PAG E 4 H A USB Y E N T E R PR I SK DEC. ana promised to make her official life 'exatluus seerned ample proof that Jim’» work was visionary and Imprac- tleaL Pour Jennie waa not aware of the fact that new truth alwaya come« bringing, not peace to mankind, but a sword. "rather." said ahe that night, "let’« hare a little Chrlatmaa party.” plenty." replied Mrs. irwin. much did they weigh?" "About fifteen pounds apiece," was the answer. ’“The gobbler would ’a’ weighed thirty. I guess He's pure •Mammoth Bronze.” “I wish.” said Jim, “that we could get a few breeding birds of the wild bronze turkeys from Mexico." "Why?" asked the colonel. "They're the original blood ef the domestic bronxe turkeys," aald Jim, ’’aod they’re bigger and handsomer than the pure bred bronzes, even. They're a better stock than the North» discussion of a meal under proper Into the corners of tlie room?- Jennie guidance ta much more educative than recalled the time when the tornado a lecture. Thia breast-bone, now," narrowly mlat-ed the schoolhouse, and said he. referring to the remains on his frightened everybody In school nearly plate. “That's physiology. The cran- to death. berry sauce—that's botany, and com "Everybody but you, Jim," Jeanie merce, and soil management—do you remembered. “You looked out of th« know. Colonel, that the cranberry window and told the teacher that the must have an acid soil— which would twister was going north of us, and kill alfalfa or clover?" "All right." an Id the colonel. “Whom would kill somebody else." •ball we Invite?" “Read something of It,'' said the "Did I?" asked Jim. colonel, "but It didn't Interest me "Don’t laugh," aald she. "I want to Second »t., opposite Halsey Garage "Yes,” said Jennie, "and when th« much." Invite Jim Irwin and hla mother, and teacher a«ked us to kneel and thank Short orders at all hours up to 11 p. w "And the difference between the God. you said, 'Why should we thank nobody else." types of fowl on the table— that's "All right." reiterated the colonel. 5 God that somebody else la blowed breeding. And the nutmeg, pepper and away?1 She wns greatly shocked." "But why?" coconut— that’s geography. ADd every “Oh.” aald Jennie. "1 want to see era wild turkeys from which our com " I don’t see to this day." Jim as thing on the table runs back to geog serted. "what answer there was to whether I can talk Jim out of some mon birds originated.” raphy. and comes to us linked to our my question.” of hla foolishness.” "Where do you learn all these lives by dollars and cento—and they’re io u want to Una him up, do you?" things, Jim ?" »»ted In the gathering darkness Jim again Woodruff. mathematics.” First-Class Work said the colonel. ‘ Well, that's good “I declare, I often tell Woodruff that took Jennie's hand, but this time she "We must have somethlrg more than politics, and Incidentally, yon may get It's as good as a lecture to have Jim deprived him of It. Agent foe Eugene Steam Laundry By HERBERT QUICK some good Ideas out of Jim." dollars and cents In life,” said Jen He wns trembling like a leaf. Let irwln at table. My Intelligence has Sent Tuesdays. "Rather unlikely.” said Jennie. nie. "We must have culture." It he remembered In hla favor that fallen since you quit working here, vIII II III! Illlf lllllllllllllll|l||lt |||||,||||ll,|*3 "I don’t know about that." said the Jim." "Culture,“ cried Jim, “Is the ability this was the only girl's hand he had J- W . S T E P H E N S O N . Prop (Cayjrtght b» Th. Botba-MwrlU Company) colonel, smiling. "I begin to think that to jh in k In terms of life—Isn’t It?" ever held. There came into Jim's eye« the "Like Jesse James?" suggested the “You can’f find any more scars on gleam of the man devoted to a Cause hired man, who was a careful student It," she said soberly. (Continued) —and the dinner tended to develop of the Ufa of that eminent bandit. "Let me see how much It has Into a lecture. Jennie saw a little Quarters of l lo rc a n m n j There was a storm of laughter at changed since I stuck the knife in CHAPTER V III more plainly wherein hla queeraess purposes at canning prices this sally amidst which Jenqle wished IL” begged Jim. she had thought of something like Jennie Arranges a Chrlatmaa Party. Jennie held it np for Inspection. "There's an education in any meal, C. H. FA LK that. Jim Joined In the laughter at Miss Jennie Woodruff of the Wood "It's longer, and alenderer, and if we would Just use the things on the C. L. FA L K JR. hla own expense, but was clearly suf ruff district was a sensible country whiter, and even more beautiful," table as materials for study, and fol fering from argumentative shock. girl. Being sensible, she tried to said he, "than the little hand I cut; low their trails back to tbelr starting HALSEY ‘T hat's the beat answer I ’ve had on but It was then the most beautiful avoid upplsbness. But ahe did feel points. This turkey takes us back to that point, Pete." he aald, after the hand in the world to me— and «till U." w n t little sense of Increased Impor the chaparral of Mexico—” disturbance had