Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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THE SPECTATOR 17 Gertrude, l will put my dollar in and get a lot of money back. She placed her dollar on a queer figure and watched her dollar dis- appear with the rest. But when no dollar returned she began to cry. The wheel spun again. There was a ring of a bell, and before she knew what had happened the man had shoved a big pile of money before her. Take it, said heg you have won it. So surprised was she that she did not see her father rush in until he had her in his arms. Child, put it back, he cried. But, father, said she, Uthe man said it was mine. Her father gath- ered her up in his arms, his eyes strangely wet, and together they left the place, while the banker cried, You wing hfty up and Eve around. F. R. W., 'o5. A Moonlit Stream I Like the stars of heaven beaming, Through the distant shadows gleaming, Shines the stream, Where beneath the ivy creeping, And the ferns and grasses sleeping, And the graceful willows weeping, Shone the gleam Cf the stream, Deeply hidden in the vistas of my dream. ll Bright the golden moon was shining, On the watery sheet reclining, In my dreamy Silvery throats of light were singing, Airy voices high were ringing, Wreaths and garlands forms were bringing, By the gleam Of the stream, Nlaking night's divinest visions what they seem. lll And to-night the moonlit shadows, And the golden colored meadows, Seem the dream, While the music and the dances And the airy forms and glances Make aught else dissembled trances, Ee'n the beam On the stream, Which reflects the liquid image of my theme. i-'o5.

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16 THE SPECTATOR The Hand qf the Weak CA TRUE STORYD. WHAT Monte-Carlo is to France, that Baden-Baden is to Ger- many, though in not so marked a degree, for French blood is not so content with ordinary recreation as is the German. Not many years ago there lived in the hills just outside the city of Baden a simple peasant by the name of Heinrich von Peisen. With his wife and little girl, Gertrude, he occupied a small milk farm, the produce of which he sold in Baden and Rastatt. With this income he could doubtless have lived pleasantly had the farm not been mortgaged. As it was, however, he was barely able to pay interest on the debt by his and his wife's combined efforts. Thus Gertrude, being brought, up so economically, had from her first recollection saved all the pennies given to her or earned by running errands, until at the age of eight she had in her possession exactly one German dollar. One Saturday, to her great delight, she was allowed to accompany her father to town with his load of vegetables. Her father was unusually silent and did not respond to her conversation, but sat gloomily holding the lines. Little Gertrude noticed this and it troubled her, so that she asked, What is the matter, father?, My child, said he, 1 am troubled because we can no longer live on our farm, but must move away. The crops this year have been a failure, and we must go. Gertrude's heart swelled with sympathy and sorrow, and she restrained her tears with effort. Then she remembered her dollar, and she thought at first of giving it to him, but on a later impulse resolved to buy him'a gift to cheer him. They were now in the city, and Heinrich pulled up in front of a mansion and went around behind it with samples of his wares. Now, thought Gertrude, while he is gone I will go into one of these pretty stores and buy him a gift. She started down the nar- row street looking everywhere for something to please her father, until she was attracted by a peculiar sight. ln a large room paved with tiles and beautifully frescoed she saw men and women sitting around high tables. They all had scoops in their hands and were moving back and forwards piles of money, most of it gold. Gertrude was so fascinated that at last she went up to a table to see more closely what they were doing. No one paid any atten- tion to her as she approached, but continued shoving the money back and forth, while a man in the center spun a big wheel and cried, Fifty up and tive around. When the wheel stopped he would cry either You win or You lose. How simple, thought

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I8 THE SPECTATOR -M he 'irligb Sc bool Spectator. TTJOYISINSTOWN, PA., SEPTEMBER, 1904. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 40 CENTS. PER COPY, 5 CENTS EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS STAFF. Editor-in-Chief, WILLIAM HOFFMAN, 'o5. Associate Editors. FRED G. SMITH. '05- GEORGE STAMMLER. '05, NIERLE KFHORNER. '05, ETHEL PINDER. 'o5. CLARA SUPPES. '05. KATHARINE ENDSLEY. 'o5. GEORGE WEAVER. '05, Chief Business Manager, JAS. K. BOYD. JR., 'o5. Associate Business Managers, ' KINTER KOONTZ, 'o5, RAYMOND GOOD, '05, RALPH BOLSINGER, 'o5, ROBERT ENTWISLE, '06, FRANK MARDIS, '06, LANGDON MARX. 'o6. EDWARD HOERLE. 'o5. Class Reporters. DOUGLASS STOREY, '07, RIGHTER LONGSHORE. 'o7. THE SPECTATOR is published monthly during the school term. Address all communications to THE SPECTATOR, High School Building, Johnstown, Pa. Entered at the Postofhce, Johnstown, Pa., as second-class mail matter, In order to Insure publication in the current Issue, all MSS. must be handed in to the editor not later than the 1th of each month. Dre Editor's Viewf With this month's issue The Spectator be- gins its seventh volume. The staff desires the hearty co-operation of everybody in its endeav- ors to make The Spectator a paper of the Y school, by the school, and for the school. The Spectator solicits essays, poems, and short stories from the students. All contributions, from Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, will receive like consideration. The paper, as in the past, is intended to represent the school, and shall be the voice and reflec- tor of their opinions and ideas. Those having an idea or