William Chrisman High School - Gleam Yearbook (Independence, MO)

Text from Pages 1 - 164 of the 1912 volume:

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Earrnrhki lCa1 11m1n Glitg. Stationer to Schools and Colleges Makers of the highest quality En- graved Invitations, Programs, Class Pins ana' Class Rings. Samples sent upon request. l Write for our Class Pin Catalogue Jaecard Jewelry Co. Kansas City, Mo. John C. Hall, President A Chas. E. Gibson, VY P. YY C. Alexander, Sec'y and Treas, G. B. Hutchings, and Ii P. .1 Watson Ramse!J.ASS'1f ' 4' New England Seeurilies . Suite 413-I4 New York Life Bldg. Capital 5'I00,000 Surplus and Undioided Prohts .X'I50,000 Invest your savingsin one of our first mortgage real estate.bonds. Will net you 6 per cent a year. We remit interest promptly when due, also see that taxes are paid and insurance kept in force. Call and inspect our securities. We always have on hand individual farm mortgages in amounts of S300 and upwards, at 6 per cent interest where the security is worth three to five times the amount of the loan Should you desire, you can buy a mortgage security on monthly installments and receive 6 per cent interest on each install- ment from date of payment. If you are interested call or write to address above given. Our customers are Insurance Companies, Trust Companies, Savings Banks and individuals. Our references-Kansas City Banks and our present investors. I Class Pins Announeelnents Graduation Presents Sturges X Duiiendaek West Side Square All students of the High School are invited t0 H. R. Mills X Sonis Book Store To examine the new books suitable for vacation reading or for presents Also for fine stationery at A all prices. ' SAY A I am back home. Come in my drug store and let me roll a pill for you. Also try one of my Sodas made at my new fountain. THEY. ARE FINE Mize Peters The Druggist Southeast Corner Square WE! ,ffm as - l Y-1? 1 W jill X M f ' X XX- fllffml iw' f?ff1f2f ei , ' I 'C ffw Y P ,ff H I liihillr .V il MIIIIIIIIIIIIIJIIIIIQ fi J Q xl , lj .F ff , X V III-psig! I pm. ,X ,H '--la.. I I XMI ll ltr 'l la Y I VL . .- S ,i f f Z - 4' f ,mul ilu . . . lillll xl Wg, HE'sc::.r:sE..?'Y?0- 'Ill' iff Misses' and Girls' Wear 27, 40 and 45 inch Flouncing, Gal- loons and Bands. All 0ver Embroideries and Laces. Wash Dress Goods, White Dress Goods. Wool Dress Goods, Silks and Satins. You can be suited. A. J. BUNDSCHU Independence, Mo. 1912 Every new style and color in Young Men's Suits. Herman Wiles '81 Co.'s M. Wile 81 Co.---Campus Clothes. - ' Alfred Benjamin 81' Co.--- Made in New York. Sampeck---Boys' and Young Men's. ' y We recommend any of these makes as the best clothes for the price to be had anywhere. Sampeck--Boys' Suits. Best Ever--Boys' Suits. . Special values in new date spring suits just in. up to N ST-HIIRUQ L AQJWWQ .Flin W. -Iliff X - Q.. F-gvivsftf , f l ll - ll 'I ll i1!, -ffffliq K v i I I vi - i. THE CRITIC The picture that won the last prize given at our last convention. This being Five of these prizes in succession. Graduates Can have their photos made by Stude- baker jr liiiai-QQ eggs! 6 35 my At very reasonable prices. 38.00 Photos for 34.00 Swell little pictures as cheap as 52.00 per dozen. 911 Grand Ave. L Only c West Electri Elm and Hom QQEND , 0 9 5 fb 'Q UMBE Q '66, -eo-Sf' 'OENDEYX mber, Lath Shingles, ll . 9 Sash, Doors, Finish, Brick, Paint, Hard. ware, Sand, Lime, Cement, Etc. - .. - Best assorted stock of building material in . Jackson County. omplete stock of Planing Mill and Lumber Yard pro- ducts carried by any one firm in Independence. ' Phones: e 55 c Streets Bell 55 Under New Management fi Q ww ' gm! W ,,,., M, , ...l, K Q - ., , K , .. , ,. ,. ., MMH., ,M..,fwW.,,q LV,, ,X,l , . V, N91'-erfrn N5-'El 9F'TNE'N9 QNLIQHT N5-'T' 9 STRRLIGIIL- O,-920 GC, :M All , ' ' ' ' V99N'Tf-LT05' m3QEN,' ' C ' 990 l? f9C1PDNl9N5 L AONQ9'99DRf0Q55E'L, ANU'CR90U'99QR'ChN0A5 apo-Burrlr-vamsses, AFTER-l I,-1 9 LLf'-200 IT, f -T-L999'T9E? 9lif0P1Q Z, ahamson-J f M A . ' ' -- TENHYSQN. , V Un.. , l f xx l 'Q ' 2 AMR, F 6627'9 , i' are f IIHIIHHIIhlllulllllllllllllllllllllllMNIIIIVIIIHHNINII f 3 oooo 00159013 en! ffisf DEDICATION. , V .1 lj -.,- To Miss Matilda D.- Brown, this volume is respectfully , dedicated as a token of our regard and esteem. - f X CONTENTS SENIORS . IUNIORS. ............. . SOPHOMORES . ..... . FRESHMEN . .... . ..15 ..2'7 Literary . .................................... ......... 4 5 Events of the School Year ........ ,,.,..... 4 6 Short Stories ,............................ ......... 6 8 Essays . ............. ..91 Miscellaneous . ..... 103 , Athletics . ......... 109 Music . ..... 120 E. D. S. ...... 123 Editorials . ...... 126 Locals , ..............,.. 131 Advertisements . ..... 144 W. L. C. Palmer ......... Carrie Wallace ....... George S. Bryant ......... Matilda D. Brown ....... Mattie McCoy ...... Helen Ross ................ Margaret L. Phelps ........ Caine' B. .Mitchell Edith Mainly ..........., Osla U. Sehrt ......... Janie Chiles ....... I. M. Sexton .......... D. C. Elliot ........ W. D. Hifner ..... Q .... 1 ...... Sarah L. Masterson Carrie L. Henry ....... Margaret Chiles ....... Faculty im-- .......Superintendent of City Schools ........QPrincipal of the High School ...........Rhetoric and 'Literature .......Co1nposition and Literature and Latin ........I-Iistory, Civics and Economics .........German and Chemistry .......................Mathematics ...................Mathematics .........Laboratory Science ........Manual Training ...................Study Hall ..........Don1estic Science IX 'iq , '46 ' 1 MILTON STEWART President. 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H-ow could we be other than Green Freshies, when most of us hadn't been in I, H. S. since the Annex had been built? How could we find the studio, or the laboratory without first ,getting into two or three wrong rooms and how on earth could we tell that thoise blanks on our enrollment cards meant the study hall? We managed to get through the first few weeks of school, with neither loss of life nor injuries to anything except to our feelings, and soon felt as much at home in I. H. S. as if we'd been there all our lives. Then we organ- ized our class. The ideal Freshman president must be very imposing, taller than the Sophomore's and as tall as the Senior's, therefore we elected Fred Pitt for our president. Before we realized it, the last day of sch-ool was at hand, with our cards telling us that we were no longer Freshmen. 4 Isn't it 'glorious to be a Sophomore l we all thought when we came back to I. H. S. It took longer to get the Freshmen out of our assembly seats than itidid to find out what everyone thought of the Sophs. Just imagine us having to listen to a forty minute lecture on the Great Junior Class, or worst of all knowing that orations on those awful Sophs were being de- livered in a certain Freshman Class, not by the Freshies, of course not, but by the illustrious dame who taught that class. All this only made us work the harder and aroused our slumbering class spirit until we even dared to yell in assembly one morning. But we had a good reason to yell, for hadn't We defeated the Iunior's at Basket Ball? Our picnic out at Elizabeth Bellis with the customary Sophomore rain, closed our second year in I. H. S. ' - i VVe returned to school with the intention of i-mpressing everyone that we were a class of great importance. We had always had plenty of class spirit, but for some reason or other, we could'n't make anyone believe it. Soon we made the Sophs and Freshies very envious of urs, for anyone who did not attend our Hallowe'en party, should never mention to us the good times they have had in I. H. S. It would take all the pages in the Gleam and more too, if we tried to tell everything about that party, but we simply must tell of one incident. In the midst of a very exciting game of drop the handkerchief, in which Prof. Bryant. and Prof. Palmer were taking prominent parts, the door noise- lessly opened, a ghost came in-, then another and another, t-hen we lost count, and a silent procession of ghosts was soon marching around the room. At first we were too dazed for words or action, then we heard Prof. Sex- ton yell, f'Come on J'unior's and come we did, as we're certain any of the 26 THE GLEAM. 4:-W -- ure as we're the ghosts will testify,-for will wonders never cease, and HS S C1355 of '12 those supposedly supernatural beings turned out to ,be the real live, fiesh and blood, dignified Senior's of '11. W'hat shall we tell about next or shall we tell anything at all? O, shall e ever for et that day on which we were informed that we could give n-ol W g ' i . . Junior Reception! We got over our disappointment sufficiently to 'enjoy the last weeks of school, and a jollier, happier crowd than we, could not have been found, the day we went to Horseshoe Lake, for our picnic. After all f'it's not the fact that youfre hurt that counts, but only how did you take it. Now we are Seniors. lust loo-k how high we hold our heads. In our own estimation, we are the only class in school. We had always th-ought that Seniors had an easy time, but the teachers soon got that idea out of our heads. Some of us study day and night, We are those who' are' going to get the honors., Others of us stu-dy only,,when we feel like it, or.-when com- pelled to, we are those who are told dailythat we may not get to graduate. VVe arethe best Seniors, for we are trying to live up to our motto: For Life, not School. . Qn the day before Thanksgiving, a great disturbance broke out- in our class. Our poorest historians seemed to know just as much about No Taxa- tion without Representation, as tholse who were counted among the best. It does not matter what the uproar was about, for it was generally settled by a compromise, but the outcome, the constitution of the class of '12, must certainly be chronicled as a great event in our history, and, we are proud to says, the father of this constitution is our own Paul Bryant. ' , ' Soon came our Senior Play. Who could have imagined that Mr. and Mrs. Rogers and all the rest were members of -our class? Of course we -consider it the most successful performance that has ever been, or ever will be given. Though wepthought we had to work hard at the first of the year, we have had to .work ten times harder since tihe Senior play, but 'we do not mind it now, for we can count the days until we murst leave dear old I. H. S., fofffvef' I Aire?-f1Y WC HTG preparing for class-day, and -for commencement, which will deprive IQH. S. of one of the best classes that ever existed within her classic walls. b , ' A DOROTHY RAHE.-'12. 5' x . I , THE GLEAM. A27 - I ,,E' ' Izxlnixkn r- I. .- , , .I Y. A I as-5.1263-.135 4 15113251 1fz2f'1,e. - M5 '4' ' 0 0 ' 5 Q , 1 1 life i N ,fl ki'--.f.. . -J -e'iSfQff 7760! 'f n fs' , , f '?j A- ' .. s.:2af:Q1i-Bfs1?,+'v 1 91 if em- Sl AJ' Q -- Eiga, I . s .. k Rl Y-fx e:-L, rffdfgftigff y my -- 1.15 'ge.9.a-xi frm S ,S . I: A Q if 111594 'J 'll ' X H l H 112.2 . Guwus. YELL. S Boomer-Racket, Boolnei'-Racker, Boomer-Raclcei' Roi, Sis Boom, Firecracker Phil-est-ma! Hip-Zoo! Rah-Zoo! Ziph-1-Rah-Boom I VVe're the Juniors- Give us Room! -lm-. . JUNIORS. CLASS OFFICERS. ELLIS FOUNTAIN, President. Marvin johnson, Vice President. Ruth Weeks, Treasurer. Elizabeth Child, Secretary. Roger DeWitt, Attorney-General. Charles Foster, Yell Master. b x 28 Bischoff, Flora Boone, John Booth, Lorenne Brackenbury, Vivian Broughton, Helen Buchanan, Louise Bundscliu, Louise Carroll, Edwin Chambers, Mabel Child, Elizabeth Clum, Julia Cogswell, Nancy Lee Colly, Florence Compton, Pauline Cook, Roxy Crenshaw, Vena Criley, Helen Cushwa, Anna Belle DeVVitt, Roger Eubank, Ben Fletcher, Meryl Foster, 'Charles Fountain, Ellis Franklin, Marietta Georgen, Dorothy Gibson, Antoinette Gorsuch, Arnold Gregory, Mark Hager, -Margaret Hatch, Bess Henderson, Wilmer Hudnall, Lucy A Hudnall, Olive Johnson, Marvin Johnson, Rolly Jones, Rexford THE GLEAM. CLASS ROLL. Kelley, Anna Kelley, Ruth Lewis, Effie Lewis, Grace Loveland, Mary McCarroll, Mary McClement, Mary McCoy, Fanny Lew McRae, Marion Myers, Ora Pate, Florence Pendleton, Rice Pitt, Mildred Pryo-r, Vera Radnall, Myrtle Ramsey, Watson Riddle, Glen Roberts, Ernest Robinson, Lucile Rudd, Guy Rudd, Harry Schowengerdt, Wesley Shaw, Mary Temple Smith, Delsie Smith, Elma Smith, Estelle Sturges, Harry Tate, Arline Tatum, Hazel Taylor, Graydon Tucker, Dillard 'Walden, Anna Walker, Lula Webb, Delma VVeeks, Ruth Vlfilliams, Lee x A. 30 THE p GLEAM. JUNIORS. What does the word junior suggest to in-ost minds? That class by which a school is judged and the class which least realizes its responsibility. A junior is usually the lively spirit behind every social event, and little diver- sions from the routine of school Work. To a junior, history prize, essay, scholarship, seem a long Way -off, and therefore what is the use of Worrying about them? . Wait till vve're Seniors, then-vve'll have' to study, so we might as Well have a good time now. Such is a Iunior's philosophy, and they usually praetice it with success. D ' ESTHER LONG.-'12, A .l if gl, 233-Au? . nf . J, 1 , NX , v fi X ffm Qkxdbf aff X V g . THE GLEAM. 31 AN INCIDENT IN GEOMETRY. One day Roger came to the Geometry room chewing some gum. Mr. Sexton said, Roger, have you enough to pass around ? Roger replied, No, Sir. ' Then, Mr. Sexton said, It you haven't enough for everyone, don't chew at all. Youid better bring so-me more tomorrow. So next day at the sixth period, Roger came into the room with a great load of chewing gum, and gravely gave some to each pupil. Everyone went to chewing even Mr. Sexton, and they chewed, and they chewed, and they chewed. Mr. Sexton giving such commands as, Estelle, chew a little faster. Guy, you mustn't make so much .noise while you are chewing, it do'esn't sound refined. Marietta you are not chewing. Get to chewing right now and show that you appreciate it. People we all owe this nice chew to Roger? For ten minutes we did nothing but chew, at the end of that time we took up our Geometry, but we also kept chewing till class was over. ' V p OLIVE I-IUDNALL.-'l3. ' 5 , --m- THE JUNIOR MASCOT. Imagine yourself confronted by a whole menagerie of birds and animals attempting to select one for a class mascot. Something to characterize the class or bring for them good fortune. Vlfould you choose the donkey because of your stubborn nature, or the peacock for your proud and haughty manner? At the beginning of our Freshman year, we went about in silence, brows drawn together forming perplexing little wrinkles, and searching our minds, we worked diligently on. In spite of our troubles and headaches, we did not become pessimists, we only laughed and said, It might haveibeen worse. Finally we seized the idea of choosing as our mascot the Billiken, and that we did. , The Billiken, the God of things as they ought to be,', we think is a fitting choice of the class for its mascot is always a reminder to look for the cheerful side of the events that seem n-ot to be what they should, and encourage us to reach for higher aims and ideals in our work. I . The people in other lands than ours have realized the inspiration in the presence of this grinning little image, and to them, also, it, has .carried its message of good cheer, as we juniors expect it to bring for us in the coming year. I DILLARD TUCKER.-'l3. ffl ' filling l I i i z l 'l 'r rl 1 gl El xl 15 ai H 1 llll W? ,I ,VI ln, ri l 1 gl I l ill llvl llll I 4 r l I 1 lil I ill ill l A I 1 , l 1 IIQ llll' lllll ll l fill' l l , F l :ll W ll! rlll al ,. VI il ii ll ll lf ll llll al l! if 4 l llllyz ll ll ll ll nl' 'il I P l 4 l 32 THE GLEAM. THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF '13. -.l,....L-i 't lit' and this is true, particularly in It is said that History repeats 1lse , i . H H ,I i . High Schools, for each Freshman class comes in as green and.un1n1t1ated ' se with little variation from as the last,'and goes on through the entiregcour the general rule. . In a way, we the class of lucky Thirteen, were no exception to the rule. We were as awe inspired by the teachers and upper class-men, as any Fresh- men have ever been. - How well welall remember with what fear and trembling, together with great anticipation we went to our first clafss meeting. Most of us were to-0 ' ' - f Cf at anxiet our lirst president, timed to say anything, but after moments o gre y, a.s elected. We also select.ed our colors and mascot, the former which were red and white, and the latter a Billiken. We were so pleased with these, that we kepzt them the next year, and we even kept the same mascot this year. We never have been strong on yells, and still have for our old standby, Boomer 'Rackerf' It did not take long for the newness to wear off, and we swelled with pride at the praises of the teachers. We have since learned that they were only flattering us for encouragement, as they have done, every Freshmen class since it is a great temptation to beguile the innocent. A Our next year was uneventful save for two things. We then elected Fanny Lew McCoy as our first girl president, and since then many of us have been won to the cause of Womanfs Suffrage, so well did she fill tlhe place. Next we won every honor of the short story prize. What rejoicing there was tolthink the :'Old juniors had not even got one honorable mention! We have now reached that blissful stage ourselves, and do not wonder that we were so fortunate, for with note books and various other things, there is no time for short stories. QWe have a boy for President again this yearj, Ellis Fountain, and no one of us will deny that he has won the blue ribbon. A The one thing every High School pupil looks forward to, is the time when he gets his class pin. We have just received ours, and every j'umor's breast swells with pride at the dainty bits of black and gold, our class colors, with thirteen on them. We have. at 1355 1-Cached one of the highest hills of triumph in this, our red letter year. thirtEpLnenza1y1i1'i?teip is unluckygl but not for us. We only wish there were thirteenth da f U 1e.YC21f, an that 'WC might graduate on Friday, the - y o the thirteenth month ol the year, 1913. Then would we be truly lucky. Harrv Sturges, w BESS HATCH.-'13, THE GLEAM. fpfff 449 nf ,I P446 'I ! ,. fi , ' ,, , ' fg eff' Bmfff- 'W HAL . , P , Q' S. hd MU 5' E 5 ' : F ' 5 UF if E5 I X1 1 ' L7 M hr Nmx V : ,' ' 1 I i YEL-L. VV3-VV ho-ba-Zoo Hi-Ixs-Ixs, Hica. Pica, Doma Nica Hong--Pong-Viba-Tica Halleca, Balleca-ba Sophomores, Sophormores, Rah-Rah-Rah. i,...,m . CLASS OFFICERS. PHILIP H ITCH CO CK, President. Cora Mae Cook, Vice President. Roy Searcy, Secretary, Glaude Smith, Treasurer. Frank Searcy, Sergeant-at-Arms. Il li iw I 1 v w 1 J I 'E 1? N 1 l 1 1 v l r 2 l Y 4 a I ill 'K r will i Z I I l 1 'i E 4 l F 1 A 1 4 f i i 34 THE GLEAM. CLASS ROLL. Alexander, Anna Laura Anderson, Ruth Bartholemew, George Bell, Emeline Brackenbury, Hazel Brady, Frances Bridges, Helen Bruner, -Roland Campbell, Henrietta Carstensen, Esther Cheatham, Dixie Christie, Israel Collins, Margaret Compton, Hansel Cook, Cora Mae Cook, Izola Criley, Reginald Davidson, Doyle Davis, joe Dougherty, Bernice Doutt, Thomas Doutt, Willie Duncan, Edith Ehle, Merritt Forbes, Ethel Hager, julia Hitchcock, Philip Leas, Mary Livesay, Mildred Martin, Ethel Mauk, Odessa Mayer, Frances McCormack, 'Eva McCullough, Elizabeth Munson, Frances Pendleton, Roland Porter, Marie Roberts, Lillian Rummel, Emma May Searcy, Frank Searcy, Roy ' Shaw, Gerhardt Shoup, Pauline Skinner, Roger Sl-o-ver, Edith Smith, Glaude Sullivan, Lucile Tuller, Dale Walston, Riley Williamson, Errol Wray, Flo-rence Garvin, Otho Van Artsdalen, Carrie S X as -',. I. 155' . ,V Ji J! IC 'ig X . -...i ' - L if 'F lkbevig 36 THE GLEAM. e SOPHOMORES. ,i,..l--1- VVhy define what a Sophomore is? The name is a full explanation.. A Sophomore Class is always the wisest class in school, also, the most foolish, it is the most studious, also the laziestg it is the best and the worst. The usual Sophomore clasfs is all this, and more,Ibut this year's class is different. Usually the Sophomore class is that class which is extremely im- portant, according to a Sophomore's point of vieiwg and is gprovokingly un- important, according to anyone else's point of view. . But our Sophomore class this year is important, in the eyes of everyone. They are important not because they are such very good students, and always do what they are told to, but they are important because they have so much class spirit, T Y T hey furnish yells, and noise, and racket for the whole school, they are always bubbling Over with mirth and spirit. ' , That is why the school is so proud of it's Sophomore class this year. That is why we Seniors like them, and hope they will meet with success all through the High School course. , - ADA CRADDOCK.-'12, .1-1.D.1T... CLASS SPIRIT OF THE SOPHOIMORE. Rif-Rang, Rif-Rang, ' p Boomer-Rang-Aha, Sopomore, Sophomore, I Rah! Rah! Rah! p lVlany are the times that we have yelled our little Awakening song to show just what our class thought about spirit Spirit why that is what our class is based upon. Never have we let an opportunity pass, when the small- est chance is, given of showing off our spirit. ' The poor, meek, mild, HFI'CSl1l6S,, often wonder if they will ever reach the standard of spirit 'such as our class has shown. do they CSOphsj know just when it is time to administer a little How spirit P the tired and over w-orked Junior ' h d T . . D 1 is ear to have remarked. p he dignified Sem-ors are raging mad with envy. One was heard to say t ' Y rc ' , Q ' g O a Junior' I just ,don isee how theY can do lt, all four years at school we have been very limited in our supply of class spirit , The advice to all incoming classes from the class of '14 if you will ac cept it, is to be sure to make a lirm i d t' If . .' , ' ' izing Your class. Gun a lon of Spmtj when Organ' ' FRANCES MUNSON.-'14 THE GLEAM. 37 OUR MASCOT. The .Owl is a bird of prey, characterized by its rather dignified move- ments which give it an appearance of great wisdom. In choosing our mascot, we, the Sophomore Class, decided to choose something which we considered characteristic of the class. When confront- ed with the question, XfVhat shall we have for our mascot, judging from our former record, We could find nothing which illustrated more clearly the distinguished quality of the class than the owl, which for centuries has been a very Wise old bird. Not that we claim to be as Wise as the learned owl, but we hope by perseverance to soon attain that more noble height, CORA MAE COOK.-'14. 1......1j.1. We Sophomores often hear the remark, Say, you kids' have it easy. If our lives are easy, may Heaven pity those who have hard ones. We only take twenty algebra problems a day, and try to prove that eight men can do the work of sixteen in one half the time. For English we memorize about four- hundred and forty lines a day, and if when saying it, we make a mistake, we have to start all over. And, in Physical Ge-ography, if we laugh when some one says that the Great Plains are in Louisiana, we get sent to' the office. In history we take -only thirty pages a day, learn all the dates since Adam, and be able at any time to give the causes for any war. Oh! yes we have a very easy time. Very, very easy. P. S. CSome pupils take six studies, may they live through it. Let us hope and pray to that .end.j PHILLIP HITCHCOCK.-'l4. . l:j . GRAND OPERA. On March 7, 1912, the assembly of the Independence High School was pleasantly surprised by a program entirely different from anything ever given before. I The heavy Grand Opera season had just opened in Kansas City, so it was very appropriate to give sketches of some -of the best known operas in the morning assemblies. . , The first of this delightful series was I'1lTrovato.re, and on the fol- lowing mornings Carmen, f'Rigoletto, f'L'ucia. de Lammermoorf' and Martha, were given in story form by some of the most talented pupils. of the school. One of the main char-ms of the programs fvvas the music, which was played in connection with the operas, and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The sketches enabled every one to recall the beautiful scenes, and gave to all the non-opera-goers a faint idea of the performances, which have given pleasure to thousands, and will long continue to charm all true lovers. ELIZABETH MCCULLOUGH.-'14. 38 THE GLEAM. CLASS HISTORY. ,,1fll- - What a courageous, 'daring throng entered the school last September. Who would have recognized us as the timorous Freshmen of the prev10uS year? We are self-important this term, and think we have -C2-HSC to be, for have we no-t the admiration-and respect of the Fresh1es? We can now look back and see our serious blunders of last year, and Wl'l0 knows but what we may have profited by them. ' , Our first class meeting as Sophomores was certainly a succe-Ss over that of our Hrst Freshmen meeting. VV e met .together the fifth week of school, and it was voted that we keep our old emblems. As all were in favor of the plan, we retained blue and white as our colors, the white chrysanthemum for our flower, the owl as our mascot, and Kitamoor for our m-otto. The following yell was adopted by the class: Brek-eke-kex, Koax, Koax-o-op, o-op! Parabalor. Sophomore, Sop-homore, Roar, Roar, Roar. Without a doubt last year's work was easy compared to this. Never- theless, we have passedthrough, unharmed, save for a few slight wounds iniiicted by Miss Maltby's pen, the agonizing wars of Caesar. In mathe- matics, the scene is no brighter, Algebra is but a jumble of signs and letters, invented for bot-hering young folk. I But that reminds me, we do like literature, for most of us are book worms, and so -on-finding out that we couldn't study a novel in Class, we reluctantly consented to pursue such insignificant productions as those of Franklin, Irving, Bryant or Poe. 'Aside from our two years of hardships in the educational line, what fun we have had. CWhat do we care if some such persons as Charlemagne, of Gustavus Ad-o-lphus, did 'say something about Hlmapfroving every moment of our lives. Q . I I We have misbehaved together, studied together, failed together and in- vented together remarkable excuses for those same failures. Last, but not least, we can fairly say that we have passed through two years of o-ur High School life with a maximum spirit of kindness t-oward one another, a spirit that is worth :far more than all other honors put together. And so we repeat with all possible enthusiasm, Hurrah! for the Sopho- more class of nineteen twelve, and the teachers who have made us what we are. ' PAULINE SHOUP.--'14, LUL C11 LAM U Q ww FWFIHHIHBEEEEEB I 1 e .W f 9' YELL Rel 11' Ke1 Y1' Ixu IIl1p1ty Bun' Come Out of The VVoods Sandpapu Your Chm' I1eshme11V F16SI'11T1G1'1' Rah Rah Rah VVe1e VV1ld We IC NX ooly We re botched hke a saw' CLASS OFFICERS VIRGINIA ROSS Pres1dent I-Iar1y Roberts VICE PICSICICUL Flmer Steward Treasurer Iuha McDonald Secretary Charlee Purdy Serbeant at A1ms DHV1d VV'111tou Yell 'VIaste1 ' ' I ' T ' 2 . . , J . . J a ' D I YF ,Q 'J ' ' in Af,-m--I..--nw ------v-rum U------mpnnvs -vw: . ' I v I g . A ull. - A ---- mn- -uw wi- -vm 4...- --.f-- ---mr u.- -. - , f'- , A an IQ QV .-5 1 , qw . fr A r ,.n 15 ...- Q . U , ' W 1 'fl , - - I V gwrwweweguw, was O 0 ff ' ' I 9 L - - - ' 3 . gvw v 4 1 .x , , -, . X . X if , ,fifiif-Q Y - ,- ' ' L .f. .9 .V ,j 5'2Qfg,Z-' i '4:5- I in , 's -4 .'f,11' -5 7L-'fL :Jw IQ1' ' , Y rv-Xf. L . ,rv 4. .Q . J . s 3 - - . . , . , . 1 , ' 7 ,A 7 5 T ' 1 I 1 ' - ..,... lj i , . , . I , I A -1 .1 J Q I , . . . 1 ' ', 'O' . - - ' . . X . : i , - . . 40 Adams, Ruth Albin, Hettie Allen, Lily Belle Anderson, Margaret Atkinson, Jennie Ayers, Leo Baldus, Clara Bogard, Eugene Boone, Daniel Bostian, Joseph Brady, Helen ' Braddy, Ralph Brady, Charles Bratton, Beulah Bridges, Lucile Brown, Emma Brown, Frances Brown, Raymond Bruess, Gertru.de Bullard, Cecile Burges, Charles Burton, Carrie Chrisman, Gladys Closson, Claurice Colly, Myrtle C-oleman, Olive Conger, Earle Craddock, Lucy Craft, Nell Crees, Hazel Crumpler, Leata Custed, Jack Davis, Tutsie TH-E GLEAM. CLASS ROLL. Delafield, Clifford Deyo, Alice Deyo, George Donaldson, Carl Duff, Nelson Duncan, Ralph Etzenhauser, Tva Evans, Etta Fitzmorris, Ellene Flanders, Douglas Fleishman, Theodore Florance, John Flowers, Dorothy Fraher, Charles Freemyer, Ollie Frick, Helen Gillespie, Clarence Graves, Marie Hendry, Dorothy Henson, Carl Hogan, Agnes Holloway, Fay Jones, Caroline Kelley, Madeline Kelley, Mary Kirby, Maude Kramer, Marguerite Lamon, Martha Leatherock, Kenneth Lerche, John Littleiohn, Alice Littlejohn, Nellie Lund, Hilmer Mann, George Mayhan, Laura McDonald, Julia McGinley, Ruth Merrill, Edna Millard, Cecil Monroe, Lillabelle Murphy, Minnie Newton, Gladys Payne, Gertrude Perry, Dexter Pryor, Ora Jane Rannie, Paul Reynolds, Hannah Roberts, Harry Ross, Virginia Short, Ellis Skinner, Carl Smith, Arthur Smith, Ray Sollars, Eugene Sterritt, Blaine Stewart, Elmer' ' Taylor, Grace Tharp, Alma Thompson, Richard Waggoner, Arch VValden, Dollie Warnoclc, Martha Warnock, Mary Weeks, Jay Winton, David Young, Nina xl J U v X 1 ,, ' I Z jirllwx 1 ll, Q X4 wma., x V -P ' ln 'Y x XX , xm ' lm 112255 .1 ' A fill 'Q iii A of' -LTL A fa , ' :Si ll . ,, . Al l 42 S THE GLEAM. FRESI-IMEN. ,i1l..-T In all High Schools and colleges, the Ifreshmen are the object of much sport and fun for the upper classmen. Theirglives are SPent 111 3 VT1fXE,HafF0g1 sphere, which will enlarge on-ly With evolution. It iS 21 VCTY Pat C lc 51g to View their utter dependence uzpon the Seniors, juniors and even the SOPO' mores. In return for this simple dependence, they are made IPO P355 through many trying ordeals. A Freshy has only one ray of light, 'bC11'1g, that he Will pass out of this stage of extreme simplicity at the duration -of a year, and then Willtbe able to avenge himself, as only a Sophomore CHU, UP011 the ' b d fh e. ' Coming u S O Op LYSLE WEEKS.-'12, .-,...Ij- - THE FRESHMAIN CLASS. The fact that all upper classmen Wereronce Freshmen, makes them all interest.ed in that class. Some never emerge from this stage butlvve expect to. We started out in the fall, about one hundred and fifteen strong. Since then about twenty have dropped out, but We are still the largest class in school and considered by the teachers the most energetic. n Our line athletic talent was shovvn in the track ,meet last fall. Before We leave school, we hope this will develop into something, which 'will show what more we can d-o. ' I A One of our class received honorable mention in short story Writing. Vlfe are particularly proud of this, because none of the Sophomores did so Well. VVe have entertained the school a number of times in assembly, once with a musical program and several times with interesting talks. ,, U , . . We l1l1S'E We have not disazplp-ointed the other classes in furnishing them 1 A 6 the amusement F1'GSl11'1'1C1'1 generally afford, because we had not tried to appear vviser than we are. XfVe are all boosters for our class and h ope we may all return' next fall, each doing his part to make the class a good one. VIRGINIA ROSS.