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Show f -- imiiimimimi;;n:;:n::i::::::::::::i:i'j; " ' a. f to control." sua FaCln A Alert-I- wZ, masted Tril- Matlon ran Khooi' the - schci s and ' "" sagea m a very unclassln - rS Ce the back of were all unconscious of it geography c,a88e, had recited, anj the language fiwork was on. Those too .mall for these studies were Dnder the Snn.. of wh0 b1 beenpromot- the position of weed seef moa. iP h.?t Wme fortelts- - Eac child gome fields jniiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimimuiii Bobbt-lfafr-UI W" to bring Li of weedecoural from the winter HERBERT QUICK (Cwrnght bj Tha CocBpaor) preferably one the seed of which still clung to the dried receptacles-but anyhow, a weed. If any puPu brought a specimen the name of which he himself could not correctly give, Paid forfeit If a specimen wn! brought ln not found in t, cablnet-wh- lch was 'comlng .to con-tai-n a considerable collection it was placed there, and the task allotted to the best penman in the school to write IU proper label. All this . caused cltement and not a little buzz but It ceased when the county sunerintnH. ent entered the room. For It was after the first of ary and Jennie waa visiting the Wood- , -- ALL WRONG" Jannle Woodruff SYNOPSIS. to mrrjr Jim Irwin, farm hand, beciUN of his Jnancial condition end poor pros-pc- u. Ha Is intellectually above refuses young- - his itation. and has advanced Ideas concerning; the possibilities of school Uaohlng and farming, (or which he is ridiculed by many. In short, Jim Is an off ox. H docks by himself and reads books and has But Ills own. powers in him :v- BBLVEROTT PRESS mallo treatment ft fannt t (ralna, and the blue-vitritreatment f eed potatoe "We hadn't time for thee ttmga, aid he to the county superintendent in the regular class work and if. getting time to take them p it we i oean out the .mot In next fear's cron." They repealled Whlttier'. Corn Song vuuccrx, ana gchool was out Since that Christmas ftsnuw hM Jennie had nndertaken to follow Mr. "lersons advice and line Tim Irwin P. Jim had gone through an inward transformation. He had made up hi. mind that he would marry Jennie noooruff. He saw 6er through "uusj or rose and pink; but she looked at him as at a foolish man " was masing trouble for hery ....sing rainbows at her expense, and deeply vexing her. She) was In a cold omcuu rrame of mind. "Jim." she said, "I want yon to girt np thla aort of teaching. Can't yoa ol CHAPTER X BROWN MOUSE By - - . - me ; J.. a philosophy of there are latent unsuspected even bj himself and Opportunity comes his at door. Jim la knocking nominated for sohool-teache- r, as The joke results in his V'jbk. He visits the scholars. election. Jennie is nominated for county superintendent of sohools. , Jim speaks at a public meeting-- condemning rural school methods. Prominent women condemn Jim's method of teaching;; they demand "culture." His pupils defend him. Jennie Invites Jim to a Christmas) dinner to line him up.' ruu SCHOOL - oee us au wrong r , answered Jim, In much the manner of a man who has been stabbed by his sweetheart "I cant aee tnat lt' wrong. If the only sort can do. What do you ata In mni itr "Oh, I can see some verv wondarfni things in it" said Jennie, "but It cant be done In the Woodruff district It may be correct ln theory, but It wot worit m practice." jennie," said He, "when a thin won't work, It isn't correct ln theory. our my tneory is correct, and it COULD HARDLY DO HER WORK b& LPukWs VefeUlIe W President ASHINQTON. Coolldge favors the crea-tion by congress of a federal department of public welfare, with a member of the cabinet at It. head. It ha. been learned authoritatively at the White House. The matter was brought to the President', attention by a message from the National Education association advocating establishment of a department of education. The General Federation of Woman'. Clubs and other nationwide organisation, are supporting the movement The new welfare department the President feels, should include educational work among it. activities. Mr. Coolldge la planning to take up with congress at its coming session the advisability of creating the department of public welfare ln accordance with principles for the of federal activities along more systematic lines. The new branch of the government FftaW.t.0.fw:r.