South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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4 THE ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVER. T t Adams High School Observer. Published Monthly by Adams Hioii School. ----- —-— A. B. SMITH, Editor and Manager. EDITORIAL STAFF. Martha Bjouhus, Literary Editor: James Fisher, Exchange Editor: Sophia Peterson, Local Editor. Address all communications to the Adams Hioh School Observer, Adams School, corner Franklin and Sixteenth Avenues. Contributions of any kind may be addressed to the sub editor under whose division it comes. Single copies of back numbers may l e obtained at any time. Terms: Five Cents Per Copy; Forty Cents Per Year. WE think it would he a good plan to have a joint meeting of the Junior and Senior Literary Societies. This meeting should be open to all visitors and an invitation should be sent to the Sophomore and Freshmen classes. It would he interesting to have a debate between chosen representatives of each society. We would have its program equally divided between the societies. Before the meeting a committee should ho chosen who would decide which society made the best appearance. Their report to take the place of the usual critics’ report. This committee should be chosen from our honorable friends who are working for our south side school building. i f debates in our societies become tiresome the following plan will create new interest: After the principals and their seconds have given their arguments, let the chairman of the meeting allow the question to be discussed freely by the members of the society who are interested. Then let the society vote upon the merits of the argument and then upon the side they thought was right. We heard a certain Junior say that the paper wasn’t for them. Now we wish it to be understood that any jokes or any articles of the Junior Class will be more readily accepted than the articles of their Seniors. The reason there are uo witty critisiins on the Senior Class is because the Juniors do not send them in. In our last issue we said a question box would be opened for questions of school interest. It was opened but none came. Are the pupils of our school such poor scholars that they do not understand how to ask questions? We urge each member of the Junior and Senior classes to carefully read the article on “Society Work.” The more the students of our school write for the Observer the more interest it will be to the school. In our next issue there will be an article by Prof. Cook on “The Region About Sleepy Hollow.” Why wouldn’t it be a good plan to organize the Freshmen and Sophomore classes? t Puzzle For Tnthmeticiaivs. A AND 13, two countrymen, came to the Chicago market with 30 geese each. A sells his 30 geese at the rate of two for SI, and 13 sells his 30 geese at the rate of three for §1, at which rate the purchaser seems to get five geese for $2. The net proceeds of the sale amounted to £25. Subsequently A and B have another lot. of thirty geese each for the market, but as A is sick, he gets B to sell his lot. A comes to the market and believing that he was selling the geese at the same terms, offers the combined lot at tne rate of live for £‘2. When ho returns home, he fiuds, in making up his account with A, that he has netted only £24 for the sixty geese. He is out £1, but cannot account for the deficiency. In this first instance, the sixty geese brought £25, in the second only £24 and yet he has apparently sold them on the same terms—five for £2. Can any of our readers account for the deficiency of £1 on the second sale?

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THE ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVER. 3 open to nil—hence only the fluent speaker secured a permanent position. The law courts too, especially the great jury courts of Athens, were schools of oratory; for, every citizen was obliged to defend his own cause. Hence the high degree of perfection attained in the art of persuasion. We are a democratic body. Let us interest ourselves with all questions that shoulu come before the House whether it be regarding society business, points of order or general debate. So let us feel that it is a privilege, as did the Athenians, to enter into discussions and thereby gain power unto ourselves. It may be difficult to rise to our feet and speak; so everything that tends to our advance merit is difficult in the beginning but comes very natural afterwards. Allow one to thank you for the honor conferred upon me, and in discharging the duties of a president I beg your hearty co-operation in the Society work for in union thkrr is strength” and strength insures success. I shall endeavor to execute the duties of this office to the best of my ability, and hope the insult may prove satisfactory to all. In our class colors, blue and white, we reach a high standard. Loyalty and Purity. In our motto “Semper Paratus” we have made a pledge. As we shall live up to our standard so shall we be able to keep our pledge Always Prepared. President. Don’t Discouraged. Selected. PON T be discouraged, though often you fail: Still persevere if you hojH to prevail. Some that have failed many times in the past. Struggling, have made themselves