Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-11-04
ALL HALLOWEEN.
It Comes, and Its Coming is Hailed
With Delight by the
Boys
Who as Usual Enjoy the Mischief
Which Its Coming War
rants.
A Few Political Pointers for Use
in Patent Insides-Read
Them.
All Halloween.

wa 0OyAoA q DOolS PAOOOOAyS i
because Of the fact that it's appearance
warrants the preparation of innumer-
able acts Of mischief, and mischief is the
spice of the existence of the live Ameri-
can youngster.
Halloween is an occasion which has
been celebrated beyond the remembrance
of anyone now living, although not al
ways in the approved fashion of to-day.
In former years 1T was the time when
ghosts and COLLINS, and spirits and
witches, and all inhabitants of a spirit
world made visits to the earth, and
roamed around, lnquiring with a some-
times painful solicitude into earthly
affairs. 1t was a time for hair raising
stories and blood %curdling relations of
supernatural happenings. Charms of
all kinds and descriptions were supposed
to work best at Halloween. The blush.
ing maid had recourse to perhaps a
dozen different tests, did she wish to
discover the personal appearance of her
future husband; and contrariwise had
the ardent lover countless methods o
siderately presented him to ascertain
the feeling held toward him by the lady,
whose fortune it was to inspire his
affection. Then, too, there were games
and sports innumerable; the very air
was filled with the breathings of ghosts
and spirits; spooks walked about calmly
and deliberately; ghosts were common
very common, indeed-and to people of
the olden time, it was, indeed, a porten.
tious and awe inspiring occasion.
But, in the passing of the ages and in
the advance of intellectual development
all this has been changed. With very
few exceptions, the great mass of the
American people now continue to
transact regular business at the old
stand with a grim disregard of the spirit
world. Ghosts nc longer stop prominent
citizens on the street to ask for a cigar
cite Dr. inquire as to the time of day;
spirits still flow freely, but they are of a
different character than those known to
our forefathers, and are used internally;
COLLINS have almost forgotten what the
earth looks like, SO long has it been
since they have visited this terrestrial
sphere, and the celebration of
Halloween is now conducted on an
entirely new basis.
At the first approach of darkness last
evening, there might have been noticed,
hurrying around street corners, several
crowds of the younger residents of Bis.
marck. There was mischief in their
eyes, and they were waiting, with stole
patience, until the city should be asleep,
that they might start out upon their
tour of destruction. They gloated over
the fun soon to commence, and then,
upon the approach of a pedestrian
would vanish into the mysterious realms
of darkness.
Later, however, they commenced their
deadly work. Stealthily they would
creep and sneak around fence corners,
and with the skill of a trained burglar,
would detach a gate from it's surround.
ings. They would tear that gate
ruthlessly from it's old home, and from
those associations dear to every gates
heart, and then, all catching hold, they
rushed it away to another part of town
probably introducing it into a strange
fence, and thus changing them. Every.
thing which fell in their way-that is
everything which was portable, they
moved or carried off, and they had just
oceans of fun in the preparation of these
acts.
And this morning, perchance ar
hundred men will arise, and go out t.
an hundred back doors, and casting ar
hundred pairs of eyes around them, dis
cover about a thousand things awry
Perhaps a gate, which looks strange ani
unfamiliar will be the first thing t.
greet them. Or maybe a conspicuous
absence of back steps, a tangled clothes
line, or SON other particularly angerinl
condition of affairs. Or, possibly, {
butcher may find his place of business
adorned with a clothier's sign, or .
barber may be benefited With a butcher
sign. All these things are possible, ani
in the event of their happening, about al
hundred "damns" will sound from ar
hundred throsts, and a muttered "cusI
those kids will close the days OK
periences.
Pithy Political Probings.
Prompted by an irresistible impulse
to make a few startling exposures a
reduced rates and inspired by a mag
unanimous longing to benefit the who'll
world at n fell swoop, the TRlBUNl
%reproduces some surprising statements
from the Lonelyville Watchdog, which
will serve to stir up a fiery discussion
in all intellectual circles, and in which
will be found good material for demo
cratic editorials, double loaded and will
display heads. Each Of the following