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vjj '- ' ' Mr. WUlw-Sprinkles the Whch Huel. ' ' ' , 7 jS?$l f' ' ; "----w'':' '"'rL'---: " YWaV W- A HOW A GOOD GENIE TRIUMPHED OVER : , , : -fTY T . THERE la a tor'r, old th hllla. which hm been printed In many s aw achool book, , about a prince . acalnat whose ' parent a or cerer -had - a deadly apite. - When the rhild wa born the mactcian predicted ' that a ray of aunshtne would alay . him, "'and from that day ha waa caret oily e " eluded In an underground palace Into .1. which never a Kleam of aunllght entered. Hia atory waa not a bit mora.atraap than that of - Morgan WllMa; and, in IkV I consider that Morgan a ta far . mora remarkable, - because, inatead of , i happening In . that faraway paat when wtaarda, lalrlea and maglclana were aa plentiful aa blackberrlea, all that . 0c " curred took place In thia modern age. when It la rare to dlacover a man or : woman who belletea tfl aueh things, to aay nothing of finding real eorcerers. Oa' the "evening of the-day: that Mor ' , gen waa bora a tramendoua anowatorm - letlooee Its fury, and while the wind howled about the houae and the anow grated across the window panes with a r aound Ilka that of a saw going through a log, there xame a loud knocking. at the door. ' - t-'. i . -Morgan'o-father opened the door, and; -almost hidden In a cloud of whirling anow, there entered . a strange-looking 7 man, dressed in a long robe of flaming , red and wearing a tall, pointed hat auch , aa had never been seen before In Oalls T burg, Hla beard.' as black aa coal and - shining, almost awept the floor, and hla eyea glittered beneath bUihy bruwil like stars. Ha waa trembling with the ' cold. -and he hurried to tba red-hot stove, where ho ' stood . spreading hla hands to the heat and smiling softly aa ha looked upon the baby lying beside ' hla mother in the bed agalnat the wall. ' Then ha spoke: - - -"; "I thank-yott.-yf rlenda," said" ha, ; Yor this ahelter for I waa almost over come. 'Tta an awful night to be abroad in, and I am .no longer as sturdy as 1 '.-once was."v"r . r- r' "Tou muat hava traveled far," replied Sir,. WiUls, "for there isn't a houae ' within three mllea." j , -lla! I muat have mtsaed if. then!" exclaimed the atranger. "I aaw no houae . these, 10 mllear "Gracious 1 Have you traveled SO miles, today!" cried Mr. Willie, in V; amazement. - "I have traveled ' .,000,- replied the man in red. might, have gone twice or thrice around the world looking for ; "your house had not my magic flying rug lost Its power. It ta calculated to . go on for 10,000 miles, or, at least, that is what waa claimed for It by Ita ' maker, but I auppoae he awlndled ua. ' You can depend upon nothing these . daya. Everything la a fraud." "A raagle flying rug!" cried Mr. ' Willie. ,Then jrou .must be an en ; " chanter!" i '. "Vou are a wlae man," ' aald the . ' stranger. "You have gursaed It the very ' llrst time. Hera la. .my card." . Mr. WUUa took the card and read the "El Hadji Mussad. XLD.X.UJ.LQ. E. . s CJ.B. W.V.Z, Etc, y Sorcerer and 1 Necromancer. Practical j - and Theoretical--fiEErt ngKrlan Extraordinary - 'to BOVO . I. Chief Exalted Pundit to the ol . , lege of Wlsarda . at Oasabaa, -Arabia, 100 Oasella Street, ' " '. - L ' Babylon." ' J ' Mr. . Willis read these words with a A f ANY times in der maU I gel . rVl such pescullar letters, run of 1 . vlch is deee aa following, vlch I am quoting more from rnoraory dra from nature, dua: . - , Phlllpdelphla, Today. . Tiear Dinky I haf nefer met you face alongside of face, but I,rad you In der Plrs erashauKtfxllf. . J ' ' - Melrt lleber Ulnky, could you pardon der liberty I took In .grabbing e,'S-cent stamp und champing at a perfect stran- air - , i. '; r-A feeling of awa stealing over him. Then ha reflected that perhaps the man was Imposing upon him, and ha asked: - , "How happens It that; you. a, mighty wlsard. are left thus hetplesa in such a storm t" '.-' -r. -Frose upl That's all!" responded El Hadji, amlllng: , "I am from a hot coun try, and when, the thermometer geta down into ita. tuba so that you ean'Jt aee it I hla -away-aa far from it aa po'ssl bla. Nothing but neceaslty drlveane to thta stern clime, I assure you.'", f " "What necessity can compel a real, genuine necromancer,' . wUh all theae Initial a 'to his namen naked Morgan's father. .. . , .