victors at last. Life’s earnest battle alone you must tight: Onwurd, then onward through trouble’s dark night! Though you have failed many times in the | ast. Still persevere and triumph at last. ft Description — OF — A HIGH SCHOOL PAPER PUBLISHED WHEN MINNEAPOLIS WAS A VILLAGE. WHILE looking over some old newspapers I chanced to find a copy of “ The Owl” a paper published Oct. 23d, 18G8. The Owl is a four page sheet about six by nine inches was printed with type that looked as if it had been gathered from the waste type of some country printing office. Paper must have been cheaper than it is now or the manager must have made up for his extravagance by bleeding his subscribers. This is probably t he way he made both ends meet for he asked only sixty cents a year for the publication. How would the subscribers of the Ob-server feel if the business manager asked sixty cents u year for two leaves? I am afraid that his friends would be tempted to remove him from the high school and place him in an asylum for the insane if he pursued such a Course. The iirst page was headed in large black plain type with the motto “ The more light there is the less the Owl is able to see.” This page is divided into three columns. The first column coutains ihe object of the publication and rates of advertising, the second and third columns contain an original story entitled “ Ye Mississippi.” The first and part of the second page contain a story en-tiiled “Pride's Fall” or rather “Pride’s Waterfall.” The second part contains a handsome article entitled “The Irishman’s Spurs.” The third page a letter from a “special correspondent,” a number of good jokes and other humorous articles entitled “ Rural Raptures” and the last page contains the programs to be delivered on October 30 and Nov. 6, 1868. Among those to take part are many who are such prominent business men as Geo. Naylor, Geo. Harrison, Wm. Leonard and Judge Atwater. This page also coutains an account of a mock election held in the school.

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THE ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVER. Poets' Coriver Tre You tjv Earnest? ONCE in the day time dreary, While we pondered weak and weary O’er many a quaint and curious chapter of Ciceronian lore. Suddenly there came a squeaking Ah if some one gently creaking, Creaking o’er the school room lloor. • 'Pis the boots” we gently murmured Squeaking o’er the school room floor! Simply that and nothing more. LOSE this day loitering, ’twill be the same story To-morrow, and the rest more dilatory. Thus indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost tormenting over days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldnees has genius, power and magic in it; Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin, and then the work will be completed. —J. Wolfgang von Goethe. ------x ——- ■ Sjvow. Selected. THE snow came whirling through the air. Covered the branches once so fair. Covered the valleys, clothed the hills. Covered the frozen streams and rills. Robbed the flelds of their verdant tinge. Hung on the hedge a fantastic fringe; Down it came whirling through the air. Whirling and dancing here and there. Now it came falling thick and slow. Flakes of a solemn, lingering snow; Then it came edying light and soft. Borne on the wings of a gentle breeze. Played it around the spreading trees: Merrily played with their branches bare. And settled down in contentment there. Or, seeking a home oz the ground beneath, Re|»osed on the fields or barren heath. [ T$ad Spell. THE woman was illiterate— In s| elling she did fail— And. when her house she wished to sell, She wrote, “This House for Sail.” Then on the door she tacked the sign, And to her housework went. The while a stranger saw the words, And spelt with merriment, Hearsays. “To-morrow is too late; live to-day. What makes life dreary is want of motive. George Eliot. Never a day is given, but it tones the after years, And it carries up to heaven its sunshine or its tears.” Character is like the bells which ring out swnet music, and which, when touched accidentally even, resound sweetly. Our fireside conversations, our thoughts as we pass along the streets, our spirit in the transaction of business, all have some amount, small though it he, of moral value. —Goul-born. We cannot iinp ove ourselves, we cannot assist others, we cannot do our duty in the world, except by exertion, except by unpopularity, except with annoyance, except with care and difficulty.—Dean Stanley. To be worth anything, character must be capable of standing firm upon its feet in the world of daily work, temptation, and trial; and able to bear the wear and tear of actual life. Cloistered virtues do not count for much.—Smiles. “Thin house for sail!” he laughed and laughed With snicker and with roar; And when the woman heard the noise She came unto the door. ‘ When will your house set sail?” he asked. As wickedly he grinned. “ At once.” the woman laughed in scorn, “If you can raise the wind,’ ’ —Ex Wear your learniug like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o’clock it is, tell it, but do uot proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.— Lord Chesterfield. Genuine and innocent wit is surely the