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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-27

The use of Smiths Sure Kidney Cure
WAL produce both, Try a bottle and
be convinced. Your druggist sells it
for 80 cents.
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KING COTTON is BETTER NOW
Prices Not DemoraIized BY Holiday
Season

King Cotton was all the better yes
terday for the holiday rest of the day
previous, the market opening firm at
an advance of several points. Ameri
Gus buyers are still paying eight cents
or better for fine cotton, and many
here believe that higher range of val
ues may be expected after the holiday
season when business settles down in
the new year,
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HOLIDAY RATES ON sEAsoARD

Low Holiday Rates Via the Seaboard
Air Line Railway.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway will
sell holiday excursions tickets between
local points on Its line; also at coupon
ticket offices to al points on foreign
lines south OF the Potomac aud Ohio
rivers aud east of the Mississippi river
Such tickets to be sold December %,
"a, 25, 30 and 81, 1902, aud January |,
1903, with final limit January 3. 1908.
Apply to ticket agents for rates, seized
ules aud further information, or to
G. B. WALwoRTH, A. g. p. A.
No 7 Bull s.. Savannah, Ga.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-27

IGch on human cured IN 30 minutes
by Wollford's Sanitary Lotion. This
sver fails, Sold by 8 J Eldgidgo,
Druggist. Amsrscus g..
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-27

After reaching ripe old age some
men have nothing to. do bat sit around
and nurse their frost-bitten aspiration 3.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-27

80 The books which help You most are
those which make you think thelmost, "
often by irritating you.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-27

1t takes the average man lifetime to
c Jrrect his bad' grammar.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-27

An epitsph on mans tombstone
never indicates that be was bore.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-27

Worth 800. to to you iDad to fre child ID
water during sleep "Anti- Diuretic"
stops it Immediately. 81. Sold by Il,
| J. Eldridge, druggist,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-12-27

When tramp sees an ak it always
gives him a splitting headache.
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Gar Load Of Buggies !!

MAZE have just received a car load of the celebrat
w ed CROCK HILL" BUGGlES. The buggy
that is equaled by few and surpassed by none. Has
tire famous "Long Winded'' axle If you don't
want to be worried to death by oiling yonr buggy
every few days. why get Crock Hill" 1t don't
cost cent more in the long run to get good than
does cheap one. The "Long Winded' axles have
been known to 2, 1885 miles with oiling. All
Crock Hill Buggies are fitted with these axles in
fact we say to you that for durability, easy riding
and neatness the Crock Hill' is by far the best
buggy on the market.
"A Little Higher in Price But"
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Sound Kidneys Perfect Health

or women.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-11

INTO the country, with Jimmy to take care
Of e. for she was to have a party that
very night, and didn't want it bleating
around upstairs. for then the people would
ask. Where Is that Iamb?" and confuse
her very much.
So they got a nice box for Ada, and
Jimmy went with It 70 the train, and they
departed Tor the country. Jimmy took
the vase along In his trunk, for fear some
OF the other children. OF whom there we're
thirteen in the Hoyt family, might taste
II also, and be changed into something
The place where they went was high up
IN the Madregora Mountains, far away
from any other house. ana where even the
letter man or book agents came only once
or twice a year. There Ada could gamooi
about on the green grass to her heart s
content. and nothing could harm her'
From morn until night she ran around,
bleating contentedly, as happy as any
lamb you ever saw. ana never gave a
sign that she remembered that she had
once been q girl.
She grew larger and larger every week,
and soon she would have been sheep, 1
suppose had she not got at the fatal vase
one day, knocked It OF the table, kicked
OF the I'D and stuck her nose in, AFTER
which she licked 1t dry. just as Jimmy
came iEtO the room. He uttered g wiz
yell Of horror, which altered 10 deep
groan as he saw her change before ms
very eyes from a nice clean lamb INTO
cow-a large, red COW, with long horns
and SAD eyes.
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well acquainted with each other during
the evening that Jimmy told them the
story Of how Ada had been changed into
COW and it made the Princess Madeline
cry.
But the Prince rose up and was very
angry. you say the butcher read the
words on the vase?" said he. he tolo
you THAI it was the vase Of Gree, the
enchantress. and believe he is right l
have forgotten most Of the Greek that
learned at college, but I hated Greek 50
that I stu hate Gree"
Suddenly he smote himself upon his
head and exclaimed: "Ah! Circe MADE
pigs Of men. know where there dwells
an old woman, hideous and wrinkled-
she looks like a witch, and the woods all
about her house are fun Of pigsF'
I'm bet it's Gree herself" said Jimmy.
Il an sure OF It." said the Prince, "for
they don't look like mere pigs. They gaze
at me when I pass by as though they
had souls and their eyes are soft and
tender as they look at me. as II 1 We're
q barrel Of apples. No ordinary pigs look
50 sentimental. and I believe they are
men. II not women as well"
1T Is quite possible" added the beau
tiful Princess, wipang her lovely blue eyes.
In Gesundheit we used 70 have many
such witches until they made a law
against them. and she may have been
one OF them who has come over mere
where there are no laws to interfere with
their awful practices. It may well be that
C1rce went to Gesundheit in old times
and stayed there. You know that witches
are only 70 be found in places where the
people believe In them"
''To-mOrrow I win 90 over there and
look into this matter" said the Prince.
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THE ENCHANTED ISLAND o. &c LEE sREN

