THE COAL WE USE.
Aj> Article cf Which the 0*»*r»l»tl
cf Americas Hcccewlrec
K>cw Bet Little
Coal Is so common a necessity that we
do not take the trouble to know any
thing about it The other day, say* a
New York Press writer, I asked ahousw
holder who ourns 26 tons a season:
“Which do you prefer, red ash or whit*
ash?” After a little hesitation he re
plied: “I really don’t know what yoa
mean. I didn’t know that coal is made
from ash, and I don’t think I ever heard
of a red ash." “Oh, that has nothing to
do with it. Of course coal la 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 ho had always
used red or white.
A second householder, being asked tha
same question, replied: “I always use
the whit* ash coal, for tha reason that
It is so much cleaner, both before and
after using. It makes a hotter fire, and
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 thu
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 bouse. 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
when using white ash. Of course, the
red ash costs more than the white, but
Is cheaper in the end.”
A coal agent booking orders was told
Dy a new resiueut. j suau
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 enough?” “Yes."
“All right; it will be there.” It came
and was dumped into the cellar. At ths
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,
air! You have cheated me. I insisted on
having white ash coal, and you have
gent red ash. What are you goicg 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,
air. We’ve billed this coal to you at th*
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 yon
take back every bushel of it, and then
I’d buy my white ash alsewhere. Didn’t
you know it was red ash?” “Lord blesa
I you, no. No man living can tell the dif
rfwence' between the two kinds until he
k sees the ashes. I’ve been in thebusines*
llO years, and I can’t tell. But I do know
lone thing—red ash coal is as far ahead
kf white ash coal as sunshine is ahead
kf moonshine." “Well, I’ll overlook it
Khis time; but hereafter I get what I or
Her, or there’ll be trouble. I’ve a legal
Bight to make you take this coal back.”
Byou have only to give the order, and
Bll obey.” “I’ll see how it turns out.”
IBiat night the merchant called, and the
IBnsaction was mentioned. “Lucky dog,”
|Bsald. “Red asn every time! And you
IB it as cheap as dirt.” So the matter
dropped.
^Hhe anthracite trad* began with an
HKrnt of 1,905 tons in 12 months. It ha*
BjBvn to 70,000,000 tons annually. In
^^B the city of Philadelphia bought
BBBtons of anthracite for use in the
■Baking works, but the engineers, not
H|Blng how to burn it, broke it up to
Hi the walk in the yards. In 1814
IHI^Brk loads were sold at the falls of the
■Hlkill for $21 a ton. A morning
||||||Easted in futile attempts to burn
HHal, and at noon the employer and
discouraged at their 111
g||||Khut up the furnace and went to
BBBMB On their return they were aston
find a roaring fire, the furnace
hot and the furnace Itself in
HHBKf melting. From that day date*
llllpllBssrfui use of anthracite in Amer
JIST »' '* «7 JO0T . (UKMieK
ancient military school,
Ulatoric Ground on Which the Toawl
Ilea ot Lonlalana Keoelr#
Their Training.
The Louisiana state university and
agricultural and mechanical college is
known as the military college of the
south, says the Baltimore Sun. It is lo
cated at Baton Bouge. and number*
among its graduates many men who art
now officers in the regular army. Gen.
W. T. Sherman was the first president
of the institution before the civil war,
and, notwitstanding his espousal of tha
northern cause, his memory is still rev
ered at this scene of his former labors,
and his life-size portrait in oils occupie*
a prominent place in the handsome as
sembly hall of the college.
• The site of the university is historlt
ground. It was for many years a mil
itary post, and the garrisons of France,
England, Spain and the United Statei.
have all at different periods occupied
It. After it was abandoned for military
purposes it was turned over to the stats
of Louisiana for purposes of education
The original buildings, however, still
stand, and, with the flag floating over
them, present a striking and beautiful
appeal ance.
