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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20

member and Past Commander OF Occur de Lion.
Remarks were made by several distinguished Sir
knights. after which social banquet was enjoyed
A formal reception will be rendered to X. Eminent
Sir John A. Mapes by his fraters at later day. due
announcement OF which will be made in this depart
ment Of The Tribune.
Columbian Commandery No. I met Tuesday
evening and conferred the Order OF Red Cross and
the Temple several postulants. Past Grand Com
mander Peter Forester the Visitors
also Sir knights Wilson @. Fox. Joseph Waring
and f.. g. Mingay Of Cyrene Commandery No ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20
COUU1NDFRY NEWS.

Morton Commandery No. conferred the order
of the Red Cross last Monday. with Fin nent Com
mander Eugene Brown in the East. and Past Com
maader Blight as Prelate En-. Sir John Little
For and Davis OF York and Charles Housely were
in the audience.
Occur de Lion Com nandery opened the door or It's
a sylun last Friday. Sir knight C. Victor Twiss
l,,,,.r, Commander welcomed the Sir knights
and Informally presented the new Grand Command
or Of The State. X. l.. Sir John A AADes VINO Is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20

Perhaps nothing Is more necessary 10 character
building than the due restraint of the passions and
appettes and the general habit OF doing all things
with moderation. We every side. even In re-
ligion evil consequences OF excess. Masonry ever
teaches It's members to crcumscribe their passions
and appetites within due bounds. to practise virtue
and seeks the reformation of brothers who yield 10
the lower nature
conduct toward each other and dsplace the dis-
trust and fear which seem our normal state, with
frank and open confidence, born OF our knowledge
OF the mutual compact and that We all must Follow
these same rules we honor our profession ana ex,
tend IFS power and influence In the great practical
world without where the good or evil OF every act
or thought II Judged most by it's present effect and
relation TO the passing moment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20

no,ohS the pathway Of the centuries. aiskuisea IN
bnamuated myths and allegories, the divine truth
,ust,Heied ON. From the Osiris OF the Egyptian
tnss',Iles 70 the DiOnysus and Bacchus OF prseco
~ Asia Minor and TO the Hiram OF Masonic lore.
- way is clearly discernibie
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20
NECESSITY OF LIBRARIES.

Masonry has ever been patron OF knowledge.
and has deemed II not only duty. but II privilege
10 foster me liberal arts and sciences; and a. the
oandmaid OF the Divine Teacher. has ever laugh:
,nen 70 believe in the immortal doctrine Of the faith
erhood of God and the brotherhood OF man" We
LAIN that our order Is ancient and honora Bile" .
ard II we are proud of its past history II certainly
hehooyes It's votares 10 make use Of all honorable
means attainable 10 make sure that our society.
u'bIch has stood the test OF time. shall move for
uard IN The future in all things which tend TO the
Enforcement and Advancement OF our brotherhood
'rhe history OF Masonry proves that i'll votaries
have ever been the promoters OF progress and i'm
nrovsment and that the human race has received
md derived great benefit from the existence OF our
order No Organization which history records can
Law claim TO preserve the rights OF the individual
dies our institution As the roots OF thrifty tree
stretch out into the earth widely do its
branches into the air. and so come into relation
Nth their surroundings SO does Masonry lnterlac-
u,ith and take It's form and pressure. its growth
and bent from contempOraneous matters. The
raed of Masonic books, 10 obtain a comprehensive
knowledge OF the origin and progress pertaining u
nur insfitution and to learn OF Its growth and de-
veopment make apparent the necessity for the
eoiacfion OF Grand Lodge libraries. that members
80 or order can look into the medium OF the printed
mage which the authors and writers OF the past
and present making history leave 10 the fraternity
for each generation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20

,.,,,sin nv books he best companion is
To me a glorious court. "here hnuiY
nth fhe OF and philOsJphers

