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

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iLXX izr. days afterwards I signed the pardon of the exiled lords. Not long after this my husband was taken ill and was moved to a half- ruined castle, standing Muthin the walls of Edinburg. I used to visit him every day, returning nights to sleep at the palace; but one night the castle was blown up with gunpowder, and in the morning my husband’s life¬ less body was found in a field near by. ] Iy subjects blamed me, and when I married the Earl of Both well they rose against me and made me their prisoner, while my husband had to flee the country. They shut me up in a castle called Lochleven, in the middle of a lake, and 1 was obliged to give up my crown to my little son, a baby not a year old. I had not been imprisoned long be¬ fore I persuaded the boy vho waited on me to steal the kevs and row me across the lake, and I was soon at the hea l of an army of my Roman Catho¬ lic subjects. But we were defeated, and as I could find no safe place in Scotland, I fled across the border to England, ho])ing to gain shelter from Elizabeth. ])uring the imprisonment at Lochleven she had corresponded with me with sisterly affection, and went so far at one time as to advise me toward a husband. But instead of receiving a sister’s hospitality, I have been made hei ' ])risoner for nineteen year.s and am to be liberated only to lay my head n])on the block. I have been accused of a conspiracy against the life of Elizabeth, and offended her during my early life by assuming the title of Queen of En¬ gland, but this was entirely through the influence of Francis and the pope. I have but two favors to request; one, that my body may be buried in Scot¬ land, and the other, that my servants may be ])resent at my execution, which will be within a short time. But 1 have no fear of death, which I meet tomoi ' row morning, and solemnly de¬ clare that 1 meet it, innocent of the great crimes of which I am accused. L. E. T., ’88. Books in the House. Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without window s. No man has a right to bring up his childi ' cn without sur- I’ounding them with books, if he has the means to buv them. It is a • wrong to his family. Children learn to re.ad by being in the presence of books.—[Cottage Hearth. If our old Roman friend Skipio had lived up to his name he would have made a good ba!ik cashier. The Eighty-Seventh Congress. After reading the Congressional Record, I dozed and seem to commune with myself as follows: It is very much desired that an extra session may be avoided by us this year. But two weeks remain before the short re¬ cess, and there is now more upon our hands than seems possible to be accom¬ plished,unless we railroad it through, and certainly that idea does not strike us as advisable. As yet, nothing has been done in re¬ gard to the retaliation bill; we can no longer stand with our lips sealed, when moi’ning after morning, rain or shine, we are refused entrance to the school building until fifteen minutes before the hour of commencement. This questi )n will probably be the next in order, and as there are many Avho are ready and desirous to deliver elaborate speeches, it may require sev¬ eral sittings. The question has been laid before the house whether it would not be the better policy to close the main door henceforth altogether, and use the windows as a means of entrance. [Consult the elocution class]. The sills are already well worn and so let us save wdiat we can in that way. As no appropriation bills have as yet been indorsed, it looks now as though to economize where we can would be necessary to meet the demands. Messrs. Tall, Slim and Limber strongly advocate the bills being passed. They have a strong aigument, in that no in¬ convenience has so far been experi¬ enced by those who have entered that way. The objections, if any, will probably be raised by Messrs. Short, Stout and Broad, who have political ends in view. Private sessions have lately been held at the close of the regular morn¬ ing session to discuss weighty points connected with the sciences. As the Drivers sei iously object to that, in all probability a bill to prevent the ])ri- vate sessions will be brought before the house by them. A bill has passed the house to re¬ place tlie present system of heating the building, by one that will require no attention whatever, thereby saving time for sleep to those who have pre¬ viously been obliged to shorten the morning nap. Should this bill become a law, it cannot go into effect much before the last of May. a. c. h., ’87. Eight dollars and fifty cents for an ounce of j)latimim! How is that for hif h? About 80 per cent, of the world’s consumjjtion comes from the Ural mountains and the greater ]»art of the rest from the Ignited States of Columbia. AT THE NEW CLOTHING STORE, NOVELTIES IN BOYS’ REEFERS, BOYS’ NEW MARKETS, FINE OVERCOATS. KING BROS. Music Hall Block. Real Estate Agency. Property sold and exchanged on reasonable terms. 