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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-12-06
Hosiery

This is an item that GER
tainly makes a nice Christ
mas gift. Every sock is n
Guided in this sale. You can
buy two Christmas gifts for
the price of one now, but
you must come early.
45c Wool Mixed Sox--25c
81 Silk and Wool Sox--75c
$1.15 Silk and Wool---95c
75c Heavy Wool Sox-45c
s1.5O Silk and Wool SI.15
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-12-06

Don't embarass US or your
self by asking for credit dur
ing the Sale, for we must
have the cash.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-10-18

frst convincing evidence thar he mad
scored.
~ b1ieve, too went on Mr.. Hof-
myer. that your idee would please
our folks. I've been the ~standpatter
In our parts-mostly on English and
down M teachin' our school7 We've
got q two-room affair, and I was made
a committee of one to find q teacher
I'll don't see how Jim STAN
mered, all taken aback by this new
breeze Of recognition.
1--WE can't pay much" said Hofmyer.
"You have charge Of the discipline
In the whole school, and teach in Num-
Der Two room. S~eventy-ive dollars a
month. Does it appeal to ye?"
Appeal to lin And yet, how about
the Simnases, Col-nrl Woodruff, the
Hansens and Newton Br1nscn. now
just getting a Arm stat on the up
ward path to usefulness ard real hap
piness? How could he leave the little,
crude, puny structure on which he had
OCcA WI lD&-Oh nl4Nh ht a Dttu
merely practicing-for a year, n re
move to the new field7
I'm afraid I can't" said Jim Irwin,
but
IF you're only 'fraid you can't"
said Mr.. Hofmyer, think 1t over I've
got your post office address on this
program, and wen write you a formai
offer. We may spring them figures a
little. Think it over"
you mustn't think" said Jim, that
we've done all the things I mentioned
In my talk, or that l haven't made any
mistakes or failures"
"Your county superintendent didn't
mention any failures" said Mr.. Hof-
myer.
did you talk with her about my
work." inquired Jim, suddenly very
curious.
"M'h'm." 4
Then I don't see why you want
Jim went on.
"Why?" asked Mr.. Hofmyer.
II had not supposed" said Jim.
tnat she mad q very nlgn opinion OF
my work"
II didn't ask her about that" said
Mr.. Hofmyer, Though / guess she
thinks well of it. l asked her what
you are tryin' to do, and what sort of
a fellow you are. I was favorably i'm
pressed; but she didn't mention any
failures"
: I'VE haven't succeeded in adopting
a successful system of selling u
said Jim. II believe we can
do it, but we haven't"
WAL" said Mr.. Hofmyer, 81 d'know
as I'd call that a failure. The fact
that you're tryin' of it shows you've
got the right idees. Well write We
and mebbe pay your way down to look
over. We're a pretty good crowd.
he n%eighbors think"
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ard farm, 3 hundred an SIXTY acr6d
for I'VE yeahs, an move In q week ron
Sat'day, we pay taxes In our rent, All
reckon, an howsomever that may be-
Alive come to feel that you-all won't
think hard of me If All speak what
we-uns feel SO strong about Mr.. jim
Irwin7'
Old Nan Simms finished this ex-
ordium with the rising infection, which
denoted a direct question as to his
status in the meeting. go on r.
you've got as good a right as any
onsi" you're all right, old manI'
Such EXPLANATIONS as these came to
Jim's ears with scarcely less grateful
ness than to those of Old Maj Simms
who stammered and went on.
"Ah thank you-all kindly. Gentlemen
an ladies, when Mr.. Jim Irwin found
us, we was scandalous pore, an we
was wuss'n pore-we was low-down."
(Cries of "No-No i")
eyes, we was, becuz when a. mar
himse'f up to what folks does where
he's come to, or he'll make a place
fer himself lower'n anybody else. In
the mount1ngs we was good people,
becuz we done the best we could an
the best any n done; but hyah, We
was low-down people becuz we hated
the people that had mo- learnin', mo-
land, mo- money, an mo- friends than
what we had. My little gyuhls wasn't
respectable in their clothes. My chill.
dern was igernant, an trifin', but ]
was the most trifin' of all. Ah'H leave
it to Colonel Woodruff If 1 was good
fer a plug of terbacker, or a bakin'
of flour at any sto' in the county. Wal
I, Colonel? Wasn't l perfectly wuth-
less an trifin'7"
There was q ripple Of laughter, In
the midst of which the colonels voice
was heard saying, II guess you were
Mr.. Simms, l guess you were, but
"Thankee," said Old Man Simms, al
If the colonel had given a really valu.
able testimonial TO his character. u
sho' wasl Thankee kindly An now,
what am I good fer7 CANT 1 get any.
thing | want at the stores? CANT ]
git a little money at the bank, If ]
got to have itr"
You're just as good as any man in
the district" said the colonel. "You
don't ask for more than you can pay,
and you can get all you ask"
"Thankee," said Mr.. Simms gravely.
what All tell you-all is right, ladies
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d b~lushing.
why, James" said she, you seem
excited. What's happenedY'
Nothing, mother he replied, lex
ecpt hat / believe there's just a pos
sibility Of my being a success in the
world"
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 eve was-if your
mother is any judge"
Jim kissed her, and went up to his
attic to change his clothes. Inside
the waistcoat was a worn envelope,
which he carefully opened, and took
from it a letter much creased from
many foldings. 1t was the old letter
from Jennie, written when the com
fcal mistake had been made Of max
ing him the teacher of the Woodruff
school He read only the sentence In
which JENNIE Lad told of her fathers
interest in Jim's success, ending with
the underscored words, I'm for yor,
too"
II wonder" said Jim, as he went
out to do the evenings tasks, IT won.
der If she Is rcr mel"
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Bonner scrutinized his face sharply,
as II to find out what sort OF game he
