'Making Things Hum |). .The door of Mr. William Deacon's frrocer's store crashed behind Joe "He had been sacked. . Sacked ! And for what? For no- thing at all! Deacon had a grud against him, | g urged Joe Paxton. Ever since Mr. Deacon had found out that Joe .. wanted to marty his daughter Dol- ly he had had his knife in him. That was all the thanks he got for stay- ing from morning night in a wretched little country store! Old Deacon would find out what was what. He, Joe Paxton, show him! At the foot of the street Joe met Dolly herself. Dolly was nineteen, and Joe was twenty-four; but ly had the advantage of him in looks. She was an uncommonly pretty girl. Joe's flush deepened as he saw her. "Hallo Joe!"' mime Dolly. "Where are you off to "Home." "You're terribly early, aren't you t . Joe swallowed something. "I've got the sack," he said shortly. "Your father's in a rare mood this morning, I reckon he got up on the wrong side of the ates ad "But surely, Joe---- What ever cy you do to get the sack?" asked Yoll - 'Nothing. Nothing at all. But your father's been looking out for this chance. Well, I hope he' ll bet- ter himself; and I can't do mu worse. I'm off home!" "But, Joe----"' "Ves ? "You are not angry with me. are youll can't help what father does. LB) He's the sz th etimes : : . of ee Ss cpa: Joe. "If you had said a hundred a day the vivid description that rose to year his lips. 'But I'm net angry with "My | limit is thirty pounds." vou, Dolly, I'll get another job We've a lease of seventeen quick. You see? And we il get | years, warne ed Joe. married, in spite of your father. I'll be at the two big trees to-night, Dolly.' "Well, Joe, maybe I'll be passing that way myself,' she replied de- murely,, And they parted. Farther down the street Joe ran acress Charlie Dodd, whose father was the local auctioneer and estate would| y ie. ne eae your rape ees "Not him. We're tabrible slack just pow. A man was in the office to- day. He's the first for weeks.' "What was he wanting?' ie Just asking if the sweetshop near the railway halt was to let. T; told him Tahdne t knw iw. He's to be! back on Friday | Mo go te London! said Joe after a pause. "That's | Ingleside is decisively, the place to Ret on 1. ne use at all, "Father says it's going to be de veloped. When they build a sta-| tion instead of a halt----" | Joe interrupted, with a snort of disgust. "Thes've been geing to develop this place ever since I've been | born," he said. "And I'll helieve in that railway station when I set} it. So-lung, Charlie!" | On his way home Joe had ocea- sien tu call at the halt to collect.a parcel. On the rude platform two men were waiting for the train. He could not help overhearing what the! | i] man whese back was tuwards him | was easing. Tt is true he did not, try very hare "At present this is the most one- eved p'ace I've ever struck!' the man was saying. "Dodd was out, L must come back on Friday. The village idiat who represented Dodd couldn t tel! me if the shop is to let or not. Rit PT don't anticipate auy d'fficulty in ge etting it. It's the finest site in the place; and we want to get in here, right on the grounsl floor, so to speak. I'm cer-! tain the place will boom. With a gocad service of trains--and the com- pans has promised us that--Ingle- side will boom like Old Harry !" then the speaker turned, and, fell upon Joe Paxton. ! nce re' train due, isn't! P ocricgd, 'Yes. sirl" Feplied a made off with his, parc Joe was no dgii-wi 'tted country Indl. He reali eft tha he was the track of a bye discovery. the man whom he had overheard he recognized as Mr. Trueman, the manager of Shingleton's Stores. For a glorious month he had work- there "iid and he ed at Shingleton's head establish- nient in London, and had left} so he thought... to better himse! All the way home he thou ght over what he had heard. hingleton's Stores are every- where; and it was very cleaBto Joe Paxton 'that Shingleton's contem- plated making a descent upon In- gieside. More than that, they coveted the sweetshop beside the ' ait. Mrs. Baker and he were on friendly terms. To her he made a proposal that fairly took her breath away. Tt was quite late before he reach- ed = bem. where he lived'with his ox th) WW hye this I'm hearing?' she = cried sharply. "Ts it the case that a, ve got your leave?" -- oes right " replied Joe cheer- You should think shame of your- cif " will said his ee "What ou get to do ito nartneiabie:" on i ina sweetie-shop! ing you; Joe----". "You eh me alone; mothe » I'm. tell. interrupted Joe, so 'seriously that : Mrs. Paxton was impressed, in ite of herself. 