Milford High School - Oak Lily and Ivy Yearbook (Milford, MA)

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Tol. 11. MILFORD, MASS., MARCH, 1886. No. 7 Trust. A Legend. For the O. L. and I. [Minerva, in later times saddled with the attributes of the Greek Pallas Athene, originally an agricultural deity.] Far away back in the past, in the land of the fig-tree and olive. Where all the bright summer’s day sweeps the breeze from the blue Adriatic, Italy, home of the golden age and the king¬ dom of Saturn, Quiet, apart from the busy din and the tu¬ mult of cities. Lived there a man in an humble cot, an old peasant farmer. Poverty long had he known, and want was not always a stranger: Yet his trust was in Heaven, and unto the goddess Minerva Daily he raised his prayers, and offerings brought her of first-fruits. Such as the goddess delights to receive from the hands of her vassals. Still were his prayers in vain; the goddess, implacable, never. Roaming the moon lit hills, to her worship¬ er’s vision was present. Hot and dry was the season; the flaming wind from the southward Parched with its torrid breath the grass and grain of the farmers. Famine, with darkling front and death-drip¬ ping pinion, was flying Up from his home in the South, the great, gaunt Libyan desert. Sadly then the farmer his crop of rye and barley Gathered into his chamber, a pitiful store for his labor. Sadly beside s tood his wife, and sorrowful too were his children. For already they saw, through the dusky arch of the Future, Hunger and Death stalking side by side on their pitiless pathway. But, as they stood and gazed at their scanty treasure of harvest, (Wonderful then to relate!) at first with a .slow gliding motion. Saw they the grains roll apart, while the spaces between them were filling; Saw the bin slowly fill, and then on tlie floor of the chamber Dropped the precious grains,until the cham¬ ber was heavy, Rich with the wealth of the fields, yet never in fields grown or gathered. Thanks then unto the goddess the farmer, his wife, and his children Gave, and his trusting heart with joy was filled to o’erfiowing. With him rejoiced the w’andering man whom his bounty befriended; Others, too, hearing the tale, grew reverent, with awe and wonder Touched; and in after years, when famine abroad was flying. Long they remembered the holy man and the miracle wrought him. A Geological Story. Forget nineteen centuries with all their trials and triumphs; forget all history, both sacred and profane; turn your thoughts backward millions of years, to the time when Greenland was covered with a luxurious growth, and the heated currents of the ocean furnished it with warmth and verdure. Then the earth’s axis swerved from its pol.ar star, and the southern cur¬ rents no longer mingled with Arctic waters. But tlie cold currents began to flow, and the cold winds to blow. All animate, nature changed her ap¬ pearance. The animals migrated to¬ ward the south, the trees and grasses withered away, and all nature seemed to cry:— “O the long and dreary winter! O the cold and cruel winter! Ever thicker, thicker, thicker Froze the ice on lake and river; Ever deeper, deeper, deeper Fell the snow o’er all the landscape. Fell the covering snow, and drifted. Through the forest.-” Then it was that my ])arents, the blue waters, gave me birth. I remem¬ ber no childhood s})orts, for our fami¬ ly was very large, and we were obliged to enter u))on our life work at once. Like the animals, we, too, journeyed southward, and although our sj)eed was slow, yet, because of our great mass, our momentum was tremendous, and nothing could bar our progress. Descending into the depths of the t alleys, and climbing the highest hills, on we glided by Hudson’s Bay and over Labrador. The crest-line of the Laurentides, the valley of the St. Lawrence, were left behind, and then Mt, Washington’s lofty summit came in view. But what to us were six thoiisand feet? Up, up we climbed, crushing, grinding and grooving its rocks, and to this day the summer traveler can read our records on the ledges. To the south, our road was verv difficult, on account of its winding valleys and steep hdls. Some of our number, wearied by the hardships of the journey, glided off into the ocean, but we went onward, over Monadnock and Wachusett, to Long Island, the goal of our desires. We took good care that . men should never forget us, for we left autographs behind that can never be effaced. Even now, in Milford, are traces of our writing. We became Nature’s great stone- crusher, as farmers of this