The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1899, Page 31

A | David H.-Walkers LL v @ISO A BOY, A CAMERA AND A BICYCLE. {3 SUNDAY, APRIL 30, 1899 By Robble Rhodes, Ukiah, Cal. med speedil s going well with Prince I Don't Care. He had passed irough the castle hall and up high stairs to the room the two giants lay He turned aside to 1 nto the rdom where he had tricked Abraminidin and Hardfist into hurting one an- other with their swords. The two huge hands of the giants were on the floor, where they ad fallen. As Prince I Don't Car pa between the nds and noted their great > and great strength he wondered that he had ever been able to escape alive. He did not know it, but he really was in more danger at this moment than he had been at any time before since he had seen the Castle of Al . The two hands on the “As you will.” Prince I Don’t Care w fe: there and of the tree. the rope Bloodfillikin his brave ma “Now," said ter. the Prince up the tree. G % | “] will go up the tre The Desert Prince made a low bow and was gone. tired the ‘two giants to come after him. sted upon fruit that was brought the Prince had gone out, they At the other end he made a noose. » that the noose.hung ahout twelve feet from the ground. sat upon his haunches and watched what was done by He did not hollow tree, wait for he nd hungry. Finding a kin from Abra orchard in the castle ground slept until he ., Bloodfillikin keeping wat turbed him. The giants Kept within the castie. Not knowing that still hoped to have him soon in their power. When Prince I Don’t Care awoke his first labor was to get ‘a very long and very strong rope and take it to the top of a tall tree.” One end of the rope he fastened to one of the topmost limbs Then he shortened Prince T Don’t Care to the dog. “howl as you have never howled before, and when the two giants come out of the castle, point up in the tree, that they may know that I am there.” Bloodfillikin howled and the giants came running from’the castle. “Good dog,” said Abraminidin. Is that so, good dog?” For answer the dog pointed upward. so0,” said Abraminidin. * answered Hardfist. “I really believe the hound has hall we get him down?” But, when that giant “How *]'!‘1 hir 1“? he came coolly, “we have to use magic ourselves. Ho! Bloodfillikin, see if T Don't Care heard a splash over his head. At the same instant the tried to climb the tree he fell to the ground, having only one hand joar and dragged him to the you can untie the piece of the Black Robe from my sword Wwith your water ceased to drip. The mice came back. 7 to hang on with. 3 2t I Wheremths teeth. s “What have you done? ked the Prince of the wise mice. We must pull the tree down; that right thing,” said s veryavellikinapmasicr g St pe it g “There is a tank on the roof filled with the tears of little children Abraimnidin, “for the limbs are So clos _that we could not : S 2 The sword clattered to the floor and its point was raised in the whose fathe and mothers were stolen from their homes by the driv. little villain from the tree in an age. See, here is a rope. h hands struck air and pointed directly at the throat of illikin. g .., &iants and forced to work in the giants’ mines underground. When How lacky.” "t C SR What we her called the much surprised. “I Al Araaf was planning to keep this castle for his own he passed a The two giants pulled on the rope that Prince I Don’t Care had S o Hard- see that this me that no one shall use the sword or touch the magic feather, taken from the b of a Roc. through the water, nd shouted, “Who is hiit except me. Take up the sword by the point, Bloodfillikin, and and the . water then had the pov to turn to stone anything that n’t Care bravely. “Oper hold it up so that I may untie the knot with my te th.” belonged to the giants, and also to turn to stone any person who re bravely. pen the . Dripts aript arip! Would the water turn the Prince to stone was touched by the giants of this castle after the giants were the 5 : while he was working to untie the knot? . changed into stone. The giants, struggling to open the door to get o "];'r'w '»"1‘}’;‘. {l{ 2 pound- Drip! drip! drip! steadily, steadily, like the constant falling of out, have cracked the m,:’k_ The “,fi’:.,. could ,’,’m be stopped, be- ME o e 4 : cause of the magic in it. We mice, knowing something of magic, s they bothetinduntic. ot . Bloodfillikin held bravely to the point of the sword, and the as many mice do, knew that if we would throw into the tank a cord forth,” d‘,,".”