The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 16, 1898, Page 31

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1898. > 31 MOVING OF motionless until his wonderment got TRACED BY A THE MISTER 3§ 0t shafiy sald s sl and siveot FAITHFUL DOG San .rancisco, especially as the "By and by the car stops, as all cars gglar 611;}};;:5_ lg\‘r‘_e:slnaLg:eAéléeg?e. RO L O e e Eive and Hos tn & nice houss, § and Kittie has her pony and breakable, like pictures and looking destination must stop; and here Little glasses, had been carefully placed at Mister was once more placed in posses- the bottom of great wagons, and a cook gion of his valise and its assorted treas- B D stove had been laid upon the doll car- ures from the forsaken home. Enter every day. One day’'she was in the riage of his big sister. So Little Mister now jinto his new residence The King, &arden, when a Chinese woman came picked up everything that he could find High Caliph, Great Mogul, He-Who- along. The woman was crying and around the yard and filled an old valise Must-Be-Obeyed—otherwise Little Mis- Kittie, who is very kind hearted, asked with the odds and ends. Then he Was. ter, ruler uncommon and indisputable. her why she cried. ready, and cried because the “choo- In the middie of his new realm he is “Little Ah Jim, my boy, has been choo train” was not also ready to take left standing alone. stolen by a bad Chinaman and they him away from his native heath. There are other rooms for him to de- will take him away to China and I will No one could carry his valise exeeDt velop the treasures of his valise in, but not see him any more.” . one of his sisters, “for,” he said, “I'se drefful 'tickler 'bout it, mamma.” Several small boys snickered as they saw what he had placed in his valise, but no one disputed his right to be con- sidered a_mover. on equa. terms with his “grown up folks.” The valise crossed to San Francisco exactly as he had packed it. ‘Mustn’t get overboard,” said Little Mister, as he looked over the side of the ferry boat. ‘“No—o—o, for I might get my feet wet, eouldn’t I, mamma?” Just then the whistle on the boat was blown, and it sounded to Little Mister like a roaring lion, and he hid his face in his mother's lap. The whistle roared at Little Mister only once, and soon one mischievous eye peeked out and then another. Then a sweet little voice pony cart, and with her little brother Frankie she plays happily g rrow over the loss ly, “for you have not the faintest idea id bravely: “Ise not afraid, am I, WRECK OF THE D T O ety By ANEY e of its appearance, and so have many mamma? 3 / NANCY BELL ycreal black, a cloud shut in over us BOX OF GOLD (imes passed it over, although owning Such wonderful cable and electrie and midnight darkness fell at once, S S the key to unlock it. Yet I respect cars at the foot of Market street. HILE Uncle B bin m this cloud came the most awful BY ALMA S. BEMENDERFER, you for havini begulil :ihe sv(’(\il'ch. “Zoom, zoom, dat }is what cars say, rocked in one of flercest lightning and the most terrific peals of o - AR B i i Heretofore you have only dreamed.” isn’t it, mamma?” he remarked. He gales that ever blew over the thunder of which I have ever had any R L o ™ the “Then there is hope for me? 1 may was gafely in a car, but the vehicle high Sier aned con- knowledge. Suich “““”{3 he monntaina, ¥4 1t? Will you show it2” started rather.suddenly and Little Mis- tentedly “A bolt of lightning struck our main north loomed UD e meis rugged . “Noi that is impossible. But I ean ter fell His conselence caused him to near the open topmast and ran along it down into the wLich se me: e ety helD you by showing how others arc remark that “I didn't mean to throw = 1 us yo hold. We were not left long to gu. Ld(‘l‘ulthfle:'\:lfip\ e e ma i the doing. They are working no harder the car over, did I mammaz> o == S —- g “hoone what damage it had done. A puff of L05S€d