Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. In the interest of equal rights and equal justice to all men and for "all men up." A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. It is open to the towns and communities of the state of Washington to air their public grievances. Social and church notices are solicited for publication and will be handled according to the rules of journalism. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 NEW YEAR Next Tuesday is New Year and may you and each of you meet it with hopeful hearts and cheerful countenances. May you set your stakes high and work to reach the mark. An old folks lore story was to the effect that whatever you did the first twelve days in the year that you would be more or less engaged throughout the entire year and it was almost industrial suicide to show signs of indolence on New Year. Weather witches declared the condition of the weather the first twelve days in January would forecast the weather of the entire twelve months. In short New Year and the next eleven days were observed and watched with eagle eyes. "BEWARE OF GREEKS" in the packing houses, owing to the striking unions and from these positions they have been shut out in the past on account of the unions and this unexpected outburst of love for the black man on the part of organized labor is entirely too sudden for his good. The advice of Cayton's Weekly is that you continue as you are and you will continue to hold good jobs, whereas, if you join the union, you will be out of a job and the union will not give you a square deal when it is again in control, if such a thing ever happens. The year closing has been a harvest for the black man of the Northwest, owing to the striking unions in the various industries, and though many strikes of huge dimensions have been pulled off in this section within the past eighteen months, but two of them have been settled without the colored man profiting largely thereby. The street car strike was settled and not a colored man got a place either before or after and the same was true of the telephone strike. The future in the Northwest looks bright for the colored man and he will enjoy his share of the prosperity wave that is hovering over ththis section if he will only watch his P's and Q's and steer clear of organized labor so long as it is domineered by the race prejudice bunch that is now in control. COMING THEIR WAY Another wave of prosperity is about to alight on Seattle, which is of a far different kind than the previous ones, this one being confined for the most part to the working men. Multiplied thousands of men are wanted in Seattle to carry on the work of construction that has been laid out, and which the general government insists must be done at once, if not sooner, and the working men are getting fabulous wages and are able to lay by quite a sum of money each month in spite of the high cost of living. These good wages the men are getting meaens that they will spend a great deal of it for their personal comforts and other men in business will to an extent profit from this great working man's prosperity wave. Seattle has not as many colored persons in the commercial whirl as she should have, owing to their constitutional timidity to risk their money, either collectively or individually, in business enterprises, but there are some that have launched out and they are in line to enjoy some of the prosperity that the working men are falling heir to. In the strictly commercial world the Alhambra Cash Grocery Company leads and it is said that the concern disposes of upwards of a car load of food stuff each month, and we suspect it handles in the neighborhood of $20,000 per month. This company is under the ownership and management of Harry Legg and W. H. Bald Mrs. J. C. Coogswell has also launched out into the grocery business and while she is making haste slowly, yet she is in line to catch quite a bit of the trade from the men that are profiting from the working man's prosperity wave now overshadowing the city. She is located in a strictly "colored man's community" and if there is anything in the so-much-talked-of "race pride," she ought to do exceedingly well the ensuing year. Mrs. M. D. Harvey is laying her plans to VOL.2, No.29 blossom out into a full fledged lunch room and delicatessen and being in an apartment house community there is no reason why she would not have a huge success out of the venture. She is already doing fairly well and the New Year ought to bring her renewed prosperity. Mrs. G. B. Miller is operating a Ladies' Exchange and building up a splendid trade among the women folk in her immediate neighborhood. It strikes us that she has the foundation on which to build up a gigantic business in the very near future providing she pushes it and she seems to be of that turn of mind. Madam Elizabeth De Neal must be doing well or she could not continue to operate so large an establishment as she is. She is not only doing a splendid counter business, but she is teaching the young colored girls of the Northwest the art of handling hair to the best advantage and that too, without regard to the color and complexion of the owner of the hair. In other words, she handles the colored woman's hair just as successfully as she does the white woman's. Mrs. L. A. Graves and her daughter, Mrs. Zoe Graves Young, are doubtless enjoying a greater amount of the working man's prosperity than the most of us, as they are busy from morning until night. She has a beautiful and well arranged hair dressing establishment in one of the prominent bank buildings of the city and is getting the patronage. Samuel H. Stone, the caterer, is certainly prepared to get as much or more of the working man's prosperity wave than any of the colored persons in the commercial pursuits. He has a well filled store of the articles in his line of work and he gets as much, if not more, of the catering work, as any other establishment in the city. He has an elaborate as well as expensive plant at his place of business and he handles a banquet of a thousand with as much grace and ease as he does one of a hundred. He is a past master in his line. The Southern Express Company, under the management of Ira F. Norris, Jr., probably does the largest business of any concern in the city owned by colored persons. The five immense motor trucks of the company are busy day in and day out and its gross receipts will doubtless run into the thousands each month. The Chandler Fuel and Express Company is one of the big concerns of its kind of the city, and must have its manager, William Chandler, at his wits end every hour of the day to figure out how to handle the rush of business that has come to his concern, owing to the prosperity wave, and the past tis nothing to what the immediate future promises to be. Z. L. Woodson, the apartment house king, must be one of the happiest men in the Northwest, and simply because this prosperity wave means money almost in car load lots for him, and if there is any one thing in this world that Woodson loves like unto himself it is money