Bourne Town

Bourne Town

For the past ten years the scholars of the Bourne High School have been expecting a new building in which to finish their course. Every March we have attended the regular town meeting in anticipation of a new High SchiK)l building voted tons; but each year we have returned in disappointment and resumed our seats in the old, dark and unhealthy building. Until now it remains for some future class to return, not with disappointment but with joy.

On a windy day there is draught enough to almost blow out a match. Last year the school committee had to suspend school for a day, as the thermometers were nearly down to freezing. This year the weather has been mild, so we have been warm enough. A stove in the recitation room helps a great deal in keeping that room warm.

As the class of 1900 leave the B. H. S. it is with a joyous expectation that the class of 1902 may have the comfort and pleasure of at least spending their last year in a new Bourne High School.

The High School Echo The Electric Road

After considering the many advantages which an electric road would give Cape Cod, how can one think of it otherwise than as a great benefit to the public? The ladies could .then step out of their front doors and in almost no time they would be whizzing toward their destination.

A short ride on the electrics would bring many a working man home, thus saving him the extra expense of boarding, and giving him the enjoyment of his family and home.

The benefit to real estate would be such that land owners would be trying to compete with the pomp and style of the summer people ; and since it would be taxable property, it would be a benefit to the Town Treasury.

It would give the outlying villages the full be'nefit of the Public Library, and the young people would have cheap transportation to entertainments. Scholars staying at the High School for rehearsals or on class business, would not have to wait around the Buzzards Bay depot from 3.30 until 6 00 o'clock.

Such pleasant trips would be opened up, as can hardly be imagined. It seems to me, that the summer people instead of rejecting such trips, would be delighted with them thus aiding the maintenance of the electrics.

On the other hand, there seem to be but two arguments against this pro])osed railroad. First, horses would be frightened. Second, stable-keepers would lose trade. Either of these is unimportant, for horses would soon become accustomed to the electrics, and the livery business is very small. .Any loss occasioned by electrics in tliis way would hardly l)e taken into consideration, they would be so overbalanced by arguments in favor of the electric road.

The War In The Transvaal

This republic was formed in 18^8 by Dutch farmers who emigrated from Cape Colony. In 1854 its independence was recognized by Creat Britain ; but in 1877 it was annexed, causing much opposition from the Boers, who, in December, 1879, declared independence, proclaiming the Transvaal a republic in December, 1880; in 1881 the British renounced all right to the direction of its internal affairs.

In a president and a council ut five members is vested the executive power, the legislative in a parliament of two chambers having twenty-four members each.

The country is very hilly and the scenery is not attractive. The principal products are gold, silver, coal, iron, w(»ol, cattle, grain, ivory, etc. The exports are valued at about $37,000,000, and the imports at over $32,- 000,000. 'I'here are over 800 miles of railway and nearly 2.000 miles of telegraph line. There are many English schools, besides over 400 village schools.

The natives, for the most part farmers and wool-growers, are a quiet, honest, religious people, having a great love of home ; the greater part of them are sai l to have a fair education.

The rights of the foreigners, or Outlanders (principally English), living in the Transvaal, were considered by the British most arbitrary, and they, claiming suzerainty over the people, demanded better rights for these Outlanders, although this was simply a subterfuge, their real object being to gain possession of the country's wealth. Kruger, the president of the republic, offered some concessions which the British refused to accept, and hostilities commenced.

The Boers were well prepared for this. Preparations had been going on, on both sides, for some time. It is understood that the Boers had been training under the best military instructors whom they could procure, and that they were in excellent condition for carrying on the war. They are d'he British much underrated their abilities and also their numbers, and thought at first that it would not take many men to whip them ; but they soon discovered their mistake. They have sent many of their best men for services in the Transvaal.

The Boers seem to know beforehand the moves which the British idan and are generally prepared to meet them. 'They tore down a number of bridges which would have been of advantage to the British, and have interrupted communication by telegraph between towns held by them. d'hey are following tactics which they learned from German military instructors. It was from a knowledge of these that they could surprise Fuller when he attempted to cross the 1 ugela river, and thought that he was going to do it so easily. But he found that the Boers knew a thing or two, and he was forced to retreat with his army so ciippled, that he was able to do nothing until he was reinforced.

