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SUNDAY TEE: OCTOBER 25. 1908.
REFUSE BURNED IN MASS
Nevtit Way to Diipoie of New York's
Eif Dirt Pile.
II IA HAY BAVE SOME MONEY
A PUtl la Hlehmaa4 lloraaga Waleli
I -waaeMea tha Latest AehleTe
meats af tha altar?
Eaalaaer.
TOJUC Oci .-lmu ni a !fu
Ji..e Mt high, cr !. twie
l..hk of tha Blngei- bu.id.r.g. nd covet ir.f
a sraea b'.g Bryant para, and you
will hava an idea of how . big a Job It la
lUh rear to keap Xew To:k cleaned up.
IT ail tr.a (rhag. rubn.an. ashei. and
tract awa5lngs of th' a c.y were not
hauled away promptly and dlapoeed of thai
la tha alia of tha ptla tl-.at wouU be mafia in
a yar and It wouldn't includa tha anow
Vila allliar.
Jutt about two-tWrdi of th ia big rafuia
fcaap would ba mada up of tha aahea from
tha clty'i flrea. a llttla mora than ona
Hth would wba made up of atract a-waep-lags,
about one-seventh would be gaibsg
and tha raat would cons. at of tin cans,
eld elothaa, badi, ra(i, fjmUu.e, ciorVev.
and that heterogeneous macs of rubbsh
thrown on Kaw York dirt pl'.e every day.
Naw Tork'e dirt pile grow at tha rale
of atout SOO.OOO tons a year. Every year ao
much mora dirt of all kinds fcna to be
carted away, to be burnaJ or used for f.ll
Ing In purposes. About one-third of the
dolrt pi'.e goes to Hiker's Ifland. which' hat
already been Increased In area 6,1!,i acrea
and In lex than hit years will be 147 acres
bigg'r than It Is today. The big new pen
itentiary which the city proposes to build
In place of the one on Blackwell's Island
will noma day stand on I lite dirt pile.
Jut now attention la ana In being called
in the question of the best way to get rid
"f Urn oitya refuse- because of the new
methods which have come Into vogue since
sanitary engineering boc-ame a distinct
branch of cence Sanitary engineers all
over the world have born studying the
problem. Ona of the best schemes they
hava devised la to burn It without soring
It at alt, thua saving about per cent of
tha present cost of removal.
Eventually, It la predicted by some en
gineara. every city will adopt thin method
if bumfng the refuse, aa fast aa It accu
mulates and burning It right In the city
Itself. The refuse of Cairo has been em
ployed for centuries to heat the Turkish
hatha In that city, so that the Idea Isn't at
all now, but by the latest achievements of
the engineers It haa been made possible to
throw all tha varied forms of waste Into a
furnace and gat no resultant smell.
Tust now New Tork Is trying this plan
down In Richmond borough. A plant
modeled on the English system has been
completed there at a cost of 170,000 and Is
dally hurtling up ttuny tons of refuse, in
cluding everything from riad homes to tin
cans, wilt out offense to people living not
2'J0 feet away. Instead of sorting tht; refuse-
It is poured Into the. same hopper, the
masa is touched off and It then burns
Itself.
The gases from the burning refuse pass
over snccefslvo grates and arc oxidized In
such a way as to secure complete com
bustion. When the process Is complete
there remain simply big clinkers like those
which clog up the grate of a furnaca.
These, are pulverised and can be made
Into cement blocks.
The Richmond plant la only a small one.
1 ill Is ill to represent the very latesi
tchk'wments .if the engineers who havn
been tackling the problem of how to get
l id of the city's big dltt pile In the qulck
rwl, cheapest and least offensive method.
lWore It was erected Street Cleaning Com
missioner t'.'.it her stone of that borough
made a trip t.i Knglnnd to observe how the
Knglisii engineers hud developed similar
) lants and now the smallest borough of
the city Is boastins of being away ahead
rot only of its sister borougha but of other
titles of the country as well,
A yi ar ago a special commission ap
pointed by Mayor MelMian and consisting
of H. lc B. Parsons, Rudolph Herring
and Fsmuel Whtnery Investigated tha big
problem of getting rid of New York's big
refuiae h-ap, and In their report they rr.o
omniended that thl method be tried in
the boroughs of Richmond and Queens.
