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X TTOn RTNT 07Z SAT 75 On Crop PayinenU SEVERAL CHOICE JABICG Bend tor 1UU J ilOLUALL Btuux City ioivfi A New Portrrlt of Washington Notablo among the February Cen turys illustrations will be a full page portrait of General Washington the copy of an original painting now for the first time introduced to the notice of the general public The portrait was made from life by Dr Ellsha Cul len Dick of Alexandria Virginia in 1797 and The Centurys representa tion is taken lrom an excellent photo graph of the original made by Getz of Baltimore In size the portrait is about fourteen by sixteen Inches it is an excellent state of preservation the colors beings still fresh and bright and ia surrounded by a beveled gilt frame about two Inches wide which shows the marks of age and is believ ed to be the original one in which the picture was placed Insist on Getting it Some grocers say they dont lteep De fiance Starch because they have a stock In hand of 12 oz brands which they know cannot be sold to a customer who has once used the 1C oz package De llunce Starch for same money Children are of two kinds ours and others The February Everybodys The February Everybodys has an- other first class scoop nothing less than a statement of what the demo cratic party now stands for by the new leader of the democracy in the house Congressman John Sharp Wil liams Another competent feature is Emory R Johnsons explanation of What the Panama Canal will do for the Country The author is a Jjcr of the Isthmian Canal Commission who devoted his attention to cpllect ing the statistics which should demon strate the economical value of the great waterway and he is the chief expert in American on his subject If excelience in magazine making con sists in combining authority with en tertainment this February Every bodys should find even greater favor than its predecessors Feet Comfortable Ever Since I suffered for years with mv feet A friend recommended ALLENS FOOT EASE I used two boxes of the powder and my feet have bean entirely comfortable ever since ALLENS FOOT EASE is certainlva pod send to me Win L Swonnstedt Washing ton D C Sold by alLDruggists 25c Do not take your freedom for li cense innovation by Theaters The Chicago theater managers or at least some of them have hit on u sensible plan which will be put into effect as soon as the theaters A plan of the house will be painted on the asbestos curtain which will be used often and in this way patrons may become familiar with the loca tions of the exits Abrictonlnc In a recent novel George Ohnet call ed one of the products which his prin cipal character placed on the market Abrictonine He was not aware at the time that a liquor of that name actually existed but its manufacturer promptly brought an action for dam ages The civil tribunal of the Seine gave its decision against the novelist While it exonerated M from malicious intent it held that ignor ance was no excuse and that it was the duty of writers to satisfy them selves that products to which they in tended to icfer did not exist In this case added the court M Ohnet could easily have consulted the register of trade marks Consequently the court ordered the passages objected to be erased from the book under a pen alty of 10 francs a copy while the plaintiff was awarded 500 francs dam ages and the right to have the judg ment inserted in two newspapers Gratitude Well Expressed Sault Ste Marie Mich Feb 8th -Mr C L Smith painter and decora tor whose home is at 309 Anne street this city makes the following state ment I was laid up with some kind of pains Some said it was Lumbago others Sciatica and others again Rheumatism A few of my friends suggested that it was lead poison but whatever it was it gave me a great deal of pain in fact almost completely crippled me I had to use two canes to walk about and even then it vas a very painful task A friend advised me to try Dodds Kidney Pills and I Tjegan the treat ment After I had used the first box 1was able to throw away one of the canes and was considerably improv ed The second box straightened me tip so that I could go about free from pain without any assistance and very soon after I was completely cured well and happyTvithout a pain or an ache Dodds Kidney Pills seemed to go right to the spot in my case and they will always have my greatest praise Vhen a man begins to edit the Bible to suit himself it is time to audit his accounts to protect yourself MEXICAN Mustang Liniment is a positive care for Piles -WINTER TOURS This is toe serson when yon want to co Sonth vTezas ArizonaOIdMdxico and California are lftvilinc Thejfrates are reasonable Let us sutreWthat soj inclue onoof the tourist re I sorts iuUi3b States in your trip Tell us yvberc you wart to co and well supply you vrith guide books and full information See Katys Acent or write GEORGE MORTON g r a 3i k ts t itr St Louis Mo urwC3 Mf r sssr - TRUE O It is the fashion nowadays to speak of many old customs that still sur vive although much diminished as If they were to all intents and purposes already dead St Valentines day is nowhere observed it Is true as much as it was 200 years ago nor even as much as It was in the early recollec tion of some of the elder generation qf the present yet it is very far from be ing extinct as a peculiar and popular holiday In some of the rural disticts of England it is still celebrated with much quaint fidelity to tradition and even in this country certain of its well known features are not likely to be wholly abandoned if ever for many years to come Indeed the social prophet may well question whether St Valentines day may not rather regain much that it has lost through the at trition of time and change by the natu ral reaction that follows all -positive movements The tendency toward re newed respect for some social insti tutions of the past that have fallen into partial desuetude is rather mark ed The dominant instinct of the twentieth century thus far seems to be conservative as well as progressive Not very long ago it was thought that St Valentins day was given over almost absolutely to the sorry wits and their patrons who made it a con venience for vulgar lampooning and anonymous libel But even then the pretty sentiment belonging to it had not been altogether lost and since then it has steadily