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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

september.
The Record tells this lie: A girl
from Hannibal visiting in the
country wanted to know if geese
layed gOOseberries.
Matt McAfee has been driving
the hack to the depot in New Lon
don during the past 81 years. He
averages about so trips a week,
$500 year. During 81 years he
has made 81, 500 trips. The dis.
tance in making each trip is one
mlle-therefOre he has Travelled
twice around the world and has
1900 miles to spare. Matt keeps
fat and hearty.
The Record has this boast:
Rails county is surely one of the
biggest counties for its size i'm the
United States. A Rails county
man invented the Cyclone Stacker
and the barbed wire fence. She
has the biggest cement plant in the
world. Her wheat and fruit crops
are the largest and best, her corn
surpasses all others. Her blue
grass is greener and her people un-
surpassed for hospitality and in
telligence. Rails is o. k.
BooNE.-The convention of all
the Christian churches in Boone
county was held at Red Top church
this week.
Mrs. William Hape of Mexico
visited Mrs. Henry Hulen in Cen
tralia last week.
j. w. Turner, of near Turner's
station, lost wagon load of wheat
and two mules. The driver got
his load SO close to the engine that
was threshing the wheat crop of
Mr.. Turner, and the spark set the
load on fire.
Columbia Tribune: Circuit clerk
Hugh M. Hall received a check for
$5l4 from Edward Butler of Doodle
fame. The amount of the cost of
continuing his case at the October
term, 1902, of the Boone County
Circuit Court. He contested the
payment and took the case to the
Supreme Court where the taxing
of the costs against him was af-
firmed. This clears the records of
the court of the famous Butler
Doodle trial.
MONROE, The Appeal believes
the people ought to meet in their
school houses once n month during
cropping season to petition Deity
for seasOnable rains, Thinks it
would be impressive aud edifying.
Let the other seasons go, ell, lest
we forget2"
Jake Stoneking was fined S65 at
Stoutsville for shooting several
dogs in that vicinity. His widowed
mother paid the fine to keep him
out of Jail.
Mrs. L. j. Paradise sold &C
chicken hens in Paris for $35. 80 |
cash.
Carl Shrader of Paris drew a
claim lately in the Grow reserva-
ton but learned that the land was
worthless and did not file on it.
ROOSEVELT CONCERNED.
Paris. Mo-, July 26.-Former
Congressman Ernest E. Wood of
st. Louis has retained ex-Speaker
James H. Whitecotton aud Judge
w. w. Barnes to prosecute dam
age suit against the Globe Demo, !
crat for 1850, 900 aud the papers
will be filed with the circuit clerk
Friday morning 4 recent dis
patch from the Globe Democrat
Washington correspondent in con-
nection with Hon. ii M. Coud-
rey's contest for Woods seat III
Congress is the basis Of the suit
In that dispatch President Roose-
welt, referring TO This contest, is
alleged to have said that he was
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

Money to loan on real estate So
curity. j. w. HOWELL.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

j D. Hardings, in Beaver Dam
neighborhood, hurt in a runaway
some time ago, is still confined to
his room.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02
SOME HAPPENINGS ADJOINING AUDRHIN1

OaU M "eat and Two Mules BurnNas Wre
Parad1se Hen Sale%Gir1 Kills SnakeIva Lott of News
o you "Henry Pates Fate" "Rooseves Suit in Monroe
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

Mrs. w. p. Rowland is secre-
tary for the Mexico district Parson-
age and Home Mission Conference
and attended the State meeting in
Kirksville last week.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

The star mail route from Wanda
liza to Mt. Carmel and Gazette has
been changed and now goes from
Vandalia to, Gazette, then to Mt.
Carmel and back to Vandalia.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

The Farber Forum rises to re-
mark that, I'VE haven't heard
anything this year about Universi.
ty students going out to Kansas to
harvest wheat"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

The Forum says there are three
brothers on the Audrain County
Poor Farm who have been there
for 26 years.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

