Tho United States have 812 colored lawyers. A Freuch paper says that 4,847,500, 00 people dio during each century. j . i Great Britaiu gets $93,000,000 from liquor taxes nud $40,000,000 Irotu tho tax uu tobacco. Tho total vote cant iu tho Btatcn, which held elections in 1804 was 11, 850,000 nud iu 1803 the vote of tho country, iu an exciting Presidential clectiou wits 12,034,858. Bjrgins Stcpuink, the Hussion radi cal, does uot believe the new Czar w ill embark on a great war unless ho loses his mi ml. lie thiuks tho poverty of tho empire will keep her at peace. A French society, tho Friends of Parisian Monument, is greatly elated that it hits succeeded iu defeating tho building of a great elevated railway station over tho esplanade of tho In valides iu Paris, Tho station is to be Out under ground. AiiHtraliaus are seemingly a very 'tiuugry people. Max O'Rell says they eat seven meals a day. Tea, bread bread and butter at 7 i broakfost,8.80 J lunch, 11 ; diuner 1.30; ten at 3, sup Dor at 0 ami a "smack" (it 10 o'clock at night They drink enormous quan tities of tea during tho day. An cxtraordiuary movement against the use of tobacco has been inaugura ted by the State Teachers' Association at Lansing, Mich. It is demanded that all teachers iu the stato who use tobacco in any form bo discharged nud that the teachers who fill tho va cancies must not only bo opposed to tobacco, but no members of their fam ilies must uso it. The decision of the War Depart ment that Indian soldiers are uot wanted will cause many peculiar, if aot great, names to dissappear from tho army rolls, Sergants Cold Wind, Wagoner Jiminie Ears nud Privates Bull Dog, Ou-the-Edge, Ou-Top-of-' tho-Tepec, Runs-iu-Ainoug-Thcni, Stone Bull and Two-White-Men have been mustered out of service. The trouble with Lo is that ho dors not take to thi routine of army work, ex plains the New York Mail and Expires-. Tho semi-centennial of the discov ery of uiinxthesia has just been cele brated iu Boston. It is an event well worth celebrating exclaims the Ban Francisco Examiner. None of tho more thuwy inventions of the nine teenth century not tho locomotive, nor tho steamboat, uor the electrio light, nor the trolley car,' nor the telegraph, nor tho telephone, nor tho dynamito gun, nor the magazine rifle, nor tho automobilo torpedo, can com poro with the 'introduction of anics 'thotics as solid contributions to human happiness. It is hard to realizo the awful load of misery lifted from tho race by that simple device. King Bohanzin, of Daboraoy, is en joying the luxuries of civilization at Martinique, West Indies, whore his Fronch captors sent hiin. lie was greatly alarmed when news of the tdcaik of President Carnot roached '.him. So firmly persuaded was ho that tho now prosident would signalize his -accession to powor by cutting off his bead that ho could not sleep. Behead ing of a captive is Bohanzin'a notion of the propor way to celebrato tho in stallation of new rulers, When as sured that no barm was iutendod him. Behanzin remarked, "I now feel that I and my wives are carried on tho back of o powerful elephant called Franoe. " An employment agent in Portland, Drcgou.cluims that ho shall laud nearly 1,000 Japanese in this country soon. Portland railway officials don't think bo will do it. Of the inooming of the Japanese as laborers the Oregonian ays: "There is a diversity of opin ion as to the desirability of inducing Japanese immigration to this country. tSotno people, influenced by the ac counts of Jiipanesj valor on tho bat tlefield, think they would prefer a Jap to a European as a ua;uralized citizen, while others are of a very contrary ttpinion. The Jap has never shown the indefaiigability in the pursuit of work that he shows in the pursuit of 'Chinese. lie oomes to this country iprinoipally to get an education. The Portland colony contains some bright Japanese and not a few very good imitation of the modern "Willie Boy." Of the working class the ma jority are oonneoted in someway with restaurants. The importation of Jap. inese labor to the Puciflo coast is not looked upon favorably 'by laboring men, aud'the subject is beginning to be a most fruitful out for 'labor' ora1-iors." rudpftiod. The gift divine Is not so far as many say Not woary leagues awajr, away, Out thine and mine. The gift supremo Is not so high at great ones tell t Not where the ani-cl martyrs dwell But In our ilr tn. The gift most strong Is not ot mountain rlli or sea, Or twisted bolt ot victory, Out In a song. The Rift most sweet Is not beyond tho Alps, or hid Dt'hlml old Khufti' pyramid, Hut st our leet. The Rift most fair Is not wild land-oipo, dappled sky, Or fretted clouds that drowse or Uy, Put what wo aro. Tho gift abovo All reckoning of artful art Is not byon I but la the heart Ol human love. Ida Mat Davis. THE VALENTINE. BV MART C. MIESTON. "No clients today," thought Philip Achorn, as ho turuod from his office wiudow and