Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

Text from Pages 1 - 256 of the 1907 volume:

oe ee ee RSS Nn NEA THE MAGNE’T Leominster Hicu Scuoor Leominster, Mass. OCTOBER, 1907 A ey 3 a 3 “ Laat , i Rc tige The Duxcratt St titi hein 386 Main St, Fitchburg j EGOS HAE ‘cs Hall Perry, ‘Portraits and Works of Photography of every kind, Pictures, Frames, Pottery, Kodaks and Amateur Supplies, % a % Japanese Pictures and Pottery. Photographers to Leominster Hich § Si VISITORS WELCOME Appointments for Photographs by Telepy “EXPERIENCED SCHOOL MEN Re OLD ei Fitchburg Business College © re, cat ‘ if The Ideal! Schoo bate | We have a very pleasant suite of rooms, b school be sure to ean nada a a school r ! We are proud. of our school rooms; we are wets a school, Come during school hours and see both rooms a 84 Franklin ‘St. ae Special discount to Ln Ss. Students, Aa Patronize our Advertisers, | Rint if) 4 hy tn ma 4 i Ps , if! A, PN? i k Pint NS aH Tey Pani wv a Pid yey ‘nl n vial AONE al fils { t CF Hi fi fay det raf fet Po io Mi } � iJ ial he vi ¥ y ¢ , ‘ ft, ahd 4 4 t Compl 220€ lS of Merriam, Gall Cu. We can sometimes employ Bright Boys and Srna. Gigs at fair wages. Leominster Button Co. The Goodale Comb Co. MANUFACTURERS OF COMBS, HAIR-PINS, ETC. Water St., Leominster, Mass. Established 1858 Campliments of Pickering-Metcalf Qn. Incorporated 1871 meee Whitney Carriage Co. Manufacturers of Children’s Carriages and Go-Carts Leominster, Mass. Compliments of ‘E. B. Ringman Compliments of Bay State Comb Co. Compliments of Newton Herriman Compliments of Williams and Winn Cn. Patronize our Advertisers. vO LEOMINSTER BAKING CO. Compliments of BASSETT BAKER Bakers, Caterers, and Ice Cream Telephones 102-5 and 8074 Bakers and Caterers The WILKINSON WALL PAPER CO.’ Fac, Wall Paper Co. Wall Paper, Window Shades, , Ae ERE : 11A Pleasant Street 30 Main St., Leominster Up Stairs Telephone Connection F. Sawtelle - cae ae W. A. Fuller Lumber Co. HARD v ARE Wholesale and Retail Dealers Bargains in Stamps FRANK TRACY, LL iy pepe ors pe Auctioneer and Liberal House Furnisher Pads, all colors, 10c and 15c and dees F.L. PERRY New and Second Hand Furniture and Stoves OFFICE SUPPLIES 48 Monument Square 63 MECHANIC ST., LEOMINSTER Regular Auction Sales Saturdays at 7.30 p. m. Aiea, SIRI G NE sys J: J. TYEER eee INSURANCE a STORAGE Bank Block . | 30 MAIN. ST. LEOMINSTER, MASS. HUNT and DERBY John B. Farnsworth Real Estate Heating and Plumbing K, R ; : a ee | Opposite Depot, Leominster, Mass. THE DAMON COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF Horn and Gelluloid Geode of the best quality only LEOMINSTER, MASS, “The Quality Counts.’ Weta raimk ier! ety) Piano Case Cae Piano-Forte Cases, Founded 1850 Incorporated 1887 J. M. LOCKEY, Pres. — Patronize our Advertisers, BELLE MEAD SWEETS Just Sugar, Fruit, and Chocolate. No better Confections at any price. Half Pounds 3octs. Pounds 60 cts. Sold only by PIERSON PHARMACY COMPANY THE REXALL STORE Established 1874 Girard, the Tailor E. E. Burdett, Ph. G. : APOTHECARY Columbia Block ihe oe es a We want all the boys to call and see EROwWN, THE TAILOR when in need of Custom Clothing. We do Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing. 7 Main Street. 3 S : S KER? (eSS _ WECKER? ales Preiser Beta se Established 1887 492 Main St., WORCESTER, MASS. Incorporated 1907 | HIGHEST GRADE COMMERCIAL SCHOOL IN NEW ENGLAND | We placed 93 per cent. of our last year’s graduates in good salaried positions. Our system of individual instruction advances the pupil more quickly and more thoroughly than the usual classmethods. Our graduates go forth competent to fill responsible positions. STUDENTS CAN ENTER AT ANY TIME Our reference board includes the leading dusiness men and concerns of Worcester, our pupils have long been pre- ferred by them. Visit our School, or write tor Catalogue. Do not forget to call at Fine Stationery Also Orders iy = CHAFFIN’S Popular Music taken for eee Card Engraving and Anything in the Music line. Rubber Stamps ‘ j G. E. KENNEY CO., I57 Main St., Fitchburg 38 Monument Sq., Leominster You must come and see us _ Others have done so and learned fel C. HOSMER that they get superior photos at | Newsdealer, lower prices when they visit Stationery, and lenkeo] =p GERQDAN ee Souvenir Post Cards é | COAL Leominster Fuel Best quality, always on hand. C A. L. PARKMAN OMLpAny 24 School St. Tel. 540 Patronize our Advertisers. “OGHIS HOH 2 LS NTNOAs! “4 | ae Se See SN “DHE MAGNET Vol. I eOVINS TER; MASS. OCTOBER, 1907 No. 1 EDITORIAL STAFF: RICHARD H. SCANLON, Managing Editor, eee saicn’ Advertising Editors. co ute tere Subscription Editors. LEON J. MILLER. Exchange Editor. ARTHUR S. KLoss, Sketch Editor. ALEXANDER SNOW, Boys’ Athletics. DOROTHY WHITTIER, Girls’ Athletics. BERNICE L. PRouty, School Notes. FLORENCE EDSON, Personals. ASSISTANTS: Lillian Barron, Lloyd Jobes, Robert Griffin, William O'Neil, Ernest Johnson, Albert Wood, Howard Corkum. Published monthly during school year by pupils of the High School. Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents, Editorials S this is but the first issue of our paper, we do not desire very sharp criticism from the readers. We hope in time to make it a success, if the scholars of the school can be brought out of their usual phlegmatic state long enough to write. There has been a great need of something of this sort for a long time; something that the scholars, one and all, can call their own; and something for which all can work. For, certainly, every one can feel, when he contributes toward its support, that he does it not only to benefit the paper, but to benefit himself and his school, which surely we all wish to see on a level with surrounding schools. Consequently we earnestly desire the support of a the schol- ars and of all the citizens, who are interested in their high school, as certainly every one should be. We shall be very thankful to receive short stories, humorous or otherwise, poems, and original jokes from all the scholars. Also the editor of “School Notes” would be very glad to receive 5 6 THE MAGNET notes from the room editors and personal hits from everybody in. school. At least it is good practice in English, and there-are none of us who do not need that practice. Furthermore, we feel that there ought to be some good talent among the lower classes, which should be developed. What better way is there than to bring it before the eye of the public? | By the time of our next issue we think that the interest of the school will have risen so that we shall be able to furnish an inter- esting magazine. We wish to thank heartily all the subscribers, and we sincerely hope they will pardon the first offence. There seems at present to be a general lack of “push” to the school, which should be remedied at once. We start in studying and grind away for eight or ten weeks with nothing to relax the tension caused by study; whereas in surrounding schools there is a class dance, a lecture in the school, or a reception, nearly all the time. Some may say to this that there is no use in trying anything new, as none of the classes before have done so. But does it ap- peal to common sense that we must follow along in the same old furrow which was plowed up by classes years ago, without doing anything new or original to give our own class a name? Something in this matter should be done, and done at once. It cannot be due toa lack of talent in the school, and if not, it must be attributed to slowness. Now, worthy and dignified Seniors, it is for you, the superior power, to “start the ball a-rolling” and give the undergraduates a good sample of progressiveness. Begin at once with a reception of some kind, or obtain a lecturer from out of town to speak in the assembly hall, which surely was not intended for morning ex- ercises ovz y. Neither was the stage there made for no other pur- pose than orchestra rehearsals. The velour curtains make it seem that it might possibly have been intended for the production of small plays, acted, let us hope, by the class of 1908. This would be making an original departure from the ways of preceding classes, THE MAGNET - and while putting money into the treasury of the class would at the same time tend to increase the outside interest in the school. Now, classmates, we beg of you to look into this matter very closely. Get together, and let every one express his ideas; put some vim into the matter. And, lastly, come to some definite con- clusion immediately. We hope that next month the scholars, especially the editors of the lower classes, will have more inclination and time to devote to the paper than they have had this month. The general lack of disorder and ungentlemanly conduct in the school is very noticeable at present. The rougher elcment, which once gave the Leominster High School a bad moral stand- ard, has long since taken flight, and left in its place boys and girls who understand what they are there for. The citizens of the town have done everything possible to pro- mote education. They built the present new building at a great expense; and surely the scholars should appreciate it enough not to deface the building or otherwise contrive against the good-will of their benefactors. We'could not do much toward giving the building; but we can do a lot toward keeping it. It is said that good surroundings promote good thoughts; and it certainly seems to be the case with us, for in the last year the standard of the school has been raised to a marked degree. A proof of this is the increased number of graduates from here who entered college last September. Out of a class of forty-five, twenty- five directly entered colleges or technical schools of high standing. The school has been raised to its present condition only by hard work and sharp discipline on the part of the Faculty and an aroused spirit of loyalty from the scholars themselves. It is up to every one of us to leave the building as good as we found it; to make our athletics second to none; and our work, above all, a good, straightforward, manly effort; and, frankly, Seniors, it is for you to set the example. Ricuarp H. Scanton, ’o8. 8 THE MAGNET Jack Hardy’s Chance it: ARDY had been sick about the time of the beginning of college in |) September, and it was almost a month before he was able to be- gin his studies with the Freshman class. Of course by this time circles of acquaintances had been formed, and Jack, who was somewhat reticent by nature, found it hard to become thoroughly acquainted. Thus it was that he kept strictly to his room, except when he was out for foot-ball practice, and so gained the name of being odd. Although he tried very hard, Jack did not expect to gain a place on the team his first year, and centered his abilities for the most part on playing in the second team. The coach, however, recognized great chances of abil- ity in him and played him when he could in positions on the first team. When the list of substitutes for the team was posted, Jack was nearly be- side himself for joy, for the second name from the top was his own. i. Princeton’s greatest game of the season was ushered in by a bright, brisk November day. The air was cool and sharp, making ideal weather for football, and as the men lined up for preliminary practice there was a general air of vigor and courage stamped in the form of every one of them. The Princeton men traveled by an early train to Cambridge, for the game was to be played in the Stadium; and, most important of all, Jack Hardy went, too, since he had been doing good work as “ sub.” The Stadium was filled that day to the top promenade, and a more cheer- ful and happy crowd could not have been found; for the very spirit of the day seemed to have affected every one. Hardy, wrapped in a great lettered ““P” sweater, sat on the side lines, anxiously watching every play, jumping forward with a glad shout when Princeton won a few yards, and sinking back with a groan when she lost. In the first ten’: minutes of play Harvard made a touchdown, and every Harvard sympathizer in the Stadium rose to his feet and filled the air with cheers and glad shouts. Every one watched breathlessly as a try was made for goal and—lost. 3 Harvard was unable to score again during that half, and Princeton started the second with a rush that nearly took the men in crimson off their feet. Princeton’s right half got around left end and carried the ball to the middle of the field, where he was tackled with a sickening crash. When the whis- tle blew and the men untangled themselves from the heap, Princeton’s right half-back lay still and white, and a chill went to the heart of every Prince- ton rooter. The doctor pronounced him unable to continue the game, and the hopes of every “sub” beat high, when the captain turned and looked searchingly toward them. Whom would he call? - THE MAGNET 9 “ Hardy,” called the captain; and Jack in a whirl of joy pulled off his sweater and ran quickly on to the field. He was put in at right half and set out to do or die. A center rush of Princeton netted hertwo yards. The left half-back was sent through guard, but made only a bare two yards more. It was her third down, but three minutes to play, and still six yards to make her dis- tance. Would she punt and give up her last chance or try to make her distance? The full-back drops back as if to kick, the ball is passed, and the quar- ter-back, intercepting it, passes it to Hardy, who is off around left end at once. With but one man between him and a touchdown, Jack sprints down the field with the men in crimson trailing out behind him in vain pursuit. Har- vard’s only hope rests on her quarter-back, who, with crouched shoulders, braces himself for the shock. Hardy gathers all his strength and, just as Harvard’s man dives for his knees, he rises in a magnificent leap, completely hurdling his would-be tackler. - The excitement of the Princeton rooters is lashed to a fury, as they see nothing between their man and atie score. The air isrent by a vast cheer of “’Rah, ‘rah, ’rah; ‘rah, ’rah, ’rah; ’rah, ’rah, ’rah, Hardy-y-y!”’ When Jack hurdled his man, he did not land properly, as he had not done the hurdles for some time; and his right ankle was turned clear over, sending a shooting pain, like the stab of a thousand needles, through his whole side. He staggers and almost falls; but as a groan rises from one side of the Stadium, he realizes how much the hopes of Princeton depend on him, and the thought spurs him on. He staggers on, with that horrible pain nearly overcoming him at each step. Summoning all his will power and his last ounce of strength, just as a man plunges forward to tackle him from the rear, he hurls himself bodily over the goal line, amid a cheer from twenty thousand throats. He conquers the pain just long enongh to see the goal kicked, and then, as the cheers, coupled with his name, and the shouts of his fellow students become more and more indistinct, he sinks into a sweet unconsciousness. It was his chance,—and he had made it. R. H. S., ’08. GT NIGHTFALL The golden sun is slowly sinking Slowly it sinks ‘neath the hilltops Neath the horizon far away, And finally out of sight, And its slanting golden sunbeams While a dark line, far to the Eastward, Bid a last and fond good day. | Heralds the coming night. Softly the moon steals upward, And casts its bright clear rays In the path of the poorand the rich man. Gladdening their homeward ways. Ra tinoe 0G 10 THE MAGNET Lawton’s Pluck T the report of the pistol, six runners were off. The three schools had each sent two representatives into the two-mile, the hardest endurance run of the day. For the first few yards they were well bunched; then they began to string out, a youth in a blue running suit, set- ting the pace. Lawton, in brown and white, was running his first race. He had been sent in at the last minute in place of his captain, who had wrenched an ankle in the mile. During the first few minutes of excitement the race seemed to him maddeningly slow, and with difficulty he kept from spring- ing ahead and leaving all others behind. Soon, however, he began to real- ize the necessity of harboring his strength for the finish, and he swung into the long, steady stride he had been taught in practice. His team mate, Randall, was running close behind the leader, with a chap in crimson and gray third. He followed close behind the latter. The pace remained about the same for the first half mile, and was then slightly increased. Lawton found the other inan in blue at his side, and increased his speed accordingly. He soon began to feel that he was losing his wind, and his hopes of finishing the race began to diminish. He thought of his finai directions, ‘‘ Do your best,” and decided to stay in an- other lap. At least, he resolved, he would not be the first to quit. As he plugged on, he noted with surprise that he was not growing more winded; but instead his endurance seemed to increase. By the time he had gained his second wind, the relative positions of the men had changed. The man who had been setting the pace had fallen back, leaving Randall in the lead. At the same time a tall, lank youth in crimson and gray had spurted from the rear to the second place. At the beginning of the third lap, Lawton was still in fourth place. After covering a short distance in this manner, Randall began to increase his speed, with the others close at his heels. The pace soon began to tell, and Num- ber Three dropped out. The feeling of exultation which Lawt on felt at the sight of this was soon changed to one of consternation, when he saw Ran- dall begin to show signs of weakness and fall out of his stride. After a few desperate attempts to keep up, Randall relinquished his position to the man next in line. | The fourth and last lap was reached with the crimson-and-gray still lead- ing and Lawton running desperately behind. Only the knowledge that the fate of his team rested entirely on his shoulders had kept him in the race as long as this. He felt a dull pain in his chest, and his feet seemed like leaden weights. He seemed to be running mechanically, in spite of pain and exhaustion. He determined to make a final effort, before he dropped out and spurted to the side of the leader. The latter, finding a man at his side, tried to shake him off; but Lawton clung on tenaciously. THE MAGNET II There was now but a quarter of a mile to go, and the two men were still struggling side by side. It seemed to Lawton that the strength of his com- panion was unlimited. His long, lank limbs seemed built for speed and endurance. Lawton’s own breath was coming in gasps, and it took all his will power to keep his arms from creeping up across his chest. He glanced despair- ingly at his companion’s face, and found the other looking uneasily at him. “Perhaps,” he thought, ‘““he may be as tired as J.” and plugged on. He gritted his teeth At last his persistence was rewarded; his rival began to fail, struggled on for a few paces, and then fell back. A fierce joy seized Lawton. Through a haze he saw hundreds of faces and heard cheering as at a distance. He caught a glimpse of the tape five yards away. The field was behind him. He gathered up his last ounce of strength; he staggered forward, and lunged across the line and into the arms of his friends. LncJe Mos: GA Storm at Sea First a shiver and then a shock, As the ‘bark slides over the bar. Surely we thought she had hit a rock; As the ship was passing the bar, Her helm falls off afore the breeze, And on plows the gallant bark; She jumps and rocks in the sloppy seas, Like a terrier out for a lark. Wind, wes’ nor’west; course, nor’ nor’east, She heels, as she furrows the foam; While every man within her now Is thinking fondly of home. Still stronger blows the rising gale, On comes the storm so fast, That the jibs are pulled right out their stops, And over goes one mast. It was not his fault the captain knew, Since so quickly came the gale, That neither he nor the hardy crew Had a chance to take in sail. He steers her to the shore not far, With a chance of being harbored. When half way there the furious gale Sends the other mast to starb’rd. “All hands aft,” the Captain cries, Through the ever rising din. They go and launch the only boat. All the married men step in. What became of the boat ’tis never known, They soon went out of sight, While the Captain and twelve brave men were left For their dear old ship to fight. “Breakers ahead,” -the lookout cries, And every heart sinks low: But stop! what is that speck off there Just crossing her starboard bow? A life saving crew it proved to be, Who had seen them long before. Hard work it was for the lifeboat men; But they brought the crew ashore. The Captain’s voice was strangely rough, As he brushed away a tear; While every man there thanked the Lord When he thought of his loved ones dear. RB: .Has4.08 12 THE MAGNET The Silver Apostles It had not been used, except for great occasions, since the time of Gustavus Adolphus, when the great wave of Protestantism had swept over the country. Only the iron cross embedded in the wall above the altar recalled the days when the knights and ladies of the manor had come to seek guidance and rest in the dimness of the place. A little girl was playing now among the dusty pews with their faded, moth-eaten cushions, and a slight, dark-haired woman leaned against the altar rail. There was deep sadness in the eyes that glanced about from one thing to another. Now the child was down on her knees, pulling up broken pieces of the floor; and her voice, breathless with excitement, called, ‘‘Oh! I’ve found the statues. Please do come quick.” But the woman’s face did not brighten as she answered, “ No, Lisa, dear; don’t try any more. I started that place myself, years ago, when I first came to the castle. It is probably only a story. There probably were no Statues.” “But it says so in the big red book. Great-grandfather hid them when he went to the wars, and they were all silver and ever so much higger than me. Do help, mamma, so we won't have to go to that old America.” “Dear, there are no statues there. Come and help me pack, else some of your playthings will surely be left behind, and that would never do.” So with one last look back they went out through the long dark corri- dor into the great square hall. Here all was confusion. Trunks and boxes were being strapped and nailed. Others were only in the process of being packed. They watched the old housekeeper as she put in, one after another, old familiar things that seemed to revolt at this strange indignity. It grew dark. The lights were lighted, and the packing went on. Lisa was put to bed, that she might not be too tired for the long ride to the seaport town. They were to start the next morning, and it was already late. The countess felt that she must rest. Her husband was busy with final arrange- ments for leaving . She went down into the old blue room to steal a little nap. It was her favorite room She loved every piece of furniture in it— the faded damask-covered chairs, the deep recessed windows with their heavy curtains, the old cabinet, but, above all, the portrait of the gentle lady whom she resembled so much, they said. She threw herself on the couch beneath it now; and the sweet eyes seemed to look down and under- stand. 3 The moonlight fell through the drawn curtains and cast strange shad- ows about the room. She followed the rays of light until they rested on the portrait of the old ancestor of the wars. There her gaze lingered imploringly. (Cie chapel of the ancient Swedish chateau was musty and unkept. THE MAGNET 13 “If you only would tell where they’re hid,” she whispered. Slowly, with dignity, the stately old warrior stepped down from the frame. His sword rattled against his armorashe moved. He stood beside her; and a smile, almost kindly, played over the stern face. “Child,” he said, “look in the cellar, the southeast corner, behind the old vegetable bin. Five feet deep in the wall, they are hid.” Fascinated, her eyes followed his receding figure. Slowly, almost im- perceptibly, he moved; and the clank, clank of his armor mingled with the muffled strokes of the old clock. The moonlight had shifted, and he van- ished into shadow. Again her eyes followed the moon rays until they rested on her travel- ing cloak, thrown over a chair. A mingled sense of muffled voices and confused noise came from'the great hall. Some one called hername. The overwhelming, sickening thought came to her that it was time to leave it all. Dreamingly she rose and wrapped the great cloak about her, opened the long French window, and stepped out on the moon-bathed terrace. The family coach stood ready. Her husband was speaking in a low voice to the watchman. Lisa, heavily wrapped, was huddled in a corner, her child eyes big with excitement. At the creaking of the window her husband came to her, and they stood for a moment looking for the last time at the place they had known so well. Then they climbed into the carriage. The moonlight still fell on the ancient chateau, and under the portal the flickering gleam of a lantern in old Lambayo’s trembling hand lighted up the faces of the loyal little group of retainers.—AJ. When Hezekiah Found His Voice T was on acalm, cool night in August when Hezekiah Hornspraddle, dressed in his best light pea-green suit and swallow-tailed collar, for the hundredth time vowed he would propose to Saphrona Hingsby that night or never speak to her again. Hezekiah was a good-natured, but rather phlegmatic son of a well-to-do farmer and had “been a-courtin’”’ Saphrona for nearly a year, but could never find his voice to pour forth his love. So on this particular night he sallied forth determinedly and with falter- ing steps arrived at her house. As it happened, there were but two chairs in the room, are the one he picked out was incapable of holding his one hundred and fifty pounds; fur- thermore, there happened (?) to be only enough oil in the lamp to last about ten minutes. After the usual greetings Saphrona resumed her knitting and Hezekiah began twirling his fingers and counting the rings in the carpet. Becoming 14 THE MAGNET _ more agitated, he wound his arms around the back of the chair and his legs around the rungs and finally blurted out: ‘‘Saphrona, er— er— I’ve come tonight to ask. you— er— don’t you think that clock is fast?” | “No, Hezekiah,” said she, patiently. “You know that I— er— er— I always— er— have liked— er— to see you knitting,” he said, as the cold sweat began to gather on his forehead. Just at this point the light went out; and the astonished Hezekiah tried to stand up hurriedly, with the result that the chair, ‘‘ strained beyond its elas- tic limit,’ crashed in a heap, like the famous ‘‘one-hoss shay.” Saphrona sprang up; but, as she could see nothing and heard only an agonizing groan, she fainted (?) dead away, falling limply into the arms of Hezekiah, who by this time had become sufficiently disengaged from the wreck to stand up. He held her (indescribable joy) and poured forth his story in eloquent words, beseeching her to come back to him, which she promptly did, sur- prised, no doubt, by Hezekiah’s awakening. Snap-shots East Side A long, long row of dirty tenements; a long, long stretch of dirtier street. Sixteen children before one door. An old, white-haired man, tot-— tering along with his pail, and a poor, pulled speck of dirty dog. Men with huge packs; and women, in shawls, with rumpled hair. Foreign signs everywhere,—foreign signs, and noise and dirt. Some one opensa blanket- stuffed window and throws some paper down to the street. The old man totters back with his dog and his pail. He leans on the fence, smiling at every one, shaking his finger at the children, pretending to chase them. Tired looking women, with towels around their heads, stand in the door- ways and gossip together. w w The Hudson at Early Dawn A silver stretch of river; boats, gurgling in the tide; a few lights, - twinkling in the dusk of the opposite shore; the sudden flash of the Tarry- town light; and a dead rose sky above. wo The Hudson in a Thunder Storm Black clouds, jagged swords of lightning; long veils of spray blown up the river; leaden waters, rolling masses of white caps; boats, rocking with rage in the tide. AB. THE MAGNET 16 Present Whereabouts of the Class of 1907 AST June forty-five young men and young women graduated from this school. Of these, thirty-two are now continuing their studies. Every one who applied for admission to any higher institution was admitted. This fact alone would seem to indicate that the school is doing good work along the college preparatory line. Following is the list of the thirty-two pupils who are continuing their work this year. If there are any errors or omis- sions, the editors will be glad to correct the same in the next issue. Harold Parkman, Harvard University; Marguerite Bartlett, Wellesley College; Clifton Edgerly, Dartmouth College; Cleon Johnson, Massachu- setts Institute of Technology; Harold Shaw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ralph Mead, Herbert Morse, and Frank Shaw, Worcester Polytecnic Institute; Clyde Gilchrest, Rhode Island Agricultural College; Bertha Bailey, Lula Chapman, Hazel Packard, Ruth Richardson, Rachel Cook, Eileen Watson and Maud Kendall, Fitchburg Normal School; Mar- jorie Metcalf, Mt. Ida School, West Newton; Marguerite Cawthorne, Malden Business College; Florence Farrar, Worcester Business College; Bertha Spinney, Florence Nutter, Esther Farquhar, Helen Corkum, and Howard Tisdale, Fitchburg Business College; Kathleen Lawless, Elizabeth Cutter, Florence Farnsworth, Margaret Hackett, Mary Burdett, and Margaret Lockey are doing graduate work in this school. Paul Ordway is studying law in an office in Boston; Madeline Porter, Virginia College, Roanoke, Va.; Ruth Railey, of the class of 1906, has entered Mt. Holyoke. PENCIL POINTS —Miss Marjorie Metcalf is now attending Mt. Ida school, and while home this month visited her former classmates at the high school. Miss Bernice Richardson, of the class of 1908, has concluded her studies at the high school and has entered Wheaton Academy, where she is preparing for college. Herbert Cawthorne, of the class of 1904, entered Brown University this fall, and Marguerite Cawthorne has entered a business college at Malden. Miss Florence Wilkins of the Faculty has been called away from her duties by the illness of her mother. Mr. Howard Chase has presented the school with a bronze bust of Shakespeare, which he purchased while abroad. ———Karl Herrick, of Worcester Tech., and Alice Garland, of Simmons College, both graduates of Leominster High School, have been elected to the presidency of their respective classes. 16 , THE MAGNET Athletics n spite of the fact that ‘school spirit” among the scholars was very I nearly extinct, the teams representing us in football, basket-ball, and baseball managed to secure a fair standing in interscholastic games. To be sure, they did not accomplish anything extraordinary; yet most opponents had well-founded doubts as to their ability to capture a game from our teams “ hands down.” If the teams could do this, when only a few had pride enough in their school to try and ‘‘make”’ the teams, there is no telling what might be ac- complished if every scholar had ‘school spirit” enough to try for the teams, or atleast to be present at the games. Still at the present time it seems as if “school spirit’? were increasing; for, as a result of Mr. Bentley’s speech on the subject, about twenty candi- dates appeared for football practice, where formerly it was often impossible to get enough men out to form a whole team. This season the athletic committee has secured the services of Mr. Duffy, an English High man, as football coach. He is ranked as one of the best coaches obtainable; and, if Leominster High is not near the top notch in its games, Captain Smith says it will not be on account of insufficient coaching. Up to date, nothing definite is known about the line-up; but it is expected that with such veterans as Captain Smith, Regan, Bullard, and Beargeon the team should render a good account of itself during the present season. Up to date, Manager Chase has the following games scheduled:— Sept. 28, Southbridge High at Leominster. Oct. 5, Hudson High at Leominster. Oct. 9, Highland Military at Worcester. Oct. 12, Clinton High at Leominster. Oct. 16, Marlboro High at Marlboro. Oct. 26, Southbridge High at Southbridge. Nov. 2, Highland Military-at Leominster. Nov. 9g, Marlboro High at Leominster. Nov. 13, Clinton High at Clinton. Nov. 20, Hudson High at Hudson. Nov. 28, Fitchburg High at Leominster. w wv In the opening game of the season, Saturday, September 28, Leominster High defeated Southbridge High 17 to o in a one-sided game. In the first ’ i) THE MAGNET 17 half L. H. S. had everything its own way, scoring three touchdowns and two goals. In the second half many substitutes were given a trial, and Southbridge was able to keep the local boys from pushing the pigskin over the line again, and although our boys succeeded in getting the ball to the one-foot line, they were unable to score in this half. Though the South- bridge High boys were lighter, it could often be seen that they were not very familiar with the game; whereas our boys had worked out a few trick plays which frequently netted gains. Reagan, Lane, and Bullard excelled for L. H.S., and although the whole team played well, the work of these three was more noticeable. For Southbridge, Captain Colburn, Cozzens, and Dansereau showed up well. wf In the second game, on Saturday, October 5, Leominster High defeated the Hudson High eleven 20 to6. At no time im the game was there any hope for Hudson, even though the L. H.5S. boys did not score a single goal from its touchdowns. Many changes appeared in the local lineup, which seemed to have been well planned. The most noticeable of these was the placing of Bullard, the speedy half-back, at quarter-back, and although it was his first appearance in that position, he showed up well. To fill the vacancy at half-back Reagan, the star end, was put into the back field and played a good game. R. Joslin filled the end position very satisfactorily, and T. Joslin at tackle was always in the game. The lineup then showed up as follows: L. H. S.—20 6—Hudson H. S. Lane, le re Tarbell T. Joslin, 1t rt Wilson Little, lg rg Walsh Chandler, c c Eddy Roukes, r ¢ le Harriman Kloss, rt lt Tripp R. Joslin, re le Lapoint - Bullard, q b q b Wetherbee Reagan, |hb rh b Carver Wass, rhb lh b Brooks Smith, Capt., f b fb Hamilton w ¥ At the Worcester Highland Military Academy grounds, Wednesday, October g. the L. H. S. team succeeded in giving the soldiers of that in- stitution a trouncing defeat to the tune of 16 to 0, thus taking the bitter- ness out of the defeats received at the hands of this same institution dur- ing the season of 1906. Inno branch of the game did the academy boys equal the Leominster boys, and as a result L. H. S. won handily. 18 THE MAGNET On Saturday, October 12, the L. H. S. football team met and defeated their old rivals, the Clinton High team, 8 to 0, on our own grounds. Leominster opened up the game in a businesslike way, and scored a touch- down in less than four minutes’ play. Wass kicked the goal, making the score 6 to 0 in Leominster’s favor, not long after Wass punted the ball over the goal line, where Lane forced Cheeney to make a safety, thus adding two points to Leominster’s score. After this Clinton played a much stronger game and kept the ball in Leominster’s territory through the second half. The game was marred by a little unnecessary roughness, and Referee Bent- ley penalized both sides frequently. Lane and T. Joslin were the shining stars for Leominster, and they were closely followed by the remainder of the local boys. Our football team Money, money, Is of the best Is their cry, That e’er was known For fifty cents North, East, or West. Your tickets buy. Duffy, our coach, , Now all drink a toast, Makes them su cceed. A toast to our brothers; Finances now Here’s hoping they win Are what they need. From 2tchéurg and others. Cook, '08. The game was played on a Greene F 77 , The game begins in £yrvnes?Z, Amid the falling Szow, Just see them Case the ball; When the football team of Leominster Till the captain, with his Arm-strong, Lined up to Zymch its foe. Wins the banner for our HadZ. The crowd came down the Lz¢tle Lane The game was the best on Record, In a big four- Wheeler Buss ; They'd resolved to DelV7¢¢ or die, The umpire came, just like a Prince, So they just had kept a Saw77’, To superintend the fuss. Without one single Cy. Now on the game we'll turn the Page, The next is sad to Reed, For half-Byrn(ed) Rice Wass all they got When the Cook brought in their feed. ANON. THE SCHOOL NOTES The Freshman Class had two meet- ings last month, making the follow- ing elections: President, Theodore Kloss; Vice-president, Nellie Lo- thrope; Secretary, Margaret Munsey; Treasurer, Lloyd Jobes. The class colors are green and white. ww The officers of the Sophomore Class are: President, Harold Jobes; Vice-president, Naomi Abbot; Sec- retary, Carl Lee; Treasurer, Bernice Wilbur. Class colors, red and black. w Junior Class.—President, Charles Wass; Vice-president, Harold Rice: Secretary, Marjory Pierce; Treasurer, Gladys Spencer. son and white. Class colors, crim- w Senior Class.—President, Richard Scanlon; Vice-president, Laura New- all; Secretary, Leroy Chandler; Treasurer, Everett Lothrop. Class colors, orange and black. we Notice. — James P. Richardson wishes to announce that, in order to avoid confusion, he will henceforth sign himself “Jay Putnam Richard- son.” w For the benefit of the weak-voiced Freshman, we reprint the following from the Red and Gray: A soft answer giveth a “D,” So raise your voice or “ 23.” w Guelah May Cook Grubb (F. H.S., 04) is quite a significant name. What? MAGNET 19g Rowena (singing )—‘ Won't you be my Teddy Be” Led—“Sure I'll be your Teddy boy.” w Leacher— Who was the greatest man in the American Revolution?” Miss Wilbur—(General) Lee.” 2 They say that Edward is very fond of Newton (fig bars). w Miss Hannigan—‘Where did Co- lumbus land?” Dull Scholar—‘1 dont know. I was in New York at the time.” we John Miller is at present paying very much attention to Spencer (ian) writing. we If t-o-u-g-h spells tough And d-o-u-g-h spells dough, Does s-n-o-u-g-h spell snuff Or simply Snow? ww A Junior has just discovered that the way to escape football practice is to tell the coach he has ‘‘ Charlie hoss.” we English teacher—‘Mr. Charron, con- jugate the verb “‘to bear.” Charron,’ ro—‘ 1 bear, I will bear, I have Bourne.” w How doth the busy little Freshman Improve each shining hour? By gazing through the window At the never ending shower. we WaNTED,.—Rag dolls. R. DeWitt. Apply to 20 THE MAGNET French teacher: “ Translate, ‘Pas de leur Rhone que nons.’”’ Sophomore: ‘Paddle your own canoe.”—Am. Loy. w Teacher: ‘Who was Anne Hutch- inson?-’ Scholar: ‘Ym sorry to say I never met the woman.” w Though you search through Rhode Island and Maine, Or through the whole Yankee domain, By day or by night: What can equal the sight Of a Freshman with tall hat and cane? ww Teacher: ‘How can I divide thir- teen apples among four boys?”’ Fohnny: “Make them into apple sauce.” a ie QO.—What’s good for a toothache? A.—First make a good large hole in your tooth, and then eat some of this new-fangled fudge. ww If money were athing that people could buy All the rich would live, and the poor would die. ww Who said to. A. S. K. Bailey? w . Miss Mary had a little lamb Whose name we'll say was Hyatt: And if there was one wickedest trick That little lamb would try it. w Teacher (tersely): “In that poem instead of ‘pretty’ you should use beautiful’ @ Bettes-meter,” Pupil (in surprise): “ Better. meet nerrs : w A Soph, with his head in a whirl Said, “ There is but one place in the world, It's Whalom for mine, For the moon would not shine Without ‘ Little Curly Girl.’” JOKES Fohnny (who has struck a snag in his mathematics): ‘“‘Pa, what is dif- ferential calculus?” Father: “Oh, try it on somebody else. I’ve told you a thousand times, Johnny, that I’m no good on conun- drums.” we There once was an old maid of Oneida Who screamed at the sight of a speida; She would kick at a lamb, Run wild at a ram, But fearlessly tackle hard ceida. w Wille (who always wants to know): “Say, pa, why does. the railroad company have those cases with a saw and an ax in each car?” fa (from recent experience): “Oh, I suppose they are there in case any one wants to open a window.” w A youth loved a maiden named Pearl, But she had no use for the churl, So he married her mother And won't let any other Young man come to visit the girl, w Teacher (kindly): “You are dig- ging holes in the sand, I see, Char- lies Young Hopeful: ‘Naw; yer guessed wrong. I’m diggin’ out the dirt an’ leavin’ the holes, see?” w There once was a managing ed Who got up so late out of bed That when he }ooked ‘round All the stockings he found Were one that was blue and one red. � inde Negro servant to master: ‘Marse John, d’yo’ comb yo’ hair ebbry mo’- nin’? Bees Garlic,” “D’yo’ brus’ yo’ shoes ebbry mo’- nin’? ies, Charlie.’ “Marse John, d'yo’ wash yo’ face an’ brus’ yo’ teeth ebbry mo’nin’ ?” pees, Charlie,”’ “Den, Marse John, yo’ sholy mus’ be an awful lot 0’ boddah to yo’self.” we Teacher (scornfully): “Oh, Stew- ard may not be Willie, but Willie may be steward.” Freshman chorus: ‘‘Tee, hee!”’ w A Sophomore once approached “the guv'nor,”’ asking to be allowed to attend dancing school. The fa- ther instantly became furious and delivered a long lecture on the evils of dancing, ending by saying, ‘‘Danc- ing is one of the greatest evils of the present day; it is nothing more than hugging set to music, and if I had my way something would be done a bout it.” Whereupon the lad suggested: “You might leave out the music, Guv'nor.” ww A bashful young High School couple, who were evidently much in MAGNET es love, entered a crowded West St. car one noon. “Do you think we can squeeze in here?” he asked, looking doubtfully at her blushing face. “Don’t you think, dear, we had better wait until we get home?” was the low, embarrassed reply. SNORES — a Poe(m) Though the night without is dreary, Though | feel so weak and weary, My thoughts are very cheery As I slumber with my bedmate in our school. As I cross the river, ‘ Dreamland.” There comes a racket close at hand— A racket like a German band. It is a snore. It is my bedmate’s awful snore, I shiver as there comes once more That furious, breeze-splitting snore Some eight times louder tban before. It isa bore. My bedmate still sleeps calmly on. As I stumble, weak and weary, Out on to the floor so dreary, There comes again the roar, still cheery, Just as before. I soon determine on revenge. And as he lies in harsh repose I squeeze a clothespin on his nose, Connect a spark coil to his toes. The noise keeps on. He sleeps alone. All I do amounts to naught, With many anxious feelings wrought I sink into a chair in thought. Crescendo snore. Tonight I'll sleep no more. Business Men Demand and pay well for what the Worcester Business Institute furnishes COMPETENT OFFICE HELP They demand that those who enter their employ from the commercial schoo] must have better training than ever. We are meeting that demand in a most satisfactcry manner, therefore itisnotsurprising thatOU R STUDENTS TAKE PREFERENCE when- ever a position is open. It pays to get a high grade training, and “ Nothing is dear that pays.” Write for ‘‘The Proof” and Catalogue, Worcester Business Institute C. B. POST, Principal. 476 [lain Street. New England Watches are good timekeepers, they are fully guaranteed, they are not high-priced, they are made in all sizes, they are cased in nickel, silver, gun metal, gold-filled and gold cases. We have a complete line of them. Prices $2 to $15 FE. | THOMAS BRACKETT MILLINERY Latest styles in Ready-to-Wear Hats. Untrimmed Hats in fall and winter styles, also feathers and wings in large assortment. Mrs. M. E. Bowen, 54 Main St., cor. Merriam Av. Fall Hats Shapley Bros. Buy Adler’s Clothing and you wear the best clothes in America. C. C. Lawrenceraaee: Pe Ee ohonucreos Agents for King Arthur Flour RB McPherson Shoe Repairing 23 Water St. GOODWIN CONLON Shoes Leave all your orders for GUT FLOWERS — 2; Z, AND PLARTS with LYON the FLORIST Telepbone Connections 82 Pleasant St. E. P. DURAND Meats, Provisions, and Groceries Tel. 223-4 122 Spruce St. FOR QUALITY PATRONIZE Blue Ribbon Laundry Company D. F. McGuige Dependable Footwear Money back if you want it 4 Main Street 10 Manning Ave. CLIFFORD CASWEEa Home Made Candies and Ice Cream Tel. 204-3 Leominster, 40 Monument Sq. Mass. Patronize our Advertisers. H. P. HALL, M. D. Office Hours: 1 to 3.and 7 to 8 p.m. GrtOtg deem, C. E. BIGELOW, M. D. Office Hours: LOO LO 719 8 P: Mm E. R. MILLER, M. D. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 9 A. m.; 1 to 2.30 and 6.30 C. AUGUSTA LATHAM. M. D. 50 Central Street to 8 P.M. C. 8S. BRIGHAM, M. D. 61 Pearl Street PiMeeersis. 7.40 tO 6.30 a. m.; I to 2.30 Compliments of A. H. PIERCE, M. D. and 7 to8 p.m. W. E. CURRIER, M. D. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to9a.m., 1 to2and7 to 8p. m. F. H. COHAN, M. D. OFFICE HOURS: 1 to 3 and 7 to 9 p. m. A. A. WHEELER, M. D. 48 Mt. Pleasant Ave. - Office Hours: 1.30 to 3 and 7 to 8 p.m. Compliments of WOODBURY LINCOLN 30 Main Street piesa eave Ly: 27 Cotton Street A. F. ABBOTT, M.-D. 48 West Street Office Hours: Atga.m.; I to3, 6 to7.30 p. m. HD P, BEODGHREPAM 1): 51 Pearl Street RICHARDSON PIANO CASH COMPANY Compliments of W.D. EARL CO. THE HOWE COMB Co. Tremaine Street Patronize our Advertisers. Make your dollars work Make them draw interest, and the interest obtainable on a safe invest- ment. In order to do this, turn them into the Real Estate field—a field of rare opportunities for the present and vast possibilities for the future. [NN -.S4) NG Sri Y WV ° y i Kl D OZ ae = =e SHIRTS Turn your dollars into Real Estate and let them work. We have good jobs for For tyle Fit ) ) them at good wages. A. L. Walker ee and Durability Rooms 8and 9, Bank Bldg, Leominster Rm 4,Wachusett Bank Bidg, Fitchburg Paton Manufacturing Co. The Viscoloid Company The Sterling Comb Company The Horn and Supply Co. The Harvard Novelty Co. Patronize our Advertisers, E. F. PIERCE Furniture, Carpets, Draperies, 7 | Crockery, Stoves, Ranges, sed Suiigs and House Furnishings 69 and 71 [Main Street Columbia Block, Leominster, [lass. Dal Ee te : Coy, Gc antiee: | wWoutwell Co. Commercial Printers All kinds of small Job Printing 35 Wiater St., Deominster B.F. Blodgett Co. Comb Manufacturers Cor. Cotton Cottage Sts. Leominster, = lass. HN sco ata CANDY 29¢ a pound a ee Drug | Store My i Dy umn nies? AY J a i View WARE) A ACD oa AP iy URN mee MAGNET Vol. I LEOMINSTER, MASS., NOVEMBER, 1907 No. 2 EDITORIAL STAFF. RICHARD H. SCANLON, Managing Editor. AS Blade Advertising Editors. ene Deters. Subscription Editors. LEON J. MILLER. Exchange Editor. ARTHUR 5S. Koss, Sketch Editor. ALEXANDER SNOW, Boys’ Athletics. DOROTHY WHITTIER, Girls’ Athletics. LEONE SMITH, School Notes. FLORENCE EDSON, Personals. ASSISTANTS: Lillian Barron, Lloyd Jobes, Robert Griffin, William O’Neil, Ernest Johnson, Herbert Wass, Howard Corkum. Published monthly during school year by pupils of the High School. Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents. (Se) 4 HE editors were very much pleased at the interest all the OF %) scholars took in the forthcoming of our first issue. We yy hope they will continue in this “ spirit,’ and help along Qa 3s the paper by purchasing extra copies to send to their friends. We also hope that the citizens will have the same inter- est and good feeling toward the production of our many efforts. The only thing we have to complain about is the lack of con- tributed material. We attributed this to the fact that the scholars did not know at first just what we wanted. But now that two issues have come out, we cannot any longer excuse them for this reason, and we think it is their dz¢y to contribute matter, so that the work will not fall entirely on the editors, as it has before. : 6 THE MAGNET It must be understood, however, that everything handed in can- not be accepted. There are certain conditions which the writer must abide by. In the first place, the matter must be original with the writer; because this point is criticized sharply by other schools. Many good jokes were rejected on account of this. Second, the writer's name must be signed and not simply the initials. If he does not wish his full name to appear in print, he may write on his paper how he wishes it to be printed. We would prefer, also, to have articles written in ink and on one side of foolscap paper, if practical. We do not insist on this point; but it would make the work of the editors much easier. Some material for this issue had to be rejected because, instead of promoting a good feeling among the classes, it showed a very wretched feeling of rivalry. Wewish to caution all writers against this; for it disturbs the harmony of the school. We have not received as much poetry as we wish, and know no cause for the lack of it. Certainly no one wishes to admit that he cannot write a few verses, or at least a limerick. Through the efforts of our sketch editor, we have been able to furnish a cover design, and some sketches to head our columns, which we hope the subscribers will find attractive and pleasing. So time ago a committee of the W. C. T. U. made the town Selectmen a visit and did not find a very favorable audience. The object of their visit concerns every one of us, directly or in- directly, since it was to see about the enforcing of the law forbid- ding’ tobacco dealers to sell cigarettes to boys under age. The committee was told that if proofs could be shown something could be done about it. Certainly these proofs are not lacking; for one has only to go out on the street in the afternoon and he will see plenty of lads loafing about, every one with a cigarette thrust between teeth fast yellowing from the use of tobacco. They do it, for the most part, to appear like men; but there is nothing which looks more despic- able, and more pitiable, than to see these young lads voluntarily throwing away their good qualities. Now, the Selectmen should certainly do everything possible for the betterment of the town; and, as these same boys will some —_ THE MAGNET 7 day sway the politics, not only here but in other places, it seems that something should be done to make the future rulers of town and country as upright as possible and to do away with the constant “grab and graft,’ so prevalent in the world of today. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union are doing a great deal of hard word on this subject and their efforts surely deserve reward. What better, then, than to bring all refractory tobacco dealers to account and to see to it, with the aid of officers, that this law is stringently enforced? This wretched habit more directly concerns the school; because it interferes with the studies. Constant practice makes anything a habit, and this little-regarded poison gradually eats into the brain and steals away the intellect as badly, if not worse, than drink, to which cigarette smoking almost always leads. That it is not a clean habit, every one knows; and any book on physical culture will tell that it stunts a boy’s growth, makes him sickly and round-shouldered, and in every way weakens a _ person, both physically and mentally. If you go out on the football field, you won't see any sickly-looking weaklings; they are all strong and well built to resist the steady pounding of the scrimmages. The very fact alone that they are not allowed to smoke, and that they recognize the good common sense of the restriction, is proof enough that cigarette smoking makes the weak type of person which we all despise. On the other hand, he must be a pretty weak-willed person, who has to admit that he cannot give up the habit; that he has en- tirely become a slave to it, and that he must keep on smoking—all of which are, of course, admissions pointing to the fact that he is not his own master. Now, anybody must have very poor respect for his will power, his reason, and his intellect to wilfully smoke when he knows that he is gradually destroying these essential qualities of a man of the twentieth century. | The following quotation from David Starr Jordan suits the present case exactly:— “So live that your afterself—the man you ought to be—may in his time be possible and actual. Far away in the twenties, the thirties, of the Twen- tieth Century, he is awaiting his turn. His body, his brain, his soul are in 8 THE MAGNET your boyish hands. He cannot help himself. What will you leave for him? Will it be a brain unspoiled by lust or dissipation; a mind trained to think and act,’a nervous system true asa dial in its response to the truth about you? Will you, boy of the Twentieth Century, let him come as a man among men in his time, or will you throw away his inheritance before he has had the chance to touchit? Will you let him come, taking your place, gaining through your experiences, hallowed through your joys, building on them his own, or will you fling his hope away, decreeing, wantonlike, that the man you might have been shall never be?” WW: have printed in this issue an excellent letter from one of last year’s graduates of Leominster High School. Besides giving us an idea of college life, it shows how our alumni are doing in the strife of life, and should be interesting to those who intend to take a course at college. We wish to thank the writer very much for his letter, and we hope that other graduates or former schoolmates, who are now at- tending higher schools of learning, will follow the example so gen- erously set by Mr. Edgerly of Dartmouth. RicHarp H. Scanton, ’o8. The Little Princess arm-chair before the fire. It was growing dark rapidly outside, and the only lightin the great room was furnished by the flickering fire- light. The child watched its fantastic shadows as they played tag in the dark region beyond her and followed them up to the ceiling as they inter- mingled with the grotesque patterns of frescoing. Gradually her eyes grew tired of such fairy tracery and sought the glowing embers beneath the andirons. Their heat, their color, enchanted, held her. Dragons, mysteri- ous elves, and all sorts of distorted creatures beckoned to her from among the live coals. Softly, sweetly, from somewhere in the flame above, came a harmony of soothing voices, and everything was lost in oblivion. TT: ten minutes the little Princess had been sitting quietly in her tiny Cp. THE MAGNET 9 When Law [fleets Nature LATTER! clatter! clatter! C Crack! A groan escaped the fugitive as his left arm fell limply to his side. The officer of the law continued shooting until he emptied his revolver, but he did no damage. He dug his spurs into his foamy horse and dashed on. The fugitive kept urging his little black mare forward; but the poor animal had done her best in a long, hard struggle; and she barely staggered around the next curvein the road, when she stopped from exhaustion. “Ah, you poor old girl.’ The man patted her affectionately, as the tears came to his eyes. Then suddenly straightening up and looking an instant at his pursuer, he muttered, “You'll pay for this day’s work.” The next moment he was striding into the brush at the side of the road and was making his way, guided by some instinct, up the side of a mountain, whose base the road skirted. Hecould hear the clatter of his pursuer’s horse, the exclamation of triumph when his dead mare was found, and the crashing of the brush,—all of which told him that the man was hot on the trail. “The pain from that arm is dragging me down. He’s gaining on me,— curse him, —'’muttered the fugitive, his breath coming in short, quick gasps, “] must hide,—I can’t run much longer.” Just ahead was a clearing in the brush, which the outlaw had barely crossed, when a shout of joy from his pursuer made him turn. The officer was on the opposite side of the clearing andthe sneer of scorn and contempt on his face made the fugitive turn and start ahead in apprehension. He stopped short—his face went as pale as a sheet, and his last ounce of strength seemed to ooze from his body. He had unknowingly run into a sort of blind alley, whose sides were rocky cliffs. Before him was an insurmountable rock wall. He was completely trapped! The crashing of brush close at hand told him he hadn’t much time to decide. Off to the right, a short distance, was a clump of unusually thick bushes. Toward these he started and, with a skill which had not entirely forsaken him, he jumped clear into the middle ofthe clump. To his surprise and horror, the earth crumbled and gave way. He clutched wildly with his good arm at bushes, grass, weeds, anything;—but none were sufficient to bear his weight, and he dropped into Egyptian darkness. Twenty feet below he landed, amidst a cloud of dirt, on a pile of soft clay and sand, which broke his fall and saved him from further injury. He first wriggled out of his coat and, with his sound hand tore out the lining, which he bound around his wound, tying it with the help of his teeth. Next he started out to see “ where I’m at,” as he expressed it. Feeling carefully with his hand and feet, he walked in one direction until he struck a wall. Then, turning about, he walked in the opposite direction, and there he soon met another wall. Naturally, he concluded he was in a passage- way, and started to walk carefully along it. IO THE MAGNET It was pitch dark, the deep silence worked on his nerves. Hideous imps seemed to be mocking him and grinning at him from all sides. They danced around him in glee, displaying their grotesque and hideous forms. With nerves all unstrung and tortured to a fierce passion, at the sound of rushing water he forgot all caution and sprang heedlessly toward the sound. The roaring became louder and louder as he drew nearer, and what a deli- cious sound it was to him. The next instant he stepped clear of everything and once more, with a sickening feeling, dropped into he knew not what. The icy water chilled him to the bone as he sank down and ever down. It seemed to him that he would never come up. The plunge, however, cleared his brain; and he began to consider a way of getting out of this new predicament. He clutched at passing stones, which were too slippery to give him a hold; and he-tried to clamber bodily up on to a large shelving boulder, but he slipped back every time. Suddenly, things seemed to become a little quieter. A gradual oncom- ing silence seemed to pervade everything. His sixth sense told him the stream ended a short way ahead. Perhaps it shot down into the earth through a fissure, toward which he was being swept. The thought was maddening. He struggled and fought. He clutched wildly at every passing object. He lashed the water to foam in his fury. Then he ceased his strug- gles. ‘Well, I guess I’m done for this time,’ he said, and then added, ‘“May God have mercy on my soul.” The next instant he was pulled down by the drop of the water. He was blinded. He tried tocry out. The wa- ter choked him. It filled his throat, his nostrils. He could not breathe. He fought for air. Then all was still. Four or five seconds later, the stream carried him out into broad day- light on the other side of the mountain, safe from the arms of the law. R. Hae Oe “Early to Rise” HE sun, just rising behind a distant hill, threw its rosy beams into a small room in North Leominster. Although it had not yet risen high enough to warm the air perceptibly, there was a glare which disturbed the sleeper in the small iron bed nearthe window, Then a clock, somewhere downstairs, boomed out the hour of seven. This produced a decided effect on the inanimate form. First, a yawn; second, a yawn; and third, a yawn. A voice from below shouted, “ Jack, Jack, seven o’clock. Time to get up. Breakfast’s ready.” “Yes, I’m. comin’! promptly replied Jack, and as promptly turned over and went to sleep again. A stifled yawn could be heard; then all was quiet. The clock boomed again; it was seven-thirty. This time the clock needed no accompanying voice, for the form on the bed jumped hastily up, THE MAGNET 11 dressed rapidly, and bounded downstairs, saying, ““I must get to school at eight-fifteen or I'll be late again.” A drink, a gurgle, and a bite, and breakfast was over. A grab for his school-bag, which had not been opened, a dash for the door; and Jack was on the way to school. He darted across the piazza quickly enough, but “ Pride goeth before a fall.” Unfortunately, the nail which Jack had forgotten to drive down in the front steps still protruded a good half-inch, and his foot caught so that he turned a somersault, to his discomfiture and the merriment of his school- mates on the car, which was just whizzing by. “Just my luck; miss the car and fall downstairs,” mumbled Jack. Then he sprinted for school. While climbing High Street hill, he twirled his school-bag around, per- haps for fun, perhaps to give him momentum; but the strings broke and the bag sailed merrily down the hill. Hastily retracing his steps, he regained the bag, and, after giving it a few thumps to show his indignation, he again climbed the hill. The next catastrophe did not occur until he was within sight of his goal. With eyes strained to see the school and ears taxed to the utmost to hear the bell, he entirely forgot his motive powers and stumbled over a rock. This occurred in front of the George Street school, and contrib- uted to the amusement of the few spectators who were there on time. Regaining his feet, he sped on with renewed energy, forgetting his book-bag, which contained his books and other valuables. The Fates seemed to have a special grudge against Jack, for after reaching the school and when leaping up the stairs with great strides, he was confronted by a teacher. “Go back!” she shouted, assuming a dramatic attitude, with her hand pointing toward the lower regions. ‘Go back!” “Am I late? Has the last bell rung? I shall be late if I go back,” he answered, trying to brush by her. ‘I can’t go back now.” “You must,” replied the unrelenting pedagogue. “Tf I’m late it will be your fault. I don’t care, it’s mean. You can't blame me. I was trying my best to get here on time,” angrily muttered the boy under his breath. “That will do. Proceed upstairs properly or go to the office,” angrily replied the teacher in her turn. “ There goes the next to the last bell and I’m sure to be late. Well, it ain’t my fault, anyway. I don’t care,” mumbled Jack. Reaching his room at last, rejoicing and triumphant in the fact that he was on time, forgetting his soiled clothes and lost book-bag, he sank wearily down into his seat—but, no. The seat was not there, so naturally he sank into a heap on the floor. The bell, that evil omen, rang, and Jack was late by those rules of steel, for he was not in his seat when the bell rang. MopaL—Early to bed and early to rise, If you'd get to school early; so you'd better get wise. 12 THE MAGNET “Thank You’ FE. stopped, picked it up, and was about to open it, when a small boy exclaimed, “I guess dat buck didn’t get de lemon, picked up one o dem April fool pocket-books. Ain’t got no brains at all. I seen it der fer an hour. I’s wise. See?” | Robert had never cared for a joke when it was on himself, so he thrust it into his pocket and hurried along, kicking himself for being so easy. That evening when he had finished his book, he thought of the pocket- book and at once started to open it and look for his ‘“‘lemon.” He opened it. Could he believe his eyes? Was it possible? He counted it,—fifty one thousand dollar bills! Was it his? Why not? He had found it; and he thought of his school days, when it was, “‘ Finding’s keeping.” Now that he had money, he would travel; he would see all those won- ders he had so often read about. First, he would go to England, then to Ger—; acard dropped from the purse. He snatched it fromthe floor, “ Herr Schmit, Berlin, Germany.’ So he had found the owner, had he? Well, it served him right to lose it, if he was so careless as to carry such an amount on his person. But to keep it would be stealing; he must write the owner at once. No, that would do no good; he was still in America. He would wait. Two months later, he still had the inoney. What was he to do with it? At last he decided that it would be only fair, if he should return the money and take from it his expenses. He crossed the ocean and visited England; but every time he drew a shilling from his pocket it seemed to grind upon his nerves. In Paris, he tried to fight down his troubled thoughts; but the gay city did not please him, as it did when he had first read about it in his books. One day he recognized a friend while passing a hotel, and was about to speak to him; but, no,—he would ask him how he happened to be there, and that would mean a lie about that infernal money. He must go to Herr Schmit. Yes, he must go at once. The first train the next morning was taking him toward the German capital. At last he wasin Berlin. It was night,and a very dark one. The mist that was trying to turn into rain sent a shiver down his back as he started to find Herr Schmit’s residence. Finally, after a long tramp about ' the city and many inquiries, he was directed to his house. He rang the bell and was shown into the reception room. Herr Schmit must certainly be rich. He heard a step, and a small, cross looking man entered. Robert introduced himself and told him the whole story. Herr Schmit’s face did not change expression once during its relation, and the boy knew not what to expect. When he had finished, he handed Schmit the money. He took it, said “ Thank you,” and, in a half-friendly yet com- manding voice, bade the lad “‘Good-day,” and left him in the street to his own thoughts. H. Lee THE MAGNET 13 The Christmas Catalogue T was a cozy room, plain, but neatly furnished. Its bay-window looked out on a snow-covered thoroughfare, with people hurrying home with their purchases. In this bay-window, sat Mrs. Trenton and Jane, her daughter, who was just old enough to be taken into her mother’s confi- dence concerning the various Christmas gifts for the household. Between them they held a catalogue for toys and other things necessary for a boy’s life. “Now, let me see,” Jim’s mother was saying, “he would like one of those engines and a train of cars, a snow-shovel, a new sled,a pair of skates, a hockey-stick. And I guess that’s about all we can give him this year,” she concluded. “I will just put a small cross beside them, so you won’t forget.” A stamping of feet washeard out inthe entry. It alarmed Mrs. Trenton, who said to Jane, “Put that book under your apron or anywhere, so Jimmy will not catch sight of it.’ At that moment, the boy walked into the room. “Oh, say, ma, they've got some of the loveliest things down in Smith’s window. Just the things for winter. I wished I could have some. Bill Hall says he’s going to have piles o’ things for Christmas.”’ “Well, I guess you can’t have much this year. Everything is so high we can’t afford it.” Jimmy looked to see the accustomed twinkle in his mother’s eyes; but it was not there. “James, go right out and get some more coal. I shall need it for the fire to get supper with.” He went merrily out; for had he not seen the edge of the catalogue, protruding from under Jaue’s apron? and didn’t he know from experience that one can hear a good deal through the keyhole? In the meanwhile, wholly different proceedings were going on in the other room. 3 “There, Jane, hurry up and put the book up on the top shelf of the bookcase. He'll never think of looking there, unless he has a literary turn of mind; and it ain’t at all likely, when there's sliding going on.” When all the women folks were busy getting supper, Jimmy went into the front room to have a look. “Ma’s going to the club tomorrow and probably Jane will go out; and then I kinder think I will have more time to investigate the top shelf at my leisure and see what’s in that catalogue they are hiding so carefully.” The next day arrived, and toward noon Jimmy complained of having a slight headache, in case his mother should suggest errands. He was told to go into the front room and lie down and perhaps he would feel better; and he very willingly did as he was bid. In the afternoon the house was all quiet, except in the front room, where the sick little boy was saying, ‘‘Now an air-rifle, snowshoes, tobaggan, 14 THE MAGNET drum, sweater, skees, double-runner,—and, I guess that will be about all for me. Now who says Bill Hall can get ahead of me?” And one by one he crossed the articles named with the same mark his mother had used. The next day, as Jane was putting on her things to go over to her friend Mary’s, her mother handed her the catalogue. “T guess, Jane, you can leave this at Smith’s as you go by and tell them to send up everything that is marked.” It was the day before Christmas, and Jane and her mother were busily sewing, when they were aroused from their work by a team backing up to the door. On looking out they saw that it was the store team, delivering the orders of yesterday afternoon. “Just bring them in and lay them on the kitchen table,” Mrs. Trenton remarked to the man, as she went on with her work. But she got nervous, finally, at the continued tramping, and remarked to Jane that she guessed he was a pretty short-legged man. Soon, however, he drove away, and Jane and her mother went out to in- spect the goods. “Why, what in the world!” exclaimed the mother. ‘Why, here tsa rifle, a drum, and snowshoes, and what all. Whatcan it mean? What did you tell them, Jane?” exclaimed the astonished woman. “Why, I simply ordered the things here,” handing her mother the cata- logue. ‘They must have madea mistake.” But Mrs. Trenton’s eyes had fallen on the open page and there, sure enough, were all the things marked. Unfortunately, it was just that moment that James entered and, unfort- unately for Bill Hall, it was just the next moment that he happened to be passing the house, and saw Jimmy, under a load of bundles, emerge from the front door. “Playin’ Santa Claus?” “Aw, shut up.” “Pretty big pack, ain’t it?” And, then and there, Jimmy deposited his load; and Christmas morn- ing found Bill Hall with the unexpected gift of a bandaged eye. M. H. C., ’09. An Ocean Cliff eA wind-blown cliff with the sea at its foot, Dotted with sails and with masted schooners; A wind-blown cliff, overgrown with bushes, Which flame with all the scarlet of autumn. THE MAGNET 15 The Alumni Hanover, N. H., October 28, 1907. My DEAR FRIENDS AND FORMER SCHOOLMATES: I have now been at Dartmouth one month, and I shall try to give you some idea of Dartmouth life and its surroundings. Rather than to attempt to give you a description of the college—an -art which is at present beyond my power—I shall send you the different views of Dartmouth, and spend my time in giving you some idea of the college life here. On every week-day the students are summoned to Rollins Chapel by the tolling of bells at 7.50 a.m. The exercises are very similar to those held in the Leominster High School. At 8 a. M. the recitations commence and continue until noon, when about seven hundred of the student body dine in the college dining-hall, which is in College Hall. The other students are served at the various boarding clubs. At I P. M. recitations begin, and continue, with the exception of Satur- days, until 5 Pp. M. Immediately after supper the students assemble in the living room in College Hall and sing and smoke. The Freshmen are forbidden to indulge in the last-named luxury, as “it is liable to harm their delicate constitutions.” After the singing the fellows generally return to their respective dor- mitories, where the time is passed in various ways, namely—talking, study- ing, singing, cooking, and eating, and playing rough-house. The studies here are not difficult as yet. Personally I think that En- glish is the most difficult, but most of my classmates complain about their mathematics. I will now try to explain what is meant by that almost proverbial “Dartmouth spirit.” I believe that it can be expressed no better than it was on “ Dartmouth Night,” by Judge Cross, of the Class of ’41, when he said, in concluding his remarks to the Class of IgtI, ‘ Young men, be true, be sincere, be honest, and you will manifest the true Dartmouth spirit, the spirit of helpfulness!” At Dartmouth, unlike most colleges, a student is not considered a full- fledged college man as soon as he has received his matriculation papers. Not until he has undergone the ordeals of hazing and of the initiation to the ‘‘ Delta Alpha,” is the student recognized by the upperclassmen. After the “D. A.” banquet the Seniors and Juniors take care of the Freshmen as an older brother cares for a younger one. I hope that the Leominster High School boys who are anticipating a college course will come to Dartmouth. There are many reasons why Dartmouth is preferable to any other New England college. Among the reasons are the following: Because it is situated on high, dry land; _be- 16 THE MAGNET cause it is small, and thereby affords the opportunity of bringing the stu- dents into close relationship with one another; because of the non-city influences; because that same spirit exists among Dartmouth graduates which exists among the students; because a poor man’s son is equally as popular with all the students as a rich man’s son; because the opportuni- ties for self-aid are many; and, lastly, because Dartmouth is the coming college of New England. I should be pleased to correspond with any of the boys who are antici- pating a college course, and in particular with those who are expecting to enter Dartmouth. Hoping to hear from some of you, I remain Yours sincerely, Cuirton T. EDGERLY. No. 15 Sanborn House. Nature and Art T was dawn, a radiantly beautiful dawn in mid-ocean. The sailors on board the little pacquet steamer welcomed it with one of those sweet tender songs so dear to the Danish boats; and the only passenger, an artist, greeted it with a half-unconscious prayer, as he came on deck. It was the memory hour on the ocean. | The artist paced the deck, every sense alert to the silent, swift trans- formation of formand color insky and sea. He stoppedhis quick walk, now to chat with one of the sailors, now to gaze more intently upon the unfolding colors and their reflection in the calm waters, now to congratulate the gruff old captain on their marvelous good fortune with the weather. The old sea-dog shook his head. He pointed to the gorgously painted horizon and again shook his head. Suddenly a squall broke over the little barque. It was a blustering, boisterous squall, full of sharp, ferocious quips. It lashed the water into fury. It hung the heavens with dark thunder-heads. Jt rocked and tossed the pacquet steamer asif it were atiny shell. Hail and rain drenched the men. Bursts of thunder shook and deafened them. The captain even gave up hope and bade his men prepare for the worst. The lightning became more intense, more vivid. They saw the artist up in the mizzen, lashed to the mast, his palette and brush in his hands. His gaze was rapt on the ocean before him. He knew and felt nothing but its majestic beauty and awful power. He wascompletely absorbed in painting the storm raging over the waters. ' The sight gave the men courage. It inspired them. They sprang each to his post and began to holystone the decks. In half an hour the storm had spent its fury; the skies had cleared and the pacquet steamer was speed- ing safely on its way. : | Cp. THE MAGNET 17 Our LIBRARY “Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come.” Bullard, ’o9 “Tdle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow,”’ Burgess, ‘08 ' “The Professer,” Phelps, ‘09 “Little Men,” Lothrop, 'o8, and MacSheffray, ’09 we The orchestra is very small this year; because some of the pupils are barred from playing in any small or- chestra by their instructor. If any one plays any musical instrument other than the piano, Mr. Kenney would be very glad to have him come to the next rehearsal, 3 o'clock, Friday afternoon. w The Freshmen have elected the following committee to get their class pins, which they probably will havesoon: Louis Little, Helen Wood- bury, Ruth Day. The boys have also sent for their caps. we It seems that class spirit is very low at present, especially among the Sophomores and Freshmen. In for- mer years the Freshmen and Sopho- mores have got together and had a battle on the gridiron. Now, either the classes are afraid of each other or there is a lack of grit somewhere, pee |) i =) SCHOOL NOTES Both the Juniors and Seniors are to have rhetoricals this year. Last year only the Seniors indulged; but this year the Juniors are to have them, probably so they won’t be afraid to speak next year. Miss Mitchell is the instructor in rhetori- cals this year. w The winter is coming on, and it is about time the Debating Club got busy and elected the officers for the following year. ¥ A practice fire drill would be a good thing, with so many pupils in the building. w Last year we had a course of very gcood lectures in music, given once a week, by the instructor in music. This year they have been discontin- ued and are very much missed. ss If there were another Little in the front line of the football team, the line would be little short of impene- trable. ws It pays to have a good coach. wv Why don’t the girls organize a foot- ball team? Two of the Freshmen girls seem to be very good players. 18 bp esi English teacher: ‘Miss S., give a synopsis of the verb ‘to lay’ in the first person singular.” Miss S. (absently): “I lay, I have Lane,—or, at least, I will have Lane.” ww QO—What do you like best for des- sert, Miss P.? A—I like Rice best. 2’ Has Merriam Pierce(d) her heart yet? w Mr. Kenney: “L., where is note (pointing to b flat)? that Dull scholar (reluctantly taking a note from his pocket): ‘“ Right here, Sif w Katherine Harlow has Record. quite a Me and my boy Jake, here, Went to market one fine day. We took a load of garden truck And quite a load of hay. The boy here, Jake, drove one load, He took “Pegs” along, his dog, We'd barely just got started When “Pegs” smelled out a hog. It seems that Farmer Billings Was going to market, too; He put the hog in a wooden box, Which he afterward did rue. Quite quickly did the hog get free And shot off like a streak. Not far behind, in madcap glee, The dog flew, so to speak. Way down the road another team Had spilled out all its truck, And Farmer Haskins, roaring mad, Gazed on and cursed his luck. MAGNET Gardner seems to be having rather hard luck in football this season, as two of her players have broken their collar bones while practising. Leominster has had nothing of the kind to contend with, as is evident by her scores. we Of late many of the boys of the school have been wearing odd stock- ings, which have attracted much at- tention, the favorite combination being green and purple. They have not, however, organized a club for that purpose, as is the case at the Gardner High School. w Zed (reciting in solid geometry): “Therefore the polyedral angles are systemetrical.” w “Oh, Shaw,” said Chase, ’o8. He saw at once the coming race, And, feeling very sore, He seized a ten-pound cabbage, And vowed he’d spread the gore. The hog came on in startled flight; The farmer took good aim. The cabbage failed to hit its mark. “Pegs” felt it, just the same. The grunter kept on going fast, Right through the farmer’s legs. With outspread wings the farmer “flew,” And landed on poor “Pegs.” The race was ended then and there, The hog, in rapture, trying To eat the stuff up all at once. The farmer looked on, sighing, The dog crawled back to meet us, As limp as any rag. . Though I’ve told this story many times, The interest does not sag. R. HS THE MAGNET 19 HE Leominster High football aggregation met its first defeat of the season at the hands of the Marlboro High team in Marlboro on Wednesday afternoon, October 16th, by a score of 22 to 6. Following up its custom of getting right into the game early, the Leom- inster team was able to score while the game was yet young. After this, how- ever, Marlboro seemed to brace up and, with its extra weight, it was able to plow through the Leominster lines for four touchdowns. Although defeated, the local boys.were commended on the clean game they played, and thanked for the strenuous efforts they put forth to win against a worthy foe. w 8 In its encounter with the Northbridge High School football team, Sat- urday, October 26, the Leominster High team went into the game determined to make every one forget that it had ever been defeated by Marlboro High School. Here seemed the chance of a lifetime; for the Northbridge boys had just played all around the Marlboro lads, and won their game agains t a team of heavier men. Heralded by such a reputation as this, it was a little surprising to see the local boys plow through the Northbridge team almost at will, hardly a Leominster man failing to make the distance, when called upon to advance the pigskin. Yet the Northbridge boys have some excuse for their apparent ignorance of the game, for they are not fortunate enough to secure the services of a coach, adepartment in which fortune seems to have smiled on the home team. Furthermore, the local boys were heavier than their opponents, but, with the forward passes, onside kicks, and an almost unlimited variety of plays, allowed in this year’s rules, it seems as if Northbridge could have given a better account of itself, especially after having trounced Marlboro, But from the very beginning of the game, one could foresee that North- bridge’s chances of scoring, to say nothing of winning, were very slim; for in less than two minutes of play, “Ted” Joslin was pushed over the line for the first touchdown. Wass then seems to have got his eye on the goal- posts, for he sent the ball against one of them with a force sufficient to have shattered it. The score was now 5 too in Leominster’s favor. Keeping up 20 THE MAGNET its fast pace, Leominster now helped Captain Smith over the opposite goal line, having used but four minutes to make the score 1otoo. After this the local team slowed up a little; but that they did not go to sleep is apparent from the 25 to o score, which they piled up before the end of the first half. In the second half it was thought that Northbridge might offer a stronger resistance. Ifthey did, it was of no avail; for Wass went over the line for a touchdown in about two minutes’ play. Then, by means of forward passes, end runs, and frequent fumbles by the visitors, the score became 53 to O in Leominster’s favor; though only three goals had been kicked. Bullard was easily the star of the game, and aided by the good team work of the others, the brilliant playing of the ends, Regan and Joslin, a constel- lation was formed which proved too much for Northbridge. ‘‘The Coastwise Lights of England ”’ It is evening. The Holland blue of sky and sea has changed to soft darkness. A few people are taking their good-night stroll about the deck. A man is talking with the captain, near the bridge. From the salon come the voices of the whist devotees; from the smoking-room, the song of the general entertainers. There is only one occupant of the steamer chairs,—a girl, wrapped tightly in her rug. Her friends are among the strollers. They count their miles by the times they pass her chair. There is nothing to be seen, but the same soft darkness; nothing to be heard, but the plowing of the ship through the water; when, suddenly, from a distance, comes a mo- ment’s flash,—darkness again,—then again a flash. “The coastwise lights of England Give you welcome back again.” Business Men Demand and pay well for what the Worcester Business Institute furnishes COMPETENT OFFICE HELP They demand that those who enter their employ from the commercial school must have better training than ever. 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ASSISTANTS: Lillian Barron, Lloyd Jobes, Robert Griffin, William O’Neil, Ernest Johnson, Herbert Wass, Howard Corkum, Bernice Prouty. Published monthly during school year by pupils of the High School. Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents. PD, SOW that the football season has closed, and athletics will be confined indoors, a suggestion or two might be in order. The first, almost too important to be called merely a sugges- tion, is that it would be a great benefit to the school if the drill hall could be converted into a-gymnasium. A “gym” is something which every up-to-date school has. So why should we be behind the times? The school is near the top in everything else in the line of athletics. Why not make it as complete as possible? Please do not consider this idea a mere whim, upon which | write just to fill the allotted amount of space. It is zof. I am talk- 5 6 THE MAGNET ing directly to the Athletic Association and the School Committee; and, in order to be more direct, I do not go to the extent of con- cealing myself under the editorial “we.” It is not merely’a pass- ing thought, unheard-of before. It is an idea, backed by the ex- perience of hundreds of schools, where it has been shown to do an unlimited amount of good to the scholars. As to the cost of furnishing the hall with the necessary amount | of apparatus, it seems that the Athletic Association should have made enough in the recent successful football season to give it a start. Then the scholars ought surely to be willing to contribute a small amount each to continue the good work. ) It certainly stands to reason that a ““gym”’ in the school would — do the scholars a tremendous amount of good; for when the brain is tired from constant “ plugging,” how it livens the nerve centers and what an exuberance of joy it gives to the whole system, to take a little snappy exercise in the “gym” and then, afterwards, a cold shower, and a lively rubbing, under the care of a watchful in- | Structor. This brings me to the next suggestion, which is that the bas- | ket-ball coach have instructions to see to it that all the boys that play basket-ball take a shower bath and a hard rubdown afterward, © in order that they may not go out into the cold air, bathed in per- spiration. It would be found that this care on the part of the coach | would bring out more candidates for the team; for parents would be more willing to let their sons play, if they knew that they were being looked after. Right here, it might be well to suggest that the work on the shower baths inthe basement be hurried up; so that they can be put into active service right away. The next, and last, suggestion may not be connected with in- door athletics; but still it would tend to increase athletics as a whole. On the Merriam Avenue side of the high school lot, there is a small brook, which flows through a deep depression in the land. The brook flows out from this natural basin through a hole, about three feet square in masonry. Now, if this outlet were blocked to within two or three inches of the top, leaving a space for overflow, the water would spread back to a depth of at least two feet all THE MAGNET over the depression, and when it froze would give a field sufficiently wide for hockey. This could be done easily and without incurring expense. So then, the last suggestion, drawn from the foregoing, is to elect a captain and manager for a hockey team, and to make hockey just as much a branch of athletics here as anythi ng else. Some schools do not have it because they have no place to practice. This school cannot now offer this excuse; for the chance is here, and the thing to do Is to grasp it. RiIcHARD H. SCANLON. Chased by Wolves A True Story of Seventy-five Years Ago known among farmers as a “ weather breeder.”’ The three Sheridan boys were hard at work in the hay-field, and all the air was heavy with the fragrance of the new-mown hay. As Arthur Sheridan paused to whet his scythe, he saw his pretty seventeen-year-old sister Laura coming across the pasture, with a big tin pail hanging on her arm. He wondered where she could be going, and walked to the fence which separated the hay- field from the pasture, intending to call to her. She saw him coming and changed her direction in order to join him at the fence. “Where are you going?” he asked, as soon as she was within speaking distance. ‘“ Down to the berry-pasture,’ “Not alone!” “Ves. Mother needs Ellen to help her.” “Then why don’t you wait till tomorrow? It isn’t safe for you to go alone. There are wolves around. They got one of Bancroft’s sheep last night.” “The wolves are too cowardly to show themselves in the daytime, and I shall come home before sunset. I am afraid it will rain tomorrow and spoil the berries. Don’t you worry. J am not afraid.” So saying, she started along. Arthur remained several minutes at the fence, looking admiringly after the dainty figure, neatly dressed in blue gingham, which set off to excellent advantage the long braid of fair hair T was early afternoon on a midsummer day,—one of those perfect days ’ she answered. 8 THE SAG NE with its graceful curl at the end. He was very proud of his charming young sister, who was generally acknowledged to be the prettiest girl in the little farming village of Townsend. When he rejoined his brothers, they asked where Laura was going and, like himself, they disapproved of her going alone. It was not long, however, before they heard her singing, and knew, by that sign, that she was all right. The berry-pasture was at the foot of a long hill, nearly a quarter of a mile from the hay-field on the other side. When Laura reached the top of the hill, she turned to wave her hand to her brothers; but they were busy and did not see her. A feeling of loneliness crept over her as she started down the long slope. Nota house was in sight, and there was no sound to break the stillness, except the occasional note of a bird or the hum of.a bumble-bee. She would not confess, even to herself, that she was afraid; but she could not help wondering where the wolves hid themselves in the daytime. She resolved to stay near the edge of the pasture, and to return while the sun was high. ; On reaching the pasture, she found the berries plentiful; and soon the sharp sound of the berries falling on the bare tin gave place to the soft, dull thump that indicated that the bottom of the pail was covered. The silence grew oppressive and the sudden flutter of a bird, which she had startled from its nest, caused her heart to stand still for a second, after which it almost choked her by its violent beating. When she moved to the next bush, she found herself peering cautiously through it to see if there were anything alive on the other side. A stealthy movement in the dry leaves behind her made her jump around in a very panic of fear, just in time to catch sight of a rabbit, which she had frightened even more than it had frightened her. The utter foolishness of the rabbit’s alarm led her to think that her own fears were quite as unreasonable. In order to prevent herself from hearing any more of the disturbing noises, she began to sing, and found her courage wonderfully revived by the sound of her own voice. She had been in the pasture about an hour, when she noticed a large dog, lying on the ground at a short distance from her, and observing her intently. She could not remember having ever seen him before; but she was glad of his company; since she felt sure no wolf would come near while the dog stayed with her. How long he had been there, she could not tell. She spoke to him to encourage him to remain; and, when she moved to a bush at a considerable distance, she was glad to find that he followed her. She wondered where he could have come from, finally deciding that he must belong to a farmer, who had recently moved into the district. The dog evidently was not much of a pet; since he showed no inclination to come very near her, though she tried various means to induce him to do so. He did not fail to keep her in sight, however; and, feeling confident of his protection from a chance wolf, she penetrated farther into the pasture where the picking was better. She continued her singing from the pure love of it, stopping frequently to speak to her dumb companion, who persistently rejected all invitations to form a closer accquaintance. THE MAGNET 9 The afternoon was waning; but Laura was so absorbed in her work that she lost all track of time until her pail was filled; when she was surprised and rather alarmed to see that the sun had already disappeared below the horizon. She hastily started for home, calling to the dog to follow. Instead of obeying as before, he rose to his feet, elevated his nose, and uttered a low howl. Atthat sound, Laura’s heart seemed suddenly turned to ice; and, for one instant, she was paralyzed with terror, as the hideous truth flashed through her mind that the supposed dog wasa wolf. That explained his unsociable manner. He had been watching her all the afternoon to see that she did not escape; and, when he saw her going away, he called his mates to aid in an attack, which he dared not undertake alone. Laura had never seen a wolf, but she had heard them howl at night, and she knew the sound at once. She knew, too, that her only chance for life lay in reaching her brothers in the hay-field before the other wolves could gather. She dropped her pail and ran with the speed of desperate necessity; but her heart sank, as she thought of the long hill between herself and safety. Bitterly, now, she regretted having gone as far into the pasture, or having stayed so long. Again she heard the long, drawn-out howl. She could tell by the sound that the wolf was following her. Far away, she faintly heard an answering howl. She tried to call for help; but fear had frozen her - voice, and the sound she made was hardly more than a whisper. It seemed as if she had run miles, when she came in sight of the foot of the hill. Her breath was coming in short gasps and she was so exhausted that she stumbled and almost fell. The call of her pursuer sounded close behind her, and now there were several answers much nearer than before. She reached the hill, and started up, but had gone only a few steps, when her feet refused to move farther. Darkness seemed to fall suddenly upon the world and with a despairing sob she fell to the groun d. The Sheridan boys had spent a busy afternoon. They had not forgotten their sister; but her singing had assured them from time to time of her safety. In the effort to finish their work, they too had failed to notice how near the sun was approaching to the horizon. The almost imperceptible darkening and chill, which announces the disappearance of the sun, recalled Arthur to consciousness that the day was gone. At the same moment, he became aware that it was long past the time for Laura to return. He won- dered that he had not seen her; as she could not avoid passing the hay-field. He wondered yet more that she should have passed without stopping to speak with them. In some anxiety, he asked his brothers if they had seen her. Neither of them had; and they also were sure she would not have gone by without a word. “I think I will go to meet her,” said Arthur. “She probably has not noticed how late it is.” At that instant, the howl] of a wolf came faintly over the hill. Witha simultaneous ejaculation of dismay, the three brothers started at their best speed for the berry-pasture. As they ran, they heard the answering howls of the gathering pack. Eagerly, they looked forward, in the hope of seeing 10 THE MAGNET Laura appear over the crest of the hill, but in vain. Nearer and nearer came the blood-chilling sounds, and still no sign of Laura. They would not believe that she had been overtaken; she must be running up the other side of the hill. They shouted her name, to let her know that help was coming; - but no answering cry came to relieve the fear that overwhelmed them. “God help her!” groaned Arthur. ‘Weare too late. My poor little sister!: Thy rounded the top of the hill, in sickening dread of the worst; and a fervent ‘Thank God!” arose from each heart, as they beheld Laura, alive, though closely pursued, running desperately up the hill. She did not see nor hear them, for at that moment she fell, unconscious; but the wolves saw them, hesitated, then, sulkily turning, slunk back to the cover of the berry- pasture. A Dream T had been a very exciting day, and I was thinking over the various ‘f events. I found myself once more at the football grounds. The game was over; but every one remained to talk about it and also to cheer. We were cheering loudly when, suddenly, there fell a great quiet on the crowds. I looked to discover the cause of it, and there stand- ing in a carriage, was the great Roman orator, Cicero, clad in L. H. S. ban- ners. He said:— ‘OQ fellow citizens, we all know that the immortal gods ought to have decreed that Leominster should win this game, therefore let us yell? The crowd then dispersed; but I was very curious to know what Cicero had done with Catiline. After a while I found him, and he said he had sent him into exile at Lunenburg. The orator then gave mea mince pie as a souvenir, and I started for church. On the way I-met some of my friends. When we finally arrived and had taken our seats, I happened to think of a very funny incident, which I had to tell at once. Upon this, Roger de Coverly immediately jumped up, pointed his fin- ger directly at us, and—crowed like a cock. Then I awoke,—and heard a neighbor’s rooster under my window. K. W. W., ’oo. first Funior: “1 saw your sister on the street the other day; but she didn’t see me.” Second Funior: “So she said.” THE MAGNET 11 “Old Coins”’ N the nursery of Mr. Field’s home, two children were playing dominoes, Mr. Field’s little daughter Jennie, and Frankie, the son of the village storekeeper. “I wish I had some candy,” said Frankie, giving the dominoes a push one side; ‘“‘but I haven't any money and my father won’t give me any.” “T haven't either, but I know where I can find some,” said Jennie; and, like a flash, she was out of the room. Ina minute she returned, all out of breath, and holding a little tin box full of old coins. “Oh, my, ain't your father rich,” cried Frankie. “How many are you going to take?” “Oh,—six, papa won’t miss them; and anyway, he is always giving me pennies, when I ask for thein. They are so big and heavy we will get a lot of candy for six.” “Yes, for papa has some, five fora cent. Let’s see,—six pennies, five for a cent, that makes—thirty-four pieces,—twenty-two for each of us. Oh, my, come on, quick.” And away they ran to the store. Laying the old coins on the counter, Jennie said,’ We want that much worth of candies, those there,” pointing into the glass case. As the storekeeper saw the old coins, his eyes sparkled almost as brightly as the children’s; for only the night before, while talking with some men, he had found out there was only one person in the village who hada larger collection, and that was Mr. Field. He fairly seized the coins, placed them in his pocket, instead of in the cash drawer, and then counted out the candy for the children. Now Mr. Field took great pride in his collection of coins, and often, when he got home, would look them over; but that night, when he went for his box, it was not in its proper place. Thinking his wife had, perhaps, misplaced it, he asked her; but she knew nothing about it. Then Jennie, who had heard the question, told her father all about the candy. “For you weren't here, you know, to give me any pennies,” she said, ‘and I knew you wouldn’t mind.” Mr. Field was too anxious to get the coins back to stop to scold just then. He put on his hat and started for the store. When he arrived, he found the storekeeper smoking near the stove, and Frankie, perched ona barrel, puzzling over, “King Arthur’s Knights.” Mr. Field told Mr. Bent what his daughter had done and asked if he might have the coins back, if he paid for the candy, not thinking, for a moment, that the storekeeper would be unwilling to do so. He was, there- fore, surprised, when Mr. Bent snapped up: “I can’t help it, now. You should keep your old coins where your girl can’t reach them, if she’s not to be trusted.” 