Cayton's Weekly

State Liberal 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 THE HUNS OF MISSISSIPPI. The Huns of Mississippi have burned another colored man at the stake, he being suspected of having killed a white girl and chopped her body to pieces. Like all such cases there was little or no evidence to show that the man was guilty, but being a "nigger" and found near the scene of the crime, and, "it being utterly impossible for a white person to commit so heinous an offense, unless caught in the very act, it necessarily followed that a colored man must have done so, and, if the one burned at the stake did not actually commit the crime then some colored man did it, and if you can not get the one that actually committed the crime then take the first one that you can get your hands on, for it is absolutely necessary to burn a "nigger" at the stake in order to keep them in fear and subjugation." These border outlaws of the state of Mississippi are styled Huns because the Huns have practiced more brutality in the present world war than any other class of human beings in the conflict, not even excepting the Senegambians of darkest Africa. Ninety per cent of the white men of Mississippi are traitors to the flag of the United States and if Theodore Roosevelt or some other man from the north were president of the United States instead of Woodrow Wilson, a southern man, in our opinion, ninety per cent of the white men of that state would be slackers, and, vea. verily, it is reported that even now they are doing all within their power to dodge the conscript law. It was in the town of Hazlehurst, the scene of the recent burning at the stake, where Print Mathews, a white man, who dared to say he was a Republican from principle and defied the Democratic traitors, was shot to death in the streets and the dirty, cowardly dog who shot him in the back was not even tried for the nefarious act. That was something like thirty years ago and periodically that God-forsaken hole has been the scene of first one bloody outrage and then another against some colored man and yet those people claim they are patriotic American citizens, when in fact the dirty Hungarian traitors never drew a patriotic breath and would rise in rebellion as quickly today as they did in 1860. It is safe to say that of the four thousand colored men, women and children that have been lynched in the south since the emancipation ninety per cent of them were lynched on mere suspicion and could not have been convicted of the crime, for which they suffered death, in any fair and impartial court of justice. Oh, mighty God, is there no relief for such brutality? When we compare the treatment of al- leged criminals in the south with those of the north we wonder if after all the north and the south are made up of the same people and if they are one blood and one country. But yesterday, comparatively speaking, Oscar R. Main of the state of Washington was suspected of having killed a prominent citizen of the state, chopping his body to pieces as was the body of the Mississippi girl, and so strong was the suspicion that he was arrested, thrown in jail and while the circumstances seemed to be all against him, yet he will be given a chance to prove his innocence and narry a thought of summary punishment was so much as whispered. For the officers of the law to declare that there are strong suspicions that a colored man had committed a murder like unto that laid at Oscar Main's door, in any of the states of the south, and it would mean immediate death for the colored man as soon as the crowd was sufficiently large to handle the accused without him turning on a bunch of them and slaying them with the jaw bone of an ass. But in the state of Washington the accused and his friends snap their fingers in the face of the officers of the law and complain because a preliminary trial is not given him. We are not discussing the pros and cons of Oscar Main's case in this connection, but we are comparing the treatment of two American citizens, one in the south and the other in the north (west), the one black and the other white. If the white men of the south are not in secret alliance with Germany then we sadly miss our guess. Unless the black man in the future finds the same protection under the flag that is given to the white man the time will come when the bloods of the four thousand that have been wilfully lynched will be the seeds of an awful rebellion. TO THE COLORED CITIZENS By Kelly Miller. The world is engulfed in the red ruin of war. The present titanic conflict is not due to the inherent deviltry of one nation or the innate goodness of another. The accumulative ethical energies of society for generations have been dammed up by the barrier of hatred and greed. The stored up power is now breaking through the barrier with cataclysmic outburst. The social fabric is being shaken to its very foundation. As outcome of the war, the re-adjustment of the social structure will be more radical than that effected by the French revolution. The transforming effect upon the status of the Negro will be scarcely less momentous than the Emancipation Proclamation. Democratization of the world, coined as a fitting phrase, will be translated