The Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 76, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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<£hr QJrmplr fiaihj Urlrgram
Issued daily except Monday
the
E. K. WILLIAMS Managing Editor
BEN HARALSON City Editor
MISS NETTIE GOOCH Soc;rty Editor
HENRY PASHTAG Railroad Reporter
B. D. LaPRELLE Advertising Manager
W. H. BYRD City Circulator
F. L DENISON, J. F. CROUCH. E. K. WILLIAMS
Directory Eosrd.
Published by The Daily Telegram Publishing Company.
Entered u second-class matter December 7, 1*07, at
the postofflr? at Temple, Teias under the Act of Con-
1 of March J. 1S79.
LAGNIAPPE
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The man with chills and fever ache
Would doubtless feel more frisky
If he were not compelled to take
The quinine with the whisky.
Wife—"What is the matter with James, doctor?'
Doctor—"I fear he has water on the brain."
I Wife—"There, I always told him this Prohibition
campaign would set him craxy."—Baltimore Ameri-
can.
Office of Publication. IIJ South Kirst Stmt
Ws Receive the Washington Press Association Telegraph
News Service.
Daily and Sunday, one year $5.00
Dally and Sunday, one Month so
Delivered by Carriers to any part of the City and Sub-
urb#. before 7:00 a. m. every Day Except Mondar.
-ingle Copies ' 5e
Address all business communications ano make out
all checks, drafts and money ordars io The Telegram
Publishing Co.
All Items, articles and communications for publica-
tion ahould be addressed to Elltor Telegram.
Saturday the 29th is officially set apart by Mayor"
Hay of Dallas as a day for all males to be "tagged"
—under the auspices of the Woman's Civic, or some
other kin dof "League." Woman's inhumanity to man
keeps countless thousands broke.
ythm the jury had filed in for at least the fourth
time, with no sign of coming to an agreement in the j
bribery case, the disgusted judge rose up and said
"I discharge this jury!"
| At this one sensitive talesman, stung to the quick
i by this abrupt and ill sounding decision, obstinately!
faced the judge. 1
"You cant discharge me, judge!" he retorted.
"Why not?" asked the astonished judge,
j "Because," announced the talesman, pointing toi
the defendent's lawyer, "I am being paid by that
man there!"—Lippincott's Magazine.
1 .
j The beraved Mrs. O'Leary, with a neighbor, stood
sobbing over the coffin of her deceased husband
"Oh. Mrs Murphy!" she cried, "Oi cant beiave
! Pat s layin there dead. He's only ashlape." *
"Shure, he do look loike he wor only ashlape "
returned her sympathetic friend. "Call to him, Mrs.
U Leary—call to Pat jist as ye ued to wake him iv'rv
mornm'P
Mrs O'Leary dashed away her tears and called
vehemently:
"Git up, ye lazy baste, an' go out an* hunt fer a
job! —Judge.
' Kir)
but
fiven him
'*• I
*ithi
who*.
^ Between five and seven thousand delegates and vis-
iting cotton growers are expected at the Southern Cot-
ton Association at Dallas, February 19 and 20. The of-
ficitl badge is to be "a 2x4-inch piece of heavy cotton
doth." That should be a straw for the drowning
Southern bulls to clutch. "
The "home papers" are getting busy with laudatism
of their boys up at Washington for their oratorical
outbursts of statesmanship. It's ail right, so to do,
because it's customary, both to "orate" and "laudate "
But "0 wad some Pow'r the giftie gk us, to see our-
*7 " others ** us!" Appropos, commented one the
other kind of "League." Woman's inhumanity to man
he can talk, but that's alL"
A toronto man who visited England last summer
appears to think that conutry the champion tiptaker.
He says: "Well I had tipped every man from the
swell gent who seemed to own the House of Commons
down to the hireling who gummed the wrong labels
on my luggage, and I went into the waiting room on
the landing stage at Liverpool to wash my hands of
everything English, and what do you think stared
me in the face when I had finished? A placard, sav-
—Exchange.*^ *** 111 ** hanged if 1 di<^"
"You say the officer arrested you while you were
quietly minding your own business?"
. y°ur„ Worship. He caught me suddenly
by the coat collar and threatened to strike me with
his truncheon unless I accompanied him to the sta-
tion.
