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eign Grand Lodge. just closed Al Indian
apolis, Ind, show that much new business
of interest to the order at large MAS
transacted The law by which the gen
eral commanding the Patriarchs Militant
was elected every four years by vote
of the grand representative was amendti !
SO that in the future the general COM
handing will be appointed every two
years by the grand sire. and Will he sun
ordinate to the grand sire, instead OF. rs
in the past, to the independent head 81
the Patriarchs Militant. There appears T.
be quite a diversity of opinion among the
rank and file of the order as TO the wis
dom of the change
Golden Rule Lodge. No. Il. at its meet
ing Tuesday evening received two appli-
cations for membership hy initiation.
Noble Grand W. 7. Ledbetter and the
new assistant degree directors. Past
Grands Fred. A. Norway. w W. Louk.
s. H. Gwynne and j. W. Clampitt, are
organizing the degree teams and planning
for greater efficiency in the work Of con
ferring the degrees.
The lodgeroom is being repaired and
newly carpeted. and plans are being
made TO secure new regalia and para
phernalia. Past Grands James IL Crew,
G. r. and John w. Hollyday, g. NJ, have
been appointed a committee to secure es-
Inmates and prices.
Past Grand w. ". Dyre of Eastern
Lodge No l. and w. J. Rogers of Golden
Rule Lodge made short addresses on Odd
Fellowship. Brief remarks also were
made by Walter Allen. J. 5. Allison, j.
A. Gottsman. +. NJ Hallback Mark
Riley, r. Vanderschaaf and Others.
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MASONIC.

LODGES.
Sept. 23-Dawson, No. 16. r. A.: Penfal-
Pha. y No. Il Is M,speeiab' N. NJ; Arn'nius'
Sept 2s-rederai. No. l. important bust
ness; Takoma. No. %. NJ VI.
Sept. Harmony. No. II: pm, +. C.;
pm. NJ. NJ.
Sept, 2s-Trmple. No. -. F. c.
Sept 20 Masters Association 1911, Hi
ram Lodge Library.
ROYAL ARCH CHAPTERS.
Sepr. 25-Mount Vernon. No. 3. X. A.
Sept 2,i-Mount Horeb. No. Z. Mark.
Sept. Washington. No. >. Z. NJ. and
VI. r. VI.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR COMMASDERIES.
No work buletined. for Communicates the
coming week.
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH
RITE
Sept- 20 Mithras Lodge Of Perfection, 8
pm. 4th. 18th and 18th degrees.
Sept. 26- Robert de Bruce Council OF ka-
do-h. business: Albert Pike Consistory.
quarterly meeting; Evangelist Chapter,
Sept. 27-Robert de Bruce Council OF
kadosh. goth, gath aud Goth degrees.
Apt. 2S-Robert de Bruce Council Of
kadosh, 3oth degree; Albert Pike Con-
sistory. $50 pm. 3lst and 32d degrees.
EASTERN STAR CHAPTERS.
Sept. :5-Temple, No ID: Columbia, No.
Sept. 20 -Electa. No. =; Bethlehem No I.
Sept. 21-Naomi No. 3: Brookland No IL
MISCELLANEOUS.
Sept. 2J-Masonic and Eastern Star Home
directors meeting Supreme Council,
Yelled Prophets.
Sept Is KaiiipoIis Grotto. Yelled Proph-
cts, ceremonial session.
/. Sept. 2s-Almas Temple. Mystic Shrine,
ceremonial session.
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The assembling in this city of the Su-
preme Council of the Mystic Order of
Yelled prophets of the Enchanted Realm
and its entertainment by Kallipolis Grot-
to, No. 10 of that order. and ceremonial
sessions both by kallipoiis Grotto and
Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine are
items Of interest in Masonic circles this
week. The visiting Supreme Council Of
the Prophets will be the guests not only
Of the local grotto. but in a sense of the
citizens of Washington. who have I'm a
marked degree extended the council the
hospitality of the CAPITAL city of the ma
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In the absence from this city of Grand
Marshal Alex Grant, Grand Master kei-
per has designated f. St Clair Thomp-
son as acting grand marshal, and as
such he will have charge of the process
sion at the corner stone laying, October
Is. BY order of the grand master Grand
Secretary Arvine w. Johnston has sent
a circular letter to the constituent lodges
advising them OF the invitation of Sover-
eign Grand Commander Richardson to
Grand Master KEEPER and the Grand
Lodge to lay the corner stone of the new
Scottish Rite Temple, and outlining the
instructions for the assembling and route
or the procession.
All the lodges are requested to gather
at Masonic Temple. 18th street and New
York avenue at 30 o'clock October 18.
special communication of the Grand
Lodge will open at that hour. The lodges
will mass as follows
Beginning at 18th and / streets north
west on the east side of 18th street,
right resting on | street. Mount Pleasant
Lodge, No. 81; thence next SOUTHERN
pie Lodge, No 80; and the formation will
continue in the order of juniority south
TO New York avenue. thence east on New
York avenue until formation is complete
Visiting lodges will form on north side
of l street. right resting on 18th street
Visiting Scottish Rite Masons will form
on south side OF II street, facing north
right opposite 1919 II street
Each master will designate some menu
Der of his lodge to report to the aids OF the
grand marshal at Masonic Temple at /
pm, for the purpose Of receiving num-
bers on STATS, which will be used to in
dictate the positions of lodges.
Past Masters Charles Cyrus Coombs.
William T. Hastings Louis d. Carman
and Charles j. James and DIR. Frank
+. Gibson have been appointed as aids to
the grand marshal and will be obeyed ac
cordingly.
Music will be furnished by two bands
tone mounted).
Under the direction of the grand mar
shall. the Supreme Council of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite, escorted nv
detachment Of mounted police, the mount
ed band, De Molay Mounted Command
cry, No. 4. Knights Templar. and the
Camp Guard of Albert Pike Consistory.
No. /, A. A. s. r., under command Of
Capt. Frank E. Gibson. will proceed at ,
pm. from the House of the TEMPLE. I'd
and h streets northwest. by way of I'd
street to Pennsylvania avenue to 18th
street northwest. to Masonic TempIe
where lines will be formed as follows:
Mounted police.
Mounted band.
De Molay Mounted Commandery, No 4,
knights Templar
On foot:
Visiting Scottish Rite Masons who eject
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Inspecting Lights and Buoys.