vicinity will testify, to their sorrow. Bass over your northern woods, and you will see how well avo distributed the fraouients. Two monuments still re- O main to mark the record of our trav¬ els, now known as Indian Rock and Bear Hill Bowlder. Several pieces of soap stone, torn from their native ledges in southern New Hampshire, we deposited on Milford’s mountain, to delude man in later days Avith hopes of a bonanza. But alas! all hopes soon vanished, for they Avere only wanderers in a strange land. By the hard crystalline boAvlders at our base, Ave grooved the granite ledges from north to south, and today you can rfjid our handAvriting by the side of one of your schoolhouses. When your scAver and Avater pipes are laid, the sand, the gravel and the rounde(l stones, throAvn out sometimes from the lepth of fifteen feet, are evi¬ dences of our work. So also are your gr.avel pits, Avhich furnish you Avith material for your higliAv.ays; so too are your sand beds, of Avhich you make your roofings and concrete Avalks. Look to your water-sheds; see the

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ojLic, j JsrjD x ' vir. DR. FLATLEY’F COUGH SYRUP The Best in the World. Every Bottle Warranted Made By J. 116 3Iaiii Street, Milford, Mass, COOK BROS., DEALERS IN Meats, Fruits, Vegetables, Pickles, Etc. Hams cured by ourselve.s and Home-made Sausages. Market, 138 Main Street, S. A. COOK. S. 8. COOK. ELDREDGE BEATTEY, HOUSE PAINTERS anl PAPER HANGERS, And Dealers in Doors, Sash, Blinds, M ndow Glass, Paints, Oils, Varnish, Putty, Curtain Fixtures, Window Shades and Paper HauginRS. 133 Main Street, - - - Milford, Mass The Best and Cheapest plaee to buy FRUITS AND CONFECTIONERY IS AT J. W. ROBERTS’. Cake and Ice Cream constantl.v on hand. Wedding Cake a Specialty. THAA ' EES’ BLOCK. Alain Street, Milford, Mass. GO TO O. IMI. JAID-A-DVCS’, To Purchase PICTURE FRAME.S Of all kinds. A large assortment of Mouldings on liand. J. EDWARD RODIER, P ROVISIO K MAR K E T, Veal, Lamb, Alutton, Beef, Pork, Lard, Etc., Con¬ stantly on Hand. Vegetables, Fruits and Game in their Seasons. South Bow Street. Geo. H. Whittemore, Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Spectacles and Eye-Glasses. Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing, no Alain Street, Alilford, MADE TO AIEASURE. LEONARD § MILFORD, AIASS. II “Agt. Lewando’s French Dye House. CO- L! -WOOX)! Lime, Cement, Hair. Also, Brick and Hay of the best quality always on hand by L. oooif:. Pond Street, - - Near Depot. Telephone from Cook Bros. Market. “Active shears gather no ru.st.” INIiraheau was once asked tvliat was tlie best way of teaching popular lib¬ erty. , lie answered: “Begin with tlie infant in tlie cradle, and Jet the first name it lisjis be Washington.” “Posterity will talk of Washington with reverence, as the founder of a great empire, wlien my name shall he lost ill the vortex of revolution,” exclnimed Napoleon Bonaparte. At Washington’s death the school children throughout the country ivore medals hearing his likeness Avith this inscription : “He is in Glory, the World is in Tears.” “ ‘Tis well,” these were the last words of Washington on that Satur¬ day night, Dec. 14,1799, when, after an illness of only three days, at the age of sixty-eight years the Father of his Country breathed his last. Gen. Lee of Virginia, in his oration at the death of Washington, pro¬ nounced these remarkable words of eulogy, so often quoted: “F ' irst- in Avar, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.” I Although Washington Avas exceed¬ ingly fond of children, no childish lips ever called him father; hut, as some¬ one has beautifully said: “God made him childless that the nation might call him Father.” Napoleon, then first consul, so hon¬ ored the name of Washington, that, at his death, he ordered the banners and standards of France to be draped AAotli crajie, and directed that a funeral ora¬ tion be pronounced before himself. “Thg first in the hearts of his coun- tr miefi!” Yes, first! The first love of Young America aalts Washington. The first Avmrd she lisped Avas his name. It still is her jiroiul ejacula¬ tion; and it Avill he the last gasj) of her expiring life! Yes, Avhen the storip of battle hloAA ' S darkest and rages highest, the memory of Wash¬ ington shall nerve CAmry American arm and cheer every American heart” —[Rufus Choate. In a savage forest of Pennsylvania a young Virginian officer fired a shot and AARikcd up a AA ' ar AAdiicli Avas to last for sixty years, AA’hich Avas to cover his own country, and jiass into Eurojie, to cost France her American colonies, to sever England’s from her, and to create the great Western lle- imhlic, to rage over tlie Old World, AAdien extinguished in the ucavr and of all the myriads engaoed in the vast contest, to leave the prize of the great¬ est fame Avith him Avho struck the first hloAv.