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Though one despises the man who
hunts yoraciously after praise, without
scruples as to its scarce or worth, a far
heavier contempt is due to him who has
no faculty for admiring and extolling.
There are such men-detractors by sys-
TEN, disparagers on principle, born to
play the odious part of slave in the
chariot to everybody who does good or
pleasure-giying work in his day and gen
GRAFTON. Even the honest sycOphant is
a worthier creature than he who has no
single leaf laurel to bestow on living
man, though he grudgingly takes q chap
let or two to the tombs of the dead. To
worship success as such is a bad thing,
but to hate it as such is a worse. There
is a queer form of this spirit, of which,
perhaps, Boswell is the most character
istic example it exists in those who are
hy temperament idolatrous, but who are
by the very strength of this tempera-
ment of one idol, or, at any rate, of one
idol at a time. The idol seizes them so
nightly and irresistibly that they zeal
ously insist on SCATTERING all other
images. Mr.. Carlyle has demanded
our admiration for Boswell, because
he had the sense and the love of excel
lence which enabled him to single out
johnson as a man to be revered. And
this is just. But let us remember alse
that Boswell was horribly unfair in ref
erence to everybody else. He could not
endure the excellence of poor Gold
smith, and probably thought Burke a
| great bore. This is the danger of hero
worship, that its Yetaries are SO apt to
strip the @laurels from the brows of lesser
WORTHLESS in order to adorn ~suprenely
the worthy of the hour. They squan-
der their money so prefusely on a single
object, as if that were the one thing
worth following, that they are bankrupt
in the face of ordinary claims. 1t is a
dangerous speculation to- invest all your
kpewers Of admiration thus in a single
matter or in a single person. 1t is just
possible that the object of your pur-
chase may be morally or Intellectually a
pearl of great price, for which il is
worth while to sacrifice all other tastes
| and prepossessions. But there Is a risk,
There are not many such pearls in the
market not many masters for whom
it can be worth while to forsake all
others.
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Memphis, U. s.A. St. j. Fr0csed-
al North znent a night and 4 day With

Memphis, U. s IA. st. j. Proesed-
ed North, spent a night and q day vita
his family near Cincinnati, and then
went of 70 Camp Chase, saw Nh. S-P
and the officer IN charge Of the prison,
but could make no arrangement there.
Nothing daanted he proceeded to WASH
ington, had interviews with the Presi-
dent and Secretary Of War, aHd finally
after three weeks of p~erseVering effort
accomplished his purpose. He returned
to Camp Chase With the glad news OF
| Bro. S-p's release, gave him money
and secured his transportation. Two
months had elapsed since the exchange
commissioner had parted with st. =
at Memphis, and he began to think that
he had been deceived, when To- one
morning while on his way to fernando,
| Miss, to consummate an exchange, mr.
tS-p appeared like an apparition upon
the bank Of the Blackwater. His eyes
filed with tears of gratitude, and the
released prisoner rushed forward, speech
less with emotion, with a Masonic grip
expressed what was filing his heart so
full.
Since the close of the var the ex-
change officer has received a letter from
Bro. ST. J-n, in which he says:
Had I failed in securing the release OF
Bro. S-p IN exchange for myself
(which at one time seemed prebable1 l
would have returned to captivity accord
ing to the conditions Of my parole, for
II would rather have suffered the pains
of Imprisonment than TO have violated
my Masonic word.p-Keaacky EreeRa-
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woman when YOU do and do not know

woman when you do and do not know
her.
The Baltimorean American likes to
be battered, and to try experiments upon
men much as men do upon women.
She thinks you perhaps a very agreeable
fellow. and you remember her as an m
teresting Hirt. You and she agree to
correspond, and never do. You meet a
month or two after in the city recog-
nize each other coldly and formally, and
Cupid laughs behind the trailing robe OF
an offended Hero.
l saw a magnificent creature N the
surf last evening just before sunset
She was of the indolent, drOwsy sort,
full of latent fire and high possibilities
for tragedy if aroused hair and eyes
really black complexion rich olive,
with the crimson showing underneath
limbs superbly nodded, as l could not
helm but see even through the dripping
folds of her bathing dress. Her form
was round and vOluptuous, and for the
time | could not Danish the thought that
at forty she would weigh two hundred.
The surf seemed to love her. The
waves came up higher and fuller where
she stood and 4ay. They kissed her
hair and lips, threw themselves upon her
bosom, reveled in her arms, elung to her
graceful waist. If l had not been a
cold philosopher 1 should have wished
myself a wave, for she was as fond Of the
waves as they Of her.
fell into a series of speculations con
corning her. Was she maid, or wife, OF
widow? Was she poor or rich? How
many men had she loved-how many
deceived? 1t was no concern Of mine
I only wished to get at the facts for
generalization. Esthetieally consider
ed she seemed a success and l relish
anything that is successful.
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ROYAL SNOB.

