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Show THE MELIOGRAPS1 IN WARTIME . I -Hrw dbH The heliograph It by no means a modern Invention Although It has been n good deal spoken ot during the present South African campaign and Is generally looked upon aa one ot the mechanical marvels ot the nineteenth nine-teenth century, the fundamental Idea of using the aims rays for writing Is as old aa the Ilomtn empire Itself Every atudent of the classics will rtmember how the old Itoman soldiers ssed their shields for flashing back Information to the rear or from one wing ot an army to another The heliograph heli-ograph Is practically the samo aystem of aun flashing redicod to a scientific basis so that tho message may be transmitted a distance of from five to even 100 miles when the circumstance circum-stance are favorable The military value ot the hello-graphic hello-graphic method of transmitting Information In-formation may be readily imagined Its first advantage Is Ita extreme simplicity. sim-plicity. It does not necessitate the keeping open of lines of communication, communica-tion, there are no wires to protect, no batttrles to look after and no burdensome burden-some apparatus to carry about. The Indians ot America like the old ray The atatlon minor has a small disk at tho center, and when the two mirrors are used they must be so adjusted ad-justed that tbe shadow from tho center ot the sun mirror shall be refleelel against tho small disc on the face of the station mirror In making signals long and ahort sun flashes take tht place of the dota and dashes of the magnetic sounder, the same salt bo-Ing bo-Ing generally used for both Instruments Instru-ments When the air Is clear, signals may be taken by the naked eye at a distance of 100 mites and by an expert ex-pert at the rate ot fifteen words a minute U8BD HIB COhFIN As a Trunk llaranM lie tltril Ua,r Than lla fip.ele.t. Anthony Blmpklns n nonsgenarlan of tansboro, Mass, started one diy last week for Hopkins Station, Mich The nearest railway station to tanes-boro tanes-boro Is In riltsfleld, and when Anthony arrived In that city, with hi blooming wife of 21 yeara he created a sensation ot considerable magnitude It was neither the nonagenarian nor his wife V ks klfty$ii oramiNci tih: hisuooiiai'ii in soltii afiiioa. H wsrrlorsot tbe Scotch highlands, realised re-alised th'sjniportanco 0f signal fires In wartime lad made use ot a code ot lire flatheiSMt It was not until 1S!2 that Col Colby, of the Ilrltlsh royal engineers, devised n more adequate system for trtnsmlttlng nicpius.es by sun flaahes Ills method of doing this waa by nailing a certain- numbsr ot pieces of bright tin on poles and exposing ex-posing them to the sun's rays Some time later this waa Improved on by the adoption of a plain mirror In 15.13 an English oRlcer at Gibraltar used an ordinary loaklngglasa to reflect flashes across tho strait to Tangier, thereby carrying on a long-distance conversation conversa-tion with other Kngllah officers In Attics At-tics This mirror system was experimented experiment-ed with and improved upon until the year 1378, when the United States government gov-ernment purchased the latest models and berai the Instruction of a special signs' eirpt In hellography The military mili-tary value of such sun writing waa well known when. In 1888, (Jen Miles began hla Indian campilgn against Oerontmo If the truth -ere only known, It was the heliograph more than anything else, that led to the rounding up and capture of the famous fa-mous blood-drlnklng red man One can Imagine tho surprise of the Indl-, Indl-, am when they found that they could not move witnout the fact oeing known to the Americans and the movement mysteriously anticipated Signal parties. In fact, were flashlnc hourly Information from mountain peak to mountain peak, and the Indian In-dian warrlora' headquartera were always al-ways known at Miles' camp Through tbe use of the heliograph Cleronlmo was kept away from wator by rapidly stationed and mobile bands of troops and was finally really parched Into submission Tbe English army had already been making use of the heliograph In Afghanistan, Af-ghanistan, and during the Doer war of twenty yeara ago mado effective use ot the Mance hellograpblc apparatus appa-ratus The groat service this meant of communication hat been to the different dif-ferent Ilrltlsh commanders besieged by the Doers In the present South African Af-rican war Is very woll known The Held hellographle apparatus, aa used today, consists of a sole leather pouch containing a aun mirror and a station mirror, a amall screen or shutter, shut-ter, a sighting rod and two small trl-' pod stands for tho mirrors The entire apparatus does not weigh over ten pounds and can easily bo carried over tbe arm When It It desired to tend a message the aun mirror It placed on one end of a thin rod three feot in length with tho station mirror at the other end, the bar being held by the tripod When the aun Is In front ot tbe operator-that la to say. In front of a plane through hla position and at right anglea to the lines Joining the statlons-the