\f})i Printe Prince, reaching the knot with his teeth, pulled at it. = ; made from the Black Robe, sinking it with this particular battie hel- , anded Prince I “Hurrah and hurrah!" he said after a timé, “the knot is loose!” met owned by Abraminidin, the water would follow the cord to the . for T have a dozen Prince 2 the 1s, which hands on the door out own nd the upon drop AT SALIFO HIVEIRS ce e idel el my CeLO0 2 Q900060 & Geos cranium full of developer, hypo, fixing, etc. One day an old lady was among the visito when I was iring” my knowledge and she told me to “shut up, id I told he Then I left. with a maternal she needed “fixing."” My mother went with me hold upon my to be sure I went in the right ¢ ve We went under full sail to the wood- nouse, where I had to “heave to” while she procured the one sail we lacked— the spanker. In about half an hour— she sent,me upstairs to bed at a spank- ing gait and a promise of no supper. I now saw that my folks did not appre- » knowledge and 1 r v in about a week and stay quite a while—till I got hungry, any Y. In the night it seemed as if some kind of an animal in my stomach clawed me with its toenail and my head and knees flew together. 1 did not have anything particular to look at down at my kne but it was a very good position in which lved to run to meditate Shortly the animal straightened out, 1 foliowed suit, and my head went through the headboard. Then I doubled up again and my left foot landed in m smach, and I nev fully realized till then people’s stals were placed so far away from proboscls. Then lghowled. Soon all the family rushed into my room, and when my father gently in- quired “what was the matter,” —and gently yanked me out of bed and shook me sixteen ways at o=ce, I replied that ter The mouse cramps. s id I will take your assistance “What do you mean by that?" “I will give you a castle of your own and servants and carriages drawn by the nicest e courtier, may 1 help ) and will pay little ponies——" whistled and a throng of mice answered to the call. e e S m i e LY e T o ke T the supper I did not eat gave me the I was hastily thrown into bed and covered up with about a ton and a half of blankets. Then I had to drink about ten thousand million gallons (my imagination) each of cinnamon, sage and nutmeg tea, and mustard plasters that were hot enough to burn a hole through a two-inch minute were applied. About a week after this Mr. Lens, board in half a one of the leading photographers in a near-by town, advertised for a boy to help him in the gallery and to learn photography. When I arrived at Mr. I secured the position. Lens' next u to get fre you well for it.” ger. know. Farewell! With that the “One” thing more; let me be an honored guest and feast with you when you have married the miller's pretty daughter.” and see if the tanls . “That you shall do—you and all your brethren as well.” “Quickly, then; give me the piece of the Black Robe and T will Spinning Spider to help you to get free, and it is well for you that I came in just as weaving the thr 1 did Bloodfillikin_obeyed of moving, ow the plece the d spider, times on the tree. our task,’ hole in_the door you refuse you magic in the Bla oak door was! ha St the and another and “C*a]l the Spinning Spider, for we have work for him to do.” er d these n A great, fat spider darted from his hole in the wall; the mice worked fa 5 die unless he could unraveled the piece of the Black Robe, thread by thread, and the 'he one drop of water spider the threads as they fell and wove them into one stout so hard. chilled him. . When_all the cord. The ched the mice and the spider with interest, but to the flo Prince well knew, the without any and u im. He would A mouse cne end of the cord in his mouth and tied it around )W you may wou scome stone and an old h Abraminidin had worn when he went out In a t would dispose of the to battle 1 men. Then a score of mice took hold of . who would never be the ¢ pulled it after them they scampered course that lec - roof of the castle, close to the east tower Ay ince I Don't Care