The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 14, 1899, Page 31

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1899 \:;z.‘“\/ “Dear Prince,” she said, coaxingly and deceitfully,, in her so voice, “I fear that I have made a mistake. Let me be your friend. “Madam,” said the Prince, "1 have a duty to perform.” “And what is your duty “I promised to rid the land of my Kin_ of the cruel giants. You came and have made me a p oner. Your friendship would be shown better by having these chains taken from my hands and feet. Unless you give me freedom the ship wiill go on to—" “To what?” interrupted Atoll. “To certain wreck. Atoll, I know the history of my people. I know that you have brought many troubles upon my father's king- dom.- You are completely in my power, while I am still a prisoner. We are nearing a sea where the reefs of jagged rock will tear this ftest Prince T Don’t Care en- astle. He searched giant Abramini- dungeon after n. At last he >t in Which upon which ¢ w tand- Striking these one nother with his good the Prince knew by low sound that they empty except one. LS D L P it ship into fragments. You and your crew will be miserably drowned. Abrataraal There will be an end to your magic with you.” that I should __Atoll's lips curled. “You think that I am afraid. Go on to wreck, bed for one hun- since you will perish with us. When the ship goes down your chains s.” Here was a will drag you below the waves. What, then, will become of your ‘Who are you who promise to Kill all the giants? ; rangely?” the % = ”ILI x]s lf;Ju said the Prince, “that the chains will drag me down. There was “It is well,” said the Prince, as he started to walk to the only his enemy long before the meeting in the Castle of Al Kabo. = 0( o (.mj". Y A5 v to his question. dungeon that he had not et visited. e e s SEEouEnt od T RanmiERaned o0 eIy erch e st of Sipllito set e ERinos high \l“l“;\_‘v‘v‘\‘_ .x‘;]"‘i l‘nnl\md _ Hardly had he turned to go when the lady threw her arms : lder and carried him to the seashore and there found a shiD until the black waves loomed far above Rtomed craft. Obail o i Tl earmen Ked his neck from behind and clutched his throat with all her st red by black dwarfs, old, wrinkled and ugly. The dwarfs set up B Esla ks i deblate e BicaT clonhs that e e was & litthe whial The little woman seemed to have the strength of many men. The 2 loud shout the Prince was put upon the deck of their vessel. ag black as ink the lightning flashed and the boom of heavy thunder hatred oo e old lady, Frince struggled. but could not push her hands away. . their Queen, came and the vessel put to sea. Prince I jarred the sea. Then there wa awful Atoll, too proud Focried ptas in e vl ninidin, oh, Abraminidin,” shrieked a shrill voice, “ . peeping slyly from his nearly closed eyelids, saw that 1o yield, standing proudiy erect d scornfully r ship struck : oy AR from your dungeon at once. I have the Prince a prisoner. Come if you had no s and that she was drawn by something in the on the rocks. Its many s were opened and the roaring waters 1 w I will be free once more, Would win your battle with him which was fastened a cable woven of the long hair of ryshed in. The sides of the ship were burst asund he crew were I P Fitell you The giant heard and acted quickly. He threw open the dungeon of little children. e s black hair, and brown and gcattered amid the waves. Some sank at once. Some tried to save 2 . door and ran to the assis > of the little woman. e u nd braids with faded ribbons upon them; some of themselves by swimming, but in vain. With parting shrieks they dis S he said, “at last we will win.” the strands of the cable were made of the hair of little Indian boys appeared from view. 2 Ak The Prince knew the hi 68 his father and kney l ‘Ivlv:. girls, who had once played on the prairies and the great moun- Atoll did