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Show ptTTTBDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1923. AMERICAN FOEK CITIZEN SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, . gUBSCMPTIOf v fiaterw . m: tnk. rinr- " JTolisFOKD - ' PUBLISHES vnn fliM OHD TON TRUCK'FOR BALB-In Ant class conuiuuu. Alpine sv-n WISHING OUTFIT FOR SALE Two toon b0llU' 0M motOT ford W ton?' 50 yard net Cheaprlnqulre Walter Durrant Jt UTTIJS PI03 WR SALE-x VMb old; slso spotted piana-uninn bos 1st service. Leon Wagstan, Amen- l 0 if -n U rora. . - fB SALE A peach orchard, about . . . . v. 114 seres, s biwom i v and I blocas Bona, inquiry aw Ulta. Pleasant OroTe. S8-4t-pd. - a Mwmw mseaa GOOD HOME, WITH W AUiUWJ ouiv- roundlng it "with tlx acres In frnlt end tardea, nemy 01 wwr. wiu k 1 M A IM ell or leas vsry reasousoia, amen. ' a o eu for, dvx . i. n ra It .A PACITIC MININQ 8T0CK FUR 8AJ-JS -will tell t.000 shares of Pacific alamc stock for io eenu per snare If taken at once, can at Ajpine no. Co. office. 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" t9-lt p WASTER WiKtED Men or women to take or. 4dera for genuine guaranteed hosiery hos-iery tor men, women aad children. Eliminates darning. Salary ITS a k full time, flAO an bonr spare ne. Cottons, heathers, silks. International In-ternational Stocking Mills, Norris-tow. Norris-tow. Pa. . u.n Marry if LONBLT; for resnlts try oe; best and most successful "Home Maker"; hundreds rich wish marriage oon; strictly confidential; most reliable; re-liable; rears experience; descriptions free. "Tti on "vvoDniui viuv i sua a. h, Box 656, dakland, Calif. .lt-p NEW OARAOE NOW OPEN. Firat. class work on all cars. All work guaranteed. No matter what your uto trouble-w, fix It 8hop-next r east of Alpine Pnb. Co. office. Mil Howe and Chas. Anderson, me-gmcs. me-gmcs. fit p Express aad Transfer. t7.1 a . Move Anythinjr, In or out of town. . r And &o It rkht 'OR QUICK SERVICE PHONE 127.W. AMERICAN FORK. ROBERT E..1E.-1 8YNOPSI8 CHAPTER I JennU Woodruff eon-traptuouly eon-traptuouly r(uss to rorry Jim Irwin, Ir-win, young- farm hand, because of hie Bnanolal condition and poor proapecta. Ha la Intellectually above hit etatlon, 5 " .!,..advcd de" ooncarnlna tha poaalbllltlaa ot expert echool (eachlns. tor which ha la ridiculed by many. . CHA?TER II.Mora aa a Joke than therwlea Jim la selected aa teacher ol the woodruff dlatrlct ecbooL -ane preiaent touoweo usage wnen he said: "If there's no objection, It will be so ordered. Prepare the ballots bal-lots for a vote on the election of teacher, teach-er, Mr. Secretary." There was no surprise in view ot the nomination of Jim Irwin by tha blarneying Bonner when the Secretary smoothed out the first ballot and read "James K. Irwin, one" , Bat when the next slip came forth, "James B. twin, two," the board of directors of the Woodruff Independent district were stunned st the slowly dawning knowledge that they had made an election I Before they had rallied, the secretary drew from the box the third and last ballot and read, "James a Irwin, three." President Branson choked as he announced an-nounced the 'result choked and stammered, stam-mered, and made very hard weather of it, bat he went through with the motion, as wo all ran In our grooves, i "The ballot hating shown the unanl-: unanl-: moos election of James B. Irwin, I declare de-clare him elected." : He dropped into his chair, while the secretary, a very methodical man, drew .from his portfolio a contract duly drawn up save the name and signature. sig-nature. This he calmly filled eat and passed over to the president pointing to the dotted line. Mr. Bronsoa would have signed his ewn death-warrant at that moment ' oof to mention a per fectly legal document and signed with Peterson and Bonner looking on , stonily. Tbe secretary signed and shoved the ccWract over to Jim ft ,rln, ' ' i ' "Sign there." he said. Jim looked it ever, taw