into actuality. The Declaration of Independence, penned by a slave holder, sounded the death knell of slavery, although three-quarters of a century elapsed between promise and fulfillment. The democratization of the world is but a restatement of this doctrine in terms of present day attitude of the world. Political autocracy and race autocracy will be buried in the same grave. Hereafter, no nation, however strong, will be permitted to override a weaker neighbor by sheer dominance of power; and no race will be permitted to impose a ruthless regime upon the weaker breeds of men through sheer assumption of superiority. Hereafter, England will treat VOL.2, No.32 the East Indians; Turkey, the Armenians; Russia, the Jews; and America, the Negroes, with a fuller measure of justice and consideration than heretofore. The peoples of all lands who are heavy laden and overborne will be the chief beneficiaries of this war. The Negro problem is involved in the problem of humanity. The whole is greater than any of its parts. The Negro will share in the general momentum imported to social welfare. Already, he has been admitted to industrial opportunity in the north with manifest reaction upon the harsh regime in the south. National prohibition, which is borne forward on the wave of the world war, will immensely improve his moral status. Eighty thousand Negro soldiers have been enlisted, and seven hundred Negroes have been commissioned as officers in the army of the United States. A Negro has been made assistant cabinet officer whose function will be to adjust harmoniously the races' relation to the pending struggle. The improved attitude of the white race towards the Negro is apparent in two affirmative decisions rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States with unanimous concurrence. The Negro will emerge from this war with a double portion of privilege and opportunity. Every Negro should be loyal and patriotic, although there are injustices and discriminations which try our souls. If we overcome these trials and tribulations will work out a more exceeding weight of advantage. But if we allow them to overcome us, woeful will be our lot indeed. To stand sulkily by in plaintive aloofness, because of just grievances, would be of the same kind of folly as to refuse to help extinguish a conflagration which threatens the destruction of one's native city because he has a complaint against the fire department. Let us help put out the conflagration which threatens the world, and then make the world our lasting debtor. We must stand shoulder to shoulder with our white fellow citizens to fight for the freedom of the world, outside of our own national circle, and then we must hold them to moral consistency of maintaining a just and equitable regime inside of that circle. Democracy like charity should begin at home or at least it should prevail there. Let us fight to the finish to the effect that no nation shall hereafter dare attempt to make an international treaty a scrap of paper. It must therefore follow then as corollary, that no nation will henceforth allow its own constitution, which is an intra-national treaty, to be made a scrap of paper. The tide of democracy is sweeping through the world like a mighty river. The race problem and other social ills are but as marshes, back-waters, stagnant pools, estuaries, which have been shut off from free circulation with the main current. But the frreshet of freedom is now overflowing its bed and purifying all the stagnant waters in its onward sweep to the ocean of human liberty and brotherhood. Fortunate indeed are we to be borne forward upon its benificent bosom at such a time as this. Constructive criticism is now being applied to the Woodrow Wilson administration by the leading Republicans of the country. A rose by another name would smelel as sweet. --- A EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Japan Needs Tin, says a headline. What, more tin, after all she has made out of the warring nations? Chehalis has a Main that is giving that city considerable concern just now and the end is far from being in sight. Four lawyers and a real estate shark have filed for the mayoralty nomination of Seattle and yet we say that we are a progressive people. If the men in the trenches in France could just cultivate a taste for the trench rats then the trench rat nuisance would quickly disappear. Labor in Colorado seeking better education. comes the report, and may it not only get better education, but likewise better common sense. It was currently reported that Cupid has taken a shot at Dr. Cooper and it should not be doubted since he called the second Sunday the third. The poison must be taking effect. January is grinding away on the short end of the month and if we can but keep Pilehuck Julia in a dormant state Washington may escape the wintry winds of the Atlantic seaboard. A number of publishers assembled at the University of Washington this week to learn how the big daily papers get advertisements in bunches and they will return to their respective homes and continue publishing legal notices for ten cents per inch. An army lieutenant in Kansas got the "get rich quick" disease and succeeded in his undertaking, but soon repented and so great was his shame that he committed suicide. It's too bad some of the food get rich quick men do not take a similar view of it. "This world coming to an end" stuff, in our opinion, is all rot, but at the rate the men folk are being killed some provisions had better be made for the few that are left after the war to have forty wives, if this old world is to be restocked with a full quota of human beings any ways soon. Seattle is slowly but surely becoming a model city under the new chief of police who is cooperating with government officials in rounding up slackers and ridding the city of undesirable women. It is the hope of every Seattle citizen that Chief Warren will make good and that poor old Seattle will be off the blacklist in the near future.