It Is Grim War In The East

War, grita, ugiy. cruel war has bnoketn out i Ktirope, íjImj Greek and Turkish peop: biavimg sprong .at pacli othör's throats as ii'erei&Jy as two wl:ü animáis Boitili are eavage iigliters, bufc tüio TujrkB are Wiet besfc preparefl for war, auid aOTioiis'ti the symjialhy oí tlie Chriistiaa -woi-Jd is wlÖi Greoe, j-et ilt is dö ubtf ui. ïf it is possi■lle for ksr to wüi, for migli.t amid Btttengith is wlialfc tef.ls in war, W'l'li bralrns t'O comiuaud, and Turks have a'.l Dhese essentSals. Tlie Gi'eeks to-diay &pe the most patrio tic peop'.'e ïa the woriil. Their coniutirynxen., from all sections of the woiEÖ, haie beeoi poiuriag horane to join t:he Heülemic army and fighiö for ■Uheir Bu'b the troubje is t'hey are nraKi drHLed or la anyway.accustttnied to war. Tire great buCk of the Greeian. troops, on'.y about 80,000 a:i told, are ranv reeruHa, not niany of fhm knowing Jiow to handle tibe new fi"e arms even. Bat tliey ■liav a womderïui1 sta oí grit, and O'n tlhis tliey must Uepcnd agaiust the t'i-auiöd trcuops of the Uuüban, who far autïnixaber tlwilr awn. Amather tltiing, a Turk 5.5 taught, f rom hos eradle xip, ttoait tio' die upon ihe battae iileld is a eure passporti to üieaTiaa, and thiab idea a'Jouie makes hiïm a powerful soldlier. ISO' the patHiatic Greeks are ïfe-hting agalnst -■rcafc odds, a,nd unieas the uataons of Eunope iaterfere, tke chances are tliat Turkey wda nat omly IWfcafa Crete, but spe Greeoe off the lace of the carth. The sjinpathy of a'.l Chn"icrtJaiis im the wcw-M should be wütJi Greece, and rev. the jealoiusilas of the go'veraments oí Eöirope are siic'h tínaib 310Ü one of tiliem 'ciare hejp tliat plucky lilttle 11atjom. öO'ine of the newspapers (aam that ::i. is tack of Greece, anti1 tliat Germany ie enciauragint; Tavkey. If ■fchia is se they are doing it ior mutiual ndvauïtage, liopSng t in soni3 way proi.ilt ly the affray. E-ng'.aiid, France and Itajy "vould all lilee to aid Greeoe, bu't dlare aait do it. Fighting Joe Hooker was a picture on ïorseback, and the bronze equestrian statue of the General to be erected on he grounds of tlie Massachusetts State riouse will be one of the sights of Boson. The appropriation of $50,000 for he statue went through the legislature ast year without opposition. Gen. looker sat in a saddle superbly, and it represents him watching a line of battle, v i 1 1 1 the horse at a halt, but full of life, nul waiting for a touch of the spnr, yet vith an air oí trained obedience. Gen. looker is huried at Cincinnati, in which ity he married after the war. At the present price of about 32c a lound aluuiinuiH is cheaper than the same bulk of copper or brass. Yet 100 xiunds of brass, and 250 of copper, are old to one of aluminutn. Manufaeurera of tlie nevv metal disposed of 650 ons of it last year, but tliey are comelled to discover its novel uses. Alumnum has nearly displaced nickel in the arts, aud it is in growing deniand for ooking utensils, bicycle parts, plates or false teeth, handles for surgical intruments, a substitute for lithographic tones, nou-mairnetic electric apparatus, and military accoutrements. lts lightness renders it peculiarly suitable for anteens, buttons and belts.