Nelsonville High School - Saga Yearbook (Nelsonville, OH)

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plans to get something which the mother does not want .t to have. Next, coming to the boy at about the age of seven. He has started to school. He has learned from the time he was two years old to walk, to talk, to read, to spell, to write and numerous other things which are probably more than he will learn in all the rest of his life. But it is at this age that something besides the nursing bottle, the rattle box and baby’s toes is resorted to. It is here that the drug store comes into play. The boy runs around, cuts his foot on a piece of glass, and a little dab of some kind of salve or afew dropsof turpen- tine will do more good than all the nursing bottles and rattle boxes in the world. Also here is where the shoe shop comes in handy, for the sole of a ladies’ slipper, spread on abundantly is often a better salve than any of the drug store remedies. But the baby now has become a good sized boy. He goes out with the rest of the “kids,” they induce him to smoke and to do many other things which he knows perfectly well mother does not allow. She finds it out, and goes to the orchard and brings back a good ipeach limb or down to the brook where once he had innocently dabbled in the water; she th'nks of the baby then and the boy now. But she brings back a nice willow switch from the bush where the baby once played and the boy smokes in the next few minutes more than he has smoked in any other two days of his life. Now the boys aspires to better things; he is nx w a young man. He goes through school with due honor, and enters college. Here he proves to be an energetic student, he is a star on the football field, a favorite among his classmates and he grad- uates from college, an honorable man He now starts on his great career of l fe which is no easy task. He brings up a family in a way which would make any father proud. But with all of his pleas- ures there are numerous drawbacks, and the salve that is now used, is an hour of hard study and deep thinking, to bring him clear of some difficulty. This method is used in his thirty, forty, fifty years and on upward to old manhood, and he again Tke the infant, must be humored in his old age. His children are now scattered over the country and he is not contented, but goes back and forth, visiting his babies (comparatively speaking) who are always glad to have him come. But now he is growing too old to go round much, and he is compelled to settle down with the one he loves most, probably the youngest of his flock. He grows weaker and weaker and at last becomes ill, he lingers on, but ah—now the last has come, the baby of a short seventy or eighty years is now upon his death bed. The messages are all sent to the children and what anxious waiting until they all come; all but one, who has already passed into that great beyond. They gather around the bed to catch the last gleam of those kindly eyes, and with the last words, ‘T will meet you in heaven,” he closes the door of this darkened and gloomy room and passes into the brilliant lighted hall. His fingers have lost their tension, the gleam from his eyes has faded and he has passed into oblivion. The children turn away to nrourn their loss. In the course of a few days the church bell tolls, and as it were in the olden times the ringing of those beautiful chimes, an- nouncing that another soul has passed into that great beyond, where there is no ointment nor salve to save the soul except his former life. So live that when thy summons comes, To jo.n that innumerable caravan; Which moves to that mysterious realm; Where each shall take his chamber In the silent halls of death, Go not like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, But sustained and soothed by an unfalterbrg trust; Approach thy grave, like one Who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, And lies down to pleasant dreams LAULMO, 12. FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. Dear Earth People:— How are you? I would like to know how you can do with it so dry up there. I know I couldn : stand it. I am a deep sea fish, and need plenty of water I have a nice little home under a small rock here, that you earth people would say weighed about twenty tons. It's all right but I wish I had a little better neighborhood. Right to the right is a nasty old crab with a sponge on his back. Then there is a big fish, that always tries to eat me up, on the other s'de. He lives in the cabin of an old wreck of a pirate ship. The other day I was over there and saw an old rent in the ship. I looked in and san all sorts of shining staves that the crab said were valuable up where you are, but there are tons and tons of them going to waste here. I also saw some coral, which the crab said were large pieces for the earth,, but I have a whole tree of it here. Then there are ever so many kinds of barnacles down here. Just yesterday, I almost ate up one in the shape of a fish, but I caught myself in time They have too hard shells to digest easily. Yesterday 1 saw a crab get caught in the shell of an oyster but in trying to get loose, he knocked out a piece of shiny shell, perfectly round and about half the size of the ordinary shr11 The crab says it must be a pearl, though whAt that is, I don't know. Say, he must be pretty old. As long as I can remembei he was as big as he is now. He says that my great- great- grandfather was born after he was, and that he is by no means old. He says that he expects to live several hundred years more. WelL, I must stop because here comes that pesky old fish. Yours, truly, A. FISH. C. C. F., 15. ATHLETICS ......Y. M. C. A. NELSONVILLE, OHIO.....

