The Oregon daily journal., May 17, 1908, Page 65, Image 65

THE"' OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL.- " PORTLAND,' SUNDAY ' KORNINCV-'; HAY v 17. X903
Mr. Spider Goes
A-Fishing
THERE was one n immens
spider who lived and spun his
web In the country of Sou!
America. .,
Ho waa a very strong spider and a
very greedy one. so that he feasted
well upon the poor Insects who wan
dered Into his clutches.
But the terror of this mighty pirate
spread far and near. The first warn
ing the little gnats and flies received
from their mothers was not to go
near the web of the bloodthirsty
spider. As time went on. Mr. Spider
found the supplies in his larder were
growing very small. . All creatures of
the earth and the air had learned to
avoid him successfully.
One day Mr. Spider, -now grown thin
and gaunt, reasoned thus within him
self: . -
"Since I can So longer make my
living here, why should I not prey
upon the fishes? They are said to be
the most stupid of all creatures. I am
sure that a wise old fellow like my
self can easily outwit them."
Without more ado. Mr. Spider
BUILT HIS WEB IN A STREAM
changed his
abode. Between the
, banks of a very narrow stream and
underneath, the surface of the water
lie built bis web. It. was," a clever
, trap wide at the mouth and narrow
' ing toward the other end, so that the
unlucky fish who swam in -was al
most certain to become enmeshed in
the web. ,
i' His ' web completed, Mr. Spider
swam silently toward a little pool
- where great numbers of little min
nows were playing. He came upon
tliem suddenly, terrified them with
' his horrible appearance and drove
them In a body toward his web.
1 Mr. Spider feasted well that day on
minnows and many a day thereafter.
Indeed, his descendants . ever since
have kept to the water, finding that
living there is much more profitable
and easier than on land.
"HENRIETTA WAS SURPRISED TO SEE NOTNOW"
"trOtt surely remember how the
Y crooked little old man Pshaw es-
. corted : the little girt through
Crooked Town, and thus taught her a
lesson that was very much heeded. Yes;
to be sure 'you do. ' i ' .
Now, there was a friend of this little
"THE BRAWNY SMITH
girl indeed, a very close chum who
was also in need of a lesson, and it was
a friend of Pshaw who tdBght her.
"Oh, dear," exclaimed this little girl
one bright, sunny afternoon, "I do feet
eo drowsy. I don't feet at all like doing
my sewing, and I certainly don't wish
to look over my lessons not now."
"Yes, miss.-here I am." Interrupted an
Novel Use for Carrot
1
F YOU can find a carrot large enough,
a cunnlnr little hanging basket for
flowers it will provide for you. Simply
cut off the end of the carrot a short
instance from the end. Hollow the car-
THIS PROCESS ILLUSTRATED.
i t; thomuirMy dry the remaining shell,
ml varnlHh It. The leaves of the vege-
til fliould be permitted to remain on
bottom f the carrot.
l t f vtne. or wire twisted with
will serve as an appropriate haa-
V - T-T-T
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IT WAS very, very Interesting.
Oh, yes, it must have been, or the
twins would never have bothered
about It at all I confess that the
twins were very positive In their .
likes and dislikes, and most school
studies were t among their dislikes.
Bearing this In mind, you will read
ily see that this particular study
must have been fascinating, indeed.
Teacher called the, study "Geology."
of some other hard name, but the
twins didn't pay much attention to
that What they wished to hear
about was the marvelous animals
that lived thousands and thousands
and thousands of years ago. You
see, when, you dug. down Into the
earth you came to rock " formed
many, many years ago; . when you
dug further you came to other rock
formed many years before, and so on
until it would seem that you came to
that formed the very first. But this
wasn't all, for In the rock were the
remains of bones or "fossils" of erea-
tures that lived In those times terri
ble creatures whose kinds have perished-
long since. Teacher read V a
great, deal about the animals, and
when the twins came home . their
minds were thinking so-fast that one'
thought came right on top of another.
"Wouldn't It be great If we could
"see strange monsters ever so much
bigger than elephants," cried Ray.
mond, his eyes shining with excite
ment. old, grizzled man, who looked much like
Pshaw.
