some of the largest farms in the southern and possessing a considerable amount of invested k a last resource capital i am prepared to assist farmers and with temporary financial aid in any sums from � so upwards at a very low rate of interest upon note of hand alone and in a manner of easy and satisfactory to well said when he had slowly read out this interesting and tempting advertisement you applied i suppose to this individual to help you out of your difficulty yes said the old man i borrowed jf from him last to help to pay my rent then i borrowed another � so about a month ago to buy seed and potatoes for the planting i ve paid some back and also the interest but i think i understand it for he says now that i owe him � and that if i pay he put in the i suppose he has a bill of sale on your stock said ay answered the old man he said it was his only security would you mind letting me see all the papers mr said and i saw by his face that he was much interested in the affair ai folk in london willingly and with the manner of one who is glad to be relieved of the responsibility poor old emptied his pocket book and laid out the precious documents on his table just look here david said he after he had studied them for a moment this poor man has paying this scoundrel at the rate of a hundred per cent do you see how they them in the interest is charged monthly instead of yearly there are more people ruined by this sort of thing than by all the which can overtake humanity the next move on the board will be that this villain will seize the whole stock of the farm and turn the tenant out to die in his own fields or to go to the work house whichever he may prefer but dear me i said has he no is there no law that can touch the money shook his head none the law can t touch him what we do want badly is some new on this very point the press could do something towards this crying evil if they would decline to such a last resource ments as these which are nothing less than traps to catch the well my friend he said turning to the old man what do you want me to do if you could expose this scoundrel said the old man it help others can help me now because i am ruined but it would be some satisfaction to me if he could be prevented from others i ve often heard of you sir although you ken me and i thought that in your paper maybe you would draw folks attention to as this where did you say your place was mr he asked kindly i should like very much to take a run down and see it if i might ye will be welcome replied the farmer fervently it is very easy got at is the station and the place is not a mile from it once i could have offered to drive you up in my own but that never be again when will you come saturday afternoon said and meantime if you will leave these papers with me i will see mr as he calls himself it is just sm folk in london if i take him in hand he may get a the l on die worn and of die poor old man who at the close of a hard working denying life saw nothing bat ruin staring him in the face as it happened the next two days very and busy and day came without offering any opportunity to to investigate the case which had thus been laid before he did not however forget his promise to go out to the farm and about four o clock on saturday afternoon we left street together it was an exquisite april afternoon the sky with the tender spring clouds as we got beyond the of the city and came to the level stretches of the we saw the of the hastening summer upon the earth it was the time of hope and promise and yet we felt depressed because the country through which we sped seemed less uplifted by the hopeful of spring than any country we had ever seen more than once looking out of the carriage window shook his head j a last resource it s a business i doubt farming here david and i wonder that a man who had once tasted life among the hills could suffer it here but when we got beyond and the prospect brightened and became more like the farming lands to which we had been accustomed in our youth we found the village of a picturesque and looking place scattered on the slope of a pleasant hill we had to pass through it on our way to our destination which rejoiced in the somewhat of lodge the house was built of red brick and being surrounded by some goodly trees presented rather a sheltered and appearance but the surrounding land was wretched nothing could redeem it and kept shaking his head as we walked up the ill made and ill kept road to the house as we crossed the last and came within sight of the front door we saw a covered wagon standing before it into which they appeared to be the furniture of the house � we ve too late david i doubt said z folk in london somewhat excitedly i m sure they have sold them we hastened forward and the door just as two men carried through the porch a heavy mahogany such as one only sees in old fashioned houses just within the door stood the old 