THROUGH THI t throuth Ths Narrows thev The ships to the highway "wi I iay unt, yon vsrga oeiow "They re (one!" slni imjs tha rippling breeie. Yattiroufb The Narrows they glide, with whlrrlnt of glnnt wheels; T eonie!" rails the swelling tide, Ihwtaed by thllr giant keels. 1 OUTFLANKING 9 By Grace Ellery Channing The general fsallng in the town wai that If tha Barneys bad to quarter (here at all, they might hare quartered awhere except next door to Mrt. Armitage a sufficient testimony to tfaat lady's standing In the commun ity. Mrs. Armltaga herself received plac idly the tidings, brought to her in that haste to convey the unwelcome which distinguished Mrs. Stone, but el which she has, unluckily, no mon ooly. "Everybody thinks it ft perfect name you and Susan alone here, ani to have that family plumped down voder your very nose. Mrs. Swett had them next door for a year, and she ays she'd as soon have wild Indians for neighbors. She says the boys are regular little thieves, Btole her toma toes and her apples; and the girl well, he never saw her take the roses, but be missed them and Bhe saw her with gome on." "Indeed!" said Mary Armitage, plac idly still. "She says of all troublesome neigh bors and slipshod! It's bad enough to have such people In town at all, but when it comes to their moving right Into the neighborhood, I do think" Mrs. Stone was unable to get out her thought, which appeared to choke, her. "I suppose," mused Mrs. Armitage, "it must because of the cottage having etood vat-ant so long; only poor ten tints would take it. It can't bring In much. To tell the truth, I had almost forgotten It was there." "Well, you won't be able to forget it Bow. They ought to have pulled It down long ago; it leans right up gainst your fence." "Oh, the trees shut It out pretty well." "You never can tell. If I were you, Mary Armitage, I'd put up fresh barbed wire on my fence-top, light at the first that's what Mrs. Brown did. Sho had them next door the year before Mrs. Swett. She said she let them see v at the outset that she didn't mean to have those young ones swarming over her place. And ycu don't want them swarming over yours either, tramp ling your gnrden and robbing your fruit trees, and like as not your chicken-yard." "No," said Mrs. Armitage, with a shade of disturbance, "I certainly don't. Are there many of them?" "Oh, millions. There's the father, Mrs. Swett says she bell;vc3 he drinks and there's a shiftless woman, and a girl, and those limbs of boys, and I believe a baby or two." "Dear, dear!" murmured Mrs. Armlt ge. "It does sound rather formidable. I should think they'd have to overflow on somebody's grounds that cottage hasn't more than four rooms." "Oh, I guess you'll find that they are troublesome neighbors, all right," concluded Mrs. Stone, cheerfully. "You take my advice and attend to that barbed wire and I'd get a dog." . Mrs. Armitage only smiled; she did lot commit herself. Mary Armitage's world was ordered la peace and amity;, she loved quiet and order; her treea were ancestral trees, her garden the delight of her heart, and her poultry and other llr tag appendages, down to the last hatched chick, were her pets. "Dear me, dear me!" she repeated to herself, with a mixture of humor and dismay as the vision of marauding; hoys and annoying girls, involving still tore annoying after relations with her neighbors, passed through her mind ad registered itself in varying ex pressions on her fine face. Even as he meditated upon the problem, noisy (voices were borne distinctly to . her, and two tousled heads popped sudden above the fence-line, eviently for pur poes of preliminary survey. Mrs. Armitage's reflections crystal lised with suddenness. "Emily is right; I must he before hand with them." The boys were still on the fence, un certain on which side of it to drop, when the sight of a lady advancing caused them to decide Instantly In fav or of the side farthest from her. Tho lady passed down the walk, out of the entrance, and opening1 their sagging; gate, reappeared on their own weedy path beholding which they fled to the rear of the house. Mrs, Armitage, taking In with a dis cerning eye all the shabby neglected ness of the narrow lot and the still habbler, well-nlght palntless cottage, advanced up the steps to the rickety porch and knocked, after vain search (or a hell. A discouraged-looking woman in a worn dress opened the door and stood wiping her hands on her faded apron, while she surveyed her visitor with the Indifferent wonder of one who feels ore that, whatever It is, It will be nothing good. . . "I am your next-door neighbor," said Mrs. Armitage, with one of those miles which the doctor declared worth any tonic In his pharmacopeia. "I heard yon were moving In today, and 1 brow what that means, I've moved NARROWS. And so, by the Morning Way, By the rath that forever la The world la passing, today, QreeUng or bnldlng adieu. Once, through The Narrows I passed. , . But when In again I catne, The wild, bright teara dropped fast For joy that