , the hospitals are hermetically closed against electrical air , ( sunny atmosphere ) , such a magnetic conquest is assisted instead of prevented . Cholera patients ought to be exposed to the early sun of spring in the public

parks , only to prevent the wet of the ground to give them rheumatic diseases . The patients ought to be laid on endless gutta percha rugs . When the atmosphere is more equally heated in the warmer season , in case the cholera continued into mid-summer , the cure ought to he just the reverse : cold-water washings ,

lying in the shade , and even the use of magnetised water , inwardly , and of ice-water , would prevent the further development of the disease , and give the organism time to overcome the crisis . Any food which grew in the sun is a conveyor of electricity , while food grown in shade , and in or near the ground , contains more magnetism , as seen in the crystalline

texture of such food . Salt and every acid contains magnetism . Thus , in early spring , fruit will be recommendable , in the heat of summer it becomes dangerous . Besides , it was found that all produce grown and matured hi the cholera season propagates the disease . Let our professors of chemistry , repeating and

confirming , or refuting the Viennese Professor Reichenbach ' s confused researches of the magnetic ( crystalliform ) , or electric ( amorph ) , character of the elements of chemistry , and some drugs for the further elucidation of the question say what chemical elements and what food is magnetic or electric , so as

to find its application as preventative , medicine , or food for the benefit of our brethren at large . Hoping you will find a space for this , my new , and I hope not last , work of love , I am , dear Sir and Brother , Yours faithfully and fraternally , JULIUS ALBERT ROOELITZ . 3 , Guilford-place , Russell-square , W . C .

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