Although our ritual has been transmitted orally
through many centuries. yet 10 the student
Maso1rv as a science and It's early history can
1y he impaired and transmit ed through the
rocks OF our libraries Unless II be the State or
National libraries which supported by liberal
annronriations the students OF specialties and
rt3rence look to the valuable Libraries OF nstitu-
,nns snecIay devoted 10 the consideration OF sub
tets in which they are in quest OF information ana
directly Interested. To the enlightened Mason
LrrwIedce is OF the first importance library.
such as this Grand Lodge possesses. embo'ying the
highest theoretical and practical principles OF our
rder which can be said to constitute the existence
~ Masonic literature and IT'S science. should be-
preserved and fostered for all time. and made a
ssource OF value 10 the observation-disclosures @ Car
ter Grand Lodge Librarian, New-fork. In voice OK
M.x
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-20

For Masonic Directory. see Following Page.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28
Each Mans Share of the Globe.

There is 10 immediate prospect that
the landed surface of the globe will be
divided up and allotted in equal shares
to each of its human inhabitants, but if
such time ever does come it will be
found that each will get little truck
farm of 23la acres. The landed surface
of the globe contains, as near as it is
possible for the geographers to ascer-
tain, 33, 900, 600, 900 acres, which, di-
vided among the 1000, 900, 000 inhabit-
ants which the world contains, accord
ing to the latest official estimates, would
give each Of them tract Of land OF the
area mentioned above.
Taking the entire population OF the
world into consideration there are al
most exactly 2S inhabitants to each
square mile. The following figures
showing the number of persons, omit
ting fractions, to square mile in the
several divisions of the globe are from
the best authorities on human family
statistics: Europe, So; Asia. 46; Africa,
IS; North America, g.; South America,
A; Oceanioa and the polar regions, a.
st. Louis Republic.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28
A TRIBUTE TO ART.
The Maid of Milesia and the Beautiful
Venus de Mcdici.

Somew here in Washington Just
where is not necessary TO the main point
at issue in this short article on the de-
velopment and undevelopment of art IN
the national capitals mansion pre-
sided over by woman CT wealth and
refinement She is most artistic WON"
an, too, and in her house are some un-
usually fine pieces of painting and stat
uary. There is also Milesian maid, by
name Maggie, who knows deal more
about housekeeping than she does about
sculpture, and Maggie has been trying
for long time to cultivate her taste up
to the point of properly approaching the
painted and carved beauty with which
she daily comes in contact.
Not many days ago the mistress and
the maid were going over the house with
brush and broom, putting it in especial
order for musicale that was to be given
to few artists and fashionables, and
the mistress observed that the maid on
three several occasions passed by with
cold neglect of cloth and brush beau
tiful figure of the "Venus de Medici,'
in an alcove just off the hall.
Here. Maggiel" she called. "Why
don't you brush the dust off this figure?'
(which wan, menu" inquired Mag
gle with great innocence.
1.-The Venus there in the alcove, of
course. See"--and the lady touched it
with her fingerz-"you have left dust all
over it. "
"Yis, men," confessed Maggie, "but
I do be thinking for long time, mem,
that there aht to be something on it,
men,"
1t was delightful and logical excuse,
perhaps, but the lady could scarcely &C
cept it, and Maggie's brush removed
even the dusty drapery she wished to
leave. Washington Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28
His Middle Name.

Cassius Marcellus Loomis Of Chicago
tells the Chicago Tribune how he found
out what his middle name and that OF
Cassius NJ Clay was. At his birth he
was named Cassius NJ, after Clay.
"But," he says, "no one thought to in
ouire what the letter M stood for in the
name. Time ran on for some 80 years,
when the newly born, having inherited
an inquisitive turn of mind, wrote Mr..
Clay for the desired information. Mr..
Clay responded, sending his namesake a
photograph of himself and friendly
note, in which, instead of stating direct
" what his middle name was, he quoted
two lines from Pope's Essay ON MAN.
'"And n.ore pure Joy Marcellus exiled feels
Than Caesar with senate at his heels.
and added, You will find your name in
the above cOuplet.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28
JUST A BOY.
Iaosence Hutton's "reminiscences of His
Juvenile Life In New York.

