Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-10-17
From the ST Louis Reveille.
A Yankee In n Coal Screen.
nv JOE MILLER, JR.

high canal, short but steep inclined plane Of
nbon' one hundred aud City feet in length, is |
made at the chute which runs from n station |
house on the eide Of of the mountain, to large |
circular revolving screen. To the loaded cur !
is attached a rope which draws up an empty |
car and, arrived at the screen, the lower end |
of the car is suddenly unbo!ted. and the coal is
shot with great velocity into hopper; this con-
veys il directly into the screen. which has three
large chambers, through which coal of az many
sizes is rddled out, and shot, by scuppers into !
Just as many boats, waiting for different des. |
cript ons of the article. .f
A few months since, Yankee OF the genu
inc breed, quite inQnisitive, but more verdant
than Yankee should be. gained the station
house, and gazed with wonder at the contri.
vances. lie peculiarly odmred the swiftness
with which the loaded car descended and emp
tied ls load aud the velocity with which it re.
Turned to give place TO another.
Shortly his attention was attracted by see.
inc a labnrer mount one Of the full cars about
TO axe the descent.
Going to slide ! inquired he.
Yes, going to chute won't you GO
.Wal, guess III stop bit, and see you do
The car swiftly descended, and, ere il reach
! &C tie hopper, the passenger jumped oil safely
DO you do ha, often = inquired he OF one of
the lahorers ~ the station house.
oh, yes. continually was the wngg'sh an
swer, you know niust all the boatmen are SIN.
gle men, .rd as they often have orders tor td-
mily coul,' we always send down married
man with every car OF that kind, to let 'em
know
wal now, do tell uttered the eastern man.
The more the Yankee looked at the npparu-
,us, the more did he become convinced that it
would be great thing to go down the steep IN
thai way--someih,ng that he could tell to
hum.
pIucking up courage, he approached the su.
perintendent.
That beats slcdden down hill, don't it'
'l'sposc i, does
you couldn't let ieller 20 down, could
youN
WHY. do yoa think you can jump off in
tine ,
.Oh, YES, I'm reckoned considerable of a
jumper iunpin does me good; once jumped
I'll iuy NOV thirty feet high, and II made me
20 rupe that I'm give in TO be the best dancer
IN tie hull township
.Wcl,, get on, and take care OF yourself
: Suddenly the car moved oft, and our friend
> found the speed so fearful, and the decivi'y 81
great, that he was forced to stoop down ant
, grasp the sides of his vehicle for support. The
, place where tho iaburer had leapt of was rea
e ched. bni the Yankee was not in the position Il
. lump he Ind To hold on, and, running dowr
y d.scen, three times us steep as that which HI
n had come, n sudden click shot the bolt, and
h with violent torcp, out went the contents
y Yankee included, into the hopper.
j. Murder get me out! stop the consarn
e shon,ed our hero, as he felt himself sliding dow
j. the hopper To the cylinder. Murder! stop tn
;, consarn-i'Ii be killed : But the motive pow
. er OF rhe coisarn' was water, which had n
/. sympathy with those who pursue knowledg
i. under difficulties and those who saw were to
;. distant and too much convulsed with laughte
4 To yield assistance. Into The screen he slil
Y landing on the top, and as he felt himself re
> volvin. with the coal, he grasped the wires !
II desperation, to prevent himseitrom being 70
II he'd 10 the botlom-around the wheel he wen
!. and our friends senslbilities were touched u
by plent.iu shower of fine coal dust riddle
through from al the chambers. lie manage
, To get one eve open, and saw with deligh. ths
!, the cylcnder was only abou. fifteen feet i
length, and he forced his way forward 10 III
= opening with desperation, but it was not al,'
gethcr successful; another revelation OF tn
wheel had yet 10 be borne, and the next tim
he reach, the bottom he was shot out of III
: scupper into The boat beCealh. To the scream
|, of laughter with which his advent was haie'
our hero said not word, but, getting out
: old handkerchief, rubbed the dust out Of his eye
). and surveying his torn apparel and bruised. ba
a tered, scrstchcd and cut limbs, he raised h
a vein, 10 know as what quality of anthracite
:. had been delivered--when, smashing his rem
:, nant of hat over his eyes, he s,umpcd OF
:; mutterng broken end screened, by thunder
90 Philadelphia. September, 1916.
TO TEA-A private in the army, writing to
~ friend from Cerralvo, near Montery, says th'
a. he has drunk real China tea, grown on that sol
o. nearly equal TO any imported from the Ceies'i'