-. , c-.'' . . - h. . "I am ordered to your "house io avert an Impending diaaater. rar away, in the realms or the genii, -it haa been learned that you have a son born who. haa on hia akin tha myatlo mark of the Bleat!" The man . went to the beL turned down the coverlid and ehowed on the pink arm of baby Morgan a small red mark resembling a horseshoe. When a child la thua marked." said he. jyt means jhat ha ia to be the play-1 thing of tba genii and the ' sorcerers. Kt one whom I am to battle with, a mean and venomoua scamp named Almoneser, rrora the. far north, wno ia hastening hither to put all manner- of evil spells upon the baby!" : J. - Mrs. willla turned paler, covered the baby up hastily and then begun to cry. "Don't fret," aald the magician,, aa ha want back to the stove and aat downJ "I am more powerful, and because I got here first I have every advantage. Wa will make Almoneser look Ilka three counterfeit dimes before he leaves. You trust El Hadji!" ' "Perhaps he may -not ieorae. 'after all," suggeated Morgan's fatner. "Thia ia an awful storm, you-know.. I've never aeen anything like 'it slnci I 'was born." "Oh, he'll come, all. right." responded the magician, hugging the stove closer. "Ha comes from Suable, the land of al most' eternal snow, and a storm such as this will seem to him merely a "little flurry, I suppose. I can detect hla ap proach, however, and long before he knocka st your door I will tell you. Still, it'a beat 'to be careful; and now that I feel a bit thawed out I will make sure." - -He went to tha-bed land .placed a string of curious benoa around the baby's heck;- and -then 'aald "-...-... . -There! That Will guard him agalnat" anyperaonal harm. "All the cnarms that Almoneser knows can't affect him. " Hs can't be: changed into anything elae or be deformed - or mute, deaf or silly. That's assured, at any rata" , Mr. WUUa began to oe as much alarmed aa was his wife. Every time a blast of wind - shook tha house he trembled and looked around anxloualy, seeing which El Hadji remarked: -- "You muaf not - be afraid. "I " assure you that It will be merely sport for ma to circumvent all of Almonesers tricks. Now, had It been Scorpio- Artcanua it would have been different, for he was a mighty powerful magician and knew a heap. One had to hustle to keep - up with -Bcorplff very oner cried Mrs. Willis, in a weak voice. .i, .--, i " ""Pooh! He's dona for.' two thousand years ago. He was a little too smart for his own good," replied tha magician. p-Friend " Dlnkrr-yea see H -on-efery hand der eigne dot 'spring Is camelng und soon vlll der hoarse cry of der sum mer resort beckon us to dot burn from vlch no traveler returns mltould getting his pocketbook-pinched. " r ' Nice Dinky, could you pleaae vlspef to me how ta play bridge vlat ad ven I go to dec seashore I vlll be armed for defraying aggsperiseaT . Ooot Dinky, 1 feel aura dot If I .could play bridge vlat loud enough to vln four dollars eXery, unce ia a ylle I could laughing. "He had 'learned , all there was to be learned on earth, you see, and then he " determined to visit the other planets. After much study he managed' to dlacover a way to release Jilmaelf from the attraction of the earth and -soar Into the blue sky, and then one day away he shot. - We all envied him then, but as time passed by and ha did not return we felt that ha waa to be nltled. for It became aulta certain that ha muat have neglected, to learn how to come back. "He's been , gone . for ' nine hundred years, and, for all I know, may be pin ing away oh some distant star or scoot ing round Ilka a bubble ia space or bat ting - across the aurfsoe of -tha moon, perhape! At any rata, he has never been seen by anybody sine ha departed with bo much pride and enough lunch eon in hla bag to provide ten days' foodr , "Did you ever have to compete with hliflr' asked Mr. Willis. ', ' "Oh, lots tof times!"' responded El HadjL "You see, all the old kings dab- bled la wiagle a good tlearrand eaiployed the good wisards to teach them aimple fetter to foligh, hard joba, they were no good at alL . Whenever a princa waa born one of us had to hurry to- protect him from tha evil charms" of bad sorcerers, and there were plenty of them In those days, because it's far easier to be a bad wis' ard than to be a good and benign one." "I suppose ha ueed electricity, of courser' suggeated Mr. Willis, ' " "No. "That hadn't been Invented then," replied tha magician. "Wa knew something about lightning, but it was far too risky to handle. I waa ac quainted with a great Moorish wlsard who was totally-consumed, In tha twinkling of an eye, when ha waa try. tng to entice the lightning down a cord. There was nothing left of him but his shoes.". . - , "Frankllft did that, and nothing haa pened to htm." said Mr. Willis. ,- 7 apend a large bunch of summer at der geaalde. , ,.i (.:--,-'..