Wiy:-*: -V ' According to the Chicago law directory for 1903, just issued, there are 4,702 attorneys in the city. In the last last year 120 attorneys left the city, 20 ceased the practice of law and 32 died. The increase in the number of Jaw/era was 320. There are about twelve hundred law offices in Chicago, an average of one suits of offices to * every four attorneys. You can't always tell by a woman's cold exterior that she hasn't got a sparkle like iced champagne. The real heroines of every day ai ever, it is a mistaken and useless hen Women seem to listen to evcrj OH9 that tell3 them to guard their he tasks become when somo dcrangen every movement painful and keep Irritability takes the place of happir and suffering takes the place of heal can drag themselves around, wome their household duties. They have is necessary because they are "women The U33 of Lydia E. Pinkham's pain and restore happiness. 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"I should not caro to do that piece of pulling " said Faval, dryly; "the nose of Andrew Jackson has the pluck of a hero behind it." Mr. Vernon laughed; that leonine, growling chuckle of his came forth with a suddenness and force that fairly jarred the table. He seemed to be reflecting np6n something that amused him greatly. Presently he said: "Ho dismissed ns, Faval, as if he'd been a district school-teacher and wo his rather stupid pupils!" " 'If Colonel Loring desires tc fight for New Orleans,' " said Faval, mocking General Jackson's manner, " 'let him report to me at once with a trun.'" "When I report to General Jackson he'll be a very much surprised man," Loring drawled, with that emphatic alowness which sometimes means a great deal. "My report will make his head swim." "Oh,come now,"said Favol, "Don't go too far with yonr resentment. Doubtless we shall have to fight under the tyrant. We can't turn onr backs." At this moment a gaunt, roughlooking, stern-faced man strode into the restaurant, his boots sounding heavily on the floor. "There's General Jackson now!" said Mr. Vernon, and the others turned to see. The deep-set eyes of the commander fixed themselves quickly on Faval, and there Hashed out of them a perceptible glow of displeasure, as if some suddeu vexation had como at sight of him. The three arose from the table. Mr. Vernon made a step forward aud saluted. With a curt but comprehensive bow General Jackson acknwledged the attention of the group. His eyes, however, did not tarn from Faval, though the displeasure vanished from them evidently by the force of will. Colonel Loring stood with folded arms while be gazed steadily into General Jackson's eyes. Mr. Vernon extended his hand and the commander shook it perfunctorily. i "May I introduce Colonel Loring, of whom we were speaking this morniug?" Mr. Vernon went on in a cor-. aiai tone. "Humph!" granted Jackson. "How do you do, sir?" l"ue manuer and the words wore more careless aud indifferent than in auy sense malicious or purposely contemptuous; but, to say the least, the riug of downright impoliteness was unmistakable. It was plaiu enough that Colonel Loring's presence had not affected the commander a whit more pleasantly than had the suggestions in his behalf by Faval and Mr. Vernon. Faval made a step half around the corner of the table, as he saw some movement on the part of Loring. "I am quite sure, General Jack Eon," Mr. Vernon was goiug on to i say, "that you ami Colonel Loring will find it pleasant to " The thought in his mind vanished ontho instant, aud he stopped midway of the sentence; but it was too late to interpose himself, although he tried with great promptness aud decision. What followed was, perhaps, the most astounding incident in all tho turbulent and checkered career of Andrew Jackson. Loring made a quick step forward, reached forth his right hand and, grasping the commander's nose between his thumb and foro finger, tweaked it and wrung it savagely. + Ka Ciinnro'l ftrifl ihATl slapped the astonished man's cheek. "I'll report to yon with a gun when I see fit, you conceited ruffian." While he was speaking, Loring had passed briskly along, and in less than live seconds he was out of the room. Iudecd, General Jackson, qnick and decided as he always was in an emergency, had Dot recovered from his consternation before his assailant was quite gone. Faval, who had a way. us most unscrupulous politicians have, of makiug fair weather for himself just at the most critical moment, came to