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“I can’t go; my eyes are all red, er Nagg - | She Reads! the Papzrs and Knows what you have done with that % yar had yesterday? “No, Rou need not look suspicious, I @i4 not go through your pockets. It fel} out on the floor and TI put it becic in your posket. “Ob, mo,.Mr. Nagg, I would scorn to @emean mxyselt by golng through your cigthes. Oh, yes, I know you are not esbamed jot what I may find in your pockets. You are too sly for me, Mr, Nags. Byt some day you will be ex- posed; it rwill all come out some day, Mr. “I read the papers anti I see accounts of Now o@her men negfect thelr homes and ead double lives! What did you du with thet $4. Mr. Nagg, what did you do with it “Paid, your lodge etory, Mr. Nags, Delieve dt! “WILT lots you have five dollars? No, Z-won'tsMr. Nagg. Borrow money from people you give It to. You gave me ewo hundred dollars? There, I mich have knuwn it I never have a few dol- fare to'aall my own, r what you take & all csvay from me! “Nover, never mind, then, you don’t ‘want the five dollars? Who will you get five dollars from then? Never mind. 1 99 now why you made me take that money. It was simply as a bind. Bimply‘that vou might have some thing fo quarrel about and find fault. “Hom muoh money did you have? It mist have been a lot that you would even let me know you had two hun- dred. Then you take at all away from me and\--* ‘Didn't I give you two hun- dred dollarsi?” “]'was so heppy. for I am still a fond ang foolish woman, Mr. Nac~ I was so foolish to think you would give me a ttle extra spendine money and it ts herdly warm in my handa before you take it away from mo, and Inigh at me for being so simple as to believe you would give me anything for my very own. Mrs, Gassaway knows what I put mp with. Mrs, Gradley has had the wame experience, If I ehould ever get Wesperate and refuse to stand your tantrums ind cruelty any longer the neighbors and my friends can testify to what I have put up with, and how Ihave suffered all these year® “nw Mu Nagg, I will not ask you dues? A likely and, of course, [ ‘Why don't you have soine confidence " tn me? Why don't you tell me you hate me and are tired of me? Don't be hypocrite, Mr. Nagg. I know what fein your mind! “Why don't you read to me like you used to? No, I don’t want you to read ‘to me now, I ‘have a headache. “Your owh sisters warned me about you and told mo you were of a sulky disposition whenever they wanted you to do anything you didn’t like. “Look where you have throw your ‘overcoat! Begin to tear aro now. Oh, I see it all! You come home de- lberately to pick a quarrel, just be- cause you see Iam trying to be happy tn spite of the fact that the man I mat, ried is quarrelsome, fault finding and deceitful. - “Forget it and come out for a wa How can I forget it when you never stop bickering? No, I wouldn't go ne 1 look @ sight. “But that's just what vou want. are no sooner inside y You have me in tears yeu asic me out so you can‘ exhibit me Ucfore everybody as a woman whose spirit you tinve broken. “Look at your trousers, Why don't you have them pressed? There Is cigar) cx ashes on your vest ade those things T suppose you par- our friends meaged Zulu girl. 4s her own hatr-sewn into a stiff roll, An The headdress ———s OF COURSE 6GHE KNEW. SLowonder why they call it the honey- CRE: Aueriod the gir) with the new By Roy L. Still he Suffers in Silence and Says Nothing, Although That Man Nagg Would Drive an Angel to Despair. ~ uur house than} you start to quarrel and then when you! ‘land dle? [drink it, you must think of your bus: and Mr. M’ Cardell. What Is Going On in the World— OW to Sit at the 1 | Table—What to | Do with theHands land Feet—Rules Govern- ing Both Informal and Ceremonial Occasions— Use of the Knife and AND I KNOW. WHAT you | PTO do well-mannered is to be a lady, or a gentleman—to observe DunctiIMously atl the lawa and usages of gociety, which In !moortant unloss one would be ostracised. If the function—breakfast, juncheon. jor dinner—is one of ceremony and ‘gloves are worn to the table, they are} removed as soon 2s one is seated and ‘lald tn the lap. The habit of tucking, ;them In the gleeves, at the wrists, is most inelegant. The napkin ts unfolded to halt its amplitude and leid across ithe lap, Gentlemen do not tuck their | napkins in thelr waistcoats, no matter | how convenient they may find such an ‘arrangement, Nor Is the nepkin used if {t were a big cloth—one end Is | all-suMctent for touching the lps. The) at dinner placed upon the plites, hold the dinner rolls, or the slices of bread, which must be cut gen- erovaly thick; the brend 1s placed upon the napkin, not within {ts folds. Re- move the bread, as soon as seated, and place ft at the left of the plate. The napkin, at the end of the meal, fs left unfolded at the left side. Bread {s always broken In small pieces, never tut and never crumbled {nto soup or eéuce, Oysters and clans are eaten without bread. Butter, of course, {s not served at dinner. At other meals, don't butter an entire slico of bread at once, Broak It into} small vleces, and put tho butter each tn turn. Don't break the ent alice at once Into bits. Let tt by the plate and butter a plece as wanted. | Soup js taken from tho side of the which !s filled by drawing it | that your wife neglects you, Of course, I didn't haye time to send your trous- ers out to the tailor. Do you think I have nothing to do but be your slave and valet? "I have been busy all week making clothes for the poor. Mr. Smig. of the Sunshine and Kind Deeds Society, made the most beautiful address at the meet- ing yesterday about our duty to the worthy and qoral poor, “I try to do some good in the world, Mr. Nags, I try to make others happy. I try to make myself happy and I try to make you happy. But how can I when you aro never {n your home ex- cept to find fauit and abuse me? “You will go out !f J don't stop? Who started me? Why do you sit looking | daggers at mo when I am trying to b |Ught-hearted and forget how you ne-| #POOM, elect me ard our home. edge of the scup plate o “No, I won't sit silent under (maar posite: It tx quite a breneh ef savor treatment. Why, don't you offer to take r itwith the movement toward ine somowhere? Why don't you smile and look pleasant in your own home, | There, I knew he would go and lea mo hege alone! How long am I to stand such Yreatment? se etsurasde| “Off, here comes that haga old fe In allowabte, | aOR ife Is allowa pd Mrs. Gassawa: forka and anives for sh .“How are you, ‘dear! Come right int! g special pattern. 1 Yes, I'll be ready to go with you tel dana tniten his fish buy @ moment! the knife ix | All veri asparagus | although it may be taken up with fingers, If one/ refers to da so. A very safe rule at} table, however, Ja never to touch any is in democratic America ‘Ah, my dear Mrs, Gassaway, I have eee to a second forz had such a trying tlme, No one but aj tnblen are eaten with @ for married woman knows what we married | with a knife and fork, women put up with. But one thing} sure, Mrs, Gassaway, he'll find no sup per when he comes back." i at Or A abies ee ee a S's HOME MAGAZINE, 2 bit of food with the fn) hors d'oeuvres generally excepted. Ice-cream is eaten with a fork In America; in England a spoon is used. Therefore, Americans suffering from Apglophobia insist upon a spoon when taking their tce-cream. With al! def- erence to English custom, a very mf) pieces of bread or cake. This ts a most rule 1s, eat nothing with a spoon tliat unfortunate breach of table manners, can be taken with a fork, | Don't use the knife in this epnnection Peaches and pears are pecled, cut ‘nat all. Sweets and sauces are not to be hoif, and then broken by the fork an/l| pluced upon the bread jn any case. clus eaten; an orange may be cut in! ‘They are enten, when possible, with « half and then eaten with an orange | ‘ory otherwise with a spoon. spoon, or It may be peeled entire, then, Try to wield your knife, fork end div.ded into sections and eaten with a on with as much quietude as posal- fork, As alrea eaid, tt is very safe Don't let fork or spoon jangle | to make ken (o and*fork do thelr upon the china, A half dozen Jangling | aha and never to touch eatauies of | or ‘aping plates makes a frightful any Kind with the fingers Jf poasitte. concert. | ples ara eaten with a fork only,] Although it {s generally suppored that! - miidings, except custards,/every one calling himself well-bred |! n require a gpoon, Hort cakes, like | knows that in using the knife and fork | are taken with ®!)a@ movement of the wris nd not of the srk, Jelley, no matior how hard, &re@/ elbow, is the proper thing, we occa-| eaten wity a spoon, Cleese ts eaten) sionally see people using their elbows se with @ fork. vigorously. ‘The handle of the knife There are deans of people who would | should repose in the centre of the hand, 0 mortally ofended bythe suggestion| and no part of the hand should touch that they “ate But hey | the knife above the handle. In using a | must be careful how they thrust a knife] fork, only the half of the handle ts cov- - into a dish of sweets or of any sauce] ered by the hand. faced far enough back, out tof and most “Ds '|@ The Man “in ¥ Black ag By ¥ Stanley jJ.