12 THE MAGNET “ But, sir, I value those coins very highly, and would dislike very much to lose them,” replied Mr. Field. ‘“ Cannot something be done about it?” “ And I value them too much, too, to give them up,” said the store- keeper under his breath; but aloud he said, “Iam sorry, but I don’t know where they are now. Probably I have passed them on to some one else.” Rather than quarrel, Mr. Field left the store. But a firm resolve entered Frankie’s mind; for he had heard the conversation. That night, very late, he might have been seen, creeping on tiptoes into his father’s room, white and trembling with fear. Once, he thought he heard some one coming, and ran back, but started out again as soon as all was quiet. This time he had just got his hand into the pocket, when his father turned over in bed, and Frankie grabbed coat and all, and fled out of the room, into his own. There he locked the door, and drew one long breath, before he proceeded to secure the coins. All was quiet. But the coat must not be found in his room; so once more he stole quietly along the hall, and placed it on its accustomed chair. Then, he ran downstairs, without looking back, and out into the dark night. He had not gone far, when he heard something coming behind him, It came faster and faster. He jumped behind a tree; but it was only Jim Clark’s dog. He journeyed on once more, boldly now; for he thought of the Knights of King Arthur, who feared nothing, and like whom he wished to: be. At last, he reached Jennie’s house, and, running up to a large maple tree in the yard, placed a package in a box nailed there, the private mailing box they had put up the week before. The next morning Jennie went out as usual to her “ post office.” What could it be? She shook the boxup and down. Itjingled. She could hardly wait to see. If only some fairy had brought back those old pennies. Her father had looked so earnest. She pushed a hole in the package. It had come true! And then she read: : “Respected Queene of Luv and Buty,— Plese except these trifels, which, at the risk of my life, I hereby dane to offer you. Am yors to comand, LONSLOT. S. 1. Mete me at the lists at Io. a. m. S.2. Bring your marbels.” R. M. Nj 08. Kipling Tabooed ” ! Mother: ‘Don’t you dare use such language! I’m ashamed of you Flarry: “Why, ma, Kipling uses it, and he’s’?—— Mother: “He does? Then don’t you ever play with him again.” — Short Stories. | THE MAGNET 13 An Outside Influence Bert Stanley was suspended.” It was late one November afternoon, and a number of boys had congregated around the fence in front of the Academy grounds. “Suspended!” scoffed a second speaker. ‘‘He wasn’t suspended. He was dropped, entirely;—fired right off the team.” “Well, he ought to have been,” affirmed the first speaker. “Any fellow that acts the way he did ought not to be allowed to engage in athletics at all.” “What did he do, Dick?” inquired a diminutive youth, perched on the top rail of the fence. “Where have you been lately?” asked Dick, in surprise. “This occurred fully a week ago. Out for practice one afternoon, Stanley was placed on the second team, just to make things interesting. He played like a whirlwind; but the odds were too great, and the first team was plowing right through the second. Then Stanley got sore, and begantoroughit. He deliberately slugged young Acton, and tripped Browning, as he was going around the end. Captain Adams gave him a call down; but it didn’t doany good. He continued in the same way, and then he and Adams had it out and out. Adams told him he had better get off the field, if he couldn't cut it out, Stanley said he wouldn't take orders from aman, who was no better than he was, and a lot more to that effect. Adams rather lost his temper, too, I guess. He said that the first team could get along just as well without Stanley. Just then the coach happened along, and he grasped the situation at once. Adams cooled down a bit, but Stanley refused to be reasonable; and the coach told him he had better not come out any more, if that was his at- titude. He has not been out since, and now Redding is playing his position.” “ But Redding isn’t as good as Stanley,” averred another. ‘ Stanley is ‘ a good man, if he didn’t have such an infernal temper.” “ It is better to have a man not quite as good, than to have continuous trouble among the players. Here comes Jack Blake, Adams’ roomate. Let’s hear what he has to say.” A tall, broad-shouldered youth had just come up the walk. He was met by a chorus of greetings, with inquiries about the all-absorbing topic of the day. “ Adams hasn’t much to say,” said the the new-comer. ‘Stanley is P willing enough to play, now, with Thanksgiving only a week off. I know the coach would let him play, if Adams would only say the word; but Adams 4 won't listen to it. : ; “There was an incident which occurred yesterday in connection with this matter. You know our room is inthe same building with Stanley’s. Well, we were sitting in front of the fire, when we heard a slight knock at the door. I thought it was one of the fellows, so [shouted ‘Comein.’ The é6 GL be. say that Redding is doing pretty well at left half-back, since ea 3 7 14 THE MAGNET door opened, and a tall woman paused on the threshold. I jumped up in confusion at having yelled out so rudely; but Dave had sense enough to ask her in: “She was Stanley’s mother, and had come up toseehim. His door was locked, and she asked us if we knew where he was, or how soon he would return. We said he ought to be along pretty soon, and asked her if she didn’t want to wait. It was rather raw out yesterday, so she was glad to come in. She took a chair up close to the fire, and even drew off her gloves. She got interested talking about that worthless son of hers, and stayed quite a few minutes. “ «T received a letter from Albert, Tuesday,’ she said, ‘and he said he had had some trouble with the captain of the footbail team, and would not be allowed to play any more. I know he must be disappointed, though he didn’t say much.’ He wanted especially to play against Stanbury Academy, as his cousin plays on that team, and there is a great rivalry between them. We were all coming down Thanksgiving to the game; but he probably won't want us to come, now.’ “Just then some one came up the hall, and she thought it might be Stanley; so she thanked us, and hurried out. Adams looked at me and grinned sheepishly. Of course it won’t make any difference; but it would have been easier for himif she hadn’t come along. Dave is rather sensitive, and this places him in a false position, you see. Don’t worry, though, Stanley won't get a chance to play.” “Wait a minute,” interrupted one of the boys. now.” Alleyes were turned in the direction of the two lads, who were approaching arm in arm. . Jack Blake looked as if he could scarcely believe his eyes. ‘“Tt’s Adams and Stanley,” he gasped. The little chap on the fence chuckled. ‘Mother will be pleased,’ he murmured. ‘‘Here comes some one Lj eae Ons Billie at the Automobile Show I’d like to have a motor-car to take me to and fro, And here and there and everywhere that I might like to go. I’d spin along the city streets and scout thro’ country lanes, And, when I hankered after sport, I’d race with railway trains! I'd let no other motorist pass me and my machine, They all would have to be content to breathe my gasoline; And if the carbuster would not work, why, I can tell you, then : I'd soak it with a monkey wrench and start it up again. If I were fined for speeding, it would never make me sore,— I'd pay my fine, and then I’d go and break the law some more. I wish I had.a motor-car to take me to and fro,— But what’s the use of wishing, when you haven't got the dough. T: M. DatOee THE MAGNET 15 ATHLETICS ITH the sting of defeat still rankling in their breasts, the Leom- UG inster High football team lined up against the Marlboro High team, Saturday, Nov. g, determined to fully repay the gener- ous defeat they had been handed in Marlboro, Oct. 16. That their best efforts were required to cancel the unpleasant debt, is shown somewhat vaguely, by the 10 to g score, which they piled up. Marl- boro was the only team that could boast of having defeated the wearers of the “Blue and White’; but Saturday’s game cleansed the sting, which may now be regarded as a ‘Better Joke;” since, ‘They that laugh last, laugh loudest.” That the laugh was well earned, is generally admitted by all the spectators, whose interest was kept on edge throughout the hard-fought battle,—‘‘Coach Duffie’s”’ included. The game started when Marlboro kicked off to Leominster, towards the north goal. Marlboro evidently sent the pigskin too close to Leom- inster’s goal line; for Wass promptly booted the ball back and, after a lively mixup, it was found that a Marlboro lad had the ball on Leominster’s 15 yd, line. After a series of unsuccessful attempts to advance the leather, Marl- boro was forced to give Leominster a chance to move the oval in the opposite direction. Then the ball was carried up and down the field, each side punting quite frequently, till Wass caused the “‘surprise of the day,” by kicking a field goal from the 30 yd. line, making the score 4 to 0 in Leominster’s favor. The half ended soon after, with the ball in Marlboro’s possession. After a brief rest, Leominster kicked off to Marlboro, only to have the ball punted back to the center of the field. Leominster now rushed the leather to the 15 yd. line, and lost it on a pretty blocked kick for a goal, attemped by Wass. Marlboro now used a series of forward passes for good gains, till Wass intercepted one of them, causing the ball to fall to the ground. “Ted” Joslin quickly gathered up the coveted pigskin and tore down the field for a 70 yd. run-and a touchdown. Wass soon kicked the goal, making the score 10 to O in favor of the boys. ‘Coach Duffie,” now sent “Ted” Joslin to take a well earned rest, putting Roukes in, to fillthe vacancy. After this, neither side scored and the game ended a 10 to O victory for Leominster. 16 THE MAGNET While giving “Ted” Joslin and Wass all the honors due them, the remaining boys must not be deprived of the laurels they earned, while defending the “Blue and White.” w w On the following Saturday, the Leominster High football team went to Clinton to play against the High School team of that town, having defeated them in Leominster 8 to 0 a little earlier in the season. Although the teams were quite evenly matched, Clinton had the ad- vantage of playing on its own gridiron. In most cases this might not be considered a great advantage; but any team that plays Clinton High in Clinton is fighting against great odds. The police protection was inefficient, and the crowd was continually swarming on to the field. This interfered with the playing, and often de- layed the game a number of minutes. Leominster was rather slow in getting started and, at first, Clinton showed up to the best advantage; but Leominster soon took a brace, and the first half ended with the honors even, neither goal line having been crossed. In the second half, the ball remained in Leominster territory for a time; Clinton’s great punter, Gerauld, booting the ball to the Leominster goal line time after time. Finally Leominster made a great rally. It was im- practical to punt, as they had no punter who could equal Gerauld, and it was impossible to work trick plays, because of the interference of crowd; yet, by means of line plunges, and forward passes, they carried the ball from their own 10 yd. line to Clinton’s 15 yd. line. The crowd was continually growing more aggressive, and with, “Third down, 5 yds. to go,” Bullard signaled for a field goal, Wass missing the goal by about a foot. Although time was not yet up, it was impossible to continue the Payee and the game had to be called. Even though the score was 0 to 0, the game was as goodas a “Blue and White” victory. The whole Leominster team showed up; but the work of “Ted” Joslin and Capt. Smith was most noticeable. Q Monday, November 18th, the girls of the three upper classe s were to assemble for the first basket-ball practice of the season; but, owing either to the proficiency of D's or to the general lack of enthusiasm in the school, only three girls were present, all being members of the Sophomore Class. For this reason very little was accomplished. On the following Thursday the privilege of practicing was given to all the girls in the school desiring to play and not having any D’s on their reports for the last term. This time the results were better, there being enough girls present to practice, with Miss Farnsworth acting asreferee. As yet, there are no definite plans made for this season. THE MAGNET 17 ADS—Not Classified—2c a Word WANTED—A fire escape to prevent crowding in the basement. WanTED—One good Roman pony. Will give in exchange a German crib. WANTED—Some good means of conveying a message, other than by a note or whispering. Deaf and dumb alphabet discarded on account of inexpediency. Lost — A Burke. Finder oblige the owner by keeping it. will ’ Founp—Five “ D's” on my report card. Am willing to dispose of them at closing-out rates. [The following songs are printed in hopes of starting a set of school songs. Every one is invited to contribute; don’t be “ backward in coming forward.” | To Battle Hymn of the Republic. Oh! you will see the glory of our great vic- torious team, They'll trample on old —— till the pieces can’t be seen, They'll tear their line to tatters in a style that’s quite serene; Our team is going to win. CHORUS: Glory, glory, hallelujah; glory, glory, halle- lujah; Glory, glory, hallelujah. Our team is going to win. You'll see them make an onside kick and then a forward pass, You'll see them smash the line for gains and make them thick and fast, “You'll see the —— wonders all a-sprawling on the grass. Our team is going to win. CHORUS. A touchdown in the first half. And 5 will be the score. Then Wass will kick a goal, with ease, and that will make I more. The same thing in the second half,—oh, —— will feel sore. Our team is going to win. CHORUS. W. H. K., ,80. To Zammany. Leominster’s a little village, hills on every side, But it’s a town of some renown, which fills our hearts with pride. —— is a great big city, not so far away, Where lives a crowd that’s shouting loud that football they can play. CHORUS: Leominster, Leominster, We have gathered here to today Not to pass the time away, But to cheer, loud and clear, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Rah, Leominster. Now we’ve a team that’s marched to victory all the season long, Because they knew the grand old game and played it fast and strong. ’s coming down to show us how the game is played. You bet our boys will make the braggers wish— At home they’d stayed. CHORUS. W. H. K., 89. 18 TRUE MAGNET OUR LIBRARY “The Real Diary of a Real Boy.” DeWitt, 'ro. Lane,’os. Richardson, ’os. “David Harum.” “Silas Marner.” w An agent from Bastian Brothers, New York, was here, November 20th, to show the Freshmen class pins. They selected one, which they hope will be here soon. ww Visitors to the school from out of town this year are as follows: Mrs. Woodward; Miss Wood; Mr. Hunt, superintendent of schools in Clinton; Mr. Perkins, principal of Westford Academy; Miss Irvin; Miss Hatha- way; Mr. and Mrs. Houghton; Miss Cannon, and Miss Finlan. w The cadet officers have been ap- pointed as follows: Company A, Arthur S. Kloss, cap- tain; Leroy W. Chandler, Ist lieuten- ant; Leon J. Miller, 2d lieutenant; Edward Reagan, Ist sergeant. Company B, Richard H. Scanlon, captain; Everett W. Lothrop, Ist lieutenant; Howard H. Chase, 2d lieutenant; Alexander I. Snow, Ist sergeant. Drillmaster Savage has been elect- ed 2d lieutenant of Company B, Sixth. Regiment. The Seniors are going to give a play in the Assembly Hall before long. Miss Mitchell, the physical culture teacher, is the Supervisor. w The flags which Mr. Winn _ pre- sented to the school are soon to be moved here. we Ask Mr. Richardson about the cane trick that he so very success- fully (?) performed at the teachers’ Hallowe'en party. He very prob- ably will be averse to telling; but Mr. Dexter wont. w They say Nicholson has quite a Savage feeling. w Watson, ‘11, wishes come more often. s Miss « “What kind of berries do you like best?” Foss: ‘“‘Woodbury(s).” w Teacher: ‘ Translate ‘der bluhende Mann,’—that’s in line eighteen.” May could Scholar (seeing it for the first time): “Oh,that’s an idiom,meaning ‘florist’.”’ x | Mr. Kenney (music teacher): “Do you know the multiplication table? ” Scholar: “Of music?” THE Heard in solid geometry: “ What is the projection of a line upon a plane, Mr. L——?” Mr. L——: “ The line joining the foots of the perpendiculars.” w Miss Hannigan: “Who was Miles Standish?” Bullard, ’og: ‘“‘ He wasn’t any rela- tion to Grace Standish, was he?” w rst Sergeant: ‘“‘Company, count off!” Lnustructor: “Make it loud enough to be heard.” A whisper: “ But not too loud to be rude.” we “Hunting” after ‘‘ Day” is a diff- cult “Chase.” ww Mr. Kenney (music teacher): “Give me ‘do.’”’ Pupil: “1 can't. w “Chet” Roukes always says at the lunch counter: ‘‘I want a Claire” (éclaire ). Haven't any.” w A teacher in the high school dis- covered one of the boys reading, during the study period, what she judged to bea story paper. She pub- licly reprimanded him for wasting his working hours in such frivolity, She came, and all the while she stayed, Each youth good resolutions made, And never from the township strayed; For the hearts of all that met the maid Were broke. MAGNET IQ concluding her remarks by saying, “T should enjoy reading that as much as you do; but I would not allow myself to do it, when I have work to do.” To prevent his yielding again to the temptation, she ordered him to put the book on her desk until the close of the session. A subdued tit- ter went around the class as the of- fending young man_ ostentatiously laid on her desk a “Catalogue of Men’s Clothing.” w It is the custom to spend the last part of the ninth grade music period in listening to a classical selection on the pianola, and that part of the les- son is attended by the eighth grade, also. One day Mr. Kenney forgot to notify the eighth grade of the exact time when he would begin the work with the pianola. They were there- fore a little late in entering. The se- lection was from the opera of Robin Hood, and Mr. Kenney was explain- ing the story told by the music as he played. The first scene, representing Robin Hood alone in the forest glade, summoning his companions with his bugle, and the answering bugle calls, had been rendered, and Mr. Kenney announced, ‘Now Robin Hood’s band comes in.” At that instant,the doors of the Assembly Hall opened, and the eighth grade filed solemnly in, Wholly unconscious of the reason why they should be greeted with such a burst of laughter. She’s gone; and mankind sighs in vain, She left in every heart a pain, But all still in the town remain; For every single trusting swain Is broke. 20 SEI es MAGNET Fram ? hatire rT, As he ene the three loun- gers, his hands were deep in his pock- ets, his chin was sunk low on his chest, and his eyes were on the ground. ‘‘ See,” said the first, ‘“‘ he has com- mitted some great crime. He dares not look a man in the face.” ING, © man has lost something. ‘“Thats.not it?) said “the third, “He is deep in thought. He has some great project on his mind.” “We will ask him,” The man gazed at them from under his bushy eyebrows as he answered their query. said the second. ‘““ The ”) they agreed. “You are all wrong,” he said, la- conically. ‘I have a carbuncle on the back of my neck.” ade S Ree OnE 1 éacher Sctiee “Give me@amue principal parts of the verb ‘win, Mr. ii Fack: “1 would if I had ’em.” ww Leacher: “Is this original, William? ” Truthful: ‘ Yes, ma'am,” Teacher: “You didn’t copy it and change a few words, did you?” Y. T. (proudly): “No, ma’am; | did it without changing any words.” w Teacher: ‘ These examination pa- pers were very poor. As I went through this pile of papers, they be- came worse and worse. What do you think I ought to do about it?” Bright Pupil: ““ You might begin at the other end of the pile.” SERT OTE STC 6 ATT Th a - composition Young Grinds—Football Team “For though I am not expletive and rash, yet have I in me something dangerous.”-—Captain Smith. “?Ere’s to you, Fuzzy Wuzzy, with your ’ayrick ’ead of ’air.” —“ Tubby ” Wass. “As I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put an antic disposition on.’—‘ Ted” Joslin. “He’s fora jig.’-—' Ted” Bullard. “He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.” —‘‘ Freddy ” Reagan. “Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with.” —“ Perthy” Lane. ‘Word, words, words.” --‘t Lugi ” Little. “ You are full of pretty answers,” — Ralph Joslin. ‘“ Laugh, and the world laughs with you.’ — Donk” Richardson. “T feel as though I really know as much as any teacher.’’—Chand. er. “QO wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful!’’—Kloss. THE MAGNET 21 Willie had been presented with a copy of Sir Walter Scott's ‘“ Lady of the Lake,” and had been obliged by his mother to read it. Naturally, it did not make much of an impression on him, as the following shows. One day the donor of the book called at his house and asked him what part of the book he recalled most often. “Oh, the part where that woman was hit in the ear with a shoe or some- thing,’ was Willie’s astonishing answer. He was asked to find the place in the book and, after a hasty search, read gleefully, “A footstep struck her ear, and ’— Business Men Demand and pay well for what the Worcester Business Institute furnishes COMPETENT OFFICE HELP They demand that those who enter their employ from the commercial school must have better training than ever. We are meeting that demand in a most Satisfactery manner, therefore itis notsurprising thatOUR STUDENTS TAKE PREFERENCE w hen- evera position isopen. It pays togeta high grade training, and “ Nothing is dear that pays.” Write for ‘‘The Proof” and Catalogue, Worcester Business Institute 5 B. POST, Principal. 476 [lain Street EDWIN CHASE CARY TEACHER OF CORNET CLARINET, FRENCH HORN, TROMBONE, DRUM, and all BAND INSTRUMENTS Twenty-six Years a Band Leader (1881--1907). Director Leominster City Band Teacher of Harmony and Instrumentation. Open to engagements as Cornet Soloist for Concerts 37 Orchard Street, Telephone Connection Leominster, Mass. ATHLETES. ATTENTION! In order to obtain the best results in athletic contests, it is important that you should have the best implements. They may cost a trifle more, but it pays. Many a match has been lost by the use of poor tools, so why not have the best Tennis Racket and Ball, Foot Ball, Basket Ball, Running Shoes, Skates, Hockey Sticks, Sweaters, Jerseys, etc. Our goods have character—our trade-mark means something. Send for our Catalogue. It is free. WRIGHT DITSON 344 Washington St., Boston; i8 W. 30th St., New York CHICAGO PROVIDENCE, . CAMBRIDGE, MASS. WORTH $1000.00 “T would not accept $1000.00 for the knowledge and training that I have already received from the teachers of the Fitchburg Business College.” The above statement was recently made by a pupil who is now in attendance at the Fitchburg Business College. Other industrious and ambitious pupils have said that the value of OUR teaching and training COULD BE COMPUTED in dollars and cents. The Fitchburg Business College has move positions than graduates. FOR A GOOD POSITION ATTEND THE FITCHBURG BUSINESS COLLEGE. D. FULLMER, Principal. From Now until Dec. 19 I will show in my window a lot of those New England Watches which I talked about last month. { would be pleased to show them to you whether you wish to buy or not. BE. |. THOMAS Ee bawohort GiGs. Agents for King Arthur Flour HOE = SUPELIES HOE EPAIRING RUBBER EPAIRING A. B. McPherson 22 Water St. GOODWIN CONLON Shoes Leave all your praere for . UT FLOWERS Z£. i £, AND PLARTS BRACKETT. MILLINERY Latest styles in Ready-to-Wear Hats. Untrimmed Hats in fall and winter styles, also feathers and wings in large assortment. Mrs. M. E.- Bowen, 54 Main St., cor. Merriam Av. LL: Hila Leather Fobs, 25c Shapley Bros. great varety of useful CHRISTMAS GIFTS to be purchased at our store. C. C. Lawrence Co. E. P. DURAND Meats, Provisions, and Groceries Tel. 223-4 122 Spruce St. FOR QUALITY PATRONIZE Blue Ribbon Laundry 10 Manning Ave. Company D. F. McGuire Dependable Footwear Money back if you want it 4 Main Street CLIFFORD CASWEES Home Made Candies and Ice Cream Tel. 204-3 40 Monument Sq. with LYON the FLORIST Telepbone Connections 82 Pleasant St. . Leominster, Mass. Patronize our Advertisers. meee. ALL, M. D. Office Hours: 1 to3 and 7 to 8 p. m. E. R. MILLER, M. D. OFFICE HOURS: 8 to 9 A. M.; 1 to 2.30 and 6.30 to 8p. M. C. 8S. BRIGHAM, M. 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Turn your dollars into Real Estate and let them work. We have good jobs for them at good wages. ) A. L. Walker, Rooms 8and 9, Bank Bldg, Leominster Rm 4,Wachusett Bank Bidg, Fitchburg For Style, Fit, and Durability Paton Manufacturing Co. The Viscoloid Company The Sterling Comb Company The Horn and Supply Co. The Harvard. Novelty Co. Patronize our Advertisers, Complime relS of Merriam, Hall Cu. The Goodale Comb Co. MANUFACTURERS OF COMBS, HAIR-PINS, ETC. Water St., Leominster, Mass. Established 1858 We can sometimes employ Bright Boys ana Smart Girls at fair wages. Leominster Button Co. Camplimen U5 of Hickering-Metcalf Cu. Incorporated 1871 meee Whitney Carriage Go. Manufacturers of Children’s Carriages and Go-Carts Leominster, Mass. Compliments of i‘. B. Ringman Compliments of Hay State Comb Cn. Compliments of Newton Herriman Compliments of WMilliams and Winn Co. Patronize eur Advertisers. 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THE DAMON COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF Horn and Celluloid Goods of the best quality only LEOMINSTER, MASS, “The Quality Counts.”’ The J. H. Lockey Piano’ Case ia Piano-Forte Cases Founded 1850 Incorporated 1887 J. M. LOCKEY? Presa Patronize our Advertisers, A young man to work in drug store. One living in the vicinity of North Leominster preferred. Address P. O. Box 170, Leominster, Mass. Girard, the Tailor Columbia Block Established 1874 E. E. Burdett, Ph. G. APOTHECARY 8 Main St., Leominster We want all the boys to call and see PeeOVYN, THE TAILOR when in need of Custom Clothing. Repairing. We do Cleaning, Pressing and 7 Main Street. Packets Established 1887 aR SIMs EGE 492 Main St., WORCESTER, MASS. se Dreke tant Se seater ae 1907 | HIGHEST GRADE COMMERCIAL SCHOOL IN NEW ENGLAND | We placed 93 per cent. of our last year’s graduates in good salaried positions. Our system of individual instruction advances the pup!il more quickly and more thoroughly than the usual class methods. Our graduates go forth competent to fill responsible positions. STUDENTS CAN ENTER AT ANY TIME Our reference board includes the leading dzsiness men and concerns of Worcester, our pupils have long been pre- ferred by them. Visit our School, or write for “Catalogue. Do not forget to call at ene oat TINS Anything in the Music line. I57T Main St., Fitchburg You must come and see us Others have done so and learned | that they get superior photos at lower prices when they visit H.B.GERMAN Leominster Fuel ee Pany | Fine Stationery | Popular [lusic Card Engraving and Rubber Stamps G. E. KENNEY CO., 38 Monument Sq., é Leominster d. C. HOSMER Newsdealer, Stationery, and Souvenir Post Cards COAL Best quality, always on hand. A L. PARKMAN 24 School St. Tel. 540 Also Orders taken for | | Patronize ¢ our ir Advertisers. OUR CHEMICAL LABORATORY meee MAGNET Vol. 1__ LEOMINSTER, MASS., JANUARY, 1908 No. 4 Entered as second class matter at Post Office at Leominster, Mass. EDITORIAL STAFF. RICHARD H. SCANLON, Managing Editor. JOHN R. MILLER, ’0g, Advertising Editor. PAROLD JOBES, ‘lO: } ates. a , : Cre DERBY. ’oo ( Subscription Editors. ALEXANDER SNOw, '08, Boys’ Athletics. EPHAS VERBY, 09, J DorRoOTHY WHITTIER, ’I10, Girls’ Athletics. . ARTHUR S. KLoss, Sketch Editor. LEONE SMITH, School Notes. FLORENCE EDSON, ’og, Personals. ASSISTANTS, Lillian Barron, Lloyd Jobes, Robert Griffin, William O'Neil, Ernest Johnson, Herbert Wass, Howard Corkum, Bernice Prouty. Published monthly during school year by pupils of the High School. Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents. E are very sorry to say that the only time the school paper interests the pupils of the school is when it is distributed to them. ‘They do not seem to realize that it takes an immense amount of material and work to make the paper come out on anything like its proper date. They do not turn a hand all the month to help it. If the pupils do not contrib- ute toward its support, certainly there is no one else to do it. So, therefore, every pupil in school should contribute something, and everybody means you. The paper is written by two or three of the editorial staff, with very little help from the rest of the school. Now, this sort of 6 LELES MAGNET thing is not just to those few, nor does it show generosity or school spirit on the part of the rest. Other schools sharply criticise papers which are written entirely by a few pupils; and yet we have to do it, in order to have a paper at all. On the other hand, those who contribute nothing, and who of right should contribute, are always the most free with criticisms. They are always ready to find fault with something or other. Now we advise whomever this may concern to say a little less and do a little more. | When this paper was started, it was done with a determination to make it permanent, not merely a weak, unsuccessful attempt, which would fail ina short time. In order to make the paper a permanent one, the publishers are ready and perfectly willing to work hard; but they do not expect, nor are they going to try, to do it all unaided. | | The editorial staff will, from time to time hereafter, undergo a “process of elimination,’ and all who are willing to work will be kept. That seems now to be the only possible way left to regulate matters and to put them on a good running basis, and accordingly it is the only means left to pursue. here are three or four fellows in the company that drills at noon, who evidently think there is nothing about drill which they still have to learn. Instead of acting like cadets, as they should, their actions are more to be compared with those of chil- dren. Those few fellows elected drill voluntarily; and there is no rea- son why they should not act decent, at least during the short time they are there. They are certainly setting a splendid example for the underclassmen, as far as learning insubordination is concerned. They have succeeded admirably in making themselves thoroughly despised by all who have seen them. THE MAGNET “There are some things no fellow can do,” and any one with a reasonable sense of decency will hesitate to make his own law- less pleasure a cause of annoyance and disgust to the majority of. fellows, who attempt, at least, to show a square school spirit. Those three or four fellows in question profess by their actions to know drill perfectly and, as they cannot control themselves to act in a reasonable manner, the only thing to do, for the good of the company, is to give them a quick and dishonorable discharge, unless they decide to learn a few passages in the laws of obedi- enc. “Obedience to law is liberty.’ w w hy isn’t the New Year celebrated by the school with a holi- day? Wouldn't it be a good chance, if the scholars had the day as a holiday, for them to turn over the proverbial “ new ork itty Next to Christmas, New Year is the day which makes the most changes, for better or worse, in our daily life. Christmas is celebrated by all schools with a vacation of at least a week, and yet the New Year is passed by, observed only by the call of ‘ Hap- py New Year.” “Happy,” indeed! How flat this would sound to anybody who had been grinding in school all day! It would fall absolutely short. So why not make it happy for us in deed as well as in word, and not only wzsk us a happy New Year, but give usa happy olzday? RicHARD H. SCANLON. 8 THE MAGNET The Decision hung the telephone receiver upon the hook and waited restlessly for his assistant to answer his summons. In less than a minute foot- steps were heard outside the door and Andrew Ferguson, the assistant su- perintendent, entered breathlessly, and, in obedience to the curt order of his superior, locked the door behind him. “Sit down,” said Maxwell, imperiously. ‘I have very little time, and must talk fast. I may tell you something you already know; but I wish to make iny story complete. “You know that old Dodge, who founded the concern, died last week. You probably also know that during his latter years he was very eccentric; in fact, he was actually insane, although he was not dangerous enough to be confined in an asylum. He spent much of his life, when not engaged in business, in his well equipped laboratory, and was, in fact, quite a scientist. He was fond of inventing machines and instruments, and gave much of his attention to electricity. “He owned quite a tract of land up among the hills, and upon one of the highest elevations he built two log cabins, a short distance apart. They are identical in stiucture, being made of unhewn oak logs. The only means of admitting light and ventilation are through two windows, about a foot in diameter, near the top of each cabin. There is a massive door to each cabin, but unless one understands the secret mechanism, it is impossible to open this, when once it is closed. ‘Underneath each cabin is hidden a mine of dynamite. Inside each cabin are a number of complicated infernal machines, run by clockwork, which, after going for a certain length of time, will explode the mine. “These buildings may seem to you the insane idea of a maniac, but there was method in his madness. He had a rather worthless son, as you know, who was given to gambling and idle amusements, and refused to take life seriously. The old man knew that he must shuffle off this mortal coil some day, and that it was his duty to leave his only son and heir provided for; but . he did not intend to leave his entire fortune to be squandered. ‘He had often expressed a desire to have his son become a scientist, and the two had many long arguments about the matter. I remember well a remark the old man once made. ‘If Harry would only do as I wish, I would gladly turn over my entire fortune to him,’ he said. ‘ There are stu- pendous opportunities for young men in the unexplored regions of science.’ But Harry, with his habitual procrastination, refused to consider the matter. ‘One day the old man called his son to his side and told him enough about the cabins to arouse his interest. Harry was not a little puzzled and alarmed when he heard of the hidden’ dynamite, but he received no satis- factory explanation. S eat ES MAXWELL, superintendent of ‘‘ The Ionic Mining Company,” THE MAGNET 9 “ Some day,’ said the father, ‘Il am going to connect these cabins with wires leading to my office, so that I may be able to explode the mine at any time. For instance, I might have one current pass through one cab- in, so that it could cause the door of that cabin to open; and then pass through the other cabin, so that it could explode the mine under that cab- in. Then I could have another circuit arranged the other way: first open- ing the door of second cabin, and exploding the mine under the first cabin. Thus, you see, I would have complete control over this property, although it is at a distance from my home, and would be able to protect or destroy it at will.” But Harry was only convinced more than ever that his father’s mind was affected. “Some time later, the cabins were actually connected by underground wires with this office. Upon the opposite wall you will see two push-but- tons and a small telephone. Underneath hangs a cover which, when folded up, closes over all three. Inthe top of the cover isa slot. When a small piece of metal, the shape of the slot, is dropped into it, it causes the cover to swing open. With the opening of the cover, the infernal machines at the other end of the wires are started. After a certain length of time, the mines under the cabin will explode, unless something interferes. “In one of the cabins on the hill, old Dodge placed a sum of money in bank notes; enough to last Harry for a time, even though he continued his present mode of life. In the other cabin was placed an equal sum of money, also in bank notes, and a check for the remainder of his wealth. In case the check was not cashed at the end of five years, the money named in the check was to go to some charitable institution. ‘Then he said to his son, ‘It istime that you decide upon your future career. One of the cabins represents the Bohemian existence you have been leading, and the other a more sensible and practical career, I have arranged them to tax your ingenuity. When you have decided, you can set the ma- chinery going by means of the cover in the office. But after the machinery is once started, you must act quickly, for if nothing interferes, both cabins will be destroyed at the end of one hour. You can save one cabinby means of one of the press-buttons. But when you destroy either cabin, you must follow the career you have chosen. You may choose either Bohemia, the land of pleasure, or Elysium, the reward of the faithful.’ “Harry came to me and asked my advice. He didn’t want to give up his pleasures altogether. But I wouldn’t interfere, as is was a matter for him to decide. Hewent then to his father. ‘If I press either button,’ he said, ‘I will be destroying one of the cabins, with all the money which it contains. Don’t you think it would be hard for you to decide?’ “The father laughed. ‘Of course I would prefer the happy medium,’ he said. ‘Don’t decide too rashly. You may want both Bohemia and Elysium, some day. That’s where the difficulty comes in.’ “But the son never made up his mind, and after a while the father transferred the money from the cabins to a bank, and drew up his will to be opened after his death. Shortly before he died his mind became more un- balanced than ever, and he spent more time working in the cabins. In the 10 THE MAGNET floor of each he hid atrap. The door of each cabin he left always open; _ but ifany one entered either building and stepped upon the trap, as one would naturally do, the door would close, and the trespasser would be a prisoner. “But the fiendish cunning of the madman went even further. In each cabin he placed a telephone which connected with the one which you see upon the opposite wall. If the prisoner attempted to send a message through the telephone, it would cause the cover to fall from over this tele- phone, and that, in turn, would set the infernal machinery going in the two cabins. So you see the victim would be sealing his own doom. The regu- lator of the machinery was changed, giving the victim two hours to live, in- stead of one. “In the ordinary course of events, no one would ever enter either cabin. Around the base of the hill are numerous barbed wire fences, and many warn- ings to trespassers. But in the fierce storm this morning, some of the fence must have been torn down. Anyway, three wanderers, a man, woman, and a child, reached the cabins and took refuge inside. As near as I can make out, the woman and child were ahead, and after they had taken refuge in one of the cabins, the door was accidentally closed. The man, as a last re- sort to escape the fury of the storm, entered the other cabin, and stepped upon the trap in the floor which closes the door. That is what I have called you in to tell you”’ “But how do you know all this?” “T received the message over the fatal telephone. The prisoners are Samuel Richards, mayor elect of Blake City, and his wife and child. They probably don’t know the danger. I forgot to tell you that the telephone connection is broken five minutes after the machines are started.” The assistant superintendent rose unsteadily to his feet, every drop of blood had left his face, and he rigidly clutched the back of his chair. “When will the two hours be up?” he asked, hoarsely. “T have spent an hour in talking to you. In just forty-seven minutes, if nothing happens, the mines will be exploded.” ‘And you sit there like a Sphinx! Why don’t you do something?” “What can I do?” “Press one of the buttons.’ “Which one?” Ferguson sank back weakly into his chair. “Either one, rather than sit here and do nothing.” “Yes, but which one shall it be?” The assistant superintendent's body was shaking as with the ague. He watched the clock fearfully fora moment; then glanced at the two push- buttons in the wall; then back to the pale face of his companion. “Wouldn’t it be better to save two lives than one?” Would it? Think what the death of Richards will mean. He is the one man that Blake City needs. He alone has the moral courage and the energy to stamp out the evils of the present city government. He alone dares to show up the grafters, and to punish such men as Martin F. Aleck- THE MAGNET II son, the financier, who are slowly and surely fleecing the working men of their wages. Can we afford to let Richards die?” “But it is not a question of the city now. It is a question of human _ life.” “It is a question of both. Onthe other hand, what of this woman and child?” Have we the right to bring destruction upon their innocent heads? Some day, if the boy lives, he may be as great a man as his father is now, and as useful to his community. And, as you say, it is two lives against one.” The other shook his head slowly. “It is too great a question to b e de- cided by us. But who is to press the button?” he asked, suddenly. “Time is flying.” “Tt rests between us two. Here is a quarter. Toss it up.” Ferguson took the piece of silver with trembling hand, and balanced it upon his thumb and forefinger; then he sent it spinning through the air. “Heads !’’cried Maxwell. The quarter landed on its edge, and went rolling acrossthe room. Both men followed it eagerly. It was found lying up against the leg of a chair. The superintendent laughed faintly, but there was no mirth in the sound. Instead, it seemed weird and unnatural. “QO elusive coin!” he said. ‘‘ We must toss again.” Ferguson held out the quarter in his shaking fingers. “You toss it,” he said, huskily. This time Maxwell sent it whirling through the air. The slanting rays of the sun, coming through the windows, caused it to send back a silver gleam as it went spinning upon its mission of fate. ‘Tails,’ muttered Ferguson. : “Tails it is. You win. Iam lord executioner,” said the other, grimly. Ferguson heaved a sigh of relief. “] will share the responsibility, of course, but you can perform the deed without my company.” “Do you wish to know which button I am going to press ?”’ “No, uo!” cried Ferguson, hastily. “I will know soon enough.” He held out his hand, which the other grasped solemnly. Then he hurriedly unlocked the door and left the room. Maxwell waited unti] the other’s footsteps had ceased to echo down the corridors; then he went over and locked the door carefully, and returned to his chair. The clock above his desk warned him that he had just twelve minutes in which to act. He drew a cigar from his pocket, lit it, and threw the match into the grate. “The Lady or the Tiger,” he mused. ‘ The old co dger has got us in- to a mighty unpleasant tangle. As Harry Dodge said, ‘If you press either button, you will be destroying one of the cabins.’ And the old man said, ‘You may want both Bohemia and Elysium some day.’”’ He was gazing thoughtfully into the embers, his cigar between his fin- gers. Ofa sudden, he jumped excitedly to his feet, and threw the cigar vio- lently into the fire. 12 THE MAGNET “TI see,’ he cried aloud. ” How dense we have been. He gave Harry a good chance, but the boy failed to see it. I thought there must be some way out of it. The cabins are not connected in any way, except through the common switchboard in this room. If you press one button, it will open the door, and stop the mine from exploding, in one cabin, but it will not explode the mine in the other cabin. Instead, the mines will explode of their own accord, at the end of the appointed time. The old man never said there was any connection between the cabins, although he gave that impression. This is a case where we want both Bohemia and Elysium.” He went over to the buttons in the wall. He hesitated only an instant, The m-aute hand of the clock moved with an ominous click. He had but a minute left. Thenhe leaned over and pressed both buttons simultaneously. M. Lloyd’s Christmas HE sun had already set, and lights twinkled, here and there, among the houses. But up on the third story of the dormitory of a North- ern boarding-school, Lloyd sat gazing out at the red and gold sky beyond. “Only a week more,” she murmured, ‘‘and then I shall be home.” Lloyd said that word almost reverently; for how well did she remember the old plantation, set well back from the road. She imagined herself in the cab that drove up the long, winding avenue. She could see her father run down the broad steps to meet her; with the old negro servants standing in back, their black faces shining with joy to see “Little Missy” again. Lloyd knew she had been- homesick ever since since she came to this “horrid old boarding-school;” and if it had been her own choice she would not have come. But she knew her father favored it, and had come to please him. Lloyd's mother had died when she was a tiny girl, and she had lived alone with her father and servants since. And, though he loved her dearly, he saw, as the years went by, that Lloyd was petted too much by the ser- vants; that, if she stayed at home, she would not grow up into the lady he wanted her to be. So he had chosen this far-away school to get her away from her own people. But she went on one condition, that she should come home the Christmas and Easter holidays. As she thought this all over now, she was awakened from her day- dream by a sharp knock on the door, which was opened by one of her class- mates, ‘You are wanted at the office, Lloyd,” she said. Lloyd’s face turned a THE MAGNET 13 white and her classmate hastened to say, “Oh! it’s only a call-down for fail- ing in your exam, I guess.” But Lloyd was already half-way downstairs. She paused, before entering the principal's door; then, as if ashamed, stepped hastily inside. The principal handed her a telegram, saying, “A telegram from your father, Miss Sherman.” Lloyd gazed at him in amazement, then hastily grasped the envelope and tore it open. “Have got fever. Don’t come home Christmas. Don’t worry.” She read and reread those three lines, as she slowly dragged her feet upstairs. “What is the matter with Lloyd Sherman?” was whispered around . the supper-table that night. But no one knew, not even her room-mate. Lloyd was not popular and she knew it; for she had never tried to get acquainted with the others, simply because they were Northerners, and how could a Northern girl be worth getting acquainted with, she thought. So now, up in her own room, Lloyd was fighting it out by herself; and in the end she conquered. All the next week, she went about with a firm determination written on her face. Vacation came and the girls began to go home. But nevera sound or word did Lloyd utter. At last, all was quiet and the halls ceased to ring with noisy chatter and the tramp of feet. Christmas morning dawned and Lloyd sat by the window, looking out on the feathery flakes of snow, as they floated to the ground. She won- dered what they were doing at home. Her father was,—then she shook herself and, with a hard little laugh, put on her coat and hat and went out of doors. As she turned down a side street, she came face to face with one of her classmates, Mary Woodworth. Lloyd bowed coolly and started to pass on; but Mary turned and caught up with her. Neither spoke for a few seconds, then Mary slowly drew Lloyd’s story out. But Lloyd was so taken up in her own grief, that she did not even ask how Mary hap- pened to be there. Mary told her, however, without being asked, how she, too, had been disappointed in going home. Then she talked and laughed a great deal and, at the end of an hour, Lloyd, too, was laughing and talk- ing, as if to a Southern girl. That day was the end of all Lloyd’s loneliness. When the girls came back, Mary spread among them how nice Lloyd Sherman could be; and, one by one, they drew her out of her shell, until she was one of the most popular girls of the school. | Sounds from the “lab.”— What is friction?” Football player, absently: “ That which exists when we try a center rush,” 14 THE MAGNET Hiram Wilson, Private Detective IRAM WILSON, a well-known young man of about fifteen years of age, had been reading detective stories for some months. He read them in all places and at all times,—in school, at home on the sly, and especially after he had supposedly gone to bed. He dared not light a lamp; so he used one of those pocket flashlights. More and more he came to believe that his talent lay in that line; so he determined secretly to fol- low every clue that offered itself in the neighborhood. He soon began to consider himself an expert at the business, and one day decided to fix an office in the old barn and hang out his sign. That very day, he overheard Mrs. Gould, a friend of his mother, tell- ing her that an embroidered Japanese doily had disappeared at her home. Now she prized it very much, not only because it was valuable, but because it had been given to her as a wedding present by her brother, who had pur- chased it, at great expense, when he was in Tokio. It was a rare article, as well as an expensive one. Hiram made up his mind he would find the culprit and “run him to earth.” This time it seemed a very easy matter to be a detective, for he already had his suspicions. There were two reasons why Hiram suspected Jack Gould. One day, while he was in school, he had happened to be lock- ing at Jack, when he noticed, or thought he did, something on his shoulder. He stared intently. It certainly was a silver thread. “Hiram, attend to your work,’’ came the sharp voice of the teacher, just as if arithmetic was anything compared to the desperate undertaking in hand. However, Hiram bent over his book and pretended to work for as long as fifteen minutes. Then he rose leisurely and walked over to Jack’s desk to borrow a book,—and no one saw him pick the little silver thread from Jack’s shoulder, —no one but the teacher, who wondered to see him roll it carefully up in a paper and put it in his pocket. That was one clue. Then Jack was sporting a new knife the very next day, and had two pencils, and was treating all the girls in school to candy, just like some millionaire. These two reasons made Hiram feel that he had his man. Accordingly, he determined to find out what had become of the doily. He thought it all over and came to the conclusion that the best thing to do was to search Jack’s room himself, on the sly. How was he to do it? There was no other way;—he would have to go by night, after the house was still. He would not delay. It must be done at once. So, when the following night arrived, he started to Jack’s house, with a bunch of skele- ton keys, his pocket light, a jimmy, and a bag, in which to place the articles found. He found, to his good fortune, that a window was open, and he started to climb in. A blind rattled and Jack woke up. ‘“ Burglars!”’ flashed through his mind. He held his breath, and then, gathering courage, he pushed the bed a little from the wall and slipped down behind it to the floor. | | Hiram got in as softly as he could and began his search. First, he upset 4 . THE MAGNET 15 a pitcher of water on the floor, because he had forgotten to get out his light. Jack by this time was overcoming his fear and peeked out from behind the bed. Hiram crawled carefully and fearfully around the room. What was this? ‘I’ve got it!” he cried, and rolled up the identical doily and put it in the bag, which he placed under his coat, just as Jack, who had been crawl- ing out from under the bed, sprang on him and, with his handkerchief, bound his arms to his sides. “So it is you who is the thief, is it? You pretended detective. Not being satisfied with stealing one, you are after another. Well, I’ve got you tied now and I'll call my folks.”” Hiram did not reply. What could he say? He had been caught red-handed breaking and entering and with stolen property on his person. Jack, meanwhile, went shouting through the hall, “ Burglars! burglars!” ‘Come downstairs and explain your presence in my house at this un- earthly hour, you young scamp,” said Mr. Gould, entering the room angrily. Just then the clock struck two. “Pardon me,” said Hiram, calmly, ‘“‘ you are using the wrong term. I came to this house, though at a rather unceremonious hour, I think now, to _find some trace of that missing doily.” “What right have you to suspect my son?” sharply exclaimed Mrs. Gould. “ He is a liar if he says I took that doily,” yelled Jack, angrily, “ be- cause he came here after the one he has in his pocket.” “How do you know what I have in my pocket? If you had been in bed, where you belonged, instead of sneaking under it, you wouldn’t be so wise.” “Well, haven't I a right to be where I choose in my own room, I'd like to know? And, moreover, I'd like to ask you what right you have to come sneaking in? You give up that doily.” “T said once what I was here for. Will you give me a chance to say anything about it?” ; “No, I don’t believe a word you say, you young vagabond,” said Mr. Gould. “Well, one thing I found is ” —— “T don’t care what you found, | won't listen to it,” cried Mrs. Gould. “He had a new knife the other day.” “T didn’t,” said Jack. ‘‘ That was Billy O’Shea’s; the one his father gave him.” Just then the door swung open violently, and in rushed Bridget, wild- eyed, breathless, and with her hair half-combed, and a candle in her hand. In the other hand she held the long-lost doily. As soon as she was able she gasped, ‘I be the gilty wan. I| do be after takin’ it over t’ m’ sister’s the other day to have her make a copy of the likes fer Christmas. Sure an’ I never thought as how I'd be after makin’ so much trouble over a little thing, with the likes o’ that.” And Hiram? pl! Pc Ro- Os. 16 THE MAGNET A Slight [listake os RE you ready, Edith? The cabman has been waiting a full half- hour already, and it is now a quarter to eight. If you don’t hurry, we will be too late for the grand march.” In a minute, she appeared. Her face beamed as she thought of the fine time that was ahead of them. They were jostled through the brightly lighted streets and soon reached their destination. John handed the driver a dollar and said, “Be sure and be here at one o'clock, sharp.” They arrived just in time for the grand march. Many of their college friends were there and amore enjoyable evening could not have been passed. One o'clock came all too soon to both John and his sister. As they stepped out of the hall, Edith spoke, ‘My, John, I have lost my fan, the one you gave me Christmas. Please run back and find it, like a good boy. I can find the cab, all right.” A search along the seats did not reveal the lost article. John was about to give up, when he saw the precious object lying near the door which led to the reception room. With a shout of exultation, John picked up the fan and hurried to the cab below. street.” “Let her go, old man! Hurry us right along to 175 Saying these words, he leaped into the cab and slammed the door. He settled into a corner with a sigh of relief and said, “Here’s your fan, Edith. I found it near the reception room door. Eh,— I— I— beg your pardon, I guess I have madea mistake. I thought you were my sister. I assure you it isa mistake. [’’— “Indeed?” The girl's head was held very straight. “But, you see, it was just like this— er ”’ “TJ don’t care how it was. I don’t think a gentleman would intrude in this manner.” “But I thought this was ’’— “Tf you are a gentleman you will ’’— “But, you see, it was all a mistake. If you will give me your street number, I'l] tell the man.” “I think there is no need for you to know where I live. If you area gentleman you will leave this cab at once.” ‘Pardon me, as a gentleman, I feel obliged to escort you safely home. If you desire me to leave, I will climb upon the box with the driver and tell him to take us back to the hall to find your escort.” ‘“T don’t care where you go, only leave me at once.” THE MAGNET 17 John stopped the cab and climbed upon the box with the driver. ‘Say, old man, my head aches something awful after dancing all the evening. Thought I would get a little fresh air to brace me up.” “Nothing like the fresh air, Mister,’ answered the driver, but he smiled to himself. ‘Been having a row, I guess.” “Great Scott! Bill told me to wait for him. They had to come back in this hack, too. Last time I’ll go to a ball with any of my own family, I’m sure of that. Can you get me back in ten minutes? I’ll give you double your fee if you can make it.” “Well this is a queer performance,” mused the driver. Only ten minutes had elapsed, when the dark figure of the building loomed up before them. John quickly alighted and opened the cab door. “You see it is of no use, whatever. The lights are out. Your escort‘has probably started for your home. Now, look here, Iam tired of this foolishness. You can be- lieve me or not. I have made a mistake, and have not done it purposely, as you suppose. I feel it is my duty see you safely home. You do not need to give me your address, but tell the driver.” He stepped back with dignity, while she whispered something to the driver, and he climbed upon the box again. Thoughts and thoughts flew gloomily through his mind. ‘Just like a girl to forget that fan. Wonder where she is now. Well, it serves her right, that’s all. his is anice affair.” “Here we be,” broke in the driver;—but before John had time to climb down and open the door, a vision in white fled past him up the walk. But the door was locked and John arrived in time to ring the bell. A girl opened the door. “John! where inthe world did you find her?’ Why, Ethel! Well, I am in luck; What in the world are you doing in Cambridge? I hope to goodness you will help me out of this. You see it was like this: I had nearly reached the street after the dance, when my sis- ter wanted me toreturnto the hall for her fan. I did, and when I came down to the street, I jumped into the cab and told the cabman to go ahead. The consequence is, I had the unexpected pleasure of escorting a strange girl home. I hope, zz “me, your sister,—is it ?—may be able to forgive me for intruding upon her in such an wzgentlemanly manner.” Bat the young lady in question swept by with her head very erect, but with a strange little smile fighting for expression-in her eyes. “Of course she'll forgive you, though she does look treacherous now. Come over Friday evening.” ee May I?” His glance included the dim figure half-way down the hall. She did not answer, but he saw her shaking with the laughter that had con- quered. “T’ll come,— sure thing,” he answered, “if I have to ride with the driver.” A. S..Bia, OS. 18 (REL ES THE SPECKED TATER CLUB. The Spectator—an observer of men —Mr. Gay. Siv Rogey—an authority on coun- try matters— Phelps, ’oo. Sir Arthur Freysort—an expert in business—Chase, ’o8. Captain Sentry—an drill—H yatt, ’oo. The Lawyer--a master of literature — Miller, ’o8. The Minister—Miller, ’oo. Will Honeycomb—the social lion— Burgess, ’08. authority on w “Oh, the keenness of a Senior, when he’s keen; Oh, the meanness of a Junior, when he’s mean; But these other things aren’t in it For the fraction of a minute, With the greenness of a Freshman, when he’s green.” —Ex. ws “T stood upon the mountain, I gazed adown the plain, I saw a lot of queer stuff That looked like waving grain. I took another look at it, I thought it must be grass; But, goodness! to my horror, It was the Freshman class.”’ ww Teacher: “Give me an English sentence, using the word ‘ after.’ ”’ —Fx, Freshman: ‘‘Vhe trees were after the first hill.” MAGNET DEAR SANTIE:— You were such a dear to send me that perfectly sweet little mirror for Christmas. I was sure you would send me something nice; I have been such a good little boy this year. You knew how much I would want to keep my hair up straight and my necktie from behind my ear,—didn’t you, old fellow? Yours lovingly, TEDDY. Pisin: P.S.2. I had broken two already this year, and one I loaned to Leroy. eee ve P.S.4. He looked at it. sea ww 1st Sophomore: ‘ ‘ Has Miss Jackson gone into the electrical business?” Thank you, so much. Leroy spoiled it in Physics class, 2d Sophomore: “1 didn’t hear any- thing about it. Why?” rst Sophomore: “Oh, I saw her bringing home a Chand(e)I(i)er the other night.” we Miss Wilkins: ‘‘ What were the “watches of the night?” Bright Freshman: “Alarm clocks.” w Moonlight nights are_ bad, Edson! Miss Ww? Mr. H.: “Now we have two-thirds of the example. What else do we want now, Mr. P-———?’” Mr. P.: “The other third.” THE eye, oi PERSONALLY SPEAKING. 1st Sentor: “ What does this strin- gency of money mean?” 2a Senior: “Oh, it simply means that it has spread from me to the whole country.” w Chorus of schoolboys (derisively): ‘Here comes a son of Erin!” The S. of E.: such thing. I’m no ime ae son ot Patrick ‘“ Aw, gwan. Murpby.” w Schoolgirl: ‘“‘ Mother says you can’t call any more, Ed.” Za. Thats easy. I'm calling seven nights a week now, so I can't very well call any more.” English Teacher: ‘“ Now, Mr. ——, you may say for me the quotation from ‘Julius Czesar,’ which I gave you to learn for today.” Freshman: “Men at some times are not masters of their feet.” w The complainant was a little with- ered-up Frenchman, who declared he didn’t care so much because his neighbor's cow trampled down his corn and other vegetables, but be- cause the cow had hurt his dog. The lawyer for the defence asked him to tell his story, just to see how Che ee Re S sete pe —— 16 0 OAR TE TT eae TIT ETT TY BTN MAGNET 19 eS Tr a muchthe dog washurt. The French- man did so,—‘tMy neighbor, his cow, she come into my garden. My dog saw him and jumped for her, to bite its ears, and he stepped on her and broke its tail,and it jumped up and grabbed her by its nose, and she let out a loud squeak and shoved his horn through it.” “Well, I guess the honors about even,” said the Judge, dryly. are x In Algebra: “Give me an example of an exponent.” Bright Student: velt.”’ ‘“Theodore Roose- we Teacher: “ Did you go to last Sat- urday’s game, Willie? ” Football Enthusiast: Teacher: Fif.: “The referee; but we nearly got him, just the same.” w Smith: “1 notice that J ohnson has an article in the paper this morning.” Fones: “Indeed! I didn't see it. What was it?” Smith: ‘His spring overcoat. was taking it to the cleaned and pressed.” ¥ “Ts it raining, girls?” “No,” -broke cats and dogs.” i Vesm. “Who came out ahead?” He tailor to be in Auxuso, ‘“ only 20 THE MAGNET N Thanksgiving morning, at 10.15, Leominster lined up for the most important game of the season, against the old rivals, Fitchburg ° High. Leominster High was defending the north goal. Fitchburg kicked off to Leominster, who immediately started to rush the ball down the field, taking advantage of the numerous misplays of the Red and Gray. ‘So vigorously did the Leominster boys attack their opponents, that it seemed as if Fitchburg was falling all to pieces. The whole Leominster team was now showing great team work, and it worked havoc with the individual playing of Fitchburg. In seven minutes of play, Wass kicked a goal from the field, making the score 4 to o. Soon after the next kickoff, Leominster again started in to rush the ball toward the opposite goal. It was here that Leominster’s trick plays seemed to dazzle Fitchburg most; for nearly every one was used for good gains. After having captured the ball in front of the Fitchburg goal, Wass dropped back for another goal from placement; but, instead of Wass’s even . touching the ball, Bullard went dashing past the puzzled Fitehburg ends, for a twenty yard gain, but was called back because some one had been off- side. Not long after, Reagan dashed around the other side of the field, a good gain. After trying to rush the ball, Wass again tried another field goal, but missed, and the first half ended with the score 4 to 0 in Leomin- ster’s favor. In the second half, Fitchburg showed up much better, and, for a while, — the ball kept going from one side to the other on third downs, and on ex- changed punts. Unluckily for Leominster, one of Fitchburg’s punts got by quarter-back Bullard, and a Fitchburg player captured the ball in dan- gerous territory. Fitchburg now made several good gains, but had to be penalized frequently for offside play,—one or two of the boys always start- ing ahead of time. Finally, as a last resort, Wise sent a drop kick over: a THE MAGNET 21 the Leominster goal, tying the score 4 to 4. It was now too late to think of winning, and Fitchburg kept the ball out of dangerous territory by punt- ing as soon as it got the ball. Soon after, the best battle of the season ended with no one the winner and the score 4 to 4. ew w Even though Leominster only tied this game, it has a record to be proud of, for out of ten games only one was lost and two were tied. The teams which were fortunate enough to tie the Blue and White are Clinton and Fitchburg, and the only team that can boast of having beaten the L. H. S. team for ’07 is Marlboro; but Leominster fully repaid its debt to that team in Leominster a little later in the season by trimming them 10-0. 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EPHAS VERBY, 09, DoroTHy WHITTIER, ’10, Girls’ Athletics. .4RTHUR S. Kxoss, Sketch Editor. LEONE SMITH, School Notes. FLORENCE EDSON, ’og, Personals. ASSISTANTS. Lillian Barron, Lloyd Jobes, Robert Griffin, William O’Neil, Ernest Johnson, Herbert Wass, Howard Corkum, Bernice Prouty. Published monthly during school year by pupils of the High School. Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents. HERE is one branch of school life here, to which not nearly enough attention is paid by the scholars. That is the debating club. The upper-classmen should set the example in joining the club, yet there is a very small percentage of Seniors and Jun- iors as regular members. We do not wonder that there are no Freshmen in the club,—simply because of the lack of enthusiasm in the upper classes. Now this must be the fault of the club mem- bers themselves; they should put vim and energy into the work; they should talk with every member of the Freshman and Sopho- more classes and, if possible, make all of them members of the club. 5 6 THE MAGNET Why, it is doubtful if the Freshman class ever knew that there was such a thing as a Paton Debating Club, until the announce- -ment was made of the first debate. Now this is, entirely, neglect on the part of the members themselves. Another thing, which does not add very much to the credit of the members, is that there are barely ten or eleven present at meetings, out of a total membership of twenty-nine. Now if members themselves haven't enough interest in the debates to at- tend, they can hardly expect any outsiders to be present. We need not dwell to any extent on the good which is derived from debating; this can be seen at any debate,—the clearness of thought, the value of arguments, and, most of all, the ease and quickness of response, that 1s gained in rebuttal. Therefore we take the liberty of extending a cordial invita- tion to everybody to attend the debates which are to be held every Friday afternoon at quarter past three o'clock. T seems that athletics at the school are not encouraged as they should be. No athletic team has had anything to work for, except the little glory to be gained in being on the winning side. By this we do not mean to say that teams should be given sweaters or jerseys, nothing of the kind, especially when the Ath- letic Association is not in very ample circumstances. But there is a far easier solution of the situation. We will take Harvard foranexample. There a man will strug- gle at football the whole season just to gain his “H.” A man there, who is honorably entitled to his letter, is looked up to asa sort of hero and a man who wears an “H,” without being entitled to it, is, as every one knows, absolutely despised. Also at Exeter, Andover, and other “prep” schools, a man cannot wear the letter of the school until it has been voted him by the Athletic Committee. So here, if the Athletic Association voted an “ L”only to men that had honorably earned it and prohibited its use by any one else, there would be something at least to strive for and to glory in, after having attained it. RicHarp H. SCANLON. THE MAGNET 7 HERE surely is an apparent lack of enthusiasm in basket-ball among the girls of this school. Here it is February and yet practically nothing accomplished. Certainly, the fault does not lie with the teachers who urge the progress of the sports, nor does it lie with the town, which has afforded ample opportunities for play- ing basket-ball. But it does lie with the girls, themselves, who do not half appreciate the advantages offered them. In a school of this size, there ought to be an excellent first team and a good sec- ond team, to say nothing of the individual class accomplishments. There is no reason why we can not have a fine showing this year, because we have the material for excellent players, if the girls who can would only give up a few afternoons to good, hard practice. Do you, girls of the Leominster High School, wish to have the boys who have several other athletic sports get ahead of you in basket- ball, your one and only game? Do you wish to carelessly throw away your advantages and opportunities in school life? Then brace up, devote a few afternoons to basket-ball practice instead of skating, and show what you cax do. DorotHuy WHITTIER, 'I0. Her Social Inclinations HE door opened and a girl came rushing into the room. “Fix my collar, mamma, will you please?—and hurry; I want to get up to Grace’s before she goes out.” “Well, stand stillthen. Can’t you speak to Aunt Sarah?” “ Oh, yes, how do you do, Aunt Sarah?—you’'re sticking that pin in me, mamma. Oh, that’s all right. Don’t bother about the top. I’miin a hurry. Where’s my hat, do you know?” “No, Marion, how many times have I told you that if you’d put up your things you'd know where to find them. Aunt Sarah’s only going to be here a little while. It seems to me, you might let Grace go for a few min- utes and visit with her.” Marion’s face puckered up. “Oh, I—well, all right,’ she said, as she plumped into achair. ‘ How are all the folks, Aunt Sarah? Oh,—excuse me a minute, there goes Grace;” and she rushed out of the door calling, at 8 THE MAGNET the top of her voice, ‘““Wait a minute, will you,’’—leaving all the doors open behind her. “Oh, these girls!” exclaimed Mrs. Snelling, as she closed the doors aft- er her daughter. ‘ Marion is really a good girl, Aunt Sarah, she’s only a little thoughtless at times. But you'd be surprised to see how nice she is when her father’s around.” “Perhaps you humor her too much,” volunteered Aunt Sarah, in a slight- ly sarcastic tone. ‘But there is a great difference in children, anyway. Have you seen Katie lately? She is such a nice, quiet little thing and so very polite.” “Yes, she came over to see Marionthe other day, but Marion doesn’t care for her. She thinks she’s old fashioned; and it’s no wonder if she is, the way her mother stays in. It’sa shame to make such a hermit of one’s self as Jane Anderson does. think she ought to see that Katie has more social life. Why our Marion goes to some dance or party almost every night and Katie’s never there. She goes to afternoon parties, Marion says.” “T noticed Marion seemed very socially inclined,’ murmered Aunt Sarah. ‘I was going totake her back with me this afternoon. Cora Wheel- er’s just finished her first year at boarding-school and she brought a crowd of girls home with her, and her brother Jack has some college fellows there —a ‘house party,” I think she called it. They're one girl short and Cora asked me if I couldn’t bring one of my nieces back.” } ‘““Marion’s just the one,” quickly interposed Mrs. Snelling. ‘“ She’d know just what to do. You wait a minute and I’ll send some one for her.” ‘“No, don’t bother, Cousin Snelling. She’s too occupied with her social duties here. I really wouldn't care to interfere. I'll take Katie back, I think.” Ab. Oh, those dignified Seniors! For they’re very busy thinking Jolly people are they, They’re the only ones in sight. Finding fault with the Freshmen All the livelong day. They think they’re the best in singing Of any class in the school; Oh, you wonderful Seniors! But, if they should ask Mr. Kenney, Most wonderful? people in school, His answer might make them feel cool. Always watching the Freshmen To make them obey the rule. Now Seniors, don’t be offended, For this is the truth, all will say; When in the hall you see them But I shouldn’t wonder the very least bit, They’ve no looks for the left or right; If we acted the same some day. B. S. Sip ks THE MAGNET 9 The Supreme Test +4 ELL, fellows, I guess this will be about far enough,” said the chief initiator, a member of the Senior class at Yale, as he shut off the power on the big touring car. It was a dismal looking place at its best and none of the unhappy looking group of six felt cheered in the slightest by the “‘address” of the “chief.” ‘ Friends, Romans, country- men,” (the chief had been initiated once, ) “ I will now sum up the initiation for you. According to the auto register you are exactly fifty-six miles from New Haven. I have seen to it that you haven’t a cent in your pockets, nor _abitetoeat. I take pleasure in saying that ouf of two dozen candidates for the society, you six are the only ones who have stood all the tests. Now comes the supremetrial. It is now just three o'clock, and tonight every one of you that shall have arrived at the club at or before eleven shall be made an honor member.” With that the machine started away witha whir and the dejected six were left to themselves. A laughable set they were, taken right from the “ stunts’ in the city. One extremely tall fellow was dressed as a ballet dancer and had been forced to peddle shoe-blacking all day in the most prominent streets. Another, dressed as a deacon, had been forced to stand on a curb-stone and sing, over and over again, ‘“‘ Ninety-nine Bottles Hanging on the Wall,” and at the same time chew a plug of tobacco and smoke a strong cigar. These and many other “stunts” had aided in making the group feel down-hearted in their present condition. “ Hasn't some one got a dime hidden away somewhere?” asked Frank Essing; “ you, for instance, Jack. You always had a knack of putting away your money, so you wouldn’t get fleeced. A dime would buy a quart of milk at the farm-house we passed down there a way, and would ward off starva- tion. My last meal was at just six o’clock this morning.”’ Jack searched diligently, as did allthe others. ‘ I haven’t a cent, Frank. Yes, —no—by Jove, I’ve got something here,” fishing excitedly in one of his pockets. ‘“ Oh, hang the luck,” disgustedly, “ Deane: but a clearing-house certificate;—I thought it was a bill.” “| have an idea,” suddenly exclaimed J. ance Jones, who was dressed asa policeman. ‘“I’lltake the certificate into the farm-house down there and jolly them into giving me some grub for it.” i “Good idea!’’ exclaimed everybody in chorus. “ Besides, they will never doubt the word of an officer of the law,” said the ‘‘ballet girl,” sarcastically. So, accordingly, the whole group walked down the road to the farm- house, and all stood out in front of the fence, while Jones went in. The mo- ment the gate clicked, a bulldog dashed forth, prepared to eat the first one that came in. Instantly all the fellows turned to run, but the dog gave just one terrified look at the crazy-looking crowd and fled to his kennel. 10 ? THE MAGNET The masqueraders continued to run, until they had put a good half-mile between themselves and the terrifying bulldog. Then, in council of war, it was decided that ‘Crab Yates,” dressed as a tramp, should approach the next house boldly and ask for something to eat, which he was to bring out and share with hiscompanions. This time the other five remained in hiding and “Crab” walked straight up to the front door. In response to his knock, a young girl came to the door, and, contrary to all orders, ‘‘Crab” stepped in when the girl asked him. The farmer and his wife were in the dining-room preparing supper, and so the daughter was told to set a table for the “ Count of Tugelburg, travel- ing incog,” in the kitchen. A half-hour passed, and the other five still remained waiting, for no “Crab” appeared, neither did anything to eat; and they were using valuable time. Finally, one of the fellows sneaked up to the window in the kitchen, where the curtain was not drawn; and, to his surprise and horror, he saw “Crab” imbibing large quantities of hard cider and talking with the farmer’s pretty daughter, seemingly in no hurry to leave. A parley was held and it was decided that ‘‘Crab” was in no condition to proceed with them, as he would only impede their further progress; and so he was left to his fate. ‘ The five now plodded onin silence, sorry for having lost one of their number. They were all now terribly hungry, for their last meal was some- time before the initiating began, about seven o’clock in the morning, Luckily for them, however, they stumbled on to a few apple trees and they ate the half-ripe apples with the greatest relish. They soon reached a small village, where, as they passed the post-office and general store, they received marked attention on the part of the villa- gers, who, as usual, were all waiting for the evening mail-coach. An egg, by no means fresh, struck Hal. Eaton, ‘the ballet dancer,” between the shoulders, and instantly that young lady turned and delivered a stocky farmer's boy a blow that stunned him. Instantly everybody took a hand, and for ten minutes a furious conflict raged. By the end of that time, the village constable, roused from his evening nap, appeared and grasped two of the college fellows by the collar and tried to take them off to the station. Both fellows landed a blow on the constable and rendered him hors de combat, but they were separated from their chums in the struggle, and try as they would they could not join them again. Finally the “ dea- con,” the “ ballet dancer,” and the “ policeman” were forced to fight their way out of the crowd and run for it. As the fellows loped along at a dog trot, the “deacon ”’ suddenly stopped. ‘ Listen, fellows,’ he exclaimed,‘ I’m sure I heard a train whis- tle then. Yes, there it is again. Come on, we may get it yet.” They sped across the fields at their best speed and soon had the satis- faction of seeing the rails of the track glistening in the moonlight. The train, a passenger, which had stopped for some slight accident, now started again and the fellows saw their chance slipping away. But the “deacon” and the ‘‘ policeman,’ who were somewhat quicker than their comrade, —_— . -_ a THE MAGNET II managed to grasp the gate of the last car and pull themselves up onthe steps. Eaton, the “ ballet dancer,” made a desperate lunge for the rail, but missed it by a few inches and was flung into the ditch. Instantly, the two other fellows were whirled away and Eaton was left to haul himself out of the ditch alone. His watch had been broken in his fall, and the crash of the glass re- minded him to look at the time. The hands stood ac fifteen minutes of eleven! “Well, I guess it’s all up with me, ” he thought. ‘I might as well get back on the road, for no one can tell where this track will lead me.” Act- ing on this thought, he climbed up the bank and walked back in the direc- tion he had come from. He stopped a moment to cool his brow in the night air. “Pardon me, ”’ said a soft voice at his elbow,‘ but isn’t this a rather un- - ceremonious hour of the night for a young lady to be wandering about the country? Permit me to escort you home in my new machine.” Eaton turned in amazement. The man seemed almost like an appa- rition, coming so swiftly and silently; but he, also, was much surprised to see a man’s face under the wig of yellow hair, which Eaton wore. But he quickly recovered, for he realized that it was initiating time and he had not been out of college long himself. “Say, my man!” Eaton suddenly blurted out, “what kind of time can you make in that machine—some kind of an airship, is it? I’ve got to be at the club in the city tonight at eleven o'clock.” Then, his excitement abat- ing, ‘But of course you can’t do it.” “Well, I don’t know,” replied the stranger with aggravating coolness, ‘I’m due there myself about that time. You see, since my uncle died and left me quite a little money ’— “But I don’t care to know your family li fe; I] want to get in town by eleven and we’re wasting valuable time in talking,” interruped Eaton. “As I was saying,’ continued the stranger, without the slightest haste, “since my Uncle left me some money, I have been working on my new in- vention. I made my idea practical, and I have one of the greatest inven- tions of the day. This is the first time I have tried it, and it is working splendidly. Come over and let me show you how it works.” Eaton was fairly wild with impatience, but he saw there was no way of making the stranger start before he wished, so he walked over to the ma- chine and tried to listen as the man explained. “The model is taken somewhat after the Langley type ,aeroplane. When | throw in this switch here, an inflammable powder, in top here in the brass globular-shaped vessel, is electrically ignited, and a gas is formed, which floats just above the air-ship. The gas which is given off from the burning powder is the nearest approach which has yet been made to a true vacuum. Then, with a vacuum above, the car is quickly pulled up, and in the same way, it is propelled forward, backward, and downward. There is also a high-power motor aft, which gives the car an extra high speed for- ward.” 12 THE MAGNET ‘“ Quite interesting,” murmured Eaton, just for the sake of pola “but, hang it, man, fhe time is flying. It must be nearly eleven now,’ The stranger calmly drew out his watch. Just nine minutes of, and only about fifty miles to go. Why, my friend, you don’t begin to realize the speed I can make. Do you see the snow that is melting onthe rail? Well, early this morning, I was cruising through a heavy snow storm in northern Siberia!’ He shut his watch with a snap to emphasize his words. ‘Well, step aboard,” he said, shortly, and Eaton did so. The stranger then threw in switch number one. There was a flash amidships and an almost invisible gas covered the top of the car. An in- stant later, they were looking down on the earth from an altitude of some hundred odd feet. Eaton gazed. He looked at the stranger, who was just throwing out the first switch and throwing in another. The performance of the blaze and issuing gas was repeated, this time at the bow, and the car shot ahead at a reckless speed. Eaton flattened himself out on deck to keep from being blown off, when the car shot ahead at quicker speed, as the motor in the rear was started. : The stranger then devoted himself to steering the car, by means of a large rudder, in a straight course for New Haven, while Eaton merely held on to a stay to keep from falling overboard. Once he looked over the rail and saw, far down in the valley, a passenger train just disappearing in the moonlight. ‘I wonder—” he thought; but his thoughts were interrupted by his unknown friend. “We are just over the city now and I’m about to send the car down- ward. Stand re ady to jump when near the ground, for I can’t always judge the distance for stopping correctly.” And the car dropped, as it seemed to Eaton, almost from under his feet. They approached the ground at a terrific rate of speed. The stranger pulled out the switch and a wierd green light, from the current as it ‘‘arced,” showed his face in startling lines. He had thrown the switch, but it was too late. Eaton leaped clear of the car as it crashed to the ground. He fell, stunned and bruised, but arose quickly. His first thought was for his strange benefactor, and he started toward t he wreck of the car. He had hardly advanced two steps in that direction when the man crawled forth from under the wreckage somewhere, and started feeling his way over the pieces of the deck. Eaton stopped in amazement. He had thought surely the man must be dead, when he hadn't leaped from the car; but this was worse, for the lights of the city, burning dimly, revealed a face marked with insanity. Suddenly the city hall clock began to strike eleven. Eaton turned and fled for the club. At the last stroke of the hour, the ‘ballet dancer” pushed open the club-room door. R. H. Ss Oe THE MAGNET 13 Premonition T was election time at Russell. Mr. George White and Mr. William Tl Harrington were both candidates for the office of city clerk. As the rivalry between the two men and their parties was great, the outcome of the election was watched with interest by everybody. Of course each side said that they would win in the end. One day, as Mr. White was sitting in his office, writing out his campaign speech, a strange feeling of apprehension came over him. It was about that railroad. A new electric road, a great boom for the place if it could be brought through there, was being discussed in a lively manner at the time. The railroad company behind the scheme strongly advocated Marshall’s field, the shortest way. Mr. White was thinking over the situation. Obvi- ously, the shortest and cheapest way was advisable. He could not under- stand the sudden feeling of distrust which came overhim. He tilted back in his chair and considered. Marshall’s field was in one of the prettiest parts of the city, and the other proposed railway route was over a hill, rather difficult to rail. The feeling grew stronger and stronger,—he got up and paced about the room. It was of nouse. His platform had to be made that evening. He started to write in favor of the short road, thus assuring his popularity; but something made him hesitate. “It's of no use,’ he exclaimed. ‘I’ve got to, advocate the other,—and my party will think I’m insane.” When Mr. White made his opening speech, he strenuously opposed the road through Marshall's field. He said that it must go the other way, re- gardless of cost ortime. He stated that it would come to disaster, if it went the way that the people all wished. He was asked his reasons. In vain he tried to think of arguments, but they sounded futile and useless. People called him a pessimist and his rival called him narrow minded, “The idea,” said Mr. Harrington, “of supposing those stones will ever give way before an earthquake touches them,—and just as if an earthquake would come in this vicinity.” “ All right,” said Mr. White, “wait and see if what I am saying doesn’t come true. If it doesn't, I’l] willingly acknowledge my error and leave the city.” x Time went on, and finally election day came. Mr. White had grown more and more eager in his plea for abandoning the shorter route. Why did he do it? There must be something more than a mere feeling of dis- aster back of it. The people laughed at him all the more and called him all the names they could devise. Moreover, some began to be suspicious. Harrington railed at him more than ever. When the election returns came in, it was found that Harrington had won by a large majority, and forthwith preparations were made for the 14 THE MAGNET building of the new road. The work was pushed on rapidly, and as in was only a short route, it was soon very nearly completed. Mr. White would not go near it. He said, “I'll walk before I'l] ride in a car through that field.” ‘‘T doubt it,’ said Mr. Harrington, who of course went down every day to see how the work progressed. At last the work was finished, and cars were sent over it a week before it was opened to the public. They went all right, and the track inspector pronounced the bed solid enough to carry freight, as the company intended. The day that the road was opened to the public, all the city officials and prominent men were invited to attend. Mr. Harrington went; but, though our friend, Mr. White, received an invitation, he did not accept. Three large cars were filled with well-known people of the city. The men cracked jokes over their cigar smoke and everybody was feeling very jolly. Inthe midst of the merry-making and laughter, a voice called out suddenly through the din, ‘‘ Here’s White’s spirited field right ahead, fel- lows;”’ but the laugh which the speaker tried to arouse at White’s benefit, was mirthless; one or two men tried to spring a joke, but their laughter was hollow and insincere. They were now right on the edge of Marshall’s field and hardly a sound was heard in the cars. Something gave way. Clatter! Crash! The forward car was thrown clear over on its side. All the glass in the windows was instantly broken. The woodwork was smashed into flinters. A very few minutes after all had been merry, the forward car was a mass of twisted iron and splintered wood! The passengers in the second and third cars rushed forth with blanched faces. A few men, with presence of mind, sent to the city for aid and then set the others removing the injured from the wreckage. Help now arrived and the work was hurried in earnest. Mr. White was one of the first to appear, and while he worked, he was talking to a man near him. ‘I decided a few days ago to prove the correctness of my feeling about this land. I obtained a geologist, and we came out here about a half hour ago. It didn’t take him five minutes to find out that the under strata here was all “mestone Are you following me?” “Yes. Go on!” answered his listener, breathlessly. “He also found out that there was a break in the strata, so that, if sub- jected to any great pressure, the earth would give way four or five feet!’ con- tinued Mr. White. ‘I instantly started to the city to see if I could avert the accident in any way, but I was too late. But what’s this?” The form of a man was seen to stir underneath some wreckage. They ran to him and after much difficulty succeeded in moving the heavy weights that pinned him down. A very.dazed man rose and shovk hands with his rescuers. It was Mr. Harrington. J. Po Rate - THE MAGNET 15 Twentieth Century Hunting At five in the morning, six hounds were ready, As well as a hunter, with Bess, his good nag, For a cross-country hunt one fox to levy Just one small fox to fill his new bag. His wife had beseeched him to keep from hunting, Because of a scheme she had well worked out, And only yielded when he presented A gift, in the shape of a new runabout. The dogs found a trail; the hunter soon fol- lowed O’er meadows, through valleys, o’er ups and o'er downs; And, until he had come to a swift-flowing river, He managed to keep in the rear of his hounds, There the dogs took diverse directions. It chanced Some gasolene gave them a scent. And the man turned toward the road, to pur- sue The course on which they seemed bent. But when, with his horse, to the roadside he came, This met his astonished wide eyes,— His wife in the auto, the fox in the same, Were utt’ring most wild, piercing cries. The hunter in days of the long ago Used horses in all of his chasing; But it only is up to date, now, you know, To use a good auto—for racing. TE7K, Wis. Ok “Il Travatore”’ It was the sound of music, So heavenly, so clear. It was a soft, angelic sound That one delights to hear. I dreamed I walked at evening Down by the river side. To my best recollection It was the river Clyde. A gentle voice addressed me; An angel spoke aloud :— “Look! See that beauteous rainbow hung With jewels from the cloud.” I saw the arch of heaven, It filled me with delight. The pearls and gems were people, All dazzling to my sight. 3 Horses and gilded chariots, A coronet and crown, A Venus in her beauty, All came floating down. The bells began to jingle Upon the ebb and tide. And there among the merry crowd I soon beheld a bride. Alas! each story has an end, However fair it seem. I woke. Our period was at an end, And I had had a dream. It was the sound of music, So heavenly, so sweet, Produced on the pianola By Mr. Kenney’s feet. CooK, ’o8. - 16 THE MAGNET OUR EXCHANGES E have received a number of exchanges during the last month from surrounding schools. We hope to receive many more before the next issue. Criticisms of our paper are invited. Fede The Argus, of Gardner, seems to be as unfortunate as we are in its lack of poems. It contains many grinds, which are always interesting to the mem- bers of a school. There are no stories of great length, most of them being in the form of anecdotes. The paper would be greatly improved by a fron- tispiece. w w The Red and Gray, of Fitchburg, is above the average in size and general ° quality. It shows a good school spirit in the amount of matter contributed. It abounds in poems. ‘‘ The Rainy Road” is excellent, and “ Mr. Rodney and Miss Annabella” is quite clever; but much of its poetry is of an infe- rior quality. The author of ‘‘John’s New Shoes” gets his feet badly mixed. The athletic notes are quite impartial; but the editorials, which should voice the opinions of the school, are merely geueralization upon abstract subjects. w ¥ The Clinton Student criticizes a certain paper for containing “literature of a very high grade, but nothing of a humorous nature.” This criticism re- versed might be applied very aptly to 7he Student. It seems that the mem- bers of Clinton High do not take their paper seriously. w w The Oak, Lily, and Ivy, of Milford, Mass., has a very attractive cover de- sign, representative of the name. The editors complain of a lack of mate- rial. Evidently by the length of the paper, they have cause to complain. w w No one can doubt after reading 7he Greylock Echo that Adams High School won the championship of the Berkshire Football League, but without doubt the victory was well deserved. This paper is devoted almost entirely to - local matters. It would be improved by a few cuts and more literary mat- ter, both prose and poetry. THE MAGNET 17 AO the outset of the season many doubts were expressed that we would have a successful basket-ball team this season, owing to the scarcity of experienced players. Some of last year’s players were ineligible, and others refused to come out, for reasons of their own. But in spite of these sentiments, Leominster captured the first game, and after that there was a noticeable increase in the number of candidates for the team. The team has steadily improved under Coach Robinson, and up to date has won a majority of the games played. The first game, December 21, with the Phi Beta Society of Worcester, was won 25 to II. On January 4, the team went to Fitchburg and was defeated 37 to 18, although they outplayed their opponents in the second half. The second defeat of the season was received January 11th, on the home floor, from the Sacred Heart team of Worcester. The game was fast and exciting throughout, and was not decided until the last minute of play, when one of the visiting team threw a goal from a free try, making the score 13 to 12. The next two games were with Leicester Academy, and both won by Leominster; the first at Leominster, by a score of 23 to 16; the other at Leicester, by a score of 31 to 30. | Professor: “ Mr. Raleigh, yon may demonstrate to the class that smoking cigarettes is not dangerous.” Mr. Raleigh: “ Smoking cigarettes kills; those who smoke them are of no earthly use and ought to be killed; the good or the bad anything does must be judged from the effect it has on the greatest number; therefore, since cigarettes rid the community at large of those who are useless to it, smok- ing them is not only not injurious, but beneficial.” 