in bunches. Hayden J. Richardson doubtless built better by a great deal than he had planned in buying the Douglas Apartments. At the time he took it over it was a nice investment, but the great prosperity that has come to Seattle has made his investment a mint of gold. He spent a number of years in Alaska trying to strike it rich and then came back to Seattle to walk right into a what he had suffered so many privations trying to find. There are still many persons with an ex- press wagon who are doing what they can by themselves all of whom are doing ex- ceedingly well and if they but husband their earnings they will soon be in town with a pocketfull of rocks. Dan Myers, the chicken ranch king, is sawing wood and saying nothing, but it is safe to say that no man in and about Se- attle is getting more of the prosperity wave than he. Tle has thousands of chickens, which lay thousands of eggs, which he sells to the leading concerns of the city at prices that make you feel good way down in your tees to see him coin the cash. Will Winston some years ago, as an ex- periment, went into the hog raising busi- ness and we are told it is no longer an ex- periment with him but a high class paying business. Just now hogs are hogs and Winston says T know it. —- — Tueker is also in the hog business as well as the chicken business on the side and, like the other men, is doing better than he ever dreamed of doing. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Waar time prohibition, as advoeates Theo- dove Roosevelt. is all right, but if prohi- hition is good for war times it is good for any time. We have our suspicions that the railroad magnets haye no fear of Uncle Sam’s seiz- ure of their property, yea, we have our further suspicions that the magnates rather encouraged it. The county and city officials of Lewis and Chehalis counties seem to have been hooked up with the bootleggers of that community and crime flourished like a green bay tree. White man’s God, almighty dollar. “Eyery thing is fair in love and war,’’ is an old adage. but if the attrocities charg- ed up to the German soldiers, as reported hy the Associated Press, be a hundredth part true. then they are the acts of brutes instead of human beings. Job work in the latest and newest styles turned out in this office. — THE RARE OLD, FAIR OLD STATE OF WASHINGTON (Poem read by Mrs. Carrie Virginia Shaw Rice at banquet tendered the Wash- ington State Press Association, at Everett, July 27, 1907). I sing the charms of Washington, how fair her shores appear, Returning from an alien land—and old home friends, how dear! Let poets of Yamato praise her dreamy Inland Sea, Fair Puget’s smiling waters are more beau- tiful to me. Oft have I gazed on Fuji San whose sacred heights arise Solemn and awe-inspiring against Gotemba’s skies; Gazed on great Fujiyama, so mystical and lone, And wondered in what changing light our own loved mountain shone; For, dearer than the rest, And better than the best Ts this golden region of the Setting Sun; You may travel anywhere And find nothing to compare With the rare old, fair old State of Wash. ington. Though we touched at fragrant isles in summer seas, Where the laangourous ilang-ilang perfumed the passing breeze; Though tmeples rose in beauty acrosos the Kwannon plains, And miles of cherry blossoms made pink the country lanes; Though wierdly smiling idols were seen on every hand And poesy and rapture seemed over all the land ;— Yet, dearer than the rest, And better than the best Ts thtis golden region of the Setting Sun, You may travel anywhere And find nothing to compare With the rare old, fair old State of Wash- ington. POINTED PARAGRAPHS The best policy is a paid up one. Farmers and washerwomen get their liv- ing out of the soil. At the moment of birth every man has ally remains there. Some men’s heads are so soft that a shadow from a brick wall produces a seri- ous impression. Many men boast of their honesty, but the women return most of the borrowed um- hrellas. CAYTON’S sispeciceh, 1910 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of James J. Ryan, De- ceased.—No. 21908. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Administrator of the estate of James J. Ryan, deceased. All per- sons having claims against the deceased are required to serve the same (supported by claimant's affidavit as required in Sec. 108, Probate Code) on the Ad- ministrator or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of the court, together with ee of such service, within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice; or same wil Ibe barred. Date of first publication, Dec. 15, 1917. WM. T. PERKINS, Administrator of said Estate. Address 607 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash. JOHN J. KINNANE, Attorney for Estate. Hotel Seattle, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Cora Green, Deceased. —No. 22412. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Administrator of the estate of Cora Green, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to serve the same( supported by claimant's affidavit as required in Sec. 108, Probate Code) on the adminis- trator or his attorney of record at the address be- low stated, and file the same with the clerk of the court, together with proof of such service, within six months after the date of the first publication of this noice, or same will be barred. Date of first publication Dec. 8, 1917. ‘W. D. GARTER, Administrator of said Estate. Address 316 Pacific Block , Seattle. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate, In the Matter of the Estate of Sander S. Scott, De- ceased.—No. 22483. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as administrator of the estate of Sander S. Scott, deceased; that all per- sons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly’ verified, on said administrator or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of said court together with proof of such service within six months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the same will be barred, Date of first publication Dec. 8, 1917. AL G. GRANT, Administrator of said Estate. Address 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Guardianship of Della Watts, an Insane Person.—No. 22357. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been apopinted and has qualified as Guardian of the estate of Della Watts, an Insane Person. All persons having claims against her estate are required to serve the same (supported by claimant’s affidavit as required in Sec. 108, Probate Code) on the Guard- ian or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of the court, together with proof of such service, within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or same will be barred. Date of first publication Dec. 8, 1917. S. A. WATTS, Guardian of the Estate of Della Watts, an Insane Person. Address 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. THE DOUGLAS CLUB Now Occupies spacious and elegantly furnished and equipped NEW QUARTERS And will be pleased to meet old and new friends 308 Washington St. Frank Smith, Prop. Main 4930 ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Fancy and Staple Groceries. Vegetables and Fruits in season. Bakery in connection. Free delivery. Tel. Main 2923. 