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Haraby unify store Then the old man lo partner They built a and bought a big bill Ihem debt quite increased and at the end of three years when he farmers had brought in their wheat they had enough to pay all their debts and a rang- three times As he saw there was something the matter him in the yard ace ruined he said lifeless tone handing her the letter ruined it he asked hopefully ay oat he said rue king chair lie lot his gentle face was blank That everything made her I A well to do all day q- my house and down with the stow the time he nth me Fifteen ye ago a prosperous he sat down to sign the paper He had Kept the The sign read J John but Ink to everybody It the only store at the village crossroads be prospered in a modest way After the too worthless to kill But Uncle deducted his profits were me into the store one day and but he was able to support his family comfort- l me to go to school got me some They had a pretty little cottage with hooka and me clothes on credit Nobody some fruit trees in the lot kept some pigs a thought lie would ever get a cent for it horse and buggy They to put my name on that note said ugh and were contented with that know its not worth thing but I want it there knows his nephew in as- how kind Uncle Charley has been addition to the store winter after Jim died Lizzie went new goods It one day almost barefooted He but trade pretended to have her help him count some i and then he gave her a pair of shoes done lots of things like that He is always so jolly and wholesouled you help but feel that he is interested i thou and wants took the ent to St Louis to pay off the tubule mods for the fall and There wer old man promptly tut the to happy humor the independe is chair a- if The courage hopeless old ailed South lays later a letter from the wholesale down never to expressing surprise that he had not pwo or three farmers remitted for the past due account and stating edgB porch to be sociable that unless such remittance was received by a pitiful failure of it Others came the tenth they would draw on him for the aQli mor8j full amount the new bill included three dozen seated on the porch The old The supperbelt rang three times before ihfr that they had come to sympathize him but he could not bring up the of his loss There was an awkward halfhour in which talked of the important matter At last nudged Todd and urged him to Johns trying to apeak but the words stuck in apeak Todd shifted his position once or got up awkwardly and stood before his throat Then he fumbled in his pocket a paper held it out to the old man and managed to say Maybe itll help you Ttie old man looked at the paper It was note for three thousand dollars due in three all ready for his signature Below- was name of almost every man in the corn- old but could only Mary His wit and looked at the said the old man bitterly people on your note because you Thank em ma I cant said the old good to them man with a sob in his voice The tears were next day he made the only effort thati- down her face as she turned toward lo offer any hope He went to Adams the men They were all looking away the moneylender of the community and of- I cant either she said as she slipped lo mortgage everything down beside her husband with her armaround No said Adams Your stuff isnt worth his neck but thev know it It isnt in my line anyway Get some Looks sorter like rain over in tlie south- good men on your note and I can lend you what west said Todd Guess wed better be you need going boys The old man went home a forlorn figure bent gray hopeless and sat down to wait dully for the end THE UNFORGOTTEfJ SOttG the shade of the blacksmith an informal gathering of farm- who on hearing the news had ridden in earn the particulars Too bad for Uncle Charley said a farm- digging at the grass beside him his J pocket knife Too bad and they all shook beads been a great help to his community hi added a thirds And then they talked of how they always distrusted his nephew and how soon the old man would he closed out and wondered what he would then do for a living poorest and moat vho had By Margaret An ancient speckled seashelf brown ana white makes itself a nuisance at on the corner of my chiffonier Vet I think its place there is assured as long as I shall live no matter how useless it may be for it is one of the very first playthings- can remember and has lived with me all my life going with me through numerous and a fire and fairly earning its place as a permanent in habitant of my home As long ago as I can recall it was a thing of delight and mystery to me My small ear heard in it a song thai whispered to me of the wide world and the mighty ocean I had never seen and its sings the same song to me to day unchanged and undiminished No one is ever quite explained that song to my sat faction I know it is the pui not spoken Something ought to none men but to could hardly control his voice Ttll be a low have listened lo the songs of shell o let Uncle Charley he sold out nat there ked Jones rather shell was not always empty It was the house of some soft helpless creature de- hat we can do fenceless except for this hard dwelling on tell you what he which it depended for constant shelter It here I didnt flUeu with its yielding bulk and lay rusted me for a whole day by dav soundless inert merely ex- asked me for it once j but I got ashamed and Time passed and the little creature Well the next fall to be We can scarcely died of what the fever there wasnt hardly lived shell lay empty idle the house to go on I tell you weff Perhaps other small seaanimals a mighty bad shape and didnt know crept into it sometimes as a temporary the world would become of us hut the brief life for which it was built Mr John came over and brought was gone Vet the shell was not empty ante Says be Doc and just thought Into it came great visitants now the while the doctor was waters of tbe measureless ocean as it tossed he called my wife their embrace now the whispering airs or 5 Mrs Todd von send as it lav spent upon the shore flan to the store and get what from the arms of the tide Life motion pay for it when he freedom all What Do Know About It What do the common yellow interfiled attack plmit iots wheal- of the year 3 Why legumes planted when not use What e Home crops highly eihauating What is the worm found in apples I disease rops Answers in Next Issuel fintt to into tM habitation and sang their songs Now see in Where there had been the silence of a poor selfish voiceless existence now there was jo I of all the waves that rose and all and Im to sell winds blew beneath the stars SSrSdriTO rfonev Uncle Charley to One day some human hand pitted help pay off 11 debt Several others volshellwbaL hand or on whatshore 1 to help dont said be best to givo him about it around fruit Tree of flieB when usually i of their favorite In- large know and indeed it does not matter that it would pretty thing became a childs toy a lie Wouldnt a souvenir But the days of wave and win had left their memory and shut away them the faithful shell still sang then- find it to this day and will singing it perhaps when earths last in dawns and the sea shall be no more- 1 And so we wonder and ask what would ho the boost he to him if he can get the security but how tie going lo get it said Willis Well I never went on a note in my life know It so he can make that back but its just taken- all the stiffening of the old man and hos lost all heart If we could fix it some way so he could go on with the store and way pay oil would loan self to rnin8 nthsa vorld but it they having lost that thB songs of the vast deep J tar sky and sing them eternally To shelter and may all be Hed lillnjr watei A crop lfl had the cumbrous existence withi the songs could never have entered And whatace wo for a desire for personal V note was made out and put in the hands ni The word was quickly passed l themselv and for two or days men kept lhiu ng in at all hours to sign that note von All le lent me fifty dollars when I was hard I to tho smallest said one llhal gives room and make it le helped Torn get tlirouglr when I idle ii of OF TORONTO