Central Catholic High School - Katholikon Yearbook (DuBois, PA)

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wht Hlrntnr lllness As soon as he had legained strength enough he boarded the steamer fox home and set sail for the States After landing Allen hastened to his bankers office To hls sur prlse and dismay he found the place closed and upon inquiry learned the bank had tailed All his capltal was gone' His palents dead There was no one to we come him home He was a physical and mental wreck The wo1 d no longel possessed any att1 actions for the weakened dlsappomt ed youth He left New York for any place he could reach by his small stone of money The wretched llttle stieet looked dalk and dismal that late autumn night A few gas iets and dlmly lighted windows threw small rays of llght against the darkness Suddenly the dools of a saloon were thrown open and a black mass was hur ed upon the pavement This black heap was a man His face was worn and haggeled deep furrows were around hls mouth and a little blood oozed from a wound on his forehead and mixed Wlth the dlrt of the gutter Few would have recognlved Allen Haldlng the ambitious young engineer who had set out to COHQUQI new wor ds Broken by his physical suffering he had given hlmself up to despair and there he lay a dope fiend a drunkard and an outcast Two women hurrying home vsere moved by sudden pity and calling two passersby took Allen to thelr tenement home where a doctor was hurriedly summoned When Allen came to his senses a tall dark dis tlnguished man was bendlng over him Nothmg was said but the doctor injected something 1n Allen s aim and soon he was asleep The followlng day when the doctor arrn ed Allen was ab e to tell what had brought h1m to that condition I have not always been the wretch you found Once I was young lng but death would be welcome to me and w1th all my soul I wish for it Well suppose you tell me the whole story The doctor listened mutely to his tae of suffering and despair here and there durlng the narration a look of astonlshment and perplexlty would creep over the doc tor s face Final y he blurted out You can t be Allen Hardmg who was graduated from High 1n 03 I was then but I m not any longer I changed my name so as not to brmg disgrace to my old Dad Then surely you remember me Im J 1m Carter the boy to whom you gate the scholarship You were ambitious once why have you abon doned hope? I know you can win YOUI p ace among men Will 5 ou come to my sanitarium whele I can have you undel my C3197 I ll go muttered Al'en and I ll fight my way back lf It takes every ounce of strength I have Ill show the wor d a man can come back even from the lowest depths of degladatlon Allen s moral recox ery was slow but sule At last he found him self a cuied man puxified by suffellng and cleansed of his despair by the noble work of Jlm who on the dax of gladuatlon had promised Al'en he would make a fitting letuin some dax JOSGDIIIIIL Seallc 71 ' 51 . . , . 9 ' ' . 1 D . g . J A ' ' ' . . . . A - 1 I I ' A 1 1 1 v y 1 , 1 1 ' 1 A . 7 . D. . . . . ' . , , . - . . . . , 1 I . ' Y I 1 CS y and ambitiousg once I was rich and decentg but now I am an outcast. Noth- . I . 7 . ' . . ,, ll ,Y ' 3 . 7 ' I 66 Y ' - I A . 1 , , C6 3 KK 9 ' L . Y' uv . 1 I 1- ' , . ' ' 1 1 v v 1 1 ' 'Y CK ! I! K6 7 1 1 7 ' U , . . A ' H 1 , Y 7 Q ' A 1 ' , 1' - v 1' ' w - ' 9 1 .I i ' . ' A -' ' A x ' 1' 'L'

