Central High School - Centralian Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

Text from Pages 1 - 180 of the 1908 volume:

f •?; • The Centralian Volume X. EDITED BY The Luminary Staff OF NINETEEN HUNDRED SEVEN AND EIQHT Central High School KANSAS CITY, MO. EDITORS Joseph IT Drown. '08. Editor-in-Chief. Dwir.nr II. MccklEY, o8....................................| Meade Woodson, 08,.........................................j Business Managers Rrrii Van Doren. oS,................................English Edna . Oakley. ’09...............................Languages Mii.drKd M. Hell, ‘o8......................History and dries Gale G. Gossett, 08......................................Art Raymond 1. Moore, 09.................................Science Henry R. O'Brien. 09.............................Mathematics Montie C. Storie, 08..............................................Athletics Meda M. Moore. 08. Thos. K. Whipple, '08, Locals and Exchange To the pupils, teachers, and friends ol our school who have so loyally and ably supported us during the year, this volume. Central's year-book of nineteen hundred and eight is dedicated May its pages afford something interesting and beneficial to a who shall read them. May this Gentralian be an honor to Central High School. MR. I. I. CAMMACK. Principal. MR. H. H. HOLMES. V’lce Principal, Mathematics. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION X OFFICERS. Jos. L. Norman..........................President E. F. Swinnkv j. C. James........................Pice-President W. E. Benson. J. M. (jRk::n vooi . Superintendent. G. B. Loxcax and F. I). Thakee. MEMBERS. Jos. L. Norm an. J. C. James, F. A. Faxon, J. S. Harrison,. Mii.ton Moore. I Iai.k H. Cook. .....Treasurer .....Secretary Assistants. THE FACULTY ENGLISH. Mr. Smith, Mr. W. W. Douglass, Miss Bain. Miss Rosenbergcr, Miss Crowe, Miss Fox. Miss Gentry. Miss Wolf son. Miss Creager. Miss Iva Thomas HISTORY AND CIVICS. Mr. Lewis, Mr. Rush, Miss Denton, Miss Burrill, Mr. Andrews. Miss Wolfrom, Mr. Sallee. I. I. Cammack, Principal. MATHEMATICS. Mr. Holmes, Mr. Touton, Mr. Luby. Mrs. Steinberg, Miss Buck. Miss Thomas, Miss Magerle. Mr. Tempi in. Miss Curtis. Mr. Blocher, Miss Bridges. ANCIENT LANGUAGES. Miss Hays, Mr. A. E. Douglass. Miss Adams. Miss I larriman, Mr. Chapin, Miss Morgan. MODERN LANGUAGES. Miss M. von Unwerth. Miss E. von Unwerth. Mrs. Clarke, Miss Creager, Mr. Hernandez. SCIENCE. Mr. Ayres, Mr. Peters. Mr. Wright. Mr. Haller, Mr. Nowlin, Mr. Graves, Mr. Cameron. ARTS. Mr. Thomas, Mrs. Cooke, Miss Crowder, Mr. Dillenbeck. Mr. Hamilton, Miss Blatchley. Miss Denny. Study Hall. t Mrs. Fluhart, Study Hall. Miss Nelson. Clerk. Mrs. Wheeler, Matron. Name. Laura Chesney..... Dewey Chesney.... Wendell Fi field.... Ruby Mapes........ Kthcl Wetigcrt.... Willard Rush...... Arthur Eldred.... Rose well Maveety. T. K. Whipple.. . . Xitia Tucker..... Owen Krueger...... Edward Taylor.... Ruth Mervine..... Harold Hillgardner Frank Adkins..... Mary Milan....... Meade Woodson.. . Fay Ingram....... Nina Cushing. . Fdith Case....... Karl Grant....... Marshall Neal..... John Patterson.... Dudley Hoffman.. Catherine Gray.... Marshall Thwing.. Characteristic. Chief Joy. Roller skating............Joyfulness........... Studying .................His knowledge........ Disagreeing ..............Perversity .......... Spiders...................Big hats............. Dreaming .................Wistfulness ...... Hands in pockets..........Doing nothing........ Tiny .....................Fast walking ........ His grin..................“Descrip. .......... His forelock..............To find locals....... Her mouth.................Teasing ...........:. His buckles...............Public speaking...... His pocketbook............The girls............ Honesty ..................Criticising Milton His knowledge.............To be considered wise 1 lis dignity.............His knowledge........ Her vocabulary............Displaying same...... His yellow curls.......... rguing.............. Puffs-Puffs-Puffs ........Her coiffure......... Willowy walks.............The matinee.......... Lost at sea...............Emerson ............. Powder ...................Paint ............... Fancy shoes................Eating ........... His brain.................Manhood ............. Disappeared in 1904.......Dozing............... Niftiness ................Bread ............... .Taking her in the auto... .“Her ............. Aim in Life. • To rival Leislcr. . To be considered wiser. • Champion of the South. . English teacher. • Stump orator. • To catch a Count. • To have a tall beau. ..Unknown. . To grow a mustache! . To grow a mustache!! . To grow a mustache!!! .To be janitor. .To be an Aristonian. . M. M. M. M. M. THE SENIORS. Name. Characteristic. Blanche Roehm.............Giggling .. Grace Ward................Physics Lai) Millie Mann...............Studying .. Adeline Nentwig...........Sauciness .. Jack Reefer. Baby curls Alma Welch................Serenity............ Dulcie Wiliams............Her calmness.......... Klaine Salmon.............Activity............ George Bierwith...........Silence .............. Julius Brydge.............His glasses........... Nellie Chandler...........Her grades............ Luschcr Rodman............Her merry widow size. Mildred MacConncll........Dignity .............. Gertrude Hibbard..........Nonchalance......... William Crowley...........“Good kid .......... Sam Goodman...............Curls ................ Jennie Harvey.............Rosy checks......... Chas. King................Speed ................ Wm. Nentwig...............Talkativeness ........ Jno. Cooper...............His voice.-......... Verna Jenkins.............Overworked expression Glesna Rouse Talking Chief Joy. Aim in Life. . 11 eight ...................To be less bashful. .Questioning Mr. Wright... .To know an ohm at sight. . Her memory..................To be a physicist. .“Waltz Me Around Again, Willie”...................To play in concert. .Reading Mattie’s German..To keep a restaurant and fudge shop. .Silence ....................To keep quiet. .Sitting still...............To be a housekeeper. . Motion ....................To be a suffragette. .Gorman .....................To get rich. .Looking stern ..............Fire insurance. .Wearing a Lab. apron........That’s a secret. . Waiting at the church......To be a florist. . Her own affairs............Undecided. .Talking to Earl.............Actress. • 11-2 S ....................To ’tend a bar. .His “stock! ................To be a Senator. .Powder .....................Towed. .Analytics ..................To graduate. . I)on t know................I 'ndiscovercd. . Singing ...................To be a great musician. ..Popularity ................To “Meet Him at the Church.” .Spanish ....................To be an actress. 11 THE SENIORS. Name Characteristic. Xelle Palmer..............Her height............... Harriet Hosier............1° he stylish............ Elizabeth Klebansky.......Washing dishes........... John Slichter.............'� 'hc girls.............. Berenice Boarman.......... )ral themes............ Florence Day..............Keeping still............ Ben Terte..............■ .Throwing goals.......... Ruby Maynard..............Reading love stones. . Elsie McPherson.. Elsie Flory....... Rose Terte........ Howard Bayne.... Amber Anderson.. Harry Grovier.... Hannah Segelbohm Gertrude Mickadeit Leontie Scott..... Mary Cunningham. Mable Poston..... James Reber...... Nell McDonald.... Rex Hedrick...... Xorvin Vaughan... Rosalie Flacy.... Ruth Jewell...... Mary Webster.... Hood Heitman.... Leona Walton..... Harold Woodbury. Beulah Adams..... Eva Thayer....... Anna Trotter..... Helen Hainkle.... Mable Cochran... Dressing up............... “Goo-goo eyes............ Powder ................... Bash fid ness............. Big feet...... ........... 1 don’t know ........... Rosy cheeks........•■•••• .Her hair................. Indifference ............. .Her walk................. .Her gleaming eyes........ .His front hair........... .Her propensity for wcarin red and white.......... . Kingliness........ . Broad shoulders......... .Her hair................. .Her face......... .Reserve.................. . Foolishness............. .Curls ................... .His Lion, lying. Lyon.. . .Star-gazing.............. .Ruby locks............... . Studiousness ..... . Her curls............... ..Stateliness ............ Chief Joy. Aim in Life. Being good-looking.........To cook for a nice man. Her clothes...................be swell. Blue eves............. .. I ° be tall. Blushing ..................leach Sunday school. Her size.............. . 1 o get fat. Keeping still..............Keeping still. .His soulful eyes..........The basket. Romantic ..................Have a sensational elope- ment. .Good looking..............To he a belle. . Xeal Munson..............Marriage. .More powder...............Ho to China. .To walk with Florence.....Most powder. .Smiling ..................Unannounced. Miss Bain................To know. Walking ..................To he introduced to them all. .Doing up her hair.........1° speak ten languages. .Writing chemistry notes...To fathom the future. __]{, SO4___ ..............To he a spinster. . I'sing her eves..........1 o he young. .Roller skating ...........To he “somebody. .To take care of Francis.... brands. .Convention Hall...........To he a guard. .Spanish Club..............To rival the discobolus. .Chemistrv ................Hasn t any. .The Choral Club...........Grand opera. ,2:40 ....................Commencement. .Striving to appear bored.. . Hobo. .Chemistrv ................To be an actress. .French play...............To jump over the moon. Dancing ..................To be a florist s wife. .English...................To vote. . Studying ................To be a scholar. yjjcc'....................To breast the Marcel waves. . Assembly ................I o be a Greek student. THE SENIORS. Isjame. Characteristic. Chief Joy. n e Benjamin Leventhal..........Being polite...............Politeness .................1° be a poet Eleanor 1 lain..............“Parleying” ...............Sparkling eyes.............. ° f ° to Afrfica' Kenneth Tapp................Himself ...................Pompadour...................To become famous. Jeanette Rvland.............“Gra� t”-ing favors.........Fancy skating. .... .. ....I o go abroad Will McPherrin..............Midnight walking with( ?).. Smiling at young ladies.... lo beat somebody s time. Gertrude McKee .............Her good looks.............Coquettishness ..........Beat W endell Fificld in debate. Luthera Priestley...........Her beauty.................Entertaining young ( ?) . .. .To get married. Gladys Hiatt................Hilarity ..................Books......................Io go to Ea srence. Carolyn Lewis...............Sparkling eyes.............Absence.....................lo be tall. Florence Bentrup............Quietness .................laffv ..... ................lo be thin. Mac Fleming.................Length ....................1 alking to Mr. Smith.........Munson. Jennie Somers...............Making dresses.............Shubert ....................I homas King Whipple. Bertha Hockaday.............Heat ......................Getting too hot to read J V ergil ....................1 o be cool. Eveleen 1 .oser.............Coiffure ..................Talking to Mr. Toulon........Not to study. Mattie Dumbeck..............Height ....................Being tall.................To grow taller. RovTeter ...................His hair ..................Boiling water...............lo be a scientist. Beulah Murphy...............That broad smile...........The Shakespeares...........l o live in Kansas. Patti f’age ' .......Fluffy-Ruffles ............She has not said.............To marry a count. Harry Southard..............His scholarly air..........Yelling at basket hail games Meda Moore .................Her dimples..............Making dimples........... I o make more dimples. Ottie Me.Veal........ ......Bashfulness ...............Traveling .. ...............lo be a writer. Myrtle Molle................Music roll.................lo play (?) nine............It s being thought on. Grace Bradsher..............her dimutiveness..........Physics Lab...............I o grow up. Delphine McKenzie...........Her speed................Basket hall. ............I o be a professional. Nina Waller.................Style......................Sunbonnet babies............I ans. Joseph Brown................I'ttering his profound truth. Holding Sis”............I o make his profound J v truths believed. Lloyd Charlesworth.........His cap........ Dwight Muckley.............His face....... Sarah Sellon...............Brown eyes... Roscoe Conkling............Smallness .... Mildred Strother..........Her bows....... Nina King.................Bleeding heart Harriet Thwing............Holding hands Harriet Tomlinson.........Laughing Elizabeth Ileini.......... Polkadots .... Erancis McCarty...........“Ladies' man . William Barton............Long neck.... Miriam Lyon...............Jumping ....... Florence Wingert..........Laughing .... To beat the Shakespeares.. .To keep on beating the Shakespeares. The Majestic...............Pawn shop. Girls .....................To be loved. Shooting “Pool”............To beat (the) Bill. Walking ...................To edit a magazine. Dwight ....................Muckley. Holding Will's hands.......To hold McPhernn’s hand. .Queenliness ....... .“The Doctor’s Son” .Nell .............. . Cubebs............ . Pole-vaulting .... .Books ............. some more. To live in the city. To have some violets. To be a minister. To get a shave. Hurdling. To be a history teacher. Name. Characteristic. Clyde Shockley............Persistence -------: . Montie Storie.............‘ Red Brown....... Gladys Comstock...........Writing .......... Amos Nichalds.............The S. L. II. s.. .. John Musselman............“Wild Irish smile Reba Armstrong............Foolishness......... Berthier Byers............Height ........... Harry Ghormley............Length.............. 'Peel Sullivan............Smile ............ Fay Scroggen..............Timidity ......... Walter Swartz.............Fine exams........ Jeanette Tavernier........Multum in parvo.. Stanley Clausen... Hazel Harbour.... Lovvrie McClure. . . Kathleen McNutt.. Delaware Slater... Barclay Moore.... Hattie Kluex...... Iva Messinger..... Grovey Tyler...... Gertrude Graffey.. Orpha Robinson... Louis Doering..... Joe Brown......... (living excuses Her dimples.. 1 lis clashing air Her voice...... Her hands.... I ler size. II is socks.... , Coquettishness Charm ......... 1 lis curls.... 1 ler trimness. . Grecian beauty Grinning ...... Size ........... Jennie Bayzman. Mary Erwin...... Florence Fleming Her pins .......... Talking ........... Heart disease...... Chief Joy. Aim in Life. .Vera......................To he a physics teacher. .Talking to Red”..........Not to leave Red.” .Shrewdness................To he a poet. .Daintiness................To he a musician. .To Dutch roll with Mildred.To raise curs. .Chatting with Roscoe......To live in Monkey-land.” .Solving Quads.............To he a Math, teacher. .Speech-making.............To he a lecturer. .Dancing...................To he a good rooter. .Match-making..............To be nervy. .Logarithms................To know everything. To be wee..................To discover something diffi- cult. . Vergil ..................None: She turned him down. . Beaming .................V cottage. .Miss Buck.................To win that Manual girl. .Singing ..................To become a singer. .Senior theme..............To wear a Hood. . A clear slate............To change her state. .His pockets...............Nothin’ in particular. .Teasing Jack..............The limelight. .French ...................To he happy. .His curls.................Twenty-one feet. .Looking nice”............To look nicer. .Living ...................To cook for an ice man. .Socks ! ! ! ..............To he a sport. . Explaining mathematical To he a church sexton. problems ..... . English literature ..The same......... . Boys ........... To he a jeweler. To he listened to. To teach Latin. THE SENIORS. Name. Characteristic. . . Won’t tell ..“Hershev” and pickles.... . . The stronger sex . . A Marmalite ..Gardening Elsie Kischer •••Virgil ..II erpicide Elizabeth Morgan.. . . 1 liding boys books Isabel Thornes Mabel Nowlin . . 1 ler family resemblance.. . . .Her voice Miriam Scofield.... ..Her intellectuality Bertha Teasdale.... ..Her evebrows Elizabeth Willson.. . . Her willowv walk Adclla Pepper ...Thomas K Edmund Field . . His pompadour Nell Reid ..Chic style . . 1 )emureness . .Accent .Her eves . . Studiousness Nellie Caleb . . Her face leanette Eat . . . Her laugh Eorene Whitmore.. ...Her frown Amelia Frauens.... . . . Her winning way Gale Gossett ... Beautv of face and deed. . . Frank Eowe . . . His face Ivan Siegrist . . . His size Louie Corse ...Her giggle Hettv Francis . . . Her smile Charlotta Marshall.. ...Tier demureness Bonita Ferguson.... .. . Her giggle (laugh) Cornelia Corse . . . Silence Gretchen Hansen.. Chief Joy. Aim in Life. Picture books...............To have a red rose. Multum in Parvo.............To be police matron. Long braid..................To be bright. Silence ....................To get her diploma. Pink cheeks.................To marry a farmer. Fear of boys................To become an old maid. Her braids..................More braids. Eating fudge................To learn American History. Originality ................To grow tall. Talking ....................To be not introduced as “her father’s daughter. Discussing prizefighters... .To get married. . Pumping Mr. Touton........To change her name. Taking care of the overflow from Mo. and Kansas....To go to Mo. (?). . Teasing Miss Von I’nworth.To fall in love with some one. Thomas King.................To be heard. .Teaching Bonny to make To talk to the girls without chili ...... ............ blushing. . O. Henry..................To have a romance. . Physics ..................To take nine studies at once. .The South..................To go to Dixie again. . Bewithching with same. .. .To be a kindergarten teacher To study forever. .The baseball team..........To sing. .“Furor I.oquendi . .....Elias Garnett. Chas. Barbee. .Frowning ..................To be handsome. .Everything ................To succeed. .Being coy..................To meet Prince Charming. .To be taken for a man......To impress more people. .Taking Katherine to basketball games..................To keep on taking her. .Orating ...................To love Vergil. .That oration...............To be a nurse. .Reporting to Miss Bain. . . .To finish her fiction-readifig. .History ...................To blush no more. .Talking about Clyde........To follow in Clyde’s foot- steps. .To be called dignified.....To do some great good. ..Books ....................To look like her sister. .Basket ball................To go to Parkville. SENIOR OFFICERS. Will MoPherrln, Prophet. Roscoe Conkling, Sergeant. .Jeanette Latz, Critic. Meda M. Moore. Gift Giver. Ruth Van Horen. Historian. Gale G. Gossett. V-Pres. Joseph 12. Brown. Pres. Amelia Frauens Treas. Francis McCarty. Secy. A CHAVTE'R AXI) it conieth to pass. that, after much labor and iors; and they walk with much dignity and haugh-work. certain pupils in the school are called Sen-tiness through the halls: and great multitudes follow them, but they scorn them all. The teachers also come unto them saying, “Is it lawful for a Senior to put aside his lessons for any cause?” And the Seniors say unto them, “Have ye not read that he i: a fool who worketh when there is no need?” And said. “ e have studied and have spent much time but it profited us not.” But the masters were not content with such sayings, and there was much controversy upon the subject, but witn-out avail. For the Seniors are like unto a man full of wisdom and strong in argument, and no one is more wonderful than they. Unto ye all I speak. That whatsoever they bid you. that observe and do; for they say, and thus do they do. hen they arc given heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, they place them not upon other men’s shoulders, but they themselves do lift them by their own efforts. But all their works they do to be seen of the students; they make broad their wisdom, and help otic another. And they love to be uppermost in the thoughts of all, and to be called of teachers, () Sapientes, O Sapientes. May ye. () Juniors and Sophomores and Freshmen, become like unto these, for it hath been said of them for future days: onderful shall be the scientific, for theirs is the glory of invention. THE SEJ'flO'RS. Honored shall be the historians, for theirs is the reward of archaeology. I nderstood shall be the linguists, for theirs is the pleasure of speaking. Mighty shall be the athletic, for theirs is the power of strength. Happy shall be the unknowing ones, for theirs is the bliss of ignorance. At length there coineth a great clay for the Seniors, called Commencement Day. toward which there has been much longing because of the honor. Likewise there is weeping and wailihg for on that day will there be an end to the life of Seniordom. One year has their greatness endured, but this day is the summit of their glorv. For many months before there is great excitement and preparation, and a drawing of lots to see who shall be first before the faces of the people. Rut for some there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, a- they see themselves thrust out from the joy of that day: for is it not written. The way of the boastful Seniors is disappointment, but the way of the wise is graduation? And when all the people are assembled together on that last day. there is great rejoicing and much speaking. The Seniors are beautifully arrayed: the maidens are clad in white garments and the young men in black broadcloth. And there is singing and great clapping of hands. And soon every name is called and each receives a long, white roll, called a diploma, tied with beautiful blue and white ribbons. I hen doth it all end: and those who were called the Seniors pass on into the Kingdom of Life. HARK I FT THYYIXG. JUNIOR OFFICERS. David Hawkins, V-Pres. Ralph Bower, Sergeant. Charles Wilhelm. Treas. •Arvid Frank. Gift Receiver. Kowena Campbell. Critic. Chas. Woodbury. Treas. Marea Newby, Secy. TALE OF CONTENTS. Book I. Time, 1905-6. CHAPTER I. Class of ‘09 are introduced into Central life in September, 1905. They all look like promising lads and lasses. In fact, they exceed all students in mind, body and soul. CHAPTER II. They encounter the elevator, the “big red can,” and the sandwiches. Enough said. CHAPTER III. All teachers marvel at their wisdom and brilliant ways. All foresee that they are to be “The Class of Central’s Pride.” CHAPTER IV. Athletics.—Mr. Hamilton bestows numerous medals upon them as a reward for their valiant courage in fighting Old Central’s battles. Book II. Time, 1906-7. CHAPTER I. The class of ’09 returns to school laden with deep thoughts and brilliant hopes for the future. They look even wiser than before, if such a thing could be. CHAPTER II. They bestow valuable and timely warnings upon the breshmen, who sorely need such warnings and advice. 1 hey are respected, yea, even idolized by the poor vernal little class of 10, as well as by the Juniors and Seniors of this time. CHAPTER III. They become candidates for societies. A mad rush for I he Class” ensues. Many Juniors and Seniors of this age sadly defeated by members of the ’09 bunch. A few societies are fortunate enough to secure members. UHE JUjIIO'R r. Book III. Time’ 1907-8. CHAPTER I. Again this famous class returns with bright and cheering faces, ready to bear their burdens through the year. 1 hey are continually looked up to for examples of good deeds in brain and brawn, on account of their former experiences. CHAPTER IT. I hey win in contests of ev'ery kind and gain so many rewards that every other class begs their help in their own little minor contests. Seniors are. of course, defeated by Juniors in all struggles between the two classes. Cl I APT KR III. Athletics.—So many trophies are won by the Class of ’09 that especial meetings of Assembly Hall have to be called every week to present them to the school. Plans for a new trophy case are now being made to hold further cups, etc. CHAPTER IV. Forecast for the next year: More wonderful class in e er way than the present or any other Senior class. Great things are expected of the Juniors and are sure to be fulfilled. List of Illustrations. 1 As the Class of ’09 were enrolling for the first time they were surrounded by a throng of admiring Seniors” ...................................Book r 2. The Big Sophomore was leading two small vernals through the great mysterious recesses of the Assembly Hall” ................................. Book II 3- 1 he Coach of the basket ball team was proudly pinning three medals for bavery on the coat lapel of each gay Junior .........................Book III ELIZA KIMBALL. ’09. Sophomore 'Report to K_if I WAS sitting alone, when suddenly a brilliant light streamed across the room. 1 he ray trembled as it fell across my face, and caused my eyes to raise themselves to the sun. At first I was dazzled by the force of the light, and 1 saw nothing but the ball of fire, but presently my vision cleared and that which 1 heretofore had known as a sunbeam became a flight of stairs. I hey were the color of gold, but so polished that they shone like diamonds. C.reat was my surprise, but yet there was more to come. Ascending these stairs of light, was a herald in brass tinted dress. A handsome brass colored plume was in his hat and cloak of the same shade was over his shoulders. 11 is appearance was charming, yet commanding, as he doffed his soft hat and stood ready to speak. May 1 inquire if you are of the Class of to whose wisdom shines forth in Central High School?” came in a clear voice. “1 am.” I replied, rather proudly. With a pleased smile and more confidential manner he began: I suppose 1 had better explain why I am here before I ask more questions. W ell. you see all bright things receive their brilliancy from a source. This being true, you may the more readily see why it is that the Sophomores of Central are in a measure related to the sun. We acount them in the palace records as a sunbeam, whose duty it is to illuminate Central. Of course, you know green things, like Freshmen, must have sunshine to grow. I here-fore the Sophomores exist. The Juniors and Seniors have both passed through this stage, otherwise they would be no better than the Freshmen. Now of course the King of the City of Brass, which is the capital of the sun. keeps an account of the standard of the Sophomores, and the amount of good they are doing. I have been sent by this same king to hear the report for 1908. so. if you can tell me some few facts, I will be pleased to inform his majesty.” ? of the City of 'Brass. ‘I_ I hardly know where to begin,” I faltered, realizing that it was a big proposition to tell of the greatness of my class. W ell.” he answered, “I have a few questions which I generally like to have answered. IIow is your class looked upon by the Seniors?” “Ah, it is with compassion, sympathy, and condecend-ing interest. Little do they realize how strong is our light, for they are too busy thinking about themselves. It is true, however, that, though the Senior intellectual bulb swells at contest time, it seems to be full of air when the head-light, the Sophomores, looms in sight.” So the Juniors seem still to be out of the game?” came next. Well, the facts of the case are that the Juniors arc so sure that they are almost Seniors, and yet so ignorant, that the Sophomores are still in existence, that they are not worth mentioning,” 1 replied truthfully. How about the Freshmen, are they doing nicely?” To be sure.” 1 nodded encouragingly, they are growing so well in our sunshine that by next year they will be blooming Sophomores, an honor to their class. “Then 1 gather from what you have said that the iqios are the brightest, strongest and most remarkable pupils in school,” he remarked, thoughtfully. Yes, I can easily understand how that can be. considering the utter stupidity in the rest of the classes.” His grave face broke into smiles as he continued. Your answers will please his majesty, the king, for they most certainly show that the Sophomores are a fit relation of the sun.” With a gallant adieu, he suddenly turned and started up the steps, but. as I watched, the light faded as quickly as it had come, and again I stood alone. Now, however. I was prouder than ever of the wonderful class of Sopho- KATHRYN GENTRY. mores. F'RESHMEJW- THE class of '11 is composed of what is known this year as “Freshies but when next year comes and vve are “safe, safe in the Sophomore field. then it v ill be the 12‘s that are the “Freshies of old Central. At present vve take algebra, physiology and all of the other first year subjects, but one consolation is that we are not the only ones that arc taking algebra, at least, for there are some people who have been going two and three times as long as we have and who are still taking algebra I. It is true that at first we had some little difficulty in going around the halls with an unconcerned look upon our faces. But now that we are becoming used to the dignified ways of the Seniors, the cool hauteur of the Juniors, and the artless chatter of the Sophomores, we feel that we are to be congratulated on having none of these characteristics. A few things about Central are natural wonders to us; for instance, the janitors. Seemingly their use is only to bother the “fussers and to cry “shift to the “loafers. Another is the fire-escape, which we have observed is more often dusted by Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors and teachers than by any of our number. We used to have a Freshman class organization, but as some of those who did not get an office felt so hurt, we have decided to let the Sophomores. Juniors and Seniors have the only class organizations. Some wise Sophomore has said that only ten per cent of the Freshmen are able to escape the penitentiary or the asylum for the weak minded. W e know, however, that the CLASS OF 'll. Sophomores are not honored with their class name in the locals as often as we are. These people will also notice that we did not call the Luminary office an elevator, or get lost as often as they did last year. This fact proves that we are the best Freshman class that has ever lighted up the halls of Central with their youthful brilliancy. We still have a few green ones among us though, for it is a known fact that a small girl in Study Hall held up her hand and broke the silence by calling out Teacher several times. 