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Excerpt from Dalhousie Lodge F. And A. M., Newton, Massachusetts; Fiftieth Anniversary, 1860-1910: History of the Lodge Fifty years ago the black shadow of an impending civil strife With all its attendant horrors was spreading over our land. A for eign war, happily of short duration, like the passing of a cloud athwart the sky, has since darkened the horizon. The cruel hand of the as sassin has stricken from the roll of the living three of the nation's beloved and honored rulers. While earthquake, conflagration, and flood, disasters, incident to all times, have devastated property and destroyed life, yet despite these calamities the bright sunlight of peace and prosperity has dispelled the gloom and cleared away the darkness of the era's dawn and sheds its radiance over our fair land to-day. The telephone, Wireless telegraph, development of light and power, and innumerable other inventions in electrical science border ing on the marvellous; triumphs of engineering skill, stupendous in magnitude, surpassing the pyramids of ancient times; Wonders in architectural construction rivalling even the rrfagnificent Temple of Solomon; the conquest of the air and the depths of the sea; the discovery of radium, the X-ray, and other notable revelations in chemistry; the extension of countless miles of railways, and the multiplication of ingenious and powerful machinery far beyond the dreams or conception of previous times are but a few of the material achievements of this great age of invention and progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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