Santa Rosa High School - Echo Yearbook (Santa Rosa, CA)

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Oliver’s Farewell Letter ....... PISGILOTIA LR Mec pchaher case Raa BX CHANLEB (5's deere o- olndigin veo ebins REGTEDT OSS Paty ofan sale QueWnte « uolbae che AIEEE CION inci 5, pareve’ ook hoipemeaee E, R. SAWYER Watchmiker and Manufacturing Jeweler 629 Fourth Street Santa Rosa, Cal. THIRD STREET CYCLERY Dayton and % Reading Standard Bicycles F. W. HESSE, Jr. 509 Third Street New York PHILADELPHIA UNEXCELLED $35°°HATS Come and see our New Store. KEEGAN BROS. CONTENTS WM. BUSSE Successor to Dan Rehmer Dealer in Guns, Ammunition, Cutlery, Fishing Tackle and Hardware li Main Street Koch’s Barber Shop 633 Fourth Street First shop west of Postoffice FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT MRS, J. J. CAMPBELL Stationery, Toys, Etc. 425 Fourth Street » R. Hodgson Son Tailors 335 B Street, near Fifth, Santa Rosa Santa Rosa Rochdale Co. (Incorporated) Groceries and Provisions, Fruit Flour and Feed N. FE. Corner Third and B Streets Santa Rosa

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i HE PORCUPINE FOR NOVEMBER, 1904 HIGH SCHOOL Santa Rosa, Cal.

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ee ee eee 5 A IRE OR LE ate ae ee ct SNE eS Che Porcupine VOL. XI. SANTA ROSA, CAL., NOVEMBER, 1904 NO. 3 Prudent People Purchase Prickly Porcupines The Reward of Faithfulness Allie West sat: sewing by the open window, through which shown the last rays of the setting sun. She glanced up as her sister entered, as usual, in a perfect whirlwind of excitement. “Oh, Allie dear, you can’t realize what has happened! I received an invitation to attend the concert to be given in the Declaine Gardens this evening. Mrs. Declaine expects to entertain one of the renowned singers of ‘Sing- erville.”” Elaine laughed as she repeated the name “Singerville,”’ and then continued with great emphasis, “Oh, Allie, I can just picture the tall, sedate, queenly little figure standing before the footlights, letting her great voice resound through the ages to come. Oh, dear! when | try to be sentimental, no, eloquent, I fail utterly. But is it not perfectly splendid, Allie, dear?” It had not occurred to Elaine that her sister might pos- sibly have appreciated an invitation. Not that Elaine was selfish. Oh, no. It had been thus ever since Allie had sacrificed her own ambitions and with tearful eyes murmured, “No. mother, dear, I shall remain at home and care for you, and Elaine may have what she so sincerely desires. So, when the college had reopened one autumn day, nearly three years before, Elaine had wended her way thither, happy in the realization of her highest am- bitions, while her sister remained quietly at home, attend- ing to the household duties and nursing the invalid moth- er who was often so exacting and unreasonable, the result of years of intense suffering. But when, at last, the moth- “