the ether signatures, and felt aa Impose b dodge (be whole thing. Then a thenght of Jsaais WoedrtA "Hamphr and he signed I "Move ws adjourn," aaid Peterson. No "bjectlon lis so ordered!" said Mr. Branson.' ..'' The secretary and Jim went out while the directors waited. "What the Billy" began Bonner, and finished lamely! "What tor did yea vote" for the dub. Ear "I voted for him," replied Bronsoa, because he' fought for my boy this afternoon. I didn't want It stack Into nlm too hard. I wanted him to have one vote." i "An' I wanted him to have wan vote, too," said Bonner. ' "I thought meallf the only dang fool on the board an' he made a apache that alrned wah vote hot Tt the love of hlvin, that dab fr a teacher I What come over yoa, Haakon you voted f r him, too P "Ay vente4 him to have one wote, too," said Peterson, And in this wise, Jim became the teacher In the Woodruff district ell on - account of Jennie Woodruff's "Humph!" CHAPTER III What Is s Brown Mouaef Immediately upon the accidental election of Jim Irwin to the position of teacher of the Woodruff school, he developed habits somewhat like a ghost's or a bandlt'a That is, he walked of nights and on rainy days. On tine days, he worked in Colonel Woodruffs fields as of yore. Jim's salary was to be Just $360 for nine months' work in the Woodruff school, and he was to find himself and his mother. Therefore, he had to Indulge in his loose habits of night walking and roaming about after hours only, or on holidays and in foul weather. The Simros family, being from the "mountings" of Tennessee, were rather startled n night, when Jim Irwin, homely, stooped and errandless, silently si-lently sppeared In their family circle about the front door. They had lived where Jt was the custom to give a whoop from the big road before one passed through the palin's and up to the house. Otherwise, how. was one to know whether the visitor wss friend or foeT FrOm force ot bnblt Old Uaa Slmms started for JMs gun-rack at JUn'e ap pearaarebot the Llacolnlan smile and the loiow speech, so much like his own1 In some respects, ended that 9 "Stranger," said Mr.' Slmma, after greetings had been exchanged, "you're right welcome, but In my kenti you'd Snd It dangersome to walk In thlsa-way." thlsa-way." ' "How sor queried Jim Irwin. ' ?Tou'd more'n likely git shot up some," replied Mr. Slmms, "onless you whooped from the big road."- "I didn't know that" replied Jim. "Tm Ignorant of the customs of other countries. Would you rather I'd hwn (rom the big road nobody fill Old Man Slmma Started for Hie Oun. eise ynur ix : -l reckon," replied Mr. Srhuns, "that we-all will have to accommodate oorse'ves to the ways hyeh." Evidently Jiaa was the Slmms first caller since they had settled on the little brushy tract whose bills and trees reminded them of their moun tains. Low hills, to be sure, with only M footing of rocks where the creek ! bad cut through, and not many trees, but dowa 1a the creek bed. with the oaks, elms ' and box-elders arehinf overhead, the 8lmmses could Imagine) themselves beside some run falling into the French Broad, or the Hoist on. Tha creek bed wss s, withdrawing room In which to retire from the; eternal black soil and level cornfields of Iowa. - '"' r The soil was so poor, In comparison compari-son with those black uplands, that the owner ' of tha eld wood-let could find no renter bat It was better than the soli In the mountains, snd suited tha lonesome Simmses much more than a better farm woold have done. They wera not of the Iowa people anyhow, not understood, not their equals they were "pore," 'and expected to stay "pore" while the Iowa people all seemed to be either well-to-do. or expecting ex-pecting te become so. . Jim Irwin asked Old Maa 8lmms shout the fishing In the creet. and whether there was say duck shooting spring and falL " "We git right smart of these little panfiah," said Mr. Slmms, "an CallsU doae shot two batterball docks about tater-plantln' time." U- Callsta blushed bat . this stranger, so much like themselves, could not see the rosy suffusion. 