MAN AND THE CHAFING DISH. He Can Cook Bettor Than HU Wife, Bo* cause Mora Confident. Octave Thanet says that men use a chafing dish better than women. Per haps it Is because there is a gaudy tri umph about chafing dish processes which there is not in other cooking ex ploits. Men never like to work behind a screen. They enjoy the tumult and the Crowd and the cheering when they strike a telling blow. A woman is nervous to see a dozen eyes on her. Her ears tingle at the good-natured com ments. She is frightened, she loses confidence in herself. She looks fur tively across the table at the man for r whom she cares for more than all the rest, and he is telling the lady who gives such charming din ners that he must send his wife over , to her for a series of lessons—and it is all over for the poor creature at the alcohol lamp. If she be wise she will tip the lamp over and cover her retreat. A man’s seK-confldence is of stouter fibre. He isn’t looking at his wife, he Is looking at his dish; if any ingredient be missing to call loud and spare not— for that was voice given; naturally ho gets everything, whether he has for gotten anything or no, and the entire i: service of the meal stops until he has had his will. A man will have two maids and a large stately butler run > ning about the waiting room on his preparation of terrapin a la Maryland, or lobster a la Newberg; and he will be no whit embarrassed. A woman is scared to interrupt’ the feast by with drawing one servant And the man is right and the woman is wrong; for peo ple can wait for their wine or their sauces, but an alcohol flame waits on no man. But the difference between man and woman as cooks is too near other burning questions for one to dis cuss with the th^"*"'■meter *t 99. 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There, be ing in comparative safety, he turned with a malignant look. “You’ll smart for this,” he said; “when they lock you up as a raving lunatic I’ll try and get a post as keep er.” I was glad to see that Carriston paid no attention to this parting shaft. He turned hir back scornfully, and the fellow left the room and the house. “Now are you convinced?” asked Carriston, turning to me. “Convinced of what? That his tale is untrue, or that he has been misled, I am quite certain.” iu8n: 'mat is not worth consider ation. Don't you see that Ralph has done all this? I set that man to watch him; he found out the espionage; sub orned my agent, or your agent I should say; sent him here with a trumped-up tale. Oh, yes; I was to believe that Madeline had deserted me—that was to drive me out of my senses. My cousin is a fool after all!” “Without further proof I cannot be lieve that your suspicions are correct,” I said; but I must own I spoke with some hesitation. “Proof! A clever man like you ought to see ample proof in the fact of that wretch having twice called me a mad man. I have seen him but once before —you know if I then gave him any grounds for making such an assertion. Tell me, fgrom whom could he. have learnt the word except from Ralph Car riston?" I was bound, if only to save my own reputation for sagacity, to confess that the point noted by Carriston had raised certain doubts in my mind. But if Ralph Carriston really was trying by some finely-wrought scheme to bring about what he desired, there was all the more reason for great caution to be exercised. “I am sorry you beat the fellow,” I said. “He will now swear right and left that you were not in your senses.” “Of course he will? What do I care?" “Only remember this. It is easier to get put into an asylum than to get out of it.” “It is not so very easy for a sane man like me to be put in, especially when he is on his guard. I have looked up the law. There must be a certifi cate signed by two doctors, surgeons— or, I believe, apothecaries will do— who have seen the supposed lunatic alone and together. I’ll take pretty good care I speak to no doctor. save yourself, and keep .out of the way. of surgeons and apothecaries.” It quite cheered me to hear him speaking so sensibly and collectedly about himself, but I again impressed upon him the need for great caution. Although I could not believe that his cousin had taken Madeline away, I was inclined to think, after the affair with the spy, that, as Carriston averred, he aimed at getting him, sane or inBane, Into a mad-house. But after all these days we were not a step nearer to the discovery of Made line's whereabouts. Carriston made no sign of doing anything to facilitate that discovery. Again I urged him to in trust the whole affair to the police. Again he refused to do so, adding that he was not quite ready. Ready for what, I wondered! XIV. MUST confess, in spite of my affec tion for Carriston, I felt inclined to re bel against the course -which mat ters were taking. I was a prosaic, mat ter-of-fact medical man, doing my work to the best of my ability, and anxious when that work was done that my hours of leisure would be as free from worry and care as possible. With Carriston’s advent several disturbing elements entered into my quiet life. Let Ralph Carriston be guilty or in nocent of the extraordinary crime which his cousin laid at his door, I felt certain that he was anxious to ob tain possession