Jay High School - Breezes Yearbook (Jay, ME)

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Xt rts xx orst hrs style IS burharous concerted uneouth rnd mxstrcrl but rt rts best rt rs sur elr xrged xx rtlr fe ehng h ll monx llld color s suer e s d1d not 1111111 c If ut lL 1 rttrr rxx 1 er 1 1nx people h1nl xxr 1 1 1 1y ron 111 111 xxho 111111 a c rncf rr 1s xxrecked hr he rlth perhrp lo es hrs money he 1s d1s1ppo1nted often he rs krlled bx the sudden announ cement of the loss of rt It :111 r on b s rnone b qu athed to hrm he xxrll spendrt rn areekless f 1 h1on and 1t1s most probable that he xx 111 haxe lost '111 of rt fi fexx years The money dc es hrm no good rt may sporl hrs career Iohn Mrlton xvas another hterary m xn xx ho W rs not fully rppr ecr rted He Wrote upon deep subjects I Allegro on 1 d1V vxhen he xxfrs 11 1 lppy mood rsero o e of these he tell ot xxhlt e hers to see and th111k oi on e 1el1 d xy C omus masque WVIVUIII shoxxs th lt rn e INK s good oxr reo1111 s 1 xrl 11m Shilesp ne t e hast 1 most noted authrr ot the xxorld xv rs verv successful IIQ beqrn hrs hterrrv career bx holdrng horses xt cl the 1t1e He frrst began to xx r1te ox er old plays Hrs books are knoxxn everyxx here Qome thrnk hrs books tnesome but rf thex read them carefullx thex xxrll frnd many good lessons He ls noted for hrs pun on Words Ohyer Goldsmrth xx as not so success ful as many other xvr1ters Hrs most noted xxorks are The Vre rr of W l rec ant The Jes rted 1 we o rablx not rrrny of xxrll lrter IIN Irrople or 1111l1t 11x men or 'mx t 1111ff xxonderful11111r xxrr e rxe sure xxt 1l1 1 xx ot th It krnd CII Ex erxone C111 hxxc success bx dorng the more homelx 'md thc less ple rs Int thrngs ot hfe Iet us exer remember Carlyles motto Wh rtsoexe r tl1y h rnd In dm th to do do rt xvrth ill thy mrg t ORATION A GREAT MAN Ilx these d zxsof 1et1v1tx and progre ss xh 1 ere f men 11d vxom n are eontrnu rllx leeornplrshrng' vxonderful thrngs xxe do xxell to pause occasronwllv to look 111t11 some of these hves lrves Whreh turn h Us by corerete ex imple rncen trx es tor our oxxn adx ancement 'md aehrcvencents Among the notable characters of the present day, one stands out most prom 1r1ently tl'1u rts achrex ernents If rt be true that the me isure ot a man s success rn lrfe rs h1s rntluence upon the hx es of those xxrth xvhom he from dfrv to dry comes rn Contact the11 the lrfe f Irookcr I Washlngton hrs been pre emrnetly a success Of hrs brr th l1e hrmself spe Lks rn the 1uto brogr rphx of l11s hfe Up from 'sl rverx xx 'rs born he says sl rxr on 1pl1ntatro111n Irranklm County Vngrnrr I am not qurte sure of the exfrct pl ue or e'c1ct date ot mx brrth but it my rate I suspect I must hfzve been born somevx here and rt some trme As nearly as I h xve bee11 able to le rrn, I xx rs born near a cross road post ofhce called Hale s Ford and the xear xv rs 1818 or 11239 I do not knoxv the month or the dax The earhest rmpressron I ean noxx recall IS of the plantltron 'rnd the slaxe quarters the latter berng the p rt of the plant mon xxhere the slaves h d then eabrns H s hte had rts befrrnnrng rn the mrdst of the host mrserrble desolxte 'und dr four 1 flll 1 sur roundmgs Thrs xV'ls HJ ho xexer not bee ruse hrs oxx ners xxere espeerallx cruel for they xxc re not 1 comprrrd xxrth IHIIIX ot er s 1 IXIJHI log e'1 1hou THE I VIS 1:7 1 '11 ' '1 'J' 1' ' 1 'K 1 ' 1 1, 1 1 2 z If 1' j ' 1 1' 1, 1 ,z 1 1 1-'r 1 11 zz . ', ,. .w, .,1. ,' ,,' ' , , , . ,-,. . , . e 1 1 . , . 1 2' .jz 1 '. 11' ', z1'1'1 'z His 1' ' . 1 1 for 21 g:r1z1t ' 1 1 , ' ' 1 ' h . tin 1, b l vp '1's11x'cr111l:111cl: ' 1': 'hile 4, 1. 11. T. hc- re1zp1 l xxhzrt hc hzrd sr xx'n. Y M: If 1 lt ' Q LL 1111111 ol' '12 lth is , , hzyy '. I'Iz11'1 ' 1 rt. A 1 ' has I' I ' , . x'e11f'1ae 1:1 ' e1 ' - xx'1 'l' 1 nl ca' l hrs 1or1egx' hz: , . , 1 It 12 , 1' 1 If he I 1 I f , . 1 ' 1 I ' 1, ' . I ' IJ -I 1 V I 7 1 1 'V' -1 - . . . I . 1 1 e, . 3 . is ' 1 11 1 1 1, - 1 - ,e s 1 .ar 11 x' e e . 1. 1 ' I I ' ' 1 ' ' ' 1' 1117 as ' D' ' ' ' c I e ' I I 1. VI . . I . I . - ' ' ' ' X 4 I AI X I n,. I 4 C .... 1 . . 1 . ' 1' ' I 'I ' 2 Ii '1 z 1 . , 1 11 K. '1 H as I wh L Z, .I 1 , z :V ' 1 1 '. 'r 3 V' ,, ' .' 71 X 2 hz A . Il Pe1 1' s is the , ' ' ' L . . 