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TT7T . |'_J '--" -' • -_ V; ,-• * «""• • ' *.. %- -: • w' • ? u"*" • 1 •••-'*?';* .„; -,*c* \ *> "• rvs <v-Y VOLUME TWO Published in the Interest of the McHenry Community High School, McHenry, Illinois, Thursday, April % 1925 PAPEk NUMBER 24 n THE STAFF FOR 1925 Editor ... .Richard Stenger Assistant editor .... .Alvin Anderson Athletics Wiiliam Green Science -- . Violet Vycital Senior .Harold Bacon Junior ............ .Catherine Walsh Sophomore .... yA;.v... .James Fay Freshman ......Joseph Diaper ComThercial . vV.. v.-... Paul Patzke Sewing .. t .Xgnes Weingart Girts* athletics ... X. .Frances May Office boy . .William Beth Literary . :'V;v". Marjorie Whiting Cooking , .felisabeth Vogt Music .iWv.-..Ernest Barbian Personals ...........Berteel Spencer Critics... Angela Petesch, Mamie Keg Office reporter t...Marie Baer Humor ..... .John Wilson IF THEY DIDN'T, THEY SHOULD HAVE How is it we never know our lessons? We had to stay after school for over an hour and some of the girls most likely missed their supper. We made several different types at tams from tissue paper. The sections', crown tam was the most difficult to make. o We wonder whether there will be very many exempted from the exams. Dorothy Peet was absent from school a number of days. Hope she will soon be back. Some of the girls will be expert milliners by the time they get through making their hats. Well, Whft Is It? We all know what's coming when Miss Stockebrand says, *1Now put away your work." OFFICE NEWS Most of the sickness is over. We stilt have some out, but we hope they will return soon. Mary is still out with the chicken pox. Miss O'Sullivan was absent two days on account of sickness. Mr. Sears was not here yesterday till orchestra practice, on account of sickness. Girls are to have 9. horse shoe tournamemnt. Come on out and sign your names to the list. The grade board men had their regular session last Thursday night. HORSE SHOE TOURNAMENT IS WELL UNDER WAY Second Round of Play Nearly Over The boys are all enthusiasm. The games are all tightly played and only in a few instances have there been any walk-aways. Bill Nye is one of the favorites to cop. But there are many others who will keep him going as Conway, Barbian and little Jimmy Frisby will make some of them fight. Forty boys have entered the race. The honor of being the best ovum to develop very rapidly, .and it becomes the embryo. "Rie ovule forms a hard coat about the embryo, and any vacant space is filled with food, lhe completely prepared ovule is then a seed. Most plants have* worked out a method by which the seed shall be carried away to ne\y places to grow In some plants, as in the violets, the seed pod bursts open with considerable forcfe, scattering the seeds to a distance. The seed pod itself is often arranged so that it can be carried off by the air. Examples are the winged seeds of the maple, and the tufted seeds of the dandelion. Multitudes of sseds are carried about by currents of water, even by those of the ocean itself. Seeds like the "stickers" of the cocklebur and burdock are carried about by animals to a new place for germination. V Anna Popp. FRESHMAN CLASS NOTES They have started to work on the tennis eolirt. Watch the "Freshies" take first in playing. Mr. Sears has been absent the past three weeks. I guess he must have caught the spring fever along with the rest. Mr. Koerner invested in a new cornet over the week end. He reports he played it so much during the day that he has an idea he is playing it In his sleep. We hate to tell anything on ourselves but here's one we must tell. Edwin informed us that Frances Scott Key wrote Ivanhoe. It's alt right Ed- _ win, we all make mistakes. TENNIS COURTS IN BAD SHAPE C'mon kids! Bring your hoes and rakes if you want to play tennis sometime this year. No one is barred from helping but everyone is cordially invited. One or two evenings this week some have been working on the courts but they need a lot more work. ,If everybody helps they ought to be completed in a week. If all the work is left to two people the courts will never be completed and then we won't play at all this season. Go and see Stringer now and ask him what is needed.. In the meantime, however, there is a court in the gym that can be used by any person so