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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1918-8-22, Page 6A BRITISH WOMAN Mighty this time They've sent him- -rile elrl grips lila :tree and there !s ' R ei CITY OF 9 u husky queethm, i i ye Xtoesd;a" yilialnsunrindllcit r ttn,iwU:cc • snap]pt e1dY Ilaa ; LION-HEARTED UNDYING ING GLORY FROZEN LANDS TREASURES OF i ;TYPICAL OF MANY IN THESE SOR- ROWFUL DAYS. Their Indomitable Spirit Is Well illus• trated, in 'chis Little Sketch, I Drip, drip! The raiu on the station roof ticked' the minutes away, and the Wiry dawn caste through the drizzle here and - there lights were out; here and there a eleepy porter awoke to activity. Little knots of waiting wmmou were steeling in an exp ect'eit sllenee on the :arrival platform. and eyes grew brighter as the minutes pasemd. S•yoli, very exon, the train mute come ill. Away in a flim earlier the lone figtcr•w. girl -like iu its outlines, stood motionless. Fur two hears, except for an occasional glance upwards at the station clock and a tighter clutching of the parcel she marled, she had not moved. The Leave Train. A sleepy porter slcunhled her way. "Waiting?" he asked: "How long will it be?" „Here any minute now, The girl's eyes brightened, and as the porter disappeared she shyly raised her left Maud. A plain ring of gold gleamed on one of the yellow - stained fingers, "That munitim, job do matte you mucky," she selieiquised, "hut Thu won't mind." A choking feeling in her throat and a sudden throb of her heart hold her tense. That was a whistle. Again came the screech, and a second later the rain -spattered engine nosed its way almost silently into the station, bringing in its wake a loug line of car- riages whose doors were already: swinging wide. There was an audible sob of relief from the waiting trental), and the girl with the stained lingers found herself swept forward with them to meet the khalteclad figures that were tumbling' bullet just its we were leaving the trenches. The last word he spoke was yenta• name." Just for a menus the girl wife swayed to her :escrow, Then :be held out the parcel. "Them's the suede:Mies 1 gut reedy for Tim, Happen you tele du w'It 'eue I'!1 be getting along to the shop. Ion II be ',venting more sh•ehells!" Oat intu the rain she stumbled one more wattwidow +rho remembered tinct her man was a soldier. j NELSON'S FLAGSHIP, Britain Preserves Several Ancient Men of War, "Victory 9 Bein Oldest,. i II. M. S. Victory, the historic Eng- lish man•of-w•ar which was Nelson's flagship in the memorable battle of Trafalgar, is perhaps the oldest sea- worthy vessel in existence. It has been kept in a tine state of preservation at Portsmouth, and every ' year on the anniversary of its launch- ing it is dressed with Hags. The Victory was launched at Chat• ham dockyards on :flay 7th, 1765, Nel• son served under Jervis on the Vic- tory when that gallant ship lived up to its name off Cape St. Vincent in 1797, On that occasion Sir John Jen.vis, in connnand of 15 ships defeated the Spanish fleet of 27 of the line, For this victory Sir John was raised to the peerage as Earl St. Vincent, and Nelson, his able lieutenant in the conflict off the Portuguese coast, was knighted and made a rear admiral. It , was from the deck of the Victory that Nelson directed the formation of the English fleet's battle line off Cape Trafalgar, Spain, in 1505. when he was opposed by the combined fleets of France and Spain. It was from the Victory that he sent his last signal, "Englaud expects j every man to do his duty." It was on the deck of the Victory that he fell mortally wounded, and it was the Victory that carried the dead hero to Portamouth. The old ship is still seaworthy and in excellent condition, altbough it could hardly survive a single shot fired from the great guns of Britain's present battle fleet. Britain has pre• served several other ancient men of war, including H. M. S. Implacable, which was built in France in 1501, and up to a few years ago was serving as a training ship for boys at Falmouth. Another historic British ship is the Caledonia, which was launched 114 years ago. SPIDER 5 LK. Madagascar Spider Yields 4,000 Yards of Thread Per Month, ')'OWN OF IMPORTANCE IIEFOnnt PRECIOUS STONES OF THE FAR THE IIIRTH OF CHRIST. NORTH. I 11 First Congress of Aviators Trans• Why Germany Has Made an impudent out on to the platform. For one face only she looked—the face the color of brick landscape, but she'd know it among thousands of the same hue. Tint had promised to bring her a German helmet this time, and the sight of one swinging from the pack of a corporal from a Highland regiment brought her heart to a second's standstill. Then it went rac- ing on