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4'J THE SUNDAY 0REG0NLA2. PORTLAND, JANUARY 22, 1905. The Story of It 'Didn't Prove TINKLETOWN was such a pleasant i town that few of the Inhabitants ever cared to leave It, even for a short time. .Consequently, when a cit- , Izen did make a Journey occasionally to a neighboring: city, the rest of Tin kletown looked on him as a great and ; adventurous traveler, and the popula tion would gather at the town pump ' on his return to hear his tales. One of the wisest of the citizens i once made a, trip to sell hay and grain, and he did not return to Tin kletown again for three weeks. This was the very longest Journey that any of the town's lolk had ever made, and you may be jure that all Tinkle town was wildly excited when he ar rived there again. " That evening, at the town pump, he said: v "Dear fellow citizens. I am glad to be at home again. Although 1 have-, as you may say, seen a great deal of the world, let me assure you that there is no place on tnis wide earth that Is so good as Tinkletown. 1 speak from experience, for I have seen seven cities, and -have traveled nearly 100 miles." "Goodness!" said all the Tinkle towners. " What risks you must have taken." "Yes, yes," said the returned ad venturer, coughing modestly. "But that is 'neither here nor there. The point is that, although none of the places I have seen have such beautiful streets or such excellent houses or sucn "t good town pump or such fine citizens. ;nd cows, there is one thing in which Tinkletown is really benlnd the age, and it made me very much ashamed." . j uoodness'" said ail the Tlnkle towners. "What can it be?" . "It is a town Jail," said the traveled citizen. "Even the smallest towns in the outside world have Jails, and we should certainly see to it that we have one." "But we never needed one," said a fat citizen, who was not considered' so wise as the rest, although he would have been considered marvelously wise anywhere else. "What difference does that make." replied the burgomaster, "when it is a question of a public Improvement? A town jail we must have." All the TInkletowners immediately went home to ask their wives what kind of a town Jail they would like. When they met again, each man haJ a different plan, so the burgomaster had the happy Idea of taking a bit of each man's plan and making a new one that combined them all. "But." said the citizens to the one who had traveled, "what do you do with a Jail1 after you have it?" "Look people up In it," said the traveler promptly. e Adventures of the Crusoe Children A Chapter I. FOR six weekR the steam yacht Stingarce had been cruising among the islands of the Caribbean Sea. She hailed from Boston, and her owner, who was a wealthy resident of that city, had planned a trip lasting .three months. As passengers she carried his wife. daughter and himself, a gentleman and his wife from Chicago, a widow from Philadelphia, and a single gen tleman from Pittsburg. All these peo ple were related to 'each other. The only one outside, their circle was a youth 14 years old named Charles Lee. He was the son of an old friend of the owner, and was invited as a guest. The owner's daughter was named Minnie. She was 12 years old and had known Charles for a year or more. The two had been attending the same gram mar school In Boston. The yacht carried a crew of 20 men, and was rated as a stanch and well found craft, and one able to weather any sort of weather. On this trip she had visited most of the Bahama Islands, and spent a week at Porto Rico, and finally made ready to voyage farther south and take In the Wind ward Islands. During the six weeks not an acci dent of any sort had happened to mar the pleasures of the voyage. An hour before the Stingaree left the Porto Rico harbor an old man came down to the wharf and took a long look at her. He was a Carib Indian, and he was such a queer-looking old man that he attracted attention at once. By and by he began shaking his head and muttering In Spanish and In dian, and when some of the sailors on tne yacht laughed at him. he grew angry and pointed to the sky. seeming anxious to warn them of danger. As no on could understand him, a young Spaniard finally came forward and ex plained to the captain: "What the old man is trying to tell ou Is that there is going to be a hur ricane, and that you should not leave the harbor until It Is over." "What does he know about It?" was asked. "IT