MIDDLEBURG POST.
Timothy, the Tint
BY CROMWELL GALPIN.
be-;
breath as a mountain of solid gveea
wittr advanced toward him from the
rain, be ' iibed her over. As
fore, the kheet was held last; but ( oceam
this titn a puff of wind caught the j But the Bometimes relentless sea
i sail and the boat turned over. The , BOmetimes strangely merciful,
four persona who had been aboard The big grevn wave lifted the ex
made a rood deal of splashing as fcausted boy tenderly, passed under
J
TUK firt lay of Timothy Karn
hnm ut the I." Angeles high
School was distinctly uncomfortable,
and the other days of the week were
Bo less unpleasant to the boy. Tim
thv's father und his family liad re
entry arrived "from the east," which
in southern California means from
sonic portion of the I'nited States
east of Denver: in Timothy's case
it referred to southern Knnsas,
where the waters of the shallow
Streams grow warm early in the
Slimmer and stay warm till late In
the fall.
Timothy found the western boys
I his own age no inure than his
equals in school work, and hoped
to gain standing and to make friends
among them r he had done among
Schoolmates in the "east."
In the middle of the morning ses
sion of the tirst day Timothy saw
n his desk an envelope addressed to
aim. He opened it and drew forth
the enclosure. Something flew out
M the folded cardboard unclosed,
and Timothy struck at it, uttering a
shriek worthy of tin most nervous
girl in the room.
Then be discovered it was a "kb
tig-bug;" that is to say, a hairpin
nd n piece of rubber so twisted to
gether as to unwind with a buzz I
when taken frojn the envelope. Tim
othy had been startled even more
than the maker of the kissing-biig
Bad hoped, ami there was smothered
laughter among the boys and gig
rling among the girls.
As the teacher in charge turned
toward Timothy, William Peters
rose.
"I put a kissing bug on Mr. Karn
h.Hiu's seat." he said. "1 thought
lie would op n the envelope before
the class was called to order, and
really, I didn't know that Timothy
was so timid," And the force of the
teacher's reproof was lessened by the
smile he could not hide.
If the matter had ended there it
would have been forgotten very
soon, l'ut at noon Will, who was a
leader of the hoys inclined to ath
letic sports, declined to ullow Tim
othy a place in the bne-ui) for a
practice football game, and Timothy
made such remarks as wit and ill
auture suggested, the result being
that two boys who might have been
(rood friends were in a fair way to
become bitter enemies. To Timothy
. even this seemed less to be regretted
than the fact that the other boys
ml the class were inclined to follow
bill's le- ' - - . ...
Three of Ms friends, "AM .Amnion
and Joe and George Brown, were
specially ingenious and persistent
in inventing nlliterative variation's
f "Timothy, the Timid" and " Ti-
rous Timmy," which the other luys
took up and repeated till it seemed
that Timothy's name was never men
tioned without :m adjective implying
Cowardice. As the days passed, even
the little fellows in th" classes lie-
they found places by which to hold
on to the overturned craft.
A ripple of laughter ran along the
shore. At Santa Monica n tip-over Is
not considered serious, for every
body who goes out in a small boat
rather expects a wetting. Kven the
fishermen change their ordinary
clothes for b.hing-suits before go
ing through the surf. At high tide
the surf Is so high that no small boat
ean live In it.
So when this boat turned over the
crowd looking on laughed, and ex
changed good-naturedly contemptu
ous remarks concerning the skill of
the boatmen us they waited for the
crew to right the craft and take to
the oars to work her out to sea, for
the wind was driving her toward the
breakers.
lint the men made no attempt to
riirht the boat. Clinging to the nl-
him, breaking just beyond, and swept
roaring to the shore.
Three good breaths restored Tim
othy's senses und revived his cour
age; he had not been near enough
to drowning to lose his strength.
There were still more waves to be
passed before the boy was beyond
the surf. Hut there were no more
double-headers, and Borne of the
waves did not break till they neared
the shore, Timothy swam on, soon
finding himself beyond the rollers
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and among vast waves that rose and $0 tue wor most judiciously the op-
fell, but did not break,
Then he heard a cry: "Help!
