The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-11-01


in His Arms.
Jennie up in his arms and carried he.
in, will enable any good detective t,
put one and n together and make
pair-which comes pretty zeal tellin,
the whole story.
BY this time 1t was nearly seven
and Calista Simms came across tn,
charmed bridge as a dispatch-bearer
saying that if Mr.. Jim and Miss Jen
ME didn't mind, dinner would be
suhved right soon. 1t 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
lowed a. marble. She would tell
ZEN they would be right over; good-by.
There was another. cheer as the
three elderly and the two younger PEG.
pie emerged from the schoolmanse
and took their way over the bridge to
the school side of the ve~lvet-bottomed
moat, but 1t was shut off like the
vibration of a bell dipped in water by
the sudden rush of the shouters into
the big assembly room, now filed with
tables for the banquet. And here the
domestic economy classes, with theii
mothers, sisters, female cousins and
aunts, met them, as walters, hat
snatchers, hostesses, floor managers
and cooks, scoring the greatest tri.
umph of history in the Woodruff dis.
trict. For everything went off like
clockwork, especially the victuals-
and such victualsl
There was quantity in meats
breads, vegetables-and there was alst
SAVIOR. 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 Vim Irwin taught then
nothing but farming. She will tel
you that the dinner-which so many
thought of all the time as upper
was yust as well served as il 1t hatI
been in the Chamberlain Hotel in De.
Moines, where she had stayed wheI
she went with Haakon to the state,
convention.
Why shouldn't 1t have been ever
better served? 1t was planned, cooked
served and 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 asl
you, you are authorized to state tina
there's as much wealth to the acr,
as in any strictly farming spot be
tween the two oceans, and where yol
are perfectly safe-fnancialIy-iI
dropping from a balloon in the darl
of the moon, and paying a hundre,
and fifty dollars an acre for an,
farm you happen to land on. VIII,
shouldn't things have been well done
when every one worked, not fo
money, but for the love of the DOING
and the love Of learning to do in tn,
best way7
Some of these things came out il
the speeches following the repast-
and some other things, too. 1t wa
probably not quite fair for B. B
an W lhCOl pm dit III ulS WISHES 10
the welfare and prosperity and s
forth of Jim and Jennie that stat
one about the troubles of life, blu
he wanted to see Jennie blush-Whicl
as a matter of fact he did; but sh
failed to grow quite so fiery red a
did Jim. But B. B. was a good fel
low, and a Trojan in his work TO
the cause, and the schoolmaster an
superintendent of schools forgave hin
A remark may be a little broad. an
still clean, and B. B. made a cleaI
speech, mainly devoted to the in ]
creased value of that farm he at on {
memorable time was going to sell be I
fore Jim's fool notions could be cal !
ried out. |
Colonel Woodruff made most of tn 4
above points which / have flche
from him. He had begun as a re [
former late in life, he said, but b '
would leave it to them if he hadn't r
worked at the trade steadily after en- g
He had become a follower f
# Jim Irwin, because inns reform f
Fdo Inc uidSSluS the ! III front OF n
our W farm-it WAS .eform right \
It home, and not at the county seat. 6
n Des Moines, or Washington. He
followed Jim Irwin as he had
ollowed Lincoln, and Grant. and :
Blaine, and McKinley-because Jim =
irwin stood for more upward growth :
or the average American citizen than
he colonel could see any prospect ;
f getting from any other choice. And II
e was proud to live in a country
this, saved and promoted by the s.
men he had followed, and In q "
eighborhood served and promoted. il II
.ot quite saved, by Jim Irwin. And
e was not so sure about it not be- b
ng saved. Every man and nation
ad to be saved anew every so often O.
the colonel believed that Jim r. b.
WINS new kind of rural school il =
ust as necessary TO the salvation OF