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The Washington bee., 1903-02-14
SPFCIAL NOTICES.

/ have been informed that some per
sons are connecting my name as
storkholder IN the Capital Savings
Bank, now in the hands Of receivers /
desire TO state positively that l am not
= s,ort boId4r These are the facts 4:
! bought stock eleven years ago, IN
Iune. 1891, under special condition ,
gave nsIice 10 withdraw month atter-
Wards, in Julg 1891, and was paid in
full by the company in October, 1891;
I never was director, never received
= divfdand and never attended a meet
ing of stockholders -.
I hereby give notice 10 the pubiic;
that my good name will be protected
and that my attorney will enter suit
for libel, both ciyiily and criminally,
against any person or persons uSins
nv name in connection with the affairs
OF this company.
F. I. SHADD, NJ. D.
90. K =. y. W.
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All Endorsed Him

Col. P!edgeT in the Atlanta Constitution.
! say again I could not have made
the speeeh MIR. Hayes made. but tell
you frankly that the crowded house on
the night he made his speech, cheered
him from beginning TO end. Does this
not indicate that Coz seTvative Negroes
and conservative white men should
put their heads together and under
stand each other? Let Us get closer
together and have a common under
standing Our interests are Identical
"A hat hurts one hurts the other. Let
Us take care Of The problem now. Let
Us not leave II 10 pos,eTity. The Negro
ten yezIs from now will number near
Is Is OCO, ,OCO.
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DR.. J. F. Sheppard is in Atlanta. Ga
Ifyou want first class goods 20 ic
s. @. Stewart
Mr. Geo. W. Jackson makes a good
presiding officer.
Douglass day was celebrated in
the schools yesterday.
Xanders is the place for fine liquors.
The Native ". shingtoniaus will give
8 dance this evening at Odd Fellows
Hall.
Register J. ", Lyons and recorder
j. {. Dancy will deliver addresses IN
Baltimore, Nd, next aturday. Mr.
DanCy will speak al Bethel church and
Mr. Lyons at Waters A. NJ. E. Church
The Sec-To-No Musical Club vii
give their recital al Grand Army Han,
Friday evening April, 10.
Mr.. r ". Thompson left the CITY
Tuskegee, Ala, on Wednesday.
Will boom Poker from the South
n end. He has had hard Struggle
this city
The next honor TO be bestowed By
Bo oker will be on Prof Jesse Lawson
tn { Presidents advisor on the negro
GU estiOn.
Ex-IeCoTder H. P. Cheatham of
North Carolina will leave the city TO
day for his home. He was dined BY
several Of his friends last evening,
Editor J. c. ). Sharp and wife Of
Denver, Col, made a great impression
or the citizens Of Atbeville, 5. c.,
while CT a visit there some time ago.
Mr.. L. NJ. King delivered an elo
quent address before the pupils OF
Armstrong Training School yesterday.
dis address was well received, alton
Rey King IS a logical TeasOuer.
Hon John P. Green addressed the
theaCherS and pupils Of the Doug
lass School Friday. He vas intro
duced BY Miss Chase, The principal in
glowing terms.
The Aeolian Mandolin, Guitar and
Banjo Club beg 10 announce 10 their
many friends their 4thaHnual PrOmade
OSA-NE4A -4LAlah evening = CD. 2SIQ
1905 5 p n. al tDe Grand Army Hall,
Penna Ave. y. ". Dancing from 10
10 a. n. Admission so cents.
We present 20 our readers, our Cd
friend Seville. Seyi.l- who is we'll
known in This city, both among our
Shite and colOred citizens, is a Grand
son Of the late Thomas J. Dorsey Of
Philadelphia, Pa, he IS a prominent
FTeemason, having taken all the de-
grees IN the order.
In 1895. he with others established
Rival Grand Lodge for the D. {
which vas denominated as the Zones
and Seville. In 1897, he reconstructed
the Na.ional ComPack-back in the D.
c. In 1897, he created the NJ. ". HI
ram Grand Lodge Of Universal Free
and Accepted MasOns, under the Obei-
cienCe Of the A. A. ;. r phe 81 OtJhe
kind IN this country,l Bro. Seville has
had his ups and doKnS, but ne Is here
TO stay.
He IS a special agent and collector
Of the Washington BE, and recently
opened 3 small business At ass ! street
northwest, formerly owned Dy Bro
and Sir Knight, J. II. PendeTgTass.
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DR.. J. e SHEPARD.
A Rising Young NlsH.