Help!" It was a strident voice, but
weak, as of one too frightened to till
his lungs for a good, honest shout.
As Timothy raised himself in the
water and turned his eyes in the di
rection whence the souud seemed to
come, he saw tue ooai ne nau
. , v iinitr, lie out? wi v
most submerged sides, they seemed wntched from t,,e Khore anJ reoog.
to he waiting to drift ashore.
"If they let her get into that
surf," snid the man sitting near Tim
othy, "that boot'll go to pieces like
an egg shell in an ore-crusher."
One of the men clinging to the boat
waved his hand to the people on the
shore, and Timothy stood up.
"That's n pretty stiff surf," he said,
"but I guess I'd better go out and
tell them to keep off till the tide
turns and the surf goes down."
Timothy was a swimmer, and in
ured to surf, work by his month at
the shore. Although he had never
battled with waves so heavy as those
before him, he felt little doubt of his
ability to make his way through
them.
He walked slowly seaward, follow
ing a receding wave and meeting nn
olhcr coining, and dived into green
ish-brown water seeming ns steep
and ns high as the wall of a house. 1
He had 1aken a good breath and
needed it all before he had another
opportunity to breathe; but he
caught the undertow and felt him- j
self scraped against the sandy hot- j
toni as he was swipt seaward, tie
came to the surface n few seconds
later an yards from shore, and in the j
middle of the trough between two'
waves; llius lie nan time to empiy
nicd in the persons clinging to her
sides Will Peters and the three boys
who had so persistently nicknamed
him Timorous Timmy.
The boat was right side up, but
full of water; the mast, stepped
through the bow thwart and without
stays, had been unshipped, and with
the sail was dragging ustern. The
wind was light, but the boat was
driving slowly shoreward, anil the
boys clinging to her were not mak
ing the slightest effort to keep her
off, although they could not but
know that if they attempted to
reach shore through the heavy surf
the destruction of the boat was cer
tain and their death by drowning
inevitable.
"Hallo:" shouted Timothy. "Keep
her off! Keep her off till the surf
goes down!"
As he called, n vagrant wave broke
to seaward of the prevailing surf
line. Timothy dived, rising close to
the overturned boat and seeing three
boys wildly clutching for more se
cure hold on the wreckage.
Within arm's length of the boat,
but having altogether lost his hold,
Will Peters was thrashing nboiit,
arms and legs out of the water half
the time and head under all the time.
his lungs and to till them again be- j He was not a swimmer.
fore the next roller was upon bun.
He dived again, ond again the un
dertow swept him from the shore,
and again he rose in the trough of
the sea, well in advance of the on
coming wave. He shook the water
from his eyes, nnd then straightened
out to ti.': -.s deep n breath os he
could fore- 'ito his lungs. The wave
before hi u was a "double-header,"
tronger swimmer than
t admit that he was
:t exposing his courage
low joined in the spirt, greatly to
Timothy's discomfort. Thinking
mv r the matter, he sensibly con
cluded to do nothing until some
thing seemed certainly the right
thing to do; and he made no answer
to galling remarks.
Schoolboys as a rule soon tiro of
any game steadily pursued, and Tim
othy's plan of non-resistance would
in time have secured immunity from
persecution at worst only half ill
natured. Hut his patience was not
put. to test.
On Saturday Will und his three
friends rode down to the bench on
their bicycles, reaching the seashore
at eight o'clock in the moitiMig. Tim
othy also decided to go swimming.
So, taking the electric car for Santa
Monica, be entered the bath housn
from the shore side ns the clock
struck ten. lie undressed, donned
a bathing suit and went out on the
beach.
Many people set on the benches.
and more on the sand, but there were j
ui bathers iii the water. The sea
was like a vast mirror. The or six ,
hundred feet from the land the shin-
ing water rose slowly, green and .
graceful, as a heavy ground swell J
swept, shoreward. Half way in flecks !
of white foam appeared on the crest j
of the little mountain of water; all
the top grew white as the wave be- I
came perpendicular; then the mass
toppled upon the sand with a tre
mendous slap that woke the echoes
in the bluffs till all other sound was
drowned in 1 1n- roar of surf as the
wavp broke on the beach.
