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Show Items of the Craft fathered from Many Suiireee. The fees for conferring the degrees of the. Scottish. Kito in Chic:igo aro as follows: From tho fourth, to the fourteenth degree, inclusive. o0; fifteenth and sixteenth. f-, aeventeenth and eighteenth, f!5; uiua-j uiua-j teenth to thirty-seroml, inrlusive, HC; total. $100. The annual dues for each bixly of the rite are fl; provided, if a member i resides outside th county he shall .lie i charged half dues only. Candidates ro- siding outside the city are allowed an abatement of ten cents a mile, one way mileage. A majority of the Masonic lodges in Pan Francisco have voted favorably on the proposition to dispoae of their present temple tem-ple and erect a new one, M. V. Bro. Walkem, grand master of Canada, was recently presented w ith an oil painting of himself by the brethren of Ancient An-cient St. John's lodge, of Kingston. The recipient is very popular with the members mem-bers of the craft in his native city, nnd uot less so throughout t ho entire jurisdiction. Bro. Peter V. Yates was worthy master of I n ion lodge No. 1, afterwr.ril called Mount Vernon lodge, No. S, of New York, from 1765 to 1. It is doubted that toil thirty-se.veu years of continuous mastership master-ship rnn be paralleled. The Masonic Record, of California, baa lieeu revived. From Xovonihcr, 1S87, to February, IW, it waa merged In The Illustrated Illus-trated Pacific Suites. All the lieutenant governors of lpMir Canada, from Simcoe down, nnd all the governor generals of the dominion, including includ-ing Earl Stanley, were Masons. The centennial of Freemasonry in Cn.il-ada Cn.il-ada occurs iu lfflhj, and a becoming celebration celebra-tion is to be made. ' ' There ara now iu Holland a grand master, mas-ter, n deputy grand master and three Pn-vincial Pn-vincial grand matters over distant dependencies. depend-encies. Under tho Dutch Masonic government govern-ment there aro. about eighty-eight lodges, of which tweuty-two are in South Africa, eight in Fast India, threu in tho islands of Aincnca and Curartia and fifty iivo in Holland. Hol-land. Membership Hlsuit i,M. Prince Frederick William Charles celebrated cele-brated his llft ieth yenr us grand master in 1N00, and cont inued as such for a down and more years thereafter.. The present, grand master is P. J. lt Van Digge'.in.nt Zvvollu. Bro. Sir Henry Aaron Isars, tho lord ninyor of Imdoti.is acquiring much popularity popu-larity by Uis capacity for siiiging hiimoroua songs in a gotwl baritone voice, and playing a capital rnttletybnug obligate on tho piano pi-ano at tho same time. At a dinner the company was ngrccbiy surprised at the lord mayor's rollicking rendering of "Tho l,ov Backed Car,"whirh be gave when called on for a speech. His Intimates any that the way.be sings "We've Both Wren There Before" would be worthy of tho finest impersonator. In ft somewhat recent tsstie The Freemason Freema-son says: "The Frepfiiaaons of Friedland have been much pleased by a pmaeul fuom the Kmperor William, consisting of a valuable valu-able engraving of. Frederick t ho Great as grand master of tho kidffe. The portrait represents the king In his insignia, and hears the underline, 'Frederick the Great as Freemason in 1740.' This-dot not bear out the rumor current somo time ago that the present emperor entertained feelings of antagonism to Freemasonry, and wears glad to see any indications that such rumors ru-mors were false." |