Commander Poundstone, L. :. ". in
spector in charge Of the fifth lighthouse
district has sailed from Baltimore aboard
the lighthouse tender Maple, Capt. Miles.
on an inspection trip of the lights and
buoys on Chesapeake bay and its tribu-
taries
The Maple was last week employed un-
der the supervision of Supt. Arthur Of
the lighthouse service in getting courses
for the new range lights which are 10
be established shortly for the convenien -
of mariners navigating the Fort McHenry
channel, Baltimore harbor.
The nun buoy OFF Wharton point. Chess
apeake bay. a guide to mariners on tie
upper part of the bay and its approaches
to Delaware and Chesapeake canal is To
be changed to a light buoy. Notice will
be given by the inspectors for the fifth
district when the change is made.
Light vessels Nos. 40 and - are at a
pier in Lower Canton, Baltimore harhor
completing a general overhauling prepar-
atory to returning to their stations.
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to form as such.
Visiting communicates of Knights
Templar.
Local communicates of knights Tenn
plar, viz:
Washington, No. 1.
Columbia, No. 2.
Potomac No. 3.
Orient, No. g.
Band.
Visiting blue lodges.
Local blue lodges in the order hereto
fore designated.
Camp Guard Of Albert Pike Consistory,
No. 1, A. A. S. r., as personal escort to
the Supreme Council.
In carriages:
The Supreme Council. A. A. s. r.
The Grand Commandery of Knights
Templar.
The Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Ma
| sons.
The Grand Lodge. F. A. A. NJ.
The line of march from Masonic Tenn
pie will be from 18th street north to
street, west to 18th street, north to
street.
Before the exercises begin the lodges
Will be dismissed for the purpose of ad-
vantageous assembly to witness the cere-
monies.
After the exercises are concluded the
! lines will be formed as follows:
First division-Mounted police. mounted
| band, DeMolay Mounted Commandery.
i
knights Templar. Camp Guard. A. A. s.
r.; Supreme Council. A. A. S. r.
Second division-Band. local comman-
| deries of knights Templar. viz. Wash
ington, No. 1; Columbia, No. ?; Potomac,
No. ); Orient. No. ); the Grand Com
mandery. X. T.; the Grand Chapter. r.
A. M; the Grand Lodge. F. A. A. NJ
The column will return over the line of
march to Masonic Temple. where the sec
ond division will halt and disband the
first division will continue over the line
of march to the House Of the Temple
and disband.
Grand Secretary Johnston states in his
circular:
THE occasion being one of great i'm
portance in the annals of the fraternity,
the grand master hopes the brethren will
| see in 1t an opportunity to emphasize by
a large attendance and commendable APP
pearance, the influence of the fraternity
as a vital force in the affairs of our COM
munity.'
Mai George F. Lyon of the Philippines
Const abulary, a member of Orient Com
mandery, No. 3, and Almas Temple, was
in the city last week for the first time in
five years, and called at the temple.
Lebanon Lodge, No. Z. will celebrate
it's one hundredth anniversary two weeks
from today. According to the Masonic
calendar the lodge was chartered Oc-
tober 8, 1911. Three days will be oc-
cupied more or less. with the celebration.
There will be q communication of the
lodge at Masonic Temple Friday. October
g, to which the fraternity in general has
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been invited. It will also be the evening
for the grand visitation of Grand Master
j. Claude KEEPER and the Grand Lodge
officers
Sunday, October 8. the anniversar.
VIII be devoted to religious services al
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church. under the direction of the lodges
chaplain. 7. Elwood Davis, in which al
the clergymen members of the lodge will
take part To this also the fraternity Is
invited.
Tuesday evening, October 10, there will
be a reception and musical in the large
ball room of the New Willard Hotel, g
strictly lodge function, in honor "of the
ladies of Lebanon Lodge and their in.
! vited guests" Admission to this func.
0. Frank Hart grand secretary of the
Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter OF
South Carolina. was in the city Monday
/ to inspect Grand Secretary Johnston S
| card index system, which will be put in
called upon Secretary General Kerr at
the Scottish Rite Cathedral.
Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine will
hold its first grand ceremonial session
after it's summer recess Friday even;ns,
at s o'clock, at the National Rifles
Armory to mark the celebration of Fed
! FL Fitr." or 0the breaking of the fast
Of Radaman." and commemorate Sit
Joowaereeyah, of whom it is said .'She
was truly great; she neither wore hobble
nor harem skirts
Recorder Harrison Dingman has pre-
pared a characteristic circular of an
lnouncement. Oue of its paragraphs is
entitled What the Shrine Is and Why
1t Exists 1t reads follows:
The Shrine is secret order with few
mysteries. 1t is secret. not that 1t has
aught to conceal. but simply that it may
choose its own associates and have q way
and means of distinguishing and scpa-
rating them from the Crowd of Common
Men. 1t is one big family of brothers.
and has the same right to protection
from the public as has the household.
Its membership is composed Of our best
citizens, moral upright, virtuous law
abiding fathers, husbands. sons and
brothers, and all of them Masons in good
standing. Their love and respect Of the
order is sufficient guarantee of its honest
and good purpose.
"Our claim is that We are here to fill
what is known as 'fong-felt want
That our mission Is to do all that in our
power lies to cause men to forget their
worries. troubles and cares of life, and
look upon the bright side. giving them
somewhat of hope and joy, and send
them out into the world, better prepared
to withstand it's rebuffs AMI disappoint-
ments.
I'VE believe that it is better t. be
happy than to be sorrowful. better to be
mirthful than to be miserable; we be-
lieve in doing all that we can to help
our brother cast of the carking cares OF
life"
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A further bit of information given runs
as follows:

