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Among The Bohemians.
suggest that if the plates could he transferred to their proper use , say , for a short period , that something more original could be inserted in the programme . Young Maskelyne evidently possesses the cleverness of his father , for his " Proper Gander" stance is just as puzzling as the thought-reading business at the finish is not . I was pleased to find the hall crowded in all its parts , and our worthy Brother looking as happy as ever .
* * * The " Royal Oak " at Drury Lane has enough in it to make a very healthy play . As for some of the scenes , they arc positively indescribable . Towerhill and the Royal Oak setts are as fine as anything the scenic artist has ever turned out . * * * Every one must regret the sudden death of Miss Amy Levy , who was just
budding out as a novelist of much promise . Her domestic life was not cast among the hills and vales of Paradise , which makes her death all the more sad ; but the indomitable pluck and perseverance her little body possessed made her a beautiful specimen of woman who is born to conquer .
* * * The New York Herald , I firmly believe , used the Weldon incident for the purposes of a big advertisement . The death of the Wasp ( a paper I never saw ) has thoroughly exploded the old notion , that the first thing a new paper should do for itself is to secure a libel action . Surely the New York Herald is a cut above such trash as the Wasp must have been made of .
* * The Monochrome Company of Piccadilly are turning out some of the most charming reproductions and enlargements of photographs , and , if the price is right , ought to do a very big business . * * * Just one ] extract from the World , in an article by the author of "Aurora Floyd , " which is too delicious to be lost . She is giving a description of a
table d'hote , and this is a part of it : — "A young man struck for death , the colour of a lemon , and scarce able to hold himself together ; an unpleasing greedy old woman , with a pendulous under lip . who swears like a trooper and eats like an ogre ; a charming old lady , all mind , and her friend just as charming , all heart ; a trio of English people , cultivated and well-bred ; two Spaniards , he strong and capable , she with the pretty face of youth still to be
traced in the faded forms of middle age—he a man conscious of his worth , and worth a great deal , —she a child who has only grown old , and has never grown up ; a fine old general , with a dozen different decorations screwed up into a button , and his daughter as pretty as he is distinguished ; young men who come into the room hugging the young women who belong to them , and causing the prudish to frown and the 'leste' to laugh ; girls languid and aiKcmic , who do not talk and will not eat ; we have them of all kinds and descriptions , as of all nationalities . " KING MOB .
Cardinal Manning on Sunday week reminded his flocks in London and throughout the extensive Roman Catholic diocese of Westminster that certain days of the current week are to be given up to special devotions for the intentions of his Holiness the Pope . The Holy Father has himself ordered the reading in the vernacular of an allocution against what is called the " sacrilegious outrage " on the Christian faith by the erection in Rome of a statue to Giordano Bruno , the Pantheist , whom Leo XIII . described as " a man of a
depraved heart and perverted abilities . " Dr . Bagshawe , Bishop of Nottingham , has forestalled Cardinal Manning in exhorting those in his diocese to make reparation for " the awful outrages lately committed at Rome against Almighty God , when the statue of an impious and impure Atheist was publicly set up and honoured there by delegates from all parts of the world , when hymns were sung in honor of Satan , and the banner of the arch fiend ,
represented as triumphing over the Church of God , was openly displayed . " This was , " says the Bishop , " a public proclamation of the audacious attempt , inspired by the powers of hell , and long secretly intended , to utterly destroy Christianity and the Holy Catholic Church . The Holy See itself assures us that ' the dark society of Masons is striving to overthrow the Kingdom of Christ on earth by various and manifold schemes ,
plots , and arts , ' and that ' to prepare the way for that overthrow , the design was begun and perfected to obtain possession of the City of Rome ; ' and lastly , that ' the leaders of the hostile sect have now declared by word and deed what was their ultimate object in taking the city ; by deed , when they wished the Holy City to witness the honors by which they extolled the crimes and obstinacy of an impure apostate ; by word , when by the voice of their
leaders they declare openly that they were inaugurating by those solemnities a new religion , in which , setting aside the dominion of the immortal God , a divine worship is given to the reason of man . '" Dr . Bagshawe says the assault that is thus being carried on against the Church is so urgent and terrible that the Pope assured them that his liberty and dignity in the discharge of his apostolic office have already been grievously diminished , and
that his person was not exempt from fear and danger . Catholics were bound to open their eyes " and those of others to the danger to which religion and faith are exposed because of that sect of Freemasonry , which , assailing the unwary with craft and insidiousness , exerts all its powers against the Roman Pontiff . We are bound to remember , and to warn all those who depend upon us , of the obligation we are all under , lo oppose that sect , to avoid these conspiracies , and to defend and strenuously bear witness to the Catholic faith both by word and work . "
Colonial And Foreign.
