Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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4 THE OCKSHEPERIDA terest to travelers. One noticeable feature is the absence of bread, finely cut dried fish being used instead. A meal for two, including a Ixrttle of “Saki (their native drink), will cost alxmt thirty Sen (fifteen cents in United States money). In the event of a tourist Incoming lost a little policeman wearing a red coat and carrying a short sword will be glad to tell “Honorable American’’ where he can get a ricksha to take him back to the ship. From the Mountains (By Roy Hildebrand) The morning was clear and cold as I picked my way to a high i eak above Rapid Creek canon. The snow seemed a great heavy blanket hiding and protecting the seeds and grass below mv feet. As I looked down into the canon the l eauty of nature’s work amazed me. The sparkling water falling over icy pedestrals and threshing itself into foam among the rocks, the tall pine trees with their cloaks of snow, and the hump-backed range cattle feeding along the bank, made a picture an artist would have found hard to reproduce. Looking to the east and far down the valley the cone-shaped bills appeared to be a huge Titan camp where but recently the soldiers had pitched their large, white tents. The tractless shimmering plain, over which the wolf and jackrabbit hold domain, was spotless in the morning sun, while above me, rising to a great height, loomed the silent mountains. Here and there the forest of pines was broken bv patches of ground pine hich lay white in the untrodden snow. The high rocks and precipices, over which the shaggy mountain goat climbs at will. l«x ked grim and aweinspiring in the gray white color they had assumed. The clear blue sky, together with the blueish-purple haze surrounding the snow-clad mountain peaks, seemed a fitting background to this paradise of ice and snow. When finally I looked again into the canon lx low and toward the cabin where a thin spiral of smoke was slowly mounting into the atmosphere, the thought came to me that no mere human being can fully understand or comprehend the beauty over which nature rules. When great Titian lived, the old lad Made golden haired girls all the fad. If Mis Johnson had been On the green earth just then She’d have made a good model, bedad! John “Celery” Hawkes in his time Has been praised both in pro e and in rhyme, But this secret we’ll tell. And we know very well he'll never In-classed as sublime.

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The Ocksheperida Vol. VI Sheridan, Wyoming, January, 1914 No. 4 A Trip to Japan The Japanese at home are very interesting people,—kind, courteous and hospitable,—qualities that the American admires in any people, and es])ecial-Iv the Japanese, because they seem so sincere. We dropped anchor in Nagaski harbor about sunrise one cold morning n Xovetuber, and as soon as the sun had warmed the atmosphere somewhat we went ashore in lighters, small boats used to transport pasesngers and su»-' lies to and from shins lying at anchor i’1 the barber, there being no pier or dock on account oc the shallowness of the water. On being set ashore w were besieged ly a number of men who are t«. Japanese cities what our cabmen arc to American cities, the difference being that instead of having a cab and horses he has a jinrickisha which lie himselt mils, stopping at all places of interest, where lie ceases to be a horse and he conies a guide and interpreter. About the first place he takes his passenger is to a tea garden where tea is served by beautiful Japanese girls at five cents per cup. The tea is good, but the comfortable seats are better. After riding for a while in a “ricksha” one felt it a real pleasure to sit in a big chair and watch the little figures in kimonas and wood-en-soled shoes hurrying back and forth between the tables seeming to keep time to music made bv an orchestra of three pieces of nondescript character, peculiar looking instruments which were m perfect harmony with the surroundings. After an hour in the tea garden we visited some of the temples—places of worship where symbols of the Shinto religion are to he found. In one of these temples a bronze horse is the symbol and it is worshipped by the Japanese who live in the section of the cite where it is located. Everyone entering these places is required to leave lv» shoes outside, a decided inconvenience for Europeans whose shoes are fastened on, but a small matter to the Ja -whose shoes are blocks of wood with a strap across the toe. The eating houses are of great m-

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THE OCKSHEPERIDA 5 From the Business Manager (By Charles Halley) This is the first time this year I have attempted to write an article for the Ockshcpcrida dealing with the business end of the paper, which, as you all know, is the most difficult part to be handled. Being business manager, it involves the general care of the paper but more especially it deals with the advertising, and the business manager must see the merchants of Sheridar and endeavor to secure their patronage This is necessary for the simple reason that we could not publish a magazine were it not for the income derived from advertising; or a magazine like the Ockxlicpcrida might be published by charging from three to five dollars for each year’s subscription. Thus it is plainly seen that it is the advertising alone which enables the students of Sheridan High School to publish a magazine, and it is about this advertising which I wish to talk to the high school students. Hose many of you ever took aver the advertisements in the Ockshcpcrida and consider what they are offering you? How many of you who, when purchasing some articles at one of the local stores, thank the owners for their advertising in the Ockshcpcrida, or if they do not advertise, remind them that the high school students arc supporting their advertisers? It is probable that, during the six months the Ockshcpcrida has been published. not over a dozen students have ever done either of these things. It is a lack of interest on your part, and on the part of the other students. The majority pay their subscription, receive their paper every month and enjoiy it, they never help to get out an issue eithe by boosting among the merchants or by handing in material. The Ockshcpcrida is supposed to be published by the students of Sheridan High School, but it is not—it is published by the fourteen members of the staff. If the students would do the small thing mentioned above (thanking the advertisers for patronizing the Ock sheperida, and patronizing them), it would be easy to obtain seventy-five dollars a month from advertising, whereas now it is very difficult to secure fortv to forty-five dollars a month. The merchants of Sheridan would be very anxious tQ advertise since thev would lie getting some returns for their money while now it is very difficult to secure advertising since all regard it. and justly, as being a contribution to the paper; finallv. for seventy-five dollars a month Sheridan High School could have the best high school paper published in the United States, while now we have only an ordinary magazine. When you consider, it is not very much trouble on vour part to do those things which we have mentioned. Whenever you purchase some art.!.;' -•