Tuesday, December 18, 1923
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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CALL FOR COUNTY WARRANTS
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row County, Oregon, registered prior
to June 10th, 1923, will be paid on
presentation at the office of the
County Treasurer on or after Decem
ber 22nd,, 1923, on which date inter
est on said warrants will cease.
Dated at Heppner, Oregon, De
cember 12th, 1923.
LEON W. BRIGG9,
2 issues County Treasurer.
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SYNOPSIS
CHAPTER I. Jennie Woodruff con
temptuously refuses to marry Jim Ir
win, yuuns farm hand, because of his
financial condition and poor prospects.
He is intellectually above his station,
and lias advanced ideas concerning the
possibilities of expert school teaching,
for which he la ridiculed by many.
CHAPTER II. More aa a joke than
otherwise Jim is selected as teacher of
the Woodruff district school.
CHAPTER III Jim, in his new posi
tion, sets out tg make stanch friends
of his pupils, especially two boys, New
ton Bronson and "Buddy" Simms. th
latter the son of a shiftless farmer.
Colonel Woodruff, Jennie's father, has
little faith in Jim's ideas of improving
rural educational methods. He nick
names him the "Brown Mouse," in il
lustration of an anecdote.
of inferior kernels at tip and butt to
liit; full-sized grains in the middle oS
the ear.
Ali the time, Jim Irwin, awkward
olid uncouth, clad hi his uone-tou-guou
Suaduy suit uud trying to hide behind
his Lincoiuian smile the fact that he
was pretty badly frightened and much
embarrassed, passed among them, get
ting them enrolled, setting them to
work, wusting much time and labor
ing like a heavy-laden barge In a sea-
wy.
CHAPTER IV
The First Day of School.
Jim Irwin was full of his Emerson's
"Representative Men," and his C'ar-
lyle's "French Revolution," and the
other old-fashioned, excellent, good
literature which did nut cost over 25
cents a volume; and he had pored long
and with many thrills over the pages
of Matthews' "Getting On in the
World." His vipw of efficiency was
that it Is tiie capacity to see oppor
tunity where others overlook it, and
make the most of it.
All through his life he had had his
own plans for becoming great. And
all the time he was bare-footed, Ill
clad and dreamed his dreams to the
accompaniment of the growl of the
plow cutting the roots under the
brown furrow-slice, or the wooshing of
the milk in the pail. At twenty-eight,
he considered these dreams over.
As for this new employment, he saw
no great opportunity in it. He went
into the small, mean, ill-paid task as
a part of the day's work, with no
knowledge of the stirring of the nation
for a different sort of rural school,
and no suspicion that there lay in It
any highway to success In life. He
rather wondered why he had allowed
Jennie's sneer to sting him Into the
course of action which put him in this
new relation to his neighbors.
But, true to his belief In 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 23 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 Simmses 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 about 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 gchool, to any extent, but on the
weather, the horses, the automobiles,
the sllo-filllng machinery and the
profits of farming.
. fteally, though Jennie Woodruff did
not see bow such doings related to
school work, Jim Irwin'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
school as disorderly. To be sura,
there were more pupils enrolled than
had evor 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 corn and a good-sized corn sii -v
was on view. There was much urs.i
ment as to the merits of the various
entries. Instead of a language lesson
from the text-book, Jim had given
them an exercise based on an examina
tion o the ears of corn.
The .'umber exercises of the little
chaps had been worked out with ears
and kernels of corn. One class in
arithmetic calculated
"That Feller"!! Never Do."
"xnut feller'll never do," said Bon
ner to Bronson next day. "Looks like
a tramp in the schoolroom."
"Wearin' his best, 1 guess," said
Bronson.
"Half the kids call him 'Jim,' " said
Bonner.
"That's all right with me," replied
Brouson. .
"The room was as noisy as a cau
cus," was Bonner's next Indictment,
"and the flure was all over corn like
a hog-pin."
"Oh I 1 don't suppose he can get
away with it," assented Brouson dis
gustedly, "but that boy of mine is as
tickled as a colt with the whole thing.
Says he's goin' reg'lar this winter."
"That's because Jlin don't keep no
order," Bald Bonner. "He lets Newt do
as he pleases.' '
"First time he's ever pleased to do
anything but deviltry," protested Bron
son, "Oh, I suppose Jim'll fall down,
and we'll have to fire him but I wish
we could git a good teacher that would
git hold of Newt the way he seems
to 1"
(To be continued)
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Biologist Predicts Ultimate Loss
All Toes but One if Their
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of
A London biologist Is quoted as
making the prediction that if women
keep on wearing high heels they will
find themselves eventually with only
one toe, says the New York Herald.
With the high heels now worn, he
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ing; and as nature always gets rid of
superfluous organs it seems likely
that in the course of time women's
toes will be reduced to three, and per
haps later to two, or even one.
The biologist is not mentioned by
name but apparently he accepts a the
ory that most evolutionists have aban
doned. The present view of orthodox
biologists Is that acquired character
istics are not Inherited.
Even Bernard Shaw, who, venturing
Into this controversy in "Back to
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energy against the orthodox view, ad
mits that many generations of Chinese
women have bound their feet "without
producing the slightest tendency on
their part to be born with abnormally
'small feet."
I He also, descending the scale, con
cedes that the clipped ears and docked
tails which fanciers have Inflicted on
generations of dogs have not affected
jthe ears and tails of the dogs' pup
pies. And descending still further, he
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the children of the children of the
mice, without finding that the tails of
the descendants were any shorter than
those of their ancestors,
j So the toes of coming generations
are probably safe regardless of the
fashion In women's footwear.
Figures Were Not There,
The class had been told to draw a
picture of a river with two fieures sit
ting on the bank. Ooing round the
hiss the teacher came to a hoy who
had finished his drawing. She looked
at his puper and was surprised to find
only a river.
"Why, Jack," she said, "where are
the two people I tild you to draw?"
"Well, you see, miss," he answered,
"I'm not very good at drawing people
so I put up a notice: 'Trespassers
will be prosecuted.' "
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Xoi&s (Goods
There are only a few n.ore days until Christmas, The kiddles
are counting the hours now. There is a feeling of suspense iu the
air in every1 home where children aie. Closet shelves are being bur
dened with many mysterious packages. There is much whispering
and many sly looks. We all love Christmas. W'J can't help It, lo
calise its appeal is so universal its spirit so fundamentally good.
Our sore has the goods that will meet the needs of every family
very well. We are proud of the part we have played in this prepar
ation, and can still play. There Is much merchandise here that can
still be bought at very favorable prices. We have terms to clear out
our stock of Holiday goods, and the prices are low enough to do it
immediately some unusual lasj- minute buying when your dollar
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Cut Glass Convex Jelly Bowls
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will find many notable values
at
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giving:
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