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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
Underground Processes of Mining
By ETHEL ARMIES. Story of Coal and Iron in AIsbamac

Although the Birmingham district is the coal mining center of the south, com raratively little is known by those out side the mining business of the actual processes of present day coal mining in Alabama.
 The general aspect of this underground world. the order of the days work, the practices in vogue, the sorts, kinds and uses of mine machinery particularly the latest inventions which have been adopt ed in the mines here; the safety devices and rescue workAall combined, make 0 subject of extraordinary interest, es- pecially to citizens of Birmingham.
 Electricity is making tremendous head way In many of the Alabama coal mines of late electric haulage is rapidly sup planting muie haulase; electric coal cut ting machines. pumps, hosts, fans, lamps, signals, lights and that most im- pCrtant Of practices, electric shot firing have all been adopted in more or less de- gree in the more representative mines. And almost every month records some new installation, safety device or mine machine that is an improvement on old conditions.
 The workings of practically every coal mine of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company are electrified. This company. in fact. was the pioneer in the introduction of electricity here. It was in 1a03 during Don Bacon's administration, that electricity was first installed in this company's mines by MT. Robert Hamil- ten, consulting engineer of coal mines di-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
Animals Their Own Doctors

From the Detroit Free Press.
 Much Is said about the compensation of nature, and there is more fact than hc- tion in the theory. There is evidence that in the allwise plan of creation ailments as we'll as enjoyments were contemplated and equally provided for-always except ing the unnatural disease directly caused by vice and abuse. Men have to Invent remedies for these as best they can, since they are the only creatures responsible for them With the brute creation Gin free state and unaffected by human ,on- tagion) the simple remedies of nature generally suffice for their few ailments, and they are guided to them by instinct. We have been told how the mongoose cures himself when bitten by a cobra by eating a certain plant. and many of our country readers have seen a sick dog busy himself in the dirt Animals in- stinctively choose such food as Is best suited to them. .H. .4-.-
 large number of animals wash them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
Flowing and Flows in Siam

CTOIn slHe NeW OIh Suil. 4...
 The ancient ceremony, the Flowing Festival of Siam" is usually observed during the first half of the month of May. It opens the blowing season and the beginning of rice blowing, the rains having by this time sufficiently moist ened the hard soil to admit of wet planting dry planting as rule not be- ing practiced in Siam, writes Vice Con- sul Hansen from Bankok
 The blowing ceremony is performed by the Minister of Agriculture. who acts in place of the King. The minister escort ed in public procession with native mu- sic and the beating of drums, proceeds to the fields where mystic rites are performed and sacred scriptures chanted.
 Those part of the ceremony being fin- islysa, the oxen. decorated with flowers, are fastened to the blow, and the first furrow of the season is made and the eelfy rice is sown. The following de- scription of the native Siamese blows, given in the BankoS directory, is true at present of the blows in use in the fields ofASiam. -b
 "The blows are crooked sticks with one handle. The body, soloplate, Landslide and moldboard are all combined tn a natural crotch--the hump at the fork of tle tree; the shorter branch is made to answer for a moleboard, and the longer one is left some two feea long and ten inches around and comes to a point to receive the socket of the plowshare, which is little larger than a mans hand made of cast iron in sort of triangular shape. It bulges out into a socket on the underside to receive the nose of the run ner, and Is never permanentlM fastened to it's place. The wood part of the blow costs about $1 and the iron share about 15 cents Mexican (42 cents and 61s cents American currency. respectively)s It cuts B furrow two inches deep and about five or six inches wide, and there is so little curve to the moldboard that it does not turn over more than half of the clods broken up. The man or woman
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selves and bathe. as elephants, stags. birds and ants. Tn fact, man may take lesson in hygiene from the lower api- mals. Animals get rid of their parasites by using dust mud, clay, etc. Those suf- fering from fever restrict their diet, keep quiet, seek darkness and airy places. drInK water and sometimes even plunge into it. When a dog has lost his appetite he eats that species of grass known as dogs grass (chiendent. Cats also eat grass, catnip, etc. Sheep and cows when i'll seek out certain herbs. An animal suffering from chronic rheumatism always keeps as much as possible in the sun. The warrior ants have regularly organized am5u- lances.
 Latreine cut the antenae of an ant and tie other ants came and covered the wounded part with a transparent fluid se- creted from their mouths If a chin- panzee be wounded it stops the bleeding by placing its hand on the wound or dress ing it with leaves and grass. When an animal has wounded leg or arm barely hanging on, 1t completes the amputatioA by means of it's teeth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22

