& F. REEVES "THE NORRIS" BOARD BY DAY OR WEEK 14th Street Between let and 2nd A venae STONE HARBOR, N. J. FOR RENT Seven Room Cottage New, on Great Ghannel, Near Yacht Club; Three Bed-rooms, and Bath By Season or Month. Apply Box 251, Stone Harbor STONE HARBOR PHARMACY PURE DRUOS AND MEDICINES F SCRIPTION WORK A SPECIALTY.. Try our Compound syrup of White Pine and Tar for yen* Cough. , , Geo. Freshell STONE HARBOR, N. J. JOHN GARIS

CEMENT BLOCKS AND CONTRACTOR 92nd Street above 3rd Avenue. STONE HARBOR, NEW JERSE1 FOR SALE Two lots on Second avenue, Nos. 75 and 76, Block 88, 50 feei front by 110 feet deep. These lots were bought five years ago anc include 12 Bonds, par value $1200. Will sacrifice all. What have you to offer? No reasonable offer refused. Apply S. SCHAEFER, . 2234 Ridge Avenue, Philadelphia FOR SALE. Will sacrifice, make best offer. This property must be sole to settle estate. Four lots, 110x110, on corner First avenue and 87th street choice residental location, also four lots 110x110, 85th and R R. Plaza; ideal business location. Apply, BOX STONE HARBOR, N. J. FOR RENT— FURNISHED Seven room Cottage — new, on Great Channel, three bed chambers, by year or month Apply BOX 251, STONE ***RBOR, N. J. if FOR SALE! New building containing five (5) apartments of six rooms each and four (4) extra rooms with large store, size 20x40, situated on corner of Second Avenue and 90th Street; central business location, or will rent in its entirety. See cut FOR SALE:— Apply A. J. RUST. 1952 E. ALLEGHENY AVENUE, PHILA. Highest QMcJily~Re^sorvcJ)le price— GMO.ra.ivteed ^/resk BYxi C&.KT resist IK© fkvor SUMDRE COFFEE (J/*_yoMr grocer cd>j\t sxipply vmLwifoj coupon ir\ j . / i j i eocK pJko.de **d OlVe ^sK qJ) zjor \/ery ir\t©restir\f^ PrejaiuanBookP" GEO.F.WIEMANN CO. 40& GREENWICH STR. l_ NEW YORK NY. | I

A Worse Place Than Up In the Air By JOHN Y. LARNED One evening at a social gathering I was introduced to a young woman— a widow— whose expression on meeting me was, to say the least, surprising. There were recognition, astonishment, pleasure, all mingled with something like wonder. It occurred to me at once that I must have met one with whom I had been connected In the past My assurance is by no means of a low order, and I determined not to assume the defensive. "Can It be," I hazarded, "that I have met a friend of my youth?" "No." "1 have it. We were In Switzerland together last summer." "We were not." "Strange," I said, assuming a thoughtful tone and expression, "that I should remember a person distinctly and yet cannot call up the circumstances" — "I don't believe you remember having met me at all." I smiled and confessed that I did not. "Never mind where we met," she said, pouting. "It wasn't up in the clouds sailing In aeroplanes, was it?" "Worse." "Upon my word, you speak In riddles! Please explain." The lady changed the subject, speaking on ordinary topics. Curiosity led me to retain the acquaintance I had formed, and I asked permission to call. But my affairs were In bad shape at the time, and, being much worried, I failed to avail myself of the permis-

