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WEAR T rT tu sroaw Asoux 'tw \ \ / / iHaag , = THE LYONS PROGRESS, LYONS. GEORGIA. The SANDMAN STORY WITCH TEG’S SON Y AC °. the son of old Witch Teg, "•ho lived on the mountain side, wanted to be rich. He did not want to live in n cave with his Witch Mother, though she did everything within the power of her magic arm to make him happy. It was not, however, In the power of Witch Teg to give gold to her son, or to any one else. Stones she could change into ani mals or mountains into rocks and trees, and it was whispered she had changed more than one into the shape of a wild animal. So when her son asked for gold that he might become rich and live in a ‘Soon I’ll Be a Rich Man, Mother,” He Said. palace Witch Teg knew she could not grant his wish. There was one thing she could do, and that was to help him get money, and this she did by changing the big rocks around her mountain cave into fat pigs which Yaco drove to the mar ket and sold for gold. Soon the gold began to pile up in the corner of the cave, for Yaco's pigs were the finest in the market and brought the highest prices. “Soon I will be a rich man, mother,” said Yaco one day, “and I shall live in a palace, and when you see me riding in my coach with four prancing horses you will be proud of your son.” Witch Teg listened with downcast eyes, for she began to understand that this selfish son had no thought of her, hut would leave her as soon as he was rich enough to satisfy his greed. If Yacq had seen his mother's eyes his answer to her question would per haps have been more guarded, but he didn't, and so when Witch Teg asked, “And how shall I be able to see so tine a person as you will be when you drive out in such style? You cannot drive up the side of the mountain.” “Oh, you can sit at the foot of the mountain some day and I will drive past,” replied the ungrateful Yaco. “You will not expect me to notice you, of course, for I could not have a witch for my mother, you know, and live in a palace.” "No, no,” answered the witch, “that would never do.” But she did not in tend that her selfish son should leave her to live in a cave while he rode about in a beautiful coach ashamed to own her for his mother. One morning when Yaco started for market the pigs he drove before him were the plumpest and finest he had ever driven down the mountain and Yaco thought of the gold he would bring back to add to his store. Yaco did not know that his mother, - —■ »-^»-»eeaaaaaaaaaaaa««aaa»aaaa»eaai ii Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Ii it < > — j; i| Bt] HELEN ROWLAND . <; THE same woman may be a goddess to a boy, a temptation to a mar ried man and a menace to a bachelor. No man is ripe for matrimony until his heart has been broken at least once; and the first girl who threw him over is an angel in disguise. Every man believes that woman's “sphere” is marriage; but that a girl should never, never think about it, ex cept in the beautiful abstract, until some man mentions it to her. True love says, “Love me—-or I suf fer!” Infatuation says, “Love me—or I’ll make YOU suffer!” Youth's idea of “success” consists in covering the course (of life) with the fewest possible strokes (of effort). Forty-five is the magic age at which a man has just begun to LIVE —when lie still retains all his teeth, some of his hair, the outlines of his youthful ~ \ MST KNOVikiMAT 1 - f you miKK 1 ukEo| In tlie midst of lif-* we are in death, but it is often possible to postpone the interment. before the sun was up and while the mountain was yet misty in the early morning, had gone part way down the mountain and, stretching out her bony arms and hands, had caused water to run over the rocks and form a brook. If he had he would not have guessed the reason, but his witch mother was making sure her son could not Leave her. She knew that all charms are broken when the one upon whom the spell is cast steps into running water. Yaco she had formed from an ugly black rock that stood by her doorway, and now she would let him take his form again. Slowly down the mountainside Witch Teg watched her son driving Ids pigs. For a minute Yaco stopped when he saw the water. Then, seeing it was not deep, he drove the pigs in. Be fore his astonished eyes they resumed their former shape—a heap of stones. Yaco stepped in to touch the stones and Instantly he became one of them, only big, black and ugly—just the shape he had been when Witch Teg changed him into the son of a witch. The village folks at the foot of the mountain point out the black rock and call It the Witch’s Son because it is shaped like the head of a man, but they do not know that once it was Y T aco, the son of Witch Teg, who was ashamed of his witch mother. (© by,McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) 4 Wkats in a Name?” FACTS about »our name; it’s Kistorp; MILDRED meaning; whence