Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Orphans High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Knightstown, IN)

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GEN LEE S CHRISTMAS TURKEY General Iee rn the drawrng room was a drg nrtred and quret gentleman very krndlv and gen tle especrrlly wrth women rnd ehrldren O the held says Major Ranson rn Harper s Magurne he was the gener rl the commander rn all essentrrl porrrts But rn other pornts he could be as sympathetrc and consrder rte as Ire was at home In the latter part of December a barrel was delrx ered at our camp mrrked Ge ner rl Lee and Staff We opened rt and found rt w as packed full of turkeys We sent word to General Iee There was snow on the ground and we had lard the turkeys out brggest rn the nrrddle and the others taperrng off to the small est at each end There were about a dozen of them General Lee drsmounted and Jorned the group gathered round the present carryrrrg hrs un and he rode ow er to our camp on a board on the snow the slung and undrawn sword rn hrs hand He was told that the brg turkey rn the mrddle was hrs He stood lookrng down at the turkeys for a moment and then sard touchrng the brg turkey wrth the scabbarcl of hrs sword Thrs then rs my turkey? Idon t know gentlemen what you are gorng to do wrth your turkeys but I wrsh mrne to be sent to the Irospr tal rn Petersburg so that some of the convales cents may have a good drnner He then turned on hrs heel and walkrng to hrs horse mounted and rode away We looked at one another for a moment and then wrthout aword replaced the turkeys rn the barrel and sent them to the hosprtal THE WILY WOLF In the school of Woodcraft and I nowledge of how to keep out of danger the wolves have no four footed equals The fox rs adunce rn comparrson the coyote or prarrre wolf a fool and the rest nowhere The grant moose krng of the Canadran woods rs the most drfflcult of all thedeerspecres to stalk rn the fall months but nevertheless rt rs often stalked successfully and shot by amateurs Not so the wolf Knowrng thrs and that true sport must com brne a maxrmum of exertron and even danger to a mrnrmum of destructron lthough nothrng would be sard about the destructron of too many wolvesj also that there was more honor to be garned rn outwrttrng and shootrng one wolf than a dozen easrly stalked and rnnocent deer the wrrter or ganrzed a wolf hunt for the wrnter of 1908 09 burlt three log cabrns some mrles apart and rn vrted sportsmen to partrcrpate Durrng the three mrdwrnter months they came rnto camp rn twos and threes for a week or ten days hunt To all of them the sport was new healthful and excrtrng not to say dangerous con srderrng the quarry sought and the rrsk of break rng through thrn rce on lakes and rrvers rn rts pursurt THE STEAMBOAT CALLIOPE One mournful note was heard rn the crrcus parade yesterday Itwas the vorce of the cal lrope It wasn t rts motrf whrch drsturbed It was the remrnrscences rt recalled when reachrng hrgh C rn response to an encore rt wheezed rn the upper regrster and sobbed a sob for auld lang syne For the callrope rs a survrval of good old days when great stemboats plyrng all the way from THE HOME JOURNAL New Orleans up to St Lours on the Mrssrssrppr and to Qrncrnnatr on the Ohro announced the arrrval off eyery rmportant port bewcen the ter mrnal porrrts by lrftrng the Ird from the c rllrope and Iettrnrf nature take rts course Oft rn the strlly nrght the hrst notes of the callrope could be heard anywhere rn St Lorrrs 'rs the Fhomp son Deane or the Robert If I ee or any of the great boats of the A Irne rrrost of yy hrch were equrpped wrth 1 callrope begrn roundrng the south curve of the great bend whrch begrrrs ne rr a porrrt opposrte Jefferson bar rack Once start ed the norse always corrtrrrrred untrl the boat was at the wharf and then dred rn a grsp to assure the farthest Irstener th rtanehor h rd been c rst Drstance lends enchantment to the callrope s yorce Heard at nrght flortrng across a quret crty from a steamboat comrng up stream there used to be rn rt a suggestron of be ruty whrch we cannot by any force of rm rgrnatrorr detect