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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE: XEW YORK. SUNDAY. AUGUST 17. 1913. 3 sly: I A Id) I fo "tT'' 1 i lip i rr 1 1 rfd tHr m- mJ I I '1 11 AW 3 I X-N 1 rN 1 1U wm 3 5 rrr- J7Wl 'W tfOiS smre farst? m0 so rstfp-s tom; MFSO? ff0 J0M0 proceeded to General Gordon's headquarters.

While he was there a Confederate squad dashed out and opened fire. The Union soldiers thought that maybe Custer had been decoyed into the hands of the enemy and that the charge had been ordered as soon as he was safely trapped. But General Gordon soon stopped the firing, sending his orders by ''Hi i S3) HOW DO YOU USE YOUR FORK? uable village center. The narrow point furnished a site for a handsome, large building, doing service as postoffioe and drug store. There are besides five dwelling houses.

The larger end of the triangle furnishes a most attractive house site and grounds for William Witte, one of Roslyn's most popular and successful business men. This part of the old swamp has a little waterway, forming a lovely boundary for Mr. place, and helps to make the gardens beauty spots. A little cut. from the Norwich turnpike divides this from the old Robblns place, recently bought by Merritt Lund, composer and song writer.

The old house Is undergoing some radical changes, and Mr. and Mrs. Lund are, in a most happy fashion, transform ing the place to suit their taste and fancies, and when the workmen finish it will be a new noto in the old village's record. Three corners have artistic entrances, and built out from the front of the house is a long, wide, brick walled and tiled terrace, giving delightful and needed privacy for so public a site. Awnings and trees give lovely screening and at the west end of the terrace a big stream of water pours from the gaping mouth of a grotesque china dog.

Potted plants bank the sides, white marble seats and jardi-. nleres and hammock scats, big, comfy chairs make this a most captivating lounge. The interior is still undergoing trans formation, but its dining room is empha sized by the beauty of wonderful carved sideboards, table, chairs and wall cab- "---fa ffln A5 ri TJW? 00 3XP7 i O.0ST HOiSfs; WOO0J Of S7SCCCS3Ml incta and Wines aro served fr.om a little at thu north end. Seven panels- are later to be embellished with paintings, the, work. of.

artist friends. This gay little corner hasn't a bit of a wicked look, notwithstanding a modest array of decanters and bottles. An interesting old painting set In the wall, be tween the shelves, has "the mellow color Strange to relate, Mr. Childress' call was nut sounded for nearly two hours aft'er-the surrender of Lee to Grant, and in meantime command. I.omax's Cavalry under the command of General had been skirmishing away with the" federals out several miles from Ap-pomattox Courthouse, In blissful irnor-ance-that-the' war was- over.

iTheir first intimation of the surrender came when a Union officer rode out with a 'white flag and advanced to General Penn with "the'news; Mr! Childress was standing nearby 'and heard tho officer say: i "General Lee has surrendered to General Grant and you are ordered to hold your in their present positrons." Then General ordered Finder Childress 'to- rirto nlnnir thn sklr- wish lines', with orders to the colonels to cease wjien be returned. he was ordered blow "assembly, which; wqs the' call for the skirmishers to fair back' to" their regiments. This done, Mr. Childress wheeled his horse' and 'Stantesd' bark to. find the pike to LyiiH'hbprg.

He had been a soldier for four long years and was weary with war. He. had'sounded" bugle calls at Second Bull Windiest Fort Royal. Clear Creekr Fisher's Jackson. Fort.

Ferry, Gettysburg, Eraiyly Station, Mine Run. Antie-tom, KfedVrMisburK, Chan-elhi: Wilderness. flpnttsylvania Courthouse. CuM ritwsbure, Kivliwvrl, 1 if -S mv -p- 1-- HE old and the new In Long Island villages neighbor so interestingly that in motoring or driv 1 through the chain which is fast becoming like a string of beads, from Long Is land City or Brooklyn, branching east, or west, there are few gaps between to the furthest limits, and one cannot but ask questions, following such What a charming or quaint house! Does it belong to the past as well as the present, or la it entirely of the new life? Few owners of modern houses wish them to have a new look. If an old house is modernized for comfort, greater room or an added charm, it would be considered by many as an unforgivable mistake to obliterate age.

