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tiled herself into a comfortable corner, "what are we going to do about it?" said Alice. Grandfather's Well. By Clara Ingram Judson. A whole week at grandfather's! Does not that sound good? Alice thought it did, and when father came h id drink out of ome and announced that they were to mam " ne See ce spend Old Home Week on the farm "Maybe he could," agreed Mary with his father ard mother the girls could hardly wait to do their packing and make the journey. But when grandfather met them at the station with a handsome new auto- 'mobile the girls were so much disap- pointed that grandfather could see that something was the ma "I know what you're thinking," he said, with a laugh, after a moment's thought; "you're looking for the horses your father has told you about. Well, you'll see them. You just hop in and we'll ride home. Then you won't have to get into an automobile or see a single city thing all the time you are at the farm." "Really, grandfather?" cried the girls, as he tucked them in and started the car. "Have you got chickens andj; horses and cows?" "Everything," grandfather assured them. "Chickens and ducks and colts and a brook and--vwell, about every- thing we had when your father was a doubtfully, "but would he? Maybe he wouldn't understand that it was for him. "We might set it on the table and then hide, ote we wouldn't bother him," su ted "But a ve so little," objected Mary Ther was a minute's silence, and then Alice shouted and clapped her hands so hard that both girls nearly tumbled out of the tree! "I know! I know! I know!" she cried. "We'll get grandmother to give us an old, deep pan and we'll set it in a hole in the lg and fill it full of water. Then Mr. Robin will think it's a new spring come to life!" There was not much peaceful sitting i: the old apple tree after that! Down he girls scrambled and off they ran Gonna the house. Grandmother was interested in the idea at once and gave them a pan that was just broad ania and just deep enough to suit. boy." " " . |Grandfather saw that something in- Sezer the old.welll? asked Alice teresting was going on, and he came ager up to the house to see what it was. "We'll let you dig the hole to put the pan in," said Mary, and so he, too, had a share of the fun. In a little while the pan was tucked into a hole in the ground, near the old wall -- the earth vas packed neatly round i "Tt a look quite right yet," said Alice, as she studied it thought- fully. "Let's put pebbles on the bot- tom to cover the tin and put moss round the edge, as if it grew there." When that was done to the girls' satisfaction they filled the pan evith water from the old well and then hid behind some bushes. abort two minutes Mr. Robin Redbreast came to the old well. He spied the pan of water the very first thing; but not knowing what it was or} how it got there, he pretended that he| did not see it. in a little while hiscuriosity got the better of him and he flew down to see if it was really water that he saw. Then he perched on the edge of the pan and looked at the reflection of himself, and at last dipped his bill in and took a taste. ly. "And the old well," said grandfath- er. "You shall have a drink out of it as soon as we get home." While they were greeting grandmo- ther, grandfather put the new auto- mobile away;-and that wa: the last the girls saw of it all the time they and colts, and grandmother showe them the chickens and the milk house and the ducks. Then they all went over to the old well and had a drink, found the water just as good as father had said it would be. And by that . time the day was gone--days are so short sometimes! Alice and Mary were up bright and early the next morning. The very first thing they did was to run down to the old well for a drink. Now, the first time that the girls drank from the old well they were so busy think- ing of the wonders of the well itself that they did not have time to notice anything else; but this second time [) ir on the lowest branch of the tree that ALTHOUGH the "throne" hosts, which seized it many months reward a victorious leader. "Throne" of King George on the Battlefront of England ts popularly believed to be the huge upholstered chair at Buckingham Palace, effect that "where ye King sits, there ye throne of England stands." be true the humble, battle-scarred kitchen chair shown in the above photo- graph is particularly exalted, for tt not only holds His Majesty, George the Fifth, but has actually enthroned him on the ruined battlements of the Chateau Thiepvai in north-western France. aside by side have only recently wrested Thiepval back' from the German - there is an old legend to the If this England and France, fighting ago. A British general is explaining the battle to His Majesty, who is a clogze student of strategy and is quick to Tom's New Partner | It is no wonder that Tom Rooker was proud of himself. He was mak- ing a real stir in There were men talked like an old lawyer. was only twenty-four! ' Beyond the shadow of a doubt, the young fellow carried a clear head on his shoulders, have a great many things his own wa And Tom | Immediately he ruffled out his feath- grew closest to the well, sat Mr. ers, drew a long breath--and took a ao nora nee . on big drink. One, two, three, four, five ' dines. gesn't he look cheerful?" asked' grinks before he stopped. That's how y ! thirsty he was! And then he disap- ; peared. "O dear! He's gone already! sighed "And I thought he'd stay a! long time?" | But she did not know Mr. Robin! Redbreast. Would he stay an drink and let his little mate go thirsty? Nothe! In no time he was} back, and Mrs. Robin was with him.