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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER CThe Brou?n Bq HERBERT QUICK (Copyright by Th Company Bobba-Merri- ll THEY'LL GET JIM" Jennie Woodruff to marry Jim Irwin, young- farm hand, because of Ills financial condition and poor prospects. He la Intellectually above his station, and has advanced Ideas concerning the possibilities of school teaching and farming, for which he Is ridiculed by many. In short, Jim Is an off ox. He flocks by himself and reads books and has a philosophy of his own. But there are latent powers In him unsuspected even by himself and Opportunity comes door. Jim Is knocking at his as nominated for school-teache- r, a Joke. The Joke results In his election. He visits his scholars. Jennie Is nominated for county Jim superintendent of schools. conspeaks at a publlo meeting, demning rural school methods. SYNOPSIS. refuses CHAPTER VII Itlouse tation rose, with a unanimous feeling that they had been scored upon. Cows ! scoffed Mrs. Peterson. If we leove you in this yob, Mr. Irwin, ,our children will know nothing but At any hour of the cows and hens and soils and grains call, said Jim. and where will the culture come in? day. Or night either, I dare say, sugCulture! exclaimed Jim. Why I hear youve why, after ten years of the sort of gested Mrs. Bonner. school I would give you if I were a the scholars here at all hours, Jim. better teacher and could have my slow Jim smiled his patient smile. We do break the union rules, I way Dont bother, Jim, said Mrs. Bonguess, Mrs. Bonner, said he; there seems to be more to do han we can ner sneeringly, you wont be teaching the Woodruff school that long. get done during school hours. All this time, the dark-face- d What we came for, Mr. Irwin, is Cracker to object to the way the teachins had been glooming from a corner, being done corn and wheat, and hogs earnestly seeking to fathom the wrongness he sensed in the gathering. Now find the like, instead of the learnin schools was made to teach. I can see he came forward. an the whole district can see that its I reckon I may be making a miseasier for a man thats been a farm- take to say anything, said he, fr we-al- l hand to teach farm-hanis strangers by eh, an were knowledge, than the learnin schools was set up pore; but I must speak out for Mr. to teach ; but if so be he hasnt the Jim I must! Dont turn him out, book education to do the right thing, folks, fr hes done mo fr us than we think he should get out and give eveh any one done in the world! a real teacher a chance. What do you mean? asked Mrs. What ain I neglecting? asked Jim 1eterson. that I mean, said .Raymond, mildly. Mrs. Bonner seemed unprepared for when Mr. Jim began talking school to lot withthe question, and sat for an instant us, we was a pore mute. Mrs. Peterson Interposed her out any learnin, with nothin to talk attack while Mrs. Bonner might be re- about except our wrongs, an our enemies, and the meanness of the Iowa covering her wind. YTou see we didnt understand folks. We people that have had a hard An now. we have hope. We you-altime, she said In a precise way which done got hope from this school. Were knew to show seemed that she exactly what she wanted, dont want our goin to make good in the world. children taught about nothing but Were getting education. Were all work. We want our children to learn learnin to use books. My little sister if youll nice things, and go to high school, and will be as good as anybody, school in this alone Mr. Jim let just after a while to the Juniwersity. as any one. An Ill hep pap Arent your children happy in as good a and well work and think farm, get school, Mrs. Peterson? same time, an be happy ! I dont send them to school to be at the happy, Yim, replied Mrs. Peterson, CHAPTER VIII calling him by the name most familI send iarly known to all of them; Party. them to learn to be higher people than Jennie Arranges a Christmas Woodof the Woodruff Miss Jennie their father and mother. Thats what ruff district was a sensible country America means ! sensible, she tried to girl. Theyll be higher people higher avoid Being uppisbness. But she did feel than their parents higher than their some little sense of increased teacher theyll be efficient farmers, tance as she drove her fathersimporlittle and efficient farmers' wives. They'll 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 Ietersson was phlejenmt I cal y conscious that she made