'The allusion gave him a chance to look aboat him at the family There was a boy of sixteen, a ' glri the - duck-shooting Callsta younger than Raymond a girl of eleven, named Virginia, but called Jlnnle and a smaller lad who rejoiced re-joiced In the name of McOeehee. but was mercifully called Buddy. Callsta sqolrmed tot something te say. ' "Kaymoaa runs a une o irapa when the tor's atute," she Then came a long talk on traps and trapping, shooting, hunting and the Joys of the mountings during which Jim noted tha 'ignorance and poverty of the 8lmmses. The clothing of the girls was not decent according to local standards; for while Callsta wore a skirt hurriedly slipped on, -Jim was quite sure and not without evidence. to support his views that she had been wearing when he arrived the same regimentals now displayed by Jlnnle a pair of ragged blue overalls. Evidently the Slmmaea were wearing what they bad and not what they desired. de-sired. The father was faded, patched, gray and earthy,' and the boys looked better than the rest solely because we terpect boys" to be torn snd patched. Mrs. Slmms waa Invisible except as a gray blur beyond the rain-barrel, in the midst of which her pipe glowed with a regular ebb and flow of embers. - On the next rainy day Jim called again and secured the services of Raymond Ray-mond to help him select seed corn. He was going to teach the school next winter, and be wanted to have a seed-corn seed-corn frolic the first day. Instead of waiting until the last and yoa bad to get seed corn while It wss on the stalk, If you got the best No Slmms could refuse a favor to the fellow who was so much like them selves, and who wss so greatly interested inter-ested la trapping, hunting and the Tennessee mountains so Rsymond went with Jim, and with Newt Bron- .son sad five more they selected Colonel Colo-nel Woodruff's seed corn for (he next yesr, under the colonel's, personal superintendence. In the evening they looked the grain over on the Woodruff lawn, and the colonel talked about corn and com selection. se-lection. They had supper at half past six, snd Jennie waited on them having hav-ing assisted her mother la tha cooking. cook-ing. It wss quite a festival, Jim Irwin was the least conspicuous person In the gathering, but the colonel, colo-nel, who was a seasoned politician, . tfcMsved that the farm-hand had be- come a fisher of men, and waa angling for tha souls of these boys, and their Interest in the school Jim was care ful not to flush the covey, but every boy received from ' the next winter's teacher some confidential hint as te plans, and some suggestion that Jim was relying oa the aid and comfort ot that particular boy. - Newt Bronson, especially, waa leaned on aa a strong staff and a very present help in time of trouble. As for Raymond Slmms, It was clearly best to leave m alone. An this talk of corn selection and related things was new to him, and he drank It In thirstily. He bad an Inestimable advantage ad-vantage over Newt in that he was starved, while Newt : was surfeited with "advantages" for which he had no' use. .. . after the party had broken up, "Tm losing, the best hand' I ever had. and Pve been sflrry." - "I'm glad he's leaving you," said Jennie. "He ought to do something except ex-cept work In the field for wages." "I've had no Idea he could make good as a teacher and what is there In it If he doesr - "What has he lost If he, doesn't V rejoined Jennie. "And why cant he make goodr - ' "The school board's against blm, for one thing," replied the colonel "They'll fire him if they get a chance. They're the laughing-stock of the country fitr hiring hlnv.by mistake, and they're Irritated. Ir-ritated. But after seeing him perform tonight I wonder If he cant make good." t "If he could feel Ilka