—The (Tacoma) Forum. "That Jack Johnson is a notorious Negro." as declares the daily press of this country, may or may not be true, but in the eyes of the daily press, every other Negro in this land of the free and the home of the brave is just as notorious as is Jack Johnson, when it serves the purpose of the writer to so declare. It's but a repetition of "all coons look alike to me." Probably there is nothing in the thirteen superstitions, but it is a fact that thirteen colonies made this a United States of North America and now it is within the power of thirteen states to destroy this United States of North America by voting wet. But recently thirteen colored soldiers were hung on the thirteenth of the month. No we do not believe in superstition, but somehow or other this thirteen gets our goat. Job work in the latest and newest styles turned out in this office. Cayton's Weekly publishes legal notices at current rates. Main 24. POLITICAL POT POURI The mayoralty mix up in Seattle is no rearer a solution at this writing than it was a week ago, the spectacular filing or Ralph Horr to the contrary notwithstanding. As it now stands no candidate will get the united support of the three daily papers, yea, they will not only not get the united support of the daily papers, but it looks as if the daily papers will support none of them. May, perhaps, the P. I. and the Star will fight the candidacy of Hi Gill, which will come dangerously close to nominating him. It seems that we must have a lawyer as mayor of Seattle and in this case, unless someone else files today( Saturday), its either a lawyer or a political demagogue. Ralph Horr has filed for mayor and while he is more or less popular in Republican circles, yet he is not a man that the public rallies to, and we have our serious doubts if he can nose out either Gill or Hanson in the primary contest. A great many men enter political contests like this, not because they feel that they have a ghost of a chance of winning, but for the advertisement they get out of it, and this is especially true of a lawyer. We knew a lawyer in this city that ran for some kind of office every year and when asked how he could afford it, "why." said he, "I do so because it is a splendid advertisement for my business." Once he claimed that he was counted out and while he knew there was nothing in the charge, yet behind the curtains he admitted the charge had been the means of bringing him hundreds of dollars worth of legal business from political sympathizers. This may not be the case of Ralph Horr, but it has that appearance. Even at that Horr is reputed to be a splendid fellow and might make a good mayor. The Colored Republican Club of King County will meet at Tutt's barber shop next Sunday to discuss the municipal campaign. A house full is expected. It is rumored that Robert B. Hesketh may file for mayor at the last moment and if he does he will stand a mighty good chance of coming under the wire at the primaries. Hesketh, as it now stands, would get the most of the labor vote of the city, though Gill will make heavy inroads on him in that political bailiwick. Hesketh has made an excellent councilman and if the conservative voters had any assurance that he would not permit the town to drift back into the slums that it has been in under Gill he would be the next mayor of Seattle if he wanted to be. William Hickman Moore may also file for the mayorality race today and if he does, the other fellows, and that too regardless of whom they may be, had better look to their laurels, as Billie is some vote getter. He has been twice elected mayor of Seattle and was elected a member of the city council two years ago by the largest vote ever given to a councilmanic candidate. While Moore is not so awfully popular, yet a great many persons are of the opinion that he makes an excellent mayor and they will vote for him though they personally have no use for him. Once upon a time he stood well with the labor vote, but of late he has lost much of that strength and if he runs against Gill and Hesketh he would get a very little of it, but at that he would make some great run for the nomination. Way down in his heart the editor of Cayton's Weekly is still of the opinion that Austin E. Griffith would make the best mayor of any of them that have yet filed, but just where he is expecting to get his strength is more than we can figure out. The two men that stand the biggest chance of being nominated are Gill and Hanson, and, to our mind, the two men of all of the bunch that would make the poorest showing in the office. We know what Gill will do and we greatly suspect what Hanson will do, the opinions of Dr. Edwin J. Brown to the contrary notwithstanding. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Richard Brown has been chosen a delegate to the General Presbyterian Assembly which will be held next May. He will be away for one month. J. S. Peeples, who has been visiting California for the past month, is expected home in the very near future, and Lon says, he can not get here a minute too early. The Mitchell Dramatic Club made such a popular hit at its recent entertainment that a repeater seems to be the only thing that will satisfy the public. The question is, When will the Mitchell Dramatic Club repeat its entertainment? Mrs. S. C. Winston has recently fitted up one of the most up-to-date bath and massage establishments in Seattle. She shares quarters with a well arranged beauty parlor all finished in white enamel and the two concerns work to each others advantage. James Golden died last Sunday, after a brief illness, and was buried last Wednesday from the Mt. Zion Baptist church. For a number of years he has been one of the assistants of the pound master of this city. He had many friends and his funeral was largely attended. Miss Katrina Davis of Salt Lake who has been the house guest of her aunt, Mrs. W. P. Lomax, of 1019 E. 27th St. N., will leave shortly for Seattle, which will be her future home. Miss Davis has been royally entertained while here and having a sweet, amiable disposition, has made many friends who regret very much to see her go.—Portland Advocate. Miss Wilson and Mr. Eddie Gardner, the popular tonsorial artist, were quietly married last week at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gregg. Miss Wilson for a number of years has been the manicure at Tutt's barber shop and in that position she proved herself to be an ideal woman. Mr. Gardner works in the same shop and is one of the most popular barbers in the city. The happy couple have apartments in the Douglas. Mrs. Booker of Seattle. Wash.. sister to the Jamison family of this city, says that she is enjoying her sojourn here in the Rose City. Mrs. Booker is being elaborately entertained while here; perhaps one of the biggest functions of the season for which she was the motif was the union Christmas dinner by the entire Jamison family, where covers were laid for over twenty-eight. Mrs. Booker will remain a few weeks longer before returning home—Portland Advocate. Walla Walla, Wash., Jan. 10, 1918. Dear Mr. Cayton:--Your splendid editorial hit the bull's eye. Just such straight talk as you write is what counts. Until we learn to stand up for our rights and not be too easily satisfied we are not going to get anywhere. If I am ever able to be of service I trust that you will let me know and you know that I will respond. With best regards, believe me to be, sincerely yours, E. H. HOLME. Superintendent of Identification. 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. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. --- THE GLORY OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC The Science of Government The Hope and Dependance of the Human Race Copyright 1917 By ORLANDO BELKNAP POND (All rights reserved) CHAPTER IX. OUR REVOLUTIONARY FATHERS. Our revolutionary fathers, led in the spirit of Christ and in the person of Washington, gave to the world a new nation, and to the nation enduring fame, and a government of freedom. It has developed into a great nation of large proportions, of immense wealth, and cast multitudes. Its influence for the betterment of mankind has permeated a large part of the world, and is still permeating every portion of the inhabitable globe. These revolutionary fathers endured great hardships, and accomplished great results for the nation, and for minkind in general. They read and well understood the past. They were familiar with the conditions to which mankind had been forced in the old world; that the great mass of the subjects had been forced into a dependant condition little short of slavery. They aimed to raise the people from the dependent to the independent condition. They not only understood the past, but they knew the then present, its requirements, and its demands, and how to meet them. They could and d'd to a certain extent anticipate the requirements of the future, nevertheless the actual future, the vast and great changes that were to take place in many particulars and in many conditions, was a blank to them. They could only read the future by the books of the past, but the past had nothing in it like the developed future. It could give them no lesson on the discovery and development of steam and electricity, no inkling of the immense immigration, of the large additions of territory, of the vastness of trade, commerce, banking and railroad transportation; and the revolution in ship building, naval armaments, and implements of warfare, and many other things now familiar; but reading from the books of the past as they did and drawing their conclusions therefrom they builted well and should, and do, have our