Richmond's refuse destructor. as It Is
iulld. is the result of that report.
f'ntil the engineers devised this scheme
of hii'nlng up refuse In msss one source
of trouble In getting rid of the elf's dall.i
lefuse pile lay in the necessity of sorting
It. All the garbage from Manhattan. Tht
Rronx and Itrnoklyn at present rocs t.i
Ranen Island, where It Is treated by th
l eduction process. which was devised a
good many year bo. That means simply
that It Is etewed. and from that stew arises
a fine smell. A small percentage of the,
lesidunm la useful. Thla Is done bv Dri-
vate contract,
Some day. an ording to the experts, this
city as wll as ovry other city will have
lefnse dejfi clorM fk- the one i:i Rich
mond scattered around In convenient neigh
borhood, and rarts will simply go around
and pick no everything that peiple don't
want nrd bad It to the nearest destructor,
where it wil he tumod Into clinkers and
ashes. This ii the may thst Dublin has
been treating (is ,1 it pile for some yeats
now, and they consider It much hetter than
"lie way New Tork has been doing It. as it
It not only muidi cheaper but also les of a
menace to health in thst It does away with
Img hauls and the offensive dumps end
scows which ar necessary here.
Ptrtliermore. every I.Oi'O pounds of refuse
burned In thla way is equivalent to 'JM
pounds of coal, aa experiments have shown.
That would give New Tork's big refuse
1 eap a fuel value of about 4io0irt tona of
coal, which might help towerd paying som,-
of the eity'a bills.
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views of correspond-nts does not com
mit Tha Bee to their endorsement.
Where One llemorret Mends.
SIDNEY, Neb.. Oct. J Mr. C. M. Urue'n
ther. Secretary Bryan Volunteers. Lincoln,
Neb. My uar s:r: 1 sni In receipt of
your favor of the lti.h Inst, advising me of
the 'act that you were sending me. under
separate cover. sever.1 pictures of the
democratic candidate for the off ii e of gov
ernor of this stayte and requesting that 1
see that these were posted In windows and
other conupic.ious places: In the same
mail the pictures were received and upon
opening same I found -a very good likeness
of our distinguished friend, together with
a synopsis of on of his Issues, beginning
with "I am In favor of a guarantee of de
posits law."
I have been a democrat all rny life and
would gladly comply with your request
were it not for the fact that doing so
wouid be advocating an Issue which 1. as
wll as any other person who has given
the subject any study, know to be wrong
and unsound In principle, unconstitutional
in law and more prod jctive of "wild-cat
banking" than any law that has ever
been cr ever can be enacted In any state
or in our nation.
I very much regret that Mr. Shallen
beiger has Ixen compelled to advocate this
as a campaign issue, for I hive held him
In high regard eer since I first saw and
heard hlui eight, years ago, and do so at
this time. Kxfept for tha so-called panic
of last year we might never have heard of
this as a campaign issue this year and
Mr. Shallenbergor would have had no more
loyal supporter than myself. It seems that
a new Issue was needed, so this was put
In the platform of the democratic party,
oven after a bill proposing a guarantee
fund waa voted down In the national house
of representatives, where three democrats
and fourteen republicans voted for It.
II Is unnecessary for me to call your
attention to the law which was passed by
the legislature of New York In 18i, which
guaranteed "bank notes and "other debts' "
and which worked very satisfactorily untJl
from 1840 to liH2. when eleven out of the
nlnoiy banks In the state failed, the first
three failures using up all the funds that
had been collected up to that time, com
pelling the state to issue $1,000,000 of lis S
per cent bonds to pay the losses occasioned
by the other failures. The remaining
banks (those which had had no losses)
were twenty years in repaying to the stale
the amount advanced by It to pay losses
which they, In fact, had nothing to do
with.
