The Tribune from Scranton, Pennsylvania • Page 13

SECOND SECTION Pages 13 24 SGRANTON SOON SCRANTOX. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1910 ')P rg 2 That, another bird man is about bow to the public cpn plainly be seen by any one who happens to be favored with a Klimpse of the workshop of Reyburn Waties, at Pen Bryn. The young inventor is the son of Col. A. Watres, and his home and workshop Is in the Watres mansion on the mountain.

i Ho is a quiet, unassuming young man, I fc." Hallowe'en Pranks and Pastimes Halloween is inevitably the heritage, of ineffable youth. Old people, as a Tule, feel an antipathy to the holiday. To them especially in the city, it means the annoyance of beans shot against the windows in a way to startle fretful nerves, of dismantledVeran aas, stolen doormats and disappearing gates. It means the ringing of front door bells and the scurrying of smaii, stampeding feet. In truth, it means being disturbed and elderly people object to being jarred out of the common, daily routine of life.

That is one of the indications of growing old. However, there is a limit to" Hal lowe'en fun or should be and occasionally authorities of towns showthar they appreciate the need of a limit, recently the mayor of Harrisburg issuei an order that malicious mischief would not be tolerated this year, and arrests would follow when the limits of innocent fun were exceeded. That is the attitude authorities should tan; everywhere and then the celebration of the holiday would not be received with ha much disfavor. The destruction of property, the offensive marking of sidewalks and fences are features that call for police interference. the night before All Saints' day has long been given over to the recognition of the fantastic, th.

love of divining future events that lurk in most young hearts. It is the night when witches ride abroad on their broomsticks, when bad little men from the lower regions are permitted to roam will, and when the fairies hold carnival. It Is the night when you oan lift the veil of the fates and dlscoveAwhat is in store for you in this life. It Is the night when the Scotch lads and lassies used to go to the kail yard to pull what Burns called "stocks" the stumps of cabbages previously taken in from the frost and cold. Hand in hand they went out, these lads and lassies, and pulled the first cabbage stump they met.

If It was big or little, straight or this lpdicated the husband or wife that jvould be th9 fat of the man or maiden. If earth clung the roots that meant fortune In money. The taste of the custoc or heart of ihe stem showed the disposition of ths unknown bride or bridegroom sweet, Peppery, tough, tender. Then the stalks placed above the outer door and the Christian name of the first persons thereafter entering the house would be the names of the future fate. These spells hold perfectly good today and can be as well tried, but alas! there ire few cabbage yards In the vicinity of fccranton, although up and down the rountryslde they may be found and he game tricks may be used.

Then there Is the old spelf of the nuts. Jwo nuts placed side by side on the fcearth there are no more bearthi i land it, was only after repeated requests that he decided to bring out his hobby bird." The aeroplane is of the monoplane typa and measures thirty live feet from tip. to tip of wings. It resembles, the tiny Demoiselle machine in general appearance but is nearly twice the size, the measuring only eighteen feet from tip to tip. The construction shows the result of much study and experiment and as Charles Dudley Warner said, it is hard to think of a family circle as drawn up around a black hole In the floor known as a register.

Two nuts, however, are roasted side by si 1 in the open fireplace and according as they conduct themselves during the process, so will the lives run of those for whom they are named. If they fly apart there will be no marriage of namesakes. If they roast along placidly the course of true love will run smoothly. 'u The favorite "thriller" of the'girl in other years was to go to a distant room in the dark' of midnight with a lighted candle, and eat an apple as Bhe gazed into a mirror, if she was frightened enough and stayed lor in the room alone her future husband would look over her shoulder in the glass. Then there was a hempseed charm, when a girl went out Into the midnight alone, sowing seed and looking back betimes.

Her future mate was certain to come behind to reap. All these old Scotch charms were for the country and not the town. There are no more kailyards, no fields where hempseed may be sown at midnight, no dark rooms, few candles, except on fashionable tea tables. So, the girl of today has devised other spells and other charms. She rigs up wonderful entertainments and invites her friends.

She plans ghostly surprises and makes a picturesquely ghoulish spot of the dining room. She plans for thrills and surprises. One Scranton girl on Monday night will have a party where the bat of night and darkness will be the emblem. Everywhere will be black hovering gloomily in the dim rooms. They are cut from black cloth and are fastened In all conceivable places and positions.

They will be eo arranged that they will drop down on the nervous girl's head, but as she has so many false puffs she will not be is startled as might have been the case a few years ago. Then, as an accompaniment, there will be no light In the room except a single electric bulb in a lamp set In a shadowy corner whero one of the party in a sepulchral voice will read ghost stories and tales of horror. One "of these will be "The Wrong Box," by Stevenson, warranted to throw some of the company Into hysterics. Another girl has planned her party to be all pumpkin moonshines and black cats. There will be large, solemn black cats everywhere.

Some of them will be the stuffed kind that look real enough for the purpose. Others will be cut from black cardboard. Some will be so arranged aa to have a light behind them glowing through their eyes ON PAGE 23.) TO HAVE A PLAGE IK THE It may not be generally known that the different woods and metals possess different qualities when it comes to a question of tensicn, nome being adapted to lateral and some to longitudinal tension. To properly use each. wood and metal requires a great deal of study and experimenting.

