aieiiiltwi B. P. SGHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OP THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLIIJ. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENN A.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 10, 1SS9. NO. 43. r Tint cruisers built on English plans !u American yards are doing far better t han the vessels built on like plane fat English yards making rrore speed and showing it without breakdowns, and on the first trial instead of the twentieth. This is all part of tLe broad fact that American workmen turn out a neater, cleaner, closer job than those of any other country. This l as always been true cif locks, sewing machines, fire arms and the like, and it is now found to lie true of the engines and hull of a gieat war vessel. But the true tri umphs of American craftsmen will not Le seen until both plans and work for their cruisers are done at home. The German Emperor Is said to be fond of variety, even in such matters as his dally bread. Thus, for instance, he takes for break f a-t a small white loaf, the top of which is powdered over with s.lt, and which, accordingly, goes by the name of aalt bun. Its cost is one penny. After it he consumes a haif-venny bun, known as the "Lucca- eye." For bis amdwlches he requires yet another kind or bread, made of the linen Vienna flour and baked till the outside, which is afterward cut off, is quite black. Price, one penny. At tlie dinner, with the soup, so-called "broth-sticks" are served. They are made after an Italian recipe, which Is the secret of the Court bakers and their value is a half-penny a piece. "Kefp Clean" is an admonition carrying with it an inspiration which not only invigorates life but makes it enjoyable and beaut. fuL. Cleanliness biiug not only comfort and health, but it adorns liviug. gives existence a charm, imparts consciousness of life, real enjoyment, thought and feeling ot existence, the purpose and sanctity of living. There is a world of meaning in the two words "keep clean." The phys cian, the psychologist and the inoialbt united in that one advice would give humanity a law of health, the observance of which would not oi ly purify physical existence, but would inspire a consciousness of the enjoyment of life and animate It with ts hopes, purposes and destiny. Amiimi specimens of children's es says lately published is the following, a very pathetic one on "The Doctor' by a small boy, who eventually died of brain fever. "The doctor has seen me three times for the purpose, cut I have headitci.es. My mother looks at me and cr.es when he's gone. I nevtr tells mother I have headaches, except it hurts me very much. I love my mother. I wish my head was same as other iHjyses. Yesday I arkst Webster if he ever felt dizzy, and be raid no. All boys I a k says no. What the doc tor gives me makes me feel worser. But mother likes me to take it, so I don't m nd. I wish I was a man, but I'd rather tie a woman like mother. Doctors havu't niced houses. There is bottles all around and no washin. Doc tors tavn't loud voices like men you hears oil the street, hut their eves are brighter. I am not so frightened of doctors as of oerlice." Banking for Chinese. On of the largest of Boston's bunking houses makes a specialty of deposit accounts with the Chinese of the city, who all place their money in this establish ment's Lands. The aggregate of such deposits made by the gentry of the flowery land Is at one time very large. while the personal accounts of the fan- tau gambleis, who are the rich men of the celestial colony here, run far up into the thou.-ands of dollars. An important part of the business done with them consists in celling drafts for money sent to Asia, Much trouble was found at first in krepmg accounts with these pig tailed capitalists, owing to the curious fact that each Chinamen, as a rule, has sev eral names, which are employed In such a manner as to 1 a trifle confusing. He :.iu-:.v l,-.a at least three, and some times more. He has one name as a t.ir When ha s-ets to be a man be takes a new one. Upon going ltto tusi uess he adopts a third. No one of these three seems to be used in connec tion with the others, and, inasmuch as a freh designation is accepted every ame lie goes into a new laundry enter rris , the l ay lug teller finds some diffl rultv now and then in securing a satls- fa.t..rv identification. When a laun drv is sold out, too, the proprie or's ii,..in.in.lB troeswlthit to the pur chaser aud thus transfers of personal e..nt-intW taking place, occa siouir.g no end of confusion. But nanklng rr Chinamen is an occupation all bv itself, and mut be acquired bv exial study. The Wokd "Keliablk." Alike to those who grieve or rage over the word 'reliable," and to those who contem- flate it with equanimity, remarks the .V..ti ..i. the opinion touching it of the i f i . . .i - ...t vnrliah Tic - ch.efe.htor of the great En-Q tionary now In cours of publication will be of interest. Dr. Murray, as might have been expected, maintains that "reliable" is "good, useful, weU- informed and ancient- thus accepting the character of it demonstrated again and again by Dr. Fit zed ward liall, especially In what hi endorser calls "his scholarly ud exhaustive treatise , . , ,1;,,iw- , "at,l" n English Adjectives In abl The incisive winding-up of Dr. Mur- ray's defence of the expression is in . . - t ; . t'.iese teruis otes ami vuci i;. "When will people learn thai tne nis- - l ' ? nuUlng onV. self m a .a Ar nvrninff iw ran the position of a learner, and ought aot to be invented to give support to pet prejudices or aversion? Let a man who has a chronic antipathy to 'relia- ble' say frankly, 'I know nothing about the history of this word, and II care less; but its color Irritates me and drives) me furious.' We should then know wnerw n were and keeo out of bl way. recognizing that the c - for the eiyniolozist or lexloographer, but for the pathologist." The Amateur F hotoz'ipher. A gentleman who haa recently been nmt taini In olaarn at some pains to obtierve returning sum- vourwis at me ran war station and ferries finds that three out of rive of them carry amateur photograph ontfita, and he shrewdly suspects that