inclined. Mr. Duker has tennis balls for sale at the office at wholesale price. See him now If you want them. In case any of the students care to play in the gym, don't neglect to put on your tennis.shoes. COMMERCIAL CLASS HAVE ENTERED IN CONTEST Motor to Harvard Saturday, April 4 Miss Oates' commercial classes are horseshoe! entered in the North Six contest that player in the high school is being hotly J is to be held at Harvard next Saturday, contested. Nye, Newman, Frisby, j April fourth. The North Six consists Krause, Barbian, Jepson, Carr, E. I of the following schools, McHenry, Freund, J. Whiting, S. Whiting, Nye, Thomas, Barbain, Bacon, L. Conway and Krause. HUMOR * Joe: "I'm engaged to marry a girl worth $150,000. I say, Harold, what would you do if you had $150,000?" Harold: "I wouldn't do a thing." Bill: "Do you know that brother of yours is liable to get. himself into a lot of trouble?" ; James: "What has he been doing?" Bill: "He's going around telling lies about me." James: "As long as he lies, what do you care? But if he begira to tell the truth, break his jaw." Jesse: "We men are Apt what we used to-be." - . > Edward: "Why not?" ; * VJesse: "Well, we used to be boys." Ernest: "The old man caught me kissing his daughter in the parlor." Rubber: "What did he say?" Ernest: "He said he never wanted to see me-in his house again." Rubber: "That's too bad. What are you going to do?" Ernest: "Call on my girl on the nights! the old man is at the lodge." E'.mer: "That's the kind of music that moves the sole." " 0 , , Mr. Tallmadge: "Moves the soul! Why there's nothing pathetic about it." Elmer: "I know; but it's waltC music, isn't it. That always moves the sole." Gus: "Marriage is a lottery." Sibre: "Love letters are allowed in Gus: "Why isn't it?" Sibre: "No it isn't." . the mails." Raymond: "Wonder whaH we wijl wear in heaven?' , Herman: "I know what 111 wear if I See you there." Raymond: "What will you wear?" Herman: "A surprised look." Miss Oates: "Money talks!" ! Art: "That's why we hear so much about loud checks." Alvin: "Did your sweetheart receive you warmly last night?" Dick: "No! But her father did." Alvin: "How was that?" Dick: "He fired me." Bud: "I'll never ask another woman to marry me as long as I live!" Bernard: "Refused again?" Bud: "No; accepted." You haven't a cent, and yet wish to marry Miss Bylsma. Don't you expect her father to kick you out?" Tillie: "Oh! no. I intend to go before the foot lights." Opportunities seek capable, hardworking, loyal men as honey bees seek the best flowers. When Old Man Opportunity is looking for a man, will he pick you on your merits or pass you for your faults? Freund, Bylsma, John Fay and Herbes, have all won their games up to last Thursday. Jas. Fay and Whiting, Schroeder and Ferwerda, Page and Conway have yet to play to finish the first round. SCIENCE Physiology Notes We are not having laboratory work any more. Less work! Thank heavens. Since so many of the students were absent last week, we that were there had to answer many more questions. Students, come back! ' ! ! We surely pitied Mr. Koerner when he ate a piece of the bread that his father baked. If he had eaten very much more of it we probably would be minus a teacher. Now we know the reason why people laugh; they either have sunshine in their souls, or moonshine in their stomachs. General Science The flower is the wonderful organ, through which the higher plants reproduce themselves from generation to generation. ;." The complete flower has four sets of parts, and each of these is arranged in a whorl ax'o inl the flawer stalk The outer set is called ttye calyx of the Crystal Lake, Harvard, Woodstock, Belvidere and Marengo. On the senior typing event Mamie Kegg is to be the only one entered. Good luck to you Mamie. The junior typing team consists of Marie Baer, Mary Brefeld, Pauline Kennebeck, and Albin Anderson. Harold Jepson will act as alternate. The following are entered in the junior individual typwriting event: Albin Anderson, Harold Jepson and Clara Barbian. Berteel Spencer will act as alternate. The shorthand team consists of Mary Brefeld, Pauline Kennebeck and Marie Powers. Marie Bber will act as alternate. In the individual shorthand event those entered are "Mary Brefeld, Marie Powers and Marie Baer. Ida Reynolds will act as alternate. Miss Oates