Show SHOOTING G IN I Till IIII riot 0 1 The rite rh shooting In lu of the New y year nr eor Is III sold Mill to be lie nn nil old custom tho the original meaning of lit which Is III nearly neur forgotten It t It is told sold to be hl Hint heard of or her Gar nan moan H settlers of ot When In mo 1760 50 comae of or these left lell that state t tl for tOI forthe forthe the Hatpin they tho carried rte custom cu tom them The fhe poorer people gathered In n the r o They marched from ono one big home Bonne to another singing Yens greetings and saluting with tho the tiring firIng of oC guns their Inhabitants Inhabitant What followed allowed tl IN Is thus described d by Iw a IL Ono corra of ot the Now New York Evening l The door Is I then wide amid ho tho company ester awkward i and shivering Il with cold Home Borne of ot them thom halo havo come coma from frem a 11 distance of ot eight o oten or orten orten ten miles mile an tie 11 the th country Is in spars sparsely n ly settled and must mu t necessarily be tired but they consider It more deferential to w stand or If one onn Is III finally i persuaded to take lake a chair ho sits alts on the edge im un n erV fly flyT The T e ruddy Santa lIke old mon met remarks remark on the thc price of 01 cotton ollon the youngster ter refer to the tho possum rossum hunt of or the previous night Homo Home one goes gon go to the piano puno WilY away n In n II frantic attempt to furnish amusement ellent They are stolid until she Ihl strikes up I Dixie The rhe effect Is ts magi magical cal enl The callers r murk mark tune time with muddy mudd boots end remark slyly th the stuff sturt Apples A and oranges cakes and cot cof cottee coffee tee fee are nrc now brought out nt nl some limo places the ever er dear black bottle Is la Ispan pan pd around Than tho the shooters with witha a 1 renewed relieved sigh pile wit out of the lire door the tho manner Is III a Ii fearful The Till social coll Is I no longer part of ot tho ceremony of at shouting shooting shoo ling in III n the New Year oar oarIn In this part of ot the country at a t least Hut nut the shooting and the th noise remain This rile shove ws how haw old customs are hold hoM to toby toby by b generation Rener lon after uCler generation even en utter the real fol meaning m nf of them Is lost It shows how hOT prone prOM man Is to keep 1101 the form of ot many ceremonies oven even after the tho spirit has hu left theta them |