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ALFR Z. WESLEY
M E. I%‘?5()1\1_ ’}Eul‘l‘ows AND PUBLISHERS
AvLvßev Z. WesLey, Business Munager.
LOCAL NEWS.
We want a bank, we need a bank, we
must have a bank.
Mr. Willis C. Ruxland of Albany was
a visitor to Leesburg this week.
Mr. S. B. Smith, our hustling sheriff,
went to Smithville Friday on business,
Mr. J. M. Hines is out on the road sel
ling flour this week and telling new
tales.
Our school under Prof. Free and Miss
Carrie Bunkley as assistant, is growing
rapidly, .
Mifss Jennie Ford has made a great
improvement to her home by a tasty coat
of paint.
Mr. J A. Lipsey has beeén confined to
his room this week with a lame foot,
caused by rheumatism,
Mr. Duncan Forrester stays at home
close these days. They say he makes
a capital nurse for little Miss Forrester.
Put on a little paint, Leesburg, you
don't know how it will help. It is like
a child washing its face after wallowing
in the mud all week.
- Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Turnell and family
of Milledgeville, have been visiting Mrs,
S. B. Smith this week, Mrs. Turnell is
a sister of Mrs, Smith.
Dove shoots all around us, but the law
won't allow us to kill over forty birds in
a day. Nothing prevents us to forget
how many we count, however.
Leesburg Wareliouse Co, are this week
paying dividends to stockholders, This
stock is a fine piece of property, and has
regularly yielded 25 per cent, on invest
ment.
Mr. T. A. llnlliday was buried here last
Sunday. The deceased was a highly res
pected citizen of Leesburg, and the fam
ily have our heartfelt sympathy in their
deep affliction.
~ The average coon thinksit is a iong
time and much hard work between now
and watermelon time; however mullets
offer some consolation to the brother in
black in the meantime.
Elijah (Glone jumped his contract this
week and left Judge Alex. Forrester with
out a family to run a crop. Result under
new law. Elijah ascended, but not like
his namesake, modern Elijah went up
the jail steps to wait for court week.
Judge mourns for his lost ducats still.
C. H. Beazley, R, A, Forrester, and
Deputy Sheriff W. P, Gill, went to Smith
ville Thursday to try a darkey charged
under warrant. It so happened that
there was not a single committal officer
in Leesburg, and hence the business had
to be carried before an officer in another
district. |
The Board of Education met Friday,
President W, H. Newsonie, S. J. Powell,
G. W. Warwick and J. S. Kitchen, They
elected J. R, Long to succeed himself as
County School Commissioner.
Mr, Long has made an excellent Com
missioner, and the board has made no
mistake in having him as an official,
Our town had quite a scare Thursday
evening last. It looked like a cyclone
was about to strike the town, and many
anxious ones were seen fleeing from the
approaching darkness. One man was
seen to get in a ditch, another started to
pray and begen ‘‘Lord, make us thank
ful for what we are about to receive,”
But it didn’t blow very hard after all.
THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
Leesburg, Georgia, Saturday, March 5, 1904.
“Mother’s Living Here."
Our little lad came in one day
With dusty shoes and tired feet;
His playtime had been hard and long
Out in the summer’s noontide heat;
“I'm glad I'm home!" he cried, and hung
His torn straw hat up in the hall,
While in a corner by the door
He put away his hat and ball, :
“I wonder why,”’ his auntie said
“This little lad comes always here,
When there are many other homes
As nice as this and quite as near,”’
He stood a moment deep in thought
Then with the love-light in his eyes
He pointed where his mother sat,
And said: ‘‘She lives here, that is why."’
With beaming face the mother heard;
Her mother-heart was very glad,
A true, sweet answer he had given,
That thoughtful loving little lad ;
And well I know that hosts of lads
Are just as loving, true and dear;
That they would answer as he did:
‘“T'is home, for mother’s living here.”
