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CHAPTER XXII
And So They Lived
And so it turned out quite as If It
were In the old ballad, that "all In
the merry month of May," and also
"all in the merry green wood," there
were great doings about the hold little
promontory where once stood the cab
In on the old wood-lot where the
Slmms family had dwelt.
The brook run about the promon
tory, and laid at Its feet on three
sides a carpet of blue-grtss, amid
clumps of trees and wild hushes. Not
far afield on either hand cuine the
black corn-land, but up and down the
lluffy sides of the brook for some
distance on both sides of (lie King
dragged highway, ran the old wood
lot, now regaining much of the un
kempt appearance which character
ized it when Jim Irwin had drawn
upon himself the gentle rebuke of Old
Man Simms for not giving a whoop
from the big road before coining into
the yard.
The cabin was gone, and In its place
stood a pretty little bungalow, about
which blossomed lilacs and peonies and
roses and other old-fashioned flowers
furnished by Mrs. Irwin. For this was
the teacher's house or schoolmanse for
the new consolidated Woodruff dis
trict, and the old Simms wood-lot was
henceforth to be the glebe-land of the
school manse.
Jim turned over and over In his
mind these new applications of old,
historic, significant words, dear to
every reader of history "glebe-land,"
"schoolmanse" and It seemed to him
that they signified the return of many
old things lost In Merrie England,
lost In New England, lost all over
the English-speaking world, when the
old publicly-paid clergyman ceased to
be so fur the servant of all the peo
ple that they refused to be taxed for
his support. Was not the new kind
of rural teacher to be a publlcly-pald
leader of thought, of culture, of prog
ress, and was he not to have his
manse, his glebe-land, . and his "liv
ing?" And all because, like the old
clergyman, he was doing a work In
which everybody was Interested and
for which they were willing to be
taxed. Perhaps It was not so high
a status as the old ; hut who was to
say that? Certainly -not Jim Irwin,
the possessor of the hew .kind of "liv
ing," with its "glebe-land" and Its
"schoolmanse." He would ljave rated
the new as at least quite as high as
the old.
From the brow of the promontory, a
ight concrete bridge took the pretty
little gorge In the leap of a single
arch, and landed the eye at the bot
tom of the front yard of the school-
, house. Thus the new Institution of
life was In full view of the school-
manse veranda, and yet shut off from
it by the dry moat of the brook and
; Its tiny meadow of blue-grass. '
, Across the road was the creamery,
with Its businesslike unloading plat
form, and Its addition In process of
construction for the reception of the
machinery for the co-operative laun
dry. Not far from the creamery, and
also across the road, stood the black
smith and wheelwright shop. Still
farther down the street were the barn,
poultry house, pens, hutches and yards
of the little farm small, as were all
the buildings save the schoolhouse It
self, whlh wag bullded, as it should
have been, for the future.
And even the schoolhouse, when one
thinks of the uses to which It was to
be put kitchen, nursery, kindergnr
ten, banquet hall, theater, moving pic
ture hall, classrooms, manual training
rooms, laboratory and counting room
and what not, was wonderfully small
Colonel Woodruff said far too small
though It was necessarily so large
as to be rather astonishing to the un
expectant passer-by.
The uneipectant passer-by this May
day, however, would have been espe
cially struck by the number of motor
cars, buggies and surreys parked In
the yard back of the creamery, along
the roadside, and by the driveway
rnnnlng to the schoolhouse. People In
numbers had arrived by five o'clock In
the afternoon, and were still coming.
They strolled about the place, exam
ining the buildings and grounds, and
talking with the blacksmith and the
butter-maker.
Gradually they drew Into the school
house like a swarm of bees into a hive
selected by the queen. None of them,
however, went acrosg the concrete
bridge to the schoolmanse, ?ave M1-.
Sinisis, who crossed, consulted with
Mrs. Irwin about the shrubbery ami
flowers, and went back to Buddie and
Jinnie, who were good children but
nutchally couldn't be trusted with so
many other young ones withouten some
watchln'.
"They're coming! They're coming!"
This was the cry borne lo the people
in and about tfie schoolhouse by that
nuns nunatru uu vtuuiu ue cuiieu
Hans Nllsen. Hans had been to the
top of the little hill and had a look
toward town.
Like a crew manning a rigging, or
a crowd having its picture taken, the
assemblage crystallized luto forms de
termined by the chances of getting a
glimpse of the bungalow across the
ravine on posts, fences, trees and
hillocks.
A motor car came OTcr the hillock,
ran down the road to the driveway to
the schoolmanse and drew up at the
door. Out of it stepped Mrs. Woodruff
and the colonel, their daughter, the
county superintendent of schools, and
Mr. Jim Irwin. Jennie was dressed In
a very well-tailored traveling costume,
and Jim in a moderately well-tailored
business suit. The fact that when
they reached the threshold Jim picked
Jim Picked Jennie Up and Carried Her
In His Arms.