thinks that these students will bring home the high honors. We wish you luck students, and hope you will bring home the "Bacon." cup. These spring spores become mature at about the time when the young wheat plants are springing up in the fields, and when they are blown by the wind and fall upon the young wheat plants they germinate and produce a dense mycelium within the tissues of its growing leaves and stem. This inner parasite mycelium then forms rust spores in groups called sori, at certain points along the surface of the leaves and stem. These masses of spores break through the epidermis and form long lines of spores familiarly known as red rust. These summer spores called urediniospores, are single celled and are borne on a short stalk. In warm regions the red rust sporesi often survive the winter and start the rust in the spring. The black runt spores, called teliospores, are formed in the same sori and form the same mycelium as the red rust, but are produced later in the season thito the latter. The black rust spores are two celled, thick walled, wintering spores which live thru the winter on the straw or stubble and germinate the next spring after their production. Their germination results in small spores, usually called sporidia which are blown to the young leaf of the barberry and start a mycelium for ium cups and spores on the barberry leaf. : •» HONOR ROLL Thru an oversight the following roll was omitted when it was due for publication. We regret that the honored students failed to receive recognition in Em Se Ach Ess. First grade -- Kathryn Donavin, Adele Froehlich, Darlene Lockwood, Ruth Reihansperger, Dorothy Warzynik, Virginia Warzynik, Second grade--Shirley Covalt, Geo. Johnson, Evelyn Karls. Third grade--Guy Duker, Hazel Howard, Fanny Levinson, Agnes Mischke, Bernice Unti, Beatrice Weber. Fourth grade--Harriet Boger, Frederick Conrad, Virginia Engeln, Marguerite Johnson, Florence Trent and Gladys Warrington. Fifth grade--Arleen Bacon, Stanley Cobb, Floyd Covalt, Harris Fay, Juanita Keg, Mari£ Kinsala, Robert Peterson, Jack Purvey, Eugene Sayler and Stanley Schaffer. Sixth grade--Elvera Antholz, Dorothy Fisher, Harold Lindsay, Lowell Nye and Francis Tucek. Seventh grade -- Leone Conway., Margaret Dietrich, Berniece Ferwerda, Marquerite Kinsala, Frederick Muel- Lake. Oct. 17 and 24--not taken. . Oct. 31--Harvard at Harvard. Nov. 7--Belvidere at Belvidere. Nov. 14--not taken. Let us never lose our faith in hum an hature, no matter how often we are deceived. Do not let deception destroy confidence in the real, honest goodness, generosity, humanity and friendship that exist in the world. They are overwhelmingly in the majority. •.s' --V FLOWERS ' Most plants though people do not recognize thein or know, have flowers. All of our common grasses that grow around our houses have very delicate and beautiful flowers. These flowers are so small that you can not see them very good without a microscope. When seen under the microscope at a moderate enlargement the color effect and structure suggest a delicate piece of beaded work profusely jeweled and built into fantastic forms and designs. Most of these flowers bloom in June. Flowers are of all shapes, colors, and sizes. The seeds of plants have to be fertilized by the pollen of another flower of its kind before it will grow. The flowers have a sweet smelling substance that the bees get for honey. When- the bees come for this substance they will get some pollen on their back or legs and then gc. away to another flower leaving the pollen on that flower and in this way fertilizing the seeds of the flower. The bee does this unconscious of the fact that it is helping the plants so that they will grow again next year and bloom. Some flowers, such as the Ladyslipper, has its petals arranged so that the bee can get at the honey by going in one way where it will leave som® pollen from another flower. Then after it gets the honey, it tries to find its way to get out and in doing so it get some more pollen on itself. Finally when it gets out it goes to another plant repeating the process and thus fertilizing most of the flowers or the seeds. Bernard Kinsala. SPRING FEVER Its Symtoms and Cures After a thorough and exhaustive study of this malady, a group of scientists of M. C. H. S., submitted their report to J. I. T. They