21 j c Centre Democrat. SIH IJKIIT it VAN OIIMKII, Wilom. vol. :>. <£ltc Centre Torm* 51.50 nor Annum in Advance, S. T. SHUGEWT & J. R VAN ORMER, Editor*. Thursday Morning, July 12, 1883. Domocrutic Stnto Convontion. The Democrat k Suto Convention will n". t in the o|htb tiouiar, llarrinl urg, < n \VMu-e lu> . Aiijt 1, .t 1 1 , 4 in ,t- ii BliMtt 11 I UU 1 r A ltd II I 0 Ittiil nrnndhUte f.r Stat* Trs-amircr, anil t*. trant t mil h oilier btnineHl ua the < oiivnitioii may |ctrmlttr. There will aUo be uUA t. the rnmti u a rwolutlon whh h <*< boon nd piad I) the Btal ( mltleo, ehinflliK the rule* of the party !*• ! \ the time of th iiinjial iiDlinK "f th< St.it. • imiit t. || |p in ~ >ti the Wedneidss iftii the t) M tiny of January, tnttha'l of th** third >1 uhy va n-.w provided. Under the 'new rub-* 'f the party th r•;r* *• nt • ti-.i, in the sute Convention w ill he 1 y representative delegates fttill re| t* N.-ntativ • dutri t*. • ii ■' t .%v h l.ovJO DemocratlV v.>tee let at the Ut h'i! -r natorlai election, or for afr v ti-*n •f 1. • • *uch * ' ' amounting to'dn iur in-.re; Provided that* • h reprt*- *• ntutivv district ibll have at !■ et tie its it- . There a ill ! a meeting of the Pea* -it Hut* t'.tnunittee in llarrial urg on Tihvday July l.at f W. 1 lIKS.-KI., J. 11. LtCSTT, Clerk. Chairman State t'• in. THE: Postmaster General has ileci iletl that money orders or registered packages of the Louisiana Lottery Company shall not be delivered through the United States mails. OVEit one hundred members of Apollo Commandery of K. T. at Chi cago, accompanied by ladies, will leave to-day for a voyage to Europe, which is taken in place of a trip to the San Francisco triennial conclave. ... \ AISOL'T seven hundred Mormon Converts landed in New York last week from Kuropc. The Saints per haps never before prospered as they are now doing under the Edmund's law for the suppression of the polyga mous institution. THE Republican State Convention which met yesterday to ratify Loss Quays bargain with Johu Stewart and others for the nomination of Nib s for Auditor General, are not likely to car ry through the programme, without some exciting protests from indepen dent stalwarts. ON the Ith of July, Prof. King made a balloon ascentiun from Clevi - land, Ohio, with A. 1). Davis of Chi cago, aud Rose Kennedy of Spring field, Illinois, who were married in the balloon and took a wedding trip into the cloud# and landed safely a few miles from the city. Rut, no AI) bridges in England are being made of glass, which promises to sujiercede the use of wood and iron for this purpose. The experiments made are said to he highly satisfactory, both as to cost and the solidity of the structure. Tho blocks of glass are hardened by a special process which is the principal jsjint of invention. THE Smithsonian Institute nt Washington has received as a curiosi ty of the cyclone, fivo feet of the butt of a white oak tree, five inches in di ameter a few feet from the ground, through the centre of which a pine l>oard one inch thick nnd twelve in ches wide had been driven several feet by the recent cyclone in Mississippi, A STALWAKT paper figures up the election of the Republican ticket in l*k4, and claims for the Republican candidate# a majority of one in the electoral college. This is figuring pret ty close, and taking comfort on a very small capital. Rut even to obtain this morsel of hope, the hopeful stal wart has to include Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio in making up the result. THE latest hot weather directions to keep cool is given by the New York Graphic thus : Wear a cabbage leaf in your hat. Carry a sun umbrella. Don't walk on the sunny sid- < f tho street. Don t drink too much ico water. Nor beer. Nor spirits. Don't overwork. Don't worry. Knock of!" businets in the beat of the day. Take sponge baths every few minute#. I/ef your business slide and retire to the cool, shady groves. Don't read politi cal editorial*. Never mind about the next President. Put it on ice. Cul tivate prespriation. Hh-ep all you can. Live in your bath room. Think of the poor. Never muid