Lawder & Peterson of Mexico
have leased their coal mine at Far
ber to a company of miners.
The six year old daughter of Jo-
seph Howdeshell of Mexico took
down with typhoid fever last week.
Mrs. r. A. Holmes, south of
Mexico, is a champion butter max
er. She makes about 60 pounds a
week.
j d. Hardings, in Beaver Dam
neighborhood, hurt in a runaway
some time ago, is still confined to
his room.
The Forum says there are three
brothers on the Audrain County
Poor Farm who have been there
for 26 years.
The Vandalia Leader says the
chigger crop down that way is late
this year but it will come uplto the
scratch all right.
Orestes Harding, son of P. w.
Harding of this city, who has been
located in Indiana for some time,
will open a cigar factory in Mex
leo.
w. w. Harper of Mexico has a
fine farm down near Middletown.
He harvested a field of wheat this
season, il yielding about IA bush
els to the acre.
The Farber Forum rises to re-
mark that, I'VE haven't heard
anything this year about Universe.
ty students going out to Kansas to
harvest wheat"
Mrs. w. p. Rowland is secre-
tary for the Mexico district Parson-
age and Home Mission Conference
and attended the State meeting in
Kirksville last week.
The star mail route from Wanda
liza to Mt. Carmel and Gazette has
been changed and now goes from
Vandalia to, Gazette, then to Mt.
Carmel and back to Vandalia.
Elmer Dicus, southwest of Mex
leo, recently traded his 12O acre
farm for the Lakenan & Barnes
400 acre farm, paying $14, 900 diff
ference. Mr.. Dieus gets posses
sion in the spring.
Shannon Hodge, who conducted
conducted restaurant in Mexico
short time about year ago, is
now on soldier duties in the Phil
ippines. His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. r. Hodge, reside at Lad
donia.
"a. P. Warden of Mexico has a
fine farm down three miles west of
Benton Citv He shinned in Prom
Kansas City some time ago 100
head of goats and turned them
loose on the farm to trim the un-
derbrush. All wethers,, he de-
clares, "has- beeus,D not a
mamie" among them. But on
going thru the herd the other day
Mr.. Warden discovered a kid. It's
up to'him to explain, but he can't.
Judge A. J. Douglass of Benton
City is president of the Old Set
tiers organization of Audrain
county. Last week be appointed
a committee to decide on Old Set
tlers's Day for this year. The
committee. composed Of Gen.
w b Kennan, Judge w. w.
Bolts, Judge j. A. Guthrie. P, M.
Morris and S P. Emmons, has
decided to hold the meeting at the
0hantauqua The date will be
seen in the Chantuaqua program.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

Elmer Dicus, southwest of Mex
leo, recently traded his 12O acre
farm for the Lakenan & Barnes
400 acre farm. paying $14, 900 diff
ference, Mr.. Dicus gets posses
sion in the spring.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

w. w. Harper of Mexico has a
fine farm down near Middletown.
He harvested a field of wheat this
season, il yielding about IA bush
els to the acre.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

Orestes Harding, son of P. w.
Harding of this city, who has been
located in Indiana for some time,
will open a cigar factory in Mex
leo.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

The Vandalia Leader says the
chigger crop down that way is late
this year but it will come uplto the
scratch all right.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-08-02

Shannon Hodge, who conducted
conducted a restaurant in Mexico a
short time about a year ago, is
now on soldier duties in the Phil
ippines. His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j r. Hodge, reside at Lad
donia.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01

amy mt, paralysis, or array
rial himorrhage known to midycal
science. Reproductions av this
character are not only perfect III
livery detail, but they presint that
high class av phaynomenon which
is, otherwise, in natural fzzycal
bankruptcy, eliminated be sudden
dith. We can cause payshint to
swift on wan side an fraze on the
other, THROWN the pulse bates out
av harmony-fifteen to twinty
bates, heart action noormal-an'
actually presint goose-fish an
lachrymal pores in the parts under
control.
These are not thayories, but the
livin' throoths av demonstrations
carried on feminist the most famous
surgeons an X.ray Experts in the
United States; ixcloosive av nu-
merous clinique sayawnces con-
Quoted behint the portals av
Midycal College, Chicago. I may
state, in parinthesis, that sklptics
are cordyroyly invited to QUESTION
or inyistygate the veracity av amy
statemint-b arrin' thaYories ap-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
'ffluldoon on the philosophy Of
11vpnotisfn.

