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Show -- I wonder If It wt- - bridge to the MM 3 He wanted children tklnklng at well choolman?e. save Mrs Sluiojs. who crossed, consulted witfj Mrs. Irwln about the shrubbery and f.owers, and went back to Buddie and llnnie. who were good children but natchally couldn't be trusted with so 0. I am sure It waia'L to leave the a powsible of their tictlm. and of Mr. Bonner; and there waa really aomethlng in Mf. CartDlchaela talk which could be praised. 1 have know Jim Irwin sine we were both children, and I feel sure that if he had bad any Idea that hla treatment of this man had ben cruel It would have givenunnecessarily him a lot of pain." -My dear." said Mrs. Brathwayt, . think vou are tn ho having known for a long time a Assam a ROWN tfOUSE I ff many other young ones withouten some watchln'. "rhey're coming! They're coming V This was the cry bonw to the peop'r In nod about the schoolhouse by that Hansen wm would be ra!!ft l a.D$ ,,ad :! of .he little hill and had a look toward town. I. Ike a crew manning a rigging, or :i crowd having Its picture taken, the crystallized Into forms determined by the changes of getting a glimpse of the buugalow across the ravine on posts, fences, trees and m XL 1 11 "Thank you." said Jennie. And Mrs. Brathwayt cave hir ion. -- u.t Ooughl to her cheek another blush; wut of a different sort from the one HERBERT QUICK provoked by th6 uproar in the Wooil-faf- f school. Of jiiiiiiiiiiiiuHiiiiiiiMtiniuiiihThere could be no doubt now that Company) tim was thoroughly wonderful nor by The ttat she. the county superintendent, was quite as thoroughly a little fool. SYNOPSIS f Sha to be put In authority over him I ti,. It was too absurd for laughter. For con-,s- y Woodruff ijennie she hadn't hindered him refuses to marry Jim Ir-innately, f irm !'nnd' because of hla aauch but who was to be thanked !J and poor prospects, for condition ' IS above his station, taat? Was It owing to any wisdom of the concerning ad.jnceii "ci. sue nau decided In his school teaching, i ties of expert favor, In those first proceedings to e by many. h he is ridiculed I'TER 1I. .More 03 a Joke than his certificate. Perhaps that was ""own,, f;Jim is sileoted as teacher of s good a thing to remember as was x jjrull district school. ih. t be found In the record. LTfiRllI. ji"' in his new posl-tt'- s out to ma lie stanch friends CHAPTER XXII two boys, New-- k ip.ts, Simms. tha iSon ar.d "!U(ldy" I ne con of a shiftless farmer. And So They Lived Wouc'raii, Jennies rather, has th in Jim's Ideas of improving And so It turned out quite as If It uutional inetnocis. tie nicit-- -i Were In the old j, Mm the "Brown Mouse," in ballad, that "all In tn of an anecdote. tie merry month of May," and also llER IV. Jim's conduct of the "all in the merry green wood," there he to where teach endeavors i I Uren the wonders of nature were great doings about the bold little fm of tue seientilic methods of promontory where once stood the cabwell uk "book learning," s, in on the old wood-lo- t where the Simms family had dwelt. i V. Jennie Woodruff la jTER The brook ran about the promonfor the position of county itendent of si liools. The school tory, and laid at Its feet on three stows buler in its opposition ides a carpet of amid ami his innnvntirtn clumps of trees and wild bushes. Not 1 lEK VI At a public meeting far afield on either hand came the undly condemns the methods of in ti.e rural schools, ud s,D black corn-lanbut up and down the co frteiijf tiaarafev. j bluffy sides of the brook for some I'TER VII. A delegation of distance on both sides of the Nonl. ient women condemn Jim's hut he la stoutly cte-- 1 it quu. highway, ran the old wood-lot- , Newton hn by especially pupils, n(U). now regaining much of the unBangt kempt appearance which characterMe liTEK V'lil. Jim has Christmas 4 J at Colonel Woodruff's, and lis- - ized It when Jim Irwln had drawn to him. Jennie to do aomt upon himself the gentle rebuke of Old his ability sad Man Simms for not li cuiuormng- - begins giving a whoop from the big road before coming Into I IPTER IX. In the evening Jim. the yard. r as he knows how, courts Jec- The cabin was gone, and In Its place sithoiit, however, making- - much Sss, though she. is quickly losing Stood a pretty little bungalow, about jar opinion of him. which blossomed lilacs and peonies and