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HALLOWE'EN. 
WE celebrate the 31st of October as “Ha 
lowe’en” because it is the eve of the “hallowe| 
ones” day, the eve of “All Saints,’ but we hay! 
to go back further than Christianity to find o1 
why we celebrate the day in the way that w 
do—with carrying of pumpkin torches, roas 
ing of ntfts, strange ceremonies with apple! 
and ghost stories in the fire-lght. Hallowe’e 
has been the great harvest festival almost ev 
since the first garden was planted. It was o1 
of the three festivals celebrated by the Druids- 
May 1 the planting, June 21 the ripening, and- 
greatest of all—Oct. 31 the harvesting. In tl 
days of pagan Rome, says an exchange, Oc 
31 was the Feast of Pomona to the “angel wl 
euards the gardens” and it was but natural th| 
God's harvesting should come to be observe| 
at this time also, and this day devoted to tl 
remembrance of the dear souls that God 
hand had ‘‘gathered in.” Also on this day tl 
Druids had renewed the sacred fires, for tl 
long winter to come, Then, as fire is the pr 
vention of two great evils, cold and hunger, 
came in time to be thought of as preventit 
other evils also—the evils that lived in the a 
and sky—pixies and fairies, ghouls, ghosts a1 
goblins, so that even as late as the seventeen | 

century, farmers made the rounds of the; 
farms. swinging fiery torches and _ singit) 
solemn doggerel to prevent the uncanny on 
from casting a spell upon the crops. Ther 
fore when we of to-day bring out the home 
fruits of the harvesting, the nuts and the apply 
and pumpkins, march about with Jack-’o-la] 
terns, sit by the fire turning apples on a spit 
weird rhymes, and roast nuts in pairs wh} 
listening to ghostly tales—we are uniting t| 
traditions of at least three religions and doi] 
that in fun which was once most solen 
ceremony. 
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By WINN NANNY WARAI AAD IAD VANANANN 
SIXTY-THREE YEARS AGO: 
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‘Bill’ Hamilton, then 20 years of age, set out from St. Louis, 


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Mo., with seven other free trappers under the leadership of old , 
Bill Williams. 
published. 
much that is history. 
—IMNMINES 
Seven of these eight men are dead, but Hamilton 
still lives out in Montana and still sets his traps. 
the story of his early trapping days and the book has been 
It is called 
the many and varied incidents of the trapper’s life. 
adventure and excitement, but the story is told modestly, and 
there is nothing in it that is lurid. Amid much fighting, there is 
nothing that can be called ‘‘blood and thunder,” but there is 
He has written ~ 
4 
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MY SIXTY YEARS ON ; 
THE PLAINS 
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By W. T. HAMILTON 
It tells of trapping, trading, Indian fighting, hunting, and all 
It is full of 
The book has ail the charm of the old volumes telling of early | 
travel in the West; books which were simple and direct, and in | 
which there was no striving for effect. 
It is illustrated by a portrait of the author and one of the | 
celebrated Chief Washaki, and by six drawings of old-time 
trapper and Indian life, by Mr. Charles M. Russell, the celebrated t 
cowboy artist of Great Falls, Montana. 
223 pages, cloth, Illustrated. 
Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 346 Broadway, New York | 
Price, $1.50. E 