After they had settled a few things their own way in the northern part of Cape Colony, they began very unexpectedly to close in upon Gen. White at Ladysmith. They dug trenches about the town, which in places came very close to the fortifications of the British. From these they can fire upon it with very little danger to themselves. The news of the capitulation of \Vhite will, we think, be a surprise to very few.

At first the British thought that they were only going to have a little boar (Boer) hunt but the "boars" soon got on the track of the English, and about all they have got out of it are reverses, caused by what their rej:)orters call "accidents."

The High School Ehco

General Leonard Wood, a Cape Cod boy, lived in Hoc asset during his youth. Here he was very fond of sailing during rough weather and of doing other perilous things.

In 1881-82 he went through Harvard Medical School and began to practice in Boston, but such a quiet life did not satisfy Gen. Wood, for he loved adventure. He soon joined the army as cantract surgeon, and was sent out West with Gen. Miles' army. Here he had to contend with the terrible Apache Indians. In order to follow the Indians, the soldiers mu^t possess great powers ot endurance and great courage.

Gen. Miles soon found out that (ien. Wood possessed these requisites, and that few of the whites, either sol liers or frontiersmen, could last with him. He could even equal the fiiendly Indian trailers.

In campaigns of this kind it was necessary to select the man best fitted to command, and WMod, though only a contract surgeon, won deserved fame as commanding officer of a certain detachment sent out to capture the Indian chief, Geronimo. In these campaigns, Cren. NV'ood displayed such extraordinary powers of endurance and unusual courage, such excellent judgment and trustworthiness, he was awarded a medal of honor. Henceforth he held a foremost place in the regard of his superior officers.

General Wood was made Colonel of the "Rough Riders" in 1898, his firm friend, Theodore Roosevelt, being Lieutenant- Colonel. The excellent service rendered in Cuba caused his appointment as Brigadier- General - and the fame of the Rough Riders and their brave commanders will long live in history.

without them. Those who saw him in Cuba ever found him attending to numerous duties - faithfully inspecting hospitals - superintending cleaning of the extremely filthy streets - planning a system of sewerage and endeavoring to secure the return of land tillers - furnishing employment to many an idle person, yet never losing his own place in mere detail but delegating to others what could be safely delegated.

'To General Wood has fallen the duty of preserving order, of seeing the best Cubans begin to administer the government, of protecting the lives and property of the Spaniards, and of securing the best hygienic conditions possible in the city, of opening the schools, of re-establishing agriculture and commerce in Cuba

General VVood by his energy, firmness, common sense and moderation has done wonders in preventing an out-break among the Cubans, Spaniards and Americans, as every condition was ripe for anarchy ; but he won the friendship of the citizens and thus prevented it.

He has always attended faithfully to the duties confided to him, never by word or act forfeiting the confidence of the government, or seeking political preferment.

"F'or two weeks," said the returned explorer, "I was without food; but one day I found a calendar." "What good did that do you?" asked the skeptical listener. "I immediately ate the dates," was the unblushing rejily. - [Philadelphia Record.

Doctor

A Voice in the Dark. - "Mamma, please gimme a drink of water; I'm so thirsty." "No ; you're not thirsty. Turn over and go to sleep." A pause. "Mamma, won't you please give me a drink? I'm so thirsty." "If you don't turn over and go to sleep. I'll get up and whip you !" Another pause. "Mamma, won't you please gimme a drink when you get up to whip me?" - Tit-Bits.

The Worm vvas up Late. - A father was lecturing his son on the evils of staying out late nights and rising late in the morning. "You will never succeed," he said, "unless you mend your ways. Remember the early bird catches the worm." "And what about the worm, father?" said the young man, sneeringly, "Wasn't he rather foolish in getting up so early?" "My son," said the old man, "that worm hadn't been to bed at all ; he was only getting home." The young man coughed.

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Auld Lang Syne

"I've a plan that will quickly settle the difficulties in the Philippines," observed the man with the bulging brow, entering the office of the editor of the anti-imperialist Screecher. "Good ; take a chair," said the editor, greeting him warmly. "What's the plan?" "Why, it's as easy and cheaper than lending money," began the man with the bulging brow. "All you've got to do is to induce McKinley to declare war against Spain ; give her another good lickin', and then force her to take back them islands and cough up that ^20,000,000 she buncoed us out of." - Verdict.