He comes from Arkansas originally, was born at Fort Smith, where his father was principal of the high school. He graduated in the Rolla technical branch, University of Missouri, and went to rail- roading Like most engineers he has had an interesting and widely varied ex- perience, worked from the great lakes to thel gulf. and from Cape Cod to the Golden Gate
 In 1905 MT. Morrow was s/tioned in Atlanta as office engineer with the At laEta, Birmingham and Atlantic. In his work for the Birmingham Coal and Iron company he has in charge the engineering work of the coal and ore mines, plants, track work and camps.
 In going down a deep shaft mine one alights from the double deck hoist in the railroad yard, the Broadway" of tae underground city, where the loads and 'empties' come and go.
 Forward, Marchr'
 It s a picturesque sight An electric mine locomotive is like a man O war-a little ironcad, an odd, brutish looking n.ece of mechanism, smooth, strong. chunky and thick through-in action as quick and vicious as you please-spurting and spoutng fire flashes as it grinds through the dark. Built especially for subterranean going 1t is without projec- lions or attachments of any sort-even it's wheels are covered. It is really no more than 9 stout steel plated box, low made and perfectly simple in construction. It's short trolley. pole sticks up abruptly to
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 holds it by the one hand and guides the oxes or buffalo by rope passed through the animals noses."
 The only other agricultural impliment of importance is the native harrow and it is described in the directory as follows: 'sThe harrow is simply large rake with wooden teeth and bamboo tongue long enough to reach the yoke and allow the oxen to hold their heads up. It has an oval handle to aid in lifting the tool up to shake out the grass and stubble and to bear down upon when the clods are hard to break
 However, these ancient agricultural implements are about to be suppanted by modern American blows, which at the recent exhibition of agriculture and commerce were awarded gold medal and by actual demonstration in the field showed their great superiority over the native blow. An itial order for these blows has just been placed with Amer ican manufacturers, and other orders are expected to follow in due time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
New Man, Record Maker

From the New York Press.
 It probably will surprise a lot of people to know that Morgans total of 65 direc- torships is by no means a record not any where near it. William c. Brown, the president of the New York Central rail- road. puts J. P in the shade with a total of 9i directorate tes To what prominence Brown has sprung in rairoading may be judged from the fact that In 1905 he vas not listed as director of a single com pany. But even Browns wealth of votes in corporation affairs is not the high wa ter mark. William H. Newman, of whom even the average Wall street man hears little is director in 90 corporations. New mans directorships are largely in subor- dnate companies of the New York Gen. tral system. And, really, 95 is a modest number fors him, for in 1909 he had all previous and subsequent records beaten by holding 112 directorships. In 1901 he wasn't even listed in the Directory of Di- rectors.
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"Yes. he ran-rather. well, I don't blame him
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But I would feel like there was d lump in my throat. and I could not get it up nor down unless l would eat something | would have dizziness and headache a good deal, some times pains in the back of my head and lower bowels running around to my back. My breath was very short at times, My breath was foul and l had a nasty slime in my mouth in the morning. l had been reading and hearing about the Health Teacher. who has intro- dueed the wonderful Quaker Herb Rem- edies in this city and after being per suaded by my friends I called on him and procured the Quaker Extract and I am thankful did, for to think have only used the medicine three days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22

Mrs R. l.. Ayers, who resides at No. S07 Forty ninth street, this city, With five sman children and her husband, who is q yard foreman at the Alabama Great Southern railroad wards, Avon dole as this lady is the mother of five small children and has been in poor teallh TOT years, she was always un- dor the opinion that it was due to the constant care and worry that kept her feeling so bad. She said: "I never have time to complain, for the babies have always Kept me busy tending to their wants, so l went on from day to day always thinking 1 would feel bet ter the next day. l never had the ravenous appetite that I have heard so much about when people were af flictcd With tape worm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
When She Will She Will