-- framak different departments already ln existence those activities directly affecting the public welfare. President Coolldge, however, doe. not believe that consolidation of the War and Navy departments into one department of defense will be recommended to congress ln the forthcoming report of the government reorganiza Coa pound lli(!e Her E&t, Sleep tsd Feel Better Etctj Way I Chicago, EL "I was weak and rontion commission which has been at down and in such nervous condition work for two yean. Following cabinet liiimiticmiimiiil that I could hardly do my work:, i waa discussion of the report of the reortired ail the timet. ganization commission, headed by Wal!i and dizzy, and could . ter Brown of Ohio, the President let It r not sleep and had no be known that he is inclined to appetite. I tried difat this time tuch t drastic ferent medicine, for change in the government a. the proyears, but they did not help me. Then posal to consolidate the two big deI read in the papers fense departments. about Lvdia Unnk- A spokesman for "the White House ham's Vegetable said that consolidation of the War Compound and what and Navy departments is incorporated it had dom for other ln the Brown reorganization report a. women and gave it a trial I began to eat submitted to the cabinet The report better and could sleep, and consider it 1 submit, a comprehenalve plan of re- wonderful medicine. I recommend it to my friends and will never be without it' organization of departments. The President believes If the reor- -- Mrs. M. Ohlen, S640 & MarshfieU Illinois. ganisation of the defense branch of A?., Chicago, It U uch letter, as these that testify the government ever is undertaken It Pinkhamra ahould be" brought up ln congress s. to the value of Lydia E. This womaa Compound. Vegetable a separate proposition, and not ln conheart. .peaks from the fullness of hershe) nection with the general reorganization can She describes as correctly as scheme now in preparation. He think, her condition, first the symptom, that the reorganization problem of the army bothered her the most, and later tho 1. too big a one to be discussed ln condisappearance of those symptoms. It nection- wtth rexwnizatlon of other is a sincere expression of gratitude. tot nearly fifty years Lydia E. Pink." branche. of the government The ham's Vegetable Compound hsa beea army and navy, ln his opinion, have so so praised by women. long been established aa separate departments and have functioned so well a. such that their consolidation should be approached only after the moat careful thought and discussion on the XsI part of the administration and of con F -- ,(1 j' die-fav- ... Ti,.f . fifty-thre- i I ! 1 The group In the back of on w,th tt conference,, oblivious or the entrance of Sunarin UUt the School board aril mlna Jennie. Their work was h. 11." . . . orbing, being no more nor less than "Tk. .ecuooi i , ooara eiectea m. the compilation of the figures of a cow Theyiucstood and saw by the contract census of the district ignea," said Jim, "and yea, Jennie, Altogether," said Marv i snow i am dealing la sophistry 1 "we have ln the district one hundred e and cows." V I don't make It that" said nv. gress. mond Simms. "I don't eet hut n.,n. dred and thirty-eight- " Sat 2$e, OistaMrf 2S aaj SOc. Taleesa ZScI CHAPTER IX Continued. "The trouble Is," said Newton Bron- -son, that Mary's counrtn in th Yes," repeated Jim, "old friends. RESIDENT COOLIDGE has re himself an enthusiastic advocate Bailey herd of Shorthorns." of all . . . We are, areni we, JfenhleT" ceived s letter from Acting movements conducive to the lIAIR BALSAM Well, they're cows, welfare ain't In He readied over and possessed himstheyr New Hulbert Mayor of Murray BMillil.. Cmhm ui our of future was terrogated cltizena, Mary. personslly elf of lier hand. She palled It from Tork suggesting as a fitting Interested ln this Not national for this great playhim gently, but he paid no attention census," said RayMHiiauinnm memorial to President Harding the ground. WWmi CVn. Wts. rmtrtu irn, B. T mond. to the little muscular protest, and exaof the project to Imearly completion "During my Incumbency as a repre- tmm, Why notr asked Mary. "They're , mined the hand critically. On the torn all mil aiZTL 01. prove East Potomac park In Washingsentative ln congress from the Twenty-firs- t tack of the middle finger he pointed the prettiest cows ln the nelghbor- ton as a public recreation field. He hood.'' district of New York I eat a si ar a very tiny gear. says It would give notice to the world "Scotch on April 21, 1916, a bill Shorthorns," said introduced, "Do you remember Demand for Sharks' Fins. Newton, how you got that the United States has officially ana run with their calves." R (H. Uiat?" he nsked. to The 14,905) demand for shark fins I. always , appropriate $145,897 . recognized general participation in ... NT ieave mem out," said Jim, "and Because Jlra clung to the hand, their amateur athletics, and It would be of for the improvement of this park In greater than the supply, and they fetch tomorrow, I want each one to tell in leads were very close