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us?’No, it would be out of his way as h!s hotel was in another direction, and having felt himself over, he thought he could get home alright So Miss Brown and the bear and the other fellow departed. Mr. Bingleton sat down to think it over. It was dusk when -e arose and started home- ward. Then, truly, the stillness in the vast woods was oppressive. LELAND KRIEG, ’12. A TALE OF WORN OUTS ‘‘Why, hello, Pearlhandle!’ said Jettop Umbrel- la as he landed on the city trash-pile and met his old acquaintance. Pearl Handle Parasol. “Hello, Jet ’ e ns w eyed Pearl, 'where have ytou | een?” What brought you here? I have been here two long weeks.” ‘ Pearl,” said Jet, ‘ I will tell you my story. You know we have been friends since that time we stood in that b:g store window'. Well ,one day a man came in and bought me, pay ng one dollar; he took n.e home with him in the rain, spreading me over his head. It was the first time I had ever felt rain and I shrank from it so much that he threatened to take me back. He took me home and set me in a wooden thing without drying me, saying, “Some day you’ll come in handy.” One day his wife gave a dinner party and several people came. Before the party ended it began to rain and I was loaned to a lady and a gentleman who raised me over their heads, also. ‘‘On arriving at my new home I was carefully dried and put away until one day I w-as brought out in a snowstorm; at first the snowr scared me. but I soon became used to it for I was taken out on many occasions. “The winter soon passed awfay and rains came again. It was during the April rains that I got one of my ribs broken. It happened in this way: One day as I was carried along my mistress tried to cross the street, when a sudden gust of wind blew me out of her hands under a passing automobile. I thought I was lucky with getting only two ribs broken because I was sent to a shop where I was repaired. “Afterwards I was taken back to the home of my old master where I was put in my customary place n the hall and was used now and then until one day I was left on the porch and was attacked by a dog who tore my covering off and broke so many of my ribs that I wfas brought here.” “Now,” said Pearl, ‘7 will tell you my story; it is somewhat different from yours but I hope you will find it interesting. ‘ On account of my pearl handle and silk top I was an expensive parasol. I wras bought by a lady who carried me over her head to protect her from the hot sun The sun felt good to me and I behaved well, w'hich pleased her very much. ‘‘On arriving at her home I w'as carefully laid away until I wras needed again. Her husband chanc- ed to see me and took a fancy to me, resolving to take me at the first chance, which wfas very soon, for his wife went into the house for something as he was leaving one day and left me near. He saw his chance and quietly picked me up and carried me to his destination which was a gambling house. Here he set me in a cloakroom while he played. At first I had some company but bye and bye the rest of the parasols left and I was the only one there. A dirty looking man then came n and see- ing me, picked me up and took me out into the street. “This man reeled along with me until he got so crazy drunk he dropped me on the street at the mercy of everybody, and had it not been for two little beggar children I suppose I would be there yet. “These poor children took me to their home where I was used very much. Sometimes I shaded the baby from the rain, sometimes from the sun and in winter I kept the snow off her, but as the’r mother always kept me clean and neat I did not mind these things so much. But like most things this all came to an end for my real owner identified me and took me home. ‘I stayed in this rich but dismal house until one day when my mistress left me near the front door to dry and went up stairs, forgetting about me. Her husband, coming home at two A M., did not see me because the hall was dark, so when he came in I felt all of my ribs break as he fell headlong over me. “I was useless after that so I was brought here and now let us die in peace,’.’ finished Pearl as the trashman applied a match to the pile. NOBLE J. LAX, ’15. DIFFERENT SORES MUST HAVE DIFFERENT SALVES. This method has been used by all to cure more than one ailment. Because we have so many differ- ent kinds of sores, if there wasn’t as many or even more different kinds of salves, some people would be under the weather the greater part of the time. So taking man in his various stages of life from the cradle to the grave, he applies and has applied to him many more salves, soothings, and oint- ments, that are kept at the drug store alone, but at a variety of other places, as, the shoe store, the harness shops, the grocery, the orchard, or the little clumps of willow bushes which grow by the beautiful brook which ripples in the beautiful sunlight over numerous colored pebbles, affording much joy to the small child who is Just large enough to cause mamma a host of trouble keeping track of him. The small infant lies in the cradle, making little joyful noises of its own, or playing w7th its tiny toes seemingly with no thought of dissatisfaction. But when this little baby’s joys need a salve at length, this salve is a companion, a somebody to make merry with it, by mak:ng a noise with its little rattle box, causing the little thing to laugh with glee. But even this seeming pleasure needs a balm to help it out. The baby soon gets tired of its amusement, and begins to fret and cry. The rattle box does not now have that same soothing effect, and something else is wanted in its place. Pres- ently the mother, read’ng the little childish mind, brings a small bottle, which the child with some bother gets to its little mouth and is quite con- tented again. Then the child goes to sleep and gives no more than the usual trouble when it awakens Now taking up the next step the baby is just large enough to walk around, get into mischief, and it takes all the patience a mother has to w’atch the funny l ttle creature at his pranks, and the strange wray its little mind will figure out different