bined \ was enough to draw the helmet aft i morning he first tried to get my knowl- edge photography into L For half an hour I expounded, compounded and confounded. He d 1 seemed to know something about jt, but I needed He then brought out a and showed me how to manipulate it. Then he said he would load the plate holders and went into the dark room and began to fumble around and 1 n to get anxious to know what s loading them with. He soon appeared, put the plate holders in the camera and told me to take ut in ecstasies. I was en- But a cloud soon came ove I thought of the loaded nd I resolved to s what »d with. 1 took one of f the camera, car thusiastic. my happine plate holder they were lo: the holders out « removed the slide and looked in. T wasn’'t anything but an inoffen: looking piece of glass, but I e i all the holders to see if they wer ed alike. Then I happened to think that maybe this glass was the plate to take the picture on, and 1 decided to take HAT a lot of b children! The is longer every their sharpn cordingly. The rul lish the Roll of Honor ev week, and only those who answer the puzzles without mistake can be named in that roll. But those who answer all except one correctly will also b: named, which is fair because it true that some of the puzzles may have two reasonable answers. What child is there who can- not find two answer to anything? There is no such child in all California. @PROVIVOVO VOOV ROV B ght and jolly is to pub- 34 % ROLL OF HONOR. 3 o 2 BITA CARTER, # 8 Grass Valley: Raymond & & de Sanno, Vallejo; Ha- ped zel Eby, 038 Center & & street, Oakland; Mig- @ © non de Sanno, Vallejo; Grace @ & Lloyd, 2507 Sutter street, San & Francisco;Herbert Merrill, 405 & @ East Eleventh strect, b4 & land; Emily Housto; k4 @. ver street, an_rranc Ed H. Ferguson, Clovis, 2 n, Gra ne, 2132 Stockton Francisco: Ruth Philip Zipf, cille Wilhe! Carrie Ke street, San Heans, Berkeley; Grass Valley; Agnes White- man, Grass Valley: Louise Longley, 60%: Pacific avenue. Santa Cruz; Hazel Anderfuren, Nicasio, Cal.: Adelaide Simon- ton, 62 Capitol street, Vallejo. ® @oLiBInE0S Gt GOttt We have a new set of puzzles morning, the lakes and rivers of Cali- fornia. We h ‘e the Roll of Honor and the gecond place list. That there may be no disappointment wien you send in a list of correct answers to the puzzles and then fail to see credit given to you on the succeeding Sunday morning the following explanation is made: The ground and would not drop any more. How you will get away from the hands of the giants we do not We will come back again.” cloth if Prince T Don't Care would promise to give him als go to the pine tree you wish. Bloodfilliki the Black Robe in s If he shall begged v hard te ried. The ha go to the o o that 11 always a Prince of the Des The squirrel gnaw Had it been mac Then it 3 v a Prince who had been turned into a squirrel by a magician, time he had a hole gnawed around the two huge hands of the giant, although he wore out his teeth working s soon as this was done the hands were suddenly hurled r with great force and were shattered into a thousand and after cond of *ime the squ “Let me help you to fight the giant : *answered Prince I Don't Care alive, and I will not permit any one to share the glory ng the land of their hatefyl presence. SOOGS0 6 GOHOMDSRIDIEDETHHIDIVENS T & HEOOGONCDEG0S mice ran away, nor could the Prince said the Prince, “I don't care. Bloodfillikin, go up Bring the cord to me when the last drop has run from the tank, that I may get the store the piece of the Black Robe to me ads together.” the mice toid about is yet empty. 5 The Spinning Spider agreed to castle where there would be many flies—a promise which was easy to get, for Pr I Don't Care had 1 castles that he had taken from giants “You shall have this castle, and that will save yYou the trouble aid Prince 1 Don't Care. Robe is woven and the spider og wonder what the Prince will think of nex of the Black said the Prince, “since the mice have run away, that stands by the castle gate and knock three squirrel will come out and will ask you what will go with you and will car mouth. Tell the squirrel that he will not come, his pider went out ) be Prince remembered and were astle without any reward d the Prince to the squirrel, the hands will