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National Baptist world., 1894-11-23
THE DANCING DOLL,
How to Make a Whirling Creature {
Paint and Pasteboard.

How to Make a Whirling Creature OF
Paint and Pasteboard.
Draw on fine pasteboard or bristol.
board a doll about a foot high and
paint her face and hair handso melv;
then cut her out, says the Dolls Dress
maker. Make separately from the
doll pair of pasteboard arms and a
pair of legs Of the same material, and
paint the hands and feet. The dolls
waist must be covered with a body or
cOrsage of silk or satin, lined and
made shapely with little wadding
Cover the arms with white sleeves of
Grape Or thin muslin; let them be wide
and full and confne them at the wrist
Sew on the arms to the shoulders or
bust of the doll. They must be made
as if she were holding out her frock
with them.
Prepare silk skirt and plait on to
the dolls waist, concealing the joint
with belt or sash. You may add an
apron of thin Grape trimmed with rib
bon and tucked up at one corner with
small flower.
Put silk shoes on her feet, having
sewed on the legs of the doll in such a
manner mann g that they will move easily
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the body OF the doll, and, having made
a large knot at this end, tie it to the bar
of a chair. Slip the doll around the
thread of silk till she is about yard
from the chair. Then place yourself in
front of her, holding the spool in your
hand; you may stand two yards from
the doll. Jerk the thread up and dowr
so as to move the doll, and make he1
feet go as if they were dancing.
When you are about to put her away
draw in the thread close to her back
(the knot will prevent its coming
through, wind up the spool and lay it
with the doll in her box or drawer.
There must be fiat skirt of paste.
board under the silk skirt to shape it
out, and to the middle of this paste.
board the legs must be loosely fastened,
but not so as to endanger their drop
ping off.
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T.
are the common property of apec'
elers. But my vampire! 1t is a11taf
And now | am devoured by only onk
ambition-to keep it alive; to let Eu4
rope actually gaze upon the livings
breathing survivor of the great rep
tiles known to the human race before
the days of Noah-the missing link be-
tween the reptile and the bird. To
this end denied myself food; denied
myself even precious medicine. In
spite of itself gave it all my quinine
and when the miasma crept up the
river at night covered it with my rug
and lay exposed myself If the black
fever should seize me!
'"Three months, and still upon this
hateful river! VIII it never end? I
have been ill-so i'll that for two days
| could not feed it. | had not the
strength to 60 ashore to find food, and
/ fear that | will die; die before | can
get it home.
Been i'll again--the black fever
But it is alive. | caught a vicuna
swimming in the river, and it sucked
it dry-gallons of blood. 1t had been
unfed three days. In its hungr,
haste it broke its muzzle. l was al
most too feeble to put it on again. A
horrible thought possesses me. Sup
pose it breaks its muzzle again, when
I am lying i'll, delirious, and it is raw
enous? Oh. the horror of iti To see it
eating is terrible. 1t links the claws
of it's wings together and covers over
the body, its head under the wings out
of sight. But the victim never moves.
AS soon as the vampire touches it there
seems to be a paralysis. Once those
wings are linked there is absolute
quiet. Only the grating of teeth upon
bone. Horrible. horrible! But in
Germany l shall be famous. In Ger
many with my vampire!
Am very feeble. 1t broke its muz-
zle again, but it was in the daylight
when it is blind. Its great eyes are
blind in the sunlight. 1t was a long
struggle This black fever and the
horror of this thing / am too weak
to kill it if l would | must get it
river will end. Oh, God. does it never
reach the sea, reach white men, reach
home? But if it attacks me / will
throttle it. If we cannot go back to
Germany. alive, we will go together
dead. | will throttle it with my two
hands and fix my teeth in its horrible
neck and our bones shall lie together
on the bank of this accursed river"
This is nearly all that was recovered
of the professors diary. But it is
enough to tell us of the final tragedy.
The two skeletons were found to-
gether on the very edge of the river
bank Half of each, in the lapse of
years, had been washed away at sue
cessive food tides. The rest, when
put together, made up the man reptile
that. to use Rabelaisan phrase,
"metagrobolized all to nothing" the
University of Bierundwurst. - Con-
temporary Review
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lie day a-yeRA1te mario, cpnon-n
sor of that same university Of Bierund-
wurst, and mighty hunter of beetles
before the lord, who lived with the In
dians in friendship, went up the back
water, right up to the entrance, and
set ahoat inside the cave a little raft,
heaped up with touchwood and knots
of the oil tree, which he set fire to,
and he saw the raft go creeping along,
all ablaze, for an hour or more, light
ing up the wet walls of the cave as it
went Oh either side And then it was
put out.
1t did not ''go'' out suddenly. as if it
had upset or had fioated over the edge
Of a waterfall, but just as if it had
been beaten out
For the burning fragments were
flung to one side and the other, and
the pieces, still alight, gIowed for a
long time on the lodges and points of
rock where they fell, and the cave was
filled with the sound of d sudden wind
and the echoes of the noise of great
wings tapping.
And at last, one day, the professor
went nto the cave himself.
Il took" he wrote, "a large canoe,
and from the bows / built out brazier
of stout cask hoops, and behind it |
set a goldwashing tin dish for a re-
flector, and loaded the canoe with
roots of the resin tree, and oil wood
and yams and dried meat. And took
spears with me, some tipped with the
woorali poison, that numbs, but does
not kill. And lit my fire, and with
my pole | guided my canoe very eau
tiously through the tunnel, and be-
fore long it widened out, and creeping
along one wall | suddenly became
aware of moving of something on
the opposite side.
$50 turned the light fair upon it,
and there, upon a kind of a ledge, sat a
beast with a head like a large gray
dog. It's eyes were as large as cows.
What its shape was [ could not see.
But as looked | began gradually to
make out two huge batlike wings, and
these were spread out to their utmost.
as if the beast were on tiptoe and
ready to fly. And so it was. For just
as | had realized that / beheld before
me some great bat-reptile of kind
unknown to science, except as a predi-
1uvian. and the shock had thrilled
through me at the thought that | was
actually in the presence of living
specimen of the so-called extinct fly
ing lizards of the flood, the thing
launched itself upon the air, and the
next instant it was upon me.
"Clutching OF to the canoe, it beat
with it's wings at the flame so furiously
that it was all could do to keep from
capsizing, and, taken by surprise. l
was nearly stunned by the strength
and rapidity of the blows before | at
tempted to defend myself.
by that time-scarcely half a min
ute had elapsed-the brazier had been
nearly emptied by the powerful brute,
and the vampire, mistaking me, no
doubt, for a victim of sacrifice, had
taken hold of me. The next instant |
had driven a spear clean through his
body, and with prodigious tumult of
wings. the thing loosed it's claws from
my clothes and dropped off into the
stream.
''As quickly as possible | rekindled
my light and now saw the arinchi.
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Ministers q

