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The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13
Few Members Present.


 Present at the meeting last night were the following members of the city eoun- cil Mayor Dronnen, Aldermen Greener. Ward, J. R. Copeland, Barbour, Gum, Forney, Cooper ONeiu and Stockmar.
 After the votes had been canvassed by Aldermen Ward. Gum and O'Neill, the canvassing committee appointed by the mayor, the following resolution was pre- scented by Alderman O'Neill and unani- mously adopted:
 Whereas, on the 11th day of April, 1901, an election was held in the city of Bir- mingham under an ordinance entitled An ordinance to provide for an election to be held in the city of Birmingham for the purpose of the qualified voters of such city voting upon and deciding the ques- tion as to whether or not the bonds of such city shall be issued for the purpose of constructing public school houses and buildings, and
 Whereas. said ordinance provided that this board should meet in it's usual place of meeting in the council chamber in the city of Birmingham, Ala. at p. m., on the 18th day of April, 1904. and canvass the returns and declare the result there of; and,
 "Whereas, this board has now met in conformity with the provisions of sad ordinance and with the state law, and has canvassed the returns of said cleo ton,
 Official Results, "Now whereas it is hereby declared by l the mayor and board of aldermen of Blr- mingham, that the result of said election was as follows:
 "The total number of qualified voters of the city of Birmingham voting at said election was 2649.
 Those voting for s20o, 900 not to exceed five per cent twenty-year public school houses and buildings bond issue was 2345.
 "The number voting against s2OOOoo not to exceed five per cent twenty-year public school houses and buildings bond issue was BOA.
 "The number of those tickets which were unmarked, were indistinguishable or were rejected was none.' After adopting the resolution the couh- cil adjourned.
 Mayor Drennen stated last night that 
 he was very much pleased with the re- suit of the special bond election. T have already received" he said, "a number of communications relative to the bond issue from bond houses in New York which shows that the outside world has an eye on this city
 AS soon as the bonds are sold, which will be within short while, 1 think the site for the school house will be selected by the board of education and the con- tract for the new high school and the two grammar schools. one of which is to be located at Five Points. South High lands, and the other on East North High lands. in the fourth ward, will probably be let.
 "The bonds will probably be dated July 1, 1904"
 Dr. J. H. Phillips, superintendent of the Birmingham public schools and one of the members of the board of education ex- pressed delight at the result of the elec- ton as did also the members of the Bir- mingham high school alumni association, the students of the school and the teach CTS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13
AT THE BlJcU

All the week, with matinee Tues : day Thursday and Saturday-"A Ragged Hero" Melodrama at
 popular prices.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13
M DONALD WILL
 BE BURIED TODAY Services Oyer Man Slain Takes
 Place at 10 a. m.
CORONER Is INVESTIGATING
Will Not Complete Examination of Witnesses Until Today-LaWson, Who Killed Mcdonald, Is
 at the Infirmary.

The funeral services over the remains of E. P. McDona1d, generally known as Dump" Mcdonald. who was shot and killed Monday night by Alexander R. Lawson at the corner of Third avenue and Twentieth street will be conducted this morning at 10 o'clock from the resi- dence of Jack Mcdonald. brother of the deceased. at 1224 Eleventh avenue, North, and the interment will be in Oak Hill cemetery.
 The pall-bearers will be Dr. Charles whelan, W. c. Garrett, M. c. Reynolds J. c. Rowlette, Thomas F. Parker, J. M. Copeland A. S. Cowan, Jr.. and Robert E. Middleton.
 Coronor Paris will today complete his investigation Into the particulars of Me Donald's death. Yesterday he heard sew eral witnesses, and adjourned the hear ing until this afternoon. He will make no statement as to the result of his in- vestigations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13
THE WEATHER.

Washington, April 12.-Following is the forecast for Alabama: Fair Wednesday; Thursday fair and warmer in north and central portions; fresh north to north mfndS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13
Tom Jones Testifies.

