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He la Intellectually above his station, and has advanced Ideas concerning1 the possibilities of school teaching and farming, for which he Is ridiculed by many. In short, Jim Is an oft ox. He flocks by himself and reads books and has a philosophy of his own. But there ar latent powers In him unsuspectcl even by himself and Opportunity comes knocking at his door. Jim is nominated for school-teacher, as a Joke. The Joke results In his election. He visits scholars. Jennie Is nominated for county superintendent of schools. Jim speaks at a public meetlr-'. con demning rural school m^tl.ods. r t * 'i CHAPTER Vll ? Continued. Newton explained for the tenth time that Jim had done so many things that no teacher was supposed to do, and had left undone so many things that teachers were bound by custom to perform, that Newton's father and Mr. Bonner and Mr. Peterson hnd made op their minds that they would call upon him to resign, and If he wouldn't, they would "turn hlin out" In some way. f "What wrong's he done committed?" asked Raymond. "I don't know what teachers air supposed to do In this kentry, but Mr. Jim seems to be the only shore-enough teacher I ever see!" "He don't teach out of the books the school board adopted," replied Newton. "But he makes up better lessons," urged Raymond. "An* all the things we de In school he'ps us make a Hvln*.** "He begins at eight In the mornln',"1 said Newton, "an' he has some of us there till half past Ave, and comes back In the evening. And every Sat urday, some of the kids are doln* something at the schoolhouse." "They don't pay him for overtime, do they?" queried Raymond. "Well, then, they orto, lnstld of turnln' him out P.,. J "Well, they'll turn him out!" prophe sied Newton.- "I'm bavin' more fun In school than I ever ? an' that's why I'm with you on this qulttln' trapping ?but they'll get Jim, all right!" "I'm having something bqfteh'n fun," replied Raymond. "My pap has never understood this kentry, an' we all has had bad times hyeh; but Mr. Jim an' I have studied out how I can make a betteh llvin' next year ? and pap says we kin go on the way Mr. Jim says. I'll work for Colonel Wood ruff a part of the time, an' pap kin make corn In the biggest field. It seems we didn't do our work right last year ? an' In a couple of years, with the Increase of the hawgs, an' the land we kin get under plow . . ." It was still an hour before nine ? when the rural school traditionally "takes up" ? when the boys had stored their traps In a shed at the Bronson home, and walked on to the school house. That rather scabby and weath ered edifice was already . humming with Industry of a sort. In spite of the hostility of the school board, and the aloofness of the patrons of the school, the pupils were clearly Inter ested In Jlmj Irwin's system of rural education. Never had the attendance been so large or regular; and one or the reasons for sessions before nine and after four was the Inability of the teacher to attend to the needs of his charges in the five and a half hours called "school hours." The day passed. Four oVlock came. In order that all might reach home, for supper, there was no staying, ex cept that Newt Bronson and Raymond Slmms remained to sweep and dust th6 schoolroom, and prepare kindling for the next morning's fire ? a work they had taken upon themselves, so as to enable the teacher to put on the blackboards such outlines for the mor row's class work as might be required. Jim was writing on the board a list of words constituting a spelling exer cise. They were not from textbooks, but grew naturally out of the study of the seed whent ? "cockle," "morning glory," "convolvulus," "viable," "via bility," "sprouting," "iron-weed" and the like. A tap was heard at the door, and Raymond Slmms opened It. In filed three women ? and Jim Ir win knew as he looked at them that he was greellng a deputation, and felt that it meant a struggle. : For they were the wives of the members of the school board. He placed for them the three available chairs, and In the ab sence of any for himself remained standing before them, a gaunt shabby looking revolutionist at the bar of settled usage and fixed public opinion. Mrs. Haakon Peterson was a tall blonde woman, slow-spoken nnd dig nified, and Jim felt an Instinctive re spect for her personality. Mrs. Bron son wa% a good motherly woman, noted for her housekeeping, and for her church activities. She looked oftener at her son, and his friend. Raymond, than at the schoolmaster. Mrs. Bonner was the only one who shook hands with Jim, but he sensed In the little, black-eyed Irishwoman the real commander of the expedition against him? for such he knew it to be. , "You may think It strange of us coming after hours," said she, "but we wanted to speak to you, teacher, without the children Jiere." "I wish more of the parents would * . , call," said Jim. "At any hour of the day." "Or night either, I dare say," sug gested Mrs. Bonner. "I hear you've the scholars here at all hours, Jim." Jim smiled his slow patient smile. "We do break the union rules, I guess, Mrs. Bonner," . said he ; "there seems to be more to do than we can get done during school hout-8." "What we came for, Mr. Irwin, Is to object to the way the tea chin's being done ? corn and wheat, and hoga and the like, Instead of the learnin' schools was made to teach. I can see an' the. whole district can see that It's easier for a man that's beep a farm land to teach farm-hand knowledge, than the learnin' schools was set up to teach ; but if so be he hasn't the book education to do the right thing, we think he should get out and* give "a real teacher a chance." "What am I neglecting?" asked Jim mildly. Mrs. Bonner seemed unprepared for the question, and sat for an instant mute. Mrs. Peterson Intepposed her attack while Mrs. Bonner might be re covering her wind. "We people that have had a hard time," she said in a precise way which seemed to show that she knew exactly what she wanted, "don't want our children taught about nothing but #work. We want our children to learn nice things, and go to high school, and after a while to the Juniwerslty." "Aren't your children happy in ?school, Mrs. Peterson?" "I don't send them to school to be happy, Yim," replied Mrs. Peterson, calling him by the name most famil iarly known to all of them; "I send them to learn to be higher people than their father and mother. That's what America means !" "They'll be higher people ? higher than their parents ? higher than their teacher ? they'll be efficient farmers, and efficient farmers' wives. They'll "We Object to the Way the Teachin's Being Done." be happy, because they will know how to use more brains in farming than any lawyer or doctor or merchant can possibly use in his business." "Itvs a fine thing," said Mrs. Bonner, coming to the aid of her fellow sol diers, "to work hard for a lifetime, an* raise nothing but a family of farmers ! A fine thing!" "They will be farmers anyhow," cried Jim, "In spite of your efforts ? jiinety out of every hundred of them! And of the other ten, nine will be wage-earners in the cities, and wish to God they were back on the farm ; and the hundredth one will succeed In the city." The guns of Mrs. Bonner and Mrs. Peterson were silenced for a moment, and Mrs. Bronson, after gazing about at the typewriter, the hecktograph, the exhibits of weed seeds, the Bab cock milk tester, and the other un scholastlc equipment, pointed to the list of words, and the arithmetic problems on the board. "Do you get them words from the speller?" she asked. "No," said he, "we get them from a lesson on seed wheat." "Did them examples come out of an arithmetic book?" cross-examined she. "No," said Jim, "we used problems we made ourselves. We were figuring profits and losses on your cows, Mrs. Bronson !" "Ezra Bronson," sajd Mrs. Bronson loftily, "don't need any help in telling what's a good cow. He was farming before you was born !" "Like fun, he don't need help! He's going to dry old Cherry off and fat ten her for beef; and he can make more money on the cream by beefing about three more of 'em. The Bab cock test shows they're Just boarding on us without paying their board!" The delegation of matrons ruffled like a group of startled bens at this Interposition, which was Newton Bronson's effective seizing of the op portunity to Issue a-progress bulletin In the research work on the Bronson dairy herd. "Newton!" said his mother, "don't interrupt me when I'm talking to the teacher!" * > "Well, then," said Newton, "don't tell the teacher that pa knew which cows were good and which were poor. If any one In this district wants to know about their cows they'll hdve to come to this shop. And I can tell you that It'll pay 'em to come, tto? if they're going to make anvthlng selling cream. Walt until we get out our he ports on the herds, ma !" The women were rather stampeded by thl^ onslaught of the irregular troops ? especially Mrs. Bronson. She felt a flutter of pride in her son, but it was strongly mingled with a moth erly desire to spank him. The depu tatloQ rose, with a unanimous feeling that they had been scored upon.r "Cows!" 