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The Imperial press., 1904-12-03
ADVERTISING RATES

J. F. Brackett is in the city on busi- ness this week.
 Editor Stanley has been seen quite often in Imperial.
 r. C. Paulin paid visit to Imperial the first part of the week
 Remember the social of the ladies of the Christian church Dec. :.
 JW. T. Best of Brawley was in Inn perial on business Thursday.
 Several parties nf duck hunters were out Sunday with fair success.
 Work was commenced on the addi- ton to Hotel Imperial this week.
 F. \. Chaplin and wife spent a couple of days on the Eastsde this week.
 ]. C. Moffatt, of Blake, Mofitt X Towne was in the Valley this week.
 Mir. and Mrs. Alvin Wilson oi Holt vile, were in Imperial the first of the week.
 ~>L. J. Throop brought here Thursday car of household goods and CAT of stock.
 Dr. Bolds new office and residence is nearing completion. It will be a beauty.
 ' r. G. Ravens went to Los Angeles Thursday morning for visit with his wife and boy.
 If the streets of Imperial were graded the continual sprinkling would make an almost ideal pavement.
 The Telephone office has moved up stairs into the quarters formerly occu- pied by the Cocopah Club.
 NJ. Hege, who has been employed by tae Light, Water X Power Co. as cleo trician, left Tuesday for San Diego
 Material is on the ground for the new two story brick to be built on the corner of 9th and Imperial avenue.
 James 4. Jasper made a flying trip back to the Valley this week. He says there is much doing at the county seat.
 John Tewell, formerly of Tewell & Colkins, has returned from visit in Los Angeles. Mir. Tewell has a ranch in the Valley that he has recently put under cultivation.
 Mrs. Laura NJ. Montgomery has been granted divorce from Walter Mcnt- gomery, formerly of Imperial, on the ground of cruelty.
 \ Geo. II. r. Shaw, the Democratic cam didate for Assemblyman during the late campaign. has come to Imperial and will open law office \ Robert Benton and F. Barbour, re- gently of the county seat, have opened an abstract office and are now located in the old Commercial Hotel.
 Joel Anderson, supt. of No. Q, was in Imperial on business last Saturday. He reports everything on the Eastside progressing.
The Imperial press., 1904-12-03

TO TRADE-A choice lot in Holtville or six-horse freight wagon. Will take horses in exchange. N Lands berg. Tel. l64. Heber. nov l9-tf
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WANTED-l50 acre crop put in, nearly all bordered and ready, will furnish seed water, and etc, and give 2-3 of crop; 3 miles north one mile west. Apply W. J. Mitchell or F. x. Bur leigh. nov26-dec23.
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nolton.Interurbsa Railway.

Trains leave lmI-rial daily. s;iUs.m. Arrive Hpitviiie 9a. 70. Leave lIoityiiie datty, ii a. nc. Arrive tmpefisi ii:sJ "a. m.
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WANTED-Pianist, lady or gentleman, able and willing to play for dances. Good pay. Address Box S 72 Inn perial. tf
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WANTED-Contract to level land for part cash pay and use of land for one crop for the rest of pay. w. F. Gillett Holtville, Cal. nov l9 u
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FOR RENT-My l60 acres of land near Silsbee; is leveled, ditched, bordered
 and headgates in. Address Mrs. E. J..
 Grain, San Pedro, Cal nov l2 dec
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IMPERIAL
Train Tine.

Leave for Old Beach :Z7 a. m., and l. % 9. co. Due Co arrive from Old Heash 7.i5 a. m., and s.0s p. m
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MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED-Position as foreman of ranch; years experience in irriga- ton. Strictly sober, married, best of references. Address X, PRESS office.
 Snov 26-decl0.
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FOR RENT-l0 acres, l-2 mile from Imperial, suitable for truck garden or similar purposes. Address ;. $. Hammar, Imperial.
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HOG TAKEN UP-One black SOW, cut on both ears. Owner please call, pay charges and take her away. Frank Sokol, five miles southwest of lm- perial. dec3-l0
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
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FOR SALE