—[Thackeray. A. L. SMITH, Livery, Sale and Boarding First Class Teams at Reasonable Prices. Transients Well Cared For. 83 Central Street, • - MILFORD, MASS. A START IN LIFE FOR YOUNG MEN Is an Important Problem in Every Home. Self-Support is essential in manhood, Self-Reliaxce a strong defense. M O R E THAN 3 3,000 OF THE Prosperois Bnsiess Men of T o-Day AA ' ERE TRAINED For Active, Useful Business Life AT Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. For Taventy-Five Years it has been the most popular and Largest Private School in America. It is to-day the only institution devoted to the sj)ecialty of teaching Young and Middle-Aged Men hoAV to get a living, make money, and become enterprising, in¬ dustrious, useful citizens. It is the ONLY SCHOOL in the Avorld where the course of study is practical, instead of Theoretical; Avhere the students act as Buy¬ ers, Sellers, Traders, Bankers, Bookkeepers and Accountants in actual business oper¬ ations; Avhere the Bank Bills, Fractional Currency and Merchandise are actually USED, and liave a real a ' Alue, and every transaction is just as legitimate and bona tide as in any Mercantile, Banking or Busi¬ ness House. TO TA L EXPENSES. Board, Tuition Fee and Stationery for tlie prescribed business course of tliree months, $100 to $115. Applicants may enter any Aveek-day in the year. The Illustrated Catalogue Giving full information in regard to course of study, time required, expenses, etc., Avill be mailed on receipt of three letter stamps. Prospectus giving terms and a synopsis of the course of study, mailed free. Address EASTMAN COLLEGE, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

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O . gentle northern slopes and shai ]) southern declivities of the hills,—an¬ other lasting witness of our energy. 1 have only outlined a work that covered thousands of years, and re¬ quired a long laj)se of time to accom¬ plish. My story is but a leaflet of that great book of nature Avhose cover was thrown open when the earth broke away from the sun, and will be closed when it returns whence it came. F. A. M., ’83. Ourselves. We boast of no ymith, though so common a name, But we have a fair Jones, which is almost the same. We’re not honored witli Dickens l)ut have Dickinson— Beg your pardon, his daugliter we mean, is the one We see on the records; so too Craige and Snell, But we can’t make a i un upon them ' very well. There’s a Field of B’adberries which Grow to good size. And a Cook who will stew them and make berry pies. There’s a boy we call Barnyard to Madden a bit, No matter, we’ve Dennet, but noAv we have quit. There’s a girl, Mary P. Cox, though not over proud, And a boy who is Blunt, although not over- loud; Although two are so Frank they are really called Franks, They are never enough so to brand them as cranks. There is one who is Ernest, not sullen Nor- cross, Who comes over from Mendon with “fath¬ er’s old hoss.” (Horses come from their Holmes at a very slow pace. But go ay-ward I notice with very good Grace.) We have a musician whose fame Will in¬ crease. Till the day, as we hope, of his timely de¬ cease. The extent of our world is exceedingly small. But we’ve more than one Florence, though that’s about all. But a Tilden have we, tho’ he Fales to be Sam, Yet we call him that often as sort of a sham. We claim also Napoleon, Tou-gas-y they say— But that’s in a name and in only one way. Hei ' e’s Miss Eagan and Luby, O’Neil and two Joes, Whose names could be written much better in prose. Ma(y)bel-ls and may trumpets cal! old ’80, When we’re ready to see the FMr-banks of tbe Styx, “ Where we’ll gather Sweet Williams, Avhich (irow on tbe shore. While waiting for Charon to Carrie us o’er. AV. L. F., ’80. Revised Version. Veni ad—I knoAV not where; Vidi, turn—a damsel fair; Vici et—’twas just for fun— Basiavi!