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s formation of which Albert Pike | bly good state of preservation, is printed in 5 M DECLINING? | Jyas « moving & It was a convention of | very black and ancient type, and in fts lan arious supreme councils | guage is the exa unterpart of the Masonic ¢ heid in Switzerland, something | ritual and constitution of today wanner of the one held at Pavis in An Argument in Favor of Peace and ! e Conne ‘1 ‘ Americn, from which we receded and repudi- | died Saturday, April 5, at his T AGAINST SPANISH MASONS, tive Principle, o was entered into b; .xn‘?.,'n "Belgtum and Past Grand Chan 3. . Dowdall, who home, Colum- bus, O., was buricd at that city Tuesday, the | .1; ;“{:i.{hwny " SeVer: rders of which he was an h red Superior y member, Knights of Pythias, Masons, In and this d " )f | dependent Order of Oddfellows and Red o the world as the cd Men, participating in the ceremonies, which | The Cernean W —Election of Officers, of Camps, Castles r Carried Into Spain Institution und itself compelled to_announce to its rite Mason | were elaborate. land and Wales ook | 1Phe wondrous growth of the order in Towa W, 3 {s shown by the fact that in 1875 there was & ites that the condition of its remain- | membership of 500 and in 1580 a membership ing a member of the corifederation would de- | of nearly 11,000, In 1835 the grand lodge was adoption by the other | iy qobt some £400, and in 1880 the grand lodg Various Places. Commun(rated. | in the being of ( or less imperfeet and perishab ratio belicl O mortality | Was out of debt and #,000 in the treasu rland Bl | t , No. & of Dayton, O., according and Fraj i r of Records and Seal Court, 1 never doi d,” says | does the best w of any lodge in the world cession of the arisen, Hourished and |/ cosment ot B Principle Creat sired to have the phrase The pyramids Jave housed the | might be nothin atheists in the lodeos,” , the ch was made,and )" protest of England, bre bedded in th | as legitimate a supreme that At the initiatory exercises they placed forty- five men on the floor to confer the rank Chicago is coming to the front with a mounted division of the Uniform Rank, and Banner is to be its name, says the Pythian Knight, Fifty names ready on the charter list, and fifty more wi sbably be added before the division is formally insti- tuted. This body when ovganized will be th most showy inthe order, and will be used as a body guard for Major Genoral Carnanan ibstituted for the word in order that there fent and Accepted e toimpede the ad radiction exhibited legislation in this coun Mliation with a confederate [ Colonel Harry . Downs, sgiment of wherein atheists are ad- | Nebraska, has notified Colonel Halsey that ribing another for having | he will enter his regiment as a battalion for ally openedcorrespondence with the | the prize colors drill at the coming encamp. of France, which advocates | ment. This is the first formal entry that the same religious ideas, ¥ ttee hus received vered of institutions, withstand the s time-honored prosperously vital importance to and Vice Chaneellor Chivistie of Sterling ons, who have been taught to | was unable to institute the new lodge at Crab rests, but truth, id brotherly love ar sof York Ma hard on May 16, but the lodge was duly o foundation fc organized on Friday 1o The lodge will be ve obliterated | structure known as the highe : known_as Geth s instead of nt can be | Crab Orchard lodge, en tolel K 24 was to have | s to North Star ire fs in peril m who is devot of the order can ren and it has on uity displayed by the A by the ingen- | 8odge, which was te s been iustituted in ottish rite leaders in | This city, but which failed to materialize. fusal to confer the lowermost thre rees A number of lodges in the state have asked ritual used in F g v ruling from the g according to their ther will this qu 1 upon ates | question whether th e their regalia York grand lodge wi X | on publ fons, sich as memorial day, g to nct oth 1 | ete. nd chancellor says that the law sion as to the identity of the rites would beat | of the order will not permit regalin to be you expect When the strong has. s opinion by force, ubjected the y has he thereby imbued with American M > .worn in any place exeept the lodge room. n impression that our grand | This prohibits