subsided. “But If the tance as she drove her father’s little “I must light the lamps," said tha “What’s c h a p a rra lr asked Jennie, James boys and the Youngers had had county runabout over the smooth earth roads. superintendent-elect, rather «s a diversion. " I f , one of the words Cash paid for the sort of culture Tm for. they would flustered. In the crisp December weather, Just It must be confessed. I have seen so often and know per have been suceeasful stock men and "Mamma I before Christmas. The weather Itself Where are all the fectly to speak It and read It—but farmers. Instead of train robbers. matches?” . . I 8,llDnIatlnk- •»<’ in the little car. after all It's Just a word, and nothing Take Raymond Simina for Instance. |V |. • o f i O O r x I visiting the one hundred or more rural more.” Mrs. Woodruff and Mra. Irw in came He bad all the qualifications of a mem In, and the lamplight reminded Jim’s — i schools soon to come under her super "Ain’t that the trouble with our edu ber of the James gang when he came mother that the cow was still to milk, ' vision, she rather fancied the picture cation. Jhn?" queried the colonel, clev here. All he needed waa a few ex and that the chickens might need at of herself, clothed In more or less au erly steering Jim back Into the track asperated associates of his own sort, tention. The Woodruff sleigh came thority and queening it oveT her little | or hi« discourse. and a convenient railway with unde to the door to carry them home; but army of teachers. They are not even living words.” fended trains running over IL But Jim desired to breast the storm. He Mr. Haakon Peterson was phlegmat I answered Jim, “unless we have clothed after a few weeks of real 'culture' felt that he needed the conflict. Mrs. ically conscious that ahe made rather “Talk Jim Out of Soma of Hla Fool- , them In flesh and blood through some under a mighty poor teacher, he's de Irwin scolded him for his foollshne.w, j an agreeable picture, aa she stopped Ishrtesa.’ | sort of concrete notion. 'Chaparral' veloping Into the most enthusiastic but he strode off Into the whirling • her car alongside hla top buggy to talk to Jennie is Just the ghost of a word. JIm’a a Brown Mouse. Tve told you fanner I know. T hat’s real culture.” drift, throwing back a good-by for with him. She had bright blue eyes, I Our civilisation Is full of Inefficiency I t ’s snowing like everything,” said fluffy brown hair, a complexion about the Brown Mouae, haven’t I?' general consumption, and a pathetic WB are satl8fl<fd to fiv e our Ica." said Jennie. "You've told i Jennie, who faced the window. whipped pink by the breeze, and she smile to Jennie. | children these ghosts and shucks and me. But Professor Darblshlre's "Don't cut your dinner short," said smiled at him Ingratiatingly. "He's as odd as Dick's hatband,’ husks of words. Instead of the things brown mice were simply wild and in the colonel to Pete, “but I think you'll "Don't you think father Is lovely r said Mrs. Woodruff, “tramping off in themselves, that can be seen and find the cattle ready to come in out of a storm like this.” said ahe. "He la going to let me use corrigible creatures. Just because It I hefted and handled and tested and the storm when you get good and the runabout when I visit the schools." happens to emerge suddenly from the heard.” "Did you line him up?" asked the veya showsthst 62% of all children be through." "That will be good," said Haakon. forests of heredity, it doesn’t prove colonel of Jennie. tween the age» of si* and sixteen have that the Brown Mouse Is any good." I think PH let ’em In now," said " It will save you lots of time. I hope defective eye«. The young lady started and blushed. C H A P T E R IX Pete, by way of excusing himself. T iiS Justin Morgan was a Brown M o il of tbe»e chihlreu are being you make the county pay for the gaso She had forgotten all about the poli expect to put in most of the day from Mouse,” said the colonel. "And he forced to do school work under the han line.” tics of the situation. Tha Brown Mouse Escapes. now on getting ready to quit eating. dicap of a constant nervous »train caused I haven't thought about that,” said founded the greatest breed of horses f I m afraid I dldn'L papa," she Jennie looked Jim over carefully. Save some of everything for me, Sel by neglect of eves that aeed help. And Jennie. "Everybody's been ao nice to In the world." confessed. His queeraess was taking on a new tha pitiful part Is that the parents' ig ma— I ’ll he right back I” "You say that,” said Jennie, "be "Those brown mice of Professor phase—and ahe felt a sense of sur- noraace of the condition does not save tne— I want to give as well aa receive.” "All right. Pete." said Selma. Why," said Haakon, "you will yuat cause you're a lover of the Morgan Prise such as one experiences when Darblshlre's," said the colonel, "were the child from H i t penalty he la can Mrs. Woodruff and Jim's mother begin to receive when your salary be horse." atanlly paying. the devil and all to coutroL” the conjurer causes a rose to