It Is unnece-t-sai y for me to dwell upon
the Oklahoma law, which everyone, who
has looked It up has found to be a failure.
The bill, when Introduced Into the legis
lature, should have been entitled: "An act
to suppress legitimate banking and to en
courage a more extended propagation of
wild-cats.' " This law was passed in two
daya after It waa Introduced, many of
the members never even reading same or
giving It any study. Men who are no more
fitted for the handling of any other per
son'a money are getting Into (Tie business,
offering inducements for deposits which
conservative bankers frown upon and are
being patronized by people who would not
let them -have any of their money wcro it
not for the "guarantee law."
Those who advocate the proposition
tell us that It la working "very satisfac
tory" In Okluhoma, and then go on to
explain how much the banks of that
state have Increased thotr deposits since
the law went Into effect. It Is a matter
of figures that the state banks of our
own state have increased more In per
cent In deposltM since the law went Into
effect In Oklahoma than the atate banks
In that state, even though all the school
money which was owed to the atate by
the national government (about 15,000.
000) waa transferred to the banks operat
ing under the guaranty law, under the
direction of the governor.
Most anyone who has thought anything
about the panic of 1907 will tell you that
a guaranty of deposit law would not
have prevented that. We needed more
money, and, had we had more or had a
currency system that would have given us
more, we would never have had the panic.
A law guaranteeing bank deposits will not
prevent panics.
We are told that a guaranty of deposits
law would have prevented the panic of
l-93. At that time, and for several yeara
j after, the paramount Issue was how to get
anything to deposit. A guaranty of do
I posits lew will not pronuge prosperity.
We all know that a tax upon a strong
i hank will not prevent the failure of weak
banks, and I consider this fact alone suf-
ftclt nt to cause me to be against the Issue,
j I am a banker and believe I know about
what Is best for the businnas better than
any politician who has never been a banker.
The question of a guaranty of deposits law
is a matter of business with me, and I
trust (hat y u will not consider this letter
a political argument or an argument for
or against any particular political party.
We are all r;her tlemoeia'.s or republi
cans for hi sinews reasons, more or less.
land silica the demo ratio candidates are
i plodged for an issue which I know will be
' a detriment to my business and to the
country as wen, it ts my amy as a nuwu
to vote against them, which I Intend to
do when election day conies around.
I will hold the roll of plcturea subject
to your order and am sending a copy of
litis letter to the chairman of the demo
cratic county tenlial committee of thla
county with my rerignalion as secretary of
that committee, and also one to the presi
dent of ;he Bryan club of this city with
my resignation as secretary and treasurer
of that organization. Very truly youra.
ROBKRT A. BARLOW.
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Notable Sale of Women's High Class Suits I
lf
Monday zvi be an event of unusual interest t$ women wio seel' elegance
and tlisiinctien in (frets. 2 hene (pect'tl fUs re all on tpparel of the most exclusive character.
We were extremely fortunate in aeeurinf an east
ern manufacturer's entire sample line of fall suits
About 60 stunning sample suits no duplicates. We
bought them at reductions of ij? to and every suit will
go at a rare bargain.
The $100 Sample Suits $65 The $75 Sample Suits $49
The $89 Sample Suits $59 The $65 Sample Suits $45
The $50 Sample Suits $35
Suits for Women
mid the Fall Style Aristocrats.
The are not to be compared with
othpf suits at a similar price
r ashionscalB are vastly
superior In every way,
at
Remarkable Reductions
Imported Costumes
Demi-Costumes Suits
$25
lulegant New Long Dlack an el Covert Coats
Here is an entirely new showing of these very desirable
coats exceptionally attractive $ Q $90
groups at ud UOm OO
We wish to cloae out at once our finest
gowns and cost times which were imported ex
pressly for Brandets.