it vJas derived; signifi- MARSHALL C ance; your lucky! day? and lucky? jewel ELLA ELLA is an elfin name. Its source lies in Fairyland, where the elves, or white spirits, were supposed to be gifted shadowy beings given to influ encing strangely the lives of mortals. Ella means “elf’s friend.” The elf king was called Elberich. His fairy kindred and their popularity in England and Ireland, established the use of elf names early in history. Everyone remembers Aelfgifu, the un fortunate Eigiva, whose beauty was like the fairy gift which her name sig (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) figure, and most of Ills really worth while illusions, but has shed most of his egoism, hi 3 cynicism, his foolish dreams, and all his Impossible expec tations of life. In China, a wife can be divorced in half a minute —for talking too much. Oh, Reno, where is thy sting! Somehow, a girl in breeches only seems to look more girly! (Copyright by Helen Rowland.) fcrkeWhu l 1 • °l I | Superstitions j I B y H . IRU l N q Kl N q | CABBAGES AND LOVE TN MANY parts of the country a girl who is becoming anxious about her prospects of matrimony goes out to a neighbor’s cabbage patcli at night, steals a cabbage and places it over the house door. The man upon whom the cabbage falls when the door is opened is the man she is destined to marry. It is held by most authorities that this charm can only be worked with success upon Allhallowe’en and that the girl should go through a graveyard on her way to steal the cabbage. In some sections it is believed that some- Jackie Coogan + •; •> 4 * 4 *444444444 On October 26, 1914, the wonderful little Jackie first saw the light of day —in the city of Los Angeles. Jackie's father was prominent in musical life. Jackie's first appearance on the & ge was at the age of two, in a New York theater, where his dad was playing. At four Jackie was taken under the wing of Charles Chaplin. Jackie is loved the world over, as the star of “movie" stars. nifies, and brought ruin upon herself and her husband. Aelfwine (elf darling), daughter of the earl of Southampton, was Knut’s first wife. A bishop of Lichfield was called Aelfwine, but he preferred to be addressed as Aelia. This is the first appearance of Ella, and it seems curious that it should have been of a masculine name. Aelia, as it was then spelled, named the sponsor for the execution of Rag nar Lodbrog, and it was Aelle of Deira whose name caused Gregory the Great to say that “Alleluja” should be sung in those regions. Ella is much used in this country, but her significance is so little known, that her popularity must be attributed to harmony of sound. The opal is Ella’s talismanie gem, but the fairy, which popular supersti tion declares is imprisoned within the stone, must be a good fairy, for Elia is promised many friends, success and much happiness. Friday is her lucky day and 2 her lucky number. (© by Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.) • o 44444444444444444444444444 | A LINE O’ CHEER | 4 4 4 4 4 f 4* By John Kendrick Bangs. 4 1 t £444444444444444444444444$ $ CITY FLOWERS 4 % t '-pHERE may be flowers in the £ £ ]_ fields, 1 4. But sometimes on the city X 4 street * £ Amid the surge of weedy yields £ A rare bloom I chance to £ meet — .3, ♦ Some flower of childhood on the 4 way £ 2 Os pain, with eyes like violets, J £ Whose laughter eases the dark 2 4 day X 4 Os all Its trials and regrets; * 4 4 £ Some flower of womanhood that £ £ goes 2 4 Down to the arid depths of X 4 care, ♦ £ And like some lovely human rose £ 2 'With beauty veils the sorrow T £ there. 2 ♦ (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) 4 4444444444444444444444444$ O Grief Ahead. When science lias made all the wom en ravishingly beautiful who will darn a homely man’s socks? —Chicago News. thing of the physical characteristics of the girl’s future husband can be di vined by the shape and size of the cabbage stolen. In no case cau she select the cabbage but must take the first that comes to hand —some say pull it with tier, eyes shut. In Scotland the same superstition is a common Hallowe'en custom, han ded down from time immemoral. and was glorified in poetry by Robert Burns. Only in Scotland they do uot put the whole cabbage but only the stalk over the door and say that the amount of earth clinging to the cab bage root indicates the size of the for tune the girl's husband will have. This superstition is Inherited from our bar barous ancestors of northern Europe to whom cabbage and kale were nearly what onions and garlic were to the Egyptians. Egyptians even deified the onion and if the Teuton and the Celt did not exactly deify the cabbage they held if in high respect as possessing many mystic qualities and gave it a place only a little lower than the grain god. Most appropriate vegetable to divine by. (© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)