IpTEH X. Jennie, elected county roses and other flowers ineiKient of schools, so receives f tcomplaints from people of the furnished by Mrs. Irwin. For this was Jim's methods of concerning fog that she rinds herself com-- j the teacher's house or schoolmanse for formally to ask for his reslgrna-- J the new consolidated Woodruff div After she has left. Jim ia visited trict, and the old Simms wood-lo- t was Jolonel Woiidrufl, who strong-lmm to refuse to resign, and henceforth to be the glebe-lan- d of the Cost- to back him. Jim agrees to ehoolmanse, I for a while at least. Jim turned over and over In his f.ITER XI. A meeting of the mind these new applications of old. twaril. wi.i. l; had been gathered rtal j ft' Jim, is confronted by Jennie, historic, significant words, dear to , 1S2( jcholds liini. Ho conducts an ex- every reader of history "glebe-land.- " f.ion or Ins piiulls at the fneet- piove that lie is not neglecting "schoolmanse" and It seemed to him SET- book ltarninr" hv (ho intrnliin. n Mi W othr subjects whloh Via nn. that they signified the return of many of import;, noe. The splendid old things lost In Merrle England, Jig by the children converts ipany, lost In New England, lost all over who had doubted, to his views. rU I the English-speakinworld, when the-olflPTER XllThe Ideas novel ceased publicly-paiclergyman Jim introduced have been f abouthuxoutside , be so far the servant of all the peothe and county, i I'nribd by I'rofesnor Withers. f ple that they refused to be taxed for IFFS lect'ir. r a: th- - tate university, Was not the new kind his support. fiviten hirn to deliver an addresi n the ft next .nnu.il meeting of the of rural teacher to be a pnbllcly-pal- d frost leader of thought, of culture, of progJaatli iPTER XTII. Professor TPIth.ro ress, and was he not to have hla tin Irressed by many of the innova-- f made by Irwin, and so informs iwlnf and Ms "livmanse, his glebe-lanWoodruff and Jennie, some-tme ing?" And all because, like the old the astonishment of both. Thr i,toto Jim that he (the clergyman, he was doing a work in J lURgests k election to the school which everybody was Interested and the replacing' Cornelius Bonner, im for which they were willing to be enemy of Jim Irwln. .we taxed. Perhaps It was not so high PTER ater Xlv.FelOTlnit sickness m Bronson, a status as the old; but who was to youngster whom fror" Idleness and that ? Certainly not Jim Irwln. the right path, and say aWSPt of the new kind of "livthe possessor worships the teacher, keeps "glebe-land- " and Its Its with at the school ing," ""'"voting Is a friend of Ir and nnwould would rated He have "schoolmanse." have voted for Mm. ?nel Woodruff is chosen the new as at least quite as high as owing to Bronson'a the old. From the brow of the promontory, a. i, PTET? . ... vvTlm concrete bridge took the pretty-littllight ?n lh", d,s,rIPt of the advaa- -gorge In the leap of a sing!-arcr8." from a rv operative ?is'i t0 establish aTrfed landed the eye at the botand 0 a Pot'on leader- til th tom of the front yard of the school-hous- e. I lLr 's "i"10 a distinct dirTer-IV- e Thus the new Institution of toward Jim. is forcl to of the schoolacknowledge to life was In full view manse veranda, and yet shut off from It by the dry moat of the brook and jim maKos a ols It f lf' inression. Its tiny meadow of blue-grasAfter th :i,, " ,7en " Position as 4"inn Across the road was the creamery, district, with a con- 'n Sa!ary- - nn! with Its businesslike unloading platid"r Vt'." re form, and Its addition in process of! I'PTr; construction for the reception of tha m's frlenaie urge " rem. launpresent post, machinery for the Wcltlj of .v1"?, the district assuring dry. Not far from the creamery, ani they are "proud of him." also across the road, stood the blackU t ,C HTl"father, smith and wheelwright shop. Still h' h,f f''1 derived''" and farther down the street were the barn, i'stionr,, Jlms ,m I captures the gathering. poultry house, pens, hutches and yards? I x'X -T-,m " th. meet. of the little farm small, as were all "l Inkt""s ?rhr? lnrovementa the buildings save the schoolhouse ithe remains ' prel ,,n" '7.T)n ,fSim self, which" was bullded, as it should of irl v"rCr th"1 almost revoln- have been, for the future. And even the schoolhouse, when one . TpnnU "he has. been th. thinks of the uses to which it was to-bt lit "ool in the county."