NOV. 29, t93J
hew relation to his neighbors.
RIALTO
Brownsville Saturday
Gloria
Swanson
in
“ZAZA”
A beautiful and
impressive
Production
De Luxe
the laughingstock of the country for
hiring hint by uilstake, and they're Ir­
ritated. But after seeing him perform
tonight, I wonder If he can't make
good”
" If ha could feel like anything but
an underling, he'd aucceed," eald Jen­
nie.
“That’s hla heredity,” atated the
colonel, whoae live stock operations
were based on heredity. "Jim's a
scrub, I suppose; but he acts as If he
might turn out to be a Brown Mouse.”
"W hat do you mean, pa,” scoffed
Jennie— “a Brown Mouse!"
“A fellow In Edinburgh," said the
colonel, "crossed the Japanese walts-
Ing mouse with the common white
mouse. Jim's peddling father was a
waltzing mouse, no good except to
Jump from one spot to another for no
good reason. Jim’s mother Is an al­
bino of a woman, with all the color
washed out In one way or another.
Jim ought to be a mongrel, and I've
always considered him one. But the
Edinburgh fellow every once In a
while got out of hla variously-colored,
waltzing and albino hybrids, a brown
taouse. It wasn't a common house
mouse, either, but a wild mouse unlike
any he had ever seen. It ran away,
and bit and gnawed and raised hob. It
was what we breeders call a Mende-
llan segregation of genetic factors that
had been In the waltzera and albinos
all the time— their original wild an­
cestor of the woods and fields. I f
Jim turns out to be a brown mouse,
he may be a bigger man than any of
us. Anyhow. I'm for him."
"He'll have to be a big man to make
anything out of the Job of a country
school teacher," said Jennie.
“Any Job's as big as the man who
bolds It down," said her father.
Next day Jim received a letter from
Jennie.
"Dear Jim," It ran. '“Father says
you are sure to have a hard time— the
school board’s against you. and all
th a t But he added ‘I'm for Jim, any­
how!' I thought you'd like to know
this. Also he said, 'Any Job’s as big
as the man who holds It down.' And
I believe this also, and I'm for you,
too! You are doing wonders even be­
fore the school starts In getting the
pupils Interested In a lot of things,
which, while they don't belong to
school work, will make them friends
of yours. I don’t see how this will
help you much, but It's a fine thing,
and ahowa your Interest In them.
Don't be too original. The wheel runs
But, (rue to his belief lh honest,
thorough work, like a general prepar­
ing for battle, he examined his field of
operations. His manner of doing this
seemed to prove to Colonel Woodruff,
who watched It with keen Interest as
something new in the world, that Jim
Irwin was possibly a Brown Mouse.
But the colonel knew only a part of
Jim's performances.
He saw Jim
clothed In slickers, walking through
rainstorms to the houses in the Wood­
ruff district, as greedy for every mo­
ment of rain as a haymaker for shine;
and he knew that Jim made a great
many evening calls.
But he did not know that Jim was
making what our sociologists call a
survey. For that matter, neither did
Jim ; for books on sociology cost more
than 25 cents a volume, and Jim had
never seen one. However, It was a
survey. To be sure, he had long
known everybody In the district, save
the titmmses—and he was now a friend
of all that exotic race; but there Is
knowing and knowing.
He now had note-books full of facts
about people and their farms. He
knew how many acres each family pos­
sessed. and what sort of farming each
husband was doing—live stock, grain
or mixed. He knew abont the mort­
gages, and the debts.
He knew
whether the family atmosphere was
happy and contented, or the reverse.
He knew which boys and girls were
wayward and Insubordinate. He made
a record of the advancement In their
studies of all the children, and what
they liked to read. He knew their
favorite amusements. He talked with
their mothers and sisters— not about
the school, to any extent, but on the
weather, the horses, the automobiles,
the sllo-filllng machinery and the
profits of farming.
Reallj’, though Jennie Woodruff did
not see how such doings related to
school work, Jim Irw-In’s school was
running full blast In the homes of the
district and the minds of many pupils,
weeks and weeks before that day
when he called them to order on the
Monday specified In his contract as
the first day of school.