1 lowever, sonic of us have never made a worse mistake than to make a wrong turn in the halls, since the new annex has begun to darken them, and it is whispered around school that even the Seniors only avoid collisions by letting their superior knowledge light up the way. We have noticed that some of the Seniors are going to leave us. Js it because they think they could not run the school so easily with our class as Sophomores? We are not quite conceited enough to think this. We look up to the Seniors, as a matter of custom, not duty. But we will congratulate them on the fine examples they have set for us younger ones. The chief ambition of most of the Freshmen is to become more high and mighty than the seniors, more self-important than the Juniors and worse “bluffers than the Sophomores. LYLE HAYES. X. B. This year we have been watching and waiting hut watch out for us next year. EDITORIAL When we arrive at the end of our school year it is productive of a certain amount of pleasure or pain to look back over that year and see what we have done, or what we have left undone. If the realization of victory is enjoyable, we of Central need not fear any pangs of disappointment for the events of the year, for Central has seen unbounded success. In contests of intellectual ability she has swept everything before her. ()f the six prizes offered to pupils of the entire state. Central has received four. Mr. Meade Woodson won the gold medal. Miss Amelia Frauens won the silver medal, and Miss Marian Rider won the bronze medal in the “Sons of the Revolution” essay contest. competing against a large number of contestants from all parts of Missouri. Mr. Kenneth Tapp won the scholarship offered by the t niversity of Missouri to all the high schools of the state for the best debate delivered in Colum- bia on “High School Day. Mr. Henry O’Brien, against all the high schools of the West, took the University of Chicago scholarship for the best examination in mathematics. So much for state contests. In this city there were three prizes oferec! for the best essays on the art exhibit held here recently. Of these. Miss Ethel Wcngcrt received first prize, and Mr. George Hayward third prize, both pupi’s of Central. But Central students have been active within the school also, 'l'he prize offered by the Daughters of the Revolution for the best essay on “The Santa Fe Trail was won by Miss Amelia Frauens. The Christmas play was produced by Central pupils under the direction of Messrs. Dillenbcck and Gordon. Throughout the year students have in a large measure supplied the weekly assembly programs. The various society and club entertainments and the miscellaneous programs have been instructive, as well as enjoyable, 'l'he inter-society contest, the culmination of the society work was a great success, both as to enthusiasm and as to intellectual merit. However, not only in the intellectual field has Central been successful. She has surpassed other schools in athletics. also. She won the basket-ball championship, and the track championship over her sister schools. e may be justly proud to have been members of Central during the past year. May she continue to surpass is our greatest desire. The time has come when a large body of pupils is to leave high school, never to return as a body of students. W e cannot prophesy the future events of their lives. e cannot say whether they will be successes or failures. e cannot know. W e do know, however, that if failure shall be their portion, they shall have no one but themselves to blame. We know, also, that they will have to bear that failure for themselves. College is a place for men and women; the business world is a place for men and women; and whether these seniors become college students, or whether they go into the commercial world immediately, they must be men and women. They must be ready to encounter and solve much harder problems than they have encountered in school. They must be ready to bear greater glory than they have borne in school, and to bear greater defeat than they have borne here. We feel sure, however, that this class will breast the tide, and will come out victorious, as it has over the trials during this last year. November. Sales ...... Advertising . A Statement of The Finances of The Luminary. RECEIPTS. •$ 55-35 . 76.00 February. Sales ...... Advertising RECEIPTS. Total ......................... EXPENDITURES. Printing ......................... Engraving ....................... Miscellaneous Expenses ... ....... Total ......................... December. R ECEII ’'I'S. Sales ............................ Advertising ..................... Total ......................... EXPENDITURES. Printing ......................... Engraving ........................ Miscellaneous Expenses ........... Total ......................... January. RECEIPTS. Sales ............................ Advertising ...................... Total ......................... EXPENDITURES. Printing .......................... Engraving ......................... Miscellaneous Expenditures ........ $'3'-35 $ 80.50 7.C)8 -4-75 •$ 93-23 $ 55-75 9,-5° $147-25 $ 98.45 9.80 10.60 . .$118.85 $ 51.00 • 79-50 $130.50 $ 95-35 10.85 . 6.90 $113.10 Total ......................... EXPENDITUR ES. Printing ................ Engraving ........................ Miscellaneous Expenses ........... Total ......................... March. RECEIPTS. Sales ............................ Advertising ...................... Total ......................... EXPENDITURES. Printing ......................... Engraving ........................ Miscellaneous Expenditures ....... Total ......................... April. RECEIPTS. Advertising ...................... EXPENDITURES. Printing .......................... Engraving ......................... Miscellaneous .................... Total .......................... Total balance for year.......... $ 49-35 58.50 $107.85 $ 82.80 18.25 5-30 $106.35 $ 46.75 109.50 .$156.25 $ 0.00 18.72 5.20 .$113.92 •$ 73-5° $141.62 22.52 12.50 Total $176.64 24.61 THE SOCIETY OF LITERATURE AND HISTORY. Ralph Rowers Florence Benthrup Cecile Burton Robert Campbell Margaret Cameron Newell Charde Gladys Comstock Grace Comstock Lewen Donaldson Mary Derby MEMBERS. Neal Harper Fleeta Donaldson Nelson Hill Alma Fernald Harriet Hawley Ruth Hoff lander Gertrude Mickadeit Nora Millard Harry .Jacobs Charles King Nyda Miller Price Patterson Lilian Monahan Frank Slezak Ned St eel Marea Newby Ethel Paul Eva Thayer Norwin Vaughn Gertrude McKee OFFIC KItS. Lillian Mon oh an Marry Jacobs Cecile Burton Norwin Vaughan Kva Thayer Florence Sentrup Newell Charde V. W. Douglass President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer . . Clitic Samuel Luerecius Historicus. . f ergeant-at-Arms Advisor l VISION OF That cloudless afternoon the air seemed charged with intense excitement. Groups of men talking eagerly, stood about the streets. Their subject was their countryman. Herodotus, the “bather of History, famed throughout Persia. Asia Minor and all Greece. The people moved toward the bema. for Herodotus was to speak. l ong before the orator came the stand was surrounded hv an eager throng, as all Athens wished to hear the story-teller. Slowlv. appealing to his listeners’ pride, their conceit. Herodotus pictured to them the past. lie saw their eyes flash as he told them of the escape from the tyrants. He watched their muscles tighten as he repeated the story of the victory of Salamis. Then he began to speak of the present. but at once the interest lessened. These people realized their own greatness: they felt their importance. 'The desired to hear of some new achievement. Perceiving their restlessness, he told them of a future Golden age, in which an intellectual, moral and social standard would be established by the Greeks for all nations. Again, the crowd grew quiet, for they had not known this. 'J'he speaker paused for a moment. Then he told them more of the vision of the future which had come to him. He saw. far down the centuries, in an immense city, a school Yell: Boom-a-laca. Boom-a-laoa. Sls-boom-bah, S. L. H., S. L. H.. Rah. rah. rah. Colors- Purple and White. THE FU U'RE. composed of pupils, neither Greek nor Persian. He could not tell of what nationality they were. In this great school, in 1893. a date he could not understand, he saw a chosen lew standing apart from the rest. These passed into one of the school rooms, where they organized a society for the study of literature and history. As he watched the new society progress, he saw it become a power among the other societies of the school. Now and then the others would disband, and new ones would spring up to take theii places, but still this one society lived on, growing in membership and strength. Each year more members were added. Next. Herodotus noticed that in this far-off time, even beyond another date he dimly say. 1908. this society would study Greek literature: would study Greek history. Al! were listening intently now. Could a surer proof of their greatness be offered than that, after years of which they knew nothing such an organization as this “Society of Literature and History’ should study them? Herodotus had finished. He had shown these people their greatness in the past, present and future. Slowly they left the bema amid cries of Herodotus’ and “long live the ’Society of Literature and History!’ ’’ MARK A XKW BY. 09. THE ARISTONIAN SOCIETY. 32 i Inez Andrus Lillian Ball Beryl Blanchard Lucia Bowen Edmund Burke Stella Case Freda Dietrich Catherine Elliot Bonita Ferguson Florence Fleming Amelia Frauens Kathryn Gentry Gale Gossett Hazel Harbour MEM BE US. Genevieve Herrick Louise Jenkins Dorothy Kitchen Bessie Marshall Charlotta Marshall Katherine Martin Edith McDonald Margaret McElroy Margaret M iddlecoff Imogene Murdock Genevieve Nowlin Mabel Nowlin Adella Pepper Lillie Runyan Harriet Scofield Miriam Scofield Bertha Teasdalo Isabel Thornes Janet Vandewater Ruth Van Doren Marie Webster Martha Whittemore Arzelia Willson Elizabeth Willson Cecile Woods Miss Morgan OFFICERS. Yell: Gale Gossett....................President Ruth Van Doren . Vice-President Mabel Nowlin .... Secretary Imogene Murdock . Treasurer Beryl Blanchard .... Phobeia Stella Case . . . Sergeant-at-Arms Adella Pepper .....................Critic Miss Morgan......................Chaperon Yangstikiang. kiang. kiang, Allagobang, gobang, gobang. Hullabalet! Hullabalet! Aristonian, Violet! Motto: Non quis sed quid. Flower: Violet. THE yi'RlSZ50FI l}4 r In a knightly hall in clays long past A minstrel sang his song of war; But the ladies, weary of legends drear. Sighed for a lay of peace and rest. So with wandering hands the harp he struck, And this is the song he sang: The violet’s a dainty flower, It grows in lowly places; And he alone discovers it Who through the glade slow paces. It bows its modest head so low Beneath its curling leaves, W e must bend low that we may catch The fragrance which it breathes. For with that perfume, rare and sweet, Come thoughts of a high, pure life. One spent, perhaps, in some distant place For others lightening strife. Like to this flower should women be, In all things sweet and pure, That by their deeds of thoughtfulness All sorrow they may cure. The violet’s a dainty flower, With fragrant face of blue. And with its sprightly cheerfulness, It gives us hope anew. The singer ceased, and all were still, When a lady spoke, in thoughtful tone: As the echo died with a low, sweet sound, ‘‘Let us always wear this little flower, Embodiment of hope and love; Star of the earth, which typifies The blue of royalty in the skies. With one accord, each lady there For her favorite flower did the violet wear. So now our Aristonian flower Is a source of inspiration high. From it we learn that what we do Is more important than what we are. By deeds alone we strive to show That our aim is ever for the best, And that if toward the best we look, Our lives will ever onward go. As years pass by o’er Central’s halls And new souls seek her knowledge-store, May the little flower of minstrel-lore Be a power for good in Central’s walls. CATHERINE ELLIOTT. ’08. CENTRAL WEBSTER CLUB. 34 Joseph E. Drown Meade Woodson Edmund Field William McPherrin Francis McCarty Harry Ghormley Harry Owen John C. Musselman Arvid Frank MEMBERS. Charles Wilhelm Mr.. C. H. Xowlin Mr. E. E. Rush Clarence Milton Stanley Clausen Lloyd Charlesworth Russell Colton Hale Cook George H. Edwards Clarence Mooney Theodore Misselwitz Henry R. O'Brien Frank Siegrist Clarence Tinmnus Roscoe Wallis Horace Mitchell Earl Moore Yell: OFFICERS. Meade Woodson .... President Charles F. Wilhelm Vice-President Clarence Connor .... Secretary Roscoe D. Wallis .... Treasurer Horace Mitchell . . Sereant-at-Arms Francis McCarty....................Critic Charles F. Wilhelm . Scriptor Mr. C. H. Nowlin .... Advisor Rip rap. Strip strap. Sis! Room! Ah! Webster! Webster! Rah! Rah! Rah! Colors: Red and White. Flower: Carnation. Motto: In Vestigiis Ma:;imorurj. UHE W'E'BSTE'RJ “In Vestigiis Maximorum.” THIS is the motto under which the Central Webster Club was organized, and surely there has never in Central been a club which has more consistently and faithfully lived up to its motto. As long as the Club has been known to the students of Old Central, just that long have its members done more than their share toward bringing honor to the school. This is true not only in a literary way. but also in all the branches of school life. I'o satisfy yourself as to the truth of this statement, turn your attention to any of the school activities and find there is not one in which the Club is not represented. When the results of the Luminary election became known last fall, it was found that the Editor-in-Chief. the Mathematics Editor and one of the business managers vvere Websters. When the selection of the Christmas play cast was made, five Websters secured places, three of these being important. Js it to be wondered that the Christmas play was such a success, in spite of the fact that the cast had only three weeks’ preparation? Another habit members of this Club have acquired is that they always manage to get the highest honor that comes Central’s way m the Son’s of the Revolution contest. Three years ago Central won the silver medav—that is, a Webster won it. Two years ago Websters captured the gold and silver medals. Last year a bronze came to a Webster, and thijJ year we got the gold medal through the efforts of Mr. Woodson. When Mr. Cammack made the statement that Central’s share was usually all. lie might have said, by way of explanation, that to a large extent this meant the Webster's share was usually all. The Club also has a better representation in the class elections and in the athletic Interests of the school than any other f the societies. The question that now arises is: What is the reason for these successes; why is it the Websters are always at the top in everything? As an answer it might be said that it is due mainly to the training received, to the spirit of enthusiasm and co-operation that exists amongst the members. At the meetings, programs carefully planned and prepared, are given on the great masterpieces of literature and art. Questions of the day are discussed in oration and debate. Coupled with this is a spirit of brotherhood and determination whose force few obstacles resist. These, then, are the reasons why the Central Webster Club has accomplished so much, and why it has set such a pace that the other societies have fallen far behind. Truly, they, too. arc likewise following “In the footsteps of the Great.” WILL L. McPHERRIX. ’oS. CENTRAL SHAKESPEARE CLUB. Marie Brown Charles Davis Wendell Fifield Charles Garnett Hugh Guy Kthel Haldeman Gretchen Hansen David Hawkins Harold Hillgardner N'ora Jack Mary Jennings Jeannette Latz MEMBERS. Ottie McNeal Frances Meservey Raymond Moore Beulah Murphy Edna Oakley Patti Page Mabel Poston Elizabeth Sellon Boss Slaughter Effie Timanus Lenora Warneson Florence Wingert Scott Young John Linger Ewing Boone Margaret Needles Bessie Vance Lois Gresham Oka Thomas Elias Barbee Donald Allison Helen Fairlamb OFFICERS. Harold Hillgardner Gretchen Hanson Marie Brown John Unger . Patti Page Elias Barbee I,. Wendell Fifleld President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Critic Sergeant-at-Arms Didaskalos yi FULFILLED (Apologies to IT had been a day of celebration in London. Queen Elizabeth had just recovered from her monthly attack of gout, and a holiday had been decreed by a loyal and grateful parliament. An extra evening performance of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” had been put on the boards at the Globe Theatre (open under new management. with an all-star cast, at popular prices.) But now. the scene of merriment was changed. The beautiful twilight of a summer’s eve had slowly faded. I lie last loiterer had retired from the free-lunch counter, and was slowlv wending his way homeward, occasionally embracing that friend in need, the lamp-post. Every few moments the song of a London tom-cat broke the stillness of the night and died away like the wail of some departed spirit. In the green room of the Globe I heatre. however, the scene was different. The all-star cast lounged about, listening to Pyramus and Thisbe “arguing over which was the best actor. At the end of the second round. Shakespeare “butted in” and called time. “There is no need of arguing the point any further, gentlemen. Three hundred years from now you’ll both be back-numbers, both in the gentle art of prize-fighting and that of acting,” said the immortal one. “Why so?” said Pyramus. Shakespeare gazed around the room for a few moments as if he were afraid that Ann Hathaway was lying in wait Yell: Brekkek-kek-kek-koax-koax. Brek-kek-kek-kek-koax-koax. Oop-Oop-Parabaloo! Shakespeare! Flower: Rose. Colors: Old Rose and Olive Green. Motto: I arn of the Wise and Perpend. T'ROVHECy. Bill Nye”) for him behind one of the doors, and then replied: “Well, you know that Professor Fondoosky, the great Hindu astrologer. dropped around to the performance this evening and. after the show was over, foretold a few things in return for a couple of comps. One thing he told was that I was immortal. I’ve known that, though, ever since I lived through that wiener-wurst sandwich of Mrs. Coll s. After taking another observation of the corners of the room, the immortal one proceeded. “An important thing which he told was about a club, named after me. in a high school in a country not yet in existence. He says it’ll be far in advance of all the rest, in 1908. Why, in that year, they’re going to play a part of this same Midsummer Night’s Dream’ so well that our little performance of this evening would look amateurish compared with it. And that won’t be the only time they show their abilities as actors, either. They’ll have four members in the Christmas Play cast. Then, think of the six gold medals they’ll win in the inter-society contest. And—’’ But just then. Ann Hathaway appeared in the doorway with a broom stick in her hand. At this the immortal poet, with a sheepish grin. said. “Just getting ready to come home, mv dear,” and beat a hasty retreat through the only other door. DAVID HAWKINS. 09. MINERVA LITERARY SOCIETY. :tx MEMBERS. Clara Walker Helen Vickers Gladys Man kin Dena Schliefsteine Winifred McMillan Mae Belle Bacon Beulah McMillan Beulah Addison Bva Williams Elsie Fischer Jennie Bayzman Lelah Hulse Cleo Abshire Blanche Richardson Ida J of fee Mary Levlte Bertha Moore Gertrude Woods Olive Corby Fay Prigmore Dorothy Van Deusen Elizabeth Cox Helen Carpenter Sarah Mitchell Gladys Corning Elizabeth Lavery Edith Grassley Sylvia McCarthy Helen Meriweather Lois Brooks OFFICERS. Yell: Bertha Moore....................President Mav Belle Bacon . . Vice-President Heien Vickers .... Secretary Jennie Baynman .... Treasurer Beula Addison......................Critic Elsie Fisher......................Pedagog Helen Carpenter Sergeant-at-Arms Are we nervy? Well I guess! M-i-n-e-r-v-a-s! Flower: White Rose. Colors: White and Green. Motto: We must work if we would win. UHE MINE'RVA T. Hear ye! Hear ye! Be it known that on the twenty-eighth dav of the month of November in the year of our Lord 1906. there gathered together in Central High school a group of sober, solemn, studious girls, who. seeking for a name most appropriate, chose that of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom. True to its god-mother, this precocious society, when only six months old, started its career by winning the gold medal for declamation in the inter-society contest. Then in their second year they doubled their membership. To live up to their name for wisdom, considering the quickest way to their goal, the members sagely took up the study of fiction in the literature of their own country. With a pedagog to direct them, chosen from among the members. the society is weekly becoming wiser in a knowledge of American fiction by an acquaintance with Poe, Holmes and Hawthorne. On account of their youth, having nothing to which they can look back the Minervas have optimistically adopted the motto of Look Forward, Not Backward. ■ Already in the first foothold, they are preparing not only to follow the older societies, but also some day to carve their name higher than any of the others. They have made a good start by their assembly hall programs and hope by diligent society work to make their position firm. With a bright future before them, they intend yet to make themselves a society to which old Central can point with pride. EVA WILLIAMS 09. INTER-SOCIETY CONTEST WINNERS. Mabel Nowlin. '08. Gale G. Gossett. '08. Mildred M. Bell. ’08. Raymond I. Moore. ’09. Florence Wlngert. ’08. Jeanette Latz. 98. Amelia Frauens, 08. Miriam Scofield. '08. Edna B. Oakley. W. Edmund Field. ’08. Wendell Fifield. ’OS. Ottie McNeal. 08. I TE R SOCIETY CONTEST. Central very closely approaches a college in the educational line. The most “college spirit shown throughout the year is at the Inter-Society Contest. As the banners, yells, ribbons and songs come floating into the hall those assembled burst into a spontaneous applause, for they know that these people arc going to fight for their societies. The reputation of their societies’ work is at stake. The attendance and attention were both splendid this year. The attention, however, was impelled for the physical contest of “out-yelling the others was frantically maintained until the chairman. L)r. Hewett. called order for the intellectual contest. Every contestant did so well that the task of the judges was more difficult than at any previous inter-society contest. The orations, which covered a broad field of study, were all very interesting. Then, after an intermission foi yelling, we were shown the pros and cons of the labor union question. The declamations took us from the modern “Pettison Swings and the “Thousand Quilt, to “Tous-saint L’Ouverture and the time of “King John and the “I.ady of Shalot.” The contest in essay, story and original verse had been decided previously. The northeast corner of the hall was rent with screams when the gold medal in oration was awarded to Jeanette Latz; then the joy spread to the other corner when the silver medal was given to Miriam Scofield. This process was repeated, with greatly increased vim. when the gold medal for debate was given to Wendell Fifield; again the Ariston-ians rejoiced with the silver medal for Mildred Bell. The Shakespeares began playing Jumping Jack when Edna Oakley received the gold medal in declamation; the Aristonians arose with one glad scream when Mable Xow-lin received the silver medal. The other societies were expectantly sighing for their turn, when the essay of Florence Wingert was awarded first medal, and Amelia Frauen second. By this time the Shakespeares and Aristonians were supposedly supremely happy. But when the story of Ottic Me Neal was given the gold medal their joy knew no bounds. The Websters indulged in sonorous yelling v hen Edmund Field was presented with the silver medal. All were struck with wonder when the sixth gold medal was given to the Shakespeares. Raymond Moore won the gold medal in original verse, and Gale Gossett the silver. One of the greatest values of the inter-societies contest to the school is the good-natured rivalry which it encourages. Long live this spirit at Central! MED A M. MOORE. CHRISTMAS PLAY CAST. Dwight H. Muekley. Francis McCarty. Joseph E. Brown. Harry Owen. Will McPherrin. Wendell Fifield. Chas Garrett Mildred M. Bell. Jeanette Latz. Kenneth Trapp. Ruth Van Doren. Marea Xewby. GHE CHTUSTMAS TLAY. (According to a Letter Written by a Senior.) Oh. yes: I promised to tell you about the Christmas play of naught seven, and of the fourteen people who called themselves the ‘all-star cast of ‘She Stoops to Conquer,’ Oliver Goldsmith’s delightful comedy. The unforeseen difficulties attending the rehearsals of the play made it doubly hard for the participants, who rehearsed twice a dav. The school showed its appreciation of their effort by filling the house for the two nights it was presented. It was the best play I have ever seen given by amateurs. But now really, they were not amateurs. There is Joseph Brown, who put into the part of Mr. Hardcastle the charming hospitality and geniality which is so natural to him. Although Mr. Hardcastle may have bored his guests, who mistook his home for a public inn, with stories of the Duke of Wellington, Joe in no way bored the audience, who were intensely amused at his actions. The important part of Tony Lumpkin, a riotous 'squire who is the darling of his mother, as well as of the village tavern, w as sustained by Kenneth Tapp, whom none will deny admirably suited to portray this eiroyaijlc character. lie seemed thoruoghly at ease, and his voice was splendid. The way in which he drawled out ‘Now mamma. will always be remembered by those who saw the play. “Then, again, how about Meade Woodson’s being an amateur? If you had seen the keen appreciation of the character of young Marlowe, lover of Miss Hardcastle, which he showed in his acting, you would have said. ‘Behold. a second Sothern.’ His voice was suited to the part, and his bashfulness and audacity as a suitor w-erc both delightful. The character of Hastings, lover of Miss Neville and friend of Marlowe, as portrayed by John Rafferty, exceeded our fondest hopes. He looked handsomer than ever in his white satin costume, and succeeded in overcoming his ac- customed reverse. Charles Garnett, as Diggory. the Hardcastle man-servant, showed his cleverness for that kind of a role. He did not overdo the part, but made it very amusing. Harry Owen, as Sir Charles Marlowe, had a splendid voice, and lent the right amount of dignity to his impersonation. The scene which caused the most laughter among the audience was the riotous scene at the ‘Three Pigeons.’ which was participated in by Francis McCarthy, who as the portly in-keeper, was hardly recognizable; Will Mc-Pherrin, Dwight Muckley and Wendell Fifield and Harry Owen. The toasting song of Tony was exceedingly well given. “The ‘eternal feminine in this play was taken by Jeanette Latz, Ruth Van Doren. Mildred Bell and Maria Newby. The difficult character of the elderly Mrs. Hardcastle who wants her way in all things, was exceedingly well interpreted by Jeanette Latz. who looked the part in her makeup. Despite the fact that she was just recovering from a severe illness, her acting was splendid, and the tone of her voice very clear. -The heroine. Miss Hardcastle, was portrayed by Ruth Van Doren. who. both as barmaid and lady, wis irresistible. She made the most of the scenes with Marlowe, as the dignified daughter of the house, fairly glorying in his bashfulness. After planning to disguise herself as barmaid. Miss Hardcastle is made all that Goldsmith intended her to be, bewitching and tantalizing. “That of the demure, coquettish Miss Neville was taken by Mildred Bell, whose playful coaxing air around her cousin. Tony, were altogether pleasing. It was very amusing to see her trip behind Tony Lumpkin. Maria Newby was very charming as the maid of the Hardcastle household. So much for the Christmas play of 07. the like of which I shall never look upon again.” I. T. OUR LUMINARY COVERS. LUMINARY DECEMBER 07 _______ - � ■ LVM1MARY Janvary 1908 9 v ENGLISH FACULTY. MR. A. F. SMITH. MISS SOPHIA ROSEN BERGER. .V ISS ANNA WOLFSON. MR. W. W. DOUGLAS. MISS NORA GENTRY. MISS ELLEN E. FOX. MISS BERTHA RAIN. HE PASSING FRESH flowers! Six sous a bunch!” As the sweet, young voice rose above the cries of the French venders on the crowded avenue, Madame Cordclle turned inquiringly. “You are English?” she asked, addressing the owner of the voice, a small, fair-haired boy in one of the booths. “English and French, Madame. I speak both tongues; but here on the avenue, where so many English and American tourists walk. I speak their language.” “Ah, 1 see.” replied Madame, thoughtfully, “but your voice, 1 am interested in that. Do you ever sing?” The soft blue eyes grew moist as he answered, “Sometimes for mother. She has been ill a long time. When I sing to her she says she does not feel the pain. His pale lips trembled, and with almost a sob, he murmured: “Did Madame wish some flowers?” Madame did wish the flowers. She also wished to know more about this sensitive child, so fair and delicate, who sold flowerson the streets of Paris, and who had the sweetest voice she had ever heard. Madame, herself, was a prima donna, and an excellent judge of voices. She asked wlire he lived, that she might call to see the sick mother, and also to hear him sing. The next day she found them in one of the cheapest districts, up six flights of stairs, the little mother slowly dying of consumption, and the boy hovering lovingly round her bed. The invalid gladly welcomed the visitor, saying that Pierre had told her about the grand lady who had promised to come to see them. She was worse today, she explained, and the child begged to stay at home with her. Between spells of spasmodic coughing she told Madame Cordclle her sad story. She had been an English orphan, dependent upon the charity of her guardian. When she was nineteen years old he sent her to Paris to study music. OF A VOICE. Here she met and fell in love with a poor French painter, Darency by name, and finally married him, against her guardian’s wishes. For five years there was a fierce struggle against poverty, and then, wearily laying aside his brush forever, the husband left his young wife with her three-year-old son to labor alone in the wide world. That had been seven years before. It was even worse now. Bowed down as she was with disease, she could no longer do the plain sewing that had been her only maintenance. The few sous earned by Pierre with his flowers on the avenue barely paid the rent and kept them from starving. The mention of Pierre brought tears to the mother’s eyes, and laying her hand on his soft curls, she said: Ah. Madame Cordelle. I pray to God each day that I may live until my boy is older. He is so young to leave alone in this world. But the heavenly Father does all things for the best, and I cheerfully submit to His will. Mother, whispered the child, distressed by her tears, rest a little now. and let me sing for the lady. Then Pierre sang. When he had finished, the prima donna took his mother’s hand in her own and said: Madame Darency. you have cause to be proud of such a son. He has the most wonderful voice that I have ever heard. Oftentimes have I sung that same song in my concerts, but I shall never attempt it again. Such talent is remarkable for a child of his age. With your permission, I should like to place him under an old instructor here in 'Paris. I promise you that it will be worth while. Madame Cordelle had her way. At her own expense Pierre began work under the Master Schermein. and the little mother was placed in a comfortable home for invalids. Here the consumptive received some relieg through medical aid, but the doctors told Madame that the end was only a question of twelve or eighteen months. As the mother grew slowly but gradually worse, the prima donna noted with alarm that a great change was taking place in Pierre. He was nervous and melancholy by turns. W hen left to himself, he would impatiently walk the floor, or in a gloomy state of mind, would sit for an hour without speaking. He was never happy when not with his mother, and his mind seemed to be strangely interwoven with that of her own. One day while singing for the master one of his mother’s favorite songs, the little lullaby that she had so often crooned over her babe, and that he had as often sung to her in recent years, he suddenly stopped, and stretching forth his hands, cried piteously, Mother!” Then he fell into such a nervous fit of moaning and sobbing that Madame Cordelle, who chanced to be present, became frightened and called in a doctor. Nothing, however, seemed physically wrong with the child. Madame proposed that the lessons should cease for a time, and that he take a rest; but Pierre rebelled. He was not sick, he declared, and he wanted to sing. Indeed, his voice was the on thing about Pierre that did not change. His progress with Schermein was surpassing even what Madame had expected. A year passed, and Pierre’s night had come. The theater Opera was filled even to standing room. Madame Cordelle’s protege, the child singer, had drawn an audience that might have been the envy of Madame Cordelle sersclf. The overture ended. In the silence that followed little Pierre came forward, clad in a black velvet suit, his golden curls brushed back from his pale face. Somewhere a faint interlude began. Then a voice took up the dying note, a voice far in the distance, soft and pure. Nearer and nearer it came, until it rounded into a rich, low melody. The crowd sat breathless. Little Pierre was singing. Higher and higher the sweet voice mounted, pouring forth such joyous notes that one of Nature’s fair songsters would have hushed his own gay warbling to hear that glorious music. The song went on. The sweet voice never faltered, now rising, now falling, ever changing its harmonious path, and at last slowly dying away. It was over. For a moment there was not a sound. Then a thundering storm of applause burst forth that shook the very walls. Flowers rained over the footlights in profusion. No prima donna had ever touched the heart of Paris as had little Pierre. He recognized the wild enthusiasm with a timid bow. and then smiled half tremulously at Madame Cordelle and the master, who were sitting in a lower box. The latter looked very much pleased and proud, and Madame, exulting over her darling’s success, threw him an airy kiss. Cries of encore rang throughout the house, and again Pierre waited for the interlude. It was the old lullaby, and the first familiar words called to mind touching memories. The scene changed. No longer was he striving to please the master, Madame Cordelle or her brilliant friends; no longer was he singing for the grand nobility of Paris; no longer was he fighting some unknown power. A thin, pale face, marked by deep lines of suffering, rose before him. The patient look from those dear eyes were more to little Pierre than all the applaus of Paris. He sang—sang as he had never sung before. “While my little otic, while my pretty one, sleeps.” It was the voice of an angel. The sweet, low strains were full of pity, strains so sorrowful that the little heart seemed breaking. Shaking with emotion, the apepaling voice kept on. The audience was in tears. The master had covered his face with his hands, and Madame’s form shook with stifled sobs. “Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother’s breast----” The voice broke. Raising his hands beseechingly toward the mystic face, and putting his whole soul into that one beloved word, he cried ‘Mother!” and fell fainting to the floor. From an upper story of Place Vemlome Madame Cor-tlelle had thrown back the hinged windows, that the first thing Pierre might see on waking would be the garden of the Tuilcries. green with its new spring foliage. The boy lay on a couch, drawn close to the window. The palce face on the pillow was thinner than it had ever been before, and the hand on the coverlet was so very frail and small. At last, the eyelids quivered and the soft blue eyes looked around inquiringly. Am 1 still sick. Madame?” Then not waiting for a reply, he rose on his elbow, and gazed long and intently through the open window. Then pointing with one tiny finger, he said: “Over there is the avenue. I used to sell flowers there. Fresh flowers.” he muttered absntly: six sousa hunch. I saw you thre one day, Madame, and you asked if 1 sang. How long has it been since T did sing. Madame?” A Moonlight Trip MARSHALL IT was eleven o’clock at night—time for ns to start. Those who were to ride horses did not leave until a half hour later, but my cousin and I were going to walk the seven miles to the top of Long’s Peak ; so we left before the others. W e each carried two heavy sweaters and a hag of luncheon, consisting of two roast beef sandwiches, some oranges, some raisins, some raw peanuts, and a cake of nfilk chocolate. 'I'liis seemed a meagre supply for a fourteen mile trip up into perpetual snow, but if one eats t. Only a month. Pierre, she answered, silently brushing away a tear. “O, yes: 1 remember, now. A pained expression came over the little face. It was that night at the Opera-----. the night that mother died. For several moments there was silence. Then, passing his hand over his forehead in a dazed manner, he asked: hat was it she said. Madame, just before she died? I can’t remember what you told me. The nurse said that your mother suddenly exclaimed: ‘Hush! I hear music. It is Pierre. He is singing the lullaby. The lullaby,” repeated Pierre slowly, as his mind began to v.ander. “The lullaby. Then sitting upright, with his eyes staring into space, he began to sing: W hile my little one. while mv pretty one. sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest. Father will come to thee soon: Rest—rest— Mother! With a convulsed sob. the little form fell back lifeless upon the pillow. God had sent the angel mother as 11 is messenger. The voice was forever hushed. Up Long's PeaK.• XF.AL. ’o8. more, or takes any more drink than the oranges afford, his wind gives out. and he is not likely to reach the top. The first mile was along an ordinary dirt road, which rose gently. We made quick time along this stretch, soon coming to the end at an abandoned prospect hole. Here we struck an exceedingly steep trail, barely discernable as it wound over rough pointed rocks. We took a slow, steady pace, just fast enough to keep from becoming completely exhausted. This is necessary in mountain climbing, for if one goes fast for awhile, resting often, he will undoubtedly wear himself out. Our trail ran along through the dense pine woods, by a gushing mountain torrent, icy cold and clear. After following this for about two miles, we came to the first patch of snow, lying deep down in a valley. M ountain flowers and grasses grew to the very edge of the snow, offering, side by side, the unique contrast of winter and summer. We passed on, up, always up. The path began to grow much rockier, and the trees showed signs of great strife with the wind and cold. The whole mountain was a picture of hardship. The trees were horribly knotted and twisted and intertangled, with trunks a foot in diameter and four or five feet high. In evidence of its struggle, the mountain itself is known as Battle Mountain. Suddenly we emerged into the open. Not a tree was to be seen, except those below. This was the timber line, where all tree life ends. We were heartily glad to get away from the coyotes and the impenetrable darkness of the woods. Here it was almost as bright as day. The moon was superb. Never have I seen it so bright. We could easily read the print in a note book. As the altitude increased, our pace decreased. Still the horses had not caught up with us, and we were determined they should not, until we reached the place where they intended to stop. Up we went, snow patches all round us, and nothing else but rocks, everywhere rocks. This was the dullest part of the trip, and we were glad when, after a stiff pull, vve reached what is known as the Boulder Field. It is a huge expanse of broken rocks, thrown pell-mell in every direction. Some of these were as large as an ordinary room. The field is almost level, lying between two mountains, but it is very hard to cross because of its great roughness. Here we took the long looked for rest, while waiting for the others. It was now twelve forty-five, and five of the seven miles had been traveled, yet we knew it to be the easiest part. The trip across the boulder field was very tiresome. W e were forced to take the part of mountain sheep in making long leaps. At the further side came the first climb on Long’s Peak proper,—and it was a steep one too. Straight up, it led us to the Key Hole. At this point there is a long, narrow ridge, running between Long's Peak and another. On our side was the Boulder Field, on the other a canyon, at least fifteen hundred feet deep. The Hole itself is a rough break in this spine, the exact shape of an ordinary key-hole. On coming up to this, one gasps with astonishment. Three steps further on, and one would drop countless feet to stone and ice. The dim roar of hundreds of waterfalls is heard and long glaciers and frozen lakes are seen. This is truly called the Key Hole. It is absolutely the only way to get to the top of the peak, and it form a natural frame to the broad panorama of mountains stretching for miles to the Pacific Coast. From here we dropped by a faint trail to a lower level, and continued along this to the Trough, a natural gash in the side of the mountain. It is partly filled with ice. This is known as the next to the hardest climb of the trip. At an angle of sixty degrees it terminates in the clouds. It is about a thousand feet long with a rise of at least six hundred feet. VVe could barely crawl up this place. We were very tired, and the air was continually growing lighter, making it hard on the lungs. After an hour or so of hard work, we reached the top. Here we found another ridge almost exactly like the former. Again a beautiful sight met our eyes. Below us was another deep canyon. Our side was almost smooth and perpendicular. Once more we dropped down, this time on a narrow ledge, not more than two feet wide. On one side rose a straight wall of granite, and on the other a sheer drop of a thousand feet. This was the most dangerous part of the ascent. At places we had to proceed on our hands and knees to keep our hold. Towards the end of this ledge was a huge boulder, lodged directly in our path. This was where the courage of two of the party failed. To get round this obstacle, we had to reach up to a small crevice in the rock, and. with this scanty support, swing outward, over nothing, to the other side. Everyone hesitated, shaking with fear, but this was no time to turn back, so we took the chance, and were well repaid. A few rods ahead the trail came abruptly to a long flat slope at right angles with it. This is the Home Stretch. It is very steep, and its ascent is only made possible by hobnailed shoes and little gullies which offer footholds. Four o’clock and the summit! What a surprise. Instead of being round, as it looked from below, it is perfectly flat, covering tour acres. At every side, except the one on which we came up, the walls drop perpendicularly to a depth, in some places,, of three thousand feet. To the west, the north, and the south lay range after range of snow-capped mountains. A silvery haze floated Thomas Carlyle—His WITH the closing of the eighteenth century, came the mighty social upheaval of the French Revolution. A spirit of change was in the air which showed itself in many ways. In England it expressed itself in -the positive reaction against the artificial in life and in literature. One expression was in the works of the great over them all. To the east lay, flat as a piece of paper, the great plains, still but dimly outlined. Far out on them, probably sixty miles away, we could see the light of an engine. To the southeast, one hundred miles away, the lights of Denver twinkled. By this time the east had begun to grow lighter, although it was only four thirty o’clock. The clouds took on every imaginable, and everything began to as-sumea different hue. Soon the sun rose and every lake, thousands of them, at once reflected its golden rays. Back of us the snow became a rosy pink and the mist cleared. Once, while the clouds lifted in front of Pike’s Peak, we caught a glimpse of it. nearly two hundred and fifty miles distant. Soon the plains had become light, and we could see great patches, all of different colors, where cultivation was going on. By this time, as it was only four degrees above zero, we were very cold, so we rather regretfully began the descent. There was nothing exciting in our return. At ten-thirty o'clock we arrived at the hotel, a rather forlorn looking party. Ability' and Influence. prose writer, Thomas Carlyle, who fiercely denounced all “shams ’ arose to lament over the age like a prophet of Israel, and preached that men “should stand upon things, not the shows of things. Thomas Carlyle was born December 4. 1795 at Eccle-fechan, a small Scottish market town. His father. James Carlyle, was a frugal, prudent, and prosperous stone mason; his mother was a pious, just and wise woman. Before Carlyle was fifteen, he could read Latin and speak French fluently. He had learned a great deal of mathematics and a little Greek. He early realized that he could not be a minister, that law was distasteful. And while he gave up all ambition to be a teacher, he says: It is the usefulest and fruitfulest. and gave more scope for the grandest endowments of all professions. As a result, he took up literature. which, he says, is the worst profession, and only advisable under the penalty of death.” He was incapable of conscious unkindness; he never wrote a line he did not believe, nor ever swerved from his noble purposes. His great works include Sartor Kesartus, an attack on all social shams and mechanisms, and Heroes and Hero-Worship.” a paeon of praise for those who join sincerity with power. He also wrote the history of the “French Revolution. an example of his stereoscopic imagination, as Emerson calls it. Moral indignation against whatever is mechanical and false: moral enthusiasm for all that is sin- MARK. FLORENCE M. LET us take ourselves back.to a time when steamboats had not yet been superseded by railways, when the rivers had not yet ceased to be dotted with steamboats. rafts, and flat-boats. Let us take ourselves to a rude little pioneer village, famous at that time only for its quaint picturesqueness. The broad winding river, not far distant, with its delightful little islands, the cliffs, the glens, the caves, even the very rocks, made it a “joy forever. It was one of Nature’s beautiful creations. cere and great. underlie all of his work. With Byron, he is against convention; as Wordsworth and Shelly, an advocate of freedom of thought, and a lover of nature. He was a conscientious and tireless writer. In spite of the vein of harshness, his was a rare nature in his strength, earnestness, sincerity and profound sympathy. He stood his own test for a great man. Is he sincere?' He made men see the divine in commonplace things by his “prose poems. 11 is influence is clearly shown in the works of Charles Kingsley. Ruskin, Emerson. Dickens and even in those of Thackeray. As a writer Carlyle is placed alone by his inimitable style. One of the later critics says, that for good. Carlyle exerted through his literature a greater influence for ethical, religious and political beliefs, than any of his contemporaries: as a humorist, he has no superior, combining in himself what was best in Burns. Swift and Dunbar; as a master of the graphic in style, he has no equal in grasping and presenting in appropriate phraseology, the saliant points of personal character.” LUCIA BOWEN. TWAIJV. WIXGERT. 08. In this beautiful little place lived a crowd of harum-scarum boys, imbued with the spirit of adventure. Their favorite haunts, before school, after school, and even during school were sources of great pleasure to them. Their faces would light up with animations at the mention of the town lanyard or stone quarry. Their eyes would sparkle when talking of Soap Hollow with its traditional ghosts and uncanny night travelers. Their hears would thrill at the suggestion of a trip to Tom Sawyer’s Island down the river, tlie river which presented to them the fascinating pilot’s career, or to the cave, their cave, with all its mysteries. It was this same adventuresome gang of boys that has since brought fame to the little and heretofore obscure town, with its natural beauty, and with its deeply pervading restless spirit. We, however, are interested in the leader of this venturesome gang, the insignificant-looking youngster with startling red hair, and a face covered with numerous large, red freckles. Still there was one pleasing feature about the boy’s appearance, his dazzling bright eyes, which continually gleamed with fun and mischief, lie held the enviable position of storyteller among the crowd, for it was he. and he only, who could tell an interesting story in an interesting way. His remarkable ability to interpret stories in the drollest and cleverest way possible. made him a veritable hero with the boys. A few years hence, the frowsy-headed. freckled-faced leader, with his drawing words and inimitable mimicry. had attained his ambition to become a steamboat pilot. He struggled on until he had become familiar with every bend, point, and landing, in mist and fog. by day and by night, in the long winding course of the broad Mississippi. Then the black clouds of the Civil War began to darken the sky. River commerce began to dwindle. The young pilot, forced to give up his career as a river navigator, turned westward. He roughed it on the wild western plains and mountains. lie became a real factor in the life of that faraway sparsely settled country. Then began the career of this young man as a writer. There for the first time did people have the opportunity of reading and truly enjoying ‘genuine American humor, in all of its daring, extravagant, and capriciousness. The young writer then conceived of a great scheme, a plan whereby he might write a book which would later reflect upon himself great praise and glory. Accordingly he went on that memorable “Quaker City” excursion to the Holy Land, the accounts and descriptions of which he has developed into that wonderful book. Innocents Abroad, a book which has since made famous the name of its author. Mark Twain. Since then literature has been enriched. not only in America, but in other countries as well, by the productions of this great author. His writings usually comprise scenes and incidents of his own life. It was his early years that produced the material for the background of his works. It is his later years that have developed the material of the early years into master works of literature. It is true that his mind is no less susceptible to the figures and scenes of later life. However, it is the early figures and scenes that stand out conspicuously in his works. He has dwelt upon the scenes of his childhood as fond recollections presents them to view.” “Tom Sawyer,” the book which has never failed to please its readers, is repre- sentativc of this period. It teems with incidents relating to the author’s own life. It delights the young readers because of the thrilling adventures of the boys of Tom Sawyer's gang, of which Mark Twain’s own boy-hood gang was the prototype. It delights the old readers because of the happy reminiscences related therein, which afford the opportunity of pleasant retrospection. With this delightful book is classed another, as equally popular with all ages. “Huckleberry Finn.” It tells of the adventures of Huckleberry Finn and his negro companion, I ini. as they glide down the Mississippi, the one escaped from an unpleasant home, the other escaped from slavery. This simple narrative is an innovation among novels. It involves no purpose, no moral, no plot. Yet the book ranks as one of the most powerful novels of the English language. Xor have the experiences of the author, when as a youth he piloted ships on the Mississippi, been forgotten. He has told in his Life on the Mississippi” of the river as he remembered it in those pioneer times; he has told of the river as he saw it when cruising on it half a century later, lie has set forth the villages and towns, scattered along its banks, as he observed them when serving as a young steamboat pilot. He has described the same towns and villages, increased in size and importance, at a time when river commerce had been supplanted by railway traffic. It is a strange coincidence that the top of an Empire. the Kaiser of Germany, and the bottom of an Empire, the “portier” of the house in which Mark Twain was living. should declare on the very same evening that “Life on the Mississippi” was the best book the author had ever written. Mark Twain attaches great importance to these two criticisms. Me himself has said, “This is a coincidence which outcoincidences and coincidence which I could have imagined with such powers of imagination as I have been favored with.” A still different type of book is “Roughing It,” a book treating of wild wertern life. Jacquin Miller has given us a vivid description in verse of the grandcus of the western mountains. Bret IIarte has told 11s of the riotous California mining camps as he studied them. But Mark Twain has depicted for us the genuine pioneer life of which he himself was an actual part. We are presented with a distinct pen-picture of the prairie schooners as they slowly advanced over the vast plains. We obtain a most vivid idea of the country over which the desperadoes daringly held sway. We gain a graphic account of those hapless gold-hunters, as they dug. and dug in vain, for the much desired gold. Intermingled with the adventures are the resplendent descriptions of the sublime mountains, the grand rivers and cl nyons, the boundless plains. We as Missourians should be proud of the Missourian who has enrolled his name among those of the great men of letters of the world. We as Americans should be proud of the American who has become the one great humorist of the age. It has been said, and truthfully said, that the career of Mark Twain would have been impossible in any country other than America. Mis works also would have been impossible at any time other than the one in which he lived. Indeed, the world is satisfied with what Mark Twain has already done. Yet we do hope that the useful and pleasing career of this famous man may not soon end. FLORENCE M. WINGERT, ’08. ART DEPARTMENT FACULTY. 