One of the witnesses before the jury yesterday was Tom Jones, a well known young man, who was standing with Me- Donald when he was shot. He substan- tiates the main features of the testimony of the two negroes who testified Monday night. He said that he was present when the original trouble over the 90 cents started, and that Lawson made. a state ment that he had been short changed.
 Dump Mcdonald took the matter up and with curses remarked that any one who said that the firm which owns the Stag saloon short changed any one was a liar He and Lawson then went to the center of the street, where Lawson held up his hands and said he was not armed. Then Mcdonald told him to go away, if he was not armed. Jones said about half an hour afterwards. he and Mcdonald were standing in the mouth of the alley way in the rear of the saloon when Law son rushed past him and commenced shooting at McDonaTd and that McDon-
 returned the shots. He said both
 fell on the pavement, Mcdonald al-
 cad and Lawson shot through the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13

Rosa Starr as administratix has filed suit in the circuit court against the Lous- vile and Nashville railroad company ask ing for damages to the amount of $SO.- 900 for the death of her brother l. w.
 Starr. The ntestate who was mall clerk running on the Louisville and Nash vile railroad between Nashville and Montgomery, was injured in wreck on the road near Morris, on December 2S, of last year. which injuries are said to have been the cause of his death after he was removed to Birmingham and car ried to a hospital for medical treatment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13
HiLLMAN HOSPITAL FUND. About SIPS In Subscriptions Within
 Past Few Days.

Something over $125 has been added to the Hillman hospital fund within the nact feH dave
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13

The Age-Heraid Engraving Depart ment makes good cuts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13
Weather ConditIona.

Temperature and precipitation as report ed by the weather bureau for selected southern stations during 24 hours ending a. m: Precip-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13
E. Wald.

'ho runs a loan office on
 ct between First and
 des, testified that he swapped pistol Monday night for his e stated that Lawson came In q and wanted a pistol, but he did
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13

The following suits have been filed in the circuit court: W. H. Sturdivan vs. the Southern railway for s1OOo as dam
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13


 thal he pawned his watch to get one. He described the pistol he sold Lawson, and identified the one found in Lawson's s hand as the same.
 MT. Lawson is at Copeland K Berry's infirmary It is said he will probably be able to leave his room in few weeks. Lawson is in the custody of a policeman who has been stationed at the hospital by Chief Wier.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13
Weather Report.

Another wave of moderately cold air s drifting southeastward from the middle west and northwest. Temperatures are freezing and below from Kansas north ward to the Dakotas and eastward to the lakes. Colder weather is expected in northern Alabama tonight, with probable frost.
 The eastward movement of the storm area, which yesterday extended from Texas to the great lakes has caused ris- ing temperatures in the Gulf and Atlan- tic states and showers from Northern Alabama northeastward along the Appa- lachian mountains to New England. The rainfall at Birmingham last night was 0S inch.
 Weather Conditions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13

Willie Harris vs. the Sloss Sheffield Steel and Iron company. s5,000 as damages for alleged personal injuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-13
RECORD OF COURTS.

This is non-jury week in the circuit court.
 The capital docket in the criminal court yill be called next Monday. Judge Sam uel E. Greene will preside in the first di- vision.
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Faithful to the Last.

A lady's coachman-a crusty old eel low who had been in the service of the family in her fathers time-save hel great trouble and annoyance on several occasions s'y not carrying out her in- structions At length his conduct b. came unbearable, and she determined to dismiss him. Caiiing him into hey presence, sne sa,L with as much asper. ity as she could command:
 q cannot stand this any longes, John. You must look out for another situation. You will leays my service at the end of the month"
 The old servant looked at Ter in amusement for a minute, and then the characteristic "loyalty" came to tho surface.
 "Na. na, my lady," he said. T drove you to the kirk to be baptized, I drove you to your marriage, and I'll stay to drive you to your funeral"
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The Case of Mir. F,axman.

