Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-01

Fatima was Mohammed's daughter.
They claimed descent from her, and
took her name. Then Ismaelism had
its way in Egypt. Cairo was the center
of grand lodge. Hassan, a learned
member of the Eastern Ismaelites and q
refugee from Persia, with q romantic
history, Had at FIRST a waftn welcome,
but at length was compelled to flee.
After all manner of hair-breadth es-
capes he settled in Persia, contrived to
get strong castle among the noun
tains, and there perfected the system of
4fbdallah. iIfe wa.sI nidre practical than
his master. The first generation of be-
hlievers in practical doctrines does not
always work them out to their logical
issues. Time is needed Adopting the
Cairo organization, and the principles
of Abdallah, he taught his adherents
that the outward act was nothing, the
thought everything, and that therefore
anything the Vice-gerent of the invisible
rulers ordered was, right. But there
were enemies here and there. What
then? Murder them secretly 1t is but
an outward act-the motive justifies- it.
He was, Sheik-al- Jebal, the historic old
.HGn Of the e4Hou,ltain,- as the phrase,
loosely rendered, means.l Three grand
priorsruled nntler HIM and over a body
of priors duly initiated and controlling
associates (RerRY1 mot yet initiated, and
next to them the Fedais, or devoted
ones, to whom was intrusted the COM
mission of deeds of blood.
But how about the ssAssasSins?" True
,A1ehammedans are forbidden wine. But
there are many ways of getting drunk
without the juice of the grape, as New
Workers ought to know. From hemp
leaves preparation was made called
hashtsh. Dragged with this the young
menzthe devoted ones selected for a
murder were>turned into the Sheikh's
garden and allowed to run riot in all
the supposed delights of a Moham-
medan's aradise. They were then d.
rected to do the viii lof him who gave
such joys, and they did it, whether
among hissenemies or among the COM
mon People>who were kept in ignor-
ance, but held rigidly to the rules of
MohammedanisE, while their superiors
believed in nothing and ridiculed their
simplicity. From the drug which pre-
pared them for crime-an experience,
alas! common enough elsewhere-they
were called hashishina, from the singu-
lar of which assassin came into Europe,
tn0 CTuSdUoTS.
Secret societies for horrible purposes
are not NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. To read
the history of Hassan's methods recalls
the recent organization in Russia. which
is largely permeated with traditions,
customs and beliefs of the early and
near Orient. An old friend of Hassan's
fell under the dagger, and his son by
the poison, of the Assassins. A Sultan
TO ho ho, nd
son made peace with them rather than
battle at such odds.
Evil-doers often reap in their own
scOundrel killed his own sons. His sue
cessOrs, often beaten on the field,
avenged themselves by secret murders.
Internal strifes had the like results, and
one wearies of the list of atrocities on
kindred, friends, allies, rivals, enemies,
from generation to generation, down to
the time of the Crusaders, some of
whom, it is believed, fell under their
secret treachery. Strifes among them
selves, the secession of Syrian branch
which made itself independent, (and
of which remains are still supposed to
EXIST, the invasion of their territory by
the Tartars, who, for their treachery
when beaten on the field, massacred
twelve thousand of them, and other
calamities, broke their power, and &c
stroyed their organization. So passed
out of the world, after three hundred
years of atrocities, the Old Man of the
Mountain, leaving, however, over wide
region 4 certain traditional loose view
of secret murder. Even in India the
traces of the ORDER, it is believed, have
been found in our tiEle.-ReU. John Hall,
ID. d., tn ". 7. Ledger. ....
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