"You were quietly attending your own business:
making no noise or disturbance of any kind?"
"None whatever."
"It seems very strange. What is your business?"
-au"^ £& ^ WOrShiP•" ^
. .When * *°re that has been constantly adver-
ting on a large scale for a long time suddenly dorps
oot of the papers, or reduces its space to a small frac-
tion of what it has been using, it serves notice upon its
Parens that it has lost confidence in their buying
power.
"Hie Mail Order Journal says truly that '"the ad-
vertiser who has confidence in himself and in his pro-
position cannot afford to drop out If he does, he will
taive to start over again, just as if he were a beginner.
By continueing, he will preserve the force of his form-
er advertising."
"Out of sight out of mind" holds true of advertisers.
When one big advertiser gets frightened and drops
out or cuts his space down to a rninmum, his shrewd
nwd takes the field with big space and a showing of
attractive bargains and gets the business.
When trade declines temporarily the wise mer-
chant cuts prices instead of advertising space. Exper-
him that il h to shave prices
. ld 1115 trade than to quit advertising and let the
g^^weave webs across his windows—Houston
I met her In the cohlen Fall. and «h« vu
picking
The sunlight, fllt'rin* through the trees.
*** «*cfcln* her with dapple*;
And all about her fct were piled the
teavea of Autumn's sowing.
Vpon whoa* wondrous reeds of sound the
plajrfUl winds were blowing.
H*r eye* were like th* summer skies.
when sort the hlu* la glinting;
Her tips, the color of the Wat upon the
smnac minting'
Shs had her apron Ailed with fruit,
goddess of thf orchard—
Tn klsa her all at once my heart by
shrinking fear was tortured.
At laat I watched my honeyed chance
when applet tilled her Angers
And catching her. I stole a klsa—the
clinging kind, that lingers!
Upa# her breath I caught the sweets of
nectar brewed from laughter
A« In mjr heart there clang the bliss 1
pUtored. ever after!
But now. alas! I'm growing old! Her tore
la mine no longer.
what I hear I fear tha minx has
wo« affection stronger—
The dainty maid of Are 1
klastag, still remember,
WIB wed a lad I taught to walk, tha
eighteenth of December!
to ii0hnny'" ?id V* Con,tant "I «n going
you My SThaS?" SlStW aWiy from y0U- What do
"Well." replied Johnny, philosophically "I
I can stand it if you can/'-Buffab X. ^
Our little boy ate salt mackerel for the first rime
bZSZ ** these fish
fr^Th - asked aftcr the fi"t one- "No,
from the ocean, answered his father. "Gee!" said
Benny, I don t wonder the ocean's salty."—Qeveland
Robert, this spelling paper is verv nnnr *• mm
suss?-1** ***•■Ne"" - j
and for every little letter that I got wronp sh* rlrZ
•d « the wholt
Mary swooped her little lamb
For a shaggy doggie dear,
And when she tired of him
She got a Teddy bear;
After while she got a man
To love and cherish maybe
The next thing Mary got
E
The Telegram's Dally «mi|e Provoker
Laugh,
W°rl«| Laugh*
o u
WartJngton. p-Hj appU
Oeorge-AB right.
roti ever read
Mary of
— — w feOcr b
Sam s got 1m beat a mile."
n ,n aboUt 1 1*** JOHN.VT'8 LITTLE JOXR
* Johnny—Owrge Washington win
^ ^ PtotbSi s^" ol bl* rountrr
>et life Ifc i
ommy-WhT
Johnny—'Caan h«'a dead?
C
J *Hb mt iittt* hatrhtft
hold of *»"• *ot
Poihlaa.
When a man me«teth a woman and
telleth his wife what she wore, verily
uw better halt need hare no fear, but
K he menteth one *nd knoweth not
what she wore, it la written beware!
The man In the first instance Uketh
not the woman unduly and he tumjr-
eth her clothes, but la the second, he
hath become so enamored of her face
that he could not. tor the life ot him,
•tell whether she wore a Worth gown
or a calico runabout!
In New York they are teaching
"eawed-oir girl* to be tall. The ae-
cret of the transformation la stretch-
ing. If your girl la dumpy bare her
stretched to a willowy sylph!
