Riverview Military Academy - Orbit Yearbook (Poughkeepsie, NY)

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1 l--- e fi I ' 'K ' course of our conversation, hetold me that a fellow class mate of ours, a Mr. VVarren, was at present the manager of one of the largest peg-topped trousers factory in Chicago, fancy corduroys being his specialty. That after- noon we stopped around at his office, and found old Beau fast asleep in his IVIorris chair. I hated to wake him up hut not having seen him in some time, I was quite anxious to have a little chat with him. We succeeded, after violent shaking, in waking him up. He was awfully glad to see us, and showed us through his plant. Together with his famous peg- topped corduroy trousers department, he had lately instituted a fancy sock department, green socks being his specialty, and his largest seller. Beau soon became tired of inspecting his own factory, and laid himself down on a pile of trousers, and was soon fast asleep again. We continued our way through the different departments of his factory unaided, and left him to his misery. I left Dr. Ralston shortly after three that afternoon, and in the course of a few days reached home again. My tour was an event of the past. W W .aim XKWW We 'fog' 0 '- Q7

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lated Rube on his success as an athlete, but I was in a very great hurry and decided that speed would have to be my middle name if ever I expected to get back home again. 'A' After some uneventful weeks I reached San i ' I Francisco where I re- mained but a few days I after which I started for home. The west- ern country was at its ' '- f best, at least so far as nature was concerned. I never had seen the 1 wheat fields in better ' trimv-in fact, all of the farm products appear- ' ed to be at their best. My attention was call- 4-4 Z. , I . f . fr I Z H- L-nv X I!! ed in particular to one farm where there seem- ed to be nothing but cabbages-cabbages as far as the eye could see. The apparent owner of the farm was weeding his field when I yelled- out to him, How are crops coming? Purty pert, was the brief response as he turned toward me and I recognized Silas Lee Husted, by gosh. Well, Leeu I said, this is a surprise. How did you ever happen to land out here? Wal,,' Lee replicdf, crops warn't very good back in Stanfordville, so I thought I'd git a-head of the people there and come out here and work. You see how I have prospered, as he proudly viewed his patch. You certainly have, I replied, as I hiked it down the road. . Wlhen I reached Chicago, ' ' 5 an individual conspicuous My because of his littleness of stature accosted me. Need- ! I less to say the gentleman was .ix 4. Dr. A. E.Ralston, more com- ii monly known as Pee Wee. - Of course, I wanted to know fi how he happened to be in Chicago, what he had been f doing, etc. I will not at- tempt to draw out his speech as he drawled it out to me, as Briefly, he had been crossed in love fpoor boyll which nearly wrecked his whole career. After this terrible blow, he life is too short. entered the ministry, since which time he had put many a weary man to sleep during the course of his long drawn-out sermons. I took lunch with the Dr. that noon. During the

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l..incoln's Address No. 2 A Three score and fifteen years ago, somebody brought forth upon this continent, a new school, conceived in torture, and dedicated to the proposition that everybody walks delinq. N ow we are engaged in a great debate, testing whether this school, or any other school, so conceived and dedicated can long endure. We are met in a great room of that school CRoom GD. We have come to dedicate a portion of that room as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives in the study of geometry. But in a larger sense, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow, this room. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or divide. The world will little note, nor long remember what Chesty says here, but it can never forget what he did here, we highly resolve that this room, under Mr. Bartlett, shall have an new set of easy chairs, and that geometry of the school, by the school, and for the school shall not perish from the earth. 27