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Show THE UINTAH BASIN FARMER The Brown Mouse a -- (Copyright by Ths "A BROWN MOUSE" SYNOPSIS Jennie Woodruff refuse to marry Jim Irwin, young farm hand, because of hi financial condition and poor proa pacts. lie is Intellectually above his station, and has advanced ldeaa 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 thers are latent powers in him unsuspected even himself and by comes knocking: at hisOpportunity door, Jim is nominated for school teacher, as a Joke, CHAPTER 1 1 Continued. nt "iff UUUf ht a 1 pro, ttiltl uuu. ' 1 It HwL. Id O f him too hard, I wanted him to have one vote, An I wanted him to have wan vote, I thought mesllf too, said Bonner, the only dang fool on the board an he made a spache that aimed wan vote but fr the love of hivln, that dub fr a teacher I What come over .you, Haakon you voted fr him, too! "Ay vanted blm to have one wote, too, said Peterson, And In this wise, Jim became the teacher In the Woodruff district all on account of Jennie Woodruffs Humph 1 CHAPTER III What ll a Brown Mouse? Immediately upon the accidental election of Jim Irwin to the position of teacher of the Woodruff school, he developed habits somewhat like a ghosts or a bandits. That Is, he walked of nights and on rainy days. On fine days, he worked In Colonel Woodruffs fields as of yore, Jims salary was to be Just $360 for nine months work In the Woodruff school, and he was to find himself and his mother. Therefore, he bad to Indulge In his loose habits of night walking and roaming about after hours only, or on holidays and In foul weather. The Simms family, being from the "mountings of Tennessee, were rather startled one night, when Jim Irwin, homely, stooped and errandless, silently appeared In their family circle about the front door. They had lived where It was the custom to Ive a whoop from the big road befo s one passed through the pallns and up to the house. Otherwise, how was one to know whether the visitor was friend or foe? From force of habit, Old Man Simms at Jims apstarted for his gun-rac- k pearance, but the Lincolnian smile and the low slow speech, so much like his own In some respects, ended that. Stranger, said Mr. Simms, after greetings bad been exchanged, youre right welcome, but In my kentry youd find It dangersome to walk in thlsa-way. queried Jim Irwin. Youd moren likely git shot up some, replied Mr, Simms, onless u yi whooped from the big road. I didnt know that, replied Jim. "Tin Ignorant of the customs of other Would you rather Id countries. from the big road nobody whoop else will, "I reckon. replied Mr, Simms, "that w ll will have to accommodate euraeves to the ways hyeh. Evident'? Jim was the Simms first How so? e-a- Bobbs-Morri- Company) H thirstily. He had an Inestimable advantage over Newt In that he was starved, while Newt was surfeited with "advantages for which he had caller since they had settled on the no use. little brushy tract whose hills and said Colonel Woodruff, "Jennie, trees reminded them of their moun- after the party had broken up, Im tains. Low hills, to be sure, with only losing the best hand I ever had, and a footing of rocks where the creek Ive been sorry. had cut through, and not many trees, Im glad hes leaving you, said but down In the creek bed, with the Jennie. He ought to do something exoaks, elms and arching cept work In the field for wages. overhead, the Simmses could Imagine Ive had no Idea he could make themselves beside some run falling good as a teacher-an- d what Is there Into the French Broad, or the Holston. In It If he does? The creek bed was a withdrawing "What has he lost If he doesn't? room In which to retire from the rejoined Jennie, "And why can't he eternal black soil and level cornfields make good? of Iowa. The school boards against him, for The soli was so poor, In comparione thing, replied the colonel, They'll son with those black uplands, that the fire him If they get a chance. Theyre owner of the old wood-lo- t could find the laughing-stocof the country for no renter but It was better than the hiring him by mistake, and theyre Irsoil In the mountains, and suited the ritated. Rut after seeing him perform lonesome Simmses much more than a tonight, I wonder If he can't make better farm would have done. They good. were not of the Iowa people anyhow, If he could feel like anything but not understood, not their equals they an underling, hed succeed," said Jenwere pore, and expected to stay nie. Thnts his heredity," stated the pore while the Iowa people all or ex- colonel, whose live stock operations seemed to be either were based on heredity, Jims a pecting to become go, Jim Irwin asked Old Man Simms scrub, I suppose; hut he acts as If he about the fishing in the creek, and might turn out to be a Brown Mouse," whether there was any duck shooting What do you mean, pa," scoffed Jennie "a Brown Mouse! spring and fall, A fellow In Edinburgh," said the We git right smart of these little an Callsta Mr. said Simms, panfish, colonel, crossed the Japanese waltzdone shot two butterball ducks about ing mouse with the common white tater-planti- n time. mouse. Jim's peddling father was a Callsta blushed but this stranger, waltzing mouse, no good except to so much like themselves, eould not see jump from one spot to another for no the rosy suffusion. The allusion gave good reason, Jim's mother Is an alhim a chance to look about him at the bino of a woman, with all the color family. There was a boy of sixteen, washed out In one way or another, Callsta a girl the Jim ought to be a mongrel, and Ive a of than girl Raymond younger always considered him one. But the eleven, named Virginia, but called Edinburgh fellow every once In a Jlnnle and a smaller lad who re- while got out of his varlously.colored, joiced In the name of McGeehee, but waltzing and albino hybrids, a brown was mercifully called Buddy, mouse. It wasn't ft common house to for Callsta squirmed something mouse, either, but a wild mouse unlike o a runs line traps any he had ever seen. It ran away, say. Raymond when the furs prime, she volun- and bit and gnawed and raised hob. It was what we breeders call a Mende-Mateered, on and cam a Then traps long talk segregation of genetic factors that trapping, shooting, hunting and the had been