Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ALBNTN1|'S3Nf IS,NBAR~ u U0111e il, gee Now: IWea4 o nadi d- Time With the approach of St Vale Ie"e day in the. wyihdows of so 'of the stores are displayed many v entipes, some,kery festive, some ve beautiful and nearly all containi sentimebts of love and- good wish, while some contain rhymes and p tures tht are n6t in the least co: plimentary. Of courso the reeipie will not feel insulted when he recei Qs one of the latter kind, for it is t privilege, of many,, especially t younger folk, 'to send them to thi friends of Valentine's day, strict for amusement. Occasionally ''You America' dislikes his teacher a feels that lie can vent his spite sending a valentine with exaggerat spetacles or extra .rounded Boi bon nose, but even here the youngst really deep in his heart has no mali and would be the first person to 1 sent an injury to his unpopul schoolmaster, who may have corre( ed him on the previous day. St. Valentine's day comes nc Thursday and most of the fun Ithat day will be confined to t younger element of human societ The sending out of comic pictu and the ringing of door bells will decidedly the order of the day. Tin worn custom, man's restraining po .er, has decreed that on St. Vale tine's day young folks of both sex and some of the frivolous older on( too, for that matter, should exchian snissives and epistles, either con or sentimental, depiending entire upon their mood, in which the foib] of the receiver are set forth in pic or verse, enhanced in value by the a companying eblematic pictures. There is no custom without a re son, but the reason for the observan of this day is not to be found in an thing pertaining to the life of t good saint whose name endorses t custom. He wrote no love songs n 'drew any picture of forget-me-nots Irish policemen. No one accuses hi of casting sheeps' eyes at any Romi maiden or condemning to jail a po innocent school teacher for liavi long hair. He was a Bishop of Ron \vho clung to his faith amidst pers outions during the reign of the Cla -dian Emperors, and was himself ta en to jail, where he cured his kee er's daughtersi of blindness. Cup was never accused of curing blin ness, for his chief function is bring on his votaries the most, n abject, but entrancing, blindness. Nor was there anything comic sentimental in the fate of the benev lent St. Valentine wvhen the mirac was made known to the authoritif His fate was to be beaten with clul and then beheaded, and to-day 1' relics lie in the Church of St. Pax des, in Rome, where a gale, known the Porta Valent ine, or VTalenmtinc gat.e, -stands at thme presenit time. ,In the clays when comnmunicatio wvere written with quill pen~s ai the postage for conveying. them w extremely high valentines se through the postoflces were expe sive luxuries. The amorous swain th?ose days had to content his Ini love with thick sheets of gilt-edg paper, the first page being adorn' wit,h a Cupid done in gilt, his wing however, still being decidedly in e, dence. Hie was gummed on to as ~tick. a; a beneath lay, as an invai able surprise, a verse telling of t love that was in accord with t' violet/s blue and the rose's lhue. made no difference, however, wh message the verse conveyed and hc expensive the postage prove,d, f both lover and beloved were serene happy, regardless of surrounding di ficulties, even if he did blush me crimson than the red rose on meetii her next day, and she appeared bli, fully unconscious of having receiv a valentine. With the reduction of the on heavy postage and modern impros ~.ments in the art of printing a gre change has come about in the type valentines. A generation ago favc ed a' love token in which both t~ man and the woman were arrayed tumly peacock style. The more' yi low his.coat, the more red her drei the more successful was the vale tine. As a rule he was on his kne at~ the feet of the woman he love 'but things have changed,-now. It the fashidn at yresent, at least sor people would say so, for a lover 'woo in one corner of the sofa, whi the lady-love occnpies the other a1 snch a thing as falling on the kne or shedding ,tears, as well as qluivE ~ fro head to foot, is unheard < owevef this niay be, the home-ma hientines had gone out of fashic td If Elizabethi or Caroline were 4elve the same card~s on the fomi b01hof Sebruary that made th< tbts' (Lissie's' andi Carry' ?t~ ~lfem ewith joy, poor