anything but an underling, he'd succeed," said Jen-ale. Jen-ale. "That's his heredity," stated the colonel, whose live stock operations were based on heredity. "Jim's a scrub, I suppose; but he acts as if he might turn out to be a Brown Mouse." "What so yew maaa. pa," scoffed Jennie fa Brown Mouse T , "A fellow" In Edinburgh," said the colonel, "crossed the Japanese waltzing waltz-ing mouse with the ' common white mouse. Jim's peddling father was a waltxlng mouse, no good .except to Jump from one spot to another for no good reason. Jim's mother Is an albino al-bino of a woman, with all the color washed out in one way or .another. Jim ought to be a mongrel and Pve always considered blm one. But the Edinburgh fellow every Once In a while get out of bis Variously-colored, waits! ng and albino hybrids, a brown mouse. It wasn't a common house mouse, either, but a wild mouse unlike any he bad ever seep. It ran away, and bit and gnawed and raised hob. It wss what we breeders call a Meade Han segregation ot genetic factors that had been In the waltsers snd albinos all the Ome their original wild an cestor of the woods and fields. 'If Jim turns out to be a brown mouse, he may be a bigger man than any of as. Anyhow. Tm for him.'" ' "HVI1 have to be a big aaaa te ssaka anything out or tne joo or s country school teacher," said Jennie. ; - "Aay Job's as big aa the man who holds 1t down," said her father. Next day Jim receded a letter from Jennie, t "Dear Jim." U ran. Tether says yea are sure to have a hard time the school board's against yea, and all that Bat he added Tm for Jim, anyhow any-how r I thought you'd like te knew this. Also he said. 'Any Job's as big as the man who hoKsT It down.' And I believe this also, and I'm for yea. tool Too are doing wonders even before be-fore the school starts la getting the pupils Interested la a lot ef things, which, while they dont belong to school work, will make them friends ef yours. I don't see how this win help yon much, bat It's s fine thing and shows your Interest in them. Don't be toe original . The wheel ram easiest In the beaten track. lours, Jennie." ctt Jennie's caution mads nV Impression oa Jim but be put the letter sway, and every evening took It out and read the words, "I'm for you, too!" The colonel's dictum, "Any Job's as big as the man who holds tt down," was an Emersonian trulnm to Jim., It reduced 'all Jobs to an equality, and It meant equality In Intellectual and spiritual development. It didn't mean, for instance; in-stance; that any' Job was as good as another In making It possible for a man to marry and Jennie Woodruff's rHumphl" returned to kill and drag off her Tm for you, tool" - CHAPTER JV The First Oay ef School. Jim Irwin was full of his Emerson's "Representative Men," snd his Car-lyle'a Car-lyle'a "French Revolution," and the other old-fashioned, excellent good , literature which did not cost over 25 cents a volume; and he bad pored long and with many thrills over tha pages of Matthews' "Getting On In the World." ' His view of efficiency was that it Is the capacity to see opportunity oppor-tunity where others overlook It and make the most of it v All through his life he had had his own plans for becoming greet And an the time he was bare-footed, ill-clad ill-clad and dreamed his dreams to the accompaniment of the growl ot the .plow cutting the roots under the browa furrow-slice, or the wooshlng of the milk in the pall At twenty-eight he considered these dresms 'over.. . 