One Of the rising aud progress
siVe young men Of the south, is DR..
James E. Shepard Of Durham, \.
G. He has been recently promoted
for efficiency 10 position in which
he has already demonstrated his
fitness aad competency. He is no
doubt one Of the most sIcce essfu |
young menin southern politics q
stands high among all classes o.
citizens and before long he will
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.tnnd 1t the head Of his class.

stand at the head of his class.
Tbs BEE published a portrait Of
the doctor a fe y DAYS ago and from
his fle phYsic one may imagine
the character Of the man.
As christian worker thee is no
man tlat has done more for the
church. THE BE wishes hls
continued success.
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as the poor girls trustee. He appoint
ed normal school graduates who had
been rejected BY an old school ring,
girls had made a record in the schools
but because Of their poor condition
they were reje cted. When he assumed
cnarge OF the schools or the division
under his supervision he took girls
out Of the kitchen and appointed them
IN the schools. These girls have made
successful teachers. The public should
not fail TO come out and hear this dis
finguishsd educator and Teasoner.
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pR deo H RICHARDSON

This popular speaker and educator
will read one o. his scholarly and logi-
cal papers before the Bethel Literary
on mex: Tuesday evening. Dr.. RiCu-
ardson needs no introduction 10 the
people of this city. When he was a
member OF the school board he was
one man who worked inCessently for
deserving graduates. He was known
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Ex- Recorder Cheatham in Town.

Hon. Henry P. Cheatham Of North
Carolina Is in the city on business.
When he was asked about The appoint
ment Of Capt. Gilmore in the army.
among other things he said Il am
pleased with the appointment. Il
meets the unqualified approval OF the
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14
ALL PRAISE HANNA
OF the Houston Texas. Vas.

Tron the Houston Texas, VEs.
Senator Hanna is one among the
host Of good men in this country who
believe in giving every man his just
dues. The Negroes who served "a
years as slaves in this country had
much TO do with the general welfare
and prosperity Of these United States
and there is no just reason why be
should not be pensiOned.
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14
THE SUFFRAGE CONVENTION

Editor of the Washington Bee
We the members Of the executive
committee Of the National Colored
Personal Liberty League, most
he .r,ily indorse thu actions that
you have taken in reference to the
holding o: 3 slHt4gs convention in
some one Of the eastern or gsster 4
states in the near future. You can
be assured that You will have the
hearty support Of the \. c. ?. L. L.
in your efforts.
Very Respectfully yours,
II. c. Hawkins.
c. e. Curtis
L. 4. Miles.
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14
LEGAL NOTICE
" Calvin Chase. Attorney.
n the sspreme Coart q the Distriet OF Colanb

a the Sspgene Court q the District OF fCoIumbia
GeoTgetts Humphreys. Petitioner. ~. Nm. 4.
Humphreys. Defendant.
Nc p $50 Equity Dockel No, s..
The object OF this suiI IS ter Al absolute d.
vorcs on the grounds OF wiliul deseTtion and
abandonment OF the petitioner BY the defendant
and non support
On motion Of the complainant Il IS this 5oth
dsY Of January. 4. D.. 1905. ordered thAt the 1S-
fsndanI cause MS appearance 10 be entered here
in on oT before the i0TueIh day exclusive Of sun
days and legal holidays, occurring sfteT me cay
Of the hTst publication Of TINS order OIueIS lss
the cause viii be proceeded with as IN case OF q
fault This notice IS 10 be published N IA :
Washington Law. Reporter and in the Washing
ter BEE
By the Court
Ashley NJ. Could Justice
True Copy, Test
]. K Young Clerk.
By J. W. Latimer. Assistant Clerk
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Indnstrious Indians.

Col. z. Il. Pratt head Of the govern
ment Indian school at Carlisle, Pa
reports that the enrolment Of Indian
students there this year has reached
the high-water mark Of 1913. The stu
dents are encouraged 20 earn money
by hiring out during vacation, and
they made nearly $4,000 that way last
year.
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EIeetrieaI Power carrfed "a.

