Tuesday, March' "4, 1924 TEEjSg
THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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CHAPTER I. Jennie Woodruff con
lemptuouBly refuses to marry Jim Ir
win, young farm hand, because of his
financial condition and poor prospects.
He ts Intellectually above his station,
and has advanced ideas concerning the
possibilities of expert school teaching,
lor which he la ridiculed by many.
CHAPTER II. More as a Joke than
otherwise Jim is selected as teacher of
the Woodruff district school.
CHAPTER III. Jim, in his new posi
tion, sets out ts make stanch friends
of his pupils, especially two boys, New
ton Bronson and "Buddy" Simros, the
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.
CHAPTER IV. Jim's conduct of the
school, where he endeavors to teach
the children the wonders of nature
and some of the scientific methods of
farming, as well as "book learning,"
is condemned.
CHAPTER V Jennie Woodruff is
nominted for the position of county
superintendent of schools. The school
board grows bitter In its opposition
to Jim and his innovations.
CHAPTER VI. At a public meeting
Jim roundly condemns the methods of
teaching In the rural schools, and
makes no frlendJ thereby.
CHAPTER VII. A delegation of
prominent women condemn Jim s meth
ods of teaching:, but he is stoutly de
fended by his pupils, especially Newton
uronson.
CHAPTER VIII. Jim has Christmas
dinner at Colonel woodruff s, and lis
tenlng to him, Jennie begins to do some
thinking concerning his ability and
bis prospects.
. CHAPTER IX. In the evening Jim.
as well as he knows how, courts Jen
nie, without, however, making much
progress, though she is quickly losing
ner poor opinion 01 mm.
CHAPTER X. Jennie, elected county
superintendent of schools, receives so
many complaints from people of the
district concerning Jim's methods of
teachlna that she finds herself com
. nelled formally to ask for his realisa
tion. After she has left, Jim is visited
. by Colonel i wooarun. who strongly
urges him to refuse to resign, and
- offer to back him. Jim agree to
: tick, (or a while at least. - .
CHAPTER XI. A meeting of the
school board, which had been gathered
to "get" Jim, Is confronted by Jennie
wno upnoias mm. lie conaucis an ex
amlnation of ht pupils at the meet
ing. to prove that ae is not neglecting
their book learning" oy uie introauc
tion of other subjects which he con
Ider of Impoitance. The aplendid
snowing made by the children converts
many, who had doubted, to his view
CHAPTER XII. The novel Ideal
which Jim has Introduced have been
talked about outside the county, and
he Is visited by Professor Withers, ex
tension lecturer at the state university,
who invites him to deliver an address
at the next annual meeting of the
Farmers' Institute.
CHAPTER XIII. Professor Wither!
ts Impressed by many of the Innova
tions made by Irwin, and so Informs
Colonel Woodruff and Jennie, some
what to the astonishment of both. The
colonel suggests to Jim that he (the
colonel) se?k election to the school
board, replacing Cornelius Bonner, im
placable enemy of Jim Irwin.
CHAPTER XIV. Feigning sickness
Newton Bronson, youngster whom Ir
win has redeemed from idleness and
folly and set on the right path, and
who almost worships the teacher, keep
his father from voting at the school
board election. Bronson I a friend of
Bonner, and would have voted for him.
A it Is, Colonel Woodruff Is chosen
for the position, owing to Bronson'i
absence.
CHAPTER XV. Jim convinces the
farmers of the district of the advan
tages to be derived from a co-operative
creamery, and it la agreed to establish
one. His rise to a position of leader
ship In the community, and high re
sponsibility, has made a distinct differ
ence In Jennie's feelings toward Jim.
which she Is forced to acknowledge to
herself.
CHAPTER XVI. In his address at
the Farmers' Institute Jim makes a dis
tinctly favorable Impression. After the
meeting he Is offered a position as
teacher In another district, with a con
siderable advance in salary, and agrees
to consider It
CHAPTER XVII. Jim's friends urge
him to remain at his present post,
leading cltliens of the district assuring
!m that they are "proud of him."
CHAPTER XIX
A 8oheot District Hold Up.
" Colonel Woodruff was on his feet
Jim made his way through the crowd
about the door. ' '
"Mr. Irwin Is here, ladles and gen
tlemen," said he, "and I more that wt
bear from him as to what we can do
to meet the offer of our friends in Pot
tawatomie county; but before. I yield
the floor, I want to say that this
meeting baa been worth while Just
to have been the occasion of our all
becoming better acquainted with our
friend and neighbor, Mr. Slmms. What
ever may bare been the lack of under
standing, on oar part, of bis qualities,
they were all cleared np by that speech
of bis the best I have ever beard In
this neighborhood.