Henrietta waa very much surprised to
to see Not now, and she was still more
surprised to see the things which the
dwarf proceeded to show her
:.. Notnow clasped her hand and in an
LAY CALMLY DOZING"
instant they flew right through the wall
of the house, out over hill and valley,
until they came Into the brightest, sun
niest land she had ever seen.
"This," proudly exclaimed Notnow, "is
the Land of Tomorrow."
Alighting in a convenient roadway,
the two straightway began their stroll
through the country. Cheerful as the
land undoubtedly was, Henrietta soon
discovered that everything was in a de
plorably bad way even worse than
things in the careless village of Crooked
Town.
They passed a blacksmith shop. Out
side was a line of horses waiting to be
shod. But the brawny smith lay calmly
dozing in a comfortable armchair placed
in front of his forge.
17hJZe',f ?'enty of tlme: J""1 know, he
can do it just as well tomorrow." re
marked Notnow.
Indeed, everybody throughout the land
seemed to think that they might as well
pu,0?u wnalever work there was to do
until the morrow. Fields were unplowed,
fences down, and all the forms in a bad
state of UBrepatr. in the towns." ail the "
Industries were idle. No one seemed to
be working, although, so Notnow said,
everybody waa going to work "tomor
row. . V,Bnt w.h.en tomorrow comes Will you
iriLf.h ame ,tnln?" ked Hen
rietta, rather crossly.
"Oh. I suppose so," carelessly replied
Notnow; "that's the best thing about
'' tfSPr-" nev.er cmes and that's
; what all we people of the Land of To-
f?Kf?w- 5nd 5eMe-htful. Idleness 13 de
lightful, you know." .
"I don't think so," began Henrietta,
rather emphatically, but then she re
membered that heretofore SHE waa
'?oa;t thl.nk ' n(1 hung her
head. Now that she observed idleness
in other people, she realized how dis
tasteful it was.
Henrietta refused Notnow's invitation
to dwell in the Land of Tomorrow as
suring him that ah no longer cared tor
It or its customs. And she wished t
be taken home as soon as possible. SO
they quickly returned to their starting
POlnt. '-' ' , "
win iin sewing ana -rter lessons. Bu
But .
ed was tns Unwisdom Sit rillttlnir thinez
off till' tomorrow. V.'"'
"THE AIR AROUND
Ray eagerly nodded, but after a
moment's thought, added soberly:
"But wouldn't It be herrlble If one
of them should chase us? . It'd be bad
enough If an elephant waa after you,
but to have one of those "'and Ray
shuddered.
Ray and . Raymond together made
up their minds to visit the natural
history museum. As a matter of fact,
they did almost everything together,
as twins should, so it was not strange
that their thoughts should be very
nearly the same. They remembered
at the same instant that teacher had
told them the museum contained the
remains of some of these monsters
they decided at the -same Instant to
see what those animals looked like.
The twins were somewhat disap
pointed at first when they explored
the museum.' They found a number of
interesting tilings, it Is true, and the
big skeleton of the whale and skeletons
of othci animals were worth looking at,
but they saw the remains of none of
the monsters teacher had read to them
about. Already the sun had begun to
wane, when Ray. investigating an out-S
of-the-way corner, called sharply to her
brother:
"Oh, Raymond, come here; I've found
one of them!"
Bide by side, tlicy examined the Im
print in stone of a gigantic bird who
had possessed Jeeth. Painfully they
spelled out the Inscription, "Pterodac
tyl." "I believe any bird with a, name like
that would have a very cross temper,"
laughed Ray.
"We'll call him 'Dacky' for short,"
the other twin merrily responded
Meanwhile the Janitor of the museum
had been plodding through the rooms
and corridors, locking one door after
another. He passed through the room
where the twins were, but Ray nnd
Raymond were hidden behind a hugv
case, and he walked by without per
ceiving them. Nor did the boy and girl
now thoroughly interested in their dis
covery, hear the retreating footsteps.
Already they had found other fossils,
and accordingly were In an ecstasy of
delight.
"It's so dark I can hardly read this
FOR days the small vessel had
been followed by a whale, an
immense fellow, who might
easily -have worked ill to the frail
ship. ; At times it would' seem that he
threatened to attack, but then ne ap
parently would change his mind and
withdraw to a distance.
The captain was greatly perturbed.
"I never saw a whala act this way
before," said he; "I am sure the brute
wants something."