'You Jeave me one! I know what I'm about." e Dolly Deacon the night before, and even she.had been inclined to belit- tle his new enterprise. She also to be shown what was what. With his coat off, he set to,work on rs. Baker's shop. .He scrubbed it clean, he polished the window- pane, he rearranged the goods. But rie a then the place was not to his e wat 'the end of the week he was brooding over her lack of enter- prise in the shop, and the even greater ack -of customers, when Mr. ca '*Mra. ekes in?' he asked. "Not to-day. Do you want to buy some chosolates? We've got some fine fresh ones in to-day." Mr. Dodd frowned. This levity displeased him. "T've got an inquiry about these , premises----"' he began. "Well, I'm in partnership with Mrs. Baker ay eaid Joe. * What, is the inquiry Mr. Dodd 'hesitated. Then he "T can make you a gocd offer for "Twenty pounds a year."' "For the shop alone 7' 'For. the entire premises.' Joe laughed. fot much !"" he said, "Do you mean it's not enough?' cried Mr. Dodd, aghast. 'We're not on the market," said "T can't help that. limit" Joe hesitated. Then: "Nothing doing !"' he said = Mr. Dedd took his depart- ~ ios waited a week, then two weeks, for Shingleton's to make another overture... He began to_re- gret not b beige clinched wi confectionery business. It was now that Joe's aptitude for commerce came to his rescue. He wavlaid the travellers who journeyed to Ingleside in order to call on Mr. Deacon, and to them he explained his pla In a marvellously alias time it began to be apparent that Mrs. Baker's shop had _ undergone change, and that in Ingleside there was now a rival to Deacon's gro- cery establishment. Then Joe put on his best clothes and called on everybody who lived within a ra- ius of six miles, and courted their patronage. Things began to hum at Mrs. Ba- ker's. Shortage of capital was their greatest worry, and the peo- ple in the big houses near Ingleside were not very prompt payers. Be- fore the winter was out Paxton realized that he had quite a g business and not enough money to keep it going. W ith several threat- ening letters before him Joe sat down one day to think a way cut. He was puzzling thus when the lshop bell rang and there entered Dolly Deacon. There were tears in her eyes "What's amiss, ed quickly. The girl hestitated a moment, and then Why ever did you start this hateful shop?" she cried. "What! pag you do it? What made you do it Yo s eyes opened wide. "What made me do it?" he re- peated. "For a living, I suppose.' "Couldn't you have found one some other way? Some other way that didn't mean » taking the bread out of another man's mouth?' "Whose mouth am I taking the bread out off' he démanded. our father's ?"' "You know perfectly well." "Then he's feeling the draught."' "Tt i is cruel of you to brag about it,'"' eried Dolly megane "He's an old man, Joe. And you've ruin- ed him Joe moistened his lips. "I'm sorry."' he said. 'I'm real sorry. And if it's any consolation to him he may as well know that Um done in. too. We're cutting sau other's throats. That's what e doing. "The shop rail rang again, and a silk-hatted man enter Joe's heart beat faster as he recognized Mr. Trueman, of Shingleton's. "Mr. Paxton ?" asked Mr. True- man. . "Ve "Could you spare me a few min- utes?" "Certainly.".. Joe glanced wards Dolly, and the girl left the shop. Mr. Trueman came to the potas Dolly 7' he ask- " That's the w - Mr. | be growled. € a ppadner ina very y GnISREVEaELS th a| spread out ten crisp notes ' etances too strong for him, g D. W. Ross. Formerly County Crown Attorney of Bruce, one of the Sarly gradu- ates of Toronto University who died in Toronto recently. "ay want to take over these pre- mises,' "he sai "Are you open to an offer ' "Tf it's good enough," grinned oe. "We're doing big business here now.' Mr. Trueman smiled' a trifle con- temptuously. "TF you don't believe me 'you-ean ook at our books," continued Joe. Eventually Mr, Trueman did ex- amine the books. "What's your price?" he Baked. "Make an offer," replied Joe. Mr. Trueman's offer was con- siderably more than Jos expected. Time was of more importance. to Mr. Trueman 'than money and he wanted to clinch the matter there and t uy accept,' said Joe, shortly, |p provided the deat i is carried through efore Thursda, r. Trueman turned to the door! "Our sglicitor will call on you to- morrow: morning,"' he said, § taped On Thursday morning Mer} ' Dea- con was despondently surveying his fly-blown stock when Joe axton "Good-morning,"' antly. 