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ture with concrete foundations and plate glass windows, with three separate door ways Costing $l0,000, it was in reality an overstepping of the mark. being much larger than was needed for present use, or for demands in any immediate future. Store room in plenty to spare AS an ac- tual fact few shops in Birmingham are as well equipped, as clean. orderly. well ven tilated and in such good shape as are the various departments of the Mulga store and commissary.
 Tn the general office building is chapel, draughting room, telephone exchange room and store rooms. From the veranda here there is charming view straight up the long valley, a fair, green way to misty blue hils where, tall and black against the skyline, loom the smoke stacks of the engine and boiler plants and the dark skeleton structure of the giant tip- pie towers which shadow the deep mine shafts.
 A Good Size Proposition.
 While the Mulga camp and plant com prises as whole 1S0 acres, the mine workings proper are located in the val ley one mile from the general office and first portion of the camp. Here are con- centrated, In very small compass a two-acre space. the two mine openings; No. l, the main hoisting shaft. No.
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ground, up to the best that modern en- gineering can devise When you see one coal mine in the Birmingham district It is not seeing them all. Tar from it.
 Mulga is always pointed out as one of the star coal mines. Have you SC en Mulga?" people have way of asking Well now, wait till you see Mulga Talk about a coal mine!'
 In the Heart of the Pratt Coal Field
 It is not difficult of access, being To- cated on both the Southern and A. B. & A, railroads, and, if one visits by motor flight, directly on the county or MulSa road leading out from the steel plant at Ensley. It is 1a miles as the crow llies from Birmingham, right out in the heart of the Pratt coal field, a thickly wooded, remote and unsettled region, known as coal country for generations, but curious ly slow of development.
 An Indian chief named Mulga, for whom this mine Is named is told of in tue folk lore thereabouts. A rock cut, pierced by the A. B. x A. railway, called Zone Gap is a spot said to have been the sepulchre for Indian dead. Many bones were unearthed there during construction work, arrow heads and Indian relics. Bone Gap is within gunshot distance Of Mulga station, where the spur tracks to the mines begin.
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shaft or manway; the engine houses, tip ple fan house, boilers, power house, sup ply house, machine shop, mine superin- tendents office, cheek house, yard ana storage rooms
 Around some plants in this district there is loose jointed. hap-hazard eccentric manner and impression, an "on-agln-on- agin- gone-agin- -Finnegan" style. Not 90 with Mulga.
 Set low as 1t is in the still green hol- low of the hills, the solid, well construct ed. compact plant grips that little space of mother earth with a firm, quiet nold There is no scattering of time, men or forces, no turmoil. no hubbub of sound only the steady, deep breathing of the mine itself the throbbing of it's pulses. The impression of immense concentrated power, of grip. efficiency, of general hdr- mony of work and movement, such a nifae as Mulga gives is almost indescrlbabe
 This it is that gives to it its peculiar individual quality. a curious feeling of personality. Is 1t the good machinery they have there? The showing for some of the big money that has been poured
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]. The Birming ham Coal and Iron compa- tny owns 35 per cent of the Pratt coal -seam and it's property adjoins the coal Hands in Possum valley recently ac- -uuired by the Tennessee Coal, Iron end .Railroad company. Mulgas nearest sneighbor will be T. C. I. No. 16. just now .under construction. That cOnpany's stun -ning new coal mine, "Edgewater,' is ,vo fmiles off and the great Village creek lam fonly one mile across country from inc smine mouth at Mulga. ,e. i On that highland road to Mulga, .lar- trow. white road. which cuts through tmany a pine woods. the "Mulga Special' ssweryes from the old road on to the new scrosses the steel bridge over tho reser- .voir lake built by the Tennessec company, .near ''the palisades" gives glimpse of ils .portal. that tower like entrance to the stunneI which, with the big lake the dam, .the pumping station, pipe line and nigh slevel reservoir is spoken of out .here sas Harry Urban's job" the greatest en- tsineering achievement in ithe history of sthe state. i, The 'Mulga Special isl just an E, M
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The Tillers of the Soil, are no longer He"- ing Wood and Drawing Water. They are now Hewing Holes in the Atmosphere ana drawing Gasoline Not many Years ago the Simple Aericulturist drove into Town in South Bend Wagon with Red Roses painted on the Dash Board and stoppeu at the Bank long enough to tie Chattel Mortgage on his Cow, with Interest at 7 Per Cent Month. payable in Advance
 Nowadays he comes dipping up in This Years Model of the Kokomobile With Tor pedo Body, Fore-Doors and Ded Cushions and draws out his Balance so that he
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can get Extra Tires and Speedometef. Every Hired Man has become Chau1- feur and the Jay that used to wear Gosh- ding-its and drive an $50 Pelter now wears Goggles and drives a Roadster with four Lamps hung out in front of it.
 Why are you annoyed by these Evi- diences of Prosperity" asked the Official "The humble Farmer has been the Goat for 2O00 Years. Now he Is catching Even by burning up the Turnpike while the City People who feel sorry for him are sleeping on the Fire Escapes and saving up to see the Moving Pictures?'
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You do not grasp the full Horror of the Situation,' said the President of the Bank.
 If all the Reubs withdrew their Depos it's in order to buy these expensive Sl20o Cars, our Reserve will be so depleted and Normal Conditions so badly disturbed that possibly I will have to Cancel my Order for that $1000 French Limousine which picked out at the New York Show"
 Whereupon he resumed his Weeping.
 Moral: It is Time 10 call a Halt
 Copyright, 1911, by George AdeD
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into the place? It takes machinery, money and the good "Old Pratt seam-yes-and more than that, to make a mine like tnls. A good mine must have good men. Back of every job, everywhere are the men who are on it. A mine, more par ticularly than other things perhaps, re- fleets the personality-even points of char acter in a way-of the men who make 1t.
 A No Class of Men
 Here at Mulga there is good organi- zation. You will hear that all over the county. They are practical miners, to
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Trees and the Growing Crops and the oleaginous Natives and he yearned to get ut where he wouldn't hear the Trolleys l the Morning and the Kids could get
 illk that came from Cow.
 So he gave up his Job in the Box Fac
 y and moved out to Jasper Township ' nd tackled Intensive Farming.
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1911 FABLE OF THE FLATDWELLER IN THE OPEN

