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7,™' ' ■ '■ i . Si^ ■m. ; MOUSE Df HERBERT QUICK JOURKAL, RAJBFORD. N. C, MMHUUiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiniMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiz fOmtitlit br Tlw Bobte-Xarrin Compaiir) (Continued from page 3) Btunmered. “The' fact Is," said Columbus, T know that Woodruff district Job haln’t big moogb for you any more; but we can make IV' bigger. If you’ll stay, I believe we can pull off a deal to con solidate some of tlmn districts, and make yeu bo. s oif the whole shooting match.” “I apprec.ate this, Clumb,” said Jim, “but I don’t believe you can do It" “Well, think of It," said Columbus. “And don’t do anything till you talk with me and a few of the other boya" “Think of It” again! A fine home-coming It was tor Jim, with the colonel waiting at the station j with a double sleigh, and the chance to ride into the snowy country in the same seat with Jennie—a chance which was -blighted by the colonel’s placing Bettlna and Nils Hansen in the broad reer seat, and Jim in front ^ith himself. The colonel would not ^allov^ him to get out and walk when he could really have reached home more quickly by doing so; no, he set the Hansens down at their doon took Jennie home, and then drove tne lightened sleigh merrily to the humble cabin of the rather excited youiig schoolmaster. “Did you make any deal with those people down In the western part of the state?” asked the colonel. “Jennie wrote me that you’ve got hn offer." “No,” said Jim, and he told the colonel about the proposal of ^Mr. Uofmyer. '. “WeU," said the colonel^ "in my capacity of wild-eyed reformer, Fve made up iiiy mind that the first four miles in the trip is to make the rural teaches Job a bigger Job. It’s got to be a man’s else, woman's size Job, or we can’t get real men and real women to stay In tlje work.” “I think that’s a statesmanlike formulation of It,” said Jim. “Well,” said the colonel, “don’t turn down the 'Pottawatomie county tmtflj’we'jsre it ;Clianbe'td she wh we ran do, ril get wme kind of meeting together^ and Avliat, I want you to do Is to use this offer as a club over this helpless school district What we need is to be held up. Do the Jesse James act, Jim I” j “I can't. Colonel!" "Yes, you can, too. Will you try It?” "I want to treat everybody fairly," said Jim, “including Mr. Hofmyer. I don’t know what to do, hardly.” “Well, ni get the meeting together," s^d the colonel, “and In the mean time, think of what Pve saliL” Another thing to think odi—-^Im rushed into the house and surprised his mother, who had expected him to mrrive after a slow walk from town ithrougfa the snow. Jim caught her In Alls arms, from which she was re- fleased a moment later, quite flustered :and blushing. "Why, James,” said she, “you seem mxdted. Wha.t’s happened?” ' -■'INottlng, mother” he replied, “ex cept that I believe there’s Just a pos sibility of my being a success in the world*” i “My boy, my boy!" said she, laying her hand on his arm, “If you were to die tonight, you’d die the greatest success any boy ever was—if your mother Is any Judge.” ( Jim kissed her, and went up to his attic to change his clothes. Inslds tilers’times. " sdmamelen Pete, Colonel WpodrolTs hired man. halted Buddy* at the door. “Mr. Simms, I btilever he said. * T reckon yon must be lookin' for my brother, Raymond, sub,’! said Buddy. “I am a-lookln’," said Pete impres sively, “for Mr. McOeehee Simms.” "That’s me," said Buddy, “but I haln’t been doin' nothin’ wrong, sub!" " I have a messSge here,” said Pete, “for Professor James E. Irwin. He’s what-ho within, there, ain’t he?” “He’s Inside, I reckon," said Buddy. “Then will you be so kind and con descendin’ as to stoop so I(Av as to Jump so high as to give him this let ter?” asked Pete. Buddy took the letter and was con sidering of his reply to this remarkable speech, when Pete, gravely saluting, passed on, rather congratulating him self on having staged a very good burlesque of the dignified manners of those queer mountaineers, the Simmses. The note was from the colonel: “Please come to the meeting tonight, and when you come, come prepared to hold the district up. If we can’t meet, the Pottawatomie county standard of wages, we ought to lose you. Every body In the district will be there. Come late, so you won’t hear yourself talked about—I should recommend nine-thirty and war-paint.” It was a crisis, no doubt of that; and the responsibility of the situation rather sickened Jim of the task of teaching. Only one thing kept him from dodging the whole Issue and re maining at home—the colonel’s mat ter-of-fact assumption that Jim had become ma.ster of the situation. How could he flee, when this old soldier was fighting so valiantly for him in the trenches? So Jim went to the meet ing. How could