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INDERTON'SHOTELANDTAVERU, " FLEET STREET , LONDON , ... oHon with the Koyal Clarence Hotel , Ilfracombe ; and Peacock In conn * " * '" * " H (] tel > and Eoyal Hotel , Boston , Lincolnshire . , nnli-il position of ANDERTON'S ¦ .-cutlers this Tavern 'Jho tc"x unequalled for Masonic Banquets , Public Dinners , Wedding Breakfasts , Meetings of Creditors , Arbitrations or Jovial Gatherings . nn « Rooms reserved for the above business consist of „ Ir HJL *„ PILIAR H ALL , MASOXIC HALL , CUAPTEH , and * ° » , * nus Smaller Rooms , '" ¦ " in PRESTAURANT on Eastern Side of Hotel Entrance is ... -n the Public from 7 a . m . to 7 p . m . for BKEAKI-ASTS , LUU"SJivs TEAS , and D INUEKS . CHEO SS , .-.. . E . H . CLEMOW , Proprietor .

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TWO MASONIO SONGS BY THE LATE BRO . JAMES C . BAKER , Mus . Doc , With Quartet and Chorus , ENTITLED"WELCOME" AND "THEMYSTICTIE." POST FREE , is . each nett . Usual Price as . KENNING'S MASONIC DEPOTS-1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , LITTLE BRITAIN , 195 & 197 ALDERSGATE ST ., 16 , GREAT-QUEEN ST ., W . C ., LONDON .

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MISS EMILY M . FOXCROFT , "Contralto Vocalist , " CAN BE ENGAGED for MASONIC FESTIVALS , INSTALLATION BANQUETS , CONCERTS , & c . —For Terms , Address 3 , Holford Street , W . C . A CAMBRIDGE GRADUATE ( P . M ., P . Z ., P . M . W . S . iS ° , Professor of Latin and Zoology , "The College , " South Kensington ; Examiner 15 years Bexley Heath College ) has some time disengaged for Private or Visiting Tuition . Lectures on History and Natural Science . Foreigners taught English through the medium of French . —Address , F . D ., 62 , Lancaster-road , Notting-hill , W .

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ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY , LIMITED . 10 , ST . SWITHIN'S LANE , LONDON , E . C . General Accidents . | Personal Injuries Railway Accidents . j Deaths by Accident . C . HARDING . Manager . MASONIC Clothing and Jewels for Sale . Craft , Royal Arch , and Mark . Two latter quite new . All in japanned tin locked case . Price £ 4 . —Apply , F ., office of this Paper .

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EMPLOYMENT WANTED by a Brother M . M . as Messenger , Porter , Watchman , Caretaker , Collector , & c , or any place of Trust . Just left East and West India Dock Co . ' s Police , owing to reduction of staff . Can be well and worthily recommended , and holds good Certificates . —Address , G . T ., 75 , Guildford-road , Bromley , E .

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fGEORGESPILLER . g Surgeon ' s Optician , ^ 7 / fe 3 ' WIGMOEE ST ., W . £ 7 A ? — & 7 * SHOT-PROOF SPECTACLES . 67§—^ £ ^ THE NEW § " SHOOTING" PINCE-NEZ , S WITH RIGID BRIDGE . Co They press the nose much less than ¦ * ** •any other eye-glass .

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TELEGRAPHICMESSES(Inland). For the Freemason Printing- Works—FEEEMASON , LONDON . For Jewels , Clothing , Banners , and Furniture—KENNING , LONDON .

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ADVERTISEMENT SCALE OF "Gbe freemason . " r . EH U-TSEETIOH * SINGLE COLUMN per inch £ 050 ONE PAGE ... 10 0 o ONE COLUMN 3 10 o PUBLIC COMPANIES' & PARAGRAPH ADVERTISEMENTS , IS . PER LINE . WANTS , SIC , TOUR LINES , 2 s . 6 d ., and 6 d . PER LINE additional . TO OUE EEADEES . THE FREEMASON is published every Friday morning , price 3 d ., and contains the fullest and latest information relating to Freemasonry of every degree . Subscriptions , including Postage : — United States , United Kingdom . Canada , the Continent , India , China , Ceylon , the Colonies & c . Arabia , & c . 13 s . 6 d . 15 s . 6 d . 17 s . 6 d . Remittances may be made in Stamps , but Post Office Orders or cheques are preferred , the former payable to GEORGE KENNING , Chief Oflice , London , the latter crossed London Joint Stock Bant .

To Correspondents.

To Correspondents .

The following communications were either received too late for publication or stand over for want of space * . — CRAFT LODGES—Pattison , No . 913 j Mirfield , No . 1102 ; Lagos , No . 1171 ; and Henley , No . 1472 . Presentation to Bro . George Brown , P . M ., Preceptor of St . George ' s Lodge of Instruction , No . 140 . Ladies' Night at the Kingsland Lodge , No . 140 . Annual Supper of the Rose Lodge of Instruction , No . 1622 .

