Madera Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Madera, CA)

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Ladera r men years in the tunber fadera ini of ity of . By verage s heel y mills HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. 7 There are yet other sources in our county upon which not only this company but several other companies have drawn and will continue to draw for many years. The North Fork Lumber Company with its mill and logging camp at Cascadel has been cutting timber in that region for ten years. Their supply has not yet failed. The Miami mills, owned and operated by M. H. Cassell, although located in Mariposa County, have their interests so closely allied with those of Madera County that they may be readily spoken of as belonging to this county. The product of these mills has been almost wholly marketed in our county. The organization of the Madera Sugar Pine Company has created quite a boom in the lumber business of Madera County. It is the intention of this new company to push the enterprise to its utmost capacity, therefore causing our sanguine business men to foresee Madera as the center of one of the largest and most successful lumbering establishments on the Pacific Coast. 15 Wi KC, OO: —oee- Faces. CROWD is not company and faces are § a, but a gallery of pictures wi thout love.”’ a Thus I mused as I gazed on a ‘“‘gallery of pictures’? in a railway car. Sad faces, glad faces, old faces, young faces, faces of every description. This sad face! What lines of care on the brow! What sorrowful eyes! ‘These were my thoughts as I glanced across the aisle at a lady. Her face was quite a contrast to the bright, happy one ofa child seated beside her. He had laughing blue eyes and rosy cheeks. His mother gave him an anxious smile which was answered by a rippling laugh from the child. She looked as if she wished she were as free from care as he was. Just behind this lady sat a man lost in the news of the day. Every once in a while the sharp expression of the eyes, with contraction of the brow, showed that he was planning a shrewd business transaction. A peculiar twirl to his lips showed that he thought he would come out the victor. After carefully scru- tinizing his face, I turned toward a lady sitting near me, She had a very saucy. face, her nose was slightly tilted, and her twinkling eyes showed that she was ready for all kinds of fun and mischief. Then that pensive face of a Puritan maiden near by told me of many visits to the sick. I wondered what incident in the sick room caused that smile that flitted across her face. As the train slowed up at my destination, I alighted from the car, and was once more among old familiar faces. I found that the ‘‘gallery of pictures’’ on the car were only passing and would soon leave my memory, while these were im- printed on my heart and would never vanish. Te Nie Ween 2or. odo. Class of Ninety-Nine. ‘We have launched, Where shall we anchor?”’ MOTTO more appropriate could not be X chosen and the illustrious class of Ninety- @, nine did not drift very long on that tumultuous sea before they anchored in the High School. How very important each one felt as they en- tered the High School September 14th, ’96; but that feeling of self-importance did not last long for this new Junior class were treated merely as infants. ‘They gazed upon the honorable Seniors (’97) with awe from afar and feared to approach them lest they should find Olympian deities too sacred for mortal gaze. These innocent babes made rapid progress in their studies under Mr. Williams and Miss Nicholson. The routine of school work was kept up till the middle year, when they began to display an air of importance. While in the middle year they distinguished themselves with spontaneous combustions and fearful explosions, both in the chemical and physical laboratories. Now the position of Seniors was reached at which the class of Ninety-nine had looked with so much awe a short while ago. But it did not seem possible that this class could command re- spect from the Juniors. Among those who have reached that state of Olympian godhood are: Mayme Saunders, Nellie Dwyer, Louise Mordecai, Will Clark,

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. California. Fair art thou, our land of beauty, Where in silent glory reigns Golden God Apollo brightly Over all thy vast domains. Here in Nature’s verdant valleys Blossom many flowers wild. Dear are all thy brooks and meadows, Dear to him, the western child. While the golden sun is resting In the deep, blue, rolling sea, Nature’s busy brush is painting Bright the sky from mount to lea. Over all this plain Elysian Wafts the soft and scented breeze From the green and fairest meadows And the many fragrant trees. Goddes Ceres loves to visit All thy fields of golden grain; While o’er mountains, woods and valleys Nymphs and satyrs claim their reign. There are many lands of beauty, There are lands of greater wealth, But there are no richer valleys Than this of beauty, wealth and health. —A. H., ’or. odpo— Five Line Topics. T THE beginning of the term, as an exer- cise in English, each pupil was required to write five lines every day on any sub- ject he chose. The following have been selected from among the best: There is one consolation to a Madera High School student, and that is: ‘The pupils are not crowded in their studies, fo r they are allowed a full twenty-four hours in which to get their lessons. It often appears that the reason that the person who flatters himself with being good-natured is so simply because he endures none of the ills or troubles which annoy someone else. It is not his virtue, but his good fortune. In the great sea of knowledge, the most skillful mariners are those that have launched the farthest out. Some of us never do more than but paddle and wade in the shallow waters around the shore. I believe it is commonly known that it is the fear of being detected in a crime, more than the fear of the severity of the punishment, that keeps us from committing many offenses. It is always the person with the empty pail that knows where to get the most berries. We are too apt to mistake forwardness or ‘brass’? for self-possession. I believe in being moderate in all things. If you are a king, don’t spend your money like a beggar; if you are a beggar, don’t spend your last dollar like a king, but be moderate. let us live accord- ing to our means, : The hardest difficulty to overcome is that we are too afraid of what others will say and think about us. This keeps many a sage silent and hides many a genius from the world. If, when asked a question, a person does not know the answer very well, why not say openly and candidly, ‘I do not know’? Why try to impress others that we are more than we really are? Itis better to offer an unconditional sur- render than to fight within an empty fort. Dra Ren voor ees Metamorphoses of a Junior’s Ideas. WHAT revelations were there! Simple 4l) explanations, given to us in childhood, ¥ were dispelled, and in their places new 4 and startling thoughts were given. Wonderful are the stories of mythology. ‘The twinkling stars we see in the heavens are mortals who, being especially favored by the gods, were put in the heavens under various disguises, as bears, scorpions, lions and crabs. The imaginative Greeks and Romans thought earthquakes were caused by the movements of one of the Titans imprisoned under Mt. Etna. Our physical geography tells us that they are caused by the breaking and slipping of subterranean strata, the prime cause being the continued lateral pressure on the cooling crust of the earth. One of the simplest myths of childhood, ‘Rainbows in the clearing sky Were angels’ scarfs hung out to dty,”’ has been dispelled, and we are told that rainbows are caused by the refraction and the reflection ot the sun’s rays in drops of water. The wonderful lamps of Aladdin’s cave have been dimmed by the cold, penetrating gleams of the torch of science, and stalagmites and stalac- tites now occupy the place of the glittering gems of Aladdin’s cave. It (SSESESS555=0: ee ea is i a a eee a ie oe