the commander's defense, or rather to his aid, with a pistol which ho snatched forth and Hred toward Loring a little too late to hit him; the ballet creased the door-post. Jackson wheeled and pursued the retreating man. Bat what was the use? He was gone. The irate commander immediately gave orders for Loring's arrest; but he was not to be found so easily. Jackson, if he suspected that Mr. Vernon and Faval secretly enjoyed his discomfiture, did not betray it. | The matter was hashed up in short order, and not till many days afterward did the rumor go out in New } OF:; EY ISLAND C DURINO THE WAR OF 1812. THOMPSON. J 7 Robert Connor * Son*. i I Orleans that "Old Tliidcory'* liad had ui* nose puneu aua uis cuees siappea without being able to fitly reseut it. Doubtless the pressure, sndden aud apparently irresistible, of the military situatiou forced Jackson to cast behind him, for the time at least, all personal considerations and turn his whole attention to prcpariug the defense of New Orleans. At all cvouts, while Mr. Vernon and Ernest Faval were yet with him, endeavoring to quiet him, Lieutenant Ballanche came in great haste to bear him startling news from down the river. The British were coasting along the marshes and feeling their way toward the city, or trying to get possession of Pontchartraiu. As yet, nothing certain could be known of their numbers or equipments, saviug that they appeared to be strnug, well supplied and contideut. There were great difficulties in the way of watching their movements, aud so far it was doubtful what were their real intentions as to the point of attack. General Jackson received the young lieutenant respectfully, even cordially, and after a few words with him aside, took his arm, and bowing to Faval and Mr. Vernon, walked away with him towards headquarters. Faval, in his Creole volatility, could restrain his indignation no longer, lie clenched his hands and swore; but Mr. Veruou was quite calm and 1.1 L 1 L apparenwy uut iu iuh least iu nympathy with his companion's bitter criticism of the commander's personal treatment of them. On the evening of this samo day, Colonel Loring farther distinguished himsolf by appearing suddenly in the do Sezaunen box at tho leading the atre of the city and throttling Lieutenant Ballanche, who at the time was engaged in conversation with Mademoiselle de Sezannes and her mother. The onslaught was so precipitate and so quiokly done with that the perpetrator was gone before any general understanding of the startling affair was had by the audience. Bailanche was seized by the throat in a grip of iron, lifted bodily and dashed down stunned and almost lifeless at the feet of Mademoiselle de Sezanne?. The play going forward on the 3tage was not half so strikingly dramatic as this spectacular performance in real life, and, although the people of New Orleans were well used to scones of violence, those who witnessed it were horrified by the peculiar atrocity it exhibited. Loring's two muscular hands closed about the young man's neck with frightful force, and his cold, long, narrow eyes flickered hatefully under his straight, dark brows. Mademoiselle de Seznnues and her mother screamed; the old man's face grew livid with fright as ho flung up his fat hands and sunk back, helpless, in his seat. At this distance it is difficult to nnderstand a state of society like that iu I New Orleans at the time of which we write; but the temper of tho people may be suggested by the fact that, while the city lay appareutly open to au alien and presumably reckless enemy whose fleet and troops were preparing for capture aud booty, the leaders of social life aud the chief military officers, Jackson excepted, were at llie theatre enjoying a Jig it play. Moreover, the strange incident just recorded did not much iocouvtMiieuco cither playors or audience after the first thrill of excitement passed ry. It was a momentary wonder, nothing more. Mr. Vernon and his wife and daughter were in a box almost opposite the one occupied by the do Sezanues, and it chanced that Fairfax was with them at the momeut when Loriug appeared. Pauline did not see the daring and brill..! act; bnt when she turned in the direction indicated by her father's sudden, excited stare, Loriug was standing there facing the stage. Ho was orect and rigid with a passion not otherwise observable, while Ballaache lay crumpled aud still at Mademoiselle do Sczannes's feet. Something in the man's calm, mysterious face sent