* Weyman. 2|) (By Pormlaston of George Munro's Bons.) (Copyright, 1803, by George Munro's Bone.) | SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Johan de Bault, a nobleman's bevn kidnapped when a child and male to work for a contertioniat, Hi. Bran etfolager named Pe ar ea de Vidooh Ts ee 2, wite death’ ne tet goog be me ri a whore Nottedame. CHAPTER ML. What Jehan Overheard, nolse M. de HE heard was an {avo of Jehan's foot as the boy erc IT Vidoche had over untary movement chead in the pecret room and listened. Tne | Astrologer soon convinged’ his client | (hat his fears of an cavesdropper were imaginary, and turned to | | | for the poison. . one © Man In Black raised the lamp in «i, and with the other selected | from the crucible two tiny yellow pack- | cts, "They er.” hé sald, 4 lee that was little above a whis e greatest power of all--death. They re the koy of the upper portal—the true pulvis olymp! ‘take one to-day, one to-morrow in liquid, and you will feel neither hunger, nor cold, nor want, nor any more forever. It wili not be dbdtected bunglers they call doc answered scorn- . a may trust m t did the Kink of A tertian ague. So will! But if you think'’*— ped on a sudden, his hand in r, and the two stood gazing at fF with alarm printed on thelr The loud clanging note of a i harsily struck in the house, cam rolefully to thelr ears, “What Is it?" M. de Vidoche muttered uneasily. ‘A cilent.” the astrologer answered quietly. “I will see, Do not stir until I come back to you." A few minutes later the Man in Black returned in haste. It fa your wife," he sald in a whisper, "Sho fs in the next room. She has come to get from me a love philtre to win back your affections.” ‘Then what shall you do? asked vi- doch I shall give her one." But—what will she do with itt’ af, do Vidoche muttered, ‘Take it! You fool, ean not you un: * the Man in Black answered, dive me back the powders, I shall give them to her, She will take them—herself, You will be saved—alt!" Joche veeled. “My God!’ he “I think youfare the devil!” the Man in Black an- swered; “but give me the powder: The Man in Black returned to the rogm where Mme.! de Vidoche awaited him and handed her two packets of polson. Mme. de Vidoche took the packets, trembling, A little red dyed her pale cheeks. “Is that all?’ she murmered, faintly. "All, madame; except that when you are pow “Blind for that, Of it tho faces, id the cup to her lips, a Jest known? Or 80 forlorn, so help- less, so infantine a fool? He could al: mont find it in his heart to pity her, As for her husband—ah, how he would bleed him when It was ever “How much am I to pay you, sirt she asked, timidly, when she hidden | away the precious packets in lier bosom, | She had got what she wante panUng to be gone. ‘Twenty crowns,” he charm avails After that" — “I shall need more?” bo had paused, ‘Well, no, T think not, slowly— hestitating strangely, almoat stammering, “I think in your case, madame, tho effect will bo Insting.” Mme. de Vidoche was joined by hi maid Margot, who had awaited her turn just outside the Goer. ra two 0 burr exiled, \iperna he answered coldly, for nine moons, she asked; for sie was | Mi that knifeful of these tol Upon leaving t . to enable the other guesissto pass table the chair ts the! the table. edge of the chair, should the back rest continually “aft the ight position is the proper one. feet should rest on the floor and one should sit far enough away from the plate to be able to use the knife and Bis fork wa = 76 oC Merkin RSI out with ease. One of the fundamental ruies to ob [ane her heart to beat a ure. If she had her will, |g9 to no pogeants or mer | But, then. he liked such | showed tage 3 They ‘would gu. and she woul’ sit quiet & motise; and, listening while they praised ma, would feed all the Ume loo the sweet knowledge that now he h jeasant meas- they would roakings. ajar court-yar Steed ihe slipped in be i r quite expiain—though ars—what led him Tt is true he dared no