was playing.
We'll" said he, ut last, II hope you
can stay with us, O. course. I'm licked,
and I never squeal. II the rist of the
district can stand your kind 4 thricks,
I can. And say, Jim"-here he grew
still more mysterious-'if you do stay,
some of us would ike to nave you be
enough of a democrat to 80 into the
next convention FIR county superjn-
tendent."
why" replied Jim, Il never thought
Of such a thingl"
"Well, think of it, said Con. 1.-THE
county's close, and wild a poplar young
educator-an' a farmer, too, 1t might
be done. Think Of it."
Jim was almost dazed at the rum
Der of propositions of which he was
now required to s'think"=and Bon
ner's did not at first impress him as
having anything back of it but barney.
He WAC to find out later, however, that
the willy Con had made up his mind
that the ambition of Jim to serve the
rural schools In a larger sphere might
be used for the purpose of bringing to
earth what he regarded as the soaring
political ambitions of the Woodruff
family. To split the forces which had
defeated Mr.. Bonner In his own school
district, with the very instrument used
by the colonel at the last schoo cleo
tion-that, to Mr.. Bonner, would be
a fine thing.
Jim had scarcely taken his seat in
the car, facing Jennie Woodruff and
Bettina Hansen in the Pullman, when
Columbus Brown, pathmaster of the
road district and only across the way
from residence In the school district,
came down the aisle and called Jim
to the smokfng-room.
did an old fellow named Hoffman
from Pottawatomie county ask you
to leave US and take his school?" he
asked.
Mr.. Hofmyer," said Jim, yes, he
did"
"Well," said Columbus, II don't want
to ask you to stand in your own light,
but 1 hope you won't let him toll you
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and gentlemen. An what has made
the change in we-uns, ladies and gentle
men? It's the wuk of Mr.. Jim Irwin
with my boy Raymond, the best boy
any man evan he'd, and my gyuhl, Ca
lista, an Buddy, an jimmie, an with
me an my ole woman.
HE showed us how to get a toe-holt
into this new kentry. He teac1ed the
children what orto be did by a rentin'
farmer in Ioway. He done lifted us
up, al made people of us. He done
showed us that you-all is good people,
an not what we thought you was
Outen what he learned in school, my
boy Raymond an me made as good
crops as we could last summer, an
lone right much wuk outside. We got
the name of bein' good farmers an
good wukkers, an when Mr.. Blanchard
moved to town, he said he was glad ia
give us his fine farm for five years.
Nov, see what Mr.. Jim Irwin has
done for a pack o. outlaws and out
casts. Instid o. hidiYf out from the
Holidays that was laywayin' us in the
mountings, Wen be Twin in a house
with two chimleys an a swimmin' tub
made outen crock-ryware. Well be in
debt a whole lot-an' we owe it to
Mr.. Jim Irwin that w got the credit
to git in debt with, an the courage to
go on and git out agin!" (Applause.)
"Ah could affo'd to pay Mr.. Jim IT.
salary myself, if All could. An
enough men hyah tonight that
say they've been money-he'ped by his
teachin' the school to make up mo-
than his wages. Let's not let Mr.. Jim
Irwin go, neighborsl Let's not let
him go"
Jim's heart warmed. There isn't a
nan in that meeting" said he to him.
self, as be walked to the schoolhouse
door, possessed of the greatness Of
spirit of Old Man Simms. If he's a
sample of the people of the noun
tains, they are of the stuff of which
great nations are made-if they only
given a chance.
(Continued Next Week.
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off there among strangers. We're
proud of you, JIm, anu we don't want
to lose you"
Proud of himl Sweet music to the
underling's earsl Jim blushed anG
stammered.
The fact is" said Columbus, 81
know that Woodruff district job hain't
big enough for you any more but we
can make it bigger. If you'll stay,
believe we can pull off a deal to con-
solidate some of them districts, and
make you boss OF the whole shooting
match"
II appreciate this, Cumb,' said
Jim, "but 1 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 boys"
Think of it, again.
A fine homecoming it was for Jim,
with the colonel waiting at the station
with a double sleigh, and the chance
to ride into the snowy country in the
Sdlllt seat Will OtlIlIIt"d CIldlNG WHICH
was blighted by the colonel's placing
Bettina and Nils Hansen in the broad
rear seat, and Jim in front with himself.
The colonel would not allow 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 door, took Jennie home,
and her drove the l%ightened sleigh
merrily TO the humble cabin of the
rather excited young 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 an offer"
No said Jim, n he told the
colonel about the proposal Of Mr..
Hofmyer.
We'll" said the colonel, "in my
capacity of w%ild-eyed reformer, I've
made up my mind that the first four
miles in the trip. is to make the rural
teachers job a bigger job. It's got
to be a mans size, woman's size job,
or we can't get real men and real
women to stay in the work"
Il think that's a statesmanlike
formulation of it," said Jim.
"Well.' said the colonel, don't turn
down the Pottawatomie county job
until we have a chance to see what
we can do. I'll get some kind of q
meeting together, and what / want
you to do is to use this offer as a club
prer this helpless school district.
What we need is TO be held up Do
the Jesse James act, Jim !"
II can't, Colonel!"
Yves, you can, too. Will you try itY'
81 want to treat everybody fairly"
said Jim, "including Mr.. Hofmyer. ]
don't know what to do. hardly"
We'll, III get the meeting together"
said the colonel, "and in the mean
time, think of what I've said"
Another thing to think of! Jim
into the house and surprised
his mother, who had expected him to
after q slow walk from town
the snow. Jim caught her In
his arms, from which she was re-
a moment later, quite fustered
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CHAPTER XVII