The problem Of the conveyance Of
electrical power Is 10 barrier to the
California electrician. San Jose has
Just been equipped with system o.
electric lighting the current for which
Is carried for distance Of I73 miles.
s- = mint N The hAzrt 0f Fk--GE--s
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14

negroes in North Carolina. He IS my
friend an he IS man who stands
high in the state No better appoint o
menl could have been made. If more
men On the Gilmore order were ap-
pointed the people in North Carolina
would be pleased. Mr. Cneatham )
Just as lively and jolly as ever and full
Of hope for the race.
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14

To the friends Of True Freedom
and civil Liberty since it is a fact
that there are radical extremes
confronting the two old parties
which demand the commendsble
consideration of the people; | am
forced by the ord er of executive
committee Of civil liberty party to
call a national convention at Gin
einati, 0aio, TO consider, many oi
the perplex problem of civil and
political liberty. Many prominent
letters have flooded ny Office since
was issued Jan. 7th. Fol
further information write
S. Mitchell,
The Washington bee., 1903-02-14

DR.. Shadd's notice was served, &C
cording 10 the constitution, the same
time that my own notice was given,
while ! was acting President OF the
Company
IIIS 4ath St y. w.
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Royal Hughes, AttOTneS-
Supreme Court OF the District OF Columbia
Beverly Randall Us. Lucy Ana Randall.
Ne. a;6so- Equity Docket No S.
The object Of this suit IS 10 obtain decree
IF divorce from the bonds of marriage Tor 2dli-
frry committed b the defendant with one re
rS- FIstchron Grace s.. IN The city O. " ash
iTyt1r District of Columbia ia the month OF A
M s1d Nav 4. D. IS99, and with otheT PEI sons
M ar,yyu 10 the comp -4luant m me mon5ns o.
INV and August, A.D. 1870 Al no. z7So Kicks
81 n. "a. in the city Of Washington, DisiIle' oi
Columbia ~ 3. - -Lss 9Th
5av oI January. A.D, 1898 ordered thai I, ( o. =
f-1dsut cause her appearance 20 De entered H0le :
n Cr7 or before the foEJieIh day exclusive oi
Srrfav and leszl holidays. occurring amer 'he
5gy ofthe first publication Of this order. l olneI'
I-iSe the cause viii be proceeded Win ss ~ sass
n default provided 4 copy oi thls ofuet os
r71bifsh-d in the Washington Law Reporter ana
a. Washington Bee newspaper ss required Os
equity rule q.
b the Court. ,..--
Signed H. B. Hagners justice.
Tyue copy. Test
Bv J. R. Young. Clerk
r. T. Aeess, Assistant Clerk
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l beg TO announce TO nv many lrlenoS
and the pnblic that ! have opened an
Office at qIs @ street northwest HneIe !
I shall continue my Insurance ouSl-
ness. l shall also give my atteh non
to Patent and Pension claims. Request
no a continuance Of past favors, am
Yours yery truly,
D. 2. McCaTy,
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~CAPII Al SAVINGS BANK.
No ICE TO DEPOsITORS
By direction OF the court, ali deposIi7Ts are ie-
gussted 10 promptly present their bank oOoAs
f,r settlement 10 JOSEPH H. STEWA I. Re
-4fv=r a his ofHce, 6os 81. NV
EOHN RITOUT.
TO~EPH 4. STEWART
-HOMAS Wal KER,
Rz-eiyersS
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S 5iitcheI

Chairman Elective Committee.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-17
REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONS.
There Are sim seven Persons Draw
Ing Money from the Govern
ment on Old Account.

