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

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THE ECHO. “Then, I congratulate you,” she said, with little interest. “What the dickens is the matter with the girl,” he thought to himself. Then he con- ued over the ’phone: “By the way, what did you get in the examination?” “Seventy-two,” she answered, weakly. “Whe-ew!” he whistled. “That’s a shame. That’s as much a surprise to me as my pa- per was. I wish I could divide my percent with you. But then, you can afford to lose this time, because you usually get such good papers. You'll go to the game all right, won't you?” “No, I don’t think so.” “Why not?” “T’m too disgusted about my paper.” “Well, you’re going to make me suffer for your mistakes, are you? Remember the bar- gain you made.” “Well, I forgot to put into the bargain the condition, ‘if I didn’t pass.’ ” “Girls certainly do act queer sometimes,” said Lester to himself, as he turned from the ’phone. “Won’t keep her part of the bar gain, but makes me keep mine.” The next afternoon he met Beatrix in the hall. She seemed to be very happy. “What’s the meaning of all this mirth?” he asked. ‘Loan some of it to me, I feel as if I had lost my last friend.” Beatrix explained that they had just been to see the professor, and that he had made a mistake. Beatrix had received eighty-two per cent instead of seventy-two. Trix then turned toward Lester and asked: “Aren’t you going to congratulate me?” “Are congratulations in order?” he mim- icked. “If so, I congratulate you; and now how about the game?” “T have decided to go,’ she answered smilingly. The game that evening was very exciting. In the beginning, Lone Pine gained two points, and thus the score remained until the end of the first half. Then, just before time was called and amidst much cheering for Emeryville, Lester made the score even— two to two. During the intermission, Lester talked a few minutes with Trix. She told him he must make Emeryville win, since she had consented to come to the game. Lester promised to do his best. Lone Pine soon raised its score to six, dur- ing the second half. Then Emeryville was discouraged, and so was Lester. Lone Pine gained no more points, but Emeryville rais- ed her’s to five. Then the score stood six to five, and thus the game ended, with many cheers from Lone Pine. After the game Lester told Beatrix that he could have practiced more and Emery- ville might have won, if she hadn’t made that bargain about the geometry. Beatrix finally thought so, too, and ex- pressed her thoughts to Lester on their way home alter the game. “Well,” said Lester, as he bid Trix good- night, “Here is a riddle for you to answer— ‘Which is better, to lose your girl and the examination, or to lose the game?’ ”

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THE ECHO. THE BARGAIN By Edith Sanford and Lily. Lewis EATRIX and Lester were talking on the Emeryville High School campus, after school. It was Tuesday © afternoon, one week be- eiore the geometry examina- Woy vas tion. “Look here, Lester, what are you going to do about this examination?” asked Bea- trix, suddenly. “Well, it’s hard telling. You know I’m , not much on mathematics,” answered Les- ter, his mind traveling back to the last ex- amination. “Of course, you'll pass, though; you always do. But by the way,” he added more hopefully, “Suppose you'll go with me to the basketball game a week from Friday night? It is to be a championship game between Lone Pine High and ours.” “On one condition.” “Well, let’s hear it.” “Tf you'll pass the coming geometry ex- amination, then I’ll go with you to the game. If you do not, I wont. That’s fair, isn’t it?” “T don’t know whether it is or not,” re- plied Lester doubtfully. “Y ou know you're such a shark at geometry, Trix, that such a proposition seems easy to you, but it dont to me.” “If you really want me to go, you'll work hard enough to pass the examination.” A week later, Lester and Beatrix filed into the geometry room with the others, to take the examination. Lester felt blue and dis- couraged. The professor entered the room and announced that he would give them but two examples, both of which would be re- quired. Trix felt doubly confident at that announcement and hoped Lester would be able to get them. She was rather sorry that she had made the bargain so severe, but was too proud to retract what she had said. The professor put the two examples on the board. Lester was able to work the sec- ond one immediately. He worked a long time on the first one and was unable to get it. He was about ready to give up, when he thought of an original method of his own. He was afraid it would not do, but he tried it as a last resource. He was still rather doubtful when he handed in his pa- per, but he had done better than he had ex- pected. Beatrix worked the first and most of the second, and was confident that she would pass all right. On the Thursday before the game, the professor addressed his geometry class. He told the pupils that among the examination papers, there were many poor ones. “Some of the pupils whom I expected to hand in very good papers, handed in poor ones, and a few who usually have poor papers, hand- ed in good ones. Lester Wallace worked the first example by an original method, which was exceptionally good and better than any of the others.” With this last statement, which surprised Lester so that he nearly jumped out of his seat, the professor passed out the papers. Lester then glanced triumphantly over at Trix, who, instead of answering his glance, was looking dismally at her own paper. “What in the world can be wrong with Trix? She’s surely glad that I passed,” was the thought that ran through Lester’s brain. As soon as class was dismissed he tried to see her in the hall, but failed. Lester was happy, except for one thing. He wondered what was wrong with Beatrix that she didn’t congratulate him. He wait- ed until evening without seeing her and then could stand the suspense no longer. He telephoned to her and asked if she were not going to congratulate him. “Are congratulations in order?” she ask- ed. “Certainly.”