approbation and commendations. It is no wonder they fell short. far short of comprehending the many things here noted. besides many others not mentioned; but why should we, in our time, overlook all these matters and these things as well as some great events which have since taken place, and which have grown out of, and resulted from, a too apprehensive fear on their part of the invasion of the rights of individual states by the general government, and we have thoughtlessly in many instances endowed them with almost divine capacities, and a perfection in the work they undertook not expected of human beings and not achieved in this instance. We must render to them credit for all they did; but let us not in our attempt to do them justice, do an injustice to ourselves. The work of securing freedom and establishing a freeman's government which they did was not achieved exclusively in the seven years' warfare they fought out with one of the most powerful nations of the world, nor did they meet this government in the deadly carnage of war's battles alone and unaided. It was only by the aid and help of France, one of its most bitter enemies, that enabled them to be victorious, and forced the mother country to, reluctantly, acknowledge us a nation of the world. The principles for which they fought and bled and conquered, like all other great principles worth contending for, were principles inherent in the human family and essential for its comfort, peace and happiness. Though these principles of freedom were essential for the peace, happiness and contentment of the world, they had been crushed, trodden down, and nearly stamped out of existence by the ambitious tyranny, and in the interest, of those who stood at the head, and in the control of the governments and armies of the world. Nevertheless the germ of freedom survived, and began to grow anew when the first colonies arrived and landed upon this continent. It continued to flourish from year to year, and to develop until the final contest between the colonies and the mother country. It then had become the essential part of a struggling people. The nation established by these patriots grew out, and was the sum total of the development of the principles of freedom among all the colonies during more than one hundred and fifty years; a time longer than has elapsed since the founding of the present government. All nations, governments and kingdoms, from the inception to the highest stage of advancement in power, influence and stability, are matters of growth and development. None have ever been founded as a perfect whole, and ours is no exception. The scheme of government adopted by the founders of the republic was, no doubt, as perfect as could be made by those immediately concerned in its promulgation. But it was the result of growth and development. Every colony contributed something. It was not, however, perfect. It had, like all other schemes, imperfections. True, the principle that all men are created equal had been laid down in the declaration; but the equality ended at the birth. When the battles were won, when the enemy was defeated, and when the nation was established, the equality subsided into inequality; nor did this apply to the races alone. It applied to all; not only as between the races, but between individuals and classes of all races. True, titles were forbidden; this certainly was a step towards equality and only a step. It was, however, an advance in the right direction; and it is to be hoped that they will never be revived in this country at least. We would not, of course, claim it possible all men could be equal in capacity. for individuals and nations and races differ one with another in capacity, in ability and in character. This must necessarily be so, though not to the extent it seems from a superficial view and consideration of the topic. It is more especially the result of education and experience, circumstances and situations. Given an equal chance in all things it would be surprising how close to equality the human family would approach. This, however, is impossible, consequently the inequalities of mankind must continue to exist in the future as in the past. They may and must be ameliorated. Though the founders of the republic advanced the cause of the people by establishing a free and independent nation, and endowed it with large capacities and possibilities, they could not be expected to anticipate all the requirements of the future. But the foundations of the structure for the national government were certainly well constructed and laid upon broad and solid foundations. All the founders could do in addition was to start the governmental machinery in motion then leave it in the hands of the rising generation. If a government for the people, controlled and conducted by the people, based upon the principles of freedom, proved a failure, it would be the failure of subsequent generations and not their failure. If the coming generations failed to grasp the opportunities set before them; if they lost sight of their own advantages in governmental affairs; if they became absorbed in their own personal greed, their own personal ambitions, and their own personal interests, and failed to consider