Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-04-26
THE SECRET C0NCLAyE.
How the L Q. of q. T. Was Re-
sponsible for It's Formation.
Jnveni Deviitry Prscticed by the Had
Boys az the Village The App;e
Robbery Playing n Joke on
ThemsslyeH.

Thsmsslv~s.
WAS sitting at baseball game one
day last simmer and ! saw a number OF
boys up on the electric-light towers.
some 81 them hundred feet above the
ground. They were watching the game
How little their respective parents
knew about their ~ herea bouts at. that
moment IL the doting mother knew
that her boy was hundred feet up on
an iron tower with practically nothing
but'a thin iron rod between him and the
ground. all for the pleasure of the dan
ger of the thing, and OF seeing base
ball game, she would have been fright
encd into fits. The poem Where Is
sly Wandering BOY To- Night Is very
pathetic. and the ehanees are that the
wandering boy is in mischief some
where. But the trouble We get into in
our older days is As nothing compared to
what we go through when our fond
parents, think they have us practically
under their-rye. Little did the parents
of bur village know OF the whereabouts
of tlieirihoys when our secret conclave
was inaugurated. They were themselves
tn hldInt Tor LnlS tOntltNes anu
this'is how ithappened. M.
There came across cur village a wild
wave -Uf temperance, which cnguffed
the wl4ole eoauunity. About this time
was started the independent Order Of
Good Templars, who were sworn never
To toueh lieruor in any shape. not even
cider. This body was familiarly known
hy the letters. II. u. Of g. IT, and was
called in derision by its enemies "The
Good Tipplers." The grand lodge had
in ITS employ certain lecturers whom IL
serit out to establish subordinate lodges,
and one tlay one of these lecturers came
10 our village. and his lecture, which
was free Was announced 10 take place
in the school-house on n certain even
ing.
iremember him we'll lie was n sort
Of proyincial .Iohn B tough. In fact IL
seems to me. looking. back on both MIR.
Cough and him, as heard tough many
years afterwards. that he was much the
more clogae Of tho two and told much
better stories. and showed us all the
awfnlness of intemperance mors elo-
oupnIly than ever the famous lecturer
did. Ii is true that in oar village there
wasn't any great need OF a temperance
revival, Thcfe was only one tavern in
the place. and tho tavcrn-keeper was a
gocdsfeIlpsr who was friends with every
body. and there was very little drinking
done in the village This tavern WAS q
great convenience far travellers but As
center OF drunkenness 1t was not al
all the kind Of perdition that TEN
pcrahce lecturers liked to picture
taycrn. 1t. was more. of a socia
club. In the bar-room OF which th'
Villagers. who all knew one another
met in the evenings and discussed tn,
,caghty affairs 0f the Nation. with prob
anly a. mlch ability as the same affair
are discussed in the Legislative halls u
the. country. %cyertheless, this tom
perance revival was tremendous affair
AMI iLswept every body into the tenn
perancc lodge, excepting, OF course, thu
tayernekeeper lodge was started
called The Noah's Ark Lodge, ]. q. o
G..sl :. andsall nns fathers and mother
joined the organization. We boys wer'
greatly In favor of the movement br
cause il was something fresh and excit
Ing aud the making OF regalia and tina
sort Of thing was d big event The n
g.dia WAS made af silk and velvet. of th
must vivid colors. hluc and crimson prt
dominating, and these ornaments
ARTICLES OF costume were constructed. a
sort ~ quilting bees that were held q
iitfnreht houses In the village. II wa
great picnic for ms boys. because th
fetdihr at this time was cxceedtngl
good. and ", got the remnants withou
aHv Of the drawbacks, among whie
may u meniioned the seeing of th
girls home In the evening, which VIZ .
tlfat time considered one Of the creates
misforiunrs that could fall on a youn
man; although my remembrance OF ID
thing is that y ute numhor of Eonn
men Of the village did not seem to eI
tertalp. the same. opiniqn.. .Ho"eve
orr idca Of the temperance qnestio
undorwenta great revolution when y
learnSd ihat boys under fourtee
years Of age wcrp not allowed TO joi
the lodges Ep-to.that ttme we hal su
posed that the meetings OF The |, %,
CT We're ~ he open toaA of IA, M
that we were going "a have sort
weekly singing school that would !
perpetual 0f eanrse. IN winter Ne a
ways had =singing-sehuol. hat this lodl
Was 10 meet every "Wednesday night
the year and we had counted on havir
Ions ot fun but alas the tourtee
year clause barred us out II, howeye
We we're barred out Of the tcmparan'
lodge. VIZ speedily recovered from u
blow and E .aniked lodgNs OF our ow
OF course we had great facilities {
this. becssss our loslge met at the san
time as the other lodge, and, as our
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