-'15. J THE GLEAM. 43 LITTLE JOHNNIE FRESH-MAN AND HIS BILLY GOAT. Little Johnnie and his goat lived in the town of Independence, in the year of 1912. It was his first experience at High School, and with Big Seniors. Little Johnnie had a devoted friend and comfp-anion in Billy Goat. BillyH was always getting into, -or helping Johnnie out of difficulties. Above all tl1ings, Billy hated were Big Seniorsf' I-Ie always delighted in chasing after or butting them over. ' The first day Johnnie went to High School, Billy followed him. Johnnie didn't know what to do with him, but when the bell rang, he went on in and left Billy peacefully eating grass near the door. . The Big Seniors laughed at Johnnie's dirty face and hands, his uncombed hair and rusty shoes, his awkwardness and 'patched pants. Johnnie wished that he was back on the farm under the big tree or in swimming, but so-on the bell rang and he went out to find Billy still eating grass and waiting for him. As the goat and Johnnie were walking home together, they passed some Big Seniors who said mean things about Johnnie and his goat, and even threw rocks at them. That was too much for the Billy Goat, so off he went, straight for the Seniors, My, but how those Seniors did scatter! Billy soon came back, after' chasing one Senior up a tree, another into a nearby house, butting another one over into a flower bed, and scaring the wits out of a half dozen others. NVhen Billy reached Johnnie again he found Johnnie laughing heartily at their triumph over the Seniors. The Big Seniors never laughed at Johnnie or his goat again, and the Billy Goat became the mascot of the Freshman class of 1912, to which Johnnie belonged. DAVID WINTON.-'15, . --1m-.-- AESOPS FABLES. J One of the most important things the Freshman class has d-one this year was to give a series of Aesops Fables in the assembly. At the request of Mr, Bryant, members of the class were selected to do thisg and, on the morning of Agpril 3rd, a number of fables were given. These were so good, and the school was so highly entertained, that they were asked to continue the program. This they did the following week. During the programs, no one distinguished himself quiet so much as Jack Custead. He acted .perfectly the part of a discontented old man, who longed for death, making his story very lively. Although such stories as, The Donkey and the Salt, and the 'IFOX and the Grapes, could not have been acted as Jack's was, they were given in a clear voice, that could easily be heard through the auditorium, and were appreciated quiet as much. LUCY CRADDOCK.-'15. 44 THE GLEAM. CLASS HISTORY. lier Yi! Kei' Yi! Ker Flippity bim! V Come out o'the woods! Sandpaper YOUI' Cl1i11! 'We're wild! VVe're wooly! Were notched like H SHW! Freshmen! Freshmen! 'Rahl ,Rah! 'Ra11! This, when yelled from one hundred or more lusty throats, embodies the buoyant, unconquerable spirit of this y.ear's Freshman class. The sa.me spirit is further tyfpihed by our mascot, the self-assertive Billy-goat, although, when the momentous question of mascot was before the class, one young gentleman nominated Earl Congeras such. , After the first few weeks of Running the Gauntlet, of all the upper- class-nienls jests, we began our regular school life. The 'first 'important event, after we had settled down to the routine of lessons, was our first class meeting. It was regarded by all as a solemn duty to attend, and, one hun- dren strong, we assembled to choose ourofficers. 1 VVe have not yet selected a motto, but we shall later, when we become ,more proficient Latin students, for it now seems customary to select some profound Latin sentence, which the unlearned public cannot understand. After considering every color in the rainbow, and every possible and imf possible combination, lavender and gold were chosen as our class col-ous. VVhile many Flowers are more beautiful than the thistle, we followed the example of that sturdy and steadfast people, the Scotch, and adopted it as our flower. The eventfulness of school life increases with 'each year, and so far in 7 our class, few epoch-making events have occurred. One of the. most imporf tant, after our organization, was the giving of a musical program in assembly. W1 'l t - ' ne no so pretentious, perhaps, as programs by the upper classes, it reflected credit upon all tl1e art' ' - ' ' ' class as a whole. I ' Although in our brief 4 p icipants, and ievealed the capabilities of the 6 , career, it has been our lot- more than once to be Zen? from fhe assembly, and several times from down stairs to the gallery and ac e f M - ' - - c, w iawe suivived. and hope to become next year, a more important factor in High School hfe, T JULIA MCDONALD.-'15. TI-IE GLEAM. 45 Cqqix ff H X.. X ffzg Xsfuyf , X 7 f J fx 'iff W N f Nl, ff4W X W ww' Q h Alf' v u Rx 'ld 6 I! my , I W M f I NW s f V A Q , i X lk Mmn ,,.f IIIM1, 01 I ww qw AW lk lg Mk , ' 1 5 f ly . Q ff , 1 I f,-ns-- u X X -- 5,1 f ' X Z My x X f Q 'K- N 3, X XWL 'K -5- A, s -J -- --rg, fffff ,lj f ff - -I I f f XXXXX x ' kk yy g M J2Qw'iQ:.12.i?Sf3 46 THE GLEAM. Events of the School Year. .l.........-- THE PURITANS. ,1,.l .-- No wide-awake school will let a iw aiional holiday go by without observ- ing it in some manner. Therefore as the Thanksgiving holidays of 1911 were not far off the Seniors began planning for an unusual program. Work soon began in earnest. It was decided that the program :should be of two parts, the first, musical. Gf course Kathleen would sing, the program would not be complete without her. Beautiful music was obtained, telling the story and describing the sentiment of the Puritans as they .prepared to leave England to come to America. VVil-ma would sing a solo and the Senior male quartette would be on the program. This part of the program was soon arranged and prepared. 1 Then came the second part. A dramatization of The Courtship of Miles Standish. Viho should play Priscilla? Vlfithout a moments hesita- tion everyone said Barbara is most like my idea of Priscilla. And so it was decided that Barbara should play Priscilla, George, John Alden and Alan should be Miles Standish, the captain of Plymouth, who that took Qp-art will ever forget the preparations for this play? Especially those last few days. Hurried tri-ps to the city to get costumes, and such costumes! Stolen trips uptown to get something to eat, supper in the Auditorium, rehearsal on North Delaware, one moment cast into the depths of despair. We can't give it we'll give up right n-ow. The next moment, We won't give up now, we will give it. Everybody get to work and you people back there keep quiet. And so it was given to a large audience of High School pupils and town people. The curtain rose, Miles Standish sends john Allen on his errand, the meetingnbetween Iohn Alden and Priscilla, those Qwords that have become proverbalg VVhy don't you speak for yourself, john? were Spoken, and the drama progresses to the wedding scene. The dramatic entrance of Miles Standish, a few words of explanation, and everything ended happily. The curtain was rung down on a very satisfied crowd of actors and actresses. The.audience showed their appreciation and approval, and as this Puritan hurried to the dressing room to get rid of a part of the makeup, the last Words heard were You Puritan Maids are just peaches, everyone of you and yes you all did all right, it was fine. , i v ESTHER LONG.-'12, THE GLEAM. 47 BISHOP PARTRIDGE. Say, are you sure we wont have any oth period ? said a Freshman on Thursday afternoon. Perfectly sure, was the Seniors reply. Oh good, no Algebrafl was the jublilant exclamation that followed. But when Bishop Partridge arrived and began his talk, 'everybody was glad that he had come, whether they got to miss any lessons or not, because his talk was so very interesting and instructive. Mr. Partridge opened his talkiwith a long Chinese salutation, which was very amusing to us. Then he told many interesting and amusing things about the Children of Bravery, things that made us laugh, and yet feel sorry that they really knew so little. WVho would not feel sorry for a people that thought the earth was a large rectangle, resting on a turtle's back, 't-he turtle in turn, swimming in an ocean of milk and water, the ocean Hoating in cl-ouds, and so on, indefi- nitely? The Bishop told us about the Chinese schools, and their examinations, about their social life, which consists mainly of weddings and funerals, and about the awful condition of the poor in the Flowery Country. He also showed us. how the Chinese wrote, by drawing some funny little figures on the board. He concluded his talk with the parting speech which they always use in the Celestrial Empire, which he transalted thus: May you be as happy as the Eastern Ccean, and all of you live as long as the Southern Mountains. ' ADA CRADDOCK.-'l2. xszww eww' DR. MILLER. On the morning of February 8, at our usual Assembly hour, we were re- minded of the well known proverb, Talk of Angels and they are sure to ap- pear. Prof. Bryant was expressing his desire to hear Dr. Miller, a very learned and widely experienced Latin Professor of Missouri University, give an address that evening, when, to the glad surprise of us all, Dr. Miller ap- peared in the Auditorium door. V Pr-of. Bryant, expressing the desire of us all, asked him to talk to us and he kindly responded by giving us one of the most beautiful short addresses that we have had this year, on The Necessity of Training to Young Minds. Some of his beautiful thoughts, presented, will always remain with us. 48' TI-IE GLEAM. There are five great steps towards .perfection in life,-first, the physical step, then, the mental, scientific and literary stcPS, and flli-QHY, the fellglousl step. The University is simply a means of the furtherance of these steps, it is not b t an end. A college education is ,not in every case, essential to greatness, u records prove that one self-made man has a chance for fame against two hundred and fifty who have obtained a higher education. The day of the selffmade man is swiftly passing away and he is now sending his sons to col- lege because they will have more educated men to compete with than he has had. Education is to learn what is to be learned and to learn how to learn it. But as a climax to all of these educational steps comes the religious ele- ment. Happiness is not an end in itself, it is sought in power, in wealth, in fame and in the fiesh, but without religion and morality true happiness is impossible. The end of man is not perfection butin growing into perfection int-o which we are called. But, by making the best of ouropportunities .in education and spirituality, andby working to this end, perfection, we may reach as near to the goal as God intended that we should. Dr. Miller con- cluded his talk with the following poem. . i VVhen Earthls last picture is painted P And the tubes are twisted and dried, Wlien the oldest colors have faded, And the youngest- critic has died, VV'e shall rest-and faith, we shall need it- ' Lie 'down for an aeon or two Till the Master of all good workmen Shall set us to work anew! And those who were good shall be happy, They shall sit in a golden chair, They shall splash at a ten league canvas W7 ith brushes of comet's hair., They shall find real saints to draw from- Magdelene, 'Peter and Paul: They shall work for an age at a sitting And never get tired at all! And only the Master shall praise us, And only the Master shall blame' And no one .shall work for money, J And no one shall work for fame- But each for the joy of the working 3 For Eg e Thing as he sees It C God of Things as they are? M ETHEL ILTON.-'12. THE GLEAM. 49 f-As You LIKE IT. 1i Section A, Dec. 11, 1911. Uncle Billy and Aunt Eliza had settled down for the evening. He was reading his newspaper, and she was crocheting. Suddenly Uncle Billy threw down his paper and said, Ma, I bet you canit guess what I've been doin' today, while you wus at Pol1y's. a There's no tellin, Aunt Eliza answered. VVhen-Uncle Billy used that tone, she always knew there was a prospect of a story, so she said to him, Go ahead. VVell as I was goin' up to town this mornin', I met jim, brother Jake's boy. He sed, i'Uncle Billy can't you come down to I. H. S. about I1 o'clock, we're going to have a program. I sed l'd see about it. Well, I did see abou.t it, an' long towards 11 olclock, I strolled down to the school. Jim sed that it would be in the auditorium, you know that's where we went last year when Susan graduated. There wus about twenty boys an' girls settin' on the front seats. ' I took a seat an, jim come an' set down by me. He sed somethin' about their class bein, split up into sections, an' that .Section A, wus a goin' to give this program from the lirst act of As You Like It, a book writ- by a man of the name of Shakespeare. I told jim I didnlt know much about sich things, but I always liked to see what the children wus doin' at school. just then the curtain went up. An important lookin' feller wearin' spectacles -come on the stage with another feller who wore his hair pomrpadorer, an' looked like he wanted to' laugh. The first one wus called Orlando, an' wus complainin' to the -other, who wus his servant, about a brother who had cheated him. After a while that brother of his come in. But he wus a girl. Iiminy, she looked like she could eat the others up! She sassed Grlando an' called the servant a dog. I wish you could a heard her, ma. jim sed she wus the best reader of Shake- speare in their class. Then in another scene, as jim called it, two ,girls done most of the talk- in'. They wus suppo.sed to be cousins. The black haired girl wus called Rosalind, an' the light haired one wus called Celia. The boy with the Pom- padore wus a clown, he made a good one too, an' that sassy girl took some other man's part. I soon found out that Rosalind wus kin-d of struck on Or- lando. In one scene the first feller I tol' you about took the part of Rosalind's uncle. He made her cry by given' her a ten days notice to git out of his house. After they got thr-ough with the dialogue, a lady got u-p an' sed that ever last -one of them had talked too fast. I tol, Jim I thought this wus a dandy entertainment, an' that I hadn't enjoyed nothin' so much since weld moved to town. He asked me to come again tomorrow to hear Section B, whatever that is, give some more of this P12136 Em' I'm certainly a goin' to go ma. 50 TI'I'E GLEAIVI. Section B, Dec. 12, 1911. Uncle Billy kept his Wgfd, and the next night entertained Aunt Eliza 'th I ccount of Section B's program. . I , W1 'Iiisafunny now ma how many persons one Person can lmltate' -That S I ' 3 J ' what them children done at school today. Q .r , kr You can tell 'me about that prOg1'2L11'1, 'Put ln Aunt bu? far heavenls sake donit expect me to answer any of your foolish questions, - ' - nt. Men folks I've hadlto unravel this belt three times now on your accou A I g donlit know what it is to get ready for Christmas. up - . Well a girl wus Orlando an' Rosalind both, an' she done just fine. Another girl wus Celia, she done nearly as good as the cl-OWV11 0, mal' I never laughed so much before in all my life as I did at thatgclown. p 'glfl wus the clown, an' she sed all kinds of funny things, an' played with a ball all the time. Say, ma, didn't Polly's baby say he wanted Santy Claus to bring him a ball? Then that same girl wus Orlando's servant, anfthe way She acted I thought'-she wus a goin' to die. I know you'd agclried if you had a been there, ina. There wus a tall girl who wus ashepherd in some scenes, an, a lord in others. She got awful pale, but she done mighty well, anyhow. There, wus a red haired girl too who wus a shepherd an' lordWbo'th,- She clidn't talkiperticulary loud, but I heard most what she sed, an' she worked her face alright. V p A I U I In one of the scenes they had a table set with lots of good things to eat on it, anfsolme of them had jist startled to eat when that-Orlando run in an' toil' them to quit until he brought his starvin' servant there.. I ' g The boy that run the curtain let it fall on the pianer ever blessed time he let it down. I 'bet the teacher gives him a lickin' ferit.. 'Say, ma, do you remember the time -when I let the curtain down in the middle of that dia- lo-gue, where Tom Adams had to make love to you. I come to school the next day, but I couldjn't come again fer a month. ' Well, as I tol' jim, I never seen such a grand program since the one they had last Christmas in the -little red school house. 1 A I A I K ' I - Section D, Dec. 19,,19l1. ' Themyoungsters at I. I-I. S. -have more to do than anybody else I know of. jim sed on account of so imany meetings last week, Section D, eouldnnf give their program until today, said Uncle Billy' to Aunt Eliza on. the night after Section D's program had been given, . That's so, replied Aunt Eliza, still as busy as ever. jim has been sittin' up so late ever night, that he had to get a pair of spectacles f IC ,J . Well went -on Un-cl ' ' -. - - ' ' 6 BIHY fesummg 1115 Ua11fl'f1VC, ',Cel1a wus a awful good lookin' girl today. She done her part jist great. Oliver that Q1-landdg brother wus there this time. He wus: changed terrible since, the time when that sassy girl took his part, an' he sed that his brother had Saved him from bein' killed by a snake, an' et by a lion. I-Ie didnftv look like he had eno ugh THE GLEAM. 51 gimp in him to kill 9' HY anymore' A gifl wus Oliver, an' she done middlin' good. - The boy who wus Orlando, looked like he didn't knew much about makin, love, an' stood pretty stiff. The other boy that wus a shepherd did .a little better than this one. I couldn't understand everything what that girl who wus Rosalind sed. She didn't seem very embarassed in takinlthe part she did, an' I bet you a nickle she's used to it. In one Scene Rosalind and Orlando practiced how to git married. Then in another place in the dia- logue, Oliver brought in a napkin he sed wus dipped in the blood of Orlando, who had been w-ounded. Wlieii Rosalind seen this she fainted, buf Celia caught her before she fell clean down. Ma, I know you'd a screamed right out loud, if you'd a saw her. Well that is all they're goin' to give from As You Like It. They didn't, give the last act, so lim give me this book so I could finish the story. Want me to read out loud P Yes, pa, I've been interested in what y-ofu've been tellin. I suppose all the children will rest easy tonight, since their plrogirams are over, and I'ni .glad they have only two more days to go to school before the Christmas holidays. . DOROTHY RAHE.--'12, News 'ww N ALUMNI RECEPTION. - Friday night, April 12, the Senior class at the High School, gave a most delightful reception I-or the Alumni of that school. One of the most com- mendable features of the reception being that all the alumni of the schvool were invited. Heretofore the number of classes invited was limited. The walls of the main hall and two large reception rooms were hung with college pennanits. Numerous palms, potted plants and foliage, were artis- tically arranged about the ro-oms. These served as a background for the tulips and jonquils, all yellow, forming the colors, green and yellow, of the Senior class. Vases of these flowers were also arranged on tables about the rooms. In the auditorium, where the program was given, the stage scenery and palms were used. ' The numbers on the program were announced by Mr. Milton Stewart, President of the Senior class. Mr. Joseph Chrisman, representing the Class of l9l2, made a Htting address of welcome. Miss Jessie Casebolt, Class Of 1906, rendered an instrumental solo. The Rev. J1011 A. Ward. pastor of the 52 . THE GLEAM. IIC L'b rt 1 St. Presb tcrian Church, one of the old I. H. S. graduatesigave a .fi 1 e y y KK . . . - 1 . H1sl1ttle -remmiscence talk on his own experience when he was 2. Fresh C Speech was m,O.St thofgugmy enjoyed, for all ,presentdived over his or hir High School days with Mr. Ward as- he related the incidents that to ma 6 up the average school life. Miss Mary Crump then 'SS-Hg 3 5010, MY Deaf Soul, This was followed by a reading by Miss Lucille Hatten, who always ces. An instrumental solo by Miss Bertha Anderson, and a vocal solo by -Mrs. jesse QLIFOHOJ 3CC0mP9'11iCd by Miss Madeline Bostain on the piano, closed the program. I After the program was concluded, white cards with green and yellow pencils attached were givento each guest and all were requested to write down the titles of the airs played by Miss Barbara Wyman on the piano. Miss Claudine Mundy received the favor, a panel ,picture of six noted' musici- ans, for the most correct answers to the songs played. One of tl1e most interesting features of the evening, were the' Class Memories. A cord was stretched across the stage on which the colors and mascot of each class, beginning with 1902, was drawn to the center of the platform. VVhen the colors appeared, the class to which they belonged gave their class yell or sang their class cong. The Class of 1911 had more mem- bers present than any other class, and displayed more' enthusiasm than any of the others. They gave three long, lusty yells, sang their class song and were 'represented in speech making by Mr. Arthur McKim. Mr. Mcifiim closed his splendid talk by saying that the Class of 1911, were especially lucky and considered themselves well treated by the -world for there were none of their class dead, and only three married. Speeches were also made by Mr. Henry Bundschu and Mr. Williaiii Bostain. 1 . Wllen the exercises were concluded, refreshments were served and all enjoyed talking with their old class mates and teachers. This reception is one long to be remembered by all of those who have gone into the wide world from the portals of our I. H. S. A EDNA ANDERSON.-'06, fAn Alumnusj so charmingly entertains her audien- seem. ESE THE GLEAM. 53 EsMErRALDA:' Smce the Chrrstmas holrdays the thoughts of the entrre school had been turned toward the one great event of tl e year the Serrror play The Clase of last year gave such an excellent play and the class of thrs year was so rar below It rn numbers that such expressrons as these were frequently heard Oh fl know rt won t be anythmg lrke so good as last year' They rust haw ent the actors Nevertheless the very words Senror Play had a power to thrrll us whrch nothrng nothmg else had and everyone wanted a trcket Well the eventful week came at last But such a week as rt was lt seemed that all the powers of nature held enmrty toward that class and had combmed forces agarnst rt VVhen Thursday January 12 l917 the long awarted day came the thermometer regrstered twenty degrees below and a st ong northwestern blrzzard was sweepmg over Independence but nothrng durrrted the class worked on and rt was a success 'lhe play presented was Esmeralda a love scene whrch had rts settmcf rr North Carolrna It was not a deep play but a lrttle srmple one wrth strong touches of both pathos and humor The Cast was as follows Mr Elbert Rogers Mr Kenneth Bolstran Vlrs Lydra Rogers Mrss Wrlma Moseley Mrss Esmeralda Rogers Mrss Kathleen Kerr Mr Dave Hardy Mr George Wallace Mr Estabrook Mr erome Seehof Mr jack Desmond Mr Arthur Wrckstrrrm Mrss Nora Desmond Mrss Dorrs Anderson Mrss Kate Desmond MISS Selma WIISOH Margurs de Montessrn Mr Paul Bryan llfr GeO1ge D1-CW Mr Fred Prtt The first scene of the play was at the Rovers home rn North Carolma George Drcvv a speculator vs ho had drscovered ore on Mr Rogers farm made an offer for the farm whrch was accepted by Mrs Rogers Mrs Rogers seemg a vrsron of the wealth whrch would soon be therrs and wrth whrch they would be able to see more of the world at once became haughty and declared that Esmeralda should not marry Dave Hardy the young farmer to whom she was engaged It was rn vam that Mr Rogers and Esme ralrla pleaded to remarn at the old home for Mrs Rogers was determrned to ravel Estabrook the companron of George Drew, promrsed Mr Rogers rat he would save the old house although he could not save the a The second scene was the mterror of Jack Desmonds studro rn Parrs r Fstabrook called at the honre of hrs old frlend MI' DCS1T10Ud and m me lflllllg Mrsses Desmond Kate and Nora and was rmmedrateli' Charm - ,, . 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The Desrnonds had become acquainted with the Rogers family in a business way, and were very much interested in them, Mr, Estabrook had travelled to Paris in search of the Rogers' with the news that the ore was on Dave Hardy s place instead of on therrs Mr Rogers called lnd 11161 M1 55131910014 3321111 VN hen Jack entered he announced that he had mer Dave and had rnyrted hrrn to call pretending that he wrshed to have hrm pose but rn reality he xxrshed hrm to get something to eat Dave called and the Desrnonds gave the full history of the Rogers life rn Par rs and of the unhappiness of Fsnreralda and her father lhe scene now shifted to the Rogers Paris home on the night of the ball and jack heard from kate of the interest which Estabrook and Nora had shown toward each other The two rn question entered and Kate made her eyrrt and jack soon followed at a very embarrassrng moment Mr Rogers entered and seeing their positron ercclarmed Oh dont mrnd mel Nora and Estabrook soon made their exrt and Mr Rogers had an interview with the Marquis whom Mrs Rogers had selected for Esmeraldas husband Vlr Rogers trred to persuade hrm to Cfrve up Esmeralda as he assured hrm she loved another but the Marquis refused and left Mrs Rogers entered soon followed by Lsmeralda and the Marqurs Esmeralda declared her hatred for the Marquis and her love for Dave whom as she had learned had followed her to Paris Her mother gave her a tongue lashing and Esme mlda exhausted farnted The fourth Scene brought us agarn to the Desmond home Dave was present The exit of kate Jack and Dave was followed by the solrloquy of very embarrassing moment and exclaimed Oh dont mrnd mel Mrs Rogers and Tsmeralda entered Esmeralda and Dave met 203.111 after their long separation and Mrs Rogers on hearing the farthlessrress of the Mar Cllllq the good for tune of Dave which meant misfortune to her became very frrrrous with all who were present as she realr7ed she was defeated and they had won A Oreat deal of the real success of a play depends on the scenery and thrs was certainly not overlooked The scenery rn the first scene at the home of 'Xfr Rogers was especially picturesque and the studro of jack Desmond was very homelike rn rts arrangement lhe play was rntcnsely rnterestrng from begrnnrng to end Each person ldrng hrs share of attentron and throwing himself so well rnto tfhe pa that the natural self almost disappeared lVhen George Drew entered we felt ourselves rn the presence of H V11 1 rrs sly easv manners and sneerrng smrle caused us to dislike and 0 adnrrre hrm Mr Estabrook drew our attentron at once with hrs goo llP1UfGfl strarffhtforwardness When in company with Nora Desmon e 35 WIS VUV natural and attractive Could stO0I-led Ml' Rogers really be r r A . 4 - ,w I ,- , . D 4 - 1' - A 4 V . ' , i J I j rr ' - ' - . X ' , . . l. . , , - ' 3 . , 7 ' . F I I C C . . ' r r N A .S ' , . , . . T V . ,, , , H ' ,' 1 -' 1 J ' - r-r ' an v , . , . A , e I . ' L . , l '. 1' ' Q r ' g r. , , fl ' J! ., , , , , , : K! ' 35 . r - , . , ' IK ' 77 , C 1 J ' Y ' ' ' Q 'c .1 , . I' . . ' 'r D V ' . ' 1 Nora, and the entrance of Estabrook. Again Mr. Rogers interrupted at a , 1 - , - , if 1 ' 2 , q , , . . . Z r ' si ' ' ' - 4 ' S . , . , ' r ' ' r U - r ' J ' ' 1: . . - . ' - - 'er ' , J . , , A L I ' 5 , ' a L, . - Y . . .A e ' , , . g , , , ho ' ' ' . .' ' ' ' r ff, 4 Y s 'I X l' I - I y I 1 0 - har , I I - . - ' ' , , Yet K q -1 , 1 0 t '- ' . ' : 4 d t W I D . l r ,l . .I d h - v 1 . l I 7' j J - , . ' - , , f- M - . y ' 56 THE GLEAM. P 't s. 'But we could see no resem- Bostian, the handsome Senior. Yes 1 wa 1 1 bl i e either in appearance or in manner. Mrs. Rogers COIUP CICY Over' anc , ' awed us as she evidently did Mr. Rogers. The Jolly MISS MOSCICY, Was not 2 , . there,,it was the stern Mrs. Rogers: Esmerala the little, sweet, shy herome, was lovable. our Sympathy was always with her and her lover, Dave. The acting in these parts was difficult, but was well done. The Desmond family was very attractive. It was hard to recognize in jack, the brother, our friend, Mr. VVickstrum. I-Ie was especially interesting when in the fhands of tlhe little coquette,'Nora, who was so innocent, yet so skillful in directing love affairs. She charmed us with her sweet, childlike ways, her desire to aid everyone, and her very evident lo-ve for Mr, Estabrook. Kate Desmond was completely under the inlluence of her sister. Last, but not least, in im- portance, was the Marquis.' We could scarcely realize it was Mr. Bryan. -All the parts were well played, each character 'drawing and iholding, our attention. It was evident to all t.hat although the class d-id not have the actors of last year, they had some good ones of their ow-n. The play in itself was attractive. There was an atmosphere of simplicity about it,'l which charmed us. - , DELMA WEBB.-'l3. www, n FN PINAFORE. I ' Behind the Scenes. , , Independence I-Iigh School was in a state of great excitement Ever one was running around inthe halls gi-easing his face so they could be pagiqted for-the role they were to play in Pinafore. . WI think it is abominable making us come here at four-thirty to be 't painted, then wait around till time to begin, Mildred pouted fiandgdiat is ' J , . J' ' I1 all, at six o clock Im going to eat, fed lips or not-7, , I 'Oh well we can ha lt '- - . Solationi, , ve o s of fun wa1t1ng,', Doris replied, as 3 Con- KKH L . 4 H . V Hccere coninles pa crowd of choius people, Mildred called to 'Doris m t - e rig in folks and begin puttmg the grease on our facen Mr Iones the dramatic trainer ordered Y ' ' then get -in line and I wil ' ' ' , il paint you TI-IE GLEAM. - 57 There now, you are finished and you look good enough to eat. The latter being said to Mildred. ' ' I ' ' ' 'Onelby oneithe girls and boys c-ongregated on the stage to inspect each other. i . . . V Let's have some music and a dancef, George suggested. So Ruby after having been begged and teased, began playing Alexande'rls Ragtime Band, while the boys, who had got their partners, whirled round on the stage, some dancing the schottische, while others did the Come to me Kid. ' Everyone- was gracefully dancing back and forth on the stage, when someone called out ina loud voice, Five minutes for lunch. Well, I ,do say I thinktitls time we should have something to nibblef, Ernest remarked. I ' ' I' The dance was forgotten and all of them hurried into the halls to eat whatever offered itself in the way of food. ' A I 'mighthaveiikinown if I would eat, all the paint would come off my lipsf',Vena lamented. i i . , Oh cheer' upfl 'Clifford comforted as he heard herupassing remark, the worst is yet t-o come. ' I . . . U I After some ofthe people had arrived, the boys and girls rushed to their respectiveldressing rooriisfwliile Mr. jones made upwthe principals.. . One standing outside either one of the dressing r-oolms would think from what ltheyheard, that itivvas worse than the confusion of the languages at the building of the Tower of Babel. I i i I lGoing over 'by the girls dressing room, such remarks could be dis- tinguished above the. din of laughter and talk, as- - , , i 'Do hurry and get 'through using that looking glass. You are the worst primp in town. I ' I Is mymhat 'onfstraigl1t? Oh thank you, but I don't look a bit better than you. A A i T I A lN,here's the shoe-buttoner?'f Use your hairlp-in was the reply. Aindllvagain going over by the boys' dressing room, such statements could 'be' heard, as-lil 1 V i I I'm mighty good and glad I'm not a sailor, for I coudn't survive a week in One of uafesei things they Carisa midayfi I ' I if Middy,i'1niddy, where art thou? VVaw, say'itliat's my tie, i O. , ErnergingTfro,m their rooms the choruses were met by 'fdear llffle Buttercup, who had grown. fatin a single night. . l Whloi would ever recognize you Helen Bridges ln Ru-th CXCIH-lmed, HS she passed,4 but I can't, say your makeup is altogether flattering. Captain Corcoraniand Sirlloseph Porter were duly admired, thenuto clap the Climax, Dick Deadeye came strolling out into the halls after having been painted the role of an able seaman. 