the weaving of collars or jewels fraternal relations with the | in public at any time nt of IPrance on account of th n of reverence for the De of the kind. Tt was because the g o1 of pour own wisdom between members of the same f luws of nature dictate con And why should * Masons who belong to When disputes concilintion? with which Pike 1d he used the grand lodge as placid as York Musons, i od the phrase Foulhouzci: and the object of his ssful in the assault, ¢ 15 comprehended the real merits of the At present he is howling about Cerneauism for prost vival, unmindful of the fact that Scottish rite as enacted by the confederation stofore prevailed d what good can possibly come of this bit | tacicand was su members of thoe craft? nly disputes, this intolerane hotbeds of contention und spitefuls moral scandals. Cerneau War Carried T A new division of the Uniform Rank will Yo | be instituted at Hoopee this week by F Ll L | mont division. The uniforms of the new di- so-called on have been received and a grand time is ent grand chancellor is making a orinstituting new lodges which bids fair to far outstrip tions. The 1 ¢ill be instituted during the coming ng the li lodges instituted thus Macfarland’s term up to ten. re nine more which will be instituted during the next two months, making nive- teen new lodges within the of about cight months. -~ At this vate, the number will d to thirty the end of the his_proscriptive work. ition of @ prosperous atheism and other MASONIC RELICS, 4 .' chance 3 When it is The indefatigable Albert Pike, conceiving Which Still Remind Masonry tne world over, says the New York 1 that the charter fee for member viubly been fixed at £20 ins s during the two previous adm One of Gen, George Washingta | § will be seen that the result is has, from the “Old Men's Home' ssumptively a benevolent in- Equally luteresting at Washington, pi with which Wi as a relic is the trowel | | & 3 ping the charter f shington, as president of the | @ ately i the bett stitution supported by Musonic ugnarated a war upon the Orient of Spain, whicl his individual United State ational Grand le of silvy nd handle Washington's Masonie apron is although its ovigin dates | in length, with a bl tion comes to us here i 1, who are mc ) sy n to retain their me hip and interest than apitol in Washington | yen whoare led to join on ant of the low 3, with Masonic cere- | fee and immediately drop ot 1, sca x inches | lodges, including the one to be_institut | Crab Orehard. s follows: Loy | at rucy, Franklin No master mason, 1 sase built in the wall of the room and its history is told in the card also preserved in o $0 much so that w intended to be known in intention of , being undout “Phis apron sash, the handiwork of Pike, in hurling his fivch our worthy br and upon the Orient of Spain possesses subor e council of Colon (island of Cuba)™ dnot to it, immmu-l > council of Colon with the the dictatorial 2 ary No. il at Clavks , were presented o | at Humphrey, and a rge Washington, by | which has yet been named. but which Mount Vernon in | will be 5, will be instituted very soon. to) lodge No, 23 w lodges ave il prospeet at North Bend, owls, a nephow of | bbon, Minden, Gothenburg, Tekama, e olu and Burwell 13, 1812, with | Trojan division No. 18 has been rejuvenated wpron and sash were wor 1d 1S 1OW inus good condition as any divis- corner stone at inthe city. A number of members who Coles, gr vere derelict in their duties have been | dropped and new names added to the roster there being now twenty-two members in good monument, v, | stending. At tl ulie meeting Tuesdiy , und by him tendere Hluh! new ofticer ) ed as follow on M. Parker, grand 1 + of the D 4 3 3 3 A. Porter, li Who we apron dur. V. ¥ otzel, § (oLt ceremonics performed by him on that | viev, vight guide oft ruide than upon .