their own rights and their obligations one to another and to the nation and government, the loss though unfortunate would be not only the loss of the people concerned, but it would be a loss that would concern and affect every individual of the whole nation, nay, more, it would affect to a greater or less extent the whole world. (To be continued.) January 5—W. A. McAlmon, captain of Minnesota's 1913 football team, died at Minneapolis, age twenty-seven. January 9—W. C. Temple, donor of Temple cup to winner of world's series ball games, died at Orlando, Fla., age fifty-five. February 7—Tim H. Murname, old-time ball player and ex-president New England League, died at Boston, age sixty-five. February 10—G. P. Dillenbeck, builder and part owner of Sheepshead bay speedway, died at New York. February 24—John Mullin, harness horse driver, fifty years ago, died at Kalamazoo, Mich, agen ninety-two. February 26—A J. Welch, for years proprietor of Charter Oak and Readville harness horse tracks, died at Boston, age fifty-five. March 7—Clarence Green, prominent in billiard circles, died at Chicago, age fiftythree. April 2—D. M. Shively, ex-president Western Baseball Association, died at Kansas City, age forty-three. May 24—Les Darcy. Australian middleweight boxer, died at Memphis. June 9—Phil Dwyer. veteran turfman, died at New York, age seventy-three. July 12—Mike J. Cavanaugh. welterweight boxer. died at Middleboro. Mass., age twenty-seven. July 14—Dr. James Dwight. ex-president United States National Lawn Tennis Association. died at Mattapoisett. Mass., age sixty-five. July 28—Al Palzer, boxer, died at Fergus Falls, Minn. August 30—Root T. Vernon, boxing stakeholder, died at New York, age fifty-one. October 19—Frank J. Dreher, world's champion revolver shot( died at Denver. October 21—Bob Fitzsimmons, ex-heavyweight boxing champion,( died at Chicago. December 2—Robert B. McRoy, ex-secretary American Baseball League, died at Chicago, age thirty-five. December 15—Frank Gotch, ex-world's champion heavyweight wrestler, died at Humboldt, Ia., age forty-one. 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. BURR WILLIAMS RUSSELL SMITH President Secretary DUMAS CLUB, INC. 209 Fifth Avenue South CAFE IN CONNECTION Phone Elliott 3763 SEATTLE WASHINGTON --- DEATHS IN SPORT WORLDfi 1917 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. --- ```markdown ``` --- WAR AND THE NEGRO (The Freeman) "The World War and the Negro," by W. T. B. Williams, in the current issue of the Southern Workman is one of the several good articles seen in publications touching on the Negro in the present war. Mr. Williams is well known in this community, having been principal of one of the largest schools of the city for Colored pupils. The Southern Workman is a most excellent publication, staid, purposeful and informing, an output of the well known Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, of Hampton, Virginia. The writer was careful in his survey of the field for facts concerning the Negro, and to the end that he presented a fine array that is both interesting and informing. The paper is a valuable contribution to the literature of the kind, being on the order of that now written for the best magazines. And this is to be expected of Mr. Williams, who is scholarly and finished. Following are some of the interesting facts gleaned from the article: "It was found easy to cite abundance of precedents of black troops fighting on European soil. William of Orange, it was shown, used them at La Rochelle, Maurice of Saxony at Fontenoy, and Napoleon at the seige of Gaeta, at Magenta, and in other places. "Three thousand Negro troops served in the Franco-German War. In 1911 France was considering raising a million native troops from her colinial possessions. "In the present struggle France has used many thousand black troops, among others Senegalese, Somali, Algerians, and Moors. Negroes are fighting in the British and French armies alongside of British and French soldiers, and "with such courage and valor that they have ewon the recognition and respect of many of their superior officers. Since the United States has gone into the war, eighty thousand American Negroes have been called to the colors." Mr. Laurence Jerrold, an Englishman long resident in France, author of "France: Her People and Her Spirit." reports seeing hundreds of African blacks in France in military hospitals for the maimed—Senegalese, Moroccan, blacks from West Africa, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast who had fought for France and sometimes like demons. Lieut. Dinah Salifou, son of a Negro ex-kinglet of Soudan, fought for France and won the Legion of Honor. There were 20,000 Turcos, remarkable sharpshooters, available in 1914. And there are Negroes in the French Foreign Legion among others, Eldridge Eastman of Barbadoes and James Slim of Jamacia. Dr. Charles H. Roberts of New York spent several months in medical service in connection with the French armies And Miss Ludia Barksdale, graduate nurse from Provident Hospital in Chicago, is a Red Cross nurse with the French army in Belgium. She has charge of five hundred nurses. There are Negroes in the regular British army fighting shoulder to shoulder