The Haughfoot Lodge And Speculative Masonry.

Thursday of April next , a comittie being that day appointed to meet there to consider what methods should be taken with the absent . " The members of cotnittee follows : — Tonvoodlie , John Young ,

Torsonce , Willm . Henderson , Andrew Thomson , Jeams Claperton , Wm . Craig , Willm . Murray , John Claperton , John Donaldson , Wm . and George Cairncross . " And the sd comittie to give report next St . John's day . "

"Haughfoot , Deer . 27 th , 1725 . " List of Masons in the lodge folloAvs ( 36 in number . " The sd day John Hamilton Avas chosen preses till next St . John ' s day .

" The Treasurer continued for a year to come . " The meeting having considered the Laird of Middleton ' s necessary absence for the last year and this , excused him for this year , and appoints the preses , with the Laird of Torsonce , to converse

him about the last year's fyne , and his Avaitiug on the meeting in time coming . "John Fountain ' s fyne is modified by the meeting to 12 shillings Scots to be payed of ready money .

" The sd day James Rae and Alexr . Hardie , servants to John Hardie , Avere admitted in common form , and ordained to pay into the Treasurer three pounds Scotsmoney each of them betwixt and next St . John ' s day , and to be entrusted b y the

preses . " The meeting fyne each of the absents in one pound Scots , besides twelve pence for the reckoning .

" Ordered that Torsonce , Torwoodlie , Andrew Thomson , William Craig , John Donaldson , John Claperton , Willm . and George Cairncross , John Young , William Henderson , Jeams Claperton , William Murray , or any five of them , to meet iu

this place Avith the Clerk on the first tewsday of Aprill , in order to take account of the deficients in payment to the Treasurer and the Treasurer ' s accounts , and the filling up of the book and disposing therof , and to determine Avhat is to be

payed to the Clerk for filling up of the minutes since 1717 , and the Treasurer to attend that clay , and appoints William Murray to have a box ready betwixt and that day for keeping of the book .

The Haughfoot Lodge And Speculative Masonry.

" The meeting continues the commission to five for intrants for a year to come . " Ordered that John Hamilton , Willm . Henderson , Jas . Claperton , and AndreAV Bold be instructed by Willm . Craig and Andrew Thomson

as Fellowcrafts , as also Jeams Wright . " After disolving of the meeting Archd . Hamilton in Mossend was admitted in common form , and appointed to pay in three pounds Scots to the Treasurer for his entry betwixt and next St , John's day .

How I Spent My Five Weeks' Leave.

HOW I SPENT MY FIVE WEEKS' LEAVE .

Being a Journal kept during an Exatrsion to Syria and Palestine -in the month of May , 1868 . [ Continued from page 7 ) . SEA OP GAIILEE—TIBERIA— CANA—NAZABETH—CARMEIHAIFA—BEYEOTJT .

Mount Tabor rises 1 , 400 ft . above the plain , and . from its summit we get a most extensive view in every direction . To the West extends the wide plain of Esdraelon , one unbroken sea of verdure ,, bounded by the blue ridge of Carmel . To the-South lies Little Hermon Avith Nairn and Endor on

its side , and the top of Gilboa just showing over its summit . To the East lies the Jordan valley ,, Avith the mountains of Gilead behind . The basin of the sea of Galilee is visible , though all the Avater , except the extreme North corner is hidden

by an intervening ridge . Beyond it is the outline of the table land of Basham ; further North is snoAv-capped Hermon , and the South part of the Lebanon range is visible near Safed . Looking from the summit of Tabor at the noble Hermon ,

one is forcibly reminded of the words of the Psalmist , " The North and the South Thou hast created them , Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in

Thy name . " On the summit of Tabor is an oblong area , about half a mile Avide , by a quarter of a mile broad , and this has been encircled by a massive Avail , now in ruins , and , on the S . and E . sides , by a deep ditch . The stones composing

the Avail are of very great size , and have the Jewish bevel . At the S . E . corner are the ruins of extensive buildings , probably of the time of the Crusades . On the North of the area is the Russian Convent , recently erected , and in fact

not yet finished . Tradition has fixed on this mount as the scene of the transfiguration , though now this is a disputed point . We encamp at the foot of the hill , on the N . W . side , and are