S100 Fall Huits from Felll, at (65
tii t-pleca Demi Costume, wisteria color, 1135
1160 Rorde.an Colored Suits (Francis) at M
$1C0 Black Fall Suits tfrom Francis) st ... S98
1225 Chamois S-plece feinl Costume (Paiuln) also
t17 black 3-piece IJeml Costtima ( Beers) ... .$11
$10 Silk tlown, from Doucel, at $98
$125 Satin Costume, from Ilelmendlnser, at. .. .$73
$175 Knibroldered net over peach satin (Helmen-
dlnger) st $11
$175 Knibroldered Marquisette over Rose Sstin
pao,nln at $180
$125 Moire Kmbroldered Filet and Chiffon Cloth,
(Urecoll) at $75
All the Fine Evening Coats
At Similar Httluctions.
Women's Maii(l-i:iiilroklcrcfl French Lini'ie I "or AUuiiKtv only, we oTfer
the choice of any piece of French hand-made undermtislins at 25 per cent
off the marked price.
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omen's Waists
By far the luoet elegant assemblage
of new waists, ever shown in Omaha.
1 he new styles are delightful.
High claas Tall waists for dress ami
evening as well as for wear with tail
ored suits every new and extreme fea
ture swell tailored uets and silks,
etc., at ,
6'i-Ti-$10 $15
NEW TAILORED WAISTS
The correct styles for fall made of
klgu class wash materials, long sleeves,
etc., new arrivals, at
$5 Down to $1.98 and $1.50
BHANDEIS Boston
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Our Millinery Buyer and
Chief Desintr nve Juat Returned
from &. Trip to New York.
They have made a careful study
of the new styles and have secured the
newest and most stunning innovations.
EXQUISITE NEW
FALL MILLINERY
The "tub" fur hats are the r,agc
large hats arc larger than ever the
cleverest small hats have apeared and
are wonderfully popular. We will show
them Monday.
Ultra Smart New "Tub" Hats
Those Large, Graceful Avenue Hats
New Small Hats
The new taupe shades, the rare antique greens
all the touches of coral. The millinery display at
Jirandeis lias never been so beautiful as just now.
$11 C S'-Tl and $
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GOOD NEWS FOR BRYAN NOT
TwftTHff Oat of II an 4 red a ad
frtra r. rain Mc-n Arc far
Perrlc l.radrr.
Twnty-iva out of M7 of the grain oom
mitilon men uf Omalia my tlify ill vute
for Bryan. Tli others won't.
W. C. Sunderland, (ia n man, took a
poll of the (tain crtni mission men who
occupy officea on the top floor of the
Rrandeis building Saturday. Thtire are h;
of tham. Ha found that eighty-one were
going to vote for Tart, twenty-fix e for
Br an and one for prohibition
Am tllv t alllaloa
means many bad bmi' wlih-li Ff.irkl'-n'
Arnica Salve heals quickly, aa t loa iroa
xnd bum. Snr. ir aale by Beaton Drug
Co.
Oar Oavai Mlaatrala.
"Mia:ah Walkali. kin you tell me de
duf unc 'tween a boy puitm' eali ;n h.a
.lad'a canfy an' a p wjlloi landm' knock
out blow?"
"I give it up William. What 1 tha dif
ference h"twt-ii a biiv putliiifc kali in til
tailtei'a coffee aud a puxillai iandinc u
knr kout blowf
"a one am a joke on da paw an' de
udriah ana a poke in da jaw"
"Ladlee and gentlemen, tha celebrated
tenor. Prof, gpltsrrinrtum Bang, will now
mg that matchleaa ballad, 'kfamma, Mv
I'ltmti of Happiueaa la Over: George El
1 imburger flieeee.' " Chicago Tilbune.
