University of Santa Clara - Redwood Yearbook (Santa Clara, CA)

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®Ij£ mmm ffllfoto F. BUCKLEV McGURRIN WAS on Parnassus. All the Seasons sat To part tke world in four, Each one to take unto herself a land Which more than any else, would feel her hand With gentle pressure on its brow, and in its ear her voice. The first to speak was Winter, chilly-eyed In azure-golden hair, For marble brow a crown — My realm shall be That numbed land beside the Baltic sea, Where faintly howls the timber- wolf across the snowy waste. And I, said Summer, full-lipped, darksome maid, With figure half defined, My kingdom I would have that sun-kissed shore, Where reigned the Caesars : Italy, whose store Of blossoms and of purple hills the world will not surpass. Autumn, the auburn-haired, with figure full And rounded breast, desired The blue-hazed woods and restless, white-capped lakes Of ripened Canada. Her choice she takes, And now remains but one to choose — a slender creature, Spring. My heart is lost, she said with starry eyes, That loved, And I must go To where I lost it. Let me bide — no queen — Among the hills that call to me, their green With poppies starred; in California! There I lost my heart. 11

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10 THE REDWOOD Swiss Guards in the corridors, who continued faithful to their duty till the last. After completely destroying the beautiful furnishings of the pal- ace, the mob set fire to it, and glee- fully watched it burn, even preventing the firemen from extinguishing it or stopping its spread. While all these scenes of carnage and pillage were being enacted, a deputa- tion appeared from the self-elected municipality, or Commune, and order- ed that the Assembly should immedi- ately declare the dethronement of the King under threat of summary punish- ment if they refused to do so. It was proposed that the people should be called upon to elect a National Con- vention to draw up a new Constitution, and in the meantime, the King should be deprived of all his powers. A new ministry was inaugurated, and now we have the spectacle of an insurrectionary municipality, composed of barely more than one-half of the Sections of Paris, forcing its demands upon the Assem- bly of the nation, and sending out its decrees to all the people. The Commune, by its show of force, dominated the Assembly. Roland was restored to the ministry and Danton was elected as one of his associates. The Commune, or Common Council of Paris as it was now called, managed everything about the city in its own way. The Commune favored the Giron- dins heretofore, but now they had lost favor, and a bitter war sprang up be- tween the Commune and the Commit- tee of Twenty-one, composed mainly of Girondins and Peuillants. This Committee practically ruled the As - sembly, and it was now a fight between these two powers. (To be continued.)

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12 THE REDWOOD The Plumes on a Hearse J. Charles Murphy 1AHOMMED! The heavy black curtains parted, and a dark-skinned fellah stood at attention. At your feet, Saadat, to serve you till iShe hot sands are melted like snow. Marsh poured a green liquid into the retort and applied the blue flame. Our work is progressing, Mahom- med? ' ' Inshallah. Not the stars in the des- ert sky nor the dark eyes of the houris shine brighter than the light of your mind, Hakim. No, it is not I, but He whom you call Allah, who has killed the Black Plague, Mahommed. Allah, the Merciful, aiwa, yes. He guided the strong arm of Hakim Marsh. ' ' Mahommed, you have seen the gen- eral register to-day? Not as yet, effendi. Then go at once and tell me if the hand of the Black Death has to-day smitten a son of Egypt. Aiwa, Saadat, and the great beaming eyes of the Ethiopian bent to the floor, as he salaamed and glided away to do Marsh ' s bidding. When the curtains fell together be- hind the dusky form, Marsh turned to the shelves lined with test-tubes and acids and proceeded to arrange in their proper places the compounds with which he had been experimenting. He hung on its hook the loose chemist ' s smock and walked idly about his lab- oratory, looking with trained eye at the long rows of lethal drugs in a richly carved cabinet of oak. Well, he mused to himself, at last we seem to have this plague pretty well in hand. Looked bad for a while, though. ' ' His attention was arrested by a jar in the cabinet, marked Antitoxin. Various other air-tight jars were rang- ed in precise order within. All, except- ing one, were empty. The doctor stroked his pointed beard, and fin- gered the unemptied jar. H-m-m-m, he mumbled softly. Very little antitoxin left. Rather careless of me not to have noticed be- fore this morning that my stock need- ed replenishing. Hope no poor devil of a fellah is stricken for a day or so, at least. Enough antitoxin here for — let ' s see. A rapid computation brought a worried look to his face. By George, he said half aloud, 12