again, as she told herself that Tim didn't wear kilties. The Absent One. Her eyes roamed, but they failed to I find the face for which sire sought. A queer, numb feeling cense round her heart. Suppose he hadn't come. Sup- pose— She remembered that her , man was a soldier, and pulled herself up. And again her eyes searched bravely. It became easier as the minutes passed, for the platform was thinning, In twos bronzed men and bright•eyed , women were passing out into the rain- • sodden streets. She could hear the throb of taxis in the yard. Little hap- py snatches of talk came to her ears that strained to catch the voice she loved. A party of mud -caked men wont clattering by, giving her greeting as , they passed. Behind them the cor- poral with the dented helmet saunter- ed as if 'seeking for something he feared to rand. The eyes of the girl -wife glanced at him„a query in their depths, and the man gulped and passed slowly, A little way down the platform he paused, hesitating, and afraid of the job before hint. There is no one left on the platform t now exoept these two—the man in kilts, who isn't Tim, and the waiting . s woman. j "God," she whiskers huskily, "he ain't come!" • i And she whitens to the tragedy of t her disappointment. She looks round ferlernly. ,t The kiltie is at her elbow now. I j "I say," he querries, "are you Rose?" ; "Tito?" is all the girl can say, the t word a query. g A Stiff Upper Lip, i t Again the soldier gulps. „Yes," lie says, "he smut you this. t I was to give it you if I saw you waiting hero," Ile holds out the, bettered German I 're'lmet, ; o Ain't Tim canting?" asks the girl, • t mechanically tatting the trophy, and q noting the shifty way in which the young matt is regarding her. "Ile --he can't come. Ile antes for Spider Silk Is a fiber so beautiful that many attempts have been made to utilize it industrially. In only one instance has success been achieved— namely, in Madagascar, where within recent years a silk quite wonderful has been derived from a native arach- nid of large size, very black and known as the "halabe" or "big spider." It is plentifully found on trees. Not long ago a bed canopy made of this silk, and to which many thousands of spiders contributed, was exhibited in Paris, These spiders yield a fiber that looks like spun gold, A French missionary, Father Cantbone, imprisoned .them in empty match boxes, with their abdo- mens protruding, and literally reeled the silk out of their bodies. This was the first crude method. Now (tor mar- ket purposes) they are held in minia- ure multiple straitjackets, each con- taining twenty-four spiders, while the ilk is reeled. An average spider, thus dealt with, yields in five or six successive reel- ngs inuring a month 4,000 yards of silk hread. Girls do this work. It is they also who gather the spillers from the rees and fasten them into the strait- acket contrivances. On dewy mornings in the summer- ime one often sees, extended over rase and bushes, cobwebby blankets hat might have been woven by fairies. They are spiders' webs, not at all like hose spun high in air, but of a dense weave—probably because they are meant to capture very minute insects. n Norway an art of painting pictures n such cobwebs has been developed --- hough just how it is dono (for subs°• tient framing) nobody aeons to know. If a man is really in love with a girl her freckles are invisible, MerSeeteereeesete` WHY HOW DONOU AO, Mess 1 t.., pippiii-Meal Ml HUSBAND -MISS PIPPIN -MR DUPP, ELIO. Ee formed Rheims From An Ancient to a Twentieth Century City. Barely half a dozen cities in an the world have templed their names with `more great events than has Rheims. Rheims has been a theme for news• paper steries ever since newspapers were started, but It was an important news source even before the printing press was invented, The capital of the Champagne baa been indicated on every neap drawn , of the western war front since the Teutonic hordes began their invasion of Belgium four years ago, It was close to the direct line to Paris. It has been a storm centre almost from the day the war started. The re- peated bombardments of its cathedral, the threatened and actual attacks on the city, its gallant defence all have been related in despatches daily. • T)tere may be sumo of the younger generation who imagine that Rheims . e was a discovery of this war. Students, know that it was an important town before the birth of Christ; that Caesar speaks of it in his Commentaries; that the Vandals captured it 1,400 years ago; that those other Huns put it to the torch and the sword twelve nen-, turies before William of Hohenzollern; was born; that once in the fifteenth. century it was ceded to the English,; only