The steering, gear is operated part by hand and part by foot. The hands operate levers in at control the, rudders at the 'X I i lidi niyni. vviicnjrdiiicb Liyiu (Written for the Sunday Tribune Republican by James Moir, who was born on Hallowe'en). There Is perhaps no night In the year which the popular imagination has stampedwith a more peculiar character than the evening known as All Hallows Eve or Hallowe'en. It Is clearly a relic of Pagan time for there is nothing In the church observances of the ensuing day of All Saints to have originated such extraordinary notions as connected with this celebrated festival." or such remarkable practices as those by which it is distinguished.

My Impression is that it is a relic of the cult or the Bel or Baal worship that prevailed at one time over Western Europe1, and whose headquarters and latest stronghold was In British Isles. The leading, idea' respecting Hallowe'en is that it Is the time of all others when supernatural influencea prevail. The passion of prying Into futurity makes a striking part of the history of human nature In its rude state and all ages and nations, and Hallowe'en Is the night set apart for a universal walking abroad of spirits, both the visible and unseen world. One of th9 special characteristics' attributed to this mystic evening 'is the faculty conferred on the Immaterial principle In humanity to detach Itself from Its corporal tenement and wander abroad "through the realms of space. Divination Is then believed to attain Its highest power, and gift asserted by Glendower of calling spirits from the vasty deep becomes available to all who choose to avail themselves of the privileges of the day and the occasion.

The Incantations, spells', and charms are epitomized, embalmed and Immortalized In Burns', splendid poem Hallowe'en. "Upon that night when fairies light o'er Ca8silis Downan's dance, Or o'er the leas and splendid blaze, on sprightly coursers prance, 6r for Colzean the route is beneath the moon's pale beams, There up the cove to stray and rove, amang the rocks and streams, Unseen that nicht. TTnnn the honnv. windln banks. where Tnnn vino nrtmnlfnv fletti 1 Where Bruce ance ruled, the marshal ranks, And shook the Carrlck spear, Some merry county folks together did convene, To burn their nits and pou their stocks An haud their.

Hallowe'en." In this inimitable poem the spells and tail, which cause the machine to rise and fall or turn to right or left. The. lever controlling the warping of the wings, which operation is used in circling, is controlled by the feet. Another feature, is the pontoon or hydroplane attachments. These are boat like arrangements' under each wing and near the tailpiece, which will enable the machine to start from the water as well as from the land.

Cdpt. James Moir. their potency are fully set forth. One of the lncantatlqjis which require siderable strength of nerve to perform was In going out and dipping the left shirt sleeve 'in a running stream at a secluded place where three lairds' land met, returning home, hanging' the garment in front of a fire to dry, going to bed, lying awake and about midnight the wraith or apparition of the future spouse would appear and turn over the sleeve to dry the other side. "A wantdn wlddow Lizzie was, as canty as a klttlln, But Och! that nlcht amang the shaws, she got an unco settlln.

She through the whins and by the calm and o'er the hills gied scrlvlen, Whar three lairds' lands met at a burn to dip her left sark sleeve In, Amang the breckans on the brae, between her and the moon, The dell or else some outler quey, gat up and gat a croon. Pulr Lizzie's heart malst lap the hool, near Daverock hicht she Jumpit, But missed her foot and In the pool, out er the lugs she plumpit, Wl' a plunge that nlcht. In. my native when a boy I with my young friends Implicitly believed In the supernatural stories whteh to us threw glamour and' mysticism about the night and Its celebration. We were fully persuaded that the witches and their kinsfolk, the fairies, had their annual dress parade and Held I far, this feat has been, tried but once and then by Glenn Curtiss at Lake Keuka.

Curtiss did not have much success with the water stunt and has been too busy since then' with the different aviator meets to experiment further along that line. At the time the pictures were made it can be seen that the. engine was not in place. Mr. Watres is also building his night on Hallowe'en', and why should, we not have felt that way? Had.

we not seen the fairy where thosa little folks lived, and which we never approached at night, nor ever dared to lay down and sleep on? Had wet not seen the fairy circles', about which, to us, there could be no explanation, but that they were formed by the tramping of the. little feet of "the men of peace," or fairies? Many weeks before the eventful we were preparing our dry whins and broom and other In flammable to make our bonfires, anl, after dark, every hilltop had Us special blaze, and which was really a and we little Celts would not have the descendants of our Gaelic forefathers had we not caught the spirit and spell of this unknown' festival, which reaches back and beyond the times of Ossian. One peculiarity of the fairies on Hallowe'en was the abduction, by force, of new born, unbaptlzed children and leaving In their glace a a malevolent devilish that never grew, but fretted and wasted away. My own mother was born on Hallowe'en day, and often' have I heard her relating her mother's, experience on that eventful night. About 10 o'clock the mother and babe (not yet christened), wfis quietly resting In a room all alone, and the family with some of the neighbors were enjoying them selves in the next room, when all at once they heard terrific screams Issuing from room where lay the newborn child and mother.

