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Show o H BORROWED SNIBS. I One Man who Had Coal. During the winter of the coal strike, I when there was a great shortage of H coal and many families in Washing- H ton were on scanty rations, the sub- I jeet was debated often in the Senate. H One day, when the late Senator I Vest was talking, the grandson of William Dudley Foulke, then a mem- I ber of the Civil Service Commission, I was in one of the galleries with his I mother. I The Senator said "anthracite coal" I several times. The boy in the gallery I listened intently. Then he learned far I forward and shouted. "We've got I some! We've got some!" I |