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Show I THE UINTAH BASIN PARMER BA-yea- t r. N - BROWN ies MOUSE ler I ars i. ier By HERBERT QUICK id (Copyright by The Bobbe-Merr- CHAPTER XX Company) ill Continued. 16 ;er the As visitors moved forward, they heard the schoolmaster finishing his passage at arms with the salesman. You should not feel exasperated at , Us, Air. Carmichael, said he In tones of the most complete respect, for what our figures show. You are unfortunate iu tlie business proposition you offer this community. That is all. liven these children have the facts to prove that the creamery outfit you offer is not worth within two thousand dollars of what you ask for it. and that It Is very doubtful if It is the tort of outfit we should need." T11 bet you a thousand dollars " began Carmichael hotly, when Jim waved him down. Wot with me, said Jim. Your friend. Air. Bonner, there, knows what Chance there Is for you to bet even a thousand cents with me. Besides we know our facts, in this school. Weve . been working on them for a long time. Bet your life we have I" inter- poiated Newton Bronson. Before we finish. said Jim. I want to thank you gentlemen for bringing la Air. Carmichael. We have been reading up on the literature of the. creamery promoter, and It is a Very fine thing to have one in the flesh with whom to t demonstrate. If .. Air. Carmichael will allow me to say , :s latest-couiin- g , ray if : D rs iat , ay . !0. )L. ie n- - ou . SO." Carmichael looked at Bonner, made iif expressive motion with his head toward the door, and turned as If to y lftave. All ) Well." said he, I can do plenty of business with real men. If you want to make the deal I offer you. and I call show you from the statistics Ive got at the hotel that Its a special deal just to get started in this part of the ftate, and carries a thousand dollars cf cut In price to you lets leave Csse children and this he school-uaand get something done." I cant allow you to depart." said Jim more gently than before, without tlsnklng you for the very excellent tr.!k you gave us on the advantage of creamery over the centre Uxer. We In this school believe ta the creamery, and If w a can get rid of you. Air. Carmichael, without buying your equipment. I tYak your work here may be productive of good." Hes off three or four point on the j overrun In the Wisconsin co-c-. tftrage " said Newton. And we thought," said Alary Smith, t! t wed need more cows than he fill to keep up a creamery of our m Its . i!e erru" ! e and and arc, and tth," replied Jim, "but we mustnt ct Mr. Carmichael to know the rJ.tsct as well as we do, children. He c :s a practice of talking mostly to T : le who know nothing about It 1 he talks very welL All In favor of f" Mr. Carmichael please say king I M c Dry v - ; I! g CHAPTER XXI A New Era Dawns. '1 i sre was a rousing chorus lowed closely by Mr. Bonner, made his exit. B. B. Hamm went forward and shook Jims band slowly and contemplatively, as If trying to remember just what he should say. James E. Irwin," said he, youve saved us from being skinned by the smoothest grafter that I ever seen." Not I, said Jim; the kind of school I stand for, Mr. Hamm, will save you more than that and give you the broadest culture any school ever gave. A culture based on life. Weve been studying life, in this school the life we all live here In this district He had a smooth partner, too," said Columbus Brown. Jim looked at Bonners little boy in one of the front seats and shook his head at Columbus wamingly. If I hadnt herded em in here to ask you a few questions about cosaid Mr. Tal-co- tt operative creameries, wed have been stuck they pretty near had our names. And then the whole neighborhood would have been sucked in for about fifty dollars a name." Id have gone In for two hundred." said B. B. Hamm. Alay I call a little meeting here for a minute. Jim?" asked Ezra Bronson. Why, wheres he gone? Theys some other visitors come in," said a little girl, pulling her apron In embarrassment at the teachers absence. Jim had. after what seemed to Jennie an interminable while, seen the county superintendent and her distinguished party, and was now engaged in welcoming them and endeavoring to find them seats quite an impossible thing at that particular moment, by the way. Dont mind us, Mr. Irwin." said This Is the nest Doctor Brathwayt. seen on our Journeyings. weve thing Please go on with the proceedin'. That gentleman seems to have in mind the perfectin