Show M w pi 11 III ah ht SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I 1 jennie woodruff Woo drutt contemptuously refuses to tay marry jim irwin young farm hand because of his financial condition and poor pros prospects lie he I 1 Is s intellectually above his station and h has a s advanced ideal aas con concerning cernin t the 1 0 fo possibilities gitles of ex expert pe rt 8 school chool te teaching aall n 9 tor which 11 ha 0 I 1 la s r ridiculed cu I 1 ad by many CHAPTER II 11 mora afore as a joke than otherwise jims jim la selected as aa teacher of tile the woodruff urr district school CHAPTER in III jim in nil ills new post tion sets out to make stanch friends of III his pupils especially two buys boya newton dron dronson on und budd auddy simms th the latter th the e a son 0 n 0 of t it sh fit farmer colonel woodruff lT Jonn Jonni le aa father has haa little falth in jims ideas of improving rural educational methods method lie ile nicknames nam as him the drown brown mouse in illustration it on of an anecdote CHAPTER IV jims conduct of the school where he endeavors ende avora to teach tho the children children the wonders of nature and somo of tho the scientific methods of farming farming as aa well us as book learning kearnin g la is con condemned c li tied CHAPTER V jennie woodruff Is 1 no minted for the position of county superintendent of schools the school board grows bitter in its opposition to jim and his innovations CHAITER VI at it a public meeting jim roundly condemns tile the methods 0 or teaching in the rural schools a and na makes no friends thereby CHAPTER vir VII A delei delegation ration of pro prominent eminent women condemn jims methods method od of f tye ing but he Is in stoutly defended fe n dd d d b by hla I 1 s pupils especially newton bronson CHAPTER VIII jim has haa christmas dinner at colonel woodruffs Wood ruHa and listening to him jennie jeanlo begins to do some soma t thinking concerning his bis ability and his prospects 0 IX in the evening jim as well I 1 as he knows how courts jennie ael nie without however making much progress ma tho though ugh she Is quickly losing her or po poor 0 ro opinion pinion of him CHAPTER M X jennie elected county superintendent of schools receives so no many complaints from people of the dist district ric I 1 concerning jims methods of teaching that she finds herself compelled formally to tor ill hla r resignation igna after she has to loft t jim la ia visited by colonel woodruff who strongly urges him to refuse to resign and offers to back him jim agrees to stick for a while at least I 1 CHAPTER XIA XI A moo meeting ting of the school board which had been gathered to get jim 1 Is confronted by jentile jennie who upholds him lie ho conducts tin an ex arnI nation of his pupils at the meet 1 ing to prove that lie he la Is not neglecting their book learning by the introduce A jon 0 of f ut other I 1 or subjects which he con ara L c of f import importance the splendid fa wing made by anch tho the children dren converts many who had doubted to his views CHAPTER XII the novel ideas which jim has haa introduced have been talked about outside the county and lie he la is visited by professor withers ex e tension ateneo n 1 lecturer at the state university who invites liv to him to deliver an address at h th the I 1 next annual meeting of the Far moris in institute ail tote CHAPTER XIII professor withers Is 1 impressed by many of thi sinnova tlona eions made by irwin and so informs i colonel woodruff and jennie some what to the astonishment of both the colonel suggests to jim that he the colonel seek election to the school j board replacing cornelius bonner tin 9 enemy of jim irwin CHAPTER XIV feigning sic kneit dewton bronson nr onson youngster tr whom ir win has redeems redeemed from idleness i and j f folly 0 1 I 1 Y and rid set on the right path and 1 I w who h 0 aa almost in ort worships the teacher k keeps e en p s his father from voting at the se school tool board election bronson Is 1 a friend of bonner and would have voted for him As it Is llonel colonel woodruff la in chosen for the position owing to Dron Bron sons absence CHAPTER XV jim convince convincer the farmers of the district of the advantages to be derived from a operative cooperative co creamery and it Is agreed to establish prie one 11 alii IR rise to rt position of leadership in the community and hlach re r has made a distinct differ abnee in jennies Jenn los feelings toward iril jim which she Is forced to acknowledge to herself CHAPTER XVI in his address nt at the farmer institute jim n distinctly favorable impression Impress lo q after the meeting he Is IB offered a position av a teacher in another district with a eon lid erable advance in n salary and to id Ion consider sider it CHAPTER jims urge him to remain nt lit his present post leading citizens of tho district ns aring him that they are proud of him CHAPTER at i a bublic tn ft ing n old man ran simms budd Vs f ither tells of the he anil na alq family have derived from jims teaching deachin and and captures the gathering CHAPTER tim tolla tells the moet ng the various school improvements he will insina on having if lie he romaan j in hla his present position some of the cons ildr r them almost revolutionary tio nary but the majority approve after meeting jenn jennie 