he Impose conditions on the whole school district? How could the colonhl expect such a thing of him? And hc-w could anyone look for any thing but scorn for the upstart field- band from these men who had for m many years made him the butt of their good-natured but none the less contemptuous ridicule? Who was he, anyway, to lay down rules for these substantial and successful men—he who had been for all the years of his life at their command, subservient to their demands for labor—their under ling? The season was nearing spring, and tt was a mild thawy night. The Win dows of the schoolhouse were filled .with heads, evidencing the presence of a crowd of almost unprecedented size, and the sashes had been thrown up for ventilation and coolness. As Jim climbed the back fence of the schoolyard, he heard a burst of ap plause, from which he Judged that some speaker had Just finished his re marks. There was silence when he came alongside the window at the right of the chairman’s -desk, a silence broken by the voice of Old Man Slmma, saying “MIstah Chairman 1” » “The chair,” said the voice of Elzra Bronson, “recognizes Mr. Simms.” Jim halted in Indecision. He was not expected while the debate was in progress. There Is no rule oil' manners :)r morals, however, forbidding eaves dropping during the proceedings of a public meeting.' Therefore he listened to the first and last public speech of Old Man Simms. . “4h ain’t no speaker,” said Old iMan Simms, '“but Ah caln’t set here and be quiet hn’ go home an’ face my ole woman an’ my boys an’ gyubls withouten sayln’ a word fo’ the best friend any famlly.evah had, Mr. Jim Irwin.” (Applause.) Maybe Ah’ll he thought forrard to speak hyah, bein' as Ah ain’t no learnln’ an’ some may think Ah don’t pay no taxes; but seeln’ as how we’ve took the Blanch ard farm, a hundred an’ sixty acres, for five yeahs, an’ move in a week from Sat’day, we pay taxes In our rent, Ah reckon, an* howsomever that may be, Ah’ve come to ^l that you-all won't think hard of me if Ah speak what we-uns feel so strong about Mr. Jim Irwin?” Old Man Simms finished this ex- ordlubi with the rising Inflection, which denoted a direct question as to his status In the meeting. “Go on!” “You've got as good a right as any one!” “You’re all right, old man!” the waistcoat was a worn envelbi>e. Such exclamations as these came to which he carefully opened, and took from it a letter much creased from tnany foldings. It was the old letter from Jennie, written when the com ical mistake had been made of mak ing him the teacher of the ’lYoodrufl •cbool. read only the sentence In which Jennie-had told of her father's Interest in Jim's success, ending with the underscored words, Tm for you, too”* . '“I wonder,” said Jim, as he went out to do the evening’s tasks, “I won der If she Is for me!” git i lUU* money af & got to have It?" “You're Just as good as any man la the district," said the colonel "Yo!^ don't ask for more than you can pay,- and you can get all. you ask." •Thankee," said Mr. Simms gravely. "What Ah tell you-all Is riidtt, UdlW “We Owe It AM to Jim Irwin." and gentlemen. An’ what has made •the change in we-uns, ladles and gentle-' men? It’s the wuk of Mr. Jim Irwin with my boy Raymond, the best boy any man evah hed, and my gyuhl, Oa- llsta, an’ Buddy, an’ Jlnnle, an’ with me an’ my ole woman. “He showed us how to get a toe-holt into this new kentry. He teaoked the children what orto be did by a rentin’ farmer In loway. He done lifted us up, an’ made people of us. He done showed us that you-all is good people, an’ not what we thought you was. Oaten what he learned in school, my boy Raymond an’ me made as good crops as we could last summer, an’ done right much wuk outside. We got the coine of bein’ good farmers an’ goo^ wukkers, an’ when Mr. Blanchard movtd to town, he said he was ({lad to give us his fine farm for five years. “Now see what Mr. Jim Irwin has y/ Fairy Tale GRAHAM BONNER • COrVUCMT IV ViSTUM MCWAHt WNiOM • WALRUS WAYS done for a pack o’ outlaws and out casts. Instid o’ hidin’ out from the.,, Hobdays that was lay way in’ us In the mountings, we’ll be livin’ in a house with two chimleys an' a swlmmln’ tub made outen crock-ryware. We’ll be in^ debt a whole Hot—an’ we owe It to Mr. Jim Irwin that we got the credit to git in debt with, an’ the courage to go on and git out agin I” (Applause.) “Ah could affo’d to pay Mr. Jim Ir win’s salary myse’f. If Ah could. An’ there’s enough men hyah tonight that say they’ve been money-he’ped by his teach}n’ the school to make up mo’ than his wages. Let’s not let Mr. Jim Irwin go, neighbors! Let’s not let him go!" Jim’s heart warmed. 