Con Bonner, who came to see the
opening, voiced the sentiments of the
older people when he condemned the
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Pine Grove Patters
By Anus trn u e ll:
iEnterprise Oorreepondeace)
Fred Sylvester went to Portland
M r and Mrs. Charley Carlsou and
Friday to visit his mother, who is
two sons drove to Portland Wednes­
quite poorly, and attend the funeral of
day.
his nephew, who was killed in an air­
Mrs. Tom Hutchien of Corvallis is plane accident in Texas.
attending Mrs. Emma Gregory.
Mrs. O. M artin is seriously ill in a
Stewart Arnold and wife of Marsh­ Eugene hospital.
field came to Shedd Wednesday to
R. K. Stewart visited his son and
visit Stewart’s parents, M r and Mrs.
fam ily at Mabel and relatives in Eu­
Charles Arnold.
gene last week.
Dale La M arr and Miss Merle Pugh
Mrs. M. Settle and baby are visiting
were among those from Shedd who
at the R. K. Stewart home before
rttended the big game Saturday on
joining M r. Settle at their new home
Evgene.
•
in Marshfield.
Mrs. Emma Gregory has been quite
The pageant given by the Oakville
ill but is reported somewhat better.
Mrs. Effie Brock is cooking for the ladies was well attended and much
enjoyed.
boarders.
Miss Helen Ritchie went to Port­
land Tuesday to visit friends.
Bert Minckley and M r. Albertson
were Salem visitors Friday.
Prof. W illiam Allingham of Port­
Mrs. Henry Freerkson, Mrs. Agnea
Clark and Mrs. Lyman Coates spent land was up inspecting his farm prop­
Thursday afternoon with Mra. Frank erty which he inherited from his uncle
the late W illiam Shepherd.
Shumate.
M r. and Mrs. Bert Haynes spent
The revival meetings after a tyo
Sunday with W. E. Hover and fam ­
weeks* sessions ended Sunday night.
ily of Harrisburg and enjoyed a birth­
Lyman Pennell and son, Leland, day dinner given in honor of W. E.
drove to Portland last week .
Hover, Delta Haynes, Mrs. M yrtle
Ivan Dakin, who has been working McManus and Miss Virginiu Smith.
near Junction City, stopped in Shedd, There were fourteen present.
one night last week on his way to
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Johnson, M r.
Portland.
and Mrs. Smith and baby, and M ra.
M r. and Mra. E. E. Coon gave a Clevenger and son of Albany visited
party Sunday for all their friends, the at the Albertson home Sunday.
occasion being their wedding anniver­
Clyde
Johnson preached at the
sary.
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Pine Grove church Sunday morning.
'W i n t e r !
(Too late last week)
Yes; it is almost boro. That
means
H e a tin g
S to v e s
See our
new and
complete line
of Heaters
We solicit your stove Repair business.
H IL L & <s.
M r. and Mrs. Otto N e ff are enjoy­
Mrs. Dal. Duncan returned Friday ing a visit from M r. N e ff’s father
from Hermiston, where she had been from Kamas.
visiting her son.
Floyd Nichols was a Corvallis visit­
Eddie McEivain left Thursday for or Saturday.
Portland to make his home.
L. E. Eagy spent Thursday in Cor­
C. L. Pennell of Pendleton visited vallis.
Mr. and Mrs. Grant McNeil were
his brother in Shedd a few days be­
Albany visitors Saturday.
fore going to work in Scio.
W ork is progressing rapidly in the
remodeling of the M. E. church.
Revival meetings are being held at
the U. P. church.
Clyde and James Crawford return­
ed last week from Canada, where
they have been working for some
time.
Guy Porter of Albany has been
helping work on the M. E. church.
“T hat Feller’ll Never Do."
school as disorderly.
