the house, and left the boy to shift for himself _outside_ until
she came home at night and prepared the second and only other meal
of the day. Between those two meals the boy used to get awfully
hungry, and one day he was caught with his hand in a workman's
dinner pail. For this he was sent to a State reform school, from
which he emerged three years later a thorough-going young
criminal, ruined for life in body and mind. Distressed at the sad
fate of his young playmate, Mr. Hinckley then and there declared
his intention of devoting all the energies of his life to the
saving of destitute boys from reform schools. By years of hard
work he laid up $2000, with which, less than six years ago, he
purchased a farm of 240 acres on the upper Kennebec River in
Maine, about midway between the cities of Waterville and
Skowhegan. Here, in an old farm-house, he began his work with
three boys. He had no source of income, and the work is carried on
entirely by voluntary subscriptions. These come from everywhere,
and generally from strangers, of whom Mr. Hinckley has had no
previous knowledge.

To-day GOOD WILL FARM owns, besides the original farm-house, which
has been wholly rebuilt, five handsome cottages, each in charge of
a matron, and in each of which fifteen boys between eight and
sixteen years of age find a comfortable, happy home. There are now
seventy-six boys, most of them orphans, many without a relative in
the world, and nearly all of them of American parentage, living,
working, and growing up to a useful manhood amid the splendid
influences of this farm. Each of the cottages in which these boys
live has cost $3000, and has been presented as a free gift to the
farm either by individuals or by societies, such as the Christian
Endeavor Society of Maine, who presented the one that is named
after it, and in which I was lodged.

Beside these cottages there is a splendid brick school building
that cost $20,000, which was presented by two Maine ladies as a
memorial to their brother.

The farm needs more cottages, many more of them, for Mr. Hinckley
has been obliged to refuse nearly 700 applications for admission
to GOOD WILL this year for lack of accommodations. It also needs a
manual training-school, and needs it very much indeed. We, the
Knig