up, leds PO ASCa% ° than you, but by rules.” Among the satchels an undles the through t an awful mmos fams Ereilos up from the hold Senmeral turn 1011 left ““"{‘_‘_’d"“‘{' 3 ld“l‘;"E By this time Ben was very much valise of Little Mister was lost to view. HOLD THE FLAG HORIZONTALLY AND SEE SEVEN HEROES + storm and tidal wave in the and we knew that our powder-laden Of the cabins on the hillside lived Ben inierested. He wanted to learn at Little Mister made search but could tr on fire. Wherever the fire Otls, Who was noted for belng obe Of once. The giant did mot walk fast not find it. Two rosy lips were pouted. none could have seemed quite so gp- Kittle knew 2 Chinese gardener and was the schooner 1d be only a few seconds be- the laziest boys in town. e enough. At last they came to a tun- Two bricht eyes took ~on a look of pror 20 Mun SRh e oo His she told the woman to step Into thef e ook the flames might soread to the LIME of an indolent, dreamy @ISPO; nel. and going through it came to a mingled seriousness and fun. One little pant'nd nis other slaves of various garden. Hardly had the woman en- Matanzas er, which w barrels. sition he often forgot the practical large cave. Here were many people. voice said with much emphasis, “ISe gucg have gone away and he is free to tered when she threw a shawl over ed to ca ve had moved rapidly before our Meaning of lite. Besldes reading books follow his own royal will to its sweet Frankie's head and ran off with him. speed was doubled now. . We had the 9f & fanciful turn he was ‘a drm 5 N conclusion. When his retinue return She turned a corner, entered a carriage r men in the crew & ver. They the valise is open. Upon the “best car- that was waiting there and rode rapid- liever in fortune telle signs and pet” are mud pies, mud cakes and mud ly away before Kittie had recovered Yet of one thing he nd jumg d in, dan Che lifeboat afloat in a jiffy a kindred theories. Dan was not waiting to get water or provisions. A SRR TR T s Al vsptowll wich - our © thought was B e e B e S i balls in fragments. Some rest inno- Mer presence of mind. Everything had day out. € ere ooner 5 3 e =come C = - lac y < - ‘South American coast, Poseible “tirverOur. " osr ROL by attentivencss or hard Work. S hes, molatenan. WD fof. the ctaston, hasdly ThOUGHE 10 Sovsany ustil Fravkle - vinds all the way. I creaked with the weirht we put on 10 this end he fell into a certain line are In sticky lumps everywhere. ' was out of the garden. Then her cries ’ cabin when I heard them. I had the steering goar and wag Of reasoning and when a fortune tel- et Gl S R i S bl n deck ng madly about. free to look back. I do not suppose ler came to the camp Ben at once tle voice in all the innocence and loving Kittie’s papa soon heard over the - e 1 could get up to sce what :that any of you youngsters ever had a visited her siyly, Although a bellever trust of childhood. telephone what had happened, and he 8 el bl In the art he would not brave the ridi- What must come next in such sto- came home in haste, pale and excited. s coming chance to see had been W up at sea. X 4 are anxious to Cule of his friends. ries? Little Mister, wearied by the la- His first move was to call for his saddle bor and care of packing and moving hgrse; his next to unloose his biood- you T Makes you stare and grin at him And his quaint, old fashioned airs And the garments that he wears. it that we sho vas many schooner. uld uation now, m 5 and 1 e such an experience under similar X th\"lng him a s(fiul a}ftcr studying his 1 until ditions hand some minutes she said: and unpacking of his treasures, like hound. Then he drove away A the th W } 1;\1‘ my Above the roar of the still unquiet _ Thisis lihflhalml .