The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-28

he afraid to blow his nose and so many passwords that he would hardly speak to his wife, and so many grips he dassn't shake hands.
 Well when outlined my proposition Dill bit same as hungry trout entrusted him to get up the ritual away with the masons, and all of 'em. When we got started men simply crazy to join and after they were In they were crazler to get their friends in
 Il was elected Noble Tempus Fugit, and Dill was the 1llustrious High Ternpora Mutantur of course Our uniforms would have made stage bandit look like monk
 And now for the modus operand as the feller says The admission fee was twenty-five dollars which also entitled member to the of our patent I. O. M. T. watch. This watch constructed that when you found yourself begnnin' to have to wait you simply pressed knob, and when you got through waitin you the watch preserved the record of how much time you had lost
 Once month at the regular business meetin of the Hodge, ali these watches examined by committee and your lost time was entered to your credit and the watch was reset and given back to you
 For every hour lost you got dollar. If you'd lost Zen hours durn the month you received ten dollar bill Srom the treasurer and
 Now where did the profits come in? Well, in the hrs place the watches cost four dollars and sixty apiece there twenty dollars and forty to the good the first pass made. And then there were the assessments At the end of every month we shgured up how much had to pay and assessed the brethren onetweny-ve apiece to cover every dollar leavin the management twenty-five cents for runnin .penses.
 "This assessment they would have kicked at, but we got around that i'll this We had 1t in the bylaws }that every lodge should have socabe
  assessments. And it worked fine One object of the order to promote sociability. We had womans auxiliary and the ladies worked like nailers make the soClable
 Well the order spread like wi1dfre. It new 1t practical Nobody allowed in who wasn't of good moral character, you know, and consequently there limit; everybodys of good moral character in Indiana until they are sent to the pententiary.
 At the first grand council composed of and Dill. We voted ourselves salary of ten thousand dollars apiece. It was nothin' but fair, don' the brain work, and brain work is awful wearin'.
 And the people liked it The terrible strain of wait in lifted in fell swoop, the feer from our fellow citizens. Nervouse disease plumb disap- peared Everybody happy And nobody was any better contented than me and DifL
 Mir Waln1esly lit his cigar, which had gone out from neglect and seemed lost in pleasing retrospect as he puffed thoughtfully
 "Is it-ah-stn going?" asked the other.
 "No," replied MT. Walmesly sadly. They ain't noth- in here below that don't get through by and by, You see we were too successful The idea was too blame good. The people not Up to it.
 Durin it's infancy the feer says, it af right So long the initiation fees kept pourn in at twenty dollars apiece profit don we'll and were thinkir some of buyin the Masonic Temple in Chicago and branchin' right out But the insurance laws wouldn't let operate, except in Indiana, and wasn't gong before records just as complete as the