Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones.

No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.

It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.