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The Brussels Post, 1909-3-4, Page 3telaiee -A erloW'A otuto: Dou Faro E BLEW with his bellows; He bellowed at fellows tfd maidens, who skipped Vind skidded and slipped .dnd turned full around `. Upon windy ground. iThe more folks were /his- tered, [The louder he blus. tered This giant with bellows, This meanest of fellows. The gayest of fellows !This giant with ,bellows, Who bellows his song In voice loud and strong: "Oh, hof Ye winds, blow On the people below; Tumble " them, fumble them, :Tumble the m, humble them,; Until they don't know How, on ,where, they, can gol" eLOOIt 'most elle pereehs, don't t!1or?" said Edle, Cook agreed that they did, Bet then, cook hover disagreed with Effie, 80 that before making her re. ply she did not even trouble to look over to Where the, little girl wee Playlug with eevoral potatoes, slyly taken from the. basket. "Dear, Oki, dear!" continued ilffie, "here's one that has eyes and a nose and a mouth and even' places that might be ears. And, hurrah: here's bis body, and with little arms and buttons down ,hie coat. Now, have ta regular potato man, "X Wonder if X couldn't make hirn into a potato Woman," laughed she. She ran away, presently coining Witten DOLLY HAD SPROUTED. beak with two tin tacks, five hair- pins, a match and a Japanese dolly In her hands. In not more 'than five minutes the potato man was changed 1\( into a potato woman. as `` Then cook happened to glance up from her work. Seeing the potato woman, she observed: "Sure, an'ye've got a shplendid pertaty . doll!" "Oh, cookie! that's just whatitis—. e ! I _�tz a a potato doll, and the next dol] `IE it-�J pct Lnci party I give is going hr be a potato doll party,"-glee4ully cried Effie. Nor did she forget her resolution, trudged until she reached the clump. When, during the. following week, acacia trees. THE SUN IS ALMOST HIDDEN fl,. FLYING -S____ 5 THE t I rave er strode to and fro on the piazza, a iigureout in the sernb,,beyond the corral,arrested hes attention. Ho raised a glass to his eye,and through It made out the figure of a little girl. A moment. later hesaw a native black man dodge from bush to bush In the roar of the Iass. Fearing that the fellow might mean harm, he Was about to call one of the men to investigate, When ho saw the native throw caution to the Winds and run for - 'ward to join the girl, They appeared to talk together in a fnlendly manner, con- tinuing on their way together. "Who is the child yonder?" asked the traveler as his . host, Mr. Marten, step, ped through tbo doorway. After one look through the glass Mr. Marten replied, laughingly: "That's my daughter, Wilma, whom You will meet within the next few hours, And the black with 'her 'is'Ugaba, a bushman, who wandered hero from Cape Colony about a year ago. The scampis sneaking away from work to go off on a walk' with Wilma. He worships the Little meso ever since she did him a serv- ice soon after he came to us. Would you like to hear the story?" • The traveler was more than welling to llstea to the tale. So, finding a shaded spot on the porch, the two sat down and the story wab begun, It seemed that when Ugaba arrived at Wllhelntslost, German Southwest.Atrica, Whore Mr. Marten had his farm, there also arrived the locusts. but while the bushman traveled from the south, the locusts swarmed from the north. In great clouds they appeared, clouds which sometimes rose upward as high as. 11,000 Peet over the mountains. Swept' by fho winds and following the air currents, they spread themselves over the laid and the sound they made was like that of the tushing of watet•a. One such in- sect when he rube his rough hind legs against his wing coves, es as noisy as a watchman's ratio; perhaps You . mar imagine the: sound created by mittensof diem, The fanners made, every effort to fight this pest, Although birds and 1nseots, like the hairworm, dostroy- ed hnmens0. ]innrhera` of the lbbusta and eggs - laid on the ground, Still the sWa'm did not appear to grout less. Igor even when the farmers 014th/bitted about .their fields poison- ous mashes of• bran and arsenic, and eaitivatell poiaonoas fungi, did the lotneta Vanish. Leoause Militate can - net climb a minicab surfaoc' oanved seroens Were sot up across the paths of the locusts 120100 Alta were dug hoe teeth these screens, inorder thatthe insects would fall from the screens into the pits, and then be crushed by the weight of others upon them, the pits when almost full being covered with earth. Tet the damage to crops went on. Now,"°Ugaba Was quite 'fond of