The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-11-28
, The Masonic BugubOO.
From the Chicago "Daily Tribune" Nov. 20

rloui tiiC OhiOdSo DdilJ iiiuuuC1 NOV. ZUtH
The Illinois Anti. Secret Society Associatid
has once more mounted its hobby of Anti M
sonry and put the animal through some YER
remarkable PAGES. They have lifted the vel
and put Masonry before the public in CARL
which is calculated TO give simple minded neo
pie, who never 60 to the Lodge and ride goats,
the horrors for the rest of their natural lives
and cause them to regard member of the Sow
eign Consistory or a full-hedged Knight of the
Apollo Commandery as butcher of humanity
who takes his coffee every morning from a fresh
skull of some apostate Mason, and dimes on the
frcaseed children of the victim. If we are &c
believe the enemies of Masonry, the lodge room
must be chamber of horrors, in compay sor
with which Dante's Inferno is quikir
We are told that the brethren 60 founsS 5hrleK-r
ing "Jubila, jubilo, jubilum," as Solomon did
to the workmen who were building the Temple,
which, of course, is quite absurd, because "Ju-
bila, jubilo, jubilum," is Latin and Solomon
never spoke Latin, the classics lot being part
of his many mplishments. Clergymen are
led into the lodge-room with rpes about their
necks, one shoe off and the ottsr shoe on, (Hey
diddIe dumping, my son john, and stripped
OF portion of their raimep,--a costume al
most as unique as that won upon some occa-
sions by the Sons of Malta This is sufficient
ly distressing, and ought ttbe a solemn warn
to the brethren how they Oily with the deceit
full goat. Let them cling the horns of the
altar lest the horns of this pat lead them to the
halter. One of the membes told story of q
friend of bis who joined th Knights Templar
and was compelled, after prtakng of the sac
ramental wine, to drink thu fifth libation from
a human skull without ever knowing the char
acter of the gentleman WIN once occupied it,
while the other Knights gthered about him
with drawn swords, executing savage war
dance, and threatening to ct his throat across,
tear out his tongue, and buy what there was
left of him in the sands of The sea, if he di-
vulged any of the secrets. After some Irish
melodies on the organ by Pro- Merrill, another
member arose and told his littb story, announc-
ing to those present the dire disasters which
overtake such luckless Masonsa as inform their
wives, in moments of inebria;ion or absent
mindedness, of any of the secrets Of the Order.
First, they cut his throat across. Then his
tongue is torn out. Then, notwithstanding his
complaints at their rough treatment, they lei
out his heart and bowels, so that he has no fur
Their use for affection or food. Having accom-
plished this, they then burn him to ashes sing
ing "Jubila, jubilo, jubilum," we presume, and
dancing up and down, kicking up a dust with
the ashes of the late departed. Then they gath
er the ashes up in a dust pan and scatter them
to the four winds of heaven, arrangements
having been made, of course, beforehand with
the Signal Service to have the wind blow al
four ways at once that day, in order to distrib-
BILE. The horrors of such treatment are en-
HANGED by the fact that it will be next to i'm
possible for the deceased to find the whole o
himself when he wants to rise at the summons
of GabriePs trumpet. The worst, however, il
yet to come, for one of the members knew of
man who asked the word of the Grand Master
and was struck upon the wndpipe with square
by Jubilo. Then Jubila hit him terrible blow
ON the breast with q compass; and Jublun
knocked him clean out of time and fixed him
for the rest of the night with a stuffed club
The very next day the victim went to churcl
and discovered that Jublum was his minister
We haven't much sympathy for the victim
however, who would coolly stand this kind o
business and not get even with Jubilum at tn
first opportunity.
To all such twaddle as this there can, o
course, be no answer made. 1t answers itsel
by its own absurdity. We have no more sym
pathy with Masonry than the Anti-Secret So
ciety has; but if man wants to put on whit
apron and other silly toggery, march abou
with square and compass behind brass band
ride goat or fancy thathe belongs to the orde
in which Solomon and Hiram once fiourished
in the name of all that is sensible let him do Sc
and have as many secrets as he pleases to kee
from his wife. Ten to one, where he has on
secret she will have dozen. Silly as Mason
may be- the height of Stiffness is reached b.
these Anti Secret Society individuals, who NEE
here every few months to rehearse these skull
and-crossbone stories, and go into spasms ever.
time they see square and compass.