Why, when a new houne is built on some old upland farm, its architecture follows that of a century ago, or some older house of a historic English estate, and immediately acquires a setting of old boxwood and trees of thirty and forty feet. The house Is not only screened by these, but it is so embowered in tree and shrubbery that three years after the mechanics have left it to the wizard touch of money and scape architects, to the stranger seeing it for the first time it is a residence of years as well as appealing attractive ness and beauty. There are few villages better known than Roslyn. It is conveni ently near the. sister cities, accessible Dy land or water; it is on the beaten track, and a popular and useful thoroughfare for all sorts of traffic and travel.

Hundreds of autos pass through it daiiy from all directions and for over thirty years pilgrimages have been made to the old home and grave ot tho Poet Bryant by those who love his writings and revere his memory. During Bryant's occupancy of Cedar- mere there were many men of literary fame, and gifted in other professions, vho were his guests and neighbors. Richard Storrs Willis, composer and musician, and the futher of Admiral Aaron Ward's wife, lived at Willowmere, inherited by Mrs. Ward, and ills poet brother, N. P.

Willis, and sister, "Fannie Fern," were often members of a group in which were Parke Godwin and Charles A. Dana, who had a cottage at the other end ot the village. Life then was one of charming neighborllness. There was no hustle, or bustle, no ear-splitting sounds to protest against. The village looked very primitive, most of the houses were close to the narrow 'roads, and the environing hills rose too abruptly to leave much building space, so that little levels had to be made just, conitalcntly above the Iroads, where email, unpretentious houses were placed end an added space made or a small garden.

The only house on high ground was half way up the station hill, and owned by William Valentine's father, who half a century ago was a patriarch, bo that this Valontlne house, a story and half structure, must be 150 years old; it is still in service as a gardener's cottage the old Warner place, now owned by Samuel G. Rosenbaum of New York. Samuel Adams Warner, a New York architect, whose town house was in East Fortieth street, over fifty years ago, built a large house on the higher elevation, and presented it to his daughter, the wife of Xenophon Battazzi, where, in after years, there was much entertaining English fashion, with week-end parties, at a time when lavish hospitality was unusual. During the Battazzl's occupancy it was laughingly said by the family that Xenophon who had many medals, won la diplomatic service, valued these less 2lg i 1 L. than the blue ribbons won by his fancy fowls at the old-time Mineola fairs.

He was a gentle, courteous man, who loved the charm and peace ot the country and his gardens and poultry yards were hobbies that rested and entertained him after the routine of his consular work. After remaining unoccupied for several years it was bought recently by Mr. Rosenbaum, and the Warner house torn down and on its site the present Interesting and attractive house erected. It has a wide outlook down and over the little old village, so enshrined in trees that now only here and there can be seen a chimney or roof; beyond there is a great sweep ot harbor and sound and the Connecticut bills. The village proper, is built around a chain of little streams and lakes, before the old mill was built at the head of the harbor tide water came, up to the foot of the station hill, where the eleven-acre swamp now is and which, it is ardently hoped, will soon become a little public park instead of pest-breedlng marshes.

The useful and annoying trolley pre empts the best part of the narrow west road, and passes the boyhood home ot Monroe Wood, who was for many years an active and well-known newspaper man and who served repeated terms as Town Clerk. The westerly part was built in 1806 by a Wilson Williams and came into the possession of Monroe Wood's grandfather In 1827. Not so old by many years, but mark tng a long period ot Roslyn's history, is the Eastman house, which was owned and occupied for a lifetime by Henry W. Eastman, one of the best real estate lawyers of his time, now owned and oc cupied by his elder son and namesake, who succeeded with bis brother George to the large business built up by the elder Eastman, who was probably tho most public-spirited and progressive of Rosljn's citizens. He fourded Roslyn's first newspaper, the Plaindealer, a spicy, newsy little sheet, with pithy and able editorial.

It wts a never lost-sight de sire of Mr. Eastman's to have the mill dam road widened to safe limits, for it was then, as now, a thoroughfare con necting east and west roads. When the modern stone road era came this was. In a measure, accomplished, but it is far too narrow now for all the traffic and travel passing over It. Mr.