Nearly 100 years have elapsed since
the revolutionary war came to an
end. The last survivor of the thou
sands of men who took part in that
great struggle for liberty died more
than 80 years ago. Yet, there are on
Uncle Sans pension rolls the names
of seven persons each of whom has
been granted small sum of money
monthly on account of it, says
Washington report.
Three of the seven are the only sur
viving widows of revolutionary sol
diers. The other four are daughters
and are pensioned by a special act
of congress. The widows are: Re-
becca Mayo. aged SO years, of New
burn, Va; Nancy Jones, aged So
years, of Jonesboro. Tenn, and
Esther S. Damon, aged So years, of
Plymouth Union, VT.
Rebecca Mayo, whose maiden name
was Rebecca Dawson, is the widow of
Stephen Mayo. whom she married in
Virginia, on November "a, 1884, when
she Was 20 and and he ~ years of
age. Her husband enlisted as a pri-
vate in a Virginia regiment in 1776,
and served three or four months. He
enlisted again in February, 1777, and
served for one year. He participated
in the battles of Brandywine and Ger
mantown. In 1882, at the age of rs
years, he made application for pen
sion, which was allowed. He died in
1s47, and the same year application
was made by his widow and her claim
was allowed.
| Nancy Jones is the widow of Oar
/ ling Jones. who served for nine
months as a private in North Caro-
lima regiment and was in the battle
| of Monks Corner and also in some
skirmishes with the Cherokee Indi-
ans. Her maiden name was Nancy
Huff. She married in Carter County,
Tenn, at the age of 25 years, her
husband being 60 years of age. Mr.
Jones was drawing pension at the
time of his death in 1S4s. Her claim
was allowed in 1883.
Esther S. Damon, who was former.
" Esther Sumner, married Noah Da.
mon at Bridgewater, VT, in 1885
when she was % years of age and he
rs. Mr.. Damon enlisted at Milton
Mass, in 1855, as private, and served
nearly two years. He was wounded
at the battle of Long Island. and wa:
granted a pension in 1s4s. He dice
in 1858, and she was pensioned as hi.
widow.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-17
MADE MONEY KILLING BIRDS.
A Michigan Man who Has Slain
Nearly 100000 Em@IIsh
2 spRrrOwa

Louis Gorsline has a peculiar and
unique history. His name and picture
have appeared in both state and ma
tional papers, and thousands of peo-
pie who have never seen him are ia
miliar with the peculiar points in his
life. And this notoriety was achieved,
not in any deed of daring, reckless ad-
venture or by having great wealth
thrust upon him by frugal ancestors.
In short he has been the greatest
sparrow hunter in the state, the ma
tion, and, probably, in the world, says
a recent report.
Some years ago he was a trainman
on the old Toledo & Ann Arbor rail-
road. He lost his right hand in an &C
cident at McBain, and when he was
able TO work the company gave him a
place as a fiagman. He was restless to
increase his income, and began to hunt
sparrows. receiving the bounty of two
cents apiece then provided by state
law.
He shot them and trapped them at
odd times until he found the work so
| profitable that he hired a man to do
his work as fiagman and gave his
whole time~to sparrow hunting. He
afterwards used preparation in which
he soaked wheat and millet seed. and
two or three kernels of this was enough
to make any sparrow his in few min
utes' time. In this way he would take
thousands in a day.
Mr.. Gorsline says that he does not re-
member ever finding but one bird aside
FROM the sparrows that had eaten the
poisoned grain, and that other birds do
not eat grain. He has caught the pests
in nearly every county in the lower
peninsula and has also worked in the
upper peninsula. Over $4,000 was paid
to him by the state in bounties and
nearly three-quarters of a million birds
were killed by him in the five years he
followed the work as a business.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-17
GREAT SCARCITY OF HORSES.
Ameries's supply, Though Large Is
Not EQuAI TO the cOuntry's
IA Growing Demand. al.

