South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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

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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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6 THE ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVER. flavor of the mind. Man could not direct his way by plain reason or support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit and flavor and brightness and laughter, perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage and to charm his pained steps over the burning snarl. Sydney Smith. Tke assiz Society. AX I’M BEK of pupils desirous of forming an amateur .science club met in A room on the third of Xov. At this meeting a committee was appointed to draft a constitution. They reported on the tenth and their report was accepted with a few alterations. 'This meeting was most lively; two or three persons trying to have (he floor at the same time. Others were weary because a few monopolized the talking. All this war of words was caused by a motion to carry on the election without delay. It was decided at last to hold election on the 17th of November. At this meeting there ware about thirty pupils present, twenty-five of whom are charter members of the society. The officers elected are equally divided between the Senior and Junior classes. The other classes were well represented. With such a showing the Agassiz association of our school will not fail to be equal to that of any in the city. AN ACTUAL PROBLEM OF BUSINESS LIKE. AN YOU SOLVE IT? Mr. Jones, of Jamestown, Dak, failed with assets that would pay but 10 cents on the dollar. Among 11is creditors was a Mr. Brown, of Minneapolis, to whom he owed $1,000. Jones wrote to Brown offering him his note for the Si,000 bearing 12 per cent interest payable in advance. The offer was accepted and Jones gave the note and ?120 interest. At the end of the year. Jones sent Brown $300.00 to be applied to the reducing of the note, reserving enough to pay the 12 per cent interest in advance on the reduced note. Required the amount of interest to be applied. fit Skakspear’s Home or Skak-spear's Day. Selected. THERE are a variety of reasons why the twenty-third day of April might be regarded in our calendars as “Shakspeare’s Day.” We have many red-letter days marking the birthdays of great men and women, and recording transactions of national or world-wide importance. Why not a red-letter day for Shakspear? We celebrate the birthday of Washington; we set apart a day for the decoration of the graves of our heroic soldier dead; we make some kind of jubilation on the Fourth of July, and, at the behest of our more or less pious Governors, we eat turkey, and are grateful on Thanksgiving Day. All this is well, but could not we and tbe whole world of thoughtful men and women spare one day in the year for remembrance of the most wonderful genius of the ages? Surely, gratitude for the priceless legacies be has left us as well as admiration of bis matchless skill demand that William Shakspeare should not be forgotten. I am not unmindful of tbe fact that Shakspeare is almost as much of a myth as Homer’s. We are a little better off for facts concerning our modern poet. Shakspeare was horn on the 23d of April, 1564, and died on the 23d of April, 1616; the anniversary of his death. There is, therefore, as it seems to me, special reason why the twenty-third of April, should he called “Shakspeare’s Day.” Unhappily, we know very little of the hard of Avon, and the stories and anecdotes current concerning him are a little apocryphal. Did he ever hold horses in London, I won-