Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-11


enthusiastic welcome to the fec wearers of
North America: "Es Salamu Aleikum!
Thus did Saratoga welcome Mystic Shrin-
ers from all over the country, in words Of
their own choosing. From dawn or soon
thereafter throughout the day the Arab
patrols of Troy and Saratoga were con-
unually on the march to and from the
railway stations, where the various dele
cations to the twenty-ninth Imperial Coun-
Gil were constantly arriving. They were
welcomed with open arms and escorted to
their headquarters at the hotels through
out the village. i" From the green
GASES that strew the far western sands,
from dunes that dot the eastern shores,
from the middle places beside the great
rivers and from the sun-kiSsed palm groves
of the south they have come. Every ship
of the desert has been pressed into service,
and the kneeling caravans at our gates
are invitation to the good people of our
town TO up and bid the pilgrims welcome.
All that could be done has been done
against the Shriners coming. By private
arrangement with the weather man sam
pie OF the genuine Sara toga brand has been
tapped. There will be decorations both
upon the main and residence streets, and in
displaying the villages welcome private
houses may well take hearty part. But
the hauntings of color and Hastings Of
light are but the outward seeming that
betokens welcome that neither words nor
decorations may adequately express. Shrin-
ers are ever welcome in Saratoga May the
breezes that fan their brows be freighted
with the scents of Araby. and the waters
and other things they drink be ever cool
and refreshing
The following are the present active
members. by states, of the Supreme Coun-
Gil of the Thirty-third Degree A. A. S. R.,
for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United
States: James D. Richardson, grand COM
marder. Tennessee; Samuel E. Adams,
lieutenant grand commander, Minnesota;
Erasmus T. Carr. grand prior. Montana;
Martin Collins. grand chancellor Missouri;
Frederick Weber secretary general. Ken
lucky; w. Frank Pierce, treasurer general,
California; Richard j. Num-, grand al
moner, Georgia; Samuel M. Todd grand
auditor. louisiana; Buren, R. Sherman.
grand chamberlain. Iowa; Irving W. Pratt,
first grand equerry. Oregon: Adolphus L.
Fitzgerald second grand euuerry. Nevada:
George f. Moore. grand standard bearer,
Alabama: Frank NJ. Foote. grand sword
bearer. Wyoming: Harper S. Cunningham.
grand herald, Oklahoma; Henry M. Teller.
Colorado: John F. Mayer. Virginia. A. B.
Chamberlain. Texas: ]. w. Cortland North
Carolina: John w. Morris. West Virginia.
f T. Tauhnan. South Dakota: Gustave
Anderson. Nebraska. Charles E. Resen-
Gen. RoberttT10 HsH. for the army and
There are Also the following duly accred-
tied IDENTITIES John T. Griffin. K. c. c. H,
for China and Japan: Max Frost, 32d de-
gree. for New Mexico; Henry E. Cooper.
32d degree. honorary. for Hawaii: F. ].
Woodman, 3sd degree. honorary for the
District of Columbia: o. s. Wright S3d
Dukehart. 2'd degree honorary. for Mary
land William II. Prioleau. 33d degree
honorary. for South Carolina; Lieutenant
Colonel earle A. Woodruff, aid degree,
honorary. and Commander George w.
Baird. 23d degree. honorary. for the posts
and rarrisons of the army and navy Of
the United States within the jurisdiction
supervised by Brigadier General Robert H.
Hall. S3d degree.
gree, senior warden of Mithras Lodge of
Perfection. A. A. S. R., has an interesting
monograph on "Cagliostro-a Study in
Cha ria tanism.'' in the July issue Of the
Monist Mr.. Evans is himself much skilled
in necrOmancy His article is careful re-
view Of the life of this brilliant adyenturer.
He does not spare Cagliostro's character.
but he pays due credit to his remarkable
genius. The paper is embellished with sew
eral rare portraits of Count Cagliostro.
showing him to be a portly. f1orid man of
decidedly distinguished appearance. The
monograph also reproduces rare old
print. copy of which may be seen in the
Scottish Rite Library here, which depicts
the unmas skiing Of the famous impostor at
the Lodge of Antiquity, published Novem
Der p, 1856. at London. 1t was engraved
by an eyewitness of the scene. In COM
pany with some French gentlemen, Cagl.os-
tro visited the lodge one evening At the
banquet which followed the working OF the
degree certain member named Mash. an
optician, was called upon to sing. Instead
of a post -prandial ditty. he gave a clever
imitation of a uuack doctor selling nos
trums and dilating enthusiastically upon the
virtues Of his eliXirs balsams and cordials
Cagliostro was not slow In perceiving that
he was the target for MASKS shafts of ridi-
Guile. His front of brass as Carlyle has
it, was beaten in, his pachyderm was pene-
trated by the barbed arrows Of the in
gen,ous opticians wit. He left the hall in
| high dudgeon. followed by the jeers Of the
assembled Masons. -E-
-"CagliUstro often boosted OF his great
age He claimed to have been one of the
guests at the marriage feast at Cana and
| to have witnessed the cruciflxion. From
England he went to The Hague. where he
| inaugurated a lodge of female Masons,
| over which his wife presided as grand mis-
| tress. Throughout Holland he was received
| by the lodges with Masonic honors-beneath
arches of steel In the year 17S5
| he founded at Lyons the Lodge Of Triumph
ant Wisdom. and made many converts
| to his mystical doctrines The fame of his
Egyptian Masonry reached Paris and
| created quite stir among the lodges. The
chiefs of a Masonic convocation assembled
| in Paris wrote to him for information con-
corning his new rite He ScOrnfully refused
| to have anything to do with them unless
! they burned all their Masonic books and
! implements as useless trash and acknowl
| edged their futility, claiming that his Egyp
| tan rite was the only true Freemasonry
| and worthy of cultivation among men Of
learning. His next move was to the French
| capital. His greatest triumph was achieved
| at Paris. gay and frivolous aristocracy
| mad after new SenSat tons, welcomed the
| magician with open arms. Cagliostro's
| Egyptian rite of Masonry was well received
| in Paris. especially the lodge for ladies'
| which was presided over by the beautiful
| LorenZa. his wife. Cagliostro lived like a
| lord, thanks to the revenues obtained from
| the initiates into his Masonic rite and the
money which he unquestionabiy received
| 10 Ga rdiDal dc
| liostro was at the height of his fame when
| suddenly he was arrested and thrown into
| the Bastille. He was charged with compile
ity In the affair of the diamond necklace.
! He was in that famous prison more than a
| year. To escape the harpies and a debtor
, prison Cagliostro fled to his old hunting
ground. the continent But the game was
played out. The police had by this time be-
come fully cognizant Of his impostures.
He was forbidden to practice his peculiar
| system of medicine and Masonry in Aus
| trfa, Germany. Russia and Spain. He went
to Rome. Freemasonry was capital Of
| Tense in the dominions of the pope.
| "Cagliostro attempted to found one of
| his Egyptian lodges but met with no sue
cess. His exchequer became depleted. He
| appealed - to the national assembly of
France to revoke the order of Punishment
| on the ground of his services to the liberty
| of France Suddenly on the evening of
| December q. 1888, he and his wife were