58 TI-IE GLEAM. f'You horrible creature, Kathleen cried, HYOU are Vforsltha? ,inywgf Ill: ' ' ' 1 YV1 pictures used in the funny papi-ETS, Yet You CCTIMUIY W11 ma e a 1 ' 5, audience. PM I th bo S asked tlhe Other. ffoh, What's all that noise about. ' one of X C 'Y . b nothing, but the audience applauding to show how theY appfeclate our 6' cf' ' on time. ' ' . bmniwiovv .don't get sarcastic, it's only eight-thirty-HV6, and thefe 15 only ' - intedf' Iosegllgeqsidycpbjallid jones. The men's -chorus had taken their place'-o-n the stage, and the pianist was ready to begin playing for the curtamito. r1SC. VVild and hurried instructions from everyone were given to the principals. As the curtain went up a hush came over the audience, and those not par- taking in this scene were conversing in stage Whispers I hanen't felt a bit scared till now, but now I feel so shaky,,and my heart beats unreasonably fast. Lola Whispered to her chums. Time for the chorus girls,', Mr. jones said, waving his hand frantically for the girls to- get in line. . I belong behind you, Yes, and I belong behind Vena. Oh, Where is she? Here she comes. My, I was nearly scared to death, I would have t-o lead the chorus onto the stage. I Now Mary, when I nod my head, we will begin going up the steps to the upper deck, remember. With such directions givenpamong themselves, the girls' chorus danced ontothe stage, amid a round of applause, i I More breathing room, Buttercup Whispered to her neighbor as now nearly everyone Was on the stagel After the first act the players had just live minutes in which to get -ready for the second act. At the end of the alloted time, everyone was back in the halls. .,,, ' Sh-sh-s-s, -warned Mr. Jones, as the curtain went up on the second act, finding Captain Corcoran and Buttercup on deck where they were togdo their best performing. , V Everyone had now gone on deck and was entering into their parts with such zeal, that it made a smile of satisfaction come over, Mr. jones' face, that now he was getting the results he had striven so hard to produce. The curtain lowered on th l t e as act with everyone singing, For I-Ie is ?1iIET1gllSl11'I'13.11.,, Wait just a minute, Mr. Iones requested, I want to e you what arousing success this play has been, be here prompt to- morrow afternoon to be painted. audience was evidently pleased, for they Went home smiling and Th e saying they-didn't .know the s-chool possessed so much talent Thus bended the first night of Pinafore, at the Independence Hiofh School . i ' iv - EMMA MAY RUMMEL.-'14. THE GLEAM. 59 CHRISTMAS PROGRAM. On the morning of the day before the Christmas holidays, the pupils and teachers of the High School entered the auditorium filled with the usual Cl1I'1StlU3.S spirit, and with the expectation of hearing an excellent program. We were not to be disappointed. The Sopho-mores, the pride of the school, ever ready to res-pond to the call of duty, had prepared an especially good program, consisting of music, both instrumental and vocal, and several read- ings. The juniors, not to be outdone by the Sophomores, had prepared a pro'- gram for the afternoon. This program was opened with music and Christ- mas readings. This was followed by a little play, The Bride's Christmas Tree. The Junior Class has some very good actors, which will be an ad- vantage to them next year in the Shakespeare programsg and above all else, in the Senior Play. After the curtain fell vse thought the program was ended but we soon found vie were mistaken The curtain was again raised and all those who had taken part in the program were sitting or standing about on the stage One young man who had been chosen to present the little gifts to the presi dents of the other classes and to the members of the faculty stepped forward and performed the duty with all the grace of a junior The gifts which were perhaps the most appreciated by the recipients were two pictures a grocery store and the City Hall To whom were they given? Guess The two classes deserve much credit for their well arranged and well rendered programs May the true Christmas spirit dwell in the heartls of men forever NELLIE SLAUGHTER 12 kms X TE W S BATTIS LECTURE On November 75 in the High School Auditorium Williaiii Sterlin Battis gave an impersonation of Dickens characters The excellence of the portrayal of the various characters showed Mr Baths had a thorough knowledge and appreciation for Dickens works HC Iso proved his ability as an artist by the way in which he held the atten f his audience many leaning forward in their seats so as not to miss a wo Vfr Battis Make up the characters he presented 111 VICW Of the au ience A5 he Spread the powder and paint with a lavish hand and chang f 0' 1 y ' I . r . . . , H . , I . . 0. 1 . W 0' . V . . . - T - a . . . . . . . . . . . 1 elif 0 I . v 1 l ' .N . . . - - O4 ' A , 0' - J Z:- - . Q - - Q . 7 . . . J ' .' I - ' ' . , , ' ' . 3 4 - - - ' ' f101'1 O - . - - . T rd. 7 . . I ,' s rc H ' .L , , , di . . - 1 ' e d I - 1 7 60 THE, GLEANT. wi s and coats he entertained the audience by giving 'EPIC Setting- of the g J I I . - character he'was about to impersonallffi, HUC1 3150 bY addms some of 1118 best philosophy. ' , , A hhhv After he had given the setting, he gave a short reading, using the words Dickenshad supplied ,for that character. I A AThAeAf11'st numberwas an Aimlptersonation of Dickens, and it was very life- like, that is, if thepictures we see -of Dickens are like him. Pefkgniff then favored us with some of his philosophy. He did some attitudimzing that made the audience 1'OEL1'. Captain Cuttle then put in his appearance. The captain finally got up courage Ato change his boarding place, and then his former landlady, Mrs. Macstringer, of whom hewseemed to be very much afraid, Aa-ppefared and in- duced the captain tofreturn to his former lodging. A A A' A' ' ,Y A'Uriah I-Ieep,Awas port1jayedAvery,true to life, but this did not raise any- one's estimation of hiiml i A AA A If we have failed heretofore to visualize Mr. Wilkins Micawber, surely wefwill always do so since Mr. Battis' portrayal of him. A Bill Sykes, appeared villainous indeed, equal to any crime, while the characterization of the fellow who visited the school, was one of the mo-st cleverof all., A 'A ,A ' ' ' ,I Q A Little Nell's Grandfather, was very lifelike, and the lecture was fittingly ended by Sidney Cartong who laid Aldown his life for his friend., A i Doubtless many Awill appreciate these characters m-ore fully for having seen Mr. Battis' clever impersonation of them.. 4 A A . i i ADA CRADDOCK.-'12, APPRECIATION, Each morning when we are in the midst of our studies, a bell rings, to summon us into t' - ff - ' - ' . ne presence of the G1 eat Teacher, who strives to create Wlthm each Child 3 3031, to Which he may climb and give the world the best he has. In doing this, he gives us the lessons of ex withother beneficial toprics, It was on a certain mornin in A -'l 1 perienced years, together 3 P11, Wien we were assembl d ' h' presence, that he gave two of the most interesting and valuable talljs ififqhiclli haye impressed me more than any he has, 35 yet given The , HTh Flight of the 'Eaglef' and The Bulb. 'i i y Were, 6 The Eagle, King of the birds, usually builds its home on the Side of 3 THE GLEAM. y 61 high cliff. .We are all probably acquainted with the story of how the Eagle Became King. It was in this contest when the birds decided after many debates, that the one that flew the highest, should be king -over t'hem. In the race the chickens got only above the fences of their homes, while other birds flew only a short distance above the trees. The Eagle, who had flown the highest, now descended to take his reward. In life many get only above the fence. Should we not all 'try to be eagles, and let our ambitions loose to win the race of life? l Following this story was that of the f'Bulb. Gnce a man planted a bulb, and in a few weeks returned to find it had grown into a beautiful tulip. The remarkable lesson of this was: That before we start on our life career, we hold a bulb in our hands. Shall we make this bulb into a beautiful tulip and decorate the roadside of life with happiness, or let it dr-oop and wither in the hot rays o-f sin? He conclu-ded by saying that our friendship to him made up his life, that he had a place hidden secretly in his 'heart which was ever tender and overflowing with kindness for the pupils who each day made his life happier. Should we not- all appreciate this wonderful Teacher, his kindness and his teachings, who has ,given up all, to teach the boys and girls of the High School? For what could, be a nobler act than teaching and training youths to become that which our country most needs, good fellow-citizens P' Is he not a second Socrates in his place always ready to aid and encourage? We can only show our appreciation by living up to that standard to which he is striving so hard to lead us so that when his work 1S completed he may look upon the harvest with a sigh of satisfaction RUTH ADAMS l5 X X N VVITH APOLOGIES TO POE Once upon a schoolday dreary while we pondered weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore YN hile we nodded nearly napping suddenly there came a tapping As of someone loudly rapping rapping at our class room door Tis the wicked old bell we muttered tapping at oui class room door Only this and nothing more Yrs distincly we remember twas the month aftei December And each pupil went agiumbling to the L1d1'fO1'1U1T1 Hoof J . ' ' V , . ' a .' ' , , , ' A 1 , - S-was we .... J X FRY . . 1 4, , v - . ' - I ' I I ' , 7 - ' ' , i , . ' 7 , za rc 1 - . ,, , cr . I , 7 ' Q - . U, . . . ., , , . 1 ' A ' - di , 62 THE GLEAM. the Seniors had allowance sent There they first gave an announcement, that Them t-o give pronouncement to a theme ne'er said before. f Thus, so called: Prof. Sexton's happy union QVCHTS, just two be Ore' -fThis it was and nothing more. Presently our souls grew stronger for they, hesitating Qnoj 1Ol11g91', QCause they feared our melanch-oly would advance just as beforej Said this prosperous young master, when a merciful disaster V Followed fast and followed faster, told, his thoughts one burden bore: 'Tve been married, married, married for these two years now or more. -Question is now-am I sore P Then, metho-ught, the air grew denser,.perfumed from an unseen censor, As the goodly, worthy, Seniors answered blithly, Nevermore. So upon- this rare occasion, they did give commemoration For this full of bliss relation, by a program not a' bore. '-This I say, and e'en lots more. VVhile the program was beguiling, all our fancies into smiling, Straight we twisted rubber necks to View the victim, whom 'twas for. VVith his head far from reclining, he perhaps sat there divining , On the seat's hard wooden lining, Qand his eyes upon the Hoorj ' That' his wifey, dearest wifey, for her absence would be sore. -QLOWD Quoth t.he Senior's, Nevermore. . So at length before our parting, Let me speak, he called upstarting, ' Let me tell you howll thank you for the cabinet and m-ore, For you've left me as a token of that friendship that's not broken, Such a blessedness unspoken, for to think of o'er' and o'er. -This he said and nothing more. While we others, never tlitting, still were sitting, still were sitting Thinking of that marriage, marriage g all the cause -of this uproar' VVhile the Senior's had the seeming, that they blissfully were dreaming For the compliments were streaming on their program full galorei All at once Professor Bryant made a motion t'ward the door , ---VV'e de-partedg nothing more. I ' RUTH WEEKS.-'l3. 'aww M gvzxo I 1 F' 1, 5 x ,. M w P Y i 5 1 I y W, .. , N u . P E W Y r I z Q 1 ! ' 1 i , , J V, A Q f J. ,. Ni! ,1 Q i O , 1 W xl iq E49 Wil W! sc iii 64 . THE GLEAM. r Jtumaftiiriffiiiic.'iM'AYti26,i 1911- ' 'tUnCh0w, unchow ,iiuncliidalouchow Boonialacka, boomalacka, 19123 A 0 b p I-ly' slide over a bit you girls. Isn't there room for me? Say, H9'f1'Y, what 're you sitting on the cake 5017 Get Off of ltd, A - ' 't cake, it's devile eggsf' p . - ' 3 lgiiil1ilearlnegg's! Great Scott! YVorse andmore of it. Well, get offgthe deviled eggs then. School's out, thank Heaven, and no more crammmg. ' ' ha- ?', , . f 1 G Q Up Zricizboiiliipafieedfellgfbiliii. soliisyot chorus, a wagon-load of thirty-iXfC.h?-d -been-juniors, three gallons of Chiles' ice cream, a few cases of pop, seVC!'H1 cakes, do-zens of boiled eggs, lots of salad, sandwiches, etc., set out.tO'sper1Cl the last day of school together'at I-Iorseshoei' Lake. Misses- I2-HI? and Osla wereialso along to add to the dignity of the gathering- O11'CS1dC ,Of these honorable two, Kathleen and Ernest made the least noise during the whole trip. , I Rah, rah, rah! Rah, rah, rahl , Rah, rah, rah! . Seniors! 'That was because we passed a street car and wanted to let them kno-W the good news. 'We couldn't keep it toourselves. . 4 V, K ,. A watch-d-og saw us coming and started barking. The crowd . 1',ah, rahed and he immediately stopped and sat down evidently in admiration. Later, a .pig did the same thing, that is, stopped squealing and also sat down. Never was such a. day for a picnic. Every person and thing felt like doing his or its best at everything. The whole' world seemed to realize that this happened to be the ,last day of schoo-l. The little birds buzzed up in the branches, the bees trilled joyfully on their nests and the snakes hopped gaily across the road. , , I . U ' Presently, Mitt, who had been sitting on his foot said, Aw, for the loye of Mike, boys scooch over there a little. and let me awake my pedal extremity. Sitting on one foot ain't what it's cracked up to be. V V N Well, you don't have to rub it up and down my back to make it open its eyes, do you ? Get your back out' of the way. , Suppose you shove that left foot over board and make room for three pr four of us. .Is that a number ll shoe P By the way, Mitt-is extremely ond of small uleet and is continu ll h ' ' ' cludedj, for inspection. No, you infinitesimal microbe, that's nearly a number 6. Great day! a y s oving them before us fthe girls in- THE GLEAM. 65 L-ook what the short boy has fished up! -Barbara, Alberta, squeeze in be- l111'1d thls QUY here Hlld let S+-. f The rest was lost in a whisper as the group of four or five gathered about a center of interest, At last there was comparative silence about this corner o fthe wagon. The chaperones Chat- ted gaily and watched the road ahead, for they were marvelous chaperones and happiness prevailed by the double handsfulla Very little noise was heard from Jim's and Selma's section and Ernest's section followed suit. An occasional remark was heard to pass between Joe and Esther, fbut that was all except the monotone chatter from the rest of the rabble. Intense in- terest seemed to be located rn the crrcle where Alan Alberta Barbara, he of the small feet and a few others sat Others stood on their knees and peered over shoulders Iragrc whispers proceeded from thrs group such as these Pass, Two Three, Thats good Hold on there, thats mrne Two rn and many others In the meantime the wagon which had no sprrngs bumped along and the dust and srlence arose rn quiet clouds The ice cream slashed up rn front melted peacefully and the eggs packed rn baskets under somebody mashed together rn warm content The eggs werent all that were crowded Why eggs and sardrnes werent rn rt Vverybody, rncludrng the two pre servers of drgnrty could have easrly utrlrzed more space But keep rn mrnd that everybody was bright and happy The arr was strll when suddenly a strong breeze made the horses prrck up their ears and the girls clutch then hats Ifeveryone was startled by Mitt s yelling Stop' Stop' There goes take and gave the sign of drstress I noticed and sard, Did you drop that egg on the hubs? Then asrde that was a fifty cent deck you boob Shut up and stash the deck VVatch the place You crawl out after rt on the way back After thrs lrttle accident the back end of the carry all was somewhat quretcr However even thrs could not keep down the sprrrts long Human s rrrt of ourse We had only pop to drink The whole Journey was a p s c record of trrbulatron Those who sat rn the center of the wagon had to srt on dreaming feet while those who sat on the edge hung on by therr eyebrows an dteeth VVhen we arrived arms were trred and teeth were worn down consrderably Immedrately there was a rush for the boats and lrke foolrsh people three bOys paid out cold cash for the hrre of the boats and then shared wrth some slfls lhrnk of rt! The day was warm as be orc me P N er was l1Ough rt was hot It serx ed to work up our appetites Fun ev O much fun Some horrid boys had to splash water dirty too OVCT S0119-C girls Too much happened to tell It would make a book Camera fiends V610 alonff and all got their pictures taken After lunch and there never . . A 7 , K. 73 ff ,77 If 75 7 J!! ff I Y Y 3 v D If . ' H , , , , . , ' 7 1 I' i s - ,. , ' 7 - i . - ! 7 ' ' , , . a 1 r I . , . . ' L . . A - . . . l , 1 I I , A - c ' , za that eight of clubs. The whole load was shocked. He realized his mis-v . . . . . ,, . Q! ' fl I , 53 . . , , , , rr :J ' gg ' ,J .I . ', . ' . . 1 , u , . ' l Z - . . .I . ' - . - 1 N , ' 1 J i O.. . 71 0 u , I , -f A ntioned, and the pop tasted good, CVC11 S I I - 9 N 1 I ' . . ' ' . 7 4 b U 66 TI-IE GLEAM. was such a lunch, the chaperones went and sat in the Vjf'3g011 ini? 313515 foil good authority, went to sleep. I-IOVYCVGY, 'fheY Vffefenttgojhxs Sak? beiforor they awoke early and--but we didnt go hfnfqe -lust ye 'd E' after lunch, cries of help were heard in feminine tonesuan evefyfilew TUS - ing to the bank, saw Inez, Leah, Ethel and Rubyirowing frantica y round and round in a circle. It was evident they wer? ffymg to get Sofelvhere but couldn't. Miss Osla, who had come at the cries, c-ommanded, Girls, come here. We can't, in agonized tones. Why can't you ? f I'he boat won't go. Boys, can't some of you 'save those girls F - U Don't jump. up and down and get excited, Miss Sehrt, 1t's bad for the heart and you mi-ght fall down. , , At this point Miss Janie, appeared on the scene. ' Boys, get a boat and save those girls, in matter of fact tones, so a boat was launched and the derelect towed to short. Quietnesswas restored and the chaperones again went to sleep. Every-one settled down for the afternoon. Loving somebodycame and took Mahala off, Mitt and Barbara, joe and Esther and oneor two others found pleasure elsewhere. I found pleasure at the ice cream freezer. Nice day, said I, slipping a hunk of ice .down Leah's back. Lovely, she returned and looked uncomfortable. Thereafter, I was in danger of my life. ' Things went happily, even hilariously, on land and water. The boats were in use all the time and the number without blistered hands was r . VC Y small. Even our timid little Sylvia ventured on the briny, or rather muddy, d . eep. And those in the wagon slept on. Presently Joe and Es.ther strag- gled in and a little later, Alan, Alberta, Mitt and Barbara. Been taking pictures, was all they said. I At this time the two and there never ' . , was such a pair of Chaperones, Jumped from th ff ' e wagon and sweetly called, Children, children, time to go home. - VV'hat? in chorus. Yes, it is time to go. I W'hat, with the sun still high? Let's go home in the moomiofht This from conspicuous couples. b ' bl 'IWC haye t0 go right away. Miss Sehrt has a dat f ushed at that. I ,e or 1230 o clock. She - -So the round of the lake was made and' after a. couple -of hours time, the class was gathered at the wagon and all jumped for ood e t N th. of note occured on the return except th t . i g S a S' . O mg U a some one found a soft boiled egg THE GLEAM. 67 01' two and P13YfuHY 1055641 it svvithout aiming. It flattened on Ioe's nose and smeared in one eyeg also Mitt recovered the lost Card As We cqame into town the passengers dr-oapped off one by one till the once crowded Wagon was empty. lt was one of the best days the Class ever spellii tOgCtl1CT and will probably only be equalled in fun, when the class goes on its last picnic together in 1912. VVe hope all the classes have as good times on their picnics as we had on ours and we recommend as chap- erones, Misses Gsla and Janie. FRED PITT.-'12, gems' - SS: LINCOLN PROGRAM. Althou.gh February is the shox test month in the year it is the most famous. in the historic calendar Among the gieat men that this month has produced stands the celebrated name of Abraham Lincoln In honor of his birthday, February 12 1912 the Senior class arranged a program for assembly To create a loyal and pat11ot1c spirit the Seniors stood and sang Tent ing on the Old Camp Grounds Inseparably linked with the name of Lin coln, 1S the Gettysburg address if he had done nothing more, he would always be remembered for this Prof Bryant told how the address was written after which it was de livered by joseph Cnrisman with patriotic fervor Then came the most in eresting talk by Reverend Pendleton telling us of Lincoln s life and accom plishments to which everyone listened eagerly and finally leaving with us three ideas that Lincoln was great as a Writer as a man of action, and as a man of character After this the entire school stood and patriotically sang The Star Spangled Banner As a conclusion Prof Bryant gave a most 1nstruct1ve and interesting talk about the Lincoln memorial IOLA WARREN 12 WWW W MW MW - 1 4 J 9 Q . ' ' ' ' ' . . . . . ,, A - 2 ' J ' , 1 ,, . . . - ' :r ' ,U - ' ' J . . I - I 1 I I I I 0 l - . . - - , - 9 ' N - ' . 7 . , . V p , 1 7 i i i H . I H 1 , , . l , W Wi j if V 7 I ' 68 THE GLEAM. Short Stories. -1-in-11: . I , THE ONLYS REF-o-RM MOVE1V'E'NT. Madam President. Miss Parker. ' Madam President, I tell you it is a disgrace to any res-pectable town! If the men won't take any action on it, and the women. won't, why then 1t is time we girls did! I, for one, approve of the strongest measures. I What must strangers, coming to our town, think we are! Pigs? or other low animals? to have such a dirty, nasty, filthy old grocery store! We will Jugst have to begin at the b'e,ginn1ng as Prof. Cutler said, if we ever wish to accomplish any- thing. I say again I approve of the strongest measures ! This conversation took :place in the club room of the club of the CJn1ys. It was composed of every girl in the Elkhorne I-Iigh School, who was the only child in the family. They were girls that had been forced to club together in orderthat they might be able to face the attacks of the teachers and other pupils in the I-Iigh School, who thought that to be the 'only' child, meant to be the worst petted and spoilt child in town. As there were seven girls they decided to band together and sho-w the people of Elkhorne what they could dog but, so far, they had done nothing, absolutely nothing to arouse interest and envy which was their greatest ambition. But today they were aroused! The fighting blood was up at last! Prof. Cutler had done the deed! He it was, that had aroused these girls by his talk in the assembly- on Pure Food I-Ie it was that had opened their eyes to the sad and awful c ii- o dition of their one dirty grocery store. I-Ie it was that had set them to think- ing of a means whereby to rid themselves of it. I-Ie had worked miracles, or rather l ' - ' ie was going to work them, thiough these girls. ' Good' Good V' exclaimed several v i - - o ces as Mary sat down. I am with you Mary, exclaimed Grace as she rose to her feet. I just tell you girls, if we ever expect to 'be anything and to show several people in th's t 'h ' ' 1. own t at Only can be as good as anybody, why it is high time we were doing it! Ah! She concluded, 'tis our Rubicong will we cross it or not ? With these speeches to start them tl ' 1 , ie gir s talked on and on, until the sun warned them that suppfer time was near at hand. They had decided ui 011 S01T1C'Ehi11g.very definite and m st ' i n P Y CTIOUS, before they parted, for as each girl TI-IE GLEAM passed out the door, she placed her tincfer u Jon her 11 dd C1 1 went home giggling l 13,110 C cnowrngly and It rx as an rdeal Saturday or rather an ideal day One Whlgh We hate to think of as a Saturday, since on Saturday we must Wglkl Work! and not play a 1T11I1L1ll6 Tl'11S day just fairly called you from the house to the beautr ful world without More than one person sighed for the beautiful woods as they arose that morning but seven Urrls arose wrth beaming faces and light happy hear ts, for rt drd feel so good to be on the pornt of dornff a great service for your own home town Iherr parents feared that their lives were rn danger for xx hen had rt ever before happened that Mary Alrce jane or Nancy ever Oot up on Saturday mor nrnff before nrne or ten o clock and here they were up wrth the birds and with the brightest faces imaginable Vfother I won t be home for lunch the club 1S going on a toot so don t expect me or worry about me will be home rn time for dinner so goodby With such a farewell to their mothers the Onlys set forth into the world of reform About seven o clock they had arrived at the club room and were discuss ing the plan of attack My! exclaimed Nancy with a shiver I certainly app1e rate Luthers nerves when he tacked those Theses upon the gate of that old monastery! So do I and all the rest of those critters who ever trred to do anythrng for the betterment of their country or town I Say girls do you really believe we can do it? Alice had already begun to doubt their powers at reforming r Doubting Thomas! ' teased the girls. A Vifhy sure we can do it rf we all stand together and never for one moment doubt our powers. Are you ready my followers? asked Ruth the president. Aye! Aye! Sir! ' VV ell then not one word remember all hearts strong. Forward march. VV e are oft. And off they were rf you had seen them you would have thought they rn ere off rn the upper story for of all the implements to go about reform movements these were most remarkable. Ruth the president headed the line rn one hand she carried a tin tub in the other a ,mop and slung over one arm were rafts innumerable' Grace the secretary came next with a washborler and Z5 1 large scrub brush then came Nancy and ane struggling wlth H Sfepladdef and Mary brought up the rear with bars of soap rn one 11311-Cl and H SUVCCHSC holding the Cfrrls longsleeved aprons rn the other. 6 VVhat a brigade! Was such another ever seen? No army everlwenttlfoigtlh tt C to battle with greater spirits than these glrls went f0f'Ch 'CO be C W1 flirt of old Jeremiah s grocery store-the dirtiest place in town, and Yhe One ere makin the most money-for that was their destination. Seven grr S W R' undertaking what many a band of strong men had failed to do-to get the 70 THE GLEAIVI. diff, filth and gfime out Of Old Uncle ICffY,5 Sfofe- , , t to arouse c-omment or suspicion. The girls went by back streets so as 110 Theyiwended their way cheerfully to the back door of Qcrc1mlZl5'ZtSgfs39, 3615 here paused, while Ruth steaplped up tO U16 Sllghtllf Open OO - P ing in. Uncle jerry was moving ders that were bound to come O11 went into the store room to roll u l 1 peared into this dark little room, than the girls WCTC 111 the S'C0fC- Ruth 016175 uzp, snatched the keys from the hook and locked the door on 1 poor old uncle jerry. As the key clicked, the girls d-oubled up with laughter, to think that old jerry, the greatest rascal in the town had just walked into their trap. I just bet his face is a picture to behold, laughed Grace. My I haven't had su-ch a laugh fora long time, not since Abe fell into the pond, anyway. Don't you remember girls P and -off they went again at the mere suggestion of that fateful occasion. around getting his store read for the big or- Saturday. The sugar barrel :was empty so he out an-other. No sooner had his back disap- Come, Grace, where is that paper we drew up P Here it is, said Grace, all fixed ready for the old Uncle. Ruth took the paper an.d slip-ped it under the door of the store room, calling, Here Uncle Jerry, this will explain to you this amazing affair, and if you aren't the Hrst to laugh over it, I will never buy any more pickles 'from you take to the ball games. U , Uncle jerry had been taken entirely by surprise and to see a note slipped under the door was amazing indeed. But he was the sort that usually takes what comes as a matter of course, and so he went over and picked up the note and read it. At first he was angry, to think of such a thing as their taking his store into their hands to clean, like he wasn't able to clean it himself if he wanted to! He read on to -where the girls stated they would turn the store over to him at five-thirty o'clock, all nice and cleang and i-f he would tell them how much he usually cleared on Saturday, they would save their allow- ances and pay him. So they wished him to content himself with the store room for a day, while they tended the shop. More and more as he read he saw the ridiculous situation, and when he Hnished the last sentence, he fairly shook with delight. y VVal, Kingdom come and glory be! If that don't beat the Dutch. I always did think those girls had more to 'em then people give 'em credit fer. Yiflanted to know how much I cleared on a Saturday, did they? Vval, Wal! ope ye have a nice time cleaning up old J'erry's dirt, which he do-ne be too lazy to clean up hisselff' Chuckling to himself he reached his hand into his o k t d ' p c .e an drew forth a key and walking the length of the room, fitted the key in the lock and let himself out into the alley. HH, Ha! Them gals didn't think of this here door. But I'll let 'em alone and just see what the will d- . S I ' ' Y O o chuckling to himself he passed on THE GLEAM. 