- put kitchen, nursery, kindergartwnthVrn party of Promt- - ten, banquet hall, theater, moving pic-to- re educators nrrnri '0 hall, classrooms, manual training: Jlm'8 schnnl In ass v'and tv,,. of his ,I! has wrklngs rooms, laboratory and counting room system, n widely on what '' countrv commented and not, was wonderfully smalt f ; lth , offer to sGpplVArt .o.- - t. Colonel Woodruff said far too smalt thequ,n: erenmerv. irJ J.m h. though It was necessarily so large are lncop- nd the'y.H'l fi i as to be rather astonishing to tha asks extortionate. . passer-bythe tha. The unexpectant passer-b- y thl9 Mar "outhern edu- are pp day, however, would have been espemade ? ""ccessful. "tleJn, p'y .'V?Prs"d, and 'say go. cially struck by the number of motor Mour 'ant futu,,e 'or thfc cars, buggies and surreys parked, in the yard back creamery, along the ''roadside, and by the driveway People in running4 to the schoolhouse . nnmbers had arrived by five o'clock la the afternoon, and were still coming! strolled about the place, exam. They over-subscripti- on Jnd Inlng the buildings and grounds, and talking n'tb be blacksmith and the tV asst-u,,a- i lillucks. IV A motor car came over the hillock, an down the road to the driveway to the schooltiian.'ie and drew up at the !xir. Out of It stepped Mrs. Woodruff mil the colonel, their daughter, the unity superintendent of schools, and Mr Jim Irwin. Jennie was dressed in very well tailored traveling costume, i lit in a ntl moderately iiusin'ss suit. The fact that when hey reached the threshold Jim picked Btbtx-Merri- ll m i e 1 F iiii-a- s re-fk- well-tailore- d Jlm Picked Jennie Up and Carried Her in His Arms. King-dragge- ma-l- j great guffaw of laughter reduced poor Angle to tears; and Jennie had to go over and comfort her. It was all right for her to ask that and they ought not to laugh at Angle, so there! Now. you're all right, and let's talk about the new schoolhouse. and so forth. Jennie brought the smiles back to Angle's face. Just In time to hear Jim tell the people amid louder cheers that he had been asked to go Into the rural school extension work In two states, and had been offered a fine salary In either place, but that he wasn't even considering these offers. And about that time, the children began to get sleepy and cross and naughty, and the women set In motion agencies which moved the crowd homeward. A blue-gixs- , j t4--t"- 11- y J Jennie up d In DIFFICULT MATTER in Testing Brakes J j his arms and carried her In. will enable any good detective to pur one and one together and make a pair which comes pretty near telling the whole story. I)y this time it was nearly seven, and Calista Simms came across the Before a bright wood fire which charmed bridge us a dispatch-bearer- , they really didn't need, but how else saying that if Mr. Jim and Miss Jennie didn't mind, dinner would be was Jim's mother to show off the little It was cooked fireplace? sat Jim and Jennie. They suhved right soon. about right, and the folks was gettln' had been together for a week now this being their homecoming and had right hungry an' such a crowd There were fifteen In the babies' room, only begun to get really happy. Jim sat looking Into the fire, ob- and for a while they thought the youngest Hamiii young one hud swal- - illvlous of It. When Jennie spoke, her lowed a marble. She would tell voice seemed to emanate from Jim's j shirt front. 'em they would be right over; good-by- . "Did you hear," said she, "what There was another cheer as the Talcott asked?" fhree elderly and the two younger peo- Angle -said Jim. M'h'm," from schoolmanse the ple emerged "Well." said Jennie, "now that I'm and took their way over the bridge to the school side of the velvet bottomed married can I go on being county sutroat. but It was shut off like the perintendent?" There was a long silence." vibration of a bell dipped In water by "Would you like to?" asked Jim. j the sudden rush of the shouters Into "Kind of." said Jennie; "If I knew the big assembly room, now filled with tables for the banquet. And here the enough about things to do anything domestic economy classes, with their worth while; but I'm afraid that by I i mothers, sisters, female cousins and rising to my full height shall always see over anyable to fall to be Jnst hat met them, as waiters, j aunts, ! snatchers. hostesses. Boor managers thing." "You've done more