grow went Into other parts of the house on "Napoleon Bonaparte waa a Brown Into a tree before your very eyes. gins In Yanuary.” research work connected with their "So was 'T o he continued) Oh, no!" said Jennie. "Tve re Mouse," said the colonel. W* loae 80 murh tlrae In converse on domestic economy. The ceived much more than that now I You George Washington, and so was Peter school, Jim went on. "while the chil colonel withdrew for an Inspection of the Great. Whenever a Brown Mouse dren are eating their dinners" Optometrists, M anufacturing Opticians don't know how proud I feel. So many the live stock on the eve of the appears he changes things In a little nice men I never knew before, and all "Well, Jim," , . | d Mrg woodruff, Albany, Oregon threatened blizzard. And Jim was left way or a big way." my old friends like you working for every one but you Is down on the "For the better, a lw a y a r asked human level. The poor kids have to alone with Jennie In the front parlor. me In the convention and at the polls, Scanning him by means of her back Jennie. Juat as If I amounted to something." hair, Jennie knew that in another No," said the colonel. "The Brown “And you don't know how proud I But think how much good educa moment Jim would lay his hand on feel, aald Haakon, "to have In county Mouse may throw back to slant-head tion there Is wrapped up in the school her shoulder, or otherwise advance to But Jim . . . some dinner— If we could only get It out" office a little girl I used ta hold on my ed savagery. personal nearness, as he had done the lan * times I think Jim is the kind of Jennie grew grave. Here was thia night of his Ill-starred speech at the Mendellan segregation out of which Brown Mouse actually Introducing the was a rather richer mao schoolhouse—and she rose In self- than the colonel, and not a little proud we get Franklins and Edisons and subject of the school— and he ought defense. Self defense, however, did their sort You may get some good to suspect that ahe was planning to of hla ascent to affluence. A mild- not seem to require that he be kept spoken, soft-voiced Scandinavian, he Ideas out of Jim. Let us have them line him up on this very thing— if he at too great a distance; so she wasn't a perfect donkey as well as a was quite completely Americanized, here for Christmas, by all means." maneuvered him to the sofa, and seat There is no doubt that on Christ dreamer. And he was calmly wading «nil his Influence wns always worth ed him beside her. Now was the time Into the subject ss If she were the mas day Jennie Woodruff was Justi fifty to sixty Scandinavian votes In to line him up. any county election. He waa a good fied In thinking that they were s ex-farm-hand country teacher, and he "It seems good to have you with us party man and conscious of being en queer couple. They weren't like the was the county superintendent-elect' today,” said she. “We're such old. old "Eating a dinner like this, mother,” friends.” titled to hla voice In party matter*. Woodruffs, at alL They were of a said the colonel gallantly. “Is an edu To he sure. Jim's Thle «eeined to him on opportunity for different pattern "Yes,” repeated Jim. “old friends. I.v e r y w o r th w h ile fe a tu re to clothes were not especially note cation In Itself— and eating some oth exerting a bit of political Influence. . - . We are. aren't we, Jennie?" be fo u n d on a a y e le c lrie cle a n e r ers requires one; but Just how la m "Yennle," said he. "thia man Yim worthy. being Just shiny, and frayed He reached over and possessed him ie a p a it o f ib e B L L - V A C . M a at cuff and Instep, and short of sleeve in' ’ Is wrapped up In the school lunch self of her hand. She pulled It from Irw in needs to ha lined up." chines th irte e n year» in service Is a new one on me. Jim.” and leg. and lll-flttlng and cheap. "Lined up! What do you mean?" him gently, hut he paid no attention e re p ro o f o f ite d u ra b ility . T h e "W ell,” said Jim, "In the first place "The way he la doing In the Jim s queerness lay not so much In his | to the little muscular protest, and ex moat rigid teats wall p u .v o ite j the children ought to cook their meals clothes as In his personality. school," said Haakon, “la all wrong. amined the hand critically. On the thoroughness aa a cleaner. L e t ns a part of the school work. Prior to On the other hand. Jennie could not I f you can t line him up. he will make us show you th e n e w that they ought to buy the materials. you trouble. We must look ehead. help thinking that Mrg. Irwin's queer And prior to that they ought to keep Everybody has his friends, and Yim ness was to be found almost solely In the accounts of the school kitchen. Irw in has hla friends. I f you have her clothes. The black alpaca looked They'd like to do these things, and It Jennie felt trouble with him. hla friends will be undeniably respectable. would help prepare them for life on against you when we want to nom It must have a story—a story In which an Intelligent plane, while they pre inate you for a second term. The