Bourne High School - Canal Currents Yearbook (Bourne, MA)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL ECHO. DRE. ' MLAND. I had a very singular dream last night. I dreamt of being “Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep.” I went rolling “Over the Ocean Wave” and was finally left on the shores of “The German Rhine.” I looked up the beach and saw a beautiful hall situated “ ’Mid Pleasures and Palaces.” There seemed to be a public entertainment ; people passed to and fro. In a large arm chair sat “My Pussy” and “Old Dog I ' ray.” “Nancy Lee” sat on “America” with her true friend “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.” I was much sur- piised when all began singing as a young girl entered, “Make Room for May” with “The Revolutionary Tea.” The “Merry Swiss Roy” came lagging along just as refreshments were being serv ' ed. He said he had come just to “Help it on.” Just behind came “The Spider and the Fly.” “Margerite and Juanita.” Quite a time elapsed before I noticed “Lucy Long” saunter in with “Nellie Gray.” As they came in. I saw “Yankee Doodle” wrapped in the “Star Spangled Banner” walk over to “The Girl I Left Behind Me,” and say, “Little Lucy Little” “Why Mournest Thou Here?’ ” She answered, “ T’m Left Here All Alone,” “My True Friend” went and left me, “Just as the Sun Went Down.’ ” My attention was then attracted by the “Men of Harlech’s” seeming quite alarmed at seeing “A Warrior Bold in the Days of Old” with an “Empty Sleeve” coming toward them. Their fear died away, how- ever, when they recognized the noble-looking, well-preserved old gentleman, “Columbia,” who, on account of his hale and hearty ap- pearance, was called “Hail Columbia.” He began his boring story of how he had escaped during the “Georgia Camp-Meeting,” from his old master “Way Down South in Dixie.” His friends began to look wearied and finally left him. During all this time the “Minstrel Re- turned from the War” had been sweeping the melancholy strings of “The Harp that once through Tara’s Hall,” “The soul of music under a shed” or words to that effect. I began to think of returning to my “Old New Hampshire Home” and so passed out into the “Stilly Night.” As I went out on to the cold beach and looked back upon the happy throng, I murmured, “ ‘O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast?” I saw the first rays of the rising sun break- ing over the “Blue Alsatian Mountains” and so hurried on down the beach. There I saw “Two little Maids in Blue.” Just as I was stepping into my “Canoe that Floats on Forever,” I heard the songs of several other persons who were returning from their “Dreamland.” Among the rest I heard a number of jolly fellows “Coming through the Rye” (put up in quart bottles). And as they went they sang, “We won’t go home ’til morning.” Just as I was about to step into the “Cradle of the Deep,” I — awoke. SECRETARY HAY’S NEW RUSSIAN TREATY. A bit of diplomacy that cannot fail to flatter American pride, has been con- summated by the receipt, during the past month, of a written guarantee from the Russian government, that whatever might be the vicissitudes of the Celestial empire as to territorial disintegration, American trade treaties with China would continue valid. The Russian government was the last of the great powers to accord us this guarantee. This same assurance, as regards British treaty rights, has been sought in vain by the court of St. James for the past year. Some English papers have affected to regard this demand on the part of our .government, at this critical period of British history, as proof of our friendly feeling, even going so far as to intimate that our diplomatic machinery was set in motion through London influence. Nothing could arouse the latent Anglo- phobia so easily as statements of this kind. And the moral force of a probable ally with which England holds hostile Europe in check can be easily destroyed by assertions tending to prove an entente so at variance with our traditional policy. — “The National Magazine.”

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