for the schools and cooks, scoring the greatest tri of the county," said Jim, "In the Inst umph of history in the Woodruff dlst .1 .i um" l"um ""' trict. For everything went off like uune. nas ever lenuent clockwork, especially the victuals ' And we shall need the money so and such victuals! so like the dickens," was Jennie's like There was quantity In meats. rejoinder. was and there also i breads, vegetables "Oh. not so badly." laughed Jim, j savor. There was plenty, and there I was style. Ask Mrs. Haakon Peter-son- . "except for the first year. I'll have who yearned for culture, and had this little farm paying as much as we get I been afraid her children wouldn't some quarter sections when we can make a about. Why, squared It Vim If them Irwln taught get or She will tell living on this school farm, Jennie nothing but farming. I'm not fit to be the head of the so the which dinner that many you school." thought of all the time as supper-w- as There was another silence, during well as as had if it served yust Jennie took down her hair, and which In been the Chamberlain Hotel In Des i Moines, where she had stayed when wound It around Jim's neck. "It will settle itself one of these she went with Haakon to the state convention. days anyhow," said he at last. "There's to do for both of lis right Why shouldn't It have been even enough better served? It was planned, cooked. here." "But they won't pay me," she proserved and eaten by people of Intel!!-- i gence and brains, In their own house, tested. "They don't pay the ministers' as a community affair, and in a com- said Jim, "and yet, the minmunity where, if any one should ask wives." with isters the right sort of wives are to authorized state that are ; "you, you the best paid. I guess you'll always to acre much the wealth there's as as In any strictly farming spot be-,- . be in the bill, Jennie." Jim walked to the open window and tween the two oceans, and where you safe financially In looked out over the still landscape. are perfectly dropping from a balloon In the dark Down In the little meadow grew tha I of the moon, and paying n hundred dreaming trees, their round crowns f .nd fifty dollars an acre for any rising as from a sea not quite to the farm you happen to land on. Why level of the bungalow, their thrifty j shouldn't things have been well done, leaves glistening In the moonlight ' when every one worked, not for Across the pretty bridge lay the silent money, but for the love of the doing, little campus with Its Twentieth ceni and the love of learning to do In the tury temple facing Its chief priest It was all good, without and within. best way? He went across the hall to bid hla In came out Some of these things mother good night She clung to him j the speeches following the repast It was convulsively, end thfy had their own and some other things, too. ! which arranged mattera probably not quite fair for B. B. five minutes Hanim to incorporate In his wishes for for these two silent natnres on the the welfare and prosperity and so new basis forever. Jennie was in white forth of Jim and Jennie that stale before the mantel when he returned, one about the troubles of life, but smiling at the Inscription thereon: "Let Us Cease Thinking 80 Much he wanted to see Jennie blush which as a matter of fact he did; but she of Agricultural Education, and Devote I failed to grow quite so fiery red as Ourselves to Educational Agriculture, I did Jim. But B. B. was a good fel-- 1 So Will the Nation Be Made Strong." low. and a Trojan In his work for "Why didn't you put It In Latin?" I. rtrtl fTl fit Al And ,,- - nAa. nuu 'lie lauoc, nfwl thft i". she Inquired. "It would have had so superintendent of schools forgave him. much more distinction." remark maj be a little broad, and "I wanted It to have meaning inB. B. made a clean still clean, ,and said Jim.. "And besides, nobody stead," . .t AH .1. A I. .. . ., . nl)lfo httvr ta ipeech mainiy uevuieu iu mc in- . . n i m uu turn the Latin Teasea vaiue or mm i Are phrase. your' r memorable time was going to sell be- -- Jennie leaned forward with her elore Jim's fool notions could be car- bows on her knees, and studied It. led ouL "I believe I could," said she, "with butter-makeColonel Woodruff made most of the out any pony. But after an. 1 use it into drew the school, Gradually they : nov points which I have filched better ag lt ls 1 