not wait for the ship to founder. While the keel hilt of the Atoll was a mighty Queen of once, but that she 0% the Prince looked he saw something crawling or the deck, It trembled with the shock of running upon the rocks, she leaped boldly s two pieces. Forth stepped wak the Eohnine SUiiee Mo B L fons it dh nes ihe wond and n_nt:_\_tho waves, her arms folded, a smile on her lips. She sank, stiil ! he Prince had never seen any DAl takor thisichanie o sall abtoad: sx;\‘(;\n;'i. “Th next dark wave that rolled over the spot buried her, ! nted before the stranger. He When night came on and the sailors had gone below, all except *Md£he was scen no more. : n B it “Madam,” he said, “T B L e s e e e WhaGseodtontine saved dnince J DonieiCares Wby tHe vessel Let me conduct you ning Spider said to the Prince: “Alas, poor Prince, I am sorry for s broken to pleces he was chained to the deck. Thus he was on S : you, for Jouscan never escape from the chains.that hold you. I wish ;SM‘I;“U;[;‘,‘;' P g e e sl S i p":‘\;r‘]‘],‘i X ars sprang to her eyes and ran that I could help you.’ 3 s AR R U B M S R B A I ill first permit me to speak “Donit trouble_about me,” answered the Prince, kindly, “for I the lock that held fhe chalpfupon Ahe Alhty stface Hntift was bioken to e why. I am on am doing very well. It is true that I am in chains, and that I cannot L1urrah! His hands were free. Ufon his hands and knees he cr ughters of a great King. Into the kir well move, but I don't care. If you are my friend there is a way to UD farther on the island. At a distance he saw a house I‘” this he who was, like . young, brave help me. You may vet have the castle that I promised to you. Now, WCAriy Crag8ed himsel. fthere was ho anc ’]-"r‘» e hot u e il """;‘" om me a prom I would be his listen, T have a piece of the Black Robe on the hilt of my sword, 21C OYRC @ e u)‘ Rage “{“"‘;"!;‘“‘M:ij m’_‘x g et golde ich had been my m““ I Thus questioned by the Prince, the Spinning Spider said that he waves going down, he \’nll’(txl into the hmt :nul set sail. b ¥ e but I was headstrong, would die for the Prince if necessary. ¢ * * - = - * * - * * . t was any magic in it. To make a long “Very well,” said the Prince, “and thank you kindly. As you wove In his garden, Abraminidin was walking. He was happy, for he ] v when he asked for it, and he departed. s together the last time, you must know how to get them thought that all of his troubles were ended. “It is well that I am rid sleeping, the gates of the Pull out all the threads, one by one, and, In the dark- of Prince I Don’t Care,” he said. ace came seven giants. My father, <5, while all the sallors are away, weave the threads into the cables He turned, only to see the Prince, who had fitted an arrow to his wa ry brave man, ran out to fight the [_mn\ of hair that draw the ship. When you have finished your task come bow and was taking careful aim at the giant. A b s struck down and his head rolled on the floor. M to me.” 1a by the giants, to be slaves. I wa So the Spinning Spider toiled as he had never toiled before and s sea to t 1 place. I would not toil for the giant, wove his strands into the cable. He d'1 not dare to weave far from 1 r ing in bad temper, placed me in that the ship lest a wave should drown him while he worked. I I cried out so that I disturbed the giant Vi \\'vl] " said the Prince, when the Spinning Spider came for He 'tt 1 me with death, but I answered that I would instructions. “Now pull out all the hairs of children.from the cable r die thar 2in in that Thereupon he savagely promised changed by his mother, the Lady of the Black Robe, into stone. HOW here the strand is made of the Black Robe. Work hard and come to I should one hundred years had she come here? The Prince fell under a stunning blow from the me We have only this night in which to work. I heard Atoll say Your ng have