The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-20

are due to arrive here on Wednesday, will go directly to Woodside their coun- try house, near Troy, N. Y. They have recently been at Carlsbad, Germany, and Mrs Burdens sister, Mrs. Griswold Gray, of Paris has been with them. MT. and Mrs James A. Burden, Jr, who will come from Lenox to meet them on their arrival. will go to Westbury. L. l., for the autumn season.
 Mrs. George Cavendlsh Bentinck, who arrived recently from England is here for the first time in some years. She will visit her twin sister. Mrs. Ogden Mills, and her mother, Mrs. Maturin Living ston, in turn. MT. and Mrs. Ogden Mills will return to their country place at Staatsburg on Tuesday for the autumn season. and have invitations extended for their weekend house parties for long time ahead.
 Among the many notable November weddings will be that of Mrs Arthur Kemp and Hollis H. Hunnewell. This would not have been long delayed after Mrs. Kemp procured her decree of di- vorce had not the Rhode Island laws called for a wait of six months. MT. Hunnewelrs former wife is now Mrs. John Stanbury Tooker and Is abroad,
  thur Kemp will take his little girl to Europe this winter and also his sister. Miss Marion Kemp Mrs. Kemp is of the Roman Catholic faith Her wedding with MT. Hunnewell may be a large af- fair and will probably be celebrated at the home of her mother, Mrs. Frederic Nelson, 100 Fifth avenue.
 MT. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt were the guests last week of MT. and Mrs. Henry White at their place in Sus- sex. England. Mrs. White who is some what delicate in health, as was the for mer husband of Mrs Vanderbilt Louis Rutherford, her brother, passes much of the time in the country. The dwelling here of MT. and Mrs Vanderbilt has been extensively gone over and refurnished of late and that of MT. and Mrs. George w. Vanderbilt reconstructed. The latter couple, who were automobiling in Aus tria and Hungary at last accounts, are coming over month hence.
 t<<<~~~<%%<<%* in some samples it will run much higher in general. the mud that lies far below the surface of the bog will burn best, because by lapse of time the roots and flores have become more fully decayed. In fact, the older the deposit the better mixed are the various elements, the more solid the mud when it Is dry and, proba- bly,, the greater the quantity of fixed carbon it will contain.
 If any one who has access to a mud hole and who fears a recurrence of the difficulties of last winter should want to be prepared for an emergency, he can easily make ready for 1t by securing a lot of old peach crates or similar recep- tacles, filling them with mud from deep down in the bog and setting them aside Some such arrangement for holding the future fuel is necessary, because the mud taken from the deep parts of a bog is soft in its wet state and may not be so readily piled up as that about the sur face, which more nearly resembles or dinary sod. When the meadow mud has fairly set 1t becomes surprisingly hard For instance, Professor Norton recently left some in a keg in the basement of the Institute of Technology and at the end of few weeks found that it was so solid that the keg had to be broken in order to get it out In this form it is almost of leatherly consistency and rather hard to cut so that 1t is best to put 1t into moulds of the size desired for use in the fireplace
 MT. Atkinsons conclusion is that If we have accomplished nothing else in this investigation than to prove that black meadow mud or grass peat will dry Itself off into useful fuel for domestic purposes in a short period of time, and that this may be done in old peach crates or boxes. or by building up a bed of mud separated into slabs of convenient thick ness, for breaking or cutting into con venient pieces, by alternate layers of rushes, straw or meadow grass, this only will perhaps be worth finding out"