8 THE aa ie G 4 tea E Zoe F;: aS y LOAD NOTE? 6 31 4 TTR) ATION FTO tty ma @= : 3 “And now,” said the prosecuting lawyer, as he majestically prepared to wind up his cross examination of a witness, “what did that paper say ?” “Well,” replied the meek little man “‘may-be I am hard of hearing, or perhaps I was not listening all the time, but anyhow, I didn’t hear the paper say a thing.” w Friend: ‘‘Why Bill! You look ter- ribly thin. I thought you said you were living high at college.” Bill: “IT was. Lived on the fourth floor of Mrs. Jones’ boarding-house.”’ w AS THE ENGLISH Say (AND SEE) IT. ’'Awkins: ‘“We’ear that the Duke hove Cheshire ‘as gone hand married han Hamerican girl.” Sir Fonesby: (fond of figurative ex- pressions): ‘ Yes, ’e’as led han Ha- merican heiress to the halter.” 2 “Lives of grafters all remind us: We can get our votes now sold, And, departing, leave behind us Thumb-prints on the grafter’s gold.” x First Young Lady: ‘“ There is that horrid Miss Blank. She sat in front of me at the lecture last night and conversed with her companion all the evening. Second Young Lady: “ And you could not hear the speaker?” Furst Young Lady: “Oh, yes. But they spokes cing ePrench? and) couldn't understand a word they said.” aha Wreath ES _—— MAGNET | é Ase Johnny: “When our Mary Ann ar- rives at Broadway, why does she al- ways cross the road?” fits sister. ‘That's OlG aa ieee on the other side.” Fohnny: “No, that’s wrong. She wants to have the honor of being es- corted by Officer Maloney.” w Teacher (sympathetically ): “Why, Johnny! You have a fearful cold. Let me give you a pill for it.” Fohnny: “Thanks, ma’am; but you can have it for nothing.” w ‘“What’s the matter with you?” cried the aeronaut to his assistant. “JI thought you said you knew your business! You act as if you’d never seen a balloon before!” ‘““T haven't,” admitted the assistant. ‘I was educated in a correspondence school.” w Woman of the House: “ Now, if you don’t leave at once I ’ll call my hus- band; and he’s an old Harvard foot- ball player.” Tramp: “Lady, if yer love him, don't call him out. I used ter play wid Yale.” | w _INSULT. ‘“Now,”’ muttered the guide, as his charges approached the great St. Bernard, ‘“ now things are coming to a pretty pass.”—F arvard Lampoon. THE MAGNET 19 Fellows, do you remember the song? Ich wurde, wenn ich Konnte aber ich Kann nicht. Kann nicht! Warum? Weil ich jetzt verheiratet bin!— z. w A: “So you are going to play basket ball?”’ ee yes, XA: “How many ‘ D’s’ did you get?” eee wone, Got all‘ E’s.’” w Teacher: ‘“‘ How is the president of the United States elected? ” Pupil: “By some sort of an elec- trocution college.” w ON THE SuBJECT OF Heat. Teacher: “Mr. A , if -you put your hand on ared hot poker, what would you feel?” Pup Hot.” Well, naturally. w AN EPITAPH. Here lies the body of Jonathan Pound, Who was lost at sea and never was found. w From PoETRY TO PROSE (etc.) “ And so Prof. Greene has at last discovered the missing link! where did he find it?” “Under the bureau, I understand.” w A poacher surprised at his work, and pursued in his escape by a venge- fully thrown ax, remarked, as he lady of the house. vaulted a fence: “I have no fault to find with the remarks, but I object to the ax-sent.’’ we Ist Clubmember: What did the speaker talk on at the club last night?” 2d Clubmember: “He didn’t say what he was talking on, but he said the only way to gain success was to have a pull.” Ist Clubmember: “So? what does he do for a living?” 2d Clubmember: ‘Oh, he’s a den- tist,”’ w Visitor: “1 would like to see. the Is she engaged?” Butler: “ Lor’ sir! she’s married; been married for twenty years.” w A man wanted a ticket to New York, and had only a $2 bill. It re- quired $3 to get the ticket. He took the $2 bill to a pawn-shop and pawned it for $1.50. On his way back to the depot he met a friend, to whom he sold the pawn-ticket for $1.50. That gave him $3. Now, who’s out that dollar? Now: This joke was dug forth from the ancient Chaldean records, where it had long ago gone, after having been gashed, cut, decapitated, and finally murdered. } w Isaacs: Undt suppose dey did send us a message from Mars, how could dey tell if we got it? Cohen: Vell, dey might send it gollect undt see if we paid for it. 20 THE MAGNET The members of the Paton De- bating Club have elected officers for this year as follows: President, Ev- erett Lothrop; Vice-president, How- ard Chase; Secretary and Treasurer, John R. Miller. Executive commit- tee, Cephas Derby, Leon J. Miller, Richard H. Scanlon. w HEARD IN History CLaAss. Miss Hannigan: Mr. Person, who was the greatest man in the political history of the United States in your opinion? Mr. Person: “ Munroe, of course.” w The inter-class basket-ball games have been started by the Freshmen, who defeated the Sophomores. Let us hope more inter-class games will be arranged in the future. ¥ Teacher (conducting history recita- tion on Benjamin Franklin): “ Miss Morse, tell me what you know of Benjamin?” Miss Morse: ‘1 refuse to talk about Mr. Le Buff when he isn’t present.” w A debate was held, January 17, in the science lecture room,by the Paton Debating Club. The subject was, Resolved, Vhat it was poor policy to pe Oe a) SCHOOL NOTES send the Atlantic Fleet to the Paci- fic. The affirmative won, but the ar- gument was lively from beginning to end. It is hoped that more will at- tend the debates, as it will make it more interesting, when the discussion is thrown open to the house. The disputants were:—Mr. Gallagher and Mr. MacShaffray for the affirmative; Mr, Lee and Mr. Hussey for the neg- ative. w “Tam not only witty in myself but the cause that wit is in other men.”— Macdonald, ’o8. ‘‘T am not in the roll of common men.’’—Wass, ’O9. “Tam Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!’—Little, ’11. “For aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth.’’—-Charron, ’Io. “IT was not born under a rhyming planet.” —Reagan, ’08. “My library was dukedom large enough.’’—Miss Cutter, ’07. ‘““My man’s as true as steel.”—- Miss MacShaffray, ’o8. “Tf I were not Alexander, I would rather be Diogenes.”—Snow, ’o8. THE Have you ever seen a Senior who was both wise and kind? Have you ever seena Senior without a puffed-up mind? Have you ever seen a Senior who looked both bright and keen? If you have, you've seen a wonder that no one else has seen. we The parents of the pupils enjoyed a very happy evening at the school Friday, January 24. They were in- formally entertained by the mem- bers of the Faculty, who received in their respective rooms from seven- thirty till nine o'clock. After the re- ception the guests were served light refreshments and enjoyed a farce called Boots.” ws They say Teddy is getting a little Wilder. MAGNET 21 Miss Darby: “What is a_bell- buoy, Mr. Hyatt?”’ Mr. Hyatt: “ The boy that answers the bell.” we Physics’ Teacher: ‘“Newton’s First Law of Motion says that a body tends to stay in a state of rest until acted upon by some external force. Can you give an illustration?” Pupil: “ Perhaps that is why I hate to get up in the morning.” we A CLASS CHEER We want to go home. Boo Hoo, Boo Ha, We want to go home to Pa and Ma. Freshmen, Freshmen, Rah! Rah! Rah! —Ex. 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Lillian Barron, Lloyd Jobes, Alice Smith, William Jenne, Herbert Wass, Howard Corkum, Edmond Lynch, Bernice Prouty. Published monthly during school year by pupils of the High School. Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents. HIS month there have been quite a number of changes made in the staff, principally among the room editors. We are quite ready to make just as many more, if they do not do more work. To begin with, it is the first duty of al room editors to attend the meetings of the board. If they do not show interest enough in the paper to do even this, they will be dropped without further consideration. Most of the room editors seem to have an indistinct idea that all they have to do is to distribute the paper to the subscribers in their rooms. If this were all they had to do, we could get along very nicely without them; for it would put but very little extra 5 6 THE MAGNET bother on the subscription editors. But every room in the building was given an editor, so that they would all be fairly represented on the staff, and so that every one in school might have a chance to show what he could do. It was the idea, therefore, that pupils of the lower classes would be more apt to write if directly excouraged by the room editor. So this is one of the prime duties of the room editor,—to encourage every one in his room to write something. The further duties of the room editors is to pick up everything funny that is said in azy class that he happens to hear. If nothing happens, as is the excuse oftentimes, make it happen,—by keeping your wits about you, turn some common remark into a good, origi- nal joke. Then, taken as a whole, the duties of the room editor are ad- mirably simple, and no one of them has a chance to complain if dropped for not performing them. Ne all the boys in school learned a few new facts the other morning about that old subject, “school spirit.” They learned, or let us hope they did, that though you support the athletic teams, unless you do everything in your power to give the school a high moral standard, and unless you do everything possible to promote the school in every way, you are not manifesting the true school spirit. A person may have supported athletics in every way, and be thoroughly honest and upright, but if he knows of acts that are being constantly perpetrated and are lowering the standard of his school, he is a coward and a traitor to his school,.if he does not bring the doer to justice. To get down to facts,—if there is anybody in this school, that was in any way connected and knows anything about, the breaking of the sink in the basement, he is a despicable coward, if he leaves the deed unexplained. The same thing applies to the thieving in the basement. If any one knows anything about it, it is his duty to go to the fellow and tell him that if he doesn’t own up, the mat- ter will be brought to light. We say that any person who will not divulge any knowledge of a criminal in the school is a coward. Hezs, because he is afraid of being “ mobbed”’ by the fellows who so highly esteem the phrase, — — ‘ — ale ed THE MAGNET 7 “school-boy honor.” (There may be “honor” among thieves, but thieves do not belong in a high school.) Furthermore, the boys were told that there is absolutely no distinction between ‘school- boy honor” and “citizen honor.” It is the duty of the school-boy as a citizen of his school to obey and enforce the laws and to do everything possible to promote their efficiency. RIcHARD H. SCANLON. Characteristics of a Genius HE commanding individual of all ages and of all climes is the man of genius. He it is that occupies the sublime throne of fame and with his golden scepter directs the history and conduct of the en- tire race. In his royal family are found the discoverer, who has widened man’s knowledge of the external world; the inventor, who provides the means and necessities for his daily subsistence; the author, who furnishes his intellectual nourishment and recreation; and the scholar, who produces every new thought, which, in turn, so largely contributes to the interests and advancement of mankind. As one has said, ‘The genius is the high- est product of nature's organic energy, the last and greatest miracle of ev- olution.” Hence, granting that an unhealthy and perverted genius may be a curse to its possessor and the world at large, nevertheless, the beneficial influence which the nobler types exert in the progress of civilization, en- ables them to stand triumphant among the motor powers of society. According to the scope of their abilities, geniuses are divided into two distinct classes. To the first belong those exceptionally brilliant men, who, on account of their wonderful natural endowments, stand preeminent in whatever line of work they undertake. Theyare characterized by the com- prehensiveness of their attainments and the universality of their powers. A fitting example of this broad, symmetrical development is found in Leonardo da Vinci, who ranks almost equally high as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, inventor, and scientist. The second division, includes men of narrower capabilities, whose talents, being more specific, are gener- ally more easily recognized. Such persons are born with an irrepressible tendency for some distinctive labor in original investigation, art, or science; and at no time in their lives can they escape from this overmastering im- pulse. They always concentrate the entire force of their nature in illuminat- ing one particular point, instead of allowing their divine spark of inspira- tion to shed its light abroad, developing and increasing the realm of knowl- edge in all its branches. Representatives of this class are found in such 8 THE MAGNET lofty and majestic types as a Dante and a Newton, who, by their faithful and persistent endeavors, have succeeded in erecting monuments which even time itself cannot efface. But genius needs opportunity, scope, and freedom, in order to make its influence effective; hence its recognition depends very largely upon the conditions of its environment. The world is too much inclined to individ- ualize movements; when really it is the crisis that makes the man, and not man, the crisis. The genius in regard to his times and opportunity may be compared to the eruptions of the geyser which after hours of steady and continual preparation, suddenly bursts forth in all its grandeur, exhibiting those powerful forces that have been slowly accumulating for this one sig- nal achievement. Agreed that the man of gentus is in advance of his own age, and thus frequently its recognized master; nevertheless he is entirely dependent upon it for all the material which he holds at his disposal. It is said that all of the music composed since the time of Guido d’ Arezzo had but one aim—namely, to create Mozart; and we all recognize the wonderful results of this preparatory period. Again, inventions always develop slowly; they never spring into existence under the magic touch of some one man. By common consent, James Watt is regarded as the inventor of the steam engine; but, strictly speaking, he simply adapted and remodeled the forms already existing, thus placing steam among the world’s leading manufactur- ing powers. Genius is essentially a native or inborn quality; its powers may be de- veloped by human exertions, but they can never be acquired. It is as ut- terly dependent upon effort and experience for the unfolding and refining of its latent resources, as the diamond, upon the cutting, for bringing out its splendor and brilliancy. Indeed, it is labor that first discovers this priceless gem; labor that renders it so strikingly lustrous; and labor that then causes it to be of true value as one of the greatest blessings to the human race. If the most gifted genius in history had been excluded from every source of truth and knowledge, he could never have accomplished those brilliant achievements which won for him the praise and admiration of the entire world; for in spite of his originality and inventiveness, he, like every other man, must have something te work upon and something to work with. Even of menof genius can it be said that “ knowledge is power and right culture is true wisdom.” While genius by its very nature defies accurate classification, there are, aside from this unusual tendency toward observation and study, certain necessary intellectual endowments; prominent among which are correct judgment, a habit of profound reflection, strong reason, a vivid imagination, and a ready and retentive memory. With these natural resources at his command, the true man of genius can collect and retain such a vast fund of knowledge and fancy, that, with the aid of his finer sensibilities and more delicate tastes, he can most mysteriously combine this material, so as to lead to the discovery of some new truth which shall establish him in history as one of the greatest benefactors of the human race. An original mind, moreover, must have keenness of sensibility: it THE MAGNET 9 should be so delicately constructed as to be impressed by every minute in- fluence of nature; for in this way alone the poet secures that penetrating yision which often seems to pierce the limits of the realm of earthly knowl- edge, and reach far beyond into the évwths of a life which is higher and purer than our own. Finally, genius is productive; it is ever striving to express itself in some new and original form, which shall be of lasting benefit to the world; for, “like the song of the wind and the light of the sun, it cannot but sing and shine, though unseen, unheard,” and unrecognized by man. The Northern Express No. 6l1 sé IVE Northern Express, Canada, No. 611, clear track.” This was the contents of a telegraphic message received by Nathan Ames, as he sat at his instrument in the railroad station of B , Mass. That day, on account of a scarcity of operators, caused by a strike, he ‘had already worked a straight stretch of twenty-two hours. As it was now, Nathan was very tired and wished a man might be sent torelieve him. He had received many threats over the wire, saying he had better leave his in- strument; but the plucky young fellow laughed at them. Express No. 611 was due at B—— at 9.45 P. M.; but, contrary to former schedule, instead of taking a side track and allowing the Blue Nose from the north to pass, tonight its orders were to-go straighton. He had already given the clear track signals for No. 611, due then in about half a minute. Click—click—click, went his instrument, and Nathan was horrified to receive the message: ‘“‘ Blue Nose due 9.48. Side-track No. 611.” With a roar the Northern Express passed through B , on its way to sure destruction, unless by some means it could be stopped. Quickly Na- than ticked off the following message to the next station north: “Stop Blue Nose and intercept No. 611.” During the next few moments, Nathan went through as much anxiety as all his other troubles of life put together. Now he saw the trap he had walked into. Some striker had carried into execution the threat made to him, and had sent a false message concerning No. 611. Nathan knew that if there was a wreck resulting from this mixing of messages, he would lose his position and perhaps pass ten or fifteen years in State’s prison. All his thoughts occupied but a moment, before his instrument again clicked: ‘Too late. Blue Nose passed.” In another moment he heard an explosion like the sound of distant cannon, and well he knew that the plan of the strikers had worked. He immediately telegraphed to the next sta- tion, announcing a wreck up the track, and asked to have physicians and 10 THE MAGNET ambulances hurried to the scene. After doing this, he locked the door and, drawing a pistol from his pocket, placed it to his head and fired. Bang! With one hand to his head and another to his tired eyes, Nathan came to in a heap on the floor. He was dazed and was shaking with fear, but he was finally brought around by a violent shaking from the conductor of No. 611, who had come in for his orders. ‘‘ My boy,” said the old conduc- tor, gruffly, “it is one of the greatest crimes in the eyes of a railroad man to go to sleep on duty.” ‘But you can’t blame him much,” he muttered, as he strode toward the door. WHITE, ’10. The Great Fire at Lebanon consisted of a few farmhouses and accompanying barns, straggling down a long hill and terminating at the center. The center was composed of a little white church, the inevitable gen- eral variety store and post-office combined, and a brick structure, known for miles around as the Lebanon fire station. The fire station was the pride of the farmers’ wives and the loafing- place of the husbands, and had entirely superseded the post-office as a meeting place. Every farmer in the county had bought a brick in the build- ing, and when they viewed with awe the fire-fighting apparatus, consisting of a hand-tub and a garden hose, they were satisfied that their money had been well invested and their homes were safe from the devouring element. - % + 2. ga was a typical farming village of the long ago. The town It was the coldest night in winter. The thermometer registered twenty degrees below zero. The inhabitants of Lebanon were peacefully sleeping, dreaming of the quilting-party to be held at Neighbor Black’s the next even- ing. Suddenly the distant howling of a dog rent the still air, another ca- nine voice joined in, then several more helped on the chorus. The roosters crowed and the hens cackled. Even the horses in the barns stamped with simpatience. Man was the last to awaken; each farmer was aroused by his anxious wife poking him in the ribs, and saying in a stage whisper, ‘‘ Hush! are you sure you locked the back door, and the hen-house, and the barn?” Then in unison the windows of the houses were thrown open. Night- capped heads bobbed out of them, and cries of “ Fire! Fire!” rang through the startled village. Away to the north, a red glow was seen, flashes of light shot up from the horizon, and the glow became a light, and the light a glare. In a few moments the main street was thronged with excited villagers, all running for a common goal, the fire station. It only required a few min- THE MAGNET II utes for the quiet village to become a bedlam, then a pandemonium. Men shouted excitedly, dogs barked, and the few women, who were either brave or foolhardy enough to venture out, wept as they thought of the relatives who lived toward the north. The fire station was reached and willing though trembling hands drew out the apparatus. Then the question was raised, ‘‘ Where is the fire?” A hush came over the assembled crowd, then all shouted at once their opinion. “It's at Walker’s.” “T’m sure it’s at Jones’s.” “You're way off. That fire is in Jack Stebbins’s barn.” One of the old settlers who had ventured out gave as his opinion, “Well, ye can’t allers tell; a fire looks mighty near, when it may be mighty far. It mought be at Stebbins’s, and still agin it may be at the next town- ship. I reckon the best way to do would be to take the road to Waterville and ye might strike it, and then agin ye might not, of course. Ye can’t tell, ye remember the fire of ’68.” Thus they argued, while the precious moments went by. The chief of the fire department “allowed” that they had better be “ startin’,” if they expected to get there. The light alternately faded and brightened; vil- lagers alternately ‘‘reckoned” and “allowed;”’ then the glorious fire de- partment started for the fire—somewhere—amid the bawling of the curs and the shouts of the boys. What a brave appearance! How gallant they looked, charging for the unknown, like the heroes of ancient Greece. Away they went, flying along the main street, going perhaps to their doom, to see the devastation wrought by the angry flames on the homes of their loved ones. As the watchers saw the fire company disappearing over the brow of the hill, one old-timer chuckled to himself and exclaimed, “By gummy! I shouldn't be a bit surprised.” The anxious women and aged men demanded an explanation of this sacrilegious act of laughing at the bravery of their fellow-men. “Tve just been watchin’ that air light, and it seems to me that if that fire company goes to the fire, they’]1] have a jumpin’ long ways to go.”’ Questions of, “ Why?” “Tell us,’ ‘What do you know about it?” arose on every side. “Well, I reckon, if they hadn’t been so all-fired anxious to go to a fire they'd noticed that it aint no fire at all, but just the aurora borealis, a little brighter than usual, and those men be a-runnin’ their legs off to put out a fire at the north pole. Haw, haw!” 8 Bi PCe- OG, Teacher (speaking of political conditions at that time): ‘‘ What was the great revolution of 1800?” Pupil (after apparent thought): “I think it was the revolution of the earth, sir.”’ 12 THE MAGNET “If” You and Me If every one were wise and sweet, And every one were jolly; If every heart with gladness beat, And none were melancholy; If none should worry or complain, And nobody should labor In evil work, but each were fain To love and help his neighbor,— Oh, what a happy world ’t would be For you and me, for you and me. And if we both should try That glorious time to hurry; Then you and I, why, you and I Would laugh instead of worry; If we should grow—you and I— Kinder and sweeter-hearted, Perhaps in the near by and by That good time might get started. Then what a happy time ’t would be For you and me, for you and me. M. E. B., ‘08. Shopping Shopping day has come again, Now’s my chance to blow in ten; And before the week is o’er I guess just as many more. Sister wants a Morris chair, Little Nell a Teddy bear, Jimmy wants a little goat, Willie wants a sailing boat. . First | walk up street, then down, Then I tramp all through the town, In and out of every store,— Shopping is an awful bore,— For just one thing more I'll buy. No, I guess not;—price’s too high. M. E. B., 08. The joyous spring will soon be here, And most glad hearts will yearn For baseball, tennis, track, and golf, Before we all adjourn. But woe to those whose cards disclose A “ D,” or maybe two; For in this plight they ne’er can fight For dear old White and Blue. But they can watch, while others work, And they can talk and plan, And tell the men what they would do, If only free from the ban. A. 1. Sa) Om k THE MAGNET 13 The Farmer Boy A Comedy in Two Acts CAST OF CHARACTERS NY FOU FAB BBE 2 ocscicc neces, acch ee weeenveoens ...A Yale man on his vacation. RUTH CAMDEN.............. eek at Ge ten eo oe IRE COUSIIG BETH HOWARD and GRACE RICHMOND. ...............ccc0se0s00. Ruth’s friends. ACT I. SCENE I. [Library in Camden farmhouse. JACK sits at table, reading morning paper. Enter RUTH with a cabbage under each arm.] Jack (jumps up): Enter the heroine, arms filled with roses. Wonder you wouldn’t keep a fellow waiting all day. Ruth: You are just the person I wanted to see, Jack. Have a rose. Jack: Thanks. Ruth: Waiting is good for some people, you know; especially when nice things follow. Jack (scornfully): Nice things, indeed! Meaning you, or the roses? Ruth: Foolish! Wait till you hear my plan. Jack (looking bored): What plan now? ; Ruth: Beth and Grace are coming today, and you and IJ are to drive in town to meet them. Jack: Oh, we are! Not for yours truly. Why do you think I gave up Newport, if not to get rid of crazy girls? Ruth (walks with dignity toward door): Indeed! Jack (hurriedly): Oh, I say! You needn’t get huffy about it. Present company not included, you know. (uth doesn’t stop.) Well, if you won't listen, I don’t see how we are going to arrange our plans. Ruth (aside): Changeability, thy name is man! I knew I could make him change his mind.. (Adowd.) Plans? ‘What plans now?” Jack: That's right. Rubitin. I suppose, if you insist, there’s no get- ting out of it. But if I do go, I go alone. Ruth (very much pleased): So much the better. I'll have time to fix up their rooms. Please take my ‘roses’’ to the kitchen, Jack. (Hast F¥ack.) Poor old Jack! He hates girls, but he’ll get over it. | Curtain. | ‘1 SCENE 2. [Station. Two girls; with bags and wraps standing on the platform. ] Grace: Well, this is the most cordial reception I have ever received. I wonder if we will have to carry our trunks ourselves. Wouldn’t that be fun? Beth: My dear! Some one must be waiting for us here somewhere. Grace: Well, I don’t seem to see them. We might as well start out now as any time. Come on, Beth! (Starts to lift trunk.) a 14 THE MAGNET Beth: My dear! How absurd youare. We cannot lift that trunk, and, besides, we don’t know where Ruth lives, anyway. Grace: Well, if you’re going to play Rip van Winkle here, I’m not. I’m going to see if that farmer boy over there knows whether this is Massachu- setts or New York. Beth (looks horrified): GRACE! Grace (crosses over to boy): Here, boy! Here’s a dime. Will you show me the way out to the Camden’s? (Soy yawns and stretches himself. Grace speaks much louder.) Here's a dime, boy Boy: Thanks, ma’am. (Zakes the dime and puts it in his pocket. Seems about to go to sleep again. ) Grace (growing exasperated): Aren't you going to show us the way to Camden's? Boy (puts hand behind his ear): How? Grace (calls loudly to Beth): Run up to the store, Beth, and get an ear- trumpet. Boy (loudly): I jes’ soon go, ma’am. Sorry yer be hard o’ hearin’. So’m I. (They speak loudly after this.) Beth: Oh, Grace, do leave him alone; the poor boy! Boy (eginning to show signs of intelligence): Say! You hain't the peo- ple what’s goin’ up tew Camden’s, be ye? Grace: Well, that’s what I’ve been trying to tell you for the last hour. Boy: Waal! Yew don't tell! Here I’ve been waitin’ for most five min- utes an’ didn’t—er— recoGnize yew. Beth: Do come away, Grace. I’m sure Ruth would not have sent such an uncouth escort. Grace: He may be uncouth, Beth; but he looks perfectly harmless, and I’m not going to wait around here any longer. (Zo doy) Can’t you get me a carriage for this trunk, boy? Because we've got to have it. (Soy looks pussled.) A CARRIAGE. Don’t you hear? A CARRIAGE! Boy: A wagon? Oh, yaas, tew be sure. I come down in the farm wagon with some produce, an’ it’s jes’ around the corner. (Shuffles across to trunk.) Don’t mind givin’ me a lift on t’other end of that trunk, dew ye? Grace (amused at Leth’s expression): Oh, certainly not. I was thinking of carrying it myself, anyway. (Loy gazes at her in open-mouthed amazement. They pick up trunk.) | Beth (horrified): Grace! You're not going to? (Grace waves her hand — at Beth as they start off. Leth looks on in amazement, shakes her head, and follows with two suit cases.) ; [ Curtain. | AGT ali; SCENE I. [Kitchen at the Camden house. Girls pulling candy.] Grace: Ruth, I’m just crazy about that hired Lahey of yours. He’s so lovely and stupid. Ruth (2x surprise): Why, we haven't any THE MAGNET 15 Jack (appears at door): Yes, you have, Ruth; and he’s so lovely and stupid. Ruth: What nonsense is this, Jack? Miss Howard, may I present my cousin, Mr. Wetherbee; Miss Richmond, Mr. Wetherbee. Jack: Waal, yew don’t tell. I'd hardly recoGnize yew. I’m so fright- fully stupid tonight that J can hardly tell New York from Massachusetts. (Girls look at each other in wonder. Fack keeps on talving.) I hope you'll ex- cuse my uncouth manners, in returning th’s dime; but yew see I’ve found it’s lead and don’t dare use it. (Girls are too surprised to speak.) Cum pretty near forgittin’ your errand, tew; but I thought just in time to stop in on my way over. (Kazsing his voice to aloud yell.) Here's the ear-trumpet yew spoke of (Handing her a box of Huyler’s. Resuming his natural tone.) Oh, 1 say, I hope you'll excuse this performance. (Beth looks disgusted. ) Grace ( aughing): If you wouldn’t mind giving me a lift on t’other end of this box. [ Curtain. | “ What can be Avoided whose End is Proposed by the Mighty Gods?” HE proprietor of Sandow’s Circus rode up the lonely road in the hills. At the door of the squalid hut sat a man, lazily stroking a large St. Bernard dog. Near by played a number of small children, dirty and half naked. Abject poverty stared the spectator in the face. The newcomer stopped his horse and approached the house. He needed, in his business, a man who was large and strong. The man at the hut an-. swered the description. He quickly stated his proposition. There would be good pay, plenty of excitement, and a chance to see the country. The eyes of the man gleamed, but he slowly shook his head, and pointed to his surroundings. ‘I can’t leave these,’ he said. The other was sadly in need of him. He elaborated on the exciting pleasures of circus life. A small girl, her tanned features unshaded from the hot sun, gazed, from the protec- tion of her father’s side, with frank curiosity at the stranger. The latter continued his argument, The child grew tired of the discourse, which she could not understand, and endeavored to tie a faded blue ribbon around the dog’s neck, as the dog lay panting contentedly on the hot sand. Finally the father arose, put on his hat, and followed the man down the road. He reached the spot where the circus tent was pitched, and, was put towork. He fulfilled his duties faithfully, and that night left with the circus for the next town. At the departure, he gave one last wistful glance in the direction of his home, but he did not turn back. The next day, as he was resting from his work, a St. Bernard came trotting up to his side. Around his neck was tied a pale blue ribbon. That night the man was missing. Wonderingly, the proprietor of Sandow’s Circus rode up the lonely road . in the hills. At the door of the squalid hut sat a man, lazily stroking a large St. Bernard dog. M., ’o8. 16 THE MAGNET ATHLETICS N February 8, Worcester South High brought a fast strong team. They played a very fast game, with good team work, and fine, accurate shooting by McCullough, their left forward. We were playing the game all the time, and kept the score close. As a result of the fast floor work and clean shots of Kloss, we won by a score of 32 to 26. The game was excit- ing and clean throughout, and was watched by a large, enthusiastic crowd. w ¥ The second team of Worcester Polytechnic Institute were our oppo- nents on the following Saturday, February 15. Their team, although nearly all freshmen, was composed of former high school players. They were quite heavy, and evidently accustomed to fast, rough playing; for they suc- ceeded in putting on the trimmings by a score of 31 to 12. We held them down fairly well in the first half; but, in the second, they seemed to have things all their way. w ¥ The “Silent Five,” of Gardner, were on the schedule for the next game, but, owing to a storm, it was canceled. w wv In a few weeks the outdoor sports will be at hand, and this year we are to have a track team, as well as a baseball team. Now that means that somebody has got to come out and practice, and practice hard. An out- sider, looking at the number of boys in the school, would think that both sports should be a success. And he would think right, for there are boys enough to have two strong baseball teams and a large track squad as well, if they only had the spirit to come out. HE girls played the first basket-ball game of this season on February 22)- when they lined up against Cushing second team at Cushing. The school was represented as follows: Guards, Margaret Lane, Theresa Diviney, Center, Bertha Parkman, Forwards, Bernice Wilbur, Blanche Buss, Substitute, Hazel Reed. The home team made a fine showing and won the game with a score of 18 too. Miss Parkman was the star player, throwing seven out of the nine baskets. Miss Blanche Buss has been chosen to act as captain of the team for this season. THE a OUR LIBRARY “Peck’s Bad Boy,” Lane, ’o8. “ Drill Manual,” DeWitt, ‘Io. “A Rogue’s Life,” Joslin, ‘08. “A Plane Geometry,” Hussey, ‘10. w Rev. G. R. Baker gave a very in- teresting talk, February 7, to the teachers and pupils of the school, in the Assembly Hall. His subject was, “Playing the game.” He ad- mirably showed that, though foot- ball is only a small part of life, the same rules which apply there apply also to the greater game of life. Dr. Fleischer, a noted Jewish Rabbi of Boston, gave the schoola splendid talk in Assembly Hall, February to. He showed that not even the glories of the Colorado Canyon could com- pare with the wonder of human na- ture. His talk was especially inter- esting because of his personal mag- netism, his excellent use of English, and his breadth of view. The school had the pleasure of hearing Rev. F. J. Gauid speak in the Assembly Hall, February 21. He spoke on George Washington, not from a biographical standpoint, but from the point of view of his strong characteristics. T SCHOOL NOTES . MAGNET 17 The pupils of Mr. Hull’s geometry class had a valentine party on St. Valentine’s day. The valentines were composed of geometrical fig- ures only, and a great deal of enjoy- ment was gained from the period. w Friday night, February 21, the Senior Class gave a very successful play, entitled, “‘Mr. Bob.” It is the first play that any class of the high school has given for a number of years, but it is sincerely hoped that it will not be the last. The cast of the play was as follows: Philip Royson, Arthur T. Kloss Robert Brown, clerk of Benson Benson, Leroy W. Chandler Jenkins, Miss Rebecca's butler, Richare H, Scanlon Rebecca Luke, a maiden lady, Anna A. Kloss Katherine Rogers, her niece, Margaret F. Lane Marion Bryant, Katherine’s friend, Rowena A. Hawes Patty, Miss Rebecca’s maid, Ruth M. Newton ad ’ Mr. S.: “Speaking of magazines, what is your favorite?” Mr. Lyons: ‘‘ Munsie’s.” w Miss. F216 you. drop, the: ‘a from ‘spunk,’ what do you have left?” Mr. Wilbur: ‘“ Miss Gurney.” 18 THE MAGNET Mr. D.: “ Vf sugar is positive, what an immense amount toward helping, is negative?” if not entirely effacing. fhe, ee | All this means that the Senior fel- 2 lows are about to wake up. ; w If two, two, and three will make seven, And two, two, and seven make eleven, Since twice two makes four, A fire drill has been organized in school, and Tuesday it was tried for How many years more the first time. The pupils on the Will take out the greenness from ‘II? third floor, however, have to wait till we the lower floors are cleared before they can go out, and for this reason Three or four teachers are of the many of them are afraid of getting unanimous opinion that the mascu- ooorched line portion of the Senior Class is in w a semi-morbid state of contagious, bacteriological - like perturbation, which the combined efforts of kindly correctional talks and scientific ex- planation of the source of the causes, : = . Of all sad words accompanied by thoroughly practical, Pen exenene though somewhat purposely exag- The saddest are, gerated, demonstrations, have done “Will you please remit!” If you want to be sure your advice will be taken, have it engraved on your fountain pen. w Clippings The True Sportsman. That title means more than many of us realize. The true sportsman is the athlete who goes in for clean play; who wants to win the game and winit fairly. He does not desire a victory won through the referee. He would rather lose the game a dozen times over than win because of the favoritism of an official. The true sportsman does not whine when told that on account of his low standing he cannot play ina certain game. Neither does he desire his team’s defeat because of his absence from the line-up. No matter how many games he may be kept out of through low standing in his studies, he remains loyal to his own team. The true sportsman treats the visiting team fairly and courteously. He is not a boaster. He is not only the man who wants to win fairly and who remains loyal to his team, but also the fellow who is generous to his rivals. If he has bested his opponent, he does not “‘ hoot at him’’ and boast of his victory over him. On the other hand, if his own team is beaten, he takes it eracefully and congratulates the victor. q THE MAGNET fe Tne true sportsman has the instincts of a true gentleman, and he shows it in every way; in the game itself, in the selection of a fair referee, in his loyalty to and faith in his own team, and in his treatment of his opponents. He is the sportsman we admire. The Greylock Echo (Adams, Mass.). w ¥ Honor in Small Things. With the honor of the pupil rests the honor of the school. Now is the time to plant the seed of honor in our hearts. It cannot spring up ina day, but as we grow older that seed should thrive under our careful and diligent watch, until, when we are men and women, it blossoms forth in its full glory. Perhaps we think the smaller things of life do not count, and have nothing whatever to do with honor. Probably it is under this false impression that a pupil may see no dishonor in glancing nonchalantly at a near by paper and jotting down the answer seen there; or taking something out of a neigh- bor’s desk, not caring whether it is returned. False indeed is this impres- sion, for the smaller opportunities count ,and because of their frequent re- currence have even more to do with the formation of character than the larger. Cultivate honor with our daily experience, and then can its greater tests more easily be endured. ‘Better to die a thousand deaths than to lose thy honor.” Lhe Greylock Echo (Adams, Mass.). w w School Spirit. School spirit is astrong desire and active endeavor to uphold the honor of a school and promote a spirit of fellowship among its members. Many associate the idea of school spirit with athletics alone, and there are reasons fortheir doing so. If an athletic team wants money, collectors appeal to us through our school spirit for contributions. If a game is to be played, we are told to show our school spirit by attending and cheering our- selves hoarse. In other words, the amount of school] spirit we have is di- rectly proportional to the amount of our support of athletics. ; School spirit is more than this. It should not only show itself in ath- letics, but in conduct and obedience to the laws of the school. Above all, it should promote a more friendly interest between all the members of the school. We all have work to do under the same conditions, subject to the same rules, and with a common goal before.us, and we ought to feel bound closely together by these ties and by our common school spirit. The Red and Gray (Fitchburg, Mass. ). ) | 20 gg B 5d ‘So Brown has an automobile, has he?” SV eS: A rich uncle gave it to him.” “Why, he told me he put all the money he had into it.” -alerdids. He bought aedollars worth of gasolene.”’ w Wife: “1 thought you said you would be home by a quarter of twelve.” Husband: ‘ Well, isn’t three a quar- ter of twelve?” ww Wille: frasette “Say, pa! What does ‘suf- mean?”’ Pa: Don’t bother me with such self-evident questions. It’s nothing but another word for lunatic!” wW Musical youth, Hair long, Plays piano, Sings song. Has fever, Hair goes. No more music Till hair grows. w ne ‘ “T heard you had to take ether the other day. Was the oper- ation a very hard one?” 4 - “T should say so! The bar- ber said he had never before seen a man with such long hair.” ' Zeacher (to new scholar): is your name, sir?” New Scholar: Teacher (emphatically) : should have said Julius.” Nomina MAGNET ao he an ae was still very young when he began to study algebra, (he was a Freshman, you know,) and he was still very fond of a black and white fox terrier, called ‘ Jugs.” One day Johnnie’s mother, on call- ing him to go to school, found him in tears. ‘“Why, what is the matter, dearie?” asked his mother, anxiously. ‘“Oh, I—I dreamed poor Jugs was a—boo, under the radical sign, and I couldn’t cet him out.” hoo, —a negative quantity w PROFITING BY EXAMPLE. “What ‘My name is Jule, og (To next “What is your name?”’ Billious, sir.” w CURED. There was a ycnng girl from Racine Who was fearful that she would get line. So she drank lots of water, As good women ater. And now she’s as round as a bine. w He called her lily, pansy, rose, And every other flower of spring. She said, “I can’t be all of those, So you must li-lac everything.” « THE MAGNET 21 “Do you want some more pie, “No,” he replied, shortly. Robbie?” asked the boy’s mother, kindly noticing how empty his plate was, and suspecting him of being in the same condition. “No pie.” “ No, what?’ she asked, aghast at his manners. Me and Me Bruder Me and me bruder, Me poor Chinee, Me fader and muder, Me namee Sam Lee; We sailed on de ship, de “ Nankirx.” So me tellee him to skidoo, We likee dis country, We startee de laundry, But me and me bruder, And takee de dirt from de shirt. Me fader and muder, Sometime we take a steam liner. We go far away, Across a big bay, And livee once more 1n good China. Me and me bruder, We lovee each other, But he no likee dis a work to do. My Bie Ba Od: A Mountain of Evidence “THE PROOP’” Sent upon Application Also the most unique and complete school catalogue ever issued in central New England Worcester Business Institute C. B. POST, Principal. 476 [ain Street EDWIN CHASE CARY TEACHER OF CORNET CLARINET, FRENCH HORN, TROMBONE, DRUM, and all BAND INSTRUMENTS Twenty-six Years a Band Leader (1881--1907). Director Leominster City Band Teacher of Harmony and Instrumentation. Open to engagements as Cornet Soloist for Concerts 37 Orchard Street, lelephone Connection Leominster, Mass. Peele Tle S, ATTENTION! ’ . In order to obtain the best results in athletic contests, it is important that you should have the bestimplements. They may costa trifle more, but it pays. Many a match has been lost by the use of poor tools, so why not have the best Tennis Racket and Ball, Foot Ball, Basket Ball, Running Shoes, Skates, Hockey Sticks, Sweaters, Jerseys, etc. Our goods have character—our trade-mark means something. Send for our Catalogue. It is free. WRIGHT DITSON 344 Washington St., Boston; 18 W. 30th St., New York CHICAGO PROVIDENCE, R. |}. 