classified the sickness under two distinct headings', namely, voluntary and unavoidable. The voluntary spring fever, the report continues, is generally recurrent ler, John Thorsell, Neill Thurlweli, i fcVery spring. The symptoms are lazi- Adelene Vogt, Berniece Weber. | ness, sleeping in classes, a decrease in Eighth grade--Barbara Dietrich, j grades and gloominess. This type of Kathryn Fay, Minnie Ferwerda, La- Sprjhg fever was considered uncurable Verne Harrison, Eleanor Hoffman, | until an authority of the high school Eleanora Kreutzer, Fanny Levinson, decided to investigate a reported case. Donald Powers, Helen Pries. PERSONALS Toots is getting to be some speed demon. She can write forty words a minute on the typewriter. Jepson entered the hundred yard dash in the track meet, while "Fat" Carryxrie^ hi gh jumping. Miss O'Sullivan states that all the flower. The next set of parts is called j Geniuses of literature were lightthe corolla. This is the attractive col-[ headed. Ernie wanted to know if that ored part of the flower. The third setj was the case with music. consists of the stamens, the organs 1 The members of the staff are going that produce the pollen. The inner-; to have a waffle party this Saturday, most set is the carpels; these pro-IZeke suggested that it should be a duce the seeds. The carpel of an or- j clam bake. Oh! ALUMNI NEWS Carolyn Steffes, who is teaching at the Lincoln school, admits that she enjoys teaching sometimes. Especially at exam time. Pamela Rietesel is working in the telephone office. She has charge bf the books. Leo Thelen is a truck driver for the Lumber company. We often see him looking like a negro. No! It's only coal dust. Leone Givens is working in the Centerville post office. She finds her work very interesting/ Earl Walsh is still working at the hardware. Good luck Earl you'll be a professional business man one of these days. Since Alice is home now we usually see Leo ever week end. Greeta is still continuing her career as a "Hello" girl. John Vycital and Herman Nye are planning to come home for Blaster vacation., Gladys Rietesel, who is going to Chicago normal school, just got over scarlet fever. She is working hard to make up her work. Do you need any help Gladys? EZ SEZ ^ . Success doesn't happen, it comes to those who are willing to work for It, study for it, and meet the obstacles that stand in the way of it. All the folded treasures and open highways of the mind, its multitude soon be back. Mary and Catherine have been absent from school for several. weeks* 1 Is it the spring fever? * , say that those barrel staves were no imaginary things. For several days after that encounter, I fidgeted a good deal because the seats at school seemed so hard. It may be a ..significant Tact that memories of the days of my grade and high school life are almost completely overshadowed by the recollections cf Boy Scout days 1 can't remember ever the trees. --Grace E. Kieffer in Kansas City Star THE LAST LAPj Monday, April sixth, opens the last lap of the senior's education. That is, for many of the seniors it is true. Many of the seniors are not taking April and May very seriously when on the contrary they are of vital import- Having graduated from grade school, | arice. though my parents say 1 did I re-j Perhaps it might be well to remind member very clearly, though, the big] the seniors that their twelve years at Scout demonstration that 'we eighth graders gave in the Minneapolis Armory If you have never knelt on a dry pine board and tried to make fire by friction while the mayor 6f St. Paul talked to you and your mother looked on from the balcony, you've no ide:* how inde'.lible an impressin it leaves. The main floor was swarming with boys in khaki, the Corridors were alive and the balcony was a maze of faces. 