1 e for anine reason enson tolls tells lint jim nhe ahe line hog been the bigge biggest t little fool in tho the en county tinty mr ezra bronson lie roared ro urcil alila fellers crazy an from froin the sound of things youre nil all ns as crazy its as lie Is if this fool t scheme of ills his go ROH gos s through hirough my illy farms farm for dalef ill quit before ini im sold out fw for taxes V just a minute B IU B I 1 interposed colonel woodruff this aint ns as dangerous as you think you dont want us ua to do all this in fifty etteen en inin do you jim pati 0 ns as to that replied alin 1 I just wanted you to have in your minds what I 1 have in my iny mind and unless we can agree to work toward things theres no use in my staying aut biml another matter be lave with me and ill work with you iou get out of hero I 1 said bald the colonel to jim in tin undertone and leave the rest to your friends jim walked out of tuu tau room and tool the way ft ay toward ills hla boffil A borso tied to the hitching polo pole lind had ills blanket under foot and jim it on oil ills back putting patting liliu him kindly find talking horse borse language to him then lio ito wont went up and down tile line flue 0 of f te tf ants canis readjusting blankets tying loosened knots and assuring litin himself self that ills neighbors horses were securely tied and comfortable lie ile know knew horsey horses better than ho he knew people lie ho thought if it lie could manage pelie us its lio lie could manage horses but would bo be wrong glorso inana management genie nt aris ta despotism despotis in annn government must lie le like the government of a society of wild horses the result of the common ivack of tile members of the herd held two figures emerged from the schoolhouse door and as lie ho turned toward ills his honio home after ills his pastoral calls calla on the horses lioi hes they overtook took hlin they were the figures of newton bionson mid and the county superintendent of schools dad wants you ion back there again newton what for inquired jim you silly hlll boy sald said jennie you ou talked about the good of the schools nil all of the time dine and never said a word about your our own salary 1 what do aou ou want they the lint ant to know oil ohl 1 exclaimed jim in the manner m inner of one who suddenly remembers that lie he luis has forgotten ills his umbrella um biella or ills packet knife 1 I forgot all about it JL I 1 thought about that nt at all 11 jennie I 1 jim suld said slie ahe you ou need a guarda guardian III I 1 1 I know it jennie said lie land I 1 know who I 1 want I 1 want please come back said jennie I 1 and tell papa how much youre soure going to hold tile the district up for y you oil run inn back said jim to newton and tell your fattier father that what M hit over Is right light in the way of will be satisfactory to me I 1 lene leave that to the people newton darted off leaving the schoolmaster standing ding lit in tile the rood read with ft kb tile the county superintendent 1 I cant go linch back therel there said jim im proud of you ou jim jennie this community lias his found its master they cant do all you ask now nor very soon but finally do just as you QU want them to do and jim I 1 want to say that ive ie been the biggest little fool in the coun county tyl 1 CHAPTER X theory vid ind practice superintendent jennie sat at her desk in no very sails satisfactory factory frame of dimind mind in lie he first place the court NT wi t to convene on the following monday so BO that hei bet one room was vas not to be tiers hers for a few days to wilbur smythe who ho did lit tier her the honor of mil call ing occasionally she elie remarked that if they soon build tile the noti ii courthouse so ns its to give her such lie us as her office really needed thoy might take their old office so therel pair fair woman sald wilbur as ile he creased ills his prince albert in a parting bow should adorn the hornet homo I 1 ash bosh I 1 sneered jennie rather pleased nil all the same suppose she fair and any homel this question of adorning n homo was no nearer settlement with etli jennie than it ila had ever been though in III crea creakingly singly a matter of speculation there were ere two or three men inen rather good catches too who ulio it if they were encouraged but what ft hat was there alicie to anny of them tills this Is what jennie asked tier paver weight na as slie she placid it on oil a 1 pile fille of unfinished examination papers and the paper weight echoed not a tiling thing out of tile the ordinary I 1 and then said jennie will well you little simpleton who ft lio null what tire are you oil so out of the ordinary that you ou should r sneer neer at wilbur and and lucli tuen and echo tin nil d what and then the innel carrier came in down doun near the bottom of tile the pile lille she found tills this letter signed by a 0 southern state superintendent of 0 schools but dated nt at Kir kirkville kville alls bourl 1 I am a member of a party of south ern educators santo superintendents in the main en tour of the countr to see what becan find of an In instruct tive the nature in rural school work professor withers of ames allies that we tte visit your aur schools and especial 13 1 the durni school taught hi by n young num man irwin lind I 1 wonder if you sou will be free