The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-01

day, 4th.
ary, 1907 & street-Mithras Lodge of Perfec-
ton, Tuesday, Sd.
Columbia Lodge will confer the first degree
Wednesday evening.
Columbia Chapter will confer the Mark degree
Wednesday evening.
Potomac Lodge No. will confer the first de-
gree Monday evening.
Anacostia Lodge No. 81 will confer the first
degree Monday evening.
Pentalpha Lodge No. % will confer the first
degree Monday evening.
Osiris Lodge No. 26 will confer the second de-
gree Wednesday evening.
La Fayette Chapter No. will confer the
Mark degree Tuesday evening.
National Lodge No. 12 will confer either the
first or second degree Tuesday evening.
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in THE HERALD's European trip contest.
New Jerusalem Lodge No 9 will hold
special communication Thursday evening for
the third degree
Mount Horeb Chapter No. will confer the
Past and probably the Most Excellent Masters
degrees Thursday evening.
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vote for him or her in The SUNDAY HERALD
contest for free excursion to Europe.
Benjamin B. French Lodge No. Is will confer
the second degree Monday evening. a special
communication will be held tuesday evening
for the third degree.
Labanon Lodge No. will not confer any de-
grees Friday evening, very important busi-
ness will occupy the attention of the lodge at
that communication.
Washington Centennial Lodge No. IA will
confer the first and second degrees Wednesday
evening, and will hold special communication
Wednesday, the 18th, for the third degree.
A very instructive and highly interesting
lecture was recently delivered in Hope Lodge
No. 90 By Brother w. T. Bailey. The distin-
guished Mason took for his subject Lilly
Work. and treated it in mastery and eloquent
manner
degree Thursday evening The officers of the
Grand Lodge have accepted the invitation eX-
tended by Worshipful Brother James 81. Wardle,
and will confer the degree, the Most Worshpful
Grand Master James A. Sample presiding
At the meeting of the Grand Lodge Wednes-
day evening the second and third degrees were
eXemplifed. There was large attendance pres
ent to witness the work. Unless some contin-
gency should arise the Grand Lodge will not
meet again until November, when the annual
communication will be held.
At the last meeting of Evangelist Chapter of
Rose Croix the eighteenth degree was worked.
Robert De Bruce Council of kadosh conferred
the nineteenth and twentieth degrees Tuesday
evening, and on Friday, May 80, worked the
twenty-first degree. The work in NIthras Lodge
Tuesday evening will be the fourth and fifth de-
grees
Potomac Commandery will transact routine
business Wednesday evening On last Wednes-
day evening this commandery was treated to a
genuine surprise, only few Of the officers in
authority knowing what was forthcoming when
notices were issued for special conclave on
that date and the mystery was somewhat deep
ened when the commandery was opened and
closed without any allusion to the business OF
the evening, which, however, was fully eX
planned when the ladies who assisted the com
mandery at headquarters during the triennia
entered the asylum and presented magnificent
commandery banner to the organization. The
beautiful and costly gift was handsomely EN-
blaZoned with the insignia of the commandery
and will be treasured by the Georgetown ST
knights as the dearest of their most preciou
possessions.
Almas Temple, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine
decided at the meeting of last Monday evening
to hold stated assemblies quarterly. On June 2
every Shriner is expected TO join the prOcessio
TO Pittsburg, where the Imperial Council wi
hold special meeting. Action was also take
relative to limiting the membership, and for ret
sons best known to the Temple the limit wa
fixed at three hundred and ten. This figure
purely mystical, but as THE SUNDAY HERALD
somewhat OF free lance in Shrine mysteries
is eminently proper that its readers should
let into the secret. This, however, can only |
done with the greatest caution, and when the faC
is communicated that in the snowy beard {
Haroun Al Is Askid, Grand Ziker and Sulima
of Bagdad, there were only like number {
gray and venerable hairs it is hoped that no o
legations have been broken and no vital secre
exposed.
The name Osiris which has been adopted b
Lodge No. 20, is of very ancient origin and
taken from one of the chief figures OF Egyptia
mythology. Osiris was the child of Jupiter an
juno and is identical with the Dionysus of IL
Greeks The Egyptians believed him to
welded to Isis, who was the chief goddess
the Egyptian mysteries, the symbol of natur
and the mother and nurse of all things. Frol
this connection probably resulted the introdu
tion into the initiation of the mysteries of Isl
of the tradegy of Osiris, which were conducte
by the priests of Isis with great pomp and GER
monial during the zenith of the popularity
the mystic rites of the goddess of the Nil
The ceremony consisted of funeral rites, e.
pressiye of the widest grief on account OF n
death; a search for his body, which at last wa
found; the return of Osiris TO life, and the de-
truction of Typhon, his assassin Inc mysl'
res Of Osiris and Isis were highly eIeyating an