El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-05
The Spectator.

Halloween passed off quietly in Ell
Paso and aside from the few pranks
played by small boys in spirit of
mischief, the occasion was not OBJ
served 90 far as can be learned. In
describing the many Halloween
pastimes in vogue among the young
folks an exchange says. Hs!low-
cen is confined to tricks,
movement the discovery of ones own
true love, or the unravelment of love
affair. Notwithstanding the fact that
Halloween is the night of true love, 1t
is not considered a propitious thing to
receive proposal On that night one
of the many traditions OF the night Is
that 81 SHOULD ,S., ,iab, ha Lover s5ou,o pro be-
ding ring finger of his lady love. A
favOrite Halloween diversion for Dung
girls is the apple trick, performed by
suspendipg an apple in the door way so
| that 1t hangs five feet from floor and as
many persons as pass under 1t 80 many
n onths will elapse before her
marriage. If the tenth person
hits the apple, the girl who sus-
pended it will marry ten months from
that date or in the following August.
If on Halloween girl shakes hands
with a very blonde man she will have
a proposal before the bells shall have
rung in the new year of 1899. If, on
| the other hand, she shakes hands with
very dark man, she will not have a.
proposal within year. If with a med.
| ium man ,she'will receive one next June
II girl has two lovers, and is not
quite certain just which to accept,
should she think Of both before going
to sleep on AallOwe'en she will dream
of the one she should marry. The
| nerviest Halloween test is the best.
1t is for girl to descend into the eel
lar at midnight, just as the be Is are
tolling. In one hand carrying a candle.
in the other a looking glass. On the
way down the shadows throw their
fantastic shapes into the glass, but she
must walk Oh and on until she
reaches the cellar bottom. Then
grope her way on to the furthest cor
ner, and there she stands, looking into
creep over it until IL lies there before
| her distinctly. This is the face of her
| future husband.
| The work of the Salvation Army has
been conceded by many great divines
| to be more effective than the modern
religious methods of the church, for
| the reason thatsthe salvationi-ts do not
| hold forth in elegantly appointed tenn
pie s,where the rich congregate and the
sanctiied silence is only broken
| by the rustic of selken skirts as
same millionaire's wife or daughter
makes her way down the csrpeted
aisle to her pew. They do NOT sur
roupd'themselves with all the pomp and
| pseesrtry that wealth can provide and
| then call upon the outcast and the de-
Draved, who Turk in alleys and hide
their faces from the glare of the sun,
| IN To hap ont
into the paradise prepare
for the rich aud the upright children
of wealth. The sslvationisss go out
and seek the lost, where the lost are to
be found. They preach the doctrine
of the NaZarine in the byways and
back alleys where the souls are Tester
ing with vice and corruption. They
battle them in the clean
sunlight OF the gospel and
many are healed Ridicule
has been heaped upon the heads of the
Salvation Army workers. They have
been reviled and prosecuted, but they
| console Themselves with the rem en-
brance that Christ was Knocked and
put to death for his teachings. They
the approval OF the rich, but to save
the lost and for these reasons they
have met the commentator of many
great men.
There is no Salvation Army in FL
Paso, but its place is filed in way by
a Methodist mission and each night
services are held at the curbstone on
the principal thoroughfares. The
simple services never fail to attract q
crowd Of auditors.
Mexican oranges are in great de-
msnd in the United States. St. Louis
claims to control the out put and the
Repu bile asserts that the supply is not
equal to the demand The following
| is taken from that paper: A striking
proof of the rapidly increasing imp or-
lance OF st. Louis as a market for tr1 =
pical fruits is furnished by the large
number of orders received by local
dealers from Eastern cities for Mex
lean oranges during the last few days.
| This business has increased so rapidly
| that st. Louis dealers have been una
BILE to keep up with it, and the supply
of Mexican fruit is inadequate to the
demand. This is peculiar from the
fact that few years ago all of the for
eign oranges used in St. Louis came by
way of New York and eastern sea-
board, and the bulk of the sup
ply came from abroad, ex-
cept during the Florida orange season.
Ten years ago the first car load of
oranges was brought to the United
States by ST. Louis dealer, and al
though the loss of fruit from improper
packing was heavy, the venture proved
success. The business has increased
until st. Louis is now supplying the
country with Mexican oranges. The
Mexican fruit comes in a very oppor-
tune time, just as the California season
is over, and before the Florida season
has begun.
| With the increase OF Autumn bust
ness in the United States many rail
road men have sresipued theirDOs itions