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.
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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,
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"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
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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.’
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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.
A f M j <t
Look at I t r said he, baring hla
with meet as tough as trips and
of the Held conversation. “Just think
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"Right there "
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is
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- T j c . ° f tha hens wputd
been
•■ting it. The literary term for eat-
,o ‘•hl,dhoo<’
They had it is to Aninst ths (atopsigo that
a meal Is discussing It—well the
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