FOR sALE-lO acres, 1 l-2 miles from Imperial. Ileadgates and checks. l2 acres alfalfa. lS acres in barley. Bal ance ready for crop. r. Q. Box 2g.
 oct 22tf
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STRAYED-Thcre came to my place in the early summer a bright bay horse weight about 1900 pounds. Has sad- dIe marks but no brand; 2 .r in fore head. Owner can have sa me by pay
 ing pasture and advertising bills. Ap- ply to D. Pyle, Silsbee, Cal. if.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12
"Abrictonine.1

In recent novel George Ohnet call
ed one Of the products which his prin
clpal 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 it's decision against the novelist.
While it eXonerated M. Ohnet' from
malicious intent, it held that ignor
anca was no excuse, and that it was
the duty Of writer's to satisfy them
selves that products to which they in
tended to refer did not exist. In this
case, added the court, NJ. 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
atty 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.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12

miraculous sucking 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.
1t 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 ii was the
custom of the male celebrants to draw
from box the names of young women
and girls, possession of whom was thus
determined by chance. 1t 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-
ton. 1t 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 initiate those
saints throughout the year. But while
they may have 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. Valenlnes, and it is
not even known to 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 McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12
The February Everybody,s.

The February Everybodys has an
other first-class 'scoop"-nothing less
than statement of what the demo-
cratic party now stands for, by the
new leader of the democracy in the
house-Congressma John Sharp Will
liams. Another competent feature is
Emory r. Johnson's explanation of
What the Panama Canal will do for
the Country" The author is a mem
Der of the Isthmian Canal Commission
who devoted his attention to collect
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
excellence in magazine-making con-
sists in combining authority with er-
tertainment, this February Every
body's should find even greater favor
than its predecessors.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12
'T'n not resolve one thing or other,

''Ill not resolve one thing or other,
Until l first consult my mother.
When she says so. 'tis half grant,
And may be taken for consent.
Many superstitions were embroid-
cred on the original st. Valentine ira
dition, and some of them are held in
honor even to this day. One is found
in this most curious extract from
young woman's diary, published in
an old-time English periodical:
Last Friday was st. Valentines
Day and the night before l 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
dreamt of my sweetheart. Betty
said we should be married before the
year was out. But to make it more
sure. boiled an egg hard, and took
out the youk and filed it with salt;
and when | 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. Blossom was my man. I
lay abed and shut my eyes all the
morning till he came to our house;
for | 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 we'll
known tradition that the first person
whom one meets on Valentines day
is to become ones spouse. She sings:
Last Valentine, the day when birds of
Their paramours by mutual chirpings
fiEd.
/ early rose just at the break of day,
Before the sun had chased the stars
away.
A-field 1 went. amid the morning dew,
To milk my kline Qor SO should house
wives do).
Thee first L spied-and the first swain
we see
In spite of fortune shall our true love be.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12

festival of ST Valentine. 1t 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. 1t is suspected by some that
the name is primarily derived from
the Latin vale" which is equivalent
was placed at the end of letters; but
a large number more ingeniously find
it's source in the Latin "valens," vail
ant, gallant. According to them, in
passing from the Latin into the Nor
man French this word took "g" in
lieu of the 'v," and logical develop
ment of it was the noun 'galantin,"
lover of women. AS gallantry and
valance, in another sense, are syn
onymous, it was easy for "galatin"
to become ''valantan" or "valantin."
1t is pleasant to leave all these con-
lectures 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
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 contest attended
with thousands and ten thousands
little Loves. ard the air is
4" 'Rrusht with the kiss of rustling wings
Singing Cupids are thy choristers
and thy prosecutors, 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 his lady love:
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12

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
present. 1t 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 tbs yours. then It's 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
wealthy, singing:
Good morning to you. Valentine,
Curl your locks as l do mine
Two before and three behind
Good morrow to you, Valentine.
1t 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 1872 says that blood
letting on ST. Valentines day makes
the blood clean every night and morn
ing and that blood-lettirg the day
before guards from fever for whole
year.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12
TOR RENT OF SAVE
On Crop Payments, SEVERAL CHOICE PAINE
Send Tor list. J. MULHALL, Sioux City, Iowa,
A New Portrait of Wasf,inoton.