Five years ago MT. Amberzine Flax man, q suburban grocer, gave piece of money to haggard-faced. holow-eyed mendicant who had asked him for char ty.
 One day last week robust well-dress- ed man called to see him at his piace of business.
 ''Is this MT. FlaxmanY he asked.
 "Yes, sir" said the grocer.
 Do you remember giving half dollar years ago to measly looking tramp?"
 "Now that you mention it, 1 think do."
 "Well, MT. Flaxman," said the other. "that was the turning point in my life."
 q am glad to hear it."
 "Yes. sir. It made me different man. That half dollar was base counterfeit. When l tried to pass it, I was pinched and sent to jail. For six weeks l didn't get a drop of whisky, and when left the jail my appetite for it was gone. 1 went to work, saved my money, and now I am making a good living and am sev- eral thousand dollars ahead. I came to thank you for that counterfeit coin, and to tell you I think you're the meanest man in seven States. Good day."--Chi. cago Tribune.
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Novel Kind of InsuPanCe.

In England people of moderate means are beginning to insure them- selves against surgical operations. The plan is that subscribers who pay an annual fee shall be entitled either to free admittance to a hospital or nurs- ing at home and a free operation or to a fixed sum paid down to defray the cost of an operation If one becomes necessary. In England, as here, the cost of surgical repairs to the human body has become progressively great to persons who just manage to pay their way. People who are obviously poor get great deal of excellent sur gical and medical treatment in hospi- tals and elsewhere for nothing, but for the next class above them a serious illness-especially if it involves an op- eration-is almost ruinous.
 It would seem as if the time was near when societies for insurance against specialists might be profitably organized in the larger American cities. The specialist has come to be very important indeed, an indispen- 'sable--institution, especially to fami- lies in which there are children. The office of tue family doctor has now be- come simplified to the task of coming in and telling the patient which spe- cialist to go to. It is not that special ists charge too much, for their hOnor- able services are above price. It is that landlord, butcher, baker, grocer, milkman, coalman, dentist and trained nurse do not leave you money enough to pay them appropriately. To sub scribe considerable sum annually and have all the repairs and detirable im- provements made in ones fa mily with out further disbursement W ould be comparatively simply way out of a troublesome predicament. - Harper's Weekly.
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BY A THREAD.
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 One, of the greatest dangers of mountaineering is from falling stones, yet the number of fatal accidents from this cause Is as few as the narrow es- capes are many. As exciting an ex- perlence as can well be imagined Is described in the Alpine Journal, and quoted by the author of Adventures on the Roof of the World" The party consisted of Horace Walker, G. E. Foster and two guides. The climb CTS wished to ascend Aiguille du Midi from the Montanvert, and be the first to go down the steep face of the mountain on the Chamouni side.
 All at first went well, and soon they began to cross the face of the cliff to gain rocky buttress that of- fered likely route some hundred feet below the top of the wall. Jacob was leading" writes Mir. Foster. "Walker next followed, and Bau. mann brought up the rear. Only one was moving at time, and every one had the rope as taut as possible be- tween himself and his neighbor. Ja. cob was crossing a narrow gully, when suddenly without any warning, as though he had trod on the key stone of the wall. the whole face for some forty feet above him peeled of, and with a crash like thunder, hun dreds of tons of rocks preclptated themselves on him. In an instant he was torn from his hold, and hurled down the precipice with them.
 Fortunately, Walker was able to hold on, though the strain on him was something awful. From our posi- ton 1t was impossible to see what had become of Jacob, and only the tight rope told us that his body at least, living or dead, was still fastened to us. In voice singularly unlike his own, Walker cried out 'Jacobv and l trust my readers can imagine the re- lief we felt when the reply came back, I nm still living
 "Walker craned over the rock, and tneH turned round. l see him. He is awfully hurt After moment .Ia cob managed to recover his footing, and then united the rope with trem3- ling fingers. and crawled along the face of the cliff to the other side of the gully. We bound up his wounds as well as we could. He had had marvellous oScaDp. no lnrpa fra r,,ont lad struck him fully. He was badly bruised all over, but no bones were broken, and after quarter of an hours rest he said he was ready to start again.
 "On taking hold of the rope to tie him on again, we were awestruck to find all its strands hut one had been severed, so that his whole weight had hnnQ almost an tlrno1
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JOKE WITH COLOR INIT.
Why the Man Was Comp pe11ed to Go to
 Dinner in Old Trousers.