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Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents. aettEN the Leominster Athletic Association unanimously voted to enter the Wachusett Interscholastic League in all four branches, it did a most praiseworthy act. Es- pecially is the clause, “in all four branches,” important, for that necessarily includes track contests. Some years ago there was a somewhat similar league started by three of the neighboring cities. It did not, however, have the necessary enthusiasm behind it to give it a very long existence. At that time, “track” was quite unusual, and was so strongly op- posed that all attempts at it invariably fell through. There seems to be now, however, a general feeling in favor of | a track team and of sucha league. The league is to offer splendid : 5 6 THE MAGNET inducements to participators, especially in “track.” Trophies are to be given the winners of first, second, and third places in all events, and a cup is to be given to the school obtaining the most points in one or more meets, as the case may be. Hence, it behooves us of Leominster High School to get into the battle for all we are worth; to show what we are made of, and not let some other school walk off with everything in-the line of prizes. Do not have the mistaken idea that our school has less chance than any other school in the league, for it is not true. There are plenty of the larger fellows in school who do not play baseball, and they, with some of the younger underclassmen, who are fast coming up, are just the ones that are wanted and xeeded to make “track” a success. We do not very greatly recommend that baseball players take part in the track events also, for this reason: even though there is no article in the present constitution of the league which prohibits it, there are very few fellows that can spend every afternoon of the week practicing, and still keep up in their studies. There is also the vital point, which clinches the matter,— when a player drops below fifteen periods of passable work a week, he must drop a athletics. “Therefore, we should advise the ordi- nary individual to do one thing and do it well, because the good of the school is at stake. As regards the track team, the younger fellows in school should not hesitate a moment about “coming out,” for it is primarily for their benefit that it was instituted. They are the ones who, gener- ally, have no part whatever in athletics till their third or fourth year, and then they have had no experience to support them. Now, if a the underclassmen, who are in good standing in their studies, will put all the energy possible into the track team by com- ing out and trying their best, they will be doing two generous acts, deserving of their own and the school’s thanks,—first, they will en- liven the interest in the team and create a greater effort on the part of everybody by the increased chance of competition; second, they will be developing themselves by good, healthful exercise and at the same time be gaining that prestige which every athletic man finds so useful and beneficial in his later athletic work. This year, the track team Is practically only an experiment, and 4 THE MAGNET 7 it needs the help of every Joyal fellow in school to make it a success. ‘So we will put the question plainly to every boy in school: Do you, as a loyal adherent of Leominster High School, sharing her victo- ries and sorrowing in her defeats, intend to stand aside and refuse to help the institution which has helped you to your present stand- ing in-life, or do you intend to stand by her “to the last ditch and fight every inch of ground you have to yield” ? We leave it to you to decide and act as your nobler side prompts you. RicHARD H. SCANLON. rly Return to the Profession “{ WAS passing a very restless night; I tossed and turned until it finally be- Jj came intolerable. I arose and went to the open window, and as I stood with the cool night air blowing in on me, I thought of the past,-—of the time when I was a professional law-breaker. Ten years I had led that life, and now its crowded events were passing through my mind like a _ kaleido- scope. The events of.the fateful night which had reformed me; the night in the vaults,—they all passed in review. I could see my young apprentice as he tripped when running away from an explosion that gave signs of going off prematurely. I was some distance from him when I heard him fall, and I looked around just in time to see that part of the building near- est the vaults heave up and collapse. He was swallowed up in the débris, and that was the last I saw of him. He was a fine fellow, and if he had lived he would have been more adept than I at the business. I had managed to escape, but I no longer had any desire to lead the old life. The thought of that night sickened me so that I decided to give up the business and settle down as a respectable citizen. So I went through a mock death, funeral, and burial, only to resuscitate myself and begin my new life under a new name. I must have been at the window some time, when I raised my head and surveyed the house opposite. It was a much better dwelling than most of those on the street; a worthy old bachelor and his housekeeper lived there. The old fellow was sickly, and noted for his eccentricities. I was gazing blankly at the house when, suddenly, on the second floor, I saw the flash of a revolver, followed bya muffledreport. I ceased dream- ing, and looked attentively at the house and its surroundings. No one left ‘the house nor did any one enter the room where I had seen the flash; at least, no one with a light. I began to suspect that I had been the witness of a suicide and that the report, which indeed was not loud, had not awak- _ ened the housekeeper. 8 THE MAGNET As I stood there thinking over the situation, a thrill went through me; the sickening for the old life vanished, and an overwhelming desire took possession of me to enter that mysterious house and see for myself if my suspicions were correct. The temptation was great, but I tried to force it down; it was useless,—I had to give in to it. Soon I was using my stock of experience to enter the house noiselessly and without leaving any traces. It was but the work of a few moments to get in. There the silence was suffocating. I worked my way cautiously to the door of the room where I had seen the flash. I listened,—not a sound was to be heard. I opened the door carefully and entered the room. It was pitch dark, so that I had to crawl slowly and carefully along the floor. Suddenly my outstretched hand touched a yielding body. Every one of my nerves were tense as steel. I passed my hand over the body; it touched clammy-feeling skin,—it was a human face. I could feel the blood which was not yet cold. It was evident that the person, in all probability the bachelor, was dead; and by his own hand, for I soon found a revolver clutched tightly in his right hand. Feeling a certain joy in thus satisfying my suspicions, I arose, prepara- tory to leaving, when | thought I heard a noise on the first floor. I heard the key turn in the door at the foot of the stairs. The housekeeper must have awakened and discovered that some one was upstairs; but I thought it was strange that the flighty person I had seen so many times had courage enough to face a house-breaker. , I was in a trap, and, if caught, I would have no means of clearing my- self of a charge of murder. There were two avenues of escape,—one was to jump from the window; but that entailed several difficulties. I would have to jump on the side of the house where a policeman was liable to pass at any time. I would also have to jump into soft dirt, and that would leave tracks. Besides, I was not as young as I was once. Just then the moon came out, in time to make me decide to force the locked door and strangle the housekeeper. Then I could easily escape by the back way. Perhaps this means of departure was bolder, more dangerous than the other; but what cared I, a veteran? It was decided, and I descended the stairs. The moment I forced the door, my heart sank, for I suddenly remembered that I had seen the house- keeper depart the preceding day and had not seen her return. Perhaps the old bachelor had not committed suicide, after all. In that case the person into whose presence I was now thrusting myself was in all probability his murderer. Wild thoughts coursed through my mind. Whom should I en- counter? The next instant would decide. I was face to face with a man with a mask, dark lantern, and revolver! For a moment I was paralyzed. Yet there was something strangely familiar in the face. Suddenly it dawned on me like a flash. To the astonishment of the other man, I gave a wild yell of joy;—for in spite of a mask,—in spite of the scars with which the man was covered,—I recognized my old apprentice. Joun R. MILLER, ’og. THE MAGNET 9 Cable Cutting at Cienfuegoes, Cuba A True Account 4 T WAS a winter's night, and after supper we drew our chairs up to the fire. We were wet and tired after our day’s tramp and were glad of the warmth. For a while conversation ran on in the usual channels, but at length we coaxed the following story from one of our companions, who took part in the dangerous expedition: — “Captain B. H. McCella, of the U.S. S. ‘Marblehead,’ received orders from the Navy Department, May, 1898, to proceed immediately with the ‘Nashville’ and ‘ Marblehead,’ to Cienfuegoes, Cuba, to cut the telegraph and mine cables there. On the evening of May roth, the commanding of- ficer asked for volunteers for this hazardous work. Although every one realized the danger, the crew responded to a man. “Only twenty men were needed, so the captain ordered each divisional officer to select five men from his division. The fortunate men rejoiced, when they received orders to prepare at once for the expedition. There was, however, one coward among the twenty, and another man had to be selected to take his place. “Next morning everything was ready at six o’clock. The captain spoke a few words of encouragement to the men, telling them that although they were running a great risk and some might never return, they were doing their highest duty. Two boats went from the ‘ Nashville,’ and a steam launch and a cutter left our ship, the boats having a one-pounder in the bow, and the men being equipped with rifles and ammunition belts. The boats also carried axes, hack saws, anvils, grapnels, and lines, for pick- ing up and cutting the cables. “We left the ship and pulled a long, steady stroke for about two miles; but as we neared the shore we advanced with caution, the steam launch leading. “It was a beautiful bright morning; the sun was shining peacefully on the shore, the lighthouse, and the fortifications of the Spaniards. It was hard to realize what a dangerous task we had before us. “When about one hundred yards from the beach, we saw a cable house. The officer in charge ordered the boat to be headed in that direction. We kept a sharp lookout for the cables, but could see nothing of them, as the water was too deep. So the officer decided to make a landing. ‘ We located the cable and then returned to the boats and pulled out about one hundred yards. If we had cut the cables near the shore, the enemy could have repaired them easily, so we went out into deep water. There we threw out the grapnel and pulled up and down opposite the cable house. “After half an hour’s hard work we succeeded in locating one cable. Two or three men thought it an easy task, and began to pull on the line, 10 THE MAGNET but could not move the wire. So we put a purchase on it, and it took all the men in the boat to pull it up. When it came to the surface, it was laid across the boat and lashed to the bow and stern. “During this time nothing out of the ordinary was heard from the shore, so we proceeded to cut the cable witha feeling of safety. We placed an anvil underneath and attempted to cut it with an axe, but it was broken into a thousand pieces. Finally we cut it with a hack saw. We took out a hundred feet and towed the seaward end out. When that task was done, the boys cheered and the ‘ Marblehead’ blewa siren. At the same time the ‘Nashville’s’ boat succeeded in cutting a second cable. “There was one more cable left, and we proceeded with all confidence to grapple for it. At last we found it, and as we were tugging away at it, we were surprised to hear a Spanish command and to find that the light- house was a fort in disguise. | “In an instant a fire of musketry and machine guns were opened upon us. We were so near we could hear the chambers close, and volley after volley was fired. It seemed like a hailstorm of lead. Now and againa voice would be heard addressing the officer, saying, ‘Oh, I am shot!’ But we never stopped in our attempt to cut the last cable. “At the first volley, the ‘Marblehead’ and ‘Nashville’ opened fire on the lighthouse, and we were in danger of being hit by our own guns. A five-inch shell struck the lighthouse and we were so near the shore that we could see the Spaniards scatter in all directions. “At last the cable was cut. A command was given, ‘Stand by. your oars and return to the ship.’ Our boat was riddled with shot, and men were lying dead in the bottom in pools of blood. In spite of wounds and loss of blood, we responded to the command. As we were headed toward the ship, volley after volley followed us up. We were, however, too weak to row and had to be taken in tow by the launch. : “When we reached the ‘Marblehead’ the crew cheered and cheered. As we were being hoisted aboard on one side, the ship was still bombarding the fortifications on the other. Out of the twenty men who left the ship not one returned uninjured. | “We learned, after our return to the ship, that one man who was killed had a presentiment the night before, which he related to acompanion. He dreamed in a very vivid manner that he would never return to the ship alive. His companion offered to take his place, but was not allowed to do so, for the man was afraid he would be taken for a coward. He made all arrangements that he wished carried out in case of death. ‘We were sent to the States that day, and, after a few months in the hospital, I was able to return to duty.” When our companion finished his story, we gave him a vote of thanks _ and retired for the night. But I think it is due to the brave men, who risked their lives for their country, to add that the Government gave to them the hig hest honor possible—“ The Medal of Honor.” SABIN, IT. ; THE MAGNET 11 The Last Quarter 6¢69@21, SETH! How are your math’s coming?” “Oh, I'll get there sometime; it’s only the first of the quarter and there are eight more weeks yet.” “Look out, Sethie. You know how much the girls depend on you as captain of the basket-ball team next year. Miss Hubbardston doesn’t like you. She said she’d flunk you, and you know she'll do it.” “Cheer up, Julie; I'll begin to plug next week, and I'll keep it up until the end of the year. Honest, I will.” Thus ran the conversation of Marjorie Sethland and Julia Bicknell in the second week of April. The next day Seth came into class yawning. Miss Hubbardston gave her a sharp look, but said nothing. Later, during the period, she saw her dozing in one of the back seats. “T will ot put up with that girl’s laziness any more. She can learn, but she will not. She shall not be captain of the basket-ball team if I know it,’ she muttered to herself. “Miss Sethland.” Seth came to her feet with a bound. ‘““ Please explain to the class that which I have just finished.” Seth looked at the clock. Just one minute more. Would that bell never ring? “It's up to me. Here goes,” said Seth to herself. “Ahem. Er, a—, the a—”’ There was the bell. She was safe. “The first thing-in class tomorrow, Miss Sethland will explain this,” came from Miss Hubbardston in frigid tones. “Do you feel any icicles on you, Julie?” asked Polly Peterson. ‘The temperature in this room is certainly the absolute zero. Miss Hubbardston can give a better idea of the absolute thermometer than any chemistry teacher.” . , The girls rose and crowded out of the room. Seth made a dash for the library. “T've got to get that, somehow, or I'll give up. Mother Hubbard means war. I saw it in her eyes,” she muttered to herself. Julie, Polly, and Florence Maitland, passing the library a few moments later, saw Seth with her head buried in a math. “Tm worried about Seth. She isn’t studying, and Mother Hubbard hasn’t any great love for her,” said Julie. “Let’s lock Seth up every day and make her study,” suggested Polly. “I’m going to talk to her. She’s got to have some one push her along,” said Florence. ; Florence left the girls and returned to the library. Seth was still there. “What are you doing, Seth?” ’ 12 THE MAGNET “T’ve got to get this for Hubbard. She and I will come to blows yet. Can you imagine her ever being young? I think that she must have grown from ’etat de l’enfance to a school ma’am, on the same plan that Topsy grew.” “Now, see here, Marjorie Sethland, you know that no one has the abil- ity to be captain as you have. You're going to be captain, you're going to plug on maths, and you're going to pull good with Miss Hubbardston.”’ “ But I can’t be decent to her!” “Never mind. What are you going to do tonight?” “T was going to a musical at the Academy with Bob Hollis; but that peanut taffy that I ate last night is just murdering me.” “T’ll write a note to Bob and tell him that you'll be busy. Come up to my room and we'll dig awhile. Grace will be gone, so no one will disturb us.” The following day Seth made a brilliant recitation. Miss Hubbardston’s eyes widened. The girls looked at one another, remarking, ““What did Florence do to her? How long will it last?” Every day Florence spent an hour with Seth, and every day Miss Hub- bardston relented a little. ‘If this lasts, she deserves the position. She must study hard to make up what she’s been shirking,” she said to herself. This continued for some time. One day Julie stopped Florence with an inquiring look on her face. “What's happened to Seth?. Bob Hollis was with that miserable little Pearl Logan at a tea given by the Heavenly Twins this afternoon.” ‘“Bob’s cross at Seth. Don’t let her know that he was with Pearl. She’s got to pass in math’s this quarter.” So the time sped on. Seth studied by herself and took genuine pleas- ure in surprising Miss Hubbardston. The last week came. Seth was still hard at it. “Who have you got for the Prom.?”’ asked Pearl of Seth one day in the presence of the girls. Seth flushed. ‘ That’s my secret,” she said, and hurried away. ‘Pearl is the most abominable little sneak I ever saw,” said Florence. “She tried to cut Seth, but Seth will win out. Mother Hubbard fairly raves over her.” The day for final examinations in mathematics came. A prize had been offered. ‘‘ Would she get it?” ‘Could she get it?” These questions often ran through Seth’s mind. The day before the Prom the bulletin-board said that the matron wished to see Miss Sethland the second hour. ' Seth entered the matron’s office with a beating and throbbing in her head that was unnatural. ‘Miss Sethland, the judges have awarded you the prize in mathematics. You will sit apart from your division tomorrow morning at chapel in order to come forward and receive it.” Had she heard aright? Seth ran through the door. The girls grabbed net... Whats tipr, “T’ve got it, I’ve got it,’ she cried, and dashed up to her room to think it over. It was the day before the Prom. She had no partner. She had told Er , | THE MAGNET Ted Atkins that she would let him know. What was she waiting for? There was Bob, going down the street. Who was that running down the walk to catch him? Ah! it was Florence. What right had she to go after him in that way? Yes, she caught him; he stopped. After a few mo- ments he went on his way. Florence was coming back. Next, a rap on the door. “Let me in, Seth.” It was Florence. “T’m busy, Florence.” Florence went away. After her footsteps had died away, all was silent. Seth grew angrier every moment. Hark! there were footsteps again. They went on; paused; went on again. They stopped at her door. A knock. Seth opened the door. There was Mary, the maid. “A note for you, Miss Sethland.” Seth took it; shut the door; then she tore it open. Wilkins Academy, June 18, Ig0—. DEAR SETH: Will the girl who shook me for the math. prize go with me to the Prom? Bos. 13 Seth hurried to her desk and wrote the following: Hayward School, June 18, 190—. DEAR Bos: YER, Seth. OLIVIA CANNEY, ’09. “Assume a Virtue if You Have It Not” 6e @@zey, Dock! Have you those subjects for our themes tomorrow?” © 4 Dock turned around sharply, revealing a freckled, sunburnt face, topped by a crown of thick red hair. “Sure. Here they are,” he answered, tossing a piece of paper to the _ other boy and then resuming his walk toward the gym. Dock was a faith- ful worker—when he felt like it. But just now he was in training for the baseball team and had been particularly cautioned by the coach not to do anything rash. “ [hese spring days are too fine to spend indoors writing themes; besides, I should think our English prof. would know better, as old as he is, than to make us work as he does.” i Thus musing, he dismissed the whole subject from his mind, as he ar- rived at the gym. All the afternoon he spent having a jolly good time with the fellows, not once troubling himself about the theme and the great round zero he would get, if it did not appear by ten-forty the next morning. That evening, as he was dressing to call on a “certain girl,” it suddenly occurred to him that a theme was due from him the next day, and that if he “flunked’’ many more times, his place on the baseball team would be for- feited. “Ah, well. Mabel will inspire me, as she always does, and I can . 14 THE MAGNET write it when I get home,” he said, as he tied his necktie over for the fifth time. He tried to think of the subjects, but he could remember only one: “Assume a virtue if you have it not.” A happy thought struck him. “TU assume honesty and get her to write it for me.”’ All that evening Dock played “sojer” with little Tommy, while Mabel, curled up on the window-seat in the library, thought and wrote. The theme was an excellent one—it even called forth comment from the hard-hearted old professor—and Dock’s place on the nine was assured. ALEXANDER SNOW, ’09. Various Ways of Writing Compositions The Wreck The midnight oil burns low, I am a nervous wreck, My sheet unwritten lies, My brain refuses to work. An English poem I must write,— My pent-up feelings burst From English I cannot shirk. In many groans and sighs. They say that opium helps The muses will not come, The mind to stimulate. “ They stay below the deck.” But will narcotics aid I rush to the doctor’s house, And keep me from dread fate? For I’m a nervous wreck. FREDERICK KEHEW, '0g. The Last Quarter As I sit here and scratch my head I'll surely have the blue dum-dums. And wish that I might go to bed, “If I should die before I wake,” That I must write a composition I hope some one may make a break Seems to me an imposition. To solace those of earthly mortar, I know that when the morrow comes And give to them my own last quarter. HAROLD RICE, ’og. Another Sign of Spring Some depend on birds to sing When we hear the little chaps To tell them of the coming spring; Sing out, “ Knuckle down, hard raps,” But there is one far surer thing Then it’s sure,—there’s no perhaps,— This time of year. That spring is here. HELEN BOURNE, ’I0O. THE MAGNET 15 Winning His “H” LAKE REDDING had been at college three years; this was his last, and as fi yet no “ H” adorned his sweater. He had been in athletics at Hillton every year of the three, but he was always a little under weight, a little too short of wind, or a little too slow. Anyway, he had been unable to make any of the teams and gain the coveted “ H.” There were only five months more of school; spring athletics were coming, and his last chance. Blake went heartily into athletics, but the coaches told him he hadn’t much show. This didn’t trouble him, how- ever, and when the intercollegiate events eame he was entered in the mile single-scull boat-race. The day for the games was ushered in by a bright spring morning. All Hillton was astir. The town was filled with delegations from the other col- lege. The boisterous students kept up a lively racket with their college yellsand pranks. At ten o'clock the games started; there were four col- leges besides Hillton entered. They were Fardale, Ferry Hill, Farnham, and Hammond, which was Hillton’s strongest rival. The boat-race was the last thing on the program, and it came at about four o'clock. Up to this race, Hillton and Hammond were tied with sixty- two points each; Fardale had sixty points; Farnham, fifty-six; and Ferry Hill, forty-eight. There were three entries from Hillton in the boat-race: Porter, who was the crack rower of the college; Somers, and Redding. The only close rival to Porter was Eaton of Hammond. The race was to be a mile down the river, and Hillton had made the arrangement that Redding was to take the lead and keep it as long as he could hold out. This would tire Eaton and let Porter come in an easy winner. | At the crack of the pistol Redding swung into the lead with a quick : stroke, with which he resolved to tire Eaton, if it was in his power to do it. : At the half, Redding was still in the lead, with Eaton a close second, and Porter rowing easily several yards behind. At the three-quarter mark, it was easily seen that the pace was telling on both Redding and Eaton. Now was the time for Porter to creep up; but at the final Porter was lacking. The pace had told even more on him than it had on Redding or Eaton, and he was now several boat-lengths behind. Hiullton’s only chance of winning the race, and, consequently, of winning the meet, lay in Redding. The Hillton rooters were frantic. They yelled incessantly for Redding. They . cheered time after time for him and had now gathered at the finish line to encourage him. Redding was dimly conscious of the cheers coupled with his name and felt a grim satisfaction in it. It had never been like this before, and he re- solved to make himself worthy of the cheers. With only one-eighth of a mile to go, he was two yards ahead; but he was rowing hard. Now there | ] : a J , 16 | THE MAGNET was but twenty yards to go. His breath was coming and going like the in- take and exhaust of an air-pump. Amid the joyful shouts and cheers of his comrades, he crossed the line,—half a boat’s length ahead. He had won the race, won the meet, and—won his ‘“ H.” CHESTER CAMPBELL, 10. Men of the oil-trust gentry; lend me your ears, And I’]] return them presently with rebate checks. I come to phase Ted Roosevelt, not to praise him. The noble bear-hunter Hath told you that Rockefeller is selfish; If it were so, it brought a dandy fine, Which, by the way, he’s far too poor to pay. Here under leave of Hibbard and the rest— For Hibbard is an honorable man— Come I to speak in Rockefeller’s behalf. Fle is my bank and now my only “ trust,” But Roosevelt says that he is selfish, And he, sure, knows all about it. He hath brought many men to the poorhouse Whose money did the Wall Street coffers fill. Did this in Rockefeller seem selfish? When that the poor paid up, Rockefeller played golf: Selfishness should be made of. sterner stuff; But Roosevelt says that he is selfish; But he’s a fiendish trust-buster. You all did see that for the churches’ need He thrice presented them ten thousand eagles, Which they did twice refuse; (though they may have been tainted). But what did Roosevelt know about it? I speak not to disprove what Theodore spoke But here I am to speak what I do know. You all fawned on him once; perhaps for a cause; What cause withholds you then to help him pay? O wicked graft! Thou art bringing brutish fines, And juries have suddenly turned honest, bear with me; My soul is in the oil-trust there with Rockefeller, And I must pay to get it back again. RICHARD H. SCANLON, ’08. Mistook His Calling Chent: Didn’t you make a mistake in going into law instead of the army? Lawyer: Why? Client: By the way you charge, there would be little left of the enemy. —Ex. THE MAGNET 17 FTER a two weeks’ rest, we lined up against the Fitchburg High Five on Saturday, March 7. The game was attracting much interest, because we lost the one in Fitchburg earlier in the season and were'ready and more than willing to erase the score. So when the teams lined up, there was the largest crowd of the season present. ,[he Fitchburg Five tried to take us off our feet by a whirlwind start, but Leominster woke up when the score was 5 too in favor of Fitchburg. After the start the score was kept very even, ending 15 to 13 in Leominster’s favor at the end of the first half. Before the principal game and between the halves, the Crescents of Fitchburg defeated the Cardinals of Leominster by a score of 31 to 21. This game was fast and snappy and showed that there are fast men coming up in school. Both Fives came back, fresh and strong, in the second half; but Leom- inster had the lead and kept it till the whistle. The score was 30 to 21 in Leominster’s favor. The features of the game were the long, clean shots of Littlehale aud Kloss and the covering by Pickford. w wv With the encouragement that our girls’ team had won from the Fitch- burg girls in the afternoon, we went to Fitchburg, Saturday, March 21, to play the third game of the series. Leominster was, in practice, shooting so much better than when in practice before, that our hopes were raised,—only to be dashed down again. After the first five minutes of play, it was evident that things were coming nearly all Fitchburg’s way. They threw basket after basket, until, at the end of the first half, the score was 21 to6. Kloss did a]l Leominster’s scoring. The second half was almost a repetition of the first, except that Leom- inster did more shooting. The Fitchburg boys showed that they had good eyes for the basket, as most of their shots were long and clean, while Leom- inster’s luck at baskets seemed abominable. When the whistle blew, the score was 50 to 21, in favor of Fitchburg. w ¥ On Saturday, March 28, the Fitchburg High School team came to Leominster for the last game of the season. The general sentiment seemed to be in Fitchburg’s favor; but the Leominster Five started with a rush that 18 THE MAGNET took Fitchburg completely by surprise. Kloss’s shots were long and ac- curate, and owing to the splendid covering of every Leominster man, Fitch- burg was held down to seven points in the first half, while Leominster picked up twenty. Between the halves, the Crescents of Fitchburg won from the Leomin- ster Mohawks in an exceedingly fast game. The two teams themselves were well matched, as is shown by the score of 17 to 14. In the second half, Fitchburg came back apparently slightly fresher than the Leominster boys, for they put in some sharp, snappy passing and shooting. The laurels of this half were clearly due to Fitchburg, for they played a much faster game than Leominster. The score gained in the sec- ond half was, Fitchburg, 18; Leominster, 8; making the score for the whole game very close —28 to 25, in Leominster’s favor. N Fripay, March 6, the girls played Cushing second team on the home floor. Miss Wilbur started the game by scoring a basket in a couple of minutes of play, and then the girls gained the score of 14 to 1, giving Cushing another defeat. w ¥ The afternoon of March 21st, the team lined up against the Fitchburg girls in the Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium. The home teams outplayed their op- ponents in guarding and quick passes, and came home victors, with the BCOre, 10:10 73. w w With luck still turned their way, the girls met the alumne team on March 24. The line-up was as follows: ) EAN oe bag FOP 2 8 Alumni 8. rf Buss ycial Hall lf Wilbur rb Cutter re Parkman Cc Farnsworth .- rb Lane, Reed lf Spinney lb Barry, Diviney rf Vining Baskets made from the floor, Misses Buss (8), Lane (2), Parkman (2), Wilbur (1), Reed (1), Farnsworth (1), Spinney (1), Hall (1), Vining (1). Baskets made from free tries, Miss Buss, 1. The referee was Coach Robin- son; the timer, Miss Birch; scorer, Miss Curtis. Teacher: ‘Par’ is always worth one hundred dollars. Young Boy: I beg to differ. My pa is sometimes worth a hundred dol- lars, but after the spring styles in millinery come out, he’s worth about thirty cents. | THE MAGNET ABSENT- MINDED Leacher (in German): What is the verb in German for “ to forget’? Pupil: Ich habe das vergessen. (I have forgotten it.) ww A; I see X has a new way of tak- ing home examples. LB: How’s that? A. Oh, he leans up against the blackboard and comes off with the examples on his coat. w Teacher: WWhat about ‘ whole,” “entire ”? Pupil (thoughtfully): Probably some one stuck a pin in it. w Teacher: What is always the sign of the present subjunctive? Senior (just from algebra): It’s al- ways the double sign plus or minus. w Linger Longer Lawrence: Yes, lady, I was forced to leave de roof dat sheltered me for twenty years. Mrs. Handout: How was that, my poor man? L. L. Lawrence: Me term expired. w Freshman (puzzling over a_ sen- tence): How would you punctuate this sentence, ‘“‘I saw a pretty girl going down the street’’? Bright Soph: Why, V'd make a big dash after her.—£xz. a A pianist, he stood Of the average sort, His music was good, But his hair was too short. we ARE SOME THINGS WHICH No Man Can Do.” It was in the year 1923. The mob was gathered beneath the stout branches of a tree. The victim stood terrified intheir midst, his violin and bow clutched tightly in his hands. Quickly a noose was tied around his neck and the end of the rope thrown over one of thebranches. The sher- iff saw from a distance and came up at full speed. He must stop the lynching at all hazards. “What does this mean?”’ he pant- ed. “He was caught playing Zhe Mer- ry Widow Waltz,” said the leader, sol- emnly. Then the sheriff proceeded to as- sist in the execution. w ’T was in a restaurant they met, - One Romeo and Juliet. ’T was there he first fell into debt, For Romeo’d what Juliet. ‘THERE —Ex. we Mrs. Pendergast (in disgust): You call these shades al ike? Is there anything you can match? Mr. Pendergast: Yes. Pennies. w Pa heard Willie give the High School yell, For joy he could not speak. “ Oh, mother, do just listen to Our boy reciting Greek.” 20 DES WAG INES of the Leominster The Alumni High School conducted a very suc- cessful play, entitled, “Alabama,” in the Town Hall, on March 18. The play was given by the faculty of the Emerson College of Oratory. Two more entertainments are to be given, for the purpose of giving a_ free alumni banquet some time in June, and it is hoped that the proceeds will increase. eT The High School Cadets held a competitive drill under the direction of Lieutenant Charles Savage, on March 25. The following appoint- ments were made on the results of the drill: Capt. Richard H. Scanlon of Co. B., Major. Ist Lieut. Everett W. Lothrop of Co. B., Captain of Co. B. 2d aeut., Leon jf. Miller “of: Co. Az ist Lieut. of Co. A. 2d. Séerg. Herbert 1. “Burgess ‘ofoCor by 2G 1iept..ot 0,21. ww The Individual Prize Drill and the Military Ball will be held May 15, in the Town Hall. w The Exhibition Drill will be given by the girls’ and boys’ classes in physical culture, in the Town Hall, some time in May. We wonder why one of the faculty wore his winter overcoat on such a warm day as April first? THE WAIL OF THE FRESHMAN I must study, 1 must study, 1 must study very much. . For this Latin, Freshman Latin, I believe is worse than Dutch. I have never tried the language of the far- off Netherlands Except inscriptions on sweet chocolate; that one u nderstands. So instead of gaily running over hills and vales in spring, I must stay within my room at home, and to my studies cling. What care | if words should end in aus, or in ume? It’s bad enough to translate verbs without conjugating them. If this is a dead language, it should be bu- ried right away, Ten thousand leagues beneath the sea, far from the light of day. But ’t is better to spend an hour today, for if not it’s plainly seen I'll spend much more tomorrow, right back in room sixteen. M. ww Mr. Richardson (in Physics): “Mr. Kloss, for what two purposes, chigtig is the pendulum used?”’ Mr. Kloss: ‘‘On clocks and watch- to C3: THE POPULAR SONGS “ Take Things Easy.’—Senior Class. “] Want What I Want When | Want It.’—Football Team. “I’m Always Misunderstood.” Barron. “ Merry Widow.’—Jed Foslin. “Come, Take a Trip in My Air-Ship.” — Chandler. “Every Day is Ladies’ Day to Me.” — Hyatt. “Go While the Goin’ is Good.” — Folly Fifteen. “That Story Has a Rather Fishy Sound.” —Litdle. MAGNET 21 ‘“Didn’t Know Exactly What to Do.” —Leap Year Man. we Oh, why were you late? ’t is half past eight! Yes, why were you late today? Did you come here straight, or linger and wait, When coming upon your way? “My reasons are: I came on the car, And the car was late today. Why the car was late, | cannot state, And I will not attempt to say.” “ But the day ts fair, there’s spring in the air; And so will you tell me, pray? You live quite near; it is not quite clear, Why you came in the car today.” “The reason is plain. I'll try to explain Outright and without delay. The reason is simple. Because, The car was late today.” you see, A Mountain of Evidence “THE PROOF” Sent upon Application Also the most unique and complete school catalogue ever issued in central New England Worcester Business Institute . B. POST, Principal. 476 [ain Street EDWIN CHASE CARY TEACHER OF CORNET CLARINET, FRENCH HORN, TROMBONE, DRUM, and all BAND INSTRUMENTS Twenty-six Years a Band Leader (1881--1907). Teacher of Harmony and Instrumentation. 37 vienard Street, ‘| sipped os Connection Director Leominster City Band Open to engagements as Cornet Soloist for Concerts Fiat cease dane, Mass. ATHLETES. ATTENTION! In order t� obtain the best results in athletic contests, it is important that you should have the best iniplements. They may cost a trifle more, but it pays. 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EPHAS DERBY, 09, J DOROTHY WHITTIER, 10, Girls’ Athletics. ARTHUR S. KLOss, ’08, Sketch Editor. LEONE SMITH, ’og, School Notes. ASSISTANTS. Lillian Barron, Lloyd Jobes, Alice Smith, William Jenne, Herbert Wass, Howard Corkum, Edmond Lynch, Bernice Prouty. Published monthly during school year by pupils of the High School. Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents. HERE has been quite a little trouble, lately, in regard to baseball, which seems quite unnecessary. To begin with, it has been for some time a rule in this school, and in many others, that those who fail in two subjects of their course shall give up athletics. Recently, cer- tain fellows, who are down in their studies, suddenly took the idea that, instead of staying around the street corners in the afternoon, they would practice baseball with the regular nine. However, they were quickly forbidden to practice, and imme- diately became “sore.” Then, instead of doing anything to en- courage the team, they went, as usual, to the ball grounds on prac- tice afternoons and did everything possible to hinder and discour- 5 6 THE MAGNET age the players. At regular games they have made it their busi- ness to cheer the opposing team and to laugh and sneer at the errors of the home team. They seemed generally of the opinion that the team could not last more than two or three games without them; an opinion which certain newspaper articles,—or, rather, the same article in different newspapers—tried to intensify. A od e spirit, all around! | To be sure, the team has made a poor beginning,—thanks to the discouraging efforts of outsiders in general; but is there any reason why the team should be sneered at, slandered, and in every way downtrodden and discouraged? It certainly seems,—z¢ certazn- ly zs,—just the time when every loyal pupil in school, every citizen, with the interests of the school at heart, should in every way sup- port the team. Without encouragement they can do little; with discouragement, they can do nothing. It seems too bad to think that a high school fellow should be so bigoted as to think that the position he vacated on the team could not be filed and that, on that account, the team would soon have to go to pieces. Nevertheless, these are the facts, stated plainly, and any fellow should surely feel Avoud to know that he is included in this class of conceited ‘“ swellheads.” In the game Saturday, April 25, the team showed, by their in- nings of good steady fielding and batting, that it has the material to make good, if only encouraged. After the third inning in the game just mentioned, the team went completely to pieces. Why? Simply because after the first mishap they lost their heads and did not have the steadiness and team work, gained only by consistent practice, to retrieve their blunders and to get down to steady work. Therefore, we should like to raise the following questions: Would it not be policy to give the team the necessary practice by playing it against any other team made up of former high: school players or town fellows? A regular game of this kind would give the team more practice and self-confidence than that gained bya little batting and fielding, as is done preliminary to a game. The ninth grade athletic meet was so successful,—not in record breaking, but in increasing enthusiasm,—that it would seem a good THE MAGNET 7 idea to have one or two more before the League meet in June. It is, of course, the only way the best men can be picked out to represent the school, and it is practically the only way that good practice can be obtained. On afternoons for practice but few fellows have appeared and enthusiasm did not seem very high. When, however, the last meet was held and the interest was at its height, there arose the ques- tion, Why not give a larger meet? And why not? A meet between all four classes of the school would fave to be a success. The in- terest would be many times greater even than in the last meet, and every one in school would have a chance to show what he is good for. RICHARD H. SCANLON. Forestry and Forest Products ; ORESTRY is the science that considers the growth, harvesting, and T disposition of tree or forest products. ‘The forest itself is an assem- bly of plant and animal life, each of which have their particular functions. To the ornithologist the most interesting part of the forest life are the birds; to the naturalist the animal life, etc.; while to the student of forestry the tree is of the greatest interest. If you are in a forest and con- sider for a moment, you will see that the forest can readily be studied in three separate parts: the canopy, the tree body, and the floor. The canopy is the overhead part, consisting of leaves, small twigs, and branches. It protects the floor and determines its health and strength, and thereby gov- erns the size and quality of the tree body. The floor consists of the earth and decaying vegetable matter, and this is worked over by animals and worms, the frost and rain. Bees fertilize the flowers and greatly assist in the production of new plant species by cross pollenization. Toads and birds destroy countless insects, and the toadstools and other fungi are has- tening the decomposition which is constantly going on. Forests in general are grown for their wood and timber products; but in the cases of rubber, camphor, orange, etc., the wood is of a very second- ary importance. Forestry should be more carefully studied and better un- derstood, because the forest is an absolute necessity to us; first, on account of its protection, and second, because of the value and importance of its products. Take southern California, for instance. Its appearance has been completely changed by the planting of the Australian Eucalyptus. “In 8 THE MAGNET Italy it is common to plant in the fields of grain, olive, walnut, willow, pop- lar, and mulberry; thus they can get from one field grain, ie nuts, grapes, fuel, twine, and wood for fuel and constructive purposes.” In Mexico rub- ber trees are planted to shade the coffee, and in Java the crops are planted between rows of teak trees. ‘In France (Perigord) forests of oak are planted for the tuffles which grow upon their roots. The tuffle is a fungus growth resembling a potato in appearance, and much relished as a food, and about $3,000,000 worth are exported annually.” The maple syrup and sugar business is dependent upon our eastern maples, and the returns from these products keep many a New England farmer smiling from one spring until the next. It is natural for us to want to possess a piece of land, and, as one Ro- mero of Mexico said: ‘“ Everywhere the world over the man who gets the lands and holds on to them is the wealthy man. Speculators and financiers come and go like bubbles on a-river, but the landed proprietor keeps a per- manent clinch on humanity.” Now if we consider the tree-trunk itself we find it assuming various shapes and conditions. The tree grown in the open has beautiful foliage, many branches often coming down to the ground, and having a handsome contour. Now, because of its many branches, the wood is full of knots and of inferior quality, and the tree is suitable only for shade or ornamental purposes. When trees grow close together, the lower limbs quickly die and fall off, because they are shaded by the crowns of their neighbors; the stronger trees rapidly push their crowns higher and higher and kill off the smaller and weaker, and so we get a tall, smooth trunk or tree body, which gives us our finest lumber. And in this forest life it is the question of ‘the survival of the fittest.” The great bulk of the tree body comes from the air, and this is brought about by the leaves converting the carbon-dioxide of the air into starch. If a piece of dry wood is burned, the part that burns is the part obtained from the air, while the part that remains (ashes) is what is taken up by the roots from the soil. Another very valuable use of the canopy is to provide an annual supply of leaves on the forest floor, which hastens the tree growth because of their constant decomposition. The forest floor includes the loose leaves and brush, the leaf mold or humns, and the soil below. Inthis leaf mold decay is rapidly going on, and fungi growth are everywhere present. The humns supplies the nitrogen so necessary to plant life and forms a protecting mulch to the subsoil, from which the roots get their moisture and, after carrying it through the tree, evaporate it from the leaves. The principal bulk of good material of a tree is in the trunk. At the outside is first the dead bark, then the live inner bark, next the sap wood, then the heart wood, and last a small pith at th e center. Annular rings are formed, one for each year of growth of the tree: Some are very wide, while others are scarcely discernible; but all show the - true condition of the tree’s health and consequent growth during the differ- ent periods of its existence. Very wide rings show that the tree was grow- INIMVAdC GNVH Hoa AO SNAWIDdS 10 THE MAGNET ing under favorable soil and climatic conditions, while narrow rings gener- ° ally indicate poor soil and drouth. In fact, the whole history of a tree’s life is recorded in its rin gs. The tree growing alone in the open is generally shorter, with a more rapidly tapering trunk, and having many more branches than the tree in the forest, and therefore of less value for timber. The tree of the forest has a tall, limbless, straight trunk, and while depending much upon its neigh- bors for support, it has a far greater commercial value. The opposite is true of the value of a man. For the farmer on the coast or in the uplands, the tree prevents the soil from moving about on account of the action of wind and rain. The mangrove of our Southern swamps is actually one of our most wonderful trees, in that, in addition to its ability to form and retain soil, its seeds ger- minate before being detached from the parent tree, so that it produces a crop of young plants instead of seeds. Thus the mangrove is constantly adding to our usable land area all about our Southern States and tropical islands. Here in the North the willow, arbor-vite, and tamarack are ever increasing our acreage. The forest is also an efficient sanitary agent: stag- nant water and disease are the exception in the forest. Even the water in Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp is healthful, while malaria is common in near-by burnt-over pine districts. The forest, then, in addition to its indus- trial value is a (1) soil-former, (2) soil-improver, (3) soil-holder, (4) flood- preventer and retainer of moisture, (5) wind-break, (6) sanitary agent. Certain species are found in quite restricted areas, while others have no apparent limit except temperature. Many can be moved from country to country, and thrive under their new conditions, the same as man after his migrations. The red. cedar can be found from Cuba to Canada; the locust is common in Europe and America; the eucalyptus of Australia is now common in Southern California, while the ailanthus is at home in China or New England. The greatest hindrance to tree growth is cold. This is seen on the sides of all high mountains, where the timber line is plainly apparent and tree growth practically ceases. Below forty-five degrees, Fahrenheit, tree growth practically ceases, and there must be at least six weeks per year when the temperature exceeds the above figure. Evergreen trees cover much of the colder areas, because they are able to make their growth at a lower tem- perature than the deciduous trees. Our evergreen trees are being planted over practically all the northern countries of Europe. A single pound of birch seed contains 800,000 seeds, while a single fruit of the double cocoanut, containing four seeds, weighs from forty to fifty pounds. White pine seeds sprout, some the first year, more the second year, and some the third year. If you soak them in water at 13c degrees, all that will sprout at all will have done so in twenty-four hours. Locust seeds should be soaked in warm water for three days to soften the outer hard casing. The seeds of the Central American rubber tree can be kept only a few days before planting. Willow and poplar seeds will sprout in THE MAGNET iI ten days; white pine and spruce in four weeks; oak, walnut, beech, and maple in six weeks. A prominent New York paper uses 150 tons of paper per day, and would, therefore, consume all the spruce on 16,225 acres in one year’s supply. Postal cards are made from tulip pulp. The United States pro- duces about fifty million pounds of sugar and about 3,225,000 gallons of syrup from our rock maples, Vermont being the leading State in these prod- ucts. The pines of the South produce our resin, turpentine, and numerous by-products. Tanning material is secured from the bark of the oak and the black mangrove hemlock of the United States, and also from the quebracho wood of South America. The dry distillation of wood is at present giving us many and valuable products. The process can be described briefly as follows: Heat is applied to a retort filled with wood; to the cover of the retort is attached a coiled pipe, or ‘‘ worm,’ as it is called, over which water constantly runs during the process. The wood is heated toa temperature of about 700 degrees, and this drives the moisture in the wood off in the form of steam through the worm, and also produces a wood gas which can be used for illuminating purposes. The products of this distillation are: gases, tar matter, acids, and charcoal. These are refined and give acetic acid, wood alcohol, and many other products of use and value. Forests also give us nuts, such as the chestnut, walnut, and pecan; the evergreens used at Christmas time; bark for the manufacture of rope; cork, from the outer bark of the oak growing along the region of the Mediter- ranean Sea. In the,tropics there are trees of practically unlimited variety, value, anduse. The clove trees of the Moluccas and Zanzibar give us the cloves of commerce from their flower buds. The myrtle family, of about 2,800 species, give products of very great value. The nut of the Jamaica allspice is found in nearly every home. The Brazil-nut comes to us from the valley of the Amazon; these nuts are formed ina hard, dark-colored shell, from fifteen to twenty-five in each shell. Cocoanuts grow on the palms of that name all through the tropical regions. Chocolate is one of the products of the seed of an evergreen tree growing in Central America, Trinidad, and the West Indies. Nutmegs come to us from the Spice Isl- ands of the East Indies. Caoutchouc, or rubber, is produced from the milk-like sap of the rubber trees of the East Indies, the valley of the Ama- zon and the Congo Valley, Central America, and Mexico. The world’s greatest rubber port is Para. From the bark of the Peruvian cinchona tree quinine is extracted. The Australian eucalyptus is of great value for its oil and timber and is being introduced extensively into temperate climates. Logwood for dye is shipped into New York from Mexico, Central Amer- ica, and the West Indies. The gamboge tree of Cambodia in India produces the yellow dye and water color. The East Indies produce much camphor, but the island of Formosa is the greatest source of this product. Cinna- mon comes from Ceylon. Teak, one of the most important trees of Java and India, is practically all shipped into England. The Cuban cedar is 12 THE MAGNET principally used for cigar boxes. Satinwood comes from India, mahogany from the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America. The prices of lumber have practically doubled during the past twenty years, and the cost will continue to be governed by the law of supply and demand. Our present State and National forestry policies will increase our supply in thirty years, but would it not have been better, if we had been ‘more considerate of our supply during the past twenty-five years? H. W. LELAND. A Trick that Failed $6 DON’T care, Bob Lane, you are just as mean as you can be, and I never will speak to you again.” Nan flew out of the room in an outburst of temper. Bob looked up in amazement, then went to the door and called, tauntingly, ‘Say, Sis, perhaps as you will not speak to me, we can write to each other.” A violent slam of the outside door was his only answer, and Bob returned with a broad grin on his face. ‘Just like girls,’ he muttered. ‘Say any little thing and they will fly into arage. Well, I don’t know as I care,’ and he flung himself on the lounge. The next morning Nan found at her breakfast plate the following note: Of course, as you won't speak to me, there is no use of speaking to you; but in order to know that I am forgiven, because really I didn’t do anything to be forgiven for, will you please place tomorrow a package by my plate, containing an orange if soand a lemon if not. ROBERT CANNER LANE, Jr. Nan found a round, juicy lemon, which she placed in a neatly labeled box. She was just carrying it to her room when the door-bell rang. On going to the door, she found one of her friends, and instantly forgot the box. Not so, Bob; who had been watching from behind the sofa. The next morning Nan flew downstairs to get the package, and, finding it where she had left it, hurriedly put it beside Bob’s plate, just as that young man entered the room. He saw the box and-smiled, knowing well enough what was in it. Nan lingered over her breakfast until finally Bob undid the tissue pa- per. Why, what was that? Bob drew forth an orange and smiled. “So you have declared peace,” and he reached over his hand. | ‘“ But—but, Bob, I meant,—I mean I thought I—I put in a lemon.” Bob looked very grave and said, ‘“‘ But some people do things in their sleep, you know; and, of course, yon meant the orange, because you will speak to me.” HELEN Wooppsury, 'II. 7 THE MAGNET 13 Summary of Meet EVENT I. 75 yards dash, won by (1) Anglim, Room 1; (2) Lawrence, Room 3; (3) Blackwell, Room 1. (Ist place tied for by An- glim and Lawrence, won by Anglim ontoss up.) Points di- vided. Time, 8 seconds. EVENT II. 880 yards run, won by (1) Potter, Room 6; (2) Captain Brown, Room 1; Marquis, Room 4. Time, 3m, 2 3-5 sec. . ——— ' EVENT III. 90 yards, low hurdles, won by (1) Lawrence, Room 3; (2) Anglim, Room 1; (3) Captain Brown, Room it. Time, 14 seconds. EVENT IV. 220 yards dash, won by (1) Captain McQuade, Room 4q; (2) Captain Brown, Room 1; (3) Caisse, Room 4. Time, 33 4-5 seconds. EVENT V. Shot put., (8 lb.,) won by (1) Captain Sanders, Room 6; (2) Thayer, Room 6; (3) Captain Brown, Room 1. Distances, eee iny.; 35, {t., 5 1n.; 32 ft., 1074. in. : EVENT VI. . Relay races, 440 yards, each man running 110 yards. . Room I vs. Room 6. Won by Room 6. Time, Im, 12 1-5 sec. Room 3 vs. Room 4. Won by Room 4. Time, Im, 5 3-2 sec. EVENT VII. Running high jump, won by (1) Captain Brown, Room 1; (2) Bacon, Room 1; (3) Anglim,Roomt. Heights, 4 ft. 4 in.; att, 1 in.; 3 {t..8 in. EVENT VIII. Running broad jump, won by (1) Captain Haynes, Room 3; ’ (2) Captain Sanders, Room 6; Captain Brown, Room 1. _ Dis- tances, 14 ft. 6% in.; 14 ft. 5 in. Final Relay Race. Room 4 vs. Room 6. Won by Room 6. Time, I m. 7 4-5 sec. 14 THE MAGNET i Room I scored total of 26 points. INOGUIEO Ts ae Ig points. LOO 3) aos z 15 points. .OGie vee : 12 points. OFFICIALS.