of the supposed luna tic’s person. It would suit his pur poses for his cousin to be proved mad. I did not believe that, even if the cap" ture was legally effected, Carriston’s liberation would be a matter of great difficulty so long as he remained in his present state of mind; so long as I, a doctor of some standing, could go into the witness box and swear to his san ity. But my old dread was always with me—the dread that any further shock would overturn the balance of his sen sitive mind. So it was that every hour that Car riston was out of my sight was fraught with anxiety. If Ralph Carriston was really as unscrupulous as my friend supposed; if he had reall, as seemed almost probable, suborned our agent, he might by some crafty trick obtain i the needful certificate, and some day I should come home and find Carriston had been removed. In such a case I foresaw great trouble and distress. Besides, after all that had occurred, it was as much as I could do to believe that Carriston was not mad. Any doc tor who knew what I knew would have given the verdict against him. After dismissing his visions and hal luclnatons wth the contempt which they deserved, the fact of a man who was madly, passionately in love with a woman, and who believed that she had been entrapped and was still kept in restraint, sitting down quietly, and let ting day after day pass without mak ing an effort toward finding her, was in itself prima facie evidence of insanity. A sane man would at once have set all tin engines of detection at work. I felt that if once Ralph Carriston obtained possession of him he could make out a strong case in his own favor. First of all, the proposed mar riage out of the defendant's own sphere of life; the passing under a false name; the ridiculous, or apparently ridicu lous, accusation made against his kins man; the murderous threats; the chas tisement of his own paid agent who brought him a report which might not seem at al luntrue to anyone, who knevtt not Madeline Rowan. Leaving out of the question what might be wrung from me in cross-examination, Ralph Car riston had a strong case, and I knew that, once in his power, my friend might possibly be doomed to pass years, if not his whole life, under re straint. So I was anxiouB, very anx ious. Ana i reit an anxiety, scarcely sec ond to that which prevailed on Car rieton’s account, as to the fate of Mad eline. Granting for sake of argument that Carriston’s absurd conviction that no bodily harm had as yet been done her, was true, I felt sure that she with her scarcely less sensitive nature must feel the separation from her lover ns much as he himself felt the separation from her. Once or twice I tried to comfort myself with cynicism—tried to persuade myself that a young woman could not in our days he spirited away —that she had gone by her own free will—that there was a man who had at the eleventh hour alienated her affec tions from Cariston. But I could not ■bring myself to believe this. So I was placed between the horns of a dilem ma. If Madeline had not fled of her own free will, someone must have taken her away, and If so our agent’s report-was a coined one, and, if a coined one, is sued at Ralph’s instance; therefore Ralph must be the prime aqtor in the mystery. But in sober moments snbb Vded|ic-. tion seemed an utter Absurdity. " 1 ~ Although I have said thfttlCarrlston was doing nothing towards clearing up the mystery, f wronged him in so sav ing.. After his own erratic way he was at work. At such work too! I really lost all patience with him. He shut himself up in his room, out of which he scarcely stirred for three days. By that time he had completed a large and beautiful drawing of his imaginary man. This he took to a well-known photographer’s, and or dered several hundred small photo graphs of it to be prepared as soon as possible. The minute description which he had given me of his fanciful creation was printed at the foot of each copy. As oon as the first batch of these precarious photographs was sent home, to my great joy he did what he should have done days ago: yielded to my wishes, and put the matter into the hands of the police. I was glad to find that in giving de tails of what had happened he said nothing about the advisability of keep ing a watch on Ralph aCrriston’s pro ceedings. He did indeed offer an ab surdly large reward for the discovery of the missing girl, and, moreover, gave the officer in charge of the case a packet of photographs of his phantom man, telling him in the gravest manner that he knew the original of that like ness had something to do with the dis appearance of Miss Rowan. The offi cer, who thought the portrait was that of a natural being, took his instructions in good faith, although he seemed greatly surprised when he heard that Carrlston knew neither the name nor the occupation, in fact knew nothing concerning the man who was to be sought for. However, as Carrlston as sured him that finding this man would Insure the reward as much as if he found Madeline, the officer readily promised to combine the two tasks, little knowing what waste of time any attempt to perform the latter must be. Two days after this Cariston came to nte. “I shall eave you to-morrow,” he said. “Where are you