Eastman also established the first bank, and had he lived Roslyn would have fcund in him a responsive and helpful citizen working always for advancement on every line. The shorefront land behind the old mill was and is known far and wide, as the Hicks lumber yards, those on the east side being established by Joseph Hicks, father of Hicks and when after his death it passed out of the family three of the brothers continued in the business with the new yards on the west of the creek. The vine-covered house, now owned by the widow of John S. Hicks, was formerly the home of the miller, brother Ben jamin Hicks, and the mill is now doing good service under the supervision of Its present owner, Isaac Hicks. Readers of newspapers know Roslyn best as the home of Bryant and for Its landmark, the Ondcrdonk house, now owned by Dr.

Joseph Bogart, and celebrated for the stopover of General Wash ington when he Invited himself to breakfast there when on his long drive around the island. But the Roslyn of intermediate years Is not so well known. On the east sido are the two old divided estates, one of which belonged to Squire Skillman, whose grandfather owned the Brooklyn farm, a part of which is now the Navy Yard. The other was that of Jeremiah Rob-bins, 1778, a forbear of Mrs. Perry Belmont.

These are now divided by a triangle, once a swamp, and is now bounded by three roads. While the squire owned it ue reclaims! it, end now it is a val- 1 1 a Union officer after he had looked in vain for one of his own aids. Custer rode back alone from Gordon's tent, and, uncovering his head, told General Capehart that Lee was treating with Grant for surrender. The soldiers nearby heard the remark and set up a cheering that went down the whole line. They knew that the war was over.

and entrees are usually eaten with a fork, as well as many vegetables. That fingers were made before forks Is highly appreciated nowadays, and it is considered quite the proper thing to dispose of wings and legs and other parts of small game In the fingers, notwithstanding the risk of a greasy face. It is only in the dessert that spoons are brought into requisition, since the only use of a Bpoon in a cup of coffee, either large or small. Is to dissolve the sugar. The fork, then, Is the weapon with which we moderns feed and the sooner we learn its proper use the better our food will taste to us.

There are some foods to which a fork should never be applied; olives, aspara gus when served whole, celery, lettuce when dipped in sauce, strawberries when served ou the stem. Bread and tarts, and also small cakes, do not require a fork, while fresh Bllced cake may be served with one. Fruits should not be eaten with a fork but with the fingers, the only exception being melons and preserved fruits, and they require a spoon. At luncheons and dinners we find both men and women nibbling cheese so, after all is said, we may conclude that fingers and forks are the natural ways of eating and that we should employ them exactly alike; the fingers picking daintily at the fruits and vegetables that are served In a manner to make it possible to do so, leaving the warm and more or less greasy meats and entrees and the hot vegetables to be picked up on the points of the fork. analogy Here is the list that Is fur- nished: A for Apple tor Brother for Charles for Dover for Easter for Father for George for Henry I for India for Jack for King for London for Mother for Nobody 0 for Orange for Peter for Queen for Robert for Sugar for Tommla for Uncle for Victoria for Weducsdaf for Xmas for Yellow for Zebra Once the system Is understood It la not necessary that this particular list of words be Memorized for the purpose, ia- trons being free to use any words that i suggest themselves, though it is that the Governmeut employes will mak9 use of it.

Bacon I see the bureau of manufao-turlng in Washington has received samples of a cloth made in England from a species of seaweed found in the Southern sea. Egbert Why can't it be used for making slicatn skirts for mermaids or somn outlandish, suit for lobsters 1 unKem I'l If it i I A of years and shows three cronies at a table with the convivial bottle between them. When the transformation is complete it will be as gay and attractive as any of Mr. Lund's musical compositions. The young owners know what they want and are fortunate enough to be able to get it.

It wlll be just enough and not too much and when the planting Is finished the rose and flower and kitchen gardens and tho tree screeuing the old placo will have blossomed into an unusual, inter- esting and lovable residence, G. M. C. CIVIL WAR Fiv) Forks and this last assembly at Appomattox. And during all these four years he never had fired a shot.