From this you will see that the cap
tain was very superstitious and be
lieved in many signs and omens. And
he became more and more impressed '
by the whale's conduct. At last he
declared: ; '
"This must be the very whale that
swallowed Jonah or, at least, a rela
tion. I'm positive that he wishes to
be fed with something. Welt. I'm go
ing to give htm a meal."
That same afternoon the captain
ordered a big box hauled, up from the
cargo In th bold and presented to
the what. v '
Now, it so happened that as the box
waa cast into th sea a boy among
the passengers was leaning far over
the rail to watch the box strike the
sea. Indeed, so far over did he lean
that when the boat gave a sudden
lurch be went Into th sea along with
the box; nor was' his fall observed
by-lh people on the ship.. - : -
Strang as it may seem, th what
was overjoyed when he saw th box
thrown overboard. Rapidly he swam
toward it and closed his huge Jaws
upon It; but not only upon the box.
h
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THEM WAS FILLED WITH GIBBERING . MONSTERS"
name," said Raymond, bending over an
Inscription. - Then.- looking toward the
window, he exclaimed: '
"Have you any idea what time it la?
I think we'd better be going, Ray; don't
you?" v '
Indeed, it was high time the two were
departing, for the sun was about to set.
They made their way to the door. Ray
mond turned the knob briskly. The door
failed to open. He pulled and tugged
lima and again; still it did not yield.
With a worried look'on his face, tie has
tened to the door at the other end of
the room. His effort met the sanio re
sult. "We're locked tnl" gasped the twins,
staring blankly at each other. . '
CHAPTER II
THE PRIEST OF SAKKARA
ECHOES from their shouts died away;
but no afiKwcitng response came,
and the twins, in despair, perched upon
the edge of a huge slab of stone. This
slab contained a fossil, so that before
Ray sat down., she whispered an apol
ogy for the liberty she waa taking,
"Even if he is a fossil," thought she,
"It isn't very polite to sit 011 him."
The dusk of twilight crept into the
room, distorting the, objects about them
Into weird, fantastical shapes. Ray nes
tled close to her brother; both finding
courage and comfort in hearnesa. Twi
light merged into night. Now the rays
from the moon gave a ghostly radiance
to the room and all contained therein.
Then, with a suddenness that was star
tling, all was pitched in darkness. Not
a foot before them into the sooty black
ness could the boy or girl see.
Vague uneasiness began to steal into
their hearts. Raymond threw his ami
around hts sister protectlngly; and she
thrust her little hand into his rough
palm.
All at once Ray started with fear.
"Did you hear that noise in the next
room?" she whisrered.
"No," replied Raymond. "And the
door's locked, anywsy." be consoled.
But Rav's voice again shook, as she
raid: "That's where the mummies are
kept, you know."
The eyes of both were fastened upon
for the boy entered th Jaws' as well!
With such force did the box go in
that It went'rlght through the bon
strainer. You know that, although
rnost whales hav a very large mouth,
tney can swallow no objects that are
"EMERGED FROM THE WHALE"
ef any six at' atlrbecftttsaTh toti
strainet at the rear of th mouth . will
not permit anything of large sis to
pass. But, now that his straiper was
broken, this whale was different,' The
boy and the box went right back-
the door, so they , observed together a
pale, bluish - light that crept upon the
door. This light grew brighter, until the
entire door glowed, and the room waa
no longer dark. . Then, while they still
looked, a ' shape Trom the next room
passed right through the door. And
there,' in the pale light, with swathlngs
partly removed, stood a mummy 1 .
Ray and Raymond sat stupefied as the
terrifying figure turned its head in their
direction. Raising its arms In a wooden;
unnatural motion, the mummy waved a
blazing wand. Immediately, drawn by
some . mysterious,' powerful, force, th
twins rose and advanced toward It.
There they stood fascinated, gazing Into
the face of tlje mummy, when the with
ered Hps opened and the words came, in
deep, hollow tones:
"Know ye that I am the Most High:
Priest of the Temple of Sakkara. By
virtue 'of my' all-powerful magic, protec
tor am I of those who rest -in this place.
"Why come ye " here to disturb our
sleep, O children of a race who, not
content with pillaging holy temples and
sacred tombs, have even brought hither
the bones of man and beast, for rude
eyes to gaze upon? O ye accursed, an
swer me!" .
