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Show 9!l ZHtlr & ,fflrvnrfriM nm r- - wyvt ? I THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER Is f CThe "6rou?n Bi HERBERT QUICK(Copyright by Tho LINING - Come to dinner," said Mrs. Woodruff, who at this Juncture had a hired girl, but waa yoked to the oar nevertheless when tt came to turkey and the other fixings of a Christmas dinner. "It's good enough, what there Is of It, and theres enough of It such as Compsnjr) Bobbs-Merrl- ll UP JIM Jennie Woodruff SYNOPSIS. refuses to marry Jim Irwin, young farm hand, because of hla financial condition and poor prosIntellectually above pers. Ha Is and has advanced hla station, Ideas concerning the possibilities of school teaching and farming, by for which he Is ridiculed an off ox, many. In short, Jim Is and reads He tlocks by himself books and has a philosophy of his own. Hut there are latent even powers In him unsuspected comes by himself and Opportunity Jim Is knocking at his door. as nominated for a Joke. The Joke results In his election. He visits the scholars. Jennie is nominated for county Jim superintendent of schools. conmeeting, speaks at a public demning rural school methods. Jim's Prominent women condemndemand method of teaching: they Ills pupils defend him. "culture. school-teache- CHAPTER VIII Continued. Jennie blushed, mid to conceal her alight embarrassment, got out for the purjvoso of cranking her machine. Hut If I cannot line him up? said she. I tank," said lluakon, "If jou cant line him up, you will hate a chance to rewoke his certificate when you cow-testin- g sword. Father." sahl she that night, "let's have a little Christmas party." Alt right, sahl the colonel. "Whom shall we Invite?" an Intelligent plane, while they prepared the meals." "Isnt that looking rather far ahead?" asked the qounty superintendent-elect. 'It's like a lot of other things we think far ahead," urged Jim. "The only reason why theyre far off Is because we think them so. It's a thought and a thought la as near the moIn the Is turkey but the dressing it we think it as It will ever be." ment would be better for a little more "I that's so to a wild-eyeguess sage I" go The bountiful meal piled mountain-hig- h reformer," said the colonel. "But a little. on. famyour Develop thought add for guest and hired help Have some more dressing." ily melted away In a manner to de"Thanks, I believe I will," said Jim. light the hearts of'Mrs. Woodruff and "And little more of the cranberry Jennie. The colonel, In stiff starched sauce. a No more turkey, pfrase." carved frock cont, shirt, black tie and see the school class that to like "Id with much empressernent, and Jim felt could this dinner, said Mrs. prepare almost for the first time a sense of Woodruff. the value of manner. Why," said Jim, "youd be there "I had bigger turkeys," said Mrs. credWoodruff to Mrs. Irwin, "but I thought showing them howl Theyd get course In domestic their its s economy turkey-henIt would be better to cook two Instead of one great big gobbler for getting the school dlnfter and to with meat as tough as tripe and theyd bring their mothers Into It of head at their them stand the help stuffed full of fat." one detail of girls would "One of the hens would 'a been classes.oneAnd and another serve. cook week, "How Irwin. plenty," replied Mrs. of table would come The the setting much did they weigh?" n linen and all ns In flowers, study About fifteen pounds apiece," was tiie answer. "The gobbler would 'a' thnt. And when we get a civilized table manners!" weighed thirty, I guess. lies pure teacher, on thnt class," ,ild the take "Id Mummotli Ilronze." at Selma Carlson, hired mnn, winking "L wish," said Jim, "that we could below the somewhere from the mabl, wild of a birds the few breeding get feed I knife make "The salt. my way bronze turkeys from Mexico." u great help to the he would face my Why?" asked the colonel. children." Theyre the original blood of the And when the food came on the sahl domestic bronze turkeys," Jim, Jim went on, with a smile nt table," and they're bigger and hnndsomer fellow-laborewho had his former than tha pure bred bronzes, even. heard most of this before as a part Theyre a better stock than the North"just think ern wild turkeys from which our com- of the field conversation, of the things we could study while mon birds originated." It. The literary term for eat"Where do you lenrn all tbeso eating It well, the a Is meal ing things, Jlrn?" asked Mrs. Woodruff. discussion of discussing a meal under proper I declare, I often tell Woodruff that Is much more educative than It's as good as a lecture to have Jim guidance a lecture. This breast-bone- , now," Irwin at table. My Intelligence has said he, to the remains on his referring fallen since you quit working here, plate. "That's physiology. The cranJim." berry sauce that's botany, and comThere came into Jims eyes the merce, and soil management do you gleam of the man devoted to a Cnuse know, Colonel,' that the cranberry und the dinner tended to develop must have an acid soli which would Into a lecture. Jennie saw a little kill alfalfa or clover?" more plainly wherein his queernesa "Bead something of It," said the lay. colonel, "but It didnt Interest me "There's an education In any meal, much." If we would just use the things on the "And the difference between the table as materials for study, and fol types of fowl on the table that's breeding. And the nutmeg, pepper and coconut thats geography. And every thing on the table runs back to geog rnphy, and conies to us linked to our lives by dollars and cents nnd theyre mnlhomnllcH.' We must tinve something more fhnli d r, take office." Jennie thought of Mr. Peterson's suggestion us to "lining tip Jim Irwin as o thoroughly sensible that she gave It a good deul of thought tliut tlay. To he sure, everybody hnd always favored "more practical education," and Jim's farm arithmetic, farm physiology, farm reading and exercises, seed writing, the tomato, and clubs corn analysis, to he clubs and proposed pig poultry have in operation the next summer, seemed highly practical; but to Jennies mind, the fact that they Introduced dissension In the neighborhood and promised to make her official life vexatious seemed ample proof that Jims work was vlslonury and Impractical. Toor Jennie was not aware of the fact that new truth always comes bringing, not peace to mankind, but a Itlouse the accounts ef the school kitchen. They'd like to do these things, and It would help prepare them tor life on i . 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