They. were master and man, but they dearly loved to play jokes on each other, and each was always on the lookout for fear the other would catch him unawares. The master be- longed to volunteer fire department, and when the company got up an anni- versary supper he invited the man to attend. The man was much pleased at the invitation.
 "I haven't any clothes to go in" he declared. I'll go and buy new suit"
 So to the tailors he went and pur- chased new suit of dark blue army cloth. It looked fine on him, but, after he got it home, he discovered that the trousers, which had felt comfortable enough when he tried them on, were decidedly tight.
 If eat good supper after I get into them pants" he complained, "Ill never be able to sit down."
 His employer listened to his tale of woe. There was no time to send the trousers back to the city tailor to be fixed, for the supper was to be next day. So the employer stepped into the breach.
 "I'll take these trousers to the tailor in the next village this afternoon" he said, "and I'll tell him to put narrow strip in where they are too tight. He'll get 'em done by noon tomorrow"
 The man joyfully acquiesced, and the trousers were duly taken to the tailor.
 The next morning the two were very busy and it was not till well into the afternoon that there was a Hull suffi- cient to allow the master to drive down and get the trousers. He brought the parcel back and the man laid it aside until he went home to dress. Then he opened it and took out the pants. And To and behold! The strip which had been put into them was Of brilliant scarlet flannel.
 There was nothing for 1t but to go to the supper in his old trousers. He did so, and when he reached the place he was greeted with chorus, Did the pants fit this time, Charlie?" and he shook his fist at his employer, who was doubled up with laughter, and vowed to "get even."-Brooklyn Eagle.
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SOLDIER TAXES HIGH DIVE.
Declares There Is Nothing Like Tak'
 ing Chances in This Life.

Ing chances III rms l<ues
 "When you are in doubt, jump," said an ex-member of the First Louisiana yesterday. "rhe longer live the more come to the conclusion that arfacity wins much more for q man than pru- dence. see friends who were unable to nerve themselves to take chances. They are poor. The reckless fellows who have gone into enterprises on a mere venture are well-to-do men.
 Imagination makes almost every ven- ture risky. If man in such contin- gency will simply throw away all hes itation and jump he will find nine cases out of ten that he is not hurt and that the jump has done great deal to- ward toning up his moral nature. remember an instance in Miami. This was but slight thing, but 1t illus trates my point.
 At the Port Palm Hotel, to which the soldiers had access, there was Grst-cass natatorium. It was rigged up with all sorts of cOrtrivances-poles to slide down, chutes to dive from Most of the men were content to dive from slight elevation, or to lie down in the chute and come whizzing from the roof into the water Finally, one man, evidently an experienced diver, climbed to an elevation on the roof of the building, and calling for those to move away from below, made the high dive.
 All the men looked upon 1t as a piece of daring. The water at the foot was only about eight or nine feet deep. the bottom being concrete. deter mined that would try to make the dive. If one man could do 1t another could. Calmly started up the ladder, but when reached the top and looked down my calmness deserted me. was scared, but I had determined to make the dive and I climbed to the further elevation. When I stood up prepara- tory to leaping felt my legs shaking; so in order not to attract attention l pointed my head and arms downward, as If l had been making the dlve all my life, and jumped.
 ''As soon as 1 was sure that had gone and there was no getting back my shakiness left, and was able to con- mand my muscles, so as to make the quick turn as soon as l reached the water. I barely missed the bottom, but when I came up my comrades told me that I had been an ass, but that l had had nerve to make the jump As a matter of act, l was frightened, but jumped. They could have jumped, too, and come out as safely, but they sim ply did not dare to make the attempt My own imagination had made the risk much greater than it was."-New Or leans Times-Democrat.
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FIRST OF AMERICAN coINa.
Half Cents Plentiful, but Few Arc Pre-
 sentcd for Redemption.