So young Childress went home, disregarding the terms of war and other technicalities. On his solitary Journey he ran into General Rosser's command. "Hasn't General Rosser surrendered?" he inquired. "Hell, no!" was tho answer, "and doesn't intend to." It was several weeks after that Mr. Childress, now a civilian and busy with civilian pursuits, heard that he ought to go down to Fredericksburg and get his parole.

He went in company with a number of neighbor boys and procured the paper which he guarded Jealously for years and which finally was blown away in a cyclone that demolished the Childress home, near Maryville, in 1SS3. It was different with Mr. Sisson, but perhaps that Is natural, considering who won. He stayed it out and marched with Custer down Pennsylvania avenue in Washington City in the grand review. Mr, Slsson was the brigade bugler In Custer's division and gave the signal for the chnrgc, the regimental buglers catching it up end passing it on.

Across the field charged the Union cavalry, with General Custer at the head. And while all this was going on the flag of truce fluttered from the Confederate liucs. Aids spurred their horses forward ond overtook th" fiery Custer to tell him cf -the-trues. He ordered, a halt and MAY all laugh at the rural innkeeper who Indignantly rebuked his serving man who had set before a fastidious guest a generous piece of pie together with a knife, "Waiter, bring the gentleman a spoon." Yet do you know how to use your fork? It seems the simplest thing In the world, but few people make proper use of this common little everyday article. Look into the restaurants, peep into the diningrooms of the hotels and there you may find men and women otherwise con ventional, awkwardly misusing their forks.

Some have a habit of never using a knife, but instead perform all the cutting and tearing Into bits of their food with the fork. Others dip Into their viands, making a spoon of the fork and shoveling food from their plates to their mouths. The real right and only use of the fork is to pick up the morsels of food and convey them by bits to the mouth, and this must be done with the points of the fork turned down. The food must be carried on the end of the fork and the points of tho fork must do tho picking up. A fork should be held nrm ana quare in the hand and never be tipped sideways nor made to serve as a scoop.

The knife has its function and the food should be cut in small pieces before the fork does Its work. The best test of one's conversance with good table etiquette is the manner of eating tho roasts iud entrees. Vegetables are a much easier matter. Meats should bo cut, not sawed, and both meats ETTING proper names accurately over the telephone is by no means the easiest thing In the world. Especially is this true of Initials given singly, as telegraph operators who take messages over the 'phone, newspaper men.

order clerks at the stores and others who have occasion to take names in this way have discovered. Those who have to do much telephoning of this character usually devise for themselves some system distinguishing between letters that sound alike. Thus, when It Is desired to make a clear distinction, and any of the other letters that may be mistaken for It over the wire, the experienced person will say for Thomas," or any other name that occurs, although the Initial may actually stand for Timothy or Trilby or Tobias. Though this Is sometimes confusing to the Inexperienced person who is not fa miliar with the method, it is found to work satisfactorily once it is understood, and results in a considerable saving of time, as well as an increase in accuracy. The telegraph department of the Post- office of Great Britain has now formally adopted the system, and Issued Instruc tions to its operators and the public, with oftuial lis; of words to be em- an TpELLINQ OVER THE 'PHONE BUGLES THAT ENDED THE HE two buglers, whose shrill notes marked the close of the Civil War one for the Union forces and tho other for the Confederates live in Mary- vllle, and for years have been good friends, with many a "flghting-them-over" chat.

The bugle that sounded that last charge for the Union forces at Appomat tox, hangs In the office of Nuthauiel Slsson, the man who sounded it to signal that last charge of Custer's division, the charge that was to be stopped suddenly by the appearance of the flag of truce a soiled towel, this famed flag of truce was; a soiled towel atop a hickory pole The bugle that gave forth the notes that marked the close of hostilities for the other sido was cast aside by H. P. Childress, tho man who for four yours had blown it, and in a dozen bloody battles, through the retreat from Gettysburg and on to Richmond, Five Forks and Appomattox, as being a good riddance, says the Kansas City Star. For when that lust call was sounded Mr. Childress, who had shared with his comrades for two years tho belief, that the next battle would be the laet, decided that his work was done and "lit right out" for home, not even waiting for his parole.

Nor did he stop until he back to plej ed in this ntttlwl of or-elling by tatcsmtiu, 4.