at least one tf the others has a flat-cheated camera secreted under his waistcoat, whence the noszle. if that be the proper term, projects in the guise of an innocent button. Amateur photography is rapidly approacbinar. if it has not al ready reached, the dignity of a "craze." It seems that it is not confined to our own country, bat has a close hold on Great Britain as well, as we read in late dispatches that it is no uncommon thing for an amateur photographer to rhano the poet Tennyson half a mi9 jn h!S efforts to secure his likeness. So far the poet haa rigidly set his face, or rather, perhaps, we should aayhis bark, against toia species of art. but he can not prevent enthusiastic amateurs from making the attempt. If there is a fall ing off in the qnalitr of Lord Tenny son s later productions, as critics have said, it seems probable that it may be in part, at leant, traced to the amateur photographers; no man can write good poetrv with a total strantrer pointing the muzzle of a camera in h:sMnly window and requesting him to hold his chin a little higher and look pleas uit- We are bound to admit that the pho-' tographing craze is a verv irood sort of . a 11 u me amateurs will pardon us . . i :i - ..v . for applying both of these new and somewhat indefinite terms to the pas time. Some surprisingly good revolts are obtained by amateurs, and certainly a neatly made collection of views is a pleasant souvenir of a summer's outinir, thongh it most be said that to a cold and unaymiiethetic outsider it frequent ly seems th it the amateur's album mns rather leas to the scenery which he could proliably nave secured than it should nd something tH much to the vouns lady, in various pleasing poees, in whom he is interested, but this is a matter in which a young man is answerable to himself alone. Not only mar the cam era be made a very agreeable compan ion on one a vacation, but a pood one is amusing and instructive in the house- Id. The habv'a picture can be taken as often as the fondest of mothers can I wire, often with surprising results, it is true indeed, one of the charms of amateur photography, we judge, is the eh-ment of surprise which enters into it. This was never better illustrated than in the case of the young man who rose early and pointed his camera from his I ueoroom win. low, witn tne intention oi sit at home all day and see no one," re securing a cat on the lwick fence in the torted his wife. "You don't take act of reaching high C, and upon de- j much pains to amuse me yourself." veloping the plnte he was astonished to "The lime Is past when 1 had the nua only a dumb-lieU and a hair brush, I presumably hurled bv the hasty and ir-! ascible gentleman inhabiting the flat above. ! A stricking indication of the extent to which amateur photography haaS ncvcomlted aocietv, if we mav so ex- Cress it. is tha f act that many summer ljlerest. otels now set apart a room for the j "Only that she has bolted with Car amateurs' use, where they may develop ruther. The news is all over London, their negatives, plan fresh campaigns A pretty scandal tor her unfortunate and otherwise disport themselves. We faruilv." he said, grimly. suppose that the railroads will yet be obliged to recognize them and run a photography car. Even now they hare penetrated the train and the ominous "Cissy gone! ' she exclaimed; act click of the camera shutter is heard as ually gone with Major Carrulhers at an enthusiast "takes" the interior of the parlor-car or catches the face of some lair traveller who has attracted his passing fancy. Nothing seems so to bring out the bravery and self-reliance of a man as the possesion of a camera. It is no uncommon thing for an amateur to stop a disruitied and haughty stranger on the beuch or piazza and request him to tike a certain iose tuat tne artist may proerly bring his instrnment to lear on the victim. It is related of Mr. Channo-ey M. leew that while making tne trip to r.urope a lew weess ago ne was approached on the fourth day out by a young amatenr photographer, who explained that he had a large collection oi pleasant views aoom toe steamer anu now wantea something in tne gnasuv line, and asked Mr. 1 Vpew if he would kindly put a black cloth over his fa-e and hang by a roie around his neck from a yardarm a moment, a Iding, as- aunngly, that he woulU use a pute re- quiring the shortest possible exposure and give Mr. Depew onj of the pbot.- graphs when finished. It is said, though we cannot vouch for it, that Mr. leiew, with his customary amiability complied. After all. it would seem that amatenr photography must be a very pleasant and interesting pastime, if, indeed, it has not sufficient usefulness to place it rather above a mere pastime. That it cannot always retain its present poptt- larity seems clear, as so many have taken it op from no other re ison svo to lie m the swim. but that it will vanish as completely from the face of the earth an, for instance, archery or roller skating we cannot believe. Chocolate. Chocolate is a paste made of the seeds of the cacao tree, which is an evergreen and stows in I entrai ana Isonth Ainer- ica, and the West Indies. It is four or five times as high as a man. i he iruit ia shaped like a thick, short ciicumlnT, ia six to nine inches long and about half as wide. The skin is rough and warty: the inside is a sweet, pinkish white pulp used for food, which contains twentv to , . . , i i 7 ' eas " " m thin brittle, reddi-h Drown husk, and a dark brown oil in I mde. In preparing the beans lor use. they are nrsj rostea uae cm I then crushea anacieanea oi tue nusas. Xn(shaaks the cocoa shells of com- The hen broken into piece, are called oooa nilxv. This is the parest form in which it comes. The paste made by grinding the nibe alone PX., naTor9 it u chocolate. The other sub- I -t,nc, axe sugar, molasses, honey. gum, starch, oatmeal, rice, flour, sago. or arrow-root; me ' cloves, vanilla, etc The mixture is , lnto . ,nd iDty , mo,Js harden. It is used as a drink, 00d, and in making confectionary. 