To be sura,
there were more pupils enrolled than
had ever entered on a first day In the
whole history of the school, and It was
hard to accommodate them all. But
the director’s criticism was leveled
against the free-and-easy air of the
children. Most of them had brought
seed com and a good-sized corn show
was on view. There was much argu­
ment as to the merits of the various
eutrles. instead of a language lesson
from the text-book, Jim had given
them an exercise based on an examina­
tion of the ears of corn.
The number exercises of the lltile
chaps had been worked out with ears
und kernels of corn. One class In
arithmetic calculated the percentage
easiest In the beaten track. Yours,
Jeunle."
Jennie's csntlnn made no impression
on Jim— but he put the letter away,
and every evening took It out and read
at Inferior kernels at tip and butt to
the words, “I'm for you. too!" The
the full sized grains In the middle of
colonel's dictum, “Any Job's as big as
the man who holds It down," was an the ear.
All the time, Jim Irwin, awkward
Emersonian truism to Jim. It reduced
and uncouth, clad In bis none-too-good
all Jobs to an equality, and It meant
Sunday suit and trying to bide behind
equality In Intellectual and spiritual
development. It didn't mean, for In­ hla Lincolnian im.le the fact that ho
was pretty badly frightened and much
stance. that any Job was as good as
another In making It possible for a embarrassed, passed among them, get­
man to marry—and Jennie Woodruff's ting them enrolled, setting them to
“Humph!” returned to kill and drag work. Wasting much time and labor-
tug like a heavy-laden barge In a sea­
off her “I'm for you, too !'*
way.
“That feller'll never do," said Bon­
CHAPTER IV
ner to Bronson next day. “Looks Ilka
a trump In the schoolroom.”
The First Day of School.
“Wearln' hla beat, 1 guess," aald
Jim Irw in was full of his Emerson's
"Representative Men,” and his Car­ Bronson.
"H a lf the kids call him 'Jim ,'" aald
lyle's "French Revolution." and the
other old-fashioned, excellent, good Bonner.
"That's all right with me,” replied
literature which did not cost over 23
cents a volume; and he had pored long Bronson.
"The room wns as noisy as a can-
and with many thrills over the pages
of Matthews' “Getting On In the cut," was Bonner's next Indictment,
World." His view of efficiency was “and the flu re was all over corn Uko
that It Is the capacity to see oppor­ a bwgpln."
“Obi I don't suppose he can get
tunity where others overlook It, and
away with It," aaaented Bronson dis­
make the most of It.
All through his life he had had his gustedly, "but that boy of mine la as
own plana for becoming great. And tickled as a colt with the whole thing.
all the time he was bare-footed. Ill- Saya he's goln' reg'lar thia winter.”
“That’a because Jim don't keep no
dad and dreamed his dreams to the
accompaniment of the growl of the order," aald Bonner. "He le u Newt do
plow cutting the roots under the aa be pleasve.' *
“First time he's ever pleased to do
brown furrow-slice, or the wooshing of
the milk In the pall At twenty-eight, anything but deviltry,” protected Bron­
son. “Oh, 1 suppose Jim'U fall down,
be considered these dreams over.
A t for this new employment, he ssw and we'll have to fire him— but I wish
no great opportunity in I t He went we could git a good teacher that would
Into the small, mean, lll-psld task ss git hold of Newt the way ha seems
a part of the day's work, with no to I"
knowledge of the stirring of the nstlon
CHARTER V
for a different .sort of rural school,
and no suspicion that there lay In it
T ha Promotion ef Jennie.
any highway to success in life
He
I f Jennie Woodruff was the canea of
rather wondered why he had allowed
Jennie • sneer to sting him into the Jim Irw in s sudden irruption Into the
course of action which put him In thia educational field by her scoffing
.
at the Idea of a 1 farm­
hand's ever being able to marry, she
also gave him the opportunity to
knock down the driver of the big mo­
torcar, and perceptibly elevate him­
self In the opinion of the neighbor­
hood, while filling hta own heart with
something like shame.