Jam a reeeploinyext dO.y that. Jm nd Bwilly I o inthe fifties. ly o the recion of postage is -part. ly duo he popularity of t4e c6inie valyntin0s, which, for the most part, are 'hideous and useless, and, in some n. instances,'vulgar and' indecent. It n is, a pity that this type of valentine tl- ias to exist with the pure aid beautii ry ful .6ards and novelties that are popu. rg lar on the fourteenth of February. )s, Sending valentines has become a to- universal practice, and the day will n. be observed this year with the usual nt spirit which has characterized it in v. the past. Not only will numerous Lie messages of love and tiffection be lie sent broadcast over the city, but ir many "heart'' and novelty parties ly will be given, at which a diversity of ,Ig entertainment will be' arranged ac id cording to the ingenuity of the hios )y tess. From now until Thursday, the 3d fourteenth,' the valentine stores will ir- be crowded and the younger male er generation, will be preparing the cc stick whic invariably proves a great e- nuisance on the anniversary of the ar popular saint's day. Farmer's Union Bureau of a1 Informatio lie -Conducted by the T- South Carolina Farmers' Educa es tional and Co-Operation Union. be W-Communications intended for this e- department sh6uld be addressed to J. C I- Stribling, Pendleton, S. d. es Our co-operative test in growing s, long staple cotton will appear in our !e next week 's Farmers' Union columns. ic Also out test of the Aldrich system. ly Two rows cotton and two rows corn in es comparison with solid plots of each se corn and cotton. e Hjrmony Prevailed. a- If there is one feature above an ce other t.hat deserves to b enoticed here y- to mark the progressive and growing be spirit of the Farmers' Union, it is be that harmony was sought and prevail or ed above every other effort put forth or at the recent national assembly of m the Fariners'Union at Atlanta. inI or As is well known avobe all other g besetting evils, rivalry, peevish and e, sinall differences of opinions have re e- tarded progress in organizing farmers u- more than other troubles. But at the k- Atlanta meeting the one word union p- seemed to be written out in large let id ters at the top and at the head of ev d- cry resolution and proposition placed to before this meeting. But few if any ot prog'essive farmers practice or ap prove'of the eight hour law on their or farms, but in' order. to keep the union 0- in harmonious like order these op le ponents of this law allowed this eight s. hour labor resolution to go through as bs a real sacrifice for peace and good is will towards all; C s Is cotton made out of niggers and ~s mules? If so and these two pIrice fac tors in the pr(odnetion of cotton cost 1s more than double w~haiit thev did when id the south busted on five cent cotton, as how enn the ''colleotton, farmer'' now it keep b)ack an explosion in his affairs -I and sell his cotton for ten cents or )less? y. S If merchant and- supply men that dare now at it making contracts with othen farmors would make it a part 3-ofth vritten agreement for their to customers to grow their own food 3- supplies at home, this wvould go a long 2e way towvard removing - the condition 2e in the south that dumps the cotton up ton the early market to the injuiry of at the whole south. This would enforce W diversified farming. or ly The men that presist in making Ithe conditions that force this inort re gaged cotton on the market and then ig have the gall to ask the Farmers' Un s- ion man why lhe don 't keep up cotton ad price, should have his cotton lien changed to a lien over a stump and se his cot.ton crop mortgage forcelosed e- with a barrel stave levied on the seat Elt of his pants with both hands. r- Now this may sound like a rough 2e way of winding up the year's cotton in crop but while there may he a few a- hbnest merchants and good honest is, cotton growers engaged in this kind n-' of cotton growing the vast majority as of the lien law or mortgaged cotton igrowers and the' men who supply 's them are a rough set. They usually 1e work the thing very much on the plan to of 'dog eat dogg. The unscrupulous le supply man -starts out to pull the help id less fools for all he eain to save him es self while'the mortgage cotton grower r- tries to heat the merchant all he can. f- Character is no part of collateral here le on either side, but rascality under the n over' of the lien law gets the prize to -and small lawyers are kept busy. iir Knock out the j>rize system for ias )eality and 'give big premiums to en e5 courage thge growth of charaeter atid 1 square deal all round. VrWO00 "Z ~T,RABIES. d T Dog, at 1?ler, in: Oreenville County, d Bites Man and Ohild ud B6th di Perish. About three weeks -ago the little two-yoar-old son' of Mr. Farmer, of PtIzer, was attacked by a mad dog.