Colonial and Foreign .
WHAT THE CERNEAU TROUBLE IS . Although labor has" been suspended for the season by almost every one of the City Lodges , the Masons are in a prodigious excitement , in consequence of the receipt of intelligence that , following in the wake of the Grand Masters of Ohio , Iowa , Kentucky , and Pennsylvania , M . W . Harrison Dingman , Grand Master of the District of Columbiahas issuedJuly 26 , his decree
, , pronouncing the " Cerneau organisation " to be a body of clandestine Masons , and ordering Master Masons to withdraw from it under penalty of expulsion from the Order . A similar decree in Ohio , fulminated some two years ago , has led to one of the bitterest internal fights shaking the fraternity for the past fifty years . Lodge warrants have been arrested , and some revoked ; many Masons have been suspended , and others expelled , on suspicion of being
" Ccrneauites" ; while more than half-a-dozen lawsuits are awaiting trial , in which the Grand Lodge Officers are defendants . From Ohio the proclamation mania has spread to other States , threatening " chaos to come again , " but this final decree of Grand Master Dingman , charging the " Cerneau organisation " with having made an alliance with the proscribed Grand Orient of France , must culminate into a serious complication , morally certain to embroil the entire fraternity in an internecine quarrel to be waged to the death .
All American Masons are aware that fraternal relations with the Grand Orient of France have been severed for many years past , still ninety-nine in every hundred are in blissful ignorance as to the causes leading to this dissolution of friendly ties and to practical rupture of boasted Masonic unity , a condition of affairs which cm be best illustrated by stating that , were Lafayette alive and visiting us , as in 1824 , the guest of the nation , any Masons entertaining him as a Brother would be expelled from the Order for
treason to a Grand Lodge . This French difficulty had its origin in the distant Stale of Louisiana , as far back as 1857 . and was the sequence of a Scottish Rite quarrel . At the time of the formation of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana there was but one English-speaking Lodge in the jurisdiction working with the York , or rather American , Rite , the other Lodges practising the French Rites . After the close of the Mexican War hundreds of Americans , unaffiliated Masons ,
settled in New Orleans , who disliked foreign Masonic rule and conspired against the Grand Lodge , which had recognised the Grand Council of Princes of the Royal Secret , Thirty-second or Cerneau creation , as of concurrent jurisdiction . Obtaining dispensations from Grand Master John A . Quitman , of Mississippi , lor some nine or ten York Rite Lodges , the Americans organised an Ancient York Grand Lodge , in opposition to the one formed in 1 S 12 , and then in existence .
* * * The two Grand Lodges combated for a time , but finally united and worked in harmony , until the Creole population became irritated at passage of a resolution by the Grand Lodge declaring that it would henceforth grant no warrants except to Lodges working the York Rite . There was organised by the Marquis Santangelo at New Orleans , in 1 S 36 , a Supreme Council for the
United States , declared to be illegitimate by the Supreme Council of France , which recognised only the Supreme Council at New York , bearing a similar title , which the Marquis had appropriated . Santangelo's Council was reorganised in 1857 by James Foulhouse as the "Supreme Council for the Independent and Sovereign State of Louisiana , " under whose jurisdiction the French and Scottish Rite Lodges placed themselves , after withdrawal from the
Grand Lodge . Persecuted by the Supreme Council of the Southern jurisdiction , Foulhouse went to France , and gained recognition for his Council and its subordinate from the Grand Orient . To break up this Council the Southern Council , under Albert Pike , induced the Louisiana Grand Lodge to declare the Lodges under its obedience to be clandestine , and to demand of the Grand Orient a severance of fraternal relations with them through Foulhouse ' s
Council . With this demand the Grand Orient refused to comply , and thereupon the Grand Lodge of Louisiana cut off her communications with French Masons , on the ground of invasion of her territory , and requested her sister Grand Lodges to imitate her example , which they did , although the Grand Orient had committed no trespass upon their rights and prerogatives .
* * * Although Foulhouse had abjured and returned to the Roman Catholic Church , of which he had formerly been a priest , and his Council and its Lodges have disappeared over a quarter of a century since , the inhibition of the Grand Orient of France by the American Grand Lodges still remains in full force , so that when M . Dermous , one of its high dignitaries , visited this
country as a representative of the Chamber of Deputies , he received the cold shoulder from Masons of high and low degree . Still , during this long period of suppression the Grand Orient has committed offences which , in American eyes , justify its own expulsion from Masonry . It has decreed a belief in the existence of a Supreme Being not to be necessary to ensure initiation into the Craft , while York Masons contend such a belief to be the corner-stone of tho
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Among The Bohemians.
suggest that if the plates could he transferred to their proper use , say , for a short period , that something more original could be inserted in the programme . Young Maskelyne evidently possesses the cleverness of his father , for his " Proper Gander" stance is just as puzzling as the thought-reading business at the finish is not . I was pleased to find the hall crowded in all its parts , and our worthy Brother looking as happy as ever .
