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Show XWmown ttlouse call,", said Jim. HERBERT QUICK toa.fi..wl)aiL auuiiastsw, that the -- "Cows!" scoffed Mrs. Peterson. we leove you In "At any hour of the day." "Or night either, I dare say," Mrs. Bonner. "I hear the scholars here at all hours, you've Jim." Jim smiled his slow patient smile "We do break the union rule. I guess, Mrs. Bonner," said lie; "there seems to be more to do than we can get done during school hours." "What we came for. Mr. Irwin. U to object to the way the teachin g being done corn and wheat, and hogs and the like, Instead of tiie learnln' schools was made to teach. I can see an' the whole district can see that It's easier for a man that's been a furm-hanto teach farm-hanknowledge, than the learnln' schools was set up to teach; but if so be he hasn't the book education to do the right thing, we think he should get out and give a real 'teacher a chance." ' "What am I neglecting?" asked Jim ated r THEY'LL GET JIM" JnttU Woodruff TN0FSI9 wd inanciK-o'lltlo- poor pro.,. Intellectually above KT.tation. and has advanced Sua. concerning" th. powlbUitie. f Echoed teaching and .rniia, ridiculed by which he ":ny. m .hort, Jim 1. an off ox. EI fiockn by hlm.elf and read. of k, and ha. B. phllo.ophf But ther. are latent Mi own. even MWtri In him un.u.p.ctd oom V, hlmlf and Opportunity U kaoeklDf at hi. door. Jim a. CwnlnaUd for .ohool-feaohe- r. Th. ok. re.ult. in hi. Joke diction. H vUlta hi. MhoUra. JinnU la nominated for county Jim WMrlntendent of schools, a publlo meetlfe. con,mUi at rural .cRool methods demning He I. VII CHAPTER Continued. he done committed T" Raymond. MI don't know what teachers air supposed to do in this kentry, but Mr. Jim seems to be the aaked ahore-enoug- h "Be don't teach tbe school board Newton. "Bnt he mokes teacher I ever see 1" out of the books adopted," replied up better lessons," irred Raymond. "An' all the things we do In school he'ps us make Uvin'." at eight in the moraln'," "an' he has some of us there till half past five, and comes back In the evening. And every Saturday, some of the kids are doln' something at the schoolhouse." "They don't pay him for overtime, do they?" queried Raymond. "Well, then, they orto, lnstid of turnln' him "He beplns aald Newton, wtr "Well, they'll turn him out I" prophesied Newton. "I'm havln' more fun In school than I ever an' that's why Tm with you on this qulttln' trapping -- but they'll get I" all Jim, right "I'm having something betteh'n fun," replied Raymond. "My pap has serer understood this kentry, an' Weill has had bad times hyeh; but Mr. Jim an' I have studied out how I can make a betteh HvIn' next year and pap says kin go on the way Mr. Jim says. Til work for Colonel Wood-raf- f a part of the time, an' pap kin Bake corn in the It biggest field. eems we didn't do our work right last year an' In a couple of years, with tbe Increiise of the hawgs, an land we kin get It was stm an under the ." hour before nine ben the rural school traditionally takes up" when the boys had stored their trnps In a shed at the Bronson tome, and walked on to the school 'nose. Tlmt ruther scabby and weathered edlfW was already humming 1th ludntry of a sort. In spite of tbe hostility of the school board, and tbe aloofn.-sof the patrons of the hool, th.. pupils were clearly Inter-"tf- d In .Ih'i Irwin's system of rural ratlnn. .cvw. had the atten(Jnnce 8tt.lnn.-or regular; and one of B reus,.., f(,r sessTons before nine d after f .,ir was the Inability of the tocher in Mttend to the needs of his "njM In the five and s hslf hours ed "ar'i',,,1 hours." The day passed. Four o'clock came. "der that all might reach home w 'upper, there was no staying, ex-P- t that Nwt Bronson and Raymond wmms remained to sweep and dust and prepare kindling t Klu"rm, next morning's lir- ework ney had tnken upon themselves, so as nMe he teacher to put on the JAbnr.!s SUCh outlines for the tnor-cla- s, .vnrk as might be required, . . plow e I i " ord Z" SoV. m 'r,,n vi constituting a spelling exer--I hey were not from textbooks, natury out of the study of wh,t-"eo- ckV :,nvMn K,,ruut,neV . "morning-SS'- stable," "Iron-weed- "via-Ch- L and " wIRayn,(,I1( Slmm. '" lied three womeri-a-opened If. nd Jim Ir-- J; s looked at them that depnUt00( in(1 ffM meant a struggle. For they 0f th mttDb '.Vf the h He placed for then, the chairs, and In the