St Ignatius College - Ignatian Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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Eeautgka Flea T But yesterday a dream,-a dream come true To-day,-to-morrow .idle past. Thus Hew Thy brief career. The dream Was fair, but fairer still the gleam Of life that shone to make the vision real. Farewell to palace grand and castle wall! The fruit of fertile minds by hands must fall. No more shall flower meet In glassy lake its image sweet, Nor secrets of the morning dew reveal. No more shall fount in idle pleasure spray Its guarding water sprites the livelong day: No more shall spires above To blushing skies unfold their loveg Nor spreading domes their azure color steal. Ah! Woe, that thou must leave! For why should men Build up a kingdom to destroy again, And why my plaint in vain? Oh! Let each beauty there remain, While eyes can see and throbbing hearts can feel! Uh! Let a path still twine its graceful way Around each silv'ry lake in full arrayg While Howers sweetly fair Refresh with perfume mild the air, QL And stamp each hidden nook with Nature's seal. So heed my plea! Let castle stand and lake Remain, and each fair thing for Beauty's sake A Be left untouched, unshorn Of tinted grandeurs that adorn. So heed in Beauty's name my last appeal! Thos. H. Foster.

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AN ORIENTAL MYSTERY 25 lay to while the cutter drew alongside. One of the officers seized a megaphone and cried: Ahoy there on deck! At first there was no answer and then came over the side in the voice of a foreigner: What ees eet that you want? We'l1 let you know when we get up there, replied the employee of Uncle Sam, and then added, Drop us a lad- der. In a few seconds one came dangling down, and the entire party was soon on the deck of the steamer. There before them lay a pile of rugs, which evidently were to have been smuggled into the Exposition grounds that very night. What ees eet that you want? again inquired the cap- tain of the vessel in a most submissive tone. We'll just take you into San Francisco. replied the customs officer, displaying his insignia of office, and have you arrested for smuggling. That's all we want with you. Eet ees all one beeg meestakef' cried the excited little foreigner, as he paced up and down the deck, but I sup- pose I weel have to submit to your ordairsf' On the following day a quarrel with the officials of the Turkish Building took place. Accusation after accusation was fired back and forth between the two parties, and for a time all indications pointed to an ultimate breach be- tween them. The Turkish officials were threatened with being forced to close their exhibit palace and they, in turn, asserted that if anything of the sort were attempted, they would appeal to their Government for means of re- taliation. However, an agreement was finally reached, and friendly relations reestablished. Everything goes on at present as before, except that Uncle Sam assists the Turk- ish officials in landing their rugs. Dafwell VV. Daly.

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Ghz Iiuritiratinn nf Brinking Mater ATER and air are indispensable for the sus- taining of the life process in animals. The limit of human endurance of conditions M D if h - - W ic prevent the consumption of water is probably about ten days. A daily allow- L!-Q ance is absolutely needed both in food and as drink. Hence the plentiful supply of this necessary chem- ical compound that was rated so long as an element. Na- ture is never prodigal but of water there is an abundance. I XJJ Y' ll tn 5? Yet our water supplies never furnish absolutely pure liquid. All the sources we dep-end upon derive their supplies directly or indirectly from the condensed moisture of the atmosphere. Rain or melted snow collects in lakes or passes to underground caverns to form wells. The following enu- meration of sources embraces all those we depend upon for drinking water: Rain water, surface water C such as ponds and riversj, ground water ffrorn rain held by the sub-soill. and deep collections called artesian water. By passing through the air or percolating through the ground all this water is contaminated, more or less, by sus- pended or dissolved material. Hence a supply of water may be rated as wholesome, or suspicious or dangerous accord- ing to the debris it carries. Spring water and that from deep wells is usually of good quality and is very palatable. Water from unpolluted streams and clgan stored rain water has not an attractive Havor. Surface water that has poured over cultivated land is always suspicious even if it has an agreeable taste. Rivers carrying sewageuj-and shallow wells are to be rated as dangerous until an analysis has proved the contrary. Polluted water may carry living organisms which will produce disease in the human body or it may contain sub- stances which will dispose a person to infection by depress- x . ff, -.