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YKH: WHO?
Who weeps with you when you are sad,
And laughs with you when you arc glad,
And smiles with you when you are mad ?-
The Kditor.
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Who has to.he both kind and wise,
And never (hardly ever) lies,
And when he does, creates surprise?—
The Kditor.
Who owns a heart as well ns cheek;
Possessed of spirit proud, but meek,
And lives on forty cents a week ?—
The Kditor.
POSSIBILITIES Of aluminium.
Though Present Everywhere it is Difficult
to Extract.
from thf Cincinnati World's Progress.
A short time ago a client of ours
was explaining the use he was to
make of this metal in constructing
his valuable type-setting and distrib
uting machine, whereby lie would
gain in strength, durability, complete
ness of finish and external beauty
more than enough advantages to com
pensate for all extra cost, lie was
fairly enthusiastic over the possible
new uses of thy metal in view of the
comparatively low price of it. And
lie was only voicing the same senti
ments or hopes that the scientific or
manufacturing public had been en
tertaining.
It is well known that aluminium is
present in every clay hank, and it
would be difficult to say more plainly
how common it is. The only ques
tion for some time lias been how can
it he separated from the clay at a
cost that will put it in the reach of
the. mechanic and manufacturer.
There are to-day as many chemists
devoting their davs and nights with a
view to discovering processes by which
aluminium may he furnished to the
public cheaply as there are scientists
delving into the possibilities of elec
irieity. At first the metal was more
precious than gold. Then it fell to
88 per pound ; now it is 82 per pound.
This fall in cost has been reached by
the discovery of new affinities which
cheapen its production. When it
reaches a cost of 25 cents per pouiqj
it will be generally used. It is about
as light as oak wood, four times as
light as iron, and has more resistance
than the very best steel. It will be
used in the construction of houses,
superseding wood and stone and
brick. It will take the place of iron
and wood in ship building, and one
can only guess its value in the matter
of quick ocean voyages, rapid land
transit, and, possibly, in flying ma
chines.
Atlanta’s Great Exposition.
The Constitution is booming the
exposition which is to be opened in
Atlanta in October. The Constitution
booms everything which will draw a
crowd to the Gale city. Here is
what it says about one of the many
attractions ot the exposition :
The Exposition company is negoti
ating with the wild west show and will
have it. The introduction of seventy-
five Indians, forty cowboys and about
one hundred head of stock, is of itseft
a realistic picture.
The exhibition ol the pony express
in the west is full of interest and ex
cilcmcnt. The pigeon and bull shot
gun is sandwiched into the program
me.
The chase lor a bride is intensely
exciting, hut nothing to compare with
the lassoing and riding of wild steers,
which is always a signal for wild en
thusiasm of the audience. The most
exciting poition ot the wild west show,
however, is the attack on the emigrant
train, and the burning of Trapper
Tom’s cabin. As the emigrant train
goes into the catnp, the Indian scouts
are seen reconnoitcring after making
their repot to Chiefs Nannotcs, of the
Comanches, and Iloahe, of the
Cadoc band. Then ensues a great
fight between the Indians and a res
cuing parly of cowboys, who have
arrived only in time to revenge the
emigrants. The performance is most
exciting, and carries the interest right
through. The Indian danced and
games are very interesting. The
bucking horse and mule-riding by
Mustang Walter, Texas Tom and
Cyclone John, show what riders cow
boys arc.
The Wild West is creating quite a
sensation in l’aris, and as the Pied
mont exposition is to be second to
Paris only, we will have a wild west.
REFLEC1ED ON A GLACIER.
A Story That the City of Montreal is
Visible in Alaska.
Ottawa, Ont., Aug.' 11.—A dis
patch from Victoria, British Colum
bia, says that Professor Willoughby,
who has visited the Alaskan coast for
many years, a short time ago visited
Muirs Glacier, and took a shot at it
with his camera. lie was startled
by a most remarkable result. It was
the phantom of a great city, with
rows of high warehouses, factories
with tall chimneys, stately residences
and elegant church spires. \ arious
were the conjectures ns to the locality
from which the shadow was evolved.
Victoria,. Seattle, Portland and San
Francisco were all suggested, but none
met .the requirements. At last a
Freiicli-Cniiadiaii recognized the
Windsor .hotel, the dome of the new
Catholic cathedral near the hotel, and
Notre Dame, with Mount Koyal in
the distance. The mysterious city
was the phantom of Montreal, nearly
4,000 miles away. The professor has
had a large number ol his pictures
struck off, and it is the wonder of the
day. _
Two Great Men Meet.