~.nlnl round, nu-w being in | trict of Columbia powerful supreme council m el . Squires, sed The apron, which is of white satin, with ry. The division s diamonds and rubies set in the embrowdered | add is in better shape th emblems of the craft, is the center of It has llun(lnhlul to go to Milw 6 by David Jewett under constitutional patents from the New Yorlk eity. recital and ropudiation of all the his s, set forth by the Spanish masons touching their oy am with assumptior wtions, Pilie sct f National Grand O states that, some tin Among these are » cause for the pruning knife, a clandestinism » since, that body, of Washington, | @ sixteen men. The credit for this kid gloves worn by at change in the division is duc to H. A. farm spurs, the who has been untiving in his efforts his boots, the wloves revent the division from becoming de- at his mother's which containe { the cloth which covered it:a | 'th Omaha lodge, No. 157, will give an vicee of cloth from th has @ supreme cour Heighths of Dorchestes hin its bosom, entere amity with th ieilof the United > oceupied g > | entertaimmnent at the lodge room in Goodrich and_at the | Lall on May Cornwallis in 17 unlloniMiy oL A ot b “The following information, in a letter from ot Braddock’s defeat, 5 ssions, grand v iver of Dakota, to s whichi Johin J. ¢ ficld compuss, a p is at present representati by o fifty-six ye of his council embaraior , the Tast bit of sealing wax which his mothe vhen | recorder of Michigan, will be in- and whic ars, he pres 1z as it dovs upon the distribution his death, and two buttons | ©f the “Dakota Appeal Fund ;" council of ¢ dreadful note, constituting the vet kind which were in * W 5,655 up to the prosent great demand on thio doy of his. inaugaration | time, and have purchased scod wheat upplicd cil the sole American organization i relations with the great body of Masons in | for by brothers, not to ¢ Overina corner of the lodge room, ona | five bushels toany onc man Spain, the potent Pike declare ic world, that “in the to the Mason- pgnition and entry | igh shelf, stands tho clock which was for- |3 s been timely, ) hall at Mount Vernon, just out- nated, moving many brothers mvnn'\ side of the room in which Washington died, | of gratitude. We have helped brothers of his last, at 10:30 o'clock, | some jurisdiction in ex s of what we have into relations und Orient of Spain, Cerneau council, it is uup.mn.n- for us not to see un et of hostility toward us and a formal declaration of no desire to HIIHI\LIHI relations of amity with us, lisha Cullen Dic of Alexandria an, stepped out then worshipful mas- | sived from the jurisdiction to which the, Washington’s | belonged. Allow™ me to thank the into the hall i brothers of Michigan fc Ar kindness and T3 cord whidhwis Ditachod. to. tho' welints promptuess until the grand lodge can more I'rom that moment to this the | suitably do so.” fons will bo te ighty Thunder and it is (o be pre of the ancient timepiece The “rebel’” grand lodge of Towa held its ined undisturbed, and by their im- | annual session in Council BInfrs during th sive silence recall the Sad event which o | days of kist week, This lodge sc 1 from mourned, the jurisdiction of the supreme lodee about ln‘mlm' and whale county o most odifying and amusing portion of authenticated, and | eight ) ause the fatter passed re made to secure them | law ing for thelevying o hibition during the recent centennial in | during an epiden Of War aguinst Spain is to ns- this declaration ¥ lips the actual di- tain from Pike mensions of the proxy | T'he supreme council of Costi :overed by the Pontifex. Maximus in ar 1870, having been constituted at New York, but the lod; their removal, made by photographers from time to time to ago passed a resolution to the _effect th » declined to allow | The supreme lodge i fof enll undor attempts been ¢ for the assistance of one of the south- n states which had been swept by an epi fused to piy this relief call and were expelled | vs of them, but the lodge some time { demic of yellow fo The Towa lodges re | | e pictures should ever be R hala s aalitla grand rop. resentative with orders to run the machine bodily. At time these lodges in lowa “muking purpose: had i membership of ubont cight thousand, L destroyed the old | which had been steadily decreasing until valuable miementos of | thore is only about half tht number at pres- were either burned or were The “rebels™ ave leaving their lodges s one in the erowd which helped | great numbers and ave joining the “loyal” bly did, althouglh the Wushiniton potentate, in an ofici claves that noth o council of the grand stolen by son which the remuins (r the room. Among eral applications from these fowa were the bier e S have been received by the lodges of W Lington were borne | g Ihe only way in, which a mem- ore