ab-- wll , 5 h. pwng B revolutionist at th. bar of and fixed public opinion. J nwKe klonl L Rkn ,ITT' Wfled. Petern low-,Poke- n .nV,mMl .,er tastlnctlvt personality. d "and Cfci,han rll' dig-s- p - re- nd for looked twer . , rnt tall Mrs. Bron- - J"r h00"T"' CUTIUe She master. b,nck-- y Irtahwoman of th "Potion Wt bS"aer men he knew It to kV 25 St"LlK,Dk WthtTj. T of us t0 W tocher, Penu yob, Mr. BETTER ROADS lf Inrla, our children will know nothing bnt cows and hens and soils and grains and where will the culture come toT -"- Culture!" exclaimed after ten years of the sort of school I would give you If I were a better teacher and could have my Means of Transportation Should All Be Unified way" "Oon't bother, Jim," said Mrs. Bonner sneeringly, "you won't be teaching the Woodruff school that long." All this time, the dark-faceCracker had been glooming from a corner, earnestly seeking to fathom the wrong-neshe sensed in the gathering. Now he came forward. "J reckon I may be making a mistake to say anything," said he, "fr we-aIs strangers hyeh, an' we're pore; but I must speak out for Mr. Jim I must! Don't turn him out, folks, fr he's done mo' fr us than evcli any one done In the world!" , "What do you meanT asked Mrs. Peterson. mildly. ""I mean," said Raymond, ' "that Mrs. Bonner seemed unprepared for when Mr. Jim began talking school to the question, and sat for an instant us, we was a lot withpore mute. Mrs. Peterson Interposed her out any learnln. with nothln' to talk attack while Mrs. Bonner might be re- about except our wrongs, an' our enecovering her wind. mies, and the meanness of the Iowa "We people that have had a hard folks. You see we didn't understand time," she said in a precise way which you-alAn' now, we have hope. We seemed to show that she knew exactly done got hope from this school. We're what .she wanted, "don't want our goin' to make good In tbe world. children taught about nothing but We're getting education, We're all work. We want our children to learn Tearhih' to use books.' "My tittle sister nice things, and go to high school, and will be as good as anybody, If you'll after a while to the Junlwersity." Just let Mr. Jim alone In this school "Aren't tyour children happy In as good as any one. An' 111 he'p pap school, Mrs. Peterson T' get a farm, and well work and think "I don't send them to school to be at the same time, an' be bappy 1" happy, YIm," replied Mrs. Peterson, CHAPTER VIII calling him by the name most familiarly known to all of them; "I send them to learn to be higher people than Jennie Arranges a Christmas Party. Miss Jennie Woodruff of the Woodtheir father and mother. That's what ruff district was a sensible country America means I" "They'll be hieher neonle hieher girl. Being sensible, she tried to than their parents higher than their avoid upplshness. But she did feel teacher they'll be efficient farmers, some little sense of increased Imporand efficient farmers' wives. They'll tance as she drove her father's little runabout over the smooth earth roads, In the crisp December weather, just before Christmas. The weather Itself was stimulating, and in the little car, visiting the one hundred or more rural schools soon to come under her supervision, she rather fancied the picture of herself, clothed in more or less authority and queening It over her little army of teachers. Mr. Haakon Peterson was phlegmat-Ically conscious that she made rather an agreeable picture, as she stopped her car alongside his top buggy to talk with him. She had bright blue eyes, brown hair, a complexion fluffy whipped pink by the breeze, and she smiled at him Ingratiatingly; "Don't you think father Is lovely T sold she. "He is going to let me use the runabout when I visit the schools." "That will be good," said Haakon. "It will save you lota of time. I hope you make the county pay for the gaso"We Object to the Way the Teachin'. line." Being Done." "I haven't thought about that" said be bappy, because they will know how Jennie. "Everybody's been so nice to to use more brains In farming than me I want to give as well as receive." "Why," said Haakon, "you will yust any lawyer or doctor or merchant can to receive when your salary beIn his use business." begin possibly "It's a fine thing," said Mrs. Bonner, gins in Yanuary." "I've re"Oh, no!" said Jennie. coming to the aid of her fellow soldiers, "to work hard for a lifetime, an' ceived