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Is a picture that no painter has the colorin’ to mock

When the frost is on the punkin, and the fodder's in the shock.

The husky rusty rustle of the tossels of the corn,

And the raspin’ of the tangled leaves as golden as the morn ;

The stubble in the furries, kind o’ lonesome like, but still

A preachin’ sermons to us of the barns they growed to fill ;

The straw-stack in the medder, and the reaper in the shed

The hosses in their stalls below, the clover over- read ;

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Ry H. L. Crapr, “Primary Teacner,” Boston.

Now that the stones are covered with snow, specimens of minerals cannct be obtained read- ily out of doors, but one of the most interesting and useful of minerals is, at this season of the year, always on hand for examination ; we can pick it up right out of the coal-hod. Perhaps you have seen coal so many times, and worse yet, have had to lug it up so many times in the coal- hod, that you rather dislike it on the whole; but, when we have talked about it a little while, you will find that no mineral which we have named before has a more interesting history than this same coal.

Most minerals will not burn at all, but coal is a famous burner. What would all the city folks do without it in winter? How could factories, locomotives, and steamships, get along without it? Now, there is one thing in this mineral, that is not in most other minerals, that makes it burn, and thatiscarbon. One of the best places to find carbon is in plants or trees, and the carbon in this coal was stored up millions of years ago, when strange gigantic trees were growing in great a- bundance, where all the coal-beds are found at the present day.

Perhaps some of you are thinking whether coal was mace of treesand plants. Those who have studied the origin of coal most say so. Some of the trees contain pitch, resin, and oily seeds, as many of our trees do—such asthe pine, spruce and butternut tree. We have notrees like them now, but some of our running evergreen plauts, like the «luh moss and ground-pine, probably look much as they did, Country children call the ground-pine ‘evergreen’ and it is used much about Christmas-time in making wreaths and trimming churehes. The trees that looked like our club- mosses are called scale trecs, and they had beau- tiful diamond shaped ficures 4]! over their huge trunks, and the trunks in some cases are suppos- ed to have been sixty feet high and two feet through. Some had seal-like forms very closely arranged on these trunks, and they have been

called sigillaria; and others called calamites look- ed very much like our horse-tails or gun-stocks, that grow so commonly in wet, marshy places and along railroads in thiscountry. Then there were ferns in great abundance, and the impres- sions of them on the shale, where they are usually found, look as if they were embroidered with black silk. Atthe Joggins coal mines, in Nova Scotia, specimens of all these forms can be obtain- ed in abundance. Probably Mr Barnhill, the a- gent of the mines would send a small box of spec- imens to any one desirous of getting them, ata very low price.

But how was coal made from the trees #nd ferns which have been mentioned? In order to make plants grow quickly and to a great size, be- sides good soil, two things were necessary ,—heat and moisture in abundance. It was probably very warm and wet where the plants of the coal period grew, andso they grew very large and very thickly together; then they died and tumb- led down into the water, which kept them from rotting and kept in the carbon ; then other trees of the same kind sprang up on the loose soil made of twigs, leaves, and stumps, only to die and help make a thicker layer of loose, black soil. This thing often takes place on a small scale, and then the water and all the dead plants in it are as black as ink; The black peat which is used so much as fuel, is only a compact mass of the roots of grasses and mosses growing in wet places. W hen the layer of dead vegetable matter became thick, in the course of thousands of years, it sank down with the crust of the earth,—for parts of different countrics are slowly rising or sinking all the time,—and the ocean rolled over it, or mighty rivers coursed above it, bringing sand, mud, and earth to coverit. This was repeated a number of times, until the weight of the muddy covering became such a erushing force as we cannot estimate, and in this way the coal-plants were squeezed together into a solid mass, the pressure in some cases being so great as to squeeze out the pitch and oil, which are taken from the coal-beds and oil-wells of the present day under the name of petroleum. Some say that much of our petroleum came from the countless numbers of oil-beating animals that lived thousands of years ago and were buried like the coal-plants. When the pressure became so great as to press out pretty much all the pitch, hard or anthracite coal was formed, but when the pressure was less, and some of the resin and oil left in the mass, soft or bituminous coal was made. The latter is nsed largely by blacksmiths. It burns with a flame like wood, in consequence of some of the oily substance remaining in it.

Resides being of all substances the most useful as fuel, coal gives us gas, kerosine oil, benzine, naptha, tar, beautiful analine dyes like magenta and mauve, fine essences, paraffine candles, and white and sweet paraftine gum, so well known and appreciated by little city boys and girls, at least.

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