5H MR?. LEND RE D. COOKE. Art- Physical Culture. MR. PRESTON K. DILLENBECK. Elocution. MISS MIGXOX CROWDER. An. MR. GWILYM THOMAS. Music. MR. W. O. HAMILTON. Physical Culture. Department of Fine Arts and Design. KATHLEE? THE modern movement in every branch of art today is to make that branch of practical value in every day life. I hat is. to teach art in such a way that it develops good taste and good judgment, not only as to pictures and works of art. hut also to the ordinary things bv which one is surrounded. We find the courses of all progressive schools arranged with this aim in view. This has been the aim of our art department. Many means have been used to gain this end. Beyond doubt, however, design is the most beneficial and successful course in this direction. Beginning with the scientific color theory the underlying principles of color harmony are t. light. After this, come the principles of design based on the (� reek Relationship. These principles are first worked out in straight line designs, then on curved lines, using plants, insects, and animals as motifs. In coloring these designs the knowledge of the laws of color harmony is necessary. The pupils who began at the middle of the year have made some novel and very charming designs. These designs have been carried out in block printing or stenciling as was best suited to the design. 'This work leads directly to leather tooling and metal work. However, on account of a lack of time, space, and tools, comparatively little has been accomplished in this line. In order to proft bv and succeed in this work one does not need an artistic tempera- McNUTT, ’o8. ment and great ability. The only things which are absolutely necessary are originality, common sense and a desire to learn. Anotlier very interesting feature of our department is the Friday sketch class. With some pupil as a model we attempt to get the proportions of the figure. After this is accomplished, the model is posed to illustrate some violent emotion. The attention is then turned to getting the feeling of the pose and the spirit of the action. Charcoal work, cartooning and oil painting have received some attention. Since it is impossible to obtain a model, cast work is the only serious way in which to study form. 'I'he department was fortunate in getting some very interesting new casts. Phis year the art students have done most of the art work for the Luminary. This gave excellent opportunity to pupils especially interested along these lines, and was also a great help to the Luminary. Next year the Art Department will have rooms in the new addition. Special attention has been paid to fitting up a room with tools and apparatus for arts and crafts work. Since so much has been accomplished under the limited conditions we may reasonably expect to accomplish much more next year. . •S-fAk TlUrdull THE GLEE CLUB. MEMBERS. Ralph Bower. Harry Bound. Donald D. Allison. Ralph Adams. Dawson Campbell. Clarence Conner. .John P. Cooper. Henry C. Frischer. Xorvln Vaughan. Edmund Glessner. Abe Goldman. John Mussel man Earl Maloney. Harry Owens. Harry Stewart. Stewart Hanks Harold Woodbury Samuel Tilden. James Walker. John Cooper Harold Woodbury Donald Allison . Frank Welsh . President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer Dawson Campbell Karl Young . Katherine Payne Gwelym Thomas CEJ'tT'RAL GLEE CLUB. Come, weary stranger to old Central’s halls! Enter and hesitate upon your way. No longer, when sweet strains of music sound. Through silence deep, unto your wears ears. Remain, and listen to harmonious sounds. And leave all cares and troubles sore behind. Like ()rpheus’ train who heard his lyre’s sweet strains. Gay voices echo through the silent halls. Leaving no spot within for music lacking: Even the nearby streets are filled with sound: Even the children pause and stay to listen. Classic the songs they sing: and yet Light music too rings out upon the air. Until the singing ends.— Then go in peace. But keep old Central’s music fixed in mem’ry. DONALD ALLISON. ’09. . Sergcant-at-Arms . Librarian Accompanist . . Director THE CHORAL CLUB. OFFICERS. Sallle Bryan......................President Grace Dahn..................Vice-President Hazel Chanler....................Secretary Zetta Lewis Rosalie Flacy Katherine Payne Treasurer Librarian Accompanist Hattie Audlauer. Mabel Moreman. Sallle Bryan. Mildred Rogers. Hazell Chandler. Olive Cosby. Flossie Tweedale. Grace Dahn. Zetta IxjwIs. MEMBERS. Nellie Caleb. May belle Mayberry. Ola Trundle. Henrietta Jackson. Alice Blackman. Montie Storie. Orpha Robinson. Helen Glass. Mary Marmouth. Frances Bodington. Ana Stevenson. Rosalie Flacy. Helen Rowe. MUSIC. MYRTLE T111S year in Central we have had something new in a musical way. 1 his has been singing in Assembly by the music classes, and by the choral and glee clubs. The primary object has been to raise the artistic taste of the pupils and the public. The need rf this is evident, tor to every good song there are fifty popular songs sold. Does it not appear important that something be done to bring good music before the schools? When pupils are taught to know and to appreciate good writing, good books, and good painting, is it not just as necessary that a taste for good music, which enters so much into the every day life of even the least of us. should be cultivated? So it is encouraging to sec a group of young people united in the purpose of putting forth the aesthetic in music. An equally important aim has been to teach the National songs in order to arouse patriotism. Have you. my reader, ever been asked to sing My Country Tis of 1 bee.” when you did not know, probably, the third verse? 1‘ the enthusiastic words of our National hymns helped to push our forefathers on to win a freer and a nobler life, is it not possible that these same words can arouse within the breasts of men and women today the same inspiration to stand up for a conviction, for a principle? More than this, the school becomes acquainted with the National songs of other countries. If one goes to Canada. he ought to know that when the band begins playing the tune of “My Country Tis of Thee. it is the air for the English hymn also. “Cod Save the King.” To speak of the French hymn. The Marseillaise. who is there, be lie English, Herman, French or American, who has not felt the de- MOLLE. sire to he up and doing when the strains of that song—a song for all peoples—have burst forth upon the air. Furthermore, singing is good recreation. For pupils to do the best work, it is necessary, that they have physical exercise. This exercise should he of a character to prevent the lungs from becoming pinched up. an effect resulting from leaning over desk and books. In New York City, not long ago. five hundred doctors asked that all in the schools he taught to sing in order to further the public health This plan has been adopted in almost all the large cities of the country. There are other advantages. The plan helps to discover those who have voices but who do not know it. It brings out the persons musically capable just as the course in English work does those who have literary abilities. ()ftentimes athletics is a means of setting boys to work in school. I hey find that they can do something in physical exercise and they become encouraged to do better in their intellectual studies. Likewise.' a consciousness of one s ability in other directions is an encouragement to do good work in all that one undertakes. The school is the place for a pupil to find himself, to discover what he is the most capable of doing. It is there that he should have the opportunity to determine what he is best fitted for so that he may go out into the world ready to perform his task. So let ns hope that singing in the school will be encouraged. It is a duty to give every child every possible opportunity. It is a duty to instill into the hearts of boys and girls a spiit of loyalty and love for country, nature, and one s fellowman, a spirit of earnestness to do and to accomplish the most worthy in life. OUP I tHE'RITAJVCE. JEANETTE II. LATZ, '08. Breathes there a man with soul so dead. Who never to himself hath said. This is my own, my native land. TIIIS is my land, your land, our land: a land dedicated for 11s: a land of freedom which ottr forefathers fought for. and died for. and which has come down to 11s glowing with victory, with pride, with strength. Do we love that land with all the might of Patriotism? Would we fight for her? Would we die for her? There should be but one answer. One thought, which put into words, would signify strength, would liberate a people, would make mighty each one in whom this word was the sum total of love, defiance, reverence and defense for country,—the word Patriotism. I.ook back the many years to the time of our forefathers, when they, following a standard of liberty, facing perils and hardships, sacrificing all to obtain independence, received that bounty from God's own hands, the Constitution of our country. They had no luxuries then, few pleasures and enjoyments, but who can deny that the love of country, the patriotism swelling in each heart, kept alive that weak people, and brought to an end the struggle for liberty? Have we. in these days of wealth, prosperity and happiness, that reverence for our country that we ought to have? Have we the patriotism that loves our country’s national properties, her national flag, her national songs? Further, would we be willing to go to the front at a call to arms by our country? I answer, we would respond to keep our country alive, in defense of her land, but would the most of 11s go for love of country? No! and why not? Because the problems of today have overshadowed, have cast aside the thoughts of patriotism. We would fight for her. and would be willing in time of war to die for her. Why not let that overpowering feeling take possession of our souls in time of peace, let it grow, widen, develop and encompass our entire being, our social, economic and national life? If patriotism again should become the funda- 05 mental principle of church, of state, of school, would not the country be benefited? Would not the feeling of brotherhood be furthered? Would not political disputes be more easily settled by deciding for the love and welfare of our country's prosperity, and not by party platforms and alliances? If patriotism were incorporated in the every day lessons of school life, if a metion of the deeds of Washington, the father of our country, of Lincoln, the freer of the slaves, of Lee. the statesman of the south, and of Grant, the leader of the north, would bring to us the love we ought to have in our country's history, would not this broaden our minds, and develop our strength, intellectually and physically? It surely would. For Liberty is strength.’’ Patriotism is power. Again, when we behold that flag, originated by a girl, by a patriot, by a lover of her country, as it slowly unfurls and is caught up by the wind, we gaze at it indifferently as a combination of colors blended together. When we see it floating above our heads, why do we not think of the red for bravery, the white for purity, the blue for loyalty, and the w hole signifying the patriotic emblem of our coun-tiy. When our forefathers passed by one of those emblems, there was a feeling of awe, of reverence, and a majestic salute invariably accompanied that look. Now we merely give a casual glance at the flag of the ree. Ts it because we are ashamed to acknowledge that love which I know its enthroned in every true American heart? We are apt to scorn the person whom we see saluting his flag, and laugh at him as if he was a fanatic, but are we not who act thus hypocrits? Are we not afraid of being laughed at if we do the same? Yet, deep down in our hearts, we admire and love him who loves his country’s flag, and has the courage to show it. The mere sight of that glorious banner should lift our thoughts to a broader and higher scope. If our forefathers did not succeed in instilling into us the just love of that, let each of us try to remedy it. and give to those younger than we, the love of that most precious gift, that emblem o peace and happiness, of liberty and union. After our flag come our songs. Our forefathers did not create those hymns only to be sung as a daily popular air. They wrote them under the ecstacy of feeling. Do you think for one moment that Francis Key in writing “The Star Spangled Banner,” penned those words to pass away time; those words, “Oh! sav can you see by the dawn’t early light,, What so proudly we hailed in the twilight’s last gleaming?” Did he not feel the rousing, boiling tumult of those anguished words? As he wrote, “In God is our trust.” do you think it was an idle, passing phrase, or was i� not rather an inspiration, a saying, a motto to lead a peo- pie to victory, to glory, to prosperity? as it not patriotism that prompted it? Why do we not love those songs? Why, when we hear their mighty tones, do we sit idly by. listening but not feeling? It rather should rous$ us from inactivity and cause us simultaneously to stand upright, firm, and defiant. When we sing them we should let the tones come straight rom the heart, come as if we felt and believed those glowing words, as if “Three cheers for the Red. White and Blue,” made us feel like cheering and crying out for joy. I say again, let them ring in clear, sweet, melodious sounds out upon the air. Let us show by our words, and by our actions that the deeds of our forefathers, the trials and tribulations our country has triumphantly passed through, arc as legacies of fortune and happiness. Our flag and our songs are as talismen of liberty and life, and that the love of them will promote and further patriotism and loyalty, needed to support every good endeavor. Let these inheritances strengthen our land, encourage our development, and bring the bounties of God, and His blessing to “the land of the free ami the home of the brave.” FOREIGN LANGUAGE FACULTY. MISS JANE ADAMS. I oo FOREIGN LANGUAGE FACULTY (Continued). THE CLASSICS CLUB. Mildred Bell. Ellas Barbee. Ewing Boone. Lucia Bowen. Clarence Connor. Charles Davis. Fleeta Donaldson. Helen Fairlamb. Bonita Ferguson. Wendell Fifield. Florence Fleming. Charles Garnett. Kathryn Gentry. Hazel Hal born. Kate Harriman. David Hawkins. Jeanette Latz. Kendall Laughlin. Francis McCarty. Nelle McDonald. Margaret McElroy. Ottie McNeal. MEM BEKS. William McPherrin. Katherine Martin. Frances Meservey. Horace Mitchell. Earl Moore. Meda Moore. Raymond I. Moore. Miss Morgan. Dwight Muck ley. Marea Newby. Adella Pepper. Luthera Priestley-. Mariam Rider. Miriam Scofield. Harry Southard. Mon tie Storey. Harriet Tomlinson. Roscoe Wallis. Thomas King Whipple. Charles Wilhelm. Florence Wingert. Herbert Wright. Ruth Van Doren. Joseph E. Brown. Dwight Muck ley. Edna B. Oakley. Henry R. O’Brien. Miss Hays. Miss Fluhart. Miss Burrill. Mr. Douglass. Mr. Chapin. THE CLASSICS CLUB. OFFICERS. Ruth V'an Doren Will McPherrln Bonita Ferguson Consul Maior Consul Minor Scriba IX January of 1907 it was decided to accumulate some of the eternally bubbling enthusiasm for the classics, and boil it down to a solid, purposeful organization. The enterprise succeeded, as the eventful and prosperous history of the Central Classics Club for the past year plainly shows. The weekly programs of the Club were planned with the intention of dealing with as many phases of classic life as possible, and. at the same time, with some degree of thoroughness. For example, a series of meetings was spent in studying famous works in sculpture, such as the Laocoon Croup, the inged Victory of Samothrace, the Venus de Milo, and others. Another time we had a comprehensive review of ancient mythology, based on Gayle’s “Classic Myths.” Separate programs were devoted to such subjects as ancient coins, modern excavations, and the literary works of classic poets and prose writers. On one occasion the Club was honored by an address from Professor Wilcox, oi Kansas I niversity. lie illustrated his lecture on “Ancient and Modern Architecture.” by a fine variety of stereopticon views. The impetus for our work at present, the study of the dramas of Aeschylus, was given by one of our “Moni-tores,” who saw a performance of “Agamemnon” given by the pupils of the Emporia, Kansas, High school. So far we have touched upon “Agamemnon” and “Cheopherae.” two of the-Greek poet’s most famous tragedies. “Orestes,” the third in the great trilogy, will be the next. Each program consists of a review of the play, a characteristic reading Clarence Connor T. K. Whipple . Earl Moore Aerarii Praefectus . Censor . Lictor from some part of it, and a sketch of the principal character. The work is intensely interesting.—anything but dull or tedious as might appear to one unfamiliar with the classics. We are looking out for “posterity by establishing a club library, the nucleus of which already exists in the form of several good books. With the additions that will be made from year to year, the club will one day have a really valuable collection. The initial Classics Club program in Assembly Hall, given on the third day before the Ides of March, was a representation of the, last scene in Stephen Phillip’s drama, “Ulysses.” It was a prodigious undertaking, if for no other reason than the extremely short time for preparation. Moreover, the work of staging even one scene from such a drama meant a great deal. The parts were difficult, the lines beautiful, but hard to read, and much depended upon the audience. It proved to be a success, however, and, at the same time, established a enviable hall program prestige, something unusual for the first year of a club’s existence. The second edition of “Sibylline Leaves,” which appeared on March 13. also was compiled in part by the Classics Club. The marked improvement in every respect over the first venture of last year, was ample evidence of the flourishing condition of the classics in Central High school. 'The aim of the Classics Club is to help maintain this condition, by means of its organized strength, and to afford opportunity to more and more pupils for beneficial classical research. ADELLA M. PEPPER, ’08. THE GERMAN CLUB. Beryl Blanchard. Amelia Frauens. Reuben Fulton. Gretchen Hansen. Hazel Harbour. Jeanette Jacobs. MEMBERS. Hattie Kluex. Sarah Leach. Olive McDonald. Gertrude Miokadeit. John Musselman. Adeline Xentwig. Mabel Nowlin. Henry O'Brien. Adella Pepper. Nathan Super. Janet Vandewater. Ruth Van Doren. Roscoe Wallis. Elizabeth Wilson. Isadore Hessel. Erdmuthe von I’nwerth. Margarathe von Unwerth. DER DEUTSCHE VEREIN. OFFICERS. John Musselnian . Elizabeth Wilson Olive McDonald . Henry R. O’Brien Praesident . Vice-Praesident Sekretaerin Schatzmeister Fraulein M. von Unwerth Gertrue Mfckedite Roscoe D. Wallis . . . . Fraulein M. von Unwerth . Kritikerin Strafmeisterin Leiterin IN' December of 1903 the German Club was formed, with a large and enthusiastic membership. At first, no literary program was attempted, the aim being to become acquainted with the colloquial German of every day use. So conversational games were played. As the club grew and its members became more fluent, literary numbers were sprinkled in with the games, until within the past few years. u hen a standard literary program was adopted, with games only as a recreation. Now the German authors are studied in a systematic manner. An idea of the man is given in essays, of his works in essays, readings and debates. The dramatists are known by scenes from their dramas. At different times an entire play has been read and studied in connection with which there have been critical essays. During the reading questions upon the text were permitted, so that the production might be understood very clearly. Then there was a summary of the play and its author’s purpose, to give a lasting impression of the play as a whole. In every way an attempt has been made to get the greatest possible good from the work. In connection with the work of the German Club, mention should be made of the annual German play. From being an afternoon entertainment for those who cared to come, ii has developed into an annual Assembly Hall program. In this way the school at large may become familiar with a German production and German life as it is pictured on the stage. HAZEL M. HARBOUR. 08. THE SPANISH CLUB. MEMBERS. Florence Bentrup. Kathleen Blanton. Fleeta Donaldson. Newell Charde. Hulda Hanson. Dwight Harbaugh. Verna Jenkins. Laura Johnson. Bessie Marshall. Gertrude Mickadiet. Grace Moran. Gladys Myers. Mary Ruth Fash Frances Pizar. Willard Rush. Harry Stewart. Louis Swartzel. Lula Swartzel. Xorvin Vaughn. Harriet Sabastian. Margaret I-ach. Sr. G. M. Hernandez. OFFICERS. Fleeta Donaldson .... Presidents Bessie Marshall...................Councilier Gertrude Mickadeit .... Tesoraro Florence Bentrup................Critica Dwight Harbaugh . . Sergento de armes J. M. Hernandez...............Cansejero History of the BARELY a year and a half has passed since the organization of the Circulo Literario Espanol, yet in that time, in consideration of the many difficulties which have beset us, we have accomplished a great deal. The beginning of the present school year found us with few members, for the majority had graduated the previous year. Therefore, the first thing to do was to select others to take the places left vacant. We succeeded and secured, not only those people who were especially good students of Spanish, but those who were blessed in addition with energy, pluck, and enthusiasm. These are three important assets that heip to make a valuable club member. Ye no sooner increased our membership than we turned our attention to the vital affairs of the club. We found room for great improvement. Consequently the year has been one of reconstruction and reorganization. We have tried to make it easy for those who are to come after us. in order that they may more fully direct their energies along the line of making the Circulo Literario Espanol the best language club in the school. Spanish Club. As to our purpose, it has been to speak and write the language of Cervantes as he himself did. We have accomplished this task in part. The proof is that we have not only been able to carry on debates, write essays and original stories, give orations and extemporaneous speeches, conduct the business in Spanish, but (() wonderful thing to relate) to indulge in one of those perplexing parliamentary wrangles. All in Spanish mind you. In our zeal for study we have not neglected the social side, for “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.’ Instead we have combined the two many times. It was only a short time ago, on April 14. we celebrated with festival and mirth the birthday of Alfonso XIII, the present ruler of Spain. Few national feast days of Spain are passed over without some kind of celebration, for in this way we come into closer relation and sympathy with this foreign country. We hope to go on prospering from year to year with the motto “Adelanto y amistad.” and with the good old cry of “Viva, viva, viva el Circulo Literario Espanol.” Ruth Anderson. Beulah Addison. Mildred Bell. Georgia Cotter. Edith Crandall. Lola Eaton. A1 marie Everett. Bonita Ferguson. Hazel Friedman. Julia Gleason. Gale Gossett. Gertrude Grafftey. Catherine Gray. Eleanor C. Hai'n. Addie Halsey. Linnie Hopkins. Louise Jenkins. Martha Wallace Jones. MEMBERS. Eliza Kimball. Nina King. Gertrude Lehman. Carolyn Love. Miriam Lyon. Louise Maltby. Charlotte Marshall. Nelle McDonald. Iva Messinger. Eugenia Miller. Luthera Priestley. Miriam Rider. Jeannette Ryland. Helen Schenck. Miriam Scofield. Willie Shaw. Mildred Strother. Bertha Teasdale. Isabel Thornes. Harriet Thwing. Nina Waller. Vera Wignall. Eva Williams. Lilian Wolf. Ruth Bowling. Madame Clarke. Madamoiselle Craeger. LE CERCLE FRANCAIS. OFFICERS. Luthers Priestley .... President© Eleanor C. Hain Vice-Presidente fc Nina Waller..................Secretairie , “Nous ne powons etre sage que de notre propre sagesse. N( ) EM BER 14. 1907. saw the dawn of a new club at Central. Girls flew in and out of Room 13. flaunting ribbons of pale blue and gold. N'ow the dainty fleur de lis of gold and blue enamel is the badge of membership in the Cerclc Francais. Although boys of the second. third and fourth year French classes are eligible to membership, the French club thus far is composed only of girls. This is probably owing to the fact that so few boys, ue regret to say. study French, and hence these few are utterly vanquished at the idea of becoming a weak minority in a club in which such a vast majority is composed of the opposite sex. I he aim of the Cerclc Francais is to improve conversation in French, only that language being spoken in the club, and to awaken among the pupils a greater interest in the study of French. At first, the French spoken, and the programs given, were of the simple?t Now. the cluh members have so improved in their ability to speak and to comprehend readily, that the program? need not be so simple as in the beginning. In the club programs, given even Thursday afternoon from one till two o’clock. French current topics have been Miriam Scofield...............Tresairier 7) Mildren Strother....................Critique , Isabel Thornes . . Sergent-d'-Armes discussed, interesting and excellent papers, written by members. on historical and literary personages have been read, and, for the sake of variety, droll little monologues and dialogues have been enacted. These programs have been well arranged and varied: never once have they been dull. Then, to relax tired brains, a chorus, the French “choeur.” was organized, which has sung at various times amusing little French ditties, nursery songs and national airs. t the enjoyment and edification of the club, which is not too crit-; ical; nay. even tolerant, in musical matters. On the 24th of April. 190 8. the cercle took its place on the Assembly Hall stage, and there was enacted by eight girls a French comedy, entitled Tne Petite Rigolade.” People have been so kind as to say that it was one of the cleverest and smoothest plays ever given in Central. Certainly. the actors were a credit to the French club, and to the school. Under tell kind and able direction of Mrs. Clarke and Miss Creager. the club has been very successful during this its first year. This auspicious beginning may well make us hope for still better things for the Cercle Francais in the years to come. LITHERA PRIESTLEY. L'AIGLOflr La charmante piece de “L’Aiglon,” par Edmond Rostand, rendue celebre par Sarah Bernhardt, est divisee en six actes, on vraiment parties. La premiere est intitulee Les ailes qui pous-set. la deuxleme, Les ailes qui battent,” la troisieme. “Les ailes qui s'ouvrent, ' la quatrieme, “Les ailes meurtries. la cinquieme, “Les ailes brisees.” et la slxieme, Les ailes ferniees. C’est 1'histoire du duo de Reichstadt, fils de Napoleon I er et de Marie-Louise. 11 avait les litres de Roi de Rome et de Prince de Parme avant l'abdication de son pere. Au premier acte on volt le jeune due vivant presque en prison-nier, supprime par sa famille autriohienne. et surtout par le prince de Metternich, ministre de 1‘empereur Francois-Joseph. Metternich. grand homme d’Etat, comme il l’est, croit bien faire pour l’Autriche en restreignant le pauvre enfant, il ne lui permet que quelques livres et ne lui permet de rien lire sur son pere. Cependant. le due commence a se degager, et a s’interesser dans les fails celebres de son illustre pere. Il a Tame francaise et n'aime pas l’Autriche. Par les efforts et l'influence de sa tante. 