French correspondence OF the New York Post.l
The most notable specimens of the
genus snob, .lowever, that l have now
under my eve, are not Frenchmen, but
from elsewhere. Chief among them,
their cynosure and representative man,
is the great Prince Vesuvio di Pozillip-
DO, who is here in undated magnif-
cence. 1t took twelve horses to bring
him all the way from-Africa say-and
twelve obedient vassals to wait on his
precious person. The iunkeys are care
full to give out that the least of his horses
cost seventeen thousand francs, which
an American friend of mine, learned in
horsefesh, says is just fifteen thousand
francs too much for the best of them.
This awful parsonage speaks to no one
except his principal attendant and major
domo; he dimes alone in state, though
the table d'hote is good and much pleas
anter; and he drives four horses to his
bath, which is precisely a quarter of a
mile distant-great hulk Of a fellow that
he is All the funkeys Of the little
CITY hold their breath as he passes-I
don't mean the garcoas of the hotel, but
the best of the company. He flashes
back q look of inefable contempt and
disdain, which is what they deserve.
The august mortal is not, so far az l can
learn, distinguished for any great or
good quality; he is not a statesman, nor
an author, nor an artist, nor even an edi-
tor he has v done anything to
benefit humanity, nor does he ever in
tend to do anything of that CHEAP and
commonplace sort he is simply a prince
he is the brother Of a certain queen,
whom a red-shirted philosopher put out
Of business some years ago and he is
rich and so we all Of us fall down and
admire him prOdigiously his merits are
SO transcendent and conspicuous and
his arrogance and ostentation and folly
SO worthy Of all honorl Long life and
all sorts of happiness TO his illustrious
and gorgeous and most deserving high
ness!
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An IRcident.

It is worth of note, that during the
session of the Grand Lodge of New
York. at which our distinguished and
lamented brother, the late Chancellor
Walworth, was elected Grand Master of
Masons, a committee from the Lodge at
fredericksburg, Va, was present to So
lieit a donation to aid in the completion
of the monument to Washington. They
brought with them the Bible on which
the Father of his country was Initiated,
with other interesting circumstances and
data appertaining to that great Masonic
event. The Bible of st. Johns Lodge
No. /, of this city, on which Washington
took his oath of Office as first President
of the United States, was also present
by request. The Bible of the latter
Lodge was placed on that of the former,
and on both was the constitutional Ma
sonic obligation taken by Reuben H.
Walworth.
Such a circumstance never occurred
before, and it is not probable that unless
by preconcerted arrangement, it will
ever occur again. It was, however, an
incident worthy Of note, and is now pub
lished for the first time.-Ne1o York.
Dispatcl.
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Anniversary Of Clarke Lodge,
Louisville.

The sfftieth anniversary of Clarke
Lodge Of Free and Accepted Masons
was appropriately celebrated yesterday
BY the members Of the great brother
hood in this city. At nine o'clock the
procession formed on Fourth street, and
after marching It's route on Green, Third
Main, Seventh. Chestnut and Jefferson
streets, entered Masonic Hall, where an
GRAFTON was to be delivered by T. s.
Fitch, ESQ.,, Of Flemingsburg, Grand
Master Of Kentucky. In consequence
of unforeseen emergencies, the Grafton
was necessarily postponed until night.
At eight o'clock in the evening it was
delivered to a large audience, and was
an address worthy the occasion and the
~orator.
Mr. Fitch reviewed the progress of
Masonry from its origin to the present
day, and claimed for Clarks Lodge, with
its half century Of existence, a full share
/ of good work done. The membership
of the Lodge at different times had
reached an aggregate Of 800, and no.
| Lodge in the country had numbered
among its members more distinguished
Masons, or had given more distinguished
names to church and State.
He claimed for Masonry an antiquity
eoeval with the building Of SolOmonis
Temple, and, tFiumphing over proseriP-
ton and ignorance throughout all ages,
its towering columns now cast their
shadows over the two hemispheres- The
problem of its wonderful preservation
through all the decay and change and
1 Revolution could only be solved by its
foundation in the Bible. 1t was a reli-
gious institution of a high order, OF
which the Bible wa pre-eminently the
light. The prejudice against 1t had
arisen solely from an ignorance of Its
objects. Hundreds had been led into
the church by it, and its great object
was to give scope to all our powers fol-
doing good. The delinqueneies Of s
few Of the members of the Order could
not be used as an argument against it,
for Masonry caused none to do wrong
The argument sometimes used, that i
was contrary to republicanism, wa'
wholly groundlsss for Masonry hac
founded the only two republican govern
ments now existing-the little Republic
: of San Marine and the great Republic o
r the United States Of America, and Wash
!, ington himself was a Freemason. War
/, rem, the martyr of Bunker Hill, was
), Mason. and the Freemasons were TIL
first to rise against British oppression
{ In the great war Eaged against Masonr,
: at one time in the United States, onl,
: one State, Vermont, had east an electO
r raj vote against it. Masons were re
f garded to be good and peaceable citizens
J adhering to the government under WhicI
: they lived, and this was the first injunc
e ton given the apprentice in Masonry.
Mr.. Fitch closed his Grafton with a
s appeal to all Masons to exert themselve
to preserve peace in the present perilou
e times, TO allay all sectional hatred, {
calm the spirit of party, and to prov
that brethren could differ and yet b
brethren.
The beautiful degree of the Star {
the East was then conferred by Hiral
Bassett, Esq, and the celebration close
with a grand banquet.-LousrtHe Col
rier Sd. &
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Bro. J. w. smith, p. d. C. N. OF
Kansas

This venerable Brother who is now a
resident of Keokuk, Iowa, was born IN
Virginia in the year 1892, and initiated
in Washington's old Lodge, Alexandria,
Va, in the year 1903, since which time
he has been an active and studious de-
votee of the mysterious, glorious sci
enee.' After various yieissitudes he
finally settled in Kansas, many years
since. Not being willing 70 forego Ma
sonic privileges, he vigorously canvasssd
the then sparsely settled country around
Iowa Point, and finding a constitutional
number Of Master Masons, he called a
meeting for the purpose of organizing a
| Lodge. Eleven Masons attended, and
| Bro Smith, as Past Master, presided.
Following the example of u ancient
brethren, the convention met on a high
hill 4" near the inehoate village, and the
first sound of the gavel ever heard in
| Kansas wa struck on a sturdy oak
which grew near by the Masters stand
point. In the center of this circle of
faithful Masons, the open Bible lay on
the green sward. Here the first Lodge
in Kansas-SmithOn Lodge No. l.
which was named in honor Of the sub
ject Of this article, was fully organized
and prepared for work under the DIS
pensation which it soon received from
the Grand Lodge of Missouri. Bro.
Smith was a member Of the convention
which in 1856 organized the Grand
Lodge. of Kansas, and was the first
Deputy Grand Master. In 1855 he was
elected J. G. W. Some years since he
removed to Keokuk, and began the man.
ufacture of Masonic furniture, his para
phernalia for the second degree being
particularly beautiful and appropriate.
Without a relative in the world, he gains
a livelihood in the business referred to
above. He is now on q tour through
this and the adjoining States, visiting
the Lodges. Echoing the recommends
ton of Grand Master Nickel, and Grand
Treasurer Rothert, we cordially COM
mend him to the craft. He is in every
respect worthy their active support and
cordial regard, the which we hope he
may receive.
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THE CHAMBER OF DEATH,

The following beautiful lines appeared
in the Edinburgh Observer some years
e and are said to be the production Of
syouthful poet:
Leave me. Tonight III watch the corpse alone,
Set the lamp there that its faint Ugh may rest
In this pale face. Fold back the winding sheet,
Lay the white arm above the sable pail
It's cold ane stir. Thou tremblestY boy! Per
Thou never Iook'dst on death bsforeP Away!
Its no sight for thee. HE thee TO bed,
And let me hea' thy footsteps as they pass
Along the corridor. So-he is gone.
And thou and 1 remRin-I as 1 am
Thou IN the stu rigidity OF death
Athtng OF solemn and mysterious meaning.
Silence is round us-butit is not yet
The appointed hour. AT midnight thou wilt
come
To animate again this inert clay
And, II the laws that govern thes permit,
Impsrt 20 me q sign that l may know
Weyet shall meet hereafter. In this world
we grew together, IKE two trees that twins
Their branches into one; and II 20 die
Be but 20 pass away, TO other realms,
BE they OF Light or darkness eur twin souls
VIII there be found united. g q
OGodl It is a fearful thing to see
III strong man stretched upon the bed OF
death,
Writing in agony beneath The grasp
OF unseen power. Even As the victim strives
To shake the tiger from its throat, he strives
Against the shadoWy tyranL And yet wby?
II death be but the herald 10 a state
OF altered being why sh uld nature shrink
With horror from his touch? Alas! look there
And thou art answered. In those stifening
limbs
That cold black piece of -nothingness-a weight
OF passive matter destined for the worms
What can We read Of immortality?
say thai twas but the casket fer the gem
night we not still to cherish what has held
A gift OF so much price? Isthst black box,
Ana the damp earth a NJ receptacle?
has not the light OF life been IN those eyes
The ~elOquence Of death upon those cheek
Toe grace OF action in those manly limbs
The dignity OF virtue on that broW2
Thoughts! thOughtsi ye madden me.
bow sin is this lone hour! The lamp burns
feebly,
And casts a hickering shadow on the dead.
hRrk. from & distant turret midnight souudE-
:. Now heart be hrm III gaze upon the corpse,
And move nOt-bresthe not-tin IL looks on me.
Inc wind is up and murmurs meaningly.
] hear 81 in q corridor Hsi-noi
That SLOW and measured tread is something
more.
The corpse! the corpse, It is not where it lay.
The door s opening. How those eyebslls glare
Oh, Heaven ana Earth! lis he as when he
lived!
But wan and sad and changed-chsnged tho
the same.
The lamp expires. His bresth-his touch are
On mel
And 10. I see him in the darkness still
The dead cannot become invisible.
II speaks nOt-stirs nOi-but strange meaning
fit
oss its psllid~ countenanoe. And now
~ powers this is too horrible!
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Death Of the Oldest Mason In
Massachusetts.

Mr.. Thomas Hooper was the Oldest
Mason in Massachusetts,, and is thought
to be the oldest Past Master in the
United States. He was Master Of King
Solomon Lodge in 1872. He was a pub
he spirited and ~enterprising man, and
took great interest in the prosperity Of
his native city. He was one of the Sc
lectmen of the town long before Charles
ton was a city, and was elected to the
Board of Aldermen in 1917 and 1913,
the first two years eff the city govern
ment. He WA messenger of the old
Massachusetts, bank for over twenty
years, and retired from that place On ae-
count of in6rmity. His funeral took
place on Sunday, July 18th, at the Uni-
tartan Church, and was largely attended
by the Order and citizens generally.
+ Boston P0St, Jady 9Th.
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MOCK GEMS.

Art is made to rival nature in many
ways, and in no instance more remark
ably than in the imitation of all kinds
of gems. This form of industry is now
practiced in almost every country OF Eu-
rope, but probably to a greater extent in
Paris than anywhere else. Great is the
demand for false diamonds alone, and
eorrespondingly great is the supply.
We have spoken before in these columns
Of the successful imitation of these-the
most admired of all jewels-to such a
degree that the manufactured articles
shines with a brilliancy as if 1t had been
struck off from the rock Of GOlcOnda.
These limitations were the subject of a
recent article in a London journal.
There are many processes but all result
in the production~o of what is called erys-
tai water, which, hardened and cut, is a
perfect counterfeit. Worn it may be by
a young lady at her first ball, and daz-
zling all eyes by its scintillations, 1t is
not known to them to be a composition
of white sand treated with h~ydrocholric
acid, ealcined potash, borax and arsenic.
/ Add to the paste, which is the basis Of
this, a little exide of cobalt, and we have
the fae-similes of a great grand-mother's
priced collection of sapphires. Or mix
with the colorless material a little anti
mony and purple of e~assius, and there is
a topaz before us. Would we obtain the
emerald. the bride of the diamonds, as
il has been. called in the language of the
East, we have but to add in their stead
some oxide of copper.
OF artificial pearls there are several
varieties. The japanese make theirs of
rice paste, which is better known as
Japanese cement, and is harder than mar
be. The Roman pearls are chiefly made
of fish scales heated with the finest spirits
of wine, and the manufacture must be
carried ON in highly heated rooms, but
they are as light as wax and cannot pos
sibly deceive. The Turkey rose pears
do not deserve the name. They are IN
fact made of roses. The leaves are
heaped in a mortar having a very highly
polished inner surface and pounded into
a soft mass this is dried IN the sun, but
not rapidly, for Eose-water of the very
finest perfume is sprinkled over the pink
paste now and then; the damping and
driving are repeated, and the pearls So
called are moulded in a form, polished,
steepedin oil of roses and polished again,
so that they are lustrous and sweet
scented. Some are tinted blue, others
are odorous of stOrax and musk, a few,
and they the most difficult to perfect,
are black.-Phladelphid Ledger.
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Frnm once Week.

From once 8 Week.
The papers have set a6oat a tale
which, for violent improbability, exceeds
an the inventions Of sensational writers
its truth Is maintained, and the incidents
il relates, it's said, arise from the basis
of a trial. Two friends, one a clergy
man and the other a tailor, fall cut and
turn to bitter enemies. They part, and
live sundered by miles, the elergymanis
parting words to his quondam friend be
ingyto the effect that he hoped in the
LAPSE of a year he might see him dead
and rejoice oTer his corpse. Exactly a
year run out aud to the day comes a
Communication to the viH6ietive clergy
man informing him that his bitter wish
was accomplished. The tailor was dead.
AWAY starts the minister to gloat over
the visible fact. He reaches the house
Lof death, finds the widow weeping beside
the coffin which he wants to open, that
he NAV vent his exultation over the poor,
cold remains of his foe.
While he is insisting on this brutal
satisfaction the lid of the eehn rises,
the pail is thrown aside, and the tailor,
in the enjoyment Of every function and
faculty of life, a~ssails the clergyman and
Kills him on the spot, He is then hud-
died into the coffin in place of the sup
posed defunct, and finally buried in his
| stead. The tailor had to wander away
from the scene Of this act of retribution
but was soon after recognized, andis now
TO be put on his trial for the murder.
Such strange deeds have from time to
time come to light, and there is just a
bare possibility this strange story may
have a foundation of truth. A Russian
story relates that according to Russian
custom when any one dies the body Of
the deceased on the day previous to the
| interment is brought to a church, where
the priest passes the night in prayer for
the dead mans soul.
The priest in this instance was accom-.
panied by a chorister, and was in the act
Of repeating the usual prisons when tc
his intense surprise he beheld the body
rise from its coffin and advance toward
him. Rushing to the font, he sprinkled
the dead man with holy water, adding
all the formula Of exorcism he was &C
quainted with, but in vain. The corpse
seized the priest and threw him on th'
ground and in the end slew him, a tasl
already half done to his hand, no doubt
by sheer fright. Having given itsei
this satisfaction, the body again quietl.
resumed its place in the coffin, and tn
young chorister who had witnessed tn
whole scene from behind a pillar
whittier he had ~retreated, stole away t
recount this extraordinary instance 0
post mortem feroeity For a long tim
the affair remained an inexplicabie mys
terry, when a malefaetor about to suite
for misdeeds, making a clean breast Q
all his crimes, confessed that having
grudge against the priest, he had en-
tered the church unseen and taken th
place of the corpse, dressing himself
its garments. Having despatched hi
enemy, he reinstated the body in its fol
mer position and left the church as b
had entered it..
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SUNDAY
NIGHT.
81 a. j. H


-
The work-day week has cast Its yoke
OF troublous toll and careful quest
The lingering twiligAt's saffron CLOAK
Trails DER the dDgky West;
And curfew clocks, with measured stroke,
Chimein the eve OF rest.
From faIlow fields and woody dells
The crickets chirp their pleasant lays
The kline comes mp, with tinkling bells,
Through all the loamy ways;
And buckets drip by busy wells,
And rudy ingles blaze.
His whirlins wheel the miller stops
The smith his silent anvil leaves;
His ringing ak the Joiner drops
No more the weave wesYesi
His loaded vain the pedoler props
Beneath the tavern caves.
Ahappy hush q tranquil balm,
Ar il the weekday cark and care
Were II ted of, aud1eft US calm,
PeTvades the quiet air.
A sense OF a silent psalm,
A feeling as Of prayer.
For nov the Night, with sOft delay,
Seems broOdiDR like 8 tender dove,
While the last hours Of saturday
Shut IN the homes OF owe,
And the sweet Sabbath spans the way
To holier homes above.
God help as all since here below
Few saturdays sre ours, az best
And ont OF earthly pain aud wee
Few days Of Sabbath rest;
o teach Us t-that We yet may know
The SabbathE OF the BEST