- n4 Mr. Walter 'Griffin Was standilg m nearby and r'an to the aid of the child, and, while carrying him to a place of safety,.was also bitten. Sun- " day night the child died, and next, ' morning Mr. Griffin breathed his last, oi .VI. N * This wonderf 0 ful remedy is 9 * ailments such'E * Weak Lur Constipati Coughs ai Bronchitis Anoemia, Loss of A: Nervousn( Stomach * Call for booki 0 ing away, whic + wonderful cure 0 + funded if not b, : WThis is only * who are exclusi Newberry. We prepare y + tions properly N We warrant t * we sell and will r to any one diss j W I. 1: PeIh * Reliable D DIRECT FROM OUI WILLO0d 4FUL Send ias $2.85 case with 110 IIU quarts of WIL LO -Try it and if yol best you ever tasi Ist tha1t a fair Remember w ers and OVi( d 1 sure of getting o our distillery, wi If you prefer WHIS KEYIor $ buy a better cor 1 any price. 4 , Our gjuarante I refunded goes wi AS ~ run no risk who~ of our cou)tpay1 WIl~EKp~TI11and will do exac MACON,OA THE SWIF Ownlers of Reiste' [ie dog belongeaI to the f"tho il )ad child and efore of in vA voted to the chid: Neglected ,Ruin. Visitinig Briti,sher-Buia y-hai >thing to see over here--nothing, eanl, in the way of,gradc old thinf at have long:inoe- fallen into di e. Gothamite- .-We .haven't, eb Iait till you get a copy .f the ct dinances.--Life. . 9 O<LI ully success uaranteed in4 igs, on, rid Colds, )petite :ISS3; rroubles. et we are giv-' h tells of its 4 s. Money re noef itted. 4 done by us, ve agents for our prescri p vith PURE DRUGS, 4 he medidines efundi money atisfiddl. urn &t Son, ruggists, t DISTILLERY DALE WIlSEY -PR[LAID rks to sho contenits, four full tedl, send it back to us at our ex $2.85 will be promptly refunded. >fftr? are distillers, so when you buy the enormous profits 'of the deal chance of adulteration. You are tIr whiskey just as It comes from thout being tamnpered with in any or ALLA SINweLAg'S ORN 2.80, express pepaid. You c1an't e of perfect satisfaction or money th every sipment we mnake. *You ri you ,a with us as the owners 1ave r'eAurces of a million. dollars tly as ye say. T CREEIC.DISTILLING CO., MACON,' GAA ed Disltle.y No. 2k., Swift CreekcC~ IEtXCHAI Of Newberi - CAPITA-L You are cordially invited bank. Every facility of mc your service. . >.n i ) j; -;s, Couri;esy tion to the wants of our cu the establishced policy of th y We pay 4 per cent inter partment, compounded t% 0 dccount is earnestly solicit< J.D.DAVENPOR E. R. HIPP, Vice I M. L. SPEARMAT 'I. Prescription I Which we use are without exce] We believe in PURITY. We constantly preach PURII We always practice PURITY cies. PURITY counts, and'counts f Ask your doctor. MAYES' 'DRUC Quickest and I I TO Savannah, Waycr< ville, and all Flo -via -- CHARLESTON AND WE! RAILW Lv. Laurens daily, (Easterr Lv. Augusta Ar. Savannah, (Central Tir Ar. Waycross SAr. Jacksonville I Close connections made at Jacks k Through Pullman Sleeping Car I and Jacksonville. SRound Trip winter tourist excursii sorts now on sale. C. H, GASQUE, Agt. Laurens, S. C. ERNEST WILL Gen. Pass. Agt., Ai This is our regular work, tions and filling farnily rec Pei hamn's Reliable As a cure for that stubboi TRY Peiham's Pectoral Pb1Ihams White Pin4 Pelham's Laxative Vinol, the Tnoic Re Our stock of Fresh Garc date 1907, has arrived. Wmn. E.Pelha Reliable DrL BGE BANK, qy S. C. $50,000 to make this your >dern, barnking is at ind Careful Atten.. stomers, has been is bank. est in Savings de vice a year. Your 3d. T, Prest. 'rest. 4, Cashier. ,4teriols ption the purest grade. when preparing medi- * e or much, in medicines. STORE. lest Route >ss, Jackson rida Points iTERN CAROLINA AY. Time) 1 .50 P. M. 10.20 P. M. ne) 2,45 A. M. 6.15 A. M. 9.10O A. M. on ville for all points South. service. between Augusta >n tickets to all Florida re GEO. T, BRYAN, Gen. Agt. Greenville, S. C. .JAMS, agusta, Ga. ied Proply!l preparing prescrip sipts at' Drug Store. -n cough and grip, Sy rup a Cough Syrup Cold Tablets constructor fen Seeds, bearing tm & Son, gists.