GOOD TEMPLARS, a temperance society which combines the principles of teetotalism with certain mystic rites, imitated less or more from freemasonry, having secret signs, pass words and insignia peculiar to itself. It origi nated in Utica, N. Y., where it was organized by Daniel Cady and others, in 1851, and ex tended to England in 186& There is no re striction placed on membership on account of color, age or sex. The organization consists of local "subordinate" lodges, county "district" lodges, national "grand" lodges and an interna tional "supreme" lodge. A "juvenile order" is also attached, and the Templars have founded an orphanage at Sunbury, near London, at a cost of $50,000. The Prohibition party was formed in 1869 by a committee appointed by the Right Worthy Grand Lodge, the then governing body of the order. In Templar women founded the Women's Chris tian Temperance Union. The order maintains the Washingtonian Home for Inebriates at Chicago, Ill., and an orphans' home at Vallajo,
Cal. It has no beneficiary system. Its plat form consists of total abstinence from all in toxicating liquors as a beverage, no license, but prohibition of manufacture and sale, and the election of mcn who will enforce the liquor laws. The motto of the order is 'Faith, Hope and Charity.a It is an outgrowth of the Sons of Temperance. The recent reports of the international secretary returned the number of grand lodges as 70 and the membership in both adult and juvenile branches, 620,000. There are grand lodges in nearly all States of the Union, in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Hungary, Rumania, Holland, Can ada, the West Indies, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, British India, Iceland and other countries.