The Approaching Election Of The Girls' School.

which he was a Past Master . No . 4 , Isabel Davies "Knight ,

one of six fatherless children , secured 177 votes last October . Her father was a member of the Yarborongh Lodgr , No . 551 ( Hampshire and the Isle of Wight ) , and

filled tho office of Senior Deacon therein . No . 8 , Gertrude Emma Wardroper , is one of five children dependent on a widowed mother , and has already had 103 votes polled on her behalf . Her father was an initiate and a Past

Master of the Wandsworth Lodge , No . 1044 . No . 10

Isabello May Pinder is , as we said when writing of the case in September last , particularly deserving , and we still feel that some special action might have been taken in her case to allow of her admission without election . The facts

of the case are , that a sister of the present applicant was duly put forward as a candidate , and was ultimately elected , but in the interval between election and admission to the Institution she died . We think the present candidate might

be accepted by the subscribers in her place . There are four members of the family dependent on the widowed mother , and . so far , three votes have been recorded on behalf of the present applicant . Her father was a member of the Excel

sior Lodgo , No . 1042 , West Yorkshire , and filled the office of S . W . therein . No . 16 , Constance Murfin ; No . 17 , Florence Bulmer ; and No . 24 , Lillian Gertrude S . Rawlings , three new cases , are each members of families in

which there are four dependent children . The father of Murfin was initiated in the Westbourne Lodge , No . 733 , London ; of Bulmer , in the Threo Grand Principles Lodge No . 208 , West Yorkshire ; and of Rawlings , in the

Sfc . Luke ' s Lodge . No . 144 , London , of which he was Worshipful Master . There are eight candidates where the number of children dependent on the mother is three , and

of these Nos . 11 , 12 and 13 have each made one previous application . No . 11 , Eva Marian Lillywhite , daughter of an Officer of Hants and Isle of Wight , brings forward 107 votes ; No . 12 , Lilian Woods , daughter of a brother

of the Adams Lodge , No . 158 , Kent , has 36 ; and No . 13 , Emily Mary Fulford , daughter of a brother initiated in the Lodge of Israel , No . 205 , London , has 75 . Lillywhite ( No . 11 ) has a brother in the Boys' School . The other candidates in this section are first application Cases , and are as follow : — No . 22 , Mary Hayten Glass ( father

initiated in Zetland Lodge , No . 525 , Hong Kong ) ; No . 30 , Mary Rhyclero Woodman ( St . Peter ' s Lodge , No . 476 , South Wales , West Division ); No . 31 , Fanny Alice Smith ( All Souls Lodge , No . 170 , Dorsetshire ) ; No . 33 ,

Maggie Jane Addenbrooke ( Stability Lodge , No . 564 , Worcestershire ) ; and No . 35 , Louisa Pelina Hardey ( Prince of Wales ' s Lodge , No . 1003 , Jersey ) . The

last named candidate has a brother in the Boys ' School . No . 19 , Margaret Winifred Turner , and No . 23 , Julia Elizabeth Clark , are each members of families where

two children are dependent . The father of the former was initiated in the City of London Lodge , No . 901 , and of the latter in the Stability Lodge , No . 217 , both of London . No . 22 , Aline Mary Norman , is an only child dependent on her mother ; her father was initiated in the Lennox

Lodge , No . 123 , North and East Yorkshire , and afterwards joined the Tees Lodge , No . 509 , Durham , where he rose to the dignity of Worshipful Master . Both parents are living in each of the remaining cases .

No . 6 , Grace Ellen M . Barnard , has 712 votes to her credit ; she and three other children are dependent , and no donbt there is good reason why they should be helped , but the subscribers can gather no information on this point from

the ballot paper . No . 18 , Edith Lilian Prondfoot , is one of three dependent children ; No . 20 , Alice Flora Cook , one of four , of whom two only are partially provided for ; and

No . 32 , Winifred Cleveland Hyde , one of four dependent . In each of these cases both parents are living , but we are without any details as to their position .

Taking the list of candidates and the nnmber of vacancies that are available , we can but congratulate the Craft on the position of the Institution , and the candidates on the chances of success they each enjoy .