| She sat on one side of the pan and he! on the other, and they had the best | time drinking that good cold water. | After they had had plenty, they flew to the tree and sang a "thank you" song. Or maybe it was a Alice looked closely at Mr. Robin! before she answered. Then she said, | "It seems to me he's only trying to: } look cheerful. There's such a differ-! 1 ence between looking cheerful and try-! ing to look cheerful; you know your-. self, Mary, that sometimes, no matter! how hard you try to cover it up, the 'trying to' will show through!" "But why should Mr. Robin try to look cheerful?" asked Mary, looking at him in a puzzled way. "He has this beautiful country, the meadows and the garden Why shouldn't he be really- y-traly. cheerful ?" oa cle enti te _ cive | "come here" song, for, even as the father wy vers & | girls watched, two blue jays, three They scampered off to the b goldfinches and four more robins came | | viel | and took drinks. = where they found grandfather in the| act of rubbing down the horses that | ~were to take the girls for a drive in the afternoon. It was such fun to watch that it is no wonder they forgot Mr. Robin Redbreast and his troubles. But when the girls ran toward the house at noon in response to the wel- come dnner bell, they saw Mr. Robin . "There he is again," "Now I must remember to ask grandfather about him!" So as soon as her plate was emptied of its first helping of chicken pie, she said, "Grandfather, we saw a robin down by the old well this morning. | And I thought he looked as if it were pretty hard work to sin suppose I just thought that or was he really in trouble? Grandfather thought a moment, as | was his way; then he said, "I don't! know about the troubles, but I fancy the little fellow must get pretty thirsty these days. You know I told. you we hadn't had a drop of rain for, fifteen days and that for the first time | in many years the brook and the mea-' dow creek are dry. I think perhaps! he was thirsty.' | hills should be dug at the time the se-! "Thirsty!" exclaimed both girls, |lection is made, providing it is late) "And we had plenty! And the well was, @noughr in the autumn to insure the! right there! | po otatoes keeping well until planting: "Not much good does that deep well; time next spring. Where the potatoes do Robin," said grandfather, sate kings | in a hill have particularly strong tops,' "but don't you girls worry about him. | 2T¢ of good size and yield well, they, He's used to getting along some way.", Should be kept for seed. In hills: Alice and Mary said nothing more! i which do not yield satisfactorily, how- | about Mr. Robin just then; they; ever, the potatoes should be used for, thought of him a great deal; and every , cooking and not saved for seed. An, time Alice took a drink, between her | examination of the field at this time bites of chicken and custard pie, she| of the year will demonstrate that seemed to feel how thirsty, how very | some hills have resisted bugs, disease thirsty, poor Robin must be. jand drought better than others, and After dinner was over, the girls! that the yield of certain hills is high- helped grandmother clear the table; ¢T than others. The disease-resisting and wash the dishes; then they ran|and high-yielding hills will produce a out into the orchard and climbed up| better crop than seed taken from the to the first branch of the oldest apple | common bin or from the planting of tree. That was the very best place} small potatoes, as is often the case. they had found for a comfortable, neendiaen. diaiainanee serious talk. Crowded strawberry plants meant a "Now, then," said Mary, as she set-| poor crop next June. Thin 'em out! And every morning after that, dur- | ing all the week they stayed at the farm, Alice and Mary ran down to the well beforé breakfast and filled up the | pan with fresh water before they took their own "before breakfest" drink. BEST SEED POTATOES. Are Found to be Those Not Fully Ma- tured--Hill Selection Advisable. | Potatoes which have not fully ma- | tured give better yields than fully ma-! itured seed. This has been proved by | experiments conducted at the Ontario y| Agricultural College at Guelph for the past five years. The practice of;, ; Planting immature potatoes is quite; 'common in England. | The farmers of this country should! follow the same practice, and should! combine it with hill selection. When| the potato vines are beginning to! ripen, the most vigorous hills can eas-| lily be noted. Vigorous tops above' | ground usually mark a good yield of potatoes underground. The vigorous | | ; Proud of him, | er. actly eloquent, but his arguments were forcible and to the point, and he could cite cases without end. A number of other people were too. His mother was tremendously proud