1036-40 Jackson Street. TUTT’S BARBER SHOP 72%." *itencutss Tonsorial Work. 300 Main Street, Seattle. Latest race papers. All kinds of toilet supplies. BURR WILLIAMS RUSSELL SMITH President Secretary DUMAS CLUB, INC. 209 Fifth Avenue South CAFE IN CONNECTION Phone Elliott 3763 SEATTLE WASHINGTON Copyright 1917 By ORLANDO BELKNAP POND (All rights reserved) CHAPTER VI. The form of government then developed and which in a measure supplanted the family form and which was for a long time sustained, was, most likely, what we now call the tribal. It, in fact, was a development of a higher and a stronger form than that of the simple family government. It did not eliminate the family, but consisted of a union of families. The family remained the same and exercised its own individual rights. That is, such rights that it did not necessarily transfer to, and that were not taken by, the tribal head for the greater and better protection of the united families. It held the family in tact, but created a stronger body and a higher position in the world, and a larger sphere of governmental application. The most powerful and influential family head would, without doubt, take this newly created position. Families, also, grew in the course of time by natural increase into tribes. This, of course, occurred in the event that the family remained during a long period free from incursions either for hostile intentions, or for peaceable settlements, in the undisturbed occupancy of their own possessions. There were certainly two points of advantage gained in the progress of man by the development of the family form into that of the tribal government, yet without destroying the family mode of life. The distinction, perhaps more than any other, that marked the difference between the family and the tribal form of government, was first, that while the family right extended only to, and over the possessions actually occupied, the tribal rights embraced the possessions of all the families within certain territorial limits which it established. And second, that it concentrated certain indispensible powers heretofore possessed and exercised by the family in the tribe. Thus placing the family in a much better situation for the defense of its possessions and the chastisement of its enemies. For the family possessions were now the tribal possessions, and the enemy of the family wa now the enemy of the tribe. The tribe however formed became in the progress of time, through marriage and intermarriage, one blood and one people; and were one in language, one in thought, and one in its determined purpose, and in its undertakings. It may be interesting to know that, more especially during the period of tribal supremacy, there developed and was established the pagan priesthood which afterwards and in course of time became an important class in all the ancient pagan nations. This priesthood was largely responsible for the introduction of many forms of practice that overwhelmed the world in superstitious and idolatrous worship. A system of worship that has required many centuries of the active efforts of a more civilized people to check, but which has not yet been entirely eradicated from the human mind, and still exerts a great and profound influence upon the affairs of mankind. But to return to the subject matter: There was developed from, and out of, the right of possession by occupancy, the right of the ownership of all lands held by the tribe within the limits of its territorial domain. Hence the theory of paramount ownership in the government, which is still adhered to by mankind. The tribes as a natural consequence increased in size and in numbers and eventually grew into larger and more compact bodies which constituted the most ancient cities and were the petty nations and kingdoms of the period. The marauding expeditions already noticed did not cease, but, on the contrary, were carried on upon larger and more important fields of operation, and with the same fiendish cruelty and the same ruinous destruction. These nations and kingdoms were constantly engaged in invading, and seizing, and appropriating each other's territory and continuously plundering the inhabitants or else defending and repelling therefrom the invaders. It was forever turmoil and warfare among these petty nations and kingdoms of an old world out of which the great kingdoms and empires of antiquity were eventually cerated and established. We find here the origin and source of human thought and deliberations that involved questions and subjects that have since developed into great and accepted principles which control mankind even now in their relations to each other, to the world, and to the Supreme Being. Principles that were so firmly fixed and established as to dominate mankind in its entire career. Principles that have produced the systems and methods of activity that now predominate in the world and bind humanity as closely to the powers that control as they did in the days of the ancients. They may, in part at least, be recognized under certain classifications as follows: First. That the head of the family is the unit of authority. And that this unit represents the form of authority in all established governments. Hence the king holds all the powers and exercises all the authority of the nation. Second. That the priesthood was versed in supernatural affairs and was the promulgator of a definite knowledge of such affairs to men, which all the people including the king and the nobility were bound to heed and to obey. It was by these and various other means employed during the previous centuries that the priesthood became permanently established and devoted itself and its followers to superstitious beliefs and idolatrous worship. These heathen priests reduced the people to a degrading degree of ignorance, and held them in a slavish serfdom to the governing classes. The people are still influenced by many of these superstitious beliefs and notions; and are still held in a firm grasp as dependent subjects of such overlapping dominant powers. And third, that the rights to hold possession of land by occupancy was reduced to that of ownership by the tribe. And from this right has grown the theory of the ownership of land by the government which still continues to be the practice. It was largely out of the priesthood relations of these early days that, notwithstanding much true knowledge came through them into the world, the conceptions of the false ideas of things produced in the human mind had their being. And their development through the ages that have since elapsed manifest themselves to us of the present day in the constitutional elements of our existence. It is through the false positions held by them and the ownership of land then assumed that has, during the long period of time through which it has come down to us, and the many changes that have taken place. brought about and developed