Iausence Button's "Reminiscences of His
Juvenile Life In New York.
He was not "a very good boy or a very
bad boy or "a very bright boy or an UNI
usual boy in any way. He was just
boy, and very often he forgets that he
is not boy now. Whatever there may
be about the boy that is commendable
he owes to his father and to his mother,
and he feels that he should not be held
responsible for it.
His mother was the most generous
and the most unselfish of human beings
She was always thinking of somebody
else-always doing for others. To her
it was blessed to give, and 1T was not
very pleasant to receive. When she
bought anything, the boys stereotyped
query was, "Who is to have it?" When
anything was bought for her, her own
invariable remark was, What on earth
shall / do with it?" When the boy came
to her one summer morning, she looked
upon him as gift from heaven, and
when she was told that it was boy,
and not bad looking or a bad condi-
toned boy, her first words were, what
on earth shall do with it?'
. She found plenty "to do with it, be-
fore she got through with it, more than
40 years afterward, and the boy has ev-
cry reason to believe that she never re-
GREETED the gift. Indeed, she once told
him, late in her life, that he had never
made her cry. What better benediotion
can boy have than that?
The boy was redheaded and long
nosed even from the beginning-a shy,
dreaming, self conscious little boy,
made peculiarly familiar with his per-
sonal defects by the constant remarks TO
the effect that his hair was red and that
his nose was long At school for years
he was known familiarly as "Rufus, +"
"Redhead, ""Carrot Top" or "Nosy. "
His mother, married at 10, was the
eldest Of "a family Of nine children, and
many of the boy s aunts and uncles were
but few years his senior and Were LIS
daily and familiar companions. He was
the only member of his own generation
for long time, and there was "a con-
slant fear upon the part of the elders
that he was likely TO be spoiled, and
consequently he was never praised nol
petted nor coddled. He was always fall
ing down or dropping things. He was al
ways getting into the way, and he could
not learn to spell correctly nor TO cipher
at all. He was never in his mother I
way, however, and he was never made
to feel so.
But nobody except the boy knows o
the agony which the rest of the family
unconsciously and with no thought o
hurting his feelings, caused him b.
the fun they poked at his nose, at hi
fiery locks and at his unhandiness. III
fancied that passersby pitied him as b.
walked or played in the streets, and h
sincerely pitied himself as youth des
tined to grow up into an awkward, tact
less, stupid man, at whom the worl'
would laugh so long as his life lasted
"a Boy / Knew" by Laurence Hut
| ton in ST Nicholas.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28
What "A "Wed" Means.

Among the Anglo-Saxons the BRIDE
groom gave "a pledge or lived" at the
betrothal ceremony. This "wed" in
cluded ring, which was placed on the
maiden's right hand, where it remained
until, at the marriage, it was transfer.
red TO the left. English women at one
time wore the wedding ring OH the
thumb. Many portraits of ladies in
Queen Elizabeth's days are so depicted
In the reign of George III brides usually
removed the ring from its proper abid-
ing I.lace 20 the thumb as soon as the
ceremony was over. In Spain the gift of
a ring is looked upon as promise Of
marriage and is considered sufficient
proof for a maiden to claim her hus-
band. 1t is "a custom to pass little pieces
of brides cake through the wedding
ring, and those to whom these pieces
are given place them under their pillows
at night to dream Of their lovers. These
"dreamors, as they are called, should
be drawn nine times through the ring.
Many brides, however, are so supersti-
tious that neither for that purpose nor
at any other time will they take the
ring off their finger after it has once
been placed there. Philadelphia Times.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28
5O,OOO,OOO SLAVES.
Marocco Jews Said to Carry on the Trade
Under the Stars and Stripes.