What waa the harp that once
through Terrene* HaU'a the soul of
music ahedf asks a correspondent
to a New York newspaper. It was
a Jew's-harp, dearie.
For weeks afterward a newly mar-
ried couple cannot look rice In the
face without feeling uncomfortable,"
says an exchange. Nor in the heel's
without getting kicked, probably.
"The oldest lore-letter in the world
la in the British muaeum. It la a pro-
posal of maoiage tor the hand of an
Egyptian princesa an* it waa made
3,M0 years ago. It is in the form of
an inscribed brick," says an exchange.
Now we know the identity of the
original gold brick
Qona.
Oh. good oM apple cider.
1 knew tn days gone by.
No more your "dug" la sounding
With mellow, beaded eye!
Oh. sweet, sweet apple cider,
I knew In days of yore!
°U? TtB>e has drained your nectar—
They hain't none now no moral
No more we drink thy potion.
With dash of ecstasy.
No more we smack and pucker
Our lips at sight of thee!
Oh, fine old apple rider,
Distilled from water core,
!i.Tlme ha* ,eft >"ou bungles*—
They hain't none now no morel
A Joka on the Wife.
Speaking of Englewood men being wise,
here 1* one that came to me this week:
A Harvard avenue man brought two ot
hia down-town friends home to dinner,
and after a dWIcioun repast retired to the
library for a smoke when the tabby
started In on a Story: "I must tell you a
good one on my wife." he said. "She's
been roasting me because I look at the
headlines in the papers once In a while
to see If anything Important la happen-
ing In the baseball world. Well, the other
afternoon, while the girl Was away, she
put ajMtn of biscuits In tbli oren to beJce,
and while she waa waiting aha picked uf
a paper and began to read tha stuff her-
self. Bhe got so Interested in it that she
let the biscuits—" At this moment the
wife came Into the library (or a hook.
"And the Joke of It was." continued
hnbby, without a moment's pause, "that
they found the cow neat morning In a
forty-acre lot." "Ha, ha. bar roared the
guests, laughing till the tsars rolM
down their cheeka-hut mot at the story.—
Qeraid Sullivan.
Jostling Uncle frank.
While disking corn ground for wheat
^*eday, at Hall Qoodrlch'a, Uncle Frank
«*? **i ®* his perch oa the
The Teat,
tU"* Tmt
>n a boat-
or hubby hare aa overooett
Queen of the May,
Ho. can .. .arty,
'TwrmS*•* «iatter. '
■^ould be a sin uw miss them —■—
* asen yewr buckwheat batter!
!°I the UtU® Wut
^kfor *»*-
Pestiral of Lore,'' which we
br«ta on rahruary 14, originally was
a heathen feetiral. Long before tha
Christian fir* the Romans celebrated
the feast of the l.uperralia-the
joint festival of Juno and Pan—on
February ll each year. Pin was
a rustle god, formed in similitude
of Nature, whence he waa called Pan.
which means "all." It was feigned
by the poeta that he struggled with
Uwe, and waa conquered by him and
it became proverbial that "Lot» con-
quers aii"( omnia rindt armor). Ju-
no was the goddess of marriage, the
yoker" of youths and maidena. In
the year or our Lord A. D. 49«, Rtv-
man youths and maidens still ware
relebratlng tha Lupercalia, at which
the aanies of young women were cast
into an urn and drawn bjr blind-
folded men. The maid thus drawn
*as ttye young man's "valentine"
and the association reeulting form
this drawing of lots usually lasted
for a year. The festival neded In au
extravagant feast, and, quite often,
In scandalous orgies. Thla sort of
thing became offensive to the church
and .Pope Gelasius ordered a change.
Now, it ao happened that one of the
most austere sainta In the Chrlatlan
calendar, good Bishop St. Valentine,
had been put to death duHng the
Claudian persecution, on February
14, A. D. J70 for the aimple miracle
of opening the blind eyes ot hia Jail-
or's daughter. Accordingly tha day
of the festival waa changed to Feb-
ruary 14 and the name of the good
bishop substituted for the old one.