many of the evils and burdens which the human race has still to endure and from which it still suffers. (To be Continued) CHRISTMAS Nobody knows when Christ was born, of course, and December 25 is simply an arbitrary date. The day has been variously fixed and celebrated on April 20, May 20, March 29, September 29, and quite generally on January 6. But Pope Julius in the fourth century had a careful inquiry made into the matter, and this resulted in the fixing of December 25 as the most likely day of the birth. The cock crows for Christmas in England; in Italy the bees sing; in the Netherlands the cattle kneel; in Switzerland the sheep go in procession; to the Indian the deer kneels; in the German Alps the cattle have the gift of language given them on Christmas eve; in Austria candles are put in the windows so that the Christ Child may not stumble as He goes through the village streets on Christmas eve; in Scandinavia all the shoes in the household are put together on the table, signifying that all the members are to live in peace and harmony during the coming year; a bath is also taken by every member of the family on the day before Christmas; in Norway a sheaf of wheat is placed on a pole in front of each house for the birds; in Peru every door of every house is open and hospitality abounds to the stranger as well as to the friend. And so in every land is there a different legend or custom celebrating the Christ's birthday. Santa Claus is buried in Italy—that is, the man from whom we got Santa Claus. He was Saint Nicholas—an archbishop of Myra, in Lycia, who passed away on December 6, 342. He was supposed to be a holy personage of unusual attributes, with an especial love for children. In Russia this day is a church day; in France it is the grand fete day of children; in many provinces of Germany it is celebrated as a preliminary to Christmas; in the Netherlands it is the real day for gifts, with December 25 as a church day; in South Austria it takes the place of our Christmas day. Nicholas was abbreviated to "Klaas" by the Dutch, and from this our "Claus" is easily apparent. At Bari, on the southeastern coast of Italy, the bones of Saint Nicholas are interred, and on every December 6th thousands of pilgrims visit the tomb and great ceremonies are held. So, when children ask if there is a real Santa Claus, we can at least answer that there was! The Christmas tree's birthplace is Egypt. The tree there used was the palm; and the ceremony was in full force long before the days of Antony and Cleopatra. The palm puts forth a fresh shoot every month, and Old-Year parties were given with a palm spray, with twelve shoots, symbolizing the completion of another year. The custom passed into Italy, where the fir tree was employed for the purposes of celebration; and its pyramidal tips were decorated with burning candles, in honor of Saturn. This festival, the "Saturnalia." was observed at the winter solstice, ranging from the seventeenth to the twenty-first of December. Then came the "Sigillaria." days for interchanging presents of figures in wax, like those on the Christmas tree, and, finally, the "Juvenalia." when men became "boys with boys." matroned turned children once again, and young and old indulged in the solemn romps with which the festival closed, and which used to mark our own old-fashioned festivities at Christmastime. Then the Christmas tree passed into Germany, but there still may be seen the pyramids which sometimes are substituted for the tree. We were fined for keeping Christmas once. Yes, in America! In 1659 the general court of Massachusetts enacted that "anybody who is found observing, by abstinence from labor, feasting, or any other way, any such day as Christmas day shall pay for every such offense five shillings." This law held and was enforced for 22 years and even when it was finally repealed in 1681 the Puritans grew bitter and for years never recognized the day.—Exchange. Many an artist thinks he is in hard luck if he isn't able to draw a cork. Cayton's Weekly publishes legal notices at current rates. Main 24. DR. J. A. GHENT, SPECIALIST In Surgery and Gynecology has removed his office from the Marion Bldg. to 221 and 222 Seaboard Bldg., formerly Northern Bank Bldg., corner Westlake and Pine. Tel. Main 1185. 6 POLITICAL POT PIE Emmett H. Holmes is the first colored person in the state of Washington to hold a position of trust under a state administration, and, strange to say, a Democratic administration is responsible for the political innovation. Cayton's Weekly in the last gubernatorial campaign took the various Republican administrations to task for their direliction in giving colored Republicans political recognition and it bitterly fought all gubernatorial aspirants, who would not go on record to politically recognize the colored vote in case of nomination and election, and to that end it vigorously supported Roland H. Hartley for the gubernatorial nomination, but Henry McBride won out in the primaries and this paper shed no crockadile tears, when he lost out in the general election, simply because he did nothing for the black man when he was governor and would make no promise of doing anything for him in case of re-election. No official is greater than his party and if he or she expects to be elected to office by his party vote he or she must expect to do his or her bit to build up the party machinery and, in order to win, votes must be had, and the vote cast by a black person swells the whole number of votes just as much as the vote cast by a white person. To hold all factions and classes of voters insoluable all factions and classes of voters must be rewarded when the spoils of party are being passed around. In the last gubernatorial campaign the editor hereof called the attention of E. F. Blaine, one of Governor Lister's appointees and one of his most trusted political lieutenants, to the governor's mistake in not recognizing the colored vote and he promised and verily did take it up with the governor and was informed by him (the governor), that he had repeatedly advocated such a political move, but the heads of the various departments absolutely rebelled and on the subject he found himself not only standing alone, but at absolute variance with his respective appointees. It had not been done and while Cayton's Weekly did not openly support the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, yet it had nothing to say for the Republican and was more or less neutral. Gov. Lister succeeded himself and evidently the seeds he had previously sown which were nurtured by E. F. Blaine, began to sprout, and though they were a long time getting through the crust, yet they finally came through and as a result Emmett H. Holmes is now filling an important state position under Henry Drum, warden of the state penitentiary. In the past Mr. Holmes has not been able to persuade many of the colored voters of the state to follow him into the local Democratic camp, but it is suspected he will not be near so lonely in the next state campaign as he has been in the past. It matters not