Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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War Time Prices For the Next .Week (From Dec. 18th to Dec. 25th.) $5.25 t-xtra fancy patent flour, per barrel. lo pounds Snow Drift Lard. io pounds Pure Lard. 8 pounds good roasted coffee.> 14 pounds best Head rice. 25 pounds sugar. Sweet and juicy oranges, per box.. 3 Crown raisins, per box... ... ?! 1 pound box cluster raisins, per box.... Brazil nuts, per pound.I?-' . Walnuts, per pound.-. Sotuth Carolina Pecans.. . . . Good Apples, per barrel. Good apples, per peck. Seeded raisins, 15c or 2 packages. Currants, 15c or 2 packages. Dates, per pound. Citron, per pound. Fresh country butter. Buckwheat. Pancake, and Flap-jack flour. Potatoes flour, per package. Tapioca, per package. Powdered sugar, per pound. 5 pounds Domino block sugar. Maple syrup.3 1 pound box of After Dinner Mints. Heinz's Mince-meat, per jar. Chow-chow, per glass... India relish,. Olive chow. Pickles, sweet and sour, j,. .. ... Olives, plain and stuffed.'.**. Red, green and yellow Mericheno Cherries 25c, Figs, a jar. Figs, per package. 5 pounds Butter Cup candy. Plum Pudding. 5 pound Oxford Fruit Cakes.. 2 1-2 pound Oxford Fruit Cakes. 1 pound Oxford Fruit Cakes.KV? Cranberries, per qt. 2 large stalks celery. Large head lettuce.. Potato chips.. Large Cocoanuts. 3 large Grape Fruits. Sliced bacon, per pound.f.. Hams, per pound.? Sliced bacon, in jars, per pound .. Cheese, per pound...;. . :.. Macaroni, and spaghetti.? . ljjf . *ir* Malaga grapes, per pound.?>. .V*v:.*.\.^c ?A 1 Community goods, packed in glass jars: Sweet pickled crab apples. 60? Pine apples, sliced and grated. 80c Pickled red beets. *8c Red raspberries...80c Strawberries.... ... ... . )... *0c Red pitted cherries.... . Sweet pickled pears. 80?; Sweet pickled peaches. ... ..... 80c Asparagus tips... 80c All kinds of jams and preserves. . .25c to 50c Bearington-Hall steel cut coffee, per pound. 40c Oranges, per dozen..... :.10c, 18c ?nd 20c 20c 35c 20c LET US HAVE YOUR ORDERS Phones 228 and 229 Peoples Grocery 121 Emt Wnifcter St baiting for Bg DAVID CORY God grant that I th? new year through Mau strive with heart and ?cul lo do Tho?* thing? which ar* mott good and tra?. Cod grant that I ?ach morning ?tart My dutiet with a cheerful heart. And cheerfully perform my part. To waar a ?mil? all through the day. To banish thought? unkjnd away; And athen my bedtime come?, to pray. To tay ray prayer? with folded hand? A? night come? ?oftly o'er th* land*. To Him* who alway? understands. Awl when in* hell? on New Year's dawn Proclaim th* bright New Year ts born. And ! awake on New Year'* morn, I pray Him whisper, lou) and ?weet. To help m* guide my wayward feet, 'Hut I forget my prayer to meet. THE KEW YEAR'S EVE FATES How Curious Malden? Can Find On What la in Store for Them An Italian Custom. Every malden wonders what the fu ture has in store tor hor, and this ii what she must do on New Year's da: to learn her fate: Turn the pillow at midnight, tin 31st of December, and you wll dream of the man you are to marry Or let her take her hymn book to he: bedroom, blow out the lamp, open th? book and mark a hymn (in the dark) put it under the pillow and sleep 01 lt. Next morning when she reads th? hymn rho will And Its text will Indi cate the event of tha year. On New Year's uv6 the Italian maid en places in one corner of ber bed room a thimble. In another water, lt a third ashes and In a fourth a ring Upon waking In the morning, lt ab? sees'the ring first she will bt- marrlec that year; If she sees tho water firs the year will be unlucky; if tb? thimble, fortune will smile cn ber; lt the ashes, she will die. On New Year's eve, if a maldei wishes to know ber fate during th? coming year, abe must go Into th? j open air with a psalm book In on? hand and a piece of silver in hei mouth. She must allow tho book tc tall open, and it it opona at the deatt psslm she will die; if it opens st th? bridal psslm she will