The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1898, Page 26

26 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 1898 LITTLE NELLIE AND THE SILVER PRINCE Little ) had heard that after- naon that her papa had lost all his money and that the farm would be taken from him the next day. So Nellie wen treg; he traubles. “Cheer up So she ing except ¢ near the p; and no wonde the queere that ever w 2 He was dressed but silve coat of mail wt came from the | ~The. I said this littl taking off h looked puzzled and a “I—I. don’t v Nellie, who awake. ST s A was really endugh to unders Prince, and turn into s “T wish you ¢ tle “Nellie. “I'd very much lik le,” said the Silver ¥ lost my wand, which things turn into s be able to find it agair is full. That will not row night.’ “That will bé too la swered Nellie. Ve a on his Iver Pr 11d he money at noon to-morrc all_go away from her sick and could not e: lately.” The Silver P; *I-don’t see v “But if T had a.blu golderrod fl¢ picked fn the meadow ~-girf, perhaps I could could try.” vers Now- it happened that Nellie kn. just where to go to.fir AFTER MAKING A RAID ON THE PARK MUSEUM THE BUMPKINS AND THE GOAT HILL BAND ver, t to talk to the oak and tell voice all her say: , but saw noth- v that grew haking, it climbed little being of ver cloth, bow, e afraid. d little e Silver Prince, who “that’s 2 I'm the Silve I touch I can Ip me,” said lit- o help you, N ’rince, I 1- “but I've need to make and I-will not 1 until the.moon be until to-mor- te, then,” an- must have the arn nd these flow g who | | | | | | [ want to peek | sword by hi: She ran off as fast as she could and came back with them in her hands. There sat the Silver Prince, whi ling softly to himself a fairy tune and thirking. He thought so hard that Nellie had to speak three times be fore he noticed her. “Oh, yes,” he said, when he looked | up. “You put those flowers down {here one at a time with your left | hand, with your thumb pointed out- ward, and then shut your eyes, and don’t open them until I count forty- four. Then you n 100! Nellie shut her eyes after she had put down the flowers, but she did so through her fingers that he iad when the Silver Prince said look.” A span of field mice, in harne: Nellie saw, and they were drawin load—something white and- shiny “It is my wand,” said the Silver Princ “When 1 say certain magic words it will not only turn some things to silver but do other great acts. . See, now, what it will do. The Fairy King, who is fond of the flowers you brought, has sent to me in return for the flowers which I sent- him by a fairy, my wand, which he had—and the whole did not take a minute. 1 will bid you good-by, and go to the Fairy King, but I will bring you good news by and by.” So saying, the Silver Prince touched the field mice with his some magic words, and the mice turned into lovely little ponies. Then the Prince, with his wand, turned a gourd hell into a chariot. He was a pretty ht as he stepped into the chariot, his armor all shining and a brave little ide. He gathered up the reins, made another low bow to Nel- lie, and in a minute was out of sight, wand and all. Then Nellie cried again and her tears splashed the lily, but she felt happier than she had before. The Silver Prince had gone without turn anything into silver, but she had his promise of good mews soon. wand, after | | ana When would the news come? “In the morning,’ Morning,” said the robin. Nellie slept ver astir the ne: fore the robin in the fig tre to where she had He did not come. waited—and then she thought that he | might have forgotten her. and sat in her mama’s = home waked he | to the hous and cried. old farm to say She fell | the oak tr white lily. awoke. i the t morning a en the Silv She w Then she went a le her hand It was noon The man who avas tc away had come. to tell her that it that they should go. “Let me carry my white lily,” coaxed Nellie; that.” She picked he; Then { Iver,” she exclaimed, joyfully, “si ver, my papa, dear. out of the lily more and more! now we can pick it up and save home Does any little child need to be told that the Silver Prince was there, al- though he c | Just at the right moment, he had touch- ed Neliie's tears with his “the man will not the lily, but that the stalk broke in Nellie made upon her h See! 11d not be seen, had turned them into silver? lette: “H te The letter was all right except the | osing phrase, which was as follows: 30d pickle and keep you. cl An r e A | WOULD PICKLE HER MAMMA. A Memphis German glish lady and whe te letters in English to her parents. One day the German lad to the Memphis lad is the letter which 1 have writ- ten to my mother. it over and see if it is properly writ- I want yc investigation proved i i little that night. She almost be- She went a truly good-by.” p. being tired out, under touching the when Her queer little noise and kne n to pick up little balls of pure sil- It is running wand and oung lady who recently a good story man in looking for a had 1 k. ited and She went lap round the she > take her father s nmo; w care for it was so her hand. nd Ana | the and that, who was » used to handed a saying: u to read that the come - #/ u" > e - 2 STORY OF KITTY KAT. Little Norman's one great treasure is what he calls his “kitten cat” She crawled under the back yard fence one day to get away from some boys who were throwing stones at her, and Nor- man's mother let him “adopt” her and keep her for his own, and since that time her life has been a happy one. Norman's mother has taught him to be kind to all dumb animals, so his kitty is never pulled around by the tail nor held up by her legs nor squeezed until she has only breath enough left to cry out with pain. Instead of this, she is smoothed