eat- ing locusts. Many other people pos- sess a taste for the insects, you know. In China they aro candled and esteemed a delicacy; the enter classes _' of the .Filipinos depend upon them in large measure for food; while locusts, roabted, fried M butte-, preserved in brine or dried in the sun, are Sound. in the markets of Arabia, Syria, Egypt and Madagascar. A big appetite had Ugaba 'when he stole out one day to Iay -in a supply of choice locusts. The sun was al- most hidden by the clouds of insects, and Ugaba found difficulty in 'seeing Where ho was going. But it was care- - lesaness. that permitted him to fall into one of the pits dug for the cap - bare of -locusts. ..The bushman strug- gleddesperately to climb up the Aides of the pit. They were too steep, however, and the pit Wastoo deep, so that Ugaba found himself In a' bad way. Soon he had all be could do to keep hisface and head above the heap of inseotsr which, with wings covers. folded 1tke fans, lay heaped' about hint, The terrified black yell- ed with all his might, but there seemed to bo no one near to aid hlni. 00 came euttdown, when the locusts paused In their iiig41t, settling on the ground, Wilma had hover seen such a Strange occurrence beforo, in- asmuch as the Martens had arrived viously.CShe made upa hermindtime ake a strollbeyond the corral. We shall. see' that this was a most fortumte decision.. The little girl watt farther than she hadatfirst Intended, She past- ed through. the scrub outside the cor- ral bending her Way toward the hills in the distance. Around the heath and -tete dowering plants with their gorgeous colors she found le- Gusts spread-ae a carpet. Even though thick uig piheeiudeiedleerrysnehngats tool[, 1'reaentl'y elle stood upon a rook to watch an antelope in the distance. Aft- erward, the was about to return home, when she thought she would explore a little rift valley .10adthg to a grove Of trees beano hor, Through wasteof detente. aid Minch/tone and ratite alto e Wilma rested a moment, for she had . - comp several miles. Seeking to vary. herroute, she started toreturnbya different path. Therefore she struck off to the right -in order to pees to tho. side of the rooky cleft. Thus it was that she found herself crossing a little Plateau where crops Were cultivated, Suddenly she heard acry.'It sounded so human that she stopped for an in- stant, but as it was not repeated em mediately, elle began to think her im- agination had played her false, There it was again!: Wilma hastened forward. Presently she came to the pit in which poor algae. was still struggling, though . now feebly. "Wait! I'll be back in a Minute!"' cried Wilma, She ran as fleetly as oho could, back to. the grove. Here he suc- ceeded in. finding a stout branch fallen- from a -tree. With tbls she hastened back to the -pit. At last, after manyvain attempts, Ugaba was able, by means of her en- couragement and help, to draw himself to level ground. The first thing be did was to kneel be- fore Wilma. . Thanks simply gushed from him, until the girl insisted that they go Homo before tho Iight faded al- together. TJgaba never forgot what. Wilmahad done for him: Lee at oncoappointed himself her .bodyguard, watching over her upon every possible occasion. Noth- ing could be greater than his love for.. her, only that," Is haven't Marton, the rogue long ago. Re's one of the meet idle fellows I've ever employed, but his attachment t to 3Pl a 1y. i e a Ong that•. ma against my COneclCitrenco to send him away.' than the little girl andher escort reaSftfdeeofthloh the aihul, dog -like gebtmen as it rested from time to time on Wilma's face, be could not'. but, agree with what 154 Marten had just said. doll party. Of course, the girls couldn't imagine what sOrt Of a. party this was going. to lee, .A. great deal of excitement theie was upoil the or- ' rival of the guests. "They must be a new kind of doll just over front Paris," hazarded Lucy Williams, who always "suleDosed" everything new muet come from Parte in order to be nioe. Effie Was delighted to find bow puzzled everYbody Was. "No, they haven't come from anywbere yet," she seed to Lucy; "every girl half to make her own potato doll." . Effie brought out the doll she had made in tho kitchen the eveek before, and 'Mowed her guests lust how a potato doll should look when com- pleted. Then she gave each of the girls two potatoes, two tin tacks, nve hairpins, a match and a Japa- nese doily—the very same materials elm had used. "NoW, whoever makes the verY best-looktng potato doll will get a prize," she announced, merrily. There