Below are a few sample
sentences from the story of
The Brown Mouse
B w j r laachar, every pupil, tT tfy t<r.
entof a papil in the rural achooli, ought
O .
Snb*crib* « " i ll find
It la the Bnterpaise
Tho, e who
worker« of the
he fe lt
i,
field
»>,.
“l Ce tro,n 'frcul.tlon.
of
Idea
hit *howed «»tem pt for the
o a L v m,rr>lnK-
Wm
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category with other de-
bacy’ of
Wlth ,be C,H‘
- » k . Without me0 h o ^ r T t h e CX 7
,y
vocation.
From
another
Ï -MOUSE
,
the book, can get the complete atory i .
he Haterpriae by paying ©nlv 50
ceata tor a four-month»' aubacnption
and the pubhaher agreca to diaconttaue
“<«ood night," aald Jim
■simply be-
the paper at the end ot the four moutha cause be could not
trust himself to
ualcaa the aubacriber aeuda in a renewal
say more.
J P t e grading gang laughed. Newton
'7 l »***“ ’ *" lf 11 ou<ht “ > be po«-
r e t ie d even while In the fell clutch
»lble, aald Jim, "for a man to do
L
Pon' ° lrl«J to smell
work on the farm, or In the rural
t *
i trousers, and what had
achoola, that would make him a liveli­
riTn
J
,h became * roar. Cuu-
hood, I f he la only a field-hand. It
rt,™ »“ ?. merCy departed from the
ought to be possible for him to save
chauffeur'« mood; he drew back his
money and buy a farm.**
7 rik6s the boy~ and found it
“Pa’s land Is worth two hundred
dollars an acre," aald Jennie. "Six
months of your wages for an s e r e -
bovY"°U.T7, ‘v?
t0 punlah ‘ bl’
even If you lived on nothing.”
h art« . I ? / * “ geDt,T' “eTen lf y0U
“No," he assented, "It can't be done,
had the right to punish him at a l l !"
and the other thing can't, either.
i - ? ? 6 <* auffeur- however, unhesitat­
There ought to be such conditions that
ingly released Newton, and furiously
a teacher could make a living.”
d s!V^ ed # bl° W meant for Jim's Jaw
“They do," said Jennie, “If they
which miscarried by a foot. In reply’
can live at home during vacations I
Jim countered with an awkward
do.”
“But a man teaching In the country
ought to be able to marry."
"M arry!" said Jennie, rather unfeel­
ingly, I think. “Ton m arry!” Then
after remaining silent for nearly a
th* hard band ot Jlui
■Ste
a e ta j
¿S'
master lawyer, editor, public servant, social w o rk » snri
has had a great round o f e x n e n m c
j l vvorkf r and novelist, he
into his stories. Born in Grundy c o u n t y ^ w i’ h i ' h a i b ? " ” '
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“You Marryl Humphl"
minute, she uttered the syllable—with­
out the utterance of which this narra-
tlve would not have been written.
“You m arryl Humphl”
Jim Irwin rose from the bench
tingling with the Insult he fouDd In
her tone. They had been boy-and-glrl
sweethearts In the old days at the
Woodruff schoolhouse down the road
and before the fateful time when
Jennie went “off to school" and Jim
began to support his mother. They
had even kissed—and on Jim's side
lonely a« was his life, ent off as It
necessarily was from all companion­
ship save that of bis tiny home and
E Y O U a brown
mouse? Have you
fflg H * touch of that lun-
acy called genius,
which gives you extra­
ordinary ideas and makes
you do things better or
at least different from the
average run of people?
I f to, you are a Mendel-
ian segregation of genetic
factors (not meaning to
call names) which scien­
tists say produces the
brown mouse and other
odd things in the animal
creation. Read
By HERBERT-QUICK
H e r* is one of the moat
original stories in the
world; a novel as enter­
taining as it is instruc­
tive; a regular thought-
awakener conttuning ac­
tio n , rom ance, hum or,
real c h a ra c te r studies
and a love interest I t is
not about mice but about
people, th e ir problems,
ambitions, emotions and
affections. T h e a u th o r
s im p ly h ad a h a p p y
thought when he took a
b ro w n m ouse and ap­
plied its characteristics
to a human.