* * * The " Royal Oak " at Drury Lane has enough in it to make a very healthy play . As for some of the scenes , they arc positively indescribable . Towerhill and the Royal Oak setts are as fine as anything the scenic artist has ever turned out . * * * Every one must regret the sudden death of Miss Amy Levy , who was just
budding out as a novelist of much promise . Her domestic life was not cast among the hills and vales of Paradise , which makes her death all the more sad ; but the indomitable pluck and perseverance her little body possessed made her a beautiful specimen of woman who is born to conquer .
* * * The New York Herald , I firmly believe , used the Weldon incident for the purposes of a big advertisement . The death of the Wasp ( a paper I never saw ) has thoroughly exploded the old notion , that the first thing a new paper should do for itself is to secure a libel action . Surely the New York Herald is a cut above such trash as the Wasp must have been made of .
* * The Monochrome Company of Piccadilly are turning out some of the most charming reproductions and enlargements of photographs , and , if the price is right , ought to do a very big business . * * * Just one ] extract from the World , in an article by the author of "Aurora Floyd , " which is too delicious to be lost . She is giving a description of a
table d'hote , and this is a part of it : — "A young man struck for death , the colour of a lemon , and scarce able to hold himself together ; an unpleasing greedy old woman , with a pendulous under lip . who swears like a trooper and eats like an ogre ; a charming old lady , all mind , and her friend just as charming , all heart ; a trio of English people , cultivated and well-bred ; two Spaniards , he strong and capable , she with the pretty face of youth still to be
traced in the faded forms of middle age—he a man conscious of his worth , and worth a great deal , —she a child who has only grown old , and has never grown up ; a fine old general , with a dozen different decorations screwed up into a button , and his daughter as pretty as he is distinguished ; young men who come into the room hugging the young women who belong to them , and causing the prudish to frown and the 'leste' to laugh ; girls languid and aiKcmic , who do not talk and will not eat ; we have them of all kinds and descriptions , as of all nationalities . " KING MOB .
Cardinal Manning on Sunday week reminded his flocks in London and throughout the extensive Roman Catholic diocese of Westminster that certain days of the current week are to be given up to special devotions for the intentions of his Holiness the Pope . The Holy Father has himself ordered the reading in the vernacular of an allocution against what is called the " sacrilegious outrage " on the Christian faith by the erection in Rome of a statue to Giordano Bruno , the Pantheist , whom Leo XIII . described as " a man of a
depraved heart and perverted abilities . " Dr . Bagshawe , Bishop of Nottingham , has forestalled Cardinal Manning in exhorting those in his diocese to make reparation for " the awful outrages lately committed at Rome against Almighty God , when the statue of an impious and impure Atheist was publicly set up and honoured there by delegates from all parts of the world , when hymns were sung in honor of Satan , and the banner of the arch fiend ,
represented as triumphing over the Church of God , was openly displayed . " This was , " says the Bishop , " a public proclamation of the audacious attempt , inspired by the powers of hell , and long secretly intended , to utterly destroy Christianity and the Holy Catholic Church . The Holy See itself assures us that ' the dark society of Masons is striving to overthrow the Kingdom of Christ on earth by various and manifold schemes ,
plots , and arts , ' and that ' to prepare the way for that overthrow , the design was begun and perfected to obtain possession of the City of Rome ; ' and lastly , that ' the leaders of the hostile sect have now declared by word and deed what was their ultimate object in taking the city ; by deed , when they wished the Holy City to witness the honors by which they extolled the crimes and obstinacy of an impure apostate ; by word , when by the voice of their
leaders they declare openly that they were inaugurating by those solemnities a new religion , in which , setting aside the dominion of the immortal God , a divine worship is given to the reason of man . '" Dr . Bagshawe says the assault that is thus being carried on against the Church is so urgent and terrible that the Pope assured them that his liberty and dignity in the discharge of his apostolic office have already been grievously diminished , and
that his person was not exempt from fear and danger . Catholics were bound to open their eyes " and those of others to the danger to which religion and faith are exposed because of that sect of Freemasonry , which , assailing the unwary with craft and insidiousness , exerts all its powers against the Roman Pontiff . We are bound to remember , and to warn all those who depend upon us , of the obligation we are all under , lo oppose that sect , to avoid these conspiracies , and to defend and strenuously bear witness to the Catholic faith both by word and work . "
Colonial And Foreign.
