INITIATING A CANDIDATE INTO THE GOOD TEMPLARS.

Waikato Times, Volume IV, Issue 197, 14 August 1873, Page 2

INITIATING A CANDIDATE INTO THE GOOD TEMPLARS.

The method of initiating a candidate into a lodge of Good Tomplara is but * sight improvement upon tl'c same programme bo long in vogue by the ancient and honorable fraternity of the " Sons of Malta." A " chap " who was taken from a lager beer saloon, | where he got "tight" without knowing that lager would intoiiente, was put through a cold wa*er treatment by the Good Templars a lew evenings since. He ""peaches" on the Templars, and gives the following cxpoie of their initiation ceremony, fur winch, no doubt, he will be put through another course of cold water "sprouts " at. the next meeting of the lodge: — In the first place the victim for initiation is blindfolded, bound hand and foot, and thrown into a cider press and pressed for five minutes. This is done for the purpose of clearing his system of "old drunk?." He is then taken out of the cider press, and, by means of a force pump, gorged with cistern water, after which a scaling plnster is placed over bis mouth, and he is rolled in a hat ret four or five times across the room, the choir at the same time sinking the cold water song. He is now taken out of the barrel and hupg up by the heels til tbe water runs through his e.\rs r He i& then cut down, and a beautiful young lady bantta him a glass of cistern water. He is then made to read tbe Water Works Act ten initmi.es, dr'nking a glass oC cist Gin water between eacb rending, after which the old oaken bucket is nun** around his neck, and fifteen sisters with squirtguns, deluge him with cistern water. He is then forced to eat a peck of snow, while the brothers slick his ears full of icicles. He is then run through a cJoi/hea-w.ioger, after which he is handed a glass of cistern water by a young lady. He is agam gorged with eisLern water, and bis boo Is fi"ed with the same, and laid hi a refrigerator. Tbe initiation is now almost concluded. After remaining in the refrigerator for the simeo of hnlf an hour lie i* again taken out and given a fj lass of cistern water, run through a clothes-wringer, and becomes a Good Templar. — American Paper.

A Curk for Small Pox. — Th ; s loathsome disease is liable at any tune to break out among us, and we cannot be too careful, and should avail out reives of a 1 ! known lomedies to effect a cure or p/event our taking it. A corlespondent of the Slociion (Oal) Herald gives the following as a cure for sninll-po\". Cut vb»s out for fi'tuie re'erewce : — " I herewith impend a receipt which haß been used to my knowledge in hundreds of cases. It will pi event or cure small-pox, even though vfce piUio^s are filling. When Jcnner discovered the cow-pox in England, the world of science hurled an avalance of fame on his head ; but when the most scientific school 01 medicine in the world — that of Paris — publi&bed this receipL as a panacea for small-pox, it pjs&ed unheeded. > li, is unfailing as fate, and couquejs in every instance. It is perfeci'y ha roless when token by a well person. Jt wi" also cow besr'et fever. JJere is the receipt as I hn\e used it, and cmed many c'.iiU'ten of scaHeu fever. Here it ii as I have used it to cureu»all-po::, when learned physicians said the pai/ienls miis*. (lie : — " Sulphate of zinc, one gra'ii ; fo:;-glove (di'ita'i*). one gran; one-half a teaspoon ful of sugar, rrix wuli two tablespoonfuls of water. When the above has been ibo.-ou^hly mixed add four ounces of water. Take a te«sj o ro'nl every hour. Either di&eaw wiU disappear in twelve hmns. For a child, smaller dc*es according to aj,e I»" couniies would compel physician* to ivse thit there would be no need of pesthouses. If you value advke and experience, use this fur that terrible scourge. " Efvkctb of Vegbtabib Pebkumks on Health. —^Ln Italian profeisor has mado some \cry agruenble medical researches, resulting in the discovery (hat %rgetnble perfnmes oxerciso a positifely healthful influence on the atmo»phere, converting its oxygen into ozone, and thus increasing its oxydizing iniuence. Tlie essences found to derelop the largest quantity of ozone are those of c • 17, laurel, cloves, l.ivender, mint, juniper, lemona, feniici, and bergamot Hioao that give it in smaller quantity aro anise, nutmeg, tind thyme. The flowers of the narcissus, hyacinth, mignonette, heliotrope and lily oftlio valley, develop oaono in closed vessels. Flowers destitute of perfume do not de-M-lop it, and those which lime but slight perfume develop itoiil> in small quantities. Keasomng ironi tliese fact^ the pro lessor lvcoinmcnds the cultivation of flower* in imirsln tiisiricts, nnd in all places mfustfd with animal emnnaiions, on account of the powerful o\ydizmg influence of ozone. J'he inhabitants of such regions should, he says, surround tlicir house* with beds of the most odorous flowers.