He'll Chatelain, traveller in the dark
continent, lectured before the American
Geographical society at Chickering hall,
New York, the other evening on ''The
Internal Slave Trade In Africa" He
illustrated his remarks part of the time
by stereopticon views.
eff any one thinks that slave trading
is thing of the past, he said, che is
mistaken Among the 200, 600, 600 Of
people in Africa at least so, 000,0 are
slaves.
II British estimate to which he re-
ferred was correct, Mr. Chatelain said,
500, 600 lives were sacrificed every year
in the traffic. For every slave that
reached the coast eight or nine were
sent to the interior. The idea still pre-
vailing that all of the slave traders in
Africa were Arabs or natives was gross
error. In large part of the interior
slaves were the regular currency. Par
ents sold their children. This internaj
slave trade of Africa was the real oper
sore of the world, as it was in Living
stones time.
"In Marocco,'i the lecturer added.
"slave trading is carried on under the
protection of our stars and stripes. Ma
roccan Jews, who are prohibited by law
from holding slaves, place themselves
under the protection of our flag in order
to carry Oh the traffic. A"
There were in some parts Of the coun-
try, he continued, houses for breeding
slave children, who found ready mar
ket. He told as an instance of the NOR
tally among the slaves, by whom most
of the porterage is done, of one explorer
who started in with 400 men. of whom
all that came out were 100. "The first
slave caravan that saw" he said, "had
90 naked women. The leader told me
that so of his lot had died on the way
| to the coast"
The lecturer showed picture OF q
slave so fastened that he could not move
q limb or turn his face from the broiling
sun that beat Oh it. He also showed
pictures of slaves who had been aban'
doned to die along the caravan roads.
According to the report OF German
consul, strangers who knew not the road
to one city had only to keep in the mid
die between the two lines Of bleaching
bones of slaves who had been left to die
there and they could not miss their way.
| New York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28
regular item Of Gao for winding and

regular item Of $40 for winding and
regulating the clocks. and week or so
before 50 for cleaning an old eight day,
wood cased, hanging clock in the ladies'
retiring room, which is worth probably
g..
The heating and ventilating depart.
ment Is no SLOUGH of a concern in the
United States senate, for Feb il gath
cred its energies together and spent 800
for one steel plate wheelbarrow. Cuspi-
doris at SO apiece and in six dozen lots
are charged for at intervals Of every
month or 30, and single repairs on q
typewriter run up as high as S15 at q
clip.
The same jewelry firm which winds
the clock for consideration, and repairs
for the same reason, was given q con-
tract to make from specially prepared
design sterling silver inkstand for the
vice presidents room l foot 2 inches
long by 0 inches wide and 8 inches high,
and for this they received 5000. Not
content with this, when the pendulum
and spring of an eight day clock in the
committee on pensions room needed re-
pairs they charged $4 for it Jan. 26. al
though they were paid $50 for regulat-
ing and winding the same clocks as usu-
al during January and February.
The drug firm during the last quarter
of the fiscal year supplied the usual
amount of medicine and other things,
including 1000 quinine pills Feb. O.,
1000 March 80, and 1000 March 81.
The poor, old senators must be badly
afflicted with malaria, and yet the CAPT.
tol building is set on hill we'll above
the miasma of the swamp land. Wash
ington Cor. Chicago Tribune.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28

In one OF the townships near Chicago
the people once elected as justice of the
peace a man known for his strict appli-
cation of parliamentary rules to every
thing possible. Among his first cases
was one OF rifiing Importance, an as.
sault. Epler and Delew, two Chicago
lawyers who knew the Justices peculi.
arity, represented the defendant and a
man OF the name of Smith the prosecu-
tion. Both sides announced they were
ready for trial. Just as the court was
about to proceed Mr.. Epler arose and
said, IF your honor please, move that
this case be dismissed - II second the
notion" quickly put in Mr.. Delew. sit
is moved and seconded that the case be
dismissed" was put by the court. "But
your honor" quickly interrupted Mr..
Smith. with great surprise at such pro-
cedure. "Mr. Smith, this court has pre-
sided over meetings before and is thor
oughly famiI lar with parliamentary pro-
cedure. 1t needs no assistance from Won
III this matter" But, your honor
II shall fine you for contempt, Mr..
Smith, if you continue to disturb this
court. :" The court then put the question
again, adding, "All in favor of the mo-
ton will rise. =" Epler and Delew and
tho prisoner arose. "Those opposed will
rise. Smith and the prosecutor arose.
"The motion is carried by vote of
three to two, and the case is dismissed, "
declared the justice. San Francisco Ar
QOuaut
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28
A Yale frank.