WOULD BE AN AWrCL RISK, Birr NO OKEATKR THAN TO REMAIN BY THE CRAFT." the Model Jail Comfortable for the Only Thief i TIIB THIEF BEFORE THE BURGOMASTER AT THE TOWX 1CMF. "How . travel broadens all the TInkletowners "He knows everything." man." said admiringly. "I think we should send a commit tee to examine the other Jails and tell us their faults so we can avoid them in ours," sahl the burgomaster. Every body agreed to this and the five wisest men Were selected to .do it. When they returned they said to the other citizens: . "Dear friends, we have examined the matter carefully, and we have found that the greatest complaint that is made by the people of the different towns. Is that their jails are over crowded. They think that this Is be cause thty are built too small in the first place, but we have thought It over and we have found the true rea son: It Is too easy In those towns" for people to get into Jail that Is why they are crowded." The TInkletowners were so wise that Story of Castaways of the Caribean. He Is a very old man, and knows - Xo ne haS ever ! "But-thp u-Mlhor rr.ni.t..- ,ut ' of o J i. " i. t .....lf ..u.j.luiic, icpueu ine , Ptain. ! "That is true: but If the old man says there is one coming, then all ' sailors who have tieard of him will be- ' lleve what he says." ! The owner of the yacht and all the ' passengers were ashore and did not j see the old man or hear his predic- Horn When thoy returned the captain said nothing about It, and the engineer was ordered to get up steam. Two hours later the Stingaree was out of the harbor and heading to the south. The weather was mild and' pleasant, and for five or six hours there were no signs of a change. ' At 10 o'clock at night the wind began to rise, and within an hour It was piping away and rolling up a heavy sea. The passengers went to bed as usual, thinking It only a Summer gale, but by midnight the seas were so heavy that the yacht was tumbled about like a cork and everybody dressed and gathered in the main cabin. " Soon it was plain to all that a hur ricane had set in. For a while the yacht ran before U. but after midnight she had to be brought around with her head to the wind, and though she kept her engines working, everybody knew that she -was rapidly drifting away under nressure of the wind. The seas broke over her so that everything was battened down and none of the passengers allowed on deck, and at 2 o'clock In the "morning even the stoutest-hearted sailor aboard was ready to say that the Stin garee was in dire peril. From 2 o'clock to daylight no one could move about the cabin, and the creakings of the woodwork and the scheechings of the gale created such an uproar that speech was impossible. When the sun came up. the wind lulled a little and word was passed around that the storm was over, but within an hour the hurricane was blowing with stronger force than ever. It wae then that the captain in formed the passengers that the en- of Tinkletown Who Entered It they did not need further reports. They set to work to "build their jail at once, and to make sure that It would not be too easy to get Into it. thoy built It without any doors at all. Tney made the walls quite solid, and the light and air came In from little holes near the very top and through a big chimney. "Now," said tney, when It was fin ished, "we imagine that this jail will not be over-crowded." Soon the fame of Tinkletown's great .'all spread throughout the land and before long the thieves anil nlhar knaves of the Grand Duchy of Brat- wursi oegan to journey toward Tinkletown because they thought that the town would be easy prey. But they were finely fooled. When the Jail was finished the bur gomaster said: "Now, in order to be up to date, we must put a thief Into it at once." glnes showed slc-ns of trivia !rrlble strain, and that If . ". oroKe ana me btingaree fell i unyini 17 nrOKo nl lha Cf I , " 7 7 . - l"c irougn or the sea she wouia De beaten to nieces bv th tr mendcut. w,.va- i V!! y lhe tre" Captalr and crew were helm. , - do anything further, and could only wait and hope. As the hours wore slowly on the weather seemed to grow worse instead of better, .and at noon no one .aboard had any hope that the yacht could live the afternoon through. The passengers gathered together as closely as they could and. took each others hands and the women wept and the men looked very solemn. At noon tne engineer reported that his engines would not be