sion granted. Matters went from bad to worse with me. The fact got whispered about that I was In financial difficulty, and I was pressed on every side for payment of accounts for which there were no funds ready. One Y morning the mail brought mo a letter . from John Simpson & Co., a firm doing the same kind of business that I did, stating that they had been made I aware that 1 needed funds to tide me - over difficulties and that they would be happy to advance what 1 required. t It is needless to say that such generosity surprised me. I had known and done business with the concern, but had no idea that It took any Interest In me. I called on Mr. Simpson, the head of tbe firm, and offered to make a showing of my affairs with a view to proving that a loan of $20,000 for a year would pull me through. But I could furnish no security. I was Informed that I would hear from him within twenty-four hours, and the next morning's mall brought me a check for the amount I needed. No receipt to be signed was Inclosed; nothing was said about a showing up of my accounts; no time was specified for payment. Twenty thousand dollars were handed to me just as If they belonged to me. I called on Mr- Simpson at once for an explanation, but got no satisfaction. "You go on doing business," he said. "You have the good will of your competitors and business men generally. Don't bother your head about the money advanced. Are you sure It Is a-plenty?" I assured him that It was.. Being set up on my feet, my mind was more at ease, and I resumed my social connections. One morning I was passing a shop where women's goods are sold Just as a lady alighted from an auto. I recognized Mrs. Carmody, he lady who remembered me. I but whom I had failed to remember. Conscious of my neglect of her permission to call upon her, r felt embarrassed; but, pulling myself together, I spoke to her, told her that a pressure of affairs had prevented my availing myself of the honor she had done me. etc. 1 left her, thinking of the mystery concerning her. One thing especially puzzled me. When I had facetiously suggested that we might have met up In the air she had replied, "Worse than that" What did this mean? X resolved to get It out of her and to call upon her at once for the purpose. "Now," I said to her when we were seated tete-a-tete in her drawing room, "I confess that I cannot remember you at all, and I wish you to relieve my curiosity by explaining what you meant by saying that we had met In a worse place than up In the air." "Can't you think of a worse place than that?" "No." "Down under the water." The expression on my face caused a burst of laughter that was both tantalizing and becoming. "You and I," she continued, "were on board the Titanic together on her last trip. We both went down or were sucked down with the vessel. I clutched some one under water. It was you. When we came up I was bereft of my senses. You unstrapped your life preserver and gave it to me. ' I clung to It till I was picked up." ' In time I married the widow, who \ was wealthy, and she turned over to me the management of her affairs. I One day while looking over some old ' papers of hers I came upon her check 1 for $20,000 payable to John Simpson. 1 Then 1 knew who had advanced the ' money that had saved me from financial failure. I went to my wife, em- ' braced her and covered her face with kisses. She wished me to explain my ' sudden demonstration of affection, but I paid her for keeping me In ignorance of where we had met by withholding my knowledge of the check.

The Best That Could Be Done Under the Circumstances By F. A, M1TCHEL Margaret Brlerley was brought up by a couple of maiden aunts, sisters, j Who were well off and intended that 1 after their death Margaret should have their belongings. These were In part a comfortable house and grounds in the village, in which they lived, j Margaret proved an apt scholar and was graduated with honor.- Since life with her aunts was very dull she yearned for something livelier. After • year of "sitting around holding her hands," as she expressed it, she de- I termlned to go to the city to teach. Her aunts combated her resolution. I They reminded her that they had cared for her Blnce she was an infant, educated her and given her everything she wanted. All in vain. One morning when Aunt Sarah went Into her room to awaken her the bird had flown. Three years passed, during which there was no communication between • the aunts and tbe niece. Margaret was getting on weli as a teacher when she fell ill. Having no means to provide a substitute for her school duties, she was dropped from the salary roll. Then the poor girt began to regret that she had yielded to the impulse to be Independent. Nothing remained for her but to go back to her aunts and ask their forgiveness and help. j Taking advantage of a slight rally, I she spent her last funds for a railway ticket to her former home. She arrived at the house as darkness was falling. How comfortable everything looked! There were the dainty white house, the porch and lattice covered with vines, the flower garden to one side, the kitchen garden in the rear,

the whole Inclosed by the low picket fence. She went as fast as her condition would permit up the walk, opened the door and entered. All was still. "Aunt Elizabeth!" she called, with no reply. "Aunt Sarah!" Still no answer. She went through the house, but found no one. Thinking that her aunts had gone out, she took off her wraps and sat down In the living room before the open fireplace, in which were live coals. Presently she heard the front door open and shut. She arose. Intending to greet her aunts. Instead a young man entered. Seeing her, he paused. "Where are my aunts, Misses Elizabeth and Sarah Stacey?" "Are you Margaret Brlerley?" "Miss Elizabeth died a few months ago, and Miss Sarah followed her In two weeks." Margaret sank back in her chair and covered her -face with her hands. • It was some time before she spoke again; then she said: "Who lives here now?" "I do. 1. am iioger Blackmore, g distant connection of the two ladles. They made me their heir." "What shall 1 do?" moaned Margaret, forgetful of the presence of another. "Have yen not been successful?" "I am 1" and without a cent in the world." "You are . elcome to remain here as long as yon dice. I will leave you and send some a- to take care of you." "What. have I on you?" "I will - you." Going ; *k. he took out a paper and i . it to her. It was the wU1 "f I- - tits, leaving all they possessed There was a clause stating the -. ,J i hen- beloved niece, Margaret Due- a ever returned in need it was their -1 she that the said Roger Blackmore should relieve her wants. She looked up at the heir. "How can you relieve the wants of a woman near your own age without" — "I think your aunts were mindful of that." "Then why this request?" "Perhaps they fancied"— "What?" "That we might pool our issues?" "Pool our issues! What do you mean?" "Marriage." Margaret made no reply to this. She felt that she would be willing to marry Polyphemus for a home and rest. Presently she arose slowly and with difficulty. "Where are you going?" asked Black"I don't know. I can't stay here." He went to her and gently forced her back in her chair. "The good la dies," lie said, "told me that if you failed In your work they would be glad If you and 1 could occupy their 1 old home and enjoy their Income to gether." Margaret sat silent for awhile, then looking up at him, said: "As for me, 1 can do nothing else. ' It remains for you to decide whether or no you care to accord with the wish s expressed." Without reply he left ber and went I to the telephone booth. She heard him 1 aak: "Is the Rev. Mr. Stark at home? I Tell him to come to tbe Stacey place s immediately." Then, returning to her, he said: "You can't leave here In your present condition. If I permitted you to do so your aunts would turn In theii r You can't stay here alone, r end I can't stay with you without ! scandal. You'll have to take my un- ' worthy self. It's hard luck for you, it can't be helped." c She put out her hand to him, and h* bent down and kissed her. The parwm came, and all was well. '

