Liberty High School - Lion Yearbook (Brentwood, CA)

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YE LIBERTY 5 not been for Moonlight, the beautiful daughter of Big Cloud, the chief. She hid Ray in a cave' and brought food to him. The Racoons hunted far and near for the white man, but could not find him. After awhile Ray made his escape and took the girl with him. NVhile he was in the cave he had discovered it to be almost full of gold, supposed to have been put there in ancient times, its existence long since forgotten. Ray and Moonlight went on down to the coast and there they were found by Don Gaspar de Portola, who upon hearing the story of the Racoons and the gold, raised an army 'which defeated the mountain people. Then the British sailors took the gold and sailed for England with Ray and his happy Indian bride. Years have passed: the Racoon's bones are dust. Raymond Manners is dead these many years: the cave is part of a canyon now, but the mountain still stands there, a joy to all who look upon it. VVe who have looked upon it for so many years have learned to love it in all its changes, sometimes standing clear cut against the sky, sometimes shrouded in mist,-sometimes crowned with snow, sometimes glowing with the light of a sunset sky: but always beautiful and majestic. Musing. fWitl1 apologies to Thomas Moorej 'Tis the last little freshie, Left without a beau, All her lovely companions Have found one, I know: No beauty like her own, No feet like her feet, Yet the fellows all thought The others more sweet. DECISION. I'll not leave thee, thou lone one, To dim thy beauteous eye: Since the others have pleasure So shall you and I. So we'll join the merry crowd And while away the time, Till on the morning air Vlfe hear the matins chime. J. K. D., '13,

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J, YE LIBERTY , Bliss Mary XY. Baird, who has taught so ably and faithfully in Liberty Lfnion lligh School for the past three years, was recently compelled to give up her work for the months of .Xpril and May. She is now enjoying a com- plete rest at her home in Oakland and we are all rejoiced at the prospect of her speedy and complete recovery. A Story of Mt. Diablo. Years and years ago, some thirty years before Don Gaspar de Portola discovered the San Francisco Bay, a ship was sailing along the Pacific shore in search of gold, when a storm came up and wrecked it. All were lost ex- cept one young man, who clung to a timber and was washed ashore. XYhen he awoke an Indian was bending over him muttering some strange sounds of delight. It seems the Indians had been looking for a white god and he thought the young man was that god. The Indian said: VVhite boy, follow me. The young man was surprised to hear the Indian talk English. He found out later that this Indian had been in New Urleans and had there learned to speak a little English. He was also suspicious of the Indian and asked, Willy do you wish me to go with you? I am chief, I am Red Leaf, and I want you to be my white god. Then after a pause the Indian spoke again: nxvliat is your name ? My name is Raymond Manners and I have come from England. I was washed ashore from a wrecked ship. ' Raymond went home with the Indian, as he had no other place to go and the Indians worshiped him as their white god. Red Leaf always called Ray- mond, My XVhite Boy. Ray soon learned to fish and hunt and take part in every sport dear to the heart of the Red Man. Ray in turn taught them many valuable things about planting corn and grains. One 'day when Red Leaf and Ray were out hunting, Ray found the re- mains of a fish in a rock. I-Ie asked Red Leaf what it meant and Red Leaf replied: Many, many moons ago my fathers said this was an inland sea and fish swam in the water. That mountain you see in the west was but an island and my fathers had a home there. .Q One time there came a terrible shaking of the earth and the sea went away, and those mountains sprang up. NN'hen my fathers went over there, they found a peculiar race of people, not like us. called the Racoons. They have been our enemies ever since. That was all the explanation given and Ray asked no more. ' Time slipped by and Ray became a man, strong and healthy. He raised a large army and prepared to make war on the Racoons, or mountain tribes, the old enemies of his new found friends. The Racoons were powerful peo- ple. very fierce to look upon, with dark eyes and hair. A Ray's army was defeated and he himself would have been killed had it

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6 YE LIBERTY Farewell to Liberty. I. llere with sorrow and joy intermingled we meet And each to the other now says: Far away we may go, but we'll cherish for aye Dear Liberty L'nion High. IYhere'll we find such a Prof., and teachers so true XVho'll keep us from going astray? And where is the Board who so gladly will pay Our way down to Stege and back? II. XN'e have worked, oh, so hard, o'er our 'Caesar' and 'Deutch,' Mixing normal, inverted, transposed: Learned the pressure of water, the length of sound waves, And puzzled o'er Chaucer's queer words. W'e've forgotten position and word signs and hooks, Our hair we have pulled o'er our books, Is it 'i' before 'e' or an 'e' before 'i'? Oh, dear me, this machine will not space. J. D. K., '13. Our Library. Of making of many books there is no end, said a learned man many years ago, and we of this day consider this a great advantage, provided the choice of books is wise. ' In the building up of the L. U. H. S. Library, which has gone on steadily and carefully for the past two years, the aim has been to select the best books, those most useful to the needs of the community and those standard supplementary references necessary for complete high school work. The hope has been to develop a taste for reading and to create good habits of reading. And these not only within the four walls of the school, but within the wide boundaries of our district. . XVitli these aims in view, the Board has carefully selected and wisely expended their book fund until to-day we have a library, including 859 volumes, ranging widely in subject, fitting both student and business many both reader of fiction and the practical farmer. Do you know, farmer of the wide acres that surround our school, that we have the following books, all approved by the Agricultural Department of the State L'niversity: Farm Management: A Farmers Business Handbook: Farm Poultryg Cereals in America: The Garden, Care of the House, Prin- ciples of Agriculture: Irrigation and Drainage: Milk and Its Product: Cali-