Jennie up In his arms and carried her
In, will enable any good detective to
put one and one together and make a
pair which comes pretty near telling
the whole story.
By this time it was nearly seven,
and Culista Simms came across the
charmed bridge as a dispatch-bearer,
saying that If Mr. Jim and Miss Jen
nie didn't mind, dinner would be
suhved right soon. It was cooked
about right, and the folks was gettin'
right hungry an' such a crowd!
There were fifteen in the babies' room,
and for a while they thought the
youngest Ilamm young one had swal
lowed a marble. She would tell
'em they would be right over; good-by.
There was another cheer as the
three elderly and the two younger peo
ple emerged from the schoolmanse
amMook their way over the bridge to
the school side of the velvet-bottomed
moat, but It was shut off like the
vlhrnHnn of n hell nMnnpn In water hv
the smiuen rusn 01 toe snomers into
the big assembly room, now filled with
tables for the banquet. And here the
domestic economy classes, with their
mothers, sisters, female cousins and
aunts, met them, as waiters, hat
snatchers, hostesses, floor manager!
and cooks, scoring the greatest tri
umph of history In the Woodruff dis
trict. For everything went off like
clockwork, especially the victual
and such victuals!
There was quantity In meats,
breads, vegetables and there was also
savor. There was plenty, and there
was style. Ask Mrs. Haakon Peter
son, who yearned for culture, and had
been afraid her children .wouldn't
get it if Yim Irwin taught them
nothing but farming. She will tell
you that the dinner which so many
thought of all the time as supper
was yust as well served as If It had
been in the Chamberlain Hotel In Dos
Moines, where she had stayed when
she went with Haakon to the state
convention.
Why shouldn't It have been even
better served? It was planned, cooked,
served unil eaten by people of Intelli
gence and brains, In their own house,
as a community affair, and In a com
munity where, if any one should ask
you, you are authorized to state that
there's as much wealth to the acre
as in any strictly farming spot be
tween the two oceans, and where you
are perfectly safe financially in
dropping from a balloon In the dark
of the moon, and paying a hundred
and fifty dollars an acre for any
farm you happen to. land on. Why
shouldn't things" have been well done,
when every one worked, not for
money, but for the love of the doing,
and the love of learning to do in the
best way?
Some of these things came out In
the speeches following the repast
and some other things, too. It was
probably not quite fnir for I?. B.
Hannn to Incorporate in his wishes for
the welfare and prosperity ani so
forth of Jim and Jennie that stale
one about the troubles of life, but
he wanted to see Jennie blush which
is a mutter of fact he did; but she
failed to grow quite so llery red as
(lid Jim. 15ut 1. B. was a good fel
low, and a Trojan in his work for
the cause, and the schoolmaster and
superintendent of schools forgave him.
A remark may be a little broad, and
still clean, and B. B. made a clean
speech, mainly devoted to the In
creased value of that farm he at one
memorable time was going to sell be
fore Jim's fool notions could be car
ried out.
Colonel Woodruff made most of fht
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Right now! Settle the whole
cigarette question forever by
rolling your own fromMBULL".
You get more flavor, more en
joyment, more tobacco taste,
more quality and much more
for your money. (100 for 15 cents)
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a nove poinm wmcn i nave sieneu
from him. He had begun as a re
forms Ute ia life, be Mid, feat be
would leave It to them If he hadn't
worked at the trade steadily after en
listment. He had become a follower
of Jim Irwin, because Jim's reform
was like dragging the road in front of
your own farm it was reform right
at home, and not at the county seat,
or Des Moines, or Washington. He
had followed Jim Irwin as he had
followed Lincoln, and Grant, and
Blaine, and McKinley because Jim
Irwin stood for more upward growth
for the average Americas citizen than
the colonel could see any prospect
of getting from any other choice. And
he was proud to live in a country
like this, saved and promoted by the
greut men he had followed, and In a
neighborhood served and promoted, If
not quite saved, by Jim Irwin. And
he was not so sure about It not be
ing saved. Every man and nation
had to he saved anew every so often,
and the colonel believed that Jir.i Ir
win's new kind of rural school is
just as necessary to the salvation of
this country. "I am about to close
my speech," said .the colonel, "and
the small service I have been able to
give to tills nation. I went through
the war, neighbors and am proud of
It ; but I've done more good in the
peaceful service of the last three
years than I did iu four of fighting
and campaigning. Tl" i the way I
feel about what we've done In Con
solidated District Number One." (Vo
ciferous and long-continued applause.)
"Oh, Colonel !" The voice of Angie
Talcott rose from away back near the
kitchen. "Can Jennie ke.ep on bein'
county superintendent, now she's mar
ried?" A great guffaw of laughter reduced
poor Angie to tears; and Jennie had
to go over and comfort her. It was
all right for hor to ask that and they
ought not to laugh at Angie, so there!