Here, in 1779, Galves, the Spanish gov
ernor general of Louisiana, after an en
gagement that lasted for three days, cap
tured the British garrison. The Span
iards were in turn driven out by a party
of Americans, and this marked the
passing of west Florida from the do
main of Spain. In 1861 the confeder
ates captured the post, and the next year
a desperate battle, involving both land
and sea forces, was fought near by,
and the confederate ram Arkansas was
blown up in the view of the land bat
teries.
Many distinguished officers served
here while It was still a military post.
Among those whose names are associ
ated with the place are Wilkinson and
the first Wade Hampton, Winfield Scot;
and Zachary Taylor, Grant and Lee and
CtrvnnnrQll Tool/enn Mpr'ldlon ATWl Tflfl
Johnson, Bragg, Rosecrans, Longstreet,
Harney, Thomas and Beauregard, For
l rest and Phil Sheridan, Hardee and
Hood, Hancock and Custer, Admiral
Porter and “Bishop” Gen. Polk. Among
ibe great civilians we recall the names
of Abraham Lincoln, Clay and Calhoun
and Jefferson Davis. There is hardly
a place elsewhere in the south so rich
in historic associations.
The university is true to its traditiona.
The sons of Louisiana are soldiers by in
heritance, and while they revere th«
cause for which their fathers fought, no
northern boys are to-day more loyal to
tha flag which is lowered at sunset every
evening to the well-known strains of
retreat, while on parade of over 300 ca
dets stands on parade at attention.
Everything about the university is con
ducted on military lines, and by means
of frequent inspections a proper system
of discipline is constantly maintained.
CURIOUS HABITS OF WRITING.
Tha Scribbling Microbe Never Leavei
One After It Gains a
Lodging.
"The habit of writing is a curious
habit and one which may not be out
grown,” said an old scribbler, in the
New Orleans Times-Democrat. “It
seems to be born in the blood. It is a
part of the nature of some men to write
things. Early in life they begin to yield
to an inclination to'jot things down; tc
scribble off a few thoughts at idle mo
ments, and between times, as it were;
to versify a bit; to philosophize; to pul
down maxims and axioms, and to scrawl
a thousand and one little nothings
which appeal to the fancy from time tc
time. Once acquire the habit and it it
thine for aye. No amount of change in
life’s course; no upheavals of fortune
no sudden shifts of fate and destiny; no
nothing that may come with the fleet
ing years will ever once break the mind
from the bent which prompts it to trace
In the queer curling symbols which roll
out from the pencil’s point the little
T>lnvfnl nnthinp-s about whiph thA soul
U wont to dream.
“Dainty, delicate children are these
little vagrants which one Idly scrawls
into existence between times. Often
they are bright, deep, subtle and of the
verities; sometimes wiey are morose,
gloomy, of that sterner stuff which feed*,
the soul of the hungry pessimists; some
times as light and aii y as the very foam
which bursts laughingly around the
ankles of Aphrodite; but whether light,
or profound, whether gay or sad, these
things of mental loafing, these little
pet nothings of mental vagabondage,
are scintillants which cheer and amuse
a fellow as he hurries on from one mile
post to another. Ah, for the habit ct
writing! It pavs when the bank fails
—pays in the sweet consolation one may
| know from close communion with one’s
own soul, for man hath not known his
soul until it glare at him in such cheap
symbols as he may employ in efforts,
always short of weight, to 6peak Its
weighty sentiments.”
A Tall One.
An American in Paris wasi one day
looking at the Eiffel tower, when he
was accosted by an enthusiastic French
man with; “Ah! my friend, that is a
beautiful tower, and I doubt very much
I whether you have anything to beat il
in America."
“Wal, stranger,” replied the Amer
ican ‘I guess it’s good for France, bu<
In America we have a tower so high
that we have to lower the top at night”
“Lower the top at night?” replied ths
Frenchman. “For what reason?”
“Wal, I guess it is Just to let the moon
pass, stranger. Good-day.”—London
! Tit-Bits._
In Time to Celebrate.