fall and let be a squirrel. - awed and gnawed. How and g thic was ver But the squirrel, a s and the Prince was free. touch the Black Rob *] Wa “l am a picture of a house. I put in the plate holder, pulled out the slide and put it in my pocket, opened the shutter, forgoteto close it, and then packed the camera around for about an hour look- ing for something to take. Then I thought of the slide and reached into my pocket to get it; it wasn't there. I concluded it would not do to leave the plate in the holder without a siide, so I took it out, held it up to the m to if there was any picture on it, wrapped it up in my handkerchief and put it in my pocket. In about three hours I succeeded in disposing of all the plates and returned to Mr. Lens’. “How did you get along?” ed. “Did you fog any of the plates? “Well,” I replied, "I don’t know. It was awful foggy as I came back, and I lost one of the slides, so T put the plate in my pocket. I tried to keep all the fog wiped off with my handker- chief, but I expect some of it got on the plate, but I did the best T could.” Then there was ‘‘wailing.” started me out again and I saw some boys pole vaulting. 1 opened the You are safe from that dan- weave ) a sunny ¢ this piece of to come ¥ show him the piece of be, but be sure that he does not touch it.” The dog and the They found the squirrdl, who allowed to touch the cloth that the dog car- of the “will be to g me go free 3 Do my bidding and the < Robe will turn you back to your pld condition of »f flint it could not have been very said Prince I Don't Care. a Prince once more, a match for persuade by the and fastened stoutly to the (ree. coolly sat on the topmos 1 at the into the thera, and both of our hand “1 have a way,” The. gian iiled and th for Abraminidin to reach Prince I hard that “Ho, ho!” laughea the Prince. plan, old, blunderhe: Abrarainidin let Prince I IYon’t to an upright po Hardfist a’hout hi was around his ne din succeedod in Abraminidin cut t who-was tion. pulling castle, while Prince I Don't GEGOGICT S G e GEOHT just as one of them started up and it when he reached tae height of his jump. The resulting picture looked as if the boy had climbed the pole in jerks about a foot long till he reached the top, kicked up his heels and then went up to smoke. I remained with Mr. Lens three months, and he said it was the busiest three months he ever had. At the end of that time, my parents having made a ‘“raise,” decided to send me to school in town. 1 bought a bicycle to ride to school for exercise. I-got it. In about a month I bought a camera and took pictures of my schoolmates, whereby I might remember them when far away. On my way home as I came around a turn, carrying my camera in my hand, the bicycle fork broke and I dismounted over the handlebar I haa not been in the habit of dismounting that way, but I wanted to catch the front wheel before it was too far away In my haste to catch the wheel I threw the camera on the ground harder than was necessary and scattered it all over the road. ter closed With Our Young Puzzlers and Co;responder)tS, Boys' and Girls' page goes into the hands of the “make-up man” on Wednesday morning and is then ready to be printed. From this it naturally follows that if your answers are not in The Call office Tuesday they will not be credited on the ensuing Sunday, but must be held over another week. Is that fully understond? When our page is once “made up” it cannot »he re- opened for cnything. Therefore get the answers in by Tuesday if it is possible. But if the mails are delayed or you do not think out the answers in time for the succeeding Sunday you will not be forgotten nor neglected. You will be credited the next week. Send the an- swers even if they are late. Here are the answers to the puzzles published last Sunday morning: Ventura, Stock- ton, Indcpendence, Riverside, Lakeport, Del Monte. Those who guessed all but one of the puzzles: Paul Turner, Santa Rosa; Gladys Warren, Vallejo; Annie Fitzger- ald, Gilroy: Isabel Wilkie, San Francis- co; Eleanor Pierce, 1119 Treat avenue, “Why, child, you must be colicky, to ggle thus and wail!’” Said pa, while every time he pinched the mousey’s tail! —From Harper's Bazar. ‘ rocked he San Francisco: Irene Wichman, 1001 Santa Clara avenue, Alameda; Ro ald, 1213 Haight t. San Miilie Sablick, 1 illmore s Shorey. 