Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-18
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,
Spool Thread


This seems to be small talk on a
small subject, but it is fact well
understood that firm by the name
Of Coats-thrifty Scotchman. born ar
Palsy, in that Scot country. about
180S-9-have been the great leaders
Of the civilized world in manufac-
turing fine cotton sewing thread.
Coats thread has been on the top
of the market for more than sixty
years to my knowledge.
The operations of this sewing
thread extend to almost every coun-
try in the world.
If you buy a genuine article of
Coats thread you will get good meas
ure and 1t will prove to be whatever
it has promised to be.
These Coats brothers. Thomas and
Peter. were honored with knighthood
in their, own country,
They were public-spirited and gave
large amounts to benevolent UNDER
takings
When I have occasion to buy sew
ing thread Of cotton, whether white
or colored, I go home satisfied I have
good material to work with, whether
coarse or fine.
The men were so careful. painstak-
ing. using only the best cotton. that
their monument in the civilized world
is the excellence of their manufac-
- ~ Something About Coal
AS I look at the fast diminishing
heap Of coal that I had placed near
my convenient side door to be ham
died easily if we had sleet storm
or wet snow, by these aged hands
of mine, and remember that I paid
at the rate of .$15 per tone for it,
n will nc M ri
when I buy again. I felt inclined
to know or to try to find out some
thing about where coal came from,
and if it was the scarcity of the coal
which had run the price UP to famine
rates in this section Of the country.
1t it has not grown scarcer it
certainly looks like the coal barons
are putting the handouts on us.
To begin with, discover that
some of our great railroad systems
own very extensive and valuable
coal properties A few, years ago,
trains of excellent coal cars packed
high with coal, were switched into
various places, and kept there until
the people grew desperate. Whil'
such things were going on in my
part of the country and some Of my
neighbors took ramble in the coun-
tryside and counted the switched off
pie in Gainesville, some black and
some white, concluded to save. them
selves from freezing to death; burned
up a good two roomed tenant house
for me which happened to be I'M
tenanted. So I have a lively remem-
brance Of that coal excitement.
I find there Is plenty of coal In
the world and America has consid-
cradle. to her share.
CoalN is described as the most i'm
portant Of all rocks, and is univer-
sally classed as of vegetable origin.
There are two kinds, anthracite and
bituminous coal.
The use of coal does not seem to
have been known to the ancients, and
I never saw an anthracite coal fire
until the year 1875. We burned wood
exclusively in Georgia, where 1 have
lived for more than eighty-five years,
until we, found it cheaper, in the
early 'SOs. to get it by the carload and
burn it in our farm home. We could
purchase it cheap1y at that time. 1t
was long step to SIS ton, but we
have been stepping long and running
hard for several years to keep our
selves and pay taxes to the railroads,
that seem to be the coal profitears in
Cherokee Georgia.
When coal began to be used In Eng
land in the thirteenth century, 1t was
called sea-coal, because 1t had to be
imported by sea. L nave neither Time
nor space TO tell our Country Home
readers the various theories about
COAL how it came to- be packed In the
earth and how vegetable matter ac--
cumulated, got packed in close, ano
then got covered up in what is called
the "bowels Of the earth" There
are coal fields nearly, or qS1te, al!
over the world. In Canada, Goa
fields appear to be small, but there
are enormous deposits in various sec
lions of the United States. We are
said to have coal fields in the United
States in a space, or spaces, eighty
three times greater in expanse thar
the entire coal fields Of Great Britain
The Appalachian coal fields ex
tend from northern Pennsylvania &c
central Alabama. We have Goa
feIds in Dade county, Georgia. The
northern interior fields in Michigan
cover more than 1900 square miles
There are 400 square miles OF an
thracite in east Pennsylvania. Ihere
are large coal fields in Illinois, lndl'
ana and Kentucky. There is Wlde
coal belt that reaches from Iowa tt
Texas The great coal fields or tnt
| unexplored northwest may furnlsi
immense deposits. ,.L.
Doubtless there is coal within
reach by boats and railroads every
where in this country.
At SIS per ton it can make b1!ilon'
elres by the hundred at that price
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