'There Isn’t a man in that meeting,” said he to him self, as he walked to the schoolhouse door, “possessed of the great^s of spirit of Old Man Simms. If he’s a fair sample of the people of the moun tains, they are of the stuff of which great nations ^re made—^If they only are given a chance. (To be Continued Next Week) “We’ll tell of our ways,” said Moth er Walrus. “Yes, we’ll let them know about us.” Billie Brownie was wearing bis warm, warm coat which Old Man Win ter had given him. It was made out of the same material that Old Man Win ter had his wardrobe made of, for no matter bow cold It is, It is never, too cold for Old Man Winter. He Is prelected from the cold by his regular winter clothing! But he won’t tell anyone Just how it is made! And Billie was wearing the shoes and the cap and the earniuffs Old Man Winter had given him, loo. “There are' many_ of us about, as you^’ can see,” said Mother Walrus. “But, though we love to go about In big groups, we have a nice family life and are devoted to our'bwn. “We are great, huge creatures, aren’t we?” “Enormous,” said Billie Brownie. “If it wouldn’t be rude,” he added, after a momept, “I would tike to know how much you weigh.” ' “Not rude at all, Billie Brownie,” saW Mother Walrus. “Not rude at all. Now my,Mr, Walrus Is one of the grandest and most superb of icreatures. “He’s a Walnig after my own heart and, of course, why wouldn’t he be?” Mother Walrus laughed a great, deep laugh. “Of course,” she repeated, “why wouldn’t he he, considering he Is the Walrus of my own heart? “He weighs three thousand pounds, and I weigh two thousand pounds. “ “Ah, Mr. Walrus lsn;t one of yonr skinny gentlemen. No, he Is fat, good and fat, and full of wrinkles, for the fat all wrinkles up, as there Is so much of It. “There Is plenty of fat to spare, you see, and it just folds up and wrinkles up and lets you know that there Is nothing stingy about the fatness—It’s all there—plenty of It I “His two ivory tusks are the most beautiful I have ever seen. “We are slow creatures when we go over the Ice, but we're good swlth- Iners.” , . “Gracious,” said Bflle Brownie. “To think of weighing thre^ thousand pounds.” “It’s a majestic thought. Isn’t It?” ■A::. ■■ i • I. 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Whoever puts on a parade, can depend on us to be spectators. ybr Eeomomhal Trantporfotiem ^CHEVROIET w CHAPTER XVIIi Old Man Simms Speaka Toong McGeehee Simmd was loiter- iBf alMg the snowy way to the scho^- fcoue, l>ej^4og > brightly aconred tin pall two-tblrds full of water. He had been ellowed to act as water super- . Ibtendent of th^ Woodruff school as a . eesrard of merit—said merit being an eaaay on- which he received credit In both language and geography on "Har- 'seating Wheat In the T^Bhesaee Moun tains." Vhis had been of vaat Inter- mtAo the acfapol In view of the fact that tNe Slmmaes w^re the only puplla in the-Bcbool who iad ever seen In hm that aupposedlf-obfolete harvest ing Implement, the cndle. Buddy's .eaaay liad been paaaed over to the daaa In United States history^ aa the Jim’s ears with scarcely less grateful ness than to those of Old Man Simms —^who stammered and went on. “Ah thank you-all kindly. Gentlemen an’ ladles, when Mr. Jim Irwin found ns, we was scandalous pore, an’ we was wuss’n pore—we was low-down." (Giles of “No—No!”) *Tes, we was, becuz when a man gets In a new place, he’s got to lift blmse’f up to what folks does where he’s come to, or” he’ll make a place fer hlmse’f lower’n anybody else. In the mountings we was good people, beenz we .done the best we could an’ the best any one done; bnt hyah, we was low-down people becuz we hated the people that had mo’ learnln’, mo’ land, mo’ money, an’ mo' friends than what we had. . My little gyuhls wasn’t respectable In tjielr clothM.--My chll- dern was Igernant, an’ mflln’, but I was the most triflin’ of alL Ah’ll leave It to Colonel Woodruff If I was good fer a plug of terbacker, or a bakin’ of flour at any sto’ In the county. Was I, Colonel? Wasn’t I perfectly wiith- less an’ triflin’?” There was a ripple of laughter, In the midst of which the colonel’s voice was heard saying, “I guess you were, Mr. Simms, I guess you were, but ^ ‘Thankee,” said Old Man Simms, as If the colonel bad given a really valu able testimonial to hjs'character, T sho’ was! Thankee kindly I An’ now, what am I good fer?. Caln’t I get any' C. Printing that will | attracSt attention and j put your advertising P in a class by itself— | printingthatcontains | originality in con- j ception and excel- | lence in its execution | — this quality of I originality and in- L dividualitycharadtex- r izes all the printe-1 I work we turn out. ' 1 Quality Cars at Quantity Prices Chevrolet now leads atl high-grade cars in humher sold. ' . " REPORT •rldencs of aa epewitae^ concerning farming condltlMU la our graodfa- ( tJi^g I-ffAOt ^ Qal4!i 1 .. .. ■ ’’ '• all the news happen- ings that come to your attention to this office. 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