Show i THE BROWN Y i HERBERT QUICK i Copyright by The Merrill Dobbs Company CHAPTER Continued l 17 17 Jim turned over and over over In his mind these new applications of old historic significant cant words dear to every reader of history history glebe glebe land sch and and and It seemed to hl him that hat they signified the return of m many ny old things lost In Merrle Merrie England lost ost In New England lost all nil over he the speaking English-speaking world when the theold theold theold old publicly paid clergyman ceased to tobe tobe tobe be so far the servant of al all the peole peo- peo pIe le that they refused to be taxed forbis for his bis support Was Vas not the new kind of rural rural fe teacher cher to be a publicly-paid publicly leader eader of thought of culture of progresS progress progress ress resS' and was he not to have his manse his land glebe and his lIvIng living lIv Ing ng And all because like the old clergyman man he was doing a work In which everybody was Interested and for which they were willing to be taxed Perhaps It was not not so high a status as the old but who wilo was was to toay say ay that Certainly not Jim Irwin the he possessor of the new kind of livIng living liv Ing ng with Its land glebe and and Its He would Uld have rated the he new as at least quite as high as ashe the he old From the brow of the prom promontory a alight alight light light concrete bridge took the pretty little Ittle gorge In the leap of a n single arch and landed th the eye eye ye at the bottom bottom bot- bot tom om of the front yard of the tife scho school school- l- l house louse Thus hus the new Institution of life ife was In full fullview view vl w of th the school school- manse veranda and y yet t sli shut t off from It by the dry moat of the th-e brook and Its ts tiny Uny meadow of blue Across Across' the road rond was the creamery wIth Its businesslike unloading platform plat- plat form torm orm and rind Its addition In process process of construction for the reception of oj the machinery for the co operative co-operative p ra ve la laun- laun n- n dry ry Not ta far from the CJe creamery mery and also Iso across the road stood the blacksmIth blacksmith black- black smIth and wheelwright shop Still farther arther down dow t the e. e street t were were the barn poultry house olIse pens hutches hutch s' s and yards of f the little small farm farm small 1 as asere were ere all the he buildings save saye save the schoolhouse itself itself It- It self elf which was budded as It should have been for the future And even the schoolhouse when one think hints of the uses t to which It was was' to toba tow ba b. w put put kitchen kitchen nursery kindergarten ten en banquet hall theater moving picture pre plc- ture ure hall c classrooms manual training rooms laboratory and arid counting room room and what not was wonderfully small Colonel Woodruff said far too small though It was necessarily so large as to be rather astonishing to to the un- un un- un n- n expectant passer The passer-by passer this May Mayday Mayday day however would have been Deen especially espe espe- dally struck by the number of motor motorcars motorcars cars cara buggies and surre surreys s 's parked inthe inthe In the he yard back of the creamery along the he roadside and by bi th the driveway running to the schoolhouse P People ople In numbers had arrived by five o'clock inthe inthe In the he afternoon and were re still coming They strolled about the place examining examining exam- exam ining the buildings and grounds and talking with the blacksmith and the butter Gradually the they drew Into the school school- schoolhouse house louse like a swarm of bees Into a hive selected elected by the queen quee None of them then however went across th the concrete bridge to to th the s save v Mrs rs Simms who crossed consulted with Mrs MIB Irwin about the shrubbery bery and flowers and went back to Buddie Buddle and Jennie who w were ere re good children n but ully couldn't be trusted with so many other joung oung ones without en some coming I 1 They're coming This was the cry borne born to the people In and about the schoolhouse by that Hans Hansen who would be called Hans Nilsen Hans had been to the top of the little hill and had a look toward town Like a crew crew manning a rigging ora ora or ora a crowd having Its picture taken m the assemblage crystallized Into forms determIned determined determined de de- de- de by the chances chances of g getting tt ng a a glimpse of the bungalow across across across' the ravine on ravine on posts fences trees and aud hillocks A motor car came over the hillock ran down dOWIl the road to the driveway to the the school manse and drew up at the door Out of olt It stepped Mrs Woodruff and the colonel colonel their daughter the county superintendent of schools and Mr Jim Irwin Jennie was dressed In Ina a very very well tailored traveling costume and Jim In a moi moderately well tailored business suit The fact that when they reached the threshold Jim picked ll Jennie up in his arms and antI carried herIn herin her her- In will enable an any good detective to put one and one together and make a n w pair which pair which comes pretty nC near r the whole story By y this