Freeport High School - Clarion Yearbook (Freeport, ME)

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T HIL' CLA RION ated writing' whieh ean be used on all oeeasions is a time-saver and a personal aeeonipllshment. Mixniox li. LKNIJICIISON, 728. the 1031116 light lf'redl Fredl llihy lookl There7s a light in the old light- house over on the pointf' lVith this ery Beatrice Benson ran upstairs to her hrother's den where he, hearing her ery, was already peering out through the fast gathering darkness. i t'Why, Sis, you niust he erazy, I donlt see any lightf, Mliut Fred, there was. Well inayhe, hut there isn't any 11ow. Why-why there is tool l.ook lv Sure enough there was a hlue light in the old tower over on l'erkin's Point. See, fl told you so hutvhut it's gone now. Nome on, Bee, let's go over and investigate. hllut, Fred, it's awful dark and if Guardie l.ud were here, he eouldnit let us go and you know itf' '4Oh. well, Guardie l.ud isn't here and anyway, we eau ask Chris and Holi, they'd love to gel So Christine Sllllfll, Boh llurnhani, lleatriee, Zllltl Fred Ben- son started ott for the island in Fred's launch. While they are on their way l will tell you a little of their life history. ilieatriee and Fred were hrother and sister. Fred was seven- teen and Hee was lifteen. 'llen years previous their mother had died and two years later their father died leaving them to the eare of his friend Charles Ludingrton whom they ealled Guardie liud. 'llhey lived on the niain land about three iniles from Per- kin's Point on whieh stood the deserted lighthouse where the old keeper had hung hiniself niore than ten years previous. At the present time Mr. l'.uding'ton and his wife were away visiting, leaving the house to the eare of Fred and Hee whose friends, Christine Smith and Robert Burnham, were staying with theni. VVhen they arrived at the island about an hour later there was 7? 22

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LITERARY the where. NVords and phrases were represented by arbi- trary signs. ln the phrase, ueven at the right hand of God, the character g represented God , two lines represented even, being of even length, right hand was expressed by the signs for Woven, being placed o11 the right hand side of g. Samuel Pepys penned his tanious Diary in shorthancl. No doubt he did not think that the eharaetcrs would be deciphcred a hundred years later and printed in plain English so that all who would could read. The famous narrative of Charles IPS escape after the battle of lvorcester was taken down by his sec- retary from the dictation ot' his king. Delving into the history of this country we iind nlany leading statesrncn, clergyinen, heads of universities and nien of great learning among the users of shorthand as a personal accomplish- nient. It is reported that Thomas fleliferson, 'llenjaniin Frank- lin, and Elbridge Gerry, three of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, were writers of shorthand. N ea1'ly all of the early Harvard University presidents including Henry Dunster f1640-1654j and the famous Jonathan Edwards, president of Princeton University, were expert writers of shorthand. Many books have been written and published about shorthand, its history and practice. The first known history of shorthand was published in 1736, by Rev. Philip Gibbs and is called An Essay Towards the Eurthcr linprovenicnt of Shorthand. In 1816 there was published the Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of Shorthandn by Jaincs Henry Lewis. Wllhe History of Shorthand Writing was published in England. lin 1884 Mr. Julius Ensign Rockwell prepared for the Hu- reau of Education in Washington a circular entitled The Teaching, Practice, and Literature of Shorthand, and in 1893 he prepared Shorthand Instruction and Practice. Many systems of shorthand have been established in schools and colleges, but the system used in flick of the high schools in the country is the Gregg system. It is written along the line of ordinary longhand, in a natural, easy, flowing manner in which drawing shaded characters play no part. Pitman Shorthand is also used in some schools. Isaac Pitnian Wrote a History of Shorthand, which was originally published in the Phonotypic Journal for 1847. History proves to us that aiknowledgc of a system of abbrevi- 21

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LITERARY no light to he seen 11111l there was no one zl1'Olllltl. As the girls wo11ld not go up into the tower and refused to he left downstairs alone fill? hoys l1ad to content theniselves witl1 looking 2l,1'0l11lCl O11 tl1e lirst tloor. They found 1111 oil stove and after hunting a while fl1l'f' 'lilllllltl some kerosene. They lit tl1e stove and made some t'0l'lt't' which tl1ey found i11 21 euphoa1'd. To their surprise they found the other eupho11rds full of supplies. Evidently there l1a1l heen sonieone living there lately. After two hours, when they finally get ready to go honie, they opened the door and to tl1eir llll'ltlZOI11011f found it was snowing hard 1111d tlll'l1' hoat was go11e. Chris looked at her watch and found it was nine oleloek. lVh11t would tl1ey do? After much persu11sion tl1e girls 1-o11se11t1-1l to stay i11 tl1e liglithouse, though to tell the truth. there was nothing else they eould do. It was going to he 11 Nlglllill' blizzard and no one knew tl1ey were go11e. liven it tlll' hoat had been there, they C0l1ltlI1it have gone ill that Sf0l'll1. Ql'erl111ps it was tl1e most restless night that any of fllC111 experieiieed, hut when tl1e gray light hroke in tl1e morning it was still snowing hard with no sig11 of ever stopping. All that 1l11y it snowed an1l hy Illltl-11ffF51'l10011 they eould not see the llltllll land. FO1'fll1li1fi'ly there were enough provisions to last them two or three weeks though they all hoped they wo11ld not he 1lltlI'00llCd lfllilt llqlgtll of tiine. Another long night passed during whieh 110110 of fl1C1I1 got any sleep. The next niorning it lliltl stopped snowing and when tl1e girls XVC1lf o11t into tl1e kitchen whieh they had eleaned, the boys were shoveling so111e of the snow away from tl1e 1loors tlllil windows. liven tllflllflfll they were shut away f1'Ull1 tl1e rest of the world they l1a1l got along very well. Thus far none of fllK'Il1 had ventured 11p those n1yst1-rious stairsg the girls, heeause tl1ey were afraid of XVlltlt tl1ey woul1l 'Find at tl1e top, and the hoys heeause the girls nearly Went i11to liysteries every time tl1ey mentioned it. That night just 11s tl1ey were ahout to retire, they heard a noise and looking out of the VVl1ltl0XV tl1ey saw tl1e reileetion of tl1e ligl1t o11 the snow. They looked at one another, ll1l'11 at tl1e tower stairs and hy tl1e ti111e they looked o11t of tl1e window again the light was gone. 'l'h1-y stared at each other alnazedly and fearfully and tl1en the girls heing very tired went to bed inaking tl1e hoys P1'011llS0 to sit outside their door and watch. 23