1 LamrKss grow, on people; it begins hto do'the . t . i - i . more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time, Xmi manner of conferring benefits is often as material a. the benefit them- selves. the iu tol?JnT do they call It Wall btreet down town, pa par Papa (who has been "pinched") been nough thera have aA there. Bobby, to wall lath town! Entertaining Grandma. 0 ar O'mma. I wead the newaesr tr dollie U'acte't dot new shoeaes. Rabv Kbenezrr b'nkM hi. .hn. h A . tcur put a ctatr on. sent him wlte to bed : tttle .ackle Bow-wow dot a b'nrht new collar; Papa aaid it cost a sweat biz surer dollar I Tree, four tttle shickens, ilck-thejr're dot the pip! Braver Ned's gone wldinc wlr a bran-new whip. Speck I a dot some ahlckena, one. two. tree, aeven! Oh weT dot a baby, des ttua down Tom Heaven. Ittte dollieU'acle had a drefful tall. There! that's all the aeames : I have wed It all. A. G. Kosesaazao. WHERE THE CHAIN GALLS. There was no doubt that they made a handsoms couple as they sat opposite each other at their own dinner table. The Honorable Herbert Vereker was a fashionable and distinguished -looking man of 27, and bis wife had been the beauty of the Mason. Yet neither of them looked happy or contented. Alixe Vereker leant back In her chair, playing languidly with the fan in her hand, while she kept on repeat ing, "Xo thauks!" to every dish the servants handed to he . At last her husband observed her want of appetite. "Are you not going to eat anything?" "If ever you took the trouble to look at me." she answered, somewhat pel- tishly, "you would know that X never do eat anything at this hour. I hate . . . tt iaie runners. "Why? Because I happen to like them?" he a-ked, sarcastically, as be helped himself a ;aiu from the dish be' foie him. His wife said nothing. The expres sion of her lai e, as she gently waved her ost lei i fan to and fro, indicated that she did not consider bis remark worthy of a rep y. "Are we going out to-night?" VerB' ker continued, presently, looking at bis w ir-'s creaui-coiorea loiiew We have a box for the Gaiety. But perhaps you have made other plans for yourself. "O i. uo; I will accompany you," he replied, indiffereiitlv. There was silence of some minutes between them after that, broken by himself. "Anybody called to-day, Alixe?" "Yes. Mrs. IMce. aud Captain N"el son. aud Iady Salcolt, and aud Lord Percy Seftoti." "tonl2 Percy Scfton seems to be a standing dish iu the establishment." j replied the Houorab e Herbert with a i row n, "Well, you can hardly expect me to power to do so. By the way, Allxe," 1, continued, seeiuir the servants had feft the room, "1 suppose you have heard the nice bit of news about your dear friend Mrs. Bindon." "Of Cissy? No, What is tt?" de- inauded Airs. Vereker, with sudden Allxe claied her hands together, The rose bloom de pened on her cheek, Her ejes gleamed with a brilliant light. last. Oh! pour darling. How I hoi she will be happy." Vereker pushed his chair away from the table angrily. "And that is the way you speak of an infamous womau, who can disgrace her husband and outrage society without the least consideration for anybody but herself." "Cissy is wot infamous," cried .airs, Vereker in return; "sne was a good, true woman until her wretcu of a hus- band made her miserable." "Vou know that IS not true. JUr. Bandon did all he could to make his jfe hapvy." -11 cooped her up iu the house like a prisoner, and would never let her go aliywUere except with himself. What wou,an could endure a life like that?? Are wo cuiidrer,, to be kept to one nursery and one nurse? It was the very wa, make her leave him. I am alie naj tlie COurage to take the j w m her own hands." ..y, are not raising yourself in my Oi,ii0n by taking the part of your so- lW friend." said V. reker. hotly. 'I symiialhize with her, and I shall alwavs be her friend." his wife replied 8Ue rose from the table aud left the room. Vereker sat where she left him, thoughtful and intrueiective. What w&a it that had come into their lives? jje couij recall the time when they bad foolishly unhappy it separated fr0m each other for only a little while. ,u4 now thev never seemed to come toeether without alar, vl bat a chatterer Alixe used to be in the first days ot i their marrbure. She seemed never I weary of telling him her thoughts and lijeas upon all sorts of subjects, and I nnw ah., uranvlv Aliened her mouth when they were alone, and grew ini pa- tient when he talked to her And yet sie was aa usually animated woman in Kncietv. and could amuse a stranger for a whole evening without seeming tired. ;ot that Herbert ereker suspected hls wife of caring for any other man far from it. He was a faithful bus band, and it Is only faithless husbands that suspect their wives. But the gloss seemed to be wearing off their marrle life, and be did not hold himself to be entlrelv cuiltless in the matter. He too often felt the same dullness and enuui as Alixe. and enjoyed an evening spent with his tr ends far more than those passed at home. How was it? Where did it come from? He had loved her passl mately, and he told himself he loved her still and yet he was happier awav. These thoughts made his bawl some face look harassed and careworn and the sympathetic manner in which Alixe had received the story of Mrs. Bandon's disgrace troubled him still further. Surely surely she could never have arrived at the pitch of ap proving of such a piece of headstrong lolly. And tl en Verester thought of lj.r.1 T'ercv Sefton's attentions to her. and cround bis teeth together. At that im rtiire his wife re-entered the room. she was looking lovely a wife of whom u n v man might be proud yet uer nus- ' band put her cloak about her "lders -tt iixiir m pniiini inrub ui am iiOic nv I.O ber so many 'caresses, and ehe a not seem to appreciate mem ana to ted the truth, he was a little tired or kissing her himself, fo they passed out to their carriage . together, and .ir n to the Gaiety as if they were makintr a visit to the dentist. They had engaged an excellent box for. .i.iel to vouth and beautv and high iiirth these Touni people had plenty of munev a nd Mrs. Vereker seated her self on one s de ot it, and Mr. Vereker on tba other. whJst several opera glasses were leveled at them by persoui of both rexes. The burlesque was screamingly funny, and Farren, Royee and Terry were In their happiest vein. l et Alixe er.