revived The proof of the assertion is in the fact that there is now a greater demand for printed valentines of real poetic and artistic merit than ever before and that those of the cheap illiterate and malicious type are comparatively lit tie sought after So much that is within the reach of all has been written about St tines day that any article upon it must necessarily be only a reminder of that which is already known It has been the theme of numberless poets and antiquarians After all nothing better expresses the spirit of this festival since upon the extension of Christianity it assumed its modern character than the lines of that fresh voiced English poet the Rev John Donne who was contemporaneous with Shakespeare Hail Bishop Valentine whose day this is All the air is thy diocese And all the chirping choristers Aria other birds are thy parishioners Thou marryest every year The lyric lark and the grave whispering dove The sparrow that neglects his life for love The household bird with the red stom acher Thou makes t the blackbird speed as soon As doth the gold finch or the halcyon This day more cheerfully than ever shine This day which might enflame thyself old Valentine The germ of the celebration of St Valentines day is found in nature it self It was first a pagan tribute to the fecundity of the earth and of man personified in Pan and Juno and there is reason to believe that its origin was identical Tvith that of a Pelasgian festival observed in Latium before the time of Romulus and Remus and brought thither by Evander from Ar cadia This was a festival of seven days beginning in the ides of Feb ruary or on the 14 th or 15th of that month It was called Lupercaliaafter the wolf lupus which is supposed to be associated in some way with Pan and was often represented by the an cients as -a smybol of light and the course of the seasons Pan was the killer of wolves and the protector of the shepherds who dwelt upon Mount Palatine before Romulus and Remus built their city there By some the name of the festival is supposed also to bear relation to the legend of the t IG5N OF ST VALENTINES DAY miraculous suckling of the Roman twins by a she wolf in a cave near this spot Part of the unspeakable mysteries of the Lupercalia was cele brated in such a cave But much of this inference is pure after thought It does not affect in the least the theory that the festival was begun as a recognition of the prodigious powers of nature Choice By Lots During the Lupercalia it was the custom of the male celebrants to draw from a box the names of young women and girls possession of whom was thus determined by chance It was the policy of- the early Church to adapt to its own system those customs of the pagans which It could not extirpate This method of mating or betrothal re sisted prohibition and even substitu tion It is related that St Francis de Sales and other Christian pastors put the names of saints on the lots to be drawn in the place of those of maidens and charged the young men who received them to imitate those saints throughout the year But while they mayhave tried very hard to obey this injunction it appears that the lot drawing not in honor of Februata Juno but in honor of that which she personified continued in secret The Church could not do otherwise than tolerate the custom when the name of a patron saint was substituted by popular fancy for that of Juno There is no clear account of how St Valentine came to be made the bishop of the diocese of love which Donne so prettily describes There are several St Valentines and it is not even known to a certainty which of these owns the invisible mitre The one who died a martyr at Rome under Claudius is however most spo ken of in this connection Some authorities say that he was the bishop THE MARAUDERS Louis Prion of a material diocese and others that he was only a presbyter Wheatley writes that he was a man of most admirable parts and so famous for his charity and love that the choos ing of valentines upon his festival took rise from thence In this ex planation however the cause is evi dently mistaken for the effect The custom of choosing valentines was already established and chancing through its derivation from the pagan festival to fall upon the ides of Feb ruary in which also occurred either the birth or the martyrdom of St Valentine the appropriation of the name to that custom was most nat ural in view of his character In England and Scotland and the countries colonized by them St Val entines day retained all through the Middle Ages and down almost to the present a more typical character than it did elsewhere In Austria and Hun gary it is a festival of flowers rather than of love billets Young girls who wish for a husband cast flowers into the Danube and if they are borne steadily down the stream without meeting with serious obstruction the omen is held to be auspicious of speedy marriage In some parts of France the eve of St Valentines day is called the Feast of the Torches but the celebration which indeed is sometimes held on the first Sunday of Lent has apparently a closer his torical relation to that period of ab negation than to the patron of loves courtship The torches that are used Lare made of twisted straw and are brandished in the air by those who carry them while at the same time peculiar rustic dances are performed A Philological Theory Antiquarians have drawn from- phil ology a means of explaining in an alto gether differentway the name of the To Dorinda on St Valentines Day Look how my dear the featherd kind By mutual cares3es joynd Bill and seem to teach us two U hat we to love and custom owe Shall only you and T forbear To rr eet and make a happy pair Shall we alone delay to live This day an age of bliss may give But ah when I the proffer make Still coyly you refuse to take My heart I dedicate in vain The too mean present you disdain Yet since the solemn time allows To choose the object of our vows Boldlv 1 dare profess my flame Proud to be yours by any name The writer oftenest quoted for a characteristic description of the old manner of observing the right of St Valentine is Misson a French travel er An equal number of maids and men get together he says each writes their true or some feigned name upon separate billets which they roll up and draw by way of lots the maids taking the mens