AitvertiM In The Bee, tha paper (hat goea
Into Hie hotnea of the b.-at peoj.lt.
HaaW llepuelt Coaranty llaugrroaa.
OMAHA. Uit. :3.-lo the Eii.tor of The
Bee: There are $18 0f.tXi0,Kio of deposits
and only fci.oOO.Ouu.flw) of money. How are
you going to guarantee to p.iy all depoaita
when you have only $!'of nciual for even'
to of deposits and muke people believe
that you can do it 7 How are you going to
make a No. 1 shoe fit a No. S fool? Mr.
Bryan saya this can be done, but how?
Even he has not undertaken to say.
Any sane man would say at once that
tha government has undertaken to do some
thing it cannot poesiuly do and In case of a
fcare Instead of a weak bank being able
to liquidate there would be a demand or
lun on all banks and ti e whole banking
system of the country would go down,
carrying w.th It hiiH'iiexs establishments
and leaving wreck and ruin in its wake.
Mr. Prsan as all the people would not
want their money ai the same time. How
does he know." If only one In f.ve wanted
Ins money that alone would reuuire every
every dollar of actual money In existence.
Those Who have witnessed the effect of
these scares know only too well that when
the eiiple want their mouev, they want It.
and iH't even government guaranty woull
Influence them In tha least to desist. Why!
lin t the government guaranty behind tha
gold and allver certificates? and didn't a
democratic president, G rover Cleveland,
have to tsaue and sell $T0O.0OO.0OO of gov
ernment bonds to get gold so as to main
tain confluence in treasury notes and silver
certificates and keep t!ie.. oi a parity?
The banks of Ktirope aeie drained of their
gold, enough to meet the demands, but all
tha gold In the world anil all the money
In the world does not equal in amount the
deposits In the banks of America alone.
It Is easy to glibly talk of guaranteeing
depositors, but a practical atuily of the
question shows the guaranty scheme a
scheme which makes the government agree
to do what no human being and no gov
ernment can possibly do to he one of the
most dangerous, If not the most dangerous,
schemeB, say nothing of lis flagrant Injus
tice that haa ever yet been advanced In the
solution of economic problems.
Shall the fact count for nothing that
every experienced and reputable banker In
this country opposes it? Mr. Bryan says
they are aelfish. He would say the same
thing of a doctor who cautioned you against
giving your child certain foods in case of
typhoid fever. He would reason In this
easy way that It Is natural to cat and that
therefore the doctor was selfish in not turn
ing the garden, meat block and pantry over
to the child.
Against the combined Judgment of the
ablest, and most experienced minds In this
country. Mr. Bryan arrogantly sets up his
Independent Judgment.
Mr. Bryan is a lawyer who never wrote
a brlrf; a farmer who never turned a fur
row; a newspaper man alio never Fet a
line of type; a statesman who never wrote.
a law; a philosopher who never entertained
the same opinion twice in succession; a
financier who never capitalized anything
but Jawbone; a laboring man with bleached
hands and calloused lungs; a soldier who
never fought a battle; a commoner with his
eye on the gate receipts.
This ia the man who ask you to bow
to his judgment and follow him Into t lie
everglades of error rather than the counsel
of sober and azperlenced reason. A. D.
fan Brran Do Ilariuf
KXCELJ310R 8PR1NOS, Mo., Oct. 22.
To the Kdltor of The Bee: In conversation
the other day with Frank II. 'Sweet of
South Ft. Joseph. Mo., lie stated that he
had 6X) head of mules sold to A Pittsburg
contractor for $19u a head. No mule to be
under 4 years or over 10 years and no mule
to weigh leas than l.OCiO pounds, all to be
serviceably sound. This contract to be
filled by January t, providing Mr. Taft be
elected, and failing his election this con
tract to be null and void beca.ua the public
work then would not be let. Yours truly,
Tecumseh. Neb. BEJvf MILLER.
