Bethel High School - Key Yearbook (Bethel, NC)

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ther, too, was distressed about Alice, but he did not take such a melancholy mood as the younger brother. He said, What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet that he must avoid? How bitter is self delusion. Or if they be but false alarm of fear. He believed that his sister was perfectly safe and that noth- ing could harm a girl as virtuous as she. But the younger bro- ther still feared for his sister ' s safety. He said : Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree, Laden with blooming gold had need of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms and save her fruit, Front the rash hands of bold Incontinence. While the two brothers stood arguing, a clear, sweet voice founded from within the depths of the forest with enchant- ing ravishment — a voice which sounded as if something holy were lodged in the breast from whence it came. How sweetly did they (tones) float upon the wings Of silence, throguh the empty-vaulted night. At! every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled. Hearing this almost heavenly music, the two brothers knew it to be the voice of their lost sister. Immediately they set out in the direction from v henco the voice came. Alice was sitting on the roots of a tree weeping as if her heart would break when her brothers found her. At the sight of them her tears suddenly vanished and once more she was aa beautiful, heavenly, divine and happy looking as before. Early in the morning of March 4th, 1921, the three set out for Washington, and by ten o ' clock they reached the city jusi in time to witness the long anticipated celebration.

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THE FRIGHT OF TWO BROTHERS (With Apologies to Milton) (By Annie Gertrude Jones) Alice, her elder brother and her younger brother, wished to go to the inauguration of President Harding, but neither of them had money enough to go, unless they should attempt the journey on foot. Alexandria was about twenty-five miles from Washington, but in spite of the distance they were determined to go, as neither of them had ever witnessed an occasion of this kind. Early on the morning of March Z, 1921, the three having made preparation for the journey started to Washington. Thinking they would make the trip safely by night, they carried lunch enough to last during the day only. Five o ' clock in the afternoon found them seven miles from their destination, and the brothers saw that Alice was too tired to go farther. Thus it was decided to spend the night in the forest, and make an early start next morning in order to reach Washington in plenty of time for the celebration. The two brothers at once set out to hunt berries for their sister ' s supper, and on departing they gavo her instructions not to wander from this place. In spite of her promise, Alice disobeyed her brothers, and when they returned to the spot where they left her she was not to be found. Both of the brothers were alarmed at the disappearance of their sister, but the elder brother s attitude was entirely differ- ent from that of his younger brother. The elder brother re- marked at the darkness of the mghc; not a ray of light could be seen, not even from the heavens. The younger broth- er was distressed greatly at his sister ' s disappearance and was wondering where she was at the time and whether her person had satisfied the hunger of some savage beast. The elder bro-

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PIRATE CUSTOMS (By Edward Burroughs) The word pirate, or buccaneer, carries with it a thrill. The very mention of the name of Flint, England, Blackbeard, or some of the other noted pirate captains, sends a chill all thru one ' s body. The pirates were very cruel and committed num- berless crimes, but we look upon them as brave, daring people, and even admire them for their bravery. It is verj ' true they were law breakers and thieves, but when we think of the risks they ran, the hairbreadth escapes they had, and their thrilling adventures, we learn to admire them. Their dangers are numerous. At first the different pirate ships went around separately, but later they organized under the leadership of one captain. Among these pirate chiefs, the widest known were Davis, Rob- erts, Kidd, Morgan, Flint, Blackbeard and England. When or- gfanized, they probably followed a code of unwritten laws. But the greatest harm fell upon the commerce of Spain. The pirates ' chief objectives were the ships bearing the gold from Peru and other Spanish colonies in South America, to Spain. It was their love for gold, together with their thirst for blood- shed, that caused the pirates to take the ships and kill the crew jind passengers. When we think of the appearance of a pirate, we conceive him as a brawny, sun burned creature, with long whiskers and with scars all over his flesh. His eyes are keen and his hands nre toughened by work and the sun. As for his clothes, he wears loose, ragged garment, splotched all over with blood. Round his waist is a belt containing a brac( i of pistols and a cutlass or two. Whon pirates captured a ship they used various methods to dispose of their prisoners. Sometimes they killed the men, but kept the women to torture. They often marooned the captive. That is, they set them off on an uninhabited island with a few provisions, a gun, and some ammunition. Sometimes they fas- ttmed a board to the deck of the ship, so that it extended over