was great fun over the po- tatoes, to be sure. Quite number el dolls were maga exceedbeglY Well, so that Effie had some little trouble in dealing which was the best, e guests had gone, Effie took her own potato goll upstairs and tucked it away In the bureau in her playroom. Nor wag it long before she forgot all about it. A month paseed. One clay Effie mis- laid her beacelet After a while she began to rummage among her tillage in the playroont. Pulling out FL im- reau drawer she came 'acmes her po- tato dolly. But it was a different doll from that she had put away. Tiacre were little eprouts all over dolly's body. "You're the funniest doll I ever now!" shrieked Effie. It yeti svill Took at the picture, You won't blame Effie for laughing—oven though it meet have grievously Offended the innocent potato doll. she sent out invitations among hor little friends, they; were fol' a potato Y NAME is Mr, Plana - tom,. came a voice from. th `� the little booth at the. left of the canvas, CCak d And, accompanying the voice, the bank, t shadow of a tiny man appeared on and sal a ]y the surface oft71e revolving disk l placed on a table before the sheet,' Slowing politely, the shadow man a !Amy t, Continued to speak through the, ing the voice from the booth. I shall tow take the audience," said he, "on a trip to my native country. -Shadow Land, the ship. of. Imagination we have now arrived at Shadow Land. Let us disembark. country," "Observe the great forests ex- tending back from the shore line. Yonder le a woodchopper indue- Da to d triously splitting tree trunks" ei th Here the shadow of a woodchop- per busily wielding his axe was re- flected upon the revolving disk. been m "Ifo does not seem to mind the heat of a summer day. But. of we wally a little farther we come upon ing shadCwe o a person who seeks the refreshing coolness Of the forest stream." ,. bather repeatedly the shadow the eYes of the audience. Then a hand reached out from the- booth and dragged away the table and the edge of the disk. ing incident," wentaon the amus- ing supposedly belonging to Mr, Phan- tom. _ side with em As we are walking through a r street of Phantom Town we come to a public square where a circus form is` being held. The parade le just ftnished and a woman acrobat Is the disk, dancing nimbly on awire stretched soma distance outside the tents. This is for the purpose of attracting a crowd. Look! See the many phantom pea- p plc drawing near. 'Iibalan ! The woman Inas teat disk's surtace her balance. She unsteadily wa- vers. Now she pitches headlong from the wire! Thank Providence! b}he falls upon the back Of an ele- phant fortunately passing beneath wlists and Rn and then slides safely to the do employ other ground, atBthe t t unwonted beast, si outs�and frightened dis- turbance, has. broken from its keeper, and now lumbers madly down the street, 'Beyond the outskirts of Phan- tom Town Iles a rabbit warren, Right ongWeeh the ohimeforthe a while and fellow the course of a rabbit that, scared by the ale- thongs intrusion, hurriedly seam - pars away. Not far has the rabbit gone when a wolf pursues ft. The bunny dsrte alone. the edge of a lake, and e Wolf 1s following close behind when a kind-hearted swan, Con. e airt0ng the reeds hear the s retches teeth Ito long peek. ' ge reps Om wolf's tail, In great lain the wolf gives up the chase to nurse his .wound, while use on who had been watch- ing a0011e ,real a nearby tree, mews aloud at the discomfited welt, mocking him in glee. "And' now, lest the wolf run atter you In his anger, I think you'd best depart from Shadow Land and return to your own As the Voice concluded, there fol- lowed ,a storm of applause, and Dan stepped. from the booth to re- ceive a congratulations so well was agreed that no entertainment 0ould have ore successful With his usual courtesy, Dan gracious; explained how the mov- ing shade f the first part 01 the were preseated.. team upright up lrghtlarge of two d'i said, he, after placing a cyltndrlcal!y shaped cork upon the center. 