A further bit of information given runs
as follows:
When the billy goat butts
And the cannon explodes.
When You slide on your ear
Or skate your nose,
When You hit the floor hard.
Then fly to the ceiling,
When your head gets to swimming
And you have a queer feellng,
Don't grumble or Kick,
And never repine,
Don't think it's nightmare
You're joining the Shrine
Hope Lodge, No 20. gave it's members
and invited guests a jolly little supper
at the New Fredonia Friday evening
after its communication. There were
about a hundred in the party. including
masters Of lodges in Rockville and Bethes-
da, Md Worshipful Master Rudolph 3
Behrend was POSTMASTER.
Charles c. Kneisly. committee on cor
Grand Council of Omaha. has compiled
interesting data concerning the several
bodies of the Masonic fraternity in the
states and territories 1t gives figures as
they were in 1910. and shows that in the
District there were twenty-nine blue
lodges. with membership of 9.OS3;
twelve Royal Arch chapters, with a MEM
bership of 3.5S7: two Councils of Royal
and Select Masters. with membership
of 25o. and five Knights Templar COM
743. The figures in each case showed
a gain over the preceding year.
The pamphlet also shows that through
ont the entire United States. exclusive
of the insular possessions, Hawaii in
Guided in the latter. there are 1883
lodges, and 1..SS. 4S1 master Masons; $50
Royal Arch Chapters, with total mem
bership of 397, Oh; .O43 Councils of Royal
and Select Masters, with a membership
of JOG. 541, and 1.e33 templar command
cries, with a membership of POI 96o. The
data, Mr.. Kneisly states. was furnished
by the grand secretaries and grand re-
corders throughout the country
Martha Chapter, No. 4, Order Of tho
Eastern Star, announces number or
events in the future. among them a
rummage sale, tour around the
world under the auspices of the Star
Points" Wednesday evening. October 4.
and a musical by the choir Friday even
ing. October &, when the offerings for the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home will be
brought in. The tour around the world
is promised to be unusually unique. and
refreshments will be served at the end.
Religious services will be held at the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home at )
O'Clock this afternoon. under the auspices
of Arminius Lodge, No. .. Rev. Paul r.
Hickok, pastor of the Metropolitan Pres
byterian Church, will deliver the address.
Members Of the fraternity will be well
coined.
Naomi Chapter. No. 3. Order of the
Eastern Star, will have degree work and
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ODD FELLOWS.
LODGES.