billets and the men the maids so that each of the young men lights upon the girl that he calls his valentine and each of the girls upon a young man that she calls hers By this means each has two valentines but the man sticks faster to the valentine that is fallen to him than the valentine to whom he is fallen A Poetical Version A poetic picture of this custom is found in Poor Robins Almanack for the year 1757 This day bright Phoebus enters Pisces The maids wiU have good score of kisses For always when the sun comes there Valentines Day is drawing near And both the men and maids incline To chuse them each a Valentine And if a man gets one he loves He gives her first a pair of gloves And by the way remember this To seal the favor with a kiss This kiss begets more love and then That love begets a kiss again Until this trade the man doth catch And then he doth propose the match The womans willing tho shes shv She gives the man this soft reply A Very Ancient Festival It Was First Observed by the Pagans Always a Time For Display of Sentiment festival of St Valentine It is well known that in many languages one letter of the alphabet may easily be substituted for another through popu lar error in the spelling of particular words It is suspected by some that the name is primarily derived from the Latin vale which is equivalent to our farewell a salutation that was placed at the end of letters but a large number more ingeniously find its source in the Latin valens vali ant gallant According to them in passing from the Latin into the Nor man French this word took a g in lieu of the v and a logical develop ment of it was the noun galantin a lover of women As gallantry and valiance in another sense are syn onymous it was easy for galatin to become valantan or valantin It is pleasant to leave all these con jectures aside after simply passing them in review and to determine merely for the delectable purposes of the imagination that we will join with Charles Lamb and other most worthy dreamers in regarding St Val entine as a real bishop who has a very charming mission in connection with the love affairs of humanity Thus does the inimitable Lamb apos trophize him Like unto thee as suredly there is no mitred father in the calendar Thou comest attended with ithousands and ten thousands little Loves and the air is TJrusht with ihe kiss of rustling wings Singing Cupids are thy choristers and thy persecutors and instead of the crozier the mystical arrow is borne before thee A Typical Valentine Who would be such a traitor to youth as to demolish entirely the legend of St Valentine Read what an English imitator of Boileau wrote to hisrjlady love Ill not resolve one thing or other Until I first consult my mother When she says so tis half a grant And may bo taken for consent Many superstitions were embroid ered on the original St Valentine tra dition and some of them are held in honor even to this day One is found in this most curious extract from a young womans diary published in an old time English periodical Last Friday was St Valentines Day and the night before I got five bay leaves and pinned four of them to the four corners of my pillow and the fifth to the middle and then if I dreamt of my sweetheart Betty said we should be married before the year was out But to make it more sure I boiled an egg hard and took out the youk and filled it with salt and when I went to bed eat it shell and all without speaking or drinking after it We also wrote our lovers names upon bits of paper and rolled them up in clay and put them into water and the first that rose up was to be our Valentine Would you think it Mr Blosson was my man 5 lay abed and shut my eyes all the morning till he came to our house for I would not have seen another man before him for all the world First Met First Wed Gay the poet has placed in the mouth of a country lass the well known tradition that the first person whom one meets on Volentines day is to become ones spouse She sings Last Valentine the day when birds of kind Their paramours by mutual chirpings find I e irly rose just at thebreak of day Before the sun had chased the stars away A field I went amid the morning dew To milk my kine for so should house wives do Thee first I spied and the first swain we see In spite of fortune shall our true love be i IWMIM i Mr awn nr rT In Norfolk says Sir Henry Ellis librarian of the British museum it is the custom for children to catch each other for Valentines and if there are elderly sons in the family who are likely to be liberal great care is taken to catch them The mode of catching is by saying Good morrow Valentine and if they can repeat this before they are spoken to they are rewarded with a small present It must be done however before sunrise otherwise instead of a reward they are told they are sun burnt and are sent back with dis grace In Oxfordshire the children go about collecting pence singing Good morrow Valentine First tis yours then tis mine So please give me a Valentine In an old English ballad the lasses are directed to pray cross legged to St Valentine for luck In some parts of England the poorer classes of children array themselves fantastic ally and visit the houses of the wealth singing Good morning to you Valentine Curl your locks as 1 do mine Two before and three behind Good morrow to you Valentine It is noted in an old Roman calen dar that ghosts are wont to walk on the eve of St Valentine This super stition was doubtless due to a tragic association of ideas prompted by the memory of the bloody death of the good St Valentine who was beaten with cudgels by the Romans and then beheaded and whose remains are pre served in a church near the Porta del Popolo at Rome long called after him the Valentinian gate A French almanac of 1672 says that blood letting on St Valentines day makes the blood clean every night and morn ing and that blood letting the day before guards from fever for a whole year A WOMANS MISERY Wire Mrs John La Rue of 115 Pater Bon avenue Pate rson N J says I was trou bled for about nine years and what 1 suf fered none will ever k n o w I U3cd about every known remedy that is said to be good for kidney com plaint but without deriving perma nent relief Often when alone in the house the backache has been so bad that it brought 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