than three ye: 1 have learned that Brother Osborn ape that draped tho | vebel” faction can become a mem at Mount Vernon while he lay » Jegitimate body is by renouncing its walls, his military saddle, | completely all allegiunce to th ding body ‘unaided and alone Then the southern jurisdiction con- o of mahoginy and | and going through the same forms aud « o, many of his original letters in | mony as onc who had never belonged to the nize this potent ¢ provided he reorganiz into a supreme council for JCentral Ame s, und 4 port of himsclf and his | order. of other relies, not sted with Washington, were also’ de to grasp five vepublics within his avms task was accomplished with results deseribed The oficers of the grand chapter Order of The portraits of Washington which the | Eastern Star went to Osceola on Wednesday sos are extremely valuable, hav- | of lust week in response to an invitation from by Pike in an allocution to his council de = - livergd in October, NUeS 1o exist, couneil for Costa Kica | ing been taken from life, st wall, upon cach side of the i 2 once occupied, by two | Ve, 08 0 supreimo at least, of the b place of honor | Gsecola chaptor to come and witness o | speeiul feature in the degree work. The work The first, painted by Williams | Was ably amplified by the chapter and an ad- s born Costa Ric an members; so- that 1y has become of Philudelphia in 1794, ton at the age presents Washing 1 to the thivd degree was shown, This of sixty-four years in full Ma- | addition was called the “floral ceremony” This was painted for-the lo and was very beautiful and appropriate. Pranslations, Is Atheism to ¥ Wo have alpe wis president of the | It was presented with the idea of having it Mr. Grigg suys that | incorporated in the degree work by the griand peen_ offered for it. The other | chupter at its next meeting. The' work was Washington when a yo followed by a pleasant reception and bun 1 wearing the uniform of an | quet. The following grand officers we o continental v. This wus ont: W, G. M., Mrs. H. A. Scott; A American Masons to the of the leadors of insidious endeavors thern jurisdiction, to administer the fra- | 4150 painted from life. There is a full-length M., Mrs. B. Braner, Omaha; P |m|l|4u¥ of Washington in the room, but this J. B, Bruwer, Omaha; W. G, P, W strictly mon ¥ copy of St le of their own ! archical principles, as is the famous painting, | Nason, Omuha; W, G. 8., Rev. Guild'of I 1 enge ; I lu; W, oL, Mrs. Davis, Lincoln and P, V rtified to by George Was M., Mrs, L. L. Suyder. Memboers of chap nel Thomas Picton, an in the New York attention to a still t, that both the m northern and emininent Masonic writer ton Parke Curtis It would take 1 the relics of all king , but among the n southern juris e : s from di ut parts of the ato were able space to detail | ulso present s which thelodge pos. The fifteenth annual communication of the st interesting is one and chapter of Nebraska, Order of the 2 koys of Bastilo and the remnant ) Star, will oceur in the city of Omuha, service of 5 ] Tuesduy, June 17, 150, at 8 o'clock p. m dictions, pro be the only | laimed by some grand lodges to s, engraved with Maso »and regular bodies with assware has a history which York rite Musons can lawfully amiliate, estly ested that every chapter In the early part of | i this jurisdiction be fully represented. Spe the century the lodge dhowed somo kinduess | o forts will be made to render the session correspondence an who had been shipwrecked and who, unusually interesting and profitable. appealed o it for assistance, | ~ — ~.n| to his home in England, where- | L O 0. F. have stricken Great Arvchitect of the uni proceadings and lord of high degree, pre- | > this handsc evice tho name of 8 his fithe verse from their peatod ta tha do¢ under their obedience numwerous lodges com- | conduets visitors The grand lodge and grand encampment of of the lodge, nnd who | Oddfellows of the Dakotas held their a through the room, is said to | Session at Deadwood last week. Deleg livitg Knight Templar in Vir- | were present from North and South Dakota posed of atheists nates a decreo ginia, Maryland or the District of Columbia, s knighted in Washington commandery He is an enthusiastic Muson and has anything or anybody supremo councils, as this was the first session since