The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-11

real baby she wept tears of JOY. She had no eyes
for anything else, but Grandpa walked up and down
the greenhouse marveling at the wonders that
showed everywhere. Pretty soon he began to ut
ter ordinations of prodigious establishment, and
then she went to him, to discover that things had
happened that startled even the little girl who had
visited the magic garden.
There in the corner where last night pair of old
rubber shoes had lain in the mysterious earth now
growing tall rubber plant which bore on Its
stalk rubber shoes, erasers rubber bands, bags
gloves, balls, and, III fact, all sorts of rubber arti
clesl She rubbed her eyes. They bulged out as
she deserted another wonder little tree bearing
chewing gum stood in the shade of the big rose
bush; and beyond still greater marvel. for where
old discarded toothbrush had been thrown arose
a bush bristling with cleaning ivoTy-handled
brushes Gould ANYTHING be more .astonishingE
No wonder Grandpa Herold had been startled into
outcries.
But step revealed other surprises. Everywhere
in the greenhouse where the magic soil happened
TO fall upon any sort of article 1t had sprouted.
Here was tree full of shining trowels, there one
hlled with little TIN pals. over yOnder vine bear
ing silk purses exactly like the that Elsie had
carried until it wore out, but I'll brand new Near
the door Grandpas old battered silk hat had sprou
ed tall hat plant loaded down with hats of the lat
est stvle and there where the aged feeble beooar
had laid down the bread he did not eat rose a tree
whose branches bore fresh loaves of Vienna bread,
and quickly Elsie turned to If there butter
plant handy
After everything had been inspected and their
wonder turned into a consideration of what wealth
would flow from these marvels so that Elsie might
now wear warm clothing and 90 to school, and
Grandpa might now smoke good ten-cent cigars.
they began to experiment further by planting all
sorts of things in the black SOIL and they went to
bed filed with eager expectation.
On the morrow Elsie woke early, but Grandpa was
ahead of her. speeches. from amazement Fire
crackers and torpedoes, old from last Fourth,
had sprouted into trees; buttons had grown over
night into button-bearing shrubs with every imag
Unable kind of button them Shoes, coats.
neckties coffee pots, plates and lamps grew there
Handkerchefs by the dozen, and aprons collars and
cuffs: a sausage tree stood beside palm and an
egg bush next to fern. Everything they had
planted had bloomed and fruited over night
And the most amazing and eccentric things hap
pened. for these magic trees grew the most uneS
pected marvel For instance an old horseshoe
produced a splendid pair eff horses dog collars
sprouted into beautiful dogs labels from cans, bot
very things named on the labels, and, after while
Nthey found that they merely had to write the
Of a thing on a piece Ct paper to have it growing
splendidly next morning
SO. as Grandpa had predicted, they became very
wealthy. but they arc still simple unpretending
and kindly ever and every boy and girl share
with them in the blessings that come from this
magic EARTH which even they do not know was
the reward of their kindness to that poor, shiv-
ering old beggar, who was the mighty Magician,
Jimgar Dnerram Sdell, oil Alahabad Persia.
But he knows how it all turned out as well as l.
and lac smiles whenever he thinks of Elsie's amaze
ment for he was pceping into the greenhouse all
the time WALT AlcDOUGALL.