turn to the Fug Touchet; twelro veers oie. and | where clan to go, But-— Tow That ian that ean be’ aa follow therm. Te pansed adoining that of madame, an eliind @ door curtain A-porsat-cnp shod 0 in a great curtalned room 1 slipped a tripod _on the num and Sree are prohibit | [fo anybody without a ous doses smell of madicines containing o) of ** Drops,” Brg ine to bo given to ony chi what it is com ioe of Chas, H, Fletcher. Amusements. , PROCTOR To-day, 25¢., 50 i) We. ee nate OaINS Pol ae had forgotten that your was dark,” he continued, Dark!” madame muttered, In aston- dark - complexioned,” Jehan continued, desperetely, “And that being 0, You ware not to take the—the charm Honey Boy Evans ir Bummer Time. (Mats Mon, To-day, Thu, & Sat ts PRINCE KARL. peal and the boy's heart’ stood still, coldness and even blows, If philtre we ore his lame's eyes flashed with anger, she said, “indeed! And ts thai to him, without tell. rejoined with sudden fs : ADVANCE Du AM, tO 10.9 Pi gs footsteps OLAS RINK. pursuing them, brought the two women ton frightened halt. A moment of sus pense, and then a pale tito you have made no ace, visible by a gleam Frees) the distant fire, J looked on them, and hin, panting ih he ak wie voice = murmured timidty Madame Meno httully Jame de Vidoohe, If you pleas jr ine ts a ‘Saint uge!'" madame s = woma” | pa, ped tn a voice, of aatonishment. a lare, it a chia Lam ¢ Tham pionaltp Hoetey 3 a Wanderers FRIDAY, F ai, AT 8.15. ‘okcLown: Adm, de. LMBA TRE VAUDEVILLE. ‘ars CANDIDA BEEAICD 9 THERT RE. a ay HELUAIRS replied, drawing but reluctantly, as it ch A atop, | seemed. Mistress and maid swrried on, th boy tiowlng at @ disance and unob served. he wae A Ditter cold night, Christmas being but four days off, Madame was thiiking of last Chris: id’ ned gone to th the Palais Car at whic! was thon it building, She ay offere: o with him, and he had told her With°an oath that if she did she should remomber it. she had stopped a home alone~! first Christmas ip She had gone to mags and ther ou must be welck, cond, ‘ale Had eat all aay ih he “cold, mplendi ONS. init the ha been soameted Lyd eats! played rye Sand her aA been verve ma tge sNstt and T OF DESTIN a ‘ saw 'me at Les Andely were at eupper madame. I was the . aut at the door, I want to speak to you Alone, please.’ midame exclélmed. oy nodded firmly, pleage,” he sald. Madame, out of pity. or ecurlosity the woman walt a fow when they were along: Nor, said, cae es in At? "It you whic’ ios Rita, Today & sat Quaint Comedy — NE Don’t Poison Baby. ORTY YEARS AGO almost every mother ECCe her child must have pone or landanum to make 3t sleey np and a FEW DROPS TOO MAN FROM ohtedt THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who | have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, lauda- ‘of which is a narcotio product of opium. from selling either of the narcotics named belling them ‘* poison.” ‘A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poison- produces stupor, soma, convulsions and death.” e disguised, and sold under the names Cordials,” ‘‘ Soothing Syrups,” ete. htiren mo srinca Fon, or your physicia CASTO! CONTAIN NAR TICS, if it bears the ee Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of Sf Ted LTO CASINO EARL" § Sergeant =, (anh atta din the middle of the room | pearih,. r a dish of sweet- y and supped at 6, it’was customary! {ane sweetmeats and wine beCore retir~ oo 9% Por a time @! was sci. A quite close to Jean, « dear upencd a moved A little and peared fron posset from tht ng the Vid of the cup i two powders had flaished lips and the boy’: still! Es But he was vin n oom abe, tumed on und Ielwsed her he a he curtain fe ana’ hid Rae abtnts ‘These drugs will produce will produce the SLEEP | 4 Drouggists to children at all, or The definition of *‘ narcotic” The taste and You should not Part any | in n know A DOES Amusements. PASTOR'S * “Ee Aldrich. Harris Walters 1 & Kesaner, Mr, & % Attraction. 14TH STREET TUBATRE, near oth av Nights 8.15 Mats, Wed, & Sat, Seats dic cometien NAL M.WILLS it A 80s "OF Mat Sat 21 6 VIRGINIA Kitty. LYRIC Mere Wilton Lackaye jin!" aay maaan st te Sys © eDOCS net Nie MINSTRELS. VAUDEVILL andr | SER ‘KEITH’ Si BESTOW iy ADA REHAN & OTISSKINNER) S ry Mouse, | To-night Bh Tre PE 4 *ViSaiNAR , WEST END"S's Ds a0” CHECKERS ee bet | ean ican " gueas YOURE |] AT 2.15, Yankee! 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