to be restored to the French; that it was attacked by the Spaniards: in 1050; that it was the scene of im portant operations in 1814, when Napoleon was playing the last act of. his great world drama; that during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 the Germans made it the seat of a Govern-' or -General and impoverished it by heavy restrictions. First Airplane Tournament And•, as if all these facts were not t h lead, it d tf Claim to Spitzbereen, an Arctic Eldorado. A willow which reaches the height of two Inelies is the only tree which grows un Spitzbergen. Yet this bar- ren and icebound archipelago, which lies three hundred miles north of the North Cape, ie s. regular Eldorado. Once it must have had a climate as warm as Africa, for the cliffs are Pull of coal, and it. is coal of as fine quality tis can be found nrfywhere in the world. There is gold there, too. A small English syndicate was at work there before the war, and did well. Its marble is the finest known, next to the very rare and choice Mexican marble, and there Is iron us well, in great quantities. Spitzbergen is `at present a bone of contentiml; but it is really British territory, our flag having been 'hoisted there so long ago as the year 1615, A Good Investment. No one yet knows what treasures the eternal ice may have in store for civilization; but enough is known to be sure that there is enormous wealth of m(neeal, gold and, probably, pre- cious stones around both Poles. The Antractic expeditions found huge seams of coal in the Antarctic continent, and there is probably iron ore there, and certainly sulphur. The United States paid Russia seven million two hundred thousand dollars for the whole vast territory of Alaska. People said they were throve Mg away money; but as early as the year 1900 the amount of gold alone re- covered in Alaska was over eight mil- lions of dollars. And Alaska bas sil- ver, platinum, and other treasures as well. Greenland, that huge Danish tent - Repairing Blow -Outs. in my experience It seldom pays to here blow -nuts repaired when the fab- ric lute been torn open more than two inches. One that cost $4 to have re- paired ran just nine miles , Another, costing $3 ran a little over 200 miles, and others cost from two to four cents a mile for the milage they matte. This was not the fault of the tires themselves, for all of them were standard -made tires which had run' more then their guaranteed mileage. i The most effective plan 0,0 have for i obtaining the most mileage from tires is to put innerliners in them when they appear to be about worn out or on the point of breaking. We malee these innerliners from old discarded casings. Much of the fabric material in such tires is pretty substantial when kept in a dry place. The fabric is stripped from the rub- ber, the beading cut DE, and the edges tapered. This fabric innerliner is in- serted in a weak tire or in one which has a blow-out. This fabric should not be cut in two, but left in one con- ; -animus piece so that there will be no i clanger of its slipping. I It is a good plan to strip the fabric out of two or three casings and keep several such innerliners in the car. One of these came in very !randy hist August when we were quite tz ins- tance from home and a town, One or the innerliners was put in over a ser- vice, and that tiro is still in e vice, having rte; eight menthe, and it has not been removed once since. It. takes some. little time to place the fabric. in the first time, se it is well to put it in during leisure moment, at home before the casing has become ruptured. We have used about sit or seven of these home-made inner - liners and have not yet had a. puncture through them, The edges of the fabric must be tapered to prevent the inner tube from being pinched. CONFESS/OSS Off' A GERMAN DESERTER ONE, AT LEAST, WHO SHUDDERS AT WAR'S HORRORS. Here Are Some Vital Flashlights on the Hun Military Machine and Its Methods. We are prone to regard the gentle Hun as a man who revels in blood- shed and butchery. Of some this may be true enough, but there is at least one German who shudders at war, with its attendant horrors. The soldier in question Is a young miner who is now "wanted" by the sure one town's per-' ory, as capper, ea s ver an n. German military authorities. From resent place in history, there is yet! Flakes of absolutely pure silver have the very outset his heart smote him, another, by reason of which future; been picked up in crevices along the and his sympathetic description of chroniclers, are certain to accord it a cliff's. biasses of almost pure iron are Belgian refugees rings singularly in high place, though in the fleeting found in. Greenland. One which was ,our ears. brought