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E. ISLAND; MONDAY OCTOBER 148, 4897.

NO 2

‘GRANT'S SECRETIVENESS,

Ghe Responsibility of Mis Position Fereed Him to Guard Hie lUitterances.

General Horace Porter, in ‘‘Cam.- paigning With Grant,”’ in The Cx ntury, gays concerning General Gfant’'s secre. tivencss

After the general had got some miles mat on the maren from Cold Harbor an ofiicer of rank joined him, and as they

goede along began to explain a plan which he had the construction of another line of in- frenchments some distance in rear of the Jines then held by us, to be used in case the army should at any time want to fall hack and move toward the James and should be attacked while with- drawing. The general kept on smoking his cigar, listened to the proposition for gtime and then quietly remarked to the astopished officer, ‘‘The army has a)l- peady pulled out from the enemy's front and is pow on its march to the James.”’

This is mentioned as an instance of how well his secrets could be kept. He bed never been a secretive man until the positions of responsibility in which he was placed compelled him to be chary in giving expression to his opinions and parposes. He then learned the force of

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the philosopher's maxim that ‘‘the un- spoken word is a sword in the scabbard, while the spoken word is a sword in the band of one's enemy.’’ In the field there were constant visitors to the camp, seady to circulate carelessly any inti- mations of the commander's mnovements, at the risk of having such valuable in- formation reach the enemy. Any en- couraging expression given to an appli- cant for favors was apt to be tortured into a promise, and the genera! natural- lr became guarded in his intercourse. When questioned beyond the bounds of propriety, bis lips closed like a vise, and the obtrnding party was left to sup ply all the subsequent conversation.

These circumstances proclaimed him & man who studied to be uncommunica- tive and gave him a reputation for re- serve which could not fairly be attrib- sted to him. He wascalled the ‘‘ Amer- Jean Sphinx,’’ ‘‘ Ulysses the Silent’’ and the “Great Unspeakable,’’ and was pop- ularly supposed to move about with sealed lips. It is trne that he had no “small talk’’ introduced merely for the wake of talking, and many a one will recollect the embarrassment of a first encounter with him resulting from this fact. But while, like Shakespeare's sol- dier, he never wore his dagger in his mouth, yetin talking to asmall circle of friends upon matters to which he had given special consideration his conver- tion was so thoughtful, philosopbical aud origina] that he fascinated all who listened to him.

e A GHOST STORY. Orulay Demonstration of the Existence of Nocturnal Apparitions.

Dr. Fowler, bishop ef Gloucester in the early part of the eighteenth century, was a believer in apparitions. The following conversation of the bishop with Judge Powell is recorded: ‘‘Since I saw you,”’ said the lawyer, ‘‘I have had ocular dem- onstration of the existence of nocturnal apparitions.’’

“lam glad you are become a convert to the truth, but do you say actual ocular demonstration? Let me know the partic- ulars of the story.’’

“Mydord, L will. It was—let me see— Jast Thursday night between the hours of ‘Tf and 12, but nearer the Jatter than the former, as I lay sleeping in my bed, I was suddenly awakened by an uncommon noise and heard something coming up stairs and Stalking directly toward my room. The door flying open, I drew back my curtain and sawa faint glimmering light_enter My chamber.’’ ‘‘Of a blue color no doubt.’’ “The light was of a pale blue, my lord, and followed by a tall, meager personage, his locks hoary with ago, and clothed in & leng loose gown, a leathern girdle &bout his loins, his heard thick and griz- aly, a large fur cap on his head and a long Salli in his hand. Struck with astonish- ment, I remained for some time taotion- less and silept. he igure advanced, star- ing me full in the face. I then sald, “Whence and what arethou?’’’ ‘‘What was the answer—tell me—what wasthe an- swerf’'’ ‘The following was the answer: ‘lam a watchman of the night, an't please your honor, and made bold to come up Stairs to inform the family of their street door being open, and that if it was not soon shut they would probably be robbed before morning.’ ’’—Penny Magazine of 1832.

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PHOTOGRAPHING A SHOT.”

Wonderful Experiments In Determining the Time of a Flash of Electricity,

Recent achievements in the moving photography that has produced the an1- matograph, biograpb, oinematograph and other representations of motion are not more wonderful than the lately per-

fected photography of the flying bullet. Professor C. Vernon Boys, F. R. 8., has

worked on this seemingly unsolvable |

problem with great success, as have also two Italian artillery officers.

In the course of a lecture on the sub- ject, Mr. Boys demonstrated that the ordinary notion that an electric spark is instantaneous was quite erroneous and stated that the light of the two ends of the ordinary electric spark lasted a lit- tle less than the one-bundred thousandth part of a second. It was, of course, in- stantaneous to our senses, but to tests which could measure accurately to the one-hundred millionth part of a second the electric spark was anything but in- stantaneous. This spark was no good for taking the photograph of a flying bullet, as the lecturer showed by exhib- iting one of his attempts, which made quite a blurred picture.