ase-zz.z1usz.. i 5s.--1z 1VFW, an
india rubber m4rchant, working his
way with the usual mob Of natives
through cal Hucho forest along
the Maranon, came upon some bones
on the river bank where he had pitched
his camp. Idle curiosity made him try
to put them together, when he found,
to his surprise, that he had before him
the skeleton of creature with human
legs and feet, dog-lil1e head and i'm
mense bat-like wings Being shrewd
man, he saw the possibility Of money
being made out of such curio sity; so
he put all the bones he could find in to
a sack and on the back Of a llama, they
were in due course conveyed to Cha
chapoyas, and thence to Germany.
Unfortunately, his name happened
to be the same as that of another Ger
man Jew, who had just then been try
ing to hoax the scientific world with
some papyrus rolls Of a date anterior
to the flood. and who had been found
out and put to shame. So when his
namesake appeared with the bones of
a winged man, he was treated with
scant ceremony.
However, he sold the india rubber
very satisfactorily, and as for the
bones, he left them with young med
ical student Of the ancient University
of Bierundwurst, and went back to his
cahucho trees and his natives, and the
banks Of the Amazon. And there was
an end of him.
The young student one day put his
fragments together, and, do what he
would, could only make one thing of
them-a winged man, with a dogs
head.
There were few ribs too many, and
some odds and ends Of backbone which
were superduous, but what else could
be expected Of the anatomy of so ex-
traordinary a creature? From one
student to another the facts got about,
and at last the professors came to hear
of it. And, to cut long story short,
the students skeleton was taken to
pieces by the learned heads Of the col
lege, and put together again by their
own learned hands.
But, do what they would. they could
only made one thing Of it-a winged
man with dogs head.
- he IUdLUeT HOW DoCdu1o serious.
the professors were at first puzzled,
and then got quarrelsome; and the re-
suit Of their squabbling was that pam
phlets and counterblasts were pub
lished, and so all the world got to hear
of the bitter controversy about the
imam lizard of the Amazon"
One side, declared, of course, that
such creature was an impossibility,
and that the bones were a remarkably
clever hoax. The other side retorted
by challenging the skeptics to manu-
facture duplicate. and publishing
the promise Of such large rewards to
anyone who would succeed in doing
so that the museum was beset for
months by competitors. But no one
could manufacture another man-lizard.
The man part was simple enough.
provided they could get a human
skeleton. But at the angles of the
wings were set huge claws, black,
polished and carved, and nothing that
ingenuity could suggest would initiate
them. Ard the 'genuinists, as these
who believed in the monster called
themselves. set the ''imposturists, !"
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The Crown Prince of Prussia.

Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia
is now in his twelfth year. He is so fal
advanced in his studies and so mature
for his age that Emperor William il
thinking of givinef him an establish
ment of his owsa, with a separate
retinue of servants, in order that he
may early learn to govern. The crown
prince is a remarkably bright lad
and is said by an English visitor te
the place to speak our Language
fuently and talk it, not only rapidly
but well
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MISS ANNIE'S SCHOOL.

While Johnnie searches Asia DER,
To find the Hoang Ho.
shut my eyes and see once mort
That school of long ago.
Il was no kindergarten shoot
That child OF modern rule,
academy nor institute,
But just Miss Annies school,
Miss Annie's face was round and fair,
Her eyes were big and blue
And everything we did declare,
In all the world, she knew.
She always tried to make it clear,
With gentle word or kiss:
What country south Of Turkey, dear?'
Oh, Polly Ann will miss
But no! Miss Annie smiled. Whats that
Lies under in the pan
When mother roasts the turkey fat?''
"'Tfs Greecel' laughed Polly Ann.
Such grand excursions as we had
On continent and sea,
The while we held, with hearts so glad,
That charmed geography.
''The Mississippi river take,
For voyage Of to-day
Each pencil sought Itasca lake
And then we sailed away.
One blissful hour we journeyed south,
No craft SO swift could run,
And then we landed at the mouth,
And lesson time was done.
But in that hour what things we saw,
What people strange we met
The painted warrior and his squaw,
The black-rObed Jesuit,
All passed like figures in dream,
With buffaloes and deer
And left beside that mighty stream
The hardy pioneer,
We heard the slave In rice-1elds speak,
And felt his plant was true;
The tears rolled down Miss Annie'S cheek
And ye-yes, we sried, too
Oh, shade Of old De Soto grave,
All honor be your due!
And stern La Salle-who else so brave?-
take no praise from you
But as In thought once more view
The Mississippi free,
know it was Miss Annie who
Discovered it for me.
-Ruth Siddons, In Youths Companion.
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TIGERS MERRY-GO-ROUND.
Cat Has an Exciting Ride on the Wings
of a Windmill

Cat Has an Exciting Ride on the Wings
of Windmill.
Frank Dellan has an amusing story
pf the adventures of a cat named
ETiger" in st. Nicholas. The cat was
N disgrace from having been caught in
An attempt to purloin a bluefsh from
the kitchen. So it set off for an ad-
jacent mill, to console itself with a
meal of mice.
The trip to the windmill was not,
however, purely pleasant task; in the
first place, the tall mill itself was not
homelike, familiar place, like a house
or barn, particularly on windy days
when the four great sails were going
around with a creal1ing noise, up on
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FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
ACCOUNTED FOR.

am not feeling well to-day,
But why cannot see.
had some ice-cream cross the way,
And pancakes home for tea;
I also had some caramels,
And Sugared almonds too
And when l met with Tommy Wells
A stick of fine tolu.
But was careful with each one
Too much Of none | ate
1t cannot be that penny bun,
And yet the pain is great
had six cookies. but I've had
Six cookies oft before;
They've never left me feeling bad,
Nor ckles-three or more.
The soda-water couldn't make
Me i1l-'twas Blllies treat.
1sort Of think this fearful ache
Comes wholly from the heat
-Rarper's Young People.
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Makes His Dog Run the Press.

Thomas Meredith, a Chicago lad
owns printing press and New
foundland dog. At first glance there
doesn't seem to be much connection
between them, but Thomas has made
one. He has rugged up power tread
mill, in which he fastens the dog. In
this way he gains sufficient power to
run his printing press, which is of
course not a very large one.
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A Crack Shot at Seven.

