The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-10-30
Tomorrow Night is Halloween.


Tomorrow Night is Halloween.
Here's a timely warning: Put all
your portable property under lock and
key. Double bar your out buildings,
If you happen to have any. Put chains
on your gates. Lock all doors secure
lv. Then hire a squad of private o
armed with shot guns. to sit up all
night n guard your properly. Hav-
Ing lone all this. and taken any other
little precautions you may deem nee
essary. YOU may retire to lucmbe
and peaceful dreams, confident that
all your belongings are safe.
Tomorrow night is Halloween when
ghosts. witches. h~obgoblins and other
assor ed IAN return to earth and
play strange FRANKS. As the festival
falls on Sunday his year. and as ma
NY spectres are strict observers of the
Sa..thath. II NAV be confidently expect
ed that the visitation will begin to-
night. In any event. il is wisest to
prepare for the emergency, lest some
able-bodied gaost OF husky hobgob-
lin happen along and carry of every
thing that Is left loose.
Preparations ave been made for n
number of ghost and SCOT parties. and
from s O'Clock until midnight the res
idence sections of the city will be fill
ed with white fitting figures. For 4
HUNTS AHe NbuiS ptbpic Will SlNc lnclT
time and ingenuity to pranks and
pleasure. Owing TO the inpossibility
of keeping a separate day for a
saint. the Roman Catholic church cen
turtles ago set aside November 1st
as the day upon which the lives and
deeds of all the saints could be com
memorated.
The hallowed eve. which time has
abbreviated and changed to Hallowe'-
m u~ac the mama Of tho asx~an ar vfOf1
of All Saints From a religious OBJ
servance he celebration has come to
he IN occasion for purely secular en-
tertainnent. and according to old leg
ends. il is the one night in all the
year when elves and fairies silently
and invisibly mingle with the peoples
of earth.
Various countries have Observed the
occasion in various ways. In Eng
land II was long customary to crack
nuts. duck for apples in a tub of wa
ter and perform othar harmless fire
side revelries on Halloween. Ancient
iy the most essential ceremony seems
70 have been the lighting of a bon
hre AZ nightfall by every household.
In Scotland the ceremonies partook
of a more supersfitious character. the
country folks believing in its charm
to discover who should be his or ner
partner for life.
Long before the Christian faith
made way among the uttutored PEG
piles OF ancient Britain. the Druids had
performed special rites on what Is
now known as Halloween. Hallow-
mas eve. or. as il is sometimes called
Nut Crack Night" Fires were light
ed deep in remote forests. upon spurs
of hills, even upon the great plains
mat stretched between dense forests
and partially cleared Woodlands: mys-
tic diies We're performed. the help OF
he true God was implored and the
Vaccinations of the powers of evil
protested against.
In America. Halloween is the &C
casion when the small boy. and FIRE
quently boys who are not very small.
are in their element and perform
more ingenious. ridiculous and very
often provoking pranks than al or
binary person would think imaginable
Especially in the country villages and
rural districts do thei rantics cause
CONSERVATION the next morning.
In these places where the mortal
enemies of all f~un-loving youngsters,
the police. are not around to bother
and all that is TO be feared is a town
constable. deeds are perpetrated OF a
more than startling nature. Simple
diversions. stch as jacEn-lanterns
with hideous faces suddenly showed
close against a window pane. grains
OF corn tossed with a terrifying c1at-
ter against the door. a few apples. of
the "nushy" variety thrown al a de
niied pedestrian from some dark cor
ner. open up the evenings amuse
ments.
AS the night deepens and the hour
OF midnight approaches. forms are
seen sliding down the hack porch post
and stealing silently away TO the
town square- Here is found a small
army of little villains. A short con-
s~ultation is held. Then groups of six
or eight scatter in various directions.
Don they come creeping back. zach
and everyone loaded down with a
front gate. a buggy wheel. the front
porch rocker. wheelbarrows. chicken
coops-wei. just anything totabIe.
With penf mp hilarity the evil deeds
go on apace- Suddenly some one has
an inspiration 1t Is hailed with glee.
From somewhere a blOck ami tackle
(whatever that I'D r. secured and the