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Sioux C,ty, nominee for supreme ludge e d itir o f
member o f the Federal F irm I
k ' ea
■ ^ m and Fireside,
commissions, and during the w a r hadTh ° andLseperaJ °«^er national
upon him by the Red Cross
K
'o S d
C° lonel conf^ re d
j “ 1 h“
common w hite breed ¿ 3
Jk
that w a i different from anvtk 8 I
nested parent, ? w
Z i
raised hob generally.
d'
? a,tzing mice w ith «he
■ ^ y/ 5rid* got a brown individual
‘t
V " 8 " i,s dome‘ '
* b,t' 8n*wed, scratched and
LJim Irwin, the hero o f the tale, is
father was a w Jtzing m o J e 'n l’ o ^ l ‘ bf0Wn mouse- H,s Pedd!in«
to another for no valid reason H i s ^ l r h ^ ' '°
from 006 ,pot
■ng had all her color i m Z
H Was a w h j'e.mouse, hav-
b r o w n m o u , X ^ r^
o^ i ?
^ ay < * ano«Her. Like the
Jim had idea, o f his own and did 8
d,ng '°.*he rule» o f heredity.
Pletely woke up a dee^V f Z ^ 3 c7m X ’ Hrpr,s'n,S
He
touch o f genius can d o ^
commun»«Y and showed it w hat a
T h i. C harm ing T a le WiH R un^a . . S eria , ¡n
The deadlocked members of the
board bad been so long at loggerheads
’hat their relations had swayed back
to something like amity. Jim had
scarcely entered when Con Bonner ad­
dressed the chair.
"Mr. Prlsident," said ha, “we have
wld us t'nlght, a young man who nades
no Introduction to an audience In this
place, Mr. Jim Irwin. He thinks we're
bullheaded mules, and that all the
achoola are bad. At the proper time I
«hall move that we hire him f r teach­
□ IO I \ a
er; and plnding that motion, I move
that he be given the floor. Ye've all
beared of Mr. Irwin's ability as a
white hope, and I know h ell be Ho­
rned to wid respect;”
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If you are interested in cow testing and want to
interest y o u r neighbor in it, get him to read “ The
Brown M ouse,’
Every school pupil who belongs to an agricultural
* i industrial club ought to read H erbert Quick's
'We have had the privilege of tls-
t’nln',” said Con Bonner, rising, “to s
great speech. Mr. Prlsldlnt. Makln' a
good apache Is one thing, and teach­
ing a good school Is another, but In or­
der to bring this matter before the
board, I nominate Mr. James E. Irwin,
the Boy Orator of the Woodruff dis­
trict, and the new white hope, f r the
Job of teacher of thia school, and I
move that when he shall have received
a majority of the votes of this board,
the secretary and prlsldlnt be In-
sthrueted to enter Into a contract with
him f r the cornin' year.”
The president followed usage when
he said: “I f there’s no objection. It
will be so ordered. Prepare the bal­
lots for a vote on the election of teach­
er, Mr. Secretary."
There was no surprise In view of
the nomination of Jim Irw in by the
blarneying Bonner when the Secretary
smoothed out the first ballot, and
read; “James E. Irwin, One." But
when the next slip came forth. “James
E. Irwin, t*o ," the board of director«
of the Woodruff Independent district
were «tunned at the «lowly dawning
knowledge that they had made an
election 1 Before they had rallied, the
secret« ry drew from the box the third
and last ballot, and read. "James E.
Irwin, three."
(Goatinned i a caluma S)
Mouse
By HERBERT QUICK
D id you ever hear o f a
mouae that did any good?
Neither have w e but it ap­
I
Every schoolteacher will enjov it.
pears that the re is a brown
one which has a great fac­
ulty for stirring up things
“ Any jo b ’s as big as the man who holds it down ” 1
said ra rin e r W oodruff A re you big enough to
make vour job grow ? Tho brown mouse was.
5Oc
and I will send the Enterprise four months, contain­
ing the complete story of “The Brown Mouse " be­
sides its ordinary quota of local and state news
° r ,n V i? ’ “i fr° m the ,ea8t’ « ^ e rtise m e n ts
that will tell you how to save money and properly
satisfy many needs. 1 will send it to you or to any
address yen may name, and will discontinue it at
the end of tho four m onths unless the subscription
is renewed.
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"Move we adjourn." said Peterson.
"No 'bj*ctlon 'tls so ordered!” ssld
Mr. Bronson.
The secretary and Jim went out.
while the directors watted.
“What the B illy —" began Bonner,
and flslahed lamely! "What for did
you vote for the dab, E a r
The guns of Mrs. Bonner and Mrs.
I eterson were silenced for a moment,
and Mrs. Bronson, after gailng about
at the typewriter, the hecktograph,
the exhibits of weed seeds, the Bab­
cock milk tester, and the other un-
“Jennie." said Colonel Woodruff,
scholastlc equipment, pointed to th *
after the party had broken up, “I'm
list of words, and th * arithmetic
losing the best h«ml I ever had. and
problems on the board.