the stute was admitted to the union. The delegates | in his possession a constitution und ritual of | Were escorted to the city hall by canton v printed in 1728, and dedicated | Excelsior, where an address of welcome was ke Of Moutague, It'is in a ven - | delivered by the wayor, The session cou in the world, composing | Fre with a banquet hood when Cwmamman, GRUESOME TALES ARE THESE. feilden Redfield, grand wn of some no 4»\, W cou Strange Occurrences Not Accounted For in Our Everyday Philosophy. | ¥nln conjectups pi olt] by dreamed that the de Mathews, S WIERD WARNING OF A OLOCK, odgo \un be 1 it was learned Always Foretells Death s city will run pointed out porhaps the July which will celipse attempted by a se The excursion will be giv purpose of enabling members of the “We have not e who foretel an approaching ¢ or she found and pointed apprehended, next day he confessed that he was an sssory 1o tho which is o prominent feat At A . and they were + who was fivst in whole story, guilty participation nity, So satisfactory and will go direct to has been in our family tody had told the m correspondent of e lae snnls’e AL [ wevams to lour last week's purpose of confe * who have not Allthe points of inte hood will be visited end the o to Pueblo, thenc Ghosts Pl j(m Men's Suits that it s we will continue the st of this place, and hundreds of and then broke the o hiave visited the spot ing the works and stopping them for or, for though ontinue north through | ae b o : same for another ) | died about two months -vrmvH r cities will | Xcursion and ameet- s of the order in ne invited to join in t gz was held in for the purp idred subjects, s living in the |week, offering »unknown power kept | vhv I'”M'.” - e S 3 kL » heard abont the | . . flappod his black wing new attractions which going and a high old time is anti d, 50 it was banished to the g lcaowitkial 7 sounds would cease and ¢ o p jequalif not excel any- | able started X | - nd didn’t stop until orner of the Miss Roberts, Jurt in the eity, physicians had pronounced thing previously themselves bers of the C mlunx.(mm: news wheh the | vases and shown. floor and all the Shannon put the efock around i moment ¢ Deputy Supreme Chief M. K. Over has re- | on Tuining he instituted was but one othor h was in full view, it it was not tifat one. L7 said her husband, the stove flew around pro- st cestles in thrown into the | house and burn, | failed to discove A MECCA ¥ struck the close of my day weh him he the thrower, Backwoodsmen Lots of Fun with Justice. The little town | at the manifestations at f 3 Yo is ack in the his oceurrence was repeated when A Toht Mol randmother The old elock struek 12 just as she drew her lust breath lieving that ther natural in the affair, brothers of ble sentenc s inflicted on prison- ers by favmer juri »last term of heldat that place, ‘orrespondent of “ranciseo Examiner, its, but elaim to be entire rount for the st was somethin Walden Ridge. mountain people REPORT OF THE CONDITION Hepchants National Bank Of Omaha 1, at the elose of buste ss. May 17th 1800, but a few years afte ught home dingeronsly wounded | oo, are convin ' that a speete s the living ones, s held that horse ste crime than completely in the o N R GHUR Y en bt Andrew a populition of 800, mn tones of the old was heard as b went out as the er to be found on the moun- s frequently go from the number of d | tains, and part city on hunting expeditions, In the stato of ? county and h who died last warned me, reason for this is o \;»hnu Q| ir.onnn indalscot e from its let ) 0 | Overdrafts.s a‘most sing wd the old el mote store room strr the notes almost t does not anted U8 honds (o seeare dos L and then be- with moss- U8, bonds on hand .-;.lm.