-ker looked bored. Once or twice her husband, laug'. ing. turned to her for an answering laugh, and then she would force a stoilx and say. "Very funny, isn't i', Bertie?" and relapsed again into indifference. At last her eyes spaikled as bhe caught sight of some acquaintances in the stalls. "There are the Levisons. D go and ask them to come up here, Bertie. I should like to talk to them. I haven't seen Mrs. Levison for an age." And to watch the animation with which she greeted the somewhat stupid husband and wife, aud the smart re partees she made -o Mr. Ievisou's slow remarks, one would have sa d she was the liveliest woman in all London. And then Bertie Verek-r's bete notr, Lord I'ercy Sefton. ma le hrs appearance, and took up his stat on behind Alixe's chair, and her husbanl, although weary of her himself, watched her bright cheeks and eyes with jealous gloom as he tried to catch the Import ot their conversation. "It would be charming, altogether too charming. I should eujoy it above all things," he overheard her say, "but it is of no use thinking about it. Mr. Vereker never lets me go anywhere without himself." And she finished the sentence with a deep sigh, which so enraged her husband that when the time came for them to quit the theatre he busied himself in looking after Mrs. Ievison, and left Lord I'ercy to conduct Alixe to her carriage, whilst he rushed off in a whirlwind of contused feelings to his club. But when there he could neither collect his thoughts nor enjoy himself. And after a few futile at teaipls to be agreeable he strolled back to bis bouse in Kensington, wishing liearti'y that be were well out of mar riage altogether. On reaching borne he let himse.f in with bis latch-key the household being all asieep and walked quietly up stairs. But as he reached bis own apartment, be heard the sound of sobbing, and, throwing on the door that led to his wife's bedchamber. found her prostrate on the sofa and apparently lu an agony ot grief. The sight hardened, instead of softening him ' What on earth is the meaning of this?" he exclaimed: "what has come to you? Have you gone out of your niiud?" "Go away," ahe returned, petulantly. I don't wish to see or speak to you. his room belouzs to me. Be kind enough to leave me to myself.' "1 shall do no such thing," said ereker. "I have a right to know the reason of this extraordinary exhibition. aua l snail exert my authority as a husband to remain wherever you miy be lor as long a time as i choose." "Ou, yisl 1 our rights your author' ity," retorted Mrs. Vereker, lifting her pretty lace, all stained with tears, to dash defiance at him from her mk if married men thought a little less of their lights and authoritv, and had little more trust and confidence iu their wive, things would be on a h ip pier looting than tliev are at present. lo whom are you alludim my earr" he asked in a sarcastic vol e To your dear frhud, Mrs. Baudou .arruthers (or whatever her name may be now), or to yourself? ' lo all women. ' replied Alixe, boldly. "Mtrriage Is only another word for misery. 1 ou have said so yourself." ii's been a failure in our case, there's no doubt attout that, aud yet 1 n't know why it should be. Xhe question is where will it end?" Uod knows," rejoined the young wife, gloomily, "l'erhaps like Cissy IJandoa's." 'No, no, Alixe; don't say that, for heaven's sake. We will cut it short U-fore that day arrives!" exclaimed ereker, excitedly. "e will have a reparation first," 1 w-.sh we could," she slgh'd. Do you, really?" he replied, whilst a vaue hope of liberty and happln- ss passed through his owu mind; "would your life be more endurable aj-art from mine.'" "I would give anything," she said. fervently, "Lo be my own mistres-i again, aud live my own life. We have never agreed, Bertie. My friends have not been your friend?, nor my ta-tes your tastes. e have scarcely any lde t in common, aud we can never talk without quarreling. If It goes on much ljnger I think l will kill me." Then let us end it," he replied, gloomily; "I am not happy any more than yourself. 1 uoa t suppose you ever loved me, and it has been a mis take from the beg'nning. The sewer it is over the bet ter. 1 will speak to my solicitor the first thing in the morn ing. Good night." Aud without an other word be lett the room. Alixe went to bed more excited than happy, and almost believing her bus- baud s proposal almost too good to come true. It was what she had longed for for mouths past the liberty to choose her own amusements, her own houts, Iter own acquaintances md now thai there seemed a possibility of retaining it. she could not sleet) for thinking how she would arrange aud organize the new l.fe that lay before her. She had no uneasiness regarding monetary mat' ters. he and Bertie had independent fortunes, aud were perfectly ab e to maintain separate establishments. And slid fell asleep while in the very act of choosing ths furniture for her new drawing-room. 1 he next morning ereker met h r at the breakfast tabie in the cool man ner they had adopted toward each other f late, but when the meal was con cluded he asked ber to accompany him to the lit rarv. I have been thinking a good deal oi our conversation last night. Alixe; and tttfore I pay a visit to my solicitor, Air. Temple, 1 should like to have a lew words with you on the subject. 1 sup pose you have quite made up your mind?" "Ouite." she said decidedly. "And so have I. It has always been my opinion that when married people have ceased to find any pleasure iu each other's society they ought to part. It would be terrible to keep together air ai nst our wilL until our lives culml nated in some scandal like that of Mrs. Bandon. 