Arizona silver belt., 1889-10-26
TRY YOUR LUCK.

joy ts inherit, The inauguration at tending its festival is attributed to Pomona, mythological nymph of Rome. The festival of Hallow Eve is also relic of the Druids. Various magic ceremonies were then celebra- ted to counteract the influences of witches and demons, and reveal to the young their success or failure in the matrimonial lottery. To this day in Roman Catholic countries, on that night, the custom prevails of lighting fires upon hill.tops, which IS regarded as an emblem of immortality, and typ. flying the ascent of the soul to heaven.
 Different countries adopt different ceremonies. Goldsmith, in hhs Vicar of Wakefield, describing the manner of some rustics, tells that they relig
 iously cracked nuts on All Hallow Eve, Pennant, in his tour of Scot land, tells us that the young women then determine the figure and size of their husbands. Burns, in a note to his poetical description of Hallow cen, writesy "The final ceremony is pull ing each stock or plant of kali; they must go, hand in hand, with eyes shut and pull the first they meet with. It's being big or lttle, straight or crooked is prophetic of the size and shape of the grand object of all their spells the husband or wife. If any dirt or earth stick to the root, that is evidence of fortune; and the taste of the heart of the stem is indicative of the natural temper and disposition. Lastly, the roots are placed above the head of the door, and the person first entering the door Is the person whom the one try ing the charm will marry" Earning nuts, Burns says, lis famous charm in Scotland, and is also so considered in Ireland. If a nuts cracks or jumps from the effect of fire, the lover will prove unfaithful If they burn to. gether, a marriage Is sure to enSue, Girls may also make trials of the fJ;el. ity of their swans by sticking an apple seed on each ch@k If either seed falls, it is proof that the love of the one whose name i. bore is un- sound, Perhaps truer test is te take candle and go alone to a look ing glass, eat an apple before it (some say you should comb your hair all the time) and the face of yeur future con jugal companion will be seen Tn the glass, as if peering over your shoulder. Catching an apple, suspended. by a string, with the mouth alone, is also much practiced on Hallow Eve for the purpose as indicated above.
 We were once deeply in love with a beautiful white girl, of French ex- traction, who did not believe in such diyinati0ns, and in order to convert her to our way of thinking, we finally, on the approaching Hallow cen, in- duced her to try the looking glass racket, beng confident she would see our lace reflected in the glass, but what was our surprise when she said that 1t was Jenkins face, and after giving us the mitten, she subsequent ly married him, thus proselyting her to faith from which We had so assid. uously, but without avatl, endeavQred to convert her. The revelation, as a matter of course, was shock to us I; not only dId 1t awaken the green eyed monster, jealousy, but deprived us of a relish tor food, produced in- somnia, haunted us with troubled dreams, and when we awoke, like Mrs. Napoleon Bonaparte, after Bonaparte's removal to the Isle of St. Helena, we were broken hearted. It was in our case as in that of Falstaf, "sighing and grief blowed me up like blad- der" and now after the lapse of thlr- ty years, the lethe of forgetfulness has reduced us to our normal size, and while we are not proportlonately small to go through the eye of a needle, we have realizing sense, Tn matrimonial affairs, that we came out at tbe little end Of the horn.