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GAMES OF HALLOWEEN.
Queer Customs That Originated
Many Years Ago.
GREAT FUN FOR MISCHIEF MAKERS.
It Olden Times Witches Played Mad
Pranks on Halloween Night—Now Nine
teenth Century Boys Keep Up the Cus
tom —A Time For Fortune Telling.
Some merry, friendly country folk
Together did convene
To burn their nits an pou their stocks
An haud their Halloween.
Halloween has come down tons from
the old Druids, and after three centuries
of revision but very little of the original
customs is left. All we have now are a
faint trace of mysticism and a few
harmless superstitions in which no one
has faith. Social features of an enjoy
able kind supply the place of those which
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have been lost, and thus the ancient
festival preserves its popularity. Per
haps it is just as well that we don’t ob
serve Hallowmas eve as did the Druids,
for one of their rites was concluded
with a human sacrifice, and, although
the unfortunate victim was always
either an enemy or a captive, we could
hardly recognize such a practice.
Probably few of the mischievous boys
who make Halloween the occasion for
playing all sorts of pranks know that
the origin of this practice is founded on
quaint, old traditions. Even now in
some of the remote parts of Ireland,
Scotland and the north of England the
rustic folk believe that on the night of
Oct. 81 spirits of the departed walk
abroad and hobgoblins, gnomes, witches
and fairies flit through the darkness,
bent on errands of mischief and evil.
But the small American boy does not
believe in witches, and for fear that no
mischief will be done he does it him
self If you have ever lived in a small
country town or village, you know ex
actly how he goes about it and how suc
cessful he generally is. It is doubtful if
all the sprites in elfdom could invent
more pranks.
Removing swinging gates and cellar
doors is always a favorite Halloween
pastime with village boys. Stringing
wires and ropes across sidewalks to trip
up unwary pedestrians is another reck
less trick, which sometimes results in se
vere injury. The ticktack is generally
harmless. Os course you have hung a
ticktack at some time or other in your
younger days. You remember how it
was done, don’t you?
The crowd of village boys met about
9 o’clock on some previously selected
corner. A long piece of twine, a nail
and a tack or a pin were the requisite
paraphernalia. Then the victim was se
lected, generally some citizen who had
made himself obnoxious to the boys on
former occasions. Perhaps it was the
crusty druggist or the short tempered
Hebrew dry goods dealer. If the victim
was known to be on the lookout for such
games and prepared to.give chase to the
offenders, a spice of keenly relished ad
venture was given to the fun.
Then came the fastening of the tick
ri Ora. th . boldest spirits was se-'
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lected for this Work. Wh'ile the rest of
the group remained hidden in the shad
dow of a distant tree he stole carefully
up to the house and with trembling fin
gers fastened the tack to the sash of the
window. The nail was tied to the string
a short distance from the tack, so that
when the string was pulled it would
strike against the pane. Rare sport it
was when the aroused citizen was seen
to carefully open the front door, club in
hand. Then with a defiant cry the
whole group of boys would leave their
shelter and run, to collect again and re
peat the joke on some other victim.
The carrying about of jack o’ lan
terns madp from hollowed pumpkins
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and lighted by candles and the rigging up
of sheet and pillowcase ghosts are boyish
ways of perpetuating the old superstition
that All Hallow eve is the spirits’ hol
iday. Even the throwing of cabbage
stumps against front doors can be traced
back to an old custom and one which is
even now observed.
The theory is that the witches who
are abroad that night can be interested
in the affairs of mortalsand made to re
veal the future if the right kind of in
cantations and spells are used. Oneway
to do this is tor two persons to be blind
folded and go haud in hand into the
garden, where, after repeating certain
mystic words, each pulls up a cabbage
stump. If the stalk is straight and
shows a white core when broken, the
omen is a good one, and if much earth
adheres to the roots prosperity will fol
low. On the other hand, if the stump is
black and crooked, the omen is regard
ed as unfortunate. This is the custom to
which Burns refers in the poem quot
ed above when he says “and pou their
stocks. ”
But this is only one of many customs
peculiar to Halloween. Most of the
methods taken to enlist the elfs in aid
ing mortals to pierce the veil of the fu
ture are of interest to young married
people. Some of the most popular of
these have been described by a modert
poet as follows:
You must walk down cellar backward,
Then you look into a glass.