1 am sure I can trust you with tnv honor. Alixe." "What I waut. Bertie, is my liberty. Xot bondaee to some other man. If bondage wero not irksome to me I should remain with you." "And yet I have not bsen a hard takmaster." "No, but I am sick of it aH. Life seems one long weariness to me. There ia nothinir ner nor interesting in it. I am afraid I am tired of you." "Then it Is indeed time we parted," sail the young man, rather bitterly. "Marriage Is not toadd lis seems) foe all time, but only whilst it can amuse or distract. And yetyouuiedto say you loved me, Alixe." "And so you used to say to me." "Truel We are equally to blame. But let us at least part friends. Let u part, indeed, lcause we are friends, and wish each other to be happy. It has al a ays seemed terrible to me that peopltwho have loved each other should liecoroe enemies, and refuse to speak. We can occupy separate establishments, and yet be amiable, should we chance to meet. I shall go into bachelor apart ments, of course. Shall you remain here?" "I think cot- We have never quite liked the hquse, you know, and I would rather have no reminders ot the past . about me. When the matter is con cluded I will go abroad to my mother for a few months, before I settle down again." xou seem to have been thinking about this for some time." he said. bitterly. "lour arrangements are already complete." Yesl I have often thought of it. Bertie, and mother has wished It to be so. bhe thinks our marriage is the greatest mistake we ever made.'' "And she Is right," rejoined Vereker. To marry a loveless womau is mau's bitterest error. " Or an indifferent husbml. One is as bad ts the other," said the wife. Well, you will be able to have it all your own way now. Alixel l ou can have Lord Percy or Captain Randolph, or anyone you choose, to take you out driving, or to the theatre, without let or hindrance, and I hope you will enjoy It." I mean to enjoy it." repltei Mrs, V ereker. "And you can dine with your dear old friends, the Laytons (who never asked me to their house) as often as you please, and have no inconvenient questions asked when you come home. l ou will know how to make use ot your liberty just as well as I shall." I bore so. indeed." s.iid her bus- bind, as he rushed ft-m the house; and a few days after the fashionable world was startled by the intelligence that the Honorable Mr. and Mrs. ereker had agreed to a separation by mutual con sent, and that whilst the necessary arrangements were being completed Mrs. V ereker had gone to stay with her mother. Lady Beaumont, in Paris Two or three gossips at the clubs, or even the tea tables, wagged their heads at the announcement, and said they r foretold the calamity for some time past; and then the great waters of time and stateness rolled over it, aud It was spoken ot uo more. Lady Beaumont, a frivolous and rather unprincipled woman, who had always hated Herbert eieker, was desirous that her daugh ter should make her future home in Paris, but Alixe declined to keep house with her mother. After a month spent abroad, some irresistable attraction, which she attributed to her anxiety to ;-o'iiiueuce a hie of freedom, drew her o""-- o lnduti, where she took Handsome flat overlooking Kensi.iirton Gardens, and set. to irott u ji, eagerness to luriusii anu aecoraie it in me uuw fashion. Her husband had given her leave to select any articles she might like from their late residence, but she had declined to keep anything but her own personal properly, amongst which she found bad been included an ex quisitely painted portrait of himself. t he sight ot it annoyed her, and even as she drew It from her traveling ruuk she thrust It back again, face down ward. "Thank heaven that is over, "she said to herself with a deep sigh, "and yet bow much I used, at o'ie time, to think of him." She drew the portrait out once more. just to give it auother look. It repre sented a young man with the lace ot a Greek god and the limbs of an athlete, aud a bright, intelligent countenance that seemed as if it were about to speak. " 1 hat Is how he used to look w hen we were nrst marneo," ihouut me wife. "He has not looked like that for a long time now," and sue tnrust tne picture out of sight again. At that moment her maid entered to tell her that a lady (who refused to give her name) bad called to see her. Alixe went into the drawing-room reluctant ly, but gave vent to an ejaculation of delight when she recognized Mrs. Ban don. "OI my dear Cissy! Is It really you.' Come and tell me all alo-t i. There is no bar, thauk goodness, to our iiieci ing now." But her friend shrank irom ber. "No, no, Alixe; I feel your kindness, but I cannot accept it. 1 will not sit down iu your house. You see that I was even ashamed to send up my name." ject if 1 do not? I am free to do as I choose now. 1 am separated irom .air. Vereker." 'I have heard it. That is why I am here. Ou, Alixe. go Iback to him be fore it is too late. It is dangerous lor a young woman to live apart from ber husband." Mrs. Vereker drew herself up proudly. "It is already too late. The deed is signed. And I wonder at your coun seling such a step, Cissy, l ou who were so unhappy in your own married life, that you were compelled to leave it. Have you reiiented already t" Not quite," replied Mrs. bandon, hesitatingly. "I love Charley (as 1 have often told you) and Mr. Bandon did not make me happy. Only I have thought since that it was an evil that might have been averted. .Monotony is the curse of married life. Alixe. It is not real misery that most people feel. It is infinite boredom the being chained day after day. aud Dight after nitrht. to the companionship oi one man or one womau. Life requires variety. If only we would trust each other more, love would live longer tbau It does." "Mine is dead enough," said Alixe, with a hard laugh. "I don't believe it. I tbiuk it is only keeping. Wake it up. Alixe. Don't let yourself down to ni level, aee 3ir. Vereker when he comes back: irom Norway " "Has he gone to Norway?" "Yes, with the Laytons, in their Yacht. Hadn't vou beard of it? Charley says he started a month ago. And now good-bye. I only came to say that one thing. Go back to your husband." "Never," cried Mrs. vereker, em phatically, "never!" And as soou as her friend had left her, she went to dress to eo to the theatre with Lord Percy Set ton. It was so delightful to feel that she could make appointments, and choose ber own companion, and so where she liked without asking leave, or encountering Jealous frowns for ber most innocent actions. For Alixe Vereker was essentially innocent of any Intention of evil. But her bus band had fallen into the error of most husbands, and suppose 1 that his gigan tic intellect and infallible judgment must prove sufficient food for her mental app-tite to her li 'e's end. and all other men were to be to her as shadows morally as well as physicallv. Acd to a bright active temperament. one intellectual companion (a ways supposing be is intellectual) is not su'.