Twentythree to be elected from a list of thirty-six candidates is a state of affairs which will compare most favourably with many of the elections of the past , when the figures were much more out of proportion . The Institution is

deserving of the heartiest support , and while it can offer such benefits to those who are in distress as will be tendered on the 10 th of next month , there is no fear of it being neglected by the English Masonio body .

Masonic Triples.

MASONIC TRIPLES .

PART II . —THE BUILDING . W HATEVER model another may take for his symbol of moral character , the Masonic student is confined

to the Temple of Solomon . The distinguishing characteristics of that edifice , therefore , become important . It is assumed at the outset that to be in harmony with the ritual this character must be first pure , then peaceable , and of

good report . Referring to history we find so much emphasis was laid by the Almighty upon the central virtue of this triple , peace , that it was denied David to build the house of the Lord because he had been a man of war from his youth . To his son was accorded the privilege

denied the father . Had David been allowed to build the Temple no doubt Hebrews alone would have been the workmen , but under Solomon the heathen even were allowed an important place . Masonry recognizes this important fact in the first three Officers of every Lodge , representing Solomon King of Israel , Hiram King of Tyre ,

and Hiram Abif of the tribe of Naphtah . The first represented the chosen people , pure and simple ; the second the heathen world , entirely without the pale ; while the third of our three Ancient Grand Masters was of mixed blood .

his father being a Tyrian but his mother was a Danite who lived iu Naphtali . The symbolism therefore of the first three offices of every Loclge is the universality of Masonry

and a true type of the Christian brotherhood of man . The Light waa to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of Israel . Change the triple foundation of the preceding article and this symbolism is false .

The plan of the temple bears the impress of the triple nature of its builders . It partook of the symmetrical Jewish characteristics , but the plan was evidentl y Egyptian , ornamented and beautified with Tyrian ideas of

architecture . The result of these combinations was a building unlike any modern or other edifice , unlike in many respects even the Temple of Herod , which a great biblical scholar has said must be carefully distinguished

from ifc . This being the historic fact , the Egyptian impress of a power sufficient to dictate the form of the temple , the threefold Deity of the Egyptians must have admirabl y harmonized with the Eternal God of the Ancient

Constitutions of Masonry . The threefolds extended further . The stones were quarried in three places : partly in Lebanon , partly in Bethlehem , and partly from the temple rock , the

name of which is " Royal Caverns . " The Masonic corollary is the introduction , obligation , instruction of the neophyte , and the reward of faithful labour , emblematically represented by peace , unity , plenty ; corn , wine and oil .

The novelty pertaining to the temple was the porch or third apartment . In it stood the historic pillars , and in it was to assemble the great congregation . This was built

partly of cedar and partly of stone . Here was retained a relic of the ancient sanctuary attached to trees—a union of the Canaanite and patriarchal feeling—in the large walled quadrangle upon which the porch opened . Wide-spreading

cedars , stately palms , venerable olives , shaded the place .

This triple shade suggests the lair of the " Lion of the Tribe of Judah : " " In Salem is Hia leafy covert , and His rocky den in Zion . " This naturally leads the Masonic student to reflect upon the situation of the Lodge , and the

high hills and low dales where ifc was the ancient custom of the Fraternity to assemble for labour . The three species of trees also suggest the three orders of architecture , of which it is said , that of the five recognized but three show invention aud particular character , and essentially differ from each other .

The temple was surrounded by a triple story of chambers , each of which was five cubits high , so that there remained above ample space for introducing the windows , somewhat in the manner of a clerestory to the sanctuary .

There was a triple peculiarity about the walls of these chambers . They differed in width , and this arose from the circumstance that the external walls of the temple were so thick that they were made to recede one cubit after an

elevation of five , so that the scarcement in the wall gave a firm support to the beams which supported the second story , without being inserted into the wall of the sanctuary ; this insertion being avoided perhaps uot merely for

architectural reasons , but also because ifc appeared to be irreverent . The third story was supported likewise by a similar scarcement , which afforded a still wider space for the chamber of the third story . In the light of this description