Half Cents Plenttfuls but Few Arc Pre-.
 sented for Redemption.
 The treasurer of the United States on May 6, 1908, redeemed two half cent pieces. This is the first time in the history of the country that any such coins have been presented for re- demption. It is more than century since the first half-cent piece was coin ed and 1t is nearly fifty years since the government discontinued minting them.
 Possibly not one person in thou sand now living in the United States ever saw a half-cent piece.
 The last annual report of the director of the mint. page S2, shows that 1885, 222 of these coins, representing $39,- 926.11, were issued. For almost half century each annual report of the Treasury Department has included them among the Outstanding" obliga- tions of the government.
 The half-cent piece was the coin of the smallest denomination ever made by this country. 1t enjoys the distinc- ton also of being the first coin issued and also the first whose denomination was discontinued. The United States mint was established in 1792 and cop per half-cents and cents were issued in 1I93. Half the total number of half cents issued were coined previous to 1910, after which year their coinage, with few exceptions, was limited. None was coined for circulation from 1872 to 1924, nor from 1S38 to 1S4S. Final Y, in 1857, their coinage, with that of the big copper cent, was discontinued. On account of their limited issue in the last years of their coinage they prac. tically had disappeared from the chan nels of trade.
 The needs of adopting the half-cent as the lowest value-computing factor for coin were made in the early days of the republic. Colonial half-cents and British farthings of the same com. mercial value were then in circulation and many articles were priced and sold in half-cents. With the progress of the nation values rose and the needs for a half-cent disappeared and their use following the first decade of tho century was almost entirely confined to multiples.
 While all other discontinued types and denominations of United States coin have found oblivion, the half-cent Is the only one of which the treasury reports do not record some portion of the issue redeemed. This singular and unexplained fact has been one of ire. quent comment and inquiry from mint and treasury officials.
 Large quantities of half-cents are to be found in the stocks of coin dealers. The most common dates are sold at q good premium and the extremely raro ones are worth their weight In gold.
 Ferran Zarbe of St. Louis was the man who sent the two half-cent pieces to Washington for redemption. He now prizes highly the little voucher calling for "1 cent" and which was sent to him with that amount of cur. rent coin in exchange for the two half. cent pieces he had forwarded.
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The Bacc .Iaureate sermo,.

The New York Sun suggests that the day when the baccalaureate sermon served any purpose of essential i'm prtance is past. It is survival from the time ''when religion was foremost in the higher education and the pres- dents of our American colleges were uniformly clergymen."
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A perverse temper. and discontented, fretful disposition, wherever they pre- vail, render any state of life unhappy Cicero
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Just an Average Boy.

Guest Cat summer resort)-Yes, John- ny is vigorous boy. He seems to be able to eat anything.
 Reproductive noticed that he seems to be able to eat everything.-Chicago Tribune.
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Lord Aberdeen's services to Canada have been recognized by tile presentation to one of his daughters of gold neck. lace made of Klondike gold.
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It's funny to watch them, and note the different ways men have of tip. ping their hats to women.
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In Cuba sixteen tons of cane yield one ton of sugar. In Peru it requires only twelve and a half. l IL Iof
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It's Own Reward.

Myer-What do you mean by saying an umbrella Is like virtue?
 Gyer-I mean that 1t is folly to ad- yertise for either If lost.
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He's all right" said man of a merchant today, If you want to buy something of him."
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An Insinuatior1.

He-Don't you think Miss Thirtyodd !ooks awfully sweet this evening?
 She-Oh, suppose SO; but never did care for preserves
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The wit and the fool are only relations by marriage.