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and thetheirenjoychoice in fiy^ter stvles. orw *coffee and tamales, or both.* ♦ #TUB PttUT OK AM. H VM.ovVKBXIday M e• RESTSavora bleMarketjced(Special)nt made' of theAnn41Ivifford. Potter, 'e of theV n i tedrve just10 to 15r sheep01e*t* ofeduotioiiiites will eason ofASpO!“Im t hisof trnorheir:Mnd it ions busioesH *si* lt;*i 11 *■H offer-ition Inike therest not eatelt;l inmen of7P whenchedulellll'lo'tu n amiIt was so long ago thu* no man jean re member that some sage of j that forgotten dav discovered that vesof .ill the nights on which ghosts thewalked the earth the eve of thedav when the church celebrates All %■Saints is the most favored time inwhich spirits walk abroad. Butnow everv one knows that it is this■\ ftfdav. of all others, that one may * •come in contact with the ghosts of those who have been and those who will yet be. And, strange as, it may teem, not leant among them ghosts that walk on All Hallowe'en are the spirits of ourselves, who. living and walking the earth still,must on this night, give leave toour spirits to roam over the worldat will.So it is that others, with their natural faeultus still bright, andkeyed up to an expectation that isenhanced by the absence of their' * fspiritual selves, tind not onlystrange visitors from the great spirit world, but spirit visitors from their own world. And this is how it is that a fair maid, who looks in the glass at the mysticVhour of midnight, may see behind•her him who is to lie her husband in future years Some bold that St.mAgnes' eve, on January ‘JO, is the day when one can best see one s true love in one s dreams but after there is no better time than Halloween when his own spirit body, not one’s tickle dreams, isSOU)hapdayThethyitt e rton.allgraftingjed for marketthe messenger.s weta ir wenthe ihorn rv ic•ts e r v bamuttnand wen the iJ tt h v :Mnike,Hecksell,lt; i e n lt;Haze ta SIBut the pranks the spirits play on All Hallowe'en! What a trail of destruction follows where the just anger of the blessed lias rested r from j during the year. Some say that it ' 0| f*n y oi.l} is the physical bodies of these mures. same blessed, the young angelswltc are till so close to kilhe great sea which brought us hither. ' that play the pranks. But others whot a fl eetcharge»1 readyw rate arc wiser, even these same blessed• 1 gome Mm the iuetioriung b\* ioc«4ing bvV _kinds home* I t he i intoyoungsters who are so foully accused. point out sagely that it is the spirits that have visited, and who, indeed, can say them nay?And then there are the pranks that arc played as one seeks one’s true love in the game that can be forest j played only on this night, the use of spirits that guide the figure whichis manifested as the peel of wish-apple fails in the mystic figure which, rightly interpreted, can tell,oh. so much.Soon next Saturday night, when the ghosts walk, and open up the doors of the dim future to all whose souls are young enough and fresh enough to look where they all the world will be awake, and the ghosts of living, dead, and yet unborn, will carry their messages to those whose ears are attuned and whose eyes are open big and wide and to whom the dreamworldX.w i n,Mengift ( llthhit lieA n tlt;MeCiM ae phim M a x ivin SS wee ters:J i m uEarl M e r r Brya BrewWilliranchirnoon11 M r, of hi' creek waterbeforen thatTh’00 InA. M.is real and open.• * *to ehTh-jo A’s: ident and Repopurpl
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Laredo Weekly Times
Laredo, Texas, US
Sun, Oct 25, 1908
Page 12
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