LODGES.
Sept. 25-Tnion. No. II: Beacon. No. l.:
Covenant, No. IS; Excelsior. No. Il.
and Langdon, No. %, regular business.
Sept. Washington. No. 6; Golden Rule.
No. 81: Phoenix. No. IS, and Amity,
No. 81. degree work.
Sept; 27-Eastern. No; I. degree work
and Federal City, No. 20, regular
business
Sept. 2S-Columbia. No. TO- degree work.
Salem. No. %. regular business.
Sept. 2l-Central No. I. and Metropolis.
No. IL. degree work.
ENCAMPMENTS
Sept. o6-Fred d. Stuart, No. Z. degree
work.
Sept 2I-Columbia. No. /. degree work.
REREKAH LODGES.
Sept. 25-Esthcr, No. ;. degree work
Sept. 29-Dorcas, No. 4, regular business.
PATRIARCHS MILITANT.
Sept. 30-Canton Washington. No. j, So
cia session.
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ton Many business houses have been
decorated in honor of the event. and the
| Washington Chamber Of Commerce, with
its accustomed enterprise. is lending a
hearty hand in doing the honors of the
| occasion.
:! In the strictly Masonic sense. the con-
! ferring Of the degrees from the fourth to
| the thirty-second by the local Scottish
Rite bodies of the southern jurisdiction
of the United States at the cathedral
| Sd and f streets northwest, furnishes
| the chief Masonic event of the week The
| ceremonies will extend over three even
/ ings. The fall class is large one. and
\ there is a general spirit of. enthusiasm
I among the officers and members of the
/ rite.
| In Mithras Lodge of Perfection tomor-
| row evening, beginning at q o'clock. the
| fourth. fifth and fourteenth degrees will
| be worked in full ceremonial form.
| A feature of the cast for the fifteenth
| degree in Evangelist Chapter, Rose CroiX,
Tuesday evening, will be the appear
ance of Admiral Winfield Scott Schley,
SD degree honorary. as Scribe Nehe-
| miah. The chapter will also confer the
eighteenth degree the same evening.
Wednesday evening Robert de Bruce
Council knights Kadosh. will confer the
twentieth. twenty fourth and twenty
ninth degrees, and the thirtieth degree
Thursday evening, beginning at O'Clock
At $40 o'clock Albert Pike Consistory
will confer the thirty-first degree, to be
| followed, at 10 pm, by the thrtysecond
degree. in which Secretary General STIR
/ ling Kerr. jr., sd degree honorary, will
| be the Venerable Master of kadosh.
| In the Scottish Rite circular announcing
the degrees for the week is a request
coming from Sovereign Grand Commander
i Richardson that all mnmhefS of the
who are members Of local blue lodges
will join their respective lodges instead
of the Scottish Rite contingent in the
| procession the day the corner stone of the
new temple at 18th and streets north
west is laid, October Is. The object OF
the request IL to prevent the depletion of
the lodges In the parade which will be one
| of the York Rite rather than the Scot
| fish Rite bodies. Invitations have been
sent through the Grand Masters o. Mary
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land and Virginia to the blue lodges of
those states to be present and join the
procession The corner stone will. OF
course, be laid by Grand Master J. Claude
KEEPER. assisted by the officers of the
Grand Lodge.
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Turner A. Shaffer. a well known bust
ness man, died Friday at Woodstock Va.
after an illness of several weeks %
typhoid fever. He was forty-eight years
old.
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refreshments at its meeting Wednesday
evening" 1t announces "a program and
something to eat for October II.
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Naomi Chapter. No. 3. Order of the
Eastern Star, will have degree work and
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The ''Washington,"
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GERMANY WILL
ACCEPT OFFER
PARIS RECEIVES ADVIcEs WHICH
LIFT LOWERING WAR
CLOUDS.