And there, peering o’er your shoulder
See your love, my little lass.
You must peel a rosy apple,
Throw the peeling on the floor,
Where it forms the loved initial
Os the lad whom you adore.
You must name a lot of chestnuts,
And then roast them in a row.
And the one which pops the quickest
Pops because he loves you so.
Having followed these old customs.
Should you fail to learn your fate,
Still have patience and remember
All things come to those who wait.
It was not so many years ago that
many lads and lasses followed these
instructions and repeated cabalistic
verses and ‘ ‘spells” with a great amount
of good faith. People are fond of saying
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that “in'Chis enlightened age we are not
superstitiods, ” but, when we remember
that thousands of fortune tellers do a
thriving business throughout the land
and find their richest fields in the big
cities, it is apparent that we have not
entirely got rid of superstition.
Under the guise of a Halloween
party, however, all these old rites may
be revived, for they will furnish lots of
fun for a party of the most enlightened
young folks. A country house, one with
a good, big fireplace in the dining room,
is the only suitable place in which to
hold a Halloween party. Given this
j and a score of lively young people, and
the affair is sure to be a huge success.
A few simple and inexpensive prepara
tions, combined with a knowledge of
some of the quaint, old customs with
which the holiday is connected, are all
that will be necessary for the host or
hostess.
Nuts and apples figure largely in
these ceremonies. There are several
ways in wbiph nuts can be madfl to in-
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terp'ret the future, but the most common
one is for a young woman to place two
hazelnuts or two chestnuts on the grate,
giving to each the name of one of her
admirers. Then the-party gathers around
the blazing fire and watches for the re
sult, which may be read by any one fa
miliar with the mystic lore. If the nut
shrivels up or sputters and jumps away,
the lover it represents is faithless, but
if it burns, then the lover’s affection is
warm and true. This may be varied by
adding another nut and giving it the
name of the young lady who places
them.
Fortunes may be told by hanging ap
ples up before the fire and watching the
way in which they are affected by the
heat. Then there is that familiar Hal
loween game known as “bobbing” for
apples. A washtub, two-thirds filled
with water, is placed on the floor, and
in it are put a number of apples. The
hands of the “bobber” are tied behind
him, and he must try to catch the apples
with his teeth. With large apples this
is a difficult thing to do, and the only
practical method is to plunge your head
into the tub until you can force the ap
ple to the bottom and get a firm hold on
it. Prizes should be given to the suc
cessful “bobber,” for he richly deserves
some reward for his ducking. It is great
fun for the spectators.
There is the bowl test too. Place
three bowls on a table, one filled with
clear water, another with discolored
water, leaving the third empty. Then
let the company, one after another, be
blindfolded and led in. Those who dip
their hands in the clear water will
marry either a maiden or a youth;
those who dip into the discolored water
will wed either a widow or a widower,
and those who touch the empty bowl
will remain unmarried.
But, if a maiden wishes to make a
personal test, let her take a ball of yarn
and throw it out of the window, hold
ing the end and repeating, as she winds
it up again, the Lord’s Prayer back
ward. If the witches are attending to
their business that night, the yarn will
be pulled by unseen hands, and then she
must cry out, “Who holds?” when the
name of the man she is to marry will
be told her. If the winding is uninter
rupted, then she is doomed to live and
die an old maid. Such are some of the
half forgotten vagaries and fancies of
“witch night. ” Sewell Ford.
Gofdbugs.
The most remarkable goldbugs in the
world are found in Central America.
