. Book of the Royal blue . oes it with the usual cheerfulness ofhis kind. These patient beasts becomevery knowing and disclose in their workparticular elements of character. Onehorse, known as Sankey, a great whitePercheron, has earned a reputation for un-common strength and sagacity. He willwalk away with loads that the other horsescannot pull, but when he is given too heavya haul for even his Samsonian powers, hewill stop at once, and his driver knows thatit is the demand upon him to lighten theload. He cuts the cars in two, andSankey goes on with his work. He hasbeen known to move twenty-ni
. Book of the Royal blue . oes it with the usual cheerfulness ofhis kind. These patient beasts becomevery knowing and disclose in their workparticular elements of character. Onehorse, known as Sankey, a great whitePercheron, has earned a reputation for un-common strength and sagacity. He willwalk away with loads that the other horsescannot pull, but when he is given too heavya haul for even his Samsonian powers, hewill stop at once, and his driver knows thatit is the demand upon him to lighten theload. He cuts the cars in two, andSankey goes on with his work. He hasbeen known to move twenty-nine cars, ofthree tons each, 100 yards. The usualload for each horse to draw out of the mineis six tons. A promised advantage to this section bythe coal mining is the contemplated railroadfrom the Wabash mine up the AbramsCreek Valley, to take out the coal in thatneighborhood. Abram s Creek runs directlythrough the mountain chains, and the gradeof the road is already here along the bed 16 A MINING VILLAGE ON THE ALLEGHANIES. A i;UOUP OF FAIIi CITIZENS of the stream. When the road is built, itis expected that once more the grand oldstone tavern that stands on the banks of thecreek, about two miles west of Wabash,and which was once the stopping-place ofthe coaches when the National or North-western Pike, on which the hotel is located,was the only highway to the great West,will once more be alive with trade andpeople. It is now a silent, gaunt and mas-sive monument of a bygone age and adefunct system. While there is a lack of literary enter-tainment in this locality, the debating club,the oratorical contest and the dramatic asso-ciation being entirely in disuse, there is ahealthy atmosphere in the books. Amongstthose that may be found in this neighbor-hood in the bookcases and on the shelvesof the residents are: Black Beauty, The Highest Art of Teaching, Historyof Julius Ca?sar, Longfellow, Whit-tier, Poes Poems, Facing Death,History of Mary, Queen of Scots, Bible Readings, Heroes
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