I could not name! Edith M. Themat In Succeaa Magailne. THE ENEMY myself so I Just brought over a dish of my cherries and some new-laid ." Mrs. Barney looked momentarily be wildered, then distrustful, but inally accepted the basket her guest offered, saying doubtfully: "I'm much obliged; we are all up side down." And then, as her guest showed no sign of taking her depart ure, she added, more doubtlully, "Won't you step in?" "Of course," said Mrs. Armitage. "I'll bring these myself," she continued, holding up the great mass of roses she carried. "Any old jug or pitcher you can lay your hands on will do." She spoke as if, by implication, the ifamlly bric-a-brac only awaited un packing.' "I couldn't resist picking them as I came along." "Mary will be wild when she sees them," said Mrs. Barney. "Mary! Mary, come here!" sho called, and from somewhere a voice answered: "Yes, ma," and a tall, s'uy, rather pretty girl, with her mother's discour aged air, came timidly forward. Her facts brightened as Mrs. Barney held out tho glowing flowers. "If sho wants my flowers," thought that lady, swiftly, "she wont have to steal them, poor child!" Mrs. Earney meanwhile had polished off a straw-Eeatcd chair with the apron and placed it apologetically for the visitor." "Everything's awfully dirty," sho said, despondently. "I don't know's we'll ever get It clean." "The house has been shut up so long," said Mrs. Armltase. "But a few days makes all the difference." "We'd have been cleaned up more than we are," continued her hostess, "only we've been having trouble get ting the stove up, and .it doesn't work right now. I guess you'd hotter set the rosea in the window, Mary, so that we can ssc them. The house is so dark," she added, with a sigh. "It is dark," assented Mrs. Armitage. She had been wondering how so gloomy a place could ever be made habitable. Sho rose and went to the window. "No wender It's dark! My big pine hancs right over it. Why, that branch faiii yrests upon your rccT, Mrs. Barney!" "Yc3," acquiesced Mrs. Barney, as if it were a matter in which she could be expected to take no lively interest. "Both those lower limb.? must come off at once," Mra. Armitage announced, rWHTttWtWtWWttmttHrWHtH HOW MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS TOOK THE REST CURE. By Andrew There are many cases In which rest cures were prescribed. Mary Queen of Scots had a bad nervous breakdown after Bothwell left her at Carberry Hill. No less could be expected. To see the priests of your religion battered with bad eggs in the pillory from morning till night; never to go to bed without looking under it to Bee whether Arran or Chastelard were lurking there; to have proposals of marriage every week from persons who later went mad; to have your private secretary seized in your boudoir by armed men and butchered on the staircase; to know that your husband was the chief of the ruffians and a traitor even to them; to leave him at midnight and hear that he had been blown sky high before dawn; ta be preached at as a Jezebel at least thrice a week; to be carried off violently by your chief supporter; to be rapidly divorced, married, treated with brutal jealousy and cap tured by your enemies, all in the course of 12 months, might well oause a nervous breakdown, A rest cure was indicated and a rest cure was prescribed. The scene was picturesque. A castle on an island In a lake full of tranquillizing; aspects of nature and trout of world-wide cele brity. No letter were to be written or received, and, save for two or three distressing interviews with near relations, excitement of all sorts was excluded. The medical science of our day would have recommended precisely the same sort of treatment. But the patient would not submit to it. After two or three exciting attempts to scape, only calculated to exacerbate the malady, Mary did win her freedom, only to relapse Into an agitated career, have the treat ment repeated in very disagreeable circumstances, and so coma to her melancholy end. Had she stayed quietly at Loch Leven something might have turned up to her advantage. II 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 not so much to Mrs. Barney as to her self. "And possibly yes, certainly, that branch of Norfolk pine. ThiB is a southeast window it ought to be flooded with sun half the day, but of course nothing can get through that dense foliage, and when it rains, it must simply drip steadily on your roof." She thrust her head out "Yes, of course; look at all that moss! Had you not noticed It?" "Oh, yes, we'd noticed It." "Well, you tell Mr. Barney, please, when he comes home, that I want to see him this very night, If be will be so good as to step over. Why, you won't know the house. You can have your own roses." She turned to the girl. "I know what can be done with a southeast exposure; come over and I'll show you tomorrow. I can give you cuttings we simply throw them away and bulbs and climbers." Turning from the window, she be came aware for tha first time that her audlenee