—Referee, Mr. J. C. Hull+ Field Judge, Mr. H. Wy) e@iana: Marshal, Mr. L. G. Richardson; Judges at finish, Mr. Charles Wass, Mr. T. Joslin; Clerk of course, Mr. R. A. Joslin; Timer, Mro R..H.Scanlon: Starter, MroR.aP) RobinsGm Thursday afternoon, April 23d, the first athletic meet of the year was run off, when the ninth grade boys participated in an inter-room contest. A silk banner was awarded to the team scoring the most points and ribbon prizes for each first, second, and third place in all events. Each of the four rooms turned out a good squad to represent its interest, and not only each event, but nearly every place in each event, was fiercely fought for. It was a very evenly matched meet throughout, as the close total scores of the several rooms show. The reason Room I won so many points over her opponents was that she had three men in each event and worked each fellow for all he had in him, while the other rooms let some events go by without entering a single contestant. Inthe high jump they had but one contestant to compete against and easily won every place in the event. Aside from this walk-over there was no noticeable supremacy on the part of any one team, and all events were close. The boys showed good judgment in the selection of their captains, as the chief point winners were the leaders of the several teams. Captain Brown of Room I was easily the best man and star of the meet, winning 14 of the 26 points won by his team. Anglim of Room I was next highest point winner, with a first, a second, and a third to his credit. Captain San- ders of Room 6, and Lawrence of Room 3 tied forthird highest place, each having a first and a second place to his credit. The most noticeable per- former of the afternoon, however, was Sidney Bacon in the high jump. While the best place he could capture was second, still the way he handled himself and the form he displayed made this event the most interesting of — the meet. It is safe to say that young Bacon will make his larger rivals work for every point they take from himin meets tocome. Captain Haynes of Room 3 also deserves mention for the fine form he displayed in the broad jump. After leaving the take-off he jumped a good five height and landed in good style. I might easily mention some good point seen in each con- testant, but will mention but one more, who to me seemed to be deserving of special mention. McQuade, captain of Room 4, showed his superiority over his rivals with ease. He is an easy, speedy runner for a boy of his age and should develop into a strong athlete for the High School. Personally I was much pleased with the meet and the many hearty words of approval from those present. I have only one regret concerning it, which is that all the boys who were able to do so did not take part in it. These meets and other branches of athletics are not run off for the few, but for all who wish to see, and draw out, what they have in them. The win- ning of a place should not be the thought to be considered, but the thought THE MAGNET 15 of getting some practical physical good out of entering into and compet- ing in athletics. You have got to remember that hard, persistent, faithful work will alone bring results. Also remember that the leaders in all events have met defeat many times, but have tenaciously held out until they gained the experience that finally brought with it success. Every fellow should take advantage of the opportunities offered him to develop and train his body physically, because a strong mind demands a good healthy physique to balance it. A person cannot train his mental powers fully if he be weak and sickly. One of the best sights to be seen anywhere is an athlete in action. To see his muscles play, to see them respond to his slightest sum- mons, is to know that his mental powers are in harmony with his physical. Compare him with a lazy, sleepy individual, and the contrast gives you one of the severest shocks you can receive; because you realize that the latter is letting slip by him much of the happiness of life, is merely existing, while with a little effort he might be living in the highest sense of the word. It the inter-class meet to come, it is to be hoped that every fellow in school will come out and do his best to help his class win. In doing so he will not only do himself good, but also develop a spirit of loyalty to his class which, if heid true, will grow into loyalty for his school, his college, and his country, doing good to all who come in contact with him. While writing of loyalty the thought has come that I might add.a word about school spirit. When we speak of school spirit, we invariably associ- ate athletics with it; possibly because we see demonstrations of what we call school spirit in the way the student body backs up, or fails to back up, the different athletic teams. But there is a truer school spirit than that shown by standing behind even a losing team, and that is shown by the fel- low who does not forget that his first duty in his school life is to study, and by keeping up in his work is ever ready to answer any call his school may issue for his services outside the regular required curriculum. Such fellows are deserving of every honor their school can give them. Then again, the fellow who does the best he can and still fails to be- come eligible to represent his school, yet supports the teams that do repre- sent his school, is also deserving of recognition. But the fellow who fails because he has not put forth the effort necessary to win out, and then lays the blame at another’s door; who feels that any team representing his school will be a failure unless he has a place on it; and who loses no opportunity to belittle and “ horse” those on the team for any mistake made, lacks not only school spirit, but even lacks the spirit of decency and self-respect, Such fellows are not deserving of the privileges given them by their towns- people. When a fellow takes advantage of a privilege offered for his good, then abuses it, and on top of that abuses others for the failure he alone is to blame for, it is time he was brought to face the fact that privileges are for those who can appreciate them. School spirit is backing the school and her best interests for all one has in him, in order that the school may profit, not for individual praise. It is working with the team that the team may win, with no thought of self save to fill the place assigned to the best of one’s ability. It is standing be- DROME IS Tae : ; THE MAGNET 17 hind the school teams, winning or losing, and letting the members of a team know you are behind them at all times, by words of cheer and not of cen- sure. No one in a throng of spectators ever feels one-half so bad as the man on the team, working forthe team’s best interest, who makes a mistake. So do not criticize mistakes, but let the fellow know you still have confidence in his being able to recover himself, and the chances are more than even that he will repay you for your loyalty by making good. ) R. P. Roprnson. - “ L; Boys’ Basket=Ball statistics 5 8 8 | | git oe xy ee ‘ oS. 2 a o 3 : a A aed Geta iraet ons. = ake Ee ee a es ; mm 4 © v o © ae Seer AC er “a Ree 8 ok OP Le ge OS ‘ Si OES 6S eS so pe ae a fa ee ee ee eee ese ee eae ee See Os ee es a eS PRE pee eee Or te oe os eoOponeeroese 86-85 .89.86 25 £8 RORUROROURUBRUBRUOULRURUEBEYO BYU eae Bo fo So 85 BE Bo Se 8S Be BS BE Total .. (in nh ini ik i ni mei mi mi win Points a 275) 4 21 48 52 7 4 117 44 32 635 43) 121 ESE eee eee j As EY ie | | ee ee AB Ls sia ic cee cenceenss | ..n...|...2---. 2 2i1 it. 4] «3lt ot} 6) tas ii4l 32 eens een Cee Pei Cased oe ist 4)... 6 12 Ce... EES 2 SS ee ee as ee 413! 6 ( ao... ES See | ie ioe 1). | beeen care is Ages EE en ee | 3 =| Poe ok Pree! ERY emer Ce Be FEE Us | a | eepe ca Oa A i a RD ay a ee eee ee cM ede Ve kL, ket} QTd Grand Total, 234 Opponents, 260 Number of games won, 6 Number of games lost, 4 ‘ Baseball Schedule for 1908 rday, May 9g, Athol High at Leominster. day, May 14, Southbridge High at Southbridge. ay, May 16, Becker’s Business College at Leominster. ay, May 20, Worcester English High at Leominster. , May 23, Fitchburg High at Fitchburg. lay, May 27, Worcester Business Institute at Leominster. ° _ May 30, Fitchburg High at Leominster, A. M. ay, June 3, St. John’s High at Leominster. day, June 6, Southbridge High at Leominster. nesday, June I0, open. y, June 13, Worcester South High at Leominster. dnesday, June 17, Pepperell High at Leominster. rday, June 20, Hudson High at Hudson. Leroy W. CHANDLER, Manager. —_ 3 vo) : a 18 THEAMAGN EE: Girls’ Basket=Ball Statistics HE last victory of the Basket-Ball season was won on Saturday, March 28th, when the girls met the Fitchburg Y. M. C. A. team, as oppo- nents, on the home floor. The girls put up a fine game in both guarding and shooting, scoring twelve and holding their opponents from making any score. This game ended a very successful season, since the girls defeated every team of opponents in this year. No. Baskets Free Tries Total Points Buse al te aecene 19 3 4| Parkman s.cate 12 24 | Wilbarié toe eee 4 8 | Liane eccjeree ees 2 4 r 38 Barry eg ea eee | 2 | Totals, 38 3 79 Opponents, 13 Number of games played, 5; Number of games won, 5. Exchanges E have received a number of new exchanges during the past month. Among them is one college paper, Zhe Middlebury Campus. While ona somewhat different plane from ours, it is interesting because of this very difference. We doubt, however, if the members of our school :would be interested in the discussion of a coin collection, such as is featured in the Campus. The Breccia gives hardly any attention to editorials, but its fiction is good. Many of its stories are of a sentimental nature. Many papers seem to have difficulty in procuring good stories. Early in the year Zhe Greylock Echo offered a prize of five dollars in gold to the student writing the best story, at least one thousand words in length, before a certain date, and a second prize of three dollars for the second best story. This ought to be productive of some useful material. The Hcho stories have a tendency toward the weird. What is noticeable about 7he Herald is its unity of construction. Each department is given a proper allotment of space. It has avariety of cover designs and illustrations. We have received a copy of 7he Academy Belle, from Fryeburg, Maine. The cover design is a sketch of an Academy “ Belle.’ The Minute Man savors of retrospection. It comes, of course, from Concord, where its namesake stood up against the British a century or so avo. Its frontispiece is a photograph of Hawthorne’s Old Manse, and a reproduction of the Alhambra appears further along in its pages. A draw- ing of the Discus Thrower stands at the head of its athletic column, prob- ably to infuse it with the spirit of ancient Greece. The jokes in the Legenda are good, though copied. This paper is pub- lished entirely by girls, and is consequently thoroughly effeminate. THE ae On Saturday evening, April 4, the second annual prize speaking contest was held in the Assembly Hall be- fore a large audience. The judge awarded the first prize among the girls to Guelah M. Cook, ’08, and the first prize among the boys to Richard H. Scanlon, ’o8. w On Thursday afternoon, April 23, the ninth grade rooms of the school] held the first meet of the season in the rear of the school. Room I re- ceived the banner, and Miss Adams certainly looked proud of her pupils. Harry Brown won the largest num- ber of points, getting six ribbons. we OUR LIBRARY “ Briefs for Debate,” “ Translation of ‘Czsar’,” “The Argument Settler,” Woodbury, ’Io Ladoo, ’Io Gallagher, ’og eT Nixon’s “ Sail south and cross the North Pole.” w Incidents which belong to leap year are sometimes illustrated in a peculiar way. The Freshman class was deeply engrossed in algebra problems. Many pupils were putting their examples on the board as if it MAGNET 19 a were mere sport, while others plead- ed shyness to the cause of such steady absorption of their thoughts, The last boy took his seat. He had tried hard for thirty minutes, but in vain. He simply could not get that example, so he dropped into his seat. The minutes wore on, and at last this boy’s turn came. Why, he never thought of an excuse! Thoughts of avery different nature rushed through his mind, and at last, driven to des- peration, he replied that he could not doit. ‘It is a bad thing for boys to possess girls’ hearts in school,” quoth the teacher, solemnly. A. B., the boy, turned pale. What could he mean? Whispers of ‘“ What can he mean? = ‘What issthe matter?® went through the room. “It evi- dently was a bad thing for the boy who tried to put thisexample on the board under such circumstances.” “Oh!” The class burst forth ina shout of laughter; for at a closer view of the victim they made a dis- covery. Avery becoming necklace of white beads, to which was attached a twinkling heart of green stones, was entwined gracefully around his neck,—poor boy! w If ever you get shipwrecked And land is not nigh, Jump on to a “ Geometry,” You'll find it quite dry. 20 | THE MAGNET F: So — FOCI LUN TTT? F810 T ELTON ETAT Young Ikey had been studying Latin at school and seemed much impressed by the stories of Cesar. One night he said to his father: ‘“ Ceesar von a battle vonce und’ sendt home just dree vords, ‘Veni, vidi, Vici on “ Ach, vot a fool,” said his father, “ven he might haf sendt sefen more vords for his keraurter.”—£z. w A stranger in town was looking for Hiram Green’s grocery store and asked a weather-beaten old sailor which way to take. ‘Which way to take?” asked the old man, hauling a compass from his pocket. ‘The wind is erbout sou’- east, two points east. Ish’d say you c’'d steer erbout nor’ nor’east from here till you run abeam of Brown’s drug store. Then heave to and run dead afore the wind till you run afoul of the ash heap on Johnson’s cor- ner. From there sail a point or two south of nor’east for a ha’ mile, and then you're there.” At last reports the stranger was still “running.” w A young man with an impediment in his speech went to a stammerers’ institute and asked for treatment. When the professor asked him if he wished a full or a_ partial course, he replied, “A p-p-partial c-c-course.” “How much of a partial course?” ‘Enough s-so that w-when I a-ask a st-station ag-a-agent wh-when the n-next tr-tr-train f-for R-R-Rot-Rot- ter-[ whistle here ] Rotterdam J-Junc- tion [stamp here] g-g-g-goes, the bl-bloomin’ thing w-w-won’t h-have g-g-gone out of ser-service be-be-be- fore I s-s-say it.” ¥ The average stenographer is a poor speller, but some are so sweet about it that their employers haven't the heart to discharge them. The stenographer had just brought in a neatly typewritten letter. ‘See here,” said the Doss. say on have spelled sugar ‘ s-u-g-g-a-r,’” The young lady looked at it awhile critically, but she brightened as she exclaimed, ‘“‘ Why, sure enough! How could I have been so careless as to leave out thes ier ww DIDNT DARE RISK IT. A Swede applied to an irritable old lumberman for work and secured a place on the saws. As he was leav- ing he said, ‘‘ Mister Jones, in dees - yob you geef me doaller and hallef a day. Besides dat, do you eat me or do I eat myselef ?”’ “You eat yourself!” roared the old man. “I have dyspepsia.” 2 “What is this leathery stuff ?” asked the diner when the second course of the fable a’ hote was served. “That is fillet of sole, sir,” replied the waiter. “Take it away,’ said the diner, after stabbing it fruitlessly with his fork, ‘‘and see if you can’t get me a ae — THE nice tender piece of the upper, with the buttons removed.” 2 BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH Uncle Eb. pushed his wheelbarrow against the curb and knocked at his employer's door. “T’s glad to see you’s in, sah, for I wan’ to borrow youah cyclopedias an dictionaries an’ any othah nice books you can spare, sah.” “Goodness, Eb.! and you've brought a wheelbarrow! What on earth do you want of them?” “Very important occasion, sah, very important,’ answered Uncle Eb., solemnly. “ Dinah an’ me want to hunt up a name for the baby, sah.”’ w THE ‘“‘ PROFESSOR.” When Farmer Jones’s_ second MAGNET 21 cousin, Mary Ella, was married to a professor, the old man hurried home from the village, wild with excite- ment. ‘A professor,” said Mrs. Jones, in a pleased tone. ‘Well, I’m glad she’s done so well and got a man of good education and social standing.” “Wa’al, I dunno,” said the old man, warily. ‘‘ That depends a good deal on the variety of species he be- longs to, sotosay. Theodosia didn’t tell me, and I plumb forgot to ask, whether he is a dancing-master, a corn doctor, a piano-tuner, a_ prize- fighter, a hoss physician, a layer-on- of-hands, a balloonatic, a third-term- ist, aseventh son of a seventh son, a sword-swallower, a phrenologist, a bicycle-rider, a magician, a nature fakir, or an elastic-skin man.” A Mountain of Evidence “THE PROOF” Sent upon Application Also the most unique and complete school catalogue ever issued in central New England Worcester Business Institute C. B. POST, Principal. 476 lain Street EDWIN CHASE CARY TEACHER OF CORNET CLARINET, FRENCH HORN, TROMBONE, DRUM, and al] BAND INSTRUMENTS Twenty-six Years a Band Leader (1881--1997). Director Leominster City Band Teacher of Harmony and Instrumentation. Open to engagements as Cornet Soloist for Concerts 37 Orchard Street, ‘Telephone Connection Leominster, Mass. In order to obtain the best results in athletic contests, it is important that you should have the bestimplements. They may cost a trifle more, but it pays. Many a match has been lost by the use of poor tools, so why not have tie best Tennis Racket and Ball, Foot Ball, Basket Ball, Running Shoes, Skates, Hockey Sticks, Sweaters, Jerseys, etc. Our goods have character—our trade-mark means something. Send for our Catalogue. It is free. WRIGHT DITSON 344 Washington St., Boston; 18 W. 30th St., New York CHICAGO PR ovioence, R. I. CAMBRIDGE, Mass, The most delicate and Use Harmony Perfumes isting odors. SU POINTE Veal, PIERSON’S PHARMACY. The Rexall Store. Established 1874 Girard, the Tailor E..E. Burdett, Biman : APOTHECARY Columbia Block 8 Main St., Leominster We want all the boys to call and see BROWN, THE TAlLE@ES 25 1258 be ERS £S° sae Die austg Established 1887 492 Main St., WORCESTER, MASS. Incorporated 1907 HIGHEST GRADE COMMERCIAL SCHOOL IN NEW ENGLAND | We placed 93 per cent. of our last year’s graduates in good salaried positions. 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LEONE SMITH, ’og, School Notes. Subscription Editors. ASSISTANTS. Lillian Barron, Lloyd Jobes, Alice Smith, William Jenne, Herbert Wass, Howard Corkum, Edmond Lynch, Bernice Prouty. Published monthly during school year by pupils of the High School. Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents. “A Quiet, Restful Place amo ng the Hills.” HE quietness which usually reigned in the Jenkins house at the foot of the hill was abruptly broken, one afternoon, by a violent tug at the front door bell. The three elderly sisters who had inhabited the house from time immemorial were engaged in changing their dresses. “ Land’s sakes!’’ exclaimed Sophia, ‘“‘who can that be at this time of day?”’ “I’m sure I can’t guess,” said Alice, the youngest and best-looking of the three, though she, like the rest, was of uncertain age. ) “You go to the door, Samanthy,” commanded Sophia. ‘You are the nearest dressed. They seem to be in a mighty hurry, whoever they are. I’m afraid they'll pull the bell out like it was last May night, if you don’t hurry.” “Well, ain't I hurrying as fast as I can,’ snapped Samantha. “ What! do you think I’m going to the door half-dressed? It might be a man.” The bell had now begun to ring so clamorously and so forcefully that Samantha, fearing a repetition of the May-night affair, condescended to hustle for the door before putting on her collar and fastening the back of her skirt. 6 THE MAGNET At the door stood a messenger boy, who handed her a telegram. Sa- mantha, though externally the boldest of females, felt a slight fluttering at her heart as she half mechanically closed her fingers on the yellow enve- lope. When the door was closed, a stage whisper of ‘‘What is it?” came from the upper regions. ’ “A telegram,” was all that Samantha had tongue to utter. “Tand’s sakes! from whom?” exclaimed Sophia. ‘Is any one dead?” “T haven’t opened it yet,” said Samantha. The three sisters retired to the sitting-room and solemnly took seats. They glanced from one to the other in an awe-inspiring s ilence. “You open it,” at last commanded Sophia to Samantha. ‘ You are the one into whose hands.it was delivered.” Samantha by no means wanted the task; but she knew that, sooner or later, it would be thrust upon her; so, with fingers that trembled a little in spite of her effort to control herself, she opened the telegram. She read it to herself, while her sisters kept a painful silence. They watched Saman- tha intently. A look of horror spread over her face, and Alice, mistaking it for grief, whispered, ‘‘ Who's dead?” ‘“Who’s dead!” exclaimed Samantha, savagely, with fire in her eye and a crushing look which completely wilted Alice. “If you wish to know, you may read for yourself.” She passed the telegram to her sisters, who read as follows: — Boston, Mass., June 27, Ig— Party of three will arrive tonight in time for supper. Kenyon Denniston. The three sisters gazed at each other blankly, with expressions of stu- pidity, horror, surprise, and amazement chasing over their features. “Who is Kenyon Denniston?” asked Sophia, breaking the silence. “It’s beyond me,” replied Samantha. ‘I’m sure I don’t know him.” “Perhaps the telegram has been missent and isn’t for us,” proffered Alice. Sophia, thereupon, turned the envelope over and read, ‘“‘ The Misses Jenkins, Elderville, Mass.” “That’s us, sure as daylight,” sighed Samantha in a not-to-be-denied tone. “Just the same, I think Alice 1s right,” said Sophia. “ There’s some big mistake about it.” “That’s all very well,” objected Samantha, “ but what are you going to do about it? Here it is half past three, and somebody coming in time for THE MAGNET 7 supper. I don't see anything to do but to get ready for them. We'll find out who they are when they get here.”’ At about half past five, the anxious sisters heard an automobile slow up in front of the house. They peeked out between the parlor curtains and saw three dusty looking young fellows, one of whom alighted and came up the graveled walk to the front door. The sisters did not utter a word; their - tongues clung to the roofs of their mouths. The bell rang. Sophia and Alice looked at Samantha. With a good deal of will power, the chief of the Jenkins tribe put an iron look of cour- age on her face, arose, and went to the door. ‘Good afternoon,” Jenkins?” “Yes, sir,’ laconically gasped Samantha through her parched lips. said the-young man on the porch. “Is this Miss “T’m Kenyon Denniston. Did you get my telegram?” he asked. Ves, sir; but’ — hesitated Samantha. “Then,” interrupted he, “ you’re all ready for us.” Without pausing, he turned and cried out to his companions in the auto, “All right, fellows. Come on.” The two, without further commands, sprang to the ground and walked briskly up to the door. “You might show us to our rooms at once, if you please,” said the other. ‘‘ We'll have to clean up some for supper, I guess.” Almost in a trance, Samantha turned and ushered them upstairs into the guest chambers. She came out of her abstraction only when the excla- mations of her sisters smote her ears. “What have you done?” wailed Sophia. ‘You've taken those dirty, unknown men into the house.” “And put them into our best spare bedrooms,” put in Alice. “Well,” said Samantha, her lips snapping together with each word, like the lid of a jack-in-the-box, “‘I am going to play this thing to the end. I couldn’t send those boys off without their supper. They're not vicious looking fellows, and they looked so hungry, they fairly hypnotized me.” By the time the three young men descended to supper, the desperate Samantha had completely subdued her sisters to obedience. As soon as they were seated, Mr. Denniston broke the silence by say- ing, “Well, Spook and Doughnut, isn’t this a charming place to recuperate?” “Tt’s magnificent, Ken,’ said the person addressed as Spook, while Doughnut-chimed in, “ It’s glorious. That lake we passed about a mile back looked as if it would be great for fishing.” 8 THE MAGNET “Yes, and these hills look bully for long tramps,” rejoined Spook. “Tt’s just the place we want after those killing commencement festivi- ties,’ said Ken. Then, turning toward Samantha, “ How long have you taken boarders?” he asked. “Why,” stammered Samantha, ‘ we’ve never taken boarders.” “Then we're the first ones you ever had. Isn’t that great!” exclaimed Ken. Samantha looked puzzled, while Sophia looked troubled, and Alice looked confused. “Mr Denniston,” said Samantha, breaking the awful suspense, “ I wish you'd tell us who you are and why you came.” “Me? Why, I’m the son of a Boston merchant, and these young fel- lows, Mr. Taber and Mr. Fenton, otherwise Spook and Doughnut, are my friends. We've just graduated from college, and the functions along the last nearly floored us; so, when we saw your advertisement in the paper, we thought it would be just the place to come and rest.” “Our advertisement in the paper!”’ exclaimed the astonished sisters in concert. | “Why, yes. It said, ‘A quiet, restful place among the hills. Fishing, boating, and mountain climbing. Good board. The Misses Jenkins, Elder- ville, Mass.’ ” “ How strange!”’ exclaimed Sophia. ‘We never put an advertisement in the paper.” During the momentary pause that followed, a flash of intelligence crossed Alice’s face. ‘‘ Why, that must be the Jenkins sisters over in Alder- ville. You know they take boarders every summer.” ’ “ That explains everything,” rejoined Sophia, while Samantha looked as if a great load had been lifted from her shoulders. “Aren’t you going to let us stay?” cried Doughnut. “We'll pay you anything you ask,” added Spook. “Yes. Do let us stay,” begged Ken. “We are rather hard up for money,” murmured Samantha, after a med- itative pause, ‘and as long as we have the chance, it seems as though we ought to take advantage of it. Perhaps we will let you stay,” she conclud- ed, while her sisters looked their approval. Joun R. MILLER, ’og. A.—“The school library is surely an interesting place, but why does Wass, 09, stay around there so much after school?” B.—‘Possibly he is studying English history and wishes to get the true Elizabethan atmosphere.” THE MAGNET 9 Leather Work ROM primitive times leather has served man as a body covering and sometimes as shelter. The earliest use of leather was about three thousand years ago, and is attributed to China. The Egyptians also used it at an early period. The people of these two countries obtained the skins of the elephant, hippopotamus, and crocodile, and by crude processes made them into leather. The Ro mans, the Greeks, and the Phcenicians also knew a process of making it, and we read of the American Indians wear- ing skins for clothes long before the manufacture of leather was regarded as an industry. What if they were roughly fashioned? Was it not a step toward the very important industry of today, the process of turning skins and hides into leather? Leather can be made from almost every kind of skin, but only a few are used to any great extent, and these are from the larger animals. Per- haps the skin which is used most is that of the ox. The horse, sheep, and goat skins are also used quite extensively. A skin is more or less flex- ible, according to the animal from which it is obtained, and is of great ten- sile strength and durability. Leather is commercially distinguished from skin. Skin is where it is dressed with the fur or hair on it. Pelt is un- tanned leather. Skins are treated with chemicals, and by mechanical means, which give entirely new properties and qualities. If skins are dried raw, they are hard, horny, andintractable. Those in unprepared moist conditions are destroyed by putrefaction. There is a great art in the manufacture of the leather, The manufacturer has (1) to overcome the tendency to putrefaction or de- cay, (2) to secure suppleness in the material, (3) to render it impervious to or unalterable by water, and (4) to increase the strength of the skin and its power to resist wear and tear. Leather is made by three processes, or with three classes of substances, namely: I. Tanned leather, in which hides and skins are combined with tannin or tannic acid. 2. Tawed leather. in which skins are prepared with mineral salts. 3. Shamoyed leather, consisting of skins combined with oils or fatty substances. Oak bark is used to tan the leather, as it gives firm- ness and solidity, while others give softness. The best leather is tanned with evergreen oak, but the lower qualities are tanned with regard to the color, scent, toughness, or power of resisting moisture or decay. First, the 10 THE MAGNET bark is ground up in something resembling an ordinary coffee-mill. The operation in tanning is first to clean the skins and then to get hard, dry ones softened. The skins are soaked in slaked lime to remove the hair and scarf skin. After this, they are scraped, to get off the hair, scarf skin, fatty com- pounds, and flesh. The real tanning consists of coloring, handling, and laying away. It is said that one hundred pounds of green hide, with three or four hundred pounds of oak bark, will give forty or fifty pounds of leather. Leather is used for many practical purposes: for shoes, harnesses, car- riage tops, coverings of chairs and other furniture, balls, machinery belts, THE MAGNET II bags, trunks, etc. One can easily see that it is a very valuable and useful article. At the present day, leather is used quite extensively for decorative purposes, especially in the school. It may be burned, cut, or tooled. “Tooling” i s the name given to the work of pressing down and pushing up . the leather, so that it forms a design. The best leather for tooling is ooze cow or Russian calf. This leather comes about one-sixteenth of an inch thick, or less, and is obtained in different colors. Perhaps the brown and green are the most durable. The tools which are used in the tooling are made of steel and are about five inches long, with flattened ends. They look very much like nut-picks, only not quite as sharp. A simple design is much better than a complicated one, as it is very difficult to get into the corners and to finish complicated work up well. After the design is obtained, choose a piece of leather large enough for the article which is to be constructed, and wet it quite thoroughly, so that it may retain marks made upon it. Lay on a piece of transfer paper on which the design is traced, pinning it down with thumb tacks, and trace the design- with some instrument having a sharp point. A hard lead pencil works well, as it makes a fine, firm line. Now, with one end of a leather-working tool, carefully go over the out- line, to deepen the impression made by the pencil, and with the flat part of the tool, press down the parts of the design desired. These may be either the background or the design itself. Then, with another tool, raise the fig- ures which are to be brought into relief, by pushing up the under part of the leather. When the figures are raised sufficiently, again go over the out- line and the parts which are pressed down, to make the design firm. The more the leather is tooled, the more finished the surface will be, and the richer the color. It is a convenience to have the ends of the tool differ in size. In articles which require two pieces of leather sewed together, the stitching may be done with an ordinary sewing machine. Lacing two parts together also, sometimes, makes a satisfactory finish. The following list of articles are suitable for tooling and may be easily made at home or at school: Note-book covers, mats, purses, belts, baggage tags, pen-wiper tops, music rolls, bags, scissors cases, card cases, etc. MILDRED DuvurtTTON. Silently, one by one, from the classical garden of Latin, Travel the lovely stars, the “I-forgots” of the Freshman. —Longfellow (?), 12 THE MAGNET The House Across the Way ONCE had the good fortune to board in the town of Milville. The ' cottage I lived in was about a mile from the center of the village and there were no houses in sight, except a,vacant cottage across the street. This cottage had been empty for several years, and no one ever thought of a possible tenant. , One night I was aroused from my slumbers by the sound of a wagon. When I looked out of the window, I saw, by the dim light of smoky lan- terns, three moving vans, piled high with furniture, backing up to the front door of the house across the way. The landlady hurried downstairs, mumbling to herself, “A pretty time of night to move in. Those people must be dead tired.” A few moments later I heard the front door slam and a gentle voice call, “I want you all to come right into the house and get something warm to eat. Don’t stop to unload, come right in.” A gruff answer came from the darkness, ‘‘ Thank you, madam; but it’s against orders. Go away at once. Don’t stay here.” The good woman, nonplussed and excited, came back to the house, and I heard her mutter, angrily, ‘They are the most unsocial people! I’m sure they must be wicked.” On the following day the village gossips spread the news, and many were the conjectures as to who the strangers were. But no one in the little town knew anything about them, and they were as excited as only village gossips can be. In the afternoon a special train stopped at the station, muffled forms alighted and, escorted by a policeman, were driven to the house across the Way. The excitement became intense, and the constable was appealed to. With all the dignity of his office he marched proudly up to the front door and rapped. A charming young lady opened the door. “Oh! So it’s you, at last, Mr. Gregg,” she said. “I was expecting you. Won’t you come in?”’ The constable would come in; but when he reappeared he only added to the mystery by saying, “I can’t tell what I’ve seen and heard in that house; but I will immediately arrest any one caught prowling around the premises.” THE MAGNET 13 The Boys’ Terror Club, a society organized for any purpose that idle boys might want to use it for, declared that they would penetrate the mys- tery. Accordingly, they prowled about the house one evening, and, look- ing between the slats of the closed blinds, they discovered that one room was illuminated by a red light; another, by a green; and the other rooms, by blue, violet, and yellow. The leader of the club said, ‘I’m going to find out this mystery,” and he walked boldly up to the front door and knocked. The same young lady opened the door. “What do you want?” she asked. “1 want to find out what’s in this house,” he said. “Very well. Come in,’ she replied. The boys waited for three long hours; and, as he did not appear, they solemnly crept home and went to bed. On the following morning they told the constable about the disappear- ance of their leader. He promptly arrested them for trespassing and put them in the lock-up, where they found their leader awaiting them. | The next day a squad of soldiers guarded the house, and as I looked from my window I could see this sign: ‘‘Government property. All per- sons ‘respassing on this property will be instantly shot. No person allowed within ten yards of this building.” So the matter went on. Tongues gradually ceased to wag, and the gos- sips ‘‘allowed they was beaten.” I was obliged to be absent from the town for a few months, and I was greatly surprised to receive the following letter from my landlady: DEAR SiR: There is no house across the way now. I had to visit my sister, who was ill, and when I returned, every stick of the house was gone, and only the charred ground re- ) mains now. Nobody at the village saw the fire; tor you know the hill would hide it. The constable can’t tell anything about it, and I’m afraid we'll never know about the inhabi- tants of the mysterious house across the way. : Your friend, Mrs. LAMBERT. After a moment’s thought I dismissed the matter from my mind, as being one of the impenetrable mysteries that are never solved. But a few weeks after I had received the letter, I saw the following article in a news- paper, which explains itself: j WASHINGTON, D. C.—Professor Charles L. Lansington has been conducting a series of experiments at Milville, under the direction of the United States Government. The ex- periments have proved successful; but, for the present, at least, will remain State secrets, It is claimed that the professor has discovered that all climatic diseases may be cured by colored rays. For example, malaria may be cured by green rays; yellow fever by the blue, 14 THE MAGNET etc. These experiments will be very beneficial to the army, and Professor Lansington has been voteda gold medal for his unceasing labor. The cottage in which the experiments were Carried on was burned afterward; because it was feared that, as patients with plagues had been treated there, the disease might spread. FREDERICK KEHEW, 09. Trying to Keep a Secret HE twins were seated high up in the apple tree, which was the place C they always came to for discussions. On this particular day they were talking about the strange doings at their house. This is the way the conversation ran — “Well, I don't care; I think they might tell us what they are going to have. I bet it is a surprise party.” But Dick shook his head doubtfully. ‘I don’t, ’cause they would tell us, so we could help get fixed up.” “Well,” said Betty, “I’m going to ask Mary. She will have to do the cooking for it, whatever it is, unless it’s a funeral.” “ Let’s go right now,” said Dick. Down the tree they climbed, and ran to the house in search of Mary. Mary knew that, if she did not tell them, there would be no peace for her, at least, for awhile. So she had them come up close to her,so she could whisper it to them. “We are going to have a surprise party on your big brother Jack. Now, mind, don’t you say a word, not one word. If you do, I’ll—er, well, I don’t know what | wiil do to you.” The twins promised. That night, when Jack came home, he found the twins sitting perfectly still on the veranda, with their hands over their mouths. “Well, what is the matter with the twinies? I never saw them so quiet before,’ said Jack. ‘ What’s the matter, Betty?” “Oh, I shan’t tell you. You are not supposed to know anything about it. Mary said so. I would tell you, only ’’— “Only what?’ said Jack. ‘Didn't you notice the house all fixed up,” said Dick. “Dick! Dick!” cried Betty, “don’t tell him, they want him to be sur- THE MAGNET 15 prised. If you tell him, he won't be, at all. He will know why the house is all fixed up just grand, and why I have on my pink party dress.” Jack smiled to himself and passed into the house. ‘I will act as if nothing had happened; because the twins are trying to keep a secret.”’ BERNICE L. WHEELER, ’II. The Last Quarter HE United States had successfully defeated the combined forces of Japan, England, and Russia, and had settled down to an era of tran- quillity, when the revolution started. The women of the land were determined to gain their rights, and had armed themselves and declared war against the men. All the principal cities were overrun by battalions, composed of the Woman's Suffrage League, the W.C. T. U., and many others. Resistance was out of the question; it was only a question of terms. A committee of men, composed of Charles R. Hearst, John B. Moran, and Senator Tillman, waited upon the ladies and presenteda plea for mercy. The committee had to wait until Mrs. Jack Gardner and Gladys Vanderbilt finished a game of bridge; but they were finally given a hearing. The men were assured that their lives would be spared, but were told that they could hope for little more. The men begged hard for a right to vote, and the women took it under consideration. They had no objections to men’s suf- frage, so long as women held all the offices, were it not for graft. Gertrude Atherton suggested that the use of money be abolished, as that would elim- inate graft. Carrie Nation seconded the motion, as that would prevent the men from establishing saloons. The men reluctantly consented. The men were warned that they must live up to their agreement, as any conspiracy would be discovered at once by Mrs. Eddy, by mental telepathy. All the coinage of the country had to be melted and brought before the committee of ladies. The copper cents were collected by Thomas W. Law- son, and melted, to the satisfaction of the judges. Theodore Roosevelt took it upon himself to gather all the gold, and, aided by some of the old Forty Niners, soon had a goodly pile. The nickels were quickly gathered by a committee of street-car conductors. All that was left was the silver. William J. Bryan set about the gigantic task of collecting all the silver. As fast as it was collected, it was melted and poured into a huge vat at 10 THE MAGNET Washington, prepared for the purpose; but in spite of all efforts, it was im- possible to fill the vat. The women were unrelenting. The vat must be filled, or the men would become mere chattels. Although the amount of silver which Bryan had collected, compared with the other metals, was as sixteen to one, still the huge vat was far from being full. The men were about to give up in despair, when it was learned that Secretary Taft still had a silver quarter, and was making at full speed ior, oan -lrancisco, (Hemrecailedathe days iu. Mrs. Bella Lockwood, and could not bear to see any other woman run for president. It was resolved to stop him, if possible. As Eddie Foy remarked, ‘“ Every Little Bit Helps.” Commissioner O'Meara was sent after the last quarter. After an excit- ing chase, Taft was cornered in the Colorado. Canyon, captured, and brought to Washington. The indignant men dragged him to the vat, and cast him into the boiling silver. Immediately the vat was filled to overflowing. The news was telegraphed to all parts of the country, and there was great re- joicing; for the men were saved. Leon J. MILLER. As the Years Roll Quick the craft of hope is shattered On the rocks of pain; Manned by ghosts, the ship of sorrow Plows life’s mighty main. Often in the weary watches, Of the noiseless night, E’er the lamp of day is beaming, F’er Aurora’s hight Breaks upon my world of longing, Shattering my dream, Sending forth my heart, grief-laden, Down lite’s ruffled strerm; Thoughts of bliss come, tripping lightly, Thoughts of other years. When our lives knew naught of sadness, Naught of haunting fears. When the hearts we loved were loyal; When each month was May; When the minutes, speeding swiftly, Knew not night nor day. Ah, the hour of bliss abandonl Gone, alas! too long. Gone the friends who once cared for us. Gone our golden song. Years drag on, though time is fleeting; Happy, sorry, years. And our spirits, soaring backward, Cleave a mist of tears. Though we see a path of roses Cross life’s burning plain, All their fragrant flowers are fallen,— But the thorns remain. Often in the weary watches Of the noiseless night Golden memory. streaming o’er us. Ushers in the light. And the scenes of blissful boyhood O’er my vision roll, And the call of wakening manhood Echoes in the soul. THE MAGNET 17 WE are glad to saythat there seems to be nothing with which to find fault this month. We have always made it a point to criticise, if possible; but now it is to the credit of the pupils that there is nothing left to criticise. Everything seems to have taken a change for the better. Pupils who thought little or nothing of studying before have begun to get busy and do remarkable work lately. Every one seems to realize that there are only a few weeks more of this year, and seems to wish to make the most of that short time. It is certainly just the time to show what real work you can do. There may be but a few weeks and a few recitations more, but a perfect recitation in every study and, if possible, for every day, would make a tremendous difference in the appearance of your marks at the end. So just make this one resolution—to get the best work possible in every study for every remaining day. Don’t slacken the tension the slightest bit just because the weather is warm. On thecontrary, redouble your efforts. If you see your- self going behind in a study, just give up a few of your afternoon pleasures. Give up playing ball and tennis and other sports for the few remaining days, and put your whole strength into one grand effort to make this time something to remember, to make these last weeks of school the best of all. Let's do our best for the short time remaining, and work shoulder to shoulder for the good of our school—the Leominster High. ONE of the most generous gifts to create interest in music is to be given by Mr. Kenney for the two best essays on music by the boys and the two best bythe girls. Nearly all the other courses of study in school have some prize or other to induce the student to his best efforts; but music has heretofore been disregarded. ‘These prizes, amounting to ten dollars, certainly should be inducement enough for any pupil to put forth his best effort, and it is hoped that the kindly offer of the music teacher will bring the best of results. RicHarp H, ScAaNnion. 