The age-herald., 1901-11-01

years Dfdctlce ndS Deen lnIOuuceu probably by some sollcitous parents timorous on the subject of their children catching cold. or dropping a fork from a height into the tub among the apples, and thus turning the sport into a display Of craftsmanship. It is said, however, to form but an indifferent substitute for the joyous merriment of dueling and diving.
 Those ceremonies wherein the influence of the supernatural is evoked are, per- haps. seldom practiced nowadays, though the secrecy which is enjoined in their performance precludes any certain state- ment, or even reasonable conjecture, on this point. Even the most nervous maid might be tempted, for instance, in the dead of night and all alone, to eat an apple before looking glass; with view of discovering an image of her future husband over her shoulder. It should be mentioned. however. that there are sew eral well-authenticated instances on rec ord of persons who, either from tho cf- fects of their own imagination or some thoughtless practical joke, sustained such severe nervous shocks while essaying these Halloween spells, as to seriously
 
 imperil their health.
 Another of these, what may perhaps be termed unhallowed rites of All Hallows' Eve, is to wet shirtsleeve, hang 1t up to the fire to dry, and lie in bed watch ing it till midnight. when the apparition of the individual'stfuturel life partner will come in and turn the sleeve. Burns thus alludes to the practice in one of his songs
 ''rhe last Halloween I was wankin'.
 My dronkit cart-sleeve, as ye ken; His likeness cam up the house ,stankin',
 And the very gray breeks O Tam Glen!"
 Other rites for the invocation of spirits might be cited. such as the sowing of hemp seed, and the winnowing of three wechts of nothing, that is, repeating three times the action of exposing corn to the wind In all of these the effect sought to be produced Is the same-the appearance of the future husband or wife of the experimenter. A full description of them will be found in the poem of Burns before mentioned It may be remarked that an ancient popular belief ascribes to children born on Halloween the pos session of certain myst erious faculties, such as that of perceiving and holding converse with supernatural beings. It will be recollected that Sir Walter Scott makes use of this circumstance in his romance of 'grhe Monastery"  Admiral Schley was going to Cienfuegos and Santiago 1t was not likely that Ad- miral Sampson would give him the pur- port of the governments instructions.
 We knew these places were not forti- fled; that there was no guns to be taken into account"
 Did you know that the batteries at Santiago were of no account?
 Our information was that they did not amount to much. The St. Paul and the Wampatuck bombarded those batteries without injury on the 18th of May, two perfectly unprotected ships"
 In reply to a question by Captain Lem ly the witness said he thought the de- partment's order of April was based upon Admiral Simpsons proposition to attack the batteries at Havana.
 What was developed subsequently by the New Orleans in bombardiug the forts near Santiago7' asked Captain Lemly
 "She was ordered in one morning by Admiral Sampson to attack the batteries She went in alone and was under fire some twenty or twenty-five minutes and came out uninjured."
 Did the Texas do the same thing?
 She was struck once."
 Was she injured?"
 NO; she had one man killed and sev- erai wounded"
 Captain Chadwick concluded his testi- mony at 3:55 o'clock when the court ad- journed until Il o'clock tomorrow.