able to stand the strain an hour longer, and the captain came down Into the cabin and made the people understand that there was but one thing to be done. He would use AND THOSE BT SARAH NOBLE IVES. Illustrated by the Author. There's , a new boy on our block. Teddy. "Huh! I Men him." said Dick. said "He wears curls." What's h llrlnr over at Mrs. Connor's for. I wonder?" "Mebbe he's MlUy cousin or some thing." Tddy pondered a minute. "Shs nerer told me she had- cousin so near her are." "Hra! I true&s she wasn't proud of him with paats and loar curls. I'd like to poll his hair and make h!m"juel." "Lefs to and see what' he's dohx." said Teddy. Three hoo-m down the street the New i mm t J "Mt . I -T t V I I !1 x WHBaf "But there are no thieves In Tinkle town," said the citizen who was not so wise as the rest. The burgomaster scratched his head. Then he cried: -I have It! We will post a guard at the city gate and catch the first thief who arrives. , "Goodness:" said all the TInkle towners. "How simple. Why could we not all think -of that at oncer The guard was posted at the gate and. when the tlrst thief arrived, they took ott their hats, .bowed and said: "Welcome, good Blr. Are you a thiefr Of course, the thief said "No!" "Then we are tery sorry, good sir." said the guard, "but we cannot let you in. We are lookine- for a thlf So they turned him away. i met after thief was thus kept out, until the Master Thief arrived. He had met the other thieves and heard their experience. So when he arrived at the city gate of Tinkletown. and the guard asked him. "Are you a thlefT he answered, "Yes. indeed." "Hurrah!" cried the guard, and es corted him Immediately to the town square, where the burgomaster wel comed him in a fine speech and beg ged him to. go ahead and steal all he chose. The master thief did not wait to be asked twice, but immediately entered ine nouses and gathered treasures. When he had filled" a srreat batr with gold and gems, he calmly walked to the gate to leave the city. But, to his indignation, the guard seized him with loud cries. "A thief! A thief!" and dragged him .before ' the burgo master and the City Council at the town pump. "How Is this?" cried the master thief angrily. "Did you not tell me to go ahead and steal?" "Surely." said the burgomaster kindly. "Then why do your men arrest me?" asked the thief. . "Why, my dear sir," replied the burgomaster In surprise, "did you not know that we have a new town Jail? We told you to steal because we needed a thief In It. and. of course, we couldn't be sure you were a thief till you stole something, could we?" They led the ngry thief to the Jail, and there the burgomaster him to be imprisoned for three dajv. j oiuwc lucre was no uoor to the- JaiL they got a ladder and took him to the roof and lowered him through the chimnty. They lowered some bread and water after him and went away. On the fourth day the people of Tinkletown gathered to . liberate the thief, but they found that while it was easy enough to let him down Into the chimney, it was impossible to pull him up. So the good TInkletowners set to work with crowbars and pickaxes to break a hole Into the wall. They had built the jail so honestly that It took seven Jays to make the opening. When th- thief came out, lie was only skin and bones. He fled from Tinkle- i u lesa cora carry i:m. ana tnerearter no -thief ever area to enttr ho riv nf k. ..i.. people. the three barrels of oil aboard the yacht to smooth the waves as much as possible, and then they must lower the boats and get away In. them. It would be an awful risk, but no greater .than to remain by the craft u sne broke down and the waves had a c?.ance to pound at a chance to pound at h , nrl?Trl X Ah." fc i wa ,nf nn ,,n a ..,'.' i . - -r--t - n tiu lite Ull ! th ... if .r Vu? ?r""AVl I - - ...... u.iuncu Ml uiijr iniu V k'i waves, almost at once from breaking, and the ! ai" ,w.erl aUe read' for launching. - "C a IV j was overcast, and It was ai. most twilight, and had lnnrt hn I within a mile of them the people could not have made out the shore, j (To be continued.) ! Some Negro Proverbs. Coward man keep whole bone;. cuDDitcn (covetous) fe one plum, you iuac uc wuoie ouncn. Cuss-cuss (calling names) bore hoi tn no man a sun. Evry day da flshin dav hut hrr .i, to fe catch fish. J Evry dotr know lilr.i iinnf Follow fashion break monkey neck. (A breaio"5 proverbially hard to It Puzzled Helen. "The Bull. After Paul Potter." read