much more than that now! You raise nothing hut a family of farmers! don't know how proud I feel. So many A fine thing!" nice men I never knew before, and all be will fanners anyhow," my old friends like you working for 'They cried Jim, "In spite of your efforts-ni- nety me in the convention and at the polls, out of every hundred of them ! Just as if I amounted to something." "And you don't know how proud I And of the other ten, nine will be in the cities, and wish to feel," said Haakon, "to have In county God they were back on the farm; and office a little girl I used to bold on my the hundredth one will succeed In the lap." Haakon was a rather richer man city." The guns of Mrs. Bonner and Mrs. than the colonel, and not a little proud A Peterson were silenced for a moment, of his ascent to affluence. d Scandinavian, he and Mrs. Bronson, after garing about at the typewriter, the heektograph, was quite completely Americanized, k and his Influence was always worth the exhibits of weed seeds, the other the and milk tester, fifty to sixty Scandinavian votes In equipment, pointed to the any county election. He was a good list of words, and the arithmetic party man and conscious of being entitled to bis voice in party matters. problems on the board. Tk you get them words from the This seemed to him an opportunity for exerting a bit of political Influence. speller?" she asked. "Yennle." said he, "this man Ylm "No." said he, "we get them from a Irwin needs to be lined up." lesson on seed wheat" "Lined up I What do you meant" "Did them examples come out of an she. "The way he Is doing In the arithmetic book?" said used Haakon, "la all wrong. school," "we problem, said Jim, "No," we made ourselves. We were figuring If you can't line him up, he will make We must look ahead. Mrs. you trouble. profits and losses on your cows, Everybody has his friends, and YIm Bronson I" "Etra Bronson," said Mrs. Bronson Irwin has his friends. If you have In telling trouble with him, his friends will be loftily, "don't need any help waa He cow. fanning against you when we want to nomwhat's a good The inate you for a second term. before you was born !" we Is If I He's close. to go getting county "Like fun, he don't need help con went Ion without your home deleg$-tlo- n fatand oft old Cherry going to dry It would weaken you, and If we ten her for beef; and he can make nominate you, every piece of trouble cream beefing by on the more money cuts down your wote. Ton k this like The 'em. about tftree wore of to line him up and have him do ought Just boarding test shows they're 1" right." on os without paying Ulr board "But he is so funny," said Jennie. ruffled matrons The delegation of likes you."" said Haakon., "Ion "He like a group of trtled heni at thla him up." line can Newton was which Interposition, Bronson's effective seising of ths opbulletin portunity to Issue a progress Bronson "I guess that's so to In the research work on the reformer." dairy herd. dont mother, his said "Newton!" to the Interrupt me when I'm talking (TO BE CONTINUED.) teacher P "dont Newton, said "Welt, then Peculiar Combinations. which tell the teacher that pa knew An Engllsn, woman recently wrote were poor. cows were good and which a saying that she was newspaper to to wants If ny one In thla district Mann Mann). She mar(Alice A born to know shout thdr cows they'll have and so became Mr. Husband, a ried come to this shop. And I on tell yoa she married died and He Husband. too U A that ltll pa 'em to come, time a Mr. Maiden. Bethis. again, selling they're going to make snylhlng our re- coming a widow for a second time, cream. Wslt until we get out she concludes that, though' born A. 1" ports on the herd, ma die A. Maiden. stampeded Mann, she will The womeo were rsther of the Irregular ' by this onslaught Shark and Ostricn" Meat, Mrs. Bronson. She troops-espec- lally In taste that resembles steak Shark but son, felt a iutter of pride In her meat U similar with s moth-ert- y of tender veal. Ostrich-.It was strongly mingled of that turkey, to detdre to spank Ua. The icpod s d explained for the tenth time But Jim had done so many things that to teacher waa supposed to do, and o many things that bad left undone tetcberi were bound by custom to Mr. perform, that Newton's father and Peterson had. made Bonner nd-- Mt tp their minds that they would call ipon him to resign, and If he wouldn't, ther