rather picture, its wlie stopped X nn aKee-Hlld no-eou- nt Continued. Newton explained for the tenth time that Jim had done so many things that no teacher was supposed to do, and had left undone so many things that teachers were bound by custom to perform, that Newtons father and Mr. Bonner and Mr. Peterson had made up their minds that they would call upon him to resign, and if he wouldnt, they would turn him out in some l. way. What wrongs he done committed? I dont know what asked Raymond. teachers air supposed to do in this kentry, but Mr. Jim seems to be the teacher I ever seel" only shore-enoug- h He dont teach out of the books the school board adopted, replied Newton. But lie makes up better lessons, urged Raymond. "An all the things we do In school heps us make a livin. He begins at eight in the mornin, said Newton, 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 doin something at the schoolhou.se They dont pay him for overtime, do they? queried Raymond. Well, then, they orto, Instid of turnin him out 1 liiiu out proihe- Well, theyll turn fu Vm havin more N ewtun. 1 1 V - Everybodys been so nice to seems we didnt do our work right last be because they will know how Jennie. happy, with to give as well as receive. of want I me years, year an in a couple to use more brains in farming than an the the hawgs, the increase of Why, said Haakon, you will yust or doctor or merchant can lawyer any be. . under kin we plow land get begin to receive when your salary business. in use liis possibly II was still an hour before nine Its a fine thing, said Mrs. Bonner, ginsOh,in Yanuary. Ive rewhen the rural school traditionally coming to the aid of her fellow solno! said Jennie. ! You now takes up when the boys had stored diers, to work hard for a lifetime, an ceived much more than that So Bronson I many their traps in a shed at the school-housproud feel. raise nothing but a family of farmers ! dont knowI how and all knew never men before, nice home, and walked on to the A fine thing! That rather scabby and weathmy old friends like you working for They will be farmers anyhow, convention and at the polls, ered edifice was already humming cried Jim, in spite of your efforts ! me inasthe I amounted to something. with industry of a sort. In spite of if of them just and ninety out of every hundred the hostility of the school-boarAnd you don't know how proud I of the other ten, nine will be the aloofness of the patrons of the And to said wish Haakon, to have in county ' and feel, in the cities, wage-earneInter were lie hold on my clearly school, pupils God they were back on the farm; and office a little girl I used to ested in Jim Irwins system of rural the hundredth one will succeed in the lap. education. Never had the attendance Haakon was a rather richer man been so large or regular; and one of city. proud The guns of Mrs. Bonner and Mrs. than the colonel, and not a little the reasons for sessions before nine A affluence. to ascent a his of moment, were silenced for and after four was the inability of the Peterson d Scandinavian, he Mrs. Bronson, after gazing about and his of teacher to attend to the needs at the typewriter, the hecktograph, was quite completely Americanized, charges in. the five and a half hours the exhibits of weed seeds, the Bab- and his influence was always worth in called school hours. cock milk tester, and the other un- fifty to sixty Scandinavian votes The day passed. Four oclock came. scholastic equipment, pointed to the any county election. He was a good In order that all might reach home list of words, and the arithmetic party man and conscious of being en- for supper, there was no staying, ex- problems on the board. titled to his voice in party matters, cept that Newt Bronson and Raymond from the This seemed to him an opportunity for Do you get them words Simms remained to sweep and dust asked. she exerting a bit of political influence. the schoolroom, and prepare kindling speller? Yennie, said he, this man Yim No, said he, we get them from a for the next mornings fire a work lesson on seed wheat. Irwin needs to be lined up. they had taken upon themselves,onso as an of out come Lined up! What do you mean? them Did examples the to enable the teacher to put she. The way he is doing in the blackboards such outlines for the mor- arithmetic book? said Haakon, is all wrong. we used school, problems No, said Jim, rows class work as might be required. line him up, he will make were cant If We