Oroville Union High School - Nugget Yearbook (Oroville, CA)

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out. In the morning, she creeps down stairs and lays her finished stockings and such other things as she has made, on the porch. Then she goes in and after eating a scanty meal lies down to rest. A neighbor passing, sees the bundle on the porch and knowing full well what it is he takes it to the town, where he receives in exchange such food as Felice needs. Then at night he returns laden with the food for Felice. And so it is that Felice spends her life, watching and yearning, and the little dress and veil lie hidden away in the old cedar chest; thtre, to remain for years to come, when they may adorn their maker. • • • Charles Perry sat alone, long after the other men had departed, and thought over the sad tale. Here, in his mind, he resolved to do something to help Felice. He knew that it would not be long before she would be passing on ar.d someone else must then take her place. Night gathered around him as he thus sat. far into the wee hours. Then he arose, fully resolved to help Felice. When he returned to his home town the story of Felice was still in his mind. One day not long after his arrival he went to the Government officials and told them the story of Felice and David, asking them for their aid. Before he left they had promised to do all in their power to aid Charles Perry. So it is that when one now goes to the little village of New Haven, he finds on the spot where Felice's home once stood, a beautiful light house, sending its broad beams over the vast w’aters. In the homes, as the people gather around their fireplaces in the wintry evenings, one may still hear the story of Felice's Light. For Charles Perry, urged on by the thought of Felice, had the Light House erected to serve as a “Warning Light to others. JULIUS CAESAR In olden times there lived a geezer Who went by the name of Julius Caesar Surpassing all who had gone before This Caesar won great glory in war. He conquered Gaul, he conquered Britain, And. going to Rome, gave Pompey the mitten. But he was a Latin shark you know. And his pen w'as alwTays on the go. Poor man, if he'd have known its end His “Gallic Wars he’d never penned. But since it’s done the Sophomores, I fear. Must read and translate it every year. But let this be a warning to writers today— Don’t show off your Latin in writing. I pnv, Or It’ll be published and taken to school To bring Joy to the teachers and puzzle t e fool. GUY LAMPHTKAR. ’16 -19-

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 Just two weeks. David, when I shall be thine. The time is fast approaching. The room, which had gradually become darker, was by this time enveloped in darkness, and Felice arose and lighted the lamp. After discussing many plans for the future, David put on his coat and cap. and bid his little girl a fond farewell. Felice stood In the doorway and watched him until he vanished into the darkness and rain. Then, closing and barring the door, she retired for the night. The next morning when she arose, the storm, which had been ragring all night, had increased in fury. The waves tossed to and fro, as they beat against the shore like a prisoner. making futile attempts to escape. Felice finished her morning chores, and then sat down, and taking out of her cedar chest a package, she fondly undid it, and set to work to finish her wedding gown. Ml morning, she sat thus, and worked on and on; only stopping at times, to go to the window and gaze out on the rainy waters of the deep. By and by, she arose, and folding the completed dress, laid it with the veil, carefully away in her chest. By this time, night was fast drawing its curtains and settling down over the lonely little hamlet. Felice lighted the lamp and sat and listened for the return of the fishing boat, which would bring David home. Hour after hour passed, and he came not, and the wind and storm raged on the outside. Thinking that they had perhaps sought the shelter of a nearby eove. she lay down at midnight and fell asleep When she awoke it was morning and the storm of the pre- vlous night had not abated. All day Ions Felice sat upstairs at the window of her bedroom and gazed out over the waves. When night fell again and no word was received of the flsn-ing boat, she became distracted, and all the horrible things that ever could happen entered her mind. She thought of the treacherous deep and the reef that lay not far aw'ay. Nine, ten, eleven, and twelve o’clock of the second night and still her David had not returned. She could neither sleep nor eat and paced to and fro in her lonely little room, w-ait-ing and yearning. On the morning of the third day new’s was brought to her that the boat had been found a total wreck on a rocky reef nearby, and that David had perished like a martyr and was now in his Heavenly Home. Wild with grief. Felice returned to her room and here she was found by neighbors, who two hours later sought to comfort her. She, how’ever, could not be comforted, and begged to be left alone, saying, that since David was gone she would try in her feeble way to help others from receiving the same fate that David had. So they left her and went their way. Many years have gone by and Felice, an old woman, is still in the lonely, little cottage by the sea. Travelers and sailors going by see a faint light gleaming out over the still waters, and know it to be Felice’s light. Every evening Felice will climb to her little room and fix a candle so that its rays will shine out over the waters. For, feeble though its rays are she still hopes that they may save someone from the fate of David. Here she sits through out the night, knitting and watching the candle lest it go 18

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Mars Claude House, '15 11 — i At last we had succeeded! There before us, resting gracefully on Its rubber-tired wheels, lay the monoplane on which we had spent so much time and labor. Edison's discovery in 1923 of renium and petroline had solved the problem for us. Renium Is a metal, which, in comparison with alum num has practically no weight, yet it possesses all the qualities of steel save weight. By building the frame and motor of this metal, we increased the carrying capacity to three men. The new fluid, petroline. possesses all the properties of gasoline except that it is more than fifty times as powerful. Enough of this fluid could be carried to last many days. Inside of the cat was the little machine on which we had woiked so hard. By generating oxygen with this, we could make the upper air much more breathable Because of this and because our propeller increased the speed to more than two hundred and fifty miles we were confident of making many interesting explorations. After a satisfactory trial flight, we decided to start on our journey of exploration to worlds beyond Mars we had chosen as our object point, because scientific experiment had proven in 1922 that Mars is inhabited. Early next morning we rose into the air and said good- bye to earth, little dreaming how long it would be before our return. As soon as we were a few hundred feet in the air, I opened the motor to one hundred miles and at this rate we soon reached the lighter air currents. Then we started the Oxyfacit, thus making the air easily breathable. As we left the earth farther below, our speed reached the remarkable limit of seventy-five miles per hour. For seven days we kept up this remarkable speed, taking turns at the wheel and eating only food tabloids and water, sans meat, sans bread, sans everything else. Through the telescope Mars became plainer and plainer and on the evening of the seventh day we were so close to it that we were able to open the car window and breathe real air once more. The motor was stopped, we volplaned down to a clear place and landeu for the night. The air was cool and damp. We had landed in a grassy meadow bordered on one side by a heavy jungle-like vegetation from which were heard the songs of numerous birds. The strange planet about which scientists had w'ondered for age9 seemed to be almost identical with that part of the earth near i' e equator. Next morning, as the sunlight became brighter, we saw 20