Bret Harte Union High School - Sierra Vista Yearbook (Angels Camp, CA)

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'R 'Th FOIRIEWOIRD LITERATURE IS THE REACHING AFTER BEAUTY AND SELF-EX- PRESSIONg THE CREATION OF LITERATURE IS A UNIVERSAL IM- PULSE. THE BOYS AND GIRLS, WHOSE CONTRIBUTIONS APPEAR IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES, HAVE YIELDED THEMSELVES TO THIS IMPULSE. IN A RARE MOMENT OF HIGHER SELF-REALIZ- ATION, A POEM HAS BEEN CONCEIVED, OR AN ORIGINAL IDEA HAS BEEN CAPTURED. PERHAPS ANOTHER SUCH HAPPY MO- MENT WILL NEVER COME AGAIN IN THEIR LIVES, AND THE ARTISTIC IMPLUSE MAY LIE DORMANT THROUGH' THE YEARS OF WORK IN THE WORLD. THEN LET US TREASURE THESE EF- FORTS IN VVHICH THE AUTHORS HAVE STRUGGLED TO MAKE IMMORTAL A PART OF THEIR YOUNG- SELVES. THEY MAY NEVER AGAIN MAKE THE ATTEMPT OR COME SO NEAR TO THE REALIZING OF A DREAM.

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Page F0yfy.ning YE COMPLETE ll-lIlIS'll'0lRlIE OIF THE IU. S. BOUT the time that Victor Hugo swam the Hellespont for Delilah, Cristoforo Colombo manned the Shamrock IV and busted all records from Cuba to Los Angeles because Queen Victoria wanted Roy Gard- ner to direct her latest picture. VVhen Cris landed in Yosemite Valley, he left John Paul Jones and Admiral Dewey in charge, and taking Georgie Wash- ington, they went on a Cook's tour through Montana. They were strolling down Main Street when they saw VVill Rogers and Buck jones herding some Armour and Company's future hams down Telegraph Avenue. Georgie thought it was cruelty to animals when Will told a funny story and one of the pigs rolled over the cliff and was dashed to death at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, so Cris called up the S. P. C. A., and Miller and his friend Lux were sent down to catch the culprit. They threw Willie in the reform school, so Georgie and Cris decided they had seen enough of the Wild West and went back to Hollywood to look for Roy. They found out that he was in San Quentin, so Cris, rather than take a chance on Vic's temper, decided to settle down in the U. S. . They sent Jonesy and Kid Dewey back to Manila with the scow and to- gether with Abie Lincoln, the boys pitched their wigwam on lower Broad- way. About this time Stevie Foster and Izzie Berlin decided that the price of Fords was too high and they stirred up the wild Hollywood Sheiks and start- ed the revolutionary vvar. The Sheiks were led by Abou Ben Adhem, while Hank Ford marshalled his own forces. Hank came out on top and the price of Fords went up six-bits, while the Sheiks, with the exception of Ben Turpin and Bull Montana, were totally de- molished. Dempsey and Willie King being destroyed by the first blast from Hankls exhaust. g Things were peaceful for a few months until Al jolson decided that his poor uncle Tom should work no longer for the cruel Simon Legree, and thus the Civil VVar started. Al and Jack johnson couldn't get along, since both wanted to be Commander in Chief of the rebel coonsg and the revolt fell through. However, Teddy Roosevelt thought that it was a good cause, so he signed the Declaration of Independence and set Al's family free. Nothing important happened until Paul Revere discovered gold on the Saint Lawrence, then the rush for Arkansaw began, which was the inspira- tion for the immortal ballad, The Arkansaw Traveler. l Then LaSalle discovered San Francisco, which was later made famous by Trixie Friganza, when she invented her famous shimmy. This iniiuenced the boys to move, and they shifted their wigwam to Third and Market, where Cris, being Italian, set up a fruit stand, this left Georgie and Abie out in the rain, so Abie got a job splitting rails for the S. P. R. R., and Georgie threw silver dollars across to Sausalito for Barnum 81 Bailey.