-.. . i Moat noble Dinky, could you Inatrue tlon a lufllng but perfect stranger how to play der- game mltould having to vear a maakT , : . - . -,' Honored Dinky, I played a cubble of games recently mlt a vlde-facad young man who grew very playful und threw der parlor furniture at- me because I trumpeted his ace. 'I fancy ! muat haf dlt wrong.: Der fifth time I trumped hla ace der 'young, man arose, .put on "So I have heard," replied the wlsard. "I auppoae ha had a better charm than the Moorish sorcerer had." ' . "But you did great things asserted Mr. Willis. "Pooh! Nothing st all compared with what we do now, and yet scarcely any body believes In us today. . Why, if I had owned a music bos, or a pianola, or an aleetrio flaahllght, -or a telephone, or Lan automobile, or even a cheap bicycle. V thousand years ago. I would have had iU tha, world, from kings to peasants. elttlng up! They would have thought ma a genuine genie! . I would have been IT" - "Yea, I guess that's right, after all." signed Mr-Willls. "Of course It's right! A little box of parlor matches and a skyrocket In-those days would have made me the boss nej cromancer of tha world! -But 1 think I hear "Aim one aer approaching." A moment later there cams three loud knocka upon the door, which made the bearta of the man and hla wife lean li their bosomV El HadJTTroaa and; open ing tba door, bowed very politely to one wh entered, T;hJl wa a very tailored faced man, whose bardand" nalr were ever - redder, and whose eyea,- redder still,' glsred with a tiger's ferocity at sight of El HadjCs smiling face. "Huht" ha grunted, aa ha strode into the room. "You have beaten ma by a space! ' But that won't help you, nor the baby! I am too atrong for you!" "You're pretty strong." retorted . El HadjL "I noticed that as soon as you came In." -- ' .-' - , "You have fooled me, but I still am a wlsard f might!" "Oh, a very small mite!" retorted El HldJL waving hla banda. "Youjnlght as well keep cool. It's .healthier. Even In a storm like this you might get a bad fever, you know." Almoneser turned to . Mr.. Willis and said:-- - - - , -Do you know that I am Almoneser The Girli Mat Sheep's Eye at Him. his gum shoee and skeedlckled ould of der houae.- Is It not conslderatloned a breach of ettyket to put on gum aboea In der preaenoe- of a ladyt If you please, dear Dinky,' glf me some reason bow to play 'vlat. Yours fondly, . , GLADYS BlTDWEI8ER. P. H. Bar furniture vich he threw vas not his property to' dispose ef. Veil, Gladys. I doaa'd know, much abould bridge vlat but If you see any ding dot I do know, you can reach ofer und pick it ould.. Bridge vlat la played mlt cards, yuat Ilka pinochle, mlt der eggaceptlon of der beer. Not enough cards is a mis deal; too many cards Is annudar, und cards up- der sleeve Is a slap on der front piasaa If day catch you at It Yoa ahould net get up und. dance der snakentlne lance efory time yoa took a trick. It looks mora chenteel to dlt der dance du ventHre. .Van your oppositloner haa not fol-. Onderon Vulloeklvchlkolf. tha potent al- cnemiat, astrologer, pundit . and -he- wucn or the- barren Iceland? I - am he at whoaa word all tha demons quail. wnoae name Is toaaied by all ' magi, wherever assembled!" ' .-- -' "That's quail on toast, brother' eon Jurer!" interrupted El Hadji, grinning. and it's out of aeaaon at thia time of the year, - if you are going to do any misinesa here you'd better be getting at it, or tha baby will grow to be a man before you etart!"- - ' . . . The Suablan wlsard frowned horribly, and then began - to utter a weird and mystie charm, the -words of which ran thus: -. , - :. . : "Om-panderon- oofskt beltnckt. uewinskl . gelaber kodlnckt, ' Oellehka fernanoa gellnaki gehan, "Odyllua gephallla hynanl" ' El UadjiammedJ&tely responded with an Arablayi charm, thualy: "Ben Hasal abdullam kerabad , Aboulln bamana amuat; . - . Dcllllmnas opeenl. - Bonaoam haldma beduaht!". The great northern magician wrung la handa ln great distress, for the Arabian apeJLwaa aucK IgTltyamafafrtDrifld-rallen '-th' " bag--wlsard .Mb . aim VT.U ,1(J1 lUVIIBU. AK certainly sounded that way to Mr. Wil lis when he compared the two. . For my part, I can see no great difference, but that may be because I do not understand Arabian. Almoneser. wrung his - hands. -Crkted his teeth and shivered with