4s for this new employment he ssw no greet opportunity in It ' He went Into the small, mean. Ill-paid task as a - parf of the day's work, with no knowledge ef the stirring of the nation for a "different sort of rural school, and no suspicion that there lay In li -any highway to succesa Is life. n rather wondered why he hod allowed Jennie's sneer to sting him into the course of action which pur him In thl new 'relation to tils neighbors. Bet. true to Ms oeiief in honest, thorough work, like a general preparing prepar-ing for battle, be examined his field of operations. His manner of doing this seemed te prove to Colonel Woodruff, who watched tt with keen Interest as something new In the world, that Jim Irwin was possibly "a Browa Moose. Bat the colonel knew only a part of Jim's " performances. He saw Jim clothed In slickers, walking through rainstorms to the houses In tha Woodruff Wood-ruff district as' greedy for every moment mo-ment of rain as a haymaker for shine; aad he knew that Jim made a great many evening cells.' But he did not know that Jim was making what oar sociologists call a survey. For that matter, neither did Jim; for books on sociology cost more than 25 cents a volume, and Jim had never seen one. However, tt was a survey. To be sore,' he had long known everybody In the district save the Simmses and ha waa now a friend of all that exotic race: but there is knowing and knowing. He now bad note-booka full of facts about people and their fanna He knew how many acres esch family possessed, pos-sessed, and what sort of farming each husband was doing live stock, grain or mixed. ' He knew about the mortgagee, mort-gagee, and the debts. He knew whether the family atmosphsrs waa happy, snd, contented, or the reverse. He knew which boys aad girls were wayward and Insubordinate. He made a record of the advancement la their todies of air the children, and what they liked te read.' He knew their favorite amusements. He talked with. their mothers snd slaters not about the school, te any extent hot on the weather, the horses, the aatomobUee, the sllo-flll!ng machinery ' and ' the profits of farming.' - " " ' Really, though Jennie Woodruff did aet see hew sacs) doings related to school work, Jim Irwin's school was rasnlng full blast la the homes of the district aad the salads at many papas. weeks and weeks before that day when he called them to order oa tha Monday specified in his contract as the first dsy of school ,r Oon Bonner, who came to see the opening,' voiced tha sentiment ef the elder people when he condemned , the That Pellerni Never Oe." as disorderly. Te be there were mora pupils enrolled than aad ever entered oa a first day la tha whole history ef the school and It was hard to accommodate them alL Bat the director's criticism was leveled against the fretand-easy sir ef the children. Most ef them had brought seed corn and a good-alsed coxa show was aa view. There was maca arga-ment arga-ment as to the merits ef the various entries. Instead of a language lesson from the text-book, Jim had glvea them aa exercise based ea aa exsjoinev ttoa af the ears ef cara, . The aamber exorcises of the tittle chaps had bean worked eat with ears and kernels of com. One class la arithmetic calcolatod the percentage of inferior kernels at tip aad ban la the full-slsad grains to tha middle af the ear All the time, JIu Irwin, awkward and uncouth, clad In bis aone-tvo-goed Sunday suit and trying to bide behind bis Uncolnlan smile the fact that ha wss pretty badly frightened aad moan embarrassed, passed among them, getting get-ting them enrolled, setting them to work, wasting much time smd labor tng like a heavy-laden barge la a seaway. sea-way. "That fellerU never do," said Bonner Bon-ner to lironkou next day. JLowks like a tramp in the schoolroom." . "Weurin bis beat I guess," Bronson., "Half the kids call blm 'Jim,' ' said Bouner. "That's all right with me," replied Brousou. The room waa as noisy as a caucus," cau-cus," was Bonner's next Indictment "and the dure was ail over com like a bog-pin." "Oh I I don't suppose ha can get sway with it," assented Bronson dis gustedly, "but that boy ef mine Is ss tickled as a colt with the whole thing. Says he's gola' reglsr this winter." "That's because Jim don't keep no order," said Bouner. "He lets Newt da as he pleases.' ' -;-- "First time he's ever pleased to do anything