of some sot of organization. Im Intensely Interested." Id like to call a little meetin here." said Ezra to the teacher. See-Iweve busted up your program so far. may we take a little while longer?" Certainly." said Jim. The school will please come to order. took their seats, The pupils straightened their book:, and papers, and were at attention. Doctor Brath-wuy- t nodded approvingly as if at the answer to some question in his mind. Children," said Mr. Irwin, you may ov may not be Interested in what these gentlemen are about to do but 1 hope you are. Those who wish may be members of Mr. Bronsons meeting. Those who do not prefer to do so may cf In which Mr. Carmichael, fol n take up their regular ,vork. Gentlemen. said Mr. Bronson to remains of Mr. Carmichaels creamery party, "weve been cutting bait In this neighborhood about long enough. Im in favor of fishing, now. How many here favor building a cooperative creamery If we can get the farmers in with cows enough to make It profitable, and the equipment at thB right price? Each man held up a hand. Heres one of our best farmers not voting." said Mr. Bronson, indicating How about you. Raymond Simms. Raymond?" Ah reckon pawll come in." said Raymond blushlngly. He will If you say so," said Air. Bronson. Raymonds hand went up amid a ripple of applause from the pupils, who seemed glad to have a voter in their ranks. "Unanimous I" said Mr. Bronson. "It Is a vote I Now' Td like to hear a motion to perfect a permanent organization to build a creamery. Mr. Irwin will you please act as secretary." Jim sat down at the desk and began making notes. The meeting appointed committees, fixed upon a time for a future meeting, threw a collection of on the desk to start a petcash fund, made the usual Joke ty about putting the secretary under bond, adjourned and dispersed. the half-dolla- rs Its to Jim. a go this time!" said Ntwjoa I think so," said Jim, with those men Interested. Well, our study of creameries has given a great deal of language work, a good deal of arithmetic, some geography, and finally saved the people from a swindle. Rather good work, Raymond I My mother has a delayed luncheon ready for the party, said Jennie to Jim. Please come with us please! But Jim demurred. Getting off at this time of day was really out of the question if he was to be ready to show the real work of the school In, the afternoon session. This has been rather extraordinary, said Jim, but I am very glad you were here. It shows the utility of the right sort of work in letter-writinlanguage, geography and arithmetic in learning things about farming." It certainly does," said Doctor I wouldnt have missed Brathwayt. It under any consideration; but Im certainly sorry for that creamery shark and his accomplice to be routed by the Fifth Reader grade in farming! The luncheon was rather a wonderful affair and its success was unqualified after everybody discovered that the majority of those in attendance felt much more at home when calling it dinner. What dye think of our schools?" asked the coloneL Well. said Professor Gray, its not fair to Judge. Colcnel. on what must have been rather an extraordinary moment In the schools history. I take it that you dont put on a representation of The Knave Unmasked every morning. It was more like a caucus than I've ever seen it, daddy, said Jennie, and less like a school." Dont you think." said Doctor that it was less like a Brathwayt. school because it was more like life? It was life. If I ain nut mistaken, history of this community was making in that schoolroom as we entered." Youre perfectly right. Doctor." said the colonel. Jims got too big for the district, and so were going to en large the district, and the school house, and the teaching force, and t lie means of educational grace generally. That's ns sure as ca.. be after what took place this morning." Hes rather a wonderful person, to be found in such a position." said Professor Gray, "or .rould be in an region 1 have visited. Hes a native product." said the but a wonder all the same. colonel, He's a Brown Mouse, you know." A a ? Doctor Brathwayt was plainly astonished. And so the colonel was allowed to tell again the story of the Darbishlre brown mice, and why he called Jim Irwin one. Doctor Brathwayt said It was an interesting Mendelian explanation of the appearance of such a character as Jim. And If you are right. Colonel, youll lose him one of these days. You cant expect to retain a Caesar, a Napoleon, or a Lincoln In a rural school, cau you? I dont know abont that." said the colonel. Tl.e great . .xirtunlty for such a Brown Mouse may be In this very school, right now. 