It is not often that seven-year-old
boy is fine rifle shot, but Joe Thorne
Holland, Of Atlanta, Ga, is an excep-
ton. He is a bright little fellow, with
true eye and a steady hand, and he
can put his bail in the bulls-eye at
fifty feet. That is what he has done
more than once.
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another poser; for they publicly chal
lenged them to say what animal either
the head or the wings had belonged to
if not to the man-lizard? And the
answer was never given.
So victory remained with them, but
not, alas! the bones of contention
For the imposturists by bribery anc
burglary got access to the precious
skeleton, and lo one morning the
glory of the museum had disappeared
The man half of it was left, but the
head and wings were gone, and from
that day to this no one has ever seer
them again.
And which of the two factions was
right? AS a matter of fact, neither
as the following fragments of mar
rative will go to prove:
Once upon a time, SO say the Zaporc
| Indians, who inhabited the district
between the Amazon and the Mara.
| non, there came across to Pampas de
Sacramento company of gold seek
ers, white men, who drove the natives
from their workings and took posses
sion of them. They were the first
white men who had ever been seen
there, and the Indians were afraid OF
their guns; but eventually treachery
did the work of courage, for, pretend
ing to be friendly. the natives sent
their women among the strangers.
and they taught them how to make
tucupl Of the bread root, but did not
tell them how to distinguish between
the ripe and the unripe. So the
wretched white men made tucupi out
OF the unripe fruit (Which brings on
hts like epilepsy, and when they
were lying about the camp helpless
the Indians attacked them and killed
them all.
All but three. These three they gave
to the vampire.
But what was the vampire? The Ia
poros did not know. Very long ago."
said they, there were many vampires
IN Peru but they were all swallowed
up in the year of the great earthquake,
when the Andes were lifted up, and
there was left behind only one, 'Arin-
Chi who lived where the Amazon
joins the Maranon, and he would not
eat dead bodles-only live ones, from
which the blood would fow.''
When sacrifice was made to ''the
vampire" the victim was bound in
canoe and taken down the river to a
point where there was kind of wind
ing backwater, which had shelving
banks of Shiny mud, and at the end
there was a rock with cave in it, And
here the canoe was left. A very slow
current flowed through the tortu-
Gus creek, and anything thrown into
the water ultimately reached the cave
Some of the Indians had watched the
canoes drifting along, few yards only
in an hour, and turning round and
round as they drifted, and had seen
them reach tn - 4 and disappear
within. With And It'd they esa wonder to
that the cave wan enp.'fal y sssp' for
i1On aega, the crsf0ck. e. they hing
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obarch- LgoAay to avo. dog. So he
Bnt it was one of those days when
+. everything seems to golwrong. Over
the corn field Tiger whhat the sails
were not at rest, but wheeling around
in brisk wind, and when opposite the
miller's house, although he kept him
self carefully in the high grass, he was
espied by Jack, who challenged him
with sharp bark. Tiger pretended
not to hear this, and passed slyly on be-
yond the mill, to deceive the dog, who,
as he well knew, would object to his
hunting there, although it was sheer
malice on Jacks part to grudge his
neighbor few mice, for the miller's
cat was old and lazy, and he himself
despised any smaller game than rats.
At length, by keeping under cover Of
the beach plum and bay bushes, Tiger
reached his goal, and soon took up a
position near q promising-looking hole
by the shady side of the shingled' mill;
this happened to be also on the 1eeward
side, so that the huge arms as they
w3zssled around were not in sight. 1t
was good, quiet place to compose his
ruffled nerves. Tiger no longer felt
too restless to lie in wait, SO he tucked
hYs feet comfortably under his body,
curled his tail around them and settled
down to await some foolish mouse.
But the windmill mice were probab bly,
we'll fed and in the habit of taking
monday maps, for not the tip of nose
or the faintest squeak came from the
hole. Tiger grew drowsy. Luckily
for himself, he did not fall quite asleep,
for he was in more danger than the
mice for whom he had set an ambush.
Jack, the cross terrier, divining the
pOacher's intentions, was stealing a
march on him. Without growl of
warning he had crossed the road from
the miller's house and, noiselessly gain
ing the little rise on which stood the
mill, caught sight of he unsuspecting
cat calmly seated, his nose toward the
mouse hole and his back toward the
coming danger. With a startling yell
Jack sprang toward his victim.
It was shabby of Jack to take Tiger