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HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL. of the sessions and delivered an interesting ad- dress on the teaching of history. The Club has succeeded in securing several of the prominent lecturers in the State. Professor Bernard Moses of the State University delivered a lecture on the subject of ‘‘Life and Art in Japan.’ A great number of stereopticon views illustrated in a delightful manner the places spoken of in the address. The lecture proved highly entertaining. Professor W. D. Armes, also of Berkeley, en- tertained the Madera people with a very instruct- ive lecture on the ‘‘Study of Literature.”’ An endeavor was made to procure Dr. David Starr Jordan of Stanford University, but it was impossible for him to visit the San Joaquin Valley this spring. The Club has now disbanded until after the summer vacation. So far it has been very successful and has carried out its main purposes with satisfactory results. GE. Ne. 00, é Exchanges. GOOD many exchanges have been received if ah since the publication of the first ANNUAL, a © some by the pupils individually, and others @ by the business managers, but however ob- tained they have given great pleasure and have served as an introduction to other High Schools. It is a most pleasant and profitable way of promoting that feeling of interest and good fel- lowship existing between High Schools. We propose to be more liberal with our next ANNUAL and hope to hear from many other schools in the future. The Tyro from San Bernardino is a very enter- taining paper. Its witty selections are especially good. The San Jose High School Bell is an excellent specimen of what a High School paper ought to be. The Alameda Bee is a neat little paper with a generous exchange column. The Normal Pennant from San Jose was a welcome visitor to our High School. Many in- teresting items were found under a very pretty cover. The Tulare Argus of December, ’98, seems to fix its biggest eye on foot ball proceedings. Does it always look in that direction ? The December number of the Guard and Tackle from Stockton contains many interesting stories. We would be pleased to hear from them again. The Tocsin from Santa Clara is a very amus- ing paper whose articles are well written and well arranged. The October Owl from Fresno is also on the Editor’s desk. Each different department has an editor who is evidently ‘‘up-to-date.’’ The San Rafael Searchlight is an attractive paper, prettily illustrated. After reading the San Francisco Girls High School Journal, who can doubt the ability of girls in the editorial line? The Janus of Hanford is undoubtedly a suc- cess. Like our ANNUAL of last year, its first copies were ‘‘heavy,’’ but business first and fun will follow. The ANNUAL wishes the Janus the best of success in its youthful career. ode — Our Timber Product. .YHAT nature has richly endowed Madera aU County in forest product all lumber men readily attest. In view of this fact some twenty years ago the longest V-flume ever constructed in the world was commenced by the California Lumber Company and was completed by the Madera Flume Trading Company. The termini of this flume is the Soquel Mills and the city of Madera—a distance of sixty-five miles. By means of this flume in former years an average of sixteen or seventeen million feet has been transported yearly from the mountain saw mills to the planing mills at Madera. It is probable, however, that even this enor- mous output will be surpassed in the years now succeeding. For a company of Michigan and Madera lumber men has been organized under the name of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company, into whose ownership has come three hundred million feet of fir, sugar and yellow pine. At the rate of fifteen million feet per annum it will require twenty years for the com- pany to exhaust its present supply. upon HE to dram mill a qo cutting oP Theirs 1B a Ther other ¢ The eM, 4. SP County those 0 b spoken 4 produc WP aarket The Compe busines : i of this utmost PP busines 1} oneol | establi 1s harp he br ee busin VE tis 5