Mors applause. In the midst of
which Old Man BImms slunk away
down In bis seat to escape observa
tion. Then the chairman said that if
there was no objection tbey would
bear from their well-known dtlxen,
whose growing fame was more re
markable for the fact that It bad been
gained as a country schoolmaster be
need not add that he referred to Mr.
James E. Irwin. (More snd louder ap
plause.) "Friends and neighbors," said Jim,
"yon ask me to say to yon what I want
you to do. I want you to do what you
want to do nothing more or less.
Last vau I was l4 to be tolsratad
nere ; ana the only cnange in tne situ
ation lies In the fact that I have an
other place offered me unless there
has been a change In your feelings to
ward me and my work. I hope there
has been ; for I know my work Is good
now, whereas I only believed It then."
"Sure It is!" shouted Con Bonner
from a front seat, thus signalizing
that astute wirepuller's definite choice
"Tell Us What You Want, Jim."
of a place In the bandwagon. 'Tell us
what you want, Jim !"
"What do 1 want?" asked Jim.
"More than anything else, I want such
meetings as this often and a place
to hold them. If I stay in the Wood
ruff District, I want this meeting to
effect a permanent organization to
work with me. I can't teach this dis
trict anything. Nobody can teach any
one anything. All any teacher can do
is to direct people's activities In teach
ing themselves. You are gathered here
to decide whnt vnn'll do nhout the
Kinan rnuner 01 Keeping me at worn as
your hired man.
"If I'm to be your hired man, I want
a boss in the shape of a civic organiza
tion which will take In every man and
woman In the district. Here's the
place and now's the time to make that
organization an organization the ob
ject of which shall be to put the whole
district at school, and to boss me in
my work for the whole district." ,
"Pat sounds good," cried Haakon
Peterson. "Veil do dat!"
"Then I want you to work out a
building scheme for the school," Jim
went on,. ."We want a place where
girls can learn to, cook,, keep, house,
take care of babies, sew, and learn
to be wives and mothers. There's
somebody right in this neighborhood
able to teach anything the young peo
ple want to learn.
"And I want physician here once
in a while to examine the children as
to their health, and a dentist to look
after their teeth and teach them how
to care for them. Also sn oculist to
examine their eyes. And when Bettlna,
Hansen comes borne from the hospital
a trained nurse, I want her to have
Job as visiting nurse right here In the
Woodruff District.
"I want a couuting-room for the
keeping of the farm accounts and the
record of our observation in farming.
I want co-operation In letting ns have
these accounts.
"I want some manual training equip
ment for wood-working and metal
wortclng, and a blacksmith and wagoa
shop. In which the boys may learn to
shoe horses, repair tools, design build
ings, snd practice the best agricultural
engineering. 1 want to. do work k
poultry according to the most modern
breeding discoveries, and I want your
co-operation is that and a poultry
plant somewhere In the district. . ..,
"I want a laboratory in which we
can work on seeds, pests, soils, feeds
and the like. For the education of
your children most come out of these
things. ...
"I want these things because tbey
are necessary If ws are to get the cul
ture out of life we should gt and
nobody gets culture out of any sort of
school they get It oat of life, or they
dont get It at all. .
"So I want yon to build as freely
for your school as for your cattle and
horses and bogs, -v , ,- i
"The school will make for you this
new kind of rural school a social life
which will be the social center, be
cause it will be the educational center,
and the business center of the coun
tryside. "1 want an these things, and more.
But I don't expect them all at once.
I know that this district Is too small
to do all of them, snd therefore. I
want a bigger district one that will
give us the financial strength to carry
out the program I have sketched. This
may be s presumptuous thing for me
to propose. If you think so, let me
go. But if yon dont, please keep this
meeting together In a permanent or
ganisation of grownup members of the
Woodruff school, and by pulling to
gether, yon can do these things all of
them and many more and you'll
make the Woodruff District a good
place to lire In and die in and I shall
be prood to live and die In It at your
service, as the neighborhood's hired
man 1"
As Jim sat down there was a hush
in the crowded room, as if the people
were dased at his assurance. There
was -no applause, until Jennie Wood
ruff, now seen by Jim for the first
time over next the blackboard, clapped
her gloved bands together and started
It ; then It swept out through the win
dows in a storm. The dust rose from
stamping feet until the kerosene lamps
were dimmed by It And as the
noise subsided, Jim saw standing out
In front the stooped form of B. B.
Hamm. om of the most prosperous
men in the district
Ms. CtMtrsiaa Er Brasses.' be
ruaieu, -cms leuers crazy, an innu
the sound of things, you're all as
crazy as he is. If this fool . scheme
of his goes through, my farm's for
sale l I'll quit before I'm sold out for
taxes!"
"Just a minute, B. B.l" Interposed
Colonel Woodruff. "This ain't as
dangerous as you think. You don't
want us to do all this in fifteen min
utes, do you, Jim?" '
"Oh, as to that," replied Jim, "I Just
wanted you to have In your minds
what I have in my mind and unless
we can agree to work toward these
things there's no use In my staying.