134 Main Street, - - Milford, Mass THE PAVILION MILLINERY PARLORS Keep a large assortment of FINE MILLINERY AND HAIR GOODS; Theatrical Wigs to let. Combings made into Switches. The Place to Buy Clothing -AND- MEN’S FURNISHINS ROODS Is at the New Store of RYAN CARROLL, 98 MAIN STREET. Pure Drugs, Chemicals, Medicines and Physicians Prescriptions a Specialty. P. J. DONOHOE, Assistant. MAIN ST., COR. COURT, MILFORD. Call at W. A, Aldrich’s 139 Main Street and examine HOUSEHOLD Sewing- Machines. Fiaflos, Orpfls, aiifl Sleet Maslc. SOLD, LET, EXCHANGED AND REPAIRED Geo. H. Whittemore, Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Spectacles and Eye-Glasses. Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing. 110 Main Street. Milford. CURRIER KENDALL,-S - OWE PRICE Gentlemen’s Furnishing Goods, HATS, CAPS,TRUNKS, ETC. POS T OFFICE BLOCK, MILFORD.

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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

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I I 5rfIE:0 lK,MiILY|IYy. MARCH, 188T. Published Monthly During tlie School A ear, J!Y The Senior Class of the Milford High School. PRINTED BY G. M. BILLINGS. GENEIl. r. KDITOliS. AMELIA C. HARRIS and W. PARKIIURST. PKUSOXAL EniTOKS. LYDIA F. GOULD and FRED J. AYLAYARD. I.OOAL EPITOIIS. SARAH M. GORMAN and FRANK J. MORIARTY lUTSIXESS EDITORS. GRACE ML EASTMAN and MARY E. WHITNEY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (Ten Numbers.) For the Year, . 40 cents I Single Copies, . 5 cents This paper is for sale at the well-kuoivn drug stoi ' e of J. Allen Rice, where subscriptions for the year will also be received, and back numbers can be obtained. Address all communications to THE OAK, LILY AND IVY, Lock Box 137. Entered at the Milford, Mass., Post-Office, as second class matter. The singing cl.nss li.Tve just ])ur- chased three pieces of new music for the huge sum of Uco cents; but it is not two-cent music as we hope to prove to our friends before July 1. Ginn Company have our tlianks for publishing such excellent music at such a low cost. Several of our present and past members have been so much aroused by the preaching of Mr. Sayford, the evangelist, that they have connected themselves with the churches Avhere they had iirevionsly attended. We hope that they Avill have strength to live 11 ]) to that high standard which they have set before themselves. Our physical apparatus has been increased by four additions: a glass model of a hydrostatic jiress and another of a force jnimp, also a Nichol¬ son hydrometer and a trijiod of three different metals to show the varying ])owers of conducting heat. The apparatus is so Avell niiide that we can have no excuse for failing to under¬ stand the jirinciples it illustrates. Literature II. is just finishing Dickens’ Tale of Two ( ' ities and have, no doubt, more than once shuddered at the awful scenes of the French Revolution and thanked their lucky stars that they were lioru iu the “land of the free.” Ilowevi r, we expect that the Idstory of the times will be more deejily imjiressed upon their minds by this historical novel than by the more accurate, but less interesting history of the times. Philosophy III. is now in the midst , of the most entertaining ])art of the ! study of ])hysics. The electric bat- terie.s, light, telcjihone, telegraph and bells are in so common use in iVlilford that we feel it our duty to become thoi’oughly acquainted with the ])rin- cijiles underlying them. Then, too, we use so much jilated Avare in our homes and so many of our books are illustrated by copper-plates and our [ihysicians so generally make use of the Ruhmkorff’s coil, Ave realize that electricity is fast becoming a ])art of our daily life. For the help of the book-kee])ing class a large sum of imitation money has been jirinted. There are bills of the denomination of one, two, five