wont buck to his desk. A 11 uo rain was falling outside, a raiu which was freezing as it fell, making tho pavement as smooth as a sheet of ice. Tho young lawyer knew that few, save those who went forth to cam daily bread, would venture out this cold, dreary February morning ; and the brcad-wiuuers of the city never sought that airy, pleasant office of the talented and wealthy Philip Achorn. Ho was leaning idly back in hiB chair, playing with a pen, which as yet was innocent of ink, and dream ing of a pair of gray eyes laughing, sunny, tender eyes when the door was pushed opeu, and a young man entered very unceremoniously. Philip looked up with a slight smilo ; evidently the newcomer was no stranger to him, nor unwelcome. "Ooodl you are all alone and idle," said the visitor; "for just once iu my lifo, I am going to employ you I" "Yes. To draw up your will, my dear Guv?" "Not exactly; but will you com pose a verso or two very sentimental for a Valentino? I want to send one, but I couldn't mako a rhyme to save my lifo; you can, I know. Will you, Phil?" "I writo verses for a lovo-sick swain? My boy, you must wonder I don't throw you out of youdor win dow I I am a lawyer, not a scribbler of rhymes!" "But you can scribble rhymes, and I can't. Won't you help me? I've just set my heart on sending her some thing she'd like, and I knew you would help me; you will, old boy?" And Guy Azore, with his boyish face flushed a little, and his blue eyes glowing, drew a chair besido that of his friend and sat down. Philip looked at the impulsive face indulgently a moment, then, with a low laugh, drow forward some sheots of paper, and dippod his pen in tho ink. "Hero goes," ho said, merrily. "Is it to bo a declaration, my boy? or do you only wish to lot her know that you are hard hit, and leavo her in a stato ot blissful uncertainty as to w hether or uot she is to have tho pleas ure of rejecting you later? Her eyes aro blue, ore they not? That will fur nish ono rhyme, for of oourse I you will toll her that your love is 'truo' ", "See here," said Guy, moodily, "I am hard hit, and if you are going to chuff mo " "But I'm not," "Then go ahead j writo just as you would from yourself if you had mot Mabel Snowe and fallen in love with her, and wanted to take advantago of Valentine's Day to tell her, there's a good fellow." "Mabel Snowe I" He paled a littlo as he repeated the name. Ah, those soft, gray eyes that had haunted him for weeks past the fair girl-face that had seemed to him so pure and aweet I "Yes. Isn't it a pretty name? But her eyes are gray ; not blue, and But you know about what I want to say." Yes, he kuew. Without a word, but with a slight frown on his white fore head, the young lawyer bent over bis desk, and his peu went rapidly along the paper. As ho would write were he writing from himself, Guy had said. For moment he forgot that it was not from himself the lines were to go to Mabel Snowe, aa he wrote rapidly, impatient ly, 'i f Then, lifting his head, he suddenly remembered, , and with a laugh that was not exactly mirthful, he pushed the sheets across to Guy, who took and read them eagerly. "Jove! you're a poet, Phill" cried the young man, impulsively. "That about wearing a rose in her bosom, aud giving it to me as a token of her answering love, is capital, It might be callod an inspiration. Sho is to be at Folgcr's bhll tomorrow night You go, don't you?" Philip nodded. "She will be there, too. I'll intro duce you. You aro a good fellow, Phil, and no mistake" Aud placing the pootry in his breast-pocket, Guy loft tho office. Alone onco more, and Philip began a restless pacing backward and for ward, backward and forward, which lasted for an hour ; and when ho flung himself into his chair at last, and rested his brow on his hand, his fine faco was decidedly pallid, but his lips were Ilr inly set "I really enre more than I knew," ho said, slowly. "Thon why not en ter the lists against Guy, and woo her, too? If sho ores for the boy, I am too late. If her heart has not yet awakened, I may have a clinnco. To morrow is tho fourteenth, and tomor row night I will meet her. I will know tho truth then." rhilip Achorn was rarely an early arrival at a ball, but he was among tho iirst to enter Mrs. Folder's ball-room on that night of St. Valentino. Yet early as ho was, Ouy was earlier, and stood near a wiudow, looking very nearly sullen. As Philip saw bis friend's face, a sudden hope stole into his heart. Had sho failed to wear tho roso? No; for iu another moment he saw her, crossing the room on tho arm of her brother ; and iu the bosom of her whito dress nestled a rose as red as blood. Presently ho was at her side, his grave eyes ou her face, bis heart beat ing furioiuly, although outwardly he was very calm. "Have you kept a dancj for me?" he asked. Aud she blushed faintly as sho put her tablets iu his hand, 'This is disengaged," ho said quietly. And in another moment it was marked