Furthermore, a headsman's block is placed in the 
South covered with black. A headsman with a carved 
blade battle ax, clothed in a scarlet robe gathered at
the waist, with belt and sword, wearing scarlet mask,
presides at the block. Beside the block lies a false 
head on the floor with a black cloth covering it (with a
beard to resemble a member, if desired). A small bowl 
or dish should also be in readiness on a stand for the
ceremonies of bleeding. 
The gong should be attended by some competent 
member and the organist at his post. All is now in 
readiness for second section; the rough or Artificial 
Desert. 

The rough or Artificial Desert, etc. is then pre-
pared as follows: The candidates are hoodwinked and 
in stocking feet enter after three loud alarms (violent
blows from the mallet). At first they proceed one by 
one on carpet, then upon a spread of corn husks, then 
a strip of stair cover or sheeting, strewn with pebbles,
followed bv a ladder with close rounds, camp stools
folded and a roller or anv rough road most convenient-
ly prepared, out through the hallways, etc., according
to facilities. During this intercourse drum, tife, gong,
organ rattle bugle. etc., etc., or any hideous pandemo-
nium instruments desired. Then persecute and test 
candidates as much as they will stand. Finallv they 
are returned, one by one, to  the Temple again amid the
din, overpowered, laid in a hammock or canvas and 
folded in and swung from side to side or thrown up-
ward, carried hastilv about and finally placed in some
outer apartment to await the other candidates. When all 
have passed this ordeal, collect them together in the
ante-room, remove the relics of the desert and at once
place the Temple in order for the last ceremony or 
third section. 
All being in readiness, officers should be at their 
posts, executioners at scaffold, skeleton masked in front