The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-30

i, now empty rifle to my shoulder for a bluff It worked and. the negro jumped back under cover. By this time some one commenced to shoot at me from behind l got my gun out and com msnced to pump 1t for all it was worth. v seemed as if all that mob of niggers had suddenly gone mad and were shoot ing.
 Achievements Arrive
 Tn a few minutes endorsements arr rived and the shots from all the men started the bad negro to running. He was joined by two more who were armed and they returned our fire. Finally they scattered out and as they ran down to- wards Twenty eighth street Red Boyd, who lived nearby got his shotgun and jumped in a ditch, as the negro who started the shooting came past him he shot and wounded him. We soon cap tured the other two. In all there was about 200 shots fired and for awhile I was the center of all action. Every ne- gro in that crowd got 20 years.
 Pete Newman is about the best mathe- matician on the force. The only man wno can hold candle to him is Capt Tom Shirely. When these two get together on some abstruse problem and they can't solve it. there Is little hope for the av- craze layman ever getting the coHect answer
 Few men are endowed with the rare philosophy Newman possesses. He sell dom gets ruffled and never loses his head. A born wit he is raconteur of many stories concerning amusing incl dents in his past life. He started out as a young man to be civil engineer and for many years was attached to various railroad engineering expeditions It is related that the chief engineer of the crew he was with once told him that it would require so many yards of dirt to be removed in order Ito excavate a tun- nel. The youthful engineer commenced to figure and soon went up to his chief and said, You made a mistake about the number of yards of dirt it will be necessary to remove to dig that tunnel. His boss told him to mind his own bus- ness. Nevertheless. after the tunnel had progressed for several days the chief called him in his office and raised his pay. You were right, my boy don t mention anything about thls. I have raised your pay he was told
 Finances In the Mountains
 T shall never forget the time I was with crew of railroad engineers up in the mountains of North Carolina said Captain Newman. We were camped in the mountains some distance from the nearest railroad and the country was un- usually mountainous and lawless The people were of the most illiterate type and had no idea as to the value of time One day a mountaineers daughter came up to our camp and tried to sell some of the boys a peck of chestnuts. After some bargaining she was finally offered s0 cents for the lot. The young lady became indignant and replied that she could set s1 for the peck at the station. Sine left the camp In righteous wrath and we never saw her any more. After her departure 1 asked one of the natives what she had meant when she said she could sell the 1Chestnuts at the station. Oh, she means the railroad station re- piled the native. .sBut how far is the nigh 40 miles, he replied as he spat a oopous stream of tobacco and snur from his mouth
 That was hard winter for me-" con tinued the captain. 'I slept on the bare floor for several nights when I first ar rived One day the landlady told me she would make me a mattress If I bought the bed ticking. I went to the railroad station and after some debate with the storekeeper as to the amount of ticking that would be necessary, I purchased 12 yards. I bore the package back to the camp with certain amount of pride and qualification at the thought of being able to sleep on mattress in a few days. The next night I beheld my new mattress The only thing 1 could see tha twas wrong with it was that 1t was not mattress at all. It appeared to be a bolster. The thing was as round as a barrel and eoo;oa't have been more than q foot or two wide, Each night 1 went to sleep on the upper side of 1t and each