. Then, as the boy and girl stood in
trembling silence, the dread voice cob
"tinued: .
"But 3' 8 shnll see these dead hones in 1
a way ye had not hoped. Ye shall- be
hold what power Jiave the gods in
whom ye do not believe Isls and Osiris;
Ptah. Sekhet and Bast, who have lent
to me their 'magic. " .
Again the mummy waved his wand.
In the twinkling of an eye the air about
them was thronged with skeleton mon
sters, all gibbering In awful chorus:
"Ye Most High Priest, holder of un
limited power, send us back whence wa
eaipe, -we do beseech thee." f
"That I shall do." solemnly answered
the mummy, "and with thee shall go
these accursed intruders."
From amid his swathing the mummy
produced a tiny cornucopia filled with
magic powaer. H touched it witn tne
tip of his wand. ' Slowly It burned, with
a delightful, pungent odor, while clouds
of greenish . vapor wafted everywhere
about the room."'
Then the twins felt themselves going
way back Inside the whale.
No sooner had the whale- made this
meat than he left the ship In peace
and swam away. Meanwhile, the boy
whom the beast had swallowed wm
quite comfortable. Re munched som
cake and fruit he had In his ppeket.
Then, for want of something better
to do. he attacked, th lid of the great
box and tried to open It Finally h
was able to make an opening large
; enough to ascertain that the box, con
tained shoes.
Tired from his exertions, th boy
. fell asleep. When he awoke he found
some one cutting through his celL A
moment later and he was free upon a
' beach. You see. the. poor whale had
so missed the use of his strainer that
he .had dashed, himself to death
against . th rocks and was then
washed ashore. -i- '
After men had cut open the-what
the boy emerged upon a beach filled
with people. You can imagine their
' astonishment -when they beheld this -new
Jonah. ' The lad, however, was a
'very enterprising sort of fellow.
Dragging his box of shoes from th
whale, he put them up for sale. Peo- -
jpl struggled to purchase these
souvenirs, and, although - exorbitant
prices were charged, the boy sold all
his wares in short order.
Being an honest lad. he turned this
- money vw 4h owner el the shea -
when he reached home, but the mer
chant was so pleafed with the boy's
ability that he presented him with
the entire amount of the sales, tie-,
'ducting th mere cost of his making '
th shoea ' ii. ? . -
downward, downward vr , downward.
The walla of the room had fallen away.
and In their descent they were passing
. masses of solid rock, labeled on hug
placards:' Quartemary Era, Tertiary
; Era.. : and then Secondary Era. Of
course, thla was to, show? th times
when the rock waa formed. Just
teacher had told them.
-A bum! and room, mummy, skele
tons, all disappeared. The twins rubbed
their eyes and found themselves in
broad daylight, seated in a marsh, while
In the distance great trees arid tropical
plants ' reared themselves to enormous
heights. -
Wonderlngly they cased, until further
observation was interrupted by a mirth
ful chuckle behind them. Whom should
they see but their old friend, "Dacky"!
He was now garbed in his own flesh.
Instead of being a mere skeleton, and .
would' have appeared horrible, indeed,
to the boy and girl had he not grinned
in such a friendly fashion.
"We meet again," murmured Dacky,
with a still wider grin.' He added:
"I believe-you are strangers here, and,
as I've already' grown fond of you oh,
yes. very, very fond of you I'm going
to be your guide.".
Upon Dacky'a invitation, they climbed
on his broad back; the great wings
flapped, and. with another chuckle, the
Immense, toothed, bird soared Into the
air. .'i
(CONTINUED NEXT SUNDAY.)
Prince Johann s Pony
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TNY as is this handsome pony, ha
seems many sizes too : large for
his little master. Prince Johann
lipoid, who Is the son of the Duke
of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
The pony Is a gift from King- Ed
ward. He Is already -fond of little
Prince Johann and takes the very
best care of him.
Makers of
MANY of th tittle wooden animals
i every boy or girl at som tlm .
possesses come from' far away.
Great number axe " tiennany.
. In Nuremberg, at the edg of th Black
Forest, thousands and thousand of
- these toys are made each year, .