- ficent to suppiy the mental need. Jord Percy teflon was a man, from the idea of making love to whom. Alixe ereker a ould have shrunk with aver sion, but be was a most entertaining companion, aud always had some fresu sories to tell or t on mots to repeat. He admired her also; and what woman does not like to be ad m red by the other sex, if only for the sake of the man Mie vesl So she tpent a sufficiently pleasant evening bv his side, thouch her thoughts would go wandering to Norway, whilst Lord I'ercy was speak ing to her. she wondered what Bertie could po-siblv see in that insipid Mrs. I.ayton, to make a couple of months spent in her company endurable. hat is the matter i 1 inquired her companion, as he put her in her car riage. "Haven t you enjoyed youise:t this evening, Mrs. Verekeii" "Oil, extremely, thank you never mor? so! And you will lunch with me to-morrow, a1 id go to the exhibition afterwards won't you. Good niht!" ISut as she alighted at ber own aoor and entered her rooms they looked rather empty and desolate to her. with no one but her maid to bid her welcome and her footman to hand refreshments. She was quite cio-s as she refund their attentions, though she could hardly say wliv, ai.d went to Ud with her heal full of what Mrs. Bandon had said to her, and an unph asant feeling of doubt as to whether she had hot alter all -made a nii.-tak". But then she recalled Bertie's di-agreeable sayings and doings, and fell to sleep congratulating hi-rtelf that she was rid of them. She had no lack of society in those dnys. As soon as she was known to be settled the men trooped around her like a flock of pigeons. A fashionable flat, replete with every comfort, with a beautiful woman to do the honors of it, was too good a lounge to be t re.. ted with indif ference; and so it came to pass that after a whi e Mrs. Vereker had more visitors than she wished for. Aud ona or two, who did not know her as t:iey should have done, attempted to gain too easy a footing in her establishment, which forced her to be uncivil iu re turn, and made her wish she ha I ac cepted Lady Beaumont's proposal and reuiaiued under the protection of her mother. Rumors reached her occasion ally also of course through her female friends that made ber uneasy. How Mrs. So aud So had said openly at her lat "At home," that it' was Mr. Ver eker'd jealousy of Captain Randolph that had caused the separation between them, or that young Mountjoy asserted for a fact that Mr. Vereker had achere a.nie amongst the chorus al the Gaiety, si'itl had visited her in his company on sveral occasions. When she beard these ill-natured iai.b..io. u.iiu retire to her room and weep bit terly, and wouder what she could do to prevent their circulation; and she al ways concluded to ask her husband's advice on the subject as toon as he re turned to Ei gland. ' Jljitio especially sail we were to part friends," she would repeat to herself, "and as a friend 1 can, of course, ap:eal to him to contradict these intaiuoiis falsehoods If I only know where he was I would write to him." But as she d.du't, she hud to content herself with thinking what she would say when thev next nitt. But that did not hapieii till six mouths alter. One day, as Mrs. Ver eker was driving in Piccadilly, she caught sight of her husband turning into his club. She pullel the check string on the spur of the moment, but l y the time the carriage fstopied ber courage had failed her and she only gave the order to drive home. Sudden ly, and without reason, she had turned sick and faint. But as soon as she had reached her residence she sat down and wrote to Mr. Vereker ( o his club) listing him to come and see her. She thought he would reply, mak ng an apxiintiiieut, but to her amazement wneii he walked into her bieaklast room ti e tollovwng moruing lie was lready there, sealed and quietly reai- mg a newspajier. it was difficult lor him n t to feel at home in the a art uieuts of his wi p. Alixe, who was atiired In a pale pink robe de charnPri . ind I'H.ked lovelier thtii ever (al a.i events in his ce ) leant against t threshold of tlie door for support as ,e caught si'lit of lu in. So soonl" s e ejaculated, faintly. Am I too soou?" he answered, r's- ing. "I thought as you said you needed my advice 1 had better call on you at once. JJot perhaps I am tie trop. 11 you are exiecling visitor's don't hesi- ; tale to .-ay so, and 1 will call at a more convenient moment." No. I am not expecting anybody," said Alixe, and then she came lorward and added plaintively: "You have -not shaken hands with me, Iiertie." He put out his hand directly and clasped hers, but without removing his eves from her face. "Aud how are you, Allxe?"' "On te well, thank you. Have you breakfasted?" "No. May I have a cu of coffee with you?" "Certainly," he replied, seating her self and pouiingout the coffee with a sliaiii? ha" I, "How brown you have gnxvn, Iiertie." "Ye?. I've len to Norway wuu tne La tons." "1 heard of it. Did you enjoy your self?'' "Awfully. Had some jody fishing and shoot iig. And you?" "O! I've been having no end of tiui". I was in Pans with mother for two mouths, and now I am out all day loinr." "That's right- Don't overdo It, though. You look thinner to me. And, now, what is it you want to con sult me about? I did i.ot know you considered my advice worth having." "B t this is a matter that only con cerns ou. selves, and no one else can contradict it," replied Alixe, who was rather more at ease by this time: and tneu she repeated to her hu-band tlie substance of the rumors that had an noyed her. , "When we agieed to separate," she continued, rather t midly, ' you fad, Bertie, that we were 'o coutinue Iriemis or else I wouldn't have troubled you. But it is a shame people i-bould say such horrid things, for you know how untrue they are." "Yea, Alixe, but I also know they are unavoidable. When man and wife part the world will talk and it would be impossible to make It believe there is net some ttroiiger reason for Mich a step tb in mere incompatibility of tem- per." "But it is a He," cried Mrs. Vereker, hotly, "you know I never cared for any man since " Since you were so deluded as to imagine you cared for me," "No, I was not deiuded," said Alix, frankly; ''I did care very much at one time, ou'y only " "You found I was not worth caring for an I you grew tiled of pretending." 