” ve been sorry."
*T»o you get them words from th *
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* « d hes Ieavln<f you," said speller?” she asked.
Jennie.
He ought to do something ex­
“No," said he, "we get them from a
cept work In the field for wages.'*
lesson on seed wheat."
“I ve had no Idea he could make
"Did them examples come out of an
m°ir , 7 , “ ,Jeachar- » « ‘d what la there
arithmetic book?" cross-examined she.
in It if he doet?°
“No,” said Jim. "we used problems
"What has he lost If he doesn’t r
we made ourselves W e were figuring
rejoined Jennie. “And why can't he
profita and losses on your cow«, Mrs
make good?”
Bronson !"
. , n 7 , h i a<' i O01 ,bOard’' a* alnst blm.
"Bara Bronson.” said Mrs. Bronson
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ng' rePlieti the coloneL “They'll
loftily, “don't need any help In telling
ih7 i " 1' hi they
’ chance- They're
what's a good cow. H e was farming
M r l n v T nf ' 8,° <k ” f
W’«n‘ ry
before you was born!"
h*? by mlMalte. and they're Iiv
“Like fun. he don't need help! He's
lo n iin rBUt af,er Seeln* b!m Perform
going to dry old Cherry off and fat­
gmid."'
W° ader *f “ e <aU't make
ten her for beef; and he can make
mors money on the cream by beefing
“I f he could feel llkelanythlng but
about three more of 'em. The Bab­
n"e und*rltng, he'd succeed.” said Jen
cock test shows they're Just boarding
on us without paying their board!"
eoi.mp?‘ ’ hhl’ here<,r«y " »fated the
The delegation of matrons ruffled
were h T 7 8e Hve 8tork ep*™tlona like a group of startled hens at this
ere based on heredity.
“Jim's a
Interposition, which
was Newton
mi?! , ' , iupP°*e: but he sets as if he
Bronson's effective setting of the op-
7n-h Urn ° Ut f° be 8 BT " 'h Mouse."
portunity to Issue a progress bulletin
renn iZf.. d n y° U mean’ Lpa'” doffed
In the research work on the Bronson
Jennie— a Brown Mouse*"
dairy herd.
A fellow in Edinburgh" said the
"Newton 1" said his mother, “don't
«Honel, “crossed the Japanese w a it /
Interrupt me when I'm talking to the
teacher I”
mouse with the cqfainion white
mouae. atm's peddling A'atber was «
“Well, then," said Newton, "don't
waltxlng mouse, no good except to
tell the teacher that pa knew which
Jump from one spot to «nother for no
cows were good and which were poor.
good reason Jim’S motiher Is an al­
I f any one In this district wants to
bino of , woman, with (a ll th . color
know about their cows they'll have to
u Ut *“ one way’ o f another.
come to thia shop. And I can tell you
Jim ought to be
mongrel., aud I've ! that, it’ll pay ’em to come, too, if
they're going to make anything selling
“ 8a.ys «Jnsldered- hlin one. But the
Edinburgh fellows every onice In a
cream. W alt until we get out our re­
while got out of hla variously-colored,
ports on the herds, m al”
waltzing and albino hybrids,Ja brown
The women were rather stampeded
mouse, it wasnt n coranuin house
by this onslaught of the Irregular
mouse, either, hut a wlldjmouwe.unlike
troops—especially Mrs. Bronson. She
any be had ever seen. It ran away,
felt a flutter of pride in her son, but
and bit and gnawed andfralsedlWob. It
It was strongly mingled with a moth­
was what we breeders, call a Mende-
erly desire to spank him. The depu­
Uan segregation of genetic fa c ie s that
tation rose, with a unanimous feeling
had been in the waltxers and albinos
that they had been scored upon.
all the time—their original wild an­
t ows I" scoffed Mrs. Peterson. ’'If
cestor of the woods and Helds
If
we leove yon In this yob. Mr. Irwin,
Jim turns out to he >a browS-mouae.
our children will know nothing but
he may be a bigger %ian thaukany of
cows and hens and tolls nnd grains—
" • Anyhow, I'm for)hlm .’’
and where will the culture come In?”
‘’Culture!” exclaimed Jim. “W h y -
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why, after ten years of the sort of
school I would give you If I were a
“What wo catue for, Mr. Irw in, is
—But
you should read the whole story,
to object to the way the teachln's
being done—corn and wheat, and hogs . wnich w B soon appear as a serial in the
and the like, Insteiafl of the Iw.irnlu' Enterprise.