rage. The Buablan sorcerer looked about Then ha cried: "The oilcan shall always and perpetu ally leak Let there be a plague upon the flour barrel and meal-worma always In it! The saw shall always be too dull The water pall full of . irogaLThera shall be but one pipeful, of tobacco in ine nousei "Ha! ha!" . laughed El HadjL "You come to enchant the baby, and you're wasting time on the farmhouse!" "The child shall nevrr be able to smile lowed der euft It Is notarise t pick tip a loud tone of wolce und tolt him abould It Reach under der table und kick him on der shlha If It hurts him ha le-n-cheaterr-if"'it"tfoaBd"hurt him alvays remember dot you vas a lady." poan'd Inquisition, yot la irumpamors den . eighteen times during vsn hant. Der limit used to be twenty-alga times, but elnce der ' Equitable has been play ing Hyde und seek der best .brldg vlat authorities haf put der limit down to eighteen. - ' . ' It Is not viae to haf a conniption fit efery time ven you lose a trick. Nud ding looks so vorse aa a conniption- fit ven ley doan'd match der complexion, und chenerally day delay der 'game. Ven der game la close doan'd get an excitement und climb up on der, table. It shows such a vant of -refinery, eggs specially If you vas a quick climber. Nefer. vlssle vile va'tlng for soma vun to play, Vlsaling is not In 'foot, or be happy; ha shall weep-continually; his mind shall be a blank, so that he shall never know good from bad; waking or sleeping, ha shall be In pain from the sola of his foot to the crown of his bead; all misfortunes shall follow, hint, day and night; never shall ha be loved, and he shsll go In fear all his daya!" .'El Hadji seoretly trembled, for all thia was awful, and he waa not perfect ly sura that his spells would prevail; but ha never .showed his fear, and at last, when - -Almoneser - cried: - ."And when be marries he shall be henpecked to death r ha shouted: "Hence, vain croekrrl Your - wordaXall harmless here!" - At this moment it occurred to Mr. Willis that long ago he had read in One of my stories that all witches and wis ards fear witch basal beyond all thlnga, and ha tnatantly arose, and. running to the closet, produced a bottle nearly full or the dreaded fluid. -When he had un cork room and caused tha northern wlsard to look around. - Ha turned pale and rose up. Mr. Willis began to sprinkle the witch hasel ton the floor, and before 10 shrieked "Stop it! I can't bear it! You are racking me to death"' - , 'Then skip out, quick!" crWd El HadjL Tou know what it will do-tO you ir you linger-longer!" " They saw Almoneser for another in stant, and then with a swish and a swirl of his black robes he vanlahed as if he had shot up the -chimney! On tha floor where ha had stood -waa a small black spot, aa if flra had scorched tha board a. "Now that he is gone, let us be Joy. ful!" said El HadjL "I'll go to work to counteract all hM spells!" "I do not believe thst ha has reslly harmed the baby at all!" declared Mrs. Willis. . "All the Mme he was saying those dreadfur things Morgan kept his 1 fingers croaaedr - , r - iou (ion k say bo: criea aa waaji, in great delight "Who would have thought auch a tiny bit of humanity would aver have sense enough for that!- It's truly wonderful!" - "He's a smsrt baby!" aald Mr. Willi "He is. indeed!" echoed tha mother, and El Hadji agreed with both.. , ''But he certainly put a spell on, the house!"-added Mr. Willis. "I am aura that there's an . Immense snow drift aglnat It, for the window Is covered!" - "Weil. I will offset all that by other charms, for, although we can't; prevent what .has happened. It Is possible to sdapt ! ourselves to circumstances,, If there s a perpetual snow, drift, wa will have a furnace that never goes out; if he . has placed worms In - the flour barrel, wa will have auch a flock of chickens to feed upon them that you will be glad! All that he does we will counteract in soma pleasing manner." r. 'How about - there never being more than one pipeful of tobacco ia tha house r . demanded Mr, Willis, vary dubiously. . " . . - That's-all right There on the table you wlllXind a pipe ao big that you couldn't empty it in five days and you 'iU-JuVTOJobacco to sell!" And the duiriaWana 1110 water pall 1 full of frogs!" cried Mrs. Willis I II give you an axe that will eat Iron, and you can raise frogs and sell tbelr legs!". . ,, - .