On his installation as Junior Grand Deacon Earl Haig received special ovation. Lord Elgin's reference to the long apprenticeship served by the new office-bearer was much relished by those who knew the circumstances. Earl Haig became "an entered apprentice Freemason" 40 years ago, but he did not. take the next regular step in Free masonry until a year ago, when in, as Provincial Grand ife and Kinross, took Iaggard Fifer in hand.' Earl had no sooner finished his course than he was admitted an honorary member of Lodge Canon-gate Kilwinning, No. 2, Edinburgh, tone of the oldest and most distinguished lodges in Scotland. Its Toll of members includes the names of two of Earl Haig's predecessors who- occupied the rank he wow holds—Field-Marshals Lord Roberts of Candahar and Lord Kitenener of Khartoum. Whether post. hoc, or as is claimed in the East, proper hoe, Earl Haig, with pos: sibly more time on his hands than in earlier days, has taken a renew-jed interest in the Craft under the careful tuition of the Past Grand Master, and his election to one of the lower steps of the ladder of Grand Lodge is, we trust, a fore-feast of future work for' Scottish Freemasonry, for which his record elsewhere so fitly qualifies him, His advent gave an excellent opportanity to the Senior Grand Deacon, Lord Belhaven and Stenton, to offer 'a homily on the levelling advantages of the Craft, and to take advantage of it to remind him that whatever Jmay have been the case in the past he was now "his junior,
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