Physicians in Munich have noted tha<
a number of patients in the hosjp'tali
suddenly get well when the time c ae<
lor the great event of the year, the fall
which Is called the Octoberfeat
I
TAX THE “DRUMMER” PAYS
A Considerable Item in Commercial
Traveler’s Expense Account in
Host European Countries.
Three or four drummers, Bays
Comfort, had engaged in a warm
discussion over the bane of the
drummer’s existence on the road,
the “drummer’s tax”—not so bad
as it used to be, however, when
small towns all over the country
levied tribute on every traveling
man who visited them.
“By Jove,” said a man from a
New York silk firm, “you ought
to try it over on the other side.
What they do here isn’t to be
spoken of in comparison. Here
it is merely a small local matter.
Over there it is national. At least
it is for any of us who come from
foreign countries. In Denmark,
for instance, there is an annual
; tax of $42.88 if a man represents
one house and half that for each
other house represented. In Nor
way you have to have a trade pass
food for 30 days, costing $26.80.
France is easier and you don’t
have anything hut a business
passport, which costs no more
than you want to pay. In Hol
land you have to have an indus
I trial tax receipt, which costs six
i dollars. In Sweden' the price is
the same as in Norway, $26.80,
and if you try to get out of it you
will catch a fine of from the price
of the trade pass up to $184, and
they are strict about it, too.
“In Austria you have only to
show a proper trade license and
in Switzerland a business pass
port. Tney don't cost any more
than you want to give up to the
chaps who let you have them. In
Russia the price is $25.75 as trade
tax and $5," 5 extra as a communal
tax. And if yon are a Jew you
don’t want to go to Russia to sell
goods. You may be all right, but
Russia doesn’t like that kind and
shows it by pushing the ‘drummer
tax’ on Jews up to $275.50, be
sides the communal tax of $5.15.
England’s the place, though,
where you want to go. That’s the
great free trade land and you can
go anywhere and everywhere and
sell to anybody and everybody and
never pay a penny. They are so
free over there that, by Jove, you
almost feel like asking the coun
try to pay you a few hundred a
year just because you are there.”
FAVORABLE FOR OYSTERS.
English Royal Commission Reporti
That Danger of Typhoid Infec
tion Has Been Exaggerated.
'
The English toyal commission
•n sewage disposal has issued a
report that should taaad to allay
the frequent “oyster scares”
caused by the assertion that shell
fish are polluted and made unfit
to eat by typhoid germs. They are
of the opinion that there is not at
present exact knowledge warrant
ing such sweeping measures as
the compulsory purification ol
sewage before discharge, for there
I is nothing, they state, in the ap
pearance of shellfish to distin
guish those which have been ex
I posed to sewage contamination
from those which have not been so
i
I exposeu. «
The denial of the validity ol
l bacteriological examination as a
i test is very important, for this
i test has rested on the assumption
j that the bacillus coll communis, or
| other allied organism, does not
i normally occur in the oyster. Over
| 1,000 oyBters taken from the put
j est waters and from beds obviously
liable to pollution were examined
and the bacillus coli was found ih
nearly all of them, from whatevev
i laying they were taken, though as
a rule a very mnch smaller num
j ber of bacilli was found in those
from pure than in those from
polluted waters. The commis
sioners say:
"If it should be seriously con
tended that the mere presence ol
bacillus coli, or coillike microbes,
in an oyster should condemn it,
few oysters would probably es
cape condemnation."
Concerning the possibilities ol
the communication of disease by
shellfish, they state that there is a
prima facia probability that at
times living typhoid bacilli might
be conveyed by shellfish to the con
sumer and produce enteric fever,
experience confirms their views
that the extent to which the ill
ness is actually conveyed cannot
He determined, the present state
ef lfaowledge on the subject not
making it possible to make an ao
i on rate numerical statement.
m \
Nervousness
AN AMERICAN DISEASE
Dr. I. Weir Kitchen It authority for the etate
auat that aerroaeaete it the characterlitle malady
et tha American nation, and etatiotiea ahew that
aarra death. number one - fourth of aU deathi
recorded, tha mortality being mainly among young
paayla.