hin of IL.
Ames was an inspiration. Jim Irwir
received from the great agricultural
college more real education in this one
trip than many students get from a
four years course in its halls; for he
had spent ten years in getting ready
for the experience. The great farm of
hundreds of acres, all under the man
agement of experts, the beautiful cam
pus, the commodious classrooms and
laboratories, and especially the barns,
the greenhouses, gardens, herds and
f1ocks flied him with a sort of apos-
tolic joy.
Every school," said he to Professor
Withers, Ought to be doing a good
deal of the work you have to do here"
"Tll admit" said the professor,
that much of our work in agriculture
is pretty elementary"
tits intermediate school work. said
Jim. TITS wrong to force boys and
girls TO leave their homes and live in
a college to get so much of what they
should have before they're ten years
old
There's something in what you
say" said the professor, but some
experiment station men seem to think
that agriculture in the common schools
will take from the young men and
women the felt need, and therefore the
desire to come to the college"
IF you can't give them anything
better than high-school work" said
Jim, that will be so but if the sci
ence and art of agriculture is what l
think it is, it would make them hungry
for the advanced work that really
can't be done at home. To make the
children wait until they're twenty is
to deny them more than half what the
college ought to give them-and make
them pay for what they don't get"
"I think you're right" said the pro-
fessor.
'Give us the kind of schools l ask
for" cried Jim, land I'll fill a college
like this in every congressional district
in Iowa, or I'll force you TO tear this
down and build larger"
More nearly happy, and rather short
er of money than he had recently been,
Jim ~journeyed home among the COM
panions from his own neighborhood,
in a frenzy of plans for the future. Mr..
Hofmyer had dropped from his mind,
until Con Bonner, his old enemy, drew
him aside in the vestibule of the train
and spoke to him in the mysterious
manner peculiar to politicians.
What kind of a proposition did that
man Hofmeister make your he in
quired. He asked me about you, and
/ told him you're a crackerjack."
I'm much obliged" replied Jim.
mo use in back-cappin' a fellow
that's tryin' TO make somethin' Of him
SELF said Bonner. "That amt good
politics. nor good sense. Anything to
himf'
HE offered me a salary of seventy
five dollars q month to take charge Of
his school, said Jim.
'Well,' said Con, wen be sorry TO
lose yeh, but you can't turn down any
thing like that"
Il don't know" said Jim. y haven't
decided"
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CHAPTER XVI
Jim Goes to Ames.