charity, but think of them in some WK>l place. V i A "KI.IIAI. AM) KXAA'T JUATICK TO ALL MAN, "A WIIATKYKR ATA'I K OK I'KUAt.'AAION, KKLIOIOVA OK I'OLITK AL.J. -The farmers in this section now have a startling theory lor the spread of tho Pension t!y and the wheat worm in their grain. At tho last session of the Legislature an art was pas-eil empowering persons to destroy the I nglisli spartows. Thee lords ar<- being slaughtered Ly the wholesale, and the farmers say that tho fly*and worms increase just in proportion B the spar rows are killed. Ihe latter, they say, formerly destroyed the insects, but now the bugs have full plav among the wheat. Gov. PATTIHOJ? by the free u-e of the veto power vested in him by the constitution, and the cog< nt and unanswerable reasons given for each action, has not only ex posed to public view the systematic robbery which had become custom, under various pretexts, hut it has fur nished a k-son to repr -entative#, that more careful investigation would 1- to their credit. Hundreds of objection able laws have been pa-sed, and mil lion- of dollar* improperly, if not c->rruptly, drawn from the public treas ury, mostly in the name of charity and education, without receiving the close scrutiny of the members or of the executive that a prop, r appreciation of duty would demand. Under tin vigilance ofGuv. I'atti-in who applies law and intelligent investigation as part of executive duty, it i* probable the legislature will be more careful of appearing before him with slip-shod enactments seeking his approval. As if to complete the brilliant veto record of Gov. I'attison, his disapproval of the appropriation made for extra pay to the chief clerks nnd other employes over nnd above the salaries allowed liy law is to he commended. These offi cials hold their offices under an an nual salary, and whether employed lot) days, or dOo days no mere appro priation to swell the amount of pay authorized could be justified. That it has been done heretofore, is no reason that the illegal act must he continued. He nrte.l wi-t ly in this mutter and up to the full standard of his duty, and while we sympathize with these officers as we have no doubt also did the Gov ernor, as a citizen wo accord our warmest commendation. Gov. I'ATTIsOK, says the i'hiladc phia lirroril, kept one eye on the con stitution and laws while he ran over the items of the appropriation bill with the other, and ho eliminated everything that had no sanction of a law to give it validity. He holds the legislature strictly to its function and inaugidktcs the reforms intended by the constitu tion of 1873, which have heretofore been neglected through the complais ance of both legislative and executive authority. It is clear that we art real ly going back again to tho sim plicity of an earlier day, when there was an understood relation between salary and service. The governor, it must be remembered, is not cutting down the pay of subordinate officials ; he is cutting away the perquisite#. He has not been able to fall in with the Harrisburg notion that the state is a ponderous nnd prosperous hotly whoso treasury is fait game for nuy ono thai can get the key to it. I 9 .1 BKLLKFONTK, l'A„ THURSDAY, .ILLY Li, JUKI. Kx-< lIAIKMAN ('AI.KINH, {if Indi ana, who distinguished himself as ihe head of the very graceless election committee of the last congress, is measuring the work of the committee of tho next congress hy the corrupt standard adopted and practiced by bis committee. Ile declares tluit few con tested scats w ill he decided at the long se--ion, but at the short session repub lican seats will he emptied without ju->- ticc or compunction, it is to be hoped that the base tyranical precedents of the last Congress will obtain no sym pathy in the next, but that all coutes j ted ( Us- s w ill he decided promptly on I their merits and according to the | rights of parties without waiting until ! the expiration of ('ongrc--:, to de termine tho result of honest elections and honest claims. I'nder Rcpuhli ian practice the conic-ting system has become one of nnmitigntcd fraud and unblushing seotindrclisru in which the 1 ommittec oft' ngri -man < ulkin ■ acted a very prominent and disgrace fnl part in tin Inst < ongr< ". liii Philadelphia /-!