Warsaw High School - Tiger Yearbook (Warsaw, IN)

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THE TIOEIK Should you ask me whence these stories, Thence these legends and traditions, With the odors of D. S. room, With the words and wars of Caesar, With the raving rage of Bobbins, With the eloquence of Virgil, With his frequent repetitions, And the wild reverberations, As of Mac in Ancient History, I should answer, I should tell you From the Seniors and the Juniors, From the Sophomores and the Freshmen — Of the great High School of Warsaw, Came these poems wild and wayward, Round about the big Assembly, Spread the Seniors and the Juniors, And beyond them were the Sophomores, By their side the verdant Freshmen Green this summer, worse this winter, Ever groaning, ever sighing. Listening to the words of wisdom. From the lips of upper classmen. Ye, whose minds are green and simple. Who have faith in Sharp and Herrick, Who believe that, in all ages Every teacher ' s heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There is pity and compunction. Listen to this proud old annual, To this song of our own class room. TO DYE By the desk of the Assembly, By that desk of judgment mighty, Gitchie Bobbins, the all-poAverful, He the master of our High School, Stood erect and scratched his forehead. Saw the ' nouncement on the black board, Snake-oil Frazer, the all-mighty. Calls the Avai-riors to his council. Calls the football men together, And at four o ' clock that evening Said and spake thus then unto them, I will give Dye-boy now unto you For to be your next year ' s captain. Who shall guide you and shall teach you Who shall toil and suffer with you. If you listen to his ravings. You Avill win each game forever. riMKIlli: :: 127 more] Matliematically speaking ' , man is a varia]t)le; woman is the limit

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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

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THE TIOEI If his coiiiicils pMss unheeded, You will fade a-way niid perish, Smoke his eifrs now all hetweecii you Ajid as bfothei-s live heneeforth. But they j ave him loud the ha-ha. So our Dye-boy took his Saxon And his sweet self home to mother. Honor now he to our hero Cry the sweet and foolish maifleiis. When he eame in triumph homeward From the rej ious of the Val)ash, With the scalp of Wabash Ili ' jh School, Came in triumph to his people. Dye, our hero, star of heaven, Henceforth he shall be our cjiptain, And, hereafter and foi-evei ' , Shall he hold supiXMiie dominion Ovei- all the girls in High School, Call him no more Dye, the time-out. Call him Dye, the girlies hero. TO ALICE Young and beautiful was Alice, She it was whose cheeks wei-e painted With the brightest streaks of ci-imson, And whose voice awakes the class-room. When she calls you When she begs you For your knife each blessed moi-uiiig. FOOTBALL HYMN By the shores of Tippecanoe, Erst-while called fair Riverview, Stood the gridiron of old Warsaw, Daughter of jNIisfortune, Warsaw, All about it spi ' ead the pastures With the gentle kine upon it. Gay upon it ran the sweaters. Brilliant orange, with blackest letters, Thei-e the teacher, Rhoads, the dusty. Coached the Wai ' saw team for football, Stilled their fretful Avails by saying, Hush the l)lue coats men Avill get you. ' Grub and Polky, liide youi- faces. Practice footl)all with all fervor. Lose your fears! Forget the sheriff, No one yet ' s told Robbins on you, Then our gossip-Junior Scotty, Learned of every one its language. Learned their names and all their secrets, How they hid notes in tlunr tablets. What they got in Piano and Knglish, Talked with them whene ' er she met them. Called them 0 Ye Fellow Classmen. SrSQ IiXz Our idea of the Royal doi-ge Is the basket liaU team eating- after a game [126 more