The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-19

to maintain the daily wage of a negro and the purchase and upkeep of mule and wagon.
 In this way the space around all of the houses, under them, and all the pathways and roads are kept clear of disease breeding filth and trash.
 The most difficult problem to deal with, insofar as flies are concerned, is the extermination of the worst of their breeding places--stables. For 1t Is mainly in dunghills that the typhoid fly breeds. Feeding upon the excrement of both man and beast the nauseous in- sect deposits the disease carrying germs upon all food open to it. and water land milk.
 In a large majority of stables not only in the mining camps of this district, but all over town, and all over the state not a single move is being taken to lessen this plague.
 The stable in our. camp. said one coal digger 'is set on high ground just above a ravine. The manure is lall banked up and spread thick all over the place several feet deep backing on to the ravine. It mixes with the stag nant water there and there it stays. I don't know as it ever has been cleaned up or hauled away anywhere. It's right in the center of the camp"
 If it isn't stable it's a pig pen, or | a chicken yard. or a garbage pile, or an outhouse. kept in an insanitary and shiftless condition that provides the ideal breeding place for the typhoid fly. Augean Reminiscence Our stable for the mules we use in the mines" said a mine foreman, lis set down in a hollow. about 300 yards from the manway. It catches all the water around and until the company ldug that big ditch wonder last summer lit certainly was a mess down there. Mosquitoes and files and most every thing else came out of that there sta- ble. Well. they started te clean it up. Some of the boards were rotting away and the roof leaked. It was a | right sorry looking place--and up to last spring never had been painted or kept In repair. They fixed 1t up, out side and in. They screened the doors and loopholes and poured kerosine around. They had the manure hauled |of every morning and cleaned up the stalls and kept 'em clean. They cut in a few extra windows and ventilated the place--which used to be as dark as d cave. They dId 1t all quicker than it' takes to talk about it--and look at
 the place todayi Not that it's anything pretty. but its clean. and 1t don't swarm
 with flies like 1t used to. Of course, there are some flies Then the corral there was graded and drained and It uOn look jlke tHe DIE Sty IL used 10 be. The mules used to wallow in 1t. No. 1t didn't cost any great deal to fix lit up.
 Anyhow. I think 1t has paid for itself
 in more ways than one. but you better ask the boss about 1t. Were the mules suspicious at frst?', The mine foreman laughed as he repeated the question T don't know but that they werer' he said.
 "Yes," the mine superintendent said. they were. I think they thought their
 liberties were being interfered with
 when the company started the clean up job.
 Like Mules Like Men
 For mules are like folks in more ways than one. And I've never known it to fall around the average mining camp, if you order trash piled up. houses screened or fenced in. or any thing done at all in the way of change. and improvement. there's somebody go- ing to kick. That's got to be taken into and the kicks not regfs- all.
 The men learn in time that it's all for tho best. But 1t takes time.'
 Tn "a few of the local coal and Iron companies screen doors and window screens are now. for the first time. be-