> ,rup/i a Ri - puhlicun paper, speaking ofthccour-< of Senator .lohn >t wart ■ si tin upp r li 'iine nt hill cxpre.--e-diappr< hat; n in language not to lie mistindi r-t I. i The ]> "jrajih repre-. Nts :i. i. m t republicans. It says: •M .hn Stew• I art ha- the lloor fr an > xplnnatlou. During the regular -c— i n f tie Dg idature he openly and tirnilv refused to endorse the M'<'racki-u < uigr • si.'iial Apportionment g. rr vmandi r, and went a-i far n- to prepare a hill himself up . a different ami much I more rcputabio basis. Last woek be not only all a. i tin -ame Mc< rack< n I bill to j a-- without protest, but voted for it himself, lather he was wrong in tir-t den .im ing and opposing the bill, or he was wrong uflcrwards in u-- j taining it. It will never heroine a law, but Mr. Stewart'- hill might have he. n pa -• d ; at nil events, the Sena tor from Franklin has made a rn -t • xtraordinarv record before the peo pie of l'ennsyluania." At the regular --i< n. honest, inch jcendent John lm i probably nt re ceived the full me-nure of l! -- < 4 > iny - . atli-ctionate consideration. The S na torial bee in his hat diel not liecomc seriously agitated until (iov. I'atti- n | cnlled him back to perform the neg lected elutv he shirked in defiance of his obligation as a repre -entativc sworn to support and defend the con stitution. ♦ MARSArm srrrr's l sin -TRY. "I have g"t, -ays (iovor nor Rutler, "five ditferent specimens jof tanned -kins of human be ings, t He re is a pair of slipper- cut out from the breast of a wliito woman, ami I have a whole skin from the back of another woman. I his business hnd j got to be a commerce. If this inves tigation has cost $10,000, I nni satis tied it I have accomplished nothing but the stopping f this new ineliistrv. The money is well spent." LKAMXIS GI lIMANS, both in Ohio and lowa are faking affectionate leave of the Republican party as no longer in accord with the sentiments and ob jects of that party. These honest Hermans liegin to discover that "all is not gold that glitters"—that the usur pation of an honest name does not clothe the Federalists with the honest 1 principles they expected to enjoy in their associations, when they left the government of Ilistnark for n home in Democratic Republican America. FKIJIAY, the fith instant, being the last day the Governor had for consid eration of bills before him, he cleared his table, and thus closed up the busi ness of the last session of the legisla ture with the following result: Of the 670 bills introduced in the Senate and House, 253 were passed finally during the session covering 150 days. Of these bills passed 1911 have become laws and GO wero vetoed. I.oyiilly, Vol Organization. tlx liovernor I toy t in capable ol utter 1 ing noble, patriotic, and sound liemo ' cralic sentiments when di-engaged from ■ tho net work which obligations to party w hilo in lino of promotion threw around him. In it speech before tho I'riion , Society of Williams <'ollege, Mu -achu setts, on "Tho Scholar in the Itepublic," delivered on Monday evening of last week, ho took oceaaioti to express him self freely. We regret that only a l.tief extract can bo copied for tho #S'ic. ■<•/ !•' readers. They will Jind. how . over, much for thought and reflection, making a subject of interest t' ill : "It is to principle wo are bound by the , sacred ties of loyalty, and not to orgai. izalion . realty and homage to created ' men, both as matter of form and matter of -lit -lance, have gone out of I i hion. livery private citizen an i < v.-ry inagis Irate has felt the humiliating pressure of being called upon to perform the i 'covenant- running with the land,' so to -peak, of ihc.r assumption of |ro prietornhip set up t v arrogmt dictators and pretended lords paramount. The experience of President 'iarfreld, who j found hi oflirial life empty of pleasure , or prolit, extorted from him the pathet iic utterance 'I have been dealing ul] | tln--• thus the province of Mate-manship is invaded by the vulgarity of wrangling poll men. dfiu are n< ■ i. 1, with your in. .