FROM DARKNESS TO EIGHT. 
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plastic. There was a twisting as well as a settling, 
and as the edges of the broken strata rubbed against each 
other they were bent and remained fixed as the chasm was 
filled with molten rock. They exist today as the interest¬ 
ing signature of the cracking and quaking that happened 
long ago. 
From Darkness to Light. 
The Stery ef a Lump ef Ceal, 
BY SUSY C. FOGG. 
The autumn days shorten and grow chill, but there is 
cheer within and we look forward not without hope to that 
season when we shall live by gathered stores and in thought, 
‘ ‘count up what treasures we have garnered during the days 
of privilege.” 
The hard and jetty coal that laid upon the grate reddens 
and glows with such fervent energy is a product of centu¬ 
ries and no man saw. It is now a mineral without crystal¬ 
line form, but believed to be of vegetable origin, of the 
kingdom which may supply fuel, shelter, food and clothing 
and its history is clean and thrilling. 
The heart of the anthracite coal region is in central Penn¬ 
sylvania, that “world of green hills” and greener valleys, 
where the winding river makes in and out, and it is enough 
to live, to enjoy the beauty, and be free from the soil and 
stain of the world. The surface is fair, like New Hamp¬ 
shire’s own, but below, there is a different story. The 
quiet but tremendous forces which have been at work since 
time began have produced not the beautiful, gray granite, 
but strata on strata of hard, black coal, and the huge 
black “breakers” the “culm piles” and occasional desolate 
wastes where whole forests have been reduced to decaying 
stumps by water saturated with sulphur pumped from the 
