Toulon Township High School - Tolo Yearbook (Toulon, IL)

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Spring, Nineteen Thirty-two 29 + Overton—Life of R. L. Stevenson for Boys and Girls. Paine—Boys’ Life of Mark Twain. Richards—Joan of Arc. Richards—Florence Nightingale. “Roosevelt—Letters to His Children. “Trudeau—Autobiography. LEGENDS AND SHORT STORIES “Arabian Nights. “Anderson—Danish Fairy Tales and Legends. Atkinson—Johnny Appleseed. •Bachellor—Keeping up With Lizzie. “Bunyan—Pilgrim’s Progress. “Church—Aeneid. “Church—Odyssey. “Dickens—Christmas Stories. “French—Lance of Kannana. “Hale—Man Without a Country. Harris—Uncle Remus and His Friends. “Hawthorne—Tanglewood Tales. Hawthorne—Wonder World. Judson—Myths and Legends of the Mississippi. Lanier—Boy’s King Arthur. “Pyle—Robin Hood. Riis—Hero Tales of the Far North. “Tarkington—Penrod. “Tarkington—Seventeen. “Tarkington—Penrod and Sam. Van Dyke—The Story of the Other Wise Men. “Yeats—Irish Folk and Fairy Tales. TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. “Akeley—In Brightest Africa. “Chaillu—Lost in the Jungle. “DeFoe—Robinson Crusoe. “Dana—Two Years Before the Mast. “Dunraven—Hunting in the Yellowstone. “Foster—Adventures of a Tropical Tramp. “Gerould—The Land of The Rainbow. Hawaii. “Grenfell—Tales of the Labrador. Griffith—Brave Little Holland. Huard—My Home in the Field of Honor. Lever—The Dodd Family Abroad. “Mills—Spell of the Rockies. “Nutting—The Track of the Typhoon. Peary—Nearest the North Pole. “Powell—First Through the Grand Canyon. “Rinehart—Through Glacier Park. Smith—A White Umbrella in Mexico. “Swift—Gulliver’s Travels. Tomlinson—Places Young Americans Should Know. “Wallace—The Lure of the Labrador Wild. FICTION Aldrich—Story of a Bad Boy. “Alcott—Little Women. “Burnett—Secret Garden. Burnett—Lost Prince. Barrie—Peter and Windy. “Bennett—Master Skylark. “Canfield—Understood Betsy. “Carroll—Alice in Wonderland. Carroll—Alice Through the Looking Glass. “Clemens, Samuel—Huckleberry Finn. “Clemens, Samuel—Tom Sawyer. Connor—Man From Glengarry. Connor—The Sky Pilot. “Cooper—The Last of the Mohicans. “Cooper—Wing and Wing. Cooper—The Deer Slayer. “Dickens—Oliver Twist. “Dumas—The Three Musketeers. “Duncan—Dr. Luke of the Labrador. “Eggleston—Hoosier School Boy. “Farnol—The Amateur Gentlemen. “Gale—Miss Lulu Bett. Hay—Scally. Hegan—Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. “Heyliger—High Benton. Hough—Mississippi Bubble. “Hughes—Tom Brown’s School Days. Jewett—Betty Leichester. “Kipling—Captain Courageous. “Montgomery—Anne of Green Gables. Morley—Kathleen. “Scott—Kenilworth. “Stevenson—Kidnaped. Stevenson—Black Arrow. “Stockton—Rudder Grange. “Webster—Daddy Long Legs. “Wiggins—Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. “Wright, H. B.—Shepherd of the Hills. Mi«s Oehmke: “Otis, how long did you study your Latin last night?” Otis Brown: “I didn’t study it for an hour. I mean I did.”