- ;;, ...... , T laste." Oo'und bite ould a cubble of tunes on der plana 1 '' j Ven your apposltloner trumpets your aoe doan'd ..nefer ,h It hlmeare!eeaely across der forehead ' mlt der brickie brae. Alvays remember yen - you vsa In chenteel jociety-aot' bTlcklr brad la eggapenaive. Doan'd -lad -der -deuce -of r elupsln mistaken Identity for der ace of trumps, und den get mad und 'chump eef en teeS feets in der air because dey refusal to let you pull It back. .. .. Ia order to ehump sefenteen feet a you vould haf to go through, der room upstairs itnd. how do you know whose room It 1st i Dare, Gladys, if you follow dem rules I dink you can play der geme of bridge vlat mltould pudding a bruise, on der Monroe doctrine. P. S. Ven you play for money alvays bite, der sllfer. to see if it meand as muco. aa 1( uooaa. . , . ,....r . , "And - ha mentioned ' the on can," added Mr. Willla - - " "Ah. so ha did! Well. If it leaks si- . ways, then- there must always be oil in it, to leak had. therefore, all we have 'to do Is to provide barrels to catch It and than you'll have oil ta sell, also This la easy!" said El HadjL . ' v "But'oh. that bad man said baby will , be henpecked when he marries!"-groaned tha poor mother. "Boeh! We wHl fix , that I premise you that he-will ever : marry, i. .Almoneser never thought of that." said El HadjL "Besides, If the 1 baby had hla lingers ' eroeeed-nothings will happen to him. ao don't worry. ' I think he Is safe now, and I would Ilka to go to bad." " Next morning when they awoke the wlsard bad gone, leaving on the table a pipe so big that ltv startled Mr. Willla- fa. It h1.1 It r....r1. n tKh.T Outdoors a snowbank 10 feet high was plied against the house, the water pail . wag, full of frogs and the meal barrel of .worms, i hill a fneaaee gl sens' like' .the sun In beneath the oil can a row of barrels stooet: that Would hold enough oil to start a store with.. f The baby Morgan grew to be a fine : big boy, and ail tha years the snow -bank stood there, summer and winter, making the whole neighborhood damp and chilly, but the house was warm enough. :.- -. -, When Mogan waa 10 he began to show how smart ha was, and he now managed to turn all - the magician's spells to great advantage, for he col lected the ell and marketed : It each week, sold frogs' legs far and, wide, as '" well ee tobacco; raised . more than a thousand chickens at a time, and finally, ha evolved schema to utilise the snowbank when he was about II. . Hs built over It a great shed and con verted tha whole plaoe Into an Immense cold storage plant where he preserved his poultry and eggs, frogs' legs snd other produce, besides caring for that of other farmers round about, and In the course of time so vast waa hla In come, without the leaat expense to him self for either Ice or coal, he finally be came so t wealthy .that he-, actually couldn't eount his money at all. ., , . Every girl In all the, region 'mad ' sheep's eyes at him,-and many jtm proposed to hlra.-but the charm of Rl MadJI prevailed, and to thle-da? he haa never married, "but takee care of -hia - mother, Inatead. . v El Hadji never again appeared: there. v fore. It was concluded thst the felt his charma chad worked properly; but aa .... once in a while a stranger wandered to . this out ef the way village to Inspect Morgan's Immense storehouse, but. after all, seemed to be most Interested In the boy himself,.! Imagine that the old . wlsard really kept poated and knows exactly how things are going..'. At any rate, none of the evils evoked by Almoneser ever befell the boy,' and, aa be is happy from morn until night, al- Uiuugli he-knows that If he marring TV may be henpecked to death, I guess the northern magician's wiles, never will eome to anything at alL -A t ... ' WALT M'DOUQALL. 1 ! aa'azouTsi a Dr.' Moyoaiewlcs, professor of miner alogy at the University . of Crakow. an nounced at the general meeting of the Mlneralogtcal society of Vienna that be bee- eteoevered' a- new- mineral, to-whtqh " ha has given the name of Beckoiith, in honor of the Vienna mineraioglst.- Pro. feasor Frederick Beck. He asserts that It does not -correspond to any of the mineral combinations ao far known, but resembles mostly combinations of gar net having similar regular cryatala, and contains many rare , earths, which form 71 per cent of Its volume. The chief components are eerb, lanthano, and dldymo oxldea, and It may be of ttae for the manufacture of chemical. pro dueta. eapeclally for the light Industry. The discovery waa made during a selen--tlfle exploration ta southern Russia. The rock In which It was found is called marinpoiitn, -. " 'f I- -':-' ' ' ' I "" i V f fir- lad