1’archiduchesse. il obtient des livres et des souvenirs de Napoleon. Sa mere, qui est encore veuve, le visite toutes les annees. mais ne le lui permet pas de parler de son pere. Elle se jette dans les plaisirs de la cour et de sa villa a Baden. On volt la nature egolste et le caractere faible de Marie-Louise, duchesse de Parme. Franz, manquant la sympathie d'une mere se tourne vers tine belle jeune fille. Therese. qui lit souvent avec lui et qui I’aime beaucoup. Les Bonapartiste. dont la principale est la comtesse Camerata. cousino du due, lui envoient des agents secrets, qui essaient de l’influencer. Celui-cl a 1’ame trop grande pour son corps faible, et il devient inspire d’tin desir de regner sur la France comme avait regne son pere. 11 apprend par coeur les recits des evene-ments de la carriere de Napoleon que lui raconte une danseuse. Fanny Elssler. Acte II nous montre la force du caractere du due de Reichstadt. et son grand desir pour la liberte. Il doit combattre bien des difficultes, mais il a Fappul de beaucoup d'amis. On aime la douce Therese et le brave Flambeau, ancien grenadier de la garde de Napoleon, qui lui sont toujours si fideles. Au troisieme acte le due gagne le consentiment de son grand-pere. I’empereur. de marcher sur la France et devenlr empereur. Mais ce plan est renverse par Metternich. qui les tourne I'un contre l’autre et brise Fame et Fesprit du pauvre Franz. D’abord au quatrieme acte le due n’a ni interet ni plaisir dans la vie. A la fete des masques a laquelle il assiste, il decouvre Famour de Marie-Louise pour son chambellan Bombelles. C’est pour lui tin outrage a la mentoire de son pere. A ce bal aussi se trouvent des amis, parmi lesquels sont Prokesch, son ami intime, et Flambeau, qui arrangent tout pour la fuite du due en France. La comtesse Camerata se deguise en uniforme blanc. comme le due, et elle prend sa place chez lui pendant qu’il se sauve, et va au rendezvous des eonspirateurs. Au cinquieme acte ils sont tous prets pour la fuite quand le due apprend que la comtesse, qui a risque tout pour lui, est en danger. Il refuse de partir. et pendant que ses amis le print de ne pas attendre. la comtesse. blessee et furieuse. arrive, les suppliant de s’enfuir. Trop tard! Au moment du depart ils sont arretes par la police autrichienne. Plutot que d’etre saisi. Flambeau se poignarde. Les autres se sauvent, et par son commandement le due reste seul sur le champ de bataille ou son pere se battit autrefois. Le malheureux jeune homme, enfin vaincu. a uue vision qui fait du champ un vrai champ de bataille. Son regiment autrichien Fy trouve. Au slxieme acte on le volt dans sa chambre de malade. Ses cheveux blonds, que Fon ne coupe plus, le font plus enfantin, plus triste. L’archiduchesse vient Famener a la messe celebree dans la salle voisine. Toute la famille imperiale et tous ses amis vien-nent le regarder selon Fusage mais il ne le sail pas. On le regarde par la porte entr’ouverte, quand Therese. dont le coeur se brise. laisse echapper un sanglot. La scene de mort est tres emouvante. Marie-Louise reste avec son fils jusqu ’a la fin, et c’est cette amour d'une mere qu’elle montre pour son fils qui lui fait pardonner toutes ses fautes. Far le desir du due on lui lit le conte rendu de la cere-monie de son bapteme. Les seuls bruits qui se font entendre sont la voix du vieux general Hartman qui lit, et les sanglots de la mere affligee. Le due, ouvrant les yeux. dit “Napoleon”! et ainsi meurt FAiglon. LUTHERA PRIESTLEY. „$ic (i)rij|)c non ( SDinn b°t jebt Diet iibet Die ©rofee Don Stiller unb ©oetbe gefdjtieben, obne feftjujefsen, met non itjnen bet gro' fiere ift. 3n biefem Slriitel roill id) breierlei betradjten: ben ffiett bet JBerte, bie iJJecfbn'idjteit unb Ba8 Ceben bet jDian net, unb ben Sinflujj beiber. 34 toerbe Derfudjen, nut bie latfadjen m belteff bet $roei Sidjter $u befptcdjen, bie fid) ouf bteje btei Bunrte be fieber . SlUe Sfritifer ftimmen uberein, bafj ©oetbe gtofser al? Sicbter ift. Sod) ba? Bolt, ba? nut j)um Bergniigen u b Stu en ijeft, fintet gerabe fo mel in ©duller? SBerten Sie beltaunen unb benmnbern ©oeibe? 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Bit miiffen nieftt oetgeffen. Baft beibe gant menfdilid) roaten, unb fie fiir all iftre ©rbfte eftten. Pcxsgos de la tda del 1L immortal Cercantes fuc nacido mas o menos en la epoca de Shakespeare. La Vida de Don Miguel Savedra Cervantes fue una centinua lucha y priva-cion. Fue nacido cn cl ano de mil quinientos cuarenta y siete en Alcala de Henares cerca de veinte millas de Madrid. Sus padres heran de familias nobles, pero pobres. De su juventud poco se sabe ccn la excepcion que goraba mucho de las representaciones teatrales de hope de Vega, escribis versos cuando era joven v leyo todo lo que pudo obtener. Completo su educacion en Salanica y cuando tuvo veinte y tres anos, fue con el Cardinal Equavvia a Roma, como camarero. Kn el ano de mil quinientos setenta y uno, fue a Roma, y entro al ejercito papal para servir contra los turcos. Kstuvo presente en el combate de Lepanto, el siete de octiw i re del mismo ano. Estirvo en lo mas duro del combate v rccibio dos heridas, una le privo del uso de su mano y brazo izquierdo, durante el resto de su vida. En el ano de mil quinientos setenta v seis recibio cl man de un regimiento destinado a paises bajus pero en su viaje por mar fue capturado por uh escandron Algerine y fuc Uevado a Algiers, donde fue vendido, como esclavo. Sirvio a dos amos crueles un griego y el otro .venenciano. Kormo tnuchos planes para escaparse y fue castigado sever-amente cuando fuc descubrierto. Cuatro veces fue sentin-ciado a muerte y una vez con la sogee al cuello. Despues de cinco anos de cruel esclavitud los piratos pidieron quinientos ducados por su libratud cuyo dinero fuc reunido por sus amigos y purientes en Espano. Sin denero. Cervantes volvio a la milicia v servio en tres expediciones contra los Azores. En el ano de mil quinientos ochcnta y cuatro, a la eddd de treinta y siete Immortal Cervantes. anos, sc caso con una Senorita de buenas familtas. F’ora ganar la vida comenzo a escribir para el tcatro y escribio t einta dramas, las males fucron rccibidas con considerable gusto. Se cree que no le two cueta el teatro, porque, en el ano de mil quinientos ochenta y ocho estaba en Seville. Aqui la hizo de agente y colector de dinero, pero no tuvo exits. De Seville salio para Valladolid y segun dice la tradicion fue puesto en prision por deuda y mientras estaba preso principio a escribir su immortal obra titulado Don Quixote de la Mancha. Se dice que mientras estaba probre en Valladolid, la primera parte del immortal romance fue escrito y publicado en Madrid en el ano de mil seiscientos cinco. El libro atrajo inmediatamente la atencion del publico pero no lc ayudo en sus. circumstancias. Continuo escri-biendo y produjo un gran numero de cuentos, titulados Novelas Exemplures, I'nu Viaje a I’arnasses una satira de poetas malos de su ecopa, la cual despues del Don Quixote se considera ser una de las mejores producioties. Algunos anos antes de estc tiempo, se hizo miembra de la hermandad del Santo Sacremento, immediataineute reci-biendo el traje de Franciscano v tes semanas antes de su muerte entro formalmente a la sagrada orden. En abril veinte y tres de mil seiscientos deiz y seis murio y fue enterado enel convento de las nionjas de la Trinjdad en Madrid. Hacc pocos anos. este convento fue quenrad y nadie sabe que sucidio de sus senizas. Aunque Cervantes fue pobre, no fue egoista y siempre estuvo contento con su vida. Fue tratado cruelmente pero en cano trataremos buscar una frase amarga o triste escrita por su pinma. HARRIET SEBASTIAN. 09. ILIA D. BOOK IV, LINES 275-285. As a herd on a high, lofty cliff turns his gaze To a storm-gathering cloud rising up from the deep, Driven on by the force of the blustering west wind; And the cloud to the far-distant herdsman doth seem To be blacker than pitch, when it comes roin the sea; And lie shudders to look at the terrible cloud. And drives orward the flock to a sheltering cave: So a band of fine, vigorous Zens-nourished youths. All arrayed in deep phalanxes it for the fray, All bristling with lances and also with shields, Now advance to destructive and ravaging war: And the great Agamemnon, the wide-ruling king. I nto them, winged words doth rejoicingly speak. A BIT OF O. W. HOLMES’ PHILOSOPHY. oMaOcjv-€K tivos,aires, SaKp'ocnxJi'v €K6ivai aiyuvaiKes; 6 logo's-Sio eKeTvos oveavi'as toijtcov aSeXc os (| o|3owiy p t] ov S-oviyrai Tpe eiv ttjv Tracrav oSov, eim oi k eva iroXv KpaTos. oMdGoov- ti iro it] r 0 001 v ot veaviai p.6Ta SeKa £ty) 3 olodfos - ot pev Spa ouviai Ta uiTa , ot Se irope'uVo'ocri [Spa e'cjs' oAiyoi ireTatiaovTai io at. oMaGoov- nves SpapovvTai xeia eiKOdiv ej7 - 6 Io } 6? - obn Jovial abTob rrdvTe$ oi Se o Tjao'ucri, iroXXa irpaypata. 6 jdpahvs avrip Spapaiai o ) Ta iaTa, aXXa KaXcbs. oMdGcJv- ti S j)Qava tpd cov; o Eo j os - 6 fipadvs avr p aXXa Trav eaTat ayaGov, ei Travis T TOirjKaorv KpaTKTTa d 5 'BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS. Margaret B. McElroy, ’io. Beautiful thoughts are the ones that come to me When 1 am quietly thinking of other days. Of a lovely world that has made me see God’s wisdom and love in a thousand ways. A picture that recalls memories of happy days. Truthful in its portrayal of these so dear. Of mother, of father, our blessed friends always. Who taught us the beauty of things ever near. Beautiful thoughts are the ones that come to me When the glorious sunset fills my heart with love. Its colors blue and purple like the sea. This too. I know full well, was made by Him above. To ocean, the mighty and boundless deep. Where I have drifted far and wide upon its waves, Sometimes tempestuous, sometimes in tranquil sleep. The thoughts it creates with me abide. The stars, God’s beacon lights—these too I love. Planted in their garden of heavenly blue; Sweet Lyra that wakes her harp for those above, Orion the mighty warrior, grand and true. The mountains with their grandeur of snow-capped tops. Teach us new things of God and 11 is endless love, Their glory and ever-changing lights rehearse A never-ending chant of gratitude to Him above. The thoughts of flowers,—how sweet they are. In freshness and fragrance like angels fair. The pink apple blossom, the dogwood’s snowy star Bloom in a Cloistered place, painted by April air. And so at eventide, these beautiful thoughts Come thronging thro’ my mind with golden light. Their depth and wisdow is—that God has wrought All things for our good, to make life bright. THE 'REASOJ WHy ? Why take the musty volumes from the shelves of long ago? Why search their yellow pages with eye and cheek aglow? Or, till the stars of evening pale before the coming morn. Read of History’s heroes great, whose deeds the leaves adorn ? Why follow out with patient care their plans of law or war? )r thrill with deeds of valor, found in books of ancient lore? The laws and wars have now been proved impelled by motives vile. Those valiant deeds if done today would only cause a smile. Then why spend years in study of dates and deeds of the past ? Our life is just in the present,—each day may be the last: Tis this that marks the difference twixt the peasant and his king,— The one learned naught from Histor’s page, the other everything. HISTORY AND CIVICS FACULTY. Mr. Elmer Rush. Miss Clarabel Denton. Miss Anna Wolfram. Mr. Austin Andrews. Mr. William Lewis. Miss Evelyn Burrill. “The Declaration MEADE AT the request of Thomas Jefferson, there is carved ip the granite obelisk at his grave the words: “Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. The confirmation of his belief th.r the writing of that document was a glorious work cornea from a mighty empire. It is well that we thus honor him for his was a Herculean task. It is well that we reverence s we do nothing else on earth those illustrious statesmen who so wisely moulded and directed the current of public ipinion at the most critical period of our history. Let is � ot, however. in the light of these truly grand achievements, lose sight of the fact that the Continental Congress, as it adopted the resolution of independence, merely acted ujm)ii the instructions of the people: that Thomas Jefferson, as he announced to the world in proper form the birth of the new nation, merely expressed their sentiments at that time: revealed their mii.d when, in their utter forgetfulness of the stupendous magnitude of the means in the glory of the end. they combined with noble patriotism and high morality a statesmanship unequaled in the history of man. The Declaration of Independence is divided into three parts: the preamble, wherein is proclaimed the right of the people to overthrow any government when it becomes destructive of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”—the ends, by virtue of the equal creation of all men for which government is declared instituted: the indictment of George III. whereby the case of America is applied to these universal principles: and the conclusion, in which the colonies arc declared totally absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown and, as free and independent states, possessed of full powers of such states. That the time was ripe for them to have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish com- of Independence OODSON. merce. and do all others acts and things which independent states may of right do, is shown by the part which the Declaration played in hastening as well as making possible the invaluable French alliance. Bancroft tersely says: “The Declaration of Independence gave more earnestness to the advice of Vergennes. Its effect upon the Americans themselves was even more decisive and beneficial. All hope of conciliation being gone, they had clearly before them a single purpose—and what an inspiring purpose it was! Enjoying since the New England Confederation a steady though imperceptible growth in the embryo, the sentiment of nationality, in the past twelve years, had developed in the public mind with marvelous rapidity; now it was transformed into a glorious fact. Patriots in every farm-house, as they heard the glad news, thrilled with consciousness that henceforth they would fight for country: for a fatherland, in the words of Frothingham. for which the language has no term, but a love for which Providence has planted deep in the human heart. Its spirit breathes in national song. Its power is symbolized in the national flag. Americans felt the full force of the inspiration. Thus did the Declaration of Independence stand the first test of a great state paper. It met the immediate ends for which it was written: it supplied the most crying needs of he American cause. L'tidoubtedlv, much of this new l orn enthusiasm came as a result of the vividness with which the Americans were made to see the justness of their act: convincing proff of the oft times repeated assertion of the patriots that the birth of the new nation was naural and inevitable is found in the Declaration’s heart-stirring words which show that independence grew out of a necessity which sprang from a people’s love of justice. That the people have a moral right to “overthrow a government long established in order to experiment with theories, is a debatable question. That the people have a moral right to institute new government whenever the form to which they arc accustomed becomes destructive of the logical ends of government, is eternal justice. The Declaration of Independence accepts as its foundation the known rather than the unknown ; the past rather than the future. Existing forms of government were not declared against; a republic came, for the people being fitted to take the reigns of government, that was the form “most likely to effect their safety and happiness most consonant with the great principles laid down. The English government was arraigned, not because it was a monarchy, but because it was destructive of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. George III was pronounced unfit to be the ruler of a free people,’' not because he was a king, but because he was “a tyrant.” A tyrant he was proclaimed. not because he stood in the wav of innovation, but because he attempted to innovate: in none ofthetwenty-nine instances cited to prove him a despotic ruler is mention made of anything save acts which menaced the liberties held by the colonies under the English Constitution. Shall we not conclude. then, that the object of our fathers in resisting the oppressive measures of the English government was simply to hand down to their posterity inviolate the liberties they had gained and that independence was declared only when the attainment of that object seemed to require such a step? Granting that this was the case, we naturally ask: Was the vision of our fathers clear as their morals were sound? Did the acts complained of evince “ a design to reduce them under absolute despotism?” If so, was George chiefly responsible for such a condition of affairs? The answer comes from a source from which there is no appeal. From such historians as Sir Erskine May. John Richard Green, and Eeckv. we gather the information that “the shame of the darkest hour of English history lies wholly at his door; we find that the text-books of the English school children without exception speak of the men who looked from behind the breastworks at Bunker Hill as the true champions of England; and we hear “the grand old man, as in his own beautiful conservatism he pronounces ou evolution a “conservative” revolution. Considered in the light of the universal rejoicing with which the Declaration was hailed, how apt is the word! A most careful study of the preamble of that document will fail to disclose a single principle which cannot be applied to any race of men, at any time, under any conditions; the Declaration speaks for Americans; its speaks for Englishmen; but in a larger sense, it speaks for men—and it speaks words for which men. perhaps unknowingly, thirsted. Two great forces wrestled for supremacy in the political world: The Christian idea and the Pagan idea of man as he stood related to the body politic. The former regarded the state as made for man; the latter, man as made for the state. The one. despite seventeen centuries of Christian thought—including the powerful abstract theories of such men as Locke and Milton— had as yet failed to overcome the other. Despotism reigned, in varying degrees, in all the countries of Europe. When “the ascendant people of that time,” upon whom the eyes of the world were turned, rose to vindicate their inherent liberties in the name of mankind, they concretely retaught the lesson of the fundamental equality of the race. This great primal truth, flashing upon the slumbering peoples of Europe as if it were a revelation, sent emotions surging through their veins which materially raised the political standard of that continent. P� ancroft tells us: “The Declaration of Independence involved the reform of the British Parliament, the emancipation of Ireland, the disinthralment of the people of France, the awakening of the nations of Europe. Even Hungary stretched forward to hear from the distance the gladsome sound; the Italians recalled their days of unity and might.- As the United States, as a nation, has sent out the beacon light to guide the new movement in politics which thus begun, the Declaration of Independence has tended the fires of the young republic. It has had a most potent influence in determining both our political and ethical ideals. Being read in public all over the country at least once a year, and studied by individuals, from the schoolboy to that massive brained statesman, Webster, “it has served to keep before us with almost religious sanctity those majestic assertions of the grandeur of man simply as man, not as abstractions, hut as concrete truths by virtue of which we secured the incalculable benefits of this fatherland. That the service rendered by the Declaration in this capacity, was of an almost inestimable value at a time when the moral welfare of the nation was at stake, is attested to by the iron logic of Calhoun. That statesman, when his monumental plan to establish the country on a slavery basis failed, said that the preamble of the Declaration of Independence was responsible for the attitude of the Americans toward slavery. But greater than its part in determining our method of dealing with public problems is its influence upon our everyday life. Bringing forcibly to the individual the rights of man, it teaches him the duties of man. John Morlev tells us, speaking of the preamble, that “there is an implied corollary which is the cornerstone of the highest morality possible; in other words, that the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” being a universal right. 1 must not only refrain from hindering but aid in securing the enjoyment of that right to each and every man alike, be he king or fool. This ethical message has been heeded as well as heard, for how else can we account for the phenomenal growth of the United States as a world power? It embodies the sentiments which lead to universal peace and universal happiness— the remote ends for which the Declaration of Independence was written. Such, too. shall be the final outcome of that document, God willing: for its founders breathed into it that which gives everlasting life. The history of the race reveals no other such expression of political faith. The first sentence discloses the fact that the keynote of the colonists’ action was a Christian conception of the Supreme Being; it is Nature’s God” which entitles them to a separate and equal station among the powers of the earth.” They acknowledge one Creator and Him as the source of all good. They appeal only “to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our inten-tions.” What a beautiful recognition of the Infinite Mind! And lastly, realizing that with their conclusion “that these colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states,” came the gigantic task of maintaing that independence, they manifest their assurance of the final triiumph of righteousness in these final significant words: “And for the support of this Declaration, and with a firm reliance on the Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” Withal, how Christ-like is its spirit! How devout its reverence for things holy! How boundless, how almost blind, its faith in God! This recognition of faith in God as the keystone of all enduring political creation is the strongest claim of the Declaration to immortality. Is it, then, unfitting to say that when our fathers, in taking the step essential to the success of their cause, by that same act vindicated independence, instigated a new movement in politics, secured to their posterity a precedent of immense practical value and grasped the true relation of the Divine to the Human? Indeed, when we remember that the closest rival of the Declaration of Independence for first honors, the Magna Charta, is sadly lacking in at least two of these particulars, it is not halting praise to say that then they evinced a statesmanship unequalled in tlie history of man? John Adams’ prophecy that Independence Day would become the most memorable epoch in American history has been fulfilled; but the prophet, though he bend down as Elisha di l, “praying that his eyes may be made to see, cannot foretell the place which the Declaration of Independence shall finally hold in the hearts of men: its fame, undying as that of the heroic patriots who conceived it. must ever grow with the growth of man. This essay won first prize in the “Sons of the Revolution” contest. THE SAJVTA HE Daughters of the American Revolution are now- doing a most praiseworthy work. They are mark- ing the route of that once great highway over which marched the forces which conquered the boundless plains, the great West, and carried American trade and institutions to the Pacific ocean and far into Mexico. Within our own city, twenty-five markers have been provided for; these will be placed along the route from the river front to the junction of Wornall road and the city limits. The work of marking the trail in Kansas has been completed, and is now being carried forward in Colorado. The Society in the former state has erected ninety-five monuments, on each of which is the inscription: Santa Fe Trail, marked by the Daughters of the American Revolution and the state of Kansas, i jo6.‘ When finished this work will be a fitting commemoration of the great Trail, which has had so much to do with the opening up and development of Western America. It is a much disputed question, just when this route was first used. It is a fact the world over that the physical features of a country determine the highways of travel, and this is particularly true of this instance. Even the aborigines recognized that nature had made this a way to be used by man. and armies of savages had marched over this road hundreds of years before Columbus’ discovery. Of the early journeys after 1492, we are certain that Cabeca de Yaca during his wanderings, 1527-36. crossed the I rail where it intersects the Arkansas river, from mounds lately discovered that Moscoso, with a portion of De Soto’s band, followed that river into Kansas, and that Coronado’s expedition. 1540-2, camped somewhere near Wichita. The next recorded journey was in 1716 from Santa Fe east by a caravan of 15,000 Spaniards, all of whom, excepting the priest, perished. We can give to the nineteenth century traffic over the FE T'RAIL. Santa Fe trail no definite origin. We know of at least two men who journeyed to Santa Fc prior to 1805 and of a Kentuckian in that city the same year, from Captain Z. M. Like, whose published account of this expedition was the primary cause of the later trade. Several unprofitable and disastrous trips, particularly that of Me Knight in 18x2, prevented further ventures for ten years. According to all authorities, the virtual commencement of the great traffic was in 1822. Two years later a party of eighty traders introduced wheeled vehicles, and experienced fewer obstacles than expected. In 1829 an scort of troops was necessary because of the hostile Indians, and Fort Leavenworth was established for the protection of the caravans. As the trade increased other ports were sought, and as early as 1828 cargoes were carried to Chihuahua, and later to other north Mexican towns. Many merchants transported their goods in wagons other than their own; this developed a large class of competitive freighters, whose only business was the safe transportation of their cargoes. I11 spite of great obstacles and opposition, the traffic to all points increased wonderfully during the next twenty years. In 1846 the Army of the West, under General Stephen W. Kearney, including Colonel Doniphan’s First Regiment of Missouri cavalry, marched from Leavenworth over the Trail into New Mexico. After the glorious conquest of that region the trade assumed immense proportions, due to the American possession and the discovery of gold in California. An overland mail was begun in 1849, when monthly stages started from each end at the same time. They later left once, twice, and three times a week, until in the sixties daily stages were started, wdiich were used until the coming of the railroad. Franklin. Howard County, and Lexington. Missouri, were the first outfitting points of the great traffic. These From Council Grove they traveled into Marion County to Lost Springs, struck Cottonwood Creek at Durham, proceeded through McPherson to Little River in Rice, past the numerous tributaries of Cow Creek, due west to the Arkansas, which they reached at a place known as Camp Osage or Fort Zarah, the present town of Ellin wood, liar-ton County. Great Pend was four miles beyond that. Thirteen miles further was Pawnee Rock, the region around which was for ages the fighting ground of hostile tribes. This old rock was well situated to provide an ambuscade for the savages, from which to dash down on the passing traders, in its very shadow the Old Trail wound its way, where the road-bed of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad now lies. It is, however, no longer a landmark ; its material has been torn away by settlers and railroad gangs. The Trail followed the Arkansas river to Cimarron Crossing, where it divided, one branch continuing west, the other going directly southwest. Over the former, after passing all the dangerous points and through Port Aubrey, the caravans at last reached the foot-hills and Rent’s Fort, now I.as Animas. This historic landmark was one of the most important posts, the rendezvous of trappers, scouts, and Indians. It was built about six hundred and fifty miles west of Fort Leavenworth by the Bent brothers in 1829. and destroyed in ’52 by Win. Pent, who built the new fort thirty-five miles further down. The ruins of this may be seen today from La Junta. The Trail then crossed the river and went southwest-ward, through Trinidad and Raton Pass, where may be seen the old, abandoned, sun-dried brick house, where for years the veteran Dick Wooton, collected toll from every stage, caravan, emigrant schooner and soldier cavalcade which entered the Southwest. The route then wound its way through the mountains, the ravines and the canyons, passed through Las Vegas. Ojo de Vernal, Apache Canon, and at last reached Santa Fe. When the great freight were soon supplanted by Independence, this in turn by Westport. The goods were purchased in St. Louis, and usually shipped by river to these western stations. The journey to Council Grove was an individual matter, there the caravans were organized. A pack-mule train consisted of about three hundred mules, firmly saddled and heavily loaded, controlled and led by the drivers and their trusted leader, the “bell-mare. On an average each animal carried about 