Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1877 — Masonic Discipline. [ARTICLE]

Masonic Discipline.

A lodge in Indiana was presided over by s master who bad an exaggerated notion of discipline. One night Ke met bis lodge in called meeting ('not a member absent) to instrnct them in the work. Teaching them the use ot the gavel, he had just called them up with three khocka when he leaned too far back, fell against the window behind him, fell through to the ground, tour stories, and broke his neck. Picked up next ‘ morning, he was buried decently, but not a Mason came to the funeral. More atranue still, not a Mason appeared any more in the village. It was inexplicable. Forty women left widows, two hundred %pd ’twenty children left orphans. Twenty ye&rs. after somebody went up info that fourth story, broke open the door, and beheld the lodge, a lodge of hkeletons! Strange but true; they had rightly obeyed the orders of the W. M., and waiting for the knock to seat them had starved to death, and had not uitying citizens taken them down they would have been standing there still.— California paper.