He had been Precinct Captain in the Ate Ward and by applying Metropolitan Meth ods at the Tap Primaries he succeeded in breaking into the Legislature and soon owned a Farm on which he lived and two others besides.
 Moral: One can get close to Nature, even in the Country
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 Sitting back in his Morris Chair with lis Feet on the tiny Radiator he would read in the Sunday Paper all that Bunk abou the Down-and- Outs of the City hikin back to the Soil and making $S000 a. yea raising Radishes.
 He saw the Pictures of the WaXins
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NNCE there was a tired Denizen or
 the Big Town whose home was
 at the end of Hallway in Rap- bit Warren known as the Minnehaha.
 It was not Tenement because ne hao to pay $3O a Month for corlpresseo Suite overlooking $40 acres Of GraVei
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THE 1911 FABLE OF THE

NNE Day a regularly appolheeo | Bank Inspector went lI,..,n,e, ,n.o ,n n O Stronghold of Finance situated 'n A one Night Stand and found the fres'- dent of the Institution crying all over tue Blotter. T. nt.,,
 why these tears?'' asked the oiiifidi' Are the Farmers paying oft theT Mott. gages?"
 ..Worse than that" replied the Elderly Man whose Side Whiskers were Tower of strength in the Community. We are entering upon an Era of Extravaganza
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POULTRY POINTERS.

A close, unventilated house Is en-.
phaticnlly foul house.
Ground or crushed bone is a good
FORM In which TO give lime.
The nests should be arranged so that
the fowls can walk in OH them.
Bran Is better feed for fowls than
corn because 1t contains more nitrogen.
An excellent feed for young chicks is
cracked or coarsely ground wheat for
ahe first week.
A cock that fights and picks his
mates every time they are fed is not
q good breeder, and few OF his hens
eggs will ever hatch
Cane or sorghum seed can be fed 10
fowls TO good advantage. IT stlmu-
hates egg production and in many ways
Us good TO use for variety.
For a good breeder select rooster
with plump, full breast, broad across
the back, wide between the legs and
that crows often, louG and long.
II Is n good plan to mate up the
fowls early, for occasionally one of the
hens will want TO sit during the win
ter, and II viii be best to have the eggs
ready.
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HER FACE HER FORTUNE.
Why one Girl Got n Good Paying
and Easy Position.