250 pounds. Thousands of wagons traveled the trail annually. These, of the old Conestoga pattern, with sailcloth covers stretched on bows, were manufactured in Pittsburg, had a capacity of about 7.500 pounds, and were drawn by from eight to twelve mules or oxen. Every parcel in them was carefully labeled and tightly closed; every man in the party was heavily armed and always on the alert. The caravans never started until the grass had grown enough to furnish subsistence for the teams. They traveled on an average of from twenty to twenty-five miles a day, and required about a year to make the round trip to Santa Fe. It is interesting to follow the route. From Independence they crossed the Big Blue, went over the state line into Kansas, and followed the Kaw river to Lawrence. Thirty miles from Westport the road forked: the Oregon trail to Columbia going northwest, and the Santa Fe west into Douglas County. From there they went nine miles to Black Jack, through Hickory Point or Willow Springs, and, after crossing the 110-Mile Creek, due west to Burlingame, Osage County. After passing through Lyon into Morris, they reached Council Grove, so called since 1825, when some United States commissioners treated there with the Osages. This was the half-way station between Missouri and the great bend of the Arkansas, whence all expeditions proceeded with military order and discipline. Camps were selected in advance; guards set up and relieved; cooks, hunters and scouts provided; and every precaution taken to guarantee the safety of the caravan. wagons, with the weary dust-begrimed mules and teamsters, rolled into the drowsy old town, great shouts of “Los Carros” and Los Americanos” arose, and great crowds turned out to see them. Before the American acquisition of this province, the merchants were obliged to pay $500.00 for every wagon load, great or small, of salt or silk. With Yankee ingenuity, however, they most frequently foiled the officers. A trip over the Trail in one of the coaches was most dangerous and exciting, yet fascinating to many. The fare, $250.00, included transportation and board, which consisted of biscuits, coffee, other common staple articles, and any fresh meat obtained. The journey required two weeks, traveling day and night, and changes in teams were made at stations from ten to fifty miles apart. The Government furnished an escort of soldiers over the most dangerous parts, but every one was expected to be on guard. A journey across the plains possessed almost inconceivable dangers and hardships. The lack of water caused the greatest physical suffering. The story of the Trail is one of plots, robberies, murders, the most horrible atrocities, by both Indians and whites. The “red devils” always knew, through their spies and runners, just when a caravan would pass a certain point, and, when so disposed, were always ready to carry out their cowardly, bloody deeds. The w hite men, however, were not always innocent; they often acted as savages because they dealt with savages. There was also great danger from raids and stampedes of buffalo, thousands of which were often in one herd. Great peril was also caused by Mexicans, American so-called road-agents, and masked robbers. Particularly after the mines of New Mexico were opened did these operate; they were after the strong-box of the express company and the valuables of the passengers, for whose lives they cared nothing. Besides the thrilling, horrible, blood-curdling stories, there are those of many humorous incidents on these journeys. For example, that of a hunt, scramble, and fight, in which a whole expedition took part, after a half plug of tobacco. This article was considered the most important portion of their food supply. The briefest sketch of the Santa Fc Trail is not complete without the mention of some famous men, who spent their lives enduring its hardships and making it all that it became. Christopher Carson, commonly known as “Kit. is no doubt the greatest frontiersman, trapper, scout, guide, Indian counsellor and fighter which America has produced. From the time of his first trip in 1826 he interwover with the story of the Trail that of his own life and exploits. A few others may be worth mentioning here: James Bridger is famous tor the discovery of Bridgets Bass; Uncle’’ John Smith was one of the earliest, also the most eccentric character; Jim Baker, James Beckwourth, and Dick Wooton were especially known for their bravery and prowess. Wm. F. Cody, “Buffalo Bill,” is, however, perhaps the most famous of all those who traveled over the Trail. Colonel Inman says: The mantle of Kit Carson fits more perfectly the shoulders of Cody than those of any other of the great frontiersman’s successors, and he has had some experiences that surpassed anything which fell to their lot.” One of the most interesting, picturesque and romantic stories is that of Maxwell’s Ranch. This was a very valuable tract of two million acres, owned and operated by Lucien B. Maxwell, who maintained, especially during the Civil War. a feudal, almost independent rule. The Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, now one of the greatest, most interesting and beautiful systems, follows almost exactly the Old Trail from Great Rend to Santa Fc. It entered the valley of the Upper Arkansas in 1872, and eight years later the first train pulled into Santa Fe, closing forever the Old Trail as a highway of commerce. Its route, however, will be used as long as the East communicates with the West. % THE SCIENCE FACULTY. 92 MR. F. H. AYRES. Physics. MR. C. H. NOWLIN. Physiology and Psychology. MR. J. C. WRIGHT. Physics Laboratory. MR. JNO. E. CAMERON. Zoology and Boton.v. M R. GRAVES. Astronomy. Chemistry. MR. EARL C. HALLAR. Chemistry Laboratory. THE KELVIN CLUB. Mr. F. H. Ayres. ,Joseph Brown. Ralph Bower. Stanley Clausen. Evan Connell. Hale Cook. Jno. Cooper. Merle Dancy. Charles Davis. Frank Dayton. Arthur Eldred. Edmund Field. Adkins Frohman. Harry Ghorniley. Lowrie McClure. Joe McKinnon. Raymond Moore. Evan Seigrist. Frank Seigrist. Clyde Shockley. Edward Taylor. Grovov Tyler. Charles Wilhelm. Earl Young. Ralph Peer. OFFICERS. Harry K. Ghorniley Arthur Eldred F. H. Ayres . . Librarian Sergeant-at-Arms . . . Critic Stanley Clausen................President Ivan Seigrist.............Vice-President Lowrie McClure.................Secretary Clyde Shockley.................Treasurer OX THE evening of March 16. 1905, a band of students called into being the Central Kelvin Club. The purpose of the organization, then as now, was to give to such boys as display a special aptitude in science an opportunity for more thorough study than is afforded in the class-room. In token of this purpose, they gave to the club the name it now bears, in honor of the greatest scientist of the age. William Thompson, Lord Kelvin. The larger part of our programs are the work of our own members. The program committee assigns a certain meeting to a member, who is responsible for the program for that night. He may prepare a paper on some scientific subject that interests him; he may tell of new scientific discoveries and inventions; he may have his program consist wholly or in part of actual experimentation. In any case, the only limitation on the choice of the subject is that it shall be calculated to advance the scientific knowledge of the speaker and his hearers. All members who present a program endeavor to answer any question that may be asked, and the general discussion resulting is sometimes more illuminating than the talk itself. Some of our programs consist entirely of a general discussion of current events of scientific interest. From time to time we have programs contributed by persons not members of the club, men whose profession are such that they have a message for us. The constitu- tion provides that to these open meetings” members may invite friends, an dthose outside our number are thus made acquainted with our work. Ever since its beginning the Kelvin Club has striven worthily to fulfill in the highest degree the purpose for which it was founded, and the school year just ended has been one of exceptional accomplishment. We have done work within the club of which we are proud; we presented an assembly hall program which met the difficult condition of being both entertaining and instructive, and which we trust did not cause the venerable Sir Isaac to turn in his grave more than once; and we inaugurated the custom of having a special session for girls who are interested in science. We believe there is a larger interest in science at Central than there would be without the club, and that is reason enough for its existence. We have imparted a little additional scientific knowledge to our fellow tudents; we have built a nucleus for science work at Central; our members have advanced in scientific and technical knowledge; and we have given to those scientifically inclined a fellowship of kindred minds” that is a source of strength and inspiration. If we have done these things, and we believe we have, the Central Kelvin Club has proved its right to be. JOAN SI EG RI ST, 08. A JVE W GAS Donald W IT often happens that while we are looking away from home for matters of note, great things take place in our very midst to which our eyes are blind. The following excerpt from the April number of School Science and Mathematics, Chicago, may therefore be news to many of us: “Everyone who has occasion to use a Kipp generator knows of the difficulties and annoyances which are experienced whenever it is allowed to stand for some time. The acid in contact with the iron sulphide, or whatever the material may be, becomes spent and that in the reservoir above, which is unused, must be thrown out with the other. The apparatus is seldom ready when you want it unless it has been recently charged. Many attempts have been made to obviate these difficulties. and various modifications of the Kipp have been proposed, but most of them are open to some objections. GEflE'RATO'R. . Ross, ’09. At the holiday meeting in December of the State Association of Science Teachers of Missouri, the model of a new form, designed by Mr. Earl C. Hallar. of the department of chemistry of Central High school, Kansas City, was presented which seems to be satisfactory in every way. From the accompanying figure its construction may be readily understood. B is a bottle of about one liter capacity, having a wide mouth: A is another bottle of about 500CC capacity. with tapering neck, which fits into B. A hole is bored thru the bottom of this at I by means of a file moistened with turpentine: a tube C extends nearly to the bottom of B. F is a bottle for holding the ferrous sulphide, marble, zinc, etc., and is connected with B by a rather large about three-eights inch) rubber tubing, upon which a screw clamp, not shown in figure, is placed to regulate the flow of the liquid, which differs for different gases. F rests loosely in another bottle cut off short, which is fastened by wax to B securely. H is a ground glass stopper, which, if not gas tight, is readily made so from a few drops of wax from a candle. This is easily removed when necessary for recharging, which need not be often. To use the aparatus acid is poured into A at I from which it runs into B and from there into F. The tube E must be large enough to permit the passage of acid and at the same time the gas generated in F. For generating hydrogen sulphide small quantities of acid are all that is necessary, while for ca bon dioxide more is needed. This quantity is readily conti oiled by the screw clamp at E. When the material in F, becoming covered with spent acid, it may be easily drawn off at 0 without interfering in any way with the working of the apparatus. If it is desired to prepare hydrogen instead of hydrogen sulphide, all one has to do is to disconnect at E, substitute F a similar bottle with zinc, and proceed; likewise for carbon dioxide, a bottle of marble. Another advantage the apparatus has is that if the supply of material in F runs low while it is desired to continue the use of the gas, an amount of acid sufficient to generate enough gas nearly to till the reservoir. 15 may be allowed to pass over into F. and while the student or instructor is drawing this off thru J. the clamp at E may be closed and the bottle F recharged.” The principle of Mr. Mallar's generator is the same as Kipp's; the flow of acid from B to F is regulated, after the screw clamp at K—not present in Kipp's—has been set rigth. automatically by the gas pressure. The gas generated in F passes thru E into B where it forces some of the acid back into A, thus lowering the level in B. When this gas is drawn off -at J, the pressure is removed and the acid descends from A into B by its own weight and rises in B until it again passes thru E and generates more gas. This process is repeated continually. The generator now used in our laboratory is only home-made.” but it will be put on the market next fall by one of the large supply houses. In the student-made generator the chief difficulty was finding an acid-proof wax that weuld not work loose. Recently, however, one has been discovered which is fairly satisfactory. A new form is now being made with two tubes at E, one for the acid to pass into F; the other for the gas to pass into B. It is believed that this generator, because of its convenience and the saving of acid, will in time replace the Kipp in school laboratories. THE STOJiy WITH measured tread a dusty pilgrim trudged The dusty road, which far to westward stretch’d Until its further end the golden gate Of Day’s great golden monarch, Sol, did find. The way with monstrous stones and sharp was filled; Nor could the pilgrim see his way ahead, Such were the many windings of the road. Tall hedges, sharp and green, the pathway lined, Which when the wind bestirred and blew with force Upon them, swayed and seemed to crep with stealth, Like some green monster or great dragon told About in fable or in rhyme. Anon. The weary pilgrim slack’d his weary pace. Which early morn had seen him gladly set. And, later, even saw him sadly check. As some poor doe, when closely press d by foe, Does drop from pure exhaustion, .so The weary pilgrim with fatigue sank down. Yet rose and, stumbling on, did find A rock beside the road and sat himself Upon it to repose his clouded brain. As in the west the fiery sun did sink Below the level stretch of cloudless sky And changed the twilight into darkness grim. So in his heart his haughty hopes did sink Almost beyond the state of hopefulness And left the weary pilgrim in distress. Great agony of mind or soul requires Great fortitude to overcome, but hope Tho’ small, is often great. Huge obstacles Doth it surmount when fair success but smiles, And when success ful beams on it, there is WAy OF LIFE. Xo limit to its scope; it grows and swells, And rapidly expands to all four points. O, Pilgrim, weary of thine heavy load. Were there but just a single day to rout, To scatter thy discouragement, thy face That apathetic frown would not now bear. 9 A dying ray sped from the sinking sun And spent its golden life to kindle life Anew within the pilgrim’s heaving breast. He knelt beside the rock and prayed to God: My heart is heavy, Lord, the road is rough. Revealing ragged ruts and rearing rocks. Huge enemies and dire have always lined My path. I’ve battled bravely as I could, (). Lord, but have as yet no recompense. The stately ships sail o’er the salty sea With holds e’er creaking with their weight of wealth: Slow-footed camels, ships on seas of sand. Hear spices, silks of price, and precious gold. Yet 1. a bark on life’s rough waters, drift About with only worthless burdens heavy. Must 1 plod on. O God, without reward? Help me, O Lord, help me, a suffering soul.’’ lie sank upon the rock, his careworn face Half-hiden with his hands, his form half-bent. From far off came a tender, still, small voice. A whisper, sweeter than the sweetest tones Of music,—softer than the softest breeze That ever kissed his cheek: “O weary one. Let not thine heart be troubled: I will give The rest and comfort: listen unto me: () Pilgrim, life is not all glory: life is not all honor, pride, or fame. Reward, However sweet it seems to mortal men, Is not life’s aim, to which all noble thoughts, All noble purposes must e’er subserve in serfdom. 1 o him who strives for honor’s sake alone, The world may give its precious gifts; to him W ho. in the name of glory, delves, the men Of earth in awe may foolishly bow down: Grim death with heavy, ruthless hand alike Smites each. () pilgrim, ne’er again believe 1'hat mere reward is life’s true aim. Take heart. Arise, and. trusting in thy God, spur on Again. Live for the betterment of all I by fellowmen.—those pale and gaunt, ! hose sorrow-stricken sufering ones. Mark thou: The life that heaven honors is the life Of love and service.” Soft and sweet and low, Like feathery flakes of virgin snow, the voice Was wafted to the pilgrim’s ears. My MOUHE'R! Xo sound, no face of joy to welcome us!—Remorse. SHORTLY after 1 had come to legal maturity my father died. His entire fortune, by no means ordinary, was left to me. A great fortune is rarely a blessing to one who did not earn it. I cannot say that this inheritance effected me; it merely guaranteed to me the life of reading and thinking 1 had already determined upon. My youth had been short: always intellectual. In child-hod I had been lulled to sleep by the rhythm of ‘Wight 1 bought, by the cadence of “L topia. and by the music of Ossian. My pastime had been reading; my punishment, a chair in the corner. 1 grew as I was bent. So, when this fortune and my mother fell into my care. I had no intention other than to continue in general my previous plan of life. It was not long, however, until I had married. Rosi- With firm determination on his brow, And in his heart true courage, he arose Before his God and vowed that henceforth he Would battle for the good of all mankind. The gleaming armor of Integrity He doned without delay; upon his arm He placed the shining shield of God. well fashioned. Well forged. Into his burnished belt he thrust The two-edged, double-handed sword of Truth. Equipped with these, he journeyed toward his goal. The road’s sharp turns seined straighter than before, 1 he rocks less rough, the enemies less dire I all sentinels the hedges tod.—not grim Machines of torture. Nature was revealed lo him in splendor far more beautiful han he had dreamed, for now he strove to make The stony way of life a path of love. RAYMOND I. MOORE. ’oy. My 'ROSITHELL! phcll, the last of a family older than rich, was my choice. Never had I cause to regret that union, nor had my mother. Rosiphell. fair and young, accustomed herself to our mood, and indeed soon became the great part of our lives. She attended, intruth, our work with great assiduity. When I came down from my study earlier than usual one evening. 1 found the fairy Rosiphell pouring diligently over a a voluminous treatise on the reality of matter, which I had commended some time previously as a worthy volume. Thereafter, on the strength of such a show of industry. I took my wife to my study every night. It was partly for her sake, she so much wanted ‘‘something with life in it.” that we took up the subject of mesmerism. We approached the question in no light manner, however. The works of Marcus Niphaeus and Aemilius Scaurus were taken as a basis for our procedure, and through their many references to other contemporary writers, both Latin and Greek, we soon became familiar with all the ancient knowledge of the relation between will and will. As our work became more animated, mv mother was forced to leave her study and to join ours. Here we spent many congenial hours. I read from the original Latin the work we were considering; Rosiphell found and read the references—indeed, on some evenings she read the most of the time; and my mother kept a brief of the sense of both. We continued our study some months, progressing slowly through the pristine to the modern philosophers, including Mesmer, Braid, and Dr. Heidenhain of Breslau, before we felt able to pass to the experimental stage. Again we advanced systematically. My mother was always the mesmeric agent; Rosiphell was her assistant; and I. an acute observer, kept the most detailed accounts of our proceedings. This practical research was not as pleasant as the reading had been. Necessarily, our subjects were of the lowest class of people: people so low, indeed, that it made the proud Rosiphell wince to think that she and they had a soul in common. The results of our inquiry are now in the hands of the wisest men of the time: but one result is yet to be recorded. In the second year of our ardent labor. Rosiphell. who had been the spirit, if not the body, of our work, faded into a morbid sickness. For weeks my mother and I watched her continuously as the disease carried off her liveliness, her color, her roundness, her bloom. Attention she received in abundance, yet death was imminent. Night is universally a stimulant for meditation; Death is ever a subject. Blessed is the man who needs must watch through the night the corpse of a friend; but far more blessed was he who was present the night before, as for quarters of hours the soul—the friend—hung about the passive body, and at last broke away as a rich perfume, rising in glory to its first and royal home. Yes, truly, the heart of the wise is in the house of mourning. But this philosophy was little comfort to me. as with my mother. 1 kept the customary watch. On this night, which I felt to he the last, misery was my part; misery painful from restraint. What but misery could be near that silent form? Was this Rosiphell? the happy Rosi-phell? the poor little Rosiphell without a father or mother, a sister or brother? No, no; she passed away long ago. This is sad Rosiphell; emaciated, worn Rosiphell. with a sinner for a husband and his mother for her mother. With a sinner for a husband—yes, a sinner; but a sinner whose whole frame shakes as his heart heats for her. His mother is as her mother; a better she could not have. ()n previous nights we had sometimes thought Rosiphell dying when she was but peacefully sleeping; but now that she was dying, we did not think her sleeping. No. we were far from thinking that; the very air was pregnant with the departing soul. To allay somewhat the pains of time. 1 took up the work of the medieval Aristarchus. The thumb-worn pages opened in my hands, and I read aloud: “Yes. return to the Temple of Bramah; Return, thou soul, to the Source; Return, thou part, to the Whole; For, truly, nought can save you. Naught save the Will of another.” Naught save the Will of another.” I repeated. “Save the Will of another. I closed the book and dropped my head into my arms on the table. “Naught save the Will of another. Rest was a welcome respite; for a second I dozed. A murmuring, clear, definite, determined, roused me. I raised my face. Before me. in the pictured attitude of the teacher. Mesmer. stood my mother, serene and queenly, commanding the vacillating soul to raise up the body of RosiphelJ. Behold! Wonderful is the power of one over another! Rosiphell arose! Would that I might here inscribe my passions! Rosiphell arose! Rosiphell. emaciated and worn, stood upright! Rosiphell, the embodiment of my affections, came to me! Rosiphell!! My arms embraced her wavering form; she gave a weak cry of joy. Rapture after rapture reanimated n:y shaken form. The joy of life, the worth of living, for the first time I valued highly. But pleasure is ever the herald of sorrow. Yea, our peals of laughter echo in our fast following tears. Indeed, my dear mother in reviving Rosiphell had herself experienced a corresponding weakening. Alas, when I looked up from embracing, I saw my mother lying on the couch loo quiet, death-like, with her arms crossed on her bosom, as if prepared for burial. 1 released my wife; and she, seeing my mother, sank lifelessly into a chair by the couch. Behold. I cried in misery and surprise, “she was living merely by the strength of my mother! Seeing the source of her life going, she. too, goes. Both die! My cries did no good, nor did they evil. I threw myself on my knees between them, grasping the hand of each. Together their blood pulsed weakly; together their bosoms raised. On one side was my mother, on the other my wife. Never a tear left me, yet I knew that death was near to both. My body trembled in the intensity of my sorrow. My limbs were contorted in paroxysms of fear. Quickly in mv mind I ran through the list of powerful remedies I had collected in my work; I had none all-powerful. Mesmer cemae before me; seemed there in very body. I started to my feet. The image was gone, but it left a detrmination to us his science. Standing before my wife and my mother, with returning courage, I pronounced slowly the words we had found most effective: Thy body is mine. Thy spirit is mine. Arise! Arise at the will of thy bidder. Over and over again this fell on the air with all the rhythm I could weight it. Again: a slight tremor spreads over the bodies. Again: a like sign of revivification. Once more: a struggle by both to move—and a sob. The sob cut into my heart. The pain I knew I was causing them unnerved me. The horridness of working with those lifeless bodies I will not attempt to describe. How selfish I was! But I collected myself, and brutally repeated my words. “Arise”: quiet. Arise”: not a tremor. “Arise”: nothing. Each time I increased my voice. “Arise”, I cried. “Arise”. I shrieked. Arise”; but not a move was made. “Arise”: my wrought mind could scarcely think. In anger and despair I raised my hands above my head, and in a frenzied voice, 1 shouted, “O, thou false will, why have I neglected thee? Wilt thou not just this once revive, and exert thy power on these? Alas, why did not I, also, practice thy powers? I have not the strength to cause even these two to raise!” I stopped. In a lower tone I considered. These two? If not two, perhaps one! WHICH? My Rosiphell, my Rosiphell, 1 must take you. You were merry, happy. I cannot part with you. Every golden curl has its charm; every curve of your once round face, its quality; every move, its meaning; every word, its music. . . . But come, decide: ... It shall be Rosiphell!” I rechanted the first few words . . . like an avalanche came the thought that my mother would die. My mother, who had reared me; she. who had soothed me to sleep with hymns and proverbs rather than lullabies, who first had taught me to read, who had encouraged the love of reflection, would die. How often I needed, her advice! How sacred were her high temples, over which her raven tresses parted and fell to her shoulders! I could not lose my mother. I must have my mother. I turned from my wife. Anew. I started those words I had already spoken so often. But thought of Rosiphell. to whom I was wedded, restrained me. I hesitated, turning to one. then to the other. I he pain of my soul increased my acuteness. Every detail caught my eye. A crease in the carpet, a cut in the covering of the couch, the arms on my ring were each considered minutely. ()utside, silence was total. The eternal ringing of the dark night was unbroken. I was wrong! I he wail of a fox-hound floated in on the breeze. My brain! t was the death wail! It was OUR hound! My mother, my Rosiphell were dead! MATHEMATICS FACULTY. MR. F. C. TOUTOX. MISS THOMAS. MR. WM. A. LUBY. MR. TEMPLIN. MISS JOSEPH INK MAGERLE. MISS BRIDGES. MR. C. A. BLOCHER. VESCTUTTIVE VERY few pupils of Central High school know that among the many interesting and instructive mathematical studies taken up here, descriptive geometry is, in spite of the fact that few students ever take it up, one of the most fascinating and pleasant. It is unique in that it, more than any other subject, gives the student at the conclusion of every problem a keen sense of mastery and an assurance of something accomplished. For the benefit of those who do not know it might be well to say that descriptive geometry is a study of projections and that its object and aim is the solving of the problem. “How may solids, having three dimensions, be rtpresented accurately upon a plane, having only two.” Just how this problem is solved, it would not do for one to try to explain for most of the readers would find such an explanation wearisome in the extreme but in rdtr to illustrate some of the more simple of the operations of the subject it might be well to work out one problem to give one an idea of what the study is like. GEO ME T'RV- Ett us take then for consideration the development of the oblique cone and