would "turn him out" In some only this d JCewton way "What wrong's feeUs hid been scored upon, would ll l. wage-earne- mild-spoke- soft-voice- Kab-coc- cross-examine- d Bab-coc- n, How Improved highways are expanding the business and life of tbe nation, and why all means of transportation should be unified into one Integral unit, was outlined In two recent speeches by Uoy D. Chap In, chairman of the highways committee of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. In toth addresses Mr. Chapin was chosen as spokesman on good roads for the automobile Industry. One occasion was the dedication of the Zero Milestone monument In Washington, D. C Speaking In behalf of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Chapin said. In part: "Time waa when all roads led to Home. The world moves westward-civiliza- tion follows the same pathway and today we dedicate this visible mark of a new era when all roads lead to Washington. From this Zero Milestone will radiate to the homes In over America Improved highways Which will pass dally tens of millions of our people and a vast proportion of our commerce. "Billions will be expended on our roads In our lifetime, that highway transport -- may .adequately serve us. Partly from economic, but more largely-from human reasons, we must all give pause and study this newly pow erful agent of marching civilisation. Just prevlouslv Mr. Chapin advo cated a unification of air, rail and water transportation, In a speech to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. lie said in part: "We of America stand In the transition stage of the greatest development of transportation In all of the history of the world. "In the past It has been said that transportation has been the pawn of kings In shaping the course et empires. "Today It has become the toot of the Individual In working out the problem of the family. "Turning then to tho Immediate of all our question of of facilities transportation, It seems to me the dominant theme must be service. The form or type of carrier used Is secondary to the demand for efficient and completed transportation. Even cost Is secondary, because efficient service Is always the least costly In the long run." Highway Leads to Long Extinct Mexican Volcano Of the many spiral roads built fors ascending steep mountain summits one of tbe most Interesting Is that which has recently been completed to the crater of the extinct volcano Macunte-pe- c in the vicinity of "Jalapa, a city of the State of Vera Crux, Mex., 70 miles by rail from the port of Vera Crux, says Popular Mechanics Magailne. Jalapa Is picturesquely situated on the slope of the sierra which separates the central Dlateau of Mexico from the Gulf coast, at an elevation of 400 feet To the south of It the peak of Cofre de Perote rises to a height of 13,419 feet, and still farther south that of Orizaba, 18.700 feet, the highest peak in Mexico and the second highest In North America. The new road starts at a point on the national highway to Mexico City that Is about a mile and a quarter from the center of Jalapa. For a distance of about half a mile to a gate at the entrance of the hill the road Is on private property, and here It Is about thirteen feet wide with a 0 per cent grade. From the hill entrance to Its summit the road Is 114 feet wide, with a maximum grade of 4 per cent, excepting la- - a few spots where an Increased grade of 0 per cent was This part of the road la all on sldehlll cuts, excepting a short stretch of about 328 feet at the end of the Arst complete circuit ef the hill, where It was possible to build the road on the surface without any cutting. For reasons of safety It was decided to make two roads, one for for descendand the other ascending neo-essar- one-wa- y ing. Tbe descending road starts witk a grade of 8 per cent and nearly parallels the last part of the ascending read until It strikes ths crater, the edge of which It follows until It reaches tbe point where the ascending road enters the crater, the whole being distance of 1,950 feet, the last 280 of which is In the crater with a 10 per cent grade. Deposit of Asphalt Is Discovered in Alabama A deposit of ssphslt la reported to have been discovered hi one of the Tennessee valley counties. If the report Is true and the deposit Is of any value it adds another Item to the wonderful resources of this state and Incidentally means great things