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

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B. Hatch son, CASH 8R0GERS, A first class stock of Groceries, Hardware, Stationery, etc., always on hand. Also, a large stock of Canned Goods bought before the advance in prices. Orders promptly attended to. NORTH FALMOUTH, MASS, CEORCE E. NOYES SON, HEAVY AND LIGHT EXPRESS and JOBBING. PASSENGER AND BAGGAGE TRANSFER. Barges and Carriages can be found at all trains. We cater for Traveling Salesmen. Nokth Falmouth, Mass. The SnERWiN-Wn.LT AMS Paint, covers most, looks best, wears LONGEST, MOST ECONOMICAL, FULL MEASURE. MaDE IN ONE QUALITY ONLY, THE VERY BEST. Send postal for a color card. ALBERT HUiYIPHREY, STOVES and HARDW AR E, WAREHAM, MASS . Wl y not l) y a book Tor 20 cents at WATERS’ DRUG STORE; Read it, tlier dVe it to the Public I,ihvRT ]) ? WAREFIAM. A full line of materials for Fancy Work, at L E. SWIFT’S MILLINERY STORE, Wareham, Mass. FIRST CLASS HARNESS STORE.-If you want anything in the Harness or Stable line, go to SISSON’S. New and Second-hand Wagons for sale or exchange. Fine repairing. B. B. SISSON, Successor to Harvey Crocker, WAREHAM, MASS. Here’s the people’s chance to buy Choice Groceries, Grain and Hay. A new invoice of Snag Proof Rubber Boots, 15.50 per pair. COME AND SEE US, R. L. BURGESS, BUZZARDS BAY, MASS. E. D. NICKERSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR, BUZZARDS BAY, MASS, CALLS ANSWERED IMMEDIATELY, MILLINERY. — Millinery and Dress Making in all its branches. Mrs. E. B. Chase will soon make a trip to New York, ' which will secure us all the latest and up-to-date styles in Millinery. Call at E. B. CHASE’S and A. M. WRIGHT’S, opposite the depot, BUZZARDS BAY, MASS, 12 A i U

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THE HIGH SCHOOL ECHO. A LANDSCAPE SCENE. Every field and wood between me and the dark water beyond shone in the sun- set’s glow. The fields were of a brownish tint and very beautiful. The trees in the distance looked to lie of a dark greenish shade and loomed up before the eyes, furnishing a weird picture. As there was hardly a breath of air stiring the sea beyond was calm and tranquil. In the harbor could be seen a few pleasure yachts and fishing boats. ' rhe horizon was of many different colors intermingled in perfect harmony with the surrounding country. At a distance could be seen the tall and ghost-like form of the Government Light- house. This Light-house is situated at the ex- tremity of a narrow strip of land extending far out into the water. Now as the sun is about to set, the horizon seems on fire. Long streamers of fire seem to be extending in ail directions and these mingling with the pale blue of the evening sky make a pleasing spectacle. G. F. H. NEWSPAPERS FOR LUNATICS. A little known but not uninstructive branch of journalism is that which comprises newspapers written, printed and published in lunatic asylums. The lunatic journalism took its rise with a copy of The Neiv Moon, issued at the Crichton Royal Asylum, Dum- fries, Scotland, in 1844. Now many of the leading asylums of both hemispheres have journals. A writer in the London Mai 7 gives the following particulars about them : These magazines touch the journalistic ideal, as, being written by the readers for their own amusement, they can not fail to hit the popular taste. We find that those mentally deranged like about four-ninths of their reading to take the form of travel and heavy prose articles of a strictly theoretical nature. The rest of the contents comes in order of quantity as follows : Humor, local notes, poetry, chiefly in a light vein ; special articles on local theatricals, and fiction. The most striking feature about these journals is the almost total absence of gloom and melancholia, and we have it on the word of the doctor of one of the leading asylums that this is not owing to such contrib utions being tabooed. But now and again one comes on a poem or tale drenched with melancholia and morbid insanity. In one of these journals appeared a story written in the first person, about a hero — undoubtedly the writer — who had his head tvvisted around the wrong way. The consequence was he invariably had to walk in the opposite direc- tion to which he wanted to walk. This terrible fate haunts him right through the story, causing him to lose friends, money and everything else which man holds dear, and ends up by his in him, in his own mind, . murdering the girl who was to save him from himself. According to the story, the heroine was standing on the edge of a great preci- pice. The hero is standing near. Suddenly the heroine becomes giddy and totters on the brink. The hero tries to dash forward and save her, but of course runs the other way. Here comes a break in the narrative, which is finished by the following sentence : “And the gates of an asylum for those men- tally deranged shut the writer off from his friends in the outer world.” The writer gives the following quotation from an unfortunate journalist of The Fort E 7 igland Mirror : I met a young widow with a grown step- daughter, and a short time afterward the widow married me. Then my father, who was a widower, met my stepdaughter and married her. That made my wife the mother-in-law of her father-in-law, and made my stepdaughter my mother and my father my stepson. Then my stepmother, the step- daughter of my wife, had a son. That boy was, of course, my brother, because he was my father’s son. He was also the son of my wife’s stepdaughter, and therefore he r grand- son. That made me grandfather to my stepbrother. Then my wife had a son. My mother-in-law, the stepsister of my son, is also his grandmother, because he is her step- son’s child. My father is the brother-in-law of my child, because his stepsister is his wife. I am the brother of my own son, who is also the son of my stepgrandmother. I am my mother’s brother-in-law, my wife is her own child’s aunt, my son is my father’s nephew, and I’m my own grandfather. And after trying to explain the relationship some seven times a day to friends for a fortnight, I was brought here — no, came of my own will. Another writer declares gleefully that he never found rest from his mother-in-law be- fore, and that he intends to continue as long as possible to hoodwink the physicians in their notion that he is insane. Anot her writes that the fate of all great men has been to be maltreated or overlooked by their contemporaries, and therefore he is now de- tained : “For the thick skulls and those of little sense are jealous of my being the first to discover that we could all live forever if we would only walk on our hands instead of our feet .” — The Literary Digest.

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A WORD TO THE WISE. WE WANT TO BE TOUR CLOTHIER. For Right Dealings, Gents’ Furnishings, Hats, Caps, Gloves and Hosiery, Men’s and Boys’ CLOTHING, Go to W. E. GODFREY, HEWINS’ BLOCK, MAIN STREET, FALKIDUTH, MASS. Rydbr Brothkrs, House Sign and Decorative Painters, Curtain, Moulding and Paper Hanging. MAIN STREET, FALMOUTH, MASS.