had enlarged; the two boys had joined the circle and were gazing at her open-aaouthad. Dumbness. Is- deed, seemed to have stricken the en tire group, but at last Mrs. Barney managed to falter forth some words of thanks coupled with vague doubts as to "whether Mr. Barney'd wish ' "It won't matter whether he wishes or not," replied Mrs. Armitage, prompt ly. "Those are my trees." Then, her eyes falling upon the boys, whose jaws bad dropped still lower, she smiled in spite of herself. "I was just going to ask," she said, "whether you could spare time to come over with me and find that cherry tree? You see, when these are eaten, I want you to come and get some more they are better picked fresh. But Susan and I can reach only the lower branches. There are quarts." The boys' mouths, perhaps because they could open no wider, shut simul taneously. They gazed In an srstasy of suffering joy at their mother. "Why don't you say thank you?" she encouraged them. "They'd be only too pleased and happy." "Then they'd better come with me now," said Mrs. Armitage. She looked at them consideringly. Her next re mark reduced them dangerously near to lifelcssness. "Do you like rabbits?" The two looked at each other, at Mary, at their mother, and Sially, In sheer adoration at this celestial visit ant who thus casually extended para dise to them. "Well," Mrs. Armitage began, then laughed outright. Nobody could have helped It, she said afterward. That settled the matter for all time. Hence forth they were hers, to fetch and to carry, to come and to go, to serve and to obey nay, to be cut up into inch pieces or boiled in oil If such were her particular diversion. "I have rabbits," said Mrs. Armitage, at last, "and chickens, and a cow and a calf, and every single one answers to a name and eats out of my hand. I like rabbits myself. But they're a good deal of trouble," she added, thoughtfuljy. For a single moment the two wav ered. She might be she doubtless was an angel, but she could hardly be a senslblo angel, who could talk of trouble in connection with rabbits. "If you could come over sometimes and help feed them, I should be very much obliged. But perhaps you are too busy?" The two, after an exchanged glance, fell to digging nervously In the carpet with their toes. ' "Say something," reproved their mother. The elder cleared his throat. "We ain't so awful busy," he man aged to articulate huskily; and the sec ond, still more huskily, "We'll come." "Then suppose we go now," said Mrs. Armitage. "Don't forget to tell Mr. Barney, will you?" She cast a last business-like glance at the trees, and on the door-step turned casually for a last word. "That stove will never work In time for supper. Mrs. Barney don't I know! I'm going to send 3ns;in right over with one of her warm loaves and a pie." As she walked down the path, ac companied at an Interval at slight con tract, by two boys breathing' and swallowing hard arid exchanging glances of a stealth implying the deep- Lang. 1 1 1 1 1 1 ni 1 1 n m i i ft est guilt, Mary Armitage thought rap idly. With her companions' experi ences In paradise we have not to deal, but before they left and they did not leave before , they , had learned the name of every furred and fathered creature In the place, or before their hostess had discovered that two pairs of blue eyes were set In two really harmless little snub-faces they had expressed an uncon&ned willingness to relieve her of any amount of trouble connected with the care of live stock in general, and rabbits in particular. They had also Bampled the cherry tree, while MrB. Armitage stood below and pronounced a judicial opinion that they were clearly artists, in no wise to be confounded with those those rank novices who broke branches and Injured fruit buds. "I shall feel quite safe about my trees .with you," she bad said. "There wfll be apples 'later." And she had stood there on the same spot for what seemed an interminable time, watch ing their diminishing figures across tha lawn. For, "Why go round, whan the fane la ttore t climb?" had bra her very last her Inspired suggestion They did not go round. Mr. Barney, some hours latter, found her, as Mrs. Stone bad found her. placidly embroidering by the window overlooking the lawn. Bhe put down her work to rise and greet him cordi ally. 