to Europe was six and a half panorama of present events its merit - :brought feet long by five and a half feet thick, Stricken and Terrified. ed degree of importance has been de Land weighed forty-six thousand "They had probably walked for many an hour," he says, "for they looked tired—absolutely exhausted. There wore women, old white-haired n gas , I rg,, Far stones are also found in men, and children all mixed together, 11909. Only a little while before this ;the 1, ar North. One of the most who had not been able to save any- ' Wilbur Wright had astonished the lbeautiful of what are called the semi- thing but their poor lives, Ina per- ; by the success of his experi-�recious gems is named "Labra- ambulator, e a pushcart, these un - demonstrating meets at Le Mans—astonished it by delete," It is found in blue, green, gol- fortunate beings carried away all that demonstrating that to rise from the,den-yellow, and sometimes just the i ground in a heavier than air machine! color of the sarin of a ripe peach. An the tallnforce they war h beheld one of left them. and to fly about at will was not, after I other is exquisitely spangled with gel- soldiers they were seized with such a all, a dream. I den -yellow, Labradorite is very high - In the various events of that world's " ly valued by cameo workers. It comes first flying week at Rheims forty-four • from the barren wilds near Hudson's ' aviators participated. The spectators 'Ban. saw something never before seen by There are diamonds in Alaska, human eyes. The whole thing was though whether there will ever be dig - without precedent, almost undreamed gangs is another question. In North - of, so different from anything man ern Siberia they dig a stone called had witnessed that the gaping crowds "Phenatrite," which looks for all the felt it deserved a special kind of ap- world like a diamond, but is softer, plause, an entirely new vehicle of. and, therefore, less valuable. expression to demonstrate their admi•i The exquisite lapis lazuli fa also ration, their wonderment, their awe. !found in Siberia, and is sent from It was only nine years ago, this there to China, where it fetches a long tournament at Rheims. The flying price. which we witnessed, marvellous as it Amethysts and Ivory, appeared, wa.s crude in the light of Hied it. (pounds. I It was on the field of Betheny, just outside Rheims, that the first air Many•Colored Gems. plane tournament was held i August � future developments, the rapid ad- Sphene, a very beautiful yellow- vanee toward perfection which bas green stone, is dug in Northern Nor - fear that they seemed to crumple up. We tried to find out the cause of that fear, and heard that those fugitives had witnessed bitter street lighting in their village. They had experienced war; had seen their homes burnt, their simple belongiugs perish, and had not yet been able to forget their streete tilled with dead and wounded soldiers." This human young Hun confesses with shame' that the refugees had good .reason Por the attitude in which they regarded the oncoming foe, Even when they were not committing atroci- ties, the callousness of many of his war comrades disgusted him, "One evening," he says, "we had to succeeded. henry Farman, who way, and garnets and tourmalhne are fortify a small farm we had taken amazed the world and wan a trophy got Prom Greenland. In one of the from the French a day before. We by flying 118 miles, not in a straight almost unknown Arctic islands of Bet•;were to construct machine-gun elm. line or cross-country, but round and tish North America a great store or placements. The moon was shining I round the course, never rose higher ametbysts of the finest quality were fairly brightly. In an adiotning gar - than thirty feet from the earth. , recently discovered• den there were some flint -trees, an I It seems strange that Rheims should' What is perhaps the most amazing appleeree among them with some ap- have been the scene of this initial ex-, of all the Arctic bonanzzas is that con- pies still attached to it. hibition by the monarchs of the air.'tained in the Liahhov Islands and The Callous Hun. That congress of birdmen, the first New Siberia, These lie in the midst ever assembled, transformed Rheims of almost eternal ice to the north of "A Frenchman had hung himself on' that tree. Though the body must have hung there for days, some of our sappers were eager to get the apples.: The soldiers took the apples without troubling in the least about the dead man." He himself could not touch the j fruit, but when hunger drove, he did not scruple to transgress in other Human After All, "'Cat that expedition wo discnrered an officer's horse tied to a fence, We knew by experience that the Huddle- Mtge addlebags of oficern horses always Cut). - coal something that could be °aeon. We searched him thoroughly -under cover—and found in the saddle. -bags quite a larder of fine foodstuffs, but- ter and lard among them. 