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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 94 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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market See also:town and seaport of See also:Northumberland, See also:England, in the See also:parliamentary See also:borough of See also:Morpeth, 9 M. E.S.E. of that town, at the mouth of the See also:river Blyth, on a See also:branch of the See also:North Eastern railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 5472. This is the See also:port for a considerable See also:coal-See also:mining district, and its See also:harbour, on the See also:south See also:side of the river, is provided with See also:mechanical appliances for See also:shipping coal. There are five dry docks, and upwards of 11 m. of quayage. See also:Timber is largely imported. Some See also:shipbuilding and the manufacture of rope, sails and See also:ship-fittings are carried on, and the See also:fisheries are valuable. Blyth is also in considerable favour as a watering-See also:place; there are a pleasant See also:park, a See also:pier, protecting the harbour, about 1 m. in length, and a sandy See also:beach affording See also:sea-bathing. The river Blyth rises near the See also:village of Kirkhcaton, and has an easterly course of about 25 M. through a deep, well-wooded and picturesque valley. B'NAI B'RITH (or SONS OF THE See also:COVENANT), See also:INDEPENDENT See also:ORDER OF, a Jewish fraternal society. It was founded at New See also:York in 1843 by a number of See also:German See also:Jews, headed by See also:Henry See also:Jones, and is the See also:oldest as well as the largest of the Jewish fraternal organizations. Its membership in 1908 was 35,870, its 481 lodges and 10 See also:grand lodges being distributed over the See also:United States, See also:Germany, See also:Austria-See also:Hungary, See also:Rumania, See also:Egypt and See also:Palestine.

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objects are to promote a high morality among Jews, regardless of See also:differences as to See also:dogma and ceremonial customs, and especially to inculcate the supreme virtues of charity and brotherly love. See also:Political and religious discussions were from the first excluded from the debates of the order. In 1851 the first grand See also:lodge was established at New York; in 1856, the number of district lodges having increased, the supreme authority was vested in a central See also:body consisting of one member from each lodge; and by the See also:present constitution, adopted in 1868, this authority is vested in a See also:president elected for five years, an executive See also:committee and See also:court of appeals (elected as before). The first lodge in Germany was instituted at See also:Berlin in 1883. A large number of charitable and other public institutions have been established in the United Sth.tes and elsewhere by the order, of which may be mentioned the large See also:orphan See also:asylum in See also:Cleveland, the See also:home for the aged and infirm at See also:Yonkers, N.Y., the See also:National Jewish See also:hospital for consumptives at See also:Denver, and the See also:Maimonides library in New York See also:City. The B'nai B'rith society has also co-operated largely with other Jewish philanthropic organizations in succouring distressed Israelites throughout the See also:world. See the Jewish See also:Encyclopaedia (1902), S.V.

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