off his guard, and it is not matter OF
the slightest reproach to the courage
of Tiger that, reused to his peril at the
last moment, he gave desperate bound
and fed.
It was race for life! Around the
mill they few-there was no tree, no
place of refuge nea-, but Tigers small
er size gave him an advantage on the
circular race track. Five times the
race had gone around the mill when
suddenly Tiger did a desperate thing.
The lower end of one of the great sails
happened to sweep near the ground
just ahead of him; he made great for
ward and upward bound, clutched the
framework and canvas, and instantly
was borne aloft toward the clouds as if
by the arm of a friendly giant. it was
enough to make a cats head swim, but
Tiger was safe if he could keep his
hold, for in q few moments the bafded
terrier was barking furiously forty feet
ba1nrv him
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with wings outstretched upon the wa
ter, drifting down on the current. I
followed it.
''Hour after hour. with nv reflector
turned full upon that gray dogs head
with cow-like eyes, l passed along
down the dark and silent waterway. |
ate and drank as | went along, but did
not dare to sleep. A day must have
passed and two nights, and then, as /
had long expected, / saw right ahead
pale, eye-shaped glimmer, and knew
that was coming out into daylight
again.
1.-The opening came nearer, and it
was with intense eagerness that |
gazed upon my trophy, the floating
arinchi, the last of the winged reptiles
ALREADY. in imagination, l saw nv
self the foremost of travellers in Eu-
ropean fame. the hero of the dav.
What were Banks kangaroos. or Du
Chaillu's gorilla to my discovery of
the last survivor of the pterodactyles
OF the creatures of the flood, the flying
saurian of the pre-Noachin epoch of
catastrophe and mud.
Full Of these thoughts, | had not
noticed that the vampire was no longer
moving, and suddenly the bow
of the canoe bumped against it.
In an instant it had climbed up on to
the boat. Its great bat-like wings
once more beat me and scattered the
flaming brands, and the thing made a
desperate effort to get past me back in
to he gloom. 1t had seen the daylight
approaching, and rather than face the
sur. preferred to fight.
Its ferocity was that of maddened
dog, but ! kept it off with nv pole,
and seeing my opportunity as it chung,
Happing its wings upon the bow, gave
1t such thrust as made it drop off. 1t
began to swim Q then for the first
time noticed its long neck), but with
my pole [ struck it on the head and
stunned it, and once more saw it go
drifting on the current into DAYLIGHT
NV hat a relief it was to be out in
the open air! 1t was noon, and as we
passed out from under the entrance of
the cave, the river blazed so in the
sunlight that after the two davs of al
most total darkness | was blinded for
a time. | turned my canoe to the shore.
to the shade of trees, and throwing a
moose over the floating body, let it tow
behind
'Once more on firm land-and in pos
session Of the vampire!
Il dragged it out of the water. What
a hideous beast it looked, this winged
kangaroo with a python's neck! It was
not dead; SO I made muzzle with a
strip of skin, then I firmly bound it's
wings together round it's body. / lay
down and slept When | awoke, the
next day was breaking; SO, having
breakfasted, l dragged my captive in
to the canoe and went on down the
river. Where | was had no idea; but
| knew that | was going to the sea;
going to Germany, and that was
enough
FOR two stgths have been dersft- |
srs The secondwn this nJchurc
ule Une THAR nactnr Tr G1dnn or
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LAST OF THE VAMPIRES.
BY PHIL ROBINSON.

DO you remember the discovery of
the man-lizard" bones in a cave on
tne Amazon some time in the forties?
Perhaps not But it created a great
2-tir at the time in the scientific world
a lazy sort of way interested
T2men omen Of fashion. EPr day
lite the cor thing
have retlal7 Of fonl 49, =.
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The TaOLllady'S Tin.

New Boarder (complainingly)-I can't
eat this steak, madam.
Mrs. Slimdiet (accommodatingly
You'll find an excellent dentist right
opposite--N. Y. Weekly.
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Albany is named from the second
title of the duke of York, afterwards
James II. The title is Scottish, from
the Celtic word Albyn. native name
for Scotland.
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one side and down on the other, fling
ing shadows that hurried over the
ground and up along the sides, while
from within the building came great
rumbling and buzzing sounds. Another
trouble was the fact that Mr.. Hedges,
the miller, had adog. This dog, Jack"
in I,incnr,c- ax-an-nr-- 11rlv and dam
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fol ro secondHn
theme, LET die the their pastor
death Of which WEE