18 Heitmann, Jennie C ect, & Haley, woilld be ylardfi of the The tree, rel It went up So suddenly that the rope caught neck and carried him off his feet He was dangling in the air. the he rope and let his dead brother down. tried once more to dislodge Prince I 1Don’t Care. of Hardfist the giant found that he ccwild do little. gan to plan to get rid of Abraminidin, who w They pulled and pulled and pulled, but they could not bend the tree low enough to get at the Prince, who t branch and laughed jokes that the Pri them. was making about “If we only had aid Abraminidin. a little nd then I ne y task Pull down n e will be able to throw 1ope ¢ my shoulde My weight will 08 Car” hen bring the tree low enough for you to reach the Prince.” LBES HdiTrel pis looked to. Abraminidin to be such a good plan that he at W a on proceeded to put it into execution. The rope was placed over If the shéulders of Hardfist Puw'l, Abraminidin,” e shouted low, but not low erough se hent vi Don’t “You will have to think out a new 1 s anger, to try rt of the load to seize shot back repes in b wsed of The noose When Abramini- again Hardfist was dead Then Deprived of the aid He went into the scrambled to the ground and be- tree down a very wicked giant. D. H. W. (To be Continued.) SR TN OO OO T Q@ SR a Y ) slid. along on my about ten feew and made a mixture out «f my kneecar of my trousers. he wheel so I turned over on my about a rod, but I w too dirty and T tur a complete somersault. But.the wheel had too much headstart axd I made no further orts to catch it, but slid along in a sitting posture at file moderate gait of about a mile a minwte, meanwhile leav ing pleces of my trousers from the placy where a lazy. man wears them out first. I firs still head and slid getting my head gained ¥ I saw that if 1 kept this rate of speed much longer I would not have anything left to sit down on but the end of my kbone. In about half a second I hit a fence and suddenly stopped—so suddenly that I felt as if I had telescoped and turned wrong side out. After “pulling’”’ myself to- gether I went back and hunted up the a and bicycle, ted down the road singing “Home, Sweet Home,” with considerable fervor. T did not at- tempt to take any more pictus pieces of my Berka, Elma Lorin: Clinton Gilroy: Anna_ Roberts. 932 Do- set, San Francisco; Edna Ralph, Broadway, 1Lt valiéy have been very much plez Boys and Girls' page. 1 have tried to the puzzles in The JONNET TO THE OCEAN 8y CHAS H.MARKS,UR. SAN FRANCISCO ROM mortal eyes thy wrestling waters hide 2 Wrecks, that through ages 'neath thy waves have lain; And while thy billows burst and form again Winged 'inspiration rides the coming tide Thou restless Ocean. rolling far and wide, That sendeth fanc Thy deafn’ing blasts That to the s through my fevered brain, ild refrain yrest winds has long replied. As dreaming thus I linger on thy qp.nvi Thou makest me to think of man’s small part In this great universe that ‘round us lies 4 Thy wondrous waste. when'calmer, I havc scanned And wondered that thou holdest in thy heart The darkest mysteries beneath the skies. . Oakland: Grace Feather- ; Mae Wescott, Chiles, 1 Tracy, Cal.; Otto F street, ‘San Franc 5 Lincoln, Cal.; Henry A. yJussey, Vallejo; Amy Sanborn, Lincoln. ('al.; Jeamette Wolff, Hueneme. Cal WWarie Lindgren, 5 Cahill street. Josy Ninth avenue Greenwich Hazel Allen, Gladys Coffin, Dutch Flat; Hazel Mont- govnery, 1219 Golden Gate avenue, San Francisco: Ira B. Hodgkins, 3103 " Clay strat, San isco; Allie Akin, 306: Twenty-fourth s .\ San Francisco; Rurscil P, Fitzgareld. Vallejo; Dora iconhard, San Francise™: Charles Levin- Sen, 8 Cumberland street, San Frangis- co; May Riley, 225 Plerce street, San Call, but have not yet succeeded. I am % years old and go to the Valléjo public chool. 1 would be y pleased if you would publish my letter. rs truly Vallejo, Cal. DORA M. ADE the first letter I 1 is the cham- Dear Editor—This is aver wrote. I think The plon_paper in the world. I love to see. what's on the Boys' and Girls' page. Please, Mr. Editor. put this in next Sun- I am 11 years old. 1 go to the Martie Oberg is my chum. v, hoping to see this in next Sun- paper. Yours, ROBERT SCHMIDT. 478 Twenty-second stréet, Oakland, Cal.