‘vr 2 pen n nlnssess& many ar;wmer who is a slave to own- bloodhound following him. . v npanion hatch I was » loud report sounded. A ing remarkable traits of character an ing things, finds that he is weary. Per- Where the carriage had been lost to powder or more had gone off. 0f a liberty-loving nature. He has hagps hisgzharp little eyes sae that some sight Kittle's papa saw something on explosion e made a hole never taken either time or o casion to X 3 one does not think that he has im- the ground. It was a toy that Frankie ongh water rushed in lay the foundation for a useful life, Little Mister proved the appearance of that house- had been playing with and which the the otl.er barrels but po. es the key to a vast treas- Pleasantface, hold fetish, the best carpet. At any Chinese woman had thrown from the liate part of the ure bo: Quite at home in rate a little voice says as softly as any gearriage. The hound saw the toy and at disaster courd not Where is it?” asked Ben, excitedly. v o coolng bird while little hands are held sniffied at it. 'The next instant he be long delayed. Now it seemed that _ “It is one of the treasure boxes made bl up appealingly, “Wok me, mamma.” barked and ran down the street in the all the noise of half a dozen battles by the giant who molded the moun- Nothing in the “Hush, my babe,” sings a loving direction of a county road. came all at once. cchooner e tains and he will unlock one of the world to do voice to the crooning song that has Then and there was a hot chase. An upon the top « enormous wave. boxes hen found. But to stand ang soothed so many generations of little hour brought into sight the carriage ‘From her shot t a volume of much elated. To be so grin at you people on their way to Dreamland. that had carried Frankie awi 1 fl which r gifted at once made him look with quiet Wh Ry Closer and closer draw the eyelids to- was drawn by two horses, but t s ruck o > The 'y disdain on the tollers in the mines and hile his mirth - gether and now the soft and regular been overdriven and Frankie's father vess s me it would awn with t even men who had once excited envy comipelling whim breathing tell that Little Mister has caught up with them. The Chinese b s begun to whisper to the fanciful little woman had the carriage stopped and, looked insignificant. After all what v was there in Treborville? A lot of without food or drinking shacks, jumbled together in a gulc haps I will tell >u to-morrow night a couple of quartz mills, even the re: how we got out of that scrape: but I voir in the distance looked small and have talked lo enough to-night.” ludicrous. We did not coax Ben to go on, know- Ben laughe ing that it was us E longer. No, b 25 tains and look for the treasure box. THE FUN MAKERS. Bidding his parents good-by, with a lizht supply of food and a pick and d his mamma shovel he set out toward the moun- ther day and tains. Here, tramping through under- dow he brush, scaling steep banks, standing at N e sk upen narrow jets of rock “They were wling to the very edge of preci- 0od up to look pices searching for the mystic box or people who, like himself, now inhabit leaping out, ran away. slumberland, and what they learn from Frankie was in the carrlage alone, him is that—"Ise moved.” unharmed, but very much frightened. What they say about this must please The bloodhound caught the Chinese wo- Little Mister, for he smiles sweetly in man and held her until Frankie's father his sleep, his little pink hands held came up. She said that she had been closely together as if they were holding ordered to steal the little boy by some tightly the treasures of his “v'lise.” highbinders, who had threatened to kill her if she refused to obey them. This e roved to be true. The highbinders MELHE S QUERE IDEA Wanted to make Frankie's papa pay money to have his boy r«aturnsd_d h‘Rut lic school has quite an idea of U0 they failed. Hearing what had hap- as was evidenced by her remis o iY: pened they ran away and have never teacher. The class had been reading Deen seen since. about the King’s family. The teacher, S wishing to inculcate the correct idea