Why One Girl Got n Good Paying
| and Easy Position.
She was a sweet looking girl, with as
fair pink and white complexion as
woman ever desired, and was chatting
with one of her own sex on Staten
Island ferrybout, while was seated
30 near that ! could not help hearing
Several times my truant eyes deserted
my paper aud stole glance mt the
face that was so attractive.
ut was the luckiest thing that ever
happened to me-" she said to her com
panion, when | went into that Fifth
avenue store just to buy comb. How
little thought that | would be work
| ing there at greater wages thar | had
ever hoped to earn! hesita."l about
going In, because | feared g prices
would be too high, but du 20 in aud
| came out with comb without paying
cent for 1t, And. better than all. ]
| had been engaged to begin the next
Monday as II saleswoman.
81 was nearly discouraged before
that. for | was getting only S4 week.
and we were awfully pinched at home.
! but my luck changed on that day, and
II was Friday too. Fortunately for me,
the store was crowded when went in,
and the proprietor left his desk that
| sands in little rallied off corner and
came to walt on me. l noticed that he
looked very sharply mt me, but not at
all In I'm impudent manner.
Pardon me. MISS he said, but
am looking for young lady to assist
me In the store here, and II your cir
cumstances are such that you would
care for the place l would like to have
you consider It,
81 was wonderfully surprised, but
thanked him, saying that knew moth
Ing about the business.
"Thnt doesn't NATTER he replied.
You can soon learn II. To be frank,
would like to have you on account Of
your complexion. You know we sell
all sorts OF goods for the complexion
and articles for beautifying, and your
face would do more to make sales than
all of the arguments and representa-
tons that could be made
"Well, the result was that l got a
fine place, with easy work. at $l5 q
week. My hours are short, and l sim
ply play the agreeable while selling
goods at an immense profit wouldn't
let any of the connections touch my
face for anything, but the customers
appear TO be impressed by my com
plexion, and the proprietor is satisfied
So am I."--Ncw York Herald.
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A sweet little maid OF four years was
distressed the other evening because
her father did not come home To dinner
on time. Her grownup sister said 10
her:
Papa is naughty, and when he
ZONES we won't give him any tea"
When ho did come, the sister sent the
teapot out TO the kitchen for fresh ten
Tile baby looked on with a troubled
face and stole softly 10 her own room.
Shortly she returned with something
squeezed up In her tiny list Going up
10 her sister. she whispered:
"Annie, IN give you all my pennies
n you'll give papa his tea"
And, opening her hand, she displayed
Ali her carefully boarded pennies -
~ew York Times.
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rig For Marriage Fee.

"A Lutheran minister In western
Maryland town told me an amusing
story the other day" said a gentleman
90 u reporter, Some time ago as this
minister was walking along street of
the town an old German advanced to-
ward him with extended hand. The
minister shook hands. but remarked
that he could not recall his name. oh,
yes said the old German, you remem
Der me! l am the man who gave you
pig when you married me-
The minister smiled as he recalled
the Incident and as he was about TO
ask about the wife the old German
said: Now | tell you what III do.
When you married me, gave you a
pig. so I'll give you two pigs II you
now unmarry me- baltimore Sun.
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SLAUGHTER
OF Sheep By Dogs Made
Saturday Night

Mr.. Clinton Dustin, residing about
one mile west of Lock, suffered con-
siderable loss on Saturday night when
80 of his fine sheep were killed and
wounded by dogs. Most of the ami
ber We're so badly injured that 1t was
necessary to kill them.
During Saturday night Mr.. Dustin
heard a great deal of barking, but,
thinking that the dogs were not on his
farm, paid no attention to them. On
visiting his herd of sheep in a neigh
boring field on Sunday morning he dis
covered large number of them lying
near either dead or disabled
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Miss Mae Smith vial leave Tuesday
morning for Columbus, o., where she
will enter st. Mary's OF the Spring
academy this fall.
Mr.. w. A. woolson left Monday
morning for wauseon, Ohio, where he
will make a business visit.
Teddy Roosevelt with the Cowboys
and Indians Celebration at the Prin-
cess tonight and tomorrow. Admis-
sion l0c.
Miss Martha Edwards returned to
her home in GAINESVILLE Monday noon
after having spent Sunday with
friends in Mt Vernon.
MIR. George D. Neal left Monday
morning for Napoleon, Ohio, to spend
several days on business.
Mrs. B. f. Blake of Homer under
went a successful operation at the Mt.
Vernon Medical and Surgical Sanitar-
ium Monday morning.
ITOI VI. II. leDOuJ vi INC SOuioiuh'
State university is visiting at the
home of his brother on West Bur
CESS street.
Or. and Mrs. Etrebert and family of
Ann Arbor, Michigan, are moving to
Gambler where they will make their
future home.
The Philathea class of the First
Baptist Bible school, will meet Tues.
day afternoon, September IL, at 2.3O
p. m at the home of Mrs. Frank Fish
burn of the Newark road
The defeated side in the gold and
| silver contest held by the Ladies OF
the Maccabees will entertain the mem
bers with a visit to the county fair on
Wednesday afternoon, and all mem
bers are urged to be on the public
square by LAWYERS drug store in am
pie time to take the 2 o'clock car.
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Deep CASH
Inflicted By Knife On FIniSher'S Arm
When He Fell

