The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-10-25

shop, In which the boys may learn t.
shoe horses, repair tools, design build
ings, and practice the best agricultural
engineering. / want to do work In
poultry according to the most modern
breeding discoveries, and gan your
cooperation In that, and a poultry
plant somewhere in the district.
II want a laboratory in which we
can work on seeds. pests, soils, feeds
and the like. For the education of
your children must come out of these
things.
Il want these things because they
are necessary if we are to get the cul-
ture out OF life we should get-and
nobody gets culture out Of any sort Of
school-they get it out Of life, or they
don't get 1t at all.
$50 l want you to build ss freely
for your school as for your cattle and
horses and hogs.
1.-THE school will make for youths
new kind of rural school-a social life
which will be the social center, be-
cause ii will be the educational center,
and the business center of the coun-
tryside.
II want all these things, and more.
But / don't expect them all at once.
l know that this district is too small
to do all OF them, and therefore. |
want a bigger district-one that will
give us the financial strength to carry
out the program have sketched. This
may be a presumptuOus thing for me
to propose. If you think SO let me
go. But If you don't, please keep this
meeting together in a permanent or
ganization of grownup members of the
Woodruff school, and by pulling to-
gether, you can do these things-all of
them-and many more-and you'll
make the Woodruff District a good
place to live in and die in-and / shall
be proud to live and die in it at your
service, as the neighborhood's hired
man
As Jim sat down there was a hush
In the crowded room, as if the people
were dazed at his assurance. There
was no applause, until Jennie Wood
ruff, now seer by Jim for the first
time over next the blackboard, clapped
her gloved hands 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 subsidized, Jim saw standing out
In front the stopped form of B. B.
Hamm. one of the most prosperous
men in the district.
"Mr. Chairman-Ezra Bronson" he
roared, this feller's crazy, an from
the sound of things. you're ali as
crazy as he is. If this fool scheme
of his goes through, my farms for
sale III quit before I'm sold out for
taxes!"
Just a minute, B. By interposed
Colonel Woodruff. This amt 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, Il just
wanted you to have in your minds
what / 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 with you"
Get out of herer said the colonel
to Jim in an undertone, "and leave
the rest to your friends"
Jim walked out Of the room and
took the way toward his home. A
horse tied to the hitching-pole had his
blanket under foot, and Jim replaced
1t 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 Sc
curely tied and comfortable. He knew
horses better than he knew people, he
thought. If he could manage people
as he could manage horses-but that
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-
his home after his pastoral calls
the horses, they overlook him.
They were the figures of Newton Bron-
son and the county superintendent of
dad wants you back there again."
said Newton.
what for?" inquired Jim.
"You silly boy" said Jennie, FyOu
about the good Of the schools
all of the time, and never said a word
about your own salary! What do you
want? They want TO known
"Oh !" exclaimed Jim in the manner
of one who suddenly remembers that
he has forgotten his umbrella or his
po~cket-knife. Il forgot all about IL.
/ haven't thought about that at all.
"Jim," said she, you need o
p
IL know II, Jennie" said he, land j
know who 7 want want" /