pearin' in this or other papers av
the series. The fact that such
ixpayrimlnts are possyble does
not, howiver, imply that annywan
wild a worrukin' knowledge av the
jooce, or ayven mastery av it, is
qualified to accomplish the thrill
in fates av recognized adipt.
Me frinds, there are min among
us today who know more about
the applied science than the scion
tific himsilf, yit they how nayther
tact nor talint soofishint to drill
an ino6nsive hole in a plank. I
allood to games av chance in GIN
eral an to hypnotism in particular,
fer the latter has more drones an
book knowledge advocates an liss
skilled practishuners than all the
rist en- semble.
'Tiz troo, annywan can become
a hypnotist, likewise a painter,
muzishun or 'hod carrier; but, how
nanny emerge from their shill av
superstition to don the cloak av
ginuine SUCCESS? Very few as the
incraysin' popularity av Glory
foorm, photographs an pianolas
will show.
Durin' the past five years the
country has, literally, been
swamped wild hypnotic literature,
which, besides maxim millionaires
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
screenings mentioned above.

screenings mentioned above.
The loading tracks are placed
under the chute in front OF the
shaft, usually four or five abreast,
so that several different sizes of
coal can be loaded at the same
time. When a car is loaded an
other is showed into It's place, and
if you have plenty of cars and a
sufficient number of orders, a
mine can produce a good tonnage,
some producing as high as two
thousand tons per day from one
shaft.
A great deal of coal from the
Illinois fields is now being run
thru washers, and all the dirt
washed from it and sold rs washed
coal. It is, however, only the
smaller sizes, three inches down
to the duff, which are sent to the
washers. 1t has become one of
the greatest of sellers for domestic
use, and is certainly a big thing
for the operator, as it commands
much higher price for his small
Goals than he otherwise would OBJ
tain.
You will remember the former
writer gave you very good de-
scription of the breakers where lit
tie boys are employed. It is
necessary in the anthracite field
to run the coal thru breakers in
order to size it. You do not hear
of breakers ins the bituminous
field. If little boys we're employed
here, it would be for the purpose
of keeping the coal from break
ing. True, some boys are en-
ployed, but this is for the purpose OF
picking sulphur. The miners are
very careful to get out all the sui
phur they can, and for this they
receive extra pay. The operator
getting in the neighborhood of S.
to $6 per ton at the mines for his
sulphur. which is more val
liable than coal.
There was time when the
slack coal or screenings were
dumped upon the surrounding
property adjacent to the mines
and left there as unstable. Now
most of our large manufacturing
plants wish, if possible, to con-
tract for nothing but slack coal,
and in some cases use duff alone,
claiming to get just as good an
evaporation from this grade OF
coal as from the lump or mine
run coal, taking into considera-
ton of course the difference in
prices. Slack coal, or screenings
as they are usually called. is the
coal passing thru screen of one
and one-quarter inch mesh, altho
some operators make a two-inch
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01


screening, but they underworld to
use mostly the one and one.qnar-
ter inch screen, because the more
coal they can get to pass over the
screen into the car of lump, they
can secure lump coal prices, which,
of course, is much greater than
the price obtained for screenings.
One of the great contentious
between the operator and miner
today is the scale paid, based on
run of mine coal. The operator
desires to pay the miner based on
the lump coal tonnage, and to give
you some idea as to the breakage
of coal I will explain the channel
thru which it passes in reaching
the railroad car. You have heard
of the means in which the coal
was first undermined to a distance
of about six feet the entire length
of the room, then how the holes
were drilled and filled with giant
powder and blasted.
You can imagine, especially in
some districts where the coal is of
different formation, that the break
age would be tremendous just
from this one operation, but this
is not the only one. After this
operation it is shoveled into iron
pit cars and sent to the shaft to
be hoisted to the tipple, where it
is dumped into huge iron hop
per at a distance of about ten feet
below the car. Then from this
hopper it is dumped onto the screen,
and last, but not least into the
railroad car giving it it's final touch.
The danger surrounding the
mining Of coal is something to
stager one at times, but IN a great
many cases accidents are due to
carelessness or recklessness on the
part of the miner.
The years production of coal in
the United States for 1905 had q
value of $476, 1868 at the mines,
the output being 392,919,341 tons,
SURPRISING in both quality and
value all previous records in the
history of the country. The in
crease over 1904, being over eleven
per cent in coal produced and
over seven per cent in value.
In each decade the output of the
United States has practically
doubled. The report shows that
there are 626,174 men and boys
employed in coal mining in the
United States. I would like to
dwell further on this subject and
give you some of the inside facts
of the marketing of this coal, but
being coal salesman myself and
soon to enter upon those duties,
I think it is best that I keep them
for future use. E. O. F.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01