Hallowe'en
By A. R. Adamaon, North Platte.
Nnture Is assuming winter garb andiempty diah, he never would marry. This
Hallowe'en the name popularly given to
th pip or vigil of All Hallows, or festival
of All Saints Is with us again, as It falls
on the 31st of October, and like most festi
vals allied to superstition is celebrated at
night. In former years, liefoie education
ceremony was repeated three times, and
every time the position of the dishes waa
changed.
Girls would steal to the barnyard and
pull first one, then another, and then a
third stalk of oats. If the top of the third
and enlightenment had dispelled an ignor- stalk was incomplete or broken at the top.
nut and Irrational belief In supernatural
agency, the rustics of Scotland and Ireland
were flriuly persuaded that on this par
ticular night the fiends of hell were let
loose, and t'lat witches, devils and other
mischief-making beings are abroad on
baneful midnight errands, and that the
aerial people called fairies held high carni
val in secluded glade. These beliefs, al
though wholly exploded, are Interesting,
and reference to some superstitions asso
ciated witli them In times past may not be
out of place.
About the close of the first half of last
century, when I was a boy, Hallowe'en was
held in due and undent form throughout
the rural district of the west of Scotland.
It Indicated that their married life would
be unhappy.
It waa held that If one stole out to the
barnyard alone, and went around a bean
stack three times, counting the number of
steps, at the end of the third circuit he or
he would catch the apparition of t'.ietr
future spouBe In their arms. This test re
quired grit, and It was seldom resorted to.
Another ayetl waa to go to a part of a
atream where the laYida of three different
ownera met and dip the left sleeve of your
ahlrt In the water! Then, without speak
ing to anyone, go home and go to bed In
sight of a fire, having hung the wet sleeve
before It to dry. At midnight, if you kept
awake, your affinity would come and turn
and is well described by the poet Burns li the sleeve. Burns In a song refers to this
ncantation as follows:
The last Hallowe'en I was waiikin.
My drookit sark sle've. ss ye ken
Ilia likeness came up the house stalkin'.
In the very grey breeka o' Tarn Glen!
Young people even yet hall wlLh pleasure
any prediction of the appearance and Umii
ptrament of the 1 f partner fate has allotted
them. In the olden days youngsters took
time by the forelock, and Instead of con
sulting palmists and aMtrologeta as the
silly and love sick do now, they went into
a kale yard or cabbage garden about mid
night at Hallowe'en, and blindfolded,
I groped their way among the tall gren kale
and pulled a plant. It being big or little,
j straight or crooked, indicated the shape and
size or tne person to whom they would bo
a poem so named. I have many pleasant
memories of social gathering on that f' s
tive eve, of bountiful suppers of buttered
sowens and mashed potatoes. Sowens Is
now an obeolcte dish, but mashed pota
toes triumphantly survive and grace Hal
lowe'en auppera throughout Scotland. When
the potatoes were mashed, a ling and a
button were, thrown into the pot. and the
whole mess was stirred up and dumped
into a large dish In the center of tha table,
around which lads and lasses, brimful with
glee, tat, spoon In hand, ready for the at
tack. Whoever got the ring was the first
to ba married, but the unfortunate who got
he button was never to experience the bllsx
of matrimony.
I Then, there was "ducking." which con- j ,llarried. and if much eaith adhfred to the
sixted of plunging the head into a tub of rooti u was a.sui-e sign that the wisi.ed
freak Air la Street Cart.
Badly ventilated street cars which breed
pneumonia and kindred diseases, are to be
cxnid a tiling of the past in Chicago. In
stead of the fetid atmosphere which pas
sengeis were forced to Inhale in the old
earn in cold weather, when windows and
doors were kepi closed, there will be a sup
ply of frenli air In circulation at all tunes.
