Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-20
SANDMAN STORY.
By Mrs. +. A. Walker.
Copyright 1915. by Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate, New Work City.
JOEL AND THE LITTLE PRlN-
CESC PART

NESS-t AN
Once in far-away country there
lived a pretty little Princess, VINO was
very good and kind rs well as beauu-
ful, and everyone who saw her feii III
love with her at once.
There lived near the palace poor
peasant how named JOEL whose father
worked in a Kings garden. and poor
Joel was cripple, so that ne couid
not work as his father did.
Sometimes .Ioel's father would bring
him TO the palace gardens and place
him on a soft place among the bushes
and flowers. so that he could watch
him al work. and Joel would tell his
father where to plant rosebush or the
pansics where their colors would show
off the best
.JocI was an artist, but he did not
know II and often he would make little
figures out of mud And ono day while
he VAS molding - kgurc of n man the
little Princess came along and saw HIM.
Joel thought he had never heard
such "A sweet voice as the Princess had
when she spoke To him, and when he
looked into her pretty face and saw
the kindness IN her eyes he quite lest
his heart 10 her.
The little Princess was so pleased
WIFI talt ittltl illtI anu Aitttt
joel made that she begged the King
to have him taught 20 make models
from clay. and so il was that Joel be
came able to make wonderful figures
5 Of clay, and by and by Of marble.
But all the time he was ut work the
face that waS ever before him was the
face Of the little Princess, 50 that when
he made wonderful figure of the beau
tiful Virgin her face was very like the
little Princess.
This wonderful figure nc presented
to the little Princess. and II was placed
in her room nj the foot of her bed. and
there every night she knelt before it
and said her prayers.
In n country far away from where
the little Princess lived there dwet n
very wicked Young King. who made
war on all the other kingdoms that
happened Ia strike his fancy, for he
was very greedy and wished to be the
richest King in the whole world
He would send ont his army of soldiers
and tell them to bring back all the gold
or wealth Of any sort they found and
the countries they ransackcd very
poor
Now this wicked King heard Of
that was no other in the world who was
81 sweet and good and who was SO pretty.
So he decided that she should become
his queen.
Without waiting to sec her. to find
out if She wished 10 become his wife
he sent out his army and told them to
bring her back with them and all the
wealth her father possessed rs we'll.
Of course the father of the little Prin-
cess know nothing about tho plan of
this bad Hing. and 50 he was not pre-
pared to defend himself or tho little
Princess and when the soldiers OF the
had king burst into the palace It was
too late Ia do ANYTHING
Stralgh; - the room of The Princess
won't some ~ tho soldier while others
Robbed tho strouphold~ cf The palace
and took The gold
Nov j blpprucd thtt the little prln-
c,>~ va~ on har knc,s IN front of he
ieaa'ul image PRAYING, and ~ the
dni} Hghted room thc soldiers saw
onlt thr fgt.re Of lho Virgin
Quickly hcN ran to Il and throw
h,avN ~likcn rohe over H. and while
tE y wc1r picking il m the frightened
FTnrn>, not knowing what was hap
pcu.ng. trcpt under her led and hid
When the soldiers left the palace
great orr went up that the Princess
was nowhere 10 be found and that the
soldiers had carried her of hut when
she crcpt from under her bed tho king
and Queen quite forgot al they had
lost, they were 50 thankful that their
Princess was safe
Nor did tho soldiers Of the bad King
discover they had an image instead Of
the pretty Princess until they reached
tho had Kings palace, and uncovered
the image.
Tomorrow ! viii toll YOU what the
lad King said and did, but the little
Princess was safe, so YOU need not
Worry about her
Continued Tomorrow