The morning call., 1891-07-30
FRATERNAL NOTES.
Amount of Benefits Paid by the
Knights Of Honor.

Pacific Lodge. No. 136, at its called meet
Ing on Tuesday evening had a raising.
Ivanhoe Lodge. No. ., Knights of Pythias,
at its regular convention last evening con-
ferred the amplified third rank.
California Chapter No. ., Royal Arch
Masons, at lis meeting on Tuesday evening
had work in the Mark Masters degree.
Unity Encampment, No. 26. I. o. o. F., at
is regular session on Tuesday evening con-
feIred the Royal Purple degree.
Occidental Lodge, No. IA, r. and A. NJ,
at its called meeting on Tuesday evening
had work in the Master Muson's degree.
Unity Lodge, No. 131, l. o. o, F.. at its
meeting on Tuesday evening was treated to
a lecture on Japan" delivered by Robert
Dross, member OF the lodge located at
Yokohama. There was large attendance
of members and visiting brethren who
greatly enjoyed the discourse.
Mission Lodge, No. 169, f. and A. NJ, at
its called meeting last evening had work in
the third degree.
Yerba Buena Lodge, No. Is, ]. o. o. F.,
nj its regular meeting will confer the initla-
tory.
Mount Moriah Lodge. No. A. T. and A.
N, at its called meeting last evening had
work in tile Master Mason's degree.
Templar Lodge, No. II, /. o. o. F., had
good attendance at its regular meeting last
evening, when routine business was trans
acted.
Excelsior Lodge, No. 166, F. and A. NJ.
at its called meeting last evening had work
in the Entered Apprentice degree.
Oriental Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 90,
L o. o. F., had well-attended and very
entertaining meeting last evening.
Crockett Lodge, No. 139, F. and a NJ,
had a raising" at its called meeting last
evening.
At date of April 1st last there were 1885, 029
members in good standing in the Knights of
Homer, and to the 18th inst. the order had
paid to benefciaries the sum of S34, 49,
GA 26 in benefits.
Ignatian Council, No. 81, Young Mems
Destitute, viii hold complimentary open
meeting this evening in Mutual Hall, Sbiels
Building, 30 O'Farrel street.
There are twenty-five lodges of the F.
ard A. NJ. in the District of Columbia, with
a membership of 1882, gain for the year of
30l.
First impressions are most lasting. When
Candidates are first admitted to your lodge
rooms let them discover the fires of fra
ternIty burning brightly on your affairs, and
you may rest assured its subtle influence
viii soon cause them to recognize its power.
Detroit Lodge, No. 6, A. o. U. w, of De-
troit, Mich, will not admit applicants for
membership over the age of As years.
The jurisdiction Of Louisiana has FIVE
councils of Royal and Select Masters, with
total membership of 49,
The square IS one of the most important
and Significant symbols in Freemascnry
and as such it is proper that its true form
should be preserved. Our French brethren
have almost universally given it with one
leg longer than the other las was frequently
the case in this country in the last century,,
thus making 1t carpen terS square 1t is
also often unnecessarily marked with inches
as an instrument for measuring, which it is
not. II Is simply the trying square Of q
stone-mason, and. has a plain surface, the
sides or legs embracing an angle of 90 de-
gtees, and is intended only to test the accu-
racy OF the sides of stone, and to see that
Its edges subtend the same angle. In Free
masonry it is symbol of morality. This
is lis general Specification, and is applied in
several ways: % 1t presents itself to the
ne0phyte as ore of the three great lights :;
(2) TO the +. c. as one OF his working tools !:
81 10 the NJ. NJ. as the official jewel of the
Master of the lodge. Everywhere it incul-
Gates the same lesson OF morality, of truth
fulness and honesty. So universally ac-
cepted is the symbolism that it has gone
outside Of our order, and is found in COLO
quail language communicating the same
idea. AS Masonic symbol it is of very
ancient date, and was familiar to the oper-
alive masoDs. In the year 1880, the archi-
tect Brother Payne in rebuilding a very
ancient bridge called Baal's Bridge near
Limerick, in Ireland. found under the foun-
daiiOns an old brass square, much cOrroded,
containing on It's TWO surfaces the inscription,
Will sTRIUE TO LIUE WITH LoUE AND
CARE VPON THE LEUEL BY siIE SQVARE,'
with the date 1917. This discovery, there
IOre, proves, If proof were necessary, that
Inc teaching OF our old operative brethren
was identical with the speculative applica-
ton of the working tools of the modern
craft-Mackey.