Through the efforts of Health Commis
sioner hvmn and tiie co-operation of the
board if ao(ier islng engineers and the
tin lion companies, 11 ia expected that
ewiy car on Hie two nyttimi will b
eiiuippen with approved ventilating devices
before winter weather ts In. The In
leatigauoiis of III Haaltli Department have
provcu that the deck sash system now
in use hi tiie cars la a luiluie so far mm
I'i'O ei veritilation ia conct-i ii.hI. The deck
rash admits free air, but It enters
through une aaali and goea out througn
another without reaching the flour of the
car Passengers get Hula or no benefit
from the air which enters the car from the
roof. Four systems of ventilation, are being
tried by the traction companies, and two
of them are declared Vo be successful.
The systems provide for the air entering
the car near th floor, pataing over heated
electric iils and out .luoufcli ln roof.
t'tiusgo Journal.
water and catching one of the many float
ing apples In one's teeth no easy task.
But a game productive of merriment was
doing one's best to take a bite out of an
oscillating apple sunr nded by a cord from
the celling. The hands were held behind
the buck, and many a sharp rap one re
ceived in his or hi r endeavor to catch the
winging trophy.
Burning nuts was a famous charm to de
termine who was to be your life partner.
Two nuts were chosen. Une was given
I your on name and the omrr thai of your
jsweetheait or lite one you wisiied to be.
! The nuts were thrown into the tire and
anxiously watched, and if they burned
, evenly and quietly together, all was well;
J the course uf true oe was to run smootli.
but if une or botn exploded or broke away,
then tiiere aaa to he no msiriage and one's
aff.mty was still to he sought for
Another ihaini aaa to take a lighted
candle and go a'one Inio a dark loom and
eat an apple before a looking glais. and
the face of your future husband would be
s.-en I joking Gei u.:r leu shoulder. Again,
three dishes were ranged on the hearth;
ona containing clean water, one dirty water
and the other empty. Tha one anxious to
know what fata had in atore for him or
her was blindfolded and led to tha dishes
atid toid to dip his left hand Into one of
them. If by chance he dipped his hand
In the (lean water, he would marry a maid:
lor partner would have a good sized bank
account, and if the pith of the stalk tasted
bitter, sour or sweet, the temperament of
the longed for spouse was predicted.
I might go on rehearsing these almost
forgotten enchantments and charms, but
the InfHction of one more befoie conclud
ing might prove acceptable.
Another Hallowe'en enchantment used bv
the young folks of past generations, to
ascertain who was to be their life partner,
was to steal out unperceived and sow a
handful of hemp seed, t:ai rowing It In with
anything convenient, repealing now and
again the following rhyme, usinv tiie word
lad or lass, aa the case iiiithl be:
Hemp seed I sow ye;
l.oeve: go'i.g to he my lasa
Come after nie and diaw me.
Then when the seed waa sown, if the
party stood still and looked o fi his or
her left shoulder the apparition of the per
son Invoked would be seen approaching.
It took a person of nerve to go through
this ordeal aud I have heard It staled that
ofltlrues it had a tragic conclusion. One
incident Is worth narrating.
About the middle of the last century a
hired girl in the family, uf a typefounder
in tha city of Edinburgh, Scotland, being
desirous of finding out who waa to be her
husband. Went about 10 o'clock on a Hal
lowe'en night into Ifer master's workshop,
determined to go throagh the rite of low
a bench, she walked through the shop
several times, pronouncing aloud the words
quoted and used on such occasions, and
so anxious was she to "see something,"
as she termed it, and seeing nothing, she
decided to gaiher up the hemp seed and
sow it a second time. In the course of
the second sowing, according to her own
account, a tall, meager figure presented
Itself to her. She shrieked aloud and ran
Immediately Into the. house After relat
ing what ahe had seen she went to bed,
placing tho Bible under her head! She
aroae next morrriiig and went through the
labors of the day in apparent health, but
in tha evening, although somewhat timid,
went to bed without any symptoms of fear.