going?” I asked. "Why do you leave?” “I am going to travel about. I have no intention of letting Ralph get holdl of me. So I mean to go from place to place until I find Madeline.” “Be careful,” I urged. “I shall be careful enough. I’ll take care that no doctors, surgeons, or even apothecaries get on my track. I shall go just as the fit seizes me. It I can't say one day where I shall be the next, it will be impossible for that villain to know.” This was not a bad argument. In fact, if he carried out his resol vo of passing quickly from place to place, I did not see how he could plan anything more likely to defeat the intentions with which we credited his cousin. As to his finding Madeline by so doing, that was another matter. His idea seemed to be that chancee would sooner or later bring him in con tact with the man of his dream. How ever, now that the search had been In trusted to the proper persons, his own action in the matter was not worth troubling about. I gave him many cautions. He was to be quiet and guarded in words and manner. He wao not to converse with strangers. If he found himself dogged or watched by anyone, he was to communicate at once with me. But, above all, I begged | him not to yield again to his mental infirmity. The folly of a man who could avoid it throwing himself Into such a state ought to be apparent to him. "Not oftener than I can help,’’ was all the promise I could get from him. "But see her I must sometimes, or I shall die.” I had now given up as hopeless the combat with his peculiar idiosyncrasy. So, with many expressions of gratitude on his part, we bade each other fare well. During his absence he wrote to me nearly every day, so that I might know his whereabouts in case I had any news to communicate. But I had none. The polio e failed to find the slightest clew. I had. been called upon by them once or twice in order that they might have every grain of Information I could give. I took the liberty of advising them not to waste their time in look ing for the man, as his very existence was problematical. It was but a fancy of my friend’s, and not worth thinking seriously about. I am not sure but what after hearing this they did not think the whole affair was an Imagined one, and so relaxed their efforts. Once or twice, Carriston, happening to be In the neighborhood of London, came to see me, and slept the night at my house. He also had no news to report. Still, he seemed hopeful as ever. The weeks went by until Christmas was over and the New Year had begun; but no sign, word, or trace of Madeline Rowan. “I have seen her," wrote Car rleton, “several times. She is in the same place—unhappy, but not ill-treat ed." Evidently his hallucinations were still in full force. At first I intended that the whole of this tale should be told by myself; but upon getting so far it struck me that the evidence of another actor who played an Important part in the drama would give certain occurrences to the reader at first instead of a second hand, so I wrote to my friend Dick Fenton, of Frenchay, Gloucestershire, and begged him, if he felt himself qapable of so doing, to put in elmple narrative form his impressions of certain events, which happened in January, 1866; eventB in which we two were concerned. ito ss covriaoaiM . - ><■■■■* Floating Metals. 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A young lady who is well known in society circles is now being given the “grand laugh” on account of a remark ehe made some time ago. She was pres ent at a small gathering of friends and after the discussion of several top ics the conversation turned upon the size of the average person's hand. Af ter a time some one said: “Don't you think Mr. A. has a very small hand?" Mr. A. is a gentleman who has been paying considerable attention to the young lady under consideration. With out stopping to think, the young lady replied: "Yes, but he can squeeze so hard; why, he squeezed my hand until -” But here she realized what she was saying and stopped, crimson with confusion, to be overwhelmed in a gale of laughter which threatened to take the roof off the house.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Bl« Request* The old southern planter was dying. For fifty years he had ridden over his plantation and directed the men at their work, and in all that time not a sprig of cotton had been known to grow upon his land. Corn alone the old man had raised. Corn and mint. Now, through the dusk settling down over the great place his nose beamed softly through the shadows and cast a pale, reddish light upon the remainder of his countenance. "Put,” said he, weakly, as he realized his time had come, "put upon my tombstone the words-” He took the straw between his trembling fingers, while the odor of the julep shared with silence the moment. “ ‘Corn, but not for cotton.’ ” And even so they did it.—New York World. Ha! Ha! “Oh, that I could find the key to your i obdurate heart!” sighed the Living Skeleton, gazing fondly at the Fat Lady. "I'll tell you right now that it ain't no skeleton key,” said the fat lady in scorn, and the two-headed girl per formed a laughing duet in minor. A SOLDIER. From the Sentinel, CheroUce Kansas. J. M. 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