The tat man who had aald “Cut It
out" to hta driver, was Mr. Charles
DUly, a business man In the village at
the extreme opposite corner of the
county, Mr. Dllly was a candidate for
county treasurer, end wished to be
nominated at the approaching county
convention. In hla part of the county
lived the county superintendent—a
candidate for renomlnatlon. He wes
Just a plain garden or field county su­
perintendent of schools, no better and
no worse than the general political
run of them, but be had local pride en­
listed In his cause, and was a good
politician.
Mr. Dllly was In the Woodruff dis­
trict to buUd a backfire against this
conflagration of the county superin­
tendent. He expected to use Jennie
Woodruff to light It withal. That la.
while denying that he wished to make
any deal or trade—every candidate In
every convention always says that—
he wished to say to Miss Woodruff
and her father, that if Miss W w druff
would permit her name to be need for
the office of county superintendent of
schools, a goodly group of delegates
could be selected In the other corner
of the county who would be glad to
reciprocate any favors Mr. Charles J.
Dllly might receive In the way of
votes for county treasurer with bal­
lots for Miss Jepnle Woodruff for su­
perintendent of schools.
Mr. Dllly never Inquired as to Miss
Woodruff's shuttles as an educator.
That would have been eccentric. Mist
Woodruff never asked herself If abv
knew anything about rural education
which especially fitted her for the
task; for wss she not a popular and
successful teacher—and was not that
enough? So are the officials chosen
who supervise end control the educa­
tion of the farm children of America.
When Jim Irwin started home from
putting out his team the day after his
first call on the Simms family, Jennie
was waiting at the gate to he con­
gratulated on her nomination.
“1 hope you're elected," Jim aald,
holding the hand the had extended;
"but there's no doubt of th at"
“They say not," replied Jennie; “but
father believes In working Just as If
we didn’t have a big majority for the
ticket Say a word for me when on
your pastoral rounds."
“All right said Jim, “what aha!! I
say you'll do for the schools?”
"Why," aald Jennie, rather per­
plexed, ''I'll be fair In my examina­
tions of teachers, try to keep the unfit
teachers out of the schools, vlalt
schools aa often ns I can. and— why,
what does any good superintendent
1 do?"
“I never heard of a good county
superintendent," said Jim.
“Never heard of one—why, Jim Ir­
win I”
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Richerson
left
Thursday for Portland.
M r. Richer­
son has been connected with the A.
D. Kern company.
I
“I don't believe there la any euch
thing," persisted Jim, "and I f you do
no more than you say, you'll be off the
same piece as the rest Your system
won't give us any better schools than
(enterprise CarraspondaBce)
ws have—of ths old sort—and we
Mrs.
W. A. Springer of Corvallis
need a new kind."
“Oh, Jim, Jim I Dreaming aa of visited her sister, Mra. E. A. Starnes
yore I Why can’t you be practical I Thursday.
What do you mean by a new kind of
D. I. Isom went to Eugene Satur­
! rural school?"
"Good N ight," Said Jennie Curtly,
day.
“I t would be correlated with rural
rrtiy have suggested, but a weTT-to-do
, life. It would get education out of the
Mrs. A. E. Whitbeek and Mrs. J. farmer, whose wife did her owu work
! things the fanners and farmers' wives F. Isom called on Mrs. George Work- much of the time, not because the
are Interested In as a part of their inger one afternoon last week.
colonel could not afford to hire “help,"
lives."
hot for the reason that “hired girls”
C.
A.
Troutman
and
wife
of
Albany
Jennie looked serious, after smoth­
were herd to get.
ering a laugh.
visited Mrs. Troutman's sister, Mrs.
The colonel, having teen the glory
“Jim," aald she, "you’re going to D. 1. Isom Wednesday of last week.
of the coming of the Ixird In the
have a hard enough time to succeed
triumph of hla elde In the rreat wer,
Lee Ingram and fam ily visited Mrs.
In the Woodruff school. If you confine
was Inclined to think that all reform
yourself to methods that have been Ingram's sisters, Mrs. Hawk and Mrs. had ceased, and was a political stand­
Clover at Springfield Sunday.
tested, and found good.”
patter—a very honest and sincere one.