his own. Both wero strangely silent as they weut gliding over tho floor. It was not until as ho led her to a seat that ho spoke. "Would it ba impertinent of mo to nsk how many Valentines you re ceived today, Miss Snowe?" "Only one," she repliod, shyly ; and involuntarily her hand weut to tho rose sho wore. "Aud when I ak you for tho rose., Oh, give It to rue, lovo of niluo!" Ho had written tho words to her at Guy's request, it is true, but they had been his own cry to her for a return of tho lovo ho gave her; and as ho wrote them, he hud forgottou Guy as now ho forgot tho boy again She was so fair, so sweet, so shy and teuder, with the faiut color in her cheeks, aud the long lashes drooping, and whitoncss all about hor save for that one red flower. He forgot that it was for Guy Azore ho had written those linos to her, and he risked more than ho realized in his next question : "Can you port with your rose? I want it very badly. Will you give it to me?" She did not lift her eyes. Suddenly ho remembered that the flower was not for him, aud his faee lost color. Had she not put it there, abovo tho beatings of her heart, for Guy Azore, tho youth who was his friend? Why had he forgotten? But what was this? Suroly tho small fingers were fluttering among the laces I The lair, odorous pleclgo was loosened aud held out to him. What did it mean? A sudden, hot color went over his face ; his eyes grow glad and soft, as, gathering the blossom and tho hand that gave it into a warm clasp, he stood there, in a sheltered corner of the ballroom, with music swelling about him, and his pulses keeping time to the measure. "You give the rose to me to me?" ho said, in a low tone of rapture. And she give a swift, upward glance into his eyes, a glance he could not mistake. "I knew the Valentine was from you," she said, almost in a whisper. "There was no name, but I knew it must be you ; and so I wore tho rose." "Ah I" he said, the truth dawning on him at last And he pressed the rose to his lips, then the small hand. "Mr. Azore seemed to think he bad a right to the flower," she went on. softly. "He ooaxod me to give it to him, and seemed quite put out when I refused. He did not know that it was a a token." "roorGuyl" thought Thillp, try. ing not to laugh. But he was too happy, two blest iu his new-found aud unexpected bliss, Dot to houestly pity the disappointed youth. "A token of the love you give me?" ho asked, gently. "Truly such tokeu is of more value to mo than a crown would be. I wrote the words you read this morning without a hope iu my heart J but now" He looked impatiently about him, at tho figures of the dancers. No, he dared not kits the faco so near his own not yet I "She shall never know the truth of it all," ho vowed, lntor. Aud sho never dhL As for Guy, ho was young aud impressionable; iu a month ho was deeply iu love aguiu. Indians as Hunters. "It is a remark often mado by old- timers who knew tho western country when the red man was ss common there ns tho tondcrfoot is now," said a sportsman from the Rockies, "that Indians novcr scare away game from a region in which they hunt. But, they say, wherever tho white ninu comes with his firearms gamo is bound to be killed off or driven nwoy. These say ings are true, with the qualifying statemout that by reasonable game laws gamo of nil kinds can be pre served and eveu when nearly extermi nated restored to almost its original pleutifuluess in districts not too fully occupied by mun and his domestio creutures. "Note tho Indian iu hunting as he searches out aud steals upou the deer or wild turkeys with his soft tread of tuoccasincd f jet. Iu the twang of his bow striug and the flight ot his whistling arrow thcro is no explosive sound to alarm the creatures near tho one that is struck. Ho, liko them selves, is in sympathetic accord with the tints aud tones of pluin and mountain and forest, and while cudeavoring to match their cruft against his they are satisfied' with trying to avoid him without abandoning the region where ho abides. "It is when white hunters of tho sportsman variety iuvado its haunts, thoir presence heralded by tho tread of their bootod feet, their clothes alien iu appouranco to tho wilds, aud their purpose shown by tho crack end crash of firearms, that gamo begins to migrate to othor feediug grouuds. Add to this the increasing and indis criminate slaughter for slaughter's suke thnt characterizes the white man's hunting and it is easy to seo why tho depopulation of the forest and plain, when unrestricted by law, is speedy aud sure. Ever siuco tho general adoption by Indians ot firearms for their hunting it has not been found that largo gamo has diminished ma terially iu regions iu which tho whito mau is an infrequent visitor, although Sir Samuel Baker, tho explorer, as serts of African game and predatory croatures that 'animals can endure traps, pitfalls, fire, aud cvory savage method of hunting; but