President Harrison met a League
pitcher the other day,' and was treat
ed ns a social equal. Tile pitcher
showed no haughtiness, but, on the
other hand, was kind, attentive and
considerate. The common people,
who always like to sec the great un
bend, looked on with pleasure, for ail
men felt that in the courtesy paid to
their chief magistrate was an implied
acknowledgement of their own equal
ity with the pitcher. The President
was greatly pleased. He told Secre
tary Halford that if the League
pitcher had been an applicant for the
Sniigammon post olliee he couldn’t
have been more respectful. And that
particular pitcher had just been sold
for 85,000 by the Dodge Citys to the
IvcoVuks, too.—Boston Transcript.
A Bad Practice.
A Philadelphia newsboy recently
rceovced 820,000 from a street car
company for the loss of a leg. Hi:
lawyer retained 810,000, having taken
the case on condition that lie should
have half the amount recovered. The
case has caused quite a discussion
among members of »tlic Philadelphia
bar on the ctliith of contingent fees.
It has not always been legal to receive
such fees in Pennsylvania. An old
Philadelphia practitioner said the
other day: “Chief Justice Gibson
was responsible for legalizing the prac
tice in this State, aud I think lie did
it as a deliberate insult to the bai.”
Another “old time” lawyer said:
“There is nothing more demoralizing
to the profession and the public than
this system of contingent fees. I
have heard that many lawyers have
tooters out drumming up such busi
ness just as a commercial house would
drum up trade. It is ail abominable
practice.” Many lawyers express
themselves as in favor of restoring the
old prohibition of such fees except in
cases where the client would by rea
son of poverty lie without hope of
securing legal counsel without agree
ing to give n contingent fee.—Tele-
graph.
Who Killed Maybrick ?
Public interest now centers in the
life of Mrs. Maybrick, who has
been sentenced to be hung in Eng
land, having been convicted of niur
der.
The London Chemist and Druggist,
high authority, says:
The entire course of treatment is
the saddest commentary on modern
medical science which we have had
lor many years. The old school and
the new—allopathy and homeopathy
—vegetables and minerals, calmatives
and explosives, acids and purgatives
were tried. The whole thing has been
a jumble of irrational empiricism, ut
terly destitute ot science, order or
design, and bringing home to us far
too forcibly the fact that the medical
treatment of to day is as great a toss
up as it was in the days of polyphar
macy.
SULLIVANS SENTENCE.
How the Slugger Looked and Acted.—
What the Judge Said.
Sullivan sat down and looked at the
court, waiting his doom. There was
another pause. The silence was so
deep that an occasional whisper was
heard as distinctly as an uproar in the
dead ol night. Judge Terrell then
spent several minutes examining the
petition for mercy. He broke the
silence by quietly ordering Sullivan to
stand up. The champion arose quick
ly, threw out his chest and looked the
court full in the face, evidently deter
mined to maintain sclt-control.
JUIJCK TKRKKI.I.’s SENTENCE.
He said : Gentlemen : The passing
of a sentence always has been of con
siderable trouble and concern to me,
even in small cases, except where the
law lias one absolute punishment. It
seems to me that the prize fight at
Ricliburg, of which you stand convict
ed, was a gross affront to the laws of
the slate, where the authorities posi
tively forbade it. It seems to have
been accomplished with a systematic
disregard of the law and in the presence
of invited thousands. It seems on
the part of all connected with it to have
been a studied disregard and con
tempt lor the law. They came through
many states whose authority and civil
ization deterred them from any attempt
at such public lawless conduct within
their limits, to the state of Mississippi
as the only fit ground lor such combat,
indicating their niter contempt for the
sentiments of her people and the laws
of their statute hooks.”
Judge Terrell, whose eyes had linen
averted as if meditating as lie spoke,
now looked and met Sullivan’s gaze.
Continued the judge: “The sen
tence of the law is that, as a punish
ment of the oflcnse for which you
stand convicted, you shall sillier im
prisonment for tw.clvc months in the
county jail.”
Si'Ll.I VAN MADE FEROCIOUS 11Y THE
SENTENCE,
Sullivan gloomily took his seat, and
none of his friends spoke to him. It
was host to leave him to lii.s own re
flections. He maintained his stolid
look for a moment, but when atten
tion was drawn from him his mouth put
oil the same appearance as when iie
met Kilrain in the ring, with a little
of sorrow tempering the ferocity.
The feeling passed from him in
another moment, and when lie got up
to leave the court room he faced the
sympathizing crowd with a broad
smile.
Give Them Living Rates.
Some one has said, and truly so,
perhaps, that if the railroads are tax
ed by the counties, thus increasing
their expenses, that the railroad com
mission will allow a sufficient advance
in rates to cover the amounts. There
could he no valid objection to this.