Helen's mother from the catalogue at the art exhibition, as they stood before a copy of the famous painting. Helen looked at the picture with inter-f"- "Oh. yes." she said suddenly. ,7 SJHi' mn1 be Jaul Potter under cUmo up?""0 wondr wh' h doesn't Dotty's Learning. Tchr aayi the world Is round. And jet It looks real flat. She sv It turns around like mad Now will you think of that: And that ain't all. for teacher tells Ls some things queerer yet; I'd tell them to you. only I Somehow seem to arret. A Dictionary Beast. "Tou would. cald the ornlthorhynchuf "A sort of bin! -creature think us; For we've webs on our paws. And a duck's bill for Jaws. Tet we've hair, which to bt&ats utema to link us." THE NEW BO TWO BOTH JUST GRXNNBD AND LOOKED Boy waa hoeing- In a flower bed. He wore a big straw hat, and his back was turned, so he did not se the boys a they swag gered along and mounted the gate-posts belonging to Mrs. Connor. "HI. there. Bubby. what's your name" called Teddy from his safe perch. The New Boy did not .look up. He dropped his hoe and took up a trowel and began dicslnr a. hole. "VVbere'a MUly. I wonder?" said Dick. -Say. little boy, what you doln In that garden?" The New Boy threw" up a trowelful of earth, and some of It Just missed Dick, who was nearest. "Say. there. Don't you be sassy or m com over and pull your nice, pretty curls." The New Boy eta bulb In the hole he The Queerest School in all the -World It Is Full of Water mid Pupils Study at the Bottom of It j SOMETIMES THE TOOLS " THE queerest school in. the world is in Portsmouth, England. The school house Is a huge tank of boiler iron. It is about 12 feet high, and is filled to the brim with sea water. The pupils get their lessons at the bottom of It. This queer school is a school for divers and the schoolmasters are officers of the British navy. Divers are as necessary to a modern naval vessel as sailors, and the tars Who volunteer to learn rftvlnir rret extra P3 a0 ere are always pupils enouch to want tn rn Into that -watprx ! - The Iron schoolhouse has a gallery run ning around the top, where men stand to send air to the pupil, signal to him, teach him to answer and watch his actions. Down near the bottom of the tank are square windows, so that officers can look at every motion of the diver and see whether or not he is doing his lessons correctly. The first thing that he pupil has to , study Is his curious clothlmr. which U nnt ' - rvATSY was giving very unusual r party. The guests consisted of four small boys -Marshall Denton. Phllln "Rumn RoVlt ! Carter and Roland Martin. Of the first three Patsy was very fond and spent a great deal of time playing with them. I either together or separately. They were all under six years of age, and she never i-uuiu unueraiajiu wny iue were so niye and lovable at that age. and after that grew teasy and rough and quite impos sible. Roland Martin she did not really care for he was always in the way when she wanted to play with Laura: but she had made up her mind that she must try to be good to him for .Laura's sake, and after something of a struggle she had asked him to her party. The hour for the party was half-past five, but at a quarter past Patsy had found her guests sitting on the front steps shivering, and so she had to ask them in. although she wasn't really ready, They were all scrubbed to a most glit tering pink and whiteness. Roland Mar tin was so dressed and so uncomfortable that he was easy to. manage for once. Patsy gave them )her picture game of old maid to play with and began to shuf fle and deal for them. "Oh." said Philip Burn?, "you ought to give me the cards. I n company. Patsy laughed, handed him the pack and disappeared to finish setting her tea table in the library. Her mother had said she might have the party on condition that she would attend to everything ex cept the actual cooking. So Patsy had SILLY. had made and began a'hovelllnr in the earth around It, "Tou think you know how to garden. don't you? Well, you can't do it cent. Tou're nothing but a girl-boy for a Tell us your name. Girl-Boy. or .I'll corns over acd IleU you." The New Boy finished a nice little mound ovtr the bulb and poured some water on It from a watering pot. "Hey! Girl-boy! Girl-boy! "We're comln' to lick you, and you dasaent .touch us!" Both th boys Cropped to the ground ' and started toward the flower bed. The New Boy picked up his hoe. stood up and turned to face the two other