rn rt haye been taken over by the crrcus as rts partrculrr property after the steamboats were no more' The crrcus and the steamboat were contem poraneous and flourrshed together rn days and nrghts when the callrope was travelrng wrth the steamboat and not wrth the crrcus Phe ste am boat rs gone and the crrcus remarns and strange fate the callrope refusrng to grve up the ghost has taken to the crrcus as aprotector and frrend bt Lours Globe Democrat RULES FOR THE WORKROOMS Followrng are prrnted some rules for the gov ernment of employ es formulated by Herbert Kaufman and publrshed rn Pr rnters Ink Rule 1 Don t Ire rt w rstes the office s trme and yours We re sure to catch you rn the end and that s the wrong end Rule 2 Watch your work not the clock A long day s work makes a long day short Rule 3 Grve us more than we expect and we ll pay you more than you expect We can afford to rncrease your pay rf you rncrease our profits Rule 4 You owe so much to yourself that you can t afford to owe anybody else Keep out of debt or keep out of our shop Rule 5 Drshonesty rs never an accrdent Good men lrke good women can t see the temptatron when they meet rt Rule 6 Mrnd your own busrness and rn trme you II have a busrness of your own to mrnd Rule 7 Don t do anythrng here whrch hurts your self respect The employe who rs wrllrng to steal for us rs capable of stealrng from us Rule8 It s none of our busrness what you do at nrght But rf drssrpatron affects what you do the next day and you do half as much as we demand you ll last half as long as you hoped Rule 9 Don t tell the foreman what he Irkes to hear but what he ought to hear He doesn t want a valet to hrs vanrty Rule 10 Don t krck rf the foreman krcks rf you re worth whrle correctrng you re worth whrle keeprng He rs not drsposed to waste trmc cut trng specks out of rotten apples HONORS WERE EVEN When members of a Greek letter socrety rn Barnard College were rnrtratrng two grrlneophy tes rnto frat mysterres just before commence ment exercrses, one yunror, who was obeyrng orders, warted untrl a street car had passed her, then chased rt for a block, wavrng her hand and callrng frantre rlly to the conductor who at last 1 up lrrse rr e 1 the prssenge on rc flrrshe I yorrn won-r rn Ire n rnstead rrelrng tht e rr e rf' d ert raeedr nrr e s n mly ssr re r sl e trkrng er rmc to rt sl s r smr ed pr ttrlv rt e conductor 'rnrl w rlked rw ry rfter sweetly s ryrng Th rnk you o mrss s ne the cone rretor Ire rrt IV w nt to th url you Ns w York Press 'NIV WIKI' Ol IIURIIDX The Nrtron rl I'rrIrrrnr of W rshrngton D C the gre rt weel ly prrhlrshrd rn the N rtron rl Qapr tal and the orgrn of the old soldre rs rnd the I s rrst ru rre rrrer e th Strte Irehrs x he rn est among all who ne trred of the suee en changes from torrrd Ire at rn Summer to Artrc cold rn Wrrrter rnd who want 1 home where thc clrmate ls healthful and opportunrtres rre olfe r ed to carn rlrvelrhood or acqurre wealth under the most frvor rhle condrtrons lhe poprrl rtron of I Iorrd r rncre rscd nearly 50 me cent rn tn Irst census decade and wr d rrle rn the next Thrs map Ihe N rtron rl 'lrrbrrne hrs h rd com prled from the lrte st suryeys of the C oyernmcnt engrneers and from the most rceent datr of the Postofhce Department rnd lrthogr rphrd rn three colors on a Irnc qu rlrty ol plate p rper 28 by 30 rnches 'lhrs map wrll be sent free to any one who wrll wrrte to The N rtronal 'Irrbunc arrel enclose 7 cents rn stamps for postage Whether you own property rn any part of Florrda or are me re ly rntereste d In the raprd development th rt rs gorng on rn the Penrnsula State thrs map wrll be of both rntcrest and value to you and rll you have to do to get rt rs to send 7 cents rn stamp merely to defray the cost of marlrng and the map wrll be sent to you at once securely rolled rn a strff tube Address THE NATIONAI TRIBUNE Washrngton D Q POINTED PARAGRAPHS Better stay rf you can t pay as you go How proud we are of the thrngs we rntend to Iawn dresses are sard to bc rn frvor wrth grass wrdows Once rn a gre rt whrle you meet a woman who understands men but she 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