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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER N Bq HERBERT Copyright by The Woodruff refuses to rrusfrry Jim Irwin, of his young? farm hand, because financial condition and poor prosabove pects. He is intellectually his station, and has advanced ideas concerning the possibilities of school teaching and farming, by for which he is ridiculedoff ox. an many. In short, Jim is and re&ds He flocks by himself books and has a philosophy of his own. But there are latent even powers in him unsuspected comes by himself and Opportunity is knocking at his door. Jim as nominated for school-teachea joke. The Joke results In his election. He visits his scholars. Jennie is nominated for county superintendent of schools. Jennie r, CHAPTER VI 5 Jim Talks the Weather Cold. "Going io the rally, James? Jim had finished Ills supper, and yearned for a long evening In his attic den with his cheap literature. But as the district schoolmaster he was to some extent responsible for the protection of the school property, and felt some sense of duty as to exhibiting an interest in public affairs. he I guess Ill have to go, mother, I want to see Mr. replied regretfully. Woodruff about borrowing his Babcock milk tester, and Ill go that way. I guess Ill go on to the meeting. He kissed his mother when he went u habit from which he never deviated, and another of those personal peculiarities which had marked him as different from the other boys of the His mother urged his neighborhood. overcoat upon him in vain for Jims overcoat was distinctly a bad one, while his best suit, now worn every day as a concession to his scholastic well position, still looked passably schoolroom of weeks after several , wrere V tut Hijotiei- of - xtxy p . of a load as you Im going with think, said Jennie. Jim. The walk will do me good. Any candidate warms to her voting population just before election ; but Jennie bad a sxiedal kindness for Jim. He was no longer a farm band. The fact that be was coming to be a center of disturbance in the district, and that she quite failed to understand how his eccentric behavior could be harmonized with those principles of teaching which "she had imbibed at the state normal school in itself lifted him nearer to equality with her. A public nuisance is really more respectable than a nonentity. She gave Jim a thrill as she passed through the gate that he opened for her. White moonlight on iier white furs suggested purity, exaltation, the essence of womanhood things far finer in the woman of twenty-sevethan the glamour thrown over him by the school girl of sixteen. Jim gave her ro thrill; for he looked gaunt and angular in his skimpy, ready-mad- e suit, too short In legs and sleeves, and too thin for the n season. Yet, as they walked along, Jim grew upon her. He strode on with Immense strides, made slow to accommodate her shorter steps, and embarrassing lier ly his entire absence of effort to keep step. For all that, he lifted ills face to the stars, and lie pointed out the great open spaces in the Milky Way, wondering at their emptiness and at the fact that no telescope can find stars in them. They stopped and looked. Jim laid his hard hands on the shoulders of her white fur collarette. Whats the use of political QUICK Company) I do. text-book- text-book- meet- said Jim. when you and I can stand here and think our way out, even beyond the limits of our universe? A wonderful journey, said she, not quite understanding his mood, hut while we roam beyond the Milky Way, we arent getting arty votes for me for county superintendent. Jim said nothing. He was quite ings, on the earth. Dont you want me to be elected, Jim? Jim seemed to ponder this for some time a period of taking the matter under advisement which caused Jennie all and I dont suppose I should have said as much as I have There was stark silence for a moment when he sat down, and then as many cheers for Jim as for the principal speaker of the evening, cheers mingled with titters and catcalls. Jim felt as If he had made an ass of himself. And as he walked out of the door, the future county superintendent passed by him in high displeasure, and walked home with someone else. Jim found the weather much colder than it had been while coming. He really needed an Eskimos fur suit. ! Nothing more was said until they reached the schoolhouse door. Well, said Jennie rather indignantly, Im glad there are plenty of voters who are more enthusiastic about me than you seem to be! More interesting to a keen observer than the speeches were the unusual the things in the room itself. OnarithIn with problems blackboards, metic, .were calculations as to the feeding value of various rations for live stock, records of laying hens and computation as to the excess of value in eggs produced over the cost of feed.reBinned to the wall were market ports on all sorts of farm products, and especially numerous were the statistics on the prices of cream and butter. There were files of farm papers piled about, and racks of agricultural bulletins. In one corner of the room was a typewriting machine, and In another a sewing machine. Parts of an old telephone were scattered about on the teachers desk. A model of a piggery stood on a shelf, done In cardboard. Instead of the usual collection of s in the desk, there were hecof exercises, reading copies tograph lessons, arithmetical tables and essays on various matters relating to agriculaccounted for ture, all of which were hand-mad- e hectoor three two by of printing graphs a very fair sort plant lying on a table. The members of the school board were there, looking on these evidences of innovation with wonder and more or less disfavor. Things were disor s recently adopt derly. The board ed by the against some popular protest had evidently been pitched, neck and crop, out of the school by the man whom Bonner had termed a dub. It was a sort of contempt for CHAPTER VII Bottles. New Wine and Old In the little strip of forest which divided the sown from the sown wandered two boys in earnest converse. They seemed to be Boy Trappers,s and from their backloads of steel-trapone of them might have been Frank Merriwell, and the