We are horse poor-not as some
people are land poor. because they
have too much-but horse poor be-
cause we haven't enough horses.
After the civil war we found our
selves short of horses of the bigger
types and began importing them for
breeding purposes. We imported
them to good purpose and in very
large numbers and greatly improved
the quality of our stock. When cleo
tricity began to haul street cars the
market for the commoner kinds of
horses fell off and farmers didn't
breed so many. When the automo-
biles began to appear and were her
aided as machines that must super
sede the use of carriage horses the
breeders of the Better class of horses
took fright.
Forfyears after 1898, too, thousands
of people who wanted horses could
not afford them. But with the return
of prosperity the demand for good
horses began to grow again and
breeders bred more of them, reports
five years to raise a horse that is
fit for the market and the breeders
got behind. The demand has outrun
the supply. The price of good horses
has increased very greatly and i'm
ported stations are said to be worth
nearly ten times what they were ten
| years ago. The South African war
| took great number of horses out
of the country, including many
worthless ones, but the business OF
horse-breeding has revived so much
that we shall soon have again a rea-
sonably full supply.
Enterprising farmers nowadays
breed good horses. 1t pays, and
breeding poor horses doesn't pay
We import horses from Europe for
breeding purposes and from Canada
for use, but of late we have exported
far more than we have imported and
are likely to keep on doing SO. The
annual horse show in New York
which seems on its surface to be {
frivolous spectacle, really holds {
highly important relation to one o.
the great industries of the country
1t is the parent of all the American
horse shows and, with them, con
stantly measures, stimulates and di
reefs the country's progress in tn
breeding of fine horses. There ar
about 13,5OO,00o horses in our land
of an estimated value of 1904, 000, 00C
The improvement of that much stocl
is pretty important matter, espe
cially in these days. when Europe
horse poor, too, and ready to TAX
from us any surplus of good horse
that we may come to have.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-17
SOCIETY In THE WEST.
Kt Is Friendly TO the Newcomer ana
Ever Ready TO Receive Him on
Hin Merits.

1t is society almost wholly without |
snobbishness. Now and then there be- |
comes apparent struggle to enter it |
on the part of some one outside of it;
but, because access is so simple, the
fact that a struggle is necessary nearly
always creates in itself a perpetual dis
qualification. 1t is a society exceed
ingly friendly to the newcomer very
ready to receive him on his own
merits; it has no feeling of it's own in
security to make it snub him because
1t does not know who he was before he
came. And while the visitor will be
asked many questions about his ac-
quaintances in other cities, he will not
be asked if he has met "the Rockmores
of Germantown" in order to discover
If he knows the right people," The
questions are put in a hopeful way,
with the hospitable wish to find mu-
tual friends of whom to talk, and to
bring the visitor and native into closer
touch, says Harper's Magazine.
There is natural drawing together
and Independence, of course, among
the people who form the nucleus of this
society; whose fathers and grand
fathers have been friends, watching
the town grow from a village in the
forties to a city of Importance in the
twentieth centuary; and although
there is small complacence among
the families that were here from the
first" it amounts mainly to greater
70 Isox
relatives. Conditions are all the hap
pier for the absence of the pond-turtle
who condescends to the newcomer be-
cause his relatives have been a long
time in the same pond. Here and there
there may be an individual who takes
to himself some credit that his family
have achieved distinction or continued
in responsibility through severa: gen
erations; but he does not push the
claim, because he lives among people
who would laugh less at ''the arrogant
strut of new wealth" than at a claim
of privilege for high BIRTH" because
| (the people would feeD to be tainted
with the former means at least that
| you are proud of something you your
self have accomplished; to possess the
latter means that you are in the ludi-
crous latitude of being proud of your
self because of something that some
body else did.
The members of this society live on
terms of singular intimacy with one
another, almost as in a village, meet
ing often, and rarely passing each Other
on the street without pausing for more
than a greeting. When the warn
weather begins one has only to stroll
or drive about certain pleasan
portions of the city during the early
evening to see nearly all his friends
who will be lounging each on his lawn
or comfortably taking the air on tn
broad porches; and the older inhabi
tant easily remembers the day whei
he was acquainted with every persol
of respectable appearance in town
Such intimacy, of course, entails a
afnusingly large quantity Of amazingi
small gossip.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-17
Preachers Should Learn rrade.,

A prominent clergyman strongly
urges all young men who contemplate
entering the ministry to learn some
trade either before or after their
ordination. He has examined the sta
tistics of the various Protestant de-
nominations and has been appalled,
by the number of ministers who are
without a charge. He thinks that il
every preacher should have a trade
his independence would not only be
a great thing for himself, but would
increase his usefulness in the pulpit.
Chicago Chronicle.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-03-17
me saaad ana the ritIe.

Once upon time there was fair
young girl who had many suitors, but
she received them all with equal gra-
ciousness and waited for her affec-
tions to dictate which should be the
especially favored one.
Finally, she heard that a rich uncle
of one of her wooers had died leaving
him clear and unencumbered title to
many acres of very valuable land.
When next she met the young man she
showed quite plainly that her affec-
tions had begun to dictate.
The result was that they were mar
ried when the next June came around.
Moral: Titles are attractive, even
in America.-N. Y. Herald.