The names of sainta were substitut-
ed for those of maidens in the pub-
lic drawings and each youth waa en-
Joined to imitate the virtues of the
saint whose name he drew.
How long the Christian youth
"atood for" this we have no meana of
knowing, but*. Saint Valentine's name
stuck to the day thenceforward. It
seema. however, that in the Sixteenth
Century, in France, the boys were
choosing girl's names and the girls
boys' namea. so that each had two
valsntines; and again we find the
church interfering. Thia time It waa
the Bishop Saint Francis de galea
who endeavored to suppress this aur-
rlval of paganism by the same old
device which Pope Oelaaius had tried.
But good Saint Francis reckoned with
Due consideration for human nature,
the spring of youth and love making,
which, after all, exists in Christian
youth as well as pagan. And ao the
young people triumphed over this
saint and returned by degreea to
their heathenish practices, and ca-
valier and lady, by lot, enchanged
smiles and silken favors. Balls and
fetes were given in honor of the fes-
tal day and in some places the ten-
der bond endured for a year, accord-
ing to the old Roman custom.
In those days valentines were pret
ty gifts to some friend chosen for
the day. Tfie lady valentines for the
Sixteenth snd Seventh Centuries
were honored, not by anonymous
verae, but by substantial gifts.
Old Pepy's diary records almost
yearly allusions to St. Valentine's
Day. Pepys tells us that, February
H, 1661 he took Mrs. Marta, the
wife of his friend, Sir W. Qratten.
for hia valentine, adding In paren-
thesis that he did it only for com-
placency. And Sir W. Bratten In
like manner took Mrs. P»pys for his
valentine, "and so we wsre verry
»«rry." February 18 Pepys «,uan.
dered forty shillings on Lady Brat-
ten upon "a payre of embroidered
and-six payre of plain white gloves."
Pebniary 21 Sir W. Bratten sent Mrs.
Pepys ' half a doxen pair of gloves
and a pair of silk stockings and gar-
ters for ber valfentine.'
The following account of some cur
ious St, Valentine's Day practices
wag published in the Connoisseur a
publication printed about the year
"L®^ Friday waa St. Valentine's
Day, and the night before I got five
bay leaves and pinned four or them
to the four corners of my pillow and
the fifth to the middle; and then, if
I dreampt of my swetheart, Betty
•aid we should be married before the
year is out. But to make more sure
I boiled an egg hard and took out
the yolk and filled jt with salt, and
whin I went to bed ate it shell and
V' without speaking or drinking af-
ter it. We also wrote our lover's
nsmes upon bits of paper and rolled
them up in clay and put then into
water, and the first that rose up
wss to be our valentine. Would you
think It? Mr. Blossom was my man.
I lay abed and shut my eyea all the
®o*nlng till he came to our house
for I would not see another man be-'
fore him for all the world.'
In aome English villages even yet
'MtT.01 "«l«tlninrf» is ob-
rr ch»dren gather "early
Li® r.nID*and *°<troa hww to
house singing some chorus like
Good-morrow to you, Valentine,
l*rl J**" >wks as I do mine,
Two before and three behind
Oood-morrow to you. Valentine.
ii... ch,Mr*n «e rewarded with
IHtle notions, pennies or candies toe-
•ed to them from windows.
,Jn'h* P*rt of tlhe Eigh-
teenth Century the "valentine"—
those ornate creations of lace pa-
'•LZ
of writing paper and
to write "doggerel" was the
equipment. Sooa there appeared
obliging little capbooks called the
"Gentleman's New Valentine
Writer," "Cupid's Annual Charter,"
"Ths. School of Love" and the Ladies
Polite Valentine Writer." There
also waa a "valentine writer" „
tradespeople and one for the Joker
called the "Qulssing Valentine Wri-
ter." These, valentine writers were
little six penny phamphleta contain-
ing choice specimens of doggerel for
alaost all degreee of love and senti-
iment. Here are a few samples:
Round is the ring that has no end;
So is my love to you. my friend.
You are witty, you are pretty;
You are single' What a pity!
I am aingle for your sake;
What a handsome couple we shall
maks.
In the tradeapeople'a "Valentine
Writer" valentines Jor almost every
trade and profession were provided.
Here is one for the pawnbroker:
I "pledge" my word for thee I live.