Not only very family but every vil
lage in the toymaklng district has its
" own particular toy to manufacture. The
whole family works at this industry.
turning out numbers of some one kind of .
animal. If another family should adopt
the manufacture of the sam style of :
animal there Is bound to be a dispute.
Tha 1400 inhabitants of Selffen hav for
their specialty wooden animal in pen .
and Noah's arks.- ,
Perhap you -may b Interested to (
. know Just how . a toy f this kind Is
mad. First, a Urge clrcl oj whit
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The Captive
Brownie
ISH I had an Aladdin's tamp
or a magic ring," muttered
But I beard him say thla o many;
times that I didn't notice the remark.
..Roddy was always, wishing for what
he didn't have. To give him something
elsa to think about, I suggested that wa
,. take baseball gloves ana a ball and go
out in the yard for a catch., ;
,' Now, we kept what we called our
"sporting fooda" In " a, great chest,
which we had discovered a long time
ago In the garret. Mother was only too
glad to have u make use' of It, inas
much as she found baseballs and topa
and shinny sticks scattered throughout
the house. '.--.., -. , ;
'Brother Roddy flung hack the lid of
the chest, but. Instead of selecting the
gloves, -he stared into the chest, his
eyee big with astonishment. I, looked
in, too. and I s'pose. I must have looked
Just as surprised. For there, on the bot
tom of the box, was a tiny elf.
The manikin winked solemnly at ua
and then went on examining th base
ball he held in hia hands.
"What do you use this for?" he piped,
after a long scrutiny of the ball.
. Roddy and I explained as clearly aa
we could the rules of baseball. All thla
seemed to-interest the elf greatly.
"BANGED THE LID SHUT"
"I do believe." said he. "that I could
- show you boys how to pitch all sorts
of magic curves and shoots.''
Turning suddenly upon him, Roddy
demanded: - "Then you understand
magic?" 1
Hardly did the elf nod his head than
Roddy seized the lid of the chest and
banged it shut, crying to me:
"Come! help me fasten it. W mustn't
let this little chap get away. We can
-make him do maglo for ua."
While I thought It a shame to Im
prison such a friendly little elf, I
thought Roddy knew more about maglo
' than I, so I helped htm lock the chest.
Roddy was Jubilant. He could talk of
nothing but what the elf should do
for ua
We shall keep him locked up until
tomorrow. By that time, no doubt,
he'll be willing to do whatever w
ask." .
, Next morning w arose bright and
early. As we made our way to the
chest, Roddy, whispered excitedly:
"First of all, I'm going to make him
learn my lessons for today."
Cautiously we unlocked th box.
Then we opened the lid Just c crack.
I couldn't see anything at all, so I
told Roddy we'd, have to open it
Wider. This we did, carefully, and
found, to our amazement, that the elf
had disappeared. And, furthermore,
in place of our former baseballs and
bats and gloves there were now tiny
baseballs and gloves everything had
been changed to such a small sis
that you had to look twice before you
could see it Roddy picked up a wee
note in the bottom of the chest. This
is what he read:
"Dear Roddy:
"I really wanted to ba of service
to you and your brother. But I labor
only for my friends. If you will look
at your baseball goods, however, you
will see that I've don some maglo
for you.
"I am going now the same way by
which I came. You don't suppose that
an elf who can do magio for others
can't do a little for hlmselt. do you?
"WHILLYKINS."
There wasn't anything to do but
whistle and Roddy and X did that
dismally. I didn't care so very, very
much, but Roddy has never ceased to
regret th abuse of his one L-eat op
portunity. Famous toys'
wood Is cut and grooved to "form th
outlines of the horse or dog or elephant,
as the case may ba. - Then from this
wheel Is sliced portions. Just as a loaf
of bread is sliced. The animal is now
F reduced in the rough. But by 'care
ully smoothing and finishing, and then
by painting, your animal ts soon com
pleted. It may readily be seen that
these toy makers become exceedingly
skilful, inasmuch as each makes no
mora than one kind of animal. -,
At regular Intervals agents visit th .
different, families and" buy their manu
factures. From great shipping center
they finally reach) ua. .
. However stupid your wooden donkey
or piggy may teem you cannot bv.t ad
mit that be has seen a great deal of th
world probably much mora .than you
have een. i ..
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