The Hartford Courant tells story OF
Yale in the old days The boys used to
bride the printers devils" to get proofs
of the examination papers for them.
When the college authorities put stop
to this practice, bright idea seized one
fellow, and he saved the whole suffering
party. He hired one of the printers ut
was summer) to wear pair OF white
trousers to the office and at noon to SIT
down on the form in which were locked
the precious questions The inky seat OF
that pair of trousers sold for a deal more
than the clothes were worth in their
original spotlessness and relief was Sc
cured.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28
GOOD COPS AS EASY MARKS.
A Retired Eanko Mans Idea of the Value
of Regularity to the Crook.

Retired Eanko Mars Idea of the Value
of Regularity to the Crook.
An cid time crook stood on a Broad
way corner, in the Tenderloin district,
late one night recently, watching a
young policeman trying the store doors.
The policeman did the work with great
care and regularity.
"That's a careful copper, the crook
volunteered, addressing man who was
standing few feet away.
EYES," replied the other. Evidently
he wants to gain the good opinion of his
superiors. y
The old time crook laughed.
at would surprise you," he contin-
ued, "wouldn't it, to hear that that sort
Of careful cop is dead easy mark for
thieves?'
81 don't SEQ how, returned the citi-
zen.
EASY enough, retorted the crook
cts your careful copper that can be
easily spotted. The man who is going
to do Job knows just where he viii be
on his post at certain time and can
figure out just how long the coast will
be clear and the job can be carried on
The careful cop goes at his work just
like clockwork. Now, with what some
persons would call bad cop it's differ
ent. The crooks are afraid of these
bad cops, the fly fellows that take big
chances and stay off post when THE
roundsman isn't around. They can
never tell jast where bad cop is or
when he will jump out and catch them
at their Job. See? There is no known
system of keeping track of 'em, because
they don't do business themselves by
any system, those bad cops don't.
Then the old time crook walked into
a saloon and got IA drink, leaving the
citizen on the corner wondering. The
citizen learned the identity of the crook
when he narrated the incident later to
the proprietor of the same saloon. The
fellow was retired bunko man New
York Sum-
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-12-28
AARON BURR's FARMHOUSE.
The Building, Which IL Over a Century
Old, still Standing.


Old, still Standing.
On the corner Of Hudson and Charl-
ton streets is frame building which,
10 critical eye, would seem to be
tumbling down, or rather would APP
parently be if 1t were not held mp by
the adjoining building. The window
frames, which once were square, are
quite out Of plumb, dropping downward
on the south side The ceilings are low
ON every floor, and on the Hudson street
front the first floor, which is a little
above the sidewalk and reached by a
few steps. has been transformed into
couple of small stores, while the en-
trance to the upper floors is gained
through door OIL Charlton street. An
extension has been erected OH this side
to the main building so as to cover the
lot.
The building was formerly the farm
house Of Aaron Burr and was located
on the top of Richmond hill, through
which Varick street was cut. When
these streets were laid out, the old
farmhouse was brought down to the
road, which is now Hudson street, and
placed ON a vacant lot, then and now at
the corner of Charlton street. Opposite
to it was placed another frane house,
which had been removed after the great
fires Of 1885 and 1915, from Chambers
street, where it was known as the "Old
Brown jug" This removal had been
caused by the extension Of the fra linn
its in the lower portion of the city. a
few years ago the "Old Brown jug"
building was condemned and torn down.
In les place a brick structure has been
erected. But so far the old Burr house
has been spared, for, although it is ont
of plumb, the building was so strongly
constructed that there is little danger of
| its falling.
For many years the old house was oc-
cupied by an old time Heather head
Waterman, who, after his retirement
from that service, employed his time in
making leather travelling trunks, which
he sold on this corner, occupying the
upper floors with his family. AT his
death, few years ago, the family, like
many of those who formerly resided in
Greenwich village, removed TO the up
per part Of the city, and the building
has since ceased TO lie inhabited by one
family. New York Mail and Express.