There is coal on it, I believe, and some timber; but Melig, my father's manager, told me that all the large timber had been cut.

So far as available value is concerned, the property is about as much of an asset as the mining stock, with the disadvantage that I have to pay taxes on it." "H'm," said the general, tapping the desk with his eyeglasses.
"H'm--well, I should think if you lived very economically you would have about enough to carry you through till you can be admitted, provided you feel that the law is your vocation," he added, looking up.
"It was my father's idea," said John, "and if I were so situated that I could go on with it, I would.

But I am so doubtful with regard to my aptitude that I don't feel as if I ought to use up what little capital I have, and some years of time, on a doubtful experiment, and so I have been looking for something else to do." "Well," said the general, "if you were very much interested--that is, if you were anxious to proceed with your studies--I should advise you to go on, and at a pinch I should be willing to help you out; but, feeling as you do, I hardly know what to advise.

I was thinking of you," he went on, "before you came in, and was intending to send for you to come in to see me." He took a letter from his desk.
"I got this yesterday," he said.

"It is from an old acquaintance of mine by the name of Harum, who lives in Homeville, Freeland County.