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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK O M3 i fe stefeasfcgM msaMHttP 3? vzmx i & .Vi'- , FURNISHED HOUSES FOR RENT. A few Furnished Houses remain unrented in Pinehurst. Desirable parties, giving satisfactory references, can secure these homes at reasonable rates. There are also Suites for Light Housekeeping and Single Rooms for those who obtain table board at the Pinehurst Casino. For the security of both invalids and pleasure seekers, cases of pronounced Consumption will under no circumstances be allowed admission. Address for Illustrated and Descriptive Circulars, and for other information, CHARLES D. BENBOW, Superintendent, Pinehurst, N C 3 7p.;.c. - AFTER THE SURRENDER. General Grant Would Permit No Celebra tion at Appomattox. General Horace Porter, in his "Cam paigning With Grant" in tho October Cen tury, describes the surrender at Appomat tox General Porter says : Before parting Lee asked Grant to noti fy Meade of the surrender, fearing that fighting might break out on that front and lives be uselessly lost. This request was complied with, and two Union officers were sent through the enemy's lines as tho shortest rouLo to Meade, some of Lee's officers accompanying them to prevent their being interfered with. A little be fore 4 o'clock General Lee shook hands with General Grant, bowed to the other officers and with Colonel Marshall left the room. One after another we followed and passed out to the porch. Leo signaled to his orderly to bring up his horse, and while the animal was being bridled tho general stood on tho lowest step and gazed sadly in the direction of the valley beyond, where his army lay now an army of pris oners He thrice smote the palm of his left hand slowly with his right fist in an absent sort of way, seemed not to see tho group of Union officers in tho yard, who rose respectfully at his approach, and ap peared unaware of everything about him. All appreciated the sadness that over whelmed him, and he had the personal sympathy of every one who beheld him at this supreme moment of trial. The ap proach of his horse seemed to recall him from his reverie;, and he at once mounted. General Grant now stepped down from tho porch, moving toward him, and saluted him by raising his hat He was followed in this act of courtesy by all our officers present Lee raised his hat respectfully and rode off at a slow trot to break the sad news to the brave fellows whom ho had so long commanded General Grant and his staff then started for the headquarters camp, which, in tho meantime, had been pitched near by Tho news of the surrender had reached tho Union lines, and the firing of salutes be- W7. . ; "WV gan at several points, but the general sent an order at once to have them stopped, using these words: " The war is over. The rebels are our countrymen again, and the best sign of rejoicing after the victory will be to abstain from all demonstrations in the field. " This was in keeping with his order issued after the surrender of Vicks burg: "The paroled prisoners will be sent out of here tomorrow Instruct the commanders to bo orderly and quiet as these prisoners pass, and to make no offen sive remarks. " TOWN TOPICS. Toledo is the greatest town on earth. Toledo Bee. Chicago has a new and magnificent pub lic library building, and the idea of put ting some books in it is being advanced by some. Detroit News. Chicago will probably never get out of its habit of blowing. Tho smallest case of sand bagging it now calls a stunning af fair. Philadelphia Timcfl. The bridge jumping eraze has struck Chicago, and the Chicago river is being marred by holes and dents by the fool hardy jumpers. Washington Post. That ancient chestnut about making Chattanooga a Georgia town by "revis ing" the line between tho Volunteer and Goober states is revived. Insatiate pur veyor of sensations! Would not the "fe vernager" of Ocean Springs & Co. suffice for the present? Chattanooga Times. Two savage dogs set upon a citizen in the public streets and terribly lacerated him. A policeman was sustained by his captain in refusing to shoot the dogs. That is, a dog has greater latitude in New York city than a man has, which is by no means an unfamiliar police theory. New York World. A St. Louis girl 18 years old has been married twice, divorced twice and has se cured $5,000 damages from a railway com pany, all inside of three months If that doesn't sever all diplomatic relations be tween that city and Chicago, we misun derstand the situation at this distance. An Atom's Individuality. At no time has the atom been seen to renounce its personality Within limits the character of a molecule may be altered by changing the positions of its atoms, just as diiierent buildings may be con structed of the same bricks, but these lim its are sharply defined, and it would bo as impossible to exceed them as it would be to build a stone building with bricks From first to last the brick remains a brick. Whatever the style of architecture it helps to construct it never becomes a stone And just as closely does each atom retain its own peculiar properties regardless of its surroundings Thus, for . example, the carbon atom may take part in tho formation at one time of a diamond, again of a piece of coal and yet again of a particle of sugar, of wood fiber, of animal tissue or of a ga3 in the atmosphere, but from first to last from glass cutting genf to intangible gas there is no demonstrable change what ever in any single property of the atom itself So far as we know, its size, its weight, its capacity for vibration or rota tion and its inherent affinities remain ab solutely unchanged Henry Smith Wil liams, M I)., in Harper's Magazine For October RAILWAY TIES. . An electric railroad from Buffalo to Albany is among the possibilities of the near luture. Pennsylvania was the first state in tho Union to restrict the sale of passenger tickets to the regularly accredited agents of railroad companies. An automobile postal train has been run experimentally over the railroad from Paris to Beauvais. The speed was from 22 to 36 miles an hour, and the cost was far less than t hat of the usual postal trains. Austria, with Hungary, had 5,7517 miles of raih'oad at the und of 18UG. The gross revenue was 52, 01)0,000, the working ex penses $155,000,000 and the net revenue $17,000,000 on an invested capital of $570,-000,000. A Kind of Warfare Into Which Luck En. tera as an Important Element. The degreo of accuracy attainable in modern naval gunnery in actual warfaro is something yet to be determined With the exception of tho battle of tho Yalu during the Chino-Japaneso war there had been-no opjort unity for finding out what might be accomplished at long range by a modern gun mounted on so unstable a platform as the deck of a rolling vessel, and the value of the Yalu fight as an ob ject lesson in this respect was impaired by tho relatively unskilled character of the gunners Certain it is that while death and destruction were meted out all around in that encounter an enormous amount of ammunition wa3 used up in the work. The bombardment of Alexandria by tho British fleet in tho early eighties afforded none of tho conditions of a sea fight, since tho vessels were at anchor in practically smooth water and their target certainly was immovable enough, and even there tho expenditure of powder and shell was out of all proportion to damage inflicted. The point has recently been made, how ever, that, alter all, it is astonishing that a ship is ever struck by a projectile from a gun and that there is probably moro luck than cunning in tho art of modern naval warfare In a lecture at the United States Naval War college at Newport Pro fessor Alger a short timo ago stated, for example, that at a convenient fighting dis tance, say 2,000 yards, a modern battle ship like the Indiana of tho United States navy appears to be of the same size as a picturo of her eight-tenths of an inoh long, held at the point of clear vision, about 14 inches from the eye whllo tho outlines of the real ship will bo much less clear and distinct than those of tho pic ture The height would, of course, ap pear to be still less, so that the difficulty of hitting such a target, even with tho ship at rest and- the gun in a fort, instead of both moving more or less rapidly, can bo appreciated at least to some extent The element of luck truly must enter largely into effective fire under such con ditions. 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