Paris, Sept 6.-Adyices received
here today from Berlin intimate that
the German imperial chancellor, Dr.
Won Bethmann- -Hollweg, has indicated
his acceptance Of Frances proposals.
presented last Monday to the German
foreign minister, Herr Won Kiderlen-
Weascher, by the French ambassador
N. Cambon, looking to a settlement
Of the Moroccan dispute.
The French. foreign office, however
maintains an attitude Of reserve re-
garding the progress of the negotia-
tions.
Dispatches which look as though
they had common origin at the French
embassy in Berlin, received today by
several Paris newspapers, also indi-
cate that an early agreement between
France and Germany in the Moroccan
dispute is probable.
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BIG FIRE LOSS
In BIRMINGHAM
PLANT OF THE ARMOUR PACK.
ING COMPANY IN THAT
CITY DESTROYED.

Birmingham, Ala, Sept. 6.-The
cold storage and local depot of the
Armour Packing company, a hand
some fye-story building, with COM
plete refrigerating, sausage making
and packing plant, was destroyed by
are this morning.
The fire burned fereely for several
hours, every piece of fire department
OF the greater city being brought in
TO fight the flames. The loss is
100000
Smoke and water damage. though
slight, will be felt by the Cudaly
Packing company, Irwin,
wholesale shoe dealers, and the Col
Inns company, wholesale grocery deal
ers, in the Immediate vicinity. The
Ere started in the beef room from un-
known causes. The Armour plant was
opened in July.
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AUTOISTS WERE
HEAVILY FINED
TWO ARRAIeNED BEFORE MAYOR
YESTERDAY FOR EXCEEDING
SPEED LIMIT.

F. H. Mallard, the well-known lum-
herman and local agent for the EMF
automobile, and e. ". Lott, who
drives a public machine in the city,
were arraigned before Mayor Butts
yesterday morning on the charge OF
exceeding the speed limit on Tuesday
afternoon. Both of them were con
yicted and a fine of $50 was imposed
on each OF the offenders.
1t seems that Tuesday afternoon
these two machines We're raturhing
from the baseball park When coming
down B street they engaged in a reg
ular speed race, one machine endeav-
oring to pass the other At just what
rate Of speed they We're coming could
not be estimated, but in the language
of the average auto they were sim
ply burning it up Officers were
told of the performance and cases
were preferred against both o. them.
In imposing this heavy sentence
upon the offenders, Mayor Butts stat
ed that he had hoped that none Of
the local autoists would appear before
him on the charge Of exceeding tle
speed limit, as he and the city auth
critics had been lenient with the au-
toists, but inasmuch as these TWO
cases had been made he would have
to make an example of them, conse-
quently the $50 fine.
And in this connection it is safe t.
predict that the next autoist who an.
pears before the mayor on the same
charge will have to pay even a heav-
Ter fine. He is determined to put a
stop to the reckless driving of auto
mobiles within the city limits. MANY
serious accidents have been narrowly
averted in the past, and the mayer
points out that it win be too late to
put a stop to the fast and reckless
driving after someone is killed
Both the defendants paid the fines
imposed.
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ANOTHER STORM
NOW REPORTED
MAKING UP ON JA-
MAICAN COAST, MAY PROVE
SERIOUS ONE.

Washington, Sept. 6.-The approach
of the second West Indian storm of
the season was reported to the wealth
er bureau today from the stations in
Jamaica, which island lies in the track
of these storms as they sweep across
the Atlantic, over the West Indies and
Gulf and thence, usually, into the
Southern states.
Only meager reports We're received,
as the disturbance was some distance
off the jamaican coast. The indica-
tions were only slight, but they show
ed a storm in the Caribbean sea to
the south southeast of the island.
May Avoid America.
Officials Of the weather bureau to-
day said they were unable, from the
reports thus far received, to say how
extensive it was, but they believed it
would probably pass through the Ca
ribbean and on to Yucatan, as they
sometimes do. They thought it was
unlikely that the storm would swerVe
northward and strike the American
coast.
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A DELIGHTFUL OFFERING.
Attractions at the Pastime Theatre
Tonight are Varied.


The recent addition of vaudeville
as one of the attractions at the Pas
time is being warmly endorsed by the
pleasure-Iovers of the city, and this
popular little playhouse is playing to
capacity houses nightly. For tonight
they are offering the usual high class
vaudeville act, which is special for the
occasion, and three pictures, all Of
which are deserving of special men
ton
First, we will have a delightful COM
edy by sweet little Alice Joyce Next
we viii have the grandest picture
ever shown of Father Neptune in one
of his turbulent moods. A general
strike gives one a very graphic and
realistic idea of the great discomforts
of great strike. It is needless to
say that great crowds will be out to-
night to see this all-star program.