The Story Of A Raindrop

Once upon' a time, in a great cloud, was a little raindrop. His first home was in the sea. He live.d there, very happy until one day several df' his neighbor raindrops left their home in the sea and were carried up to a beautiful, rosy, golden-edged cloud near the sun, as he thought. He was unhappy until one day, aboiif a week later, one of the sun's rays called him and he went up to a beautiful, fleecy cloud w'hich was just beginning to grow golden with the sun's good-night. Now he was happy.

Pretty soon one of his neighbors, who was a great gossip, told him that the clouds were planning a beautiful time. "They are going to have a grand play-time !" she said, "and I suppose most of us will go down to the earth. Will you join? We are going to get old uncle Boreus to help us, and are going to ask him to make music by 'shaking the windows efown' on the earth while we run races. We are to start to-morrow night at eleven so as to get there at twelve."

The next night they all assembled, and uncle Boreus sent his east wind to rattle the windows because he had too bad an attack of rheumatism to go himself. Then they joined hands and started, those who could travel fastest grouped together in twos and threes, because they wished to make all the noise possible, racing as well as they could. In about an hour they reached the earth and began to pit-a-pat on the roofs of the houses.

This raindrop landed in a little brook and was carried into Buzzards Bay, and from -here he traveled into the ocean, soon coming to his old home. He was content to live there now, though perhaps he took another journey later, which I am not prepared to tell about. E. H. H., '03.

Miscellaneous

The Town of Bourne entered nine girls and one boy as fresh-men for this school year. Mr. Platts having removed to Providence it leaves a class of fresh-women.

The Senior class lost and received "one member at the begining of this year ; but since the lost will be found next term, the class will be plus one, or ten.

The Class of 1900 is a good example of what often takes place in a class of freshmen in four years - namely, a reduction from twenty-five to nine. Ought there not to be some way of bringing the sixteen who dropped out, into touch with that "little" which is afforded in the four years' course ?

It now seems probable that there will be no Senior class next year, as there is but one Junior now ; and it isn't probable that that member will alone have the expenses and stage fright.

The honors of the Class of 1900 were as follows : - Valedictory, Mr. Gustavus Foster Hall ; Salutatory, Mr. Robert Sylvan Handy. The Class History and Prophecy were conferred by the class on Miss Carolyn Irwin Dennis.

Teacher (to class) : "What is an octopus? Small Boy (who has just commenced to take Latin, eagerly) : "Please, sir, I know sir; it's an eight-sided cat." - Life.

"Yes," said the one-legged veteran, "Billy chipped splinters off my wooden leg to light the fire with, an' when I got a cork leg the ol' lady wuz puttin' up ketchup, an' she used six inches of it fer bottle stoppers - that's why I look so lopsided !" - Atlanta Constitution.

Four Centuries Of History

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Fishing At Sunrise

I will begin by giving the true and only definition for " fiishing," which is - "Fishing is catching fish." When all is told, we shall see that at sunrise one morning, three persons in a very leaky boat went "fishing."

They went with the very best intentions, they came back - well, suffice it to say, they did come back. Even in July the air, fresh from the lake, is decidedly cool. Especially so, when a person is aressed for rather warm work, such as pulling in a black bass, or a five pound pickerel, in fact, anything smaller than a shark.

When they were about half-way over, I noticed that something quite unusual was happening on board. One girl was half standing on the end seat, the other had her feet resting on the gunwhale, and still another form was doubled over a can "bailing out." When I, by means of a now leaky boat, got near enough to see them clearly, I found they had taken the can which they used for a bailer and placed a board on top, making a veritable see-saw. It worked to perfection until one of the young ladies hooked a bass. Then in her excitement she let her side of the board u]j and the one at the other end promptly put her feet in the water - to hold the bottom of the boat down.

Yes, she landed the fish, but I won't say how - whether by pole, line or net - or all three. The water in their boat was deep enough for the fish to have a fine time swimming around, which privilege he made the most of from sunrise until eight o'clock.

That was not the only fish caught, but the others were pulled in with a very matter-offact motion, having only an occasional acrobatic feat for variety. I had lo.'.g befoie given up my pole and was intent upon the proceedings in the next boat. I had not, however, thought to take my pole out of the water. I looked up just in time to see it disappearing over the side of the boat. I reached for it and caught it, nearly upsetting myself, boat and all.

