The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-06-15
REMARKABLE EXPOSITION OF
MASONIC MYSTESIES.

REMARKABLE EXPOSITION OF
MASONIC .MYSTESIES.
We know not whether the following
| first appeared in the Benzonia Citizen
but if not, it will be an excellent addition
to that journal, and aid materially in swell
! ing its list of horrible disclosures
| 81 fatter myself I understand some
| thing about secret societies. I've had q
| passion for that sort of thing ever since
I was old enough to tell lies. [ have
secuted around pretty extensively among
the different organizations: I've been
an Orangeman and Fenian, and Good
Templar, and a counterfeiter, and also a
Son of Malta. 1 have belonged to the
Odd Fellows, and the Young Men,
Christian Association, and the Band OF
Hope, and band of robbers I've been
into everything, andI thought [ knew
everything, almost everything, but did
not Three months ago | became infa-
tuated with Masonry, and since [ joined
that organization I've discovered that
there are several things connected there
with that outsiders don't know just a
pretty good deal about. Now, Mr. Edl-
tor, propose making these secrets pub
lie, not out of compassion for my fellow
men. who may be tending towards Mason
ry, and act as warning and so on, be.
cause [ haven't got spark of human
kindness in my breast, and would rather
see every mothers son put to the torture
| than not, but because [ have a spite
against the fellows who initiated me, who
made the irons too hot, and the goat too
frisky, and treated me with roughnes:
generally, that the occasion did not war
rant.
Before fulmating my narrative, | will
state, for the benefit of those who dom
| know, that Masonry is about six hundre
thousand years old. 1t was old when thu
fraternity got into trouble at the tower o
Babel, and it was old when Adam frs
put on his apron as Grand Master of Ed
en- Lodge. AS more convincing trutl
OF its antiquity would just mention that
party of miners the other day, in ONT
of their excavations came upon the petri
fed remains of Masonic Lodge, will
the members in their places and all com
plete; and eminent biologists who have
examined the fossils are of the opinion
that these bodies have been imbeded il
| the rock for more than fifteen Thousand
years.
On the evening was to be initiated
made my will and took a most affecting
leave of my family. Thus prepared
started for the lodge, accompanied by
Bro. John Smith, S. R. S. P. T., who
was to see ME through We had nC
difficulty getting past the first entrance
but when we knocked at the second, fla
little fellow looked out through a round
hole in the door, and put his startlin!
insticatory to brother Smith 'Chetux
Observation-Disclosures p To which brc
Their Smith replied cheerfully: Nix M,
polly whack doc. The little fellow thel
said Observation-Disclosures; nc
my conductor giving a satisfactory answer
we were permitted to enter. Before [ hat
time to Ii ok around me long-legged fel
low knocked me over with club; he the,
stood me on my feet, and another marau
der made rush at me and brought NJ,
down again. After | had undergone thi
eXhllaratiug exercise for about five min
utes, they stretched me out on a bencl
and examined my teeth, pinched my mus
Giles, and stuck pins in me all over, and
showed cayenne pepper up my nose, and
poured molten lead in my trousers peck
ct, and pulled hairs out of the back O
my neck with red-hot pinchers, with ;
view, suppose, to make me feel unem
barrassed and at home.
When L came to my senees was alon,
IN the anteroom of the lodge. It was ;
lively and cheerful apartment. A couple
OF crocodlles were amusing themselves in
a corner, and a few full grown rattlesnal a.