Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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“Ode to the Student Body Tax.” 1. Oh that student-body tax; Holy Smoke! A few days more and it is due — I am broke. 2. Of all curses upon home or school, This new and grafty — coiny rule Y ho does not pay it — ranked a fool Oh Student-body tax! 3. All extravigance I must give up — At iioeflers grill — no more I’ll sup — Oh bii ter — bitter is my cup, — A dollar have 1 lost. 4. And yet it is the thing to do — To make our athletes pull us through And save the honor of the school, A few important facts. 5. So I give uip with willing mind, My dollar per, and join the line Who leave their numerous wants behind — For the Athletic tax! F. G. TO. Perhaps Bill Wootton misunderstood the teacher’s meaning This is his paper: “The equator is a menagrie lion running around the earth.” “Noah’s wife was called Joan of Arc.” “Water is composed of two gases oxygen and Cambrigen.” “Lava is what the barber puts on your face.” “A blizzard is the inside of a fowl.”

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that he did not realize his crime until he heard footsteps. lie was startled; there at his feet lay the man he had killed, the dagger in his breast; bint instead of its being smooth and shiny, it was slippery and red. The young man started toward the door; buit it was too late; for some one was coming. He went to a door which was partly opened, went in, and found himself in a dark closet. Uncons¬ ciously he wiped his bloody hands on a coat hanging there. Looking out of the half opened door, he saw khe man’s son come in, look at his father, and run out calling for help. A crowd gathered, but no one noticed a man come from the closet and mingle with them. The son was tried for the murder of his father. You wanted to convict him on circumstantial evi....” “Yes it was 1 who did it. I wouild have given myself up before ,f it had’nt been for my wife. It would have killed her. I am willing to go now.” [onson turned toward the men and said : “Before we call the bailiff and return the verdict of ‘Not Guilty,’ will you gentlemen promise on ypur honor that not one word of what Mr. Carton has told us will ever be repeated?” And from the ten men came the answer “We promise.” Sam Wise. A Study in Anatomy. A little Chicago girl furnishes a good illustration of the fact that our school children are being taught much which they can neither understand nor assemilate. During a recent examination in physiology she wrote :— “The lady is divided into three parts, tihe head, the chist, and the stummick. The head contains the tongue and brains, if any; the chist contains the lungs and a part of the liver; the stummick is devoted to the bowels, of which there are five — a, e, i, o, u and something w and y.” (Selected.)

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Published by the Students of the Astoria High School PRICE Editor-in-chief... . Associate Editor. . Business Manager Advertising.. Literary. Alumni. Art. School Notes Athletics. Exchange. . . . Stung. Freshmen Sophomore. . Junior. Senior.. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS STAFF .Fanny M. Gregory. ' 10 Myrtle A. Harrison, ' ll .Fred Hardesty, ' ll ASSISTANTS Arthur Danielson. ’10 ( Lenore McGregor. ’12 Evelyn Stuart, ’ll (Anna Sigurdson. ’10 .Gladys Graham, ’ll .Elva Jeldness. ’ll .Mildred Smith. ’10 ( Abel Wright, ’ll Melville Morton, ’ll .Blanche Heron, ’ll .J. Thornburn Ross. ’10 .Emma Wootton. ' 13 .Bernice McGregor. ’12 .Gladys Graham, ’ll .Anna Sigurdson. ’10 A new year has again opened for the Astoria High School, and it is with interest that we note the increase in attendance. The