Jim had never felt more the ~apstart
uneducated farmland than WIEN he
was introduced to that audience at
Ames by Professor Withers, nor more
completely d%isgraced than when he
concluded his remarks. Even the ap-
plause was to him a kindly effort on
the part of the audience to comfort
him in his failure. His only solace
was the look in Jennie'S eyes.
Young man." said an old farmer
who wore thick glasses and looked
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-10-18

-~rrnr II.=More as q joke than
otherwise Jim is selected as teacher of
ehe Woodruff district school.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-10-18
SYNOPSIS

CHAPTER Jennie Woodruff con-
tsmptuously refuses to marry Jim Ir-
win, young farm hand, because OF his
financial condition and poor prospects.
He is intellectually above his station.
and has advanced ideas concerning the
possibilities of expert school teaching,
Tor which he is ridiculed by MANI.
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CHAPTER III.-Jim, in his new posi-
ton, sets out to MAKE stanch friends
Of his pupils, especially two boys, New
ION Bronson and Buddy" Simms, the
latter the son of a shiftless farmer.
Colonel Woodruff, Jennie's father. has
little faith in Jim's ideas of improving
rural educational tho He nick
psmsH him the Brown Mouse" in IL
lustrRtion of an anecdote.
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CHAPTER WINS onduc of the
school, where he endeavors to teach
the children the wonders of nature
and some of the scientific methods of
farming, as well as book learning"
Ia condemned.
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CHAPTER V.-Jennie Woodruff is
pominted for the position of county
board grows bitter in its opposition
TO Jim and his innovations.
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CHAPTER VIA delegation of
prominent women condemn Jim's meth
DDS of teaching, but he is stoutly de-
tended by his pupils, especially Newton
Bronson.
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school board. which had been gathered
to get" Jim, is confronted by Jennie,
who upholds him. He conducts an ex-
animation of his pupils at the meet
ing, to prove that he is not neglecting
their book learning by the introduce
ton of other subjects which he con-
siders of Importance. The splendid
showing made by the children converts
many, Who had doubted, to his views.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-10-18

CHAPTER vI.-At a public meeting
Jim roundly condemns the methods of
teaching in the rural schools, and
makes no friends thereby.
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CHAPTER Within has Christmas
dinner at Colonel Woodruff's, and lis
tening to him, Jennie begins to do some
thinking concerning his ability and
his prospects.
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CHAPTER XIII.-Professor withers
is impressed by many of the innova-
tons made by Irwin. and so Informs
Colonel Woodruff and Jennie, some
what to the astonishment of both. The
colonel suggests to Jim that he (the
~colone1) seek election to the school
board, replacing Cornelius Bonner, i'm
placable enemy of Jim Irwin.
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CHAPTER XII.-The novel ideas
which Jim has introduced have been
talked about outside the county, and
be is visited by Professor Withers, ex-
tension lecturer at the state university,
who invites him to deliver an address
at the next annual meeting of the
Farmers institute.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-10-18

CHAPTER X.-Jennie, elected county
superintendent of schools, receives So
many complaints from people of thl
district concerning Jim's methods q
teaching that she finds herself com,
PEELED formally to ask for his resigna.
ton. After she has left, Jim is visited
by Colonel Woodruff, who strongly
urges him to refuse to resign, and
offers to back him. Jim agrees to
stick, for q while at least.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-20
NEICHBORS RALLY TO DlLLACE,
i WITH TRAGEDY STALKING HIM

