Show I MINERS LIVE LONG LONGO OCCUPATION O SEEMS TO MAKE FOR LONGEVITY Consumption Declared to Be Practically Practically Pr ally lIy Unknown Among Men Who Delve kIYe In the Earth Tales Told by Veterans R S Thomas Thomaa coal mine Inspector of Missouri has a fixed belief that longevity and coal conI mining go together I You never hear hoar of oC a coal miner having consumption said Mr Thom Thomas i as unless he contracted the disease I before he went Into the pit and oven even 1 then ho finds the peculiar properties of a coal mine beneficial bene to his lungs I and he often oCten becomes well and strong by b reason of his work under the ground Wo We Te have hae a number nu of harts han miners In Missouri who wore taken Into Inlo the tho pit In the old country Wales rales at six seven and eight years to act as trap trapper trapper per lIer boys These youngsters kept kepl steadily at work until they thoy wore pro prompted prompted to be miners assistants and then regular miners and thrived mightily under conditions which in inmost Inmost inmost most trades would retard l their level devel development I meau mean beginning work at that early earl age It seems as If Ii f Providence had given health to lo the as a recompense for tor the tho hazard of oC his calling Nearly Nearl all of those who manago to dodge falls of oC rock breaking cables and other dangers Incident to lo tho the craft crat live to toa toa toa a green freen old d age They not only onh live IIvo but they keep nap at work It would surprise Dr Osler Osier If ho he knew how many man men mon far past 60 wore were yet et working In the mines at Uncle Johnnie Griffith who WIlO died a few months ago at the tho age of 84 worked in the tho pit from tho the a ae e of seven until u year ear before he died He began as asa asa a n trapper boy hoy ho In Wal p his father car carrying carrying carrying him to the r on his back His last work was in Mine 61 Cl of ol the Central Coal COlli company compan near Bevier and he made a full hand every over day daylor for lor three years after he was SO 80 With WIlh the exception of a short time that ho he horan horan heran ran a hoisting engine Mr Griffith had practically been beon In the pit three tars of ot a century Mr Thomas has hils made some re rc I at the largest coal camp In the tho state and finds that there are there t re a number of men who have been at work for half a century or more on coal mines and are still vig vigorous orous And heres another thing re remarked remarked remarked marked Tom Williams a Il veteran who had to abandon tho the pit some Bom years earB ago aha owing to a fall of rock you never noer I hear a miner puff and blow bow when he runs His HI wind Is as good as an ath athletes letes letea His lungs luns are sound Hound although coated thick with coal dust Nearly Nearl everybody at Bevier burns coal for all purposes because It Is cheap Most other othor towns In these parts use wood for fireplaces and nd heating Now In time the tops of tho the Bevier houses housos become coaled coated with coal soot from their chimneys and tho the rain after falling f on the roofs passes Into the wells and they tho drink It ItA ItA itA A Bevier family faintly like Ilko water ator unless it IB in caught that way and goes through that process tho thu only kind of water tastes good Bood to em om Why Wh Because It has hns properties prop that kill pneumonia and typhoid fever feer germs Its an absolute fact that people dont have such maladies when hen they ther use uso water caught In that way was wa I Ive Io vo lived among them a lifetime and I know that I cant give the tho scientific reason for Cor coal beneficent Influence ence once on well water but theres no earthly doubt t It has such Influence lence |