\ at 100 I never missed i ds of swallows ; b ey it was an actual which myri <hi ." a up their residence, my lsband . but who the other strokes are for ot imagine. reason and then to ridicule the idea, I mourned for my sistor though I had scen her die, as 1 knew I should. dden death, pliic on the sumo hour as thi allowing for (b A Cr G few hours old, the mother. swrrounded by a half a dozen deer at atime: one of them ackwoods town, e the Il-\\ n has been sound when two nur- changt of venue moves, and T load and firo | Tknow that it is there is no use in my hunting any more ¢ and at the : ; [ on which the cloclk Bheiol snce of time be Wt the old court house ¢ Premiumson U a murder trial Oheeks and otiee cash | Halo Round a Minister The wife of Rev, tired elder of church of Glens ues that her > about S o'clo feeling quite [ down on the bed jre packed with s T i whole troops und The old court butallions of childr Sl co ales was taxed to its ommodate then The Spectre Pi ) > Atlanta Jour pass over the South Carolina railway, istaand Charleston, you as \nn llI\A\\ \|Ihm- of L Hitve you seen the spe rhaps the conductor wil 3 X * the conductors rteous to the ¢ you everything the particular spook which only h if he doesn’t the train or the news butcher or You will havdly pass Lang ley without having the spectre piteher pointed out to y Is it a real pi tion you ash on nw post at i set for the tri The first prisoner brought in If you ever cthe othor dtender notes had murderes Redemption fund with Who found out that ho was 8 “"‘." o of eirealation anding his brutality and stirtod out to sut redemption fund rn her own and on her corroborated by the youngor ) Capitol stock paid in S that it lasted one | about the old man’s head. compose .|'.m.»l\ of atmers, ) er Hiding Plac t standing there 115 the following; over his plantation farmer of Lee county, ntury doubt as to all certificaies of dé- ‘hinw sup | had a iine litter of pi ¥ as you are told certified ch no one has | ushort distance further he oves rattlesnake, promptly despatehed. nd is it true t tried to move i St diposifs i Deposits of L m the banks bursing officers noticed that und was uppi un-,m. hevisel \ it open,, out jumpeil ~|.m 1.\ some mysterio : Lwill tell you, quitted the prisoner, and Duo 1o state banlks and from its close its heels and ran home. v OIS Tedis- about him said that and we uns in a little The Gander supply of water from the yell, JUNTY OF DOV it “away in a littlo piteher, the tands on the post now. id, the supply of water gave storm wiis , but water was needed e called was that of A, B ily of goslings Missouri tough quarrel with an old man of the above named says a letter and her mate, an impor been assiduous in their meit IS true to the best of iy know BEN B, WOOD, Cashi Subsceribed and sworn to hefore te this 24t PRANIC GRAHAN, Notary Publie. had pickéd o ! i ttentions to the would not fight low things, but in_spite him by braining him with a chair. Y jury in this case was an almost e of the othe expressed dete \\ Im \\nuld \Whoi Jcind intast outbuildings Ilulmivr hnlu ! , was smart enough to elude shes as the mination to *show them ) a right smart ways L and o duy or so of the gosling Inic under t s burn is w low hor kept constantly full of water. difticulty in ver-tongrued attorney, howeve gotten in his work on le buckwoodsmen the prosecution th g , brought in a verdict of manslaughter in the punishment av six months in > went out into the storm. fron trough, which is s windlass ns s foundation of the 3 18, and it was into this W dragged the g it \\‘1~|I| Wi up, alouder peal and a brighter , whirling sound | t slipped from the | bucket was A > time over the blessing that that jury got fairly lifted them out of their personal fric i durned fools, seemed to strike > hield asortof confab in subdued y A toncs, and |1.. n they both became guict. waddlcd up to the *foundation ts, even their ! wloom, and ther 3 Wis lhm of an unfortun- h]nln 1 into u store in a fit u(u\ulun\' r- coped in the darkness, found his face | and stolen a breast with their shivering s motionless and patient, ten minutes or rat wus poked outus favas the shoulders sentenced him to fifteen years : gancer hurled found on the to bury the dead tried 1 the docket was that Joseph Hann 3 palsicd to his with entering and his arm dy and stealing w suit 3 his | jury was also mir ' f goose set up a voeiferous and trivmphant bids will bo'oponed Tnckday waddled s first two jurics An-J didn’t propose t¢ low their example been desert They would mike u v under the water o wiid they did. UILDING COMPANY, gander threw the car prisoner to tho 0 Contracton, penitentiavy for |\\.n\\ year N clked and to as seatter " kidnapped th Al o o thio and | prossed one of them out ) others, and the complish the Sioux Citys g the dead rat to fully conducted their family of A Dream Discoy sreject uny orull blds FEMALE BEAN Poet Burns says