Annual Banquet and Ball of the Ranelagh Lodge , No . 834 . History of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls . The Old Masonians . BOOKS . Stc , RECEIVED . "The Freemason" ( Sydney ) , " La Chaine D'Union , " "South African Freemason , " " Masonic Chronicle , " " Keystone , " " New Zealand Freemason , " and " South Australian Freemason , "

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—1 SATURDAY , MARCH IO , 1888 .

Original Correspondence.

Original Correspondence .

[ We do not hold ourselves responsible for , or even approving of thc opinions expressed by our correspondents , but we wish in a spirit of fair play to all to permit—within certain necessary limits—free discussion . ] ——

OUR MASONIC CHARITIES .-A SUGGESTION . To the Editor of the "Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , I have been amused by , though I own I cannot understand , the commencement of" Q ' s " last letter on the above subject , nor is its object clear to me . He dubs me a " statistician of a certain class . " Why I know not , unless it be to invent for me a position which would enable him to deck me with his satire .

Satire , which has been likened to " a polished razor keen , " requires a careful hand in its usage , or it may fall back to wound only the user of it . I should hardly have judged "Q" to be a "funny " man , but his comparisons are decidedly "funny . " Homoeopathic globules are not hoarded up to be administered in one large dose ; in such case the treatment would cease to be homoeopathic

"Globules of money in the shape of farthings or halfpence" could scarcely be , as in that form they would cease to be globules . I have not yet met the man quoted by "Q" who tells you that twopence or threepence a day saved for a certain number of years will enable you to buy up the National Debt , or the parent who , puttingaway a farthing a day for 21 years , and by lending it out at

interest , will at the end of that time possess almost infinite riches . As I presume "Q " quotes from persons he knows ( who , luckily for themselves , are not in a lunatic asylum ) , I am not so much surprised as sorry that the result should be the production of such nonsense ; but even if these remarks of "Q's" had any sense whatever in them , what bearing can' they possibly have on my suggestion ? or do

they represent the tone in which a subject serious as that of Charity should be treated ? But , to pass to the other portions of his letter , which 1 am glad he wrote , as it enables us to come to the satisfactory conclusion that " motley is " not "the only garb he wears . " " Q" suggests I did not read his letter carefully . Has he done so with mine ? If so , why will he presist in endeavouring * to put out of sight

the mode by which I suggested the subscriptions should be gathered ? If my plan had any merits at all in it , one would certainly be the simplicity of the manner in which it would be got together . A by-law passed , the forwarding a Postal Order by the Treasurer of the lodge to some person authorised to receive these subscriptions , and little more would have to be done ; there would be no gathering of the twopenccs

or nvepences , but the one amount would be taken out of the general lodge funds . When I named these little sums in my last , it was to show how small the money value per head would be taken Irom those funds . And now , Sir , I have done with this subject ; my suggestion has been some weeks before the Masonic public , and save from "Q , " it has met with . no response , and he has taken up the subject ,

not from sympathy with it , but as an opportunity to use it as a hook to hang his own scheme for exhibition . If I should be tempted to comment on that scheme , I promise "Q" that , the characters being the aged , the widow , and the orphan , I will not introduce farcical fancits into that which should be considered as a serious life drama . Our countrymen , as a rule , are cautious before they

commit themselves to a new plan . I did not , therefore , expect a large following , nor , indeed , a large correspondence , but I might ( wiih your permission ) have adopted the phrase attributed to the late President Lincoln , and have kept " pegging away ; " but when thus early I find argument has become secondary to satire , and that satire possibly

ungenerous , certainly ill placed and unintelligible , I como to the conclusion that if my suggestion deserves no better fate than that , it would be well , so far as I am concerned , that it should end , not , however , without my thanking you most sincerely for the space you have so fraternally permitted me to occupy in your numbers . —I remain fraternally yours , S . VALLENTINE , P . M . 9 .

To the Editorllof the " Freemason . " Dear Sir and Brother , May I be allowed to add a suggestion to those already given as to aiding our Charities . ' It is for every lodge to pass a by-law creating a " Benevolent Fund , " composed of the usual collection after dinner or supper , a portion of each initiation and joining fee also of the annual

subscription ( say 10 s . of each of the former and 5 s . of the latter ); this fund to be kept separate , and especially for Charity , either for cases arising in the lodge itself , the provinces , or for the three Institutions . This would enable a lodge to send a Steward to a Festival—say every year—with a few pounds to start and encourage him ; it moreover would tend to influence the lodge as a whole , and the brethren

individually , in the favour of the ; Charities . This rule obtains in a lodge recently formed in London , and in less than three years the result has been very gratifying both to the lodge and the Charities . No' doubt more money from Grand Lodge funds would be

very welcome , but there is immense scope for lodges and individual members to start giving regularly to the Charities and to send Stewards to the Festivals , some lodges never having done ; so . Hoping you -will find room for this letter , and thanking you in anticipation thereof , —I remain , yours fraternally , March 6 th . W , M .

THE BENEVOLENT FESTIVAL , To the Editor of the "Freemason " Dear Sir and Brother , Referring to mine in yours of 25 th ult ., 1 willingly accept the suggestion made in yours of the 3 rd inst . by " P . A . G . D . C . " —Yours faithfully and'fraternally , P . S . PROV . G . W , March 7 th ,