“But the old methods," urged Jim. (
Mrs. C. E. Mercer, who Is visiting Moreover, he was Influential enough
I "have been tested and found bad.
so that when Mr. Cummins or Mr.
her parents, M r. and Mrs. D. I. Isom,
5 Shall I keep to them?”
Dolliver came Into the county on po­
spent last week in Florence visiting
litical errands. Colonel Woodruff had
I “They have made the American peo­
her husband who has almost complet­ always been called Into conference. He
ple w hat they are." aald Jenuie. "Don't
ed his work of making a road at that was of the old New Eogtand type, be­
be unpatrlotlo, Jim.”
lieved very much In heredity, very
"They have educated our furm chil­ place.
much la the theory that whatever la
dren for the cities," said Jim. "This
J. N. Burnett and B. E. Cogswell
Is right. In so far at It has secured
county is losing population—and It s
took a load of dressed geese and tu r­ money or power.
the beet county In the world.”
A very respectable, honest, Ameri­
“Pessimism never wins," said Jeo- keys to Portland the first of the week.
i nle.
M.s. W illiam Curtis of Lebanon can tory was the colonel, fond of hla
"Neither does blindness," answered visited her »on, Chester Curtis, and political sway, and rather soured by
the fact that It was passing from him.
! Jftn. “I t Is losing the farms their
fam ily one day last week.
He h id now broken with Cummins and
dwellers, and swelling the cities with
Dolliver ae he had done years ago
a proletariat”
Lon Chamlee, pastor of the Halsey
For some time, now, Jim had ceased Christian church, and his fam ily took with Weaver and later with Larrabee
—and thia breach was very Important
to hold Jennie's hand; and their sweet­
Sunday d'nner at the J. F. Isom home. to him, whether they were greatly con­
heart days had never seemed farther
cerned abont It or not
awsy.
L. IL Armstrong and fam ily were
Such being bar family history, Jea­
“Jim." said Jennie, “I may be elect­ Sunday visitors at the E. D. Isom
nie was something of a politician h er
ed to a position la which I shall be
home.
self. She was la no way surprised
obliged to pass on your acts aa teach­
er— In an official way, I mean. I hope • Chester C u rti* and fam ily spent when approached by party managers
on the subject of accepting the nomi­
they » ill be Justifiable.”
Sunday evening at the home of Mrs. nation for county superintendent of
Jim smiled hla slowest and saddest
Curtis' parents, M r. and Mrs Charles schools. Colonel Woodruff could de­
smile.
liver some delegatee to hla daughter,
“I f they're not TU not ask you to Tandy, near Harrisburg.
tbongh be rather shied at the pro­
condone them." eald he. “But first
posal at first, bat on thinking It over,
they must he Justifiable te me, Jea­
•V-MJtV
wanned somewhat te the notion of
nie."
having a Woodruff oa the county pay
“Oood night" eald Jennie curtly,
Shopman— Yea, Mr, you want a roll once more.
asd left him.
Jennie, I am obliged to admit, gave narrow man’s comb?
(T o be continued)
scant attention to the new career upon
Facetious Customer—No, I want
which her old «weetheart seemed to
I T S T H 1 U F K IR P
a comb for a stout man with rubber
be entering. She was Io politics, and
teeth.—I-oinJon
Answers.
was playing the game as became the
"Whet la that edifice?"
daughter of a local politician. CoL
“Bankruptcy court.'
Satiafactioo guaranteed
Albert Woodruff went South with the Phone 112 Y
Price >.1,50
"I had heard to, but could hardly
| army aa a corporal In 1W1, and came
hack a lieutenant Hla title of colonel
FR E D B JO NES
believe it.”
was conferred by appointment as a
"What aatonuhee you f"
member of the staff ef the governor,
"The number of people that pull
long years ago, when he was county
ALBANY
up there in automobiles "—Louis­
auditor. He was not a rich n u t , u 1
Piano Tnner for leading a n tic Me es in ville Courier-Journal.
Alford Arrows
Piano Tuning and Repairing
(Continued in column *)
Albany