Colonial and Foreign .
WHAT THE CERNEAU TROUBLE IS . Although labor has" been suspended for the season by almost every one of the City Lodges , the Masons are in a prodigious excitement , in consequence of the receipt of intelligence that , following in the wake of the Grand Masters of Ohio , Iowa , Kentucky , and Pennsylvania , M . W . Harrison Dingman , Grand Master of the District of Columbiahas issuedJuly 26 , his decree
, , pronouncing the " Cerneau organisation " to be a body of clandestine Masons , and ordering Master Masons to withdraw from it under penalty of expulsion from the Order . A similar decree in Ohio , fulminated some two years ago , has led to one of the bitterest internal fights shaking the fraternity for the past fifty years . Lodge warrants have been arrested , and some revoked ; many Masons have been suspended , and others expelled , on suspicion of being
" Ccrneauites" ; while more than half-a-dozen lawsuits are awaiting trial , in which the Grand Lodge Officers are defendants . From Ohio the proclamation mania has spread to other States , threatening " chaos to come again , " but this final decree of Grand Master Dingman , charging the " Cerneau organisation " with having made an alliance with the proscribed Grand Orient of France , must culminate into a serious complication , morally certain to embroil the entire fraternity in an internecine quarrel to be waged to the death .
All American Masons are aware that fraternal relations with the Grand Orient of France have been severed for many years past , still ninety-nine in every hundred are in blissful ignorance as to the causes leading to this dissolution of friendly ties and to practical rupture of boasted Masonic unity , a condition of affairs which cm be best illustrated by stating that , were Lafayette alive and visiting us , as in 1824 , the guest of the nation , any Masons entertaining him as a Brother would be expelled from the Order for
treason to a Grand Lodge . This French difficulty had its origin in the distant Stale of Louisiana , as far back as 1857 . and was the sequence of a Scottish Rite quarrel . At the time of the formation of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana there was but one English-speaking Lodge in the jurisdiction working with the York , or rather American , Rite , the other Lodges practising the French Rites . After the close of the Mexican War hundreds of Americans , unaffiliated Masons ,
settled in New Orleans , who disliked foreign Masonic rule and conspired against the Grand Lodge , which had recognised the Grand Council of Princes of the Royal Secret , Thirty-second or Cerneau creation , as of concurrent jurisdiction . Obtaining dispensations from Grand Master John A . Quitman , of Mississippi , lor some nine or ten York Rite Lodges , the Americans organised an Ancient York Grand Lodge , in opposition to the one formed in 1 S 12 , and then in existence .
* * * The two Grand Lodges combated for a time , but finally united and worked in harmony , until the Creole population became irritated at passage of a resolution by the Grand Lodge declaring that it would henceforth grant no warrants except to Lodges working the York Rite . There was organised by the Marquis Santangelo at New Orleans , in 1 S 36 , a Supreme Council for the
United States , declared to be illegitimate by the Supreme Council of France , which recognised only the Supreme Council at New York , bearing a similar title , which the Marquis had appropriated . Santangelo's Council was reorganised in 1857 by James Foulhouse as the "Supreme Council for the Independent and Sovereign State of Louisiana , " under whose jurisdiction the French and Scottish Rite Lodges placed themselves , after withdrawal from the
Grand Lodge . Persecuted by the Supreme Council of the Southern jurisdiction , Foulhouse went to France , and gained recognition for his Council and its subordinate from the Grand Orient . To break up this Council the Southern Council , under Albert Pike , induced the Louisiana Grand Lodge to declare the Lodges under its obedience to be clandestine , and to demand of the Grand Orient a severance of fraternal relations with them through Foulhouse ' s
Council . With this demand the Grand Orient refused to comply , and thereupon the Grand Lodge of Louisiana cut off her communications with French Masons , on the ground of invasion of her territory , and requested her sister Grand Lodges to imitate her example , which they did , although the Grand Orient had committed no trespass upon their rights and prerogatives .
* * * Although Foulhouse had abjured and returned to the Roman Catholic Church , of which he had formerly been a priest , and his Council and its Lodges have disappeared over a quarter of a century since , the inhibition of the Grand Orient of France by the American Grand Lodges still remains in full force , so that when M . Dermous , one of its high dignitaries , visited this
country as a representative of the Chamber of Deputies , he received the cold shoulder from Masons of high and low degree . Still , during this long period of suppression the Grand Orient has committed offences which , in American eyes , justify its own expulsion from Masonry . It has decreed a belief in the existence of a Supreme Being not to be necessary to ensure initiation into the Craft , while York Masons contend such a belief to be the corner-stone of tho