marry, and what ever else- it opens to will indicate hat fate. .On New Year's eve, while th? clod ls striking twelve, repeat three timos; rjood St. Anne, good St. Anne, Send me a man aa fast aa you can And yod wiU ba engaged Ia a year. HAPPY NEW YEAR CUSTOMS Celebrations of tho Mummers In Olden Dsys In England-Tending to Revive Visiting. On Friday, January l, the mummers will mum-that's their way c! usn erlng In the New Year. How many of them know the beginning of the cus tom-or the ending! It began in nocently enough, but by the seventh century lt amounted to "diabolical paganism," outrageous, blasphemous. Rumana robbed and even murdered under the pretense of merrymaking. Not all was frightful, however. !a Rome slaves were waited upon by .their masters and the poor reaped veritable harvests, which ?was but nat* ural, since lt all came -from tho sat urnalia of the Eternal City. In England the mummers performe plays, tpoko dialogues and Imperson ated famous people, especially kings and warriors. Songs were sung both by thc mummers and their entertain ers. Here is one: To shorten winter's sadness Be? where the folks with Rladneas ' I>i?Rul?ed airare a-comlns Right wantonly a-mumnvlng. . I In those days they loved, too, to masquerade as animals, bears and * unicorns being especially favored dis > guises. Scott's couplet summed lt up: k Wh', lists may in their mumming sec Tr.-ct s of ancient minstrelsy. Ai last this mumming came to-be a monaco as well as a nuisance, and . the chaste Henry VIII made lt a mia j demeanor to wear a mask. , lt was George 'Washington who made the day what lt once was in 3 this country. Said he: "Never forget . tho cheerful and.cordial observance of New Year's day." -The celebration 'r grew and grew, until a generation or so ago, the scenes enacted at some receptions were simply disgraceful, so* j clety having progressed some since lt was good form to imbibe until tho im ' blber quietly4 slid under the 'table. Of late years there has been a tend ency to revive visiting on the first day of the year. But lt is all very Informal, and every hostess knows 1 each and every ona pf her guests, .' which was not always the ease when I lt was the fashion to have as many : as possible and any man counted one. An amusing story bi told ot one host i ess who, in a lull, lett the line and ' went over to the punch bowl In the back parlor, saying to a man aha 1 didn't know: "What is ypsr ns met 1 * don't think I know you." He told her.' ? She didn't remember lt. So she asked * him with whom he had corns. He r said he had como by himself, where > upop she ordered him out. Imagine ' her chagrin the nett day' upon' recelv-. * bag from thia maa a letter she had written to a relative tn a neighboring t etty asking tbat he visit there, when ever he should be in the city. Also i to be reminded bf him that be bsd sent bis letter of introduction' and re ceived carda, which ha also inclosed. . In ?..e holiday rush ehe' ned simply j forgotten the new nasas. Here I* ? Man Who >'eT?r Can Go Home for Christina*. Tlx> American Magazine has been offering prizea for tbe beat lettera en titled ' (toing Home for Cbrlatmas," and the prize-winning letters are pub lished in tho December number. Fol lowing ia one of them, lt is from a man who for reasons explained in hts letter can never go home for Christ mas: "The black squares In the calender of the year for me are the holidays, ttie days when everyone else ia the huppieat. And of ali, Christmas ia the worst. "I reside in a great Eaatern city; all about me during December are christmas preparations: Christmas feasts, Christmas dances, Christinas ! parties, succeed each other. the j joyousness of the season for my friends who live at home. Sometimes I am invited by some big-hearted, whole-souled, embodiment of the Christmas spirit who gueses at my loneliness. Not that I go; it would be only too vivid a reminder of the old days. "But, most poignant of all, is to witness the bustle of preparation which