led you to be my preserver. But, 'émaining fist of the giant, who would have killed him, but Atoll that we would land early to-morrow.” b vour coming until I r n the key said When the Spinning Spider had finished his new task he came I ¢ giants “Give him to me. Revenge is sweet. F father wrought the to the Prince once more. i to 1 magic downfall of my power. Let him be my slave, and I will restore to “Drop the hairs of children into the sea, one by one, and see what hich he has s that key, You your lost hand. Long the Lady of the Bla he will wait will come of it.’ t hiding in a for his home-coming; never will she see this little Prmm E: i Black hair and auburn, yellow hair and brown, fell into the s y to lock t on doo the « has traveled from home I have watched him. Wh waves or was blown about by the wind, far and wide. Instantly come forth if he thinks mu enter tle to-day, I, in the disguise of a small butterfly, f the wind began to and the gales piled the surface of the water tt open, th vill be your ch to rush in rough the open dc I watched the Prince and laughed into great wav over which the ship went slowly and heavily. A lin. $o 1l ve you. Seize, then, slyly as I thought out t to make him my prisoner. He listened “What does this mean?" asked the Spinning Spider of the Prince. g \d give me K home and my happi- nd believed me, j s his father believed before him, in the “The ship has been made by Atoll to go by magic. The cable is s when the champions of the Lady of the Black Robe lived. fasténed to monsters who have no will but to obey. The direction in I D C ved by this story and by the tears of s my slave. When you have taken him to the sea and placed hich the ship must be drawn has been told by Atoll. When you ¥ 1 with her great beauty. him upon a ship that you will find there, I will give you back a hand yove into the cable of hair of children the threads from the Black ) assist you,” he said to the lady. to take the place of the one that you h.nP lost. Never will he come Robe, the power to steer the vessel came to me. I am going to that g = hah will I v him. Then back to be a danger to you. Ah, but he strong, and but for the part of the Sea where the gales blow forever, there to wreck the 3 ouT Shomes thatinolHert iy art 1 used he would still have S day when my hands gchip. Atoll cannot stop me, for the monsters who are fastened to } < has led me here e about his \\)n neck. the cable will have to obey me while the strand in the cable made 2 . g B L t ) said th ince T Don't 3 d now recovered his senses, but pretended from the Black Robe holds together.” % Swiftly sped th»j nrr.:x The giant, Abraminidin, fell, pierced A not to hea ept sed and listened. He heard Atoll Atoll, seeing the waves which threatened te sink the ship, ran to through with the arrow. So ended he. = ; : . N 1 th er'e ar ers in the way, mayhap, and say that she en tur < from stone into her own self by the deck. She found that her magic would not change the course of Thus ends the Hm,\ that \TE” the son of .\Iusmr\hf}; the :7n1e1 ¥ 1 Al Araaf So the Prince knew that Al Araaf had been the vessel. driver, placed in the chest in Arabia. D. H. W. DG S PN DL GO0 ¢ AGNES AND EMMA. By HARVEY E. TELLER b G OTSDOGIN S OO NCE upon a time there were two little girls living on a farm and their names wer Agnes and Emma. 14 and Emma w 12. they started out to go to the lake and pick wild flowers. They took some Ilunch and i 1 b 1 Z their big dog Sport went, too They § g were ther bout an hour when they ; 4 thought they would have lunch. They £ sat down and were about through 4 ; when Emma saw a pretty yellow water &3 bk lily on the other side of the lake. She \ T 2 said she must have it and started out as a Il.|\h Jumpm! in aftw! her and was 3 determined to save her. She had just er husband. 