71 down the alley and betook himself to a day of pleasure. A Meanwhile the girls had worked wonders in the front part of the Stofe The HOOF HS far back as the old stove had been scrubbed clean and th h I ey were at work upon the counters and shelves. Having locked the door they pulled the shades down over the windows and the door, and put 3 big Sign in the Win- dow, stating that the store was closed for the day, but would be open that night and forever more. , Grace upon a stepladder had tried her best to clean the gas globe, but it was toomuch for her. Girls for heavens sake, tell me something that will take the dirt and dust off this old thingf' Soap and water pipedrjane, in a most exasperating voice. I could choke you, if it wasn't for the fact that I would 'have to climb down this ladder, and 'Good Granny,' I had hard enough time getting up. 1 Being as I am in soap suds up to the elbow, I thought I would tell you, since you didn't seem to know. Thus teasing each other as only girls can, they worked until noon. Then they stepped back to View their work, and found it to their complete satisfac- tion. At one o'clock they were back at work again with spirits still high. As the hours passed their chatter died slowly down until- at three they had not said a word for half an hour, and each girl looked with longing eyes at the back wall, which was creeping nearer and nearer, until at last, I-Iurrah! it was finished. Or at least, the hardest -part was done, for the walls and- ceiling had all been wiped down, and the floor and wood work scrubbed, and only the stove was to be blacked and the back windows washed. I-Iave mercy on my bones l sighed Grace, as she lay d-own on the floor. I-low I do hate to work, and look at my hands. My, I surely will have to take Dutch Cleanser to the-m to g'et all this grime out. She looked up expecting some response, but all the girls were working away with set faces, two were at each window, and two at the stove and none had even heard her remark. She pulled herself together and went back to the front of the store and ar- ranged the fruit and vegetables in the front windows. Well girls, said Ruth I reckon we are through. I don't see anything more to do, do you ? No, and what's more, I am not going to look around for anymore, we have done enough for one day. I move we adjourn. Mary was tired out. It does look awfully nice and clean, doesn't it? My, I am .glad it is through with. I w-onder what Uncle jerry will think of it. . Uncle Jerry, exclaimed Grace, Wl1y, I had not even thought of him, Hlld here we are almost on the point of leaving witlhout un1ock1ng the s.tore mom door. Poor old man, think of being locked up in that dark room all day. Come on girls, I am going to let him out. l I ft , Grace went over to the door and turned the key, which had been C 111 l l l 4 1 i l 72 THE GLEAM- d view the grand tranwsfornaationf' N0 the d-oor, Uncle jerry, come forth an , n p responge HUHCIC jerry, come forth. this time louder, but still no response. HUHCIC Jerry donga you hear me, it see-ms to me if I 'had beenlocked up all ld out in a jiffy Girls he isn't here. Fright and suprise day, I wou come - h were mingled in G1'ace's voice. Oh! VVhat has become of him? What has become of him ? ' . I , A - All the tiredness had left the girls by this time. They went into the store room and searched in every c-orner, half expecting to find Uncle Jerry hidden there. Ruth was standing with her back all unknowingly to the door by which Uncle jerry had escaped into the alley, when the lock clicked and the door pushed open. The lat.e afternoon sunlight, exposed to the man inthe door the consternation in the faces of the seven girls. ' Uncle Jerry ! they exclaimed in one voice. Where did you come from? Hom did you get here ? W I V i A II-Ia! Ha 1 Uncle jerry laughed good-naturedly. Did ye get through ? Oh !' come and see 1 They led him into the store and then stood watching him. . ' W Wal! Kingdom come and glory be! How did ye do it? How did ye do it ? He lo-oked around at the perfect order and cleanlinessof the store. ' The girls laughed happily, for Uncle Jerry hadtaken it alright and his simple-question was underlaid with gratitude, surprise, and wonder. I Their laugh penetrated to the crouds that allday had been speculating as to what was the matter with Uncle ferry. A young boy 'stepped up to the door and rattled it. ' - ' ' ' ' Oh, Me! Oh, Myli' exclaimed Nancy. '4We can't be caught here looking this way. Letis flee, while Uncle Jerry is still dazed. With that she led the way to the back door, through which they passed with light happy hearts, not withstanding their dragging feet. - Uncle jerry walked to the front 'door after repeated rattlings, and let in Lhecrowd. The story was told and exclaimed over, by all the citizens of Elk- orn. The Onlys had at last reached the goal of their ambition. They had aroused envy and interest in themselves. - . I FANNY LEW MCCOY.-'l3. New we-2 SN? THE GLEAM. 73 A PROFESSOR FROM MARS. ' PRIZE STORY. I had not beer1 111 the study hall very long before I began to feel a very PGLUIIHI' CIIZLIHCSS Creeprng over me 'Ihe room soon began to whrrl and buzz the books on tl1e shelves about the wall seemed possessed W1th the sprrrt and were soon off rn a mad whrrl twrstrng and turnrng here and there ar1d formrng rnto many grotesque shapes and frgures that made my eyes heavy from followrng them I closed my eyelrds thrnkrng to keep out the xrew but rt seemed only to rncrease therr motron and upon openrng them I found my old Englrsh I-Irstory flutterrng about rn a very undrgmlied manner and not to be forgotten the Squares Trapezords and Trrangles rose from my Geometry and rushed about my head rn a werrd whrrl I agarn closed my eyes th1s trme from utter exhaustron Was th1s a dream? Certarnly I was not rll for I never felt better rn mv lrfe wrth the exceptron of a slrght drzzrness and surely lt was not a dream for tl1ere was my frrend the trmekeeper who s lersure moments were spent rn rnformrnfr the lazy puprls of the trme Yes and there was my teacher but who rs that old man rn the corner? It must be one of tl1e many shapes the books have taken or am I losrng mental con trol rn fact I began to doubt my strength of mrnd I had seen books and papers flyrng l1ke mad yet no one else seemed troubled There was only one way to settle thrs argument so I decrded to ask for the trme and rf I was answered I could not be dreamrng Thrs was almost accomplrshed when I was serzed from behrnd and lookrng over my shoulder I saw the weazened face of the queer old gentleman whom I had a few moments before notrced rn the corner To me rt seemed very rude and I could not keep from starrng rn hrs face And would you belreve lt hrs eyeballs were revolvrng rn the1r sockets hrs long whrte beard was twrstrng lrke an angle worm on whrch your foot has pressed My arm was rn a vrcelrke grrp and though rt parned me terrrbly I was only able to ask rf he would please release me Rrse muttered my persecutor rn n1y ear I want you to gurde me about re school Q I crred I would rndeed lrke to do as you request but I must darn permrssron from my teacher and Srr I am sure you wrll be able to find a far better gurde than I would be At th1s answer he seemed much offended Vandal' Heathen' He thundered I-Iow dare you tamper wrth my commands? Are not the commands of Prof Blyde Muddersnook law? Am I not the same drstrngurshed gentleman who drscofvered perpetual motron? Have I not been avr arded a Radrum medal for my many rnvc11'f1011S all Of whrch have been effectrve rn makrng Mars seco11d only to I-Ieaven? And 110W I come to th1s backward country and hardly before I place my foot on th1s - , E . . ,. , - 1 Q . . V Y . 1 ' . . I ' 1 - ' f . . 7 1 a ' ' 0 1 u . , 1 , I r , , ' . ' ' . . , , 7 J 1 - .' ' ' - 1 J , , ' J . , 3 . I ' -1 ' ' ' 1 . - 1 . , , . , . . - . , , ' V b ' 2 . . Q X 1 1 ' ' - J 1 L ' - s 1 ' ' ' ' - . . . . ' : 1 Y . . . 1 - - 2 . . . V , - W , s Y N ,, . - , , , ' , . . f , . . . . . . . - s ' 1 I n U 9 ' ' ' . . J I . . , K 1 . H ' yy ' H ' 1 1 1-1 73 A, . i ' , 7: ' rc ' ' dll, , ' 1 's b , , . . ' . 1 v 1 - A as ' I cr - 9: ' ff . 1. - . - - , ' ' . . . , , . - 2 74 - THE GLEAM. orthless soil I am accosted and Waylaid bY a ymmg Cub like you? W : L H . - Sir I exclaimed s-omewhat startled, I will d-o 1113' besgbbulfll Cin haltigi b l' ve ou came from Mars, which is at 'Cl1iS time 48,600-O nfl S5 rcfm e ie y D earth, and, Sir, y-ou speak English as though you were acquamted Wlth thfi language. I . . Ah!', said the Prof., you doubt 1ny word, but come, I did not make this trip to parley with y-ou, and I have but two hours to view this school. . 'III-lei-e Was nothing else to do but to follow, so closing my book I passed out ofthe study room unheeded, as was my companion, into the hall- Now, said the Prof., I would enjoy seeing your I-Iist-ory department, if your school' is provided with onef' pThis last. statement with a shrug of his shoulders. A A I Sir,,' 'said I, with a great deal of pride, we have a numbCfpOf fO0mS which one would you like to visit? I ' Oh, one is as .good as an-other, for I will be able to find the same methods in all, and withthese words we advanced into the English I-Iistory room. I remained at the door while the Prof. passed among the pupils, looking at their-books and jotting down no-tes, gazing into their faces, and throughout this performance, the class remained in seeming ignorance of his presence. I had a 'good chance to 'view the farfavmed Muddersnook. My, but he was queer, with his revolving eyes, his wiggling beard and his queer cut clothes, all which were in keeping with his name. I also noticed, for the first time, that the Prof. carried a grip, that bulged out like a newly stuffed pillow. I-Ie was no-W engaged in scanning over the 'grade book, so I glided up to look over his shoulder, to read the grades, but just as I reached him he closed the book and picked up an English I-Iistory instead, and was soon running over the index. After reading t'hrough a number of times, he finally stopzpfed, puckered up his thin lips, exclaimed: A Boy, I fail to find my name, and how can it be that the name of Dr. 'Tite Opkins is missing? ' Opkins PH said I, why I never heard of such a man. No doubt you never did,ibut he is a great man just the same. Did you ever h ear of his great works? Wfell I will tell you-It was at the time of our last battle against the water, we, as you must know, were engaged 'in build- ing a canal from Pole to Pole, to obtain water for drinking and commercial purposes. ' One night, under the cover of darkness, a small boy tampered with the yalve that held the water, and before we could reach the scene of action, mil! 1ons of tons of water were sweeping down the partly finished 631131 toward our great city of Suthuk. 'We called for Opkins, who now saw 3 Chance to put in use his I-Ieversal of Gravity, and before long the Wafer was 1-eve,-Sed and turned up the path which it had Worn when it had gained its freedom It was not long before we had the baffled monster under our power, and to THE GLEAM. 4 75 cut the story short, Opkins was given' the degree of PQ D. S. R., by the Presiientdof Auckland, acnd aplwe-, but here I interrupted, c 11' o you mean o te me that ki , hill? Vlfhy that is imp-ossible, sirli' Op ns Caused the Water to runi up H u Impossible you say? Wfell, for your disrespect, you shall carry my grip, said the Professor, as he handed me the grip, he added. we will' enter the English room.'f ' In the English room, the Professor was at sea, and his Wfinklgd face was a picture of dismay. - Boy, .said he, what are these creatures talking about? I can not make head or tail of it . -' ' Creatures ! I cried, my anger rising, why those are the pickof the school. They are Seniors. That is their President now talking. ' Oh, I see, said the Professor, That boy is the President or Chief of that tribe or clan, will you oblige me with their names ? Good Sir. i They'are not Indians. They' do not live in clans. ' They are the Cla-ss of 'l2. ' p I ' I ' Class of 'l2, responded the Professor. Why l see at least twenty myself, but let it drop. I presume it is the way 'you savages have of counting and as for me I would rather enter a rooin which I can understand? ' ' Then Sir, you do not understand Shakespeare P ii Shakespeare? Why I never heard of such a man. Was he the boy who didn't know his lesson ? Shakespeare, a boy Sir! Vlfhy Sir, I am shocked. Well boy, said Muddersnook, rather confused. If you wish to rest here and watch my grip until I return you may, but mind you must not meddle with it. I consented and sat down upon a chair and began to gaze at the grip-. The more I looked the more I was tempted to see inside, especially to see if the grip contained the method of reaching Mars. If it -did my fortune was made. Why I could even hear the newsboys calling, 'The' Discovers Route to Mars,' or 'Perry and Amusden, have been eclipsed,'.' then the admiration my schoolmates would show for me. i 1 A Tlhis last thought was enough, I ripped open the grip. The nature of the act swept 'over me. I was violating his confidence. I shook myself. Opportunity had beckoned, would I answer? It was now or never, so with- out a moment of delay, I thrust my han-d int-o- the grip, it tou-ched something coldg Idrew it forth, it was a very small package, neatly tied, and acrOiSS the front in bold letters was printed: lVfUDDER'SNO'OK'S METHOD. Then this was the formula: I hastily tore off the co-ver. Tl1iS CliSCl0SfCd 3 very old cask, with a tiny lid, this I flung openland before I' could close it, dark, fragrant fumes rose and were wafted through the rooms' mllhere 15 76 THE GLEAM. , something inside. thought I, so I 'again thrustnin my hand, this time Imdrew forth a blank card, and looking closely, I feadlll' made out the Word Deter' mination. Then determination was his method. But here I started, the Professor was stri-ding down the hall, his Radium medal flashing with unusual brilliancyg it's very r2lyS blillded me- I trembled, but could not move. I knew what was coming. HIS very eyes showed his wrath. . Boy, he said I must go. But Sir, I managed to mutter, I am very, very, much-ashamed, but-but I-I-entered your- 1 - Tut, tut, I knew you would open it, he said cheerfully, it is human nature, it was my will, for the fumes you have released are t-he fumes of knowledge. They have penetrated every corner. The card you have now in your possession, was the cause of the fumes. I reached this world on de- termination. I will return on its effect. I now must go. But remember, said he, as he passed out the door, remember this, and pointing to the in- scription above the door, read in a soft voice, Juventus spes 'mundif' The Youth the I-Iope of the VVorld. I He, was soon swallowed up by the gathering fogl It -was with a great deal of effort that I wa-s able to arouse myself from this stupor, and pass out. But to this day I believe Muddersnook was real. Now what do you think? , ' EDWIN CARROLL.'l3. 5332? if-it IN SEARCH OF A MAGIC STONE. Eltonband a disagreeable looking old gentleman were the only passen- gers on the aeroplane. Elton glanced at the old gentleman, but he looked as if he would like to be left severely aloneg so she looked at the nice look- ing fellow, who had taken her fare, as she had entered the aeroplane. I-Iow far is it ? she asked. Be it known that Elton was very talkative, Oh. it's millions of miles, was the pleasant reply, but it doeslft take long to get there, because the car doesn't stop on the way, at all. KK DO yOu have many passengers? questioned Elton, in order to keep up the conversation. ' f 'N-ot ver m ' ' . Y ally. You see it is such a long dangerous- trip, that not many people come, unless for something very important. . avvellyu said E1-tgn, ffMy business is very important. I am going up to hunt for one -of those little stones, that makes people able to answer any TI-IE GLEAIVI. 77 ggisgtlon that is asked, in history. I suppose you know all ab-out them, dolft Q H0117 YCS, I k11OW what you mean, said the handsome aviator. It w1ll be hard to get, but I wrsh you success. 1 HI used 0 be kinda good '11 l1iStOry, Eltonls voice was reflective, But here lately I m not at all good, so I just thought I'd go up and try to get one of those 1112.g1C stones Well I W1Sh you good luck but the young man sm1led knowmgly and Elton fell to wondeung why After a whlle she asked lnm some more questrons and the Convefsatlon was carrred on by its and starts for a long tlme Fmally the aeroplane stopped and Mars' shouted the av1ator Change cars for Venus' Elton got off and was met by a nrce lookmg man who 1nqu1red her busmess and fllldlllg that she came to search for the magrc stone called a gu1de and told l'11111 to take charge of the young lady Elton was anx1ous to start on her search 1mmed1ately so no trme was lost The gu1de spoke Engllsh well altho he knevx only s1mple words How do you happen to know our language so well? asked the 1nqu1s1 IIVC young lady Sm1l1ng Elton notrced that every one smrled up at Mars he sa1d We have some very lea1ned professo1s up he1e and I was fortunate enough to have one of them for my Engl1sh teacher I studred as hard as I could and now I am able to speak Enghsh very well I should say you do exclalmed Elton adnnrrngly How many years d1d you study Enghsh? Only three Qnly three' My goodness Ive taken Lat1n four years and the only words I know are amo and mfelrx Maybe Latm 1S harder than Enghsh sa1d her guxde consohngly I don t know about that rephed Elton I expect rt s just because Im So dumb All tlns t1n'1e they were walkrng over a very rough road Drd any other g1r1 ever come up here and get a hrstory stone? 1nqu1red Elton No one ever d1d I th1nl Ivow 'be sure there 1s a g11l 1n our class that knows absolutely every thmg about hrstory and I th1nk she surely must have a I-Irstory Stone N the gu1de sa1d but notmg the drsappornted look of h1s lrttle frlends face cont1nued But once a boy dropped a S'COHC down and She nnght have got that Ill bet anythmg s e 1 nec IS about h1story Mercy' Wltats th1s? Ihey had come to the mouth of a huge deep tunnel We must go ' ' 77 . Sl ' U ' 1 - - J - . , , 7 . cr 77 v- H l. 5, ' 7 7 ' I , .1 W I ' v . . , , : 1 , I . . , , , n ' V 7 t . , y , gg ,, . . .- I A a 1 1 u , gg 7 7 ' 7 I ' 'A I , L . U I . , ' U V 4 if 75 ' ' ' K! . ' - :J fr ' as KK I 7 ' . , u 4 , 1 4- ' J M cc ' ' 4 ' 77 ' ' , ' I . I I 7 H . , l ,, . - H - 7 - J , , , c 4 r n ' ' ' ' . rc . v - ' .57 ' ' .1 f . . , f' , ' Q. ' fs 1 ---, ' '- ' , - 1 - I - I M , - V sr , I . n I u cc 0,33 ' ' ' , ' , ' I . 5 . H- , 7 - I 77 ' ' h- d'd, l ause she knows posit1vely everyth1ng there - ., I . 1 ' H . V I ' I rc rv Nw iff, lt I ll' 'lui ltr It ttf. Q i -g . lrl w l 71' r .1 :li ,31 jfs if ffl I L ll fl Q1 af! A14 'lifl ' 1?-lid Wiitl ., ITHL :Est ,ta Iliff? If HU, nfl-E PFPTE, 'Fi-I aber' lifts' .gui fl SN! ni al 't its r -i stil 'ffl FQ! 'ff ' 4? Fi 1 4! Q ll -1 l. flip! ,V V' 'r ffl Lwyk I Qi 1'? I - ix il ,i :R il f il .j Ig f lj .I 3 if! 1 . 1 :fm 78 1 TI-IE GLEAM. tlirougli this Cave now, you won't get hurt, --seeing her look of conster- nation. U n H Yes, but there may be bears in 1t. i n I-Ie laughed, 0h, no, n-othing is in there but l1'O'1'1S,. , Lions! worse than ever lf' I i I don't know what a lion is, but' these little lions won't hurt you. I-Ie spoke convincingly, so with fear and trmebling, Elton folowed him into the cave., They passed through easily, but Elton clung t-o the guide's hand, fearing that a huge lio-n would be upon them at any minute. Soon they reached the open air. There weren't any lions at home today were there ? said the little girl. p . , VVhy, didn't you see them P said the guide, there were lots of them in there. V You mean those little gray animals F Yes, didn't you see them ? ' , Elton laughed outright, 'Iwhy tholse are nothing but rabbits. But seeing the'guide's look of injured dignity, she hastily added, at least that's what We call them' at home. . ' They advanced for quite a distance when they came to- another tunnel, to go through. Elton marched in boldly, for who's afraid of rabbits? But alas, when they got to the end of the tunnel, there stood a bear. The little girl, who had entered so cotnhdently, screamed aloud in fright, but the man spoke to the bear in the language of Mars, at which the bear drew back and let them pass, and as Elton shivered past him, he actually winked at h-er. My, your animals must be awfully friendly up here, she said, when they were once more outside the tunnel. Yes, we are good to them, never allow them to be killed of mis- treated, and, so they are not afraid of us. I have read, that the little boys down on earth actually kill little birds. Elton wisely said nothing, because she knew he was speaking the truth. The guide suddenly stopped, and pointing to a steep descent said, We n-ow have to go down this hill, through another big black ca-ve, up another hill, and then we're there. Elton was thoughtful for a minute, I donit believe I'll go. VVell, of course, if you don't go, you won't get your Stoney, Yes, I'll go, 'cause I hate to come all this way' for nothing. thSilently they went do-wn the steep hill, and started along the narrow pa . I :let yall? beside YOU, please, I'm afraid something will get me if stay behind, said the scared little Searcher for knowledge. KI ' , There 1s11't room, beside me. Don't you hear that water on the left 7 THE GLEAM. .79 side? And there's a stee f tw-o feet wide. p p ecipice on the right side. This path is only iElton shivered and crept on, thinking every minute that she would either fall into-the sea or over the precipice. She wished she had never tried to get any old I-Iistory Stone, because she would rather fail in history every day, than to go through this awful place. .But finally the cave was traversed, the hill climbed, and they stood again in the open air. They walked on a little piece and came to a-hill -of glass about fifteen feet high. A See that little white sprout at the top of the h-ill,', asked the guide. Yes I see it D You must crawl up this hill to that sprout take hold of it and reach down and get the magic stone May I get some for my friends? No you may have only one Well I can g1VC it to my sister when I get through with it can t IP Yes but 1f it goes out of the family it isn t any good You had better go now and get it Slowly Elton climbed the steep glass hill slowly and laboriously and finally ieaehed the white sprout and grasped it She looked over the edge of the hill and there just down a little way lay many smooth white stones Eltons eyes glistened Wont lV'1ss Phelps think Im smart though' she S31 Dont put too much weight on that sprout called the guide it will break But Elton didnt hear She grasped the sprout with all her strength magic stone when crash went the little white sprout and thud went Elton on the Hoof Isn t it a shame an eternal everlasting never to be forgotten shame for a Senior a dignified Senior to dream such a little old eighth grade dream? just think of a Senior wasting time dreaming such dreams as that when she could have dreamed Hamlet or Aeneas with much more profit but we re not responsible for what we dream and we had all better read Mercu tios Queen Mab speech in Romeo and uliet before we make fun of Elt d Ons Team ADA cRADDocK 12 QS' QRS i , , . ,. ,, . . n , , , , ' , as I H N ' l :J I cc 1 ' 1, i n J ' ' if ' , ' y ' . ' ' 1 as 7 ' ' cc r n 1 1 o , , , , . I ' 77 0 - - . O Q . , I. , - J , I : ' , ' 7 ' H ' 7 ' ' 7 . .L 1 'd. I . fr 1 ' H ' H' ' ' 7 : 77 A o , - ' and leaned over-way over. I-Ier little fingers were almost touching the . . . , , y I I 7 , 1 . e - , J - - , A I I . , , , p. . , :r , J: if H ' . ' 1 ' p , 3 .7 , . . . - 7 ' 7 cc V as , ' ff , J ' ,H 7 . I , kgs 1 F552 80 THE GLEAM. UNCLE TED AT Es1viERALDA. . ESMERALDA, COME Ann ses TT, JAN. ll and 12, 1912- A beautiful play of the love story of a North Canoilinagirl. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers and their daughter Esmeralda, live in the mountains of N orth' Caro- lina. Dave Hardy is in love with Esmeralda and she Wlith 111111, but Just at the time when they think of marriage, a prospector discovers ore on the Rog- ers' land. He and Mrs. Rogers operate the farm on half shares. This makes Mrs. Rogers very wealthy and she determines to go abroad and marry her daughter to a SOMEBODY. She goes and t'he rest you must come and see. It is sure to be line, because it is directed by JAMES W. JONES. This poster was the cause ofit all, and if it had not by some queer fate been thrown into the yard of a farmhouse about t-wo mi-les from Indepen- dence, this account of the Senior Play, would never have been writtgen. OH, Ted! I can hardly wait for that curtain to ,go up, said Mrs. Stand- ford to her husband, commonly known as Uncle Ted. I wonder what kind of a play it will be and .how they will all do, and what they will look like. OI-I, Oh! I do wish the curtain would go upf' I Well, Well! Now I just wish I hadn't brought you, if you are going to be so silly about it. I might have kno-wn it was no use to bring you tonight in all this Snow and cold-, but somehow I wanted to see how the kids would do itf' 1 You can rest easy, for it will be worth the ride t-o town to s.ee it. The orchestra struck up .Alexander's Hagtime Band. Isn't that beau- tiful, breathed Uncle Ted, my it just makes my feet go, I wi-sh we were young again. I - T Oh! stop your foolishness. I do wish that curtain would go up. There it goes, jokingly said Uncle Ted. But Sure enough it did go. Uncle Ted was so taken back that he almost shouted, Well I swan ! Hush! Hush ! cried his wife, taking him by t'he arm. D-on't you see you are making a show! of yourself. V Well, that's a real pretty landscape but you never saw thei 1' d f 1 T1 ilfl O liowers on a fen-ce and porch, in ye lifef, , . If YOU dO11'12 Stop I will get up and go out of here. Those flowers are plherfectly beautiful, and I just know some woman. took a lot of pains training em. ' ' Why they are artificial! VVellg if he ainit the beatenest Ml I H , , HS 'l r. Drew made his a . He looks like some -of these dudes you see on Fifth Avenue wiDtI1eiri,1iif pompous air. ' If 7' I I - , M when did You SVU See 9-UYbOdy from Fifth Avenue, or much less see it? demanded his wife. Oh! he is too d - :J . ear, for woids, speaking o-f Mr. THE GLEAM. S1 Estabrook. I wisl1 I had seen him before I sa turned teasingly fro111 l1er husband. ffVVe1l, I wish you had toof' was his joking reply, .By this time they l1ad really bSC'O111C interested in the play. The stage U 1 211 dll 321 f g deveiyt- 111g 111 the play. As the plot progressed, nc e e cane orwar 111 l11s seat and gazed with bright eyes at Mrs, Rogers. It was not however, tl1at l1e was in love with her, only tl1at her act- ing was s-O very good, that he could not take his eyes fr,0.m her, g But his wife wasn't going to let him get ahead of herand she gazed with an equally enraptured- expression, at Mr. Rogers, for it was he who was playing tl1e star part. Mrs. Standford couldn't keep the tears from collecting i11 her eyes, at tl1e hard l1eartedness of Mrs. Rogers, separating the lovers Esmeralda and Dave. It was SLlCll good rendering of the parts that one for- got that it was not a scene from real life, enacted before them. A25 the curtain went down on the first act, the house burst into applause. My, are11't you glad we saw tl1at poster, and decided to come, no matter if it was snowing and powerful cold P They certainly are- doing well and wasn't Mrs. Rogers splendid, and Mr. Rogers was a dear, and Esmeralda, -p-oo-r thing, wasn't she beautiful? As the curtain went up on tl1e second act, the house became quiet, for everyone was given up to the admiration of tl1e good acting. Nora, jack and Kate Desmond, in. their attractive studio, for a wfhile contzrolled the interest of everyone, until Mr. Rogers appeared to remind the audienceof better things in store for them. How difficult it was for Uncle Ted to tell which was doing the best, until he heard tl1at Esmeralda was getting pale and sick over the separation from l1er lover, then he knew which was doing best. And Dave, was that Dave? Could it be Dave, the lover from North Carolina? Yes it was and fro111 the mo-ment he sank i11.to the chair, Uncle Ted never raised his eyes from him. I-Ie was seeing life played before his eyes, why shouldn't he set up and take notice? And as tfhe curtain went down on the second act, he n1ade no com1ne11t, for l1e considered that they had done too well to be criticised. And pray, what was .there to criticise? Nothing. Uncle Ted felt fully the power of tl1e acting. Mrs.. Standford also forgot about talking to her husband. Her thoughts were far away in an imaginary Paris, with a girl, pining away for l1er lover and not knowing that Ehe was in W Youf' and Mrs. Standford tl1e san1e city with her. . h Before tl1e spell of the second act was broken, the curtain rose on t e tl1ird act. Uncle Ted vowed he had never seen two people as cpite as NOTH a11d Mr. Estabrook, and he declared. that Estabrook was a Jolly sogd fellow. VVhen Esmeralda came in, 111 the glory of her.ball .govltlii P-Zee but determined, he could have gotten up and shouted for joy, to thin: t.a . . th at last Esmeralda was coming 111to her own. Uncle Ted was seized wi 1 E t U 82 Q TI-IE GLEAM. 3 eafeds he was the dandiest little felow - 11 the Marquis HPP , ,, yilgivelwiiioldisdvslegl I-le could not keep the tears fromhhis Eyes when Esmeralda fainted and he murmured HPOOT glfli before he t Ong Tk: 1 t act was the climax of the play and as all the tangled threads b eestftifflit again and the actors reached the height of their acting, a gieiingladnezss hllecl ldncle Ted's heart to see Dave at last win over lcllflrs. Rogers. He believed firmly in the old saying All things CO1'1'16 -HFOHH 110 . .11 -b t 't.!7 hlm zjviicllilridel liglnzib' that night many things were said between that couple, who were neither too old, nor too young to a'PPfeC1atle the Play' and In appre' ciating it become more thoughtful of others. - h And so, Oh! Seniors, you know not how 1T12l11Y bufclens You have ' Clped to lighten, and how many lives you have helped to brighten by your play, beautiful in sentiment and wonderful in execution. , FANNY LEW -MCCOY.-'13, www Ei I DETECTIVE DUB. .As Dub Reynolds awoke from a long and unbroken night's sleep, he yawned, stretched out his arms and lay contentedly back upon the bed. Gaz- ing upward, he could .see the early morning sunshine streaming through the roof of his tent and hear the chatter of birds as they gathered around the bushes where crumbs had been thrown the night before. t s It was indeed a n1ost unusual turn of luck, as his chum, Fatty Stewart called it, that they with their friend Billy Lawrence, should have the op- portunity of acting as guide. A party of Easterners had come down the VVhite river on a camping expedition, and hnding that they were not so familiar with the 'country as they had at first supposed, had stoppied at the little town -of Carney, that stood upon the eastern bank of the river, in search of guides. The three 'boys who were almost of an age, at once volunteered their services, and after a little consideration on the part of the campers, were chosen to fill the place. In the midst of his pleasant meditations, Dub was rudely 'aroused by a truly aimed missil in the shape of Fatts shoe, a.nd the excited voice of Billy Eawrenice as he told in a hurried manner, of the escape -off one of the five 12 'E oa s at belonged to the p-arty. Dub. turned over, picked up the shoe a.nd was maki ng ready to send it I ..