On rushing In they found the mother half out of bed, evidently struggling with some unseen power for the possession of the child. One of the women Instinctively "sained" herself and the struggle was over, but they sat up with the mother and child all night. In the morning the clergyman appeared baptized the child, who was then supposed to be fairy proof. I used to Joke with mother that maybe she was the changeling, after all. Tou will find this super stition well set forth In Whlttler's poem of the Changeling: Rake out the red coals, good' man, For there the child shall lie.

Till the black witch shall come to fetch her And both up the chimney flj It's never my own little daughter, It's never my own, she said, The witches have stolen my Anns, Photos by Tribune own engine and has several very good ideas heretofore untried. The engine Is of the vertical type and consists of four cylinders, water cooled. The cooling device, instead of being constructed of a nest of pipes as in most radiators, consists of a line of piping running arpund the entire body of the machine and a much greater cooling surface than the old type of cooler. The water in the cooler is, of course, operated by pumps. For a Hallowe'en Partu Table In the center of Ihis party table, Jn a bed.

of a large flat pumpkin was placed. In the top of the pumpkin were two rows of bright red candles. Looped In and out among the candles and extending out on the table to form a star were strings of chestnuts and dwarf gourds. Just below the candles red and white grapes were hung. Suspended from the chandelier on Invisible wires, Just above the centerpiece, an old witch a doll in witch's costume was swinging, riding, her the heat from the candies And left me an Imp Instead.

Rake open the red coals, good man, And the witch shall have her own. She'll come, when she hears It crying, In the" shape of an owl or bat, And she'll bring us our darling Anna, In place of this screeching brat. But the old beliefs in the spells and divinations have vanished and Hallowe'en Is now looked upon as a merry, happy, family gathering and the Occasion is spent much In the same way as described by Burns in the closing verse of the poem I've so largely quoted from: "Wl' merry gangs and friendly cracks, I wat they dldna weary. And unco tales and funny jokes, there sports were cheap and cheery, 'Till buttered sowens wi' fragrant lunt, set a' their gabs a' eteerin, Syne wl' a social glass of strunt, they parted aft careerin, To meet some other day." HALLOWE'EN No sort of fun I've seen Compares with fun of Hallowe'en. Not Christmas or Fourth of July Is haH so fine! Do you know why? Because It has a dash and dare And Just a little bit of scare That you don't mind.

But oh, how tame Seems every other sport and game I What fun In a dark room to find A bogy made of pumpkin rind, With eyes and ears and mouth ablaze. When boys and girls, all in a craze With fright, run pell mell down the stairs As though pursued by grizzly bears! You think I run? No, no! He stands Who made the things with his own hands! So much to have, so much to do, You're busjall the evening through. And don't we keep a merry pace With candles, cakes and raisin race! Good fun In lots of things I see. But Hallowe'en best pleases me! Youth's Companion. Republican Staff Photographer.

The engine is so built to give about flfty horse 'power, 1 but will undoubtedly develop at least seventy five. The machine is exceedingly light and with the power at command should "prove a ve.ry speedy craft. Mr. Watres expects to give It a thor OL gh trial on the Ice at Lake Scrantoa this Winter, before making a more pub lie demonstration next Spring. gently moving her and giving the impression that she waj flying.

the air. The first quarter of the moon, made of pasteboard and covered with silver paper, and ten stars covered with silver paper, were also hung on invisible wires, adding still more to the weird effect of the witch. Apples cut off at the stem end, so as to form a Ud, were hollowed out and filled with salted popcorn. The usual Hallowe'en refreshments were served. The souvenirs were long necked dwarf gourds filled with fancy bonbons.

Ladles' Home Journal. HALLOWE'EN This may be made with any amount of talking going on, but each girl must i have a hand In the stirring. While any cake batter may be used for this fateful cake, a hickory nut one mid In this way. Is usually selected; Beat to a cream In a warm earthen bowl one cupful butter. Add gradually a cup and a half sugar, and then the yolks of three eggs beaten until lemon colored and thick.

Flavor with a teaspoonful vanilla and a quarter teaspoonful mace. Sift Into three cups flour two rounding teaspoonfuls baking powder or a half teaspoonful soda and one of cream of tartar. Have measured a half eupful milk and add milk and flour alternately, a. little at a time, beatirg thoroughly. 1 Lastly add ths whites of, the eggs beaten stiff, Have ready a good sized round cake tin, lined with but tered paper and as many tiny trinkets wrapped in oiled paper as are desired.

There should be a ring to show who Is first to be married, a thimble, for spinster, a dime for the one predestined to wealth, a pipe for the bachelor and other little favors that may be considered prophetic of the future. Pour the cake In the pan, slipping lit the trinkets at proper intervals, thai bake' in a moderate oven for forty or fifty minutes. Frost and decorate with witches or chocolate horseshoes, dotted with almonds, Hallowe'en Favors. pumpkins In every shape and posture cover the shop counters. One forms the head of a small boy and wags foolishly when started In motion.

Some of them have red glass noses. And cats one Is surprised that there are so many unattached cats In the world. Bats and witches hold candy a most amiable manner..