of him, and there was a girl with the bluest eyes and the loveliest hair who was immeasurably proud of him; but the two people in| d| the world who were the very proudest of Tom were the two old lawyers in | Whose office the boy had been drilled in the law. Each of the two old law- | yers took to himself the credit of shap- ing Tom's legal mind and of placing him upon the highroad to success. mendous rate, * said Mr. Hig- 'gleson, the little old lawyer. "I want- ed to see how much he could stand, and, by George! he stood it all. I/ allowed him to write my papers in his | wn Way, and as a consequence he writes as fine a paper as a mature attorney--almost, I may say, as good |a paper as I write myself.' "It has given me infinite pleasure," said Mr. Murphree, the tall old lawyer, 'smiling complacently, Yes, Sir, young man to plead in the courts when 1 would have had another student stil] ,reading his Blackstone. I ran risks, no doubt of it, but IT ran them with my {eyes open.' The outside world, lawyers and) | everyone else, declared that Tom had done a_ wise thing when he offered himself as a student in the office of | Mr. Higgleson and Mr. Murphree. "And though," people said, "Tom {didn't go in with the understanding that he was to do all the work of the firm, by doing all the work he has mastered the law otherwise could possibly have done." As*Tom thought over the favorable ' (decisions that he had won, he told! himself a great many flattering things. "Look herey' he said, "you're a foo) if you settle yourself in this musty old! set of offices and continue to do all! the work of the firm. up the ladder rapidly, want. need a good library, and you've got to have it. You can go in with another young fellow, go halves with him in the expense, move uptown into light offices, and the two of you push ahead. You can't possibly move along briskly You want to get that's what you with two very old gentlemen dragging | you back." After he had told himself all that, Tom rumpled his yellow hair and felt miserable. In i the litfle old lawyer smiling, with his hands on his shoul ders; the little old lawyer had such very affectiqnate ways! And then ! the tall old lawyer was shaking him by | the hand long and hard, and laughing in his pleasant manner. The tall old | lawyer had love in his eyes, and Tom! wished that he had not. "| They had thought "to help bring ! efore the public a boy like Tom Rook- | I have permitted that | quicker than he | You want to be up-to-date. You ! , | "Yes, it's hard to break any kind of | Tom growled, "but when it's got | ' tles," | to be it's got to be, and I might as well }| tell. them what I mean to do!" y were aston ished when Tom | sity explained his intention to them; he d them everything except that ithe new partner was to be young. 1 that he was well! | sitnbet where he was. But after the boy had gone out of the office, with | his hat tilted back, showing the yel- low locks aeross his forehead, the two old gentlemen each seriously con- and he was going tod sidered the matter, and each arrived 'if after all he,were perhaps as old as a-similar conclusion; namely, that in the world of law. He was not exe/he could not possibly get along with- | tout the boy. | Tom's mother said that of course 'Tom was right; her boy knew his own business; but she added that she did feel sorry for the two old lawyers who had always been so kind to him. The girl with the lovely hair showed | her dimples and her blue eyes grew i larger and brighter as Tom unfolded | his plans. The plans seemed so gi- gantic, and it was such a little time ago that some people had taken Tom |for "the office boy"! Certainly, she | said, he ought to have a young part- |ner, and most certainly they ought to jhave the latest and best law books in! -'their joint library. "And green car- pet. it looks so well in an office," said the girl, "and very comfortable chairs. /Comfortable chairs make such a plea- |sant impression. ane you 'll get a new desk, of course, Tom "I am looking at Gatalounes," said | }Tom. "lI intend to get my desk in New York." | The girl clasped her hands. "I am 'sorry only about one thing, Tom." | "You mean the stove ?" "The offices are to be heated by steam." ; In her enthusiasm over steam heat, lthe girl almost forgot that one thing about which she was sorry. "Well," said Tom, in a glow, » that everything is right | 4 | hav ent got the partner yet.' "vou "I am sorry for those two old law-! m. The truth is that no one in the whole world was sorrier for the two old law- 'yers than Tom was himself. |not expected the sorrow to grow; bad thought that he should get used }to it; but he dfd not. jinto the little private back office, and, looking at him in that affectionate ; way of his, said, "Tom, I've been | thi nking over what you said to us, 'about your plan, you know, and I've to the conclusion that you are You are almost always right, come right. 