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

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VoL. III. MILFORD, MASS., MARCH, 1887. No. 7. Leaves from a Trojan Girl’s Diary. (Found in the ruins of ancient Troy) w EDNESDAY NiGHT. Dear me! Wliat is the use of writ¬ ing the same old story every day. Notliing new ever happens in this dis¬ mal city. It is awful mean, the way we are abused. What consolation is there in going ui on the walls or even climhing to the to]) of the highest towers? It is only tantalizing to look at what one can’t have. lany and many an hour have I spent iii watch¬ ing the Samois glimmering in the dis¬ tance among the trees. I have fol¬ lowed its windings with my eye until its hanks seemed almost to meet. How charming it would be to go and see from what shady pooks its first shining waters spring. And then I look to the west and tiie peaceful sea meets my vision. Here and there are lovely little islands. How nice it would be, if we could take a sail some day and have a picnic on that pretty green one. ([ shall be fifteen years old tomorrow. I wish I might cele¬ brate in some way.) Why, last night, mother was telling us stories about the happy (hays, when m 3 brother Ri])heus and I were little, ami then how every thing was changed. She said that ten years ago Prince Paris went to make a visit over in Gre ce. Wiiile there he became acapiainted with beautiful ( ueen Helen, who so charmed him that he thought he couldn’t live with- out her. He staid a good while, but ( 3 ne day, when her husband, Menelaus, was away, Paris and Helen set sail for Troy. How foolish! They might have known it would make trouble. Of course Menelaus imme(liately came after i-er. Oh, what wretchedness might have been prevented if we had at once given her back ! Put no ! Pai ' is would not part with her, and so the Greeks attempted to take her by force. The Trojans resisted, war be¬ gan .and for ten years the Greeks have been lurking around and keeping us in a continual fidget. The idea of all Troy enduring such a siege on ac¬ count of the beauty of one woman! I wish Ripheus was a little older. He says just as soon as he has a chance, he will see what can be done, and I encour.age him all I can. Tiiursdaa Night. Oh, my heart is too full of joy to write a word tonight. The cruel Greeks have sailed aw.ay discouraged. When we awoke this morning we found the camp deserted, and our King Priam declared a glorious holi¬ day. We went right into the camj) just as the Greeks left it. I danced on the very spot where mighty Achil¬ les’ tent was. But the chief attrac¬ tion was a lovely great wooden horse. Nearly every one wanted to take it riafht into the citv; but Laocoon acted as if he was crazy about it. He rushed up and drove his spear right into its side, and said: “This must be a war machine and ])erhaps it contains Gi ' cek soldiers.” What nonsense! Alas! Poor man, befoni the day was done he suffered enough for this insult. Just then we saw some shepherds dragging a c.aptive with his hands tied behind him. Some b.ad boys made fun of him; but he talked so piteously that I .almost cried. He said his name was Sinon, and the Greeks, his own ])eo- ple, are so blood-thirsty that tlu ' y | were going to kill him for a sacrifice; but at the last minute he escaped, and, just think of it, he staid all niglit in the slimy swamp among the brambles. ’Twas awful to hear him tell .about it! Then Priam cheered him up and asked him to tell .all about the splendid great horse. So he told us how the Greeks had the audacit) to ste.al the Palladi¬ um out of the temple. Of course, Minerva was angiy and they have had b.ad luck ever since. Now the have built this horse to appease the goddess and have gone home to re])eat the omens and come back. Who c.ares if I they do, now? We have that beauty of a horse safely in our citj ' , and now Minerva will be kind to us. I know Minerva is on our side, for this morn¬ ing wlien Laocoon was making a sac¬ rifice to Neptune, she sent two horrid, bloody serpents with glaring eyes amt hissing tongues to eat Laocoon’s two little 1 03 S, and then to crush him to death. I thought I should die with fright. Oh, I shudder to think of it! But he deserved to be punished for being so cruel to that magnificent horse. Kiim Pri.am ordered the s.a- O cred creature to be brought into the citv, although we had to tear down a part of the walls to get it in. Besides, lie let the boys and girls tie a rojie around its great neck and help pull it in. It is true we I’an against loose stones and the horse stopped with a jar .and something inside rattled four times on the w.a) ' , but still this may prove a good omen. I never was so tired! My head swims. I am worn out with the pleasures of this da v and I must go to sleep. Friday Night. I cannot believe I am awake. The scenes I h.ave passed through today are too horrible even to dream of. How can I believe it? Laocoon was right. Sinon is the basest of the Greeks. The cruel monster did con¬ tain armed men, and to think I helped bring them in ! Why did we not heed the omens! My dreams last night were terrible, but not more so than the realities of today. I awoke this morning to find our hou.se in fiames, and being idundered by savage Greeks, who were dragging my mother .and father from their rooms, and before I could reach them, their life blood was staining the fioor. Just then Ripheus rushed in, bidding me he quiet, for he said we had reason to be thankful that the Greeks caused our parents to die so (piickly. He assured me it