Mr. Boys then proceeded to explain the stéps which he took in qrder to re- duce the length of time of the electric spark. To this end it was essential that the terminals should be made of copper, platinum or some metal whieh did not produce readily an iguitible vapor, and the electric current must not be driven through wires at all. He used a very thick, broad band of copper, not more than two inches leng, which reached around the edge of the plate, so that the électric current had not more than three or four inches to go a ae He explained by diagrams how a effected his object and shortened the tirae of the apark to about one-thirteen millionth of a second, or about 100 times quicker than the ordinary flash.

To give the audience some idea of the inifinitesimal fraction of time, he said the time occupied by the spark as re- duced by his apparatus was proportion- ately as much less than a second as & recond was less-than five months, and during that time a bullet fired froma magazine rifle could not travel more than one five hundredth part of an inch. By this simple contrivance be was able to get a brighter and shorter spark and “@ll that was necessary to make a good and sharp picture.—New Yerk World

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THE TATTLER.

Miss A, H. Graser tsa reliable Cincin- pati custom house broker and forwarder.

Miss Ada Ward, a well known young London actress, has joined the Salvation Army.

Miss Jessie Langford of Duluth has a clean record asa licensed pilot. She has served more than tem yearson the great lakes.

Mrs. Mills of New York city is a suc- cessful tinsmith. She learned the trade of her husband and has kept up the business

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Miss May Kerns, operator in the Western Union office at Niagara Falls, bas won medals in telegraphic contests and is now called one of the fastest women operators on the line.

The Countess de Casa Miranda (Chris- tine Nilsson), who possesses one of the most famous collections cf precious stones In Europe, is now making a collection of black and white laces.

Mrs. John Sherman, wife of the secre- tary of state, ie an elderly woman, well read “and deeply interested in’ curren) events. Nixt year she and Secretary Sher- awnan will be able to celebrate their golden wedding.

Mrs. McKinley ie a woman of quiet tastes in dress. Dark blue of almost the Salvation Army tint js ber favorite color. She is also fond of dove, gray and a soft chestnut brown. Her hate are always un- obtrusive and ladylike.

The daughter of Osman Pasha is be- Heved to be the only poetess in Turkey. She lives ina white marble palace over- looking the Bosporus and dines every day in the conservatory from a service of, golden plate. This undoubtedly is her in- spiration.

Mrs. Gage, the wife of the secretary of the treasury, isa handsome, middle aged woman, with a well known faculty for tnaking friends and holding them. In Albany, her old home, she is exceedingly popular, and everywhere she maintains an easy Jead in society by right of her oul- ‘ture and broad information.

Lillie Devereux Blake suggests as one rule for married happiness that the wife should not always ask the husband where he is going when he goes away and where he has been when he comes back and as another the equal division of money, for she claims that one-half of every dollar the husband bas belongs in the law to the wife.

Mise Dell Ten Eyck of Worcester, Muss., entertains herself by capturing and culti- vating all kinds of queer sea monstrositics. She puts the creatures in glass jars and makes pets of them. Devilfish and other similar horrors are the pride of this pecul- jar young woman's heart, and her oolleo- tion is sald te be unique and interesting in the extreme,

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GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD.

The Famous Highwaymen “Sixteen Strings Jack” and Dick Turpin.

At the Rose tavern, s noted gaming house standing in Marylebone gardens early in the eighteenth century, Sheftield, duke of Buckinghani,used to toast his com- pavions at their farewell dinner, when the seas 9 ended, in the ominous words, ‘*‘ May as many of us as remain unhanged next spring meet here again!’ John Rann, the hig.wayman, otherwise ‘‘Sixteen Strings Jack’’ of evil fame, liked to swag- ger about at Bagnigge Wells in the inter- gals of carrying out his nefarious deeds or undergoing punishment forthesame. He is described as appearing there in July, 1774, ‘‘attired in a. searlet coat, tambour waistcoat, white silk stockings and a Jaced hat. On each knee he wore the bunch of eight ribbons which had gained him his pobriquet of ‘Sixteen Strings Jack.’ ”’ There were lively doings under the influ- ence of this sprightly gentleman, and on

“the occasion referred to he was pitched out

of a window for offending honest com- pany. Only a few months later he met the reward of his misdeeds on the gallows at Tyburn for venturing to rob the Prin- cess Amelia’s chaplain.

Dick Turpin was another ‘‘gentleman of the road’’ who amused himself in the intervals of ‘‘business’’ by frequenting pleasure gardens. He was once moved to kiss a fair lady in public at Marylebone, assuring her, when she protested, that she soight ever after boast of the favor she had received. Whether Turpin and gentlemen of similar occupation came to pleasure gardens solely for their diversion may rea- sonably be doubted when we remenrber how frequent robberies were in the paths and field ways leading to these sylvan re- treats. Watchmen were set ‘to guard those who go over the fields late at night,’’ yes even so visitors were often attacked and robbed, sometimes in the gardens themselves and sometimes on the road to or from them.