18 THE MAGNET i ae — ay Jester's Page a a 4 = 0s =H 0 —¥ a4 UTET ¢ fATATAT 0TH TTT TOT OTT 1 TOTTI Old Farmer, going up to a drug clerk: ‘Say, have you got any cam- phire gum?” Clerk (quickly): “ No, sir; but we have something just as good. Here's spearmint, pepsin, sen-sen, and gee- whiz.” we The grouty old millionaire was taking his daily constitutional in the park, when he was stopped by a rather -trampy looking individual. The stranger presented a strange ap- pearance, with his face all blacked except his nose; with his collar in rags and his necktie hanging down the middle of his back. The million- aire naturally concluded that the man was a tramp and was about to pass on, when the tramp sprang to inter- cept him, flourishing a huge monkey- wrench in a grimy hand. ‘My good man, would you be so kind as ’’— “WHat?” yelled the millionaire. “Do you think that you can assault me openly in this park and get off without being seen? I carry too much money with me to go out with- out having my butler follow me ata short distance. Now, ged out, or I'll yell for help.” The tramp drew back in astonish- ment, stared blankly awhile, and fi- nally dropped the big wrench. “TI didn’t mean to frighten you, sir. : Lord -torgivesmewtal did. But you see, I’m ina hole, and I’d like to borrow ”’— “Wuat?” yelled the millionaire again, yet somewhat mollified to ‘think he wasn’t going to be assaulted. Tn a 2 YS ‘Do you think you can borrow any- thing from me? _ I suppose you'll be- gin to string out that useless yarn about being out of work, wife dead, two children to support, and so on. I imagine that there was a boiler ex- plosion at the nearest penitentiary and you got out that way; but you needn't think I’m going to lend a cent to a worthless individual like you.’ He _ stopped for want of breath. “ But I’m in an awful fix. My au- tomobile’’— The millionaire shouted in joyous hilarity. ‘ Well, that’s a good one. Original, too, I guess. I’ve never heard it before. An automobile be- longing to a thing like that! Ho, ho, — that’s a dandy.” He laughed till his vest threatened to break under the strain. The tramp was getting angry now. He pulled off his coat, or, rather, the fragment that was left of it, and showed the millionaire the name that the tailor had sewed in the back of the collar. ‘J. Washington Belle- vue, A. B., Ph. G., N. Grete The millionaire whistled. ‘“ Well, how much do you want?” he asked, pulling out a roll of bills. “T don’t want your money,” said the other, disgustedly. ‘ My auto has broken down right out here. The crank pin has broken on the engine, and I want to borrow,’’—he hesitated. “Borrow what?” demanded the millionaire, impatiently. ‘“A piece of string to fix it.” Two hours later the park police THE MAGNET 19 found a demented man walking in the park and muttering incoherently to himself. When the officers tried to take him away he muttered, ‘“ Let me go. His wife is dying. He wants y a piece of string to cure her ’-— w I rose up in a car one day, To give a girl a seat. Twas a question whether she or I Should stand up on my feet.—£x. w Girls were created before mirrors, and have been before them ever since.—Ax. “There goes a baseball man, that has made the most runs this season.” “ H’m! What play?” ‘Oh, he’s umpire. ning for his life.” w ‘Marrying on a salary has been the making of many a young man,” urged the father. position does he He was run- “Yes, I know that,’ replied the son. ‘‘ But suppose your wife loses her salary. Think of what a position it leaves you in.” Alumni Notes Class of 1906 John M. Lavin is now employed as a drug clerk in Bellows Falls, Vt. Leo T. Foster is working for his A. B. at Holy Cross College, Worcester. Frances E. Earl has graduated from Fitchburg Business College and is now doing office work in that city. The following also are either doing work at Fitchburg Business College or have graduated from there: Marion A. Firmin, Harold I. Moore, Nina M. Moore, Blanche E. Robbins, Alice Harris, and Pear] L. Packard. Winnifred E. Putnam, Winnifred I. Gallagher, Elizabeth M. Lincoln, and Mabelle E. Parker are now attending Fitchburg Normal School. Howard W. Gibbs is at present at Middlebury College, Vermont. Ruth S. Railey is taking a course of study at Mt. Holyoke College. Harold W. Burdett is taking a course in chemistry at Worcester Tech. Leonard F. Burrage is taking a course in civil engineering at the Uni- versity of Vermont. Percy F. Kittredge has graduated from South Framingham Business College. . Thomas C. Howe and Bernard D. Bosworth are taking studies at the Legate School in Boston. Ralph Goodale is at the Rhode Island Agricultural School. Frank N. Foster has been studying at the Bryant Stratton Business College, Boston. Clifton W. Hadley is taking up the study of music at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. Helen R. Vining is working in a photographer’s office in Fitchburg. Edith M. Shaw. is employed as a post office clerk in Webster. THE MAGNET On Friday, May 15, the annual prize drill and officers’ ball took place in the town hall. The drill started with company and platoon movements by Companies A and B, in which Co. A won the decision. Immediately after came the individ- ual prize drill, in which the first prize was taken by Sergeant Leon C. Smith; second, Sergeant Joseph E. Cheney; third, Corporal Gordon Harvie. The judges were Captain Gibson and Lieutenant Colburn of Fitchburg, and Captain Peterson of Lowell. After the drill the annual military ball took place, under the management of the officers of the battalion. There were about eighty- five couples in the march, and danc- ing was enjoyed till 1 o’clock. Most excellent music was furnished by the Ideal Singing Orchestra of Fitch- burg. ow In the Junior-Senior inter-class meet, the Seniors, with a large repre- sentation, carried off most points. The score, 58 to 37, does not show such a great superiority of the Sen- iors, for the 57 points made by the Juniors were won by two fellows alone. Wass, '0g, as the star of the meet, won 25 points, while Hyatt, ’o9, also showed remarkable grit in cap- turing 9 points. All boys in the school under 115 pounds in weight were entitled to participate in a meet Tuesday, but only four showed up. MacSheffray won the gold cup witha total of 24 points to Gaffney’s 23. MacSheffray’s work was splendid for a young fel- low, while Gaffney, with both knees severely cut from the hurdles, showed fine pluck to fight it out to the end. w The inter-class meet of the four classes took place Monday, May 25. The Sophomores covered themselves with glory, capturing the meet, and incidentally a large gold cup, by a good margin. Wass, ’og, and Roukes, 10, deserve great credit for their splendid work. The supremacy of either was doubtful until the last event in which they were entered,— the 220-yard dash. Wass won the dash by the grittiest kind of work, and thus won also the gold cup of- fered to the individual winning the largest number of points. All the dashes were done in fast time, though the distance runs were rather slow. Stickney, ’10, deserves credit also for the prettiest high-jumping seen here yet. After clearing 4 feet, 10 inches with ease, he stopped, because he was entered in the next event. Mer- riman sailed over the bar nicely in the pole vault, easily winning over his competitor, though he was badly THE MAGNET 21 cut from a hard fall in the hurdle race. Tuesday morning, the day after the meet, Mr. Hull presented Charles Wass, '09, with the handsome cup he had won in the meet. Mr. Hull spoke enthusiastically about the meet and the fine work of Wass. He said that Wass had proven himself the best all-around athlete in school; a star on the football team, on the bas- ket-ball team, on the baseball team, and now the shining light on the track team. He fully deserved the applause the whole school showered on him at the presentation of the cup. we Tuesday, May 26th, Doctor Mille: a thoroughly energetic citizen of Leominster, spoke to the school on the requisite of health to success. His talk was well understood and fully appreciated by his youthful au- dience, who gave him long applause. The main idea of his talk was as fol- lows: ‘Success is represented by the five letters spelling We Bos. Of these five, the last four are absolutely sential to hea!th, and represent the words, eating, breathing, optimism, and sleeping. These four essentials, cor- rect eating, deep breathing, optimism, and correct sleeping, are the only four needed for good health, which when coupled with work, represented by W, completes the formula and success. If these five essentials are strictly lived up to, we can truthfully say, ‘We Bos.’ ”’ w OUR LIBRARY “A.S. K.her, you! A.S. K, her,” “ Blunders of a Bashful Man,” “ A Captain of Irregulars,” “ Day Dreams ofa Doctor,” “ Higher Manhood,” “The Uncloseted Skeleton,” = Kloss, 'o8. Ryan, ’Il. Lothrop, 'o8. Richardson, Pes Sawford, Lee, A Mountain of See ea “THE PROOF” Sent upon Application Also the most unique and complete school catalogue ever issued in central New England Worcester Business Institute C. B. 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The Rexall Store. Girard, the Tailor E. E. Burdett, Pb. G. APOTHECARY Columbia Block 8 Main St., Leominster We want all the boys to call and see BROWN, THE TAILOR when in need of Custom Clothing. We do Cleaning, Pressing ani Repairing. 7 Main Street. , S | S @KERS fess . necKERC les _ Biorpiseice Detsseizee | HIGHEST GRADE COMMERCIAL SCHOOL IN NEW ENGLAND | We placed 93 per cent. of our last year’s graduates in good salaried positions. Our system of individual instruction advances the pupil more quickly and more thoroughly than the usual class methods. Our graduates go forth competent to fill responsible positions. STUDENTS CAN ENTER AT ANY Vie Our reference board includes the leading dzsiness men and concerns of Worcester, our pupils have long been pre- ferred by them. Visit our School, or write for Catalogue. Do not forget to call at Fine Stationery Also Orders J. F. CHAFFIN’S Popular Music ma Pre Card Engraving and Anything in the Music line. 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McGuire Dependable Footwear Money back if you want it 3 Main Street CLIFFORD CASWELE Home Made Candies and Ice Cream Tel. 204-3 40 Monument Sq. with LYON the FLORIST Telephone Connections 82 Pleasant St. Leominster, Mass. Patronize our Advertisers. OURMGRADUATEES THE MAGNET Vol. I LEOMINSTER, MASS., JUNE, 1908 No. 9 Entered as second class matter at Post Office at Leominster, Mass. EDITORIAL STAFF. RICHARD H. SCANLON, '08, Managing Editor. JOHN R. MILLER,’0o, Advertising Editor. HAROLD JOBES, ’I0, } LEROY W. CHANDLER, ’08, Boys’ Athletics, CEPHAS DERBY, ’09, } DOROTHY WHITTIER, ‘10, Girls’ Athletics. ARTHUR S. KLoss, ’08, Sketch Editor. LEONE SMITH, ’0g, School Notes. Subscription Editors. ASSISTANTS. Lillian Barron, Lloyd Jobes, Alice Smith, William Jenne, Herbert Wass, Howard Corkum, Edmond Lynch, Bernice Prouty. Published monthly during school year by pupils of the High School. Subscription price, 50 cents; single copies, Io cents. Yee | f A { mam : Su ne) WE wish to rectify an error in last month’s Macnet, which said that Company A won the decision at the Competitive Drill. The decision was won by Company B. THE time has come when me must not only say good-by to the High School, but we must pass over the pen to the next editor. We certainly feel that the work will be carried on, but in an im- proved style. We hope that the next editorial staff will have more support from the pupils; that the contributions will be more copious, so that the editor may be able to produce a better paper, which will be a credit to the school. We have probably written many things which did not perhaps “ go down” very easily with some of 5 6 THE MAGNET the pupils; but now we wish to disclaim all ill-will, and we hope that what may have seemed harsh, may have done some good. We are not in a position to say whether the paper has been a success or not; but we have done everything possible to give it a good start, in the hope that next year the editors would have something to work on as a basis and something to improve. We would like to say just one word to the Juniors, the class that will have to set the example for the underclassmen next year. Next September you Juniors will be Seniors, and you will be ex- pected to set the pace. Get right on your toes and make a fast get-away when the pistol cracks. Don’t do anything by halves. ’ Have a “rippin’” good time while you're playing nine-pins with the eight-pound shot or falling over hurdles; but when you come into for the short time you have to stay. Just keep in mind tha t the moral school next day, put away all your outside pranks, and “ dig’ good of the whole school depends on you Juniors—or, rather, Seniors—and you cannot help living up to the proper level. RicHARD H. ScANLON. Salutatory Essay T is a great inspiration to us to see so many of our friends present to- night. For we know that it is not merely the witnessing of the grad- uation exercises that has drawn you here, but that it is the love and interest that you have in us. I extend to you, one and all, a hearty wel- come in behalf of the graduating class of 1908. To you, our superintendent and members of the school committee, we would say that we fully appreciate the efforts you have made to secure for us the best advantages at our new high school building. To you, our principal and our teachers, whom we meet as a class for the last time to-night, we would give our deepest thanks. We hope that you may see the fruits of your toil in our future lives. May your patient and untiring efforts live with us, as we go on. To you, our schoolmates, who have shared with us the privileges of school life, we would give our most earnest encouragement. We trust that the years that are left to you in high school may be as pleasant and benefi- cial as ours have been. And to you, our parents, our most sincere gratitude and affection is THE MAGNET 7 given. We would not have you absent at this hour. We realize that it has been a sacrifice for many of you to give us greater advantages of education than you, yourselves, have been able to acquire. We hope that these sacri- fices have not been in vain, and that we may prove our love and gratitude to you in making the most of the benefits which we have so abundantly re- ceived. Tonight does not mark an end to our education. Our greatest and most important lessons are yet to be learned. Difficulties come to every one of us, which seem unsurmountable; but it is the overcoming of them that shapes our lives. The oak starts from a small acorn and does not grow into the strong, stately tree by sunshine alone, but by the resistance it makes to the beatings of rain and the blasts of wind, along with the sunlight. So it is in life. We would not develop into the strong characters, which are so much admired, if it were not for the obstacles that are placed in our way. Like the oak, it is the resistance we make to these, that gives us strength. Every trial that arises is sent as atest for our character; if overcome, it gives us just so much added power to surmount other difficulties. The great fire of London in 1666 appeared to be a great calamity, but its good results were two-fold. For, besides stopping the ravishing of the terrible plague, it wiped out the plague-strickened dwellings, thereby allow- ing space for wider streets and airier buildings. Thus calamities come which cast a shadow over our lives for a time, but in the end prove to have been the best things that could have happened to us. The unfaithfulness of a friend, a cruel disappointment, or a loss of wealth, seems, at the moment, unbearable. But, “were it not for the clouds that darken upon us, there would be no rainbows in our lives.” Even the loss of one, whom we feel our very support, may break up a routine, which is unfavorable to the growth of our characters, and lift us to.a higher plane of success. Misfortunes separate us into two distinct classes:—on the one hand the pessimist, who looks onthe dark side of every calamity, trembles every time a difficulty arises, and even when good results from a misfortune, does not rejoice, for fear some greater misfortune may befall them; on the other hand the optimist, who looks on the bright side of calamity, is undaunted by difficulties, and stands ready to overcome every obstacle that arises with his sunshiny disposition. So, if we realize that each perplexity of life serves some high purpose, we may all be optimists and find joy along our path in cheerfully overcoming. ‘Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth’s smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”” LINNIE ELLEN REED. 8 THE MAGNET Relation of Athletics to Education of the necessity of developing the muscles, in order to develop the mind to the utmost, is one of the most vital questions of the day. Much has been said and written on this subject in the past, but it has never attracted more attention than at the present, for it is a question of increas- ing rather than one of decreasing importance. The change of conditions in the country, the ever-increasing demand for skilled labor, and the rapidly erowing wealthy class, are some of the factors that serve to bring this sub- ject to our attention. The term athletics, as it is commonly used, ree to playing one of the popular games, to work on the track, water, or in the gymnasium of any large school or university. That is, a student who takes part in athletics is very often a candidate for a position on one of the school or varsity teams. And education, as I shall use the word, has to do with the most complete development of the entire man, muscles, mind and morals; to producing from the average boy, a citizen valuable to his country, and one of whom she may justly be proud. And conditions, similar to those surrounding her brother, bear upon the life of the American girl. In the earlier days of our existence as an independent nation and of our system of free public schools, this subject was, for several reasons, of little importance. The population at that time was rural to a large extent, for the old towns and cities were quite small. The people lived on and cul- tivated their own farms. The youths had a large amount of work to do and considered themselves fortunate that they could go to school at all, short though the term might be. The majority of the schools were the simple, ungraded district schools, where, in a few short winter months, the pupils had to master at least the elements of learning. But even if they did have to study hard, they seldom had nervous prostration or any of our more serious diseases; for, outside of school hours, they always had sufficient ex- ercise in the open air. They did the errand running for the large house- holds, cut the wood, fed the cattle, or did some of the numberless farm duties. They had little need of club swinging, or of “setting up’”’ exercises; the swing of the axe was just as beneficial and far more useful. Those boys have become the men of to-day, from whose ranks have come the leaders in all lines of human endeavor. They are men of good development, men with strong, muscular bodies, and clear, active, brains, which have retained and made good use of all the education they received. They are now men well fitted to carry on the private business of the individual, as well as the public affairs of the nation; because, as boys at school and on the farm, they attained a high development of brain and of body. At the present time the life of the American citizen is becoming even more complex and strenuous, and the world is demanding, in all walks of life, men who are fitted, physically and mentally, to perform difficult things. C question of the relation of athletics to school work and education, THE MAGNET 9 The boy of to-day, the man of to-morrow, should be striving for and win- ning a much higher degree of development, in order to be able successfully to carry on his coming work in the world. “But,” you ask, “is he winning it, is he attaining it?’’ Yes, but not in the good old-fashioned way, for that, now, is almost impossible. The schools of the present are much more com- plete than those of his father, having, as they do, a far longer school year, as well as covering an even greater variety of subjects. The average boy of to-day has not the advantage, if so it be, of working onthe farm. Nor does he generally have a walk of several miles, both before and after school, which might clear his brain and prepare it for hard study. So, at present, what, if not athletics, is to fill this vacancy in the life of the American youth, perhaps even better than it was filled in the schooldays of his father? Work on the athletic field or in the gymnasium, under an efficient in- structor, is very different from hoeing corn or mowing grass, perhaps under the eyes of an ignorant and unsympathetic hired man. The instructor watches the boy and gives him just enough of the right kind of work to strengthen his weak spots. The boy is not so apt to become discouraged or angry at the “boss” for making him work, instead of play; for this work takes the form of play, and he never needs feel that his task must be fin- ished before he can study. Instead of the solitary confinement in the corn- field, he is surrounded by a jolly crowd of fellows and the constant rivalry and competition of making the ‘varsity. One by one, the different muscles respond to the exercise and are sys- tematically and harmonically developed, so that, in the time of trial, they will stand the test. The brain is cleared and invigorated, it is kept busy, and made to act quickly and accurately. The manly qualities of one’s char- acter are brought to light and developed by the constant need of self-con- trol, confidence, and bravery. He soon has a sense of devotion and loyalty to his school and to his fellow students. In the development of team play, he is taught unselfishness and self-sacrifice, the idea of subordinating his ability to that of the whole. This healthful exercise on the football field, track, or in the gymnasium, in moderate quantities, by clearing and stimu- lating, instead of tiring the brain, prepares the boy for hard study. He finds that, after his afternoon’s work, his shower, and his rubdown, he is in far better condition to learn and retain his lessons than the boy who has loafed around all the afternoon, that he can learn them quicker, as well as easier and better. If athletics are not properly conducted, the boy soon gets to value his athletic work higher than his rank in the class-room. When he begins to feel that way, he loses many of the possible advantages and materially in- jures himself. If he becomes over skilful in several branches, he may get what is called a “swelled head,” or, possibly, neglect his studies, thinking that the excellence of his athletic work will keep him in school. These evils are, however, easily remedied by a strict eligibility rule, which should maintain a high standard of rank in the recitations, limit the number of sports in which a student may participate, and limit the number of games to be played under each sport. 10 THE MAGNET In order to get the most good in the best way from athletic work, a large, level, and inclosed field is needed, where games may be played and all outdoor work carried on. For stormy and winter weather, a well- equipped gymnasium is necessary, and also a bath-room, where an animat- ing shower bath, may be taken before tackling the lessons. And, although last in order, certainly not in importance, there must be a competent direc- tor, who will oversee and assist all the work. And if the scholars and the townspeople are filled with the deepest affection and strongest loyalty for the school and its work, the results will be still greater. The boys and girls should all have the courage and spirit to help along by coming out for prac- tice, trying for the teams, and playing on them. And those who are not athletes, the scholars, teachers, and people, can assist almost as much by coming out and watching the boys, working for them, cheering with them and for them, zever against them. To you, good people of Leominster, I say, that you will never regret the afternoons spent with the scholars on the athletic field. You will be surprised to see what you will gain, how the blues will be driven away and the cares forgotten, how time will fly backward, and how you, again, will become a school boy or girl, and, with us, cheer the winner and comfort the loser. Thus the relation existing between athletics and education is close, per- manent, and vital, in developing the youth in muscle, in mind, and in mor- als, in making him a better scholar, of more value to himself, to his school, and to the world, in giving him a better equipment for life’s hard struggles; and in helping the mature man to renew his youth and retain his complete education of body and of brain. Leroy W. CHANDLER. Class Prophecy Can this be Richard Scanlon With the flag of truce so whtfe? ‘Tis twilight, and the setting sun Shines forth in glorious state, Displaying the true colors be The public platform next appears. Of the Class of 1908. And I, the worthless Sibyl Of this most famous class, Draw forth my pack of playing cards And watch their future pass. The spots seem blurred before my eyes; Forms and faces appear; The cards now tell the awful truth:— It is a trance, I fear. A commander-in-chief of the army First comes upon my sight. The speaker, you all know, Is the world-wide famous lecturer, - Alexander Isaac Snow. There next appears before my sight A country fair so grand. Everett Lothrop,-the well-known head, Is leading the “ Bingville Band.” At the entrance of one of the side shows A jostling crowd is seen. I follow their gaze intently, to a sign, Which is painted in green:— THE MAGNET “ Miss Rowena Adelaide Hawes, In science or by trance Performs this week her greatest stunt — How to make Chand(e)l(i)ers dance.” Some bicycle racers now appear, But this will not surprise, For it’s Joseph Edward Cheney, Who has won the WNew on prize. My vision now seems clouded, My cards look dull and drear. I try my best to read the “ ads”’ Upon a bill-board here. Can my eyes so deceive me? No, there is no troop so fair, As Arthur Kloss and his company In “ The Girl with the Auburn Hair.” I very slowly turn the cards, The fate of Chase is sealed; For he’s atrav’ling salesman For the new Shaw automobile. A grand procession comes along, And at its head, in state, Rides Leroy Wilder Chandler, The city’s candidate. Here, with cane and tall silk hat, But looking quite the same, Stands Leominster’s rising banker. “Ted” Joslin is his name. My cards have now much clearer grown, And in them now I see A business woman, Edith Moore, Who works successfully. A picture on this card appears, A class is having drill, And Anna Kloss, at Simmons, Is being “t ortured” still. And in a court room, Lawyer Lynch (A beard has changed his face) Is using all his eloquence On a woman’s suffrage case. My point of view has changed again; Through Hall Street now I pass. There’s Ralph McDonald, surrounded By his kindergarten class. Miss Newell at a Woman's Club Presides with ease and grace. And though I see her name is changed, Not so her youthful face. O’er foreign countries now I see, In lands quite far apart. Miss Dexter studies music And Miss Newton follows Ar. High up the Alpine Mountains, Which people praise and laud, Is Leon Miller, the author, Just traveling abroad. Three nurses in an auto pass; And, as they put on speed, I recognize Miss Lawrence, Miss Ward, and Linnie Reed. The prison house I notice And there, still quite the same, For stealing pencils, now confined, Is William Francis Lane, In bachelor apartments, Free from domestic strife, “ Hib” Burgess is trying hard To lead the “ simple life.”’ And on a corner opposite, A millinery store Has the name of Mary Barry Inscribed above the door. A small modiste sits at her work, She smiles—well, did you ever! Tis Margaret Lane, and at ‘‘cutting up”’ She still is very clever. A lady walks sedately by, Her children by her side. A pastor’s wife—Miss Merriman, Quite prim and dignified. Before a thousand visitors, In Vassar’s largest hall, Miss Buss receives her greatest praise— Champion at basket-ball. Some Oriental rooms I see And, by her sunny hair, -I know that it’s Miss Diveney Who is telling fortunes there. Ah! who is this with eagle eye, Who through the city roams? Detective }. P. Richardson, A second Sherlock Holmes. Two football teams march on a field, Each captain at the head, And Pickford leads the old Yale blue, While Reagan guides the red. 12 THE MAGNET Two well-dressed ladies pass along, An editor some poetry reads, They both lead happy lives; I’m sure he’s having fits, For Miss Killelea and Mary Lane At every page he stamps with rage Are wealthy merchants’ wives. And tears it into bits. A cab comes dashing ’round the curb, At last the poet’s name I see, A wedding pair inside, It fills me with distress. And curious folks are being told I shall not tell you what it is, Miss McSheffray is the bride. But leave you all to guess. GEULAH M. Cook. Presentation of Class Gift RICHARD SCANLON, President of Class. T has always been the custom for the departing class ‘f to leave some gift to show its appreciation of the four pleasant years it has had in High School, and the Class of 1908, who feel this gratitude very deeply, take great pleasure in presenting to the school a reproduction of © Rosa Bonheur’s — Horse: Fair.” The best qualities of the picture are, perhaps, its truth and sincerity, qualities which we trust will be attributed to the loyalty of our class. We hope that this will not be the last gift of 1908; but that, in any way and at any time that our services can be of use, our loyalty as alumni will be tested. It gives me a very sincere pleasure to present to Mr. Peltier, as representative of the High School, this remembrance of the Class of 1908. THE MAGNET 13 Address to Undergraduates Leominster High School. To a certain extent we are sorry, but now that we have accomplished our object, we are eager to attempt something different. It is fitting, therefore, that we, who have completed our course, should give you, the underclassmen, the benefit of our experi- ence. oe 1. we, the class of 1908, close our direct connection with the The purpose of the High School is to prepare pupils for successful life work, Success in any business depends upon three conditions: expe- rience, knowledge gained in school, and knowledge gained out of school. These are equally important; so one-third of your success depends upon your training in school, especially in High School. Therefore, it is very important that you should make the most of your opportunities. The successful man is the man who learns everything he gets a chance to learn; for one finds use, at some time, for everything he has gained. How often we run across some topic which would now be of use to us, but of which all we can remember is that it once came in a lesson at school, which we did not study. Then it is important that you should select the right course, and find out for what work you are best fitted. In many cases, boys and girls who have neglected their work in High School, and at the end of their course receive an unexpected chance to attend college, find it impossible, because of their neglect. Early discrimination will affect one’s whole life work. Class of 1909 You, as the Senior Class, are about to become the leaders of this school. A great deal of its welfare and accomplishment of next year will depend upon you. You will have great influence over the lower classes, for public sentiment has great power. If you shall scorn unbecoming acts, and cre- ate a public sentiment against them, then, through the shame of the perpe- trators, these acts will cease. Whatever attitude you may take, to a certain extent, will determine the whole spirit of the school. This is an honor and should be a pleasure to you; but remember that honor and pleasure have their responsibilities. Class of 1910 Tonight you are to assume the title of Juniors. You are no longer the lowerclassmen, and so must look ahead into your future. It is now time for you to put away the frivolity and recklessness of the Sophomore and steady down to the duties of the Junior. Have your fun, but do not make it of first importance. You have already gained a good reputation, especially in 14 THE MAGNET the track event. Do not let that beautiful track cup bear any name other than that already on it, as long as you remain. But to do this will mean work, for the coming Freshman Class may score more than 1908's scant four points. It is true, that one of the hardest things for man to contend with is the reputation already gained. But,that you may not be one-sided, make your work in the class-room equal your athletic power. To do this will be your struggle, but in the end will also be your joy. Class of 1911 You have passed through an especially difficult part of your labors. You should have become accustomed to High School life, and have learned how to apply yourselves to your work. This has been an important gain, for next year you will be able to accomplish far more, having learned this im- portant lesson. You have changed from the state of being looked after to that of looking out for yourselves. From now on you must count your suc- cesses and your failures, but you will conquer if you remember our motto, “He conquers, who believes he can.’ The higher classes are watching your progress with interest, and are already picking out those whom they think worthy to represent the school. This is not the one who fools away the most of his time, but the one who works faithfully and has the right spirit of loyalty. But remember your experiences of this year, and have some regard for the coming Freshman Class. Keep up the friendly rivalry, but do not continually remind them of your importance. Remember that your development for your senior year has already begun. School One very important and often neglected branch of school life is the so- called ‘class spirit.” It is noticed far oftener in words than in acts, how- ever. School spirit consists not only in supporting the athletics, but also in doing one’s best to raise the moral tone of the school. Do not let the name of the Leominster High schoo] be associated with anything low, mean, disloyal, or dishonest; but rather place it at the head, but do it with- out conceit. We leave THE MaGneT to your care. Let it lose none of its magnetic powers under the change of leadership. We leave the Military Drill, also. Do your best to keep up its high standard, for this is one of the most appreciated branches of the school work. , Your athletics must not lose its high prestige ei ther. Keep up the in- terest in all the sports, and encourage our teams with good support. But, after all, each of these sub-topics falls back upon one main topic -—The Honor of the School. Uphold its honor in everything. Promote the feeling of good fellowship through the whole school, for this brings about the union necessary for the best results. But, above all, remember that the honor of the school rests upon the honor of the scholars individually. EvERETY W. LoTHRop. THE MAGNET , ts Insist on Yourself Valedictory Essay HE world has yielded many different characters during the past centu- C ries, but it has never endowed any two persons with exactly the same dispositions and talents. Emerson, perhaps, has given us the best watchword, which applies to us all and which has been the key-note to the success of many great men, “Insist on yourself, never imitate.” He says: “ Imitation is suicide;” and, “ There is a time in every man’s education, when he arrives at the convic- tion that envy is ignorance, and that he must take himself for better, for woise, as his portion.” The first essential, then, is to learn to know yuurself; to measure your strength and your weakness. One should not shrink from finding out his failings, which, though very slight, may deter him from receiving the high positions of life, for which he is actually fitted. If one can overcome these weaknesses, he has gained a victory over himself. Form your own guiding principles, your own ideas of life, and your own conceptions of the things no man should do. Rightalways remains the same thing in itself, but there is an infinite variety of interpretations of it. It can never be fitting for one person to adopt the standards of another. Some people of excellent qual- ities seem to be ideals and worthy of imitation; however, no one is a_per- fect example to follow but our Lord. One must choose his own standards for himself, must know what he believes and why he believes it. The man who is always dependent on others is held in bondage and servitude to them and cannot enjoy the privileges of personal liberty. ‘‘It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps, with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.” With principles firmly grounded, one may go forward, not to be tossed about by the influences of the world. Robert Burns, who was a poet and excise man, could have made a greater success of life, if he had combined all his efforts toward one aim. With his attention divided between his pub- lic duties and literary work, he did not fully realize his hopes in either direc- tion. One steady aim must be determined. General Grant was a man that did not swerve from a purpose. During the Civil War, in the hot weather of summer, things seemed to be going badly. When he was asked what he meant to do, he said, “ Fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.’’ It did take all summer and all winter, too; but at last the great soldier was successful. So Kipling’s advice holds true-— «“ Stand to your work and be wise, Certain of sword and of pen, Who are neither children nor gods, But men in a world of men.” Life is an opportunity given to us to make the most of that is possible. 160 THE MAGNET We should aim high; then we should keep to our aim and not falter in our purpose, because we encourage others as we climb. If we endure the dis- appointments and trials of life patiently, in the light of the end to be at- tained, we shall go on with renewed courage, renewed hope, renewed suc- cess,—if, with our persistency, we remember the motto: “Insist on your- self, never imitate.” SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS AND MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL Com- MITTEE: We wish to express our appreciation to you, who have worked so earnestly for our best interest. You have spared neither time nor effort to give to us the best possible advantages, and our gratitude is sincere. PRINCIPAL AND TEACHERS: We feel a peculiar sense of duty toward you, who have thoughtfully corrected our mistakes and spurred us on to attain better results. Yours has been a task of patience and self-sacrifice. Though we may not now fully realize what efforts you have exerted in our behalf, yet, in the coming years, whatever success we shall have, we shall feel is largely due to our worthy principal and teachers for their careful training and kindly interest in us. UNDERGRADUATES: We assemble with you tonight for the last time. Our associations with you for the last three years have been pleasant. We hope you may profit by our mistakes and go on with a firm resolution and high purpose to improve, where it is needed, and to keep, where it has been attained, the good standing of the Leominster High School. CLASSMATES OF 1908: We have come to a time when most of us are to assume greater responsibilities. Weshould examine ourselves; learn our strength and weakness, and decide what our principle and purpose in life are to be. The future opens before us, full of new hopes and aspirations. Our hearts are filled with great anticipations. Althoughthe realization of these hopes may never be ours, we must never give up the goal toward which we shall strive. “To thine own self be true And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man.” Our bonds of friendship have been closely held together for four years. We have sympathized, helped, and worked with one another. Now this re- lation must be broken; but the memories and inspiration of our school life will remain. Letus try, then, to be worthy; to make our lives useful, help- ful, progressive—an honor to our school and to our town. GRACE IRENE LAWRENCE. THE MAGNET 7 Class Song Cress 2Ee9 HILE toiling in the schoolhouse here, Throughout four happy years, Our hearts in bonds of love have joined, We've mingled smiles and tears ; We've watched each happy class go out And thought, as on they sped, That soon wed start the path of life, And wondered where it led. And now the call has come to us, The whole world lies before, Our lessons learned, diplomas earned, We’re making room for more; And as we go to play our part, Amid the shades and light, Let’s try to keep our courage high, Hold honor in our sight. Our hopes, now bright, may darker grow, Our battles may be long; But let us fight them with a will, Let’s greet them with a song. And oft our thoughts will take us back, To happy days and dear, And we'll be thankful for the time, That we were toiling here. RutH M. NEwrTOon. 18 THE MAGNET Graduating Exercises Program MARCH Marines’ Inspection . ; Bennet H1GH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA PRAYER Rv. Wo Be EerTurec CHORUS: Largo ’ Handel SALUTATORY ESSAY The Gains from Difficulties LINNIE ELLEN REED THE RELATION OF ATHLETICS 1O°-BDUGATIGy LEROY WILDER CHANDLER READING . ROWENA ADELAIDE HAWES ORCHESTRA _ Concert Waltz ; Arnold PRESENTATION OF CLASS GIFT RICHARD HARRIMAN SCANLON ACCEPIANGCE Louts JOSEPH PELTIER, Ig09Q GEASS:PROPHECY GEULAH May Cook CHORUS Madeleine (English Glee) Roeckel ADDRESS TO UNDERGRADUATES EVERETT WINFRED LOTHROP VALEDICTORY ESSAY Insist on Yourself GRACE IRENE LAWRENCE PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Dr. A. I. Pierce, Chairman School Board At AD ONG Words by Rurn MILDRED NEWTON AWARD OF PRIZES PRINCIPAL JOHN C. HULL CHORUS Farewell to Thee é : Esser BENEDICTION Rev. W. A. SPARKS ORCHESTRA THE MAGNET 19 Class of 1908 MARY ELLEN BARRY HERBERT INGALLS BURGESS BLANCHE HAZEL BUSS LEROY WILDER CHANDLER HOWARD HARWOOD CHASE JOSEPH EDWARD CHENEY GEULAH MAY COOK NELLIE ALLISON DEXTER THERESA MARY DIVENEY ROWENA ADELAIDE HAWES THEODORE GOLDSMITH JOSLIN = ALICE LENA KILLELEA ANNA AUGUSTA KLOSS ARTHUR SCHUBERT KLOSS MARGARET FRANCES LANE MARY ALICE LANE WILLIAM FRANCIS LANE GRACE IRENE LAWRENCE EVERETT WINFRED LOTHROP THADDEUS FRANCIS LYNCH FLORENCE JOSEPHINE MacSHEFFRAY RALPH BROWN McDONALD HELEN MONTAGUE MERRIMAN LEON JOSEPH MILLER EDITH CORA MOORE LAURA LUCINDA NEWELL RUTH MILDRED NEWTON ARTHUR COGSWELL PICKFORD EDWARD JAMES REAGAN LINNIE ELLEN REED 20 THE MAGNET JAMES PUTNAM RICHARDSON RICHARD HARRIMAN SCANLON ALEXANDER I. SNOW ETHEL GLADYS WARD Officers President, RICHARD SCANLON Vice President, LAURA NEWELL Secretary, LEROY CHANDLER Treasurer, EVERETT LOTHROP Motto: Vincunt qui se posse credunt. Colors, Black and Orange. Class Honors A Sketch “Say, Willie, ain't yer scart, down here all alone? We eats kids like you down here.” The little fellow looked up in surprise. ‘‘ How did you know my name was Willie?” The urchin spat at the polished shoes, contemptuously. “Aw, I knew it was Willie or Reginald. An’ yer has to show a passport to walk on this street.’ | “Why, have you a passport?” ‘Naw, but I got a graft, see?” Willie looked puzzled. ‘‘ What’s that?” “Why, that’s a,— oh, run along home, kid, youse too green. Go home and ask yer mudder.”’ “But I haven’t any mother. She’s dead. And I wish you please wouldn't spit on my shoes. Jane scolds me if I get dirty too quickly. Jane’s our servant girl,you know. But won't you tell me what that thing is you have to have to walk on this street? Jane would tell me to run along and play, if I asked her.” ‘Then go and ask yer fader. He’s prob'ly got one. Most rich men has.” “But he’s always too busy to answer any questions, so I don’t see how I'll find out.” THE MAGNET 21 “Well, kid, yer seem to be pretty well buffaloed. A graft is something that yer has that everybody else hasn’t.”’ _ “Oh, then you have a graft because you have a mother, and I haven't.” “No,” said the urchin, slowly, “I haven’t any mudder, either. She died when I was a little kid.”’ “And does your servant girl ever scold you?” “Never had a servant girl. Me fader don’t live around ’ere.”’ “Then who buys your clothes and stuff to eat?” “| has to earn it myself, or go widout.” “My, but you must be smart!” The urchin beamed with the consciousness of superior age and stature, “But I have to go widout, sometimes.” “Why, don't you ever as to get things, when you need them?” “Ask who?” “Why, didn’t your mother teach you that while she was living? ” ““My mudder’s been dead a long time. I can jes’ remember. I guess I got some dirt in me eye.” He rubbed one suspiciously. Then he laid a grimy hand, not unkindly, on the other’s shoulder. “I wouldn't go down that way if I was youse. The bunch is kinder rough wid a kid like vouse, ‘less yer got a graft.” LAN = Os: A Mountain of Evidence “THE PROOF” Sent upon Application Also the most unique and complete school catalogue ever issued in central New England Worcester Business Institute Cc. B. POST, Principal. 476 [ain Street 2 EDWIN CHASE CARY TEACHER OF CORNET CLARINET, FRENCH HORN, TROMBONE, DRUM, and all BAND INSTRUMENTS Twenty-six Years a Band Leader (1881--1907). Director Leominster City Band Teacher of Harmony and Instrumentation. Open to engagements as Cornet Soloist for Concerts 37 Orchard Street, ‘lelephone Connection Leominster, Mass. BTHLETES. ATTENTION! In order to obtain the best results in athletic contests, it is important that you should have the best implements. They may costa trifle more, but it pays. 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