1 say it was a maze. That was tr\Kfor only a few moments. As luck would have it, while I was signalling to my partner across the hall, I caught sight of my mother in the baleony. In stantly all other faces feceded. Th;- remainder of the demonstration, so fai as 1 was concerned, was^given for m> mother's benefit. education in the grammar and high schools will be entirely futile if they shirk their duty and. "flunk" these last two critical months. ; It seems that there is a prevailing; idea that a senior can't "flunk" bsA someone will be sad if he thinks that way. If a "flunking" senior passes because he is a senior, he immediately dees harm to his really, hard-working classmates. If the grades of a good senior student are raised to conform in proportion to the raising of a failing classmate's grades, the standards of the scho.il are lowered similtaneously. If a failing senior is passed because of his last year in high school and then continues on to college making a poor shoeing at the college, his high school record is examined and invar- In some things my mother has fail-1 iably a poor reflection is cast upon ed, as I suppose all mothers must. This j the school from which he graduatiHt though, must be said for ^ier. She was j un^er improper circumstances, present when I took part in a Scoui T Some seniors have lost heart and demonstration, she was present when I won a medal for speed signalling. She found her to high school when I played in the orchestra--in short, whatever I tried t-i do found my mother sufficiently interested to be present for the event. As a result, oui given up hope of passing. That's not the way to feel. Don't think nor don't let anyone try to make you believe that you are not going to pass, seniors; Push on to victory! Your school life may 'r.ave been a grueling cross country run but don't fali down before yon supper table was a wopderf u! time 011 are over the linef Observer the class day. Mother would start the conver-1 motto: "We Will." sation by telling father just what the j The following poem is dedicated to scouts, or the club or the 01 chestrs j the seniors: had done that day, and just how I had j A senior stood on the railroad track, carried my part. If it had been well! A train was coming fast, ' done, dad would say laughingly. "Why The train got-off the railroad trade, certainly, isn't he our son?" If I hadj And let the senior pass. done poorly he had the good sense to| J. A. A. J?* say little more than "Well now, thatj was too bad," and I was sufficiently re-j do PUPILS LOSE BY WORKING? proved. ...... ... ] At this time of the year we often The result of all is was a as afe ;nforTn(Hj that a teacher has made the years rolled on, and the memor.es. #n error ^ en or consists of having wove across the place of childhood urj?ed an<J caused a to work hard . 1.1- 1_ ttPAa oiMMAHAttr aoaA/ilflrAr , . his work; afterwards giving tit SENIORS COP THE HONORS Inter-Class Track Meet Held At the High School The Inter-class tract meet was held at the school last Friday night. This tract meet proved that the M. C. H. S. had some very good material. The! boys, without the least bit of practice, made some very good marks. Some of the heats are as follows: 50 yard dash--1st heat, Nye (Sen.) 6.8. 2nd heat, Bacon (Sen.) 6.8. 3rd heat, Smith (Sen.) 6.8. 4th heat, J. Whiting, (Sen.) 6.8. One-quarter mile run--1st heat, Nye (S.) 1:16.6. 2nd heat, Green (S.) 1:17. 3rd heat, Smith (S.) 1:23. 4th heat, Newman (Soph.) forfieted. 100 yd. dash--1st Iieat Ferwerda, (J) 12.2. 2nd heat, Green (S) 13. 3rd heat, Smith (S.) 12. 4th heat J, Whiting (S) 13. 220 yd dash--Bacon (S.) 84. Relay, one mile run--Junior team 5:20. High jump--A. Freund (S), 4 feet 11 inches. . Broad jump--P. Patzke (J.) 16 feet 7 inches. 2nd B. Hitchens (Soph.) 16 feet. | We wish to mention that in the The investigating authority set out and travelled quite a ways to the home of the victim of voluntary spring fever. He (the investigator) was told that the victim was out walking in the woods so the sleuth continued the trail. Suddenly he ran across his prey, who was in the act of taking a shot at a sleeping rubber-billed woodpecker. The authority tapped the would-be hunter on the shoulder, who then missed his shot. Embarrassed the spring fever victim remarked that he was walking in the fresh air in an attempt to cure his illness and that he took his gun3 along as a protection against prowling wild animals. We want to tell you what cured this voluntary spring fever victim but if you are curious just get that particular sickness once and play "hooky. But on the other hand we have the unavoidable spring fever. If you get this ailment go to the doctor and get ^ his advice and you will soon be cured. | But under no circumstances try to obtain the cure for the voluntary spring fever because you may have a harder time to recover