The Twentieth Century-
Behind,
We give ourselves credit for being very
clever in this twentieth century, and in
the line of invention, some wonderful
things have been done, but smart as we
are we are only copying some things
done more than a thousand years ago,
So far as history goes, the Egyptians
were the first inventors., They had in
cubators and hatched chickens artificially
thousands of years before America was
discovered. They knew the 2mbaliiiing
“usiness better than we have been able
to learn it, and§were able to temper cop
per, an art which is entirely lost to us,
They understood agriculture reinarkably
well and raised as good crops as can be
produced now. We are finding out some
things that have been forgotten for cen
turies,
Pendleton as a Delegate
at-Large.
The suggestion that Hon. Charles R,
Pendleton, editor of the Macon Tele
graph, be sent as one of the delegates-at
large from the state of Georgia to the
next national Democratic convention is
sure to meet with a hearty response from
all parts of the state.
Through virtue of his conservatism,
his splendid ability and his unfailing de
votion to the best interests of Democracy
Mr. Pendleton is deserving of any honor
that his party oan bestow.
We believe that in the selection of the
delegates at large as well as the district
delegates, in view of the uncertainties
now existing with regard to the Demo
cratic platform and the Democratic can
didate, that only men of the highest type
in the party should be selected to repre
sent the views and wishes of the militant
Democracy of the Empire State of the
South.
Democrats of all shades of opinion wiil
feel perfectly sure that the hest interests
of the party are safe in the hands of a
man like Charles R. Pendleton, If Mr,
Pendleton desires to make the race we
feel assured that he will be elected, as he
should be.—Atlanta Journal,
President Roosevelt wants his nomina
tion to come from the people instead of
the politicians, We can't blame him,
since he will have to depend on the peo
ple to elect him,
subscribe for your homie paper.
Mrs. BULKLEY SUED
; FOR DIVORCE.
| AL i
"Mrs. Bulkley Resides With Her
Parents at Waycross, Ga. Her
Husband 70 Years Old.
~ Brooklyn, March 2.—Waghington La
fayette Eulkley, a wealthy contractor of
this borough, who is over seventy, is sue
-ing his young wife for an absolute divorce,
The Bulkleys were married in Brooklyn
on November 18, 1899.
According to Bulkley’s lawyer, after
two years his wife, who is now in her
twenty-fifth year, left the home of her
husband and went to live al 113 E.
Thirteenth street, where it is alleged in
a summons *and complalut drawn by
lawyer George Robinson, the acts com
plained of were committed with persons
who are unnamed. i |
The summons was served on Mrs. Bulk
ley by publication at Waycross, Ga.,
where sihe now lives with her parents.
Mrs. Bulkley’s counsel applied for ali
mony and Justice Gildersleeve allowed
$lO a week and $l6O counsel fees.
Mrs. Bulkley sets up ccunter charges,
and names Mrs. William McKelvey,
widow of the late Superintendent of Po
lice in the city of Brooklyu, as co-res
pondent. Mrs McKelvey, who is an
aged woman, resents the imputation and
declares that she will be represented by
counsel,—Constitution,*Mar. 3.
The Practical Joke a Celebrated Man
Ficyed on Posterity. :
One of the most famous of postmor
tem jokes was that perpetrated by the
donor of the celebrated Soane museum
of pictures and other valuable objets
d’art to England, the late Bir John
Scane, who died in 1837. In his wii
Sir John made provision for the open
ing of three sealed cupboards on cer
tain specified dates in the presence of
the trustees. In 1866, that is to say
almost thirty years after the death of
the testaicr, the first of the mysterious
receptacles was with much ceremony
and breaking of seals cpened in the
presence of a committee of men, with
the then president of the Royal acad
emy, Sir F. Grant, at their head. In. |
stead of a priceless treasure or some
evidence that would throw an entirely
new light upon some doubtful incident
in political history the contents of the
cupboard proved to be worthless ac
counts, letters and stationery. ‘
Twenty years pased by, and the in- |
terest that had smoldered after the |
disappointment of 1866 was again }
fanned into flame at the prospect of
breaking the seals ot the second cup
board, at which rite thewre were pres- ‘
ent among others Dr. Alfred Water
house, R. A., and Sir (then Dr.) B. W.