1 1 ' Q descrrptron of zr melzrncholy day. In . . , , e11'h 1 1 1 ss ' 1 h 1 l' , , , , it , 1- 1 1 1 1' NYM HI Y' v U X Hu rs ar -15 1 1' 1 all ' It V ' ' , ' . ,I4 r , , I In 1 ,1 Y 1 vs .1 , v. 'I K I A C 1 I VV1llz 1' 1 e 3: h 1 2 11d ' ' , . 1 . ,. ' 1 V . ,df A I I L I' I ' I WI Y 1 , .1 ' I , B v 1 1 2 L1 1 1. 'f f 1 ' ' 1 1 v Y v I2 I A I I AI I ' ' 1 , .J . - 1 1 e , 7 , 7 4 v .- v 1 v 1' ' K' ' ' I I I D V . ' Vi X 5, , -if , . . ' 1 ' -1 1 '11 Iaee- L' , , ,' , , . . 11llII' IH -Ivy Xllrhe. , l Pr l' M' ' .1 us ' bf- , , ' ' , ' ' I ,I I . 1 . 5' gg g ' S. 11' 1.2 , 1 2 , . 1 L.- . ' X 1 e v -- 11-,e1.1. ' g j liut on 1 111:1y l1z ' 1 .1 -'s-ss, if not I' ' ' -I '- ' ' 1 in 'rr l, honor, I.ll.IIIC and other 'nys 25 ' 2 ' ' 2 N' h1 s. H11 ' z . xx'2r1' Il0I'I 111 21 A' fzl f1 hlll, 1 t

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IHF CIAVIS we have trled to do and let our faults be vxarnlngs that you may not meet wlth the same experlences Classmates Let us always remember our school and never say a word agalnst t Let all try to practlce the good lessons taught us here and when we leave the world may those ln It have the opportunlty to say that lf we have not done very much good for lt, We never harmed anyone ln the world but had good characters, belng lovlng and klnd to all human creatures The deflnltlon of success IS galnlng the object deslred We Wlll dlscuss what success ln llfe means to the dlfferent klnds of people The first klnd we Vlflll look to IS those to whom success conveys the ldea of acqulrlng money An example of thls klnd 19 John D Rockefeller He was born ln New York ln 1839 He galned hlS wealth ln the Standard Oll Trust M Rockefeller s benefactlons are numerous and large the most extenslve belng to Chlcago UHlV8TSlty To the numerous other rlch people the acqulsl tlon of wealth seems the only success In thelr eyes anyone who IS poor IS of no consequence Another class of people to whom success means the possesslon of wealth IQ the ones who do not have money but are contlnually wlshlng for It They llve ID small towns and country places as much as ln the large or small C1tl9b They may be elther ambltlous and hard worklng people or shlftless ones who vx lll not work To other people success denotes the ficqulrlng of honor or fame As an example take Napoleon After estab llSh1Ug peace ln hlS country he thought It would be a good ldea to conquer Italy and to enrlch France wlth the spolls thus galned He was fortunate ln hls undertaklng and he then set out to conquer more AUStF18 bwltzerland Egypt all came wlthln hls povxer Whlle trylng t conquer the world he was badly defeated and placed on the lsland of St Helena a lonely rock ln the Southern Atlantlc 1000 mlles from the coast of Afrlca He revealed hlmself as an oppressor of natlons a ruthless cynlcal belleverln government whose end was mllltarv glory and whose basls was mllltary force Stlll another class IS composed of those who thlnk not of themselves but of the welfare of thelr country or of thelr frlends An example of thls class IS George Washlngton He thought not of h1S fame and honor but of the safety of hlS beloved country Abraham Llncoln was of the same nature Were they as successful ID llfe as Napoleon or the other great generals? OPIDIOHS may dlffer on thls questlon but I thmk that most people Wlll agree wlth me that they were Authors are not usually very success ful IH galnlng money Robert Burns the Scotch poet dld not have success ln YVTIILIHQ' although some of hls poems are excellent He dled leavlng large debts behlnd hlm and on hlS death bed he wrote to a frlend asklng to borrow money to keep hlm from prlson Let us look to Thomas Carlyle as an example of a llterary genlus Hls parents were poor people of bcot land He graduated from Edlnburgh UUIYCFSICY havlng a reasonably good tr llnlng IH Latln and French For two years after hls graduatlon he taught school lnstead of becomlng a mlnlster 'ls h1S father WlSh6d When he Hrst began to wrlte he dld not tlnd success He had a great many very har h and unsympa thetlc crltlcs Hls greatest work IS hls Essay on Burns He was extrava gant and eccentrlc ln hls language as ln hls thought 1,5 ' ' 1 ' I l ' . I . , . 9 ' v v I 9 1 Y . Y . . . Y i . . 0 : ' . , . . . , l . , , . 3 1 V .. V , . , K x Y . . ' Y Y , . I ' ! I YI I ' X . I I r. ' ' ' ' ' 1 Y y h I 1' J I I ' . L I A ' Vanderbilts Goulds Carne ries and ' ' U l A - 1 1 , , l A ' 7 ' '- 1 N r ' Q , 9 , I I I I I I . . , S K I Q x . I ' ' 1 ' f in v ' JY ' lk- 5 1 D Y - v . l - 1 ' I . I I b- I . l .x C r ' ' ' . Y . 7 Q . ' ' ' 1 s . - . CK 1 1 77 -