'Tem You need new, bright offices, | and you'll get them uptown. You | need an up-to-date library, and it isn't \here." His voice sank, and he went jon : "I know that there have been some things here, besides the dingy | old office rooms, that must have been | exce sedingly trying to a high-spirited |young man like yourself. You have shown yourself an able lawyer; you | bave talked in the courts like a law- of experience--everyone says so; d yet you have been treated like a j ver pan = 2 i) yy. He nodded toward the outer office. "Tam sure that Murphree didn't mean 'anything by it; it is juSt his manner, and he's getting old. I understand exactly why you are going to leave, and 1 feel proud of you, Tom, that you told us in such a way that Murph- ree never guessed. I have known for long time that the three of us cried Tom. | Only 1) He had | he | One day Mr. Higgleson called Tom | & great deal of you,--loves you like a! son, that he couldn't plead himself, and then jumps on me for giving you must ae you have the strength of. a horse RE sive a little plan, too, Tom. It to find a partner willing to share the expenses of a first-class set of offices. I am ready to be that other partner, Tom. I am willing to go more than halves, Tom. We will go uptown to- gether |" He stood up and put his hands on Tom's shoulders; his weak little eyes peered. hard into the young face. There was just a faint glimpse of fear and doubt in his eyes but the wrinkled face was lighted by that smiling mouth. Tom laughed bashfully. "You want to think it over, Tom ?" Tom nodded, and then said briskly that he had business over at the court- house. Early the next morning, fully an hour before Mr. Higgleson got down to the office, Mr. Murphree had a talk with Tom. "So, Tom," he said, "you have fully decided to set up in new offices and J with a new partner ? That's right. Have you chosen your new partner yet ? Although it was only nine o'clock, Tom looked nervously round before he answered that he had not--yet. "Very good," said the tall old law- yer. He cleared his throat, assiduous- ly read his memoranda, and then said, "I've been considering the matter from all points of view, egain that you are right. had just a little bit too much of other |people's work here in these offices. /I don't Hke to lay blame upon a man} who {is absent, but Mr. Higgleson is | peculiar, and, although he means well, he has exacted too much of you when he let you write all-his papers. Now, the courts, but it's another thing to} make him write a lot of dull legal | papers "I have always entertained kind | feelings toward Mr. Higgleson, but he has no earthly use for me. Therefore, | F am going to make this proposal to} ou: I will be your new partner. | We'll have the finest suite of offices | to be found in the town. You see, Tom, I'm not as young as I once was, | though I'm not as old as Higgleson by | any manner of means, and I need you! for my court work." The tall old lawyer patted Tom on); | the head. om will think that matter jover, Tom?" he said, with a little | tremble in 'iin voice that sounded as { Mr. -Higglesen. "I'll think it over, Mr. Murphree," } | said Tom. "And meanwhile, Tom," said Mr. Murphree, "you won't go running | round town, looking for another young fellow like yourself ? You won't find 'him; he doesn't exist. You need an older head to go with yours; youn | fellows require ballast. When you have thought the matter over, you will let me know ?" "T will let you know, Mr. Murphree," ; said Tom | One day after that the two old law- ' yers and Tom were all busy over a; /special piece of work. It was inter-| 'esting; and when they were through | they shook hands all round by way of congratulating one another. Then it ' was that Mr. Murphree said, "Changes | ; must come in the natural course of} things, but, "pon my scul, I wish that | i we three could stick together." this time it was old Mr. Higgleson who | said, "We've been together for a long | time. If we ever separate, we'll miss or one that isn't with us." Everyone knew that Tom was to} | move; indeed, as soon as he had, rented his offices, almost everyone |sought them out and, viewing them, | declared that young Rooker surely had | }a clear head on his shoulders. When this mother saw them she felt sorrier ; than ever for the two old lawyers left behind, and when the girl with the {blue eyes saw them she would not even ask Tom the name of the new | partner. A few people standing outside the courthouse saw Tom on the day that; 'he moved. He was carrying a pile of | | books that reached from his arm, held | }low, to his chin, held high. Old Mr. 'Murphree accompanied him People said that the tall old lawyer loved Tom so dearly that he could not even let \the boy run poly by himself but they wondered a litle at Mr. Murph- ree's happy coiracaliin. The happy -expression was only momentary, for a cloud came over his face. "Tom," said the old gentleman, "it seems kind of mean sneaking off I like this from Mr. Higgleson, before he comes down to the office. I wish matters' had been different, my boy and that you hadn't cbjected to taking him along." Tom's face remained happy. He was thinking of another voice that had said to him the night before, "I fee! like pleading with you, Tom, in behalf of Murphree. He's old, and he leans upon you, and he loves you like a son Perhaps, after we're up there a bit you'll find out that you can make room for him; it won't be for long. I'm afraid I won't be able to look Murph in the eyes the next time we meet." The