They belong to the genus Plusiotis,
and one might easily imagine a speci
men to be the work of some clever artif
icer in metal. The head and wing cases
are brilliantly polished, with a luster
as of gold itself. 'To sight and touch
they have all the seeming of metal, and
it is hard to realize that the creature is
a mere animal. Oddly enough, there
is another species of Plusiotis from the
same region, which has the appearance
of being wrought in solid silver, freshly
burnished. These gold and silver beetles
have a market value. They arc worth
from $25t6 SSO each. The finest collec
tion of them in existence today is owned
by Walter ..Rothschild of the English
banking firm. Though a young man,
only 25 years of age, he has already
spent $200,000 on beetles. Every year
he sends two men to Central America
to gather beetles. One of the most beau
tiful bugs in the world is a small beetle
known to science as the blue Hoplia.
Its back is an exquisite iridescent sky
blue, and the under part of its body is
of a bright silver hue. The notion that
it contains silver is widely entertained,
and attempts have frequently been made
to extract silver from it.—Buffalo Com
mercial.
Had Never Heard of Him Before.
“A new slang phrase is picked up
and worn out in a day in the great cit
ies of the country,” said a commercial
traveler, “but sometimes years elapse
before they are ever heard in rural dis
tricts. I was side tracked in a little min
ing camp in southern Oregon a few days
ago and was playing freeze out with
some of the natives. In the course of
events I got three tens and made a small
bet. A big, red shirted Hoosier opposite
raised me. I raised him back, and he
came back at me with another raise.
“ ‘Well, I’ll have to call you,’ I said.
‘My name is mud. ’
“He raised up from his chair; seized
my hand in his big paw and shaking it
enthusiastically said in all seriousness:
“Glad to know you, Mr. Mud. My
name is Jenkins.’” —San Francisco
Post.
The Schoolboy and the Emperor.
The organ of the schoolmasters, The
Allgemeine Deutsche Lehrerzeitung, re
lates an episode of Kaiser Wilhelm’s
visit to Wiesbaden. When he was rid
ing along the Taunus strasse at the head
of his suit on Monday, a small boy ran
after him and cried out as he frantic
ally waved his cap, “Herr Kaiser, Herr
Kaiser, get us a holiday tomorrow!”
The emperor laughed, and, with a
friendly wink to the lad, called out,
“We shall manage it.” Accordingly on
the next day all the lads and lasses of
the town were informed that the day
was “schulfrei, ” and wherever the
kaiser appeared he was naturally greet
ed as a liberator, with the full power
of youthful lungs.
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LONDON’S NllW LORD MAYOR
George Fandel Phillipa Will Assume the
Office In November.
George Faudel Phillips, Jord mayor
elect cf London, will.be the second of
his family to occupy the position, for
his father, Sir Benjamin Phillips, served
with much distinction as chief magis
trate of the English metropolis in 1865.
Mr. Phillips belongs to a prominent
Jewish family, is the head of an old
business house and ' is, of course, very
wealthy.
He has been identified with metro
politan politics for a number of years.
He first held office iu 1884, when ho
was sheriff of London, and ho became
au aiderman in 1888, representing the
ward of Farringdon Within. Since then
ho has been one of the sitting magis
trates at the Guildhall police court.
Two years ago he aspired to be elected
lord mayor, contesting the claims of
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GEORGE F. PHILLIPS.
seniority made by Sir Joseph Renals,
against whom there was much bitter
opposition because of his reputation as
a promoter cf various speculative enter
prises. Sir Joseph won, however, and
Aiderman Phillips was forced to wait
his turn.
The lord mayor elect is a man of cul
ture and wide experience in corporation
matters and is said to be au oratoj of no
mean ability. On the Bth of November
he exchanges his scarlet robe for the
more gorgeous one which he is to wear
on state occasions for the ensuing year
and on Nov. 9, which is known as Lord
Mayor’s day, he takes .office in the
Guildhall and assumes his official resi
dence in the Mansion House. This cere
mony is one of the most quaint and cu
rious to be observed in any country where
modern civilization prevails. Accom
panied by a long procession of showy
floats and by numerous carriages in
Which ride the heads of the various Lon
don guilds, he rides to the Guildhall in
the cumbersome but gorgeous carriage
which is used for that purpose. Then he
is presented to the lord chief justice and
the lesser court dignitaries and invites
them to a banquet. For 12 months there
after the lord mayor is a personage of
great importance in London.
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