1 8iipiose that was It, but I shall never rare for anyone so much again. IK) you remember the firs-, day we met, Beitie?" "Io I not? On board Lord Percy's Utile yacht, Cynisca, and you looked too utterly 'fetching' in a sailor's suit. Ah I Alixe:" "Yes; we were very stupid. I sup po e we were too young. Mamma always said so. I shall only be 2- next bit Hi lay. and then w e shall have b -en married three years. Do you remember our honeymoon, Bert :e?" "Of course I do; but don't speak of such things, now, please. They are all past, and can never be lecalled. And they are not a pleasaut contrast to the present." "Yet I wish " said Alixe. "What?" "That we bad been older. I think we might have managed things bettr. I see where the fault lay now. We saw too much of one another." "People who reallv love cauuot se too Euih of one another." "Oh, yes, they can. Toujour ptrdrix is a mistake all the world over. If men and women would not exhaust their resources, mental and physical, so soou, their admiration and esteem for each ot! er would last longer. Our minds require friction with those of our fel low-creatures in order to breed fresh ideas. I am sure of tha', Uerde." "Have you been trying the exjierl meiit. and does It answer?'' "Pretty well onlv " "Only-what?" "I have no one at home to tell my fresh ideas to, and and Oh! Bertie! I cannot help it 1 know I am wretch edly weak, but I am miserable." cried Alixe. as she flung her head dowu on the table; and t urst into tears. "My own, my darling, iptak to me, for I too am miserable, 1 have tried every available means to banish you from my heart, without eflejt. Let us try the old life nice more, Allxe; for if 1 cannot have mv wile, I must remain lonely to my life's end." 'But they say," she sobled "they say you have someone else." "They tell the biggest lie they ever told in say ng so. Believe mo, Alixe, that I have never made love to any woman but yourself." 'Not even Mrs. Layton?" "Mrs. Iayton Is the wife or my friend," be answered, proudly. "But do not jest on such a serious subject. nil you come back to me. that is the only way to stop these scandals." ' Oli, ISertiel 1 am so afraid." "Afraid of a -. clltlon of the past? No, Allxe, you need not be! I, too, have been thinkii.g deeply since we pa' ted, aud I car see the unworthy "';'-- and telfishness that woull bind a woman to u.. ...j.wmtit of nno nan's society only, In its true light. We must be gods before we can hope to fill up all the measure of friendship, as well as of love Give me your love, sweetheart, and y iu may have what friends you choose." "You have always had my love, Ber tie, from the first moment that I saw you. Dj you rememlier when you asked me to marry you?" "And you threw yourself in my anus " "Like this," she cried, as she aban doned herself to his carewses, and wept out her weary heart upon his breast. "And now," said Bertie, as pale witt passion he lore himself away from her. "and now, perhaps, Mrs. Yeieker, you w ill g.ve me some coffee." And as he was drinking It, he glanced with a mischievous look into her ador ing eyes aud exclaimed: "Oli! what will mamma say?" Remember Lot's Wife. Within the space allotted to the varied and interesting exhibits from Roiiman la, at the Paris exhibition, ono comes suddenly upon an olielisk of singular and almost weird apect, which invar iably, at first sight, is something of a mvstery to the la-holdur. 1 1 is eighteen or twenty feet iu height, and consists of a tapering, four-sided sh ift, set tijwm a simple, yet symmetri cally, built jH'dest.'il five or six feet square by uliout five fct in height. In short, the structure resembles a mor tuary monument, and is auggestivu of ceiiiet-ry memories. It is the appearance of the material from which the monument is made, however, which piques curiosity. At first glance it seems to Ik? Hemi-trims-parcnt, and one wonders whether tdiere may actually be marble in Roumania ot that peculiar tint. Prom another point of view, it even resembles alalmster, while from others, one might easily mistake it for a pill tr of ice. In fact, it was not until the writer had walked completely around it, that the secret of the composition came out from a very homely test. The usual crowd of siht-seers was surging past. A vivacious French party j of six or seven persons came forward and at once exclaimed, 'Ah.' i: c' t beau!" how beautiful! in a quick, ap preciative fashion. Then they fell to wondering what it c nld be made of. They covertly scratched it, shrugged their shoulders, shook their heads and looked puzzled. At length, one bnghUwhitted girl of the party rubbed it with her moistened finger and touched her tongue. "..'.'" she cried. Whereat they all laughed heartily, and moved gaily away. Scarcely had they disappeared, when a less voluble party of five darker-browed and olive-tinted Spaniards two senors and three senoritas apjieared upon the scene. "Mira! miraf Que bftnito."' they exclaimed. And then, they in turn, were possessed by the same curiosity to ascertain the object and the material of the monument. And aga n it was one of the young ladies who, having surrep titiously touched it with a wet finger tij, penetrated the mystery. "ISah! Sal.'" she cried, with an old little twist of her lace clad shoulder. Whereupon one of the senors politely doffed hia hat to her, while the other, str. king a serio-comic attitude, exclaim- ed: "-Vo olvide la epoa dr Isllo!" lb- member Lot's wife! Anil they went on, laughing. The monument is a pillar of pure rock aaltL from thernihivt of Roumania. designed to illustrate and represent that industry. Latest Indications po.u. boom in garnet jewelry. n wa Js a NEWS IX BRIEF. reparations are already being made in s-ver.d German university towns to c.'lebra'e