- ...I .. I THE GLEAM. 83 back with equal force, when he caught the drift of Billy's conversation ,VVhat'fs that, one of the boats gone ? he exclaimed. Yes, and itlooks mighty like somebody has cut the line that held her, returned Billy. But I say, you lazy, good-for-nothing sleepy head, dig out and lom 3 SCa1'Ch111g Party, W111 YOU? If every one of us was as lazy as you two are, the bloomin' old boat would be clear down to the falls long before this. b O Well, ClOn't get in a hurry, Fatty and me will do more good in five minutes when we do get there than you'd do all day. O Shut up, replied Billy, as he hurriedly left the tent and made his way over Where the rest of the party were putting out in pursuit of the runaway boat. By the time Fatty and Dub reached the river bank, there was not a boat to be seen, so remembering that they had not had any breakfast, they made their way quickly back to camp. After a most refreshing breakfast of coffee, potatoes, bacon and eggs, Fatty retired to his ha-mmock to enjoy an h-our or so with a good book. Dub, who liked to hunt better than read any book, picked up his gun and slowly wended his way through the timber, promising not t-o return without either some nice young squirrels or rabbits. In the meantime, the searching party had covered many miles, but no trace had been found of the missing boat, and so about two olclock in the afternoon all were once more back at the landing. Billy at once set out to find his friends, and at last found Fatty enjoying a nap under a large oak tree that furnished plenty of nice cool shade. Seeing that he was asleep, Billy approached cautiously and seizing the unsuspecting slumberer unsermoniously dumped him out of the hammock onto the ground, and then proceeded to give him a good, allround walloping. When he was out of breath, he backed away and said: Well of all the good for nothing, insignificant pieces of humanity, you beat 'em all. The idea of you 1-ounging around up here dreaming of the merry spring time, while all the rest of us were working our heads off and making blisters on our hands trying to find that boat. . Did you. find it? calmly askeid Fatty, dreamily gazing up at 'h1m. No we didn't find it, answered his irate companion, and I see you and Dub didn't even wash the dishes, and I'll bet you swiped the last of that coffee. Vtfhile Bill was yet exercising his unlimited vocabulary on Fatty, Dub Y , . I-Qeynglds Put in his appearance, his ril-le over his shoulder and five or six young rabbits swinging from his belt, I-Iello, Billy, find anything of the o H e answer, he replied jeeringly, I told You Fatty and me ld t b? was his greeting, and upon receiving a negativ 84 ' THE GLEAM. could do more good in ive minutes than you could do in a day, only you d'd ' V ' a chance. . , I , , 1 1'1,fYi1Lveg: Plenty of Chance n.O.W, if you think you. re so grand, Id 'like to see you try returned Billy, who was tenderly examining a large blister h' '- hth d. A on lsfigou gaige Fattness and me till the end of this week and I'll bet we have the boat or the fellow that stole it, said Dub. Alright, this is Tuesday, and and I'll give youmost honorable self-as- serting gentlemen, till Saturday to give the informativofnj' sarcasticly replied Billy. The bet wasmade and that evening Fatty and Dub retired early into their tent to discuss a plan which Dub had thought out while hunting that morning. Wheii they were comfortably seated, Dub began.: You know when Bill was here this morning, he said that maybe someone had swiped our boat and so I wentdown to the landing and t-ook a look at the rope that had been cut as some of the others thought, maybe the boat had worn it out on the rocks, but I got a hun-ch that it was swiped and so I made a plan to capture the thief if he ever comes back. But the only thing that stops me is, that I hav'nt any batteries, I have pletny of wire and a bell, but n-o batteries. I-Ie stopped for a moment and Fatty said, say, I know where you could get some batteries, and it isn't so far from here either. VVhere's that? asked Dub, eagerly. You know those fellows that's camping up -on Roger's Bend?. Well t-hey got a couple of gas launches and maybe we could get their batteries. Yes, but they say they are a grouchy bunch, and if that's so, we wouldn't stand any show of getting them. - Wl1y if they are so terrible bad, we neednit 'bother them, but just go and take um some dark night, and just call it borrowing. Sure we could take'n1 back when we're done with 'em. . - Well if that's arranged, go ahead with your plans, grunted Fatty. You see I could put the bell up here and run a wire downto the landing and acr-o-ss the river to the island and then back on the other .Side of the landing so's t.o make a regular pen only have the wire three or four feet under water, so the boats could go over it. p VVhere's the capturelc-ominff in if th b easy ? asked Fatt. You keep still, I'm doing thisi' answered Dub, Then I'll fasten a Wire to each boat and hang -a drag from the back end so that when the b t ' t k as , e Oats can get out of the pen that , i I oa is a en over the crosswire, the drag wire will touch it and from a connection and rind the bell, Qsee ?j D Eh 'huh, I guess I see said Fatty, but I'm going to bed U W I l THE GLEAM. 85 If Go on,- who, cares? but remember that we're going after those batteries tomorrow night. The Vneict morning both boys were up bright and early, even in time to f11'ag.B111y the 9Pl1'ly One, out of bed. They worked busily all forenoon in- Slalllllg U16 bell Hlld 1'L1n111ng the circuit wires to the island and back to camp. I As the afternoon wore away the boys became impatient and finally about Slii oclock, they drifted gently away from the landing and started on their mission. By the time they had come to within a-hundred yards of the Rogers Bend landing, it had grown quite dark. The frogs 'began to croak all along the bank. Somewhere, away out in 'the woods, the whippoorwill sent out its long lonesome cryg and a little hoot owl that sat in the toapimost branches' of a tree that overhung the bank answered. The shadows grew deeper and deeper as night settled down. . As the bo-ys sat silently, screened by the deeper shadows of the bank, the faint notes of a banjo and guitar floated down to them. Fatty leaned forward and whispered Gee, this is a great night for our adventure, they're celebrating. A Yes replied Dub but keep still, a whisper carries awful well on the water and there might be some one hanging around. just as he finished his answer, both boys listened intently. From far down the river came the 'faint chug of a motor. It camel nearer and nearer, but at last came to a halt at the landing. After what seemed sufficient time for the men to get the camp, the 'boys silently di-pped oars and drifted down to the landing. Yes, there were the motor boats. T-he row boat slid longside and came to a stop. Dub climbed stealthily over into the launch. found the battery box by the aid of his search light. quickly severed connections, picked it up and crawled back to his own boat. The return to camp was made quickly and without mishap. Reaching the landing they securely fastened their boat, adjusted the drag, connected it with the circuit and hurried to camp. After connecting the batteries with the current wires they retired, but left their clothes handy to jump into in case- of alarm. About midnight while both boys were sleeping soundly, first came a sputter, then a crashing alarm as the eight inch bell came into action. Both boys were on their feet in a moment. They jerked on their clothes in the most hurried fashion and picking UD their fifles broke for the landms on th d ad run. As they junrpled aboard one of the boats Md SCVC1'Cd the e e electrical connection, they could hear the hasty dip of oars and they Could gee in the pale mgonlighf, 3, dim Figure shoot into the channel, some fifty feet ahead. The alarm was general ,311 CVe1'Y0 d ne was out to help in the capture. 86 i THE GLEAM. They rowed as they had never rowed 'bCfOfCi and Were fewiflidefl by the knowledge that they were gaining. VVh611 they had Come to Wlthm about twenty or twenty-five feet, Dub raised his rifle andsent a bullet so near the head of the offender, that he immediately laid down his oars and cried H Don shoot Mista, Don sh-oot dis Yef 01, nigger, he,S don Stopped' Dub laid down his oarsiin ii kind di disgusted manneff WSU FH be? if it ain't a nigger then to Fatt, we'll have s-ome fun anyhow. . I He fbrought the hammer -of his rifle back with anpominous click and hol- lowed, A , i , Hey you nigger, just letyourself drift back and if you bat an eyeul ll put a bullet through you. j 1' This brought new appealsfrom the frightened negro. I I . Don shoot dis yer ol' nigger, he's a coming jest as fast as, dis yer ol' boat'll bring him. . A t Upon the arrival of the rest of the pursuers, Billy was full of questions, but the only answer that he got was, L n 1 I told you Fattness and me could do more good in five minute-s than y-ou could in a week. A A U L ' . A CARL DONALDSON.-'l5. SSN' I wglsssv N HE-R' INTENDED DESTINYY' ' If you are sure that it will never get back to Miss Maltby, ,I shall ex- plain to youhow Ada happened to make this rash statement' A Until about six weeks before our High Sch-ool life' was over, we 'always had an hour for lunch, which I shall agree with Miss Brown, seemed to be a waste of time. But during our Senior year, the Latin class, which had to translate twenty-five lines of Virgil, every sixth period, conceived theidea that this hour would be a good time to read our lesson together, or rather to listen to Nellie and Iola read, and for the rest to copy. Vlfe, in this bunch, called ourselves 'fThe Latin Committee, ' and Corn4Stalk served in the place of Robert's Rules. We always occupied the northeasternvcorneri of the study hall, each day, from about 12:15 until, well, until Miss Henry 'rap- ped on .her deck. ' - But Latin was'nt always the only subject under discussion' it ranged from Miss Phelps' parting words, which usually were: I have the name? of THE GLEAM. 87 iifteen eo le from this clas H destiny.p lgfeither were the pseovpffeo vidiimdcivcjfrq ioday' eiren to. our future ho CO t d h it Q p e in crested in Latin, the only ones W Hgrega e eie, for Milton often came back he always beat it for our corner, not being interested in Latin, however, and when he came we always lost Esther's attention for the rest of that hour. Nevertheless, one day before Milton had arrived, the discussion came up as IS natural to a crowd -of Seniors, as to what we intended to do after our school days. Alberta, who was not a regular member of the Com- mittee, but a very important one when she was there, cast-a smiling glance at Alan and said, For my part, I intend to get married as 50011 as 1 am eighteen. A This struck Ada forcibly, and she immediately :spoke up, 4Well, I would'nt get marriad if my life depended on it. I think it is one of the silliest things a girl can do. My ambition is to be a school teacher, just like Miss Phelps or Miss Brown. Esther, who always has thoughtful opinions, said, I think thatit is everybody's intended destiny to be married. I shall certainly miss my destiny then, answered Ada, for I just despise every boy I ever saw, alm-ost. julia punched me and whispered, It's a good thing james Staten is'nt here, or else'Ada might miss seeing Romeo and juliet tomorrow night, unless he would be conceited enough to think he is the 'almostf Shortly after this, we began gettingout at 12:50. This meant that every one had to study Latin, instead of just Nellie and Iola, fand a few others who studied whenever they felt like itjg and it also put an end to our dis- cussions. The close of school soon came and our Alumni and junior recep- tions afforded us our last and best pleasure together. After commencement, wef all separated, and each went his own way. Ada spent her vacation in the Ozark district, keenly enjoying the freedom of the mountains after her close confinement to her books. While she was here, she met with some rough, uncouth, little m-oun- taineer children, and seeing their need of enlightenmnt, was fired by a philanthropic desire to help them, due probably to Miss Brown's excellent teaching of Shakespeareg and, accordingly she applied for a -position as school teacher in one -of the most remote districts in the mountains. The following September found her duly installed as teacher at school known everywhere as Crackerneck. Her first trouble was in finding Pl boarding place. The houses were so scattered that it WHS V find a place within walking distance of the school, but, finally, to school early, and ery difficult to Mr. and Mrs. Hogg, agreed fo keep her, and they lived two miles from the school house. Ada was not at all ove1'jOYCd with hal' j90-afdmg Place: and natblflght She was more dissatisfied than ever. Intending to be very h0SP1'fH e to 53 the new school marm, Mr. Hoss gave herthe front room, for hers, and 1. W. K. 1 I if 4 fi If 'il i . ij 1 . f l .I if l il .- it an E l ' lf fi lf. l fi' lx . I 3 j , if I I 1 I l . l . l . li l 4 I l sw l fri :if .E I. I i f :jjj V35 ,. . , 'lj l fi? if vii ,il all - lf? f l P if if if lr E Mil li! m ig fe fl -. . M if 1. il if? li ll: i it iii i1 is f ,lf I 'it V. I ii. Vg! 1 Li i E 7 I l ft si . 1- 4 , i l I I l i 1 K 88 TI-IE GLEAM. Mrt and Mrs. Hoss ,slept upstairs. ' The fffront rooms was the joy of the owner's heart. It was big and em t and hadfour big windows without either curtains or shades, and woijsfijof all the outside door was without a lock. Ada spent two or three nights in untold terror. To keep from hearing the bay of the Wolf and the shriek of the panther, .she Hscrouched under the .cover and began repeating ff.MaCbeth'S g,O1i1oquy as fast aspossible, and seeing even worse than dag- gers before her. . Finally she asked Mr. I-Ioss if there was any danger, and he comforted her by saying, law no, you needn't be a partikle oneasy without that ole dorg S-harp, begins ter barkin,' but if ever he gits ter' barkin' there's shore some- thun' u . Wlijether Ole Sharpf' did it on purpose or not, every night after this about midnight, he began howling and barking loud enough to scare anyone, except Mr. and Mrs. I-Ioss, and they were both deaf. .After several more nights of untold agony, the school-marm, raising her -voice to its highest pitch, said, Mrs, Mule, I mean Mrs. Hoss, I shall have to have another room or board somewhere else, for I am absolutely afraid to sleep in that front room. After repeating this statement several times, Mrs. Mule, finally un- derstood, and promised to let Ada sleep upstairs, and, she and Mr. I-Ioss would sleep below. The next night, when Mrs. I-Iofss piloted Ada up the rickety ladder to the attic chamber, which was :perfectly bare ex-cept for the bed and two large carpet bags under the rafters, she protidly explained 'that nothing could ever get into that room, because it wars where they kept Cousin Mary Plunket when she was crazy, and-this was the very window' where she jumped out and killed herself' This explanation gave the same sort of comfort that Mr. I-Ioss' conso-lation cercerning Sharp and the other room had given. ' Not able to endure the l-oneliness -of fthe room and the awfulness of her dreams, and imaginations, she decided to get another boarding place, nearer school, if possible. At length she secured an almost ideali' boarding place, with Mrs. Ryner, whose house consisted of two rooms, a kitchen and bed room. They came near not makin-g an agreement for Mrs. Pyner insisted on sleeping between blankets, while Ada preferred sheets, but Mrs. Ryner compromised the matter by agreeing to put blakets on her side and sheets on the other side, for the stylish school-marmf' . , This arrangement was not very good, for many wild tangles of cover ensipedy- but, for all that, it was very satisfactory to Ada because her room- Ei Erigvaigtili the habit of getting up in the middle of the night to replenish I , 1 on such ,occasions she went in her bare feet and returned to bed with an ample supply of chips and splinters clinging to her feet- During all of these trials and tribulations Ada still clung to the hope THE GLEAM. 89 of up-lifting the community, so she decided to organize a literary society and to teach Shakespeare to the mountaineers. Accordingly, she announc- ed to the children that there would be a literary meeting at the schoolhouse on the following Saturday night, and told them to urge their parents to come. .On the appointed evening Ada and her landlady made their way thro' the drizzly rain to the school house. They anxiously entered, but found to Ada's discouragement, a room full o-f rough menj many were drunk and all were spitting -on the clean floor which she and the pupils had laborious- ly scrubbed. Seeing the impossibility of her project she stole out of the door and left the 'Literary Society' to work out its -own destiny. Amid such discouragements the winter passed away. The ignorance and increasing indifference of the pupils, completely discoura-ged Ada and spring found her longing intensely to be at home again and see some of her friends and class-mates who would understand her state of affairs and know how to sympathize with her in these trying difficulties. After the trees began to whitten with their blossoms and the fragrant odors from the wid flowers began to fill the air, she felt like she couldn't stand to finish her other month of school with-o-ut seeing some of her friends. At this juncture, a buggy stopped before the school house and she recog- nized the driver to be her old friend, james Staten whom she had not heard from since commencement. In her joy to see some one fromhome she gave him such a hearty welcome that he entirely forgot the cool treatment which he had received, or rather imagined he had received, from her on our event- ful Commencement Day. At noon the teacher and her friend took a long walk, really so l-ong that she forgot to return by one o'clockg and he explained to her that the offi- cials of The Commercial National Bank in Kansas City had 'sent him down to these parts as cashier in their branch department in a neighboring town. When'they returned to the school they found the house a mass of flow- ers and HKONGHATULASHIONSH was written all over the board. Each face, but the teacher didn't take the joke so goodnaturedly. Shek made them erase the board and intended to have the flowers all taken out, especially the arch over the doorway, but, when She saw how ood naturedly james took the affair, She decided it Wias fllrfny S . after all, and she continued the afternoon with a much better d1sP051t1OU towards her pupils than usual. ' School was dismissed early that afternoon, and Ada gladly accepted her , ft . visitors invitation to take a short drive. because spefgflmg 1151 long a er noons at her undesirable boarding place was a ve1'Y te wus As they drove along the shadY and unconsciously began fepeatmgf Can any pleasure in life compare, child wore a broad grin on his road she felt like she was at home again i l ll i r i i g. ! I : t A l fl i li e F l ' l l l : J Ei ,U 'li I t llc ii l. lift ti il T , , tie . ,- S ty! lil it .ll if it V 1 t t lg Hi' . gtl P it Fi tl ll. it ilfa ll! lte t ill lilr ,if it ti . - it 90 .THE GLEAM. ' To a charming drive in the balmy air P , She really felt happy, for the Hrst time in eight long months which had seemed to her like eight years. f The conversation began with reminiscenses, for Ada always enjoyed feasting on past pleasures when there were no present ones in sight for her. Then came the dark side when she began relating her difficulties, discourage- an her undesirable work in the moun- tains, and declaring that if school teaching was at all like that experience had been, she wou,ldn't teach another term if her life depended on it. james at once took up this statement and diligently tried to persuade her that teaching was all the same way, to angextent at least, and, anyhow, it always made lonesome old maids out of jolly girls. This word lonesome struck very forcibly at exactly the right spot, for she had certainly had a seige of thatsince her arrival in the Ozarksg and eventually, would you be- lieve it, our '12 Senior who but one year previous had 'despised every boy she ever saw, almost and who would never get married if her life depend- ed on it, was listening and re:p1lying to some very favorable proposition for the future. . ETI-IEL MILTON.-'12, ments and loneliness, since she had beg W 1 i ' , 'rim GLEAM, 91 Essays. RICHMOND THE HISTORIC CAPITAL OF THE CONFEVDERACY. U. D. C. Prize Essay. .lhe civilization of the Southland combined three great civilizations, which since the dawn of history have enlightened the world. It possessed the philosophic tone of the Grecian, the dominant spirit of the Roman, and the guardfulness of the individual rights o fthe Anglo-Saxon. Over all brooded a softness beauty and allurement, the joint product of chivalry and Christianity. Individuality began with the nrst permanent Anglo-Saxon set- tlement. For two hundred and Hftyiyears its tendency was towards exclus- iveness and c-onservatism. Virginia came with the consent o fthe crown, the blessing of the church, and under the guardianship of men of high standing in England. The cause with the cereinonials of an elaborate civil government. It was Virginia who planned the first cooperation of the colonies, then their consolation, and finally their establishment as free and independent stotes. It was Virginia who held the first legislative assembly, and the first trial by jury in America. It was Virginia who first emblazoned on her standard the emblem of her principle, Virginia for Constitutional Liberty. A Virginian wrote the Declaration of Independence. This act created the revolution, and a Virginian led the armies to victory. Wlien England surrendered, a Virginia intellect stimulated with Southern patriot- ism, created the Federal Government. From the beginning the light of liberty flamed like a beacon. The vista of years stretching back into the sixteenth century .presents an imposing avenue of events and deeds. Some momentous occurences, borne up as we era markers in the country's progress are spectacularly brilliant. T Virginia was the soil-its fiower was Richmond. Nature has dealt bounteously with Richm-ond. The climate is a benifi- cent one. Great trees shade and fi-owers beautify quaint homes. At the end of broad, level streets the James river glistens, as it fiows around verdant, KK ' ' -- t wooded isles and rushes over craggy rocks to the sea. It is the meiiies place and the most picturesqu It is in a land of balm and bloom, of bird song, of the warm hand and open door.-A land of languorous peace, yet over no other section have the war- clouds rolled so heavily. Richmond the historic. Richmond the '. Capital of the L-ost Cause. Richmond the center of that luridly and vividly tragic drama, the civil war. Through the ages as such it will ever be invested witlg pathetic interest. .As the tourist passes through its S'C1'CCt5, the Clank 0 Cavalry still echoes through the decades, and his eyes rest on beautiful hills, e I have seen in America, wrote Thackeray. 92 ' THE GLEAM. . ' , 'ff th Cl' Cl tl t still bear the scar of musketry, and the gaping Wounds 0 C lea aiiflillery Every avenue leads to a laattlegmund' The gif Whispers 3 Story . . , - ' ' er e of asso- f 1 1 Sustamed Sleees and heroic defenses. The SCHSIUVC 11 V O O1 3 D ' . . - ' 1 r th ciation forever winces at the thought ,of this city of 5UP1'eme he Ocaus 1 Q final massacres, the Hame, the blood, the tears- O, Richmond, Richmond, Upon thy seven hills, i n Like one of old we wot of welli I They fame the wide world illlsf' A On the north bank of the river Cold Harbor he's sleeping in the sun- shine, yet it witnessed one of the most terrible encounters of the world's wars. There alone Grant's army lost live thousand men. in an hour. i The page of history tells us thirty thousand Americans were killed within l a radius of thirty miles of Richmond. In the immediate envirous of this city of patriotism and culture, were fought fifteen pitched battles and twenty- Five sharp engagements. Around the city are five battlegrounds, on which the most terrible carnage of the Civil lfVar occurred. H-ow many stones over the unknown graves of gallant heroes, who gave their lives at Seven Pines and Fair Gaksl Here in the swaps the great warriors Lee, -McClellan and Johnston struggled through the l-ong, sultry summer days a half cen- tury ago. Before Richm-o-nd Lee foiled the troops of McClellan. The gallant Capitol, after four years filled with high hopes, reckless gayety and solemn mourning, surrended when the noble, undaunted Lee had but a few starving veterans to op-pose the splendid, puissant host of Grant. Never has such an army existed, as that, which march stained and battle-scarred, st-ood with Lee and Jackson like a wall of ire between McClellan and' Richmond. It was not discipline, it was not traditional renown, it was not generalship alone which sustained. It was personal, individual courage and devotion to principles which created a force, which welded it together, and made it invincible, until it was almost extirpated. The army was worn away as a blade is worn by constant use. It retained it's temper, while but a fragment existed. The mills of battle and grim starvation ground the heroic Rich- mond Blues into dust. Yet there remained a valor, which might well have inspired as famous legends as those of the early Christians. The stress of battle and siege was not conducive to authorship. The South was not making poets and historians. It wasenriching history with heroes and statesmen. Harpers lay dead and dying on every field. No one called for the song. Years afterward, charming, talented southern women, struck the cord of memory in the hearts of their companions, who were in the Capitol of the Confederacy, during the four years of t-he war. They have given us a vision of how charming this historic city looked, when the Confederate C-ongress was established there, in the autumn of -eighteen-siXty- one. The flower of southern manhood was there. The proudest and might- p TI-IE GLEAM. 93 1 ' l . - pcs were high, for the army had won glOf1'OL1S lV1Ct01'16S against remarkable odds. Great men had fallen, as occa- S101'1'dC1'1'131'1dCd. New heroes sprang to fill the viod. An enthusiastic spirit pervaded the atmosphere. VThe boom of guns was not a distant sound, and the solemn carrying in of the wounded and dying, became unceasingly fre- quent. But none gave way to apprehension and doubt. Women putting aside the wounds they had dressed in the morning, smiled and devised enter- tainment to lift the burdens, for a time, from the minds and hearts of leaders, legislative and military. Unmeasured hospitality was the order the day. It had become a race characteristic. It was universal. It' was spontaneous. It was easy, generous and refined. lfVomen went daily to the Senate to hear angry debates. VVhen belles met they no longer discussed furbel-ows and floun-ces, but talked of forts and fusilades. In the besieged city was.a people enriching the annals of the human race-a people whose fortitude in defeat was more splendid than their valor in war. It made men noble, gentle, brave.. It made women tender, pure, true, When the victors invaded the smouldering city, their's was a barren tro.phy. Very few typical buildings remain standing. The ivory palaces were destroyed, but myrrh and aloes still breathe among dismantled ru.ins. Perhaps the most noted remains of departed glory is the Capitol. Here were debated and adopted the famous Resolutions of seventeen-hunderd-, ninety-eight. Here sat a convention with Marshall, Madison and Monroe. Here sat the Congress of the Confederate States. Here lay in state generals of the Confederate army, jackson, Hill, Stuart. Here Lin-coln came in pitying triump. In the rotunda is the most valuable marble in America, I-Ioudon'S Vlfashington taken from life. Another relic of anti-bellum days is the Old Bell House, which though erected years previously, is vitally interesting for its association with-the Civil VVar. VVhen its well known peal rang out three quick taps, old men and young rushed with common impulse with heart and hand, ready for a defense of the city. u ' The White House of the Confederacy, the home of jefferson Davis, is rich in historic interest. The various rooms, representing the Southern States, are filled with relics of sacred value. F or this collection and their .that band of devoted loyal women, The Con- federate Memorial Society. Old men in gray Stalld, with tealzdimmed efes and bowed heads, before an old, faded document, a ragged flag and the pf- presentati-on, we are indebted to tures of their beloved commanders. In these quaint rooms how oft the South gathered all her beauty and her chivalry. One SeemS to heal' t C laughter of the Davis children at play in the garden. ' ' d l e of a people for Monuments everywhere mark the veneration an 'Ov their heroes. The statu e of Lee, seatd on Travler, is the most noted-a I I I ,n ..,.,-...WV . . , f , I 94 TI-IE GLEAM. perfect representation of the foremost soldier, the knightliest gentleman and the noblest citizen of his race. - ' i ' l A reat pyramidal monument of granite, covered with Virginia creeper, 8 marks the grave of the Confederate dead. A few miles away, in a National t slee the Federal soldiers who fell in an attempt to capture the ceme ery, p , 4 city, Peace as last had come to the war worn Richmond. She took up the burden of -her traditions, of culture, hospitality and loyalty. Clinging to her old, faith, her old wrecked churches, her old homes, and sweet gardens., the generations come and go. Out of thisatmosphere of devotion, the first Memorial Day was inaug- urated. In the little church where Patrick Herny had fired the colonists, a weary remnant gathered and walked to Oakwood cemetery. The youth of the city marched armed with picks and spades and numbering in their long line veterans moving with the swing of regulars whose deeds had made shin- ing marks on many battlefields. No soldie'rs uniform did they wear. No glittering muskets did they shoulder. No stars anr Bars of the Young Re- public flo-ateo over them. In homely citizen's garb bearing the peaceful im- plements -of agriculture they wer journeying to a shrine of departed valor. It was symboli-c. Young and old negroes faithful to the mem-ory of old masters were busy in love's labor. Carloads of flowers poured into Rich- mond. Every corner of the South sent offerings. Maids and matrons were there to weave emblems, flags and their beloved Southern cross. In the great city of the dead scattered like forget-me-nots over many mounds was the blue badge in ribbon and blossom of the Hichmond Blue. A sim.ple word marked the place where Stuart lay. His grave was 3 m-0-und of flowers, No hero was forgotten, VVhat a story of broken hearts. Here a Texas ranger ended his march, here a lad from the land of flowers. Little Joe Davis' grave was a shrine on which children heaped love and flowers, as they marched past in a pro- cession, until one must thrust aside the garlands to read the inscription that made that tiny tomb a milesone in American history. The hearts beat ten- de1'ly2Afp1r little joe's father who was then a prisoner in Fortress Monroe. H h en Plesident Roosevelt and Congress sent D1X1C,S captured battle ags -ome e southein heart was fired anew. Great though the need of praise which is due Richmond - for the soldierly valor her Sons dis- Played during' the four YCHTES WHT, CVC11 greater praise is due for what her perity stronger became off tlilqxiisrlazifjls If iid aid factory attest her Pros' perity has come. In the words of Mr Rsi rubb IS jmrough Whlch that pios- in Richmond, HY-Ou Stand IO an fo O. posleve t in a Speech at the Capitol lOYallY for our reat Y Y Y ur ra moms and memoflesi You Stand g common country, of today, and for our commo-n flagg, - H DOROTHY GEORGEN.