for road building In the state. Fort Payne Journal. Highway Bridge Construction. Since 1916 more thsn thirty miles of bridges have been built under the .federal-aid highway program. One of the largest of .these bridges, that from Mandan to Bismarck, N. D Is more than three snd one half miles long and cost $1,428,000. ... ; New Roads In Penneylvanla Pennsylvania" department of highways will. build 275 miles of durable highways In 1023 24. Tho state has 113,000,000 available for the new . The NT SAY "BAYER" when you buyme Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians fot Headache Neuritis Colds Lumbago Rheumatism Toothache Pain Neuralgia AasMi fei tt ut tt Accept only Bayer" package which contains proper directions. Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablet Also bottle, of 24 and 100 Druggists. tt UmmmHUtMm t Bam Ifaatfitttn. MtorlteMU a. Good Marksman. Rill Taylor was a particularly tall. In fact, certain of his Papuan Unable to Carry Friend Across thin person: friends referred to him as "Bones." Kilts Him Because He Did Not One night a number of his jolly ac Wish to Be Rude. quaintances Joined hlin in a party. In an unguarded moment one of then Belated to the weakness which, the Papuan native to He In order to humor the Europeun la the courtesy ly discharged, and the bullet struck ' which he often displays on the most Taylor In the leg. Terrified, the owiter of the weapon hastened to the house unexpected occasions. You may tell the same story two or of the nearest doctor. "I have just shot Bill Taylor in tbe three times to a Papuan, but he will 1" he exclaimed. "Come quick!" leg as or luugh just heartily express just But the doctor paused on the the same astonishment the last time adas the first. No hint will escape him threshold, viewing the man with mean to "You that eyes. miring say that he has heard the story before. And even In the crimes which he not you actually shot Bill Taylor in the Infrequently coramlts mostly crimes legr "Yes." of vlolence he Is not always forgetful "Then all 1 have to say Is that It of the rules of politeness. a mighty good shot," was the doc was "He wanted me to carry him across as he prepared to go to tor's the water," said a prisoner who was Bill. response, Philadelphia Ledger. charged with murdering another na tive "whom he had met and done to Only a Truce. death on the bank of a river, "but he Dr. W. R. Bishop, In tls "My Moorlooked very heavy. Of rourse I could not be so rude as to refuse to carry land Patients," tells the story of twe Yorkshire brothers, John and Wilnl'tn, so I thought that the best way liam, who quarreled one day, and out of the difficulty was to kill him lived wltnln a stone's Courteous, too, was the explanation though ofthey each other vowed never to throw given to me by some natives of the to each other again. They kept mountains Inland of Klgo, who were speak vow for forty years, their unpleasant charged with attacking a police patrol one day John fell 111 and on his "We had never seen policemen before," till deathbed sent for his brother. Wilthey said, "and we did not know what liam, full of remorse, went to him and were. we had If they thought for a tliey spent the dying man's last hours tioinent," they added, "that you at toIVIn,, nf filil HmM U'tion Wlllliim ached any Importance to these per- rose" sadlyto-g- o John sat' up in bed Jons, we certainly would not have called after hlra, "Mind, William and .hrown spears at them, we did not if I get better, all this Is for nowtJ" think that they were any good." Stead's Review, Melbourne. Shackles of Gold. "I do not envy great, riches," Observant tne was married in the same marked Senator Sorghum. "Why notr church where three ceremonies had "In so many cases they give a maa bfn previously performed for her?" the nucleus of a magnificent campaign "Yes." fund, and yet by their very presence "A familiar environment, eh?" prevent him from taking the benefit "Quite. - She even noticed that tear in the altar carpet hadn't been or it." Washington star. mended since her Inst trip." BirmingGirls and Dolls. ham Give a little girl one doll and she The mnn who said that two can live develops affection; give her tea and as chenply as one never had to reckon she becomes almost entirely with milliners and dressmakers. NATIVES ARE TOO POLITE ,in-iuc- Age-Heral- d. 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