'I thought you'd: kriow that I've given up tha) over the way.' E anes old man's eyes glitteré mous . rae thought you'd come tof "Mrs, Baker' with you ut? mS "Mind your own busi aa ne 'That's. just what I' try ng to do. As a matter of business} Mr. fifty Deacon, could you do with pounds ?"' oh the counter. Mr. Deacon locked envyiou the money. "Away with you! he sia or 4 Bly at shouted here, let's get to bupiness, to r. Deacon. I've got an offer make," said Joe. "I've soli the business to Shingleton's. | Mrs. th her y your siness. Baker is fons to London w share. I'm prepared to 'paj ebts and take over your bu There's one condition. * "Well, what is it?' Mr. "Ipeacon spoke more gently. ' "That you let Dolly. and me get marr ied right away. You : well," he urged. And Mr. Deacon, finding di hay as ircum- Ave in. op you ve "Ts it quite fair to start fl sition to Shingleton's when sold them your business ?" asked, later on. "There'll be plenty of roo both of us," eaid Joe guess I'll keep my own custo! --London Answers. a. nee { BE THANKFUL, JOH. a for I hen? Old Age Not to Blame for} Every IH thet Flesh is Heir tb. "How are you, to-day?' (said a Scottish landlord to one of .his ten- ants on meeting him on the road. "Vera weel, sir, vera weel,"" an- swered Juhn in his usual way, "gin it wasna for the rheumatism in my richt Jeg." "Ah, well, John, bs thankful, for there is no mistake you are getting old like' the rest of us, and old age does not! come alone."' "Auld age, sir,'? replied John. "I wonder to hear ye. Auld age has nothing to do -. with it. Here's my ither leg jest as auld, an' it is quite soond and svopple yet." , : © entensesmenersiape A arisiegcasiitnmedtl Another Name. "Father, selves bachelors before they get married ?' "Yes, my boy "And what "és til call them- selves after, dad?' "Hu sh! It isn't fit for little boys to know : Mr. Gustave Hannel proapny gave an beer laa: a flying before rivate at once. fhe King Queen i on the je P ecousale of a 1 to-ddy's lesson follow closely upon 4those of the lesson for March 22. jlonger division of the Gospel (14. was addressed to the guests; Jesus _|Mow addresses the host, and seoms "None of your cheek, you fyoung| "do not habitually call.' Social jackanapes! If you don't gBt out) invitations are not condemned, but of my shop----"' our hospitality ehould not end "Tye got it with me."*{ Joe| ther x t don't .men eall, them- INTERNATIONAL LESSON, | APRIL 5, 1914. veh) 2 SE Lesson J. Christ's Table Talk. ; ake: 14. 7-24. Golden Text, ~~ Buke 14. 11. ~ In Luke's narrative the events of] The review lesson which has inter- vened should not be permitted to obscure 'the close relation of thought. The account of the heal- ing of the dropsical man on tho Sabbath (verses 1-6) belongs to the 1 to 17. 10) devoted to the second period of the journey of Jesus to Jerusalem. The whole section is peculiar to Luke: Verse 7. A parablo--This word has several meanings. "Usually it as a story told to. illustrate a truth. Here it means a piece of advice. Those that were bidden--A! Phari- see had invited Jesus and other guests to dine at his house. The chief seats--According to the Talmud, the middle place on a couch intended for three was the worthiest, that on the left the sec- ond in honor, and that on the right third. Jesus seems, however, .to peer to the position of the couches. 8. A marriage feast--This was a forinal dinner where the rank of the guests would be considered. 9. Thou shalt begin with shame to take the lowest place--The displaced guest would have to take the lowest seat because the intermediate places would have been filled in the meantime. The thought expressed by Jesus is found in Proy. 23. 7. 10. Sit down in the lowest place-- Not in order to b2 promoted before the, company, but,te allow the host to chovse those whom he wishes to honor 11. For everyone that exalteth himself chall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be ex- alted--An utterance several times repeated by Jesus. See Luke 18. 14; Matt. 23. 12. Self-seeking in- vites its own rebuke, while humility and modesty are no hindrence to just recognition and preferment. A Lesggn On oe Hospitality. 12. Hé said to h t had bidden him--The cratious diceeures iT not thy vr thy brethren, nor thy m, nor rich neighbors--The fotr classes likely to be "asked on/ ordinary social grounds. The tensa of the verb "call" is present and means rather e. 14. Thou shalt be recompensed-- Gocd deeds never fail of their re- ward. The resurrection of the just---Pos- sibly a reference to the doctrine of a double reeurrection, first of the Just, and later a general resurrec- tion. Compare -1 ee 15. 23; 1 Thess, 4.16; Rev. 20. 15. Jesus's words hae the resur- rection of the just suggest the king- dom of God, and one guest assumes that he will enjoy its benefits. The parable that follows may. be intend- ed as a gentle rebuke to his eelf- complacency. 16. A certain man made a great supper--This parable suggests that many care less for the kingdom of God and its blessings than they profess to care. Compare this with the parable in Matt. 22, which is in some respects similar, but much ey severe than this. Sent forth his servant at sup- per 'time--This second summons to a feast still prevails in the East. To omit it would be equal to canceling the first invitation . To refuse this second summons would be consid- ered by the Arabs equivalent to a! declaration of war. The summoner} here represents God's messengers to his people, especially John the Baptist and Jesus. Read Matt. 11. 