boys. And. those two boys Just grinned and looked silly for It was MlUy. In her new play-overalls. Y 'FAIL1' UrWARD LIKE rjGHTNING. at all simple. Many days are spent over this part of his education, till he knows every inch of it and understands thor oughly what, every valve is for and how it should be worked. . Then he must learn to go into the water after he is dressed in h!g diving armor. This isn't simple, cither. It Isn't Just merely a case of stepping in ana sinking. The pressure" of the water makes lots of trouble for every beginner, and often would Injure him severely if he did not get used to it by degrees. After he has learned to enter the water and sink gradually to the bottom his real troubles begin. Everything Is strange down there. The water acts like thick glass, so that It is hard to see. The diver must learn to walk on the bottom of the sea. Just as a baby has to learn to walk on land. If he tries to walk ahead as he would on earth, he soon finds himself swung sideways and pushed back, for the water Is too dense to permit free motion. He must learn to "sway" through it. Then he must learn to handle his tools. The first thing that will happen to him. probably, will be to let go of some light tool and find It darting upward out of his Patsy's Small Tea thought of the things that boys like best ana naa set tne table with odd dishes and a little present at each plate. As Patsy worked she could hear the boys skirmishing In the front parlor. Once she settled a dispute that almost became a tight, and again she had to remind them that they ought to be a mlt more? polite to each other. Then, just as another and more serious affair began. Patsy skipped Intohelr midst and invited them to sup Ter. As soon as they were Served to the good things Josephine had cooked they grew quiet and extremely amiable, and Patsy smiled and told them stories. . "Marshall." said Patsy, as she began to pour the chocolate, "will you have choco late or water or both?" "I'll take milk," said Marshall prompt ly. Patsy was about to reprove him, but then remembered that he always did have milk at home, so she just slipped away and got a glass. On the whole they were very well be u ved considering their age and the fact that they had never been out to a party of their own before. Roland Martin ate so much that he only spoke twice, and only kicked the other boys under the table once. Scovil Carter behaved perfectly, but he always did. for he was a very gentle lit tle fellow and loved Patsy and tried to please her. Tor dessert they had canned peaches and chocolate cake the kind of cake that has the chocolate all the way through and looks very dark and luscious and has white Icing a-top. All the boys except Philip took some cake. "Why Philip." said Patsy, "don't you want any?" "No." replied Philip, "I don't like ginger-bread." But when the other boys told him what It was and what h wn missing, he took the largest piece left on me piate. After supper they had lots and lots of games. Patsy knew a great many good ones. They romped and played, and laughed and had a very exciting time. "When they were hot and tired and Phil ip's curls were strings and neckties were ail untied and collars and shirtfronts un buttoned. Patsy repaired the damages and tney all sat on the floor for a coollng-off game of old maid. I I . ONCE SHE SETTLED A DISTCTE THAT TTAS ALMOST A ITGHT. -r-Tr .iii...... grasp. It Is no joke for a diver who is working 30 feet under the surface to "drop" a light tool, for Instead of falling at his feet, where he can pick t up by stooping, It "falls' upward like a cork and bobs to the surface, so that the only way he can get It Is to go up after It. The use of tools Is vastly different under water from what it Is on land. In ham mering, for instance, the diver cannot swing his arms and bring his hammer down with the freedom of a carpenter. The resistance of ithe water prevents any such ease of action. He must learn to hammer in quite a new way. If he has to shovel away any mud or sand he finds it another hard and novel piece of work. It Js true that a shovelful of mud weighs much less under water: but on the other hand, none of the mud or sand will "stay put." Hardly has he taken out a shovelful before the hole be gins to fill up again with sand carried into it by the water. On a hard bottom the diver generallv finds It fairly easy to walk. But on a muddy bottom he may sink half way to his waist. Wherever