next year the three hundredth anniversary of the invention of the microscope. Troy.N. Y.,aud Kausas City. Mo., are both suffering from invasions of fleas. The janitor ot a school In Troy declares that mill ons of the insects made the building their headquarters, and that be swept them up by pail fuls. A weeping each tree Is one of the curiosities of Deuis.m, Texas. It is visited by many persous daily. At times a perfect mist of spray surrounds It. A number of superstit ous persons think that spirits oicrate upon the tree. There Is au Item of news going the rounds of the press that Chicago hotels do not permit their servants to receive Hps. If this can le shown to I true, NewYoik, St. Iiuis and Washington may as well throw up the sponge in their rlzlit for the location of the World's Pair. Though intimate friends of the BUiines profess ignoiauce ou the sub ject, the engagement of Miss Margaret Blaine to Waller Daniiosch the young orchestra leader and Wagner Inter preter :s accepted ly usually well posted people lu New York as a fact. It Is estimated that in London the evening pa)ers punt no fewer than O.IHIJ copies every dav, whereas thirty years ago they did not issue 10,('( alto gether. Of the uioriiiiu journals there are two that boast of printing more than oOO.lHJO copies between them for the day's supply. Iron ore is produce! in twenty-nine counties of Kngland and Wales, twelve counties of Scotland, and iu one of the provinces of Ireland. The production has fallen off scnoudy during recent years, and fome of tha older centers of production are lcco!niiig extinct, if they are not sj already. The electiic beam from the Kiflel tow. r lantern has a luminous intensity of about So.tuMi c tint les. t '.itadioptnc rings aie arranged to make the light stronger and stronger as it travels from the tower, so that in clear weather its r.tni;e it not 1 tinted bv the earth's curvature should be 1J7 miles, with au intensity of o UJ0.OW caudles. The smallest sciews lu the woild are made in a watch factory. They are cut from steel wire by a machine, but as the chips fall down from the knife it looks as If the oiTat've was simply cutting up the wire for fuu. Oue thing is certain, no i-ciews can I se-n, and yet a screw is made every third op eration. It is sail that stutterers, when speaking In a whisper, show no impedi ment of sjieech. This fact has len turned to account by t'oeti. In his method of treatment, lor the first ten days speaking Is prohibited. During the next ten days speaking is permissi. ble iu the whisiering voice, and in the uexi. uiieru days the ordinary conversa tional I.. crraduadv employed. While a French giil was playing with a roe ahout her neck re.-eiilly In Lake Village. N. II., tenement house, the building was struck by lightning, aud, as the story goes, the rope was de stroyed by the electric cm rent, but the chill escaad uninjured. The same gin was stiuck and thrown Into a dit h by the locomotive of an exiess train, but was not hurt. Practical jokers siiurated w ith al cohol the clothing ol a man usleep in a Newaik, N. .1.. liquor saloon, and then applied a lighted uia'ch. lie was frightfully burned. lie afterwards wandered to an oiicn l"t, where the stench from his burned flesh attracted the attention of pa-sers-hy, who had the man sent to a bospdal. lie refused to divulge to the police the names of his torturers. The Chinese customs returns for the second quailer of th 8 year show a falling oil or nearly a million or laeis, compared with the same period of HUM. "In imports the decline is chiefly In opium; in exports the d crease Is eu tuely in tea, caused mainly by the fact that the I'oochow market did not open till alter the close ot the quartei." It is not known precisely how the name "kettle-di inn" came to lie giveu to an afternoon tea, but when the Udien in I harles IL's time came lu from a hunt they weie s. iv.d with a l'ght en tertainment which was called the ' di u:n," and when tea dunking lie came the onler of the hour, uo doubt "kettle" was added to make the term significant, The bronze statue of MajorGencral George J. S auuard, which is to sur mount the monument erected by the State of Vermont on the Gettysburg battlefield, has been completed. The statue was des gned by Karl Gerhardt. of Hartford, oim.. and weighs 'u.'l'.i piund-i. ' The tiure is grain! iu Its proportions anu ou line. The face Is sh.wled by the broad felt hat, the empty sleeve is pinned across the breast, the lert leg, encased iu a heavy cavalry boot, istdlghtly advanced, and the left hand rests ou the sword-beiL" The Boston Journal having lashly staled that the L'ni ed Mates po s-s-s butouesla'ue of Ghnsio.dier Colum bus, that iven to Baltimore by the Trench Consul in the last century, somebody writes to say that th-ie Is a second iu Pairiuount I'ark, Philadel phia, and a thiid, of gr unt", lu the old ars-nal in Central Paik, New York, pies- nted In l-sij'., by the late Marshal O. Roberts. A fourth ex s'.s iu Boston itself, and stands lu as well-known a spot as Lotiisbuig square. It was pre scn:ed to t ie citv in IS-1'J, by Mr. Jose, h lasigi. a Turkish tiler hant.who became an American citizen and w lioe children aie prominent members of the community. A discovery, referring to the iron ae, has le-n made at Gioppen, on the cna-t of Norway. A burial chamber. formed of stone slabs and containing the remains of a man, has been uncov ered. Theie (re l-o iu the chamtx-r a bucket, ornamentel with broi.7. , mi le of limewotxl; to Iron lauee heads. twelve inches long; double-edgl sword, in scabbard, witli a lermle of I i.r,,n7J Kom'e R unau iroid c ins. j Iierforated aud worn as ornaments a tUss beaker, green ami blue iu c.lor audoruameuiel with etched tracing-; ' H pajr of bronze scales, some iron .i row i heads and a pair of sh'-ars in a wooden I case. On the b dy lay two lartr r-d stones an 1 some bronze otnaiuerits. Tl e ! linimr of the coat around tl e nck was in a pei reel stale ot preset ui on, ai.u j revealed rich emhroidery of mime- "f an m ils. In the hands were three in terlaced wooden rimrs, r KmUiUg l ie well-know n puzzle riiiffs. p' - J .. lism aC-, ,-
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers