The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-18

of membership.
Tee council OF the Grand Orient.
consists OF 6fty members; it connects
with three hundred and fifty lodges
There are about ten thousand Free
Mason lodges in the world. possessing
ten millions of members. There are
very Few rites and ceremonies IN
French lodges, such being considered
infantile, and fewer grades. There
are no more legends. The story OF
Adam and Eve being the first-im-
possible to 60 further back, Masons,
and the garden OF Eden the first
lodge; of Noah being the founder,
after the Dsluge. then Moses, Zoross-
ter, ISIS, Ceres. Prosp' rins lao ,huF,
etc.. are for Intelligent masons, nurse
~ tales. In the same category may
be placed Hiram, the architect of
Solomon's temple. Hiram was not
an architect at all, but q metal work
er, whose services only came into
play when the building was erected.
Ali these myths are only destined to
heighten the lustre of the rider. by
an illustrioua genealogy or allegories
and to feed tue imagination, while
keeping warm the enthusiasm of
apprentices. Similarly wi b secrets,
and signs. There were no secret
societies in ancient times, and bu
very little brotherhood since travel
ing did not exist As for the secrets,
be who runs may read them Ia the
official organs of the craft, where
the rules and regulations OF the
lodges, their days of meeting, their
places of dining, the programme of
all their business is duly set forth. II
is not by peculiar shakes OF the hand
rubbing OF the nose. scratching of
the head, and tresdiLg on the feet,
that a Mason on tramp gains admis.
sion into a French lodge, or obtains
help. He must produce credentials,
Further; during The reign OF Louis
XIV. women were admitted to be
Masons, and the Duchesse de Bour
bon was a grand mistress.
As for ssshes, aprons, gloves, jeuel-
lery etc., UGH comp and circum-
stance count for little here; they are
regarded as the outcome of human
vanity, ranked with the rattle which
pleases the child. or the plaything
that delights the youth. Masonry
appears to have really originated from
the break up OF the building guilds
in Italy during the middle ages. Then
tine workmen wandered over Europe,
seeking employment; they had signs
to recognize one another as fellow
craftsmen and so claiming; if requir-
ed, succor. The clergy utilized these
wandering artisans to erect churches
and even Joined their frsternal COR
porations the better to aid the needy.
Such is the history OF 6trasbourg
Cathedral. The word ':mason" is
derived from hammer" or "wall"
and "Tiler," the cerberus or lictor
tunctionary; comes from the French
"totlteur" de ptene, or atone cutter.
More interest lie given to the success
1.-THE teasing and thwating game play
ed by the foreigners in Egypt at the ez.
pense OF England. than to Tonkin or
the changes in the Pekin Cabinet, Eng
lishnen here of every political shade
are terribly down in the mouth, at
the despicable policy OF their govern
ment in Egypt. It seems the fear to
wound the susceptibilities OF France,
paralysis England's action. There
was q time she thought more of her
own susceetibilities. The loan that
the Prussian credit mobilier has nego-
tisted lcr Russia. is viewed as secur.
ing the latter's coed will in Prussia
intention to sweep Holland and the
Luxembourg. into the commercial
union. There is not much of a diff
ference between a Zollverein and |
Protectorate. Possessed of the Lux
embourg, the only badly shut door
ls firmly closed to any ugly rush from
the French into the Fatherland.
France commences to feel there is
something serious in the threats of
Australia TO close her ports against
French ships, if France votes the
Recldivlste bill. and which she GER !
tainly will. This will allow the GOV. |
eminent to help itself to some groups
OF islands IN the Australian Seas, and /
there set loose ship loads, all ready.
OF outcas.s. Such new cess pools for
the moral immondices of France.
Australians will not permit either to
France or any other nation. Every
country must dispose of at home,
the filth it engenders in its midst
No French settlement can exist near
Australia, in Lresence OF an hostile
Australia. Now the Southern Gross
muet speak very bluntIy, not to
France, but to the English govern. |
ment, that what she means to do. she
Is resolved to execute, come veal. !
come woe. The belief prevails here
that Eneland being psralyzed by the
complications in Egypt, now is the
tune to recast the map of the world.
and grin al English protests and her
International soft soap. If England
lets down" Australia ans, tbs latter |
oy Initiating the ''eoiid men of BuS-
ton, could set Europe in a blaz.
and cut out the Eastern question IN !
point OF danger and tremendous co., |
sennennpa