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THROUGH TOURIST CAR SER
VICE TO CALIFONIA.
Commencing Saturday Septem
ber 17th, the Iron Mountain
Route will inaugurate through
car service to Los Angeles, Cali
fornia. This is the “True South
ern Route” via Texarkana and
El Paso. Special low rate colo
nists’ tickets to California points
will be on sale September 15th tc
October 15th, via Iron Mountain
Route. For tickets and reserva
tion apply to local agent.
m C. Townsend,
\ G. P. & T. A.
RAILROAD TIME CARD.
ST. I*. I. M. A S. RAILWAY.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 72. Local Freight. 12:20 p. m
No. 2. 4:42 a. m.
No. 4. 10:40 .a m.
No. 12.'.. 8:48 p.m.
No. 6....'. 10:46 p. m.
No. 18. 11:14 p. m.
No. 20. 12:08 p. m
No. 8.10:66 a. m.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 73. Local Freight. 8:00 a. m.
No. 17. 5:36 a. m.
No. 6. 4:42 a. jn.
No. 11. 6:45 a. n*
No. 3. 4:66 p. m.
No. 1.10:45 p. m.
No. 21. #K)1 a-m
No. 7.11*3 a-m.
BATESVILLE BRANCH.
Passenger Leaves.* 7:05 a. m
Mixed “ . 11:45 a. m.
PassengerlArrives. 7:40 p.m.
Mixed " . 10:15 a. m.
ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM. ^
Passenger Arrives. 1:40 p. m.
Passenger Departs. 3:15 p. m.
ix)cal Freight Departs. 6:30 a. m.
On Tuesday. Thurs<iay and Saturday
Some Midsummer
Round Trips.
/
St. Louis—Very low rates all sea
son. Exceptionally low coach
excursion rates July 11,18 and 25.
Colorado—Very low rates all sum
mer. Through sleeper service.
Chicago—Very low rates all sum
mer.
Grear Lake Resorts -Very low rates
all summer. *
Southeastern Resorts — Including
Atlantic Coast Points. One
fare plus $2.00 for the round
trip, on sale Wednesdays and
Saturdays, all summer.
Knoxville—One fare plus $2.00 for
the round trip. June 28 to
August 25.
West Baden and French Lick Springs
—One fare, plus $2.00, round
trip, July 25-29.
Louisville—One fare, plus $2.25,
round trip, August 16-29.
California—Less than one fare for
for the round trip. August
15 to September 10.
ROCK ISLAND ROUTE.
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Little Rock, Ark.
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PRACTICING IN
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COACH EXCURSIONS TO ST.
LOUIS, MO., VIA THE IRON
! MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Coach Excursion tickets will be
on sale daily—September 14th to
September 30th inclusive. Rate
$5.60 round trip; childen under
12 and over 5 years of age $4.00,
return limit on these tickets
seven days from date of sale.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agent.
4
1st to learn thedif
sh and white ash
But I never had
f the furnacemen
ck: First, a few
up and lighted;
’ kindling wood;
coal; fourthly, a
r for the coal tc
oal; sixthly, my
dissful conscious
; seventhly, a r*.
lind—a roaring
> doors frigid to
lace itself in dan
uefled air, I then
■ two in the cold
anisrn and calmly
hat “roaring fire"
ittomless ash pit,
y five senses and
r shoes, up my
ollar. I am hot
to look at a fin
ma.
very young coo
fact. I was bu;
l in short skirts,
a boy in jacket*.
jed he was when
”
until he was 21.’
precocious. H«
tan they usually
Dealer.
His Nerves,
come into the
is case?
roman bought tes
In’t ask for a sin
erk is now a gib