Warsaw High School - Tiger Yearbook (Warsaw, IN)

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I ain ' t never said that, I replied falteringly, with a guilty conscience. Oh, yes, but you did, cried another voice quickly, and yesterday you said that you liked ' them ' things ' pretty ' well. I want you to understand that I am not going to be mistreated any more. I ain ' t never said no such thing, I muttered, shivering Avith superstitious fear. And I want to tell you, continued the same voice in an excited pitch, ' ' that you cannot put two negatives in the same sentence. The way you abuse us is disgraceful. Your grammar is worse than a five-year-old. That ain ' t — , I started to say, but caught myself in the act of using an- other barbarism which had been firmly planted in my mind. I commenced to wonder why they did not accuse me of this crime. Thinking over what they had said, I could not but admit that I Avas very careless in grammar. Poor ain ' t, they exclaimed Avith numerous sobs. Ain ' t? , I repeated curiouslj ' . Yes, ain ' t. You have killed him that ' s all. You murderer ! Upon shrieking this alarming exclamation in my ears they fell upon me with such fury and rage that I dropped on my knees and besought peace. Will you ever use ' ain ' t ' again? , they cried furiously. Never, never, I promised earnestly, more than willing to rid myself of these demons of torment. All at once I found myself sprawled out on the floor, hair ruffled, one slip- per off, and much bewildered. Picking myself up I ejaculated, Well if that ain ' t the— iCutli r Surfaank IC rtur OW white berries were grown on blackberry bushes and the bushes made thornless Avas explained in a steroptican lecture, delivered by Dr. EdAvard Eccleston at the Presbyterian church, Thursday evening, September 28. The lecture, Luther Burbank, the Man and His Method, was given under the auspices of the WarsaAV High School. Dr. Eccleston Avho is the national lecturer of the Luther Burbank Society, Avas introduced to the audience of several hundred people by Mayor Richardson of this city. The speaker used, in connection Avith his lecture, 180 slides. Bunny Ford and Carl Crites operated the machine. How one man created fruits of better quality, transformed Aveeds into beau- tiful floAvers, reads like a fairy tale, but all A ery credible to us, accustomed as Ave are to marvelous iuA ' entions and discoveries of the present age, Burbank, when but a lad of sixteen sold a ncAv potato that he had discovered, for $150, and set out for the Avestern coast. There in the sunny state of California, he made his home at San Rosa, near San Francisco. At this toAvn he first raised his potatoes AA hich sometimes weighed 31 2 pounds or more and were without pimples or blotches. Just this one discovery has proved of vast importance. On his estates, he has hundreds of thousands of plants in cultivation. In creating a snoAV-Avhite black berry. Dr. Eccleston explained, 65,000 separate bushes Avere used, 3,200 plum and prune trees Avere used in another 129 more] SpriniT poets will happen in the best of families

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THE TIOEE ;i ( ' li;iMcc I coiiMii ' t resist Iryiiitr to j lay a joke on you. I had tho ' t the iiiuniiiiy which ;is hcin - shipjx ' d in a coffin, but knew it was a mistake on re- ceipt (if . ()iii ' tclcyiaiii. I tclcphonccl the police of the messa ge and cautioned them to watch lor voii. I really didn ' t intend to let it {ro this far, he peni- tently exclaiiiKMJ, nor did I exjjcct your uncle to become entan{;led in the mess. At this ])()int Moll ' s uncle jilared so fiercely at younjf Stuart that he stoj)j)e(l his explanations for a minute from sheer surprise. After many more apologies and exi)lanations, Molly finally completely relented, and smilin» at him said, Well, Bob, I jruess I ' ll have to forgive you though I do think it was a mighty mean trick, I ' ll not let you off so easily next time. Then the two of them managed to placate the outraged dignity and pride of her uncle. After explaining to the judge. Bob, Folly, and her uncle left the police station leaving behind them the .judge, slyly chuckling over a bill Bob had given him, and two very disgusted, disappointed detectives. ELLEN W. WYMOXD. (Silt MxBBm HJnrb HE glowing embers in the grate imbued the walls of the room with tints of red and yellow while dark, mystic shadows danced to the sonoi-ous ticking of the cuckoo clock in the hall. The burnt wood cracked and snapped as it settled down amid the bed of hot coals. Smoke from the dying fii-e di ' ifted up the chimney, begrimmed with soot of year ' s accunuilation. The glowing redness against the dark background was indeed an autunnial sunset. I was wrapt in profound reveries when I heard, to my aroused curiosity, a dwarfish voice in the most high and squeaking tones. I looked around. Save for the ticking of the clock, the I ' oom was ni peii ' ect silence. Outside it was dark while num- berless snowfiakes hurried past the windows in silence. Well, of all the nerve, exclaimed the same squeaking voice. Startled, I jumped up fiuun my nu)iris chair. That was the second time I had heard that voice. Surely my inuigination was getting the best of me. This time I made a careful survey of the room, glanced hesitatingly under the davenpoi-t, investigated the space under the library table, but foiuul no answer as to the cause of this mysterious oice. Thinking that my imagination was the cause of the strange voice, I returned to the morris chair which was so in- viting and allui ' ing, and refilling my old fashioned pipe with some tobacco I hatl been keeping in an old bowl for nuiny yeai ' s, I i-esumed my rest. Yes, 1 was talking about YOT. 1 have had about en» ugh of your treat- ment. Speak! the voice shrieketl saucily. A-a-I don ' t— Yes, speak! , demanded the voice in nuu ' e angry tones. Well-a-who are you aiiyway? You know well enough. It was only this afternoon that you said you ' et ' some pie fo r dinner. Haven ' t you any nun-e sense of gi-auunar than that? I am tired of having you bang me around, and 1 want it stopped immediately. Understand! 1 © 1 T Jug- not lest you be jwggedi [130 more