from its effects. mother's face was somehow associated with every important event of my life. Many a time has she left her work and.taken the 45 minute street car ride to Minneapolis just because I had a critical flute part in the day's orchestra programme. I could go home tomorrow and talk over with my mother any activity of my life. She would not only remember it, she would have a reasonable understanding of the interpretation 1 put upon it. As I see the children with their myriad interests today, I wonder if such mothers as mine are growing fewer and fewer, finally to disappear. It sometimes seems as though the mothers and fathers don't care what memories they leave in common with their children. I believe it is no exaggeration to say that any racer takes better care of his horse than most of our parents do of their children, and yet those children are the beings who make life worth living Mothers and fathers, you failed to support the Boy Scout demonstration and you often fail to see what your children are doing in school; time and time again you fail to encourage the good and fail bitterly to discourage the practice which in later years must weaken the mental health of your children. Has this conversation ever taken place in your home? "Mother, I'm going now." "Where are you going, Jack? "Oh--Just out." "But I want you-to stay home to- Dear Editor: Nope. I'm going out. Goodnight!'1 If you nave neara that in your home, you have lost the mastery. Either you didn't know how to take an interest in your boy's and girl's life or you didn't care to have a guiding f have lately been annoyed by a j hand in the life of this child who in number of young ruffians who insist] years to come must carry on your broad jump each entrant was given | upon addressing me bv the erroneous! name and in whose heart must be eno » £ j name of -BUck£ ', ,h, ined «/J.u bothered from morning to night by Lincoln said: All that I am and au In the tract meet the senior class won this name twelve heats, the junions three heats, the sophomores one heat, and the Xb .. freshmen are still working hard to nified position in this school 1 is third jump made 17 tot .id 9 inch,..: am ^ ^ ^ ^ „ MlBt, my Ang.I . .. .. \ildren say thai l7wilfb7hard for me "to hold my dig-1 or shall they say, as they do today force that is lustrous in the lily, incandescent in the sun, memorable in human heroism, immortal in love for his fellowman. * BASKET dinarv flower consists,, first of an I We are sorry to have Lorena gone of experiences and unreckonable posovary in which tiny ovules, or "little frcm school so long._We_hope she will sessions are given over to tiie creaare produced. Above the »v.r, --- - k..v I tive .nd un.ver.al f.rce-the «.m* is a solid stem, called the style. The tip of the style bears a sticky, outspread surface, called the stigma. The whole group of carpels is called the pistil. The top of the flower stalk, on which the parts of the flower are arranged, is celled the receptacle. Before the ovule in the carpel can become a seed, it must be fertilized by the pollen. When the flower is mature, the pollen case breaks open, and the pollen grains are carried by the wind or by insects to the sticky surface of the stigma. Herytfee pollen grain sends out a long tu6e that car BALL BOYS ENJOY BIG BANQUET Through the generosity of John J. Karls, the basket ball tournament WHEAT RUST Wheat rust is very peculiar In that it produces three different kinds of team of the M. C. H. S. were treated' spores at different seasons of the year chicken dinner at Karls' Lunch j using two plant species as hosts for growth and formation of spores. Each kind of spore also plays a particular role in the life history of the organbeat the seniors in the next tract meet. Because of the shortness of time, we were unable to nAi the half mile race. Officials: Stringer--starter {-Overton-- timer. "V . to a last Wednesday evening. It is hardly necessary to report that everyone, especially Ernie, had all they cared for in the line of eats. At least not much was said for a certain period ries the fertilizing pollen cells. The I of time. No casualties were reported ibe passes through the style into the ary, and then into the ovule. When a pollen tube reaches the ovum, or 'egg" within the ovule, the pollen cell (nd ovum unite. The addition