Meanwhile the Sullivan cutter at length consents to return to its truck and. grumbling, leads the way through the nar- row entry beyond the pillar to where it ought to go
 '"his curious, 1.-the machine is a cham cutter, electric driven with detachable frame. It's motor Is of the multipolar vertical, shunt wound type, equipped with a ventiating fan. The armature, built on a spider is wound for 250 volts. The speed is 1925 revolutions per minute and tne horsepower 90. The controller and in terlocking reverse switch are mounted on a slate base. In all it's movements, loading upon or unloading from the truck, moving to position. and undercutting the coal, the machine is self-propelling. Wound about its 23O yards of link chain, its front and rear jacks stuck in like skewers its bits of steel, copper and
 aiming in the dark it looks to be at first sight about as unwieldly and complicated an object in the machinery line as could be devised.
 T"How in all the world with all those trappings and fxings do you keep it out of the repair shop?'" you ask. and no sooner said than you see your break an awfu! break to Sullivan man. But the Jeffrey man in the crowd. he grins.
 "A Sullivan machine" says the Sulli- van man, little stiff, don't know what the repair shop is. You're thinking of the Jeffrey cutter.
 Whereupon the Jeffrey man speaks up and-not even the anchor jack of the Sullivan is left unscathed. It's almost as bad as q central water works man or C. W Lutz going for a B. S, man.
 Then to clinch the business the Sul- livan simply of itself gets on tho job and all the arguments are knocked into a cooked hat.
 Once see that machine attack the solid wall of coal. advance it's long saw-lil1e cutter bar beneath the black seam at one rib of the room and feed itself across the entire length of the place al speed of 30 inches ger min
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
"A LOCAL LADY RESCUED FROM A LIRE OF MISERY
 

and, behold, there passed this monster tape worm squirming, alive and com plete. And this was the true cause of all my trouble. Now, my friends and sufferers. whatever he tells you that Quaker Remedies will cure. hon. estly believe him. for he says he proves what he says"
 If you suffer with stomach, catarrh, kidney, liver or blood troubles that mean indigestion constipation. bloatinx, belching, dizziness, shortnoss of breath. headache. start at once using the Quaker Herb Extract and oil of Balm and see what wonderful change t few days will make. If you can, call at Gunn's Pharmacy, Third avenue and Nineteenth street. or your local lrus- sst.
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 It's a miracle.
 Subdued, you turn back and grope your way to the main haulage track again.
 A Voice in the Gloom
 Hear the gas?" the men halt where the track swerves off to another one of the entries into another room. All is quiet save far off trickline sound. slight and musical.
 Why, like a little waterfalls some where.'' You stop and listen. dumb founded.
 some water there, too" says Su perinetndent Meagher, gas and water mixed" The sound goes on. It never, never stops. In the silent subtle dark it even seems to increase. uhul' Tn fancy, hundred little white streams steal through the ancient coal plants, the black roots, the reeds, the shad~ cWy ferns and mammoth trees buried there these million years. The old coal forest is young again, fresh again, all quivering with light and life and passion for the sun. You, too, throw wide your arms to gather sunlight even so-open your heart to cherish dreams,
 Half lost in the everlasting gloom, near the rigid heading, the miners swing their pit lamps up to the low rcof, where, close under a stratum of' slate, above the shining band Of coal, ever turks that alluring sound, the voice of a mysterious, invisible Vapor' poisonous breath of the. long lmprls- oned coal plants-the deadly fre damp
 Instantly it catches fire Qulck as heat lightning, treacherous. wild, fantas- tic-goden hair ,of the Lorelei-it plays over the face of the coal.
 Light carbureted hydrogen explains Milton Fies, "C. II. 4 as coolly as "Flne weather we're having today
 The witch like strands of blue and vel low flames leap now like strange live things. ."The ghosts of the mines! says Meagher as he and the miners quietly hit them out with Jumps of coal.
 "D'you wonder the nisGers take 'em for ghosts? We set some on fire the other day" there is suppressed chucklc. The miners grin; That Du- pont powder man, yes l remember
 Run, You never saw the like.'
 What That Dupont powder man run?"
 ''Yes he ran-rather!
 well I don't blame him--
 The next subject in this series will te
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22