upon it, some Of which were quite faint
and indistinct as well as so very ancient
as not TO be found in any Greek diction-
airy, so that he had not been able TO read
all that was carved upon its bronze sur
face. He promised te tell nobody about
the story he had heard. but said he would
return when he had more time and see If
he could discover from the words on the
vase whether there was anything said
about a remedy for the magic balsam.
I will examine my old Greek books, %
he promised before he went away, "and
try to find out what I can about such
charms and spells Perhaps If you should
eeed her on ambrosia 1t would cure her 20
Jimmy wondered where he could get any
ambrosia, which he knew was the food Of
the gods IN ancient times, according to his
mythology book. ana he spent many hours
in the endeavor to ascertain II 1t was a
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-11
SO EER, QUIcK2 a. lei YOU lie sEcRETln

vegetable or some form Of prepared food,
the secret Of which had been lost. But he
was not old enough to look such things
up properly and after awhile he gave it up
and went back TO his fishing, while Ada
went calmly up and down her pasture as
ccntentedly as if she had never worn
frock or eombed her hair before a looking
glass.
80 several years went by, and still they
stayed up in the hills because now Mrs.
Hoyt had grown to think OF her daughter
as only COW, and she couldn't even dream
of having q COW in a fine house even If
she had permitted herself to think Of ac-
knOwiedging her as her daughter. once
IN q long while her sisters and brothers.
now grown up spoke Of Ada pityinsly as
Of one lost forever. but they never thought
OF visiting her at ALI must admit that
they sometimes sent her Moley's Prepared
Cow Food or Smike's Celebrated AIiIl- In
eIeaser when they read The advertise
ments Of such things in the agricultural
papers. but as rule they completely for
got that she had ever been a member OF
the naughty Hoyt family
The principal reason Of their Dezlscf was
this: a Prince Cthe Prince Of F4ankinen,ri
in GesundheiO, a very handsome prince
indeed, who had studied in America t1nrii
he spoke English Ike a Newarker was hi
town and all Of the girls were Just craz,. "a
get him. Mrs. Hoyt spent all OF her tina
figuring how to make him propose to an.
of her daughters. and SO poor Ada ~
forgotten entirely.
The Prince. however. while he euiovea
every hour OF his stay, seemed. not ro h.
particularly attracted 10 any OF the pirls
but preferred 10 90 out into the country
in his automobile for hours at tine 70
the despair OF girls and parents alike.
Sometimes he would be back in sir,s
to 60 10 a dinner 20 which he hsd bea9
invited. but lots Of other times he "a
NAMED away al night. and had be nor
been handsome real Prince he vvou1d
never have been invited again. I an sure
Sometimes he would take his beautiful sis
ter. the Princess. with him on his snfo-
mobile, for she. too, was visiting the town.
but generally he went alone.
i almost forgot 10 say that Jimmy sona-
times went home for a short stav nut
his sisters declared thai he smelt 81 ne
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and the Princess played on the piano and
the Prince read Macaulay's History Of
England" to pass the time away.
BY and by the Princess went out and
discovered Ada feeding in the pasture, and
when she went near her Ada, seeing a
lady for the first time in years, went TO
her and almost frightened her to death,
for like all Princesses, she was nightly
afraid Of COWS. The Prince heard her
scream and came out. but he wasn't
afraid and he went to the pretty COW and
patted her kindly, whereupon she moosd
and waved her long tail
When at last Jimmy came home IL was
dark and he made them stay all nigh;
During the evening the Princess looked
at him many times. and realizing that he
was the best-Icoking young man she had
ever seen, she proceeded 10 fan in love
with him right away and the same thing
happened to Jimmy. They all became so
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After more study the butcher became
convinced, as you OF 1 would have been
at once. that this was really the original
Circe's vase, and that it had sui con-
tanned some Of her magic balsam after all
these centuries.
Il suppose" said Mr. Raum Thar if
has lain at the bottom Of the sea perhaDs
for ages and been drawn up in the NET of
some fisherman aud sold to a collector Of
curiosities or been dug up from deep in
the earth beneath Greek ruins by some
plowman. Just think Of it lasting am
these years. Why next we will discover
that Gree herself is alive and doing BUSH
ness. / wonder what it would do 70 vour
cow mean your sister-if she ate any
more?"
Il won't give 70 a chance. said Jimmy
The butcher went away quite as much
astonished as ever. and a little vexed be-
cause Jimmy wouldn't sell him the vase
he wanted to decipher all OF the words
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stable and were ashamed Of his broad
shoulders. for he was now a man. and
when they asked him to buy dress suit
be laughed, and said that it wouldn't suit
a farmer He was fully as handsome as the
Prince, but they couldn't see it at all, for
he was sunburnt and muscular and walked
ike a hunter. So he was always very glad
to return to the mountains and Ada, who
showed how pleased she was TO have him
come back by loud moos OF delight.
Well, one day the Prince took his sister
for a ride and, as luck would have it. the
gasoline gave out just as they were pass
ing Jimmys cottage IN the mountains,
and they came to full stop. The Prince
got out and went TO the house. The door
was open and he entered, but found no
one at home. as Jimmy was away fishing.
They had to wait, however, as they were
many miles from town. and they sat down
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-11
Gave Up Her Secret