accompanies the real home-go ing of those who are departing for the little towns of their boyhood, where Christmas can only be really kept for them. I can picture each homecom ing vividly. "Friends of the past will greet him at the depot, each genuinely glad. But more than these, more than brothers and sisters or nephews and nieces, will be his mother, her face shining with Joy. But why can not I go home for Christmas, you ask? That's where the answer comes hard. Let's have it over In a word. Long ago, in a frenzied moment,, I took a step which made me stand forth }q my own little town, a defaulter, an em bezzler, a betrayer of my truat, what ever you may choose to call me. Whether I was a truated employee, a banker, or a business man, does not matter, the best the pitying friends of .my family could say was the char acterization, 'A good man gone wrong.' Arrested, tried, convicted, I served my time and moved a thous and miles away, to forget? and be for gotten. "Not that I, the physical man, had anything of which to complain. Find ing employment in another Une, I have succeeded in a quiet, unobtru sive fashion,-found my place In a rut as it "were. I have no hardships, no tale of persecution to recount My pay envelope, while not plethoric, is still sufficient to give me the com forts of life. In a modest way 1 have made good, as any man of aver age intelligence and determination can. "But, even at Christmas, I ca,rt go home. The episode is a closed one and yet, rightly or wrongly, I am not for given or forgotten. My family, a good one. of position and standing, would not wish to have me. Ehren my moth er, loving me as I know abe does, for she remembers Christmas for me, would not desire my return. I am the black sheep. Did you ever read 'The Man Without a Country*' lt ia even worse to be a man who can't go home. "Is it any wonder tiiat the Twenty Fifth of December ia the blackest day In the year for one who baa seen real Chrlatmases?"^ lbj??. NMiMk ll? - --aa? koowa u Best, Safest. Alway* I SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EttRTWHESt Put Music In Your Home For Xmas Is home attractive to you? Do you stay in your horrie and enjoy it, or do you seek" en tertainment elsewhere?, MUSIC has been called the HOME MAG NET. It is the one positive thing that DOES make a home attractive and there is no otherin strument made, which excells a good Piano.. We BUY our Pianos and Organs direct from the Manufacturer,' paying CASH for them so we are in a position, to SELL them cheaper. than the dealer who buys on credit, or. has them ' on consignment. . . - . - v * i ?A We carry only STANDARD pianos, and { GUARANTEE them FIFTEEN YEARS. If ' you contemplate buying a piano-DO NOtf, FAIL TO COME HERE; WE WILL SAV? YOU MONEY AND SELL YOU THE BEST,,,, PIANOS MADE. '.J j sjj. ." .' No other present will make the entire family as happy as a Piano. Patterson Music House M. M. Patterson, Mgr. No. 130 West Benson Mirth is of Heaven's Making. So a noble and merry season to you, my masters. . And may we meet, thick and threefold, many a time and oft, In blythe and yet.moat thoughtful pages! Fail not to call to mind in the course of the 25th of thia month that the divinest heart that ever walk ed the earth waa born on that day, and thea smile and.enjoy yourselves for the rest of it, for mirth ia i also heaven's making.-Leigh Hnnt. KODAK FINISHING with satisfaction 'guaranteed- Films developed 10c, prints 2c, 3c and 4c each. All work finished within twen ty-four hours. All helpers profes sional men? Mall us one film tor trial. LIGON'S DRUG STORE Spnrtanburg, S. C. an . m1 Of Course YOU WARTHE VERY BEST CANDY FOR HER WE HAVE IT IN HANDSOME XMAS BOXES. ALL SIZES A M9 \&B? fk CANDY MADE fW EVERYDAY ^^^^^S^^ IN THE MOST N ^^fc^^li j APPROVED \ MANNER Jffiff f \ EVERY KIND OF /ty ^jg^ fi/A CONFECTIONS, ^^?l^?Kfn^^ WITH ONE i^^o^^^^ QUALITY i^^^^^W "THE BEST" TRY ONE OF OUR HOT CHOCOLATES THEY CANT BE BEAT Olympia Candy Co. Sellers of Good Things lor Xmas.