One rule should govern the commis
sion, and wc believe it has governed
them : a rate should he allowed every
railroad in Georgia, which would,
after paying all reasonable legitimate
expenses, net enough earnings to
pay the stock holders a fair dividend.
If this rule is carried out, and it
should he, it will make little or no
difference to the roads, whether hill
taxing them in the counties becomes
a law or not.
Harrison says lie will accept no
white washing report ol Tanner’s ad
ministration of the pension office. The
man who said that “pension claims
should not he weighed in an apothe
cary’s scales” is not the man to pass
on a report ol this kind. Tanner
will he white-washed, all over, and the
grand-son ol his grand-daddy will
not have the nerve, even if he had
the inclination, to kick Tanner out.
While Harrison and Tanner are
running the machine at Washington,
the South is knuckling down to her
work, growing rich and getting ready
for another solid vote in 1892.
A Wonderful Discovery.
Aspen, Coi,., August 12.—At
Minnie mine, on Aspen mountain,
Saturday, a blast blew a passage way
into a beautifcl cave, the walls were
covered with cryHtalized lime and lead,
and stalactites projected from the
ceiling. A party passed- along into
another cave of similar beauty, then
crossed a pool of fresh water, aud
came to a third chamber in which
they were startled to find a petrified
man with Hint and howl by his side.
Other stone men were found, all in the
same position. They were seated
with their heads on their knees and
arms clasped around their legs. On
attempting to lift one of the mummies
the men broke ofi the arms and fing
ers, and discovered that the figures
would crumble unless tenderly handled.
The figures are supposed to have been
of people, who preceded the Indians
on this continent. The mine is sur
rounded by hundreds of (ample, all
anxious to explore the cave.
Let Equity Prevail.
The following from the Southern
Alliance Farmer, the organ of tho
Georgia Alliance men, goes straight
to the mark. It knocks the black out,
and it will he endorsed by the fair
minded everywhere:
The question of a payment for bet
terments to the lessees of the State
road is now absorbing the minds of
legislators. It is very evident that
whatever improvements have been
made by the lessees were made to
facilitate their business and add to
their income, knowing that they had
no right to expect pay for them un
der the. law ; hut the. state has no
claim upon any rolling stock or per
sonalty above the amount originally
turned over to them. The slate can
not afford to act unfairly with tho
lessees, and should settle the matter
at once and know what she has to
lease again.
A Fair Statement.
The Philadelphia News is mi out-
and-out republican paper, but in con
sidering the recent Atlanta post office
episode it shows a degree of sound
sense which hfin striking contrast to
the ran tings of some of the republican
organs. The News in an editorial
entitled “Let us lie' just,” utters these
candid and sensible words :
“The colored people deserve rccog-^
nition at the hands ot Republican party'
and they arc receiving it. It speaks
well for the progress of the race that
so many of its members are qualified
to fill offices of trust. But putting
colored clerks to work with white
young ladies in government offices, is
not a wise move.
If a young lady employed in a post
office of a Northern city were forced
to associate every minute of the busi
ness day with a colored clerk, she
would resign as Miss Lyon did in
Atlanta.
The postmaster who caused the
Atlanta trouble is a sad blunderer
and there is no use hiding the truth.
It is no reflection upon the colored
race to say this.”—Telegraph.
Gradually doors long barred to
women arc being opened. Female
students are now admitted to a num
ber of the most advanced universities
in the hind, on the same footing as
men. The latest accession to women’s
educational priveleges is the trustees
of Hartford Theological Seminary to
admit them to that institution. St.
Paul had something to say about
women speaking in church, but the
standards of womanly propriety in his
day were very difi’ercut from those
which are acknowledged now, especial
ly in New England.—Ex.
Charles Dudley Warner is one of
those Republicans who went to the
South and was fully converted to the
lieliet that the stories against South
ern loyalty to the government are
chiefly lies. He goes further, aud ex
presses the belief that the Southern
people arc conducting themselves re
markably well in a very diliicult
situation. Doubtless we owe the
publication of this from Mr. Warner
to the fact that lie is a gentleman and
a man of candor-and truth, more
than lie is a politician.—Boston Her
ald.
Knocked Dow
PRICES!
—AT—
LEVY’S
Our Mr. Levy is now
in New],York making
Fall purchases, and
he has sent us word
to KNOCK DOWN
PRICES on all sum
mer goods,* and make
room for our immense
Fall and Winter stock
that is coming. So,
from now on, all
Spring and Snmmer
goods go at old
“Knocked Down
Prices.”
Remnant table full
of choice bargains
every week.
Levys
Dry Goods Hons!
Mitchell House Corner.