firearms will speedily clear thorn out from exten sive districts.' "Chicago Tribune Peanut Oil. The utilization of peanut oil in tho manufacture of soap coustitutos an important industry in Marseilles, some ingenuously operating machine being used for the purpose. After being cleaned and shelled the nuts are made to fall into a triturating machine, con sisting of a pair of cast-iron rollers, and after being coarsely ground tho meal passes to another machine to be ground finer, and thouce iuto a long hexagonal case forming a sieve, through which tho flue meal pusses, whilo tho coarse is sent back to tho rollers again. The meal is then pressod in what aro termed "ocourtius," made of horse hair, a pressure of 2,850 pounds to the square inch being exerted and left on it for an hour,which suffices to extract all that can bo obtained in the first yiuld i the meal now passes from the soourtins, is ground a second time, boated to a temperature of about one hundred and fifty-eight dogrees Fah renheit, and ano.her pressing effected. If oil of a very flue quality is re quired, the nuts are crushed but once, the partially ground nuts yielding a smaller but finer product The yield varies according to ths quality of the nuts. Mozambique nuts produce about 60 per out iu the first pressing, the value being from 70 to 92 franci per 100 kilos; the second pressing yields about 12 per cent, the value ol which is from 43 to 60 francs per 100 kilos. It is stated that the quantity of nuts imported at Marseilles for this purpose in 1893 was more than 70,000,000 pouuds. It is estimated that in London alon nearly 1,000,000 pawn tickets are is sued every week for sums under ten shillings. roil THE HOUSEWIFE. to cook TttBstra. The nicest way to cook turnips, which should always accompany roast duck, is to peel and boil them whole till they begin to grow tender ; then lift out of the water and slica cross wise ; let the slices be about an eighth of an inch thick. Put tho slices in a dish, sprinkle with salt and popper, and lay lumps of nico, sweet butter around over the top of all. Bake in a hot oven till brown on top, and serve as baked. American Farmer. now to mark DouonstTS. If tho readers of tho New York Times wish to hnvoarenl old-fashioned Dutch dish, they can puparo one from an old rccipo which con be traced in a straight lino to the early Dutch settlers. Au old New Yorker, a reader of the Now York Times, lias asked for a reclpo for making tho "olokocks," mentioned iu tho recent interview with Jero Johnson. "Olekocks" were mado by the Dutch the same as dough nuts aro mado, but a raisin was iu- sertod iu the centre of each. Hero is tho recipe : "Tako oue pint of baker's yeast, with one tcaspoouful of salt. Stir in flour enough to mako stiff batter. Do this about dark, and put iu a warm room to rise. Later take one quart ot milk warmed to blood heat, put in it one and a quarter pounds of sugar, six ounces of lard, six eggs, oue nutmeg, and one teaspoonful of salcrntus. Mix these well togethor; thon pour iu the sponge of yeast and mold up with enough to make it as stiff as biscuit dough, work well and bocarefuluot to get it too stiff. "Lot this romalu in a warm placoal) night In the morning mold out the cakes about tho size of an egg, being careful not to work them more than is needful. Put in the centre of each oue or turo raisins. As you mold thorn, lay them ou a molding board, and set them in a placo as warm as possible, without overheating. Let thom now rise again until very light, when fry iu boiliug lard. After takiug them from tho kettle, roll thom iu powdered sugar, and lay them out too cool. Do uot pilo thom." That last sentence is underlined in tho recipes. "The art of muking doughnuts is said to have been learned by tho New-England poople from the Hollanders dur ing tho stay ot of the Puritans iu Hol land." Mr. Johnson, as a student of all things Dutch aud with a critical knowlodge of "olekocks," nuciont and modern, explains. Theso sweet and wholosome cakes aro known by many names uowadays, and are mado iu various forms. The modern New Yorker calls them crullers, although tho crullers ho eats aro not always mado according to tho rccipo here given. In some parts of the South they are known as Friday cakes, a name duo partly to tho fact that they are fried in lard, and partly to tho fact that where so called they aro gener ally made on Friday. Now York Timos. norsr.uoLD hints. Brighten tinware with a damp cloth aud soda. Grow your own sago, parsley, mint and caraway. Heat the knife before cutting warm bread or cake. To purify a cistern, tio charcoal in a bag and drop it in. Use whiting or damp salt to removo egg staius from silver. After washing nover wring worsted dress goods. Shako them. Bub lamp chimneys with dry salt. Use chloride of lime for sinks, drains aud ratholes. Uso celery freely. A tea made of the loaves and roots and used daily is said to cure rheumatism. Cleanse