Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1905-06-23

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Shrine Exp erience
Ed. Pierce of The Grafton Re-
cord was one of the class initial
ed at the recent Shrine meeting
in Fargo and tells about it, as
follows:
Last Thursday morning just
as the sun was climbing over the
city ordinances Of Moorhead /
stood on the platform connected
with the Great Northern depot
at Fargo and gazed at a shrine
emblem, a friend had fastened
to my coat the night before,
when | was initiated into the
order Of the Mystic Shrine. The
work was done very nicely. /
had been led to believe that the
brethren or mobiles Il am a trifle
new in the order to be correct
had their parts we'll learned and
seldom missed a word or left out
any prominent sentences. The
sentence being what the candi-
date gets if he wobbles or re-
fuses to go into the collar. AS
Isoon as "a candidate, who has
Ibeen thirsting for camel's milk
land feels that a walk on the hot
desert sands would do him good
and stir up his circulation puts
in his application accompanied
by the price thereof. viz: the
same as others pay, no one being
/ franked through as soon as he
has done this and backing out
4 would look bad. he finds that he
has many warm friends in the
lorder who are more than willing
Ito help him through and in their
talk they occasionally drop a
! hint that looks like a load of
i trouble stuck in the mud. On the
1 afternoon previous to the excur-
sion which, afterwards took, /
! drifted around town trying to
1get my mind off Of the difficult
ties ] was beginning to hear
| about when watching the fire
j horses giving an exhibition and
i hoping that / would be run over
land disabled, George Day, who
III had met years ago shooting
chickens, approached me. He
! looked pretty mad and reminded
j me that in little account of the
i hunt which | had published /
/ had said he used a folding bed
gun. He said he had waited all
these years tesget4even with me
ard that night he; was going to
balance the account.
He was the seventh man who
Ehad agreed to settle with me and
4 Ibegan to feel that my socks
/ were too thinI never did feel
I. comfortable with cold feet but ]
i got them thoroughly warmed
4 during the exercises. ] went to
1.-THE ball game but it was hard
i to get interested. The Fargo
4 team also seemed to lack interest
and runs. Governor Sarles
\ cheered me up a little by saying
i that he was glad to hear I was
4 too join FL zagel that evening.
4 He thought I would enjoy the
1 magic lantern pictures and the
/ lecture that accompanied them.
I His talk was rather comforting
land I began to take courage.
i Magic lantern pictures! Oh Pill
grim Progress! !! Oh Sapolio /!
land carry nine! !! Besides my
] self there were thirty-six other
candidates waiting at the other
4 door seeking admission at the
lappointed hour. We all got in.
Some of us, perhaps got in fur
Ither than others. but no one was
i heard to complain that they had
mot got their money S worth and
i by 12 o'clock that night, myself
land fellow classmates were the
most satisfied crowd in North
4 Dakota. During the first part
lof the evening the thought chat
1 ! had neglected to pay my life
insurance troubled me, but this
b 3ught left me together with
4 some.of my clothes near a place
where some men were blasting
d rock. "a number aff little diff
lculties like this interrupted my
course during the eyeing but q
am not warrant ted iii ivillg any
Iparticnlars here. There is q
way of learning II Inning
with the blue I0siga m asons.
Tit is rather d long road, bus
mot tiresolne one thing is cer-
4 tain: it ends iii a blaze 81
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