-ive p .tr.ot m and g<-r en ' thu-.a m for o'ial order an-i ound 1 • -oc.al ntaxirn-. to dean u| all the r< mains r.f the old f< ti-h of "bosses,' I "ring-, ' "caucuses, "patronage. ' 'I he pushing place hunter's cry of "regular! . , t). drown tlie voice of the peoj lo for j t purity and decency, a- the -uttee drum iu"d to rlrown the TO Oof con science. You want to cremate the whole pestilential brood in the tirey ! furnace of your condemnation, "begin • ntng at Jerusalem. What is the use ■ of a "temple of liberty" if {solitical corner loafers are to occupy the portico, to the exclusion of the proper cole brants. A'... m l /.in.i. A WRIT I itin the Ilarri-burg Patriot urges the n ■nation of the 11 • >n. Geo. A. Acheobach < : Clinton county a" the Den. cratic candidate for Auditor 'i< in ml. We second the tuition most cordially. No, better man ran be so- ' 1 Icctcd, or one who would give more faithful and li<>nct service to the state. r All Serf-. Coffee is being extensively planted! on the Florida Keys. Mrs. Catherine Chase, formerly Mrs • >prague, ha gone to burope for the 1 • summer. There are more Catholics in New York than in any other city on' the j glolw. M rs.' larfield and her daughter Mnlbe, j ! are at Saratoga and intend to remain ' there for some time. More than amillion person* in Franco j - in throw stones, for they lire in houses that have no windows. San Francisco streat lamps have not been lighted for two months, and will not be until the city pays a big gas bill. Mr, Ivid l'avi* calls interviewers I "tho buzzards of tho press." Ho at all 1 events can furnish ttiorn good picking. What becomes of all tho old clothes pin* when only ono factory down in Maino turns out 110,000 new ones every day ? Brother Boecher can not save any money on a salary of $30,000 a year. The good man probably keeps a cow.— Atlanta Constitution. Man milliners are on tho increase in b.urope. They arc employed in all the fashionable milliner establishments of Pari* and Ixmdon. There aro nhout 14,000 visitors at Baden-Baden thia season, and all the leading buropean watering places are correspondingly crowded. Tho meanest man out, according to the New Orleans /Scayvn*, is the man who knows who is going to bo tho next President, but won't tell. barge tracts of lend in Texas are fenced with hedge* of roses which, in a few years, cheaper than wire, raila, or lumber, form a barrier that neither man nor Feast can pass. Queen Victoria doe* not indulge in the affectation of pretonding not to I 'I KKM-S: per Amiiirn,in Advance. rend tho newspaper . .She takes a morning and an evening daily and several weeklies, .-die is fond of novels, too. The first woman ever appointed to a musical professorship in 'ierrnany is Johanna Wagner, niece of tho great compo er, who lias been assigned to such a po-.it ion at the Munich consorva tory. You want to know the meaning of "filthy lucre,' 1 do you ? Well, it is very evident that you never fished a nickel out til a horse car mat on a muddy day, or you wouldn't be harassing us with such an insane query.- fuck. Dovcrtior fuller's victory in the Tcwksbury matter was recorded when I . J. Marsh, jr., refused to produce tho books, la-cause their evidence would he to his detriment. This act will proha bly also prevent tho intended while washing repoit by tho committee. A Liverpool thief wished to get into a pawnbroker oflice, and thought he could slip down tl.e chimney if naked. - < he took - triiis clothes and made the trial, - nly to g.-t -tuck fa t in the Hue. He remained there all night, and was gl. 1 when finally taken into custody by the jolice. because they had to rescue hin: ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Cuoutnb-ri ant i . have r.'-l hands again. —Over a million J -liar- a week i what w" ] ay in j -onions. Mr. it A Ile-k, tho barber, *.,! re turn fr-irn ITnla ielph -i t Jay. Hah fi.r the lie; . . a:, - -ur.tyti-.kel 1 T :.<• r: ■ .. • ,tj .r. ■ / -Tr. evening tl.< Magic (' met Hand, •f R -art . pre nt a hand".me car.'