Cloverdale Union High School - Spectator Yearbook (Cloverdale, CA)

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soon returned, bringing both food and water, and accompanied by one of the Cave women, graceful as a fawn, the most win¬ some creature I had ever set eyes on. After eating and drinking some of the people helped us and we carried Red and Dooley to the village, which was a nest of caves in the cliffs. We remained several days. We all recovered our bodily strength, but Red and Dooley remained in their delirium. Atherton said their souls were too coarse and unrefined to be taken back to a precious existence. The lives of the Cave people I will not describe now, but wait until we have more leisure; but Jack London’s description of primitive people is far-fetched. I have seen it with my own eyes though I can¬ not explain it. Atherton thinks he can, but I do not know. A terrific thunder storm swept over the land, and when it was over we started for home, helped by the Cave People. The Cave woman I mentioned was Atherton’s sweetheart. On parting she gave him a present of a pottery vase full of prec¬ ious gems. Then she disappeared and the desert was before us again. Hi Randall says he found Atherton and I dragging Red and Dooley across the hot sands. We were both out of our heads with the thirst and heat, and it took several weeks in the hos¬ pital to put us in shape again. I could 11 the whole experi¬ ence the imaginations of a heat-crazed mind if it was not for the pottery vase. It was real, full of precious stones and showed the workmanship of a primitive people. Atherton gave me half of the proceeds and we came back to college upon the money.

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bucketsful, which gave us some water. Whil e we were gone the Italians had taken the horses and left us in the lurch. We could see them far across the alkali plain. Their skeletons were afterwards found in the desert. We gave Red and Dooley some of the water, but the combined effects of heat, thirst and alcohol had left them in a delirious condition. You can imagine the despair that came over Atherton and me. e were weak from thirst and heat, without the horses and lost in an unknown desert with two helpless compan¬ ions. We decided to try to reach the west shore of the lake, hoping to find some fresh water there. That night we worked our way across the mountain range, carrying some food, the small remaining amount of water and half dragging our com¬ panions. We often sank down from very weariness and I was sure Atherton was losing his head,too. He began to talk about his belief in the transmigrations of souls and to tell me he could, by throwing himself into a trance, remember any of his previous lives. He could detach his soul from his body and visit distant scenes, and by pure thoughts and simple liv¬ ing, could live any of his previous lives over again. About dawn we laid down to rest once more. The sun was well up in the sky when I was awakened by Atherton. Red and Doo¬ ley were still in a stupor. But a change had come over the country. The hills were thickly wooded and the waters of the lake were rolling their billows up to our very feet on the old shore marks five hun¬ dred feet ' above the present level of the lake. Atherton wore an old skin and had clothed the rest of us in the same manner. Down by the beach I saw somelndians or natives also dressed in skins—men, women and children all alike—and they were fishing. I thought the heat had gone to my head and shook myself, rubbed my eyes and tried to get back to earth. You are not dreaming, said Atherton, “I have brought you all back with me ten thousand years, when I used to live with the Cave People in these hills.” I was sure he was crazy and did not believe my own senses. I could not get nd of the hallucinations. “You remain here,” said Atherton, “While I go and get help from the people yonder.” Atherton 20

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Girls’ Basketball Luella Roberts ’14. The girls’ basketball team was organized the first part of the .last semester, with Emma Sedgley Ti, as manager, and Ethyl Graham ’12, as captain. On November ir, 1910, we played our first game with Healdsburg High School, at Healdsburg, with the follow- team: Isabelle Grant ’ll, center; Emma Sedgley ’ii, and Anita Grant ’12, guards; Hazel Browne ’10, Ethyl Graham ’12, goals, and Louise Wilson ’13, sub. The result of this game was 12 to 18 in favor of our team. There was a good attendance, and among the spectators were a. great many from Cloverdale. Xo more games were played, in 1910, and none in 1911, as our team was broken up, on account of so many girls drop- ping out.