The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-02-09

world than bad ones. But you must
give them welcome and watch them
we'll or the black, evil thoughts will
creep in and drive them away or else
destroy them entirely
While she was talking the butter
fly flowers left their stems and fiutter-
ed around her, and the stars fioated in
the air and settled over the fairy
queen, sparkling like diamonds. Some
of them fell on Mollies hair and she
could feel the soft, cool petals OF the
butterfly flowers brushing her cheeks
and hands.
How lovely the good thoughts are!'
Mcllie exclaimed Why can't we SEQ
them in the world?"
Dear child" the fairy queen whls-
pcred, they are always there and
everywhere, but they dare not let them
selves be seen because they aresofrag-
lie and the bad thoughts are always
lying in wait to drive them away. Here
in the place we call Over There, is the
only spot where they can show their
beauty, and even here sometimes the
evil thoughts creep in and cause great
sorrow. Take some of our beautiful
thoughts back to the world when you
go, Mollie, they will stay with you if
you treat them kindly"
Then Mollie heard the sweetest music
filling the air, and the good queen
singing:
Beautiful thoughts are flowers, dear,
To be tenderly nursed into bloom.
They are stars descended from Heav-
en-,
To tighten the world of it's gloom.
Cherish the flowers and the stars, dear,
Nor let anger nor pride come be-
tween.
Let your kingdom be true thoughts and
kindly,
And you their good fairy queen"
Suddenly the music ceased.
Fly, my children, fly" the fairy
queen cried, the evil thoughts are COM
ing!"
Mollie looked around, but she could
see nothing except the stars floating
away to heaven, where they were lost
in the blue, and the butterfly flowers
iuttering about the queen and hover
ing close to her shimmering robes as
she led them away from Over There
into the nowhere. Some of the butter
fly flowers were bewildered and flut-
tered back to their stems where they
shivered and trembled in fear.
The light began to fade as if to hide
them and Mollie, staring wide-eyed
and trembling, saw what had happened.
Out from the ground were crawling
horde of black worms that ate the
roots of the plants until they fell to
the ground and the butterfly flowers
that had stayed, were crushed and
broken. Mollie saw the evil thoughts
crawling over the good ones, marrlng
their beauty forever. She saw them
going toward the trees in search OF
the stars, then it grew so dark that
Mollie could see nothing more and she
screamed and ran away.
When Mollie found herself again she
was sitting beside the we'll she had
dug behind the currant bushes, with
her back leaning against the pile OF
clay. She looked in the bottom Of the
we'll to find the star, bat nothing WIS
there except the hole. She heard her
mother calling
"Mollie, child, where are you?'
This time she ran to meet her and
flung herself in her arms.
"Oh, mother DEAR" she cried, so ex-
cited she could hardly speak. I've been
Over There where the Good Fairy and
the beautiful thoughts stay. Mother
they are so lovely, but the oad
thoughts''-Mollie stopped and shiver-
ed. Mother" she went on very sober
", "the bad ones are ugly, crawling,
black worms that eat up the butterfly
flowers and starSand-all, oh, mother,
III never have wormy tnouSht
n!"-Toledo Blade.
Not in the Banking Business.