Randolph Central School - Hilltop Yearbook (Randolph, NY)

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WW' Gqufumn To me the most beautiful season in the year is autumn with its hazy hills, clear blue skies and frosty nights. Nothing is more inspiring than to view the wonderful changes which Nature has made. What does it mean when the cricket chirps? And away to the south the robbins steer? When apples are falling and leaves grow brown?- These are signs that autumn is here. The trees which a few months ago were covered with a bright green foliage have changed to beautiful colors of red, brown, orange and yellow. To many people autumn is a dread because it signifies the death of summer. It seems to me as though Nature has used a palette of many beautiful colors to brighten what otherwise might be a drab and dreary landscape. It is beautiful to drive through the country and look at the shocks of corn standing in the fields. Usually there are golden pumpkins nestling at the foot of the shocks. The trees loaded with ripe red apples, the vines with purple grapes are inspiring sights. Also one sees at a distance the hills covered with gaily colored foliage. In autumn the earth is more tranquil. There seems to be a hush upon the earth. Often the only sound is the gentle rustle of leaves as they are blown to the earth by the wind. Then how pretty the ground is after it is covered. We hear the children romping in the leaves shouting at the top of their voices while they ale busy raking At night we see many bonflres where the children and exen glown ups enjoy themselves The flowers begin to droop their heads and go to sleep for the winter soon to be covered with a blanket of snow On my way to school these beautiful autumn mornings I walk down a long lane of colorful maples which line our village streets and I breathe the tang of the crisp morning air Now I appreciate more fully these lines of Helen Hunt Jackson suns and skies and clouds of June And flowers of June together cannot rival for one hour Octobers bright blue weather M oosy to Cycas 1 uaiunatton, I awoke one morning in my little apartment m the American section of Hong Kong to hear a dreadful commotion outside I th ew aside the bamboo shutters and looked out on the street It was utter confusion Chlnamen were running here and there hammering each other over the head and swinging then huge cutlasses around their heads This outbreak had been expected for some time and I knew from the first that Tooey on Youey the famous tea raise and Hong Kong playboy had been captured and probably killed by Wee Tu a Jealous Chinese gangster and that their respective gangs had clashed I was rather amused at this scene until I noticed an American girl in the middle of the turmoil trying desperately to get to shelter I acted quickly Jumping from my window to the street and pushing my way through the fighting Oricntals ard stepping over the prostrate ones I soon r ached the helpless girl I shoulde ed hcl and fought my way back to my doorway and placed her inside She started to thank me but before I could answer everything went black I found later that I had been hit with a club by one of Wee Tus rackateers I awoke and found it to be night and I was conscious of a splltt ng pan in my head Looking around me I found myself to be in what appeared to be an old warehouse I heard screams and cries coming from an adjoining room and noticed two large brawny chlnamen standing by the doorway While I was observing these things I was confronted by a small chmaman vuth a cap on and a worn out black suit He told me in broken English to 1 v ' i q AIO ' 1 Ye v - H -D. . '37 ' ! I 9 - fl- H . . 1 T . - ' ' - ' v- , . . , 1 . y . - y , . , . . . i . ' e ' . r . . y 4. . - 3 gwf 2 FQ! ffl5TcQff'?Y,'t':1'-f 3'7 'W7'fQ'f:fTTl?q'T ' T fj'ff'5'.- in-5 5,b,17A'f,3ae3 9 , ,ft .,,4fiw 2'a277 '75 'ing af-fat. I abt... A .1 ns. ,t .. I .Q-,. ....... -.- A.. .. , - I:,.:ir,,t..1lf. .., ..s...',. .... J....z.Ql.k'iHKE?.w.. 'fi 'i '- ...