Notable among the February Cen
tury's 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. Elisha Cul-
len Dick. Of Alexandria, Virginia. in
1897, and The Century's representa-
tion is taken from 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 being still fresh and bright.
and is 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.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12

! of material diocese, and others that
he was only a presbyter Wheatley
writes that he was 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-
IDENTIFY mistaken for the effect. The
custom of choosing valentines was
already established, and CHANGING,
through it's 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
entine's 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 alb
negation than to the patron of loves
courtship. The torches that are used
are 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 Pathological Theory.
Antiquarians have drawn from phil
ology means of explaining in an alto
gether different way the name of the
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12

! AncenF Festival 1t
Observe


1t 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 IL was 200 years ago, nor even as
much rs it was in the early recollec-
tion of some of the elder generation of
t..e present; yet it is very far from be-
ing extinct as 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
triton of time and change by the natu-
raj 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. Valentines 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 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 Valen-
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12

used about every known remedy tnat
is said to be good for kidney COM
plant. but without deriving perma-
nent relief. Often when alone in the
house the backache has been so bad
that it brought tears to my eyes. The
pain at times was so intense that
was compelled to give up my house
hold duties and lie down. There were
headaches, dizziness and blood rush
ing to my head to cause bleeding at
the nose. The first box OF DoanS
Kidney Pills benefited me so much
that | continued the treatment. The
stinging pain in the small of my back.
the rushes of blood to the head, and
other symptoms disappeared"
Doan's Kidney Pills for sale by all
dealers so cents per box. Foster
Nlilburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12

tines day that any article upon it
must necessarily be only reminder
of that which is already known. 1t
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 chirptng choristers
And 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 makest the blackbird speed as soon
As doth the gold finch or the haicyon-
This day more cheerfully than ever shine,
This day, which might enftame thySelf,
old Valentine!
The germ of the celebration of St.
Valentines day is found in nature it.
self. 1t 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 it's origin
was identical with that of 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 14th or 18th of that
month 1t was called Lupercalia, after
the wolf. lupus, which is supposed to
be associated in some way with Pan,
and was often represented by the an
clients 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
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12

To DOrinda, on ST. Valentines Day:
Look how. my dear, the feather'd kind,
BY mutual careSSeS iOyn'd
Bill, and seem to teach us two
What we to love and custom owe.
Shall only you and I fGrbear
TO meet. and make happy pair?
Shall we alone delay to live?
This Cay an age Of bliss may give.
But. ahl when I the proffer make,
Still coyly you refuse to take
My heart | dedicate i'll vain,
The too mean present you diSdain.
Yet. since the solemn time allows
To choose the object Of our vows,
Boldly | 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 Nilsson, a French travel
er. can equal number of maids and
men get together" he says; leach
writes their true or some feigned
name upon separate billets, which
they roll up and draw by way of lots,
the maids taking the mems billets and
the men the maids; so that each of
the young ulSu llSulS upon Iue girl
that he calls his valentine, and each
of the girls upon 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 1857:
This day bright Phoebus enters Pisces.
The maids will 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 woman's willing. tho she's shy
She gives the man this soft reply,
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12
EarlIest Green Cniorn.

The John a. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis, always have something
new, something valuable. This year
they offer among their nov money
making Vegeta bles, an Earliest Green
Eating Onion. It is Il winner, Mr..
Farmer and Gardener
JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 1Gc,
and they will send you their Big plant
and seed catalOg, together viii enough
seed to grow
1000 fine, solid Cabbagcs.
2,0G6 delicious Carrots.
2 900 5lanching, nutty Celery.
1000 rich, buttery Lettuce.
1000 splendid Onions.
1000 rare, luscious Radishes.
1000 giOriously brilliant Flowers.
In all over 10000 plants-tLis great
offer is made to get you to test their
warranted vegetable seeds and
ALL FOR But Ice POSTAGE,
providing you will return this notice,
and if you viii send them 20c in post
age, they viii add to the above Il pack
age of the famous Berliner C2ulidower.
CIV. N. u
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-02-12
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:
Il 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. l had to use
two canes to walk about and even
then it was a very painful task
"a friend advised me to try Dodd's
Kidney Pills and began the treat
ment. After | had used the first box
4 was able to throw away one of the
canes and was considerably improv-
ed. The second box Strengthened me
UP SO that could go about free from
pain without any assistance and very
soon after I was completely cured,
well and happy, without a pain or an
ache. Dodd's Kidney Pills seemed to
go right to the spot in my case and
they will always have my greatest
praise"