In A Roundabout Way By EUNICE BLAKB In the olden time when a divorce was a rarity such a thing as a separaI tion between a young couple but recently married was almost unknown. Nowadays we hear of these divorces quite frequently. Amy Goodrich at i eighteen married Samuel Turner, aged twenty-five, flirted with a former admirer and In three months they separated. Turner, desiring to take all the blame on himself, permitted the plea for divorce to go by default and willingly paid the alimony fixed by the | Judge. | One day when a payment for alimony was due Sam sent the check by maU with a bit of paper attached stating that he was intending to sail the next day for Italy, but had left Instructions with his brother to make the payments regularly for him while he was absent. Now, by this time Amy had become satisfied that she had been very un- , wise. The man with whom she had flirted was a worthless fellow with nothing to recommend him but a handsome, expressionless face and immaculate clothes. Her affair with him was Innocent, except that it should not have occurred at all, and scarcely, if at all, caused an Interruption of her love for her husband. The domestic . troubles had converted her from a 1 child Into a woman, and for some time before tbe receipt of this last alimony payment she had regretted her action and desired a reconciliation. And now when she was getting tired of a long winter Sam was going to sail for sunny Italy, while she was left behind to struggle with the rest of the cold season. She determined

: to make an effort to bring about a reconciliation and go with blm. But how? The principal trouble was her pride. All could be arranged by her confessing that she had been a foolish little woman and asking his pardon for what she had done. But this was out of the question. Amy adopted a method which for originality and indirectness was quite astonishing even for a young person nineteen years old. She went to her lawyer and told him that her husband was about to go abroad and she feared she would not receive her alimony. What should she do? The attorney drew up a paper stating what she had told him and praying for Sam's detention till he l;ad given bonds for the payment of his obligations while in foreign lands, where United States law would not reach him. Amy signed the paper with the stipulation that when Sam was arrested he should be brought to the lawyer's office and there satisfy her in person that she would receive the alimony regularly. She also stipulated that a clergyman be within call during the Interview. "A clergyman!" exclaimed the astonished attorney. "Yes, a clergyman!" The lawyer looked at her scrutlnlxlngly for a few moments, then proceeded to finish drawing the document "The ways of woman are sometimes beyond the ken of the most crafty lawyer." he muttered to himself. The steamer on which Sam was to sail was scheduled to leave the dock -at 12 o'clock, and the meeting between Mr. and Mrs. Turner, divorced, was appointed for 10 in the morning. They were left together in the lawyer's private office. "Don't you think." said Amy, "that this running away to get rid of your ' obligations to me Is very mean?" "Tell me what security you require, and I will give It I am to sail at "Why should you who brought about : all the trouble between us have all thi3 pleasure before you, while 1 remain at home holding my hands?" "I brought all this trouble about?" "Yes, by your Jealousy of that addle pated Clarence Barker." "Didn't you tell me that you preferred him to me and was sorry you had married me?" "Yes, and you were silly enough to believe me." She stood looking at the celling, then at the floor, then at a picture of a supreme court Judge on the wall— anywhere. everywhere except at Sam. Her hand was on a table In the center of the office. Sain went to her and laid his own hand on hers. "Amy," he said, "I do believe we have been a couple of fools." "You mean you have. What time do you sail?" "At 12, in two hours from now." "I'd like awfully to go too." "Do you mean it?" "Yes. I've always longed to spend a spring In Italy." "I'll defer my going till the next steamer." "There's no need of that. I can telephone mother to throw what I need Into a trunk" (her trunk was already packed) "and bring It in her car to the steamer." "But we are not man and wife." "We might call a clergyman." A dominie was brought In from the next room, and the couple were married. The trunk arrived in plenty of time at the dock, for it had been sent there early in the morning. "Who can tell." muttered the attorney, "what a woman Is going to do?" How many men have asked that uestlon before with no better answer than "Quien sabe?"

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