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follow hrm Dorng so I was led mto an elaborately furnished room hung wrtn rlch tapestry and wrth rrch thrck orlental rugs on the floor In a far corner I saw an Amerrcanrzed Chmaman srttlng at a desk I knew hrm to be Wee Tu Wee Tu seemed very polite and requested me rn hrs srng song way to accompany htm to the basement where he mformed me hrs men were employmg their varrous death tortures on their hated enemres Tooey on Youeys henchmen He sald that we were just on trme to see a specral torture whrch he had devlsed for Tooey on Youey who had been already captured I followed Wee Tu to the basement where a horrrble srght met my eyes There were prles of dead Chmamen who had already weakened under the dreadful tortures Jf Wee Tus men and srnce they ceased to scream were put to death lmmedrately and a new vrctrm was taken from the ranks of the unfortunate Chmamen When Wee Tu and I arrived the tcrturrng ceased and Wee Tu addressed the assembly He announced that hrs dear frlend Tooey on Youey who took such DICK e re of hrs wrfe whlle he was working hrs head off smugglrng oplum mto the states was about to recelve hrs reward Wrth thrs two huge negroes appeared wrth Tooey on Youey between them Tooey was tred by hls toes and thumbs to ropes suspended from the cetlmg Whrle he hung thus o1l was poured over hr naked body and he was pulled mto the a1r A frre was klndled m a plt below htm and soon he hung hugh above the flammg furnace Untrl thrs trme Tooey on Youey had acted very calm and collected but t seelng hrs fate he let out a terrrble scream and trred desperately to free hlmselt but to no avarl He was lowered slowly to the furnace and as 1t began to become hotter he screamed louder and the tormentors laughed and taunted hlm evrdently tnyoyrng It rmmensely Seerng so srckenrng a slght I began to feel drzzy and fell to the floor wlth a crash I recovered from my shock shook my head and looked about me was surprrsed to fmd that I was rn my own apartment rn Hong Kong I heard nolse from wrthout and threw back my bamboo shutter and gazed upon a srght much llke the one ln my dream except there was no Amerrcan grrl 1n the center of the blood thrrsty mass and the blood thrrsty mass was nothrng more than several Chxnese laundrymen arguing among themselves S amen gfefp ke gftsforq VVomen have much less opportunity to achrexe success rn the world than hav: rr-en Why Because all the rulers of the game were made by the men and for the men Womans place rs rn the home sald the lords of Creatlon whrch ruled her very defmrtely out of every other freld Because the teacher had a part ln the cducatnon of chrldren thus was the frrst ard for many years the only plac ln which woman dared to venture Perhaps this lS the reason why so many of our foremost women reformers authors and soclal workers have been at some tme rn their lrves teachers rn our QCIIOOIQ and colleges And yet wrth all the chances agarnst them even attemptmg a career outsrde the home there havf been many outstanding wom n who have contrrbuted then share rn the maklng rf history Harrret Beecher Stowe was New England born daughter of Lyman Beecher 1 mmrster of the gospel Later the famrly moved to Ohlo where her father taught ln a senrnary Here Harrlet Beecher heard many a heated argument for and agams lavery At thus time the Fugrtrve Slave Law permrtted southern planters to hunt down and return to slavery the r unfortunate colored people Thxs aroused Harrlets frerce antagonrsm She marrred Professor Stowe and returned to lNew England Harrret was '1 busy housewrfe mother schooltearher and wrote articles for papers nd magazmes Her deep feelmg agaxnst slavery msprred her to wrxte her greatest novel Uncle Toms Cabrn Thr book swept the country w1th enthusrasm makmg, rts author famous at home and abroad The hatred of slavery whrch the book caused made the C1Vll War mevrtable lNo one book IH our hrstory ever made as widespread a change rn the natron as Uncle Toms Cabrn by Harriet Beecher Stowe Helen Hunt Jackson was another daughter of New England Orphaned at an early age she was sent to a school 1n New York Marrled at twenty one to an army offlcer her home llfe was rdeally hapoy Then wrthm two years she lost both her husband and her lrttle son Her flrst poem Lrfted Over appeared at thrs . . , . . , - - . K , 4. . . V 1 . - - ' . .LL .' , , . ' . ' S I . . v . , . I I ' . . ' ' , ' , lt v - - -1 - - - ' - v ' ' '. ' . . , . ., , . . . , A t A I L- .. ' A. . , - . . . . . X 4 t 1 . Q W v. . I L . , Y i . ' 1 . Z S . . ' - V ' . . ' . ' .4 . . . t i ' s - . ' ' . . A , . , ' ' . ' Y v v I B. Y F, ' Y 4 I . ' . Zi. :I . - 5. V v S s., H .1 . .. . Q Y . . . . - iv . ' I . . . . D , . , ' V . . . H V . .- . , v , , - . . . ' . . v Q - ' . ' N .4 - -v . - t , -