The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 29, 1899, Page 23

THE SUNDAY OCALL. 28 Gay Lights and Dark Shades Of O THalloween. . Y & | ¥ | ° tricts to bake what “soul cakes” on that day, poor, who go f The gift of a cak with a request to pray f ¢ dead. The recipient ¢ is generally vi cla in England, a Halloween, for what ‘dole bread.” In several districts a fan- tastic arrangement, called ““Old Hob,” | carried about from house to house, ac- companled by 8 crowd of young people singing doggerel begeing rhymes, 1d Hob consists of a skeleton of & horse's head, mounted on & broomstick, and with a sheet wrapped about and concealing ths person who is carrying it. Shaw, in his history of the Province of Moray, considers the festivities of Hal- loween as a sort of harvest-home rejoic- ing—a thanksgiving for the safe ingather- ing of- the produce of the flelds. What- ever may have been the original motive for this “‘gathering together of the clans” on the eve of All Saints, the young peopls 13 E : i L 2 7 E blessedness is 1 £ E i t / : ing. / 1 Hallowe 1 4 b as weird a 3 ) any one with or 1 id o them full scope on these $ very quaint affair that : serve as a model t In the first place the L acted. Silence, too, w every one was veiled, and r & very ghostly crowd L promptly at the appointe dimly lighted hallway. it 1 fate had given each for the even amusement for the rest by trying to get v was a good deal of merriment a bite from wpple on the whirling o 9 nal from the First Witc! stick, Lucki rls, a man drew P thrown open and the young into the « k 3 i burned : ushered into a veritable wi stalks. Of c i Death heads, made from pumpki beforehand a her ha a small lighted candle d one in th dinin i from the mantel, the had and at the - most_une: the sned by in which s fol- ¥ , but one stretched another, until . r \& kail or mirrors t sing throt v es were then ¢ are blind- Wings were fying t gave each a nut and th ed around and a merry half-hour was 1 er t he air and great glared from every pos- the fireplace, she mumbl some spent in peeling the apples and throwing i sible resting place. In the fireplace, the telligible and the room sud the unbroken skin over the shoulder in such a manner as to form the Initial of the future husband or wife. In one of the apples a needle was imbedded in the grate had been remove a large caldron was s and in its stead beca g over a pale the P sreen t and red were d core, indicating that the finder would s room, ) a enj ic or wedded life. Another Gus Qsappeared when er ® con pen, foretelling a literary aica were found to contain a fortune, written Care 1l another a tiny pencil t on a slip of paper. For example w gnifying & life devoted to T z»ntl“yw e will have many trials until the art a small plece of wood 3 and the hostes I y by the when good luck will come to yo was hidden on which the word *“music” na ? hand, would adv e with her and knock nuts for the gentlemen were had been written t {}:rfenun;uh on door with the small red ribbons and those for the ladles with A few moments before midnight the w broom she ¢ 5 bl ey merry-makers were all tak, ock a gentlen ng the evening all sorts of gam Kitehen door and separated inte “\{33 laughing crowd was summoned to supper, on which had been applied owls and bats Tavs, ey v ng the lady peculiar to Halloween, were added to the groups. the girls on one side and the A&nd there another surprise awaited them, of some black material. The punch was i if possible, ty part of the v Do E e A it s suspended hori: gentlemen on the other. At the firs¢ Lhe decorations in the dining-room were red. so was the frosting on the cake— to find that mysterious he The manner, the couples had all beén ally from the celling and on one end stroke of twelve both groups started and foujCyen the tablecloth being of the same which, by the way, Was crescent-shaped : are all of us con- 4 s o e vitche ave e a sl s of i ted o > o vav Y £ e’ cel « h E} e v y d me £ - Tt he manner and the s hin, e violing the whole thing ey front door. . The first couple to &t the wings, was suspended from the ceiling. also small witch-dolls for the ladies and off just right, so the boys {rls who ill outside became truly blood-c s i ‘ 5 > o reach the In its'claws it held the ends of four long owls for the men, both of which, on try “their fate on this nes alloween lling. Sud- basket was then passed around in w . the nofse were a number of slips of paper. DS s oty many (iot each red ribbons, the other ends of which were vestigation, proved to be bonbon boxes. must not neglect the warnings and SN e e e 0 arrive held in the corners of the room, near the In Ir d, the observance of Hallow- prophecies which that night of mystery Do o 16 hat ks Tareton W heoraioa to & ey axistenos. celling, by bats, lizards spiders. The een assumes, in many respects, a religious will surely bring. » the breathless, shade on the lamp was red crepe paper, character. It is a custom In many dis- ° MADAME JONATHAN. denly. with a crash and a ba he ed and the room was fllled with light. unfortunate who drew the paper with a ces When the light revealed the partners that skull and cro » CARPET TACKS SAVED THE SHIP. - (41515 « THE BOERS AS THEY REALLY ARE. e r i that my old friend Samblich had given S P Ron. it i well known that TERER T e BUT \p ) Now At 15 vell ko one cannot 3 3 CAPTAIN JOSHUA SLOCUM HAD A CLOSE CALL. gpifl.g'}(,'l‘,?