By that time they had hooked and lost so many fishes they were tired and we started for home. They gave up the see-saw and put the can to a more practical use. * *

Humor

"It's a shame, that's what it is !" exclaimed the boy, wrathfully. "I can't have any fun at all." "What's the matter?" asked the sympathetic neigbor. "Dad says he'll lick me if he ever hears of me fighting with a boy smaller than I am, an' I dassn't fight with a bigger one." - Chicago Evening Post.

Speaker (waxing eloquent) : "The same hand that made the mountains, made the little stream that trickles down the mountain side ; the hand that made the mighty trees, made the tiny breeze that rushes through the branches ; the hand that made me, made a daisy." - The Wellesley Prelude.

Bones and Holes. - Grocer : "You butchers have a soft snap. You weigh the bones with the meat and charge meat prices." Butcher : "I don't see as you have any call to talk. When you sell Swiss cheese, don't you weigh the holes and charge cheese prices for them?"

Another Clever VVoman. - "My wife can tell wnat time it is in the middle of the night when it is pitch dark." "How does she do it?" "She makes me get up and look at the clock."

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A New Arithmetic

4. A beggar met two boys. One gave him eleven cents and the other gave him eight cents. Find the name of the third one who hit him in the ear with a snow-ball.

5. A tramp got two kicks at one house, a cold shoulder at another and a bite from a dog from a third. How long did it take to get into the workhouse for sixty days.

6. A father agreed to give his son four and one half acres of land for every cord of wood he chopped. The son chopped threesevenths of a cord, broke the axe and went hunting rabbits. How much land is he entitled to?

7. A woman earned forty-two cents per day by washing and supported her husband who consumed four dollars worth of provisions per week. How much was she in debt at the end of each month, up to the time he was sent to the workhouse. ?

8. If a young man owns a little cane, a rat-and-tan dog, a pair of lavender pants, three flashy neck-ties, a frail mus» tache, a flirtation handkerchief and parts his hair in the middle of his senseless head, what will it cost to board six idiots at a third rate hotel for a year?

9. A certain young man walks fivesevenths of a mile for seven nights in a week to see his girl and after putting in 1 1 2 nights he gets the bounce, how many did he hoof it altogether and how many weeks did

10. A plumber is called upon to mend a leak in a water pipe. He sends an employee who surveys the leak ; another who courts the servant girl ; a third who tries the new organ ; a fourth to look alter the other three. At this rate, how long will it take the plumber to secure a mortgage on the City Hall?

Bess; "So Jeannette married a farmer. I thought she said she would-- marry only a man of culture?" ' Nell "And so she did - a man of agriculture." - Chicago News.

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I had a very singular dream last night. I dreamt of being "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep." I went rolling "Over the Ocean Wave" and was finally left on the shores of "The German Rhine." I looked up the beach and saw a beautiful hall situated " 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces." There seemed to be a public entertainment ; people passed to and fro.

In a large arm chair sat "My Pussy" and "Old Dog I'ray." "Nancy Lee" sat on "America" with her true friend "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." I was much surpiised when all began singing as a young girl entered, "Make Room for May" with "The Revolutionary Tea." The "Merry Swiss Roy" came lagging along just as refreshments were being serv'ed. He said he had come just to "Help it on."

Quite a time elapsed before I noticed "Lucy Long" saunter in with "Nellie Gray." As they came in. I saw "Yankee Doodle" wrapped in the "Star Spangled Banner" walk over to "The Girl I Left Behind Me," and say, "Little Lucy Little" "Why Mournest Thou Here?' " She answered, " T'm Left Here All Alone," "My True Friend" went and left me, "Just as the Sun Went Down.' "

My attention was then attracted by the "Men of Harlech's" seeming quite alarmed at seeing "A Warrior Bold in the Days of Old" with an "Empty Sleeve" coming toward them. Their fear died away, however, when they recognized the noble-looking, well-preserved old gentleman, "Columbia," who, on account of his hale and hearty appearance, was called "Hail Columbia."

During all this time the "Minstrel Returned from the War" had been sweeping the melancholy strings of "The Harp that once through Tara's Hall," "The soul of music under a shed" or words to that effect.

I began to think of returning to my "Old New Hampshire Home" and so passed out into the "Stilly Night." As I went out on to the cold beach and looked back upon the happy throng, I murmured, " 'O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast?"

I saw the first rays of the rising sun breaking over the "Blue Alsatian Mountains" and so hurried on down the beach. There I saw "Two little Maids in Blue."

