The Lee County Journal, 1904-03-05

' 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 peculiar - culiar peculiar substance known as native plati platinum - num platinum is found. .This is an alloy of the metals platinum, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium and ruthenium, to together - gether together with a little gold and iron. All of these except the last mentioned are the "noble" metals. They do not tar tarnish - nish tarnish 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 substance - stance substance known. Its fusing point is ex extremely - tremely extremely high, and this property, to together - gether together with its freedom from tarnish tarnishing, - ing, tarnishing, 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 twenty-two - ty-two twenty-two and a half times heavier than water. Together with iridium, it oc occurs - curs occurs 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 iridfum - fum iridfum than platinum. Osmiridium is found in small particles, varying in from one-sixth to one-third of a graip. These particles are extremely hard and are used for pointing non nonwearing - wearing nonwearing 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 international - al international 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 zirconium, - conium, zirconium, which occurs in hyacinth and some other rare minerals. Uranium is remarkable for its high atomic weight, the heaviest known. - Chambers' Jour Journal. - nal. Journal. ' 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 offender. - er. offender. Arrived at the police station, he ushered the culprit in with the injunc injunction - tion injunction to "mind the steps." ; "G'lang with you!" said the prisoner scornfully. "I knowed these steps afore you was York Press,

Mrs. BULKLEY SUED ; FOR DIVORCE. | AL i Bulkley Resides With Her Parents at Waycross, Ga. Her Husband 70 Years Old. ~ Brooklyn, March 2. - Waghington La Lafayette - fayette Lafayette Eulkley, a wealthy contractor of this borough, who is over seventy, is sue sue-ing - -ing 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 complained - plained complained of were committed with persons who are unnamed. i | The summons was served on Mrs. Bulk Bulkley - ley Bulkley by publication at Waycross, Ga., where sihe now lives with her parents. Mrs. Bulkley's counsel applied for ali alimony - mony alimony 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 Police - lice Police in the city of Brooklyu, as co-res co-respondent. - pondent. co-respondent. 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 postmortem - tem postmortem 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 opening - ing opening of three sealed cupboards on cer certain - tain certain 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 academy, - emy, academy, 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 accounts, - counts, accounts, 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 cupboard, - board, cupboard, at which rite thewre were pres- ' ent among others Dr. Alfred Water Waterhouse, - house, Waterhouse, R. A., and Sir (then Dr.) B. W. Richardson. Like the cupboard mention mentioned - ed mentioned 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 authorized - ized authorized to be present at the opening of' the third and last receptacle of mys mystery - tery mystery 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 confirmed - ed confirmed by the presence of a collection of perfectly worthless letters and papers.

"Mother's Living 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 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 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 incubators - cubators incubators 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 copper, - per, copper, 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 centuries, - turies, centuries, Pendleton as a Delegate Delegateat-Large. - at-Large. Delegateat-Large. The suggestion that Hon. Charles R, Pendleton, editor of the Macon Tele Telegraph, - graph, Telegraph, be sent as one of the delegates-at delegates-atlarge - large delegates-atlarge 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 devotion - votion devotion 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 Democratic - cratic Democratic platform and the Democratic can candidate, - didate, candidate, that only men of the highest type in the party should be selected to repre represent - sent represent 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 nomination - tion nomination to come from the people instead of the politicians, We can't blame him, since he will have to depend on the peo people - ple people to elect him, subscribe for your homie paper.

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 selling - ling selling 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 investment. - ment. investment. Mr. T. A. llnlliday was buried here last Sunday. The deceased was a highly res respected - pected respected citizen of Leesburg, and the fam family - ily family 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 without - out without 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 Smithville - ville Smithville 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 Commissioner, - missioner, Commissioner, 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 thankful - ful thankful for what we are about to receive," But it didn't blow very hard after all.