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PHI' CLA VIS fourteen by sixteen feet In thls cabin he llved with h1S mother and brother and sister till after the ClV1l War when they were all declared free The early years of h1Sl1fC which were spent ln the little cabin, were not vely different from those of thousands of other slaves His mother of course had little tlme 1n which to glve attentlon to the training of her children during the day She snatched a few moments for their care in the early morning before her work began and at nlght after the day s work was done One of his earliest recollections is that of his mother cook mg a chicken late at night and awaken mg her children for the purpose of feed mg them How or where she got lt he does not know He thmks however It was procured from her owner s farm Some people may call this theft But takmg place at the time lt did and for the reason that It did no one could ever make him belleve that his mother was gullty of thlevxng She was slmply a victim of the system of slavery He can not remember having slept in a bed until after his family was declared free by the Emanclpatlon Proclamation Three children John his older brother Aman da, his sister and hlmself had a pallet on the d1rt floor or to be more correct they slept in and on a bundle of filthy rags laid upon the dirt Hoor He cannot remember a single instance durlng hls childhood or early boyhood when the entlre famlly sat down to the table together and God s blessing' was asked, and the family ate a meal in e1v1l1zed manner On the plant mon Ill V1rg1n1a and even later meals were gotten by the children very much as dumb an1mals get theirs It was a piece of bread here and a scrap of meat there It was a cup of mllk at one time and some potatoes at another After the comlng of freedom there were two points upon which praetlcally all the people of his place were agreed and he finds that this was generally true throughout the South that they must change their names and that they must leave the old plantation for at least a few days or weeks 1n order that they might really feel sure that they were free The first thing he ever learned ln the way of book knowledge was while working in the salt furnace Each salt packer had hlS barrels marked w1th a certaln number The number allotted to his step father was 18 At the close of the day s work the boss of the packers would come around and put 18 on each of the barrels and he soon learned to recognize that figure wherever he saw it and after a while got to the point where he could make that figure though he knew nothing about any other figures or letters From the tlme that he can remember havlng any thought about anythlng he recalls that he had an intense longing to learn to read He determmed when quite a small chlld that lf he accom pllshed nothing else IU l fe he would in some Way get enough education to enable him to read common books and newspapers About thls tlme the question of having some klnd of a school opened for the colored children in the village began to be dlscussed by members of the race As lt would be the first school for Negro children that h 1d ever been opened IH that part of Vlfglhla it was of course to be a great event and dlscusslon excited the wlldest lnterest The most perplexing question was where to find '1 teacher A young man from Ohio who had learned to read the papers was considered but h1s age was against him In the midst of the discussion about a teacher another y oung colored man from Ohlo who had been a SOltl1e!' in some way found his way 1nto town It was soon learned that he possessed consider , r 1 v 1 Ill 1 1 A . . . 1 I . . , . . . . ' ' .Y . . J . . I I , . A . ' 7 ' 1 7 Y ! I . , ' as 11 , . . . 1 . 4 - ll fl , ' 1 ' . ' s ' 1 ' 1 n 7 ' ' ' ' 1 1 x ' Y 7 . 1 ' a Y Y , , 1 . . . I . x - 1 ' Y . ' 1 1 ' l J . . I - 1 1 1 ' ' ' 7 ! 7 I 1 I 1 Z 1 1 1 1 ' . - l ' -' 1 L , , ' x. ' 1' ' 1 . K . . L .' ' . 2 ' A 5 ' 1 1 ' ' . 1 1 S, Ks' . - i , . . .e . J v ' Y 1 ' 1 K X . , 1 . I 1 I 1 L ' -