great value In stimulating preparation, accordance with plans approved by the s high price. The principal American' together as tne language class. In three hundred ihe joined in the examination. market Is San Francisco, of an American team for the next secretary of war. Consideri u ur less, wnenier tbere are able quantities are consumed by th "Why, I don't believe I do," aaJd Paris In at Olympic games a "After before. July. public the hearing enough cows in the district to Justify Col. c. o. Sherrlll, aid to the Presi tit committee on appropriation, favorable Chinese of the Pacific coast but most and creamery, "I do," he replied. "We the In give dent yon and I reason. You'll charge of public building, and action was taken by congress on the of them are exported to China, where find articles in th "Unless You Resign I Shall Hear the) grounds, and Mary soup is regarded as one of Forsythe were playing farm wannly approved the sugges- project and an initial appropriation in shark-fi- n Petition for Your Removal." papers if you look through the , the greatest of all delicacies. tion and said it would mean a great the sum of 150,000 and yon put your hand Tho been made having m the :r:us Just as I threw the knife card Index. Now, how about the cen play and athletic ground for Washing on July 1, 1918, toward the construc- fins should be at least six Inches long; school the a got aort by ahelV of sus ln the adjolnlne districts?" -I- t cm von, :ind left those of ton and would stimulate preparation tion of a field house, the Inches are preferred. that car.M wings were The flesh eight "There are more than two hundred game, which the board worked on for the "I remember, should be trimmed off them, erected-an- d contests. now!" said. she. Olympic The White since then have been in themselves. But that doesn't prove House gave out Mr. Hulberfs letter lu very effective use, How such things come back over the within four miles on the roads leadafter which they should dried thorthat the district is against me. I beas follows: memory. And did it leave a scar ing weat," said a boy. oughly in the sun, without salt. "The measure was lieve the people are for me, now, lea part by "My father and I counted up about vlien 1 pushed you toward the red-hMay I offer the suggestion that no me on April 2, 191T (H. R. nle. I really do I" 98), but hundred beyond us," said Mary. tove In ihe schoolhouse one more fitting memorial to the late Pres further Costs Less to Keep Clean. bllzzardy "But Jennie rose and walked to the rear ident spproprlatlons were deferred I couldn't More than 250,000 deaths and over num the exact y, like this, and yoa get Harding could be dedicated than because of the subsequent declaration peeled the skin of the room and back, twice. Whea sff your wrist where It the early completion of the project to of war, a considerable 4500,000 cases of serious Illness anstruck the ber." she there wag decision In her part of th. atore?" are ascribed by Federal and "Why," said Raymond, "we could tone spoke, East Potomac Improve nually as a park public used property thereafter by the being and Jim felt that It was hos recreation find six hundred dairy cows in this "Look at It," State health field. President reports to needlessly unsaid he, baring hla Harding, War department for military puqvQses. tile decision. , an" within hour's and bony wrist conditions. sanitary It is an amas "Bight there !" neighborhood, "As an officer," she said rather Aid they were off on lag fact that most of thla needless the trail that drive." relations diswith grandly, the "my "Six hundred I" scoffed Newton. lack of sanitation Is found, sot la ldi back to childhood. They had trict are with the school board on the I "You're In nlked lonu, and the cities, but among the rural and an hour's driver' crazy one hand, and with your competency Intimately, when the of being able to of the President is understood to be small-tow- n tsiuuus mean an hour's drive each way," oaacma of the 1 population. .. a t ... , as a teacher on the other. early evening crept present to congress In De- whether such a plan would meet his toto the comers Yet wholly sanitary conditions may of the room. Jennie said Raymond. "lias it come to that?" asked Jim. cember a concrete program allea the time when the be brought about In the country "I believe we could," said Jim. tornado "Well, I have rather expected it' just as of agricultural relief, Presi requirements that all relief measure, we find "And how we after will far H arrowly missed the arhnnlhnnu His tone waa weary. The Lineohv dent Coolldge hss given serious con- be economically sound. On this point quickly snd easily as ln the city. The frightened everybody in school nearly have to go to