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NEWPORT INDEPENDENT
R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the Dailjf Independent
It' 1
THE COAL WE USE.
—
An Article of Which the Generality
of American Housewives
Know But Little.
—
Coal Is so common a necessity that we
do not take the trouble to know any
| thing about it. The other day, says a
j New York Press writer, I asked ahouse
| holder who burns 25 tons a season:
i “Which do you prefer, red ash or white
! ash?” After a little hesitation he re
plied: “I really don’t know what you
; mean. I didn’t know that coal is made
j 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 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
| tame question, replied: “I always use
the white ash coal, for the reason that
it is so much cleaner, both before and
L after using. It makes a hotter fire, and .
never burns out the grate-bars. It lasts j
i longer than the red ash and is cheaper
i in the long run. You couldn’t hire me
j 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
when using white ash. Of course, the
red ash costs more than the white, but
is cheaper in the dnd.”
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 ai uuue ueiure uut; price guts up;
j “To-morrow early enough?” “Yes.”
“All right; it will be there,” It came
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
j having white ash coal, and you have j
sent red ash. What are you going 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, |
sir. 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 j
I'd buy my white ash alsewhere. Didn’t
1 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 the business
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- j
der, or there’ll be trouble. I’ve a legal
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
100 tons of anthracite for use in the
pumping works, but the engineers, not
knowing how to burn it, broke it up to
gravel the walk in the yards. In 1814
two ark loads were sold at the falls of the
ov i n in a cl tvxxi. ex muimug
was wasted in futile attempts to burn
this coal, and at noon the employer and
his workmen, discouraged at their ill
luck, shut up the furnace and went to
dinner. On their return they were aston
ished to find a roaring fire, the furnace
doors red hot and the furnace itself in
danger of melting. From that day dates
the successful use of anthracite in Amer
ica.
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 j
newspapers crumpled up and lighted; I
secondly, a bushel of kindling wood; j
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 j
drop a small word or two in the cold J
quiet of my subterraneanism and calmly I
proceed to shake out that “roaring fire”
(expected) into the bottomless ash pit.
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 j
and make it burn.
--.
I'recoelont.
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ple—mere children, in fact. I was but
a simpering schoolgirl in short skirts,
and George was just a boy in jackets, i
I remember how pleased he was when
he cast his first vote.”
“But he didn’t vote until he was 21.” j
"George was very precocious. He
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