Evening star., 1896-07-18

People are already putting away their
coal for the winter" said a coal dealer
THE prices will be the same n last year.
and 1t Is to the interest of the dealer. as
well as the purchaser, to buy coal now.
The dealer is glad to store away coal now
for the reason that he only has to handle
the coal once, for he can have it carted
direct from the cars to the cellars Of the
consumers. The latter, too, get the bene-
fit. for they get clean coal instead OF the
dirt that collects in the yard BY frequent
hendling and exposure 20 the weather.
In nearly all the states a ton of coal has
to weigh 2,2tO pounds. as It does IN this
District Strange as 1t may appear, Penn
sylvania. the coal state, was the last to
adopt the 2.2t0-pound ton- Until this year
2.690 pounds made ton in Pennsylvania y
Parents should keep an eye on nurses
In charge of their children n the parks
these warm days." observed an experienced
matron. Recently I have seen a number
of children wheeled in carriages about Ihe
parks by nurses. A great deal of the time
i noticed that the nurses kept the children
In the broilng sun instead OF under the
trees in the shade / cannot understand
why so many nurses will persist in pushing
infants about in the sun. while there Is
plenty Of shade / think II would be good
Idea IL the park watchmen We're instructed
TO give more attention to nurses and chill
dren than they do At present the aScrag
park watchman seldom notices the babies.
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Street corner fakirs did not catch on
very we'll during the Christian EndeavOr
convention days. said one OF the street
peddlers. for somehow the visit DTS got the
Idea that they were all swindlers in mild
scrt of a way. There were several novel;
ties offered outside Of the various badges.
buttons and other things that were con-
nected directly and indirectly with the con-
rention. but they Gid not sell, for the aver
age visitor was rot buyer to any satis-
factory extent 1 handled little whistle
W hich initiated the noise Of birds. 1t Is
rot sinful thing in any way. 1 laid in q
them still on hand. 1t is evident the Chris
tian Endeavorers do not like whistles The
fellows who worked other toys or novelties
complain of the light business they did,
'.Lase year there were more glass fruit
Jars sold in this city than during the three
previous years combined" said .lealer in
that line. and the result Is that there Is
hardly any sale for them this season. The
berry season Is almost past. and while I
suppose all those who usually put up pre-
Serves did 50 this year, they have not
bought any jars. at least. to any great ex-
tent OF course, the ordinary fruit iar by
careful packing away lasts long time but
we calculated on breakage and contingent
Gle. of that kind. 1t Is surprising how
much fruit is preserved in this section. No
ere but a dealer In jars can have any idea
OF its extent. In this conenction. some of
my customers have had good success in
PACKING their berries away in jars and fill
ing them with water
Ihey use no sugar or other thing to pre-
serve them. but simply fill the lar with the
berries. and then after letting them stand
Tor a couple of hours, pour in water till
the jar runs over. and then Theoretically
sea! II. taking particular pains to see that
the metal top fits On well ani that the 1ub-
Der band is perfect. The Jars. as an extra
precaution. should be put away upside
down. In blackberries, whortIeberries and
other fruits which are to be used for pies
or puddings this is said to be an excellent
and easy method of keeping them 1t saves
much labor and Is more satisfactory 10
many than to use sugar in preserving
them
Washington is a handsome and remark
ably interesting city in every way and
probably the best in this country as a place
for holding conventions" volunteered Rev.
Bryan Eldrldge Of Buffalo. N. Y, to a par
ty OF friends who gathered about the en-
trance to Tent Williston while the c. E.
convention was in session here. but I do
not think it is suited for Christian Endeay-
1ers SO many attractions that 1t is difficult
for the average delegate to attend as MANY
sessions or meetings of the convention as
they would had the convention been held
In the ordinary commercial CITY, But they
managed to do It."
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Though the Atlanta exposition did not
pay as an exposition" said Rev Mr.
Strother of that city. I'VE are beginning to
find out that 1t paid otherwise 1t left with
US from five to ten thousand desirable citf-
zens- of theae one-third are church men,
bers: nine-tenths Of them are people of
push and intelligence. Possibly the other
tenth came for climatic sons, and they
Increase the business of physicians. Only a
few days ago loahs amounting to one mill
ION dollars we're placed in northern cities
Tor funds which are to be used in erecting
four twelve-story office buildings There
viii be about four hundred rooms In each
You can easily see, therefore, that a
city which needs an increase of sixteen
hundred office rooms has been doing some
thing. and that the something promises to
pay handsomely. There were no natural
reasons why Atlanta should lead the cities
of the south. but the citizens of Atlanta
got 1t in their heads that they should do 80
and they did 1t. OF course, they had to en-
list the aid of northern capital. One Of our
sky ky-scrapers IS to be planned on the lines
of the Cairo flats here. The interior con-
struction: tae steel skeleton. Is also to be
followed
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York is famous no more for it's pies"
explained Major Winfield Scott, who led the
delegation from York to the Endeavorers'
convention In former days York pies
We're we'll known as a Pennsylvania pro-
duction Every train was met at the depot
al York by scores of old women who had
baskets full of pies. Departing trains were
u1- hErx
were daily cor sumed or carried away on
the cars
Now there is nothing about York that
would make pies made there any better
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