through her a thrill of indescribable sympathy. Ae he turned almost instantly to retreat from the auditorium. UI.i c^-3 met uc-o ' -1 raent of recognition, and be smiled with a peculiar, subdaed gleam in his dark face. She clutched her mother's arms, and her cheeks and lips turned pale as death. She felt rather than saw the flash of excitement which parsed over the faces of the nndience all turned upon tho tall form cow passing rapidly aloug tho aisle that led to the main entrance. Nobody attempted to Rtop Loring; even the policemen at the door either did not understand what had happened or feared him; for they stood aside when he approached and let him pass untouched. Mr. Vernon sat motionless during the sceuc. "What is it? What has happened?" demanded his wife, as soon as sho could command her voice. "Has there been a fight? Is Lieutenant Ballancbe hurt? Who did it? "Was it Colonel r i on ijonug : With the assistance of the excited M. de Sezannes, Lieutenant Ballauche was slowly rising. Evidently ho was confused and unable to realize what had happened. Instinctively, hoar i ?fc? ja?k ? ever, lie righted hi* disturbed tfolltt and palled himself together with t show of dignity and coolness whioi won the admiration of the onlookers? On this very evening a conrief brought tho news to General Jackson that the British forces were approach* ing tho rivor from Lake Borgne by way of Bayou Bienvenu. Lieutenant Ballancho had not vet fully recovered > from his bewilderment, when an of* deer came to hand him an order from the commander to reuort immediately at headquarters. The rumor that the city was on th^ point of being occupied by the eneinj went, somehow, afloat through the theatre. This completed the distraction of the audience. People began to go, at first by individuals or family groups, then, as the excitement increased, there was a wild rush and a tumult of hysterical voice3. They poured into the street with the cry : "The English! The Eaglishl The city is to be plundered and burnt!" Mr. Vernou aud Fairfax, along with a respectable minority of the audience, kept cool and quietly remained in their seats ; but the look that came into Mr. Vernon's face when he heard the shont and the British army was entering the city, told how terrible the announcement was to him. " Come," he said to Fairfax, "we mnst get the ladies to a plac: of safety." . "Becalm, dear," he said, laying hold on his wife's arm. Pauline was already clinging tightly to him, but hor thoughts were not on the coming of the English soldiery. Somehow she was impressed with the feeling that Colonel Lonng had, as if by a touch of magic, caused all this excitement and tumult. CHAPTER XIV. MIL TMUfOX AND COLONEL LOEIKO. It is best for the reader to keep all the time well in mind, as he follows the thread of this story, the historical peculiarities that blend with the romance affecting the lives of the peopie in whom we are interested. The growth of Louisiana from a colony of reckleis military adventurers np to tho statnre of a great State has been a singular instance of evolution. Ibervflle and Bienville planted the seed of a strange race on the gulf coast. Crozat came with his contract to domoralize, and Law with his scheme to ruin the colony. Gold fever, the fever of conquest, the thirst for discovery, the longing for lawless power and romantic glory possessed the grim, fearless, conscieuccless adven- ( turers. Now the French held tho government; now the Spaniards took it; again the French; anon the Spaniards. But the French and the Spaniards were not alone. Anglo-Americans ' ame slipping into the colony, and most of these were restless, reckless, hungry fellows on the lookout ] for a chance of fortune. Wilkinson j came and Burr came and Claiborne and a troop of their kind, all of them burning for power and the glory theroof, raouoy and the glitter of it. ' Men who had been political sobemors, revolutionists, plotters of treason, assassination, usurpation, were self-exiled to Louisiana, to escape the ; rope, the ax, the guillotine. Deposed nobles and princes came here, and, in f sheer desperation, took np the life of the gambler, the smuggler or the j pirate. j But there was the other side of the medal; for opposed to tho dark aud turbulent majority stood the " saving remnant," a strong minority of refiued j no-m'o wlinm the rvicreneies of life i i i'~~t o -- j bad strauded on this sweet, slumber- j otis, llowery shore, between the warm gulf stream and