- .t- It . M M rr M -t ,rg —Mwart Alexander Co. have sur. I--! in m-i'.ruining tin It.iTsi It.r. railr-*i . rnpany fr in g eng th- -gh t! f-ir Coal-yard ' r tb<- j r- >< r t t. cwhero in I iu" -a .11 be f- .rid sltir-i- - delivered by lie v. .1 - n Hewitt nr. IJ. L. Mpar.gler, f .a* n • -er< . f ' -nstan* Commandery. T'e-s; '—r i areful j-er .ial. —Thed-alh f Mr. li. II f well curre-1 at ll inlingd- n, n 'I ie- lay night Mr. F w< ,1 -WH> extensive'y et gagesf lr al and ir n operation* in tins and < :.--i-l C-- in'ie, Hti-J is repute-] t-- have l*-.-ti | very w- althy. Many of the r-ads tn <>ur c mty are t.- l k<-pt in a- g -i a state of rej air as mu:bt tie wished f. r by t) - who arc r mpc'il- lt > travel over them. There is ittb -i ■!• r this nr.• -ke. 1 all round an ! then gave herself a general shaking preparato ry to the struggle noce-sary to properly j < --ndurt a fir't class ce|ehrati'>n. Tlie peaking wa* done on a rane,J platf--rm in front of the National Hotel, by Kev. It Hengst. ThoMillbeim Band furnished the music. —We extend to Mr J. N. Holmes, editor of the 7V m<- Tnt" our condolence and sympathy In the great loss ho ha.' sus tained the death of hi* wife, Mrs 11-ilme had been slaying with her mother j in Philadelphia receiv ing medical treat" ment for consumption but help wa* of no avail and she passed away peacefully on Saturday evening, aged 22 years. Howard had a glorious lime on the 4th instant. The meeting was organized in tho forenoon by llev, Stine who led in prayer. Tho address of welcome was de livered by Mr. K. TV. Barry responded to by I>. S. Keller, Ksq., and the Declara tion of Independence was read by a young Mr. Stino. In tho afternoon the various •thcr features were attended to including the performance of Col. Dan Hastings. He delivered the oration and his effort is spoken of highly. Howard people are to bo congratulated upon their hospitality and enterprise. I/ovx axis FAITH.— It is love that has taught the world, for its happiness, that what has been begun here will not forever bo interrupted, nor what has been ill done forever remain vinatoned ; that the affec tion here kindled will never cease; that the sin committed can be wiped out and tho good conceived can bo achieved ; that all wilbin which ,)s good and happy and forever struggling here—virtue, geniua— will be free to act hereafter ; that the crea. lures thrust r-under In this world may there unite forever. NO. 27. i "A I'KA.-i if I:KA ,v *./ a FLOW or SOPI, —Mr. J, Irwin Hut," irinan, short hand reporter, n member i "fa Cra. - I l'r-iat - uniform to Emin- r.t Sir J'.ev .) ,hn Hewitt, the n.-wly elects l Prelate • i the Gran ; Commandery of Pennsylvania, togeU-'-r wth the Jatter g-rilleina;: t r- j ly. Emim-nt sir .1. 1.. •!( r Hid : hum.'r.t ( .tumar.-i-T —At the r- "fit Ann .al < ,n> .woof Knights Templar a ■ "i' ■ 3 in tin- city of him- Inter, Ly c ri jic . . aiul significant j artiality, v-m 'to. nr. l imuii 1 tire:.! Pr-oato -f th- Grand C rntiv d- ry • f I'< nriylv rua. Ihe| .* ii. tioii ! a member of ( on* -Un- C-.ruriiar.dcry to the salt- d p lition : 'i r: . I'.'' .t" that Gran 1 ltody . a ii,alter ■ ! p ~:ir grati: ation to" this ' riiriiar.'J-ry V ,r j.roriioti-.ri is our i ' fl ' 'ti ii ( J .r ,r- ai The • i-'t ty at.-J .. t ' r. - iiferr-i upon )■ i hy t Grai 1 ( riiuian iery, in j art .- re fh- !■ i ha ii - i ti,( mmarid'-ry. • ver '• t.t i.a;-• tr,- I. -r.-r '> t f.r u- Eminent ( mrnar.d' r. I ; Gran I !':• ite will a fiord you a m t ■!' • ..• ,t •j ■ ort ,r..ty to f>ach and t '.rati,, i. : at, ; . nlvalry which i rrn the , oraf e j • r,. ah -i-r of divine lr.it'. y ,r a! ,• sr. iin i .-try rr. I eminently .a ify j .. r the varied Juti' -if that < -nailed ; notion. 1 trust y iri ay atta.r. t • . r(1 . ; , ~f . .r life. I have r. . .• t. Sir Knight, that y .w, rn; r the heart- and ] •- of -,r Kr. j •. , ; j},;, (■ rn a.lit, *tha . y .• a!. .11v ar 3 . -ai, th - - r/. tret.' of chivalry ar. 1 knight* It . .r - " rt ; t a i and s-cenij ■ lify the ) rincipl-s f our order, you will a.way- have ti." b- arty ;• rt -f • tars ( tntnar, i- ry. V .