And am sincere when honor catla.
Oh, then, my dear, an anawer give,
You know where to—at the "three
balls."
The grocer's was aa followa:
our breath ia all-spice. I declare.
And you're so neat and handy
That you're aa eweet I think, my fair
As plums or sugar candy.
Be favorable, I implore.
Theee vereen kindly weigh;
And If you will my heart restore.
[ 111 treat you to some tea.
Thla waa the maid'a scorntul ana-
war:
Your letter I've weighed.
Am truly afraid.
Many pounds you're deficient in
weight;
[ ' And so, Mr. Grocer,
I'd have you to know, sir,
I 9*re not a fig for your treat.
Oftentimes theee home made val-
enUnea were of the "cut" or "torn"
paper variety, beautiful designs be-
ing worked out by cutting or tearing
the paper. x
About the year 1800 the manu-
factured article began to steal away
the early charm of St Valentlne'a
Day. Transformation scenes were a
j conceit of the German manufacturers.
A lone bachelor alts and bemoana hia
fate of solitariness, until a shifting
scene reveals to him what bliss llfs
would be with her of his dreams. The
more elaborate of theee manufactured
valentines were wonderful examplee
of human ingenuity and handicraft
and some were very expensive.
The manufacturer of valentines
fifty years ago gave remunerative em-
ployment to an army of women to
whom the work of construction was
Intrusted. Germany furnished ths
most of ths material in bulk for val-
entines, but the beautifully made ar-
tificial cambric rosss, each no lon-
ger than a pea. were made in French
convents by women to whom valen-
tlnea were never aent, and who were
vowed to celibacy and single life.
The anonymity of the remembrance
Is its chsrm, as in the ease of the
young artist of Charles Lamb's ac-
quaintance, who expended hours and
'»'• An
our grand n
like
days
•nd most dt
*ereee beBeath
h,M
Try a j
Uiing you want Jf0rU|.j
m B m D
Thirty years In the
Profession F^J
SI !Tr of Ch,misi" r*
^ology and Forensic M *
Materia Medicia and Th "l
« emJ JZn!,"'Ty
dren in the medical coll,,. ^
lugton, D C. and Dallas"^1
Psrmanently located in w
a general practioner. but h ?
many years made a.P(HiaU;;.^
marked success, of th,>
»«am « I*™**, XL'«
removal of malignant ,Um0r" *
eluding cancer. ®"
Office Cor. Ave. A and i,t St
over Crawford's. '
' < a !t
White Wolf"'
Stock Feed
The best feed for
cows on the market,
And it is hard to
beat for horses.
For sale, wholes-
ale and retail, b\
A. B.
The Right Way
Is Our Way
We use a washing praises
In our laundry that rey
changes of water thst range
from eold to boiling hot
through which your clothes
are gently agisted in the
water, thoroughly working
the suds through them. The
rinses carry off all the dirt
and soap, and the blueing is
evenly distributed and :he
result Is thoroughly clean,
sanitary work.
Yon cannot get such re-
sults eiswhere.
'.National Steam
Laundry
We Guarantee
That The Appollo
Piano Player
Has access to a LARGER aeleotlon
of muaic than that made for any
other player oa the market. In ad-
dition to this obvious advantage It
contains the following exclualve fea-
tures:
It playa ths ENTIRE KEYBOARD
of a modern 71-» octave piano, which
has gg notes.
Ths action of the piano la not In-
terf.rsd with in any way. a* tha
Pneumatics strike downward on the
key in the way the fingera strike In
manual playing.
There la no opening necessary , in
the bottom board of the piano to dia-
P«e of the pedals; they disappear
under the piano,
It ia not necessary to Increaae the
Itar M HUtr 0,9 Pl"° ,B "r WrUc-
n ^ room tot the Player.
" has n perfect accentuating da-
My'ln"dJlMnVh8 0Pmt°r to »ccent
any individual note at will.
ne piano Its,If i, a strictly high
r„vih« KUment- You buy
anything better at any price.
wi« T, n°t.t.hlnk th,t 11 be
whe to investigate this Instrument
chase* UP°D 7WT Pur"
-VALENTINES-
Fine* Funny
and
Post Cards
a full line
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