We'll, tell me quick" said the Prince e.
he stCered the automobile toward a high
hill she looked al him as If she were go
ing 10 refuse again, and then at the rocky
hih. Thinking. Of course, that he would
80 right through the hill as he had the
house, she nodded and said: stop her,
quick! III tell you the secret
well, what is it?" asked the Prince a.
he quickly stopped the machine.
she took a long breath Give the COW
platter dlled with eggs. beaten up with
paprika, exactly at midnight, and she viii
DE a maiden again, but she viii be as old
as the COW, not as young as when she was
changed
Thank you, said the Prince. Now /
viii take you home again"
Thanks yourself said she; but I'd
rather walk One trip in TINS is enough.
You can DO more wonderful things than /
can. Let me out. and III get home IA
right, for / now see that we are near mr.
Own house.
She aIghted. and then she said:
''Tell me. how did you know my mans
vas CirCe?"
IT am a wizard q" replied the Prince. and
darted away like lightning
Well. they changed Ada into a beautf-
ful girl at midnight according 10 Circs.s
prescription. and the Prince. Of course.
fell instantly in love with her and de-
clared that she must be his Princess.
Ada had been making cows eyes az him
al along. and was quite satisfied indeed.
They went pack to town and all were
married much 70 the modification Of al
The other girls and the great chagrin Of
Ada until It was al over Then they had
the nerve 70 ask her to invite them 70
Gesundheit TO spend the summer.
Gree went home. bot the shock had
been TOO much for her. and in less than
week she died Of heart-failure for she
had never been able TO get her breath
back after that awful ride.
MALI LcDOUGAI.Ls
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pened. and telling each other what tkes
liked best TO eat, and the Prince was en-
tirely forgotten. He didn't come home slIat
night, and in the morning they began %
worry. Finally they both started ont Ia
search OF him, for, Of course, they thought
his automobile had broken down again. a.
always happens TO these things wiIsn -faE
away from repair shops.
They stroIled along the shady road snd
were so intent on the color Of each othefs
eyes that when the Princes auto1aJbsts
came along they never heazdsft. ana wsEs
very nearly run over. They got3a, ,sndshs
told his story.
He had found the home q TIA yzRca
without much trouble s1rrou1s5esf By IA
pig-inhabited forest, ana be disrolzrtsa
before the door. The witch czzus cot IS
once very glad TO see q man. Is slIs hsa
not turned one into pig for suns wealA
The Prince smiled at her. ana hs Rasvso
handsome and fascinating that sne a.
most forgot that she was a witch. She ~
vited him to enter her house, and rs 6fd
50 at once.
He pretended b have lost his way A
the woods and asked her about Cns Eoa6A.
She told him all about them and thea
asked him what had become Of his horses.
You see. she had not seen him arrive.
and she had never seen an aHtomol5lls
before, so she thought he had taken his
horses out OF the shafts and put tsslo
somewhere IN the forest He smiled ana
told her that he had never ssea 50 beadtts
ful a creature and she siggled veEyz111cils
for she thought she had MIN.
After awhile she offered him eoods blzs
the Prince was far too foxy @ saE sslE
Of her cooking. and told her that BE ala
just had his breakfast. Shs ss4so bis
name, and when she found that BE- vas
the Prince OF Gesundheits she was sur
prised, and without thinking, she saia shs
was from the same place, so he knew rhez
she must be a witch, OF course. But he
pretended TO be very mnch IN love win
her and admired her eyes ana long niasoZ
hair, saying that only in Gesundbeit cOdlo
be seen such beauty. unt1 the witch NFlz
SO ticklsd that she wriggled al over nzs
a serpentine dancer In a side show e .
fair. On the Prince was 8 sly EoNA
Prince tell you.
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carefully and then he told Jimmy that he
was a graduate of Princeton College and
read Greek as easily as English, and then
he translated the letters carved on the
vase He said the woman whose head was
on the side Of 1t was Gree, and the words
were these:
'CtRCE HER AMPHORA chat was a
kind Of vase-like vessel TOUCH IT NOT,
o FINDER, LEST YE BE METAMOR-
PHOSED!"
Gee" cried Jimmy; that's a long one!
What does IL meal?"
1T means changed into something" re-
Piled the educated butcher. That's what
Gree. the ancient enchantress, used to do
to people. BY George!" he added, in an as
tonished tone, u wonder If it could be
possible that this is really her vase"
Guess II must be-" said Jimmy; 1T
worked that way, anyhow"
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The Swift AstO RaSs