how well educated or politically influential a colored man may have been in the past, an appeal to his Republican friends for a position on account of past political favors, moved said official to get busy at once looking up a janitorship for him and if none are to be had, then he is told "there is nothing doing." The auditor of this state has the naming of nearly one hundred employees and yet when a colored man, who in the past had been one of his staunchest supporters, appealed to him for a position, he could find nothing at aall for him to do. There will come a change some day. If any colored man in the state can and will fill a political position with credit to himself and the class of voters with whom he is racially identified, E. H. Holmes will do so, if it can be done, and it can. He is fearless in his advocacy of a square deal for the black man the same as for the white man, and fighting for this principle, which was denied him by the Republicans of Spokane county, caused him to work for the success of the Democratic nominees. It was in 1896 when Mr. Holmes first broke from his Republican moorings and since that time he has consistently opposed the Republican nominees and he has made some headway. The editor of Cayton's Weekly has no sympathy for the Democratic party, especially that wing of it from the South, but unless the Republicans make greater efforts in the future to give recognition to the colored voters, he will advocate the colored voters supporting that man or men who will agree to recognize them the same as they do all other classes of voters, and that to,o whether the nminee is allied with the Republican, Democratic or Damphool party. All of this reminds the writer of a bit of personal political experience, which is as follows: In years past he was the fifth wheel of a strong political organization in this state, which made him the political associate of the state's leading and most influential politicians. Fortune favored him in the publication of the Seattle Republican and he neither sought or wanted political preferment, but he was responsible for the selection of members of the supreme court and every other state office, even to the senators and representatives in Congress, and on the whole he thought himself some man among men, and, there were others of a like mind. The sun, however, does not shine in one man's door all the day and he suffered heavy financial reverses, and to such an extent that even the necessities of life were quite a problem for him to solve. Holding an important political position was an old time political friend and with whom he had worked for years building up a political machine, and he was holding the place on account of this machine. This public official was asked for a position, and after taking the verbal application under advisement, he very deliberately replied: "I know of no man in the state that I would favor more readily than yourself, but I have nothing to give you except a position I will not offer you." And our reply was: "If you offer me that I will spit in your face," to which he replied: "And I would not have any respect for you if you did not." Despite hundreds of places at his and his friends' disposal a janitor's job was by ineuendo offered, and if it worked all was well; if not, then the other places were all taken. Yes, it's discouraging, if one will be discouraged, but Horace Roscoe Cayton is made of sterner stuff and will die fighting. Is it humane to brand Felix Crane an "ex-Washington convict" and then drive him out of the state and especially to Oklahoma, where the authorities of the law will await his coming, almost with drawn guns, and at the slightest provocation shoot him down, on the grounds that he is a dangerous criminal? The laws of this state sent Crane to prison to not only punish him for his sins of commission, but to likewise reform him. He has been paroled for the express purpose of seeing to what extent his punishment has reformed him. If he be driven from the state by what means will the paroling officials find that out? Crane, according to the prison records, was a model prisoner and was a trusty during the entire time he was technically confined. Yes, he was even given his commitment papers and he conveyed himself to Walla Walla to report to the pen for service, all of which adds still more to his record as being a model convict. If all this be true, why will not the state of Washington give him an opportunity to make good? Perhaps he has thoroughly reformed and in future will be as much an ideal citizen as he was an ideal prisoner. George Vandeveer, the attorney, who defended Crane, told the court that the evidence on which he was convicted, would have never convicted a white man. Why drive Crane out of the state and allow Charley Wappenstein to not tonly live at home, but to act as a peace officer? Crane's crime was no more hein- ious than Wappenstein's. Crane can live down his past a thousand times easier in Washington than he can in some other state and why not give him a fighting chance. The colored population of Seattle number about 3,000 while the white population number about 350,000 and certainly so few colored persons could not be a menace to the city even if Crane should want to returne to his wallerings. The law would soon apprehend him and return him to prison. This "move on" order issued to Felix Crane reminds us of the orders so often given by the police department of large cities to undesirable persons: "leave town immediately or suffer the consequences." It's a crime against the country to drive a criminal out of one town to go to another, where said criminal is unknown, thus making the other fellow vicitms unawares. If a person is a criminal and the same can be proven, then the thing to do is to send said criminal to prison, from the place where his or her last crime was committed. If you say to the criminal, "you are to be deported to some country set aside for criminals" then the "move on" order is alright, but to drive a citizen from town to town on the theory that he or she is an undesirable is not only making a worse criminal of the unfortunate, if such be possible, but you make it possible for said criminal to ply the dark lantern "profesh" on persons and communities that know not the criminal nature of the new comer. Crime should be suppressed, not encouraged and the practice of driving criminals out of town is nothing short of encouraging the commission of crime. The legislature of the various states should pass a law making it a statutory offense for an officer to order even a criminal out of town simply because a sufficient amount of incriminating evidence is not at hand to send the criminal to the penitentiary. Edwin J. Brown, he of much dental and Socialistic political fame, announces he has at last found the elixir of life in "Wilsonian Democracy" aand celebrates his newfound conversion in genuine Democratic style by branding the colored man as the root of all evil. While a Socialist Dr. Brown was a splendid fellow and was for "all men up,' but he no sooner becomes a Democrat