Junction City High School - Junco Ed Yearbook (Junction City, OR)

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Never gmtg After 1612mm In the old park swing, late one night, Two couples sat in the bright moonlight; The time passed gaily with laughter and song, Little they thought they were doing wrong; But a few days later, one morning at school, Prof. Scullen said: iiWe have made this rule; No party whereier held, in this world or in heaven, Must continue any longer than the hour of eleven. The four were dismayed at this stern decree, For that they had been improper was very plain to see. So they hrmly resolved, eier the day was o,er, That they never would stay out late any more. aw. P., ,12.

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forced to cover my face with my hands. I could not keep off the terrible chill of horror and my body shook from head to foot. My mother, seeing my strange actions, rushed to my Slde, and, throwing my arms around her neck, I sobbed out the whole'of my nightls experience. She tried to comfort me, tellmg me it was only a dream. The first thing I did upon going down stairs was to Open the front door and look out. Exactly where I had seen, or imagined I saw, the spectral figure, was a great deep hole in the soft snow, and all about this were the prints of the dog's feet going in a circle just as I had seen our dog do last night. I glanced down to see if I could See the prints of my feet in the snow which had drifted onto the porch. Yes, they were there, and lying directly before me was my handHerchief, which my nerveless hands had refused to hold. I called my mother and showed her these proofs. She was forced to acknowledge that I had surely been clown stairs, but the story of the ghost and music she positively refused to believe. When father came he also refused to believe my strange tale, telling me it was only a dream I had dreamed, which had left such an impression on my mind that I took it for a reality. But let it be a dream or a reality, it will alWays live in my mind as the strang- est experience of my life. amv.i m; w

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5112 1311qu Eurk By Helen Ehrmann, ll3 During the early part of the year 1908 the growing discontent with existing regime in the Ottoman Empire on the part of the different races of this cosmopolitan country, including Turks, Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians and Arabs, aroused a cry of distress that was heard all over Christendom. Even the Christian people, who, outside of the Turkish boundaries, wished to have the despotic rule of Abdul Hamid, the Nero of the age, ended. The crisis was reached when in the south two young Turkish soldiers of undying fame raised the standards of the revolution and started the wave of reform which swept the country with lightning rapidity. By the term llYoung Turk, I mean the subjects, either young or old, who were disaffected by the growing burdens placed upon them by the growing despotic action of the ruling power, and who kept in touch with each other by means of a secret organization. This term applies to the Christians, Jews and Turks, who lived in Turkey or had been in exile because they were afraid of death if they re- sided in the Fatherland. One of the principal aims of the llYonngr Turks was to abolish the diabolical espionage system established by their rulerea system. which created suspicion among all the people for fear an indiscreet word should bring death from the bloody sword that was ever suspended over the trembling subjects. The Chain leading up to the central group was so carefully concealed that no one has ever been able to discover the source of that wonderful power. When it became known that a constitutional government had been granted Turkey, aged exiles from all parts of the country re- turned to the capital. As they were all llYoung Turksf the secret organization became the prime factor in the administration of the government. The people then began to shout illibertyll and the Inhabitants nearly Went wild with joy at the thought of deliver- ance from slavery. All looked to the Committee of Union and Pro- gress for guidance, and Abdul Hamid was distinctly told that his life would be spared as long as he ruled according to the constitu- 68 vi