Altsheler
JOSEPH ALEXAN- DER, an American writer, born in Three Springs, Ky., in 1862. He studied at Liberty College, Ky., and Vanderbilt University. After newspaper work on the staff of the Louisville "Courier-Journal," he joined the staff of the New York "World" in 1892, where he remained until his death. He was the author of many novels and stories. Among these are "A Soldier of Manhattan" (1897); "The Horsemen of the Plains" (1901); "The Border Watch" (1912); "The Forest of Swords" (1915); "The Hunters of the Hills" (1916); "The Rulers of the Lakes" (1917). He died in 1919.
ALUMINUM a mineral, called also mendozite. Saccharine alum, a composition made of common alum, with rose-water and the white of eggs boiled together to the consistence of a paste, and thus capable of being molded at ple pleasure. As it cools it grows as hard as an ordinary stone.