familiar with the diamond.
or at least have heard of the
same. A very interesting
account of the manner in which
these precious and rare stones are
mined could be rendered, but not
being familiar with it myself, |
shall give you what little knowl-
edge I have of that other diamond
which is found nearer home, that
of the Black Diamond or coal.
I thought that when | made up
my mind to write on this subject,
which was previous to the paper
given by another member, l would
have a monopoly, but after listen
ing to his most excellent descrip-
ton, I fear that I can hardly do
justice to such subject. I think
it would be very fitting in this pa
per to give you general idea OF
coal bearing strata before coming
to the more detail part, that of
mining and marketing same.
Doubtless many of the men en-
gagged in the coal business know
little or nothing of it's formation,
and in fact this phase has nothing
to do with it's selling qualities;
and so in many cases it is needless
to know. Coal is a mineral which
has resulted, after the lapse of
thousands of years. from the &C.
cumulations of vegetable material,
caused by the yearly shedding of
leaves and spores from forests,
which must have existed countless
ages ago. It is the theory that
these first formed great beds of
peat which, afterward having been
subjected to an ever increasing
pressure of strata above them,
COMPRISING the SEEDLINGS of a
whole forest into the thickness of
q few inches of coal.
If our present forests were up
rooted and covered by sedimentary
deposits, such as those which COW
or our coal seams, the amount of
coal which would be formed would
amount to about two or three
inches at most. You can gather
from this some idea what count
less years it must have taken and
the enormous growth of vegeta-
ton required for our present coal
beds, for in vein of coal there are
several seams, and in many dis.
tricts we find several veins of coal.
Perhaps many of you have no.
ticed, that when stagnant pool
which contains a good deal of de.
caying vegetation is stirred, bubbles
of gas rise to the surface from the
mud below. If this very same
pool were subjected to confin-
ing process whereby the gases
could be retained within certain
period, we would find here a bed
of coal. The chemical changes
which have taken place in the
beds of vegetation and which have
transformed it into coal, have, un.
der certain circumstances, formed
one kind of coal, while in other
conditions it has resulted in other
kinds, and in some cases the pro.
cesses have resulted in the prepar.
alton Of large quantities of mineral
oils.
It is also interesting to note
that, in considering the sources
from whence coal is derived, that
the coal itself is but a minor por.
ton of the whole formation in
which it occurs. The remaining
constituents, varying in different
coal fields, consists of limestone
sandstone, shale, iron ore, fre-clay
brick-clay, slate and sulphur. II
short, the formation consists O
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01