than he is for all men up except a "damn nigger." Repeatedly has the editor hereof supported Dr. Brown for offices he has run for, though he seemed to be an uncompromising Socialist, and had no morse for so doing but as a Democrat we will forget him as his recent published utterances put him in the genuine damphool Democratic corner. Just what federal position Edwin J. Brown has up his sleeve to ask President Wilson to pull down for him has not been as yet disclosed but it is certain, from his recent denunciation of the colored folks of Seattle, that he is getting himself right to ask for something. And thus do men like Tillman, Vardeman and Dr. Brown sacrifice all their humane spirit for all manner of man to appease their selfish ambitions. Much casting about for a mayorality candidate for Seattle is being done by some of the would-be leading citizens with little or no results save disappointments. An attempt was made to draft Harold Preston, but he claimed legal exemptions and then John Powell was drafted and he too, plead legal exemptions, which leaves the situation completely in the air. At this writing it looks very much like Gill and Hanson will be the nominees, in which case Gill will succeed himself. If, however, Gill and Hanson are the nominees the editor of this sheet like thousands of other voters in the city, would be sorely tempted to refrain from voting at all for a mayor. Ugly as the situation now looms up, if the real men and women of the city would get squarely behind Claude C. Ramsay he could save the situation, because the nominees then would be Ramsay and Gill and Ramsay would beat him so badly that Gill would not know he "also ran." Griffith might have had some slight chance of coming under the wire ahead of Hanson had not C. J. France announced his candidacy, but with Griffith and France in the field, neither has a shadow of a chance. Now, let the men and women who have Seattle at heart, lay aside their differences and throw Ramsay in the fight and then give him a united support and there will be nothing to it. Boston Holman died January 2nd, after a lingering illness. He was one of the very active members of the First A. M. E. church of this city and was more or less public spirited. For a number of years he was employed as door man for the Arctic Club and was highly respected by its various members. CLE ELUM CATCHES Robert Johnson of Seattle, is visiting with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Johnson. The country about Cle Elum is more or less flooded just now and greater danger threatens the settlers in case the dam at Lake Ketcheles breaks, in which case the whole country would be flooded and unless the settlers moved rapidly many would lose their lives. In case of such trouble, however, the big whistle at the mines will give the signal for all to run to the mountains for their lives. Those whose houses are thus far above high water mark are doing all they can to relieve the suffering. Mrs. R. H. Taylor has with her during the high water rush, T. H. Walker, Johnny Mitchel, Robert Marlett and Mrs. H. Thornton, who has her fine Jerseys with her. Mrs. R. H. Taylor is a member of the Red Cross of Cle Elum and is the only colored woman hereabout that does belong to this organization. Recently she carried a sack of home-knit socks to the sewing room of the Red Cross and her name was put on it and the sack was set out for inspection and it was highl ycomplimented by all. Jack Johnson, he of world pugalistic fame, is said to be a candidate for mayor of Barcelona, Spain. He is now a Spanish subject and is very popular in that city. One day last summer two small boys were playing near the country road. A young lady approached them. "Little boy," said she, "can you tell me if I can get through this gate to the pike?" "Yes'm, I think so. A load of hay went through five minutes ago." Mayor Gill has had another close call and yet he is still right side up with care. Gill is simply a lucky dog and it is better to be born lucky than rich. If the world-wide war accomplished noth- Some men's heads are so soft that a shadow from a brick wall produces a serious impression. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for the County of King—In Probate. In the Matter of the Guardianship of Clarence Haydon, Irene Haydon and Richard Haydon, Minors.—No. 9188. Order to Show Cause on Sale of Real Estate. E. C. Haydon, the guardian of the said minors, having filed his petition in this court, duly verified, praying for an order of this court for the sale of real estate of which the said minors are seized, for the purposes therein set forth. And it appearing to the court from said petition that the personal estate of the said minors in the hands of said guardian is not sufficient to pay the claims against the said estate and the expenses of the administration thereof, and that it is necessary to sell all or a portion of the said real estate of the said minors to pay the said claims and expenses of the administration. And it appearing to the court that said petition conforms to, and is in accordance with, the requirements of law in such case made and provided. It is ordered by the court that all persons interested in the estate of the said minors appear before said Superior Court on the 10th day of December, 1917, at the hour of 9:30 o'clock in the forenoon of said day at the court room of the Probate Department of said Superior Court, in the City of Seattle, in said King County, then and there to show cause, if any they have, why an order of this court should not be granted to said guardian authorizing and empowering him to sell the said real estate of said minors, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the aforesaid claims and expenses of administration. It is further ordered that a copy of this order to show cause be published at least four successive weeks before the said 10th day of December, 1917, in Cayton's Weekly, a newspaper printed and published in said County of King and of general circulation therein. The Science of Government The Hope and Dependance of the Human Race Copyright 1917 By ORLANDO BELKNAP POND (All rights reserved) Great Epochs and Great Events There are some great epochs that have taken place in the progress of events in the history of the world since the establishment of the petty kingdoms of antiquity that is marked by the rise and fall of great kingdoms anad empires. Some of these epochs are already closed and others are still in progress. If we give the matter our serious attention we shall discover two separate lines of progress and development in the known civilized relations of mankind that have followed the race westward and that more particularly concern the Caucasian or white races of man. These epochs and events are comprehended as follows: First:—The settlement of Abram, the progenitor of the Israelites, in the land of Canaan. Second:—The delivery of the Israelites by Moses from the bondage of Egypt, and their establishment in the promised land of Canaan. Third:—The complete establishment of the Babylonian empire, and the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. Fourth:—The birth, life and death of Jesus Christ and the establishment of Christianity in the world. Fifth:—The Reformation under Martin Luther and others. Sixth:—The discovery of the Western Continent, a new world, and the declaration of independence, and the establishment of a new nation, under a new name and title, the United States of America. Seventh:—The French Revolution, and the rise and fall of the Napoleonic dynasties. The great events that have marked the most important epochs in the world since the dawn of recorded history, are noted as follows: 1st. The establishment of the Hebrews, or Israelites, in the promised land of Canaan. 