'then we turned the horse loose," But more impudent still was the be- haviour of a band of soldiers who one night reached their destination- to open teeld--too tired to put up their t°ata. "Everyone wrapped hineseit up in his cloak, lay down where he was, and as soon as ha lay down was asleep. The officers shouted their commands at the exhausted soldiers in vain. Then they begun to shake us up, but as soon as one was awake, the one be- fore had gone to sleep again. "For the first time, blind discipline had failed. 'When the Worm Turned On ono of the Melanesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean lived a much -be- loved pastor, a native, by the name of William, With one exception all of William's little flock bowed before his word. The one exception was the pastor's wife, Lydia, a lady possessed of sterling qualities, but also, unfor- tunately, a very long and very sharp tongue, Miss Florence Coombe in Islands of Enchantment tells how the pastor's clay of triumph over Itis lady finally. arrived, Poor William often had a hard time, but one day a bright idea broke upon him. Lydia had been on the warpath and refused to allow him to have his say. He longed to speak his mind,but the clattering tongue never ceased, Presently the church bell rang, and William hurried to his vestry to robe, Lydia to her place among the women.' When prayers were ended, William came forward in his surprise to say. i a few words, 1 What must Lydia's feelings have been when she found that site herself was the text of her husband's dis- course! As she sat there meekly and: tearfully below him, for once William had his heart's desire and could say 'what he really thought, He had the first word, and the last word, and all the words between! Lydia was great- ly edified by that sermon, and the test of the island hugely enjoyed it. The Rainest Place in the World The reputation of being the rain- ioet place in the world has long been enjoyed by the hill station Cherra- punji on the slope of the Himalayas in Assam.:. The latest official value, based on a forty -year record at the. Cherraptinji station, is 420 inches per; annum. Blanford, the well-known i authority on Indian meteorology, thought that the mean in some places at Cherrapunji exceeded 500 inches,; but nowhere amounted to 000 inches.! As far as actual records go tate rain- fall at the Indian station is surpas-; sod by that recently reported by D. H. Climpbell, of Stratford Univers ' sity, at Waialeale, in the Island of Kauai, Hawaii. During the years 7912.10, inclusive, the Hawaiian sta- tion, which is 5,075 feet above sea - level, recorded the astonishing mean annual rainfall of 518 inches, or more than 48 .feet. from an ancient to a twentieth cen-. Siberia itself, and the soil if full of tuny city. Even if the Buns, per -'tusks of the now extinct manunoth, silting in their vandalism, destroy During the past contrary shiploads of the last vestige of the noble cathe-i this fossil ivory have been brought out drat, the town will retain forever a, and sold at very thigh prices. proud place in history, not because ofi the kingdom which there rose, only to • E eriments in'e Ar cairns in th crumble, but because of the triumph l reduction of antitoxins have obtaine of that science which. i evermore to, ed better results with horses more influence the destinies of men and noel ways. The following incident shows tions, than ten years old than with younger that even Fritz snaps his lingers oc-! �_ -� animals• ,caelonatly at discipline, d« Patent leather gauntlets have been, ""Our field kitchen had not yet ar-1 An artificial coffee has been fru; found valuable additions to the equine trivet!, so we were compelled to find vented in Japan which is said to have ment of policemen as they reflect light lour own food, having no meat, we ' the right flavor and a large percent-' at night and aid in signalling in traf-Iwent through the gardens in search of age of nou•iehment, fie. potatoes and vegetables, EirRIMORSIT 81323 ka. 701 tC) j. 7.01. dot \1E5 INORBD,TIIIS WE.AYHsk Is JUST BEAUTIFUL Row yo Yot) pO MR. DUFF "POM, WE POST BE GOING •- LoOK AY _Tile. Tipei t {" dins in 11 .111. M' B OM 1 MUST •Tai.LyOU WHAT i HEARD 4TM-itHELEN WE'LL I e _ alt THE 8R0WHS-not/ KNOW Br. LATE n n li'E~ pR1Nes so. Atm a -- TI4A-1 DAMIr Is ASoUT A3, INTCResTi N G, As A CooFlffiH TOM l WANT YOU,, To quit TALKING THAT e WA`f. 