The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-11-09
'.BE JUST AND FEAR NOT"
An Elegant Entertainment.
(Communicated.)

OCTOBER 3lSt was time long TO be
by the faculty and stu
dent body of Grenada College. Our
presidents thoughtful wife had
planned so many little surprises that
one pleasure doth trod upon anoth-
er's heels, so fast they followed" At |
the tea table on each plate was laid Il
shining magnolia leaf with this in
scription in golden letters:
Spooks,
At home
Hallow 'een, 1901,
Sleepy Hollow.
At the plate of every teacher was
an envelope. Inscribed upon the card
found therein was the legend:
Argonians,
Room 45.
All Hallow 'een's eve
1I:3O to 1890.
On the reverse side was a painted
pumpkin, with jolly round face
peering through its corrugated ribs.
Immediately after study hour spook
followed spook with ghostly tread
through the chapel. Lights were dim
and queer. This unearthly process
sion, with the graveyard mold still
clinging to their tapping garments,
students following, made a wierd
scene that caused the hair to rise like
quills upon fretful porcupine. At
ter wandering through the campus,
first under sombre oaks that cast
huge, black shadows, then across
white patches of moonlight, this
grewsome party finally passed up the
stairway leading to the rotunda.
Here was found IA grim spectre that
would have done credit to the fertile
imagery of Brom Bones as he waited
for Ichabod Crane. There were tubs
of bobbing apples, apples suspended
from the ceiling, Il miniature sea
upon which rocked Destiny Boats
made of peanut shells with wax Ia
per fastened within. These were to
decide the fate of hght-hearted girls,
and many bon voyage was whiS-
pered as these harbingers of fate were
launched and sent forth ladened with
the wish of throbbing hearts.
In a dark room leading from the ro-
tunda was an old gypsy woman who
not only exhibited great skill in palm
istry but by some SOrange necromancy
called up a satisfactory vision of the
husband elect" In another room
outspread upon table lay one hun
dred meh. Each fair maiden drew
her hearts desire" "
The crowning feature was when one
hundred tiny pumpkin-pies were
passed and within each was slip Of
paper telling the truly true" desti
ny of each waiting girl who vainly en-
deavored to still the violent throb
bings of her heart.
Fun and merriment reigned in un
disputed sway until their death knel
was sounded by the clang of the ole
iron bell. What mattered it if thC
fortune teller told one young lady
that her husband was to be "cross
eyed, hump-backed, bandy-Shanket
tramp" and the pumpkin-pie sai'
she would marry a handsome y0unl
circuit rider" then she drew fortl
from the table a regular Peter Stuy
vesant? All this might be true.
AS the hour drew nigh the Argoni
ans escorted the faculty down thre
flights of stairs through the cave o
the Winds" hobgOblinS at every turn
yet these did not stay the progress
When room As was reached there wa
nothing unreal in the sight that greet
red the eye. A sumptuous feast ha
been prepared by dainty fingers tina
riyaled those given during the days q
Epicurus. The lovely president pre-
sided with as gracious mien as th
first lady in the land. Other mem
bers Of this popular society dispense
the hospitality of the occasion wit
credit and honor. The faculty neve
failed to do justice to an occasion {
this kind.
After happy toasts and much lii
gering over nuts, the happy crow
dispersed with three cheers for tn
Argonians. Live les Argonians.
What S the matter with the \
gonians?"
They're all right
who said so?"
Everybody.