thi time It was nearly seven se and CI Calista Usta Simms came across the charmed bridge as a dispatch bearer bearer saying that If Mr Jim and Miss Jennie Jennie Jennie Jen Jen- nie didn't mind dinner would be right soon It was wab cooked about right and the foll folks s was gettin right hungry hungry an an such a crowd I There were fifteen In the babies' babies room and for tor a while they thought the youngest Hamm young one had find swallowed swallowed lowed a marble She would tell em they would be right over ove good good-by There was another cheer as as' as the three elderly and the two o m er p pen pee o pie emerged from the and took their way WOY over the bridge to toUt toU U Ut thy school side of or the velvet bottomed et moat but It was shut off ofT like the vibration of a bell dipped In water by the sudden rush of the shouters Into the big assembly room now filled with tables for the banquet And here the domestic economy classes with their mothers sisters female cousins and aunts met them as waiters walters hat snatchers hostesses floor managers and cooks cookS' scoring the greatest triumph triumph tri tri- of history In hi the Woodruff Woodruff- dis dis- For For everything ver went off ort like clockwork especially the victuals victuals- victuals victuals- and such victuals There was quantity In meats breads vegetables vegetables and and there ther was n also so savor There was plenty and there was st style le Ask Mrs H Haakon akon Peterson Peterson Peter Peter- son who yearned for culture and had hall been afraid her children wouldn't get It If Tim YIm IrwIn Irvin taught them nothing but farming She will tell you that the dinner which dinner which so many many thought of all the time as supper supper- r- r was gust as well served as If It had be been In the Chamberlain Hotel In DesMoines Des DesMoines Moines where she had stayed when she went with Haakon to the state convention I Why shouldn't It have been even better served It Incas was planned cooked served and eater by bf peo people le of int Intelli Intelligence gence genre and brains In their own house as a community affair and In a Corn Corn- com community om- om where If It any anyone one should ask you YO you are authorized d to state that t. t theres there's eie as much wealth to the acre acre as In any strictly farming spot between between between be be- tween t the e two oceans and where you are aie p perfectly safe safe financially financially In dropping from a a balloon In the dark of the moon moon and paying a hundred and a d fifty dollars donars an acre for any any farm you you happen to land ori on Why shouldn't things have been well done when when e every every ery everyone ry ryn one one n worked J pot of for money but for the love of the doing and the l ve of learning to todo to do in Inthe the best way Some of these things came came out inthe In Inthe inthe the spee speeches hes following the repast repast- and some other things too It was wasn rs- rs n nt t 1 b d dl l I l JI Jim Picked Jennie Up and Carried Her Herin Herin Herin in His Arms probably not quite fair for B B. B B. B Hamm to Incorporate fe In his wishes for forthe forthe forthe the welfare and prosperity and so f forth rth pf of Jim and Jennie th that lt stale one about the troubles of life but buthe buthe buthe he wanted to see Jennie blush which blush which s j a matter of fact he did but she failed to grow quite so fiery red as did Ji Jim m But put B B. B B. B was a go good d fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low and n a a Trojan In n his ork work for forthe forthe forthe the cause and th the schoolmaster and sup superintendent lent of f schools schools' sc forgave him 11 A remark may maybe may be a 1 little e broad and still clean and B B. B BB B. B B. B made a clean speech mainly devoted to the Increased In creased value of that farm he at one memorable time me was go going ng to to sell before be be- before before be fore ji Jims Jim's ns n's fool notions could be carried carried carried car car- ried out ou t. t Colonel Colon Woodruff made most of the above points which h I have fi filched ched ir from 1 him He had begun as a reformer reformer re re- former fornier late In life Ufe he said but he would leave It to them If he hadn't worked at the trade steadily lly after eOn en- en He lIe had become l a a follower of Jim Irwin because se Jims Jim's reform was like hike dragging the road In front of ot your own f farm It farm It was reform right at home and not at the county seat or r Des Moines or Washington He had followed Jim IrwIn us as he had followed Lincoln and Grant and Blaine and McKinley because because is Jim Irwin Irvin stood for more more upward growth for the average a American citizen than the colonel could see an any prospect I. I of getting from any other choice And he was proud to live In a a country like this tills saved sa and promoted by the great men he had followed and In Inn a n neighborhood sere served and promoted if It not quite sa say saved ed cd b by Jim Jm Irwin Irvin And he was yas not so sure about It not being beIng being be be- ing saved sayed Every man and nation had to be saved anew every cry so often otten and the colonel bel believed eyed that Jim Irwins Irwin's