tho inside of a coffoo pot with boiling water aud baking soda; use sapolio on the outside. Mako tea in an earthon pot. Re member the adage, "Unless the tea kettle boiling be, filling the teapot spoils the tea." A spouge large enough to expand and fill the chimney, after having been squeezed in, tied to a slender stick, is the best thing with which to clean a lump chimney. Salt water used aa a gargle will strengthen the throat and harden tho gums ; used as a wash it will strougth en weak eyes ; used iu a bath it is a tonic : as a lotion tor the hair it pre veuta and stops failing. The following is said to be excellent for hair that is growing thin: Mis equal quantities of olive oil and spirits of rosemary with a few drops of oil of nutmeg. Hub into roots at night Simple rosemary tea is also good. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Scbnohllo, the new explosive, is composed chiefly of chlorate of pot ash. It is calculated that tho men and women of today are nearly two iuches taller than their ancestors. Russian engineers are studying the route for the waterway to connect the White Son with the Baltic In Hussia, the carrier pigeon is be ing used to couvey negatives of pho tographs taken in balloons. A schcino has been devisad in Kan sas to irrigoto farm lands with water drawn from tho underground streams. After passing through tho liver the blood loses a great part of its fibrin, but what becomes of tho latter sub- stnnco is not positively kuown. Professor Bailoy of Missouri is said to havo obtaiued nioro than 1,000 types of pumpkins by orossiug tho (lowers of ono kind w ith the pollen of another. CamillcFlammarion and three other French astronomers will make for the Paris exhibition in 1900 a model of the moon a model on such nn enor mous scale that balloon journeys will bo made around it Herbivorous animals do not eat all of nature's menu. Tho horse refuses the water hemlock that tho goat eats with avidity, and on tho othor hand, the goat refuses some plants that are eaten by the sheep. The tobacco plant is avoided by all save the goat, man and the tobacco worm. Do not moisten the fingers when turning the leaves of a book nor per mit children to put anything iu tho mouth, nor to exchange books, papers or pencils, as all these things may be tho carriers of germs of disease. Professor Sedgwick of tho Massa chusetts Institute of Technology says : "The sediment in milk pails and milk cans has been examined micro scopically aud found to consist of hairs, dandruff, flakes of excremcut, with less objectiouablo matter, such as hay, iu large abundance." The enormous size and massive structure of tho native houses is among recent surprising discoveries of explorers among tho villages in habited by numerous warlike tribes- scattered along the streams of New Guinea. Houses 300 to 400 feet long aud 100 feet high among the largest in the world are reported to be not uncommon. An Unpleasant Sound. "I was certainly more or less scared a number of times when I was in tho army," said an old soldier; "in fact, I think soldiering iu time of war is a more or less harassing occupation any wuy ; but I never was any more scared thau I was once for a minute by something that had nothing to do with fighting whatever. This hap pened onco when I was ou picket in Virginia. Tho post was in a piece of woods. It was bad enough in the daytime; but at night, when you couldn't see anything at all, it was worse. It seemed as though it got darker and darker and stiller and stiller, and it seomed as though it would never end. "Suddenly it was busted wide open by the awfnlost sound I ever hoard. Scared? Weill "If you've ever felt the feeling that a man has before he actually gets un der fire ; when he's layin' back some where in reserve, and pretty safe, but hearing tho crackle up ahead, and see ing the wounded brought back, and thinking that pretty soon he's got to go in himsolf, why, you know what it is to have one of the most unpleasant feelings a man ever had; but there yon know what's coming; this came with a shock. I think it was the worst scare I ever had. It come right out of the air square overhead and close, too, where I hadn't been looking for anything the frightfulest, most un earthly sound I ever heard ; and all I could do was to stand there in the black dark and wait A minute latjr it came again. What a tremendous relief! A screech owl! I'd never heard ono before, but I knew now what it was." New York Sun. The Last Word. "Did Wigglesworth have the last word in that controversy?" asked the visitor ot the man who edited the pa per. "No," cried the man who edited the paper, triumphantly. "I had the last word zythum got it out ot the dk. tionary." Rockland (Me.) Tribune. A considerable number ot Berlin doctors have started a "Warenhaus," or warehouse, for the supply of gen eral merchandise as well aa medical tores.
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