broad- shouldered young fellow and the tall old gentleman walked up the steps leading to the finest suite of I may say,--he thinks Uterally'{n and surveyed the place. nothing of me. Why, he has sent you | were three desks, arranged as off to the courthouse to plead a case three desks in the old building | been arranged; | front desk was Mr. Higgleson, at work papers to write, and declares that I at nine o'clock for possibly the first would take considerable time for you ; Murphree. it's a good thing to send a boy into} is safety. | | nation. , dash of wit. Couldn't: remain much longer to-| offices in the town, and with the tos -- gether. Now, though Murphree thinks" , ot his boot Tom 'farther open. pushed thn open door Mr. Murphree Kropped: and there at the time in his life. Mr. Higgieson had looked up from his desk and was staring hard at Mr. Hé, too, had wondered The two old lawyers simultaneously ped the 'situation--at least that part of it which means that the three were to continue together. They rushed into each other's arms and almost subbed, while Tom, standing off a little, still held the pile of law books that reached from his arm, held low, to his chin, held high. "It certainly--would--take--a court of--Equity--to decide--which one was the new--partner," he sald later to the girl with the blue eyes. "Court of Equity, indeed!" whis- pered the girl, whose dimples had nat disappeared since Tom told her of his arrangement. "I am sure it would be a case for the Supreme Court." --Louise R. Baker. THE WORLD FOR HAPPINESS. Peace and Freedom For All Nations of the Earth Should be Secured. War is a horrible business that vic timizes youth, and cheats it of its | right to live and be happy. The young | natn and the young women of the | world must insist upon seeing that j this war ends with the accomplish- iment of something worth while | Otherwise the fools who precipitatec | the war will end in its folly, and the i world will groan along under the curse of armaments and in constant dread of fresh wars. The system of kings and dynasties ,is played out, and democracy should , have its full opportunity. Profession. jal statesmanship is a menace as well {as a humbug, and the "ruling classes," whether in Germany or elsewhere, {should be suppressed for the world's Secret diplomacy should be discarded along with militarism. As for colonialism, it must be view- ed in a new light and relieved of its | worst evils. Colonies should be held | only for the best welfare of everybody jconcerned. Thus Egypt will always remain Egypt, and England's influ- | ence there will not be detrimental to !the legitimate interests of any other The United States in the Philippines, viewed rightfully, has a temporary rather than a permanent mission to fulfill. If it is right that German South- west Africa should become a part of ad South African Union, this wie the disadvan or When a proper order of affairs is es- tablished in the world, the South Afriean Union will become a member 'of the world family of States * As for Asia Minor, all "nations ought to co-operate for the develop- ment of that neglected region that has so long suffered from the blight of Turkish misgovernment. In due time the inhabitants of Asia Minor . can learn the principles of religious and political freedom and carry on a gov- ernment in which Armenians, Turks, Greeks, Arabs, and men of all nation- alities and creeds can have their just part as neighbors, enjoying liberty and equality. This is no fantastic dream, but thing that can be much more couaily ' accomplished than the development of 'the Philippines, if it is entered upon in good faith by the associated na- tions. OO WAR MEANS LESS POVERTY. | Reduction of Want Among Indigent Classes Result of Conflict. Strange to say, one of the few bene- fits conferred by the war has been a large reduction in poverty among in- |digent classes. Many gien who were | of very little use to thee families ow- 'ing to irregular habits, ehlisted, and as a result their families have been 'steadily receiving monthly payments far in excess of anything they could possibly have ho 2 had the fa- , ther remained at The eto of Phigies from the Militia Department and the Patriotic Fund has almost entirely done away | with the need of charitable mainten- lance. This is a good illustration of | what happiness and good order can be brgight about through the reasonable distribution of the world's wealth. There are moral advantages, too, connected with Patriotic Fund, that are worth knowing. The visitors and inspectors, in making their usual observe wrong social conditions, and by call- ing attention to them, bring about im- mediate improvement. For instance, they have been able to insist that there should be a certain standard of living as a result of the liberal pay- ments, and also there have heen many cases in which mothers have been warned that doubtful conduct on their part pings lead to the steoping of paymes All this has had an uplifiing influ- ence on the people concerned, and has indirectly, been of great advantage to the Dominion. One hour of the present is worth two in the future and a hundred in the past. The best brand of conversation is made up of truth, good sense and : There © '