--'13. THE GLEAM. Q5 1 THE VALUE or ToTAL AESTINENCE TO A ILIFE. Kiwi J W. C. T. IU. ldrize lilssay. 1f1C 1S a rnocker, strong drink 1S raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby 1S not W1SC.,, i Vievved from a philiological, a financial, and a moral standpoint, total ab- stinence is absolutely necessary to the welfare of a human life. To more fully appreciate the real value of a temperate life, we must first see the evils of intemperance, , Of course, as every oneknows, there are many harmful narcotics. .But in the brief space we will devote our time to ointinof out the bad effects of alcohol alone. Wlien a man first takes a small quantity of alcohol in any form into his system, he thinks he is doing himself no harm. This first drink may pr-oduce very little visible effect, but it's apparent immunity is a gateway through which all imm-oderate drinking steadily creeps. This immunity is only apparent, each recovery fro mthe poisonous- effects, leaving the nervous system with less ability to- resist the next. An irreparable harm has been done by Vtheidrinker before he is aware of his condition, and though he thought when he took that first drink, that he was doing himself no harm, he soon finds himself a victim to the most horrible and deadly monster that ever held 'a human being in the clutch of its bony lingers of death. The first noticeable effect of an alcholic drink is an apparent stimulation of the nerve-centres to greater activity, which leads many to believe that they can write better and think more brilliantly than with-out such a stimu- lus, but the alcohol really produces a condition of excitement in the brain, which may properly be compared to the introduction of a poisonous serpent into the midst of a company of people in an inclosure from which they can find no escape. There Would, no doubt, be great excitement and intense ac- tivity in the company, but the motive in all their efforts would be that of self-preservation. I T A This increased activity would not be likely to result in any worthy ac- complishment, and, in all probability, when the serpent is removed, each member of the company would find himself in a state o-f fatigue, which would prevent any, even natural effort until after a .pleriod o-f rest. Thus it is, when the cause o fthe unusual mental activity is removed, the brain must have a complete rest before it can be trusted to do any appreciable P s 1 I amount of work. Sir Benjamin Richardson in speaking of the ill effects of alcohol on men, 'brain brain-workers, of whom Poe is an excellent example, said, Of all I I this traitor Workers are the least able to bear up under the ravages of alcohol: who enters the most precious treasury, the citadel of the mind. Dr, Sims Woodhead of the Cambzridge University says, A mall Undef 96 THE GLEAM. the inliuence of small quantities of alcohol has no right to believe 1113 own senses I-Ie cannot trust them to give him correct facts, and he cannot rely ' , . as upon his judgment for the interpretation of facts. Alcohol seems to be a physical as well as a mental Stiml11US- The muscles seen to be strengthen-ed and the drinker is able to do a little more work than bef-ore, but just as the brain needs rest after the ef- fects of the alcohol are removed, so do the muscles, and after a brief period, the amount of labor do-ne is decreased rather than increased. Another common use of alcohol is to give heat to the body. This pro- pertv of alcohol may be illustrated thus: It is well known that when Sulphur- ic Acid and water are mixed, in about equal parts, much heat is liberated. The acid will also corrode and eat up iron. Now, suppose an engineer should adopt the plan -of mixing Sulpfhuric Acid and water when he wants to get up steam. Wouldn't this be a splendid plan? The water would be rapid- ly -heated. But examine the engine, it is being rapidly destroyed by the strong acid and the engineer will soon fin-d that he must either discontinue th-is method of getting up steam, or would take the engine to the rep-air shop. Thus, the oxidation of the alcohol has a strong affinity for oxygen and when mixed with the blood, robs the corpuscles of the Oxygen which should go to the tissues. ' , Of all children who most .deserve pity and compassion are those who receive -from their parents a hereditary desire for strong drink. This appe- tite, which is first cultivated in the home, steadily grows upon the child until it beco-mes a most evil and soul-destroying habit.. Thus it is, that one who persists in drinking alcoholic liquors, endangers not only thewelfare of his own body and soul, but also of all who are dependent upion him while he lives, and in this manner the evil of his own course may be transmitted to generations th-at follow. - A drunkard soon robs himself and family of what money he may have, and leaves his family to suffer. Rail-road men and men .of other responsible positions in the business world have at last begun to realize that they must have strong, able-minded, and bodied men in their service, and thus a man who is intemperate in his habits is barred from these paying positions, and in most cases he isf-orced to accept a position in which his wages are hardly large enough to keep the wolf from the door at the best, but, instead of spending the money in such a way as to kee.p himself a.nd family from want, he rushes to the saloon as soon as the meager earnings are in his hand and buys the liquor that is curs- ing his -own immortal soul, while it laughs at and mocks his hungry wife and children at -home. 25 Besides the evil effects alchohol produces physiologically, and gnan- THE GLEAM. Q7 cially, it effects also the moral development of the one who indulges in its use. Alcohol blights the moral nature because it perverts the physical from its 111Of2ll health. No man can be righteous and do right when his nerves are shattered, his brain all muddled, his intelligence confused and darkened, his Will paraliized by continued indulgence in alcoholic drinks. Dr. A. Florel of the University of Zurich, tells how alcohol effects the academic youth of Germany. To be convinced of the moral effect of beer drinking, one only need study in Germany the beer jokes, the beer conver- sation and the beer literature. Among the academic youth of Germany the drinking of beer has truly killed their ideals and the ethics and has produced an indescribable vulgarityf' - It is therefore a moral, if not a religious duty of youth deliberately to seek to maintain a social mind by maintaining a sound body. In conclusion, as Honorable Richmond P. Hobson said in -one of his recent speeches: In the light of the truth that every drink endangers health, the terrible truth that alcohol destroys and degenerates, there can be from the standpoint of the individual, but one rational course of life, with regard to this deadly poison and that is a life of absolute total absti- nencef' A NELLIE SLAUGHTER.-312. -wsss-sw set- Svxs . ss HIDDEN FORCES.-REVEALED AND UNREVEALED. Second Prize Essay. . Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee. u .QAHC1 this our life, exempt from public haunt, iiinds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ' . . - - ld ' k out in Our life is- surrounded with mystery, our very vvor. his a spec boundless Space? and not only the period of our own individual life, but that - ' t ' the eternity of time. of the whole human race is, as it were, but 3 momfm m VVe, who have had our minds opened to the fountains of knowledge: and have been taught in a tolerable degree t-o exercise our faculties, vvlll find SOUFCCS of inexhaustible interest in all that surrounds us. . . . - i t VVe are but beginning to realize theivvonderful fange and Comllileiflly of ture yye do not know what gives its lovehness of form to t e 1y, - na ' ' - ' f rance to the rose, We kn-ow not in . L, h lt, its rag its depth of color to t e V10 e U p .mitate the Cheer- . . can 1 what consists the venmoin of the v1per HUYm0fe than We THE GLEAM. 98 . ful movements of the dove. Earth, air, fire and water are all mystefi-CS to us As we stretch out our hand we do not touch anything, the properties -of e mastered while all nature is inviting us to talk earnestly with which we hav her, understand her, subdue her and be blest by her. I i i I-Iow vividly we realize the great hidden forces in the beautiful sky pic- tures, when the wh-ole heaven from Zenith to horizon be-comes one molten seaof color and ire, every cloud turns into a mass of gold, every wave into an unstained crimson, purple and scarlet colors, which have not words .in language, no ideasin the mind-things which -can only be conceived while they are visible, the intense hollow blue of the upper sky melting through it all, showing by the lilmy, formless body of the transparent vapor the marvelous spectacle of the rainbow- God's bow in the clouds. - So unlike anything else is the heavenly messenger that it scarcely seems to belong to this world. It seems color itself, but how we perceive color is not yet under- stood. 1 If we could, as living atoms, with sight and sense, plunge down under the water, what a world of forces and .wonders would we then inhabit! VV e should see a fairy kingdom, with the very strangest of creatures. We should see something that looked like a lilmy hleart's-ease. It's four out- spread petals would be incir-cled by a curious wheelwork and network of threads, making their way about the flower. They would soon disappear, but where, would be unknown, for around the stem is raised a tube of golden brown bulbs, all regularly piled on each other. But see! some crea- ture passes by and the flower vanishes as a Hash, within its tube. We stand appalled, unable to solve the mystery of the great hidden forces involved in these complex organisms. Let us rise from these subterranean depths and see the exquisite possi- bilities science reveals. The mud we tread under -our feet in the street is a grimy mixture of sand, soot, clay and water. Separate the 5and- 1et the atoms arrange themselves in peace according to their nature, and we have the opal. Separate and purify the clay and it becomes a saphire. Take the soot, and if properly treated, it will become a diamond. Lastly, water purnied and distilled, will become a dew drop, Ucrystallize into a lovely star. Agam, you may see as you will in any shallow pool eith-er the mud lying at the bottom, or the image of the heavens above, It is almost impossible to explain any natural phenomenon fully and completely without a union of several, perhaps of all the sciences. The most important forces of nature are often hidden away in unexpected places. Take the fruit of a tree, and break it open, small Seeds are revealed Break one of these open and where seemingly you see nothing there dwells a mighty . 7 b tree. It 1S the functions of science not to deprive this universe of its mysterv and wonder, but to reveal the mystery and wonders of common thinog Those fern-like forms, which overspread your window pane on a for-say . THE GLEAM. 99 morning, illustrate a Vvondel-ful display of force. Breathe u Ola this and reduce the solid crystalline film to the liquid condition ijhen watclhalifs appearance for a time. After having ceased breathing theiilm abandoned to the action of its own forces for an instant, appears alive Lines of motion run through it, molecule unites with molecule until finally the whole film passes from the state of liquidity through this state of motion to its final crystalline repose. ' D Hardly less wonderful is the play of force by Whiich molecules of Water build themeslves into sheets of crystal, which every winter roof ponds and lakes. We are apt to overlook the wonderful when it becomes common. The beauty of the actual progress of molecular architecture is delightful and astonishing. The molecules -o-f a piece of ice may be taken agundef, Send 3 beam of light through a plate of ice, a portion is absorbedg the intercepted heat melts the ice internally. The delicate silent action of this beam within the ice -forms beautiful stars, with six rays, resembling flowers with six petals, over the white surface, expanding in size as the action of the-beam continues. Invisible in an amorphous s-olution, invisible in every drop of water, lies the marvel of crystalline force, which only requires the with- drawal of opposing forces to bring it into action. That, discoveries innumerable, marvelous and fruitful, await the success- ful explorers of nature no one can doubt. Science has revealed to u-s bound- less space, crowded with worlds innumerable, infinite time, populated by countless existences, interminable organisms, hitherto invisible, but full of delicate and iridescent loveliness. She has been a great Arch-angel of Mercy,' in her devotion t-o the service of man. She has trampled on disease, she has shown the miner how to work in the very presence or fthe dreaded fire-damp, she has enlisted the sunbeam to produce' for us beyond criticism, with absolute fealty, the faces of friends we love, and yet what we know is as nothing compared to what we do not know, the great ocean- of truth lies undiscovered before us. Who can say on the verge -o-f what discoveries we are perhaps even now standing?. It is extraordinary how slight a barrier may stand for years between man and important unrevealed forces. We feel that we are on the way to higher mental powers, that problems which range of human thought will receive their still further advance. not look forward, when a spirit Of SCiC11'C5C those vast regions in which the progress of ' tuall commenced and in active progress! now seem to us 'beyond the solutions and open the way to To what then may we inquiry shall spread through civilization, its sure precursor, is ac' y . And what may we not expect from the exertions of powerful minds called 'ff t from any which have yet into action under circumstances totally di eren ' . existed in the world and over an extent of terr1tofY far surpassing that which , - ' tellectf' has hitherto produced the whole haivest of hurgyifg VVITTHAR.-12' IOO T THE GLEAM. UNIVERSAL DISARMAMENT. English- Prize Essay. p n I Peace is the happy, natural state of man, war his corruption, his dis- grace. . b A peace is of the nature of a conquestg for then both parties nobly are ued and neither art loser. u Subdwar, horrible wzijr, 531-billing the precious blood of man. 'VV-HT, .def:1l11?g and disgracing humanity. Is the whole fabric of modern national life built on a superstition? Why should -war exist today-the Twentieth Century? It is true that in Roman times the conquet of a territory meant an vantage o fthat state and its citizens It often meant the enslavement of the conquered people and the acquisition of wealth in the form of slaves. In mediaeval times, a war of conquest meant, booty in the shape of mo-vable property and land parcelled out among the chiefs of the conquering nation. At a later period, conquest inviolved an advantage to the reigning house of the conquerin.g nationg it was mainly the squabbles of rival sove- reigns for prestige and power. At a still later period, civilization gained by the conquest of savage peoples, in that order was substituted for disorder. In the period of colon-ization of newly dicvoered land the premption of such territory gave the overflowing population homes where social or politi- cal conditions were better than those imposed by alien nations. But we are not considering any of these conditions. We are concerned with fully civilized rival nations in fully occupied territory. And neither domination nor predominance of armament, nor the command of the sean can do anything for commerce and labor. Again, in days .gone by no gentleman could submit to the co-urts a ques- tion which affected his honor. I-le must fight. If another made an insulting remark about a member of a man's family, that man must ,challenge the insulter to aduel. The day of the duel is passed. Men h.a.ve learned that might does not make right. They have learned that men who believe that they have been insulted or wron.ged are not the best judges of the facts. Then if men have advanced that far, nations should learn the same lesson. If there can be no decision between nations other than the arbitrament of war, and it is the duty of every nati-on to maintain a military establishment sufficient to revenge every insult, there will never be an end. .It is commonly believed that the po-wer, prosperity and happiness of a nation depend on the military and naval strength, It is 3 Common belief that national existence must be defended by arms. But this is not so. For it the wealth and prosperity of a nation depended upon its porlitical power the prosperity of small nations would be less than that of great nations. -This is not the case. The trade per ca ita of th ' 11 tr d .4 b 'P e sma nations is in excess of the a C per capita of the large nations. The English talk as though their carry- 'ri-in GLEAM. . 101 ing trade was in some special sense the result oi their navy. Yet Norway has a carrying trade which, relative to its population, is nearly three times greater than England's. And armies and navies are not necessary to protect the wealth of a country against aggressions of its powerful neighbors. Wie see the proof of -this, in that capitalist of Europe conclude the investment of powerless Holland and Sweden are from ten to tvventy Per Cent Safer than those de- tended by gigantic armaments, because modern wealth requires no defenseg it cannot be confiscated. Enlightened public opinion has come to appreciate the inhumanity -of war. But public opinion, far from restraining preparations for war, is push- ing them further. - ln Europe today hundreds of thousands -oi men devote their entire time training for a possible war. They are not producers a.nd add nothing to the wealth of the country. Millions of dollars are devoted to the maintenance of navies, each nation striving to out do the other. If this money were used for other purposes, what good it would do. The co-st of one battleship and its twenty years' upkeepi' would build l,400 churches, or by 7,000 farms or give a college education to 14,000 men or women or build 40 mammoth Y. M. C. A. buildings. There is no doubt that the public sentiment in favor of peace is steadily gaining headway in the world-such headway as is bound to have an effect on the governing classes. The working classes of the world are awakening. Their enthusiasm for war grows less and less. Look at the time oi the Manchurian war when the Russian peasants were driven at the point of the bayonet into the ranks. To the revolt in Barcelona when the King of Spain tried to send an army into Northern Africa. To the peaceable gathering a short time ago in Berlin of 200,000 Socialists who den-ounced the attitude of their government toward France,-and resolved not to take up arms against their comrades in that country. They are alive to the awfulness of war, for it is their y-oung men that go to fight, often times never to return. ' One hundred and fifty years ago a man prophesied that We 0011151 110'f hope for universal peace, until all the world became politically organiaed, and that such an event was not possible until the majority of the nations l , . . had acquired a representative form of government. If that man s vision was . ' . b ' 0' true, then have the conditions of a w-orld peace come amazingly near eing realized today, despite the big armaments in Europe and Asia. h A world peace! Disarmament! VV'hat does it mean? Tt means 'E e abandonment of the policy of withdrawing from the -produetlve fO1'CCS of the nation, of vast a other purpose than to get ready for a possible war. i for nations to think of uniiversal mounts of huma.n energy and acquired capital for no The causes of the change,-the CQUSC peace is due mainly to Cgmplex iinancial inter dependence of the capitals of 102 THE GLEAM. th orld New York is dependent on Paris, Paris on Berlin, Berlin on e w . . London and a disturbance in. one country causes it in another. If a German erallshould invade Great Britain he would have to carefully guard the iigk of England or the English people would draw so heavily on the bank, and the bank of,England so heavily on Berlin that the general's own bank account would be ruined. A - The great obstacle in the way of disarmament is the uneveness of nations. They are not on the same p-lane of advancement, nor are the cir- ossible action the same. Take Germany.. She 0CCU1JiSS the central portion of the great plain of Northen Europe. On every side her frontiers are level, and a military spirit prevails there that is not found else- where. This is not all. The union. of Germany in a new national bond' in 1871 was followed by a birth of commercial and colonial ambition impossible before. It is highly commendable that Germany desired to take her place among the first ranks in the world after her long struggle. But it is different with England, France and the United States. Their bonds of union have been established much longer, they have had time to develop in all lines, and a military sp-irit is not so prevalent in these countries as in Germany. cumstances of pl But there has been proposed one goo-d plan for universal disarmament, the National Court of Arbitration. If the peace of the world i.s to be perman- ently maintained, there must be masters of economic knowledge at w-ork with the same preparedness that the masters of warships and armies show. The establishment of a permanent court of arbitration would probably prove a successful operation. There is now a good prospect that three nations-England, France, and japan-will agree to a treaty -of complete arbitration with the United States. Of course there will be no disarmament, -only an agreement to leave all disputes among these nations to arbitration, and with such an understanding between these nations war would not be likely to occur. - . Gr if another step were taken, and an agreement were made by each of the four nations with all the others, to prevent war among other countries, Italy, Spain, and minor European powers would pr-obably join the alliance. Then it would n-o-t be long before the main countries were walled ing the most reluctant coming in because of self-accusation. All really civilized communities should have effective arbitrati-on treaties H11?Or1g themselves. These treaties can cover almost all questions liable to arise 'between .such natio-ns, if each contracting party will respect the others territory, and its absolute sovereignty within that territory, and let all other P'0SS1b1C Subiects Of Controversy be submitted to arbitration. And Granted . , , g Smcemy 'Of PUTPOSC, the great powers of the world should find no insur- mountable difficulty in reaching an agreement which would put an end to THE GLEAM. 103 the present costl and - f - ments Y growmg ektfav-3g311Ce of expenditure on' naval arma- slavedri Wifi 1? -blind Obedlelice to P1-lmmve Instinct and Old P1'ClUdiCCS, CH- to remaii uliimlnd Olencex which makes .the reversal of old ideas unpleasant, spillin oceans f liimlilatlon Qi thls Curlous SUPCfSfifiO11? Shall WC CO11'CiH'L16 avail ES nothing? OO , wasting money to accomplish something which will LEAH IARRARD.-'l2. sem. Q ws?- ies! Miscellaneous. THE FAMILY REUNION. ,-iii-4 Yes, we certainly worked that day, worked hard too. You should have seen Alan with his collar off and his sleeves rolled up, waving a dish towel in the air and doing his best to keep up with Odelia's . . -, d fast dish-washingg or Lysle, his height much increased by a step lad er, tacking pennants to the walls, while Harry handed them to him and Howard . . . . . f stood across the room and criticized. Chaos certainly reigned that ater- irs blockaded the doors, piles of rugs ere lvin promisciously ready to cause the downfall of any -one' except W , g , a few of the calm ones like Iola, who quietly turned aside and went around them. VVild hunts were s-tarted f-or palms and roses and more 'rugs and a mirror and a dozen and one other things. Most of us were working with- out having had anything to eat since morningg once a sack of cookies wan- dered in some way but they lasted only a few minutes, and we were soon exhausted 'xwith the flast ifnace gwe held. VVhat's all this about? iOh, I s was the preparation for that crown- the Alumni Reception. Yes, and we when every-one works his best and no noon. Ferns were in the way, cha thought you understood. VVhy thi ing social event of the Class of fl2- certainly enjoyed it too. I tell you one thinks he is doing enough, it is Oh, if you could only have seen a real pleasure. Miss Brown's room! The way we had 104 TI-IE GLEAM. 't decorated made it look exceptionally beautiful for a plain and simple 1 h ol room 'Of course the black boards were still there, but after looking if ffie beautiful rugs and settees and flowers and ferns, onfe forgot all 21lQOU't them. When we got through up-stairs, vve went. down to the auditorium to see Milto11's pennant machinef' 1VIil'E'O1'1 C6f'CH11?1Y 15 3 genius When If comes to making anything to use on that stage. ID1dn't you hear what that pennant machinel' Was? Well, it was just a little device for running the pennants and mascot of each classacross the stage. It vvas very simple, but it took a master mind to think of it. In the meantime Odelia and Alan had finished the dishes and had them all set on the table, ready for use and our busy afternoon was almost overf VVe sang a few songs in the audi- torium and folded napkins at the same time. After ins.pect1ng every room and .seeing that everything was in readiness for the great event We Went home to reassemble at 8:30. Well, We got back, most of us on time, and put the finishing touches to everything. The guests began to arrive and the receiving people finally got' into position with much difficulty and no little discussion as to who should stand where and what .-was to be done. I feel that a treatise should be Written -on that subject, but I shall leave it novv fo-r something else. When all the guests had arrived, they were asked to go to the audi- torium to 'hear the program. It was opened with a short address of wel- come by joseph Chrisman. Ahe Rev. Ion Vlfard spoke, and his was followed by a musical selection. The rest of the program was also by members of the alumni. I am sure it was enjoyed by all, both alumni and seniors. I Miss Vkfyman, one of our Seniors played several well known selectionsg each member of the alumni had been presented with a card and a pencil which he now used to write dovvn the names of the selections played by Miss 'Wyman While the cards were being collected, the Seniors quietly slipped out and vvent back of the stage. Then We set the pennant machinef' going. It worked well too and aroused much class spirit among the Alumni. Short UD talks were given by Mr. I-Ienry Bundschu, '04, Mr. Vlfilliam Bostian, '05, and Mr. Arthur McKim, '11, and all the classes yelled and sang their class songs. After 1911, came the green and gold and the aero- plane, which had been brought from Mr. Eliott's room a minute or two befo-re, and We all Went onto the stage and sang and yelled. Milton an- nounced that refreshments were ready upstairs and that is when the serving committee got real busy. My! hovv they rush around. I am sure every one enjoyed the refreshments for I heard more favorable comments about them than anything else. Our serving committee, with Odelia and Ada ill Charge Ceftainllf CICSCYVGS a good share of the praise Soon after all had ' 1 been served they began to leave and in a little while We were left to ourselveS Once mme, 'With another event to record in our history. ' IUSEPH CHRISMAN.-'l2. THE GLEAM. 105 THE INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RE-CAIQL. 'Twas many and many a year ago, Our forefathers made the Constitution, you know, Altho' these men were high upon the steeple They didn't want to give too much power to the people, They thought the -people wern't very wise then, . And 'for offices wouldn't choose the right kind of men. So their President and Senators they couldn't elect, And the laws they didn't want they couldn't reject. Things went along alright for a while, The people went around with a blissful smile.. For Ignorance is Bliss, you know, g That's the reason the people acted so. After a while things changed, as of course they wouldg If they didn't, what then would be the good Of having our dear old government made to encourage development? But things didn't change all together for goodg and, by all means, we know they should. y I p , , And according to my belief The bad brings good into sharp relief. Riches, trusts, and corporations grew Till the government is run by just these few. g Scoundrels get into office with scarcely a rub, the Senate has become a mil- ' lionaire's club, Prices have become so very ug , C Than try to live with things in such state, ' As they've managed to get into of late. l 'Uh that some folks think its cheaper to die And now what are you going to do, I To mend things people-Its up to you. , I' think the very best thing to do, Is to let the women vo'fC, C1011 l5 Yoll? And the women-- Let us votef' they cry, VVhat have men done? Now let us try. Out in the Western States we'er't01d The women always gO' to the 130165, 106 THE GLEAM. So t'hat's the reason youlll plainly see l H H VVhy the western states are so up 111 G- California brought in last fall, the Iniative, Referendum and Recall- The initative is a positive force, and defies interference from any SOUTCC. By this, if the people are wise enough, . They can make such laws as they know are JuSt. Let's look' at the' referendum now and you will remember exactly l1OW, . When a law is passed favoring a corporation which does'nt meet with much a-pprobation, The people, by working a little bit, ' Can easily make an end of it. The referendum is force of a negative kind And the legislators must bear in mind If the laws they pass aren't up to dot, The people will repeal them on the spot. And now we come to the last of all The thing we need the most-the recall. By it, if an officer doesn't do right, VVe'll haul him out almost before night. Then there wouldn't 'be so much graft, and not so much corruption by half. Corruption is what we must surely smother, I , Either by this means, or some other- So let me tell you, right this fall, let's all of us vote for the recall. ADA CHADDOCK.