on next monday morning it if we ve come to your office to direct us to to ilo fie place it if you sou could no accompany company m u on the trip end and perlin perhaps ps show lie i some borne of your lour other oilier excellent st bhoola lue ime should be honored and pleased anti and then ame the shock n party bof of state on bals were nore coming into the tb county to tudy jim erwins irwins I 1 they would never como come to study wll I 1 I 1 bur smithies lies thies taw law practice never ir in i till the e world jt ir tier her work as ca county II 11 atit and lint jim was ans getting seventy the five dollars a month and lint had a mother to support bup sumi port ort ait there could bo be no doubt that there was to jim ilin lie iliin an a ns nut of tho the ordinary and that just what she lind had been looking for in liar mind jennie wired to tier her southerner fur tho the number of ills party and suc tired automobiles for tile the trip site she sent a note to jim irwin telling of tile the prospective visitation site she would shiow all concerned chrit sho rould could do some things anyhow and acho would send end these people on with 11 good imrica I 1 es slon of tier her county t she was kind glad of the 11 automobiles uto in abiles t the fie next monday morning when nt lit nine I 1 thirty the train discharged upon her bor in n dozen very clort very cry up to date very inquisitive southerners mile male and female fet most or of whom seemed seethed to have left the lr ir ts rs lit iti ali tho gulf region it was eleven when tho party pinked parked their machines b eft r 0 th tho 0 schoolhouse 1 door tharo tire lire visitors here before us its said Jon jennie lile seems rather like ithe tin nn educational ehrline said doctor of mississippi how does lie fie date so many visitors in dint andall I 1 edifice 1 I nm am not mytirs said jennie taht it lie lins been lit in the linnit of re ic belving so EO cay very enany from outside tile well shall ive we go 10 in 1 once inside jennie felt it gucer re sturn of her old aversion ner slon to jims methods the lie aversion avots ton which had 1 j caused tier her to criticize ailin so I 1 on tho the occasion if her first visit lilt the reason for the lio return of the feeling ila alny in tho the fact that tile the work going on was tile the soine same sort but of a more intense character it was so utterly oni like a school na its jennie understood the icord sho she glanced biek back nt at the lie of educators avith a little blush the clisol cli ool aris ns in a sort bort of uproar not inot that uproar of boredom boic doin and nils illis of which most of us its tune have far memories moi norles but a suit sort of eager uproar in which every was intensely interested in tile the same thing igind lid did little rustling things because i of tills this interest something like the buin nt at a football game gaine or a n dogfight 1 on one side of the desk dak stool stood ilni irwin unit facing biln aliu was a sIl smooth looth stranger strong ci of tile the old fashioned lightning rod agent type the shallower ind and laser sort or of ri palos lesman ninn of the kind whose sole business Is ta got get signatures on the dotted line and let somo one else do the rest in bhart lie he was a n closer Stan dirt ba bick baek ek of him in lif evident distress was mr cornellus Coi Cori nellus lellus homier bunner and grouped about were columbus columbua Il aron rowil 11 K II 11 ia izan arh ahronson Hr onson A n B talcott mio ind two wo or three others aroi froni outside tile the woodruff district with envelopes in their linnzi and the I 1 ugilt of battle in their eyes ees stood newton bronson simms bettina dinnsen mary smith and angle tal cott tile boys filled with delight tile the girls rather frightened at being en in something like n debate wit with 11 the salesman As the lie latest coming coining visitors moved forward they heart heard the schoolmaster finishing ills his passage at arms with the salesman you should not feel exasperated lit us sir carmichael hibel still said lie in tono ton of the alie most complete respect I 1 what our show you nrc in foit fortunate in the business oil offer tills this community that clial Is nl all rutn have the hie facts to prove that tho the crent creamery nery outfit you iou offer Is not worth within two thousand dollars of ahat you usk ask for I 1 it and I 1 that flat it Is very cry doubtful if it I 1 Is the wrt sort of outfit we should need VII ill bet you iou n thousand dollars begin began carmichiel hotly when jim waved d hill 11 in down own not with tile me aid jim jiin your friend mr Ilo jer 0 lre ore knows what aliat liat chance glicr j Is for you to bet even n I 1 thousand coils tal tue tile sides we know our facts in tills this school weve I 1 been cen corb worb working ing on them for a long tine ciric bet your life we linvel inter pointed newton Il before lefore wr ve philph said bald jim 1 I want to you oil gentle tuen for bringing 12 ill get bet you a thousand dollars cried carmic hael hotly in mr 1 we have been reading up tip on the literature of the creamery promoter and it la ili a very fine ano thing to lieve one in the llesh lies I 1 with whom tole to le lo if mr carmichael will hlll allow me ine to say so looked at bounce made in 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