Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1859 — A Candle Lectureon the Sons of Malta. [ARTICLE]

A Candle Lectureon the Sons of Malta.

Dr. Rodgers, of Buffalo, has joined the Sons of Malta and the B. B. D.’s His wife is in the habit of readigg him curtain lectures. The one which follows is reported by the Republic of that city: “Now tell me about the Sons of Malta. Won’t you! Do, that’s a good dear. What do you do when you get in! Is it the same as the Masons and Oddfellows? And then there are what they call the B. B. D.’s. You know all about them, too. Well, now. what don’t you kn >w about? It is jtret as I expected. You knuw all about every secret society in existence, and your po r, dear w’ e is nut allowed to know a singD thing that is going on. Sons ot Miltu; a literary and scientific society; learn the art of painting, statuary and mathematics. The B. B. D.’s; a religious society, and none but those of a strictly■ mora 1 and pious pursuasion are admitted! Well, I'm beat now. And you a member! Now it’s my turn to laugh. The B. B. D.’s a moral institution! Ha! ha! ha! Look me in the face. Didn’t you come home the other morning as drunk as bose? Yes, drunk, and I asked you where you had been at that hour of the morning, and vou said, oh, nowhere, you were but taking a little recreation with the B. B. D.’s, and that’s what you tail a moral institut on. Wasn’t drunk! Well, then, the bed was, for you went round it thre ? or four times before you got in; you he Id on to the side for fear of being tumbled out. You can’t cheat me old lellow, I've seen to much of the world not to know when a man’s drunk. “Didn’t drink anything but fifteen glasses of buck beer. In the name of Jupiter Ammon, what are we coming to? And a moral institution at that: only fifteen glasses, you say? What are the strong-minded women about that they don’t petition the Legislature to have these secret societies abolished! And how many glasses do they drink at the Son.-: ol Malta l Unless conditions are good, don’t drink at all. Don't allow such things there. Conditions! J would like to know what-, conditions have to do with it! Well. [ would just like to see the conditions and see hmv it looks, i suppose it’s a piece of slatury ' Turn over here; what under heaven are you laughing at! “Can’t help it! I'll make you help it. You haw, haw, like a wild jackass; what’s the matter with you? Chronics and rheumatics. What! have you got chronic rheumatics! 1 never would have married you if I knew that.”