Pennell Institute - Whirlpool Yearbook (Gray, ME)

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wife on board and left her in his cabine A prisoner who had a grudge against him oscaped somchowe When the guard went off duty he returned to find his wife on tho bed with her throat slashed. Thc murderer was found and was hung, In those days a person was arrested and sent on a convict ship for just some small thinge Once a woman was sent on one just for stealing a smell handkerchicfe There was once a whole fleet of these convict ships which sailed all the seas, but now the Melbourne is the only one in existence. --David Kupelian

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been known in the last twenty years of football. In his junior and senior ycars he was named as All-American ployer for both ycars, a feat never before accomplished at Smith University --Linwood Clark The Convict Ship One day, sevcral yoars ago, a convict ship docked at the State Pier in Portland, Maince This ship was of tho old Norwegian windjammer type ond had taken sixty days to cross tho Atlantic Ocean. The officers who sailed the ship, slept on the main deck because of the gruesomeness of the lower deckg, Es d ', This old ship was built during the 18 hundreds in lielbourne, Australia and is still sailing, The masts were built of teak, the hardest wood known, The hulk is of planks several inches in thickness and from bow to stern on both sides there were large, crude arrow heads, These arrows vere also printed on the sails, It was the ship's mark and every prisoner was branded with it on the palm of his hend, About midships of the mein deck is the captain's quarters, In here are several cocuments, rules and orders, guns and swords on display. All over the dock are capatans for raising and lowering the sails and anchors and the only windlass in existence, Around the bulwarks ore many instruments of torture; most of them designed by the one-time captain, Captain Price. The helmsman's post is in the stern and is protected by a large steel casing from stormse Down on the first deck is the first sot of cells. These are very small, being only about 6 to 8 feet square. Ir many of the cclls are wax figures of the most notorious criminals of the day. These figures are claimed to be the most life-like in the world, In the bow of the deck is the women's cell, This is a large room heavily barred. There was little light in the cells and what there was came through a small grating in the top of the door, from a few lampSe For ventilation there are about four gratings cut in cach dock, Some of the cells, in times when there were many lewbrenkers, were filled with 8 or 9 people. The second deck is much the same except for two things. In the bow of this deck is kept the drinking water. Also the first two colls were dreaded by all prisoners. These were called The Black Holcs , In these the bow of the ship curved. In the side of the cell was a large ring. To this the convict was handcuffed by one arm so that he was half-standing and half lying. It was in these two cells that many mon went insane. The third deck is below the waterline. In those cells the prisoners were put in solitary confinement, “They werc dark, cold and damp, and many also wont insane here, Now back to the main deck, -The convicts each day were given an hour's exercise, Each had a ball ond chain and were forced to keep walking. If any one did not obey orders he was flogged severely. The person was tied to a y-shaped object and all the other prisoners gave him one lash with oach hand» Afterwards they were placed in a salt bathe In tho bath several men drowned themselves, Once a guard had just been married. One evening he brought his ce c AERE gr ee ee ee eee ee ee ee

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EDITORIALS Showing The Way E After Columbus had reached what he believed was the Orient by ‘soiling westward, some cf his critics declared that it was a vory easy thing to dos Taking on egg, he asked how many could make it stand on its ende No one could; so; he broke the shell a little on one end and easily made it balance, Then they said that anyone could do that. Yes, he said, it is easy after you are shown how, Columbus did not become rich or popular for his discovery and even died in jaile After it was discovered that the new world was a sep- arate continent it was named for another man, Columbus had shown the way; it was up to others to explore it. ; Until 1927 it was thought impossible to make a solo airplane flight across the Atlantic, After Col, Lindbergh did the supposedly impossible,. many others have done it. After Lindbergh had shown the way it was easy for others to follow, Almost anyone can follow someone else's exemple. Too often people think, I could have done thot, about some great accomplishment. Maybe others besides Columbus could have reached America first but it took him to actually do ita Perhaps othors besides Lindbergh could have made solo flights across the Atlan- tic but it remained for him to show the ways We should try to show the way in our lives and not wait for others to go first. We should lead, not follow. Only in this way can we become true leaders. -- James Russell. EE a de xc Untidiness ) Untidiness is a very disagreeable word that covers a broad range of sub- je cts. Ono might apply it to clothes, work, writing, city conditions and per- sonal appearance, ° It is usually the lazy, careless person that has this dreadful habit, the person that gets up at one minute to eight and expects to be at work by eight, while on the other hand it may be a person that lacks education in good-groom- inge No matter how poor a person may be, ragged clothes may be clean and the person respected as much, if not more than the wealthy mane R There is not one single good reason for a person being so slack as to pin his clothes together wit h safety or common pins. Getting scratched is not pleasant, and I'm sure every one could secure necdle and thread at any timce Other common habits of peoplo are: failing to shine dusty shoes, failing to replace shoe strings that have been broken and tied in a million places. Be- sides wasting timc, o person is only meking himself more untidy» Hair that is combed, fingcernnils cleanod, skirts ond pants that have boen pressed, sweaters that have been mended even though thoy cover up dirty elbows, that also applying to stockings that cover up unsightly heels, have a great effect on other people. One»of the first things on employer asks ond looks for in an applicant is his personal habits and officiency. If a person isn't tho kind that can take criticism in good sport, somo advice to him is to keop well groomed, ; - It is said by some toachers that to look into a pupil's desk will reveal the habits and nature of o pupil, For example, if a dirty, clutterod desk 15 found chances are a pupil's room-at home would be untidy. Whilo speaking of school, books that have been scribbled on, possibly due —————— EE DEESBSEEBIDIGÁGv| iatd—dMAMMII