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Uhr illlmtnr uimuq .nth llcaprnq ELL Son graduatlon IS almost here wlth all that It means I expect you to be valedlctorlan Any glft you wlsh IS to be yours What shall It be a new roadster or a coast to-coast tr1p'? I guess 1ts nelther for me Dad I m not gomg to come out first? Why Allen hovs IS th1s You know you always Sdld you would be valedlctorlan I know Dad but that was before I knew about J1m Carter He has h1s heart and soul set on studylng medicine and lf he comes out first he w1ll be awarded the Grayson scholarshlp In that way and 1n that way only can he attam th1S Why Dad what s a new car or a trlp compared to Jlm s M D degree? Rlght you are boy and I m celtalnly proud of you fol wx 1th drawlng from the lace After vou have been graduated we shall travel for a whlle and then you w1ll be able to start at Whltney College to study your electrlcal englneermg Th1s conversatlon took place between Mr F H Hardmg and h1s son Allen Mr Hard1ng was a promlnent lawyer and quxte wealthy Hls son was not the usual rlch boy 1nstead he was kind generous and thought ful Allens mother dxed when he was young Th1s left Allen and h1s father all and all to each other Hls one des1re was to take up electrlcal englneerlng and bulld rallroads 1n South Amerlca So w1th1n the course of the next few years Dr J M Carter was graduated from Marlon Medlcal College and Allen was graduated from Whltney Shortly after graduatlon wh1le Allen and h1s father were travel mg Mr Hardlng dled very suddenly A month later after the affalrs of the estate had been settled Allen salled for the blue troplcal waters to con quer fields and lead the vanguard of c1v1l1zat1on Beneath the torrld sky near the foot hllls of the Andes was a reglon of swamps almost unhabltated It was here that Allen now found hxmself blllldlflg hlS rallroad In thls desolate swamp beneath the scorchlng sun all was bustle and actlvlty Gangs of men were t01llIlg' steadlly and amxdst it all walked Allen g1v1ng orders here observlng the work and encouraglng the men to do thelr best 1n order to reach the hlgher ground However Just before the work was completed four of Allen s men were strlcken wlth Swamp fever and whlle endeavormg to allevlate thelr sufferlng Allen contracted the dlsease hlmself For weeks he hung between life and death Hls great Vltallty made a desperate fight agamst the grlm reaper but xt was only when he had been sent to the hlghlands of the Andes to convalesce that the Doctol declal ed h1m out of dangel Slowly he IGCOX e1ed trylng to regaln h1s fol mer strength Th1S seemed unable to do the dlsease had left h1m a phy slcal wreck pale and weak and what was worse w1th an un ouenchable yearn1ng for the drug the Doctor had glxen h1m durlng hls QC ' ' 0 77 ax , , s 15 x ,Q 9 9 , ' ' rr u - ' 99 xc n ' 9 9 sr H r 7 ' ' v f ' . . . . ,, cz - 1 . . . . . ' 9 as , , 9 - ' ! 1 ' 1 19 U ' Y 1 7 1 ' v Q y . v' . n 9 , - . . . ,, . . . , 9 9 9 ' , . . . . . , I . . . . . - , L - 1 , , . . u yr ' ' ' ' ' 9 , , a , ' Q' 7 1 1 1 v' . . . . , p Y u Y ' - , - n n . ' u Y .

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Uhr illlmtur align Ufangleh fdlclegrzrxn HAT a Joy It was to know that our last lesson was fimshed and our summer vacatlon was about to begm One could see the glrls of the Academy gathered 1n groups here and there plannlng how they should spend thexr vacatlon and each 1nv1t1ng the other to spend a few days at her home I was employed at that tlme 1n packmg my trunk and was not bother1ng myself wlth what they were talkmg about for I had already planned to spend my holldays w1th my room mate Mary Whlle I was thus engaged Mary entered and asked me to send a telegram to her brother requestmg h1m to meet us at the hotel and suggested that I slgn my own name Im sure he ll understand that It IS from me So com plylng w1th her request I went to obtam the Slsters permlssxon Thls bemg granted I hurrled to the telegraph office and scr1bbled a message to Mary s brother which read Please meet me and Marry at the Annex at two oclock Rush that I sald to the operator who glanced over the message and grmned Certalnly he Sald thls sort of a message always goes rush and I W1Sh you luck Hls last words puzzled me why dld he w1sh me luck? Walklng back to the Academy I happened to thmk of the mlstake that the grammatlcal error would not be notlced Upon leachlng the Aca demy I forgot eyerythlng save the final p1 epalatlons for my vacatlon I helped Mary wlth her packlng and ln a short tlme we were 1n the tram After tiresome hours of rldlng we at last reached our destlnatlon and hurrled to the Annex Hotel expectlng to meet Ted but there was no slght of hlm Thlnklng he had not recelved the message ln tlme we de clded to start out to the house We soon reached the Boyer s home whlch was C81 talnly a beautlful resldence There was Mary s mother w1th a glad smlle of welcome for us both Ted was also there but what was wrong w1th h1m'7 He scarcely greeted us and flom the first I began to dlsllke hlm and really thought I would not enjoy myself 1n h1s dlsagreeable company Some days later whlle I was a one 1n the hbrary looklng over the splendld collectlon of books 'led came ln he wore a sad or rather a puzzled look I was very sorry to dlsappomt you the other day but what you re quested of me 1n youl telegram IS qulte 1mpOSSlbl6 for I W1Sh to study and furthermore more I am too voung I vsas nearly petrlfled wlth amaze ment What could he mean What was he too young for who was hlnd S2 l 7 YK . ' , . I . . , . H 7 7 ' ' Il - , . 7 ' . H , c 9 H il H ' ' 7 7 ' 66 ' ,YY ' il ' 7 7 . ,, . . 3 ' 7 . v . . I made in writing the message, for I placed myself first. I secretly hoped . . . , A . . 7 7 , , . 1 . . . , . . ' 7 . , . , . . . , . , . . . . . , , . 7 7 H ' ' v Y - 7 v 7 I Q l 7 9 77 Y ' ' - 7 c ' . . ,v v Y ' -