'Om ItigA Op STANDING OAF YO THE s1c, ACTING BOaeoe le' WAS DI S.GRACD FJll. !' ist *:•# "he From Erie's Green Isle NEWS RV MAIL, FROM IREs LAND'S SHORES. Iiappenhtgs in the Emerald fate of Interest to Irish- nuiru. A standard cloth is to be manufac- tired in Ireland, the same as to manu- factured ht England, and at the same Arlen. There was a total aitaenre or pig buyer's at a recent fail' Ili Athlone, and the animals had to be driven !ionto again, Private P, li!rrl<,, Csnnrlinn:, who whs awarded the Military Meted, is a son of J. T. Rinks, Midland Railway, Londonderry. The Department of .agriculture re- ports that durieg out) week recently 15,601 pigs were bought by beam. curers 1u Ireland. The Bo(lernethers' Society of Bel- fast hove pledged their support. to the Empire for the destruction of Pru: sitar nr)litundsnr. The Tiny Scouts of the Debit)) As- sociation attended a erveee in Christ Church Cathedral in memory of scouts who have fallen in the war. An lui.erosting ceremony took 'dere In Belfast recently, it hen the Lora Mayor presonied illuminated cord ti• vales to the relatives of soldiers. Five thews:ma eggs were sent from all parts of Ireland to the war -time sale held at Upper Mount street, Dub- lin, In aid of the Y.W.C.A. To place Ireland's attear.tions in Trleh and British papers, the Council of Newcastle, Down, wilt epond n. sum °qua; to a penny in the IS 'adver• tisng. ONTARIO'S CLAYBELT The Mill and tine Farmer in Northern Onbtrio Ontario's Claybelt area betwuep the Quebec border and, IIearst, along the National Transcontinental Railway offers one of the best possible illus- trations of a working partnership be- tween the forest and the farm, says the Canadian Forestry Journal, The lands are heavily covered with spruce and balsam and poplar, spruce run- ning as high as 80 to 90 per cent. of the stand. The newly -arrived farm- er Hurst clear his lands of the tree growth as a preliminary to field crops. In his first two years be can- not hope to open up enough soil to give him a profit, but with the aid of the pulpwood selling at the track for $7 and $7.50 a cord (unrossed), he can manage to make satisfactory wages while clearing his property. It is, therefore, contrary to the settlers' financial intereats that the forestlna- terials should be wasted in the clear- ing process through wholesale con- . •wrs. A much more potent argument against destructive fires is the necessity ref having in the Clay - belt country industrial towns to fur- nish a marken for farm products(in• eluding pulpwood) and to provide periodical employment. Such a corn• bination is seen at Iroquois Falls, where the Abitibi Power and Paper Company has paid a list of $110,000 a month and will buy every pound of farm produce raised in the surround- ing country for many years to come. Results of the same Italie will fol- low the new pulp mill- at Kapuskas- ing, to be erected by the Sprate Fall; Pulp and Paper Company, of which Dir. E. Stewart, Toronto, (former Director of Forestry) is Managing Director. This plant will create tat industrial them on the C. G. R. at the edge of the soldiers' settlement, It will provide not only e centre of em- ployment and immediate buyer for settlers' wood, but will matte a pro - market in which every soldier -settler can dispose of his goods at the host prices. The location of these mills in the mills in the spruce -covered Claybelt eepplements in a most velrtnble man- ner the cause of settlement. There appears to be plenty of spruee to keep the mills supplied with raw material, if the forest fires are suppee:esed with every means in the power of the For- est Service, Can Caterpillars Think? I't caterpillars cannot actually think it appears that they have a degree of sense not generally recognised. In a London Institution lecture some time ago Frederick Enock, who has been studying the insects for half a ten• fury, showed that they 'really seers tc e conscioue of their marking anti col- oratiou and are able to use the it ewtetige in protecting themselves from birds, their uateraf °itemise. A picture of a geranium branch thrown on the screen apparently represented only a mass of dead twigs, yet there Were ineluded eight caterpillars, lace- ing amort exactly like the twigs, An even more remarkable exercise of pro- tective eoresigbt may be seen when the Caterpillar spinas the cocoon on a leaf anti evidently becomes aware that the leaf may become detached and that its fall may be fatal to tho chrysalis. To prevent this catastrophe the cat- Oxpillar fastens the base of the loaf to the stein by silicon threads, This strengthening of silken has been ',lobbed many times, and is striking gv%dgOr fron,N9 thatoma faiatll, must realize the daii Y{enittt>Ycy and 1'onineylvania .ppt'oduc* thnearly all the cannel coal tainted lit e Hefted States. W