“we?l;“i:s‘;gg'&::%‘fi,fl,‘i?gfi'“‘!,’;fi By MISS SANNIE KRUGER, NIECE OF OOM PAUL KRUGER. ) e = . g aave : : vhistle when e ‘“‘com: i his solitary at Buenos Ayres, and which T had still was thinking of a good port captain’s ad- end" of a carpet tack; a savage m’fi"fifié{ Continued from Page Twenty-one. My English always surprises people into back in the Transvaal that I might help t 00! ar E d forw. on the look- vie vhen = he sloop on board, I arranged forward on the look- vice when I pulled the trigger, and T and claw the air, and that was just what — = " — comment. True, I speak with less accent defend our land. Our cunning with the g use for Out, dressed as a seaman, attaching a line must have aimed pretty straight; how- happened that night about W s ' hat made three of us, w not Mr. “Black Pedro,” as he it was, and no the savages thought they “had me, the girl of his choice to some lachergoot aptitude for languages and having trav- through the generations. When trekihg of Tierra del scl G i sev. Fh;;,:(‘;‘: sa\;fl,;ge;,fl;é;:r;n{:a Insllejyllh‘:l: é‘if :)ll-l(]:r la,{elp'?(:i;rdl’n M‘\ézral bloody massa- gloop and all, They changed their minds, (confectionery). If she refuses the gift eled so much. on the veldt it fell to the women to keep from Fortess T e e e Ol asicr than B: cres HIe nawidineots :’hehcourse of his however, when they stepped on deck, for that ends the courtship. If not he sits in But the rising generation of Boers are the prowling lions away from the wagons, : e 3 sland and the others fol- then they thought that T or somebody the midst of the coffes-drinking family all well educated. Both English and And in time of war our women stand be- found a tacks ater with q wind fall. dies in the canoe nearest to me, there lowed him. I B me rapidly tl] Were others in the bottom, and that they and by s tu‘l‘,"fi,‘:afg' {’é;tsfia“‘;’;;"“gz f}f;—vhggw!lggmi'k: T‘;l“c?( "gfdhgfinsdsdor[; for an hour or more. Finally he is left Dutch are taught in the schools. Oom hind the barricades and load the guns for - , ey “céaseq wore ahifting hands often ‘At elgnty villain1 have named, a rensgade mongrel; had hapaiy use or 8 gun. KTac hmiped alone with the girl of s cholce. But the Paul understands English as well as T do ther Ausbinis. sons a0 fathers . to Tae. i ampyage stood yards 1 fired a shot across the bow of the and the worst murderer in Tierra ~del pell-mell, Some Into their canoes and Wise tant according to custom puts a myself. Many times when playing or San Francisco will always recall three e reehooner ! whih ToTleischooner! nearest canoe, at which they all stopped, Fuego. The authorities had been in some into the sea, to cool off, I suppose, limit on the length of his visit. She marks dancing for him I would forget and make L[ISS to my mind—fogs, hilis and pretty {orm "L eaid “Not Now."T Wus no¢ fof persisted in coming mearer, | fired (ho gans nsa mot bearded o + 0o Fu¢; and thers was u Gcal of fiée languags the wax candle with a needie, meaning some remark in English. He would al- “Eit I know no peace here, My heart - ~ Cal8 that the visit must only last until the Wways chide me for it, saying, “I could is full of dread misgiving. Twice have cting them know that\l was alone, and second shot so elose to the chap who night, March 8, at anchor 4 ¢o 1 stepped inta the cibin, and, passing wanted to “yammerschooner” that he cove at the Turn, e\‘erym hetk:t-%ne‘;st' ae!c‘llxl.uttaoelfet'e:fi;:: l::‘:)'ww{';:g ‘xc':.‘: % candle burns to the mark. speak English as well as a rooinek (red We conquered these rooineks, but the rough t! er 1ol .I;a:malg\]n at ithe fore- chmeawed his mind quickly enough and bel- counted thanks. Here I pondered on the home, and then I turned in again, feeling I could tell you of many more quaint neck—Dutch for Englishman), but I never Mmemory of Rorke's Drift and Majuba Hill e unx went on with dfeu,l B}xeno 0 To v'!'; I::lg'a events of the last few days, and, strangely sure that I should not be disturbed any CUStoms, but it wes not for that I under- forget I am a Boer.” rankles. They fifl:}m to win this time, with rpH: whioh pad sy (g Spd sitting down in his cadoo, he rubbed enough, instead of fecling rested from more by people Who left in 8o great a took this task. Rather to convinos you Like all Boer girls T am an excellent U Shtof Bt = s TSN OV oA o that & Boer girl is not @ semi-savege. shot and I fervently wish that I wera feal that we are doomed fo defeat ToF T 2 A