Mr. Fred flasher, finisher employ
ed at the Ohio Handle Cos. factory
south Of the city, met with an accident
of very severe nature Monday after
noon at about 1915 o'clock. He was
working with a large. sharp knife and
In changing mis- position slipped and
fell, the keen edge of the blade strik.
ing him on the right forearm Just
above the wrist. A long deep cash
was inflicted and bled profusely for a
time DR., S. E. Deeley was summoned
and several stitches We're required to
close the wound.
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HOLD-UP
Attempted On West High
Street Sunday Night
Victim Deals AsSailant Blow
And Escapes

A bold attempt was made by a some
what careless thug to hold up Mr..
John Donaldson of Bremen, Ohio, Sun
day evening on West High street.
Mr.. Donaldson, who is visiting with
Mr.. and Mrs. r. c. Van Nostrand of
Ridgewood avenue, was returning from
a trip up street at about $3.50 o'clock
and had reached a point on the south
side of the street almost in front of
the tile yards adjoining the Mt. Vernon
Hay and Grain Co.'S. building when he
was confronted by man who threat
ened MIN with a revolver and ordered
him to hold up his hands. Mr. Don
aldson hastily complied with the mans
orders and held up his hands high
above his head. This ensuing show of
fright on the part of his victim evident.
ly caused the man to grow careless as
he lowered the point of the revolver
in order to work to better advantage.
In moment he was sprawling on the
ground as the result of a well directed
right punch TO the jaw delivered by
Donaldson who Immediately took ad-
vantage of his opportunity and escaped
before the man could regain his feet.
The spot whore the attempted hold.
up was made is exceedingly dark at
night and for this reason it was i'm.
possible TO recognize or even secure
good description of the thug who was
totally unsuccessful in his attempt as
all that he received was a knockout
punch for his trouble
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Sheen Arc Easily Handled.

Sheep, If treated kindly, are easier
handled and more easily trained than
either horses, cattle or hogs. With
Gust little effort one can teach them
20 drive or to follow from lot to pas
ture. and the reverse.
Every farmer should have small
Mock, for the purpose of utilizing the
waste about his place, cleaning his
Fence row of weeds and bushes, and
enriching the soil. And when you
consider the two sources Of profit
,,the sale of wool and the sale Of
lambs at today's prices-it is clear
that within few years on most
every farm there will be found q
lhunch Of sheep.
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lTlMELY HINTS
| FOR FARMERS
Fattening Chickens Quickly.

Many poulhymen have occasion to
fatfen their chickens quickly in order
10 get them in the markets and get
advantage of the rise in price. Ground
bats and barley meal mixed with
Fracklings of some kind make an ex.
1cellent fattening food.
Place the food before the birds at
regular intervals, as often as they de
Eire II, but as soon as they have par
taken of 1t literally and appear TO
have enough remove the trough and
no not give them any more until the
next interval. They must not be al.
Bowed TO eat and mess in their food
all day long. Keeping the birds with.
out their food for a few hours and
-9hen giving them liberal amount Of
ten induce them to eat more than u
Ted too often.
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UNCLAIMED mail

To avoid delay in delivery have
your mail addressed to street and
number, P. o. box or general delivery
The following letters remain un
claimed In the Mt. Vernon postoalce:
Acton, Mrs. James
Baker, C. l.. On. ID
Berry, Miss Ina
Blasucco, N.
Carr, Mary
Caslin, Edward
Doup, Conard
Drake, Aura
Gains, j.
Jenner, Miss Gertrude
Lorieux, Joseph
May, ID. F.,
Olvey, William
Parmenter, Mrs. c. II.
Ransom, Mrs Mary
Spencer, William
Stevenson, Miss H.
Stone, Edward L.
Thompson, Miss Eta.
Todd, VIM. e.
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Politicians.