They paid each other complineut5 2ls
some time and then the PTiacs begssa
her to take a ride with him. sha -
senteds for she wanted to please Am sEe
coax him into eating soma Of hsr maslo
food. She went upstairs and sOt hsg hood
and then took q seat IN tins automObils
The Prince got in beside her ana ssizsd
the lever, when she said Why ys9
have forgotten the hOrsesR'
we wiz 80 without them tlsia ksGp," Be
replied as the autonobils dartsd on VIA
couvuisivs jump that threw the Witsa
backward and almost broke her back
She screamed and made movement IS
If to grab the reins as women s1Wags DO
in a carriage when a man drives, but a.
there were none sas only cEaght st tsls
air. She was very much ratified and her
hood got over her eyes. 50 she screamed
again.
DO not scream, my dear cl11sl" ssis
the Prince.
When she heard heE nsEns sbs almost
fell out OF the suaom0bGls. So wa 20
startled, for she had not tod Il 70 hiss.
ing along at such a terrific speed thsa
she couldn't speak. she could only grfp
the side bar and gasp
After awhile he asissd: low DE- Ruu
like this sort Of dTivingT'
Let me get out and wslkF' she szasos6.
mot until you tell me how 20 cLanEsza
COW back into a girl" said be.
''NeverP' she said, and grftted Rssr eessh
Then he put on still more speed, and Il
almost took her breath away. After they
had gone about SIX miles he asked her
again 20 tell him the secret but she shook
her head in silence, Tor she couldn't speak.
Faster and still faster they Whizzed along,
and still she refused TO tell him. Then Es
turned the machine into the fields and
dsrted across bitches ike q bird dashed
through woods and brush Hke a fox
chased by hounds; just missed hitting sew
oraI telegraph poles and q Few hsystaeks,
and he asked her again. Pale az q ghOss,
she put her lips together and shook hsE
head.
Then, with fnconCetvabie velocity, tllsy
few toward a farm house. She saw that
they were going 70 strike It. and seized
the Princes hand. IN ten youF' she
cried, but It was too late. They shot
through the farm house Ike a cannon
bah, overtuFning the people sitting az the
dinner table like 50 many nine-pins. ana
out they went on the other side Ia q
twinkling.
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A Cow IN the House