With both the sights and the
sounds Timothy was familiar, hav
ing spent a month along the sea be
fore school began. Tumbling walls
nt water six feet high more than
rsnnpt the bather to slay ashore.
A quarter of a mile from the beach.
ell outside me urcuKcrs aim nine t
affected by the itwcll, was a small j
Vmt with a big sail, carrying four j
people in bathing dress, evidently
en, as they were bareheaded, i
Timothy watched them, wondering
Sdly why they had hauled the sheet !
aboard while sailing dead brfcirr the j
mind. As he looked, the helmsman
fut the tiller down and the little '
aft rounded up to port nnd heeled
ver as the breeze caught the sail,
still hauled close.
"What do you suppose he thinks
fc's trying to do?" laughed a man,
Mttiag near Timothy.
Slowly the boat straightened up as
,tfce man at the helm again put her
Jsefors the wind. Still he kept her
pro-hauled, and aUJLlPg W b.Stal,
mid even
Timothy
ii f raid w'
to suspi
A oouo., cornier is only nnir us liIi
:i' t'lewnvr- series of which it Is on
giilur member, but its menace to
t..e swimmer is murli more. Hetween
two ordinary wnves is a trough of
flat water, allowing the swimmer a
chance to breathe; between the
halves of a double-header there is
also a trough, but it is filled with
lather and foam much too thick for
breathing, yet too thin to support
Hie swimmer. He must either take
a deep brenth and hold it if he can
lying still till the wave passes over
him, or he must take a breath equal
ly deep, dive ti ml swim if he can
under water till the increasing light
tells hiin he has passed under the
stretch of sea which is boiling and
frothing like a horrible great caldron.
Timothy preferred to dive.
As he went down he had some fear
that he might never come up again,
together with a feeling of thankful
ness for the two seconds of grace
that had allowed him to go down
with his lungs well-filled with nir.
The distance under a double-header
is four times that under other waves
running at the same time, and the
undertow offers no aid to the swim
mer, for instead of a current run
ning strongly seaward, it is a mere
tangle of swirling water running no
where. Timothy dived deep, striking
out strongly but carefully, and open
ing his cyi
1'iider an ordinary wave the light
is blue-green; under a double-header
there is mo light, for water lashed
into foam is opaque as a plank ceil
mg. Salt water hurt I imothy s eyes,
and he kept them open only long
cnoutrh to make sure that he was in
the dark.
The pressure on his lungs became
intolerable, and he let out some of
the air in them, immediately wishing
he had tried to save it a few seconds
longer. He opened his yes, saw no
ign of light in the black mass above
him. and struck out again, fear
clutching nt his heart as he felt how
ineffective had been his stroke, and
realized that repetition of even such
weak effort was beyond his power
until he might brenthe again. Then
t he felt himself trving to laugh at
the remarks those fellows in the
boat would make about him when
they got nshore, nnd he wondered
half-stupidly if this was the begin
ning of the delirium that comes to
the swimmer who hns made his fight
and lost.
A sort of frenzy seized him, ond
he struggled wildly to reach the sur
face. Only for a second. "You
haven't got me yet!" Savagely de
fiant the words seemed to form
themselves and to find some strange
method of utterance. He lay without
movement, strange lights flushing
before his eyes.
He flonted slowly to the surface,
bo nearly unconscious that he hard
ly knew enough to be glad when he
felt the sunshine on his face. Ilia
lungs had emptied themselves, and
be iold over on hie back to draw.
Timothy with his left hand reached
for the gunwale of the boat, and with
his right seized Will, who put both
arms around Timothy's neck, almost
instantly to release his hold and at
tempt to climb into the boat, which
promptly turned bottom upward.
"Hold on!" shouted Timothy.
"You can't keep your feet dry here.
Hang on to the side and help tow her
out!"
