Masonic Notes And Queries.

apron was cut short and circular at bottom . They wore the bib up , with a string round the neck . The Cooper ' s apron was something like the smith's , only they ! wore the bib up . The Customer Weavers , I understand , wore the bib up , ancl the bottom ofthe apron squared . Other weavers wore green serge aprons . The Plumbers have long used aprons with no bibtied

, round the waist , and reaching clown to the tops of their shoes , made of blue and white striped linen tick . When the men are working and the apron hanging down , it is the wrong side of the cloth that is seen ; but when not at work , the apron is folded round the waist , and tie right side of the cloth shown . The

Butchers wore striped drugget aprons . Both masters and men wore their aprons when dressed and cleaned up after the day ' s work was done . The foregoing is Bro . Stewart ' s experience of Ayrshire customs , so far as he can remember them . —W . P . BTJCHAN . TWO JOTTINGS .

See the Jotting , " Ceremonies and Symbols , " page 348 , and the Jotting "Liturgy and Symbols , of modern Masons , " page 319 , of the present volume . These Jottings ; although , relating to the same matter , are taken from different sources , and according to my practice , the particular words of each Jotting

have been preserved . This practice is attended with many conveniences , and I am unable to believe that it can embarrass any reader having a moderate acquaintance with his subject . —A PAST PROVINCIAL GEAND MASTER . . 1 coracin OP KITES . 1 . Mentioned iu "Freemason ' s Quarterly , " in 1 S 3 S-30 .

2 . There existed in Edinbur gh a Council of the Ancient and Accepted Kite before this period , of which Dr . Walker Arnott , of Arlary , Regius Professor of Botany in the Glasgow University , was a member . Another council was started under warrant procured by Dr . Morison , and of which the late Duke of Atliolc was head . After a while the two bodies unitedand

, certain members from each chosen to represent the 33 " . Can " Walter Arnott W Arlary be our celebrated Bro . "Walker Arnott , a P . G-. Z . of Scotland ? If so , how does "An American Freemason'' make him out to be a French m an ? Does "An American Freemason" know that Dr . Morrison left his valuable library

to the Grand Lodge of Scotland ?—D . C . L . ENGLAND . —BUILDINGS ERECTED EX GERMANS . My answer to tho inquiry of an esteemed correspondent , is that there are two passages in Bro . Findel ' s History ivhich were mentioned at the late Masonic col-¦

loquy , Buo ; subjoined is a copy of one of them : "Favoured by this predilection for building prevailing in the loth and 1-lth centuries , architects every where found employment , and it not unfrequeutly happened , that they wero invited by other builders to go to foreign countries . Thus , in the course of time , in and

Italy , France , England , splendid buildings were erected' by Germans . —CHARLES PUETOS COOPEE . KOLAS' CATHOLICS AS EDUCATOES . If the following is a specimen of Eoman Catholic teaching , it cannot but excite the most anxious solicitude and sorrow in the minds of all their true Christian friends , and an earnest concern that their

beloved offspring might ever be preserved from- such fatal sophistry . The extract is taken from " Friendly " Words to the Pope and Loose Protestants . A small pamphlet recently published by Messrs . Partridge , London . " Eoman Catholic teaching authorises the counteraction , by equivocation and mental reservation ,

of the ninth commandment , which says , " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour . " _ Sanchez , an eminent Eoman Catholic authority , in his " Opus morale in Pracepta Decalogi , " pars 2 , lib . 3 , cap . 6 , num . 13 , impiously dares his Maker by teaching the reverse ! These are his words : — " It is lawful

to use ambiguous terms to give the impression a different sense from that which you understood yourself . A person may take an oath that he has not done such a thing , though in fact he has , by saying to himself , ' It was not done on a certain specified day , ' or before he was bornor by concealing any other similar

cir-, cumstance which gives another meaning to it . " Sanchez goes on to say , "This is extremely convenient , and is always very just ivhen necessary to your health , lionour , or prosperity . " D . X . Junkin , in his work on the oath , published at " New York by Wiley and Putnam 161 Broadwayives similar specimens of this

, , , g awful perversion of ancl opposition to Divine authorit y from other Eoman Catholics , named Filiucius , Charli , Taborna , Laymann , and Tamburinus . Dear reader , see the account of Ananias and Sapphira , and tremble I ( Acts v . )"—AMICUS .

MASONIC THEORY . —CRAFT NOTORIETY . What a brother desires he may obtain without difficulty . A Masonic Theory and Craft Notoriety always go together . My brother should observe three things : —first , let bis theory rest on a negation —a negation needs no proof;—next , should he happen

to possess a smattering of logic , let him get rid of it at once ; lastly , he may talk , without stint , of evidence , but ho must ignore , carefully and utterly , everything relating to its rules , both historical and legal . " Sic itnr ad astra , in English Lodges , . M . 5 S 10 , says a philosophic member of Grand Lodge , having taken up and read what is written above . —CHARLES PL ETON COOPEE .

Correspondence.

CORRESPONDENCE .

The Editor h not responsible for the opinions expressed by Correspondent , MASONIC APPEAL TO THE GEAND LODGE , '

TO THE EDITOR 01 ? TEE EltEmtASOJTS MAGAZINE A > 'D MASONIC MIKBOK . Dear Sir and Brother ,- —Being present at Grand Lodge on Wednesday , I looked forward with some interest to the notice in the agenda as to a settlement in the matter of two appeals from colonial brethren against decisions of their respective District Grand Lodges .

fn common with many others , I was much disappointed that once more the appeal of these brethren stands over for another three months . I find , on reference to the Magazine , that the appeal of Bro . Smithor ' s against the decision of the District Grand Lodge of South Africaannulling his

, position as P . M ., has stood over since February last , while that of Bro . Bease against his expulsion from the Order by the District Grand Lodge of Bombay has stood since November of last year .