and patted and fed And given plenty of water as well as milk to drink. And when Norman wishes to play with her he has a cork with a feather stuck in it, which is tied on the end of a piece of twine, and this he drags about and swings in the air, and the kitten runs after it and jumps | up after it, and they both have fine times. Norman had had three birthdays, but when his fourth came he felt that his kitty kat ought to have one also. “She ought to have-a birthday the same as 1,” he said to his mamma the evening before the eventful day. his mamma promised that she should. The next day when Norman got up he was given a whole lot of new things and plenty of goodies. And kitty kat was not forgotten. There was a nice new collar for her and the prettiest ribbon bow you ever saw. Of course kitty kat enjoyed very much, but the goodies that Norman had received. This made him very sad. So he went to the kitchen and told cook about it. “I'll fix kitty kat all right,” said the cook, and she cut off a fresh steak that Norman took to his pet. Kitty kat ate it, you may be sure, and then they both had a long romp t sther. Norman enjoyed it all and told his mamma that it was the nicest birthday he ever had —r—— OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Juliette Driscoll: Your little story must have been lost in the mail, for it never reached The Call office. these again. s ’ £l And | she would eat none of | | Binnie. nice siice of | [Synopsis of preceding chapters—The vacht California, having retreated before a horde of savages, on shore and in canoes, on the ‘coast of New o by night to th Harry Ostend, on the shore, dete final lesson.] iven back and CHAPTER X. Hardly had the California dropped anchor when Harry Ostend called the six brave California boys and told them of his plans. Tom was too badly hurt to take part in any adventures. The other five were impatient to do some thing to distinguish themselves. “I am going to send out two boats, with muffled oar: said Mr. Ostend, “and each boat will have six men in it. Sam will command one and ‘Shorty’ will command the other. Binnie and Ned will serve as lookouts and general guides in the respective boats.” “And where are we going?” broke out Sam, impatiently. said Mr. Os- and you shall know. You will row quietly across the lagoon. Shorty’s boat will be beached about one mile south and Sam’s about one mile north of the savages’ campfires, without noise. Along these two miles of beach are scattered the war canoes of the savages. The lookouts only will land The crews will remain in the boats, ready to take the lookouts on board and to row away upon a minute’s no- tice. The lookouts will be given oil and gunpowder and fuses. They will connect the canoes by the fuses and oil them well. When all is ready the fuses will be lighted and the oil and gunpowder will do the rest.” “But,” said Binnie, “the flash when we light the fuses will startle the sav- ages and the light of the burning ca- noes will enable them to see, us and they will swim out by the hundreds af- ter us.” “Yes,” assented Harry- Ostend, “that is just what will happen. Here is where the captains of the two boats will come in. As soon as they see the flash of the fuses they will set afloat these queer little boat: They have sails. The wind will take them di- rectly toward the savages, and by the time the savages reach the beach the little boats will be at the beach with their cargoes.” “‘Cargoes? “Yes. They are loaded with dyna- mite. They are my invention. The cap- tains will light these fuses and when the lookouts are on board will row away as fast as possible. They will have time to get beyond the danger line by quick work; but there must be no bungling. Clear away the boats, Mr. Detor.” Here was an adventure calling for daring and coolness. The boys sprung to their places in the boats. Simultan- eously Sam and Shorty gave the word of command to their crews. Eight oars dipped quietly in the dark and heaving waters. Sam and Shorty held the tiller lines firmly and the boats re-entered the lagoon and began their dangerous voyage. The crews were ordered not to speak under-any cir- cumstance. They sped forward, slack- ening their speed only when they neared the farther beach. Both boats were easily beached. Binnie and Ned leaped lightly ashore. The boats were backed off and held in readiness to take the brave lads on board. The war canoes were placed about as Mr. Ostend had thought. Some few, which were apart from the others, were speedily ruined with sharp au- gers, with which holes were bored in the bottoms. The others the lookouts smeared with oil and powder. But. as Binnie and Ned went forward in opposite directions, they found that upon the largest two canoes the camp fires of the savages cast their light. So far all had gone well. But Bin- nie and Ned had now to roll along the beach in the shadows of the big ca- noes, which belonged to the great chiefs of the natives. Ned, with ready auger, had bored his last canoe. Suddenly from the darkness rose a tall, dusky figure directly in front of It was the chief who had been sea by Mr. k as the match he taken from the hulk at Ostend. Binnie was as qu savage. With ready slow leaped to his fuse before the chief could interfere. Along the fuse the fire ran until it looked like a ribbon of fire. At the same instant quick-witted Ned lighted his fuse and vlunged into the water. A seriés of flashes followed and the canoes burst into flames. Sam and horty, seeing the yelling savages rushing ~toward the beach, launched the little dynamite boats. A little later the air was rent with a series in a lagoon, | CRUISE OF THE CALIFORNIA. of heavy explosions that sounded like cannonadi The dynamite boats had gone off. | The