In early days at Marylebone it was deemed necessary to provide the company with a guard of soldiers to conduct them home at nights, a curious winding up to.a jovialevening. Pickpockets were of vourse plentiful at all the gardens despite every precaution, and one night at Cuper’s, in 1743, a thief, caught in the act of taking a lady's purse, was rescued from the hands of the police by a band of bis comrades on his way through St. George’s flelds and enabled to escape justice for thas time-- Temple Bar,

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HER UMBRELLA,

What Her Handling of It Proclaimed to the Observing Man.

Two men who sat near the window of a down town hotel afew days ago whiled away the time by watching the women go by and commenting on their umbrellas

The storm had abated aboutan hour be- fore and the sun had pecred through a rift in the clouds, but for all that the first pe- destrian went stalking past with her um- brella still held aloft.

‘That woman,’’ said one of the men, ‘is as patient as Job. Sheis not a stu- gent absentmindedly poring over book lore, but a housekeeper who is so taken up with thoughts of what she is going to get for supper that she doesn’t know it has stopped raining. What is more, she its theroughly unselfish. People who forget to lower their umbrellas when the sun be- gins to shine always are. That girl just behind her who has already taken time to fold her umbrella neatly, even though it is soaking wet, is going to bean old maid. Sheis narrow minded too, The next one has bound the folds down, but it looks uneven and bulging. That woman's children will always look dowdy, but she will purse them successfully through in- numerable attacks of croup and rash, and no family im town will have better things to eat.

“That short woman with her umbrella flopping this way and that wii: always be poor, because she will give away every- thing as soon as she gets it. Hers isn’t al- together a commendable generosity, either, for it is caused more by lack of power to say ‘po’ than by an inherent desire to help her fellow creatures. ‘hat dark woman with the tip of her umbrella trailing downward and backward atan angle of 45 degrees is malicious. I woulda’t trust her out of my sight. She'd say something wean about me the first chance she got. The ope whe carries her umbrella swung careleasly over her shoulder isa happy go lucky individual who will always havea geod time, not because she earns it, but oacause the world oves it to her, and she is going te have her rights.

“Do you seo that woman who holds hee umbrella at right angles to her body and sticks the sbarp point shead like a bay- onet? She's one of the kind thas sets the world afire. She has more energy in a minute than most people have ina year. A woman who swings her umbrella as she walks. is prone to dillydaliy; she never knows her mind, and, no difference how well she may pretend to like a person, if anotber speaks ill of him in his absence, she wili generally side in with the caluim- inator; at any rate she will say nothing in his defense. She who trails her um- brella along in ber wake is untidy and in- velined toward low principles. The one that bolds the stick uprightand keeps tap- ping it on the pavement every little while is a good person to tie to; she has strength and honesty. There comes a womun car- rying her umbrella under her arm. Sbe’s my wife and i won’t say anything about her.”’

His companion looked at the little man’s wrinkled, perplexed face and smiled. He fancied he knew what the verdict would bave been had the woman only beer: some- body «he —Chicage Tribune.

A Lecf ALACAAN MINE.

Searching For DIiidden Millions ii. che Dreary Yaken Country.

Five million dollars in nuggeta and at inexhaustible mine of fabulous ric jess will be the reward of the pruspecto*s who can find the lest Golden mountainin norta- ern Alaska. Such at Jewst is the report current among the miners along the Yukon and its tributaries, says a Sioux Ci y cur- respondent. it may be literally true. No one sevms to, know fora certainty, and 80 many ‘ives. have been lost in the effort to estabiish its truth or falsity that investigators are grow. ing somewhat chary of entering un the search, Mark Hamilton, a Yukon minar- in 1891 and 1892, thus told the legend:.

“Away back, before Alaska passci out of Russian hands,’’ he says, ‘‘a party start- ed up the Koyokuk river, a tributary. of the Yukon. The members wanted to learn all they could concerning the topo,zraphy of the country, its mineral resources and the various tribes by which it was i: .vabit- ed. They were poe up furs, ts), and looking for any little snaps on whiwii they might stumble in the way of Indian trad- ing. Alaska was not known then, ua it is pow, as a gold country; still 1¢ was: under- stood that gold was occasionally found, and the explorers kept their eyes opem for any chance sighs of the precious metal, Abous half way up the north fork of the Yukon they branched off to the west and some- where between the north fork and the Are- tic ocean, no one knows just where, came toa small mountain, the base of which was literally honeycombed with veins of rich gold bearing ore.

‘*Such at least is the story. I don’t vouch for its truth. It is said that $6,000,000 worth of nuggets were picked up in a few weeke almost on the surface of the ground. By this time the winter season was begin- ning to se¢in, and the prospectors con- cluded they bad better strike for the south- ern settlements. Traveling waa so d!Micult and the party so small—it numbered only six or seven—that the greater part of the treasure was cached near the camp and only enough packed for transportution to convince settlers in the south of the rich- ness of the deposits. It was expected to return the next summer with a stronger party and work the lead for all it was worth.

‘‘What became of that party after it left the mountain no one knows.’ It was never sewn again. Inquiry made by the Russian authorities when the explorers failed to re- turn on schedule time developed frem the Indians tha story given above,"

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