of Mamma (at the breakfast table)— et eteg g =R oR=R=F-3-F-3-F-3-3-F.3-3-3-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-3-F -3 BOSTON’S QUEER ANIMALS an; ady b sehoone He would stay no would go to the moun- Little Willie accompan on shopping tour the seeing a bear .and seal in a v asked if they were alive. not.” replied his m shot and stuffed ar = = . — A little girl who attends a Maine pub- I raised my ail, men, and get out long boat and try to d to the waves, med to break the spell stonishing ‘ ‘Get up a sta the swee bring up h My voice s Mister Pleasantface can tell Wriere the Happydimples dwell— Those queer wunks that wink at you From a rounded cheek or two— For be captured some, 1 know, And his grins, the pictures show, Snared them so securely they Simply could not break awayl . HE following compositions were recently printed as samples of the work of Boston school children: }—_—/ = T?ere are many kinds of monkyfbeslddes those at live on hand organs; some are found ,in Asia | THE MONKY. | 41d some in Africa. Once a man was in the woods ~—______ and he threw a little stone at the monkys and they threw back large ripe sweet cocoa nuts, and this teaches us a great moral lesson. We should always behave like the monky. I sawamonky at a circus and it pulled a lady’s bonnet off and tore it all to rags and forward the port 1d soon had a h the help of eaman. It seemed at all, al- B i tied the strings around its neck and grined, not so long C.E. G. With a groan Ben noticed they were mad with you, isn’t I, mamma?" all intently engaged in some work. “'0o, oo, big—big—big—hills,” said ““Fhis is the proper way to begin to Little Mister a few minutes later, as search—by a method. Select some the cable car in which he was riding Bares are of many sighses and all big. The chief kinds are the grizzly bare, which is black; the sin- THE BARE. hat she t wall of - work; do the very best you can.” appeared to be trying to stand upon nermon bare which is good and gentle; the white 1 2 p: Uttering a cry of anger Ben fled end, and he was treated to a slide along bare which bleaches its skin to hide in the snow and PUDDING once said to a cake, through the tunnel out of the moun- the smooth seat toward the rear door makes a rug, and the black bare which is common and is careful of its 2 7 tain, hearing the riant in close pur- and the conductor—the wonderful man cubs. Bares fight bees for honey, which is mean because the hees are « Pray tell me how long did you bake? suit, and was no sooner outside than Who had a bell to play with and who little. Once a bare found some currant jelly sitting on a garden bench hastily faste d 2 2 out bounded the ~iznt. Ben was/ will- Was authorized to shout “all aboard,” to dry and he ate it, and the lady hadn't any more, which was to the wheel I notice to chew most folks don’t like you ing to take desperate risks to get away, and who had on a coat that fairly greedy. Bares are pigs. 1. C. G ‘h',‘“}\r‘ ESL il And ] think et 2 > 2 and so he ran out to the edge of a gorge H\'lln‘l:wd l\\'!]tbfl:;h!{xly brassr bv.]\tt%nsd, a “ 1at a wave that wa t’s S and jumped. Then the giant called all Teal hero to Little Mister, wt looked at ' 1 about tidal waves than L think 1t's because you're a fake. na[ujre lpo witness and at once there the bell ringing man with great satis- T The elifant is the biggest of all beasts put to- at that time, ! y sounded a song of disapproval, and the ::l‘xg‘th;“'ré‘«?fil tried to get a smile from \"'E Erirayr Sether and has two tusks, one tail and one trunk, e caid = < = breeze swayed a tr » so far forward that person. | sometimes called the ellfant’s hand, WO eyes. The cake said; “4’'m as light as a feather, R T L e Up hill and down hill. By and by | ___| His feet are large roasted and good :?)ngmt,‘ but the “Nature is against you!"” shouted the the conductor, who had been calling out skin is very thick. He shakes dust