Next morning she was called, hut did not
answer, and a daughter of her employer
entered the room. She was very sick and
had been so during part of the eight. Tea
was prepared for her, but beforo it was
ready she sank Into a stupor. Her pulse
becoming low and h""r breathing difficult,
a medical man was sent for and he pro
nounced her affliction to be an attack of
apoplexy, from which she could not re
cover. She died In less than an hour and
doctors expressed thi opinion that the Im
pression made upon her Imagination by
the fancied appaiitiun caused the fatal
catastrophe.
Charms and ceremonies are now discon
tinued and laughed at by intelligent per
ple, but Hallowe'en will continue to be
observed us a gala night. Scotland and
Ireland are the countries In which It Is
Mill celebrated with ceul. but In a greatly
modified form, as It is wholly reft of weird
associations.
Scotch people marry at night and Hal
lowe'en I a favorite night for marriagi
celebrations, family gatherings, dances and
mevrv making. Even the children ate
Joyous that night and carry green kali
stocks with a lighted candle In the center
of the leaves, slnaring as they go, "Hal
lowe'en a night at e'en, a candle and a
custock."
The poet Huri.s makes a pleasing refer
ence to tills. I le says:
The very wee i hinge, todl'n', tin .
T stocks oui-owie their shouthei.
In Ireland he observance of this fes;ival
Is held hi much the same way as It Is In
Scotland, hut I'.nglish people wee i-evi
very enthusiastic, but still have social
parties at which they crack nuts, dude fr.i
apples in a tub of water and perform other
harmless levelrles.
Throughout our own country Hallowe'en
,s the young people's night for social
parties and diversion, and the boys1 nlaht
for deeds of deviltry, which I need not,
enumerate. They seem to consider they
have a right by precedent e to play annoy
tug pranks upon householders and otheis,
but when one looks upon devastations the
somel linea. make It Is dii ticult to me Just
where the fun comes in. I think it Is high
time that the spirit of mischief so preval
ent among boys at Hallowe'en received a
check.
MAIER C0RNSH0W HOUSES
luatrartnr Will i:rect Three llalld
Inaa for Hie National torn
Exposition
Wilson Maier, contractor cn the Iithron
school, Jonas and McSianc residences, liu
been awarded the contracts for erecting
at once three buildings for the National
Corn exposition.
These building are to cover Fifteenth
treet from Howard to Jackson streets; the
quarter block south or the Auditorium in id
the three vacant lots cast of the Hotel
Home and when completed with the Audi
torium will give the exposition over iii,"l
feet of floor apace.
Mr. Maier wus the lowest of five blddeia
for the work and there was a difference
of over $lt,rtu) lielween the highest ond
lowest bid.
lee McGreer has the contract for making
the neceasaiy ri,i uges on the Interior or the
Audltoi iuni and the work will begin Mon
day morning on the buildings.
M. C. Peters of the Pclera Mill company,
manufacturers of alfalfa meal and products,
i to take a pioniincnt part in the plans
i'or the Alfalfa palate which will be Jiim
south of the Audkorium. Mr. Peters will
make an elaborate exhibit from his company.
Only a Watchdog.
A man was excledly lelatlng to a friend
the harrowing details of a burglary in
. i house the nignl before.
"A most darir.g robbery!" exclaimed tiie
nitiaged man. ' It was still early, my wife
mhI I had not retired, and Susie and In r
: .-nuiia; man were In the parlor. Our dog
in the dining room, iienpite all this
that crook had the nerve to enler tin
dining room and rifle it of every bit of
silver ve had. Not satisfied, lie even stol .
the clock otf Hit mantelpiece. What do
you think of that?''
"Well," said the friend, "f don't see what
else you could expeei. Ftdo la only a
vntch dog, you know." Baltimore Ameri
can, j
if into the d.rly water, a widow; if into the mg hemp seed. Placing a lighted candle on
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