and ten dollars, and cents of tlie following value: one, tAvo, five, ten, twenty-five and h ' fty. Each scholar Avill be su])- ])lied Avith about 50 and then Avill buy and sell as if trading at a regular store. C.ards Avith the name of an article, its jirice and cost have been made out in sets of tAvcnty, rojiresent- ing the different business interests of the toAvn, and in each of these lines of business an imaginary store Avill be started by tAvo of the scholars. One business Avill be studied at a time and every scholar Avill open, keep and close a set of books in it. Purchases Avill be made for cash, part payment, for note and on credit and such items as rent, clerk hire, freight and insurance Avill enter into the transactions. In this Avay it is hoped that the study Avill become more ])ractic.al. Dr. Josejih Alden, one of the most distinguished scholars of his time, once said that if you could erase from the memory of a thoroughly educated man all the facts AA ' hich Avere recorded there, he AA’ould still retain the chief result of education, a mind trained to think. To teach facts and train the mind to think, these are the aims of the high school; but facts once learned, if forgotten, are easily remembered by reference to the text-books of former school days, or to the jiublic libraries; hence it must be seen that the second of the ])urposes, to discipline the mind, is by far the more import.iiit. As an athlete hardens his muscles by daily drill, so ought the scholar to exercise his brain. dTierefore those studies, Avhich ajiparently are of little jiractical value, often are the very ones needed to incite the brain to the greatest activity. Of Avhat Avorth is a mind burdened Avith a smattering of science and belle.s-lettres,if it lacks the ability of reasoning? Rut if Avith these, the brain has the jioAver of discernment, of pene¬ tration and of judgemnt, then the high school course has not been a failure. “Adieu, Picciola! adieu, Charney!” has been echoed and re-echoed through¬ out the buildingby the Fi’ench I. We have folloAA ' ed Monsieur Charney from rank and position to confinement in narroAv prison Avails, rejoiced Avith him in his jileasures and synijiathized Avith him in adversity. He gives us a striking illustration of the need some unfortunates have of losing friends and money, in order to be better able to ap])reciate Avhat they have. Could a jirouder or more haughty sjiirit ever have been reduced to such liumbling circumstances and then turn out to be nobler (except in a novel)? To our friends Ave say: Who docs not like to be sjioken of Avith praise and thankfulnes.s, avIio does not feel ])ride in doing something to perpetuate Ids name? What better Avay is there, than to give something to a school, Avhere it Avill benefit both the children and the citizens, for the school-boy of to day is the representative man of to morrow. The excuse that the school has Avhat is necessary is Avorth- less, for the needs of a school must be ahvays groAving. Often, people in their Avills, bequeath some donation to a school, but Avould it not be much better to give it Avhile alive, thus liaA ' - imr the satisfaction of seeing the fruits of one’s gift, in the greater develop¬ ment of the scholars? You have doubtless often heard of a Avalking dictionary, as your contempo¬ raries have, and may be so fortunate as to be ac(]uainted Avith one. We have Avith us a much more Avonderful ])henomenon, a Avalking book-case, con¬ taining no ordinary matter, but en¬ dued Avith the combined science of ages. U])on this jierson one hundred scholars, or tAvo hundred 2)apils gaze daily. This latent truth Avas but late- Iv brought to light bv the memb( rs of Physiology lY. As their eyes have frequently rested upon the book-case Avhen reciting, it has been inferred (by tlie teacher) that they must re¬ gard it as the teacher’s alter ego, and feeling kindlv towai’d him, desire to relieve him of the constant gaze of so many eyes. Consider for a moment the amount of information obtained from the books Avithin the case, even alloAving some are A ' ery blind to the ordinary thinker. Then you Avill be able to understand hoAv much more in¬ formation can be acquired from oneAvho can talk it right oft, and be constant¬ ly radiating it about him. Here is a chance for the indolent, “ask and ye shall receive,” no labor required. Rear in mind “ignorance like a file doth burn.” [For a key to the above con¬ sult the above named class.] 1