So swift was the change that It almost
paralyEed Jimmy, but after awhile be sat
ND ana made up his mind that it could
not b helped. yet he blamed himself Tor
leaving the vase about. SIN. don't think
anyone could have suspected that lamb
would do such thing, and imagine that
there was good deal Of girl left in her.
So DO not blame him at all II she had
been a cat, a dog or even a mouse, he
might have feared some such result but
as 1t was, 1t was extremely unlikely to
occur.
Well, there was a big red COW in the
house. and the hrst thing to do was TO
chase her outside and put her in the barn.
but before that he put the vase in a
closet, for he didn't want her 70 get at it
again, ana perhaps become an elephant,
or an alligator He was quite thankful
that It had turned out as it had, for ne
couldn't see any more than can, why
she should happen 10 be COW instead OF
a hipp0potamus or a sealion.
She went 70 the barn very quietly, for she
was as much Of a COW now as she had
been a lamb before. She mooed calmly
and chewed her cud as If she had always
been used 20 that sort Of thing, and Jimmy
felt that perhaps a COW would after all
be less trouble than a lamb because she
would stay in one place and not 90 nosing
into the house He kept her in a nice,
sweet pasture back Of the barn, and she
seemed very happy all day long, while he
went fishing in the river nearby.
Time passed and the summer was well
along, when one day a butcher named
Raum came along that way buying cows,
and when he saw Ada he wanted her. for
she was tat and nice. He waited at the
house until Jimmy arrived, and asked him
how much he wanted for her.
Jimmy told him that she wasn't for sale,
but Mr.. Raum was determined to have her
II possible, and finally the boy, with tears
ia his eyes, told the butcher the whole
story Mr.. Raum was amazed at the tale
and asked TO see the vase. When Jimmy
brought 1t the butcher exclaimed: WHY.
that's a Greek vaseW He examined IL
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- THEY teach mythology al your
school you VIII have heard OF Gree.
trs siren enchantress, who Be
vitched all Of the ano- emit heroes
who passed her island BY singing
,-sird and tempting song.
s5s drew them, you may remember to
- ssrs-9 and feasted them, after which
a. ,rrred them into hogs, although some
---,ls think that was only a subtle refer
- 20 the way her guests ate and the
..-,gut Of food they put away. but I
80 the men who made up the myths
s,sv aIl about &c, and she really charmed
hem all right
sbs lived az a time IN the far distant
rast. when gorgons, hydra-headed mon
.tsrs. giants with one eye harpies, sirens
and sstyrs. as well as pretty nymPhs and
..r,f5s. r0amed all over the country, and
Won couldn't throw a stone IN the woods
without hearing q squawk from some
funny creature Of the kind
Perhaps the harpies we're the funniest
and pfobably uost often shot at by hum
80 as they were haIf-bird. half-wonan
and not pleasant % look at az al. They
made their nests on the seashore OF
Africa and laid their eggs IN the sand
close 10 the sea, and sometimes the whole
shore would be alive with young harpies
crying Tor their mammas. suppose
hsrpy's egg to-day would be worth bun
sreds Of dollars 70 an egg collector, as
there is none IN existence put, al the
came. I am glad that they are extinct
because they were terribly cruel birds (oF
beasts. whichever they Were), and lie was
not secure anywhere when they were NJ
Ing about
The satyrs and gorsOns seem not 70 nave
been SO troublesome and nobody minded
The nymphs at all, while It was good luck
"a meet a cupid. But the dreadful siren,
Gree. was feared and avoided as much as
Dosslble. When It became known that she
had moved 10 a certain island All the
s,gors kept away from Il, but sometimes
~ contrary winds blew them close
sDough 10 its shores 20 hear her IaIal
,o,a and then they seemed unable 10
rsrist the spell They landed Ike men In
: dream and walked right TO her After
tbat nobody ever heard Of them again.
ana as the island. after she left Il, was
always alive with pigs. it is quite prob
able that they We're the poor, del1ded
sslors who had lost their shapes Sor q
song.