'scoffed Mrs. Peterson. "If we leove you In this yob, Mr. Irwin, our children will know nothing but cows and hens and soils and grains ? and where will the culture come ln7" "Culture!" exclaimed Jim. "Why why, after ten years of the sort of school I would give you If I were a better teacher and could have way ? " "Don't bother, Jim," said Mrs.' Bon net; sneerlngly, "you won't be teaching the "Woodruff school that long." All this time, the dark-faced Cracker had been glooming from a corner, earnestly seeking to fathom the wrong ness he sensed in the gathering. No\^ he came forward. "I reckon I may b? making a mis- ' take to say anything," said he, Tr we-all is strangers hyeh, an' we're pore; but I^must speak out for Mr. Jim ? I must! Don't turn him out. folks, fr he's done mo' fr us than eveh any one done in the world!" "What do you mean?" asked Mrs. Peterson. k ) "I mean," said Raymond, "that when Mr. Jim began talking School to' us, we was a pore no-'count lot with out any learnin', with nothin' to talk about except our wrings, an' our ene mies, and the meanness of the Iowa folks. You see we didn't understand you-all. An' now, we have hope. We done got hope from this school. We're goin' to make good in the world. yVe're getting education. We're all learnin' to use books. My l'.ttle sister will be as good as anybody, If you'll just let Mr. Jim alone in this school ? as good as any one. An' I'll he'p pap get a farm, and we'll work and think at the same time, an' be happy !" CHAPTER VIII Jennie Arranges a Christmas Party. Miss Jennie Woodruff of the Wood ruff district was a sensible country girl. Being sensible, she tried to avoid uppishness. But she did feel some little sense of increased Impor tance as she drove her father's little runabout over the smooth earth roads, In the crisp Deceujljer weather, just before Christmas. The weather Itself was stimulating, and In the little car, visiting tlie one hundred or more rural schools soon to come under her super vision, she rather fancied the picture of herself, clothed in more or less au thority and queening it over her little army of teachers. Mr. Haakon Peterson was phlegmat icaliy conscious that she made rather an agreeable picture, as she stopped her car alongside his top buggy to talk with him. She had bright blue eyes, fluffy brown hair, a complexion whipped pink by the breeze, and she smiled at him ingratiatingly. "Don't you think father is lovely?" said she. "He is going to let me use the runabout when'l visit the schools." "That will be good," said Haakon. ''It will save you lots of time. I hope you make the county pay for the gaso line." "I haven't thought about that," said Jennie. "Everybody's been so nice to me ? I want to give as well as receive." "Why," said Haakon, "you will ynst begin to receive when your salary be gins in Yanuary." "Oh, no!" said Jennie. "I've re ceived much more than that now ! You don't know how projd I feel. So many nice, men I never ki.ew before, and all my old friends Ilk* you working for me in the conventloa and at the polls, just as If I amounted to something." "And you don't know how proud I feel," said Haakon, ""to have in county oflice a little girl I used to hold' on my lap." ' Haakon was a rather richer man than the colonel, and not a little proud of his ascent to affluence. A mild spoken, soft-voiced Scandinavian, he was quite completely Americanized, and his influence was always worth fifty to sixty Scandinavian votes in any county election. He was a good party man and conscious of being en titled to his voice In party matters. This seemed to him an opportunity for exerting a bit of political influence. "Yennie," said he, "this man Ylm Irwin needs to be lined up." I "Lined up! Wbat do you mean?" ! "The way he Is doing in the school," said Haakon, "is all wrong. | If you can't line him up, he will make you trouble. We must look ahead. Everybody has his friends, and Ylm Irwin has his friends. If you have trouble with him, his friends will be against you when we want to nom- 1 lnate you for a second term. The couirty is getting cj)se. If we go to conwentlon without your home delega tion It would weak;n you, and if we nominate you, ever r piece of trouble like this cuts dowt your wote. You ought to line him u)i and have him do right." "But he is so funny," said Jennie. "He likes you," said Haakon. "You can line him up." , "I guess that's so ? to a wild* eyed reformer." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Peculiar Combinations. An English woman recently wrote to a newspaper saying that she was born A. Mann (Alice Mann). 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Into the other end of the kiln flow the powdered limestone and shale [clay] ? the raw materials for cement, t As the slowly revolving kiln tumbles the materials about, they are subjected to gradu ally increasing heat During their three-hour journey through this inferno, moisture and gases are first given off. Finally as the powdered materials reach the sunwhite flame, they half melt into glass-hard balls called "clinker." This clinker, an entirely new chemical com pound, when finely powdered is portland cement ? ' ? / Portland cement kilns consume great quantities of fuel ? 30 pounds of coal or its equivalent for each 94-pound sack of cement For the whole cement making process the consumption of coal is approximately 50 pounds a sack ? more than half a ton of coal to a ton of cement ? 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