Masonic Notes And Queries.

HELE . The follovting notes Avill be of interest on this point . Prom the late edition of the " Chronicle of the Monastery of St . Alban ' s , "by Thomas Walsingbam , it has been noticed that Avhen Wat Tyler is mentioned he is called " Walterus Tylere vel ut quidam dicunt

Walterus Helyer . " Helyer or Hellier is a local term for a roofer or tyler , said to he from helan , Anglo-Saxon , to cover . —HYDE CLARKE .

THREE BLUE BEANS . Something used to be said about " three blue beans ' in a blue badder ; " what have they to do with Masonry ?—ENQUIRER . —[ A controversy is raging on the subject in several archasologieal journals . The upshot of the whole is that before ballot boxes came

into fashion , votes were taken in blue bladders , and three blue beans , answering to our three black balls , excluded . Freemasonry used the blue beans and the blue bladders just the same as all other societies . ]

EMERGENCIES . "There can arise no emergency before petition made , and a favourable ballot thereon ; as until then the fraternity are in no Avise related or bound to the candidate . But after the election to the degrees , or the receiving of one of themit may occur that the

, exigencies of the candidate call for more speedy initiation or advancement , as the unexpected change of location or the sudden invasion of disease . An emergency , thus defined , cannot be created by the act of the candidate , except it be Avhere he in good faith intends to change his residence to a distant

localit }' , after election or a degree had . We have frequently known persons who have resided near our lodges for years without ever applying for admission into onr Order , hut who , on the eve of going to California or Kansas , suddenly discover such beauties in Masonry , and become so desirous to do goodand be

, serviceable to their felloAvs that they cannot think of leaving without initiation into our ancient and honourable Order . Such cases are most sure to be made cases of emergency , yet no cases can be much farther from it . Lodges ought not only to refuse to treat cases of such persons as cases of emergencybut

, they ought to reject the petition of all such persons , on account of the mercenary motives by Avhich they are impelled to join our fraternity . The only good which such persons are after is that which Avill benefit themselves . "—Dep . Grand Master of Georgia .

ANTIQUITY 01 EREEMASONRY . In Smith's Use and Abuse of Freemasonry , it is said : — " Certainl y the art is coeval with man , the great object of it . Nay , it may well be styled coeval with creation ; Avhen " the Sovereign Architect raised on Masonic principles the beauteous globe . " The AMman Uezon tells us : —

" Oar first father , Adam , deny it who can , A Mason was made as soon as man . " And Town , in his Speculative Freemasonry , boldly says : — - " If from our moral principles Ave date the origin of Masonry , we must fix its era co-existent Avith the Almighty . " HOAV are these assertions horne out by either sacred or profane history ?—Ex . Ex .

" THE GRAND MYSTERY OE EREEMASONS DISCOVERED . " Looking over some old newspapers , I came across an advertisement in No . 1 , 333 of The Daily Post , of Saturday , January 4 th , 1724 , in Avhich the date of the publication of The Grand Mystery of Freemasons Discovered is set forth thus" This day at Noon will

, he published . " So exact a statement regarding a hook is seldom made , and , as the pamphlet is one' known to Masonic antiquaries , it may be Avell Avorthy of being printed as a note . —t + t-

ROYAL ARCH EXTRACTS . What portions of Scripture explain the matters--alluded to in the Royal Arch degree under the old working ?—ANUBIS . —[ The portions of Scripture you Avant do not explain the degree , but were used incidentally in various parts of the ceremony . They are

2 Chron . iii . 1 , 2 , 8 , 14 ; Exod . xxxix . ; 2 Thess . iii . C-17 ; Isaiah xliii . 16 ; Exod . iii . 1-6 ; Dent . v . 1-24 ; . 2 Chron . xxxvi . 11-20 ; Ezra i . 1-3 ; Exod . iii . 13 , 14 ; Psalm cxli . ; Psalm cxlii . and clxiii . ; Exod . iv . 1-9 ; Haggai ii . 1-9 , ancl v . 23 ; Zech . iv . 6-10 ; John i . 1-5 ; Deut . xxxi . 24-26 ; Exod . xxv . 21 ; Exod . xvi .. 32 , 33 ; Exod . xxxi . 1-4 ; Exod . xxxvi . 1-3 ; Exod .. xxxvii . 1-5 ; Numb . xvii . 10 ; Heb . ix . 2-5 ; Amos . ix . 11 ; Exod . vi . 2 , 3 . ]

A CROSS . I have a cross of eig ht points . In the centre it - bears another cross and the letters Gh 1 . 1 . 0 . What . degree does it refer to ?—ANUBIS . EINCH ' S PUBLICATIONS . Has anyone an entire set of Finch ' s publications in

their possession ? There are many detached portions in the hands of brethren , but a complete set is rarely to be met with . Who possesses one?—LXMRLKZ Vyklb .

THE MASONIC SAGES . I am told that there are four Masonic sages , who are they?—D . —[ In some systems of Freemasonry Noah , Nimrod , Solomon , Hugh of the Pagans , and Jacques de Molay , are accounted the five Masonic sages . ¥ e presume your query should have been in

the past and not in the present tense , If , hoAvever , the latter is what you mean we cannot point out half as many as you seek . With us the association of sage—and onions—at this season of the year , naturally points to silly birds , of Avhom we have numbers to spare . ]

SISTER MASONS . One of the reasons for lodges of Avomen is given in the following distich : — " The ladies claim right to come into onr light , Since tlie apron , they say , is their bearing . " —KEEMO-KIMO ..

HEAVERS OE WOODS . There was a secret fraternity in existence toward * the close of the last century calling themselves HeAvers of Wood . Where can any account of their principles or practices be found ?—ENQUIRER . MASONIC RIDDLES . Are there any good Masonic riddles in existence , and , if so , where can I hear them ?—CONUNDRUM .