'led have as big au army right here ns Socrates ever had. The Brown Mouse is the only Judge of his own proper place." I think." said Mrs. Brathwayt. as they motored back to the school, that your country schoolmnstei is rather terrible. The way he Tashed that Mr. Carmichael was positively merciless. Did he know how cruel he was?" It waa I think not," said Jennie. the truth that crushed Mr. Carmichael. But that vote of thanks." said Mr Surely that was the bitBrathwayt terest irony." "I wonder If it was." said Jennie. "No, I am sure it wasnt. He wanted to leave the children thinking as well as possible of their victim, and especially of Mr. Bonner; and there was really something In Mr. Carmichael talk which could be praised. I have known Jim Irwin since we were both children, and I feel sure that If he had had any Idea that bin treatment g. d this man had been unnecessarily cruel, it would have given him a lot of pain." said Mrs. Brathwayt. My ' dear, I think you are to be congrutulared for having known for a long time a genius." Thank you," said Jennie. And Airs. Brathwayt gave her a glance which brought to her cheek another blush; but of a different sort from the one provoked by the uproar tn the Woodruff school. There eonld be no doubt now that Jim was thoroughly wonderful nor that she. the county superintendent, was quite as thoroughly a little fool. She to be put in authority over him I It was too absurd for laughter. Fortunately, she hadnt hindered him much but who was to be thanked for that? Was It owing to any wisdom of hers? Well, she had decided In his favor, in those first proceedings to revoke his certificate. Perhaps that was as good thing to remember as was to be found In the record. CHAPTER XXII And So They Lived And so It turned out quite as If it were in the old ballad, that all in the merry month of May." and also all in the merry green wood." were great doings about the bold Ii:rle tlre promontory where once stood the rab-i- n where he on the old wood-lo- t Simms family had dwelt. The brook ran about the promontory, and laid at its feet on three amid sides a carpet of clumps of trees and wild bushes. .Nut far afield on either hand came the but up and down the black corn-lanof the brook for some sides bluffy distance on both sides of the highway, ran the old w alfclue-gras- s. d, King-dragge- lot. now repdning much of the d un- kempt appearance which characterized it when Jim Irwin had drawn upon himself the gentle rebuke of old Man Simms for not giving a whoop from the big road before coming Into the yard. The cabin was gone, and In Its place stood a pretty little bungalow. about which blossomed lilacs and peonies and flowers roses and other furnished by Mrs. Irwin. For this was the teachers house or schooitnanse 'or t. the new consolidated Woodruff was and the old Simms wood-lo- t of the henceforth to be the glebe-lan- d sclioolmanse. ed il.s-tric- (TO BE CONTINUED. I Impressed Forever. There are occasional doubts in me minds of the elders of the Moore family as to the quickness of Tommys wiis. but there has never been any doubt that a lesson learned by him, however slowly, is forever after remembered Wont you shake hands with me. Tommy?" asked one of his sister's admirers. but Tommy hung back. I dont care to, he said, with terrible distinctness. Dont you like me? asked the unwise visitor. No, I dont!" replied Tommy, and then there was a shocked chorus from the family. Tommy," said his aunt, reproach fully, as she withdrew him from the public gaze, why did you say such a rude thing to Mr. Jones? Because, auntie. said her wriggling charge, I got licked last week for not telling the truth, and I shan't never take any risks again ! Boston Globe. Delicate Job of Measuring. matter which has been purzling scientists since the day of Ben Frank-tin and before Is the amount and character of the electric current across the surface of the earth. The Carnegie, a cruiser maintained by the Carnegie institute for scientific Investigation, has cruised over u large portion of the Atlantic ocean, and measured or computed the magnetic force around several of the ocean paths. Reports A 1 of measurements around . the entire United States show thut a current of cf positive electricity of about an ampere per square kilometer W8I found to be flowing upward. O |