on it like a pepper caster. Once a COURQOO GOV OO PN O IU RO R fififififififififi(fi)}fififififififififififififl‘fifiqfiflfifi /hi 7 r . While you are as tough as old leather ; giant, looking down. e names of tho strects with regular- {aylor stuck a neele Into an elifant, and years after the ellfant soaked BoodaTiant met aih Why, really, to chew, they have to take you, and ald some Dreiy mean thinga: The (he Way o the Weatern Aadition. said Piwhouie fOF b S0 Fieson U SHSRy Rt Wl beinappr ie Had I not hastily closed the 12 »» the ®re: g n_a particularly stern voice, “HIDE!"” e p p 5 = 4 SCaus | giant laughed and the®&ree swayed so = ¥ = hatches as 1 leaped on deck the Because I'm so easy to sever! Ben came near falling off. At this he W here, Showid Tittle Mister hide, he iy i v o o 106 0 20 106 06 06 30 206 06 06 106 206 20 00 0¥ 10 30 106 106 0K 20 6 10 00 o o Nt P 4 - called for mercy. : 5 thi > got over the first wa vithout g ing!” wpp Simply calling out the name of Hyde scent, said: “Now, children, if Yo A e Alrettty toline “Are those la- exploring caves and working with pi v 1‘:1_90 s inel Rsuemed I o {g}e's}{?:gcand Queen had a son, what GefixsllevfayscgfifgfeSzuseaxiou;g?a?mf" s ndow allve?” he in- and shovel h A hie S Dicly Sweorks ; What was the matter with hiding would he be?” “The jack,” was the mamma. I've got the d ' it, ow allve? he in- and shovel he met with alarming ad- Just then Ben awoke.. He still lay ostrich fashion, concealing only his ick response. leg of the tabl th i og tied to the Prrp D S is the reply. ventures, ofitimes nearly losing his on the mountain. The sunlight glinted head in mamma’s dresss . Tae liths 39° s e with it. Dis tomake outs Wa alicw O b LTS 22 Mj} last, weary and disheartened, h n;r?ugh v.h; tlm)§'pz ?flsr i Motk teets Riked nevouslyy Xevaaling it v ; 1 : a5 el ened, he of terror, believing in dreams, he re- consclousness of the owner of them CASABIANCA AND THE G ULLS. under the water they shot d stuffed, too?” queried was about to give up. One night he turned to Treborville. His friends that perhaps the conductor might think » p the little fellow dreamed he was digging on the moun- were supprised at the change, for from that he had not fully obeyed the com- tingale lost his hold . tain side. = The glant suddenly ap- an indolent, careless lad he has become mand to “hide.” Two little hands, evi- HE boy stood on the Piedmont deck— Not bread, nor cake would tempt th Father—Look h Tommy, what do peared and asked him what he was one of the most industrious; and last dently acting upon the same prompt- The deck was strewn with bread. birds— ” you think of the new baby brother the searching for. summer he found a deposit of gold in ing, cuddled themselves snugly to- In fact his lunch wes made a wreck Brave wanderers on the breese— doctor has just brought? Tommj For ane of the treasure boxes, but, a hole that has made him rich. The gether and were as still as little mice His ;;u;fbs‘,,g 5,‘,‘“1),“ ;Bf]?yfirew Ng,'r"&"lfl they stoop for coaxing words, s schooner Why, he’s got no hair! Oh! and. he's although I have braved a hundred hole was just the shape of a box and asfeep in the hay in a barn nest. One But ail fell on the water biub: * Bt Sy Jard (o ploase. 1 . the wat got no teeth! You've been took in, dangers, I have not found it.” so Ben still believes in dreams—but Little Mister made his whole person as ADQ Sheilly utierea pier o aer eve We on the deck had no time for con- father; he's brought you an old 'un! “No wonder,” replied the giant slow- works. small as ever he could and then lay 2 ¥, mutterod: ple, ploy PN % / o 3 i, Sk , : ‘ ‘);’/M(WM A ) Lt TR o = . i) . 7 ;/‘ S 7 Ny ; 5> ) ; b ~ (7 Lo W (IR L ‘ it - L A GENERAL MIX-UP, GROWING OUT OF THE ATTEMPT OF THE BUMPKINS TO_-SHOW THE FILIP/NOS WHAT & TUG-Of-WAR IS LIKE. USING SOME BIG SNAKES TO FORM A ROPE FOR A LQNG PULL AND A PULL ALTOGETHER. 3 . > i . R e “ w A Ra