In the waltzers and albinos Joys of the mountings during which all the time their original wild anJim noted the Ignorance and poverty cestor of the woods and fields. If of the Ktmmses, I'he clothing of the Jim turns out to be a brown mouse, than anv f f may he a hiprprer mm rm girls was not decent appnrrtlng to local he believe and for you, this also, i "T y? toolwonders even be- t ' t ; Hit the In a tor of things, pupus interested box-elde- The president followed usage when he said: If there's no objection, It will be so ordered. Prepare the ballots for a vote on the election of teacher, Mr, Secretary, There was no surmise In view of the nomination of Jim Irwin by the blarneying Bonner when the Secretary smoothed out the first ballot, and James R. Irwin, one," But read: when the next slip came forth, James E, Irwin, two, the board of directors of the Woodruff Independent district were stunned at the slowly dawning knowledge that they had made an election I Before they had rallied, the secretary drew from the box the third and last ballot, and read, James E. Irwin, three. President Bronson choked ps he anand stamnounced the result-cho- ked mered, and made very hard weather of It, but be went through with the motion, as we all run In our grooves, "The ballot having shown the unanl-rnou- s election of James E. Irwin, I declare him elected, He dropped Into his chair, while the secretary, a very methodical man, drew from bis portfolio a contract duly drawn up save the name and signature, This he calmly filled out, and passed over to the president, pointing to the dotted line, Mr. Bronson would at have signed his own death-warrato a not mention perthat moment, fectly legal document, and signed with Peterson and Bonner looking on Tlie Berrpt ayy t Bigned and ' atonlly. IMIB - By HERBERT QUICK D Our Pet Peeve rs k -- well-to-d- o, duck-shootin- g - v .... - DDu' ty VJMEM d WAS A VJEUT AT O I Att' RtMCS, WORE, VIE CARR'6 HAMDM WUX. , wsmo 0? Uffi VIORE VMHUX -VMVJTS uue A V0- O' SHEEWiV mwt VWE9E weae moouq VSXWW A eoss. TW ww OP OOCWCS J guess va AWt FEEUU' oooo kAOavRUGf OVaTviaN' he put the letter away, and every evening took It out and read The the words, "I'm for you, too colonels dictum, Any jobs as big as the man who holds R down," was an Emersonian truism to Jim, It reduced all jobs to an equality, and it meant equality In Intellectual and spiritual It didnt mean, for Indevelopment. stance, that any job was as good as another in making It possible for a man to marry and Jennie Woodruffs returned to kill and drag Humph off her "Im for you, tool" PRETtH? t OOtSVOB 1 CHAPTER IV !! The First Day of School. Jim Irwin was full of his Emersons Representative Men, and his Carlyle's French Revolution," and the other excellent, good literature which did not cost over 25 cents a volume ; and he had pored long and with many thrills over the pages of Matthews Getting On In the World," His view of efficiency was that It Is the capacity to see opportunity where others overlook it, and make the most of It. All through his life he had had his own plans for becoming great, And d all the time he was and dreamed his dreams to the accompaniment of the growl of the plow cutting the roots under the or the wooshing of brown furrow-slice- , the milk in the pall. At twenty-eighhe considered these dreams over, As for this new employment, he saw no great opportunity Jn It, He went Into the small, mean, task as a part of the day's work, with no know ledge of the stirring of the nation for a different sort of rural school, and no suspicion that there lay in It any highway to success In life. He rather wondered why he had allowed Jennies sneer to sting him Into the course of action which put him In this new relation to his neighbors. d, bare-foote- A Bvctta I fain-barre- l, PAH? 80V, El&HTrTHUTTM Jennies eautlon raade.no Impression what they had and not what they desired, The father was faded, patched, gray and earthy, and the boys looked better than the rest solely because we expect boys to be torn and patched, Mrs, Simms was Invisible except as a In gray blur beyond the the midst of which her pipe glowed with a regular ebb and flow of embers. On the next rainy day Jim called again and secured the services of Raymond to help him select seed corn, He was going to teach the school next winter, and he wanted to have a seed-cor- n frolic the first day, Instead of waiting until the last and you had to get seed corn while It was on fhe stalk, If you got the best. No Simms could refuse a favor to the fellow who was so much like themselves, and who was so greatly Interested In trapping, hunting and the Tennessee mountains so Raymond went with Jim, and with Newt Bronson and five more they selected Colonel Woodruffs seed corn for the next year, under the colonels personal superintendence. In the evening they looked the grain over on the Woodruff lawn, and the colonel talked about command corn selection, They had supper at half past six, and Jennie waited on them having assisted her mother in the cooking, It was quite a festival. Jim Irwin was the least conspicuous person In the gathering, but the colonel, who was a seasoned politician, had beobserved that the farm-hancome a fisher of men, and was angling for the souls of these boys, and their Interest in the school. Jim was careful not to flush the covey, but every boy received from the next winters teacher some confidential hint as to plans, and some suggestion that Jim was relying on the aid and comfort ot that particular boy. was Newt Bronson, especially, leaned on as a strong staff and a very present help In time of trouble. As for Raymond Simms, It was clearly best to leave him alone. All this talk of corn selection and related things was new to him, and he drank It in 6ASUM tU YW VUE Jennie, Jlm-du- ovrc o? eeuoow - which, while they dont belong to school work, will make them friends of yours, I dont see how this will help yon much, "but Its a fine thing, and shows your Interest in them. Dont be too original, The wheel runs easiest In the beaten track, Yours, on 7 Avft ME WOT n jv A Bull's Eye MICKIE, THE PRINTER'S DEVIL 'TASTE vi AH )AOOTVA Western Newspaper Union FiSheS VOE HAVE ThE ME(7g iWmuiiimuiiiimiinaaintitttiiilHlH TeiR yroF? 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