the finding of the shortest distance between any two points on its surface. This is a problem which is quite beyond the scope of mechanical drawing lmt is well within that of descriptive gtometrv. The development of an object is the result of unrolling or k unfolding the surface of the object upon a tangent plane, without any compression, extension, or distortion of any kind affecting the shape or relative position of any of the parts of the surface. All the students who have taken solid geometry remember how thty took the developed surface of the icosahedron and by suitable cutting, folding and pasting built it up into the regular solid with which we are all more or less familiar. In order to do this in the case of the oblique cone we must first intersect the cone with a sphtre whose center is at the apex of the cone. The cone, sphere, and curve of intersection arc shown in projection in the figure as S K L . and M X O . It is evident that when the cone is developed this curve of intersection will appear as a circle, with its center at the apex of the cone and whose radius is equal to that of the sphere, since all the points of the curvt of intersection are on both surfaces arid therefore at equal distances from the apex. It is also evident from the figure that the surface is divided symmttrically by S' R' and S' E'. the longest and shortest elements of the surface. W ith this in mind we lay off S E equal in length to the shortest element of the cone. It is now nectssarv to develop the curve of intersection in order to know the distance apart of any two of the elements that we wish to use in the development. This is done by developing the horizontal cylindtr of projection of the curve. And when developed it appears as M X O. We now with a pair of how dividers, whose points have been set 104 sufficiently close so that tht arc and chord do not differ materially, step off the distance between any two elements desired and then we lay off the same distance on the circle which is likewise the development of the curve. We then draw through the point thus determined and the apex the element and lay off its true length on the line. Continuing in this manner we can determine any number of elements desired aad by drawing a smooth curve through their extremeties obtain the required surface. It now remains to find the shortest distance between any two points of the surface as X and V . These points appear in the development as X and Y. Since the development of a surface represents the actual surface without any distortion or strain, it is evident that the shortest distance between two points will in the development appear as a right line since the shortest distance between two points in a plane is a right line. We therefore connect X and Y with a right line and then by counter development find the curve that it assumes on the cone itself. hen this is done we see the shortest distance to be the curve X Y. The above problem well illustrates the methods and operations of descriptive geometry. And these are of great importance to the draughtsman and engineer. For example, before a large ship can be made, the size and shape of every truss, plate, girder and beam must be definitely known and their exact dimensions must Ik ascertained before a single plate can be rolled or a single beam can be cut. These things can be definitely obtained bv the use of descriptive geometry And so the mathematics which it contains together with the fact that one can keep all the drawings that one makes and so have them to compare and review in the future, and also the fact that the subject is eminently practical, make descriptive geometry a most interesting study. ROSWELL H. MAVEETY. A Graph of Our Grades in Mathematics. Who get the best mathematics grades, boys or girls? Perhaps this question has been asked by every student in Central, and vet no one has ever been able to answer it. It is for the purpose of showing the relative grades of boys and girls that we have drawn the following graph. The statistics used were those of our own school for the past five years. It can be seen by the first figure that the girls do decidedly better work their first year than the boys. But in geometry the boys do much better work than in Algebra. It is also noted in geometry that while the girls get the greatest number of Es, they also get the most Fs. The third figure is merely a composite of the Freshman and Sophomore grades. In the last figure, where all the four years' work has been averaged, we sec that the number of Fs, among both boys and girls, has been greatly diminished. This necessarily means tiiat we get our best grades in our last two years. On the whole, the girls get by far the best mathematics grades. Dotted lines represent girls; solid line, boys. STANLEY J. CLAUSEN, ’08. An Interesting Geometrical Problem. Walter Swartz, 'o8. Take a square 8 inches on a side, and cut it into four pieces, as shown in Fig. I. Arrange these pieces as shown in Fig. 2, and you will have a rectangle, 5x13 inches, area 65 square inches, while the original figure contained only 64 square inches. W here has the other square inch come from? Fig. 1 shows the 8-inch square and how it was cut into two equal triangles each 8x3 inches, and two equal trapezoids Fig. 2 shows the new arrangement of pieces, and apparent change of area. However, if one cuts out the figure in paper, he will at once see. if it has been carefully dissected, that there is a narrow opening along the diagonal of the rectangle. If one looks into the matter more closely, he will see that the diagonal XX (Fig. 3) is not a straight line, but a broken line consisting of XK, a straight line, and XX a straight line, but that these two are not one and the same straight line. This i easily proved. Proof: Let M be the point at which XK produced intersects NZ. Sow the triangles XK and XMZ are obviously similar. Therefore we may write the proportion XZ : XY : : MZ : KY. And substituting known values, 13 :8 : : MZ : 3. 8 MZ=39 MZ=4.875 But XZ=5. In a similar manner it can be proved that XIIX is a broken line. A trigonometric solution of the problem discloses the fault at once. In forming the new figure it is assumed that the sum of angles OXH and KXY is equal to 90°. This is not true as we shall prove. tan KXY= log tan KXY= .4771213 .9030900 -9-5740313—«o c j 1 c ! 1 1 '—7 1 1 ' — - - . k - 1 ' ' 1 erf' 1 ' 'll 1 - -1 - i- - . ' J A 8 i r 7 1 L _ _i. 1it. L . - -IB . a 1 I . ! [ •7 —1—1 • - -yp - - - r • V 0 -jr.-v- . U' ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 j ’ • •—! 1 y 1z . 3. 1 !« And KXY=20° 33' 21.5 Also tan OXH= 5 2 log tan OXH= .6989700 •30,0300 = .39794°° Thus OXH= 68° iT 55.13 There KXY+OXH= 88 45' 16.63 . while the whole angle at X=90°. Thus between the lines XII and XK there is a gap whose angular measurement is 1 14' 43.37 . Xow It 11s find the area of this open space. We see at once that it is a parallelogram. I� y the Pythagorean theorem, we find that the two pairs of equal sides are 8.544 and 5.385125. respectively. Then we draw the shorter diagonal, thus dividing the figure into two equal triangles, and find the area of one of these triangles. We have given: The Message of R. Y. I) I wandered down a lonely road That toiled about through hedge-rows hare. Returning Springtime, touching Karth, Had not yet left her traces there; When on a knoll, in dismal plight, A ruined house gleamed on my sight. Amid the wreckage, drearily One smoky chimney reared its frame To mourn above the toppling walls. Charred by the tongues of greedy flame; There sunken, too. the threshold blest That used to greet the welcome guest. Abandoned treasures strewed the ground— A blackened clock that chimed no more. A marble Pluto, eagle crowned, Persephone, now shattered, bore; In sawdust gore lay welt’ring there A doll, by headless Venus fair. sin LHXK. XK=8.544 X 11=5.385125 Angle HXK=i° 14' 43-37” Therefore area HXK=J £ XH . XK . Log area Oi HXK= .9316612 •731 958 8.337H39—JO 9.6989700—10 Log area 11XK= 19.6989709—20 Since area XIIXK=2 1IXK. . rea X11X K=1.00020 . Thus the total area of the figure is equal to area of rectangle OXZX—area parallelogram X1I. K=65—1=64 square inches, the area of the original 8-inch square. This inaccuracy is due to approximate calculations bv means of tables. the Hyacinths. , 08. Then sudden as a glancing thought. Or ray of swiftly flashing light, I saw a bed of Hyacinths. The first of Spring, full-blooming, white; Above the pure bell-blossoms fair Breathed fragrance, like a child’s first prayer. Like sentinels of hope unchecked They sprang amidst that dreariness; Like symbols of a faith divine They told undying happiness; With flower language, still, yet clear. Their message drifted to my car: Your sorrow sinks into your heart That endless gladness may not cloy. But desolation always yields The pure, white flower of a joy; The hyacinths God’s promise bear, Tho sadness conies, peace shall be there. « BASE BALL. 108 First row Robertson, Tilden, Burns, Woods. Bayne, Barlow. Second row Lindgrove. Brokaw, Delchman, Stengle (Capt.). Carson. Welsh. Graves (Mgr.) GIRLS’ BASKET BALL TEAM. Nora Talley (Capt.). Center. Delphine McKenzie. Center Erma Waltner. Forward. Jennie Simpson, Guard. Helen Bradley. Guard. Gertrude Harter. Forward. Miss Blatchley. 109 THE BASKET BALL TEAM. Winners of the High Seliool ('hninpionship. First row Watson, Edwards, Hamilton (Coach), Munson. Second row Brown, F.; McPherrin. G.; Conkling. C. (Capt.); Hedrick. G.; Terte, F. !BASKET EVER before in the annals of Central’s athletics has there been a more remarkable basket ball season than that of ’08. ()ther teams may have won more games out of the number played, but none has had as severe a schedule and as many difficulties under which to start, as this year’s team. When the season opened, Mr. Hamilton had not one old player to fall back upon and about whom to build his team. A1 the material available was two of last year s subs, a few ‘•green men. and his own skill and perseverance. Perhaps it is due to these conditions that such an evenly balanced team was developed instead of a ttam with its one star upon whose playing victory or defeat depended. After some weeks tryout, the following men were chosen to defend the Blue and White: Ben Tertc and “Red” Brown, forwards; Roscoe Conkling. center and captain; Rex Hedrick and Will McPherrin, guards; as subs, George Edwards, Raymond Watson and Xeal M unsen. With a center who was seldom out-jumped and two fast, accurate forwards, it was possible to develop a system of signals and team play that made beating most teams an easy matter. In some of the games the work done by these forwards was phenomenal. As a fast, crappv goal shooter Terte cannot be equaled. Brown's style of play was more open and scientific, he at times making w ith ease shots that seemed an impossibility. Red. too, was invaluable on account of his free-throwing ability. At center, Conkling was never out-jumped. His only fault was at times a trifle rough. Roscoe must have been fierce at St. Joe when the umpire had to call fouls on him for looking at the ball As a guard. Hedrick, while not playing a conspicuous game, always played consistently and well. His long suit was laying back under an opponent’s goal and always covering bis man at the right time. The schedule consisted of twenty games, seven of which were played in Convention Hall, the others being played out of town. Of these twenty games. Central won thirteen and lost seven. Only two of these defeats, however, were received 3BALL at the hands of high school teams, these being games at Jasper and Topeka. We lost to the State Normals and to Ilaskell (second) each by one point. The other games lost were to teams of intercollegiate class. Thert could not have been a more fitting end to a season than occurred in Convention Hall April i, 2 and 3. In this series Central beat Manual three straight games, each by a larger score than the preceding. Three straight victories from Manual—something no other Central team can boast of. This is all the more remarkable when it is considered that Manual's was a veteran team and Central's consisted entirely of new players. In appreciation of their work, the athletic association presented each of the five regulars with a gold button in the shape of a basket ball, bearing the letters ‘C. H. S. and 1908.” Following is the season's schedule: November 11—Central 43, Osteopaths 19. Novtmber 14—Central 93, Spaldings 8. November 19—Central 12, William Jewell (second) 27.— December 5—Central 43, Schmelzer 38. December 12—Central 31, Union Club 40. January 11 -Central 29, Haskell (second) 42 -January 18—Central 58. Lathrop 10. January 31—Central 21. Warrensburg 22r-Fcbruary 3- Central 32, Haskell (second) 33'. February 7—Central 65. Marshall 19. February 14—Central 67, St. Joe 23. February 20—Central 25, Topeka 19. February 28—Central 47. Webb City 37. February 29—Central 2( Jasper 3rr March 7—Central 55. St. Joe 17. March 18—Central 39, William Jewell (second) 23. March 28—Central 36, Topeka 42.-i April 1—Central 26, Manual 23. April 2—Central 33. Manual 25. April 3—Central 36— Manual 23. vm. McPHERRIX, 08. SENIOR BASKET BALL TEAM. Winners of Inter-Class Series. F irst row—Watson, Hedrick, Kreuger. Second row—McPberrin, Terte, Conkling. The Inter-Class 'Basket Balt Series. GREAT interest was shown this year in the inter-class basket ball series which was held in the old Turner Hall at 1208 East Ninth street. Before the series opened all the classes had teams practicing at scheduled hours. All the lower class teams were determined if possible to defeat the Senior team. Each team played every other team two games and all were excellent exhibitions of backet ball. The Seniors had the strongest team, four of the players being regulars on the first school team, and they made a runaway race and captured first place by winning every game. The Sophomores had a strong team and were led by our brilliant little forward, Red” Brown. The Juniors were fairly strong considering the material from which they were compelled to choose and they were able to defeat the Sophomores in one game of the horse-shoe variety, the latter later retaliated by humbling the Juniors to the tune of 51 to 19. The freshmen chose to abide by precedent and lost all six games. Plainly the star of the scries was the captain of Senior team, Ben Terte, who made a remarkable record of throwing no less than ten goals from the field during each game. The inter-class games “brought out a few “finds,” and when placed on the regular squad where they received the benefits of the coaching of Mr. Hamilton, turned out to be shark basket ball players. They will certainly be heard from in the future. Each member of the Champion Senior team” was given a silver button in the shape of a basket ball with the inscription Inter-class Champions, 1907. Below is the standing of the teams at the close of the series : Team. Won. Lost. Pet. Senior 6 0 1.000 Snior 3 3 .500 Sophomore ... 3 3 .500 Freshmen .... 0 6 .000 ROSCOE CONK UNO. 08. 113 CENTRAL RELAY TEAM. I 14 First row—C. Patrick. Hamilton (Coach), C. Woodbury. Second row—C. Daniel, F. Catron. INTER-CLASS TRACK WINNERS. 115 First row—Mr. Hamilton. C. Woodbury. F. Catron. R. Watson. Second row E. Love, X. Vaughan. H. Woodbury, G. Tyler. SENIOR CLASS TRACK TEAM. 116 First row—N. Vaughn. E. Love. L. Doering. O. Kreuger. Second row—R. Watson, F. Catron. H. Woodbury, G. Tyler. IJVTEHCLA.SS TTIACK AJVD FIELD MEET CHAS. WOODBURY, ’09. THE inter-class meet held each year for the past four years has proved a valuable feature of school athletics. Besides creating a healthy class rivalry and general school spirit, this meet offers two opportunities for important discoveries. First, it enables the regular track men to test themselves in events other than those in which they are accustomed to compete; and in the second place, it brings out new men each year who, through timidity or other causes, have refrained from track work until spurred on by the class spirit. The meet this year was pulled off at Fiftetnth and Paseo on April 24; and was by far the closest and most hotly contested one yet held. The Seniors and the Juniors tied for first place by a score of 44 each: the Sophomores took third with 29 points to their credit; and the Freshmen captured the remaining | oints. Three banners were awarded—one for the class winning the highest number of points, one for the relay race, and one tor the highest individual score. As indicated above, the class banner is the joint property of the Seniors and the Juniors. The Sophomore relay team won that race and carried off the second banner; while the individual banner was won by I larold Woodbury with a score of 23. The success of this and previous inter-class meets has led Mr. Hamilton to decide to hold monthly inter-class contests in the new gymnasium next year. The'following is a summary of the meet: 1XTER-CLASS MEET. High Hrudles (6 hurdles)—H. Woodbury (Sr.), first; C. Woodbury (Jr.), second; Tyler (Sr.), third. Time 11 2-5. 100-Yard Dash—Catron (Sr.), first; H. Woodbury (Sr.), second; Garner (Soph.), third. Time 10 2-5. Mile Run—Avery (Jr), first; Watson (Sr.), second; l’ypes (Jr.), third. Time 5:15 4-5. 440-Yard Run—Gardner (Soph.), first; Patrick (Soph.), second; Daniels (Soph.), third. Time 57 3-5. Low Hrudles (6 hurdles)—C. Woodbury (Jr.) and H. W. Woodbury (Sr.), first; C. Daniels (Soph.), third. Time 4-5- 220-Yard Dash—Catron (Sr.), first; Gardner (Soph.), second; Daniels (Soph.), third. Time 24 2-5. Half Mile—Patrick (Soph.), first; Gould (Jr.), second; Scheulcr (Jr.), third. Time 2:21. Shot Put—Bowers (Jr.), first; Gardner (Soph.), second; Robertson (Soph.), third. Distance 35 feet 7 inches. High Jump—C. Woodbury (Jr.), first; H. Woodbury (Sr.), second; E. Love (Sr.), third. Height 5-2. Pole Vault—C. Woodbury (Jr.), first; H. Woodbury (Sr.), second; E. Love (Sr.), third. Height 10-8. Broad Jump—II. Woodbury (Sr.), first; C. Woodbury (Jr.), second; Tyler (Sr.), third. Distance 19-10. Discuss—Bowers (Jr.), first; Vaughn (Sr.), second; Robertson (Soph.), third. Distance 101 feet. Hammer Throw—Bowers (Jr.), first; Vaughn (Sr.), second; Gardner (Soph.), third. Distance 160 feet. 117 JUNIOR CLASS TRACK TEAM. Tied for First Place in Inter-Class Meet. First row—McGinness. Sadler, Bridges. Bourbon. Saper. Second row—Pypes. Gould. C. Woodbury (Capt.), King. Avery. SOPHOMORE CLASS TRACK TEAM. I U) First row Prauens. Eaum, Mooney. Patrick. Schueler. Howell. Mr. mocker (Coach). Second row Harper, Tinanns. Adams. Daniels. Moffett. Dobel. FRESHMAN CLASS TRACK TEAM 120 First row—Wright. Lesser, Austin, Cheek. Second row—G. O’Brien, Hurst. Campbell (Capt.), Lane. Fulton. CENTRAL TRACK TEAM. POINT WINNERS. First row— C. Woodbury. G. Tyler. Hamilton (Coach). C. Patrick. C. Davis. Second row—H. Woodbury. C. Daniel. F. Catron (Capt.), R. Bower, R. Watson. CENTRAL TRACK SQUAD. First row—Pypes, Warrick. Tumaines. Moffett. Baum. Kreuger, Campbell. Second row—Mr. Blocker. Schueler. Gould. Tyler. Bower. Davis. Love. Vaughan. Third low C. Woodbury. H. Woodbury, Daniels. Catron (Capt.), Watson, Patiick, Hamilton. (Coach) THE THACK. TEAM. FRANK CATRON. ’08. EACH year in the past as members of the track team have been graduated, the question has arisen, W hat shall we do next year?” However, the next year has always proved all right, because enough new men have been found to take the places of those leaving the team : and the records left behind by the old members have inspired the new ones to greater deeds. The track team of this year has been no exception to the above. Reginning with the playgrounds meet last September. Central has taken part in five meets, and has come out first in all but one. Several new men have been found whose work not only compares well with the work done in former years, but in not a few instancts breaks the records of the past. In the playgrounds meet. Central’s team composed of Catron. Daniels. Gardner and Patrick won the mile relay race over Manual and secured a handsome trophy cup. In the 100-yard dash. Central took first and second place, Raurn-berger winning the gold medal and Gardner the silver In the Missouri-Kansas indoor meet held in Convention Hall in March. Central’s team again won over Manual in one of the prettiest relay races ever witnessed, while Catron secured first place in the 100-yard dash; and thus two more cups were added to our trophy case. The dual meet with Wentworth Military Academy Was held in Lexington April 18, and was a close contest from the very start. Rower. Catron. Daniels. Patrick. Tyler. Watson and theWoodbury brothers each won points and did cradit to the school; but tht score was so close that it took the final event, the broad jump, to win the meet for central with a score of ?? On Mav 2, the eighth annual dual meet between Central and Manual was held at Elm Ridge. This was two weeks before; and again thus the result of the final event necessary to decide the meet. At the beginning of the broad jump, the score stood 57 to 51 in favor of Manual; but Harold and Charles W oodbury and Grovey Tyler again came to the rts-cue. and secured all three places in this event making the final score to stand Central fio. Manual 57. This gave us the Spalding cup awarded to the winner of the meet; and also possession of the Schmelzer cup which was offered last year to Hie school winning two meets out of three, and which had been at Manual for the past year. One week later in the M. Y. I. A. A. meet at Elm Ridge. Central was less fortunate. Manual secured first place by a score of 44. West Des Moines second with 40 points and Central third with 39. While the school did not win the meet, excellent work was done, and our track men carried off five gold, seven silver and six bronze medals. Patrick ran the half mile in 2 minutes and 5 seconds, thus breaking the record in that event as did also Harold ood-burv in the high hurdles. Catron won the hundred yards and Charles Woodbury made the pole vhult at 10 feet and 9 inches. One of the best meets of the year, at Lawrence. May 16 is yet to be held. While the contest there will be a hot one it is safe to predict that the Central boys will come home with their share of honor and medals. OUH I'RTISTS. We Took a Trip. 12T ,000 nORN' , H sve Y0l� USED BASINET-0 MX f THEMATIcS DON'T KNOwf, , I CMl'1’ SEE. MYj lAMoO no at£ inof ne v sroKie MK-D O V BK'- flWA 0 Hl£y THE LUMINARY STAFF. STUDY HALL AND MISCELLANEOUS FACULTY. MISS NELSON, Clerk. MISS DENNY. Study Hall. MRS. WHEELER. Matron. NOVITATIS CAUSA. When first th' illustrious Pompadour of France, Distressed and worried by her plain coiffure, Put wits to work her beauty to enhance. She set the fashion of the pompadour. It raged like wild fire over al the land— In scarce a week each woman, dark or fair, Caught up the craze, and with experienced hand, Began to smooth and roll and puff her hair. What once was ours, alas! we have no more! See yonder boy of wild and staring mien, His short hair coaxed into a pompadour? I le does not know how strange he looks, I ween. To what extremes cannot Dame Fashion go? And why? Just for the sake of something new. ADELLA M. PEPPER. 08. JOKELOGUES FROM VIRGIL. When away from the fair queen, called Dido, Aeneas departed, she cried so, She jumped on a pyre In an awful hot fire. And alas for poor Dido, she dido. Said the proud, haughty warrior. Aeneas, ”1 guess no one wishes to be us. For those horrid, rude Greeks, Have tried for steen weeks To take all our playthings and tree us. An old Trojan person, King Priam, Remarked, when they murdered him, “ I am Glad now I’m done That I'm only just one. And not the two twins out of Siam. There once was a maiden named Harriettc In Central's old hall she doth tarriette. Whence came all her beaux, Alas, no one kneaux She must rope them in with a lariette. Mr. Graves: Now consider a frustrated cone. THE MERRY WIDOW. N. nr opnm .... TO OPRLAO tURLLY OVER THE Sidewalk . NOT ENOUGH BONNCT f OI Mr. Justwed: Shalf T order anything for the house on my way to the office this morning, my dear? Mrs. Justwed—Yes. love. Stop at the grocery store and tell them to send up a five-found bag of salt right away. And, George, tell them to he sure to see that it is fresh.—Judge. George: “Oh, Gwendolyn, will you he mine? You are the well from which I draw all my inspiration!” Gwendolyn: “George, dear. I'm afraid I can’t—but then I’ll he a cistern to you.” CALMLY. 3MC PREPARED To DY£_ Young Man: “I am feeling miserable, doctor. I can’t get my mind on my business, my appetite is gone and I can’t sleep. What would you advise me to do.” Doctor: “Marry the girl. Two dollars, please.” banner (just arrived in X. Y.). “Say, young feller. I nan to go to Central Park.” Young “Feller” (after a pause—thoughtfully): “Well— i guess you may go, just this once, if you’ll promise never, never to ask me again.” ALICE A CEJIT'RAL-LAfl'D ALICE had been going to high school for five weeks, when, one Friday in assembly, she found herself unusually drowsy. The noises about her became more and more indistinct until finally she drifted off into slumber.. It seemed to be the first day of school. In despair Alice looked at her five little white slips. ‘’Now, what shall I do with these? she sighed. “What’s the difference between a Freshie?” the one marked “Room 23 asked in a scornful tone. “The greener the pickle in the sandwich, shouted the card with “Study 15 on it. And the moral of that is, ‘If you don't study, you'll flunk.' Unless you're a Senior, added the one which indicated Room i6. “But ask something hard. What's the use of the Junior officers?’’ At this all the others thought so hard that they got purple in the face. Alice wondered why she wasn't surprised to see a piece of cardboard get purple in the face, but it seemed perfectly natural. She put them hurriedly in her bag and set off down the hall. Soon she came to a strange region where innumerable little aisles ran off to the side between tall, narrow boxes. 1 wonder what those boxes are, she thought to herself. Lockers! came the answer in a tremendous chorus. Of what use are you? she inquired. The result was instantaneous silence. Finally one of them ventured meekly: “We help the padlock trade,” and another: “Our recesses make good places for the pupils to meet after schol and in the afternoon. Besides, it’s not our fault that we're so small, nohow.” “Contrariness,” thundered the chorus. Soon Alice went into a room and sat down. The teacher looked so very much like a question mark that she was not surprised when he announced that they were to study “Why- ology.” The pupils' recitation consisted in asking the teacher questions. This, she thought, “is better even than taking music.” About the room various bottles and tanks were placed to arouse and develop curiosity. Upon inquiry Alice found that the crawling, slimy things in one jar were ohms, and that they thrived upon sulphate of chewing gums. In another was a plant called the gerundive, upon which were feeding supines, boneless worms known as “the former” or “the latter according to whether their heads were at the front or back end. On top of the water were spinning and circling round black little bugs, gerunds. Have some divinity, dears? Alice sweetly offered them a piece just as she was leaving the room. “Not if its Kathryn Gentry’s,” they growled sullenly. “You get hers smeared all over yourself and then have to lick it off. Ivan and Roscoe may eat it if they want to. but we won’t. After such rudeness, she hastened away and was soon in front of a little door, which she opened. She saw a hole, “for all the world, as she thought to herself, “like a corkscrew. As she was evidently expected to go down, she seated herself and bravely started. Round and round she whirled as she softly hummed: I feel like a ship on an ocean of joy, 1 just want to holler out loud ‘Ship Ahoy!’ Oh! Around—Around Waltz—Around—Willie Me around again. She seem to see hundreds of organ grinders dancing round with their monkeys, when—bang! She thought she had struck the closed door at the bottom. But upon rubbing her eyes and sitting up straight, she found it was only the gavel sending the pupils from assembly. THE SWEEPERS He of tlu class of 11 took his hooks from his locker, where they had lain unmolested (save for a few plundering rats) since the close of study hall the afternoon before. Hi face was burdened with an air of determination, which seemed entirely out of place in the midst of so much “verdancy.” After tossing his hair so that it hung in ‘‘beautiful ringlets” over his shoulder, and repeating to himself all the parental nstructions he had received at home that morning, he started for his first hour room. As he awkwardly steered his uncertain path through the over-crowded locker district, he boasted to himself. “I’ll establish a record for the class of 'll—I'll make no blunders today!” Alas, the rash vows of youth! K're his first room was reached, the brilliant bubble that he had blown round himself burst, and he was left there a much discomfited freshman. For bearing down upon him was one of those hallwide, inextricably intertwined groups of girls. Hike the sensation caused by his first shoot down the “can,” like the utter lack of comprehension he enjoyed” when he received an F on his final term card, was this feeling that overpowered him now as lie. transfixed, looked in bewilderment on these “sweepers of the halls.” What a dilemma! He turned in dismay only to meet another plalanx coming from the other direction. Escape seemed OF THE HALLS. (A Warning to the Class of ’n.) impossible. His eyes started from their sockets in a vain endeavor to find him a way of flight. Anon the “sweepers” came on unconscious of the storm they had created in the breast of our hero (?). At last, in desperation, he pressed himself flat against the wall, that in this way he might escape the slow, yet apparently irresistible advance. Would they never reach him? It seemed like ages standing there flattened against the wall like a lizard. All his vows were now forgot; all those dear, loving words he had heard but this morning were no longer ringing in his ears. His heart began to race dangerously fast: his hands worked spasmodically with his bookstrap; he discovered his knees had no strength in them: thousands of eyes were piercing him through and through; he closed his own to shut out the horror of it all. Summoning all his strength, he nerved himself for the crash. It surely must be near. Why didn’t it come? In a sort of vague astonishment, he opened his eves and saw—a few stragglers in the hall! Not ten feet away was a door, mutely explaining it all. And thus it happened that the “verdant one was left there, pale and shaken, looking like one restored from tliQ dead. And breathing a silent prayer for his deliverance, he staggered on his way. while he—blew another bubble. CHARLES H. DAVIS, ’to. 1 : I THE RATS’ CLUB OF CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL. A late translation from modern Ratin. Mr. Chairman—“Will the Central Rats’ Club please come to order. Will the secretary please call the roll.?” Secretary—“Mr. Rat if� . Rat 16—“Ad sum.” Chairman—“Will Mr. Rat 16 please speak Ratin. I sec that his meal off Miss Harriman’s Caesar has affected his affected his mind.” Secretary—“Mr. Greedy.” Mr. Greedy—“Eat some.” Chairman—“I sec that it will he necessary program in assembly hall, as the pupils of Central feel that they have all they can stand. It was moved that seventy-five cents be appropriated for flowers to be send to Mr. Inquisitive, who go his back sprained by be. ing kicked out of Miss Morgan’s room by Henry O’Brien. It was moved that the meeting adjourn.” Chairman—“Will the sergeant-at-arms please answer the door?” Secretary—“Mr. Chairman, as we have coming back to us today an old member, 1 move that we copy the Wcbsters and have a feast.” to ask the greedy rat to move his house from Xo. if . TIis association with the Classics Club is not good for him. Secretary— Mr. Chairman. 1 think it unnecessary to call the roll, for I think that the representatives of all the wards of the school are here.” Chairman—“Will the secretary then read the minutes of the last meeting?” Secretary— The meeting was called to order by the president, minutes were read and approved. The following program was given: “A Rebate—Resolved that new passages, more fire escapes and fire drills should he adopted bv the Central High school to aid the escape, in case of fire, of the multitude of rats who dwel therein. The question was decided in favor of the affirmative. “An original Poem—‘A Romantic Sandwich by Mr. Rat of the basement region, one who knows. “An Essay—‘How to build a modern house out of pieces of hats, coats and other wearing apparel The report of the luncheon committee was heard. The following business was transacted: “It was moved that the Rats’ Club refrain from giving a Mr. Greedy—“I second the motion.” Storms of Applause. Chairman— All those in favor respond by saving ‘Aye.’ Why is it. Mr. Timid, that you are the only one who does not favor a feast?” Mr. Timid— Well. I have taken so many lunches lately that I fear to take another.” Chairman—“Oh, do not let that worry you. the pupils are getting used to our forages by now. I will appoint Mr. Second Flaar Locker Dweller. Mr. First Floor Locker Dweller and the rat of the boys’ locker region to take this duty upon themselves. Please secure one of those dill pickles from Ruth aVn Doren’s lunch, and don’t forget the peanuts in Miss I larriman’s book-case.” Mr. Timid— Hark, hark, the bell is ringing. Flv, fly. we arc undone! We must not be seen or all the girls will scream so that the vibration with electric light wires will set the building on fire. Mr. Rat 16—“We cannot afford a fire vet, for the paint isn’t dry in the tin slide.” Silence reigns among the lockers as the dainty keys click along the hall until Isabel (with heart-rending cry): “Girls, girls, my lunch is gone again!” KATHRYN GENTRY. TO. Telephone Grand 1314 Bell 805-12 Shukert Bldg., 1115 Grand Ave AN INSTITUTION OF SUPERIORITY THAT HAS COME TO STAY 184 CLHT AL!5 USUAL SHAftt-I.C. TMt LIOn’3 SflAftlr THE FROEBEL KINDERGARTEN TRAINING SCHOOL —OF KANSAS CITY, MO. Twelfth Year Opens in September TWO YEARS’ COURSE Address MISS ELIZABETH MOSS 2200 East 26th Street, KANSAS CITY, MO. Mr. Nowlin's definition for lingerie: Somethings that looks pretty. Mr. Dillenbeck (seeing that Grace was absent): We'll have no Grace today. Tommy: Pop. a man's wife is his better halt, isn’t she? Tommy's Pop: So we are told, my son. Tommy: Then if a man marries twice there’s nothing left of him, is theie?—Ex. In days of yore, when many score Of knights rode ponies brown. They rode them well, and strange to tell. They never tumbled down. I ut in our school, when a poor fool A pony fine would ride, lie learncth naught, is quickly caught, And he wishes he had died. 135 L. W. F. When in Need Call Up Phone No. 4362 Main H. 156 Grand Troost Avenue and 15th Street Kansas City Missouri — ■ m For Novelties In Graduation Gifts Come to MERCER’S 10 East 11th St. The “want-this-and-want-that” younfl chap— Has it ever occurred to you that our sole aim and object is to please him—that we give it all our time, care and study ? We have the “to s” and “trappings” that delight his critical eye! GORDON KOPPEL COMPANY Outfitters tu Yount! Men and Boys Temporarily 1006 Walnut WHEJV SIS GRADUATEV ia« Sis, she’s goin’ to graduate. Oh my! but there’s a stir, There’s cuttin’ and bastin' and cuttin and bastin' And sewing machines just whir. There’s goods and patterns all over the house, And fittings from early till late. There's no rest for me any more ’Cause Sis is goin' to graduate. I’ve almost starved for 'bout two weeks, But it’s no use to complain, Pa says just wait till Sis graduates Then we can eat again. I can't make out what it’s all about. This fuss from early till late. And when I ask they only say our sister’s going to graduate. If this keeps up much longer. I think I’ll have to keep Some chloroform upon my head So I can go to sleep. Everything’s covered with Sis's togs. There’s not even a place to sit. Whenever I start to take a chair Sis yells I can’t have it. And even then I’d be afraid Some demon would me aggravate. By coming in my dreams to say Your sister’s going to graduate. 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President. i:i� CEJ1T'RAL S ALTHA'BET A’s Aristonian, most Angelic of All ; B stands for Bored and Blase Bob Ball; C’s any Charley, they’re all Cute and Clever; Ds Docile Dwight, the most Demure ever; K’s Edmund Field, a favorite in Elections; Fs Fair Florence Fleming, who Feeds on confections; C� s for Gale Gossett, a Girl Good as Gold; H means Hazel Harbour, ever Hopeful, we're told; Fs Innocent Ivan. Ingenuous always: J J°Hy Jeanette, who laughs in the hall-ways: K stands for Kathryn, Known by all as so Kind; L is Luthera. whom Laughing you’ll find; M stands for Meade. Meda Moore, and still More. And if that’s not enough there are More Moores galore. X is for Nelle. who’ll Xe’cr be a Xun : O stands for O’Brien, the Omniscient One: P’s for Miss Pepper. Penetrating of mind: (J’s for Question and Quiz, to pass which we grind: K’s Roistering Rob Thomas, to Resting inclined; S is Senior Soph, for Saint and for Sinner; Ts for Tapp, as Tony most Truly a winner; t is the I nloved. Ubiquitous rat: ‘s Variable Van Doren. Voluble in chat; V’s Whittemore, W ho meets oft. I Ween, X. the unknown ( ?), whom with her we have seen; Y’s Youth Scott Young, so sober in school; Z is for Zang, a jjoor harmless fool. And as for this last. I’m sure you'll agree. It could none but the Local Editors be. A Centralian. THE SKATING RINKS ON PARNASSUS. Discussed bv Several Poets. By Omar Kay yam. Oh, make the most of what we yet may spend. Before we too upon the Floor descend: Giddy upon the reeling Floor to lie. Sans Skates, sans Breath, sans Rescue, and sans Friend! And we, that now make merry in the Room, With Spring Hats, “Merry Widows ’ in new bloom— Ourselves must we upon the Couch of others Descend—ourselves to make a Couch—for whom? We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round and round, until with waving arms And strangest motions we are ourselves laid low. By Wm. Shakespeare. Come on. sir: here’s the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy tis to cast to cast one’s eyes about! The youths and maids that skim the midway floor Move scarce so slow as swallows: half way 'cross Goes one that's skating backward, dreadful sport! Mcthinks he will alight soon on his head: The skaters there that sit about the wall Appear half-dead: and yonder woman stout Mortally afraid: her support, a boy Almost too small for sight. I’ll look no more. Lest my brain turn and the deficient sight Topple down headlong. By Longfellow. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Skating is an empty dream! Tis man who walks that slumbers, For he’s out of fashion’s stream. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end and way; But to skate, on each tomorrow. Longer than we did today. Let us, then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing Till we learn to roller skate. By Tennyson. Skate, skate, skate. On thy hard, smooth floor. O Rink! But I hope that my tongue won’t utter The awful things that I think. O well for the one that knows how, 1 hat he laughs, as he passes, in glee! O well for the maid on his arm That she leans on him trustingly! For the skaters just go on, Round and round the hall: But O for a touch of a helping hand To catch me as I fall! JACK AND JILL FROM FIRST TO LAST. Chaucer. Bifel that in a sesoun on a day, hail Jack and conilv Jill would go and play. I he goode wyf had many cares to tenden. () hertc deres, cried she, “ye moten wenden, Jo holpen your moder, to yon fair welle. I he way was stepe. but sooner than T telle Yow of this, hir boket was yfilled. 1 ban. verray sure no drope would be spilled, Like pay re briddes in the month of May They songen hand in hand a merrie lav Ad no more cautioun had they. I gesse. 1 han any beste in the wilderness— Til that the wight, and after hi mthe mayde A1 sudevilly at foot of bente layde. 141 To alle mennc may this tale be A lessoun and a grete moralitee, And only pity hem whose densitve Wol not leet hi mthe goode therein see. li. Shakespeare. Act 1 (tragic keynote is struck) Scene. A Valley. Enter two rustics. 142 Porcio—Dost see yon fair and faintly glistening thatch That riseth midst the sun-tipped pillars of Yon grove, and like some saintly ansor pours Unceasingly its insense toward the sky? Cynicus—To me 'tis rather a low-crouching beast That snorts out deadly fumes (aside). Aye. an what on it? Porcio-Resideth there a maid, the beauteous, Jill, Who goeth forth this day to scale yon dizzy Height. To see her many folk will come. Cynicus—Curses and maids had best remain at home. Act II (rising action.) Scene—Hillside. Enter Jill at left toiling up steep path, at the same time lack at right. Th paths meet. Also Jack and jin. Jack—Fair Jill, thy lily form was never framed To bend beneath the heavy gust of toil To this strong arm entrust thy pail. Jill—Thy gallant aid. milord. I gladly hail! Act III (cliimax or turning jx int.) Scene, hill. Jack and Jill at well on top. Grouped artistically at foot, villagers, rustics and clowns. Scene i. 1st Clown. 1 low many gills dost think will make a pail. 2d Clown. Methinks, thou braggart, that not forty :� n ’ 1 make the pale. Scene 2. Jack and Jill (poised on the crest of the hill)— Hey nonny nonny, our bucket is full And it is not worth the hill's weary pull? Come, chaplet of laurels, or ye Eaglet of victory, Perch on our brow, The deed’s finished now. Act IV. (falling action.) [This being an expurgated edition, the reader may not know the horrible details of how Jack, losing his balance dragged Jill down the steep after him.| Act Y (catastrophe.) Jill (still tumbling) Help. help, milord, th’ ungrateful Me ringlet, 1 do fear pail hath drenched Jack (ditto) And I, dear one, Do see before me rise a fate as hard, A bristling stump. Farewell, sweet life, fond hopes, my Jill, The least of us must taste life’s hitter pill. III. MACAU LEY. WE deny that a lady is exempt from literary criticism because of her sex. Yet we deny that a lady shuld be subjected to severe criticism. Our readers shall have inferred by now that we are disappointed in Old Mother Goose. VVe will he lenient; we will be forebearing, as it behooves one to be lenient and forebearing toward the weak. But w owe it to truth ; w owe it to justice: we owe it to humanity to lay bare the rotten foundation of her “Jack and Jill.” Old Mother Goose affirms that Jack went up the hill to fetch a pail of water (accompanied by Jill). Good! Thus far. the acuteness of O. M. G. has gained for her an immunity other than the immunity of sex. She has observed that in initiative, in industry and in progress, man’s supremacy is undeniaible. But her acuteness is equalled only by her obtuseness. Jack,” she continues, “fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came tumbling after!” Search the annals of England: search the annals of Europe; sarch the annals of the world. Milton will tell you. Moses will tell you. Shaw will tell you that woman precedes in downfall. Therefore, Old Mother Goose’s version is preposterous. This is our verdict. Let him deny it who dares. -------GET SATISFACTION--------------------------- --How often you have been inconvenienced and dissatisfied and handicapped. y°u believe it economical to put up with the delays due to incompetence or small facilities when you are in urgent need of your printed matter. Do you think that you are saving money by issuing commonplace advertising literature, even if it is cheap. 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The following is the Menu Electrolyte Bouillon Carbon Wafers Pried Obms Hashed Brown Volts Creamed Amperes Molecules a la Avres Scrambled Ions on Sjjongy Lead Toast Escalloped Electrons Sulphuric Croquettes Hydrogen Fritters with Syrupoxide Bronze Fiber Salad Current Pudding with Electron Sauce Voltaic Ice Cream Chronic Cake with Anode Filling Coffee Sulphate It!) 150 If You Want to See a Circus See Me! I () vn and Manipulate the Greatest Show on earth. ,25.55—PERF( )RMERS—125.55 Here are a few: BIG CHIEF WILD MAX ........MARSHALL THWING (Straight from the Jungle of Argentine.) 1 ITTLE CHIEF WILD MAX .......MARSHALL XEAL (Eats 'Em Alive.) .MEDIUM-SIZED CHIEF WILD MAX... .EARL GRAXT (Look out. He’ll Bite.) CHAMPIOX XAIL-EATER...........DAVID HAWKIXS (Eats One Keg of Soft Boiled Shingle Xails Every Day and Two on Sunday.) GREATEST BAREBACK RIDER IX CAPTIVITY.... ............................... JOE PEPPARD (Rides on His Head, on His Feet. Upside Down and Down Side Up. and All Other Ways Possible.) CHAMPIOX FORTUXE TELLER.... MARIAX RIDER (Can Tell Your Fortune For You 150 Years Before It Comes to Pass.) CHAMPIOX FAT MAN OF THE WORLD............... ...............................RALPH BOWER (According to Scales Procured from the Promulgated Amalgamated Ice Company He Weighs ,.000 Pounds.) If you don’t believe what I say above ask me about it. Address Xo. 23 XYZ Letticoat Pane before midnight inclosing two stamps and a ten-dollar bill for reply. KENNETH TAPP, Manager. Show begins at 3 :oo a. m. on the 31st of June. Admission 2 pins. We can accommodate twenty 100-pound people, or fifteen 150-pound people, or one hundred 200-pound people. Be sure to pay ME the money. Take Twelfth Street Cable Car to Swope Park and Change to Tin-Can Alley Line and Get Off When You Get Ready. 1 VUSSOIIR VALLEY” IN BAKER UNIVERSITY li HISTORY Founded 1858; for many years the only institution of higher learning in this great Southwest. Baker's contribution to the superior civilization of this great territory has been important and significant. ()vcr 16.000 young people now occupying positions of influence in their respective communities have here received their inspiration for higher leaning and higher living. GROWTH The growth of the school has been steady and permanent. For the first twenty years the average attendance was 107; for the next twenty years it was 269. During the last ten years there has been an increase from 512 in 1898 to 780 in actual attendance at the present writing, and this increase has been mostly in the college department. The housing capacity and the teaching force have more than doubled. ALUMNI Alumni and former students occupy prominent places in business, church and state. We shall be glad to send to anyone inquiring for it. a copy of the catalog containing the list of the Alumni. 'Pile number of prominent, successful and useful men and women therein indicated will compare favorably with the best and oldest institutions in the East or West. STANDING Because of the character of the work required in the daily class room, and in the general features of the college life, Baker has a good reputation in educational circles throughout the land. Her grades are accepted by all good post-graduate, professional and technical schools throughout the world. IDEALS The long and successful history achieved by this in- stitution has not been accidental, but it is due to her high ideals of education and training. She believes in manhood and womanhood in the four dimensions of character: physical, intellectual, social and moral. With added equipment in its laboratories, with the new gymnasium, new musical conservatory, library and church. Baker is better equipped than ever to make strong effort toward the realization of these high ideals. EXPENSES It is the constant study of the administration to keep the expenses of student life reduced to the minimum. The quality of life, both in the college and in the town, may be expressed in the trite phrase. Plain Using and High Thinking. The earnest desire of the authorities is to bring educational opportunities withn the reach of the very poorest. Of course expenses must vary with the habits and tastes of the students. Two hundred dollars per year is a fair average expense for a comfortable living. Some pass through a school year on much less than that; others spend much more. But character, not cash, is the open sesame to all the high privileges here afforded. TOWN Baldwin is an ideal college town whose population consists of Christian men and women interested in Christian education : hence, all the conditions of life conspire to this end. There are no distracting influences. The life 01 the town centers in the University, and th spirit and tlie-ideals of the University permeate the entire co ’vnunity. Phe setudents room in the homes of these Christian people, and have their sympathetic care and attention. For catalog and other valuable literature address the president. DR. L. H. MURLIN, LOCK BOX 279, BALDWIN, KANSAS ir i yi V I A R y. 1.12 Centra Vj Bleeding Heart—Florence Fleming. Violet—Ivan Siegrist. Morning Glory—Ralph Barton. Sweet William—William Barton. Spring Beauty—Harry Owen. Forget-me-not—The Seniors. Jack-in-the-Pulpit—Henry Ess. Red Carnation—Xell McDonald. Tulip—Elias Barbee. Black-eved Susan—Katlirvn Gentry. Just Fresh From Central, i Great Cage of Songsters! Bob-o-link. sweetest ever....................Robert Lakenan Canary, green-winged variety....................Sally Brown Nightingale, sings best at 2 a. m............Will McPherrin Lark, gigles and chortles continuously.......Ruth Van Doren Only Hermt Thrush in captivity, shyest bird ever discovered ......................................Harry Southard Curly Headed Woodpecker, knocks on everything.......... ......................................Dwight Muckley 8th and 9th Wonders 8th and 9th!! Swallow, fastest bird known! Swallows five sandwiches in three minutes............................David Hawkins Magpie, chatters worse than a dozen Minervas.. Chas. Garnett Th Gentler Birds. Turtle Dove, greatest cooer alive...............Nina Waller Humming Bird, did you ever hear it sing?....Caroline Love Mournng Dove, responds to a “Bell”.....................Earle Moore Four-eyed Owl, straight from Boston..................Gilbert Faeth Infant Cowbird, just hatched ...................Louis Boone Bluejay. famous for its topknot.......................Edmund Field Greenhoxj.se. Sunflower—Chas. Wilhelm. Holly-hock—Roscoe Conkling. Sweet Peas—Luthera and Odella. Orchid—Joe Brown. Lily of the Valley—Lily Runyan. Golden Glow—Patti Page. Bacehelor’s Button—Henry O’Brien. Pitcher Plant—Sam Tilden. M ignonette—Mildred Bell. THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Labvrence, Kansas CATALOGUE AND OTHER INFORMATION MAY BE HAD BY ADDRESSING The Registrar, Labvrence, Kansas FACULTY OF 118 GIVE FULL TIME TO INSTRUCTION. Equipment of Grounds, Buildings and Apparatus Now Valued at $1,500,000 Campus of 170 acres; fourteen large buildings; a $100,000 Gymnasium, just completed; $250,000 is being put into new Engineering Buildings this biennium. SEVEN SCHOOLS Graduate; the College; Engineering (civil, electrical, mechanical, mining, chemical) ; Fine Arts. Law, Pharmacy and Medicine. Over Fifty Eminent Specialists Lecture Before the Students of Medicine Summer Session in June and July. TWO THOUSAND AND SIXTY-THREE STUDENTS IN 1907-08. IfilQUiniES 1JM Mr. Roosevelt—In answer to your request for the latest literary production of the famous medal winner, Miss Frauens, we give the following, which indeed shows her great talent. “Every lassie has her laddie, None have 1 at all. Yet all the bovs. they smile at me, When coinin' thru the hall!” Lost—One hall-hearing out of my roller skates. Finder will please return same and receive reward of one smile and two skates with me. Wanted—A very popular address very far north on Olive street. Any information will he welcomed by Earle Moore. The Mistress: What, Suzanne, going to leave me? Going to get married? This is most unexpected. •The French Maid: Oui, madame, hut cet ces not my fault. Eet was only last night zat your son propose to me. A party of traveling men in a Chicago hotel were one day boasting of the business done by their respective firms, when one of the drummers said: “No house in the country, 1 am proud to say. has more men and women pushing its line of goods than mine.” “What do you sell?’' he was asked. “Baby carriages! shouted the drummer, as he fled from the room.—Success Magazine. Found—A new recipe for divinity which requires neither milk, sugar nor butter. Information given by David Hawkins. For Sale—Cheap. All the Webster’s secrets. Prospective purchasers apply to Mr. Nowlins Friday. Bonita F: It makes no difference whether your dates were stuffed with talcum powder or borax, do not repeat the experiment. Not all boys have Will’s fortitude and endurance. Wanted—The Record in the broad jump which was broken when Lady Daniels made her exit by the bungalow window the night of the track meet. — « The word “altar” occurred in the Scripture selection. “What is an alter?” said the teacher. “A place to burn insects,” was the answer. “Who were the foolish virgins?” brought forth the reply from a little girl. “Them as didn’t get married.”—Ex. A cautious look around he stole; His bags of chink he chunk; And many a wicked smile he smole, And many a wink he wunk. — Where to This Summer In planning your Summer vacation don't forget the delightful lake regions of Iowa Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. There are hundreds of ideal vacation spots in the cool North Country, easily and quickly reached by the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway If you are interested I shall be pleased to mail booklets descriptive of the resorts in “Lakeland”also Canadian and Eastern resorts. Write today. One of the pleasures of your outing will be the ride on The SOUTHWEST LiniTED between Kansas City and Chicago. Most everyone is familiar with the perfect service and luxur ious comfort this train affords. Leaves Kansas City, Union Station - 5:55 p. m. Leaves Grand Avenue (22nd St.,) - 6:07 p. m. Arrives Chicago, Union Station - - 8:20 a. m. G. L. Cobb Southwestern Passenger Atfent 907 Main St. Kansas City, Mo. VAT'ROfUZE OV'K 156 OUR REFUND SPECIAL. Our Refund Special is a new hair curler. It lias no wires or hooks to catch in the hair. It is not unsightly like the paper crimper. Agents Wanted and For Sale by MAC ARTY, DAVIS. WALLIS, MUCKLEY CO. Ringlet Building. MY SECRET. Caruso may have a fine system for training the voice— But have one better! Caruso can give no guarantee— While I can assure all there is no “monkey business” about Mine. WENDELL FIFIELD. DANCING— -DANCING Dancing lessons given any time. Learn to he graceful. Learn the Barn Dance. MISS FLORENCE FLEMING, ably assisted by MR. Cl IAS GARNETT. Noth—Mr. Garnett holds the world’s record for different styles of walking—duck-foot and pigeon-toe included. Wanted—A JOB. can perform at anything, from a leader of a band, an actor, editor down to anything. My reference is— my profound TRUTHS. JOSEPH E. BRO W N.. AVVE'RTISE'RS. WANTED ENOUGH MONEY. I have an excellent song entitled. 'Tin Looking for the Man That Nominated Me for Sergeant-at-Arms. ’ The tune will be stunning. It needs money. ROSCOE CON RUNG. MY HOOK— My book contains all rules thru which T have gone in attaining my athletic ability and mv deep voice. THOMAS K. WHIPPLE. I want it distinctly understood that I am no agent for predigested foods. WANTED A PARTNER. I want somebody, who can play a violin, to become my partner. I look just like Kubelik—of course you can see my point. There is big money in it. Address all correspondence to EDMUND FIELD. FOR SALE. 1 have a fine assortment of nom dc plumes for sale, apply LOREN BROWN. Here are a few of my specimens— “Brick” ' “Blondie” “Brmonie” “Cinnamon Top Red Founded 1849. Rev. John P. Greene, D.D., LL.D., President. Forty Professors and tastmmetors Everything contained in the very best college courses is offered here to candidates for the A. B. degree. Enrollment for the present year 525 men. William Jewell is the oldest, largest and best equipped college for men west of the Mississippi. W illiam Jewell is considered by informed people to be the best college in Missouri. Many well-informed persons believe that William Jewell is the best college for men in the West. Twenty-nine states, territories and foreign countries represented in the enrollment this year. William Jewell aims to combine the highest learning with the highest standard of Christian living. William Jewell men spend less money on the average than students of state schools and schools of lower grade. ... William Jewell now has eleven buildings, and is building a splendid library, to cost, with equipment and endowment. $120,000. Athletics have a prominent but sane place in student life. OPPORTUNITIES FOR SELF-HELP TO WORTHY STUDENTS. William Jewell men have taken first rank in all honorable callings. CATALOGUE FREE. WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE (In Sight of Kansas Gity) Liberty, Missouri, 158 IT WASN’T HER VISITOR. “Bridget, did you hear the door bell?” “Yis, mum.” “Then why don’t you go to the door?” Shure, mum, I don t be expecting anybody to call on me. It must be somebody to see yoursif.”—Ex. HEARD IN THE MUSIC ROOM. Professor: Miss Apple, when you have mi can vou get do? 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