3 « SHorIex o AR risen for the last time when Sport i sh ind T must B e o e L e e L = L n T e C R R o F e R o A e TR R o R 2 XFw X2 m TR e TR e TR = e KR w KN kR R s = SR e Lh e KB K p e e R e e L = iR B0 G & YOGOGILIVOWS CUOTOLO GOV OR O WO ® L0114 her and swam as e aaiie the house.” = “Very 9 B Sz could to the shore. He jumped out of ¢ : : e 2 v s So ended the career of Foxey Fox. 1, “but don’t wo could not ge: Finally a bright his body. his wife; “let's go and see. their eyes? There on the bed of moss i e ¢ T I Gt > = and ¢ ) e “},1‘:: lll,,fl,‘ ,\.«,"}‘ Targe hole in one corner of his house. Finally one morning Mr. Bruin sald So they went, and when they arri and leaves, stretched out, lay Foxey Moral: Foxey Fox came to nisiin }l)l:‘m\n :r.‘\\-‘;}l lllqv!“!ll]'“ '{’g',:f‘, “:i:rrlnfl \IE. Hrain put on hie hai When the hole was finished he found & to his wife: “T wonder what {s the at Foxey's home they knocked very Fox—dead. TR : timely end by talking Miss Woll to /0% inutes, and then Emma said: “I 3 A G ol . which he bent into a rounded matter with Mr. F. He has not been hard, but couldn’t get in. Again they The Bruins buried him near his home, sleep. All young men take warning - BHUE e, B0, CEv, CEarRe, o e and placed it ov the hole. seen by any one for quite a while. knocked, but all in vain. but no one goes to weep over him, for anddle?\‘e_ whnodn ] yet time fo 84y Ctarted home, for Emma needed some that he threw an old sack which “T don’t know, I'm sure” answered Then they went right in. What met he had no living relatives. good evening, and not good CE S S s vl iotha) wordered had 1, and he had a complete y 5 e e ———————— what was the matter, and when the ; for use. Wasn't he a 3 girls told her she thought of how brave papa takes the Sunday Call. I am great- & * So Acco o Our Shrewd Young Puzzlers Have Been Doing Lately. < Iy Interested in the Boys’ and Girls' Page, Sport was, and put her arms around invited to at- me Ecaln f wbut b g > H S Y Y ANNIE FITZGERALD. Sport's neck and cried. Sport was al- 3 f. He —_— X 3 a Stk Gilroy, Cal. ways treated kindly after that. hostess charming, a HE puzzles of last Sunday have Exercise your ingenuity and see wha OO S FODOTOTS BOIONOTS 56 SUCTIOTS O © L OBORGPOHOD ADetens Sharmismiand ; a2 unday ha¥® but the Roll of Homor shows that they vou can do. The Roil of Honor is open @OROREOIVCOEIOGOHS BROGOGNS etietiotiotionts B o etoRe00Q [ K3 iliahe hor he found was as an old hollow > foliage. He - hobody would take and Jack and to with s 1 HMHE to s cane and went to ‘'see a Ove he ’ thought Foxey t clean my hou: to do it for me and - myself.” he took all the things out of the went, aked to long that the moon the following an ; - } had gone down and the stars were dis- Eliza (chemist-analyzer), Cath- Were seen clearly by a lot of young to the successful guessers. Here is a & & ‘ t ppearing when he ized what time erfe (cat-her-inn), Henry (hen- Puzzlers. The puzzles of this morning list of guessers who made only one § & it was and hov s Wolf was nery), Charlotte (Shah-lot), Ne- SO B ST O TS STETIS mistake: , fu i 1t getting. He her good hemiah (knee-high-mire), Robert. Of O L6 &L O1XOLK e \\hn\cmlnn Grass Valley: Philip 3 himself a new bed of moss and leaves. night (when he said good course some of them were hard to find, & ROLL OF HONOR o e DmlyHeuson bl b ks : 1 be doneifor a cup- morning) and went ghickly home. P = ¢ inder. San Mateo; Eisie Perry, Pasadena: 2 =3 boare i ed one before, But sitting in the cold night air, on g % Willie Troup, Lo Angeles; Géorge Hich: & & conveni- damp earth, with wind blowing chillily, 3 NE, 2132 & porne, Pomona; Gussie Eberhard, San & e . place.to didn’t agree with Foxey. He caught 4 2 reet, . San 6 Francisco; Jennie Smith, Petaluma; 6 < put tt ught where they bad cold and got rheumatism all over & Francisco; Charles Kne- $ MLy R anclen: olle e i : = Sl SR B 3 & vals, Portland, Or.; Mary & paeific Grove; Edward Walker, Santd @& Lawton, Stockton; Ralph & Rnrharz(;‘ l’lr(rd%flk‘nl Damm, Ol_akfind & £ STt . Jellie P. ¥ George Davis, Berkeley; Mary F. Den- e 5"'1‘"]' :I "fl“l 3 ‘\‘I]"I EER S Pauar Haaaeia Bonin: Ghlsen o > E @ Lee, Los Eelts cphine & Gyte; Fred W. Wallace, Suisun; John V. & % 7 ¥ & A. Crocker, S & Isham, San Francisco: Lizzie Coburn, | 3 — b & Emeryyllle; Willle R Peabody, 3 . & : 8 e % Sallic Sabin, Alameda; Hazel Montgom: & . S ¥ w3 £ soto, Lake Y & ery, 1219 Golden Gate avenue, San Fran é & Packer, Rafael: Sarah A. § cisc nsor»?x Ru}FMI ]"l“kh?{lrlle‘n (;aleA?\o % oS | A Sad nto- Alired Y. © nue, San Francisco: Jack Robinson, Alva- Morgan, Sastaentoy [\”“" Y. B do; Mary Kien Fuseiler, 218 Castro § = Johnson, Santa Clara: Tom To- street, San Francisco. LR Y ) diz ; malty, San Diego; William Le- derer, San Francisco; Jennie Calkins, Ocean View; Frank P. Gough, Sausalito; EI Dear Editor: This is the first letter I have written to you, so I hope you will print it. I am not old enough yet to write a good letter, but my brother Charlie says N Y Dy@me[}lalflk""'brc %rjon lf)’chada oy 0@»})@4& SO0 P Ko o oy ; 5 for me to write one and you won't mind. & "1 Lee Avery. Santa Barbar: I tried to guess the puzzies to-day and I & @y @ ) 9 A . g f rick McNamara, Martinez. think they are too hard, but I am still & xl}-\,\lfl a little girlie : A?d when I snwfh!r;a coming ll"\in}: I go to school and am good at & 1y with me each day, ran so very fas SOOI 6 SR FRANKIE GOEWEY. 9 And though she's sometimes surly That girlie kept on running .oQ 5 09 D0 QU000 b Page street, San_Francisco. T miss her when away. And would not let me pass. contain the names of six famous per- DeariBattor: !nm a little ‘girl 11 yvears Sometimes she walks be me So_then I told my papa sonages taken from the fairy books, 13 and I live two miles and a half from r on ahead, How vexed I was each day and they are all well known to you. Gilroy. I attend the convent school. My 1 be, Because this little gjriie at is fald. Would always have her way. e 5 she's run away, “My dearest little daugh;prv ERE are the names of the States chusetts; 22, Indiana; 23, Indiana; 24, Con- 62, Massachusetts: 63, Minnesota; 64, Sifgnted Teels That s your shadowsdear: of the Union, in whichithe towns DBScUCUtii®, Rijode Teland; 26, Magsachu . Fenneyivanis; ®, Kansas; 66, Ohio: €7, 5’) B p Why have you ever laug’}ll her named in the geographical story N i0: 32, Dela- IHinoi Utah; 71, Maryland; 72, Mich- 2 f & Your little self to fear? told by May Johnson-of Ala- Y r\l;- igan; Nebraska; 74, (dllfor:na 7, | g . When first I rise she's t So then we had a scamper meda are situated, as she has : o oo iomnie 10, OblY ,3] Dplo 18, "g’l"gt"r;::; Dh @fimy@ ! 3 Bu ; grows till noon As fast as we could Ko: sent in the I AP W York: 4 New nectlonts 85, Now Joracys B New Took: m@l Q i 3 as big I am; I turned and ran and caught her 1, Maine; 2, (Jhln Musqachusenfl: 4, Ycrk' H. Indiana Ma. sachusetts; 46, 84, North Carolina; % Mlt‘hlga 86, Wis- X now she’ e And make her frolle so. o To 6, New York New York; 8, \ew Jer';c) 9, Massdchlh 4'\ Tex: g 11, Tllinois; L. New Jer- Mi hlgan. 53, Maine; 54, 94, l\nx;l'i Y“ MallflnPMla. Ml;;h- Arkans: 6, . Maisr;\‘vhusestt i K Connecticut; 95, Ohio; 9. Massachusens as; 17, Towa assachu. [ampshir 9. New Maine; 9, Minnesota; 9, Iowa; 100, , New York; 21, Massa- 560, Massachusells; 61, New York; Alabama. ? consin; 87, Wisconsin; 88, Illinois; 89, New Hampshire; %, New York; 91, Missouri; 92, assachusetts; 93, Connecticut; Then just the Till now she doesn’t tease me— 1 stood beside 8 Does what I want her to— Wondering and \\..x.mlmg And then I took her picture Why papa was o late. To bring it here for you. F@IF them to-step. OREOLIOLIOLIOLS L @ Y SIAOTIGRAOLAOLIOR FRIOLS0OL) & TIORUOLIONLO [ROLIIROQD Ooa@ow@d SUSBOOR © TeiFeLr @