I'nder Timothy's direction the
boat was righted and her bow turned
away from the shore. Two boys
co ii M ut i'ui, ao,l they nimply ttng
on; two could swim a little, and they
gave Timothy such aid as they could
in working the boat farther from the
surf line. Then they bailed her out
with n tin pan tied to a thwart to
guard against loss under just such
circumstances, climbed over the side,
pulled the mast and sail aboard and
got out the oars for a pull to Long
wharf, where the boat had been hired
rand where the boys had left their
clothes. Nobody suggested an at
tempt to raise the sail.
As they dipped the oars for the
first stroke another boat drew along
side, manned by four fishermen.
"Don't you fellows know enough
to k"cp your boat out of the surf?
Want, any help?" asked one of the
fishermen.
"We do," said Timothy, taking it
upon himself to answer both ques
tions; "but we didn't at ten o'clock
this morning. We've been ia the
water long enough to get pretty
cold. One of yu get in here nnd
give n hand down to Long wharf;
let me get Into your boat nnd put
me ashore nt the Arcadia wharf.
"I'll pay vou for your trouble,"
'said Will, speaking for the first time
since he had called for help.
ihe suggested changes were soon
made, ond in due time the sniling
party reached Long wharf.
The boys went nshore, dressed
settled with the fisherman and the
boat owner, and rode their bicycles
to the bath house, where they px
pected to see Timothy, but did not
They spent some time looking for
him nnd then regretfully took the
bicycle path for home.
Timothy had left the fisherman's
boat at the Arcadia wharf, gone to
the bath house nnd dressed. Lacking
the 3,1 cents necessary to pny cor
fare, he then took the bicycle pnth
for a 16-mile walk to his home. Four
or five miles out n wheelman passed
him with a rush, but stopped a few
yards beyond. It was Joe Brown,
nnd behind him came the others of
the boating party.
"Who's afraid of wet feet?" shout
ed Joe, as he come running bnck.
"Timothy Farnham's four friends!"
bawled the others In chorus, as if
practicing a new class yell.
"Into whose bends has some sense
soaked?" sang out one of the others.
"Heads of Tim Farnham's four
friends!" shrieked the chorus.
"Say, Tim," snid Will, "when you've
risked your life to save one you
needn't "
"Oh. cut it short! It's all right,"
said Timothy.
"Yes, it's all right," answered Will.
"But if you'll ride my wheel home, or
ride by turns, 111 take it as an honor;
if you'll teach me to swim I'll be
burro long enough to carry you home
on my back. And," rather sheepishly,
"we won't talk any more about Tim
othy's timidity."
And the promise was faithfully
kept. Youth's Companion.
erator must understand the prin
ciples involved, then apply them to
each case. Skill in pruning can come
only with experience and practice.
Perhaps the most important thing
is to observe the manner in which
the fruit is borne. For instance, an
apple or pear tree bears its fruit
mostly on "fruit spurs," and so would
not be pruned in the same way as a
peuch tree, which bears it frtlit only
on last season's growth. A quince
tree, which produces its fruit on the
tips of the growth made the present
season, would naturally be pruned
differently from either an apple r
peach tree. Likewise, the correct
pruning of grapes is based on the
fact that the thoots of the present
season produce this year's crop. The
same principle in pruning holds true
throughout the whole list of fruits
that is, the manner in which the
fruit is borne should govern the man
ner of pruning.
In a general way, it may be said
in regard to tree fruits that oil dead
brunches should be removed nnd the
tops of the trees be kept sufficiently
open to admit an abundance of sun
light for the coloring of the fruit,
liensonahly open tops ore also of
great advantage in spraying the
trees and in harvesting the fruit.
The natural habit of the tree should
suggest the form to be adopted by
the primer. In other words, a tree
the branches of which naturally
droop cannot well be pruned to an
upright form, and a tree with a
stroner tendency toward forming an
upright head cannot readily be mai
to assume a decidedly spreading
form. Of course these natural tend
encies ean be influenced in n measure
by the manner of pruning, but they
cannot be entirely overcome. The
tops should be kept symmetrical nnd
as well balanced ns possible.
The pruning of the various kinds of
small fruits is based on the same
general principles us the pruning of
fruit trees thnt is, the manner in
which the fruit is borne nnd the
character of the growth should gov
ern the method of pruning. Farm
ers' Bulletin, No. 161.
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