Richardson. Like the cupboard mention
ed in the well known nursery rhyme, Sir
John’s second cabinet proved “bare”
of any sensation, the contents being
chiefly composed of letiers relating to
certain long forgotten family quarrels
that had not even the merit of being
interesting. If some of those author
ized to be present at the opening of’
the third and last receptacle of mys
tery were dubious about the profit that ’
would acerue by letting the light of day
fall upon the contents thercof after
sixty years’ darkness one at least, Sir
B. W. Richardson, looked forward
with unabated interest to that day in
1806 when the last seal would be
broken and the mystery solved, but he,
alss, died just two days before the
ceremony was performed, and the fact '
that Sir John had played a practical
joke upon posterity was duly confirm
ed by the presence of a collection of
perfectly worthless letters and papers.
ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY, VOL, VIII.
AT ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. No. 4.
‘ NATIVE PLATINUM.
The “Noble” Metals Extracted From
This Peculiar Substance,
On the slopes of the Ural mountains
and in Brazil, California, Australia,
Canada and many other countries a pe
culiar substance known as native plati
num is found. .This is an alloy of the
metals platinum, palladium, iridium,
osmium, rhodium and ruthenium, to
gether with a little gold and iron. All
of these except the last mentioned are
the “noble” metals. They do not tar
nish in the air and are not soluble in
any single acid. The most plentiful
metal occurring in native platinum lis
that from which it takes its name,
- This metal is of a grayish color and
- with one exception is the heaviest sub
stance known. Its fusing point is ex
tremely high, and this property, to
gether with its freedom from tarnish
ing, causes it to be largely used for the
manufacture ~* "
vessels requ
a very high temperature. 1. .
sometimes used as a substnueq for gold
in photography, and when dep6sited in
a thin film on the interior of the tubes
of telescopes it forms a dead black
surface, which prevents the light from
being reflected by the polished sides.
Palladium is of a Ilustrous white
color. It is the most easily fused of
the metals found in platinum ore, and
can even be volatilized. A curious
quality which this metsl possesses is
that when bheated to redness it is
porous to hydrogen gas, allowing it to
pass through somewhat in the same
manner that blotting paper permits the
passage of water. The silvery white
color of palladium and its freedom
from tarnishing render it useful for
making scales and division marks'on
scientific ipstruments. A mixture of
this metal with mercury is sometimes
used for filling teeth, Osmium is a
metal which possesses two remarkable
properties—it is*the most refractory
of the metals, resisting fusion at the
most intense heat, and it is also the
heaviest substance known, being twen
ty-two and a half times heavier than
water. Together with iridium, it oc
curs principally in a peculiar variety of
native platinum called osmiridium.
This mineral differs from ordinary
platinum ore in that it contains a
larger proportion of osmium and irid
fum than platinum. Osmiridium is
found in small particles, varying in
fl_%gveight from one-sixth to one-third of
a graip. These particles are extremely
hard and are used for pointing non
wearing pens.
Metallic iridium possesses a white
steel-like appearance. !be knife edges
of delicate balances and othe. bearinzs
which require extreme hardness are
often made of it. An alloy of 10 per
cent iridium and 90 per cent platinum
has been found to be very little affected
in volume by changes of temperafure
and is the substance of which the
standard meter kept in the internation
al metric bureau at Paris is made.
Rhodium and ruthenium are metals of
little practical use. The former occurs
in platinum ore to the extent of 5 to 6
per cent. The latter is found only in
osmiridium and averages about 5 per
cent of that mineral. The metal which
ranks next to platinum in price is zir
conium, which occurs in hyacinth and
some other rare minerals. Uranium is
remarkable for its high atomic weight,
the heaviest known.—Chambers’ Jour
nal. ‘
Policeman’s Cauation Wasted,
Just now the companions of a recent
recruit to the police force are poking
fun at him because of a remark he
made a few nights ago when he found
it necessary to arrest a very old offend
er. Arrived at the police station, he
ushered the culprit in with the injunc
tion to “mind the steps.” ;
“G’lang with you!” said the prisoner
scornfully. “I knowed these steps
afore you was born!”"—New York Press,