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T!ii TIOli5r] Q; experiinciil. Hvciy tree 1ha1 is lu-inj; experimented with, has hundreds of rai ' ls, ea(;li one labeled and eataloji ' iierl. The very best {. ' rafts are kept hut all the others, rciyncdiess of value, are (h-stroyed. As the result of this hard work, cherry trees have pi ' odueed fruit only 11 months from the time of planting. The cherries have been j reatly enlar ' ed; the pits made to elinff to the stem, leaving ' the fruit ready to preserve when plucked. The blackberry anri apple ci ' ossed; the i)luni and apricot which i-esulted in the plurncot, only one of the thousands of his creations; the wild dewberry and raspberry, which created a new fruit; apples perfected, (and made coi-eless; after ;i,000 j rafts had been used ; Vixon plum which is larger and better, with thick skins for lonp dis- tant shipping, prunes have been increased to the 9-inch in circumference and without pits, a seemingly impossible accomplishment. The seeds have been transferred to one end of the watermelon ; ])eaches greatly enlarged and per- fected — now known as the crawfoi-d peach; iK ' pi)ei-s have been grown of giant size and weight; sub-tomatoes and even aeriel potatoes, an almost incredible creation. Burbank has made the quince soft as an apple, and lily bulbs edible as ordinary fruit. As for flowers, he has created giant daisies, perfectly white, and eight to ten inches in diameter ; and in twenty acres of Diolas has grown flowei-s of all colors seemingly — dark red — purple — blue — lavendei- — white, but all only through years of persistent experiment. A Diola he lovingly made of a light blue, just the coloi- of a baby ' s eyes. The Amorilla flower he produced of mammoth size and all eoloi-s of the rainbow. The poppy was changed, it almost seems by his magic wand to a beautiful shade of red. The flower alone mea- sures nine inches in diameter. He has accomplished wonderful results with roses, and flowers of every description, and from all lands of the world. One of his greatest creations, Dr. Eccleston said, was the spineless cactus. The cactus has ahvays been a desert plant, very hardy and covered, as many tourists have discovered, with flue, penetrating needles. The plant, itself, Ls excellent food for cattle, but on accoiuit of the numberless needles which pro- ject on every side it can not be used as it causes to cattle to die. Burbank worked and experimented for a long time, and finally produced a spineless cac- tus. The plant grows nine feet high, produces ninety to one hundred and fifty per cent of perfect cattle food, and li es longer than one man could raise cat- tle. Expei ' iments were tried on a first prize Holstein cow, the results were nearly thirty-three and one-third per cent increase per pounds of milk. The plant is also fruit bearing, the fruit being very edible and will no doubt be ex- tensively used in the near future. Two equally remarkable creations which will greatly influence the grain production of this coinitry, are the giant corn and wheat plants. The former gi ' ows seventeen to twenty feet in height and will bear sixty-five bushels to the acre. The niammotli stocks are also excellent for silage. The wheat is larger in size than usual and bears grain heads seven inches long. If our country could only lealize a possible vi.siou of future America: our orchards laden with a multitude of perfect fruit : our gardens earth mines of delicious vegetables; our flowerbeds overflowing Avith the colors of the rain- bow ; our fields waving with golden tossels of grain that will eclipse the dreams of Aladdin; the barren desert virtually transformed into profitable ranches of cattle food and glowing fruit ; yea, if we could but catch a vision of a world which Burbank has helped (!od to make more beautiful, we would arise with one accord to say that Luther Burbank, is the greatest living American scien- tist of this age. Gladly did I give forty-three years of my live to pioneering — gladly am I giving the results of that pionooring to the world: perhaps the much slighted soil — foot or acre — finally will come into its own. and love for nature uncover man s dormant love for his own i;ind. — Luther Burbank. A 1boU in the kettle Is worth two ou the neck [128 more