Ignite, N. D., July 20.--Lee Dill
lage followed sadly to the grave the
bodies of his wife and her father who
died while the local man was held in
a Canadian Jail to await new trial
on a charge Of robbery, and the de-
fcndant will now be granted a. re-
spite until October 8 when he must
reappear before the bar of justice
at Regina. The central figure in the
tragic. drama will endeavor to resume
his former existence, rudely inter
rupted by his arrest, trial for murder,
acauittal, trail for robbery, long
period of incarceration and the death
of his loved ones.
He plans on again taking charge of
the operation of his farm near this
village while awaiting his fight for
permanent liberty.
The funeral of Mrs. Dillage and her
father held Wednesday, was attended
by the largest concourse of mourncrs
ever assembled in this section of the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-07-20
COMMANDER OF.
MAINE, HEREOF lei
WAR, IS DEAD ],
Admiral Sigsbee, Who Com
manded III Fated Ship
Blown up in 1908, Dies

New York, July 2O.-Rear- Admiral
Charles Sigsbec, U. s. N. retired,
captain of the ill-fated bAttleship
Maine, died suddenly yesterday.
Admiral Sigsbee had been in poor
health for two years, although only
Wednesday he was out riding. His
death was due to heart disease.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not been made but he will be buried
at Arlington cemetery, Washington,
probably Monday.
Rear Admiral Charles Dwight Sigs-
bee rose to fame through, one Of the
greatest naval disasters In American
history-the blowing up of the
Maine" He was So years old at the
time; captain, veteran OF the
Civil War, and an inventor of deep
sea exploring and sounding appar-
atus.
Captain Sigsbce, commander Of the
Maine, was ordered to Havana Har-
Dor to protect American lives and
property during the crisis of the Gu
ban rebellion against Spain in 1898.
As the vessel was on friendly mis-
sion, she was received with the GUS
tomary courtcsies from the forts and
Spanish war ships, and the usual Of
fetal visits. She was assigned to
special anchorage and placed there
by the proper agents of the Spanish
government.
On the evening of February Is the
big white battleship had been riding
| quietly at anchor for more than two
weeks. Captain Sigsbee went to his
cabin shortly after 8 o'clock and
wrote a long letter to his wife. By
the time he had finished many of the
1923 men and &c officers were asleep.
The Captain had just enclosed the
letter in an envelope and started to
seal it WIN a deafening roar sound
ed through the ship. The great YES
sci began to list. Cropping his way
through the dark, Sigsbee reached
the deck. A scene of horror greeted
him. The Maine was sinking.
"None can ever know" he said
later, "the awful scenes of consterna-
ton, despair and suffering down in
the forward compartments; of men
wounded, or drowning in the swirling
water, or confined in closed COM
partment slowly filling with water
1t is comforting to believe, and it is
probably true, also, that most oil
those who were lost were killed in
stantly."'
The tradegy cost the lives of -264
sailors. The news spread over the
world in few hours, but not before
the entire American nation was
aroused to pitch of frenzy, believ
ing the Maine had been blown up BY
hostile Spaniards. t: s.
Admiral Sigsbee added fresh laur
els to his fame in the war that so0r
followed the disastae. AS command
err Of the St. Paul, "a transatlantic
liner converted into an auxiliar.
cruiser, he captured the Spanish col
ler Restormel, carrying coal t.
Cervera, and thus sealed the fate o
the Spanish fleet at Santiago. TIL
, ! cruiser Isabella ii and the destroye
Terror both hauled down their flag
and surrendered to him. .GDa i
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Roosevelt and hundreds of others of
equal note.
Twenty-one years ago-he's 45
now-Joe left his home in Croatia,
a province of Hungary. He's been
walking ever since, through score
of nations and every state in the
United States.
New he wants a little farm some
where in his adopted country. He
sees a wheat field, Of maybe rows of
corn and tomatoes and plows and
horses and chickens and neigh
bors.
Book Weighs 81 Pounds
Joe's autograph book weighs 81
pounds now. Names that would
amaze you are written in it. just
about every world character except
John d. Rockefeller and the king of
! England.
He uses little wagon to carry the
book, it is so heavy. For many
years, however, he carried it, but
it wasn't that big then. He in
| creases it as it fills.
Joe wants to see his book finally
placed in a museum or library. He
hopes someone will buy it for that
| purpose.
| Price? He won't say, but he does
add that what it brings will buy the
farm and have plenty left over tc
tide him through the remainder oil
this life with friends.