Phil What's the difference be-
@een an honest and dishonest poll
kian?
Phil Ossifer-0ne IL in politics for the
food he can do his fellow citizens,
While the other Is in politics for amy
amount he can do his fellow cltizens.-
Ohio State Journal.
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haiaht Of kienrooafa.

Leghorns and the lighter breeds can
nest most anywhere 1t suits the own
YER. 1t is hard to get anything too
high for their convenience. In the
matter of roosts you should always
consider the breed. The lower the
better for the heavy breeds. Bumble-
foot and ruptures are very common
nmong heavy hens that are made 20
pump from high perches or nests.
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Margaret /. Merrin

Mrs. Margaret l.. Merrin died at hel
home on the Mansfield road about five
miles north of the city Monday morn
ing at about 2:30 o'clock after a ling
ering illness caused by disease Incl
dent to old age. She was widow
aged SO years at the time of her death
and is survived by three sons and
three daughters. The funeral at the
late home Wednesday afternoon al
Q o'clock. Interment in the Union
Chapel cemetery.
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FIRST FLIGHT
OF Young Birds Occurs From xenIa
On Sunday

The .lrst flight of young birds of the
Mt. Vernon Homing club took place
yesterday, the start being made from
Xenia, distance of one hundred
miles. The light was made in two
hours and thirty-four minutes. The
birds arrived in the following order
Leon Barry list and 7th.
Tony Jacquet--2.
Dan Colley-3d and 4th.
Russell Charlton--5th.
Lou Boucher-6th.
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Mrs. William ]. sapp

Mrs. William j. Sapp of East High
street, mother of Attorney B. E. Sapp
of this city, died at Grant Hospital in
Columbus on Monday morning at
about l o'clock after an illness of sew.
eral weeks. The deceased had been
a patient at Grant Hospital for some
time, having only recently undergone
an operation.
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Time For First Calf.

A heifer should not be expected TO
crop a calf before she IL two or two
and half years cid. The latter age is
preferable TO the former A heifer calf
rarely has her growth until she Is two
and a half years old, and she cannot
give profitable flow Of milk and make
ahe necessary growth at the same
Hme
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Mrs. Ella Neptune

Mrs. ella Neptune died at her home
in Fredericktown Sunday evening at
about 7:30 o'clock after an extended
illness caused by diabetes, She was a
widow go years of age at the time of
her death, and is survived by several
brothers and sisters.
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siInao a Money savnr.

The addition of silage to ration Of
eorn, cottonseed meal and clover bay
does not materially affect the rate Of
gain or the selling price Of the cattle,
but does decrease the cost Of gain
from 80 cents TO 81, and even more
per hundred pounds. These conclu-
sions seem TO be borne out by enough
3ata to make them practically certain
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!: OBITUARY :
Funeral of Rev. Williams

The funeral service of the late Rev
A. B. Williams was held Sunday after
noon at the Vine Street Church OF
Christ. The body lay in state from z
to 3 o'clock and was viewed by many
people. The service was held at three
o'clock and the auditorium of the
church was completely filled by friends
of the deceased. The service was con
Quoted by DR.. David Francis, who was
assisted by Rev. VIM. e. Hull. Inter
ment was made at Mound View GENE
terry.
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Whenever candidate is suddenly
confronted with some charge he can't
answer he explains that the great cor
rupt interests are back of it.
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A hornets p{st contains as many
as $4,000 cells, naturalist afiirms.
Which affirmation we unhesitatingly
accept withouta personal verifcation.
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Married

At centerburg
Mr. Emery Harris and Miss Bertha
Collie both of Sparta, were united in
marriage by Reverend Hoagland
at his home in Centerburg on Sunday
evening at about 10 o'clock, Mr.. and
Mrs, Harris will make their home on a
farm ebout two miles south of Sparta,