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We head this department witn a pitcure ot the Y. M C. A. because when we think of Athletics our minds turn toward it It s the seat of all our ath- letic endeavors and is intimately connected with the High School. Here is where our basket ball team has been defeating all opposing teams. Mr. Fisher, the general secretary, has generously de- voted much of his time to training our teams and has helped them on to victory. VICTORY No. 6. The N. H. S. Basket Ball Team defeated the Ix)gan High School Team at the Y M. C. A., Friday night, by the decisive score of 77 to 17. The Logan team, though a good team, was no match for the local champions. They were always at the mercy of the home boys, except in the first m.nute of play when they made 3 points to Nelsonvilles none, but this was overtaken with interest in the next min- ute. Aumiller led in the scor'ng, getting 15 field bas- kets and one foul. Capt. Hoodlet made two beau- tiful shots from the middle of the floor. Love was out of the game on account of injuries but his place was ably filled by Lowden and Knight, Knight play- ing the last ten minutes. The N. H. S. Team plays at Logan, Friday the 16th and although we almost certain to beat them it will probably be by a smaller score. The lineup was as followrs: N. H S. L. H. S. Musser ..............RF................ Sparnon Trout ...............LF................ Beabout Hoodlet .............C................. Shannon Lowden-Knight .......RF ............... Yontz Aumiller ............LG.................. Jones FIELD GOALS:—Aumiller 15, Hoodlet 8, Low- den 6. Muser 5, Trout 1. Knight 1, Sparnon 4, Bea- bout 2. FOUL GOALS:—Hoodlet 4, Aumiller 1, Beabout 3, Sparnon 2. OFFICIALS:—DTcher and Warner. Capt. Hoodlets work on the defense must be especially praised. “Three baskets being all that opposing centers have been able to make on him this season. Two of those were in the Y. M. C. A. game in October, wThen he wras not yet in shape. As a result of the championship season which the team has had this year, they have been invited to attend the Ohio Championship Series at Dela- ware. March 1 and 2. which is given by Ohio Wes- leyan University. They have deeded to accept, and although they do not know much about the strength of the teams in the northern part of the state, it is thought they will have a very good chance for the championship; at least we hope 60 If they do not win the championship, it will be a big boost for Nelsonville, as only the best teams of the state are invited. Only six teams attending this series last year. Although we have had a championship team this year the attendance has been very poor. Last year we had a losing team; and with about $39 extra expense for hall rent, we cleared $13. This year we have cleared about 13 cents. We heartilly thank those who have attended the games this season, but there should have been a much better attendance. To show what the team has done this season, below will be February 16th N. H. S N. H. S found the results o i e oea oii October 24, 11 November 24, 11 54 Y. M n M up to 14 N. H. S December 30, N. H. S January 5, 12 S.. 3 N. H. S January 12., 12 51 Athens II. S... N. H. S Feburary 9, 12 N. H. S February 16, 12 2 Logan H.S.... N. H. S February 16, 12 G... ....23 N. H. S Totals ....98 Field Foul Games. Goals. Goals. Aumiller .... n 57 6 Love 6 49 3 Hoodlet G 22 30 Trout 7 7 4 Musser 7 17 1 Lowden 2 6 0 Knight 2 1 1 Pretty good records, are they not? GREAT INDOOR CIRCUS. N. H S. and the Y. M. C. A. jointly will give an indoor circus at the Y. M. C. A. gym, Tuesday, Feb. 27. Everybody come. N H. S. receives half of the receipts. It is going to be the greatest affair of its kind ever given in th s city. They gave one last year which was enjoyed by. all. There will be many great acrobats and funny clowns. In addition they are going to give an exhibition of Nelsonvilles finest poultry. From basket ball our thoughts will turn to running, and we have many good runners in the High School we have bright prospects for a good relay team. ATHLETICS. What do you know about this? The final basket ball game of the season resulted ,n two victories for N. H. S. Logan High saw the r finish when our team arrived Remembering their former defeat (or annihilation) by N. H. S. they attempted to strengthen their team by playing an outsider. Their ‘ringer, however, was discovered and rather than be fairly defeated they allowed the ♦fame to be forfeited. Score, N. H. S., 2, L. H. 3. 0. But to save them the gate receipts N. H S. kindly consented to play a much stronger and heavier team, the Logan O. N. G. In spite of “dirty playing” by some of the O. N. G., the one- sidedness of the Logan referee and a row of pillars through the center of the hall, the result wras a victory for N. H. S. Score N. H. S. 24, O. N. G. 23. And our team outplayed O. N. G. in every way except “dirty.”