28-30." Come; for all things are now ready--Compare with John's mes- sage, Matt. 3. 2. 18. With one consent--The people acted as if they had previously con- spired together. They al! pleaded that they were too much occupied to come "Had this been the case they should have excused 'them- selves when the first invitation came. 19. Prove--Used in the old sense of try or test, as in our expression, "the exception proves the rule." 20. years immyinity from mili- ary or civil service was granted to a newly married man. Deut. 24. 5. 21. Being angry--The behavior of | the guests had been such as to justi- fy the host's indignation. 23. Into the highways and hedges --This class refers to the heathen or the Gentiles. Those from the streets and lanes of the city were or Jews. Constrain--This does not imply that force 'was to be used. The pas- sage has been so misunderstood as J to be quoted as proaf that Jesus partake of the supper, favored oy persecution, The suede," is that oe iot amon Gentiles a more 'earnest, 'scnaiebe r edits of the Gentiles who came to Jesus. mee This verse 80 suggests that of the first guests, who eset put off the invitation, may appear] That te later when it will be too late to pe ee ciens THE RICHEST GERMAN. The Emperor Is E Estimated to Be Worth, $98,500,000. In connection with the theart- burnings with which every proper- tied German is now suffering over the war tax declarations, Rudolf Martina, the well-known statistician and compiler of the year book of German millionaires, says that the Kaiser, and not Frau Krupp von Bohlen und Halback, is the richest person in Germany. Herr Martin explains that he must revise all his previous esti- mates of the Kaiser's wealth, hith- erto fixed at $385,000, 000, and put it down at $98,500,000. The new figures are arrived at by a recomputation of the value of the Kaiser's forest properties'and farm- ing lands. What such really is ac- tually worth, according to Herr Martin, is shown by the valuation placed by the Deutsche Bank on the timber lands and farming estates of the Kaiser's friend, rince Max Egon zu Furstenberg, who recently hypothecated between 75,000 and 80,000 acres in the Black Forest as security for a loan of $4,500,000. The Deutsche Bank,' which under- wrote the loan, informed the pub- lic that the lands were worth $23,- 550,000 As the Kaiser's forests and farms are of the same general! character, Herr Martin calculates that his. Ma- ejsty's entire fortune can safely be estimated at only $1,500,000 below $100,000,000. Frau Krupp' s fortune, Herr Martin thinks, has grown in 1914 to $80,000,000; but, on. the same basis of computation as that employed to fix the fortune of the Kaiser, the second richest person in Germany is the Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, a' cousin of Quéen Mary, of er land, who'is put dowh* as worth 888, 760,000. The fourth, place among the rich persons of Germany* is given to Prince Albert von Thurn ear, too,o00't Krupp, and Prince Albert of Thurn und Taxis, therefore, should pay the heaviest contributions towards the 250,000,000 war tax if Herr Martin's figures be correct. YOUNG GIRLS. If fathers and mothers only knew it, they could often get light on the problem of training their children from the experience of experts in dealing with other people's chil- dren, even when those children tread a very different walk of life. For obviously all sound conclusions drawn from experience with a group of human beings must apply in some degree to other eel beings of the same age and se ; A book entitled 'Young Working Girls" recently compiled for the benefrt of social workers, supplies a case in point. It gives-the views of settlement workers all over the country on the question, "What is best for young working girle?" The bouk contains nearly all there is to gay on the subject. It is all illumi- nating, and the reader feels bound to accept at least those conclusions that are unanimous. The testimony is especially convincing when it cor- views, for set- tlement workers are free lances who seldom err in the direction of con- servatism. Three suchstraditiona] views the book restate with conviction(/First, girls have a natural inclination to purity and modesty that exercises a remarkable effect for good on men. Secondly, this natura ro- tection is not effective beyond w cer- tain point; protection from without is sometimes necessary to save them from going beyond it. It is not wise to let them have' their own way in the matter of going about unattended. Lastly. the best pro- tection a girl can have is a god hoine. Fathers and mothers who are try- ing hard to protect daughters who