■ an < r.itaritiy r- > t. ti " fri-e.j,, ' ;ij ; rtan ; sym pathy of y ir own < ton.at. P rv. A a ti.it, ft e of th--.r es teem, f'.'-r. J.fi.,' and atl i for you, I am a.f ,*.ti.,- a . n, t |r - "nt . wit a rn -t \ aiua* e at. I Ireautiful ft a f at i • t ; ; ar. I re.ra..a "fa K ■ igi.t T-'tji; ar. wit ii th-' .t.aigma < f y.' • a . I*r- .it f th-* (.rand 1 -ri.n ar. i-Ty 'J r- ;a. a < r-sitU, a ■ . a "rve, a *ut.t..l rl.aj.-au, a;. la. Jr. -., be.:, i ri, gauntlrU and va '. ■r, -a '. art.cie rnaaing tif, tbi* tna;;n . T.t j . wili nt fa.3 t have "i -. -V' i the cral.-m of our order, the ii ly (' wt. ii t' a b-' y . and all us, tt.at Tetnj-iar; rn i founded uj-on J-rit ; f ' t.t t >r, ty, and that we a*'* *w -ri ft; t.t o! tt ■■ ( rou Permit is- St K: t, t ; tli > merr. ral-i-i W' td • far. -tr: is jre 3<<*<,r, in the ' (-rar.J Pri it-, who on a similar I • ti said • I ( r •• w . lai . t wr-r'.J. Let ei.treat y u V> lire beneath it influ . wa.h it. .u li.."iit. r-et in its s!iad"W, • 3 wi.-n lifi-'s w ri. is ended, the laU ttle 1 atirig n ' iht and w--n, lay i i'-u r. at the fo ; f tt.e Cross and die, tt i II" wh--s< right it is wi.l prevent o u His Father t-l • cr- wned with giorv aii i irnni- rta..'y. This • the h.gh- t and best greeting of C • sti-t- ( mrnand-rv t a faithful and <)" v. ted - li- r the Cr, 1n w pre. ►-•fit v i ir. 1- .if ■f ( tan- < - • ry. with ti. - ! ant : . -3 e* ..sit- j r--v • *.t. th- htghe-t evi ..-r. ■ f tt- ir lore and aiTmic nf rj u. Mayy>-u live long and t." haj f y Kit in- • t sir K- v. .1 hn 11- witl, repii"d : S.r Knight Sj.angler and Sir Knights < f t'onstar.s Comri.andery —You are well awar-' h w utter,y in-j- - tie it is for any. ■ ■r.e. under circumstanr- • f such gr-'at su'r ]'iise, to mat." a | r-'j -r n ponsetocuch an addre" a- that whi- h Str Knight Sj angler has just givn utt- rance U>. and j.articular. Iv to use filling language to express. Uianks fir such a token <>f regard anil os t-etn a- ttiis which is disjdayed f efore me now. Ilut I canro'l arc jt it witfiont sav in ; a word t • my friend-, the Sir Knights !-re, an ! all 11.• -• • f this (' rnmandery. ♦ Perhaj ■ 1 canm-t express s I would like, what I have to 'y, but wtiat i* in my niln lis this Whaiever h- mrs the (irai.-l ('--mmandary of th-' Slate of Pennsylvania has conferred u}~>n me are not mine, but belong to Constant Commandery. It is due to C'onstans ('"rnmandery, in the first place, that I became a Knight Templar ; it is due also to Constant Commandery that I have 1-een no advanced in Templar ism a* to gain the position I now occupy of Grand Prelate. Whatever honors, there, fore, belong to this office are in the earo snd keeiiing of tVntlans Commandery. And in the use regalia now j'resen to-1 to me, I shall'alwayt feel pleasure, and entertain grateful recollections of the many kindnesses which have already gone before it, not only from Constant Commandery, as such, but from ever* member of it in dividually. Would to God that I might be able to perform the duties which devolve upon me in my several relations to vou, in tho position of Grand Prelate of tltc .State of Pennsylvania, and of Eminent Commander of this Commandery, in such a manner a* that they might have a lasting effect upon the minds and characters of every Sir Knight connected with this Commandery,. and of the entire jurisdiction. It is something to me. Sir Knights, to know that I have earned your good will and affection, and I assure 'you I feel that it has been full, without stint, without re straint. Never do I meet any member of this Commandery without feeling that I have in him a brother and a friemf. How ever opposite our several occupations, I feel that wo meet upon the level and part upon the square, and 1 trust that this new token of your esteem will, if possible, bind us still more closely together in the bonds offiaternal love and affection, and make us more earnest In our efforts to exemplify the divine truths which our order is in tended to inculcate, not only for the bene fit of ourselves, but for the benefit of the community In which we live. 81 f Knights, accept my sincere thanks.