aun mirror li required re-quired for dispatching Dut with the sun In the rear ot this plane both mirrors mir-rors must be used to produce satisfactory satisfac-tory results. .'v.,' iUn mlrror onIy ' u"a' the Ight flash It sent directly to the receiving station, tho mirror having In tbe globe sight of n nn, for the purpose of aiming and adjusting tho r however that was the real cause of the excitement but n peculiar article of baggago which lh aged traveler had with him When lh unggagemaatir came to look over the traveling eijulp ment which Mr Blmpklna unloaded Irom a wagon and offered for transportation transpor-tation he waa aomowhat surprised to see. In the midst ot bandboxes and car-pet-bigs, a coffin with all tho usual funornliartiiriunent, iThe coffin apparently appa-rently contained a body, for thTsfiirdy old man handled Is at If It wero heavy, and with tbe greatest care Tho bag-gagemaster bag-gagemaster at orire asked for tho death certificate "1 guess I don't need none," aald Mr Blmpklns grinning 'Wo can't take tho body unless you show n certificate cer-tificate ot death," said the biggagemas-ter, biggagemas-ter, firmly Blmpklns grinned ngaln, "There ain't no corpse In there," aald be 'There a Jctl some of my wife a dresses, and some chlny and tinware, and tho big Illble and aome ot my things I guest I don t need no certlfl-kit certlfl-kit fur them do IT Id Jest aa toon show yer what they be ' The baggageman baggage-man admitted that he would Ilka to look Into tho coffin and straightway Anthony unfastened the lid and exposed ex-posed the articles which he had mentioned, men-tioned, snd many moro aa well The controversy had attracted the attention ot the people who were waiting In tho station, and by the time the owner had raised tho lid ot the coflln he waa sur rounded by a largo and curious crowd Somebody asked tho old man how It happened that ho used a coffin aa his trunk, and ho explained the matter In thla way "Three yeara ago I had an Idea that I wasn t goln' to last much longer, to I thought I'd belter make sure of a good coffin while I had money to buy It I bought this coffin then, but I ain't had no chance to usu It until day 'fore yesterday Then Mary told me there wa'n't room enough In the trunk for all the things we wanted to take out west, to I said that coffin would make a good trunk I wanted to take It along, anyhow " Despite Mr jHH Slmpklns' plausible explanation tht Hfl railroad officers refused to accept hit HI coflln trunk and with n good deal ot ILaalV grumbling he and hit wife traniferrod BHH the contents to n dry goods box. RmK HISTORICAL PALACE POlt SALE, U ( nl Instnntla Hints and J"" HH It. .11., I Til Ma. jgttJ The crown lease ot ttlthim court and ftaHv palace, which forma one of the most LbHK Interesting links with the part which aDl have ever I asset! Into the estate mar- H ket, la advertised for sle says the B London Chronicle Hi htttory date HVJ from tht time of IMward the Confeet- HHJ or (1013-CC) At that time the manor belonged to the crown It waa grant- H ed by William tho Conqueror to hie H brother Odo, earl ot Kent, but revert- H rd to tho crown While the data ot H the erection ot tho palace la uncer- H lain, It la known that It waa a royal B residence from 1370 to 1C23 "John H o Kltham" IMward II, IMward III, H Itlchard II . Henry IV , Henry V, Ed- H ward IV Itlchard III , Henry VII , H Henry VIII Mary Elisabeth and ,H James I , all resided at tbo palace It M was there also that Edward III held iH hla parllanunt Itlchard III enter- M talned the captive king of France, B Henry IV waa espoused to Joan ot H Navarro an I Edward IV 'a daughter H Ilrldget was born After passing H thionich other royal hands, the palace, M I ram Into the poeaeaslon ot Blr John M Ijhaw. t Is from one of tho threo H parkstknown asJtniTmMdlailwk that aH ' the "Mhlle I'ark'J'latt" takes Ita name, H The present houtn retains the old moat B and part of the original palace Is still H standing H Many rla Irlarrs. H Most of us have read ot rooms which have been papered entirely with car- H celed postago stamps, but certain monks at the hospital of St Jean do M Dleu, at ahent, have beaten all this by, U In their leisure, moments, decorating B tbo walla with gorgooua landscapes, HHl glowing with rolor and full ot life, HH which nre formed entirely by means HHl ot the postage stamps of all the na- HHl tlons of, tho world Fataces, forests, HBl streams and mountains nre jepren-nt- HHl ed butterflies flit about In tho air birds HHl of beautiful plumage percb on HH branches, snakes and llxarda glldi H about, and Innumerable animals flm H places here and there Tbe pictures H are most artistic. In the stylo of Chi' fM nese landscape gardening, and already M between t.000000 and 10000,000 ol H stamps havo been used Cincinnati Enquirer H A I'llallxnlnT llMilal" M A doctor with cavalry experience B haa Invented n patent galloping hot- HHJ pltnl, drawn by two horses, and capa- H bio of accommodating six wounded H I'nlille Sehnnl rianrs In Illinois, H Illinois expended $18,299,803 on lla H public schools In 1SS9 H AT THE DALL. H 1 vjvj T-rfr' $3 I |