—story’s done. F. L. AV. S FROM THE NIAGARA INDEX, SUS¬ PENSION BRIDGE, N. Y. The Oak, the Lily and the Ivy. That’s a nice name, isn’t it? It is the name of a little paper that comes here from the High School of Milford, Mass. We like the name. It is so poetic, you know. By the way, would it not be a good title for a Spring poem? Now, Ave fear the editresses will be highly dis¬ pleased for those honest reflections, but really we are speaking 5ojia. (Ze. In fact, Ave are completely carried away with the name. We think it is about the best thing in the paper, for there is nothing else in it. We would like to give a lengthy description of this famous publication, but you should all send for a copy in ordei- to appreciate it. Now, if the writers on this little sheet will take our ad¬ vice, they will leave out such a make-up as they had in the last issue except the head¬ ing, The Oak, the Lily and the Ivy, and write a good spring poem on that subject, and they will find it to be a vast improve¬ ment to their paper. Come again by all means. We commend tlic Messenger, of IJiclimond, for its great number of in¬ teresting facts connected Avith educa¬ tional matters. We are glad to learn from tbe En- te)-])rise that Latin is so well a|)|)reci- ated in Dover. We think it the study of any high school. The most conscientious coAild not object to the St. Viateur’s College Journal for Sunday reading. We hope that the students live up to their paper. Ah, here is the Stylus! We always look at our hands before picking it up, for fear Ave may soil it. It is an edi¬ tion cle luxe and its contents are Avor- thy of its paper and ] ress .AA ' ork. We are sorry to learn from one of our exchanges that the “fat girl of St. Agnes (a young ladies’ school) fell down the other day.” We ho])e the street did not receive so much damage as Avas at first reported. “None but the braym deserve the fair.” We hope that Linus of the Trinity School Record, Avho so man¬ fully takes up the cudgels in behalf of (against?) the carissimaepuellae, may soon find his Lina — if he has not a ' l- ' ready done so. Have we read, or have Ave dreamed it, that, after a recent hotly-contested Presidential election, the successful candidate Avas presented by Yassar College gii-ls Avith a cake made by “theii-own fair hands”? Yet he is alive and vigoi ' ous. ]Moral. We would suggest that the Avriter of “Reneath a Senior’s Window,” in the Eclipse, ought to take the cake. Perhaps on him it might have the effecR, he indi¬ cates himself. We must beg to differ Avith the ex- change editor of the liandolph Macon monthly, Avho writes in favor of long editorials. To our mind, sevei’al short editorials on live to])ics are better than one long editorial es.say. Kind Month¬ ly, ])lease do not attempt to square our theory Avith our practice. It is no fault of the editors of the English High School Record, if they fail to furnish varietv enough to sat- isfy the most morbid sensationalist. In their last issue, we notice “signed editorials” by the Beacon, Detroit Free I ress (2), Pa])er Trade Journal, Philadelphia Item, Lowell Citizen, Merchant Traveler, and Longman’s M agazine. We notice one good feature about the Park College Monthly: the “con¬ tributed” ai ' ticles are not all Avritten by the editors, unless some very mis¬ leading noms de plume have been adopted. This indicates a greater de¬ gree of interest, among the Park Col¬ lege students, than is shown by stu¬ dents of some institutions from Avhich we receive exchanges. lias anyone besides ourselves ob¬ served the remarkable similarity be¬ tween the article in the Hillsdale Col- ' lege Herald, on “The Perpetuity of Thought and Deed,” and that in the Advocate of New BrunsAvick, N. J., entitled “Personal Infiuence”? Singu¬ larly enough, each is the synopsis of an address delivered on Feb. 8. Can it be that Prof. Jacobus and F. P. Stevens are simj)ly allotro))ic forms of the same substance ? Such a change reminds one of the transformation scenes of the “Thousand and One Nights,” or the fast traveling of the “Pied Piper of Ilamelin.” Next, Avithin ourseh’es Ave queried, “ To Avhom should we assign the Sphinx’s fame?” and, behold, the cover Avas the cover of the Shattuck Cadet. “Are the contents thus sym¬ bolized ?” Ave thought. We looked Avithin, but found nothing enigmatical. On the contrarv, the meaning Avas easily grasi)ed, even by our “litnited understanding.” We read Avith much interest the short article on “Essays in the High School World,” and we Avondered—please forgive us—which of the styles the essayist, whose ])ro- duction next folloAved, intended to ado])t. Was it magnilicent, sarcastic, luimorous, or — that other? We give it u)), but, barring the misuse of OIK Avord, the essav is an interesting and Avell Avritten one. The ])aper is, as a whole, very Avell edited and print¬ ed, though Ave agree Avith one of our exchanges, disliking to see the first page of the cover given up to adver¬ tisements.