av its retailers, almost provoked
sorific ipydimlc be manufacturin'
foorty-siven hypnotists out av
livery wan hundred ligitymate
rizydints.
As [ stated befoor, amy art or
science can be acquired to GER
tain ixtint, providin' the craft in
wolves corrict principles an
recayves a thorough application
av sincere stoody. At the same
time, it is we'll to rsymimber that
wan master-mind, wild it's siveral
subordinates, is the cintral point
av diffusion in mysticism as we'll
as matayrialism. It is the arky-
tict an builder av the slippery
groove which the rist av the fol-
lowers slide in.
Now, 1 am not afther discour-
agin' the stoodint fer there are
still master-minds in dormancy,
that await devilopmint to matay-
rialize in what me Yiddish frinds
calls goods. Belavin' that these
explanations will remove the super
natural aspicts from the follyin'
facts I will procayde to eloocidate:
Cataliptic fits: Altho highly
dangerous to the third av life at
all times, the praymier hypnotist
intertains no scrupples about how
in his soojlcts throw artifshal
vans. To accomplish this he
indooces catalipsy an be concin--
train his will-power on the heart
thru mintal suggistion-he
forces it's contints up, distindin'
the joogular veins which, in turn,
compriss the bronchocele an thus,
impade the lung action. Such a
condition laves the payshint in a
precarious state fer wind. besides
givin' him only wan chance in
thirty av rupturin' his intire sky
pace. Imagine a man, lividly
purple within in the convulsive
agony av the dith throes; man
wild his eyebawls protroodin',
coords an glands av his nick
swilled to burstin', togither wild
the froth an foam av poison sali-,
walton an we how an ixact picture
av what thranspires in cataliptic
fitation.
Lancin' an naydle worruk: AS
in the above the soobj1ct is hurled
into catalipsy, i. e., parts to be
skived are catallpsed. BARN his
arm we take a lance or amy thin'
sharp an slit it from ilbow to wrist
about an eighth av an inch in dipth
an thin stitch it togither agin.
If amy blud Accompanies the
incision it is only because we how,
accydintly, tapped large artery.
The wonderful part av this wound
lies in the fact that the stitches
can be removed in twinty-foor
hours while in twinty days there
won't be ayven a trace av scar.
BARN the other arm we jab it
full av holes wild common hat
pin; kind av preliminary to the
rale objict in view. Now, insert
in the point two inches above the
carpus an betwane the ulna an
radius we priss it's intire lingth
thru the wrist. In me own ixpay-
rimints av this nature [ niver
stirylized the instruments used;
not because I waz ignorant av
antysiptics, but because they are
absolootely UNNECESSARY. As q
matter av fact I frayquintly bor-
rowed jack knives, an in hatpins
used amy old thing from common
brass to happened gold.
Himorrhages av loongs an nose:
In regards to these I will, fer sew
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
Che SLACK Diamond.

Of Europe, Asia, Australia and
South America.
| The principal varieties are can
mel, containing eighty-four per
cent carbon; bituminous or soft
coal, containing Lightweight per
cent, and anthracite, containing
ninety-three per cent. The highly
bituminous Goals are used for
making gas and coke, and from them
also are extracted coal tar and
ammonia.
We also find that where basalt
has come into contact with btu
minous coal, the coal has assumed
the character of anthracite, while
in other instances it has gone so
far as to change anthracite into
graphite, from which we ell know
is made that useful article,
the black lead pencil. And it
might be we'll to mention here
that the next stage is that of the
diamond itself, for the diamond
is the purest form of carbon found
IN nature.
I first entered the coal bust
ness fourteen years ago and have
found in it such fascination that.
even tho engaged in it 1 met with
adversely, I would not possibly
think of engaging in any other
line.
A previous writer gave you a
very complete description of the
Eastern or anthracite fields of
which Pennsylvania is the only
producing state. and in connection
with it's bituminous coal is the
largest coal producing state in the
Union. Illinois ranks second,
and Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia
and Kentucky are next in rank.
The mining of coal in the bitumi-
nous fields is very similar to that
of the anthracite field, in so far
as the actual mining of the coal
is concerned, that of making en-
tries and rooms and the under
mining and drilling, the shot
firing and propping and the mode
of getting it to the shaft for hoist
ing.
The coal mined in the Illinois
fields is taken from depths vary
ing from one hundred and ninety
to one thousand feet. It is usually
the case that the lower veins are
found to be the best grades. In
some mines the upper veins be-
ing entirely abandoned, some from
poor quality and others on account
of the thin vein. Some veins of
coal are very thin, being only
three or four feet thick; here
mostly pick miners are employed,
while other veins run from six to
fourteen feet where machinery
and electric appliances of all kinds
can be used. The miners work
in groups of eight men to room,
each man being on the basis of
the tonnage mined by his group.
When mine car is loaded little
brass tag is hung onto the end of the
car and is taken off by the weigh
man on the tipple before it is
dumped into the hopper. In this
way the tonnage is kept track of
and the group who mined it.
The coal is sold in several diff
ferent sizes, viz, mine run, that
is, just as it comes from the mine
and containing all the lump and
fine coal. By fine coal l mean
any under one inch and one-quar-
ter in size. The fine coal seldom
runs over forty per cent. Some
mines will show a much less per-
centage of fine coal than others,
but good basis to work upon is
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1906-11-01
PART 10.
SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS.

HRU the agincy av suggis-
ton, in hypnosis, we can re-
prodooce ixact duplicates av
amy fit, paralysis, or artay-