Irwins Irwin's Ir- Ir wins win's new kind of ot rural school Is Just as necessary to the salvation of ot this country I II am nUl about to close ny speech said the colonel a and d the small sen service Ice I 1 have been able to give Ive to this nation I went through the the war war neighbors neighbors and am nm proud of ot It Jt but Ive I've done cJan more good In the peaceful service serviN of the last lust three years than I did dill In four tour of ot fighting and campaigning That's the way 1 feel about what weve we've done In Consolidated Consolidated Consolidated Con Con- District Number One Vo- Vo and long continued applause Oh Colonel Colonl I The voice of or Angle Angie I Talcott rose from away back buck near near the itchen Can Jennie keep on bean j county superintendent now s 's she's es e's mar married n rued ried 7 I A great guffaw of laughter reduced poor Angle to tears and Jennie had to go over oyer rind and comfort her It was all right t for rhe her to ask that and they ought not to laugh-at laugh Angle Angie so there 1 I INow Now youre you're all right and ond lets let's talk about the new schoolhouse and so forth Jennie brought the smiles back to Angles Angle's face just In time to hear Jim tell the people amid louder cheers that he had been asked to go Into the rural school extension work In two states and had been offered a fine salary In either place but but- that he he wasn't even considering these of of- fers And about that time the children chIldren children chil chIl- dren began to get sleepy and cross and naughty and the women set In motion agencies agencies' which moved the crowd homeward M el Before a bright t wood fire which fire which they really reany didn't need but how else I was Jims Jim's mother er to s show off ofT the little fireplace sat fireplace sat Jim and Jennie They had had been together for a w week ek now now now- this being their homecoming homecoming and and h had d donly only begun to get really reany happy Jim sat sat looking Into the fire oblivious ob ob- livious of It When Jennie spoke her hervol vol voice e seemed to emanate from Jims Jim's shirt shirt front Did you hear said she what Angle Talcott asked said sald Jim Well said Jennie now that Im I'm married can I go on being county superintendent superintendent su su- superintendent su- su There was as along a long silence Would you like Uke to asked Jim Kind C of ItJI said J Jennie f If lI I knew enough about things to do anything worth while but Im I'm afraid that by rising to tomy my f full ll height 1 I shall y hl always ys Just fall fail to be able abl to see see see- over anything any any any- thing Youve Youve done more for the schools of t the le county said Jim In uin the the last y year ar than han any other county s superintendent superintendent has ever ver do done e. e And we shall need d the money 50 so like like so so like the dickens was Jennies Jennie's rejoinder Oh 1 not t. t so badly l laughed Jim except for the first year Ill I'll have this paying as ns much as some q quarter quarter- t r sections o s when we we get squared about Why we ca can make a living on this school farm Jennie Jennie or or Im I'm not fit to be the head hend of the the- school school There was another silence during which Jennie took down her hair and wound It around Jims Jim's neck It will settle itself one of ot these da days s 's anyhow ow said said-he said he e. e at last Theres I enough to do do for both of us right here But they wont won't pay me she pr pro tested They dont don't pay the ministers' ministers wives said Jim and yet the ministers ministers min min- asters with the right sort of Wi wives yes are always the best paid I I. I guess you'll b be in the bl bill l Jennie Jim walked to the open window and I looked out over the still landscape Down In the little meadow grew the dreaming trees their round crowns croWDS rising as from a sea not quite to the level evel of ot the bungalow their thrIfty leaves glistening in the moonlight t. t Across cros the pretty bridge lay the silent little campus with its Twentieth century cen can tury temple tury-temple ir temple facing Its chief priest It was was was' all good without and within He went across the hall to bid his mother good good goodnight night She clung clung to him r convulsively l and they tIley had their own five mIn minutes tes which arranged matters for th these se two silent natures on the new basis for forever ver Jennie was Avas In white before the mantel when he returned smiling at the Inscription thereon Let et Us s Cease Ceas Thinking So Mu Much h hof of Agricultural l Education and Devote Devota Ourselves ves to Educational Agriculture So Will the Nation Bo Be Made Made Strong Why didn't you put It In Latin she Inq Inquired lr ll It would have had bad so much more distinction I wanted I It to have meaning Instead in In Instead stead said Jim I And besides nobody who was at hand was quite sure ho how to turn the Latin phrase e. e Are yo you f Jennie le leaned ned forward forward with her elbows elbows el el- bows on her knees and I believe I could said she without with without out any pony But nut after atter all ill I like lIko It better as It Is I like everything Jim ev everything I I f THE END r to |