Interesting To Masons

Tlie followiiifr in reg:ird to the Masonic f raternity, was taken by the Scottish Frecmason from the Hiirleian MSS. ot' 1050. and was headed: "Charges to Mnsons and Masters:" " Every man tliat is a Masón take hied rijrlit well oí this Charge, it vu titule yourself guiltie yt ye may amende yu againe, especially yu that are to t; charged take rood liiwl yt yu raay keep tliia charge for it ís a preat perill for a man to forsweare liini-elie on a hooke. 1 Tlie tirst charge is yu shall be a true man to God and ye holy church, and that yu use no I norerrour by your undcitaiidiiig or teaching of discreet men. 2 Alsoe yu shall be true liege men to the Kin?e without treason or falsehood, and yt yu shall kuow no treason, but that yu amende it if yu may, or else warne the Kinge or his counsell hereof. 3. Alsoe yu shall be to oneanother, that is to say to er Nfaister and Fellow of the Craft of Masourie that be Masons allowed and that yu doe to them as yu would they should doe to yu. 4. Alsoe that every Mason keep true counsell of Lodge and Chamber and all otlier counsell that ought to be kept by way of MaSOorie. o. Alsoe that no Mason theefc in minaiiy so far forth as yu shall know. 6. Uh that yu shall be truc unto the Lorxl and Uateter that yu mrn and truly to see tor dis prollt and advantage. 7. Alsoe that yu doe no uncivility in that house whereby the ('raft should be stavncd. These be chftrgei in general wich every Halster thoak) lioldc, bith Maistere and Fellows " Prealdent BI lot of Harvard college. Itary L. Booth, editor of Harper's Bazar, and the cook at the Parker House, Boston, reoeire the same alary- said to be $6,000 a yi'ar. The foliowinti i"m I.ittle lUxk, Ark., is laiil to havo origtnated tbere: 'A minister called upon to open the senate witli praviT, re)eated the I.urds Prmyer, Whereupon one erentleman turiu-d to another and said: 'Hegtole that and I will bet on it ! I heard the same Ideas expresscd two yeare ago at a funeral in Eureka ' "