savages, frightened by the terrific | noises and the .shocks, which had thrown them on their faces, turned back. The crews of the boats were safe. Ned was on Sam’s boat, but where was Binnie? He wa not in eith boat. ‘Where was he? Had he been killed in | the water by the dynamite boats? Was | he in the hands of the howling and infuriated savages? From both boats signal rockets sped up toward the mid- night sky—signals for help. The California, outside of the lagoon, sent skyward answering rockets. In five minnutes the California’s flash- light was working and the Openin:\X through the reef into the lagoon was | in sight and the yacht was carefully piloted through. Binnie was not dead. He was a cap- tive, and the savages at the instant the signal rockets were fired from the | boats were discussing whether they should put him to death. Binnie might have escaped had he not waited to fire his fuse. He saw this cle but he was.too brave to le the duty undone that was his. His work and Ned's was effective. Hardly ‘one of the entire proud fleet of war canoes was left in condition to float. The ruin was complete. But amid the explosions Binnie was knock- ed down by a flying piece of wood. Before he could rise the chief had him in an iron embrace. Other savages | struck him. He was the target for many blows, but he made no sound. So brave was he that at that instant | the chief decided to save his life and make him his son. There were two great chiefs in the camp. The one who was found at sea one. His name was Mah-Coh- Gaa—*“the king of many villages.” The other was Ghoor-Ghee-Tee — “the | Binnie was alive among had been taught to him by John La- tour. “I will die,” he said, “by the hand: of him who is the greatest warrior.” “Be it so,” said the witch doctor, “the great chiefs shall battle to the death, if they will, for the prize—the white boy.” The two chiefs bowed approval. They then were to duel, and at once, by the light of the fiiskering torches, at the scene of the burning war canoes and under the very guns of the California. The wily chiefs knew that the white men would not fire upon them while them and might be killed by flying bullets. D e Continued. [To be Con I_]) - WHAT SHE THOUGHT. “Oh, mamma, I'm not a bit sleepy,” Was what my little girl said o ‘When I told her it was “‘almost time” For her to “go to bed.” “And mamma, just let me sit up A little while—please do, And to-morrow night I'll go to bed Just when you want me to.” Ten minutes passed, and with a sigh She closed her sailir Slumber mland's fairest skie: She said to me the next morning, S ng, happy and bright, good time we had, ma, up so late last night.” ADDIE F. BARTLEY. P — WOULD DO WITHOUT THEIR BREAKFAST. : That the inherent and almost uni- versal love of liberty pervades all por- tions of the Western hemisphere is il- dear lustrated by an incident- Wwh !‘, curred in the city of Bogota, Uni States of Colombia. Like its States, Colombia has passed through the long and trying periods of Spanish | oppression, of revolution and of final independence, so that even the children of Spanish-American countries know what the word liberty means. In the suburbs of the capital of Co- lombia, the city of Bogota, is located The California Sending Up Signal Rockets. greatest of skull-hunters.” He had a ready 100 skulls of enemies killed in battle. He wanted to add Binnie's skull to the collection. Instantly a great quarrel broke ut between these chiefs, when Mah-Coh-Gaa claimed Binn “He all be mine,” Ghoor-Ghee-Tee said, miting his breast with his clenched fist. “Who tries to take him | from me will die by my ironwood war | club to-night.” “Die!” laughed Mah-Coh-Gaa, “he is mine, and swift as the war eagle from the storm cloud will fall my wrath on | him who opposes me.” The scene was a strange one. Close | to the water's edge the fleet of burn- ing canoes was sending up clouds of sparks and volumes of smoke, and | about the ruins were hundreds of wail- | ing and angry warriors. The light | brought into view the almost trackless forests; the ocean with its white surf beating upon the coral reef; the broad lagoon upon which the searchlight of the California was playing. “Let the boy decide,” said a hideous old witch doctor, a bent and shriveled woman, “who shall take his life. This decision, which all the savages hoarse shouts, was made Erect and proudly stood the boy and looked around fearlessly upon the mul- | titude of warriors who were waiting anxiously for his death. He knew a few words of the savage dialect, which | ENGAGE IN the Jesuit college of San Luis Gonzaga. It is devoted almost entirely to the edu- cation of young boys, and is under the direction of -Senor Aurelia Martin Ca- brera. One morning in the early part of Sep- tember last the cl embled before breakfast, and, addressing their in- struetor, courteou offered to donate their morning rolls to the cause of lib- erty. We will go without them,” said the spokesman, “‘and let those poor fellows have something to eat.” What poor fellow: structor. “Why, the Cubans! the poor Cubans. They are fighting for liberty and, it is said, they have no food—that they are starving to death. Please send them our rolls. We can get along very well without them.” —_———— asked the in- At a country fete a conjurer was per- forming the old trick of producing eggs from a pocket handkerchief, when he remarked to a boy in front, “I say, my boy, your mother can’t get eggs with- out hens, can she?” “Of course she can, “Why, how’s that? jure “She keeps ducks, amid roars of applause. —_——— The common water beetlé, we are told by entomologists, has 10,000 eyes, the dragon fly has 20,000, and some in- sects have many more. was the reply. asked the con- was the reply, A SHAM BATTLE.