of the to the ovum causes the the next d^Qr although several of the boys deemed it impossible to appear The spring crop of spores, called the aeciospores, are borne in open cups on the leaves of the common barberry. The barberry spores are supported by at glee club and play practice that! myjcelium which penitrates the barsame evening for reasons unknown. berry leaf as a parasite and absorbs The lucky eleven to be included were j food for itself and the spore bearing Coach Stringer, Captain Overton,j hyphae produced within the barberry MEETING OF NORTH SIX Since McHenry high school has gained the north six there has been a meeting held at Woodstock in which some of the dates for the coming events were made. The schools which belong to the north six are: Woodstock Crystal Lake Harvard, Marengo, Belvidere, and McHenry. Some of the dates decided topon are: North six tract.meet, May 23, at Woodstock. North six musical events, May 22, (afternoon) Woodstock. Winners of musical events give a public program May 22 (evening) at Woodstock. Football Schedule For Next Fall Sept. 26--Woodstock at McHenry. ' Oct. 3--Marengo at Marengo. Oct. 10--Crystal Lake at Crystal lleegeaall mmeeaassuurreess °ttoo stofp this^ n uisance, j M^ other." ^Shal l ^you r^ ch i^ldren say that, do today. Aw, come on, she can't do anything I suggest thai about it! She won't care!" is permitted to go 013 Irving T»lIn»a(,Beyou will publicly correct this error and explain that a bright and shining stu- > dent with. Yours very truly*. John Fay, Esq. . POET'S CORNER TTie Rain on the Roof The rain "on the roof and the wind in trees-- v Tell me of melodies sweeter,than these! Rain that comes dashing-- Thumping and splashing-- fearless Wind that blows boldly, and pupil a failing grade in the subject. There are tWo mistakes"rn this opinion and most patrons recognize them. One of these mistakes is this: Pupils are not sent to school for credit only. Pupils are sent to school primarily to learn. It is the duty of every teacher to urge pupils to work hard on their subjects whether they receive credit or not. Just because a pupil feels he is going to fail is no reason,, for him to stop work. He can yet gain much from good concentrated study. Then too, let us remember that the game is never lost until the whistle blows. We, must always urge our boys and girls to study. The second mistake in the original opinion is that, in the real sense of the term, teachers do not give grades. Instead pupils earn them. It is impossible for any teacher to tell what a pupil will be able to learn if he doaa good hard work. The only safe rule for any of us, either teacher, parent or fellow pupil, to take, is to urge the pupil to work hard even tho they fed they cannot pass. Indeed pupils do not low by food hard work. C. H. Duker. Insure-- In Sure-Insurant! -- with-- f Wm. G. Schreiner Auctioneering OFFICE AT RESIDENCE Phone M-R McHFNRY. lLL mercy over that scene MOTHER AND FATHER Of all the bright grade school days i memories, I have none that is- quite so •nmT,K*nt1v clear as the one of my entrance into; Booming triumphant^ the Boy Scouts. A preliminary Sat- - ^ strong; urday afternoon was spent in coach-j Then gently spattering, ing me as to my V^havior for the eve-; Lovingly pattering, ning. I was of a m-i-vous temperament; Repentantly soothing tho earth with anyway, and after being told repeat-J a song, edly just what I was to do when I got, paddled with barrel staves, my ex-1 Cruelly, coldly- _ * pectations got to be almost as bad as j Wrenching the trees till they ljfowl in the actual initiation. 1 affright; I did not enter the Boy Scout rooms | Then murmurs pleasingly, erect and proud, like the young man. Coaxingly, teasingly, I thot I was. Far from it--I crawled Till trees lose their terror and sigh in oh my hands and knees. And as I in delight. * crawled but let us draw a curtain of 11 know no melodies sweeter than these I The rain on the roof and the wind inl --We carry a line^bf- Feeds AS FOLLOWS: GRAINS^- Com, cracked corn, wheat, barley, kaffir corn and buckwheat. v Ready mixed scratch grains --course, medium and fine. Laying mash, baby chick mash, grit, oyster shells, meat scraps, bran, middlings and Red Dog flour. We do mm deliver asd oar prices are made according!^. Mdlenry Flour Mills West McHenry, 111. •-.Jh V -V.