Published in 1913: PUTTING ON IVORY KEYTOPS by Carl O'Dell

The first thing necessary in putting on new ivory is to equip one's self with the proper tools for doing such work. Here is a list of tools that is well to carry in the grip (tool case - ed.) if one expects to put on any ivories and make any kind of job out of it, viz: One good scraper, one 1/4" chisel, one 6 inch medium fine file, one good pocket knife, several second hand ivories of various shades and lengths, 4/0 sandpaper, 3/0 pumice stone, several ivory clamps, and a quantity of glue which I will mention later on.
First, clean all old glue off of the key, being careful to keep the surface level. Next, take the 1/4 inch chisel, lay it on edge with the point against the end of the tail ivory and draw it gently across the end of same several times, which will perfectly clean off the old joint. Next, take the knife and carefully scrape the top edge of the tail ivory which will clean off the burr left by the chisel and also make it possible to see when you have a perfect joint. Now select from your supply of second hand ivory the one best suited to your requirements and place same on some flat surface which will make it possible to file the jointed end; draw your file gently across this end, being careful to keep said joint end true or square with the file; then remove the burr caused by the use of the file and scrape in the same manner as done with the tail ivory. This method of procedure will always make it possible to see when you have a good joint.
Next comes the glueing. For this purpose I use a cement which I make myself; the formula is as follows, viz: Take a quantity of Le Pages glue and stir in French zinc (in powdered form) until the mixture is perfectly white. If, however, the mixture is too thick, thin with vinegar to the desired consistency. Next, put on a thin coat of the cement and clamp in the usual manner, being careful to hold the ivory firmly to keep from slipping, as it is very necessary that no cement ooze up through the joint, as this will produce a thin black line at the joint which will be impossible to remove. Let this work stand for an hour and a half at least. It is a very dangerous operation to polish this ivory after standing so short a time; however, if much care is used this can be done successfully.
To polish, scrape the ivory in the usual manner being careful not to hollow out the tail piece back of the joint, then sand with 4/0 sandpaper after which rub with 3/0 pumice stone and alcohol, then polish with French whiting and alcohol.
Next place the key in the key-frame and if found too long, draw the file across the end gently until it is the proper length, then shape the corners to match.

Our Fair Share of Taxes

Long ago Ronald Reagan requested information on how to cut down on government waste (although he didn’t seem to have a problem signing budgets that included hundreds of billions of dollars in unconstitutional spending). That report was done by the Grace Commission; the formal name is the President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, which was issued on Jan. 12, 1984. On page 12 we read:

“With two-thirds of everyone’s personal income tax wasted or not collected, 100 percent of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt and by Federal Government contributions to transfer payments. In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their government.”

Those individual “income” taxes you voluntarily pay don’t fund the military or anything else. They go for transfer payments, meaning the exorbitant interest paid to the unconstitutional “Federal” Reserve for renting our own money, U.N. dues and foreign banking interests like the corrupt IMF (International Monetary Fund) – the fruits of your labor stolen from us to throw around the world. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it give Congress any authority to steal from us to throw those funds to foreign banking entities or the big money racket known as the U.N.

Then how does the government pay the bills they rack up in every bloated budget sent to a president? Read the next article.

A Thumbnail Look at the Infamous Albert Pike - from the ThreeWorldWars website

Albert Pike was born on December 29, 1809, in Boston, and was the oldest of six children born to Benjamin and Sarah Andrews Pike.  He studied at Harvard, and later served as a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army. After the Civil War, Pike was found guilty of treason and jailed, only to be pardoned by fellow Freemason President Andrew Johnson on April 22, 1866, who met with him the next day at the White House. On June 20, 1867, Scottish Rite officials conferred upon Johnson the 4th to 32nd Freemasonry degrees, and he later went to Boston to dedicate a Masonic Temple.
Pike was said to be a genius, able to read and write in 16 different languages, although I cannot find a record anywhere of what those languages were.  In addition, he was widely accused of plagiarism, so take that with a pinch of salt, and maybe a little pepper too.   At various stages of his life we was a poet, philosopher, frontiersman, soldier, humanitarian and philanthropist.  A 33rd degree Mason, he was one of the founding fathers, and head of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, being the Grand Commander of North American Freemasonry from 1859 and retained that position until his death in 1891. In 1869, he was a top leader in the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Pike was said to be a Satanist, who indulged in the occult, and he apparently possessed a bracelet which he used to summon Lucifer, with whom he had constant communication. He was the Grand Master of a Luciferian group known as the Order of the Palladium (or Sovereign Council of Wisdom), which had been founded in Paris in 1737. In 1801, Issac Long, a Jew, brought a statue of Baphomet (Satan) to Charleston, South Carolina, where he helped to establish the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Long apparently chose Charleston because it was geographically located on the 33rd parallel of latitude (incidentally, so is Baghdad), and this council is considered to be the Mother Supreme Council of all Masonic Lodges of the World.
Pike was Long's successor, and he changed the name of the Order to the New and Reformed Palladian Rite (or Reformed Palladium). The Order contained two degrees:

• Adelph (or Brother), and
  
• Companion of Ulysses (or Companion of Penelope).
  

Pike's right-hand man was Phileas Walder, from Switzerland, who was a former Lutheran minister, a Masonic leader, occultist, and spiritualist. Pike also worked closely with Giuseppe Mazzini of Italy (1805-1872) who was a 33rd degree Mason, who became head of the Illuminati in 1834, and who founded the Mafia in 1860. Together with Mazzini, Lord Henry Palmerston of England (1784-1865, 33rd degree Mason), and Otto Von Bismarck from Germany (1815-1898, 33rd degree Mason), Albert Pike intended to use the Palladian Rite to create a Satanic umbrella group that would tie all Masonic groups together.
Albert Pike died on April 2, 1891, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, although the corpse of Pike currently lies in the headquarters of the Council of the 33rd degree of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Washington, D.C.  (see The Deadly Deception, by Jim Shaw - former 33rd degree Mason and Past Master of all Scottish Rite bodies.)

The Albert Pike Monument

Albert Pike made his mark before the war in Arkansas as a lawyer and writer, but as a Confederate Brigadier General, he was, according to the Arkansas Democrat of July 31, 1978, a complete "WASH-OUT," not a hero.  Yet, Gen. Albert Pike is the only Confederate general with a statue on federal property in Washington, DC. He was honored, not as a commander or even as a lawyer, but as Southern regional leader of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. The statue stands on a pedestal near the foot of Capitol Hill, between the Department of Labor building and the Municipal Building, between 3rd and 4th Streets, on D Street, NW.  During the 1992 presidential campaign, Lyndon H. LaRouche and his vice presidential running mate, the Reverend James Bevel, launched a mobilization to remove the statue of General Albert Pike from Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square. On February 1, the campaign drew an angry attack from free masonic leader C. Fred Kleinknecht, who attempted to defend both Pike and the Ku Klux Klan from LaRouche and Bevel's attack.

The Illuminati and Albert Pike

Adam Weishaupt (1748 - 1811) formed the Order of Perfectibilists on May 1, 1776 (to this day celebrated as May Day throughout many western countries), which later became known as the Illuminati, a secret society whose name means "Enlightened Ones".  Although the Order was founded to provide an opportunity for the free exchange of ideas, Weishaupt's background as a Jesuit seems to have influenced the actual character of the society, such that the express aim of this Order became to abolish Christianity, and overturn all civil government.
Giuseppe Mazzini (who founded the Mafia in 1860) was selected by the Illuminati to head their worldwide operations in 1834. Because of Mazzini's revolutionary activities in Europe, the Bavarian government cracked down on the Illuminati and other secret societies for allegedly plotting a massive overthrow of Europe's monarchies.  As the secrets of the Illuminati were revealed, they were persecuted and eventually disbanded, only to re-establish themselves in the depths of other organizations, of which Freemasonry was one.
During his leadership, Mazzini enticed Albert Pike into the (now formally disbanded, but still operating) Illuminati. Pike was fascinated by the idea of a one world government, and when asked by Mazzini, readily agreed to write a ritual tome that guided the transition from average high-ranking mason into a top-ranking Illuminati mason (33rd degree). Since Mazzini also wanted Pike to head the Illuminati's American chapter, he clearly felt Pike was worthy of such a task. Mazzini's intention was that once a mason had made his way up the Freemason ladder and proven himself worthy, the highest ranking members would offer membership to the secret 'society within a society'. 
It is for this reason that most Freemasons vehemently deny the evil intentions of their fraternity.  Since the vast majority never reach the 30th degree, they would not be aware of the real purpose behind Masonry.  When instructing Pike how the tome should be developed, Mazzini wrote the following to Pike in a letter dated January 22, 1870.  Remember that Freemasonry wasn't started by Pike - rather it was infiltrated by the Illuminati who were looking for a respectable forum in which to hide their clandestine activities:

"We must allow all the federations to continue just as they are, with their systems, their central authorities and their diverse modes of correspondence between high grades of the same rite, organized as they are at the present, but we must create a super rite, which will remain unknown, to which we will call those Masons of high degree whom we shall select. With regard to our brothers in Masonry, these men must be pledges to the strictest secrecy. Through this supreme rite, we will govern all Freemasonry which will become the one international center, the more powerful because its direction will be unknown." ¹

In 1871, Pike published the 861 page Masonic handbook known as the Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.
After Mazzini's death on March 11, 1872, Pike appointed Adriano Lemmi (1822-1896, 33rd degree Mason), a banker from Florence, Italy, to run their subversive activities in Europe. Lemmi was a supporter of patriot and revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi, and may have been active in the Luciferian Society founded by Pike.  Lemmi, in turn, was succeeded by Lenin and Trotsky, then by Stalin. The revolutionary activities of all these men were financed by British, French, German, and American international bankers; all of them dominated by the House of Rothschild.

Between 1859 and 1871, Pike worked out a military blueprint for three world wars and various revolutions throughout the world which he considered would forward the conspiracy to its final stage in the 20th Century.
In addition to the Supreme Council in Charleston, South Carolina, Pike established Supreme Councils in Rome, Italy (led by Mazzini); London, England (led by Palmerston); and Berlin, Germany (led by Bismarck). He set up 23 subordinate councils in strategic places throughout the world, including five Grand Central Directories in Washington, DC (North America), Montevideo (South America), Naples (Europe), Calcutta (Asia), and Mauritius (Africa), which were used to gather information. All of these branches have been the secret headquarters for the Illuminati's activities ever since.

The Beginning of Behr Brothers Piano Manufacturing - as reported in 1880 in the MTR magazine

A new firm of piano manufacturers was organized in this city (New York) under the name of Behr Bros. & Co., at Nos. 292 to 298 Eleventh avenue. The first two members of the firm have long been known to the piano trade as manufacturers of piano cases, and it is in the building used for that purpose that they are now making their pianos. They have associated themselves with Mr. Paul G Mehlin of this city, who has had almost a life-long experience as a practical piano manufacturer; beginning in Europe with Wilhelm Doner in Stuttgart, and afterwards serving here with such men as Jacob Decker, J. & C. Fischer, and lastly for thirteen years with Ernst Gabler.

During this long experience many good ideas concerning the manufacture of pianos have suggested themselves to Mr. G Mehlin, and some improvements in pianos have had their source in his brain. It would be difficult to find a man better qualified by experience and education for the mechanical department of the new firm than Mr. G Mehlin; for, in addition to his experience he combines a quality which goes a long way towards success, viz., a love for and an enthusiasm in his profession.The new firm propose at first to confine themselves to the manufacture of upright pianos of which they are making about ten per week at present, but will increase this number as rapidly as the growth of the business demands,to four or five times that number. Their facilities are large, the building which they occupy extending from 292 to 298 Eleventh avenue, New York city, five stories high, and covering a space of 75 x 100 feet, the whole substantially built of brick and situated in a part of the city adjacent to one of the principal lines of railroad communication, the freight cars of that road passing the door. All the upright pianos manufactured by this house will have the patent cylinder top by means of which the upper part of the piano can be opened for increasing the volume of sound or for tuning without disturbing the top of the piano, thereby enabling it to serve as a permanent resting place for ornaments, books or music. The cylinder top is one of the important features of the new uprights, and will no doubt add much to their popularity. In addition to this improvement the cases will be of entirely new and original designs, of which illustrations will be given in subsequent issues of this paper. In regard to the interior of the piano everything has been done that long experience could suggest to make a perfect instrument, Mr. G Mehlin himself superintending every detail. The firm state that only the best materials are used, and the result is a sympathetic and powerful toned upright.

Messrs. Behr Bros. & Co. state that they will spare no pains nor expense to make a really first class piano, and they will sell it at as moderate a price as is consistent with its quality and cost of manufacture. They also say that they have abundant capital to meet all the requirements of the new enterprise. The partners are men in the prime of life, in good health and vigor, and promise to make the new firm an important factor in the piano manufacturing industry of the country.

The demand for pianos in the United States is very large and is increasing at a greater rate than the increase in population, so there is plenty of room for the new firm, and we bespeak for it the favorable consideration of the trade and the public.