'It was very good of you t come,"ahe said, and looked at him with interest "Thin and worn"' would have described both his clothing and his face possibly his soul as well. "Drink, indeed!" thought Mrs. Armi tage indignantly. "It's hard work and discouragement that ails the nfcin." "Sit down, Mr. Barney," she said, aloud, "My wife said you wanted to see me," ald Mr. Barney, sitting down with constraint, but without embar rassment, like a true American work ing man, who is not to be daunted by the mere surface of things. "I did; it's about that tree, Mr. Bar ney. We must have those branches that shade your bouse cut off immed iately. You are a carpenter, are you not?" "No, ma'am a mason." "Oh, then" began Mrs. Armitage; but Mr Barney interrupted her polite ly but firmly. "Not but I could cut off the branch es, though, all right, if it was only that; but" he straightened bis bent shoulders and looked at Mrs.Arml tage "it's kind of you to think of it, and my wife tells me you've been very kind, but I don't know that I should care to be beholden to a stranger that way. You probably think a good deal of those trees." "I do," said Mary Armitage, prompt ly; "but I've always been, in the habit of thinking even more of my neighbors." The man made no reply for a mo ment; then he said, slowly: "It would hurt them considerable. It's kind of you, as I said, but I don't think I can let you do It." "I shan't wait for you to let me," replied Mrs. Armitage. "ThoBe trees are mine, and those branches are com. Ing off tomorrow. Do you suppose I am going to have your pneumonias and rheumatisms on my conscience?" The common-sensa tone went home. Mr. Barney's face changed; ho mur mured something about his wife not being very strong and the baby being croupy. She nodded in reply. "Well, of course; and I'm not going to lie awake nights on their account. Mr. Barney, to gratify you. It's just a question of whether you do the cut ting or I havo to send for a man to do it" Mr. Barney rose to his feet. "I'll cut them for you," he said. "There's another thing, Mr. Barn ey," Mrs. Armitace went on. "There are some remants of old wire on that fence; you see, the place has been vacant for years. We arc two women atone, and It wasn't pleasant to think of stray tramps so I wired the fence. You'd letter look It over and have the pieces stripped off as soon ns possible, otherwise your boys will be in rags for of courso they'll simp ly have to climb hat fcr.ee." Mr. Barney smiled grimly. "I see you know boys," he said. "Well, always wanted to be one," admitted Mary Armitage, with a laugh. "In my days girls were hand icapped. Oh, one thins more, Mr. Bar rey, that gate. I had that wired up. too, long a?o, and nailed up, to keep out those tramps. Naturally I don't want to wire and nail up my neigh bors; I'd be much obliged If you would tinnall and unwlre It. The little diag onal path across my place saves quite five minutes going to town, and I hope you'll use.it freely. Besides, the children will be running back and forth, and they don't want to have to go round to the front every time es pecially as I hope they are coming often.- Mr. Barney's shoulders had been straightening more and more; he held them entirely straight now as he looked Mrs. Armitage full in the face, and replied: "They will come Just as often as you want them, and no oftener; and If they ever give you a moment's trouble but they won't," he broke off. suddenly. "They're not bad boys, only" "I don't need to be told that," ihe said, smiling. "Mrs. Armitage, you are the first who has treated us white If you know what that means since we camo to this town. I can't express myself, and anyway, you wouldn't un derstand what It means you couldn't but if there's anything no matter what that any one of us can do for you" "There will be, thousands of things -thousands," answered Mrs. Armi tage, earnestly, holding out her hand. I hadn't realized how much I've been needing neighbors real neighbors. I shall look to you for all kinds of things, Mr. Barney. I only hope I sha'n't turn out too troublesome a neighbor in the end." A faint smile, which unaccountably caused Mrs. Armitage's eyes to All, crossed Mr. Barney's Hps. "I guess," he Eaid, dryly, "we'll Just risk that," as he put out a thin, knot ted hand and gripped the soft one held out to him to a clasp that said everything else for him with an al most painful eloquence. ' The tears which Mary Armitage had kept back with so much difficulty brimmed over as the door closed be hind her new neighbor. She wiped tbcm away with the hand that till tingled from that eloquent grip, and stopping resolutely, picked up the fal len embroidery and sat down "again by the window with an expression of great peace. From Youth's Compan ion. Eighty, flights is about the life of a ban sen. LABOR NOTES The basla of all business success is confidence. Saving never failed to win in the long race. LIgonler Valley Pa., Is happy over the prosperous conditions prevailing there. The Old Colony ovena were started last week and the five other mines are running full. The traffic over the LIgonler valley has increas ed to 80 cars per day. The only thing that dims the horizon is a car short age, officials of the company stating that over 400 more cars could have been used last month. If all the money in the United States was divided equally among the people, each person would receive about $35.00. Just suppose this di vision Bhould be made and each per son Bhould hoard or hide his share, nobody would have money enough to live on, and all the workshops and In dustries of the country would stop. It takes money to operate these indus tries and the banks are the only source from which the money needed can be supplied. If the people keep