•choola was made to teach. I cin see'1
an' the whole district'can see t la t It ’s
easier for a man that'« been a farm­
hand to teach fiu-m-hand knowledge,
than the teamin' scltools was set up
to teach; but l f so be he hasn't the
book education to do the right thing,
wo think he should get out! and give
• real teacher a chance.”
“What am I negledtlngr staked Jim
mildly.
Mrs. Bonner seeuiedfunprepwred for
the question, and sat for an 1 instant
Every pvrent who wants his children to grow nt,I
with respect for tho dignity o f Iho farm er’s calling
and with an ambition to make it a success, will’
enjoy the story.
Send me
This story is copyrighted by the Bobbs-Merrill
company.
have obtained the right to publish it in
Ha.sey, for I believe it will benefit our schools.
H m. H. WHEELER
Publisher Enterprise, Halsey, Oregon
raise nothing but a fam ily of farmer«!
A fine thing I»
."1? / V w111 «"• farmers anyhow,"
cried Jim, “in spite of your effort»—»
ninety out of every hundred of them!
And of the other ten, nine will bo
wage-earners In the cities, and wish t»
God they were back on the farm ; and
'J*,’ bundr* d,h ° “ « w ill »ucceed In th *
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Herbert Quick writes a story it is the rim . r
LL/ aatile
one to sit up and take notice; fo r h e is one o f T h /
and entertaining geniuses in this country Farm *?“
Countered W ith an Awkward
Upper Cut.
| «winging uppercut. It landed fairly on
the point of the Jaw. The chauffeur
staggered and slowly toppled over Into
the soft earth which hud caused so
much of the rumpus.
“Oh, cut It out,1’ said a fat man In
the rear of the car, who had hither­
to manifested small Interest In any­
thing save Ponto. “Get in. and let's
be on our way I"
Colonel Woodruff, waiving toward
him in his runabout, held up by the
traffic blockade, asked what was goln
on here, and the chauffeur, rising
grogglly, climbad i..,o the car; and th«
meeting dissolved.
“Good work, Jro," said Cornelius
Bonner. “I didn't think 'twas In ye!”
« t i i i ,beag,ly'" “ •'! Jim. reddening.
I dldn t know, either.”
t votea fbr him,” replied Bronson,
“because ha fought for my boy this
afternoon. I didn't want It stuck Into
him too hard. I wanted him to have
one vote.”
An I wanted him to have wan vote,
too. said Bonner. “I thought mesiif
the only dang fool on the board—an'
M made a apache that aimed wan
f r the Iove of hlvln- that
d“ b
I teacherl Wh«t come over
you. Haakon— yon voted f r him. too!"
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t0 have one wota
too. jsa« Peterson, **»•«__ -
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in m ouse s o c ie ty ; and
when a human is bom
with some of the charac­
I “W . Object to the Way th*«.T«achln’a
Bai ng Done."
mute. Mra. Peteraoa Interposed her
| «ttnek while Mrs. Bonner ml k b: be re­
covering her wind.
“B e people that have h u ll a bard
time," ,he «aid In a precise vv^y which
»eemed to show that «he knew exactly
what she wanted, “don't w e t our
children taught about nothing but
w”rk' ,Va waBt ‘«ur children to learn
awe thing«, and «go to high school, and
a” er » "b ile ^o the Junlweralty.'
Aren t your children happy in
achool, Mr«. l > ter »on f
“I don't «end them to school io be
happy, Yim," replied Mrs Peteraon,
calling him by the name most famil­
iarly known to all of them; “I «end
toem to learn to oe nigner people than
their father and mother. That's what
America means!”
“ rb * y l* h* higher people—higher
than their parent»—hfcher than their
teacher— they’ll be efficient firmer«,
and efficient farmer»' wive». They'll
he happy, becauae they w ill know bow
to uae more brain* tn farming than
any lawyer or doctor or merchant can
poaalbly uae In hla bu«!n««a '
“I t ’a a fine thing," aald Mra. Bonner,
coming to the aid rif her fallow aol-
dler^ “to work hard far a lifetime, an*
teristics of this little ani­
mal, he always o tai rages to
make a stir in l i s circles.
If you are ■ fanner you
are going to revel in this
story, for, along with so. Tie
very debgbtful romanc t ,
it carries a num ber o f
ideas that are sure to be
valuable in your business.
If you are a town person
it carries some ideas that
will greatly interest you,
and you will be charmed
by its love story. Read
about Jim Irw in, the hu­
man brown mouse, who
dared to aspire to the
affections of the queen
mouse o f his district
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