the stately Mississip- , pi. Some of this remnant wero peo- j pie who had lied from one or another ^ European coautry for what wonld have been glorious patriotism if successful, although when colored with failure it looked like hideous crime. Wrecks of true grcatucss lay stranded along Royal Street and iionrbou and CarondoieUe, side by side with vnlgai* flotsam and jetsam of the great Sea of Chance. True, it was often hard to discern the rotten from the sound; for the conscienceless, re1 u-"ded cnlprit in oxilo was inclined to draw abont liiru ranch the same cloak of reserve and mysterious dignity worn by the expatriated prince or general whose only offeuca \vr.a the exalted love of country. (to bk continued.) WHAT OUR SCHOOLS COST US. Immense Sum of Money V/ell Spent in United States. It Is probably not generally known that the United Gtates spends annually on elementary education about $227,000,000--the exact figures for y 1900-1901 were, according to the report cf the United States ^ Commissioners of Education, $22,043,- ^ 236. Europe spent during the same period approximately $246,000,000. The enrolment In the elementary schools t of Europe is. however, In the neigh- r borkood of 45,000,000, while In the r United States It is not much more than 16,000,000, although it is estimated that there were In 1901 almost t 22,000,000 children of school-going age f in this country. Our yearly expenditure nop nnnil s\or9ees S22. Some profit may be faired from a _ comparison of the amounts spent yearly by representative American cities for the maintenance and operation of their public schools. New York spent t in a single year $19,731,629; Chicago t follows with an outlay of $8,203,493; Philadelphia's expenditure was $3,319,- " 064; Boston'8, $3,043,640; Baltimore's, y $1,417,392; Cleveland's $1,257,345, and y Washington's, $1,182,916. Now Or- y leans is at the end of the list with an u expense of $478,025.?Harper Weekly, t t Observe system In all yon do ami a -undertake. | ; -^V-v f< 2 -i - 1 y " ? * Budget * of humor;' S??m n?ii i'^" I i?iMrt^ - <* Liven Things dp The times may be ever so hard, And the corn fields seared and brown. But there's always plenty of money When the circus comes to town. -And the croakers may walk the streets With their jaws all hanging downBut there'isn't any gloom in sight When the circus comes to town. ?Chicago Tribune. T.andcri. "What Is land??" "That part of the globe which * above water." "No: that is only dry land."?New York University Triangle. >"o Choice. "You're qnlte ft pedestiian, Mies Walker?" M "Well, you see. the only decent gown I've got is a walking gown."?New Hj York Journal. H The Qalet Dresser. 9 New Boarder?"Who is that making I such a noise because be cau c uuu um m necktie?" . Landlady?' Oh, that is the gentleman who dresses so quietly."?Philadelphia H Record. mm Elevation. V "There is something elevating la 9 music," said the artist. fl "Yes." answered the manager. ",">9 "Music certainly has the effect of 9 stimulating lofty ideals as to salary." 9 ?Washington Star. I Mast lie * l"r<*ak. I "He certainly has a .emaikable head fl on his shoulders." fl "I hadn't noticed it." "Hadn't noticed what?" "That he hr.dn't any neck."?Cleveland Flain Dealer. Up to Date. Mrs. Oldun?"All you young girls nowadays seem to be muscular athletes." Miss Strong?"Yes, indeed. In the ' proud lex'con of feminine youth there Is no such word as 'frail.' "?Philadelphia Press. ^ Fasti ed. "You know the man 'who lisped ia numbers,'" said Reggy. "Pve heard of him," answered Roniid. "What puzzles you?*' "I can't make up ray mind whether be was a poet or a financier."?Washington Star. % An Achievement. "I don't see wiiy you snouia ue s? )roud of winning that case." said the ntimate friend. "You wtre plainly in :be wrong." "You don't understand these things it all," answered the la?yer. "That's the very thing that makes me so ?rou(L"?Washington Star. Mcwly Ornamental. , ESSf Mrs. Gage?"That settles St! Did yoa ver know a poet with common sense7*' -Boston Transcript. Felt Like a Boy. "It makes me feel like a boy again o get into the country," said the en* husiastic citizen. "Yes," answered Mr. Sirlus Barker. 'I went to a picnic the other day. I rent rowing and blistered my hands, rent swimming and fell Into the rater, played baseball until my nuseles were pore and fell out of a ree. I felt exactly as if I were a toy again, and I want to go on record a being mighty thankful that I aa gown a?." % i - i