grab the low hanging wire, and it's drivers seat is put low as in 8 racing | automobile. These motors make deaf ening noise as they shoot up and down the main haulage lines with their long trains of ''1oads and "empties," on the way to and from the hoisting cage Your particular Jeffrey S-ton motor comes to a halt where you are waiting by a sand pile near first entry left. You leap into the empty, the lights wave and you start. Does the Jeffrey really move? You suffer the snails pace as long as you can, then you ehristen the motor "'rhe Virginia Creeper whereat her divers pride is stung He looks to the superintendent.
 ''Yes, Youngblood," says Mr. Meagher, Ego ahead, you can take your regular tilp.' On he turns the controller then, and with terrific impetus the motor hurls foi ward in the tunnel.
 Between Scylla and Charybdis
 Look out for the wire. Killed q man last week." You stoop low in the empty.
 Watch the curtainr" You just escape the heavy Tapping of the canvas cur tains that defect the air current. The empties rock from side to side. the couplings chatter, the whstling signals of the driver and trip rider shriel1 lik Q d March blast in the dead of night hickcring lights, storm of dust and coal, sounding roar and black dark are all one breathless whirl. You halt
 So that's the way a Jeffrey goes You take back the name you named Ter (call her the F. r. V instead), as you jump out at fifth entry right where they are going to cut in a min ute.
 There. sitting on a crosstie finishing Up his dinner, is Martin Shelley, one of the Sullivan machine men.
 Now, if I'd only known you folks were coming" he shows his empty dinner pail.
 That's all right. We had fried chicken and hot biscuit and apple jelly and lemon pie up at the hotel and is that Sullivan cuttsr?" You turn and look at a monstrous thing that has baked off it's truck somewhere In the wrong place.
 MT. Shelleys buddy" is hard at work persuading the beast to back. He says the accident happened" says MT. Shel- ley, because woman's down the mine! I tell him it's a plain case of mismana cement" For Shelley, being Irish, knows the tongue right well. The buddy" being called to account will not take if back Tt may have been some mismanagement." he agrees, but it's bad luck and mismana cement both. And 1t wouldn't have happened if woman -"
 Whereupon they one and all begin. The general superintendent, the chief en- gineer. tho mine inspectors, the mine su- perintendent and the machine men and miners all tell it-what happens when a WOmans down a mine,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22

The next subject in this series will le description of the new mine rescue station to be published in The Age-Herald November 5.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-02-03
Athenian Club.

The Athenian club held a social
meeting at the home of Mrs. Vida Nor
rison on Monday afternoon. A very
entertaining program was given as
follows:
Piano solo-Mrs. Morrison.
Instrumental solo-Mrs. Katherine
Smith.
Vocal solo-Mrs. Castle.
instrumental solo-Mrs. Charles.
Medley-Mrs. Baker.
Recitation-Miss Osmond.
Vocal solo-Mrs. Wagaman.
March-Accompanied by Master
John Morrison on snare drum.
Mrs. Focht gave an article upon
THE First Woman's Club"
Mrs. Moses showed the members
some very interesting heirlooms and
pictures.
The club will meet next week with
Mrs. Alice Cox.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-02-03
Wants State to Get Fees.

Topeka, Kan.-State Auditor Nation
has recommended that the legislature
require all state charitable and educa.
tional institutions to turn in all fees
collected. He says the institutions 70
to the legislature and let enough DR.
rect appropriations to run them and
use the fees besides. The records
show that more than 100000 Is col
lected annually in fees by the institu.
tons. III the institutions were com
PEELED to get along on their direct ap.
preparations, which are plenty large
enough" he said, "and the fees they
collected turned into the state treas.
ury, 1t would help solve the question
Of increased taxes" ..
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-02-03
He Lost Twenty. Steers.