you ourselves. figuring Jim was writing on the board a list we madeand losses on your covs, Mrs. you trouble. We must look ahead. of words constituting a spelling exer- profits ! Everybody has his friends, and Yim cise. They were not from textbooks, Bronson Irwin has his friends. If you have Bronson Ezra Bronson, said Mrs. but grew naturally out of the study of be in heln need any telling trouble with him, his friends towillnommorning-glor- y loftily, dont the seed wheat cockle, we want when was you He cow. a against farming viawhats good viable, convolvulus, The inate you for a second term. d before you was born! and sprouting, bility, to we If close. go is getting Like fun, he dont need help! Hes county the like. A tap was heard at the door, home delegawithout your, conwention fatoff and going to dry old Cherry and Raymond Simms opened it. we if and tion it would weaken you, In filed three women and Jim Ir- ten her for beef; and he can make nominate you, every piece of trouble cream on the beefing by more money win knew as he looked at them that Bablike this cuts down your wote. You he was greeting a deputation, and felt about three more of em. The just boarding ought to line him up and have him do that It meant a struggle. For they cock test shows theyre board! their right. were the wives of the members of the on us without paying But he is so funny, said Jennie. ruffled matrons of The delegation school board. He placed for them the You He likes you. said Haakon. hens at this three available chairs, and in the ab- like a group of startled was him can line up. Newton sence of any for himself remained interposition, which of the opeffective shabby-lookin- g seizing a Bronsons before them, gaunt standing bulletin a revolutionist at the bar of portunity to issue progress I Bronson guess that's so to a settled usage and fixed public opinion. in the research work on the reformer. Mrs. Haakon Peterson was a tall dairy herd. dont his mother, said n Newton! and digblonde woman, me when Im talking to the nified, and Jim felt an instinctive re- interruptI (TO BE CONTINUED.) spect for her personality. Mrs. Bron- teacher then, said Newton, dont "Well, son was a good motherly woman, Peculiar Combinations. that pa knew which noted for her housekeeping, and for tell the teacher and which An English woman recently wrote were poor. were cows good looked she was She her church activities. district wants to to a newspaper saving that She marthis in one If his any and friend, son, her ofteiler at A. Mann (Alice Mann). about their cows theyll have to born Raymond, than at the schoolmaster. know to this shop. And I can tell you ried a Mr. Husband; and so became died and she married Mrs. Bonner was the only one who come em to come, too, if A. Husband. He a Mr. Maiden. Betime shook hands with Jim. but he sensed that itll payto make this again, selling ativthing d black-eyegoing Irishwoman theyre a widow for a second time, in the little, Wait until we get out our re- coming cream. the of commander expedition real the she concludes that, though born A. on the heils, ma ! to knew it ports such he for him she will die A. Maiden. against The women were rather stampeded Mann, be. of the irregular "You may tjnk it strange of us by this onslaught Mrs. Bronson. She Shark and Ostrich Meat. especially but troops said she, coming after hours, shark steak resembles in taste that of pride in her son, but we warned to fpeak to you, teacher, felt a flutter veal. Ostrich meat is similai it was strongly mingled with a moth- - of tgnderof without the children here. turkey. to spank him. The depu- to that I wiai mere of the prents would erly desire - II. -- rs.1 He Resigns MICKIE, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL 3.-- j e. ( d, rs mild-spoke- soft-voice- n, , j A Forced Decision WHATS THE USE is a la2Y loafer -- he s he'll clean some of my walk. i i J j cross-examine- d PLOT That poppinsickle NO, MiSTBR poppin Sickle SAT, FEATHER HEAD, l'D LIKE TO BUT ThO FEET OF YOuR. PROPERTY A JOINING MY so afraid wouldn't i Think j of THAT SELLirl' OWN T ' - MINE A FOOT LEAVES THAT JUST TOR He iU AND GET EVEN 7 ON HIS LEAVE SOME ON OF SNOW y iron-wee- slow-spoke- yes, ntT'clienT Clipped ON VhE STRIP OF SNOW PROPERTY BETWEEN YOUR Si YOUR NEIGHBORS Y -- And SUE To I You Say intend ill AND Th OWNER CJ THE PROPERTY FOR fj Yi H Sell you That LETS Right OY. $ 50,000 A MINUTE JUST lissen, poppin sickle, van aelm GET Two IT away feet SETTLED |