the stooped, rusty, somber old lady pared the meals." E lectric clune R county la getting close. I t we go to looked like a character drawn to har "Isn't that looking rather far monize with the period Just after the conwentlon without your home delega ahead?' asked the county superintend tion It would weaken you. and If we war. now only ent-elect. But Jennie had the keenness to see nominate you, every piece of trouble " It s like a lot of other things we like this cuta down your wote. You that If Mrs. Irw in could have had an think far ahead." urged Jim "The ought to line him up and have him do up-todate costume she would have j only reason why they're far off Is be right.” become a rather ordlnarv and not bad- cause we think them so. It s a thought looklng old lady. What Jennie failed "But ha Is so funny." said Jennie — and a thought Is ss near tha mo "He likes you." sals] Haakon. ‘ You to divine was that If Jim could have S*»e th e n e w U atu rM h th e im ment we think It as It will ever be." can line him up.** Invested a hundred dollars In the serv proved b iuah a rra n ffe irie n t— the "I guess that's so— to a wild eyed Jennie bluahed, and to conceal her ices of tailors, haberdashers, barbers r e x fu l -b .ill a nd socket” grip and reformer." said the colonel. "But go •light embarrassment. got out for the and other specialists In personal ap the m eth od o f tncreaaine cleaning on. Develop your thought a little. auction. Y o u a a w 125 00 punmse of cranking her machine. pearance. and could have blotted out Have some more dressing." when you buv A 3EF-VAC. "But if I cannot line him up?" aald his record as her father’s field hand, "Thanks. I believe I will," said Jim. ahe. ne would have «eemed to her a rtis- , "And a little more of the cranberry ii 1 M ld H ‘ ako“- “ H you can't tlngulshed-lookbig young man. Not sauce. No more turkey, please." line him up. you will hay« a chance handsome, of course, hul the sort peo “Remember How Ysu Got That." “I d like to see the school class that to rewoke hla certificate when you ple look after— and folloW could prepare this dinner." said Mrs. take office." "Come to dinner," said Mrs. Wood Woodruff. back of the middle finger he pointed Jennie thought of M r Peterson's ruff. who at this. Juncture had a hired Bhy, said Jim, "you'd he there out a scar—a very tiny gear. "Do you remember how jou got suggestion to "lining u p - Jim Irwin girl, hut was ynked to the oar never showing them how! They'd get cred so thoroughly sensible that the theless when It came to turkey and its In their domestic economy course t h a t r he asked. Because Jim clung to the hand, their m * ,ood deal oi Haought that the other flztnrs of a Christmas din- I for getting the school dinner—and day. To he sure, everybody had al ner " It’s good enough, what there Is they'd bring their mothers lute It to heads were very close together as " • h a rt qnite a list of ways favored "more practical educa of It. and there's enough of It such as help them stand at the head of their she Joined In the examination. tion. and Jim's farm arithmetic, It Is—but the dressing In the turkey , classes. And one detail of girls would "Why, I don't believe I do," said farm physiology, farm res ding and would be better for a HtUe more the cook one week, and another serve sage !'• writing, cow-testing exercises, seed The setting of the table would come " I do." he replied “W e -y o n and I ana ysls. corn dubs and th e tomato, The bountiful meal pUed mountain- In as a study—flowers, linen and all and Mary Forsythe were playing poultry and pig clubs he proposed to high for guest and hired help and fam that. And when we get a civilised mumble-peg. and you put your hand have In operation the next summer, ily melted away *> • manner to de- teacher, table manners I" on the grass Just as I threw the knife seemed highly practical; ht* te Jen light the hearts of Mrs Woodruff and "I'd take on that class." said the - It cut you, and left that scar." nies mind, the fact t h « thev Intro Jennie. The colonel, in stiff starched hired man. winking at Selma Carlton, T remember, now'" gaij „^e. ALBANY duced dissension In the n«ui iborbood shirt, black tie and frock coat, carved the msld. from somewhere below the "How such things come back over the with much empreesemenr. and Jim felt : v - salt "The way I make my knife feed memory And did It leave a scar almost for the drat tins* a sense of my face would he a great hup to the when I pushed you toward the red hot Stamp out the value of manner children.’ Tuberculosis schoolhouse one bllxxardy "I had bigger turkeys," said Mrs. "And when the food came on the day. like thia, aod yon peeled the skin with Woodruff to Mrs Irw in, “hut I thought table," Jim went on. with a smile at off your wrist where it Christmas Sects struck the It would be better to Cook two turkey- his former fellow-laborer, who had stove ?* hens Instead of one great big gobbler heard moat of thia before ae a part c o m « » .« .! , with Hns.gr Lee ,h. 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