but deviltry," protested Bronson. Bron-son. "Oh, 1 suppose Jlm'U fall dowa, and we'll have to fire him bat I wish ws could git s good teacher that woold git bold of Newt tha way ha seems tol Con tinned Hext Week Sexual Pffiereneea, A woman's hesd Is always Influenced by her heart; but s mnn's heart Is at wsys influenced ' by his bead. Lady BlesKlngioh. ' v "'-' ' "".V " -"s - And What Would the Papera Oat If It were dot for our mistake lift, would be pretty monotonous. Boston fCvn'm Transcript ';''.' , Tike it heel (J Hive a ettkttb jrour pocket fcr fJ evef-rcaty ted. k sallotas etf&t tioiiiiiisiil the te!X CfttSofi. LEQAL N0TI0E3 Probata aal gwlaasUa a. tfeea-Ceasalt Cetaty Clerk at th respective signers far fatv tler lafeimailoBV" T none TO CREDITORS 1 In the District Coart ef the "fettttl Jadkml District, Utah Canty. State of TJtoa,"'. ":' ' ;- ' -la tne , matter of rtheTestato5: t . Jobs L. McKJnney; deceased. C.TiAUnrn' wilt nraannt iltlm. wfth . vouchers to the undersigned at 1 bar residence 4n Fairfield, "Utajb cbaaty, 8Ute of UtahTon or before tha WU day of .February; A. D.1M4. w . ' RHODA fc McKINNXT, Adnetnlstrstrix of te' astato ti ' John li McKlnney, deceased. PARKER ROBINSON,' " " Attorneys for Administratrix. DaU ot first publication Oct t, IKL Data last publication Oct 17. 1121. WTIU TO CSZDTT0ES la tt District eeart ef the Fegrfli Jaalclal District la aal far tlSR Ceaaty, TJtAk v ." ' . . In tha matter of the astato l JOHN A. KITCHEN, deceased. ' . Creditors will present 'claims wfJi , vpuchers to the undersigned at ftar ' residence at .Pleasant Orova, Vtas Coonty, Utah, 'on or before Decemhar . SARAH FRANCIS EJTCLf . Administratrix t the' aaUto ti ' John-A. Kltehea. aieisaal MORGAN, COLEMAN STRAW, AttornJsys for AdntinJstraiilx, stovo, uian. . . ,-' -, -', -First psb. Sept It Last Oct f l.tKl ejBBBawJBaseaBaBawaa-aV-tfBa- I I0TIC1 OF ASttSSST -j ti - - awHl mm WIMwIal CosieUdatod Etaltf C Prlnetpal Plaet ef Baslnesi AsstrL euFtrttak. . ; . . v Notice la hereby gtvso that at el meeting of the board of director ti V. The Whirlwind Consolidated VtthJ Co, held oa the 4th day of SeptemtaV aatavai a v ; . aa ; m A aA snare waa isriea oa we espnai awsts . sv a m Ak ' ia-s Aaatl of the wrporation. Issued and tel. -standing, payable immediately 't tJss secretary at American Fork, tTtsk. . Any BWCK.upoa wdjcb uus Hnar ment may remain unpaid ' oa fiatar. oay, uexooer uin, j.a. wiu oe siua. . quent ' aad ' advertised for salt at publlo aoctlofi'aad onlesa paytBtat . b made before, will be sold oa Toes. day. November f.i 192S. at I oVIoek ad the secretary office, to psy the it-linquent it-linquent assessment thereon, together togeth-er with the cost of advertising aaT expense of sale. J. B PARKER,' Secretaiy. ' American Fork, Vtaft. First PubrSept IS Ust Oct f, lttf !" ' a "1 : 50TICE OF A8SES9Xm Paciflt Geld sTmlaff aad HXUnf Ciw Principal Place af Bsjlsesa, Aaa erieaa Fork, rtajk. ,e Notice Is hereby given hat at a meeting ot the board of directors the Pacific Gold Mining and Milting Co., held on the 10th day ot September. Septem-ber. im. assessment No. (S of 4 per ahsre was levied oa the eaptlsi stock of the corporation, issued and outstanding, payable immediately to the secretary at American Fork; Utah. .. , - Anr stock upon which this assess, ment may remain anpald on Satar- day, October 10, 1M, wtll be delinquent delin-quent and advertised, for salt ; a publlo auction, and onless payment Is made before, will be sold oa Tuesv day. November 15, im, at 4 oVloafc p. m. at tha secretary's office, to pay the delinquent assessment tneraom, together with the cost of advertistat aad expense ot sale. H. C Johnson, Secratary. American Fork, Utah. First Pub. Sept II Last Oct M, MM ' "lnstCawaetteeslwji ." Manv neoDle sneeze tf strong ttsft- Hght fajls on Uielr faces'; this Is prob- sbly due to s temporary congewwai the llnins; inembrrtne -of iho nose. r TV. 'in |