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THE ECHO. THE LOST MINE A True Story of Our Own Pioneers By R. Talbot ’13. In the early days when the lust for gold brought thousands of emigrants to the coun- try in the hope of b ecoming rich, came the Hardin train, in 1852. It was about in the last stages of its jour- ney when it reached the Black Rock coun- try, in Nevada, on its way to California. Al- lan Hardin, who was a member of the train, decided to do a little hunting and incidental- ly have some fresh meat. He was a tall man, capable of covering a great deal of ground in a day. A couple of hours after he had left the train and had gotten well into his hunting trip, he saw some Indians, and knowing them to be hostile, he at once gave flight. When the Indians saw him he was some distance in the lead, but nevertheless they gave pursuit. As the chase grew warm, Al- lan discarded all the unnecessary articles of dress. As he was crossing a ledge he saw some stuff shining in the sun. There seem- ed to be great quantities of the rock. He picked up several pieces, but as they got burdensome, he was forced to throw away all but one, which was about the size of a bullet. This he dropped into his bullet pouch. The Indians go so close on him he was forced to throw away his gun. Finally he overtook the train after having traveled about twenty miles on the run. Nothing of interest happened to the party and they reached Sonoma county, where they settled down. His Indian adventure was discussed, but he never showed his specimen to anybody who knew much about silver ore, for gold was what the majority of the people mined. One day he showed a Dutchman the piece of what he took to be a curious rock. The Dutchman got Hardin to allow him to send it back to Germany and have it analyzed, and it proved to be al- most solid silver. He had thought to him- self that he could load wagons with the ma- terial. The news spread and two prominent men of Sonoma county organized an expedition, which was to locate this mine. The party consisted of fifteen men, equipped with all the necessary articles consisting of food, firearms and picks and shovels. They reach ed the Black Rock country after the usual amount of grumbling at having to wash the dishes. They met with no unusual experi- ences. Hardin showed them the two points, first, where he had left, and secondly, where he had caught up with the train and the terri- tory through which he had traveled as best his recollection would permit, but was un- able to show the exact place where he had found the specimens. While in search of the mine they found a curiosity in the way of a petrified tree. It was six hundred and - sixty-six feet long and sixty-six feet through at the base. There was no sign of any other trees less than forty miles away. The measurements were sworn to by the men who took them as being correct. It was found laying across a small stream. They were just beginning to get well into their search, when a messenger sent out from the nearest fort, warned them of an uprising of Apache Indians. They immed- iately pulled the stakes of their camp and set out for a country where there was less danger. One day while they were traveling two of the party got behind the main part of the company and were hurrying to catch up. Looking down the road one of the men saw a man get up from hehind a boulder and walk across the road. They had suspicions that a band of Indians had slipped in be-