call them 'unsympathetic' * an "'old-fashioned" should take heart to persist; some day the girls will thank them. Fathers and. mothers whe are letting their daughters "have their fling," and "do as the rest do," should take heed before it is 'too late Finally, since the girls feel thai they can protect themselves, par ents cannot expect them to -- or vy supervision, unles through the home. they can have all the fun and freedom possible. One household must join hands with an- other. They must take turns in us! ing their living rooms for games, their dining rooms for suppers, their kitchens for "candy pulle," and their horses and automobiles tennis couris it, for the enjoy- "Where j is caves ass gestive of human si anting a adulterated downri: gp: pleasur this world comparable with pleasures i in one grand quit orgies, and even the "grown LPs were not exempt from its exhi ing allurements. Nothing struck me 'so foretig and I confens, sadly, upon my pr mons fe maples that yielded the succtlel : sap so profusely in the spring; mont The and truth that my Canad brethren also had been Reiners : by the spirit of commercialism, was thus foreed upon me. And yet it is doubtful if the policy of clearing the land of its furests is a good commercial stroke after all. Much -- might be said on both sides of the question, even as an economic pro- position, but as a matter of sentiy ment, beauty and grandeur, the subject admits of but one presenta- tion. Your honorable Martin Burrell} Minister of Agriculture, in a recent report, estimates that Canadians produce about. 20,000,000 pounds of maple sugar per year, of which On-. tario is credited with about 5,000 4. aka 000 pounds, and Quebee with the, PS: remaining sum. The Western pro- vinces, having but few maple for- ests, the product was negligible and not worth mentioning. Before the white man came to Canada, the Indian had discovered the secret of the maple tree. As spring approached he would gash the maple with hi is tomahawk and insert a wooden "spile," to 'guide the flowing sap into his rude birch- bark vessel. From him the early settlers learned the art, and soon improved on his ernde methods,' while modern science in agriculture has superseded the old methods of the .early- Ontario settler, Instead of cutting- wide gashes in the trees, as formerly, a small hole isbered, not more, than two inches deep, in an "upward direction, + in which is inserted a metal spout. A' tin bucket is hung on this spout to catch the dripping sap. This liquid to be boiled for several hours g the ewe syrup residium = further purifying and boli ng may be converted inte molasses or sugar at will. Well do I remember in the happy days of youth, on the old farm in Darliagton the grand but* quaint improvised banquets wé used to hold in the sugar bush, when all - was dark and still at night, save the crackling of the fire under the sugar kettle, and the suppressed joyous- ness cf the assembled youth. In those days we were not particular in whose bush we assembled and did not always wait upon the ceremony, of being invited, either. Often where we could find a nice barrel . of sap already gathered and a good kettle and fire facilities at hand in a neighbor's bush we did not hesi- tate to nse them, though each youth' venturous Natures, and. we thought not of the contequences. Boys and girls often tramped off into the we on @ warm spring night, made their camp fire, and suspended a witch's kettle over it,! ; ; fun and frolic, which happy. natures alone are capable of producing. In Eastern Ontario and Quebec,' where the maple forests have been conserved, I am told the romance of this sweet sport' still appeals to lover and lass, and the clean white snow is still strewn as of old with dropping hot syrup, to harden intu a moist delicious sugar or taffy, wax, which I can almost taste now aod for which the thought makes one's mouth water. The philosophy of sap formation is very interesting, -had I spaco to deecribe it. Briefly told, the mois- ture in the soil dissolvea certain mineral elements in the ground, and this finds its way into the roots of the trees and ascends through. the trunk to the leaves. ere' it is charged with carbonic acid gas,' found in the air, thus transforming crude sapéinto what is known as elaborated sap. by the circulation going on in the tree, it is conveyed to the inner © layer of the bark, where it is in due time transformed inty woody, fibre if not withdrawn in the form of sap, for the manufacture of sugar! oe ment of the young people. ever home pleasures are enough, parents must take turns in playing the-chaperon elsewhere. And they must do it all, not grudg, ingly, but cheerfully and with en- joyment. Every bit of sympathy; and companionship of which they are, capable is none too much fon - the need.--The Youth's Companioh.