get enough cows. If half Ian droop In his great, sad, gsoarnful sideration to 'the proposal that the he wss given assurances by Mr. March. actual expenditure Involved. Is very " of them patronized the creamery, we'll mouth accentuated the r wain, Another involved resemblance) te Waf: Finance corporation finance the is mall, especially when yon consider question "Everybody but yon, Jim," Jennie work over the savings the business the President Possibly hi. sale of surplus Wheat to Europe. whether such an operation could bo how much the family's health will be Martyr wnnnbered. Ton looked out of the would make. If we cvuld get the prices feelings were not entirely different Two steps In this program have been Uken over by the War Finance cor Improved as a result It will assure and also, of coarse, a great Improvement told the teacher that the for butter paid the Wisconsin from those experienced by Lincoln at made ln directions Jjdow given the special poration without further , authority In comfort. as was going north of with creameries, compared some of crisis us, and doubt, misunderstand commission headed by Eugene Meyer, from congress. Mr. March -"u Kin what the centralliera pay us, on a ing and depression. expressed Septic tanks, privy vaults protee." somebody else." Jr., director of the. finance corporation the view that action by congress prob- - tlon for domestic water basis of the last six months. Who's Dld asked Jim. "If you can't change your methoda,' supplies, rat which went to the Northwest to pro-- , aoiy would be needed. sam jennie, "and when the In possession of that correspondence said Jennie, "I suggest that proof outbuildings all of these can re mote, formation of you mar"We have three principal classes ln be er asked B to kneel and provided for a little cost and a litsign." thank with the Wisconsin creameries?" keting associations and to consider re- the United States the you manufacturing tle work by any man. mil directions 'Tm said .aid. Why should we thank "I have It," Raymond. "Are you to be called npon to sug dactions in freight rates on export J dasv the laboring class and the farm on how to do It, what la the best struc2u,t mebody else Is Wowed hectographlng a lot of arithmetic gest thatr asked Jim. grain. class," Mr. March asserted ln a ing' htie WM greauy shocked." "A formal complaint against problems from It" The proposal was laid before Secre- statement "With the end of the war ture for each Job, what tools you will i aont see to how much cement, how to mix It for Incompency," .he replied, "kas tary Wallace by a "How do you do, Mr. Irwin! this Jay," Jim group of Middle deflation ln money return faced all of require, and place the concreteall this may answer there waa to wa. the superintendent who spoke. been lodged la my office, signed by the Western grain men and later outlined these classes To aid the manufac- be had - suestl. n free on request to the Portland Jim', brain whirled little prismatic three directors. I shall be obliged to to the President Prior to this visit turer congress passed a tariff act and Cement Association, 111 West Wash- -' K"therin darkness Jim of notice Mr. take It" been hsd Coolldge v acquainted with to help the workers meet the deflation lngton ? Jnle's hand, but this timeagain "And do yon think," queried Jim, the general features of uch a Chicago. Ask for "Con she plan by an Immigration law was enacted. crete lnStreet, mm of Home Sanitation"; you wIU "that my abandonment of the things 0. H. March of Litchfield, Mlnn who Something still T? ... ...It be done for th. must ln which I believe in the face of this has' made a Special, a leal, jjgn study of agricuk farmers. Because ' the farmers have jet it free by return man. Adv. I be wjnehibere'd uis would is' to tural attack thai mind favor prove that your problems. not been sufficiently helped thero li this m me only . Defined, Mr. Coolldge held two conferences I am competent? Or would It show girl's hand he had real distress io"th West" held, "What Is a collationr me Incompetent with Mr. March, who was a week-en- d Mr. March told the President that Ton CHn't "A little bit to eat served with a lot find any more scare on White House guest Secretary Hoover Jennie was silent , approximately 900,000 farmers left the of style." he said said also talked "that with soberly. Jim, well hare 1 guess," the MInnesotan. Sec- farm in 1923 and that from a million hie pe how nmch It baa to stand or fall on thing, as they retary Wallace said that the proposal to a million and a half would leave WOMEN CAN DYE ANY are. appeared to have atrong support " berr,.,i n I stuck the knife In this yesr unless something was done Jennie had drawn on her gloves. The principal question la the mind