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O IC . was a relief from tiie siglits of torture lie had just witnessed, lie was about to lead me out of the biiruiiig bouse when we were rudely torn ajiart. 1 was then carried through streets ot fire and smoke, 1 knew not where. The beautiful city of yesterday is one desert of ashes, with here ami there a lone building, which stood where the streets divided. ’Tis in one of these that I am confined, together with many sharing my fate. 1 only liojie my brother is still alive. I know he has the real ' rrojau blood in his veins. If they spare his life, he will find a way to come and redeem us. But here comes my Greek master. lie must not read this. I will throw it from my window and it shall sink deep into the ashes which surround us. X. n. ’88. - 0 - Here I am as hungry as ever, reach¬ ing out with my two arms (for I am ambidextral liUe you, my reader) for something to eat, and I will take any¬ thing and everything, except fluorine; I don’t want anything to do with that. I go by the name of Oxygen, and when in fighting trim weigh sixteen, which is just sixteen times the weight of my friend Hydrogen, who, by the loeigh, is the lightest thing known on this earth. I have quite a resiiectahle old age, being, in fact, as old as the world; but my presence in the air was not discovered until the year 1774, and then l)y a certain man named Priestly, who gave me some jaw-breaking name, which was after¬ wards changed to my ])resent one, which comes from two Greek words, meaning “I ])i ' oduce acid.” This is not really so, for 1 am not a necessary constituent of evei-y acid, though I am of most. I am found in the aii’, in the water —everywhere, and constitute about one-fifth of the atmosphei-e, eight- ninths of the water by weight, and two-thirds of the wdiole world, yet you can neither see me, nor smell me, for I have neither color, odor, nor definite form; that I am in the air must be very evident to you, for you could not live without nu ; you wouhl suffo¬ cate ; you could not use yeast iu mak¬ ing your bread, because your yeast would not ferment, and therefore your bread would not rise; neither could yon bake youi ' luvad for want of a fire to heat your ovens, as fire cannot burn uidess I am pi-esent. You can easily ]irove that 1 ;im in water by analyzing some by means of electricity. The I’esult of performing this experiment will be that you will obtain two volumes of hydrogen to every one of me. By ])assing an elec¬ tric spark through us, we immediately re-unite and form water again 1 am very active,as perhaps you have found out before now. Should you take a bite, of au ap) le, then lay the a])ple down,go off and leave it for a time,when you came back, you would find that your a])i)le had begun to decay. It is through my agency also, that iron rusts, bright metals tarnish, liquors ferment, and other substances grad¬ ually decompose. When you breathe, you take me fi ' om the air into your iungs; I go from your lungs into your blood, which I purify, and, uniting with the carbon of your body, give you your heat and form carbon diox¬ ide, which is one of the gases that you exhale. . Now carbon dioxide, al¬ though it is not directly dangerous, but by taking the idace of me and keeping me ont of your lungs, soon produces bad results and death may follow; therefore you must take great pains to ventilate your rooms. I have many compounds, some of which are of gi ' eat importance, others vei’v explosive,poisonous gases. Some¬ times, perha|)s, you have noticed a faint, b it pccidiar odor in pure coun¬ try and sea air; that is only a con¬ densed form of me, called ozone. Ozone is a band of three of us Oxygen atoms, while I, unless in com])any with some other element always have a brother atom with me. Conse¬ quently the trio Ozone is more active than I alone, or when I am in compa- nv with my lu ' other. I am used for many purposes in this world and of course I am of great im])ortance to you. The oxyhydrogen flame (which is tin; hottest known, and which is used for melting metals that will not melt under ordinary conditions, such as platinum) obtains its great heat thi ' ough my great power of su])porting combustion ; the [)rinciple of the Bun¬ sen burner, which is of so great ini- ])ortance in chemical laboratories, also depends upon that great ])ower. One of my com])onnds, nitrogen monoxide, is laughing gas, an anaesthetic, nsed very much by doctors and dentists, becau-e it renders the nerves insensi ble to })ain during surgical operations. As your life depends on me, as we have so much to do with each other, and because 1 am of so great use to the whole world, I thought it wouhl be ap])ro])riate if 1 gave a short his¬ tory of myself and just a few of my many conqiounds; and now having done so,I will say good-bye to you and leave von for the jiresent. w. i . ’87. “Gulf” rhymes with no other Eng¬ lish word. “O dear!” said the wheel to the blacksmith, “you make me tired.” Mary Queen of Scots- (A Soliloquy.) Why, this morning as the sun shines so brightly upon this gloomy old castle, should my thoughts linger so often on the words, “Happy as a queen ?” Am I not, like Zenobia of old, a queen and a daughter of queens and kings? And yet my life in many ways has been far less ha])py than the lives of many of my jioorest subjects. May I not confess to these pages what I would not tell any one? Nearly all my friends have turned against me, and here, awaiting the death sentence, I still must say, that although “much sympathy has been wasted” upon me, yet, save a few servants, all have turned from me. What is my story? I am the granddaughter of Mar¬ garet, eldest daughter of Henry VII. and next heir after Elizabeth to the English throne. I have been a queen fi ' om my babyhood, as my father died when I was but a week old. My mother being a Frenchwoman, I was educated at th e French courb The English wished me to marry their young king, Edward VI., and so end the wars between Scotland and England by uniting the two crowns; but my Scotch subjects did not like the manner of the English, so I was sent to Fi ' ance and became the wife of Francis II., afterwards its king. After two years of enjoyment my hns- l)and died, leaving me a widow at nineteen years, and I sailed back to Scotland. I would rather have re¬ mained in France, as an insurrection was going on in my country; but on account of the jealousy of my mother- in-law, Margaret de IMedici, I was obliged to return to my native conn try. During my absence of two years from Scotland, John Knox had excited the people in the Beformation, but through all the struggles that followed I maintained my Catholic religion. After much trouble, assisted by my brother, whom I afterwards created Earl of Murray, I quelled tiiC insur¬ rection and tried to pacify my sub¬ jects. The Scots were anxious that I should marry again, and, having had no choice in regard to my first hus¬ band, I married Lord Da.rney, a cousin of mine, without anybody’s permission. I did not wish to confei- the title of king on my husband, for he made me miserable and helped kill my favorite in my room and before my eyes. The names of the consjui-ators were after¬ wards revealed to me by my husbaml and lie contrived my escajie to Dun¬ bar castle. There I was joined liy the Earl of Bothwell. He promised to obtain a divorce for me on condi¬ tion that I would ])ardou and restore the earls of the conspiracy; so a few