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NEWPORT INDEPENDENT
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R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the DaiW Independent
THE COAL WE USE,
An Article of Which the Generality
of American Housewlvet
Know Bat Little.
j.
Coal is so common a necessity that we
j do not take the trouble to know any
| thing about it. The other day, says a
New York Press writer, I askedahouse
holder who burns 25 tons a season:
“Which do you prefer, red ash or white
ash?” After a little hesitation he re
i plied: “I really don’t know what you
mean. I didn’t know that coal is made
from ash, and I don’t think 1 ever heard
of a red ash.” “Oh, that has nothing to
do with it. Of course coal is a vegetable
product but the red ash or white ash re
ferred to is not a tree, but the refuse of
burnt coal—the ashes. Some of these
ashes are red; some are white.” He was
! much surprised, and promised to find out
from his dealer whether he had always
used red or white.
A second householder, being asked the
same question, replied: “I always use
the white ash coal, for the reason that
it is so much cleaner, both before and
after using. It makes a hotter fire, and
1 never burns out the grate-bars. It lasts
longer than the red ash and is cheaper
in the long run. You couldn’t hire me
to use red ash coal. I don’t like the
stuff.”
A merchant who ought to know what
he is talking about said: “Buy red ash
coal ever time. It makes things very
comfortable about the house. You can
start a fire with it in half the time you
can with white ash; the fire is twice as
hot; there Is less dust; there are fever
ashes. Stoves using red ash seldom burn
out, and they give out more heat than
whpn iisir.p* whifp ash. Of r»nnrsp. t.hp
red ash costs more than the white, but
is cheaper in the end.”
A coal agent booking orders was told
by a new resident: “I shall want six
tons of coal for the winter. I insist on
having white ash coal. Can you supply
it at once before the price goes up?”
“To-morrow early enongh?” “Yes.”
“All right; it will be there.” It cams
and was dumped into the cellar. At the
first cleaning out of the ash pit under
the furnace our friend found only red
ashes. He was wroth. The coal man
happened to drop in. “Coal all right?”
“All right? You know it isn’t all right,
sir! You have cheated me. I insisted on
having white ash coal, and you have
Bent red ash. What are you goieg to do
about it?” "I’m awfully sorry. I cer
tainly put in the order for white ash.
But you’ve got the best of the bargain,
Bir. We’ve billed this coal to you at the
price of white ash; and you know it is
worth a dollar a ton more. Still. I al
ways believe in giving a gentleman what
he orders, and we’ll take this coal back
if you say so.”
“If I wanted to be mean I’d make you
take back every bushel of it, and then
I’d buy my white ash alsewhere. Didn’t
you know it was red ash?” “Lord bless
you. no. No man living can tell the dif
ference between the two kinds until he
sees the ashes. I’ve been in thebusiness
30 years, and I can’t tell. But I do know
one thing—red ash coal is as far ahead
of white ash coal as sunshine is ahead
j of moonshine.” “Well, I’ll overlook it
; this time; but hereafter I get what I or
| der, or there’ll be trouble. I’ve a legal
i right to make you take this coal back.”
j “You have only to give the order, and
I’ll obey.” “I’ll see how it turns out.”
That night the merchant called, and the
transaction was mentioned. “Lucky dog,”
he said. “Red ash every time! And you
get it as cheap as dirt.” So the matter
Was dropped.
The anthracite trade began with an
| output of 1,965 tons in 12 months. It has
grown to 70,000,000 tons annually. In
1803 the city of Philadelphia bought
j 100 tons of anthracite for use in the
j pumping works, but the engineers, not
knowing how to burn it, broke it up to
j gravel the walk in the yards. In 1814
; two ark loads were sold at the falls of the
| Schuylkill for $21 a ton. A morning
was wasted in futile attempts to burn
this coal, and at noon the employer and
his workmen, discouraged at their ill
1 luck, shut up the furnace and went to
dinner. On their return they were aston
ished to find a roaring fire, the furnace
i doors red hot and the furnace itself in
danger of melting. From that day dates
the successful use of anthracite in Amer
4/»q
Personally, I have yet to learn the dif
ference between red ash and white ash
coal as regards merit. But I never had
the happy experience of the furnacemen
above. Here is my luck: First, a few
newspapers crumpled up and lighted;
secondly, a bushel of kindling wood;
thirdly, a shovelful of coal; fourthly, a
wait for half an hour for the coal to
start; fifthly, more coal; sixthly, my
morning ablutions in blissful conscious
ness of duty well done; seventhly, a re
turn to the cellar to find—a roaring
chilliness, the furnace doors frigid to
the hinges and the furnace itself in dan
ger of collapsing in liquefied air. I then
drop a small word or two in the oold
1 quiet of my subterraneanism and calmly
proceed to shake out that “roaring fire"
(expected) Into the bottomless ash pit.
I The dust gets into my five senses and
my hair, all over my shoes, up my
breeches, down my collar. I am hot
enough by that time to look at a fire
and make it burn.
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“George was very precocious. le
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