2nd. The birth, life and death of Jesus Christ, and the establishment of Christianity in the world. 3rd. The establishment of the American Republic. It may be of interest to know that Abram or Abraham, as he was afterwards known, and Nebuchaddnezzar, were both Chaldeans from one of the provinces of the Babylonian Empire. That in which Babylon was situated. Abram was selected by Jehovah to be the head and named Abraham, the father of a race which was to be raised up for a special purpose. And Nebuchaddnezzar, being the head was appointed to represent a great system of world activity which was to endure for a definite specified term; and include kingdoms and empires of vast extent and great powers and authority which should rise and fall in the progress of tremendous contests of military struggles in which each in turn should become supreme upon the prostrate form of the other. The great purpose and end in view by the creation and appointment of these two separate and distinct systems of activity, were one and the same thing, the preparation of the world for the setting up and establishing the kingdom in the latter days that is to endure unto the ages of the ages, devoted to the true worship of Jehovah. One represented the head of a race that was to be raised up for the special purpose of introducing into the world a knowledge of Jehovah as the true God of worship: and by means of this knowledge overthrow the entire system of idolatrous worship. The other represented the head of a system of forces, the purpose of which was to so conduct the affairs of the world that the entire systems then existing of world powers and activities together with idolatrous worship should eventually be utterly destroyed. One was called God's people, because they they were to, and did, represent in a special manner, and act as a medium by which a knowledge of Jehovah's commands and directions would be, and were, made known to all the nations. The other was named Babylon, because Babylon was the great center and head of the systems of idolatrous worship, and was the representative of those powers and systems of activity that degraded mankind to a slavish serfdom in support and maintenance of a royal and nobility class among the peoples and nations of the earth. We must not, however, flatter ourselves that these systems have yet been destroyed. They are just as much alive, just as active, and just as effectual in their operation now as then, though in a modified and mixed form. We are now actually living under mixed systems of idolatry and Christianity. By the birth and life of the Christ the design and purpose of the establishment of the Israelites, according to the Gentile belief and understanding, was enlarged and so extended as to embrace the whole world of human beings. And the true worship was more fully expounded, and more extensively introduced. But the world has accepted it only in part. It has only partially received, understood, and acknowledged Christ's mission. It has even made in many respects attempts to improve upon Christ's expositions. This is shown by the mixture of Christianity and the Babylonian systems that now prevail in the world; and no denomination is exempt. The world is still engaged in idolatrous worship, and is still acting under the Babylonian systems though under different names and under different forms. But it is still wood and silver and gold, wealth and poverty. It is still royalty, nobility and suffering humanity. (To be Continued) The young bride had clearly formed ideas on industrial questions. "I will give you something to eat," she informed the tramp who appeared at the kitchen door, "if you will get that ax——" "Oh, I shan't need that," the tramp interrupted in a reassuring tone, "my teetch are all right." Job work in the latest and newest styles turned out in this office. THE DOUGLAS CLUB Now Occupies spacious and elegantly furnished and equipped NEW QUARTERS And will be pleased to meet old and new friends 308 Washington St. Frank Smith, Prop. Main 4930 BURR WILLIAMS President RUSSELL SMITH Secretary DUMAS CLUB, INC. 209 Fifth Avenue South CAFE IN CONNECTION Phone Elliott 3763 SEATTLE WASHINGTON DR. J. A. GHENT, SPECIALIST In Surgery and Gynecology has removed his office from the Marion Bldg. to 221 and 222 Seaboard Bldg., formerly Northern Bank Bldg., corner Westlake and Pine. Tel. Main 1185. --- JEST ON CHRISTMAS KIT' O Mahsr! let dis gath'rin' fin' a blessin' in you' sight! Don't judge us hard fur what we does— You know it's Christmas night; An' all de balance of de yeah we does as right's we kin. Ef dancin's wrong, O Mahsr! let de time excuse de sin! We labors in de vineya'd, wukin' hard an' wukin' true; Now, shorely you won't notus, ef we eats a grape or two, An takes a leetle holiday—a leetle restin' spell— Bekase, nex' week, we'll start in fresh, an' labor twicet as well. Remember Mahsr—min' dis now—de sinfull- nes ob sin Is 'pendin' 'pon de speerit what we goes an' does it in; An' in a righchis frame ob min' we's gwine to dance an' sing, A-feelin' like King David, when he cut de pigeon wing. It seems to me—indeed it do—I mebbe mout be wrong— That peeople raly ought to dance, when Chrismus comes along; Dey's dance bekase dey's happy—like de birds hops in de trees, De pine top fiddle soundin' to de bowin' ob de breeze. We has no ark to dance afore, like Isrul's prophet king; We has no harp to soun' de chords, to help us out to sing; But 'cordin' to de gif's we has we does de bes' we knows, An' folks don't 'spise the vi'let flower bekase it ain't de rose. You bless us, please, sah, eben ef we's doin' wrong to-night; Kase den we'll need de blessin' more'n ef we's doin' right; An' let de blessin' stay wid us, untel we comes to die. An' goes to keep our Chrismus wid dem sheriffs in de sky! Yes, tell dem preshis anguls we's a-gwine to jine 'em soon; Our voices we's a-trainin' fur to sing de glory tune; We's ready when you wants us, an' it ain't no matter when— O Mahsr! call yo' chillen soon, an' take 'em home! Amen. —From "Christmas Night in the Quarters" (Century), by Irwin Russell. LET'S SMILE "Where 'ave I bin lately?" said Bill Basher to his friend. "Why, I couldn't get out o' acceptin' an invitation to spend a couple o' weeks a-standing outside a grocer's admirin' the jam, when a box fell down at me feet. I was a pickin' of it up to take in to the grocer when a circus came by. In the excitement o' the moment I follered it. "I looks dahn an' sees the box under me arm. 