Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-12-04
\ Grcat Appearance.

Great appearance.
The Washington d. c. HcruId of the
list inst, gives vivid report of Mime
Ernestine Schumann- Heiuks appear
ance in the Columbia Theatre, that city,
Tuesday evening. There was not even
standing room only but the great
audience left reluctantly. In part the
Hfruid says
Instead of firing of this great singer. as
she comes several times each season, Wash
ngtOn audiences grow more and more at
tached to her and justly so. She is I'M
rivaled in the matter of voice and the singing
of songs. And in addition her wonderful
personality permeateS the very atmosphere
and she commands at once respect, admlra-
ton, and love. She is not only great
singer, but a great woman, and the latter
fact makes the former all the greater and
brings her into close touch with her audi
enccS. After the close OF her wonderful
programme yesterday, and she had been re
called again and again and had responded
graciously to the demand for more" Nine.
SChumann HeInk was beSieged with visitors
behind the scenes for nearly an hour, when
there was a steady stream of friends and adj
mirerS who went back to shower her with
congratulations and not a little of these
fell to the lot of the remarkably skillful ac-
CompaniSt Mrs. Katherine Hoffman.
Nine. SChuman-H eink is a much more
beautiful singer to-day than she was when
she first created a furOre i'll this country,
some years ago, with her wonderful con
tralto voice, her wonderful temperament,
and her wonderful control of the great, pom
derOuS organ in her throat. She has the
skill of a coiordt"ra soprano Her trill is OF
the Clearest, pureSt type, and her polSe-
mental, physical, and vOCal-iS such that she
sings with no effort at all. Her tones are
luscious as a cello, and bell-like as a cornet
and the power never seems exhausted. Her
phrasing is welnigh perfect.
And so on, Diet ailing these qualities in
report of her singing of the world S
great masterpieces OF music.
Mime. Schumann Heink will sing in
the Maryland Theatre, Cumberland,
next Thul sday evening, 9th inst. See
advertisement and go.
In the Realm Of Fraternity.
At communication of lodge of Free
Masons. Richmond, Va, September 10th,
last, Hon. ID. G. O Flaherty, now of that
city, delivered an address so impressive
that the publishers of the Virginia
Masonic Journdi printed it i'll full in
their October number.
The copy which reached the JOURNAL
was handed to Frank G. Beall, Past
Master of Mountain Lodge, No. 80, this
place. Mr. Beall attended the regular
communication Thursday evening, Goth
ult., and entertained the Lodge with a
reading, interesting his auditors greatly
| and arousing much favorable discussion.
mot for a long time" the JOURNAL I'M
derstands, has the Lodge been so in
| struCtively entertained
Mr.. O'Flaherty is a long time friend
of the JOURNAL; has been i'll Frostburg
several times, and is favOrably remem-
| bered by many here. At home he ranks
as brilliant lawyer, and, as member
of the last State Constitutional Conven-
ton he took ii leading part in the con-
struction of what is probably the best
organic expression of State government
| i'll this republic.
Unable to print the address in full, this
furnishes few exemplary paragraphs:
Masonry can develop and progress, and
must do so as the world moves on, but it
must keep within its own sphere A study
of the history of true Masonry will demon
| Strate that wherever and whenever 1t has
| done this it has tiOurrShed and been one of
the greatest of all forces that have made for
the development and progress of humanity.
If we study the various degrees but super
| ticially we shall see the development of
Masonry The first three which are the
germ and nucleus of FreemaSOnry are SYM
| bolic. In these degrees there is little that is
traditional. They are not without legend,
but even in what they are legendary, as in
| the Masters Degree, legend is subordinate to
| the symbol.
| In the latter degrees the symbolic is sub
| ordinate to legendary instruction. Hence,
| we have the symbolic degrees, the three of
| the Blue Lodge and the Capltulary, cryptic
| or higher degrees Unconsciously Masonry
| was following the law of It's life, the law of
| growth and Development i'll the establish
ment of these degrees, They were. it is said,
| primarily designed to preserve some event
or series of events. They used symbols, but
the symbols became historical rather than
| dldactlc.
The trowel and the keystone both refer to
| Masonic covenant. but the trOwel has no
| legendary or traditional meaning. 1t Is
simply a symbol, whereas the Keystone of
| the ROYAL Arch, while in sense symbolic,
| is pre-eminently legendary. We sometimes
| hear il said that the first three degrees con-
tain all of Masonry, but he is forgettul of
| the teachings and limitations of those de
| greeS whose mind can fully assent to such a
| statement. As has been said it cannot be
| too often repeated that the word is in
| Masonry the symbol of truth. The search
| for truth is the golden thread that runs
through every degree Not merely the truth
| as found in science, in logic, in mathematics,
| in morals or ethics. but the more i'm
portant truth which is synonymous with
| Cod This truth has not yet been fully
| revealed 10 man, ana through lnc CcItu lleS
| and cycles to come that search will be
| worthy of the attention of the highest type
of men. In the early history of revelation
| He said to Moses: 81 appeared unto Abra
ham, unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the
name of God Almighty; but by my name
| Jehovah was not known unto them ?'
Now Jehovah is of all words in Masonry
the most important. In the original it is
| said to be unpronounCeable it cannot be de
| fined or comprehended If it be not the lost
| word it is the unattalned word. The near
| est definition of it is 10 be. 1t is thus seen
| that we have here noun whose definition
| IS verb, "A verb that expresses being activity
and in no other way can you get proper
| idea or true conception of the master word
of Masonry whose object and aim. whose
ultima H"lc is the attainment of more
| knowledge of light. Once we get the true
conception of Masonry we are not surprised
at its ability to live under all environments
nor at ITS prospect of immortality.
Freedom Council, No. 1913, Jr 0. u
y. NJ, Of this place, has Joined the Fun
| eral Benefit Association of the National
| Council of the Order, through which the
beurticiaries of a deceased member
| receive $3.50.