with white soldiers. The separate Negro battalion recruited in Canada contains many Negroes from the United States. The Cape Colony Corps of South Africa, was organized and has been in action at Kibonco. "Maunoury's army that played so conspicuous a part in turning the tide in the battle of the Marne that saved Paris and France was composed largely of colonial troops from Africa. These are the brothers of Kipling's 'Fuzzy-Wuzzy.' "We've fought with many men across the seas. An' some of 'em was brave and some was not. The Paythan and the Zulu an Burmese; Put Fuzzy was the finest o' the lot. So ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your home in the Soudan; You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man; An' 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick head of 'air— You big black boundin' beggar—for you broke a British square! " Two hundred sixty-four personal citations for bravery have been won by Negro soldiers of a single Somali battalion since it landed in France in 1916. One hundred ninety of these were won in the furious battles of the Aisne and Verdun." At the close of the article, perhaps, not a part of it, runs the following comment from the New York Times and as a fitting conclusion of Mr. William's splendid effort. "Like a pathetic romance runs the story of our soldiers in black. Too little has been told about them by the writers of American history. A better understanding between the races might have long ago materialized had a page or two here and there from musty old government reports and official war records, long buried in the dustiest corners of big libraries, been inserted in the textbooks on American history, giving the Negro's part in the nation's wars." A COLORED MAJOR The Negro race now has a major in the Regular United States Army in the person of Major Ollie Davis, who, according to reports, has been promoted fro ma captaincy and is in command of the Second Squadron of the Ninth Cavalry, which is stationed in the Philippines. Major Davis was born in Washington, D. C., and is a graduate of the public schools here. It was while in high school that he received his first military training. During the Spanish-American War Major Davis enlisted in the First Separate Pattalion, National Guard, District of Columbia, and was commissioned as second lieutenant. At the close of the war he was first lieutenant. Later he enjoined the Ninth Cavalry and became its regimental sergeant major. His next move was to enter the military school at Fort Leaveneworth, Kan., and he returned to the Regular Army a second illeutenant. Major Davis was formally an instructor at Wilberforce University and as military aid to the United States minister to Liberia. AT THE YEAR'S CLOSE If fault of mine, or pride or fear. Has cost one soul, or far or near. One bitter pang, one burning tear. May the hurt die with thee, Old Year. If sorrow ever deafened me So that, in vain, on Doubt's dark sea, One called on me despairingly. Old Year! O, hide that cry with Thee! If gracelessness in anything Has weighted some poor struggling wing Or heedlessness has left a sting. O speeding year, my pardon bring! If I have failed where need was sore, Appreciation's wine to pour, Selfishly keeping it in store— Now Heaven, absolve me, I implore! May every wrong and hurt of mine, Or felt or given, leave no sign. Touched with the blessed anodyne— Good will! Good peace! the Birth Divine!! —Charlotte Fiske Bates. RELIEF FOR DEPENDENTS OF THE HOUSTON VICTIMS. Washington.—Colored people throughout the country are being given an opportunity to show how deep is their regret over the tragic hanging of 13 colored soldiers, and life imprisoning of 41 others at Fort Houston, and how deep is their sympathy for their bereaved and needy families, for the National Colored Comfort Committee is sending out one hundred thousand pledge cards with an urgent appeal to respond with contributions. Relief for these sorrowing and needy families is urgent. They need sympathy now in the form of financial help, and need it quick. The National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee has secured the resident address of the dependents of those 13 hung and 41 imprisoned for life, in order to reach them with relief.—Portland Advocate. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 12th day of January, 1918, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is to obtain a decree of divorce from the defendant by the plaintiff on the ground of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Jan. 12—Feb. 23, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 12th day of January, 1918, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is to obtain a decree of divorce from the defendant by the plaintiff on the ground of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Jan. 12—Feb. 23, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. M. A. WATTS, on the Guardship or 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. ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Fancy and Staple Groceries. Vegetables and Fruits in season. Bakery in connection. Free delivery. Tel. Main 2923. 1036-40 Jackson Street. 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