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28 +• Spring, Nineteen Thirty-two •Bachellor—A Man for the Ages. •Bachellor—In the Days of Poor Richard. Barrus—Burroughs, Boy and Man. Bolton—Girls Who Became Famous. Davis—Life in a Mediaeval Barony. •Eastman—From Deep Woods to Civilization. Evans—Sailor's Log. •Gauss—Through College on Nothing a Year. •Howell—My Mark Twain. •LaSalle and Wiley — Vocations for Girls. •Muir—Story of My Boyhood and Youth. •Ravage—An American in the Making. •Roosevelt—Letters to His Children. •Washington—Up From Slavery. •Weaver—Vocations for Girls. TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. (Read at least one book from this list.) Arnin—The Caravaners. •Custer—Boots and Saddles. Du Chaullu—The Land of the Midnight Sun. Duncan—Dr. Grenfell’s Parish. FRESHMAN Eight books are required during the year. (Books starred are in the School Library.) ANIMAL, PLANT, NATURE STORIES Atkinson—Grey Friar’s Bobby. Bostock—Training of Wild Animals. •Bullen—Cruise of the Cachalot. Burroughs—Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers. Burroughs—Ways of Nature. •Eaton—On the Edge of the Wilderness. •Cooper—Under the Big Top. •Hudson—Idle Days in Patagonia. •Curwood—Kazan. •Dixon—Human Side of Plants. Dixon—Human Side of Animals. Hagenbeck—Beast and Man. •Kipling—Jungle Book. Lippencott—Red Ben, The Fox of Oak Ridge. •London—Call of the Wild. •Fisher—Home Fires in France. •Franck—Four Months Afoot in Spain. •Gerould—Hawaii. •Hall—High Adventure. •Haliburton—The Glorious Adventure. •Haliburton—The Royal Road to Romance. Hornaday—Campfires in the Canadian Rockies. •Hudson—Idle Days in Patagonia. •Jewett—Country of the Pointed Firs. •London—The Cruise of the Snark. Peary—The North Pole. •Pope—Hawaii, the Rainbow Land. Prescott—The Conquest of Mexico. Prescott—The Conquest of Peru. •Roosevelt—African Game Trails. •Roosevelt—Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. Stefanson—Hunters of the Great North. •Street—Abroad at Home. •Twain—Innocents Abroad. •Twain—Life on the Mississippi •White—Daniel Boone, the Wilderness Scout. •Wallace—The Lure of the Labrador Wild. ♦Wyss—The Swiss Family Robinson. READING LIST. ♦McFarland—Getting Acquainted With the Trees. •Mills—In Beaver World. •Mills—Wild Life in the Rockies. •Ollivant—Bob, Son of Battle. Terhune—His Dog. •Terhune—Lad. Terhune—Lochinvar Luck. •Terhune—Wolf. •E. S. Thompson—Wild Animals at Home. •E. S. Thompson—Wild Animals I Have Known. E. S. Thompson—Lives of the Hunted. BIOGRAPHY. Balfur—Robert Louis Stevenson. Farrar—Story of My Life. •Gilchrist—Life of Mary Lyon. Hagedorn—Boys’ Life of Roosevelt. Holland—Historic Girlhoods. •Keller—World I Live In. •Keller—Story of My Life. “Muir—Story of My Boyhood Youth.

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30 +■ Spring, Nineteen Thirty-two TDniree TTHncDonssimid] +--------------------—■— ------------ One dull, dreary, slushy, hopeless, gray day, which was typical of the spirit of Russia, following the rise of the communists to power, Alexander Marchoski, the hangman of Moscow, clumped his way through filthy, iniquitous streets to a cafe in that city, where nightly a handful of his fellow rebels gathered. In that rude den, stale with tobacco and liquor, he found refuge as twilight came. Roughly and boisterously his companions greeted him. “Well, friend,” as Marchoski slowly lowered his huge frame into a dilapidated chair, “how did your noose go today? Very many aristocrats to stick their proud necks into it?” Marchoski’s livid, puffy features were drawn in a black scowl, but suddenly they broke into a leering grin. “Not so good, and yet not so bad,” he replied in his guttural voice. “My day was saved by an old man —a peasant blacksmith. He used to be considered wealthy before the communists came to power, and while the aristocrats held full sway. I knew him when I was a child. He lived in the same village that I did.” A heart-rending moan of agony turned every face quickly in the direction of Sonia, Marchoski’s wife. She sat apart in a corner from the sotted group of women, who occupied the disagreeable den. Her eyes were frozen with horror to her husband’s face. Falteringly words came from her numb lips. “Alexander, it wasn’t your old friend Paul, the blacksmith ? Your friend and my friend?” “Of course,” came the brief reply. “You hanged him with your hands?” “Yes, my hands. Look, you fool! Look, my hands!” And he thrust his huge hairy, grimy paws under Sonia’s beautiful face. “Tragic, isn’t it? Ha! Ha!” and Marchoski threw back his ragged unkempt head, and laughed like a wild animal, showing his yellow ugly snags, which he called teeth. “Comrade, do any of these condemned people have anything to say before they go to their deaths ?” asked one lean-jawed ragged man. “Oh, once in a while. For instance this old fool just this morning asked me if I didn’t ever hate to hang around twenty men a day. Imagine! Of course you know what my answer was. I laughed in his old, wrinkled face. Then he said that those who are so sure of themselves fall hardest, and he said I would be hangman of Moscow only a year and maybe less. He asked me if I didn’t ever feel any mercy. Mercy, the idea! I don’t know what the word means. I told him it gave me great satisfaction to see them come up and stick their necks in the noose. And you know it is rather amusing to notice how different necks are. Some skinny,