Now, you're nil right, and let's talk
about the new schoolhouse, nnd so
forth. Jennie brought the smiles
back to Angle's face, just in time to
heur Jim tell the people amid louder
cheers that he had been asked to go
into the rural school exteifrion work
in two states, and had been offered
a fine salary in either place, but that
he wasn't even considering these of
fers. And ubout that time, the chil
dren began to get sleepy anil cross
and naughty, and the women set In
motion agencies which moved the
crowd homeward.
Before a bright wood fire which
they really didn't need, but how else
was Jim's mother to show off the little
GENUINE
fl replace r pal jiin mm amine, inry
bad been together for a week now
this belnt; their homecoming and had
only begun to get really happy.
Jim sat looking Into the fire, ob
livions of It. When Jennie spoke, her
voice seemed to emanate from Jim's
shirt front.
"Did yon hear," said she, "what
Angle Talcott asked?"
"M'h'm," said Jim.
"Well," said Jennie, "now that I'm
married can I go on being county superintendent?"
There was a long silence.
"Would you like to?" asked Jim.
"Kind of," said Jennie; "if I knew
enough about (hingsTo do anything
wortli while; but I'm afraid that by
rising to my full height I shall always
just fail to be able to see over any
thing." "Yim've done more for the schools
of the county," said Jim, "in the last
year than any other county superin
tendent has ever done."
"And we shall need the money so
like so like the dickens," was Jennie's
rejoinder.
"Oh, not so badly," laughed Jim,
"except for the first year. I'll have
this little farm paying as much as
some quarter sections when we got
squared about. Why, we can make a
living on fids school farm, Jennie or
I'm not fit to be the head of tha
school."
There was another silence, during
which Jennie took down her hair, and
wound It around Jim's neck.
"It will settle itself one of these
days anyhow," said he at last. "There's
enough to do for both of us right
here."
"But they won't pay me," she pro
tested. "They don't pay (he ministers'
wives," said Jim, "and yet, the min
isters with the right sort of wives are
always the best paid. I guess you'll
be in the bill, Jennie."
Jim walked to the open window and
looked out over the still landscape.
Down in the little meadow grew the
dreaming trees, their round crowns
rising as from a sea not quite to the
level of the bungalow, their thrifty
leaves glistening in the moonlight.
Across the pretty bridge lay the silent
little campus with lis Twentieth cen
tury temple facing Its chief priest. It
was all good, without and within.
He went across the hull to bid his
mother good night. She clung to him
convulsively, and they had t heir own
five minutes which arranged matters
for these two silent natures on the
new basis forever. Jennie was In while
before the niiintel when ho reforrwl.
cn rP t
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EIGHT CENTS A
Sinning m me inscription mereon: -"Let
Us Cease Thinking So Much
of Agricultural Education, and Devote
Ourselves to Educational Agriculture.
So Will the Nation Be Made Strong."
"Why didu't you put It In Latin?"!
she inquired. "It would have had soj
much more distinction."
"I wanted it to have meaning In
stead," said Jim. "And besides, nobody
who was at hand was quite sure how to
turn the Latin phrase. Are you?"
Jennie leaned forward with her el
bows on her knees, and studied It.
"I believe I could," said she, "with
out any pony. But after aft, I like It
better as It Is. I like everything, Jim
everything !"
IT1IE END. ''.ffirjj
IX THE CI lit I IT COI KT OP THE
STATE OE OREOOX
Vov Morrow County
Cccilc M. Dempsey,
Plaintiff.
f SUMMON
soy, I
ndant.
Thomas V. Penips
Dofendn
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF OREGON: You are hereby re
quired to appear and answer tho,
plaintiff's complaint filed herein,
against you in the above entitled
court and cause, within six weeks
from the date of the first publication
of this summons; and if you fail to
appear and answer said complaint,
for want thereof the plaintiff will ap
ply to the Court for the relief prayed
lor-in her complaint, which is as fol
lows, to wit: That the bonds of mat
rimony now and heretofore existing
between tho plaintiff and the defen
dant be dissolved and forever held
for naught, and that the plaintiff
have an absolute divorce from tlu
defendant.
This summons Is served upon you
by publication thereof for the period
of six woel;! in. the Heppncr Herald,
a weekly newspaper of gene.ral circu
lation, printed and published at
Heppncr, Oregon, by order of Hon.
W. T. Campbell, County Judge oE
Morrow County, State of Oregon,
made and entered on the 3rd day oC
March, 1024.
The date of first publication U
March 4, 1924.
WOODSON & SWEEK,
Attorneys for Plaintiff,
Address: Heppncr, Oregon. 45-51
BAG,
J