to relieve the sltustlon. GARMENT, DRAPERY -and stood ready for departure. sssssaaaaw JjJIe MdU up for Inspection. "Unless before or you the Dye Tint "na resign Worn. Faded Thlno. lenderer, and Wit.. twenty-fifth,- " said she, "I shall hear eVPn new ior is cents. Bl0re beMW Mid he ",, e the petition for your removal on that Dand 1 hot it t; ",en the mot beauUfuI date. I bid you good evening P. HE. killing! of, extraordinary mammals, and should be promptly numbers of whsles tram ,w,'rld t0 me- -ni tin la," by the United States. "Shore 'whaling station, ln is obvious," Mr. Nelson contin. U1 "I'd kinder like being a wild. or me world ued, "that the wii-eieci, t uuicreui pan. rattier ,. Huwi MU.rint.,. present uncontrolled, in the last few year, through the use wholesale must be VVU IClKIlt eyed reformer, Jim,of sea mammal, tetiia slaughter of modern weapon, and mean, of over 11 '. are Dont wonder whether tou can dva, Mtches v tie jnost of their range" and practitransportation seriously endangers the cally throughout the year can result or tint successfully,- - because Urn 1 perfect future of these mammals, says E. W. only In their BB CONTINUED.) " "na Mr- - Irwin came (TO uome That" Got is oyemg You "Dlawith ;;, How guaranteed -' extermination Dur rapid "Rsinembsr Nelson of the United States bureau of ttJ, ... ':,ni,liKht Jim'. '. ing me last century the pursuit of ses mond Dyt" even if you have never Finds 'he row WM Way by Pigeon rose Sight. o n. ne as a a in biological h vis statement survey to milk. V'VUU hfnr urg uinuiuiiiia was carried on on a great dyed before. Druggists hare all colors. svw tha A" British royal air force pigeon, re- ing me establishment of cane ana yielded an enormous return Direction In each package. Adver- -' and ahook Jennie's extended hand. mIht a balloon a mile and a leased from agreement for protecting them In oil,, whalebone, bides and furs of tlseroent, me give you a chair," said ne. ftt'donr , Uoolrnff "Mgh-cam- e half above the ground, was unable to from extinction. 1" she returned. iur seals and sea otter "Oh, no, thank you .. I see the earth below on account of a A bare cupboard The present situation, coupled with home, "t - He n,t TO Just make myself "Several species have been almost always furnishes l!n of clouds. blanket After food for thought thick the kuw-bousflying knowledge of what has occurred exterminated by this Ir... the confllnt i- t- know my way about in mis oth-er- s snd pursuit around for a little time the bird gave In. the past to seals. sea eiephants, '"m tor Wll.hne will follow without concerted acyou knowT up all. hope of finding Its way back to etc, has drawn attention, he says,- - to tion. the cnutiren, at smiled She ISO miles away, and the urgent need for taking atcDB to Its borne, some a good-b"The success of the fur seal rrf..t fdH went about loosing si u.r.i settled down comfortably on the bal bring about proper conservation of all disturbed. noticeably not nd a pathetic which wa. whereby action loon, much as Noah's dove settled on the existing valuable ses mammals. Japan, Russia, England and the United by reason of the fact uiainow than the ark when It could find no Mr. Nelson points out that Great place taiea were much mdre frequent , to rest on account of the waters. The Britain already has begun to send out of the safeguard the breeding gronnds no rarity. were and fur seals on the fur seal islands ever before, a a had better luck novelthan however, pigeon, expeditions to conduct researches ln In Alaska, has been a Jennie Woodruff was no ixrrrrsTxah ' practical demon- kin opr asked the ty, .Inc. they had known her all their Noah's dove. After a -tune a rift ap problems' arising hi connection with stratlon of the effectiveness of such In the and the clouds,bird the wa. peared '"nnle. whaling Industry. t sction. . Uvea. Moat of the embarrassment 6 BCLL-ANThe example ael by the Hrltlsh gov swooped from the balloon through the we "It Is to to be rose He a that Jim's. hoped similar tnd water later ernment to beginning definite research routine of th. gap la the vapor, and two treaty, between the maritime powers bont tt ever, went through the the tied delivered to Its bad work Sure Relief message the life covering histories of Interested may be equally effective la iSend dl.mls.ed th. B0. 4. Mrf V1VUI leg. This Incident Indicate, that a whales, he declares. Is one that should saving the other sea I mammals fro not omitting making N.f4,rr,1 Mat, p.pa.t plgtoa tods Its iray hone y sight, be extended to cover seals and other threatened extinction." - Cv3 J 2 with a group of boy. for that evening tasu-aj, nun bars foW n0, wn bj mlet te flWJ irve w . rthr i ; ;. 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