A pound of the best Welsh or anthracite coal is capable of raising from 9-1/2 to 10 lbs.

KORSON, GEORGE. Minstrels of the mine patch; songs and stories of the anthracite industry.

In describing Daniel Webster, Carlyle speaks of "the tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown, the mastiff-mouth, accurately closed."

Her mother, too, a saint and angel, had gone aloft shortly after seeing her daughter, Madame, happily married to a maker of calorifères (anthracite stoves).

Nowhere in the United States has the principle of compulsory arbitration been adopted, but at the time of the great anthracite strike, in 1902, public sentiment grew strong in favor of it.