he may .walk he must learn never to take a single step without look ing behind him to make sure that the rub ber hose that carries air to him is uncoil, ing freely and is not "in danger of being cut by sharp corals or rocks or timbers. The same care must be given to the stoiit rope that is tied around him and that acts as the lifeline by which he may be hauled to the. surface should anything happen to him. He must learn, too, that his helmet needs constant attention.. He must take care that enough air is pumped into it to give him all he wants for breathing and a little more to fill his rubber dress and keep it blown up. If too much is pumped In, he must unscrew a little valve In the helmet and let .It escape. All these things the young Portsmouth divers learn In the tank, with half a dozen sharp eyes watching, them to make sure that they do It right. They have lots of work to do on war ships. Their hardest regular work is to clean the bottows of the great vessels. No matter how smooth and polished a-shlp's bottom Is when she leaves drydock. It be comes foul within a very few weeks. Sea weed begins to grow on it almost at once. Barnacles and other marine animals fas ten themselves to it. All this Interferes with Its speed, and the divers mustJower themselves along the side and scour the fihip. even while she is steaming along in mid-ocean. Then at regular intervals "the divers must work along the keel and search for loose rivets or other defects In tht steel plates of the hull. If the ship anchors in strange waters where the bottom is not considered good holding ground, the diver goes down and examines the anchor to make sure that It Is set right and buried deeply enough to hold the vessel in any weather. The naval diver's most dangerous work comes when a ship knocks a hole into hex bottom. Then he must go down in a hur ry and try to stop the leak by forcing can vas and other material into and over it. Now if the hole Is a big one, the water will be rushing into it with such deadly force that If It caught him it would shoot his body into the opening and crush him like a fly. So only the best divers are sent down in cases of accident like this, and even they know that they are bent on a mission fully as- dangerous as that of the erew of a torpedo-boat which Is dis patched to attack a battleship. Party Patsy allowed herself to be the old maid three times in succession and the boys were wild with delight. ' Just as they finished tne tnird game the doorbell rang and Mr. Denton came o take Marshall home to bed. Marshall did not want to go a bit. but while he was protesting the maid came for Scovil. and thdt made Marshall feel much better. When George Martin came for Ronald he was nowhere to be found, and Philip and Patsy and Jim all Joined in the search. After several minutes they found him asleep on the rug behind. the door of the library, and George bundled him off home without waking him. thinking tKkt, was by far the easier way. s Philip lingered a few minutes, and then ran across the street by himself. Patsy having promised to watch him through the window until she saw him safe. Then she went to bed herself, pretty wcll tired out. Next day, however, every one of the mothers thanked her for th lovely party she had given the boys, and Patsy told her mother she guessed it was worth the work. Cairo Donkey Boy's New Job. The Cairo donkey boy has been put out of business by the tramcar that olic3 to the Pyramids. The bazaar at Cairo Is run of merchants who arc eager to de spoil the tourist by the proffer of gew gaws of Oriental type made in Birming ham, and a goodly number of cx-donkey boys are now pursuing a new calling selling the travelers all manner of spark ling trinkets and antiques. Their familiarity with the English lan guage is as helpful la their new calling as it was when they were simply donkey drlvers. and they still astonish the cus tomers with quaint passwords and witti cisms redolent of the East End of London or the purlieus of Chatham Square. New 0,F uTn; coefcney street arabs of Whltechapel are reproduced in thf Egyptian youths so far as dialect and pure, unadulterated "cussedness" are con cerned. My Dad. My father always says, says he. That when he was a boy Hkn me, He never thought of having fun Till he got all his lessons done. And he says when HIS father had Errands for nun, he'd run like mad. It must have made his father glad To have a good son like my dad.