-'12, WHAT ISA PROPHECY? . VVhen the first High School was built, the Senior class did many things which to this day have not been chan ed ' g in any way. Thereby showing the originality of the future classes. It has always been the custom for every Senior class to write themselves a prophecy by which their names might last. Many of these have been prophecies indeed, for they have stood the test. 'They say that some will be rich and others poor, some will laugh and some will cry, some will live and others die, that some will Wed andpsome will write, some will work while others. shirk, and some will rise 11 F l M-1. --- THE GLEAM. 4 107 to rule perhaps. But alas! this is no prophecy, these things must come to all of mortal kind. These four years that are just o'er, are but one short scene in this great act of lite, and we the .players but pass and are for- gotten, save for those who acted in the scene, to them it is an everlasting happiness to think upon those days gone by. The next scene comes -o-n With lightning-like rapidity and gives no chance for us to be remembered, save as a connecting link in an endless chain. Our name lives still in our monu- ment, ,but the individual is no more, he is gone, he is forgotten. Also, so it is in life, we live, we laugh-We cry-We die to be forgotten. MILTON VV. STEVVART.-,12. THE GLEAM. THE SENIOR'S EXCUSE. till-1 You ask one little yell so free And urge us to essay itg 'We plead our inability, Unwilling to display it, Th-o you go o-n insistently Indulgent to excuse us VVe still do say persistently You really must excuse us. If you had asked a grave discourse On politics or letters n Our voice might then have sounded forth- In freedom from all letters: ' Some Shakespeare play then We would read, For that would but amuse us, . But as for yelling-no indeed! You really must excuse us. They can't recall one single yell, 4 Their memory is not trusty, Their brains with other things do swell Their voices are too rusty. Yes 'tis a trifling thing to grant, Wliy should it so conline us? But with such reasons why we can't, The teachers do abuse us. So now We really shanlt, We shant You really must excuse us! A SENIOR HTHEETIQS X ' K - - X -:qs ,. ?,..41-.,..Q4lw,:i,::.., A If A V. 7 - I 'fl y F1 .df 224571. ' f - V ,E 3 , '21 ,A . Wm' ,, A ' HX? ,V,, ii'r'i7,?'?,-wx W if ,'f- Lvfurgjgcvr z , ' 5 V ' 111.-':,1'.'wfM'-'fl'-Mi'A Q ' ' 'L .QM , 3 is ,25 5 '- V' ' - ' i'v'L 1- S -11, ' jj M, ff - A , 1 Aj - A V M- - K M, V, l LQ-QQ 3 ' y 1' , ff! 1, '! XX. f, X .. .V X 2 x - 1 ' x , 1 x 14, XX ffif . , I f X, x ,V f'! f W p xg ,I ' . ,ff ,.,. 7 , 1, ' Jw' V , , Axpgx ' I t 'Mk A iii' , 4 52351. i , .,'. Q Q '.,4 1 A' L, 4,.g, film.. 1 ,X A INMXKQ Tlfm., no THE GLEAM. K K F Nt , an wi U r FM F B SK In T BAL L g 3 JZ e Ray Sermon, Capt ......,, Ernest Roberts Roy Sxerarey ........... Hansel Compton ...,.. A George Wfallace .. Charles Foster ..,. Guy Rudd ......... ....Center .....Guard .........Guard ....,.....Gua.rd Forward Forward Forward . -21' 1 -2 42-1 -1-41sfvf+-A'-fw+ --1-'S-2-:Lf --1-we-' 15:41 Egg: :gl-Qf1f.2flJ.f?f-3,53-xfzgyggffi, H: fy - f :galifs,f:iyv--wr--mgziggifgzf gglgfaziflggy Efgxeii?-gf Tiag, fifijkifv 1 ,Ei14,1,,-:L, L,---,-,g1.., ,,J.:.19.5.- - . ,-1---1 f---if-f::::1:Qf,f:,-5-::,F,4f:,gg?l-rf ,Z ffrr 1 411,-fr Affrfff f.. A - -W ,Q --- LT:---111 T252-H -A---Agjif --A-V--:ilL,ZL.:1 I 1 f i g . 112 THE GLEAM. BASKET BALL ON HOME GROUNDS. 1,-.1..Ll- This season of Basket Bail, as of old, was a very successful uzidegtaliing by the Independence High School. At the beginning of the yCHf, i T- CX 011, e ei read coach seemed to think we would be a weak team, because our v ' y , ' we lost many of our stars last year. BU-1 110, that WHS Um 50: f'0'1'- many Came to practice who apparently had not taken' much interest. On account of l so many new and quick players, Mr. Sexton was never ableto pick a .set team. To see the team work and the goal playing, one would think we had made basket ball our practice, but you c-ould see the same kind of playing in all other athletic lines. ' ' Our first game was with the Ivanhoe Indians. We had seen this team play before, so that made us feel weak. Nevertheless, the game started and Guy Rudd and Charles Foster held u.p the pride of I. I-I. S. by their keen eye at the basket. 'W'e can not attribute all the success to the forwards, because we would have been handicaped if not for our guards. All through the game there was great excitement, for the Indians, because they were -being badly beaten. VVhen the game closed, we had won by a score of 58 to 17. . - Next team we played was one of our old enemies, Lee's Summit I-Iigh School. Vlfhen we saw their big strong players and then looked at our boys, we felt like not playing at all. At the opening of the game Lee's Summit had scored six points before we had made anything. Naturally this stirred our boys up and they began to play with all their might and power. Before long we had things going our way, and soon left Lee's Summit behind us. Frank Searcy and Charles Foster scored 37 points for us. When the whistle blew at the end of the last half, the score was 40 to 16 in our favor. january. 12, Wentworth, with her fast team, came to lose the game at our feet. This is a team we always work hard against, for on-e time we would win and on the' return game they would win. This time we were to win. Ernest Roberts and Earl Etzenhouser .played guards for us, and soon had Wentworth bound. At -the end of the first half, the score was 9 to 8 in our favor. This made things interesting and exciting. When the- second half started, it seemed as though Guy and Charles would not let Wentworth have the ball. With this good playing, we easily won the game by a score of 30 to 15. january 22, we had a game scheduled with K. C. Central Baptist Church. They played only until -the close of the hrst half. Their score was 13 and ours was 16, so they decided they did not like our playing, and they packed their suitcases, forfeiting the game to us. this gin next game wais with. Mari-o-n, Kansas. This was our first game With S ', so we watc ied with eagerness. Here George Wallace and Roy eafcy, starred for I. I-I. S. The game was very close at first, when they THE GLEAM. 13 scored, we would also score. This was kept up, till the second half. Here we gradually left them, and kept on scoring until we reached 37, while they were only 20. 'Weshoon saw we had no-t met with Sampson and were wil- ling to play a return. W - , This was not the only game that night, for We also played K. C. Pres- byterian Church. Ray Sermon and Joe Bostian were our stars in this game Ray scored 17 points and Ioe 12. In as much as we had just played a game, things were not so exciting as they might have been. Nevertheless we were not so tired as to let our opponents win the game, for when it closed the score was 51 to 21 in our favor. ' March 6 We played Chelsea A. A. Vlfe heard that this vvas a powerful team, so We put in our best men, Ray Sermon, George Wallace, Ernest Roberts, Charles Foster, Kenneth Bostian and Hansel Compton. When the game started we soon saw what We were to play, we had now come upon a victor. In s.pite of this difficulty We struggled on and on, until We gained a footing. We reconciled ourselves, by ,saying if we had pu.t in the men of the town to play against men, we would have Won. The game closed with a score of 33-19 in their favor. This being the end of the season, we had sad faces, until we recalled all of our other victories. , ALBERTA OLD1-IAM.--'l2. sees. sew ass i . p e SCHEDULE. December s, 19114Independence- Independence H. S., 58, ------------------ December 14, 1911-Independence- p Independence H. S., 40 ------------ january 12, 1912-Independence- . Independence H. S., 30 -------------- - january 22, 1912-Independence-1 I Independence H. S-, 16 ---------------- K- C' C February 2, 19l2-Independence- Independence H- S-, 37 ------------ February 2, 1912-Independence- Independence I-I. S., 51 ........ March 6, 1912-Independence- ' Independence H. S., 19 ------- ' Total 251-135. . A Ivanhoe Indians Lees' Summit II. S., ,,,,,,,,.,,,,.,,.Wentvvorth, entral Baptist Church ......'.Marion, Kansas ..Presbyterian Church Chelsea Athletic A, I 3 v . rw-i....1.,Q THR GLEAM. 115 CHARACTERISTICS OF BASKET BALL PLAYERS. U KENNETH BOSTIAN-Knows when to speak-for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. RAY SERMON-Anger's .my meat, I sup upon myself, and so shall starve with feeding, GEORGE VVALLACE-Oh, that my tongue were in the thun-der's mouth! Then with a passion would I shake the World. ' HANSEL CoMPToNANOne but himself can be his parallel. ROY SEARCY-Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. EARNEST ROBERTS-Awkard, embarrassed, stiff without the skill of moving gracefully, or standing still. GUY 'RUDD-Wie rise in glory, as We sink in pride, where boasting ends, there dignity begins. n . ' ' CHARLES FGSTER-The rising blushes, which his cheeks o'er spread, are opening roses in the lily's bed. srisi, 53: FooT BALLIPLAYERS AMBITIONS. George Wallace- To marry a Southern girl, VVallace Chiles-- To be a preacher at Buckner. r Kennith Bostain-f'fTo become a mail manf' Wallace Kelley- Has'nt anyf, Ernest Roberts- To become Senior. p Jerome Seehoff- To travel with a side-show. Lysle 'Weeks- To bec-ome a congressman.'.'p Earl Etzenhouser-- Tobecome the 'White hopef Ora Myers- Not clear as yet. V i I ' Marion McHae- To remain single. up Marvin Johnson- To be the girl's favorite. Roy Searcy- To kiss all his teachers. A - Procter Montague- To be a football P1aYef-H 116 THE GLEAM. I g 3rQfi '-mx . LX ff 5 fl -1 f at l f r elf I 'S rv Z ' THE TEAM. Left End ,,,,,,,,, Q ,.,,,,,,,,, 3, .,,, Earnest Roberts . Left tackle ,,,,,.,, ........ W 8.11306 Kelley Left guard ,,,,, ,........... M 3.I'101'1 1WCR3.y Center ,,,.,,,,,,,, .,.,....,. E arl Etzenhonser Right guard ..... ............ W alla-Ce Chiles Right tackle .... ......... M arvin Johnson ' Right end ........ ......... K enneth Bostian Quarter .................. ....... R ay Sermon Left halfback ........ ............... R oy Searcy ' Fulliback ...........,................ George Wallace Right half-back .,.............,...... Lysle Weeks . Substitutes-Ora Myers, Jerome Seehoff, Procter Montague, Lysle McCarroll. IF THE SCHEDULE. ' Sept.'3O,-I. H. S., 13, Wabash A. C., 11. Oct, Oct. Oct. NOV 7.-I. H. S., 73, Argentine H. S.,aO. 14.--I. H. S., 8, William Jewell, 5. -20.-I. H. S., 353 Olathe H. S., 3. . . 4.-I. H. S., 3, Vlfilliam Jewell, 5. ' Nov. 25.-IJH. S., O, Columbia H. S., 0. I I I I I I I I I 118 THE GLEAM. p I A REVIEW OF THE Eoofr-BALL 'SEASON -oE 1911. In reviewing the season it may be safely said that this years, foot-ball season was the most successful in the history of I. H. S. Then Sexton began to round the boys into shape. The material our coach had to deal with was certainly raw. Only five players of the l9l0'team reported for practice. The first weekls practice was very discouraging for the large part of the squad had to be drilled with the first principles of foot-ball. It took sev- eral weeks of practice to get the team in shape for the first game. The first game of the season was played with the Wabasih Athletic Club of Kansas City.. The Independence boys started with a rush and swept their opponents off their feet. Sermon made a touchdown in the first quar- ter and Vlfeeks repeated in the second. Sermon failed in each case to kick goal but made a lie-ld goal about a minute before the close of the first half. The next half our opponents settled down and the situation :was reversed. They gave the green material in our line their first re-al insight of foot-ball. We played a defensive game in this half and the game ended I3-11 in favor of I. H. S. A ' . ' The next game of the season was a walk-away for the Independence boys. They defeated the Argentine High School 73+O. The Argentine boys were no doubt so excited with the sights in our city-for it islcertain some of them were never. in town. before-that they forgot all the foo-t-ball they ever knew, if it is possible to credit them with everthaving known any, Onthe morning of October 14, the team went to Liberty, Mo., under the charged of Prof. Sexton and Pete Allen. That afternoon we played -Wi,l- liam Jewell Academy. The Vlfilliam Jewell teamein comparison to the In- dependen-ce boys were giants. It looked, as if all those bigpfellows would have to do would be to grab the Independence boys 'by the neck and carry them over the goal line. Although our boys were small -they were all there, that is,- what there was of them. Thisg our opponents soon found out when they came in close touch with us, During the first- quarter the game was played in neutral territory. UIn'fthe second quarter Roberts got away with a forward pass, giving Independence their only touchdown. Ser- mon kicked goal. Our boys scored at safety in 'the third quarter. .During this quarter and the last Independence played a kicking game. In this half Williani -Iewell scored a touchdown but failed to kick goal. The feature of the game was Sermon's punting coupled with his speed in running back punts. The game closed 8-5 in- favoriof I. H. S. This was the first time an I. H. S. team ever 'won a game in Liberty.. V Olathe came here October 28, with the intenti-on of wiping out the defeats she had received in .previous years. But this intention was not backed up by the right soft 6f 'stuiff 'T1iej?' was 'El'efeatedi'35l3-Q' I I ' November 4, VVilliam Jewell Academy team came here with a iirm de- ' THE GLEAM. , 119 termination to even matters up with our boys. Unlike Olathe, they had the material to back up their determination. They had on their team several men in the white hope class. The game started off with a rush and it looked as though VVilliam Jewell would score, but our bo-ys soon settled down to theirlusual stride and fought their opponents tot 3 Stand Still the first half. The third quarter our team played their heavier opponents off .their feet. In this quarter Sermon kicked a field goal. The fourth quarter began with the ball in our territ-ory in 'Vlfilliam Iewell's possessi-on. They opened by punting the oval into their own territory. The ball made a bad bound away fr-om Searcy, who was playing back, and one of their men recovered it on their fifteen yard line. They then made a few line plunges which our light line was unable to withstand, giving them the only touch- down of the game. They ended 5'-3'1n Williain Jewell's favor. This was the first and o-nly defeat our team suffered this year. ' After the Williain Jewell game the boys were worked out every even- ings -by Prof. Sexton, assisted by Pete Allen, preparatory to the game with Columbia High School .played at Columbia Nov: 25. The trip to Columbia was the finest 'ever made by an l. H. S. foot-ball team. The team left Inde- pendence Friday morning, November 24, and arrived at Columbia in the evening. They were met there by several Tndependence boys and girls who are attending the Univeristy this year. They played the Columbia. Highs Saturday morning' on the University practice gridironiq The game was slow owing to the heavy field. 1 Our boys were unable to work their forward pass or fast fake plays. The trip seemed to have also taken all the foot-ball out ofour boys. The game ended O-O. There was very littleexcitement in th game, and neither team had a chance to score, the game ' being played a large part of the time in the middle of the field. That afternoon we were entertained by the Missouri Tigers and the Kansas Iawhawkers. -- LYSLE WEEKS.-'12, I THE GLEAM. 120 y r rr A L f L rr' . fy A- y W I in l ubih y lilf , . A wff 1 'Q' . .1 t if-. . Q-A., V 5. ' -, or an .M or L it in a w r l J e L S aw y ' f - ,. M . Louise Bundschu. ' .... . Mr, I. M. 'Sexton Kathlleen Kerr .. A Jerome Seehof ....... -Iolseph Chrisman Anderson, Doris Bridges, Helen Bundschu, Louise Bridges, Lucile Bostian, Kenneth Chrisman, joseph Child, Elizabeth Crenshaw, Vena johnson, Ruby Kirby, Maud Kerr, Kathleen MUSIC CLUB ROLL. .,........P'ianist. ...............Directoir. M....,,....,..,...President ,,,,,,,-.,,.,Vice-President. ....Secretary-Treasurer. Kelley, Ruth Lease, Mary Mosely, Vlfilnia Muns-on, Frances McDonald, Julia Pitt, Mildred Prewitt, Lola Roberts, Ernest Rumniel, Emma May Seehof, Jerome VVilson, Selma Sexton, I. M. 1 w r 4 i r 5 , I I I I! .r fi i THE GLEAM MUSIC Music, the fiercest grief can char , And fate s severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease And make despair an-d madness please. Our joys below, it can improve I And antedate the bl1SS above Vlfhat 1S it that can express the 1nternal confhcts and pass1ons as mus1c can? Herbert Spencer says lVlLlS1C ranks as the hlghest of fine arts, and more than any other, 1Tl1111SlC1'S to human welfare MUSIC 15 the comb1nat1on of sounds pleasmg to the ear, as harmony melody To some, mus1c IS no more than a certa1n jmgle f sounds that sat1st1es then des1re lor sound These people do not appreciate real mus1c 'lhey do not see why It 1S that music expresses any internal conlhcts Vlfas music meant to be just Sllllply pleas1ng to the ear? The more a pe1so11 learns and understands about mus1c, the more he finds that the purpose IS not to create a pleasing Jingle but to express the deepest and noblest passions of the heart and soul The power of the world s great est composei s, hes 111 the 1nterpretat1on of mans soul Could any one th1nk that Beethoven, the Great Lover of Nature, composed h1s beaut1ful Sonatas just s11nply for sound, without any mean1ng beh1nd 1t? It 1S the comb1nat1on ol the beaut1ful sound and the noble grand 1deas underneath thmgs 1f men but had eans to hear But all men haven t ears to hear, for d1fferent reasons Some have not the apprec1at1on of the beautlful in any thing some have an ear for mus1c, but have not nobleness of character enough to apprec1ate the depth of 1'1'1LlS1C Some people have the power of producing b63.l.1lZ1lL1l tones, but there 1S 11ot that reqmrement 1n tl1e heart ful filled that produces real music In other words You can never slng beaut1fully 111 one key wh1le your heart or soul IS play1ng the accompam nt 111 another It 1S t1ue that all connot excel 1n music, but every one can learn to appre clate good 11111S1C, 1nstead of ragt1me tiash Every student who a1ms at a high standard of CdLlCZ-l.l101'1 should 1n a 1'1'1CZ1SLl1C have a knowledge of ITILISIC Ha1l to the day that has come and IS now here when music 1S no longer co11 s1dered a mere pleasure for past1me but as a mental development and char acter study' F01 the purpose of furthermg the interest and appreciation of the best m11s1c, the Euterpean Mus1c Club was orgamzed 1n january The present organ17at1on has done good work th1s year, and it 1S hoped that th1s will con t1nue next year KATHLEEN KERR 12 122 ' It 2 I ' 35 ' , rr ' , ' ' ' - - . . I 75 ' ' . . . I I - , or I I , , . .. O - I if ' H - I .1 - - - I ' - . I 7 rr - X I 4: I as ' ' . I I . I I I the sound that make the great 1nasterpieces of 1T11.1S1C. There IS mus1c 1n all ' ' L' 3 ' . I I . H ' . R f Y 91 I I . . .- me ' ' ff I I ' as ' l - l . .- . 1 I 'V I ' ' J I 4 , . I I . . - 7 1 ' S - ' I I 'Tr Bryan, Paul Barto, Harry Custead, jack l3 a'4 59 w wif fi , EUWIS Hndengu-eg ' ' l EXCELSIOR DEBATING SOCIETY. Chrisman, Joseph Duncan, Ralph Fountain, Ellis Florence, john Flanders, Doug Henson, Earl las ,ili- Lysle Weeks, President. Ellis Fountain, Vice President. I Joseph Chrisman, Recording Secretary. Alan lfVherritt, Corresponding Secretary. Arthur VVickstrum, Attorney General. Charles Brady, Sergeant at Arms. Paul Bryan, Treasurer. Lund, iHil1ner rMann, George Mershon, Vance Millard, Cecil Sterritt, Blaine Short, Ellis Taylor, Graydon W'herritt, Alan VVickstrurn, Arthur Weelqs, Lysle 5 V. El 1 1 124 ' THE GLEAM. 4 . CHARACTERISTICS on THE DEBATERS. 2 Paul Bryan- Is this motion constitutional. 2 Harry Barto-Be right, then go ahead. I L, Charles Brady- Don't argue, let's begin with the program. 5 George Bartholemew-Quiet, though with 'a decided opinion. jack Custead-Can tell a story, and enjoy it. , 5 Joseph Chrisman- Let's settle this peaceablyf' 3 Ralph Duncan-Abides by the decision of the majority. 5 Ellis Fotintain- We sure like to debatef' 3 i ' l john Florence- I move we adjourn. 3 l Douglas -Flanders-Material for good debater. Carl Henson-On hand when needed. 5 l George Mann- I enjoy a good laugh. 1 Vance Mershon-Dignilied, and very precise. 3 Blaine Sterritt-A good talker. ' . Ellis Short, Ir.--A very good listener. Gradon Taylor- Let'si investigate this matter. Alan F. Whe1'ritt- ' Arthur XVickstrum- An o-pinion once found, keep it. 1 Lysle VX-reeks-Argues for argument sake. g ,m4E 1 -E. D. S. 9 At the beginning of the term' l9ll-12, the E. D. S. started with a large membership. The greater part of the membership was from the Freshman Q and Sophomore classes, and it required all the skill of the older members i to mold the material into a successful working body. ' i . . . l In the .Tumor Hlld'-SGIIIOI' classes there has seemed to be a lack of interest 2 in this society for which no satisfactory reason has been given. The E. D. S. exerts a great deal of influence over a boy who comes into the Hi h l . , , g 4 School for the first time. It thrills him with pride, it raises his ideals, and ambition takes possession of him. He strives to do better, a new tone enters into his recitations and he exults in his concise, well worked answers. During the year there have been several excellent debates which have aroused some degree of interest. But throughout the year. the old spirit of the F.. D. S. was not present. - . 5 i 'In March when we began to have only one session of sch-ool, the regu- i I . p. . . . ar meetings of the society were discontinued for a short time. It looked i as if the E. D. S. was to be no longer a factor in our school life. But by, the aid of Prof. Byrant, we were enabled to continue our meetings every Monday. T I i v The meetings are now held during school hours, under a system of ro-tation. 'A The F.. D S now- has brighter prospects than it l h d f Z . I. - K k A ias a oryears. The 3 debating society has been reorganized by the faculty as a thing worth pre- Sefvmg- ALAN F. WI-IERRITT.-'l2. 3 l ' F 1 1 I , . 9 A Oloil T J P7 KATHLEEN KERR, Editor-in-Chief. ERfED PITT, Assistant Editor. Alan Vifherritt, Business Manager. George VV.a.11ace, Adv. Manager. Charles Mize, I Joseph Chrisman, Adv. Assistants. Arthur Wickstrum. Ada Craddock, 1 U i Esther Long, Literary Ed+1tors. Frances Anderson. Doris Anderson, Inez Long, Art Editors. Dorothy Riahe. W'1 M 1 1 , Lysle Weeks, - ' I Miaihgila Rosriisiglvy, sLooa1 Editors. Alberta Oldham, Athletic Editors. Joseph 'Chrism-an. 1 I Sue Henderson. Eoward Shepherd, eah .Tarrar , Nellie slaughter, Proof Readers- ' Iola Warren. U 9 As the Glea1n is the annual of the Independence High School, it has been the primary purpose to present the history of the school along different lines for the year. It is the desire of the Gleam Staff of 1912 to represent all the members of I. H. S. in some way, from the smartest and most lofty senior e primary success of this Gleam to the greenest and most lowly freshman. Th will depend upon the fulhllment of this desire. Witli the publication of this paper the work of the present staff ends. While it has required a r t . 'g ea amountwof workg and of a kind not at all easy, atthe same time it has meant a great deal to th-ose who have earnestly Worked. ' The growth and improvement of the school this year along many lines has been very satisfactory. The money expended in the decoration and im- provement of the building was very well spent. The cleanliness and beauty of the surroundings have aroused f ' ' ' a new sense of pride and interest in the school among the students. ' At the beginning of this school year, last September, it was fo-und that the enrollment was steadily increasing. Howeverfnumbers, or quantity does not always constitute greatness,-quality is the prime factor. So what of THE GLEAM. 127 the quality ofhthe student body? After listening to one of the Sketches of an opera, given 111 assembly one morning, Professor Bryant made the remark, Well, what is it that this sch-ool cannot do when they try? SO We can boast of quality as well as quantity. Along literar lines the school does not in an wa f i i -' . the fndependencey High School has the best Engblish irnsffiicildistjtollbefasifi cured. Although we have no literary organizations thus far, where is there more enthusiasm and love for the best literature aroused than in the Shakespeare classes? On the stage, the High School has been very well represented consider- ing the fact that dramatic art is not taught in the school. The annual senior play was again a great success, being well attended in spite of the zero weather. ' Musically, we are still striving to move upward to success. Complete success along this line will be impossible until a regular music course is included in the course of study. High School music should not be simply to sing son-gs, but there should be some knowledge -of how and why mulsic exists. For the purpose of a greater appreciation and knowledge of good music the Euturpean Club was organized this year. It is ho-ped that our of this small beginning willcome great success for this music club. The Excelsior Debating Society has passed a critical stage and is again on the road to success. It is hoped that the good work of this year will con- tinue and next year find them rowing, not drifting . The greatest good to the greatest number is the principle on which our morning assemblies are based. Instead of taking u.p the twenty minutes in recitations in separate class rooms, this time is devoted to varied exercises, conducted either by the pupils or Professor Bryant, and sometimes by visi- tors of n-ote who chance to be in town. What could have been more educa- tive and enjoyable than the opera sketches given by members of the various classes? Or what more of a mental relief after hard study than the singing of our favorite .songs every Tuesda.y morning? And what is more pleasant than occasionally listening to the readings and anecdotes of some of our ministers, or hearing some of our town musicians play and sing? And is it possible for us ever to forget the great moral lessons we have gained by Professor Bryan.t's talks? Now what of the athletic department? There is no need to say anything about it. The many victories won in' basketball and foot-ball this year speak loud enough to be heard all around the country. When the I. H. S. athletics go into an-y kind of contest, they are there to win, which they surely do. That is the reputation to have. Baseball is just in season now, and we cannot say just how many victories will be won, for the number of games 1S not determined, but victory is sure-win we must! We are proud of our athletic department. 128 rr-IE GLEAM. A modern school is not complete without, so-me social features. This Vlf3S1'fOU11Cl out last year when the junior reception was denied us. We hereby declare that such features are necessary to arouse class spirit and enthusiasm. To obtain proof of this statement, apply to the Senior Class of 1912. This year a social feature -of great interest was started,-the alumni reception. This was a great success in the eyes of the -faculty, seniors and alumni. Next comes the 'fhoped for Junior reception. . ' Last, .but not least, comes the class-day and commencement exercises. VVith these events end the work in the school of the Class of 1912, but we go forth praising dear old I. 1-1. S. . KATHLEEN KERR.-'12, 1-lg--1 GLEAM REFLECTIONS. Th-ey gotta quit kicking' our dawg aroun' ! Of course we ha-ven't made the earth shake with our prancing steps, but have accomplished one thing, or? at least it has happened during our Senior year, which amounts to the samething. The pleasure of, Senior History Note Books has been dropped. The precedent has been set. Aren't you grateful, future Seniors? The class of 1912 is a good example of what all work and no play does for a body of students, One part of the brain isiabnormally developed. 'Wisdonr seems everything. In a retrospective mood, we ask, Is wisdom everything P Spending time altogether in acquiring text-booki' knowledge through life is selhsh. Pleasure is just as important. Not selfish pleasure, but pleasure given to others. One cannot but admire those God-inspired characters whose lives prove that they make the happiness of others the basis uponwhich they build- for their ownhappinessf' 1 ,Many thanks are offered to Mr. felifner in behalf of Prof. Sexton and the Senior' Class for the assistance given to Professor Sexton in lowering the window-shade April 19, before Professor Pnryant's seco-nd Candle Talk ff and also for alll other timely aid given during the assembly period through- out the year. There are certainly some very aggressive, if not erratic, Seniors. Think of rousing a peacable citizen from his bed at 11:30 P. M. to look over the wares- in his-. store. Girls, too! Professor' Bryant's talks on a candle wereenjoiyed thoroughly, but one could. not help being nervous to see the reckless way with which the Pro- fessor held his fingers so close to the liame. Q vikwgx 4 ? A A P XX U V nu. ., f Wm, L f 4'IIhLn ,., 'Tw ff ..-n t . . in .Cy is .Dx P ' ' fp J I N W ' v 'f' . 34,1 , f -'i - 4 -. ' '. X , f qwnQ,w bgvv5 Q af -wx NYggf ya, I , V ', b I K A in ., K A .E V. my j jxidffifxqv A lx I V, VVV- U-:V e A, X X I Q, I - ,pin .. AX, . . W , - X Q 130 THE GLEAM. Warning: I ' , The expression, Costs too much, must not be addressed to any member 'of the Gleam staff,-the Editor-in-Chief especially. Even that little dog that sat on the stage May 3, would serve as a good lesson to those Junior girls in paying attention. U That pup-il who said tha.t Miss Phelps teaches f'World's American 'history to the Seniors spoke the truth, for which we are truly sorry-some of us, at least. ' ' Mr. Elliot has announced a .platform of strict principles of grading. Pupils will no-t pass without note-books, he declares. We hardly recog- nize in this iron-hearted creature our beloved professor of Physics, 1 Three boys we know of deserve to pass in Physics, if what they claim is true. Their love for knowledge was so great that on alcold night, after sitting- up 'till 12 Iofclock, they salied forth, arm in arm, to the school house to experiment on the pendulum of the clock. No telling where this enter- prise might have ended had not-one who was supporting another under a window, fallen, and in this way, thrown dismay into the postrate ranks. .They beat a hasty retreat. h - . 