their money hidden away at home or hoarded in a safe deposit box, it can not benefit anybody. You should de posit your money in a good blank where it will be used to advance the business of the country and help bring good times to everybody. Suppose that one hundred thousand men of Greater Pittsburg should hide away $100 each. It would take the Immense sum of ten million dollars out of cir culation, doing no good to anybody; where, if euch of these men had de posited his $100 in the bank, it would have found its way to help the im mense mills, factories and business houses of . this bustling city. Then again by hiding money In the house you run the risk of losing it or hav ing it etolen. i For violating the state mining laws, James Cameron, a foreman in the employ of tho Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Company, was fined $15 and costs, having plead ed guilty. George Tayman, a civil engineer, in the employ of the Somerset Coal Company In the Jenner field, was struck by a board in which a nail was fixed. The nail penetrated his right eye, destroying the sight. Tho Echard Coal & Coke Company, operating a coke plant at Star Junc tion, Pa., has Just completed a reser voir having a capacity of 1,000,000 gallons. For some time the plant has been handicapped by lack of water. The Berger-Alken Coal Company of Pittsburg has purchased the mine formerly operated by the Cox Coal Company, in Shenangi township, Mercer county. Pennsylvania, and is expanding its capacity to 500 tons per day. The Banning Connellsvllle Coke Company has awarded the contract for the building of seventy-five coke ovons at Banning to Eugene Buc canel. He has filed a bond that sixty ovens will be ready for operation by January 1st, next. The total shipment of coal throuph the Mononsahela river locks for tho nine months ending September 30, was M:!,SS9.000 bushels, as against 5,9!5,000 bushels for the same pe riod in 1908 and 115,273,000 bushels in 1907. Jame3 W. Barbour, secretary of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Company, is confined to his bed as the result of a burning acci dent. While standing in front of a grate his clothing became Ignited and he was badly burned. Benjamin Fereday, Jesse K. John stun and James Blick, commissioners appointed by the court to pass upon the question whether or not locked or open lights should be used in the Manifold mines, have filed their re port They find that in a portion of the mine open lights may be used with safety, while in other portions locked lamps should be used. This means that under the law, electricity may be used where open lights are allowed. There has been a stiffening of prices since the present month start ed, but while not put into effect gen erally (as most of the tonnage Is on a contract basis), there is a tendency on the part of operators to ask a higher rate for future deliveries. The movement referred to last week rela tive to the Pittsburg district opera tors "getting together" for the pur pose of fixing a minimum rate and then "sticking to It," is still being talked by a large number of the men interested and it is likely that ere long some tangible means will be taken to bring about this much-desired condition. It can be done, if there is united effort. - It is evident that the worldly-wise operator is foresee ing what is likely to be an actuality next spring a demand for more wages by the United Mine Workers. While this latter contingency may be looked at askance, It Is well to bear In mind that the men who dig coal have been thinking and their thought Is going to bear fruit in the shape of many demands for changed condi tions., etc. Reports from the Somerset, Fair mont, Cumberland, Eastern Ohio and adjacent districts indicate that there is a good deal more than the usual activity in the mining of coal and the Indications are that the output of 1907 will be greatly exceeded. From the Central Pennsylvania field comes the news that owing to the unrest of the miners over the pro posed cut in their wages there is more or less Idleness In certain sections. A number of the operators there have openly stated that It is cheaper for them to shut down their mines than to operate them at a loss, occasioned by what the operators term "an un just scale and various competitive practices." Prices now quoted are: Pittsburg F. O. B. Mines Mine-run $1.101.20 -inch lump 1.301.40 Wi inch lump 1.401.50 3-inch lump 1.852.05 lV-inch nut 1.201.25 Slack 75 .80 Black Diamond. 3 oxve )Qwes ; ceaxvses Wo system fcjjc&XuaXYy ; assss OTVwWOvewoxuxTv va)xo consXaovi To CeXs Vetve5cia $ects,atoays Wj W genuine, MANUrlCTURCD B THE CALIFORNIA Fig Syrup Co. SOLO BY IEADIN0 DRUGGISTS 50'ABOTTH r FOR OUT DOOR WORK. IN THE WETTEST WEATHER NOTHING EQUALS v -o , WATERPROOF ' OIIED GARMENTS THEY LOOK WELL-WEAR WELL AND WILL NOT LEAK L0NGG0ArS-3223J2 SUITS 322 301B IVttrWHtK (xruoo rate A. J. Towe Co. boston. uaa. Tower Canadian Co. umitco -Toronto, can. Cat Kills Alligator. 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