everythlna. llat house like a swarm of bees Into a hive Mm. j rom lie nna Begun as a rr avorvthln(r ! . None of ...1J the selected by them, i ;:ormer lute in queen. ITHE END. iue, uw suauj uw. ass bowever, went across tha eoncictc g J J t The emergency road service de-partment of the Cleveland Auto- mobile club has Issued the fol- lowing Instructions for testing automobile brakes; Two white lines, about three Inches broad, should be painted on the street pavements with 3" feet between. The automobile whose brakes are to be tested should be driven by the owner at 20 miles an hour. At tne nrsx. wnue line wie driver applies the brakes to the limit of their capacity. If the car stops before the sec- ond white line Is passed the brakes are efficient. If the automobile cannot be stopped with 37 feet the branes should be examined by a com- netent mechanic at some reliable service station or garage. TO IDENTIFY AUTO J jf I j Stolen Car Usually Taken to k (By EH WIN GREER, President Oreer Colter "t Autofhoti Baftneertng, Chicago ) 4. the Factory and Different Parts Scattered About If you were asked whether you could identify your own car under any set of circumstances yonr Impulse would be to return an unqualified and Indignant affirmative. Tha police of onr city would dlsagrea with you Just as unqualifiedly. As a matter of fact, most car owners depends upon Identification on some scratch on the body, some bro- ken screw in the chnssis, or some oth er equally uncertain factor. They do not stop to consider that the big manufacturers are turning out models In 10,000 lots that differ from each other In not the slightest discernible degree. By the time a successful thief has run a stolen car through his "service station" it would puzzle the most careful owner on earth to Identify his vehicle. Identification Not Convincing. An Instance In point Is Illustrated. Arriving at the police station a car owner found a small group of other owners who had assembled to try and Identify the same car. The hopeful owner had a number of marks by which he felt confident he could prove There was a bent his ownership. screw, a dent In one fender, a scratch The of peculiar shape on "the dash. car with which he was confronted was undoubtedly of the same vintage as his stolen one, but unhappily It was painted a rich ultramarine blue. Instead of the dtirk green that had graced his vehicle. The most earnest scrutiny failed to disclose any of the distinguished marks on which he had relied. A slight chipping of the new coat of enamel revealed the fact that It had been put on over a previous cont of dark green that our friend had described, but two of the other assembled owners had put In bids for dark jireen cars and eventually one of them managed to Identify the ear by a chip The Identlfl- In the eearset housing. cat!on waa nnt particularly convincing. but In the absence of anything better It served to give the car to the owner who had been able to describe the .j. j 2 !f- - f J X 1 ..... -- Gear Control of Motor Cars and Automobiles The Scientific American In Illustrating and describing a device for controlling and releasing a clutch on automobiles, the Invention of R. I. Belcla. Hull, Texas, says: The Invention relates to the gear control of automobiles and motor cars, the object being the provision of f d e-- i se-- - M d ?"sn ttf2 J e I J7 " f,ln r er f '' - thlng'lly . : I 4 .! : i e i.i-- Mdfe' Ol-- h CI -- of-th- e pay that u,a f .,. : r. rcccunt unf paper sfopj. the .ii long-continu- espt-ci.ill- meth-jteiehi- would leave It to them If ha hadn't POOR EYESIGHT CAUSE OF MANY ACCIDENTS worked at the trade steadily after enlistment "Ha had become a follower of Jim Irwin, because Jim's reform was like dragging the road In front of your own farm it was reform right at home, and not at the county seat, or Des Moines, or Washington. Ue had followed Jim Irwln as he had followed Lincoln, and Grant, and Blaine, and McKInley because Jim fru-l... 1 c f . .! f. . . ......... . . .. for the Amerlcnn citizen than ,be colonel could see n.v prospect of getting from any other choice. And ne was proud to live In a country like this, saved and promoted by the great men be had followed, and in a neighborhood served and promoted. If not quite saved, by Jim Irwln. And he was not so sure about It not being saved. Every man and nation had to be saved anew every so often. and