But time that's another matter. Be
lieve with me, and I'll work wl'.h you."
"Get out of herel" said the colonel
to Jim In an undertone, "and leave
the rest to your friends."
Jim walked out of tne room and
took the way toward his home. A
horse tied to the hltching-pole had his
blanket under foot, and Jim replaced
It on his back, patting him kindly and
talking horse language to him. Then
he went up and down the line of
teams,- readjusting blankets, tying
loosened knots, and assuring himself
that his neighbors' horses were se
curely tied and comfortable. He knew
horses better than he knew people, he
thought If he could manage people
no he c.-miM mfinnco linrspR hnt thnt
would be wrong. Horse management
was despotism; man-government must
be like the government of a society of
wild horses, the result of the common
work of the members of the herd.
Two figures emerged from the
schoolhouse door, and as he turned to
ward his hbme after his pastoral calls
on the horses, they overtook him.
They were the figures of Newton Bron
son and the county superintendent of
schools.
"Dad wants you back there again,'
said Newton.
"What for?" inquired. Jim. ,
"You silly boy," said Jennie, "you
talked about the good of the schools
all of the time, and never said a word
about your own salary I What do you
want? They want to know?"
"Oh I" exclaimed Jim in the manner
of one who suddenly remembers that
be has forgotten his umbrella or his
pocket-knife. "I forgot all about It
I haven't thought about that at all.
Jenniel"
"Jim," said she, "you need
guardian!" . . . , i
"I know It, Jennie," said he, "and 1
know who I want. I want
"Please come back," said Jennie,
"and tell papa how much you're going
to hold the district up for." ,
"You ran back," said Jim to New
ton, "and tell your father that what
ever ts right In the way of salary will
be satisfactory to me. I leave that to
the people." -
Newton darted off, leaving the
schoolmaster standing In the road
with the county superintendent
1 can't go back there 1" said Jim.
'Tm proud of you, Jim," said Jennie.
"This community has found Its mas
ter. They in't do all yon ask now,
nor very soon; but finally they'll do
Just ss yon want them to do. And,
Jim, I want to say that I've been the
biggest little fool in the county!
(To be continued)
SPRAYING IS NOT HARMFUL
rhere Is No Danger If Proper Methods
of Eradicating Pest
Are Used.
A good many people have asked the
juestlon, "Will fruits and vegetables
ivhicb have been sprayed be dangerous
:o use?"
It can be said that if they use the
iiethods recommended for the differ
snt pests by the Department of Agrl
:ulture and the experiment stations
'here will be no danger. Of course
n gome instances, simply because of
leavy spraying or spraying late in the
season, there may be comparatively
iarge quantities of spray material
tuck to the fruit and vegetables at
larvest time, especially where such
products are grown In a dry climate.
when heavy coatings of spray mate
ial are found, washing and wiping
will remove much of this, usually al
most all of It, and peeling will remove
svery bit.
Considerable fear has been ex
pressed by some that spraying of fruits
ind vegetables might leave enough ar
senate of lead or copper on the sur
'ace to be Injurious to any one who
might eat the fruit.
Right In this line experiments have
een undertaken by the United States
Department of Agriculture to deter
mine whether there might be left on
ruch fruits and vegetables vhlrh are
jprnyed enough chemicals of a poi
lonoas nature to be Injurious.
Are Hiccup Rheumatism?
That hiccups may be due to rtiew
natlsm Is the contention of Dr. Martin
1. Chevers, s member of the British
Medical association and a weH-kaswn
Manchester physician.
"I bare never failed to cure tSe
nost obstinate case by a few doses
f antirheumatic medicine, Doctor
Chevers states in a letter to the Brlt
sb Medical Journal. He admits that
norphlne may relieve the spasms, but
idds that It does not go to the root
f the cure.
His suggestion is particularly timely
n view of the reported "hiccup" epl
temlc In France, which, it has been
ruggested. must mean that "hiccups"
ire Infectious. One of the cures used
n France Is to apply severe pressure
:o the eyeballs.
Adopted by Btuejsekets.
In the midst of the qualntnera of
Id Stamboul the Turkish Quarter of
Constantinople -stand one of the
nost intermtttof modsm arMiMisa
jj tne worm a nome tor enna reru
fees from the burned city of Smyrna.
It is supported by American sailors
the crew of the U. S. S. Edsall, a de
itroyer of Admiral Long's squadron.
Twice each mouth, on the 15th and
!lie 30th, when the crew is paid, each
jfflcer and man contributes his share
to the support of the orphanage. It
". as through the efforts of Commander
Halsey Powell of the Edsall that Smyr
na was evacuated without tremendous
ioss of life. McClure's Magazine for
July. ,
Advertise it in the Herald.
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