The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-03-03
The Grand Sccrct Of .Hasomrv.
DISCOVERED BY A LADY.


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EdHor Rcriew The following ync,.
aent needs neither preface nor COMMENT.
1t speaks Tor itself. lfyou think it WORTHY
OF publication You will please rive il a
place in your next number.
On visit to neighborng citv recent
ly, | called at the house of NV friend b.
with whom had long been acquainted
10 my asIonlshment, | found his lady read
ing a Masonic paper. asked her what
change had come over her that she could
not only admit such paper to her house,
bat could sit down to its pprusal-for I
knew her fathers family were among the
most ylndlctlve, bitter, proscriptive, anti
maSons' that ever left the infected district
IN New York. She replied that she had
discovered the grand secret Of Masonry
and If 1t would be agreeable to me, she
would relate how she came TO make the
discovery. | requested her to proceed
which she did as follows:
" Soon after you left here last fall. |
learned, TO my extreme modification, that
my husband had become mason. | at.
tributed il to vour irGno,n', Az
not saw what nv G,eIin,. ,naaa ,'' ,.I "oIu
you or my husband. | Al once came TO
the conclusion that my domestic hapvincs;
was ot an end . bn, r,,oI"oI pp'"''' ,Pl,
conduct IN all tbn .,I.,;a,,',r ..:r ,:I-' my
mother sbould he ynch ,h,, I,, -, I3 "Ig
sbonId see tb,, L.J Jn,a III "o''"
should do Somn ,b.no I -, ,,.,, " lG " o'Ha'I
after bud eoropJ m, LasLn.J ''I, L'I 'iou'''I ;,I
the masons , c,r.,,,,y.,',,,,a ''.'' j'''''
far tbe first ,;,no n,na ,no o,D",I'U '''a''
douht his i,,err,t,, +, T., ,, ""J ''''C' u
coolest nirhts Ios, ,,;n,a. ,L., "Y o''' VI '"G
rerurned al Into hnnr ,nd ,,i'' 10y, -! ""'o""u aus
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blanket shawl ronI;oJ w. ,hn, "''I''"' .',,i o0'
He .skcd mo ,o no, !, 'c" c,. I't", L;' '"0'o
him nod snnoajS ~. ,Yl ''',"' '''V "i,"I
tbe articles 70 b;n on' ,""'Iol' ~ .,1 ''"oTq
LOFT tho honso ' n.,,, ,,''" '' ''''''"'"'c'y
nv tho I;nL,s r.on, ,hn w. Wv "i'po" ana
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a1 - w., I'N. '.'' 'o'''H "'uuo"r0 ''o"-
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P's''i'e LI ''''IV" ~ '''I CL1'' SIs',', "Non
r nav .p ~ I %'~ P'I'o"' y ,"I'o"e" teamed
.i no'' VIZ p VI '''1 "! '"H "''.."" " Iossbn'
r'"' !" az ny "''ToI"t MA he''.
u.e"l'Iu ~ ol-I.,"'l' I. d .''' VI .'f'o"' | had
never Delore ii''rnru 'o--aNu when she had
IIe cause "I "H NY u"naPpI"eSS' felt that
lnere was not room IN my bosom tO aDurp-