other Dead-Sho- t Dick. The boy who resembled Frank Merriwell was Raymond Simms. The other, whose overalls were fringed, who wore a cartridge belt about his person, and carried hatchet, revolver, and a long knife with a deerfoot handle, and who so studiously looked Dick, was our old like Dead-Sho- t friend of the road gang, Newton Bronson. Newton put down his load, and sat upon a stump to rest. Raymond Simms was dimly conscious of a change in Newton since the day when they met and helped select Colonel Woodruffs next years seed corn. Newton's mother had a Twittle Said a Mouthful WHATS THE USE as now a good boy, who had been led astray by other boys, but had reJim Irwin had a distinct formed. Newton had of optimism. feeling statand tobacco beer, casually quit in was he to that Jim training. ing Since Jim had shown his ability to administer a knockout to that angry mothers confidence that Newton THE TWiTTLE? ACROSS The HAU. want uS in FOR DINNER "TONiGHT AW f -- T4 EY'RE SHU TmE DUMBEST LOOkliN PAiR OP BOGS on The WE'LL PROBABLY MARKET THE TO DO ALL HAVE talking & entertaining 'you've THATS ONe OF THE SMALLER PROPERTIES r p BEEN Tb MEXICO GlCHE'ST MINING COUNTRY IN THB 'WORLD JUST LOOK AT THESE ThS ThAT PHOTO S rnoiiit uicj have lie.sitation I tlie naming school and the schoolmaster. I wouldn't go back on a friend," said Newton, seated on the stump with his traps on the ground at his feet, the way youre going back on Tmat nugqet feel FEAThEf? HEAD Jusr a Sample op the gold were taking our by The c o r ra r declare A DIVIDEND MONTH mining j.t. Twittle ME GOlN DOWN 1 GLAD wCRK NEIQH600S , FEAIUE.nHEATl To aalD BIG NEXT Office. ! -- MOO KlEEDklV VAUGtU GETTYWV N 'TOOTH AlVTf 9,0 FOUUM VvVVE-AH' MU' BOSS SAXO 'THAT D SOM UU " PAlUl EVlYlQT' y, . I A To TiAT Tab TaMOUHOW i uppressed want ABOUT stock , trtaP in at PEOPLE . ! you ip MOOI me. You got no call to talk thataway, Howm I replied the mountain boy. goin back on you? We was goin to trap all winter, asseverated Newton, and next winFrank Merriwell and Deadshot Dick. ter we were goin up in tlie north woods together. of the one party to east the straight You know, said Raymond somberticket, and for those of the other fac- ly, that we caint run any trap line tion to scratch, the colonel rose to and do whut we got to do to liep Mr. Jim. adjourn the meeting. Newton Bronson, safely concealed Newton sat mute as one having no behind taller people, called out, Jim rejoinder. Irwin speech Mr. Jim, went on Raymond, needs There was a giggle, a slight sensa- all the hep every kid in this settletion, and many voices joined in the ment kin give him. .Hes the best call for the new schoolmaster. friend I ever had. Im a pore ignerant Colonel Woodruff felt the unwisdom boy, an be teaches me how to do of ignoring the demand. Probably lie things that will make me something. relied upon Jims discretion and exDarn it all! said Newton. You know, said Raymond, pected a declination. that Jim arose, seedy and lank, and the youd think mahgty small of me, if Id voices ceased, save for another desert Mr. Jim Irwin. titter. Well, then, replied Newton, seizI dont know, said Jim, whether ing his traps and throwing them this call upon me is a joke or not. If across his shoulder, come on with the it is, it isnt a practical one, for I cant traps, and shut up! What'll we do talk. I dont care much about parties when the school board gets Jennie or politics. I don't know whether Im Woodruff to revoke his certificate and a Democrat, a Republican or a Pop- make him quit teaehin, hey? ulist. eveli do that, said RayNobodyll This caused a real sensation. The mond. Id set in tlie schoolhouse do nerve of the fellow ! Really, it must with rifle and shoot anybody thatd my in justice be said, Jim was losing come to thow Mr. Jim outen the liimself in a desire to tell his true school. feelings. He forgot all about Jennie Not in this country, said Newton. and lier candidacy about everything This aint a gun country. except his real, true feelings. This But it orto be either a justice ken-trproves that he was no politician. or a gun kentry, replied the I dont see much in this county mountain boy. It stands to reason it campaign tlmi interests me, lie went must be one r the otheh, Newton. on and Jennie Woodruff reddened, No, it dont neither, said Newton while lier seasoned father covered his mouth with his bund to conceal a dogmatically. Why should they thow Mr. Jim smile. The politicians come out into outen tlie school? inquired Raymond. tlie farming districts every campaign be teacliin us right? Aint and get us hayseeds for anything they want. They always have got us. Theyve got us again! They give us Yennie, this man Jim Irwin clodhoppers the glad hand, a cheap to be lined up. needs cigar, and a. cheaper smile . sifter election; and thats all. 1 know it, 'you all know it, they know it. I don't (TO BE CONTINUED.) blame them so very much. The trouble is we dont ask them to do anything Theres All the Difference. better. the silly magazines as one Reading I want a new kind of rural school; does on vacation, we note that the but I dont see any prospect, no matter best just now is articles by husbands how this election goes, for any change on IIow My Wife Has Hindered My in them. We in the Woodruff dis- Career. You dont see women bleattrict will have to work out our own ing about their Incumbrances this salvation. Our political ring neverll way. Why? They are the practical do anything but the old things. They sex. When a woman finds her husband dont want to, and they havent sense a hindrance she doesnt talk. She enough to 'do it if they did. Thats acts. Chicago News. INTERESTED IN I expect l5 JOHN" -- CO. 7 liud fool notions." All right, said the colonel. Take it along. Going to the speakin? Certainly, hes going, said Jennie, This Is my meeting, Jim. entering, Surely, Im going, assented Jim. And I think Ill run along. I wish we had room for you in the car, said the colonel. But Im going around by Bronson's to pick up the speaker, and Ill have a chuck-uload. Nut so much ll MOH to drop his arm and busy herself with her skirts. "Yes, said Jim, at last; of course "JIM IRWIN, SPEECH I" SYNOPSIS. Bobba-Merri- OUR COMIC SECTION . r |