ArkaAsas City, Kan.-The saying
that the cattle business either makes
a man rich or breaks him, seems to be
true. Or ct any rate no cattle man
could stand many such losses as that
which visited Jim Warren, who lives
near here. The hills at this place we're
dotted with dead steers, all large, fine
animals. He lost 20 head as the re-
suit Of their getting into some corn
fodder and Sating it. The same fOd.
der was fed to his milk COWS but didn't
seem to have. bad effect on them.
The dead animals are Texas steers
and the corn stalk seems to have a
deadly effect on this brand of cattle
when they are shipped here. The loss
will amount u over $500.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-02-03
GOODBYE, CHRISTOPHER.
Plan That Will eliminate Pest and
Increase Alfalfa Crou,

Kansas City, Kad.-Woe be unto thu
Kansas grasshopper. His days in the
alfalfa beds, where for years he has
increased his tribe unhampered and
cost the owners Of the fields thousands
of dollars, are said to be numbered.
Professor S. ]. Hunter Of the Uni.
versity Of Kansas, located at Law.
renee, says he has found plan which
not only eliminates the destructiv,
hoppers, but ALSO increases the alfalfa
yield. -. g
Professor Hunter says the solution
of the grasshopper problem is 10 disc
the alfalfa fields in the spring just af
ter the frost has left the ground. This.
he says. exposes the eggs of the hop
pers, which are deposited in the fall,
to the weather and to birds and otheT
destructive insects. After the disc has
been used the professor advises har-
rowing the field with slant tooth
harrow. The yield of alfalfa, he says,
has incr eased one-third in the fields
where his plan has been tried.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-02-03
Home Study Club,

The Home Study Club met Monday
with Mrs. Jennie McMullen and con-
tinued the study of English History,
with Mrs. Hattie Luse as leader. The
subjects discussed were:
Edward the Fourth-Mrs. Lund-
blade.
Richard of Gloucester-Mrs. Dora
Clayton.
Edward the Fifth and Richard the
Third-Miss Maude Luse.
Death Of the Two Princes-Mrs
Maude Bailey.
Wars o fthe Roses-Miss Allie
Moses.
The club will meet Monday, Feb
ruary s, with Mrs. Luse.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-02-03
NAY RE-O|sTRICT STATE
DURING COMING YEAR.
NEXT SESSION or LEGISLATURE
LIKELY TO TAKE UP. WORK.
9:
Is the Result Of Changes wrought by
census-Senatoria Districts VIII
Undergo Greatest Revision.
Western Counties. Sure to
Be Gamers.

Topeka, Kan.-It is probable that
there will be an entirely new list OF
senatorial and representative districts
in Kansas at the next election. There
is no platform pledge to this, but as
the constitution requires a redlstric!'
ing every five years. the session foil
lowing the census, and as there Rave
been some wonderful changes in the
population of the state, is seems Ger
tain that there will be some changes.
Several bills are already IN the|
course of preparation to change ,the
districts in both the house aud the
senate. The house districts were
changed two years ago and the reI
Enumeration. made confusion in the
primary and election. Several menu
bers sent back their certificates 10 the
secretary of state and demanded new
ones to show their real districts. They
had been elected as members Of the
old district and did not know Of. the
change. II the newly elected mem
bers insisted on their election from
the old numbered districts standing
they would be representing people In
a different county from the one they
live in.
Under the proposed change there
will not be many losses in representa-
tives or real changes from the appor
tionment OF house members made two
years ago. The western or central
counties may be given one or two adj
ditional representatives, but there will
be some big changes in the senatorial
districts. There are half a dozen
western and central counties that
have larger population now than
some Of the counties that have sena-
tors of their own. The big districts
In the western half OF the state are
sure to be divided. The Thirty-eighth
district is entitled to two full sena'
tors now and by a Encouragement Of
the Thirty-ninth district will get two
instead of one, and some Of the Cen
trail Kansas counties now attached to
others will get senator and some dis
tricts of three and our counties can
be divided and some Of the counties
that have senators alone can be at
tached to others. There can be but
40 senators. The present basis Of rep
resentation of the senatorial districts
is $500, and it is expected that the
new apportionment measures will f'y
the basis at about $4,000.