00 the disk. Part Way round the upper cork I stuck pins, from which I ran threads outward to the surface of the disk, passing the threads through 'the pasteboard and :securing them on the other all' pieces of match &Holts. Over the. threads I fastened a piece of stout paper, necessarily cut in the of an arc. A little pasteboard puppet was be- foreplaCedand a candle put outward from the puppet. When the disk was re- volved, the upper half of the pup- et'sshadow moved up and down, owing to the irregularity of the "All other •shadows," added. he,. "were made simply by my hands, and the motions I gave them. were caused by alight movements of my gero. Sometimes r' apparatus, how- ever, In fact,' while casting the elephant's shadow I suspended a handkerchief from my arms, Should I make a preacher In his Pulpit, as I often have done, I would require two little pieces of pasteboard, one to be hung around the wrest; while the shadow of a Jockey racing would need a piece of gaper forjockey's hat and d" - Withfor the reins;" With .such complete instructions for a shadow entertainment, you ' boys and girls will surely have one. There are many of your own edeas which can be easily worked out. Wolk(/' 'Rtrhme IENDLY, very friendly, -wee Fido, And, he liked boys; o h ly he. couldn't tell th e very mischievous hogs from tho good ones. So,. when Fide's master left the theater, by which he was -employed as mesielen,dog- gie paueed a. while,'reepeanct- hlg to What seemed a frlond- ly greeting, -r Jlut tho wicked boys. wish- ed merely to play a trick upon Fido and his master. A- horrible image they fas- tened to the dog's back, When the Mester turned, Ito saw this monster. The taster the horrified musician ran, however, the more rap dly Fido followed through the snow, And the poor man was almost fright- ened out of his wets before the trick wasdisoov- ered py him. so (friendly w 1 quite boys nog, He doesn't like people 'who frighten his kind master, "SAILED TO THE EXTREME END 0 0' THE CORD" A 1307,141E closely examtued the little ship winch b1s friend had 1. d received as a birthday gilt, "What aro you gaitig to call it, Raoul?" ile asked. "I wander why no name Was polnted on It, in the first place." "1 really don't know why,' responded Rnoul, '01n mighty glad, though, that it Mee none, because now I eat name 1t myself," "Mat What is IL going to be?" per- eksted the other, • After thinking deeply Reale sale, "I thlnh I'll ssll 1000', A'loiphe, and 000 ;now she goes and what she sloes; then maybe' I can get a Immo that ntii fit 11er.'t Titus it came about that the little ship without. 0. name was launched In the basin of the '01100rles, for Raoul 11270d 171 Paris, Splendituly she took the Water. I10r sails filled with the light breeze which blew amuse the gardens and away elle sailed until she reached the extreme end of the cord by which Raoul held her captive, "I'm lucky to he captain of sink a Ono ship," nliuclded the leu, as he: raced along tho edge oe the basin, towing the tiny vessel at quell epeectlint enielature Waves teamed at ler bow and ridges of S1mnLb lay ill her wake. Alt at neve the strain on the cord ceased, itnnul l ol:e,l amiterly ever 114 B11070(1077, to find that thelino had parted and that the ship was rapidly, making for the center of the lake. Ile watched it in dismay. There was absolutely no way by which he could recover it.Long time he looked upon, it, as the boat danced coquettishly over the wind -rutted surface ee the lake. Then he sadly trudged toward 'home. "Have you named it?" eagerly asked! Adolphe, when he called upon his chum that. evening. Fres, I've named it the 'Misfortmlo," replied the other, bitterly. .Adolphe opened his eyes:to their tun extent, "And why 'Miefortune'?" ho questioned. Raoul frowned gloomily as he ex- plained: • "Only becaur1 I've .had the. misfortune to Mee her, and shall Very liltoly never tad her again." &Xow Safety Pins Were Invented. A little boy, the son of an English blacksmith, 'need to act as nursemaid- to his baby brother. The baby often' cried, and its tears were generally eased by pin -pricks, Noticing this, the boy tr]tcl to bend pine in emelt a way that they would do their work without puncturing. the baby. lie failed, but his father, sae• ing the utility of the idea the lad had been at work on, set _ to work on his own account, and eventually turned out the safety pin w'hlet ie nota Used all ' over the world. Cruel 00is; ortntie. A gentlernalt passing down the prieel- ppal street et our town had the benevo lerlt side of !tie nature strongly aroused by seeing a poor littleboy crying hr a very heart -broken ruonn01'. Sympathiz- ing at once With ibe evldeetty great trouble of the little one, 11e screened him h1 a very kindly manner with: "Wbat 1e the matter, any little fel live When the pear little boy sobbed out: "I've swallowed my toffee, and I meant to such it." Not the Only .San, "I iildn't see you at eehool last Sai]' bath," said the good man. "Didn't tour' . replete lettho J'ohnnl, "won -on -needn't think you're so blamed ensert on that ateeetant There v'02 a !2211o11 lot mere people didn't see trio thus, either."