5Disbanded: ' ' , The Cornstalk Latin Society, founded' for the common aid and benefit of all Senior Latin sudents, has been forced to discontinue its meetings, due to the -change in recitation hours. T . , 'vVith all due, respect to Miss Brownfs 'trulyii wonderful power to-talk, we advise the pupil who did not keep awake, to drink strong coffee before enter- ing his English class, after this. , 4 A, W'e hear that a cat or something ate a history note book of a Senior boy. Poor nourishment, even for at cat. The boy further states that he didn't say 3' Word to the Cafieifhef, Whilrh forces us to assume that he felt very bad about it. t - hShyly blushing, we wish to acknowledge the flattering compliments paid to t e class by a junior boy in an apostrophe to the Seniors, but we cannot 'be 50 Vain as to Publish ill, even though it is from an under-classman. Of course we are o-ne of the best classes ever, and have set a highmark and all that sort of thing. Vlfe admit it. But modest much more than that we are, and have done, it FRED PITT.-l12. y forbids us to mention how -N 1 19 r he 1 Ml iff M ,F-Qi aj ,Lg WI my, 'INA uw ,if: 1: QR :ws W ml, W1 F1121 Mx. W 1 wry! I , W iffpfl lu W 4 JM :JM BPM 'NWN KM W, N I M. N U ir' W 132 THE GLEAM. . Smile awhile And While you smile Another smile And soon there's miles And miles Of smiles And life's Worth While Because you smilef' A 7 I Fred Pitt- I think the section did well for picking Mahala for that part? - . Miss Brown- I have often heard of picked birds, but I hardly think that can be applied to Mahalaff Miss Phelps-'KDid Lord Baltimore come to Maryland? Fred S.- No, he didn't-he wanted to, but had to stay in England Cloud laughterj. ' A Miss Phelps-f'Barbara, why didn't'he come ? Barbara- He was dead. A Miss Brown-joseph, tell me all yo-u knovv about the wife of Shake- spearef' Joseph C.-W'ell, at the time of his marriage, she was eight years older than he. - ' I ' Fred Qmuch interested in the subject of dessi-cated eggs, after the pure food talk of Feb. 131-- Say, Mitt, 'ever hear the story of the three eggs Pi' Milton- ANope. - ' Fred- To-o ftwoj bad. ' i ' Milton fatter a slight pausej-'II-law. Very, very good -a little later to Kathleen- Ever hear the story of the three ,eggs P Kathleen-KNO, but Wonft you tell it? Milton- Too Ctvvoj rotten Ha! Ha! Kathleen- I suppose you think that is cuter QLater to a group of girlsj. I Kathleen- Did you ever hear the story -of the three eggs F Chorus-UNO! tell us. V Kathleen- Two were dessicatedf' But no one sawthe point. , - . ,, Miss Phelps-- VVhere there is so much fire there must be some smokef' THE GLEAM. ,NX vf 51 X. ' f X 0- .1 .fl f X , .. If sy E - , MZ b W1 If . 1 f ' .. Nlxxx ,I 41 fy V 'Eff' W I Wf' T if f I W, 41, 1 ff! lggrlqgnrllx' 'F lin .I wk 'L A !VZ'::1', Quin i . ' jl4 flu 5' ' H! W 'ref' IM: -1- J- , 1 +. ,im dui, ' ' f LAW ., I 4 J f11Qx'f'f , wrrfff 'ffnf1y gff 134 TI-IE GLEAM. - Barbara- Ol1! Miss Phelps, I've lost my hearts QIIartsj foundation. Miss Sehrt- Oh! that's just like a man, never means what he says. .: Inezf She must have had experience. Miss Brown- If I should hear a drum I cou.ldn't sit still. THE TROUBL-ESOME TWO. There was a school, in which rule - Was quite in line with the needs of time, ' Wilma, hlowoften will I have to say If you don't keepout of these halls Some day you and Barbara will get' a rest ? S0 I think though you need one 'tis best. For you to obey. ' The maidens thenvreplied with a terrible look and a heart rending sigh, 'All 'right we'll go to the study hall right away, And you'll not see us this year in the hall an-other day Into the study hall they would go, These poor creatures so full of woe. For if Barbara or Vlfilma should happen to sneeze, Miss Henry, with a depressing frown,.would say, Now if you two girls want to die, 'lust keep up the way you have started to shirk, Now I want you both to get right down to work. Thus through the day these poor girls would wander, And over their troubles at night they would ponder And when they were gone the teachers did mourn, For these troublesome two whom everyone knew. B. IN.-'l2. 77 I On most any question Alan can .quickly make his reply which is 2- Gh! that costs t-oo much. - ' i- Qtiestion-Why does Miss Mitchell suggest that cartoons of the teachers beput in the Gleam? A Prof. jewel Sexton- Mary, I wish you would look this wayf' Mary- VVell, Mr. Sexton, I don't like to look at nothing. I Mr. Elliot- VVatt got ahead of it and what did he do? Milton sy freadingj- Paul came in and forgot his feet. - . ., ,-1:f::,,'...' 5'f'74'P'? ' X I I' xx 3.4.4, ,I I X :HTS i .. , 5 ,A- f f nw, xii- ff' :ww ,, X 4201 1 .Q 'fu . . faflff' - 'N JI . X 'I J fflfly ,'l Inq ji, ,Z 9 'a :A 1 . .sg 'XMI ,,' x f Xwhx l'lx:xx NS 1 JU 'Q , airxxlg , ,ws X ,7 lu, X I Il !', wks: RX f 'W ,FXNX I 'L G' f , ' X X, X J' ' X 9 x THE GLEAM. 135 -.-.5159-1?iF N - z xx -'-- .v f uw EW- . . .' . l' , , X, KAL 'I . 177, ,Sl A b X ,. ,L A T- X ,, . X f fpyl A f I 4 N' 59'f77'l U ,zffzr , Q .nmflhff ,4 1 V f .'. 251,-sf IL. 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W 4- ' ,ax ir .za zu 'fy 3 cf Af' 51' 4 Oo L eo S 3' ff . 0 f y 0 ., W E 41 eo ou' S 6 ? z U g .. is 'W 138 . THE GLEAM. Rules and By-laws of I. H. S. . SECTION I. A ' 1. The pupils may begin to gather on the lawn and in the halls at eight- thirty A. IVI. 2. A group of more than ten persons are requested not to stand over the register in the lower hall. If they have something of importance to dis- cuss theyniay step either into Prof. Bryant's office or into Miss Brown's room, across the hall. A 3. Nobody is allowed to enter the study hall until ,Miss Henry arrives with the key. 4 4. Anybody not caring to attend assembly is requested to remain in the basement until the exercises are over. ' 5. Any girl caught flirting will be censured the remainder of the .day in Miss Brown's English classes. A V SECTION II. ' 1. Miss Henry is supervisor of the study hall and it is her business to see that there is no talking aloud ' 2. Those having their lessons, may endorse their names on a slip 'off paper and then take any reference book they wish, provided no one else has the same book. 3. The above slip of paper is examined every evening by the tea-chers in order that they may see who had their lessons that day. I 4. Anybody wishing to have a reference book reserved for a certain evening, will do well to call Miss Henry, at her home by phone, the morning before, between the hours of six and eight A. M, ' . 3 SECTION III. A 1. The Library is the place provided to spend a quiet day looking at picture books and reading books and magazines. - 2. There shall be no committee meetings held in this room. . Those wishing to smoke may retire to the boy's basement. 4. -Any body keeping a book out over two weekswill be fined not less than one cent a day or more than seven cents a week. 3 M.. lj ..-...Q Miss Brown-- VVhat is a puny lie ? A Sylvia- One that is notaa well one. Miss iR'O'SS-VVTIELI made Queen Louise's face so beautiful?l' Eugene B.- The organs. ' ' Prof. Sexton- VVhat is a commensurable? Ruth VV.- It is something that has a root which will not come out. Tl-IE GLEAM. 139 Kenneth--you and Ernest and Arthur, go down Stairs While I throw these wires out of the window, we will put up a telephone line, said Mr. Elliott. The boys did so and in a short time the line was up-Ernest began to talk. V f'Hello! who's this speaking?!' It's Doris, answered Kenneth. f Hello, honey! Do you l-ove me? said Ernest. Mr. Elliott then took the wire and Ernest raved on. Alas! this loving Ernest turned purple in the face, when he recognized his teacher's voice. Vifhen Doris heard the joke, she begged Ernest to say it again. V No more of that in mine, he said. Alan was shaking a chair to disturb Kathleen and she nervously scream- ed, Alan, if you don't quit-that, l'll come -over there and hold your handsf' Alan- Oh! that punishment is so severe. ' 1. If Alberta bought a n-ecktie, would Alan VV'her-rit? 2. If Miss Brown should walk down the street, would a negro. chaser? No, but James Green-wood. Q 3. Did Kathleen learn English from a German instructor or did Vance have a Tudor? ' 4. If Doris does the bear, can Kenneth Bostian? 5. If some one was serenading Frances Anderson, would it be a real live CChrisj-man? 6. If Ruby is short, is Esther Long? 7. If VVallace Chiles had some chickens, 'would Nellie Slaughter them? 8. If Vvfallace Kelley can eat two pounds of meat, how much can Louise Bund-schu? 9. If Tom lost a child would Charles Foster it? A 10. If some people were married at the church would Sexton ring the Bell? , ll, If the United States saw Austria Hungary would she Russia some Chile? . lZ. lfrQueen Esther was for the Athletic Association, what was Pina- ior-Qej ? . ,1ii..-- Wanted:- l. To know Miss Phelp's theory of putting two and two together to make one. --A junior. . 2. Some oil for Arline Tates shoesf' A l 3. 'KA girl so perfect in looks, manners, dress, walking, standing, and speaking that Milton Stewart can't criticise her. 140 ' THE GLEAM. I V I w I 1 I ' 73 X . 1 ' ll irq .zffgr H- - I ,A jj, ,L 'A R x I .J '-.A5- , , ! vI.., -i.?'H: , .i,,: T - ' ' X 18 42- if 5 .X-'.-?1f79i'f5 L-, ,, 'IM 21.1 ' 11ff',1 V 7fW' .47 , i5,LII gI:'l f,!5' 1 tl uf:-A- '.A .,, ! mx 4 f 1 gg, M w w, , 3 , i'!Qg1',31z- . 1 1 ,ff fi , libkxx - --- - -I ' ' 4? 2 z rm.-t z'Z.i-1 -1-1 R k .L 4 LW 'V 'ff - A , Iiiq b A- W -iggflih ri. -I W X6 . Mui Xuquja I fsfi f My ul '17 ,1f'20'!lI1l .b '--. ' i 5' ,. ,il W f a x rgfl . iw? if ' 5 Q! '! - -3 I Y 'I -Tx -1-:ii YW t v Y j' '- ,J Y K- Y i K5 fix- 1g Q , : L E ' E ji- , E Nuff-A 'Sb ,l - I -0, mls SX I ,Q N . w hx 5 ,,4., ,- ,-.0g,5.5,' Wi- 1, 1 -f f.+-H v 'gn IF' 'L - -, ,l?'::fiF3f'Z .ggi .,g 1?zfF. ,'4'?!'fg.--fi' 21, V' x --zygiii 4 Av ' ' -.. 'e4,-'W f .Q If -'Aff A1 ' jg. FQ w ma .-. f', ,Q Q ,, 11,1 I Xxb xX 'X df? XX , Um 7 TY W E I J 'gl ' X- I V.. F if HMM Nmw fe . f Z I -V -r H- I- ,Lu-gui, 71 . ,z.Lff.lZ!Mi. C X: THE GLEAM. 141 THE SEVEN WONDERS OF I. H. S. 1. Mr. Ellot came to 'school with a new black suit on-March 1. 2. Both Howard and Lysle got hair cuts-Dec. 5. 3. VX7ilma was on time every day of the week beginning--March 18, 4. Alan stayed awake all fifth study period-April 5. ' 5. Miss Phelps is on the betting list. 6. Prof. Bryant forgot his tie-April 13, 7. . Miss Mitchell is sporting a diamond on her left hand-April 15. Mr. Elliot- Now if a bird should light on just one wire it would not nurt it, but if it should light with one foot on one wire and one on another, it would kill it. George Wallace- That makes me think of a story. Once there were two roosters that roosted on wires, one on one wire and one on the other. One night one of the roosters reached over and pecked they other, and it killed them both. ' ' f julia W. Ctranslating Latinj- And Pyramus advancing seriously, saw the foot p1'ints of the beast in the dust, and grew pale in his entire mouth. CAN YOU GUESS? 1. What kind of meat Alan likes? fOld-hamj. 2. What kind of gloves does Kathleen wear? QMitt'sj. - Where Marvin often calls? Clin Lovelandj. 4. What Ernest is always singing? QUI-las anybody here seen'Kelley?'lj 5. VVhat does Procter need? QA Tudorj. A 6. .Vlfhat does Mildred like to be near? CA Fountainj. 7 Vlfhat Mary Temple's favorite expression is? QOh! Pshawj. 8. What always comes to your mind when Selma is mentioned? CA .3. Greenwoodj, A CONCEIT. Alan Qin the Lines of Miles Standishj- Go to the damsel, Priscilla, The loveliest maiden of Plymouth. Miss Phelps- No, Alan, put more emphasis on 'Loveliestf' Alberta- Think of me, Alan and Fm sure you will get it all right. A second year German pupil- VVhat was the matter with Proctor, he translated so well, and didn't bluff. A Second One- O shucksl no wonder, his page 'was perfectly black with pencil marks. 142 THE GLEAM. In a junio-r talk:- Anna XV.- The ant queen is like a human primitive prin-cess, she Washes her childrens faces With her tongue. ' Miss Phelps- 'Where does the president get his platform? Does he go out in the back yard and make it?', Discussion on suffrage for women: 4 Alberta-HI think the place for a woman is at home sweeping and cook- ing. A Miss Maltby- Ten years from now, maybe, you Will think otherwise. Miss Phelps- Charles, Why don't the people of today get on their house tops and Watch battles when they are going on P Chas. M.- They might get hit. Mr. jones- jack is as good looking and Wears as many clo-thes as ever. Miss Phelps- How did VVillia1n the Conqueror get his crown lands 2 Mary Temple Shaw-'fCon'iisticated them. - 1 , All f +9 Nl . yr ff . . ,. M a i' fi- .i y i 4 'BT ' it li . nt LITQQIQP. liuv V1-.5-v-H gf THE GLEAM. 143 Allen Motor Car Co. 310-I2 West Maple Agents of 0 Studebaker Automobiles Exclusive Livery Bell 230 Home 514 Schweers Bros. Kandy Kitchen Manufacturers of Pure Ice Cream and Candy Fancy Ice Cream and lces a Specialty. Both Phones 412 Miss Phelps-:'Did the Danes come int or how did they come P Vera C.- They came in boats. o England in clans or as a nation We pride ourselves upon our well equipped pharmacy. If you want good service, good drugs and reasonable prices, you will find them at our store. PENIJLETUN 8: GENTHY Southwest Corner Square Both Phones 98 Registered men always in charge. THE Crossett Shoe Makes Life's Walk Easy FOR MEN. Hubbard 8 Jones 1005 Main St. 5 x l 4 3 4 1 X 144 TT-TE GLEAM. L SE I-P EAP I I SIUDE VS NOIE B001 E It is designed to eliminate the weaknesses I W and provide for every convenience in the Z 5- Ji Z simplest manner possible. , Z -E-Q It is a perfect binding-sheets can be X V . taken out or inserted anywhere in the book 5 ' il - without disturbing the other sheets in any way. E 'fl 5 Q A I A p Pull apart any one set of rings and the Lies Absolutely Flat, Aiorcling others open simultaneously-the movement A Perfect WVriting Surface. is as simple as opening your watch, and the mechanism is no more complex. Hundreds of Letters, Unqualified in Their Character, Have Come to Us Expressing the Universal Satisfaction With Which This Book Has Been Received. The Binding is tasty and attractive, and when used as a permanent binding for class, lecture, or collateral reading notesg for composition or exer- cise bookg specimen or quotation bookg daily jour- nal or sketch book, or any of such kindred uses, will soon afford you a library of valuable informa- tiong nicely bound, which will be a source of profit and of satisfaction to you for many years to come. Made in eleven different sizes, and provided with seven different kinds of ruled sheets. ASK YOUR DEALER TO SHOW YOU. . umagxm.. 5 . E g - Q' An Attractive, Permanent C . B1 . Y 1 B 0V01, 01 0111 est XVork, Both i11 and Out of School. u n THE GLEAM. 145 H, -2, 1114- 16-18 Grand Avenue. SPECIAL DISCOUNT IIATES t DURING SUDIDIEIR, 1!IONTIifS. High School Graduates who bring this Ad. will be given 6 months for 320.00 at any time. 20th -Century Voucher Bookkeeping. GREGG 8: MCKEIE, Shorthand, SllVCl' Still' Zllld Millllllt Bftildr Best on the market. Order from your grocer. Mr. Elliott- How does a lightning bug make gt light. pi? Ernest R.-- I haVn't found the button yet. COMPTON'S LIVERY STABLE 214 N. Liberty Street. Best Livery Rigs in Town. Special Attention given to Boarding Horses. HILL 8: MARTIN, Hardware, Stoves, Tin and Granite- ware. Furnace Work a Specialty. Northeast Corner Square. MCELROY BROS., 216 West Lexington Street. The Modern up-to-date Rat-proof Grecery Store. , Call and see them. W. C. Longworth. M. Hughes. IDEAL CASH GROCERY, 208 N. Main St. Prices Right. Bell Phone 231. Home Phone 221 146 THE GLEAM. If You Would Be Satisfied Don't forget to inspect the com- plete line of up-to-date FURNITURE With. 9. full line of Summer Benches, Chairs and Porch Swings. H. J. OTT 84 CO. Furniture and Undertaking Phones 185 115 Main Street Albert M. Ott, President. T. C. Sawyer, 2nd Vice-Pres. I. N. Rogers, Cashier. J. R. Cogswell, Vice-Pres. and Sec. L. H. Sawyer, As'st. Cashier. CHRISMAN -SAWYER BANKING i COMPANY CAPITAL S100,000.00 SURPLUS S100,000.00. INDEPENDENCE, NO. Mr. Sexton- Charles, what is a pure quadratic? Charles F.- One that is not affected. Miss McCoy- Give one oi Franklii1's maximsf' Reginald-':Keep thy shape and thy shape will keep thee. I-ivv. RUMMEL Dealer in and I Manufacturer of Harness, Collars, Bridles, Whips, Spurs and Turf Goods, Saddles Lap Robes, Lap Dusters, Horse Blankets V USE GOLDEN STAR Furniture Polish and Cleaner i Your Furniture Like the Baby Looks Best All Kinds of Repairing when Clean Bell Phone ees North Side sq. For Sale BY ineepeeeeeee, Me. H. J. OTT 8: C0. THE GLEAM. 1 147 Home Phone 648. Bell Phone 457. 0 Flrst JOHN A. WELCH atlonal N ' Plumbing, Steam and V Gas Fitting JOBBING PROMPTLY. . ATTENDED. The Service Bank OF ' Offlce at 115 south Main Independence, Missouri. Independence, Mo. Miss Phelps Qtest questionj- Why was the New 'World named Ameri- ca ? Mahala- lt was named after a man, because Europe and Asia had been named for Wo-men. Play Ball Metropolitan H otel Reach Base Bal I Remodeled, Steam Heated, G O Od S Private Baths AT A - ltlize 'Hardware Co. 116 south main sf. -Geo. W. Asher, Prop. Home Phone 128.' Bell Phone 426. North West Corner of Spuare 143 THE GLEAM. Chandeliers Motors Established 1870 Supplies Vacuum Cleaners Repairs Electric Washers ' Stationery a Sheley Electric Co. 'iEverything Electrical Bell 508 l 229 West Lexington St. For all Social Functions E l This is a specialty of Kansas City's Oldest Jewelry Establishment- Cadylk Ulmstead Jewelry Company 1009-ll Walnut Write for a Catalog. Miss Brown Qto George Wallacej- li you are going to read Shake speare you must, learn to say 'sweet' and if you can't learnt it, come to me and I will teach youg evidently that must not be one of your epithetsf' Eat Foster's Ice Cream Bell ll-l Home 110 J. L. Gray df Co. P. U. GROCERY Wholesale and Retail A Fancy Groceries and Meats Our Specialties - Richelieu and Sugar Loaf Fruits and Vegetables and Golden Crown Flour. 114 South Main St. Independence, Mo. Tl-IE GLEAM. 149 Casper X Shimiessel, The House of Quality. Dry Goods, Furnishing Goods and Shoes for Men, Women and Children. Quick moving merchandise keeps our stock Clean and up to date. Casper X Shimiessel North Side Square Miss B1'ownQ14eading Shlakespearej- So are you, sweet-james you read. james-ff1've lost the place. sim Lined Suits College Styles S15 Also agency for Society Brand Suits for young men- S15 t0 535. BOLEYSS 12th and Walnut Kansas City, Mo. Independence Invest- ment Co. ,...1 Real Estate, Loans, Insur- ance and Surety Bonds. J. E. Shartle, Mgr. ,.,.- 222 West Lexington St. Phones 192 Independence, Mo. 150 THE GLEAM. Railway Watch Inspector .Defective Eyes A Specialty. , Eyes Tested Free. I ' gplff gdyffiffzfpj Fancy China and Cut Glass Railroad Watch and Fancy Repair- ing a Specialty. 128 North Side Square, Bel Phone 135, Res. 1155x Independence, Missouri. S50 cash and S15 to S25 per month will buy a home. We can loan money for you or to you on Real Estate. Walter Rider Real Estate Co. 26 years in Independence. , Prof. Sexton Qln Ir. Geometryj-- Can a polygon be bounded by two sides, Mary Shaw Fi' Mary- I didn't hear the question. ' Mr. Sexton-'fOh! pshawf' For up-to-date Hhntngranha t Better Svtn in West Side Square IJEBENHAM 81 SUN Bakery and Delicatessen Full line of Layer and Fancy Cakes. Delicatessen Lunches Cold Meats Try our Perfection and Salt Rising Bread North Side Sq. Home Phone 430 P T 'nu 1-1 X , '1 lllll GLEAM. E+ if o r ' 1 1 'vgfj Y M'ffLsf s' Q t 5, oung en s ys em ults I X ' E X FOR GRADUATION - H 5 X 51 YOUNG MEN! .See these famous HL sysremv suits. 'I fx,-L, 'l'l1ey'1'ensnappy-1ndlvldual-distinctive-full of life X and action. See the beautiful smooth iiuisll, fine X I , ,574 tw1lled.blue serges, also the elegant rough xveaves and X I V M 1, self stripes. In addition, wefve a great lot of exclusive L ion 1 VN patterns and new effects in Electric blues. Puritan ' 0 ,H A. grays, Damson plums. Gray purplesg nobby 2 and 3- ?-i I- 1 ull. ,X button English and College models. Sizes e fin, ' 2, 14 to 20' years. Special values here at .... ' Q 1 Blue Serge Graduatlon Sults S15 - E W ' Elegantly Tailored in liandsome, smooth finished 'J x N blue sergesg snappy two and three-button models, X - , X 4 rolling lapels, full peg or semi-peg trousers, with or X X without euifs,3 all sizes, 31 to 36. Equal the best S20 W X , suits you ever saw. 5 I r I ,f Our Special Price ......................... ' X V 909-1919 Auellbachfggcuettel ' Q A Main ggi, 0 0 Q CITY, 1 ' Street. ' ' - MISSOURI. ,MATOR 'Q ' X! CLOTHING co - . 7 .'. I w-...W ,,,. , i., . 5, .. mmm ,-:ei 17, nf ,.-ww, f' ' James G In pllyS1CS How could you HX a StlCEl1l1 so as to use ershot Wheel? George W Dam 1t boy dam It 5 TEACHENOR BARTBERGER '33 ENGRAWNG COMPANY few 52 Q, ie ag H. 5 25 2 2 E li 'WM Wmfm , s'E':1 '51 - 'Maur Wemalie LL ffl XWWQQM' s,,,,,,J speclaltyof ewes? 'X '-Q W lllustratlng .,, C lege N 25 Umverslw ILLUSTRATO ee-xi and Hlgh School HAI-FTONE we AN NUALS gg AND PHOTO f ZINC ETCHER DESIGNER Q fl 5 'ff'-51. if gpm ,fnf-yn-4-mwxysvl f MQPI4 N-N,.S.,,,.1 SEVEIFITNE anlmlq:l1lN'FllkL srs Mo 03, 'A Lk' ' , -N4 7 C f D 11 X , . OV . ll ' cc - - 5: .qi . 1 , 1 ' N 4 ... A if :fig EW: . ' VF' . .,,, ' ' --W V ' -f'ff A- lf V QQIL.: me-L-:I :::... mtg ,ammfm gsI1 'f-iii-1, ,7-111::'.- li . V -..., ..,., , . ' W :.. , -fm .,:f-1'.ynM, ,,.. lf N 'S-xbwlffba, if- J . 'H .:a -:fl lf flf--!E fi1...L',1il1'f ' - ' V ,L ,V.-Q52 55 if:-,,-N -:F '9 1 'wp ff , 13 5 '.:i f - A' T- - - 1' :Q i212a:'1 3 Y :f f ,. . J ' if-Li ----Wie' 'G 5-K 5: iw - :xi 5fi,g,LX . f--'V 'V M- ' - . 'V ff li? t B . .H 1' iii Es' I gf' . -s gg W ies 1 - --f -.1 - ' L F? - ' VS' 1 :ii T is ' f af? IH f if Vi' ' -sqvgit rig W- -X e --'--N- - EE '-3 ese, .eee eee,e e,.. , -, i j1eEs::::a112a2sl:ssa5e11:faffz:f21:5-fzasssfiiifizeisgrefs: lssgssaf23595:-11:--1::22::s'ifffEe1111H-1 as . ,la A ff 'W2 f . .- W 'z ' ' .. v ' ' W: ll 1. '1 :. i,-.J N H2 THE GLEAM. B1-ad1ey's K AN-J Barber E Hedrick Building , Come in and see the 1911 Models we are showing and you'11 decide they are ideal home instrument. Let us talk prices and terms with You TO- DAY. W W. Kimball Co. 1009-11 Grand Ave. Miss Brown- Marvin, what kind of Word is nigger? Marvin- Technical, I suppose, I never heard it before. Question Qln a Soph. testj- VVho was Be1shazza11? Answer- A1exander's war horse. C. W. BRADY GROGEWES AND FEED -Now located at 108 East Lexington St. SQUARE DEAL JAIIKSUN GUUNTY BANK Independence, Mo. Capital . . 325,000.00 Surplus . . S5 2,000.00 -4 ner cent Interest Paid on Time Deposits Officers. Ellis Short, President. M. H.. Bond, Vice-President. V james M. Kelley, Vice-Pres. C. A. Davis, Cashier. A. A. Bailey, Asst. Cashier. THE GLEAM. 1, J Cement Work pm- H igh G Fade x We have helped you through your G school days somewhat by selling you h lb k d h ls 1' d sc oo oo sanvsc oo, upp1es,an Stetson Hats, Menus new that you are starting out in real life and will soon be building homes, Fine Shoes and Cloth' let us help you again by building the ing made to measure foundation of your house, your cellar X Hoor, porch and walks. See Yours truly, Bnmnw za srunsfs Maiof if Humphrey LATIN. All dead who wrote it, All dead who spoke it, All die who learn it, Blessed death they surely earn it. The Store gf Qualify Independence Ice 8: Both Phones 677 Storage Company Groceries and Meats Manufacturers Of Right Price Right Quality PURE ICE Storage and cash buyers of L' R' Ramp Apples, Butter: Eggs and E. B. Dooley Poultry Both Phones 447 West side Square Independence, Mo. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I x I I I I I I i I I I I 154 V THE GLEAM. 4-7th ANNUAL Summer School I 9 A. DI. to 3 P. M. SI-IORTHAND, TYPEWRITING, BOOKKEEPING, TELEGRAPHY, ENGLISH BRANCHES. COURSES OF STUDY Are the same as at other Terms in the year and the classes are conducted by our regular faculty of experienced Teachers. COOL ROODIS. Our Rooms Were planned and arranged especially 'for sch-ool purposes, 'being well lighted and ventilated by large Windows' on four sides of our new building. Spaldingls commercial College X flucorp oratedq Tenth and Oak Streets, Kansas City, Mo. Telephones: Home 1196 Main: Bell 1174 Main. ' J. F. SPALDING, A. M., President. Freshman Qreading oft his p-aperj- It was the cutest d-og I ever saw. Miss McCoy-'KI don't believe I would use the word Cute, do you know what cute means P . I Fresliniaii- Well, the dog was bovvlegged. Try R. WV. lVIcCurdy, Geo. KV. Corey, Pres. Sec'y. Fred Bergschneider, Treas. 'cpemdell Coffee HUME ntmsn musi cn. Transucts 31 general Banking busi- 35C PCI' Pound ness and 0H01'S the benefit of its large sources, long experience, capable management and complete facilities to those who -have use for such an Insti- . I tution.- Deposits lnay be made in this H-,- bank in several ways to suit the '00li- venience and needs of its customers. 2 per cent paid on checking accounts. 2 per cent savings account. 3 per cent on time deposits. Safety deposit boxe For Sale Slsl, '52, 83, per year. A WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. Hinde Bros- Hams ntvusn musr Inu. ff 1 0 A THE GLEAM an The Llve Wlre School Draughon s Practlcal Buslness College, 912 14 Grand Avenue, Kansas Ctty, Mo The largest Cham of Busmess Colle Lg ln the vsoxlu 45 Colle es 1n 18 States Esta.b11shed 23 yea1s Lapltftl S300t000 00 fC.1Cl111l the Iwmous D1au hon System LXPERT PLACHERS INDIVIDUAL INS'1RUC'1IONS POSITIONS FOR GRADUA'1ES JOHN I' DRAUGI-ION P10SlllLllf ROBERT II PENTZ Genelql 151551 Central Unlon Telegraph School Only Tele 1 :ph und Rauhoall 'I'1uuuu Srolrool illltlllllllell and l1l1D10V0l1 by the Unlon Paclllc R ll Best 01 u1n1p1nent md ulstluetnous POSltl0B ualanteed 912 14 Grand Avenue C I-I BERHORST Superv1sor MISS Brown lf you are w1th people a loner t1me you become hke them and look l1ke them so beweue who you go w1th W1111fred who goes YN1lll1 a led headed boy Vera 1S my ha1r turnmg red P Both Phones 347 W Kerr A B Pltts, Pres Vxce Pres Wyman s Cash Grocery Company The J W Kerr Auto Company Lxvery Storage and Repalflng Agents For JACKSON AND HUDSON AUTOMOBILES 109 South lVla1n St 2 4 N Llberty Both Phones 273 Independence M1SSOuf1 4. -- ' 4 . l 0 O 1 lv I ' , -' - 1' j gag' ,-W a, gy- U 1 V '. 'I 'C ..'ez g Q ' g- 1 . F ' v 4 , X . ' ' . 1 vqs. ,I 5 . Q , ' , I .1 ,.. I I O gn: 1 ' n n ' ' g- I ' -'VA , 1 1 . . , . . E, . - 1 . . . , . , My .u . . ' - o ' I . ', IJ . Q Q ' D if ' ' ' - ,, f- 1 Q , 'J J. . , . . , , . l O I 1 . 7 . . v 2 , , o X I , . - , 1 56 TI-IE GLEAM. , ,Nsqxecxexe-ee-wX, 9 ff Y NEB I H ngnunc Ssfif I U TRADE HARK REGISTERED . WINTER I ' l Wm . -- If A - I 'WY PWM m9 :li ff 1 'CQ M j' I' X x I I Wvil Wav X ' iw I .L gf, I .. , ,,f M g' 1 A 4' WFS !'1' r V5 I V Q . ' lu V' E: .1 DM' :- 2?-,ig QUE I p P5Ei1'If'iY WAGGUNEH GATES mllunn co I f GEQ L A 0 1 Xxp uuffnofmf mmnv Ii. I 5' A Mr, Elliot-'iINhe1'e is the most rein fall in the U, S? Vance- British Columbia and Alaska. 1 ' The Laborless, NH Dirtless and Odorless way to is -P Q 2 :F :r- G3 93 U3 93 as Q. 99 Heat Water is Iddd ' '-.1 L i. ig ,.-' ii 3+ QI: if'ET !5.i if I Z. '.'1'A' Lfff- Ng-gg-,fzfsn I 31? ,115 11, f' 15:14 Copper Coil Water Heater. JOHN A. SEA, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Over Bank of Independence INDEPENDENCE, MO. HELF 8x NOBLE, BARBERS. Best of all kinds of work in their line HOT AND COLD BATH WITH SHOWERS FREE. Under Bank of Independence. THE GLEAM. 157 JOHNSON TAILOR School Suits from S20 up. All work guaranteed perfect in fit, style and workman- ship and made in Indepen- dence. Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing and Altering. 208 West Lexington Bell Phone 148 Work Called For and Delivered S. B. Aures Co. Florists, Nurserymen, Seedsmen. Flowers for the Graduate Most Reasonable Prices. Home Phone'6l5 Bell Phone 794 Miss Sehrt -Mr. lfVherritt, give the definition for mist. Alan- Mist is pulverized rain drops. Miss Brown- VVl1o was Mary Arden ? Wilma- Shalces1Jeare's fatherls wife. 'Walnut Hill TOILET GOODS An Elegant Assortment. 341,535,115 niicsiil piili inthe tlliciieninvielnteaziliti E. G. Bunyar, Proprietor Cut Flowers and Floral Designs. The best of all kinds at all times. Both Phones 75 1419 N. Main aids and toilet necessities and lux- uries in our superb stock. u All new, worthy goods are shown here as soon aslthey are shown any- where. Our stock meets all tastes and all purses. Hair Brushes, Combs, Nail Brush- es, Complexion Brushes, Toilet Wa- ters, Toilet Powders, Toilet Creams, Etc. Rexall Remedies. I. H. CLINTON'S Pharmacy. 58 THE GLEAM. ff 'U A5rAlxsm6X 'gps VERY oF E g 1 E D:sCK'fl 3 N A A' ox, In, 'Ii ' 5 sa K? i A f , 'N ' in A 4 'M fr ti 'X ' Q'--A E' f ' vii- ix Q Y, ,1 V 9-N I7 .- ,1-Qfff?' W 1 IX I6 V , F ,I .:., 3 El .' 'EAA I i O u 'oN .f ll X Q . V img i ' f 1 - E' l be A GREEN JEWELRY C0-9 Manufacturing, Jewelers, Watch and Jewelry Repairing. We also make a specialty of Class, College and Fraternity Pins. 1004-6 Walnut St. Kansas City, Mo. Ellis S. gave a long talk on silks. Miss Mitchell- VVl1ere did you get your material, Ellis? - Ellis S.- Out of Great Men and Famous VVomen. Go To RUMMELL 8: REICK For your Summer Shoes. Slippers in all styles and leathers.i C. R. Smith Garage We do all kind of Repair Work and Lawn Mower Grinding by Machinery 215:17 West Maple Ave. ' 'f i2 p THE GLEAM. 159 x See i HARE Tlle Photographer ' Work done in the Latest Styles Interior and Exterior View Work 1105 Liberty. West Side Square. Elbert McDonald Lumber 6: Lime Yard on South Liberty Street. One Block South of Square. Telephon No. 5, Home or Bell. .4 e your figure. QOh, why did she choose Doris ?j , Phone 403 Bell South Side Square. Independence, Mo. .i J ll ei g Q4 .ugh .N 5 g , Miss Chiles flu Senior geometryj--' 'Doris, please rise and show the class Furnaces Buggies and Both Phones 48. Sheet Metal, Implements. Metal, Slate and Tile Roofing, Martin-Parker Hardware Co. Cafe for COl'I'1iCeS. Sky Lights. Phone 403 Home 6429 South Side Square. Independence, Mo. x O . THE GLEAM. FIXTURES. FIXTURES. JOHN D. STROTHER, ATT RNE AT LA . JAY JONES, O Y W L T I AL ONTRACTOR Phones: Home 49g Bell 69. ' R . E EC C C ' Oflice over Chrisman-Sawyer Bank. Bell 763. 1227 W. College. INDEPENDENCE, MO. , HAMILTON 8: THICE, ATTORNEYS and COUNSELORS , AT LAW. Independence, Mo. E. C. Hamilton. Jolm F. Thice. JOHN A. KERR, . R E A L E S T A T E. Room 1, Chrismant-Sawyer Bank Bldg Telephones: Home 504. Bell 390. Residence, Bell 730. INDEPENDENCE, MO. I. LIEBERMAN, Wholesale Dealer in SCRAP IRON, METALS, ETC. 214 N. Osage. Home Phone 32. A Independence, Mo. WILLIAM B. BOSTIAN, ATTORNEY. First National Bank Building Independence, Mo. LLEWELLYN JONES, ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR AT LAW. First National Bank Building, Independence, Missouri. L. T. DRYDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. INDEPENDENCE, MO. JOHN G. PAXTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Chrisman-Sawyer Bank Building. SOUTHERN 8: SOUTHERN, LAWYERS. Chrisman-Sawyer Bank Biulding INDEPENDENCE, MO. JOHN W. CLEMENTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. INDEPENDENCE, MO. Bell 221 Home 415. GEORGE W. CLINTON, FIRE INSURANCE, RENTALS, COLLECTIONS. 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