'Willyum', sez I, 'wot are you a-doin' wi' that box? Take it back at once like an 'onest man.' Just then the grocer came around the corner wi' a copper. 'That's 'im.' sez he. 'That's the man wot stole me soap.' “‘Stop,’ sez I. ‘Do I look like a man wot'd steal soap?' 'Owsomever, I was 'ad up afore the beak. 'William Basher,' sez'e. 'your appearance is greatly in your favor, but the circumstantial evidence is too strong. Fourteen days'” A traveling man who was a cigarette smoker reached town on an early train. He wanted a smoke, but none of the stores was open. Near the station he saw a newsboy smoking and approached him with: "Say, son, got another cigarette?" "No, sir," said the boy, "but I've got makings." "All right," the traveling man said. "But I can't roll 'em very well. Will you fix one for me?" The boy did. "Don't believe I've got a match," said the man, after a search through his pockets. "The boy handed him a match. "Say, captain," he said, "you ain't got anything but the habit, have you?" Two correspondents wrote to a country editor to know, respectively, "The best way of assisting twins through the teething period" and "How to rid an orchard of grasshoppers." The editor answered both questions faithfully, but unfortunately got the initials mixed, so that the fond father of the teething twins was thunderstruck by the following advice: "If you are unfortunate enough to be plagued by these unwelcome little pests, the quickest means of settling them is to cover them with paris green." While the man who was bothered with grasshoppers was equally amazed to read: "The best method of treatment is to give them eaech a warm bath twice a day and rub their gums with boneset." Ethel had announced that she would be home to tea, but it was nearly 6:30 before she arrived: "Where have you been, dear?" asked her mother. "Walking," came the terse reply. Ethel's mother sniffed. "No one, my dear! Are you quite sure?" "No one," repeated Ethel as she slowly pulled an endless hatpin from her hat. "In that case," continued her mother, "will you please explain how it is that you have returned with a walking stick instead of an umbrella?" A Durham doctor was much exasperated with the evasive replies a possible recruit for the army was giving him the other day. When it came to the eyesight test the medical man lost all patience, and, darting into an adjoining closet, seized the lid of a dust bin, and, holding it up to the light, exclaimed: "Can you tell me what this is?" "Aa cannot reely myke it oot," was the astonishing answer, "but it's either a 2 shillin' piece or haaf a dollar!" A dear old lady had been presented with a parrot from the Congo, and she was showing it to her old gardener. "You know, Joseph, that this parrot comes from the Congo, and the Congo parrots are so intelligent that they are almost human. This bird whistles "Home, Sweet Home' so beautifully that the tears run down his beak." "Yes, um." commented Joseph. "I know them parrots from the Congo. I used to have one, and it whistled 'The Village Blacksmith' so beautifully that sparks used to fly from its blooming tail." An old Scotch lady was compelled to carry an ear trumpet with her wherever she went. Upon visiting a small church in Scotland not long ago, she was watched very suspiciously by the sexton, till she reached her seat. Then, as if he could stand the suspicion no longer, he went over to her, and, shaking a warning finger emphatically, he said, "Madam—one toot, and you're out." Two lawyers before a country justice recently got into a wrangle. At last one of the disputants, losing control of his temper, exclaimed to his opponent: "Jim Rogers, you are the biggest jackass I ever set eyes upon!" The justice pounded the desk and called loudly: "Order! Order! You seem to forget that I am in the room."—Puck. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County—In Probate, In the Matter of the Estate of James J. Ryan, Deceased—No 21908 Notice to Creditors Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Administrator of the estate of James J. Ryan, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to serve the same (supported by claimant's affidavit as required in Sec. 108, Probate Code) on the Administrator or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of the court, together with proof of such service, within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or same will be barred. Date of first publication, Dec. 15, 1917. WM. T. PERKINS, Administrator of said Estate. Address 607 Pioneer Bldg., Seattle, Wash. JOHN J. KINNANE, Attorney for Estate. Hotel Seattle, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Cora Green, Deceased, —No. 22412. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Administrator of the estate of Cora Green, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to serve the same( supported by claimant's affidavit as required in Sec. 108, Probate Code) on the administrator or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of the court, together with proof of such service, within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or same will be barred. Date of first publication Dec. 8, 1917. W. D. CARTER, Administrator of said Estate. Address 316 Pacific Block , Seattle, ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Sander S. Scott, Deceased.—No. 22483. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as administrator of the estate of Sander S. Scott, deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said administrator or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of said court together with proof of such service within six months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication Dec. 8, 1917. AL G. GRANT, Administrator of said Estate. Address 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. ANDREW R. BLACK, IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Guardianship of Della Watts, an Insane Person.—No. 22357. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been apopinted and has qualified as Guardian of the estate of Della Watts, an Insane Person. All persons having claims against her estate are required to serve the same (supported by claimant's affidavit as required in Sec. 108, Probate Code) on the Guardian or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of the court, together with proof of such service, within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or same will be barred. Date of first publication Dec. 8, 1917. S. A. WATTS, Guardian of the Estate of Della Watts, an Insane Person. Address 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. TUTT'S BARBER SHOP "He wants to see you." High-class Tonsorial Work. 300 Main Street, Seattle. Latest race papers. All kinds of toilet supplies. ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Fancy and Staple Groceries. Vegetables and Fruits in season. Bakery in connection. Free delivery. Tel. Main 2923. 1036-40 Jackson Street. CAYTON'S WEEKLY BEACON 513 Pacific Blk. 1910 ---