Just as I was stepping into my "Canoe that Floats on Forever," I heard the songs of several other persons who were returning from their "Dreamland." Among the rest I heard a number of jolly fellows "Coming through the Rye" (put up in quart bottles). And as they went they sang, "We won't go home 'til morning."

Treaty

A bit of diplomacy that cannot fail to flatter American pride, has been consummated by the receipt, during the past month, of a written guarantee from the Russian government, that whatever might be the vicissitudes of the Celestial empire as to territorial disintegration, American trade treaties with China would continue valid. The Russian government was the last of the great powers to accord us this guarantee. This same assurance, as regards British treaty rights, has been sought in vain by the court of St. James for the past year. Some English papers have affected to regard this demand on the part of our .government, at this critical period of British history, as proof of our friendly feeling, even going so far as to intimate that our diplomatic machinery was set in motion through London influence. Nothing could arouse the latent Anglophobia so easily as statements of this kind. And the moral force of a probable ally with which England holds hostile Europe in check can be easily destroyed by assertions tending to prove an entente so at variance with our traditional policy. - "The National Magazine."

A Landscape Scene

The fields were of a brownish tint and very beautiful. The trees in the distance looked to lie of a dark greenish shade and loomed up before the eyes, furnishing a weird picture.

Now as the sun is about to set, the horizon seems on fire. Long streamers of fire seem to be extending in ail directions and these mingling with the pale blue of the evening sky make a pleasing spectacle.

Newspapers For Lunatics

A little known but not uninstructive branch of journalism is that which comprises newspapers written, printed and published in lunatic asylums. The lunatic journalism took its rise with a copy of The Neiv Moon, issued at the Crichton Royal Asylum, Dumfries, Scotland, in 1844. Now many of the leading asylums of both hemispheres have journals. A writer in the London Mai7 gives the following particulars about them :

These magazines touch the journalistic ideal, as, being written by the readers for their own amusement, they can not fail to hit the popular taste. We find that those mentally deranged like about four-ninths of their reading to take the form of travel and heavy prose articles of a strictly theoretical nature. The rest of the contents comes in order of quantity as follows : Humor, local notes, poetry, chiefly in a light vein ; special articles on local theatricals, and fiction.

The most striking feature about these journals is the almost total absence of gloom and melancholia, and we have it on the word of the doctor of one of the leading asylums that this is not owing to such contributions being tabooed. But now and again one comes on a poem or tale drenched with melancholia and morbid insanity. In one of these journals appeared a story written in the first person, about a hero - undoubtedly the writer - who had his head tvvisted around the wrong way. The consequence was he invariably had to walk in the opposite direction to which he wanted to walk. This terrible fate haunts him right through the story, causing him to lose friends, money and everything else which man holds dear, and ends up by his in him, in his own mind, . murdering the girl who was to save him from himself. According to the story, the heroine was standing on the edge of a great precipice. The hero is standing near. Suddenly the heroine becomes giddy and totters on the brink. The hero tries to dash forward and save her, but of course runs the other way. Here comes a break in the narrative, which is finished by the following sentence : "And the gates of an asylum for those mentally deranged shut the writer off from his friends in the outer world."

I met a young widow with a grown stepdaughter, and a short time afterward the widow married me. Then my father, who was a widower, met my stepdaughter and married her. That made my wife the mother-in-law of her father-in-law, and made my stepdaughter my mother and my father my stepson. Then my stepmother, the stepdaughter of my wife, had a son. That boy was, of course, my brother, because he was my father's son. He was also the son of my wife's stepdaughter, and therefore her grandson. That made me grandfather to my stepbrother. Then my wife had a son. My mother-in-law, the stepsister of my son, is also his grandmother, because he is her stepson's child. My father is the brother-in-law of my child, because his stepsister is his wife. I am the brother of my own son, who is also the son of my stepgrandmother. I am my mother's brother-in-law, my wife is her own child's aunt, my son is my father's nephew, and I'm my own grandfather. And after trying to explain the relationship some seven times a day to friends for a fortnight, I was brought here - no, came of my own will.

Another writer declares gleefully that he never found rest from his mother-in-law before, and that he intends to continue as long as possible to hoodwink the physicians in their notion that he is insane. Another writes that the fate of all great men has been to be maltreated or overlooked by their contemporaries, and therefore he is now detained : "For the thick skulls and those of little sense are jealous of my being the first to discover that we could all live forever if we would only walk on our hands instead of our feet." - The Literary Digest.

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