the colonel believed that Jim Ir win's new kind of rural school Is Just as necessary to the salvation of 1, this country. "I am about to close my speech." said the colonel, "and the small service I have been able to I went through give to this nation. the war. neighbors and am proud of Bad eyeslKbt is the cause of a good percentage of motor accidents s it; but I've done more good In the Massachusetts has started a state board of optometry, which will examine the peaceful service of the last three eyes of all motorists and prospective motorists, to make sure that their eyes years than I did lu four of fighting are fit. The examination will be free. The board just opened an office In and cfinipalgning. That's the way I Boston, Mass, where this photograph was taken. Photograph shows Presifeel about what we've done In Condent Frank G. Allen of the state senate, who was the first man to take the exsolidated District Number One." (Voamination. The roan giving the examination Is Dr. Uarold C Doan, secreciferous and applause.) tary of the state board of optometry. "Oh. Colonel I" The voice of Angle Talcott rose from away back near the kitchen. Can Jennie keep on beln' T Few Rules to Follow . county superintendent, now she's ... n, jj-- Engine Power Substituted for Foot Power. means by which to dispense with the manual' depression of clutch pedals so as to' avoid the nervous strain at- tendant ppon gear shifting, or stopping the ar. In carrying out the Sie suction of the engine is used for the purpose of holding the clutch In released position when the engine Is In movement, as long as the accelerator pedal Is In retracted position. , . Different Parts Scattered. car owner ought to depend upon such casual means Of Identification as sllxht imperfections that may have Short circuits are very likely to be Seen accrued during the operation df When the professional caused by carbon, fuel or water collect:he vehicle. ing on thff points of the spark plugs, or motorcar thief steals a car he takes on the lowter surface of the insulation, it to what amounts practically to a reor on the uter surface of the Insulu-tlofactory. In many cases the building or by bracks In the insulation Itentire mechanism Is taken down and self. To test for short circuits" take the different parts redistributed with out the plug andt Jay It so that the outthose from other cars of the same er shell only Is in contact with the makes and models to turn out to what cylinder and thqn cxank the motor. If amounts to new vehicles. there Is a spaii at the plug, but no is spark at the points' when the cable Burning Headlights Not connected to the cental electrode oband circuited Is short Result of an Accident viously the plug should be taken apart anfi cleaned. mistei; are "Your Different Causes for Short Circuits on Car No n, lights 4r I 4.44..M Automobile Notes burning, - yes, I know It," Is an Inscription which will be seen on more than one automobile In the coming year. At least, un- til the remainder of the motoring public come to' realize that a car with Is oil burning headlights Is not the result of Money spent for the right an Joy ride or accidental turnsaved in service. ing of the light switch. One driver a sign when Always test your brakes when threatened to use such told by a battery service man that them Inspected have and starting, e trips and long rate of his generator under such condithe Don't be afraid to give your tires tions meant certain disaster for on his car unless he tne storage battery airecuous Follow alrt enough burned the lights. given on tie sldewall 01 eacn casing In that respect, at least, the Euroand you'll Jsave tire money. ; pean name, "accumulator," by which over there, ! Exerclsw'especlal care In crossing In storage batteries are known as Is more literally correct. An automoor it, in car a passing rstreet of front bile battery merely accumulates the you cannot tell what may be coming surplus electricity developed by the oinUbe ciher side. begenerator, and when that current in the done work the excessive comes too quickly, Letting In the dutch as much work the back wtieeis in mud battery (and it Is Justa spinning a battery to take charge as It is I for speed. at corners high holes, taking to give tt off) becomes a burden to It and .locking the oraKes mean and overheating result . Ufcfor Uretv ... all-nig- day-tim- high-chargin- g |