Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1918 --- 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. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, 'Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South THOSE EUROPEAN JEWS Its highly commendable on the part of William Howard Taft to speak out in meeting in defense of the oppressed Jews throughout Europe, who, according to reports in the press from time to time, have had troubles enough, and it should be remedied by the Peace Conference, if such be possible. Mr. Taft's plea is as follows: The earnest effort of the Jaws of the United States to induce our executive to remedy the intolerable condition of their coreligionists in the backward countries of Europe has often been met and defeated by the argument that our government cannot interfere with the domestic affairs of another nation. This argument has little if any application to the present situation. There is much evidence accumulating to show that the pogroms and abuses of the Jews continue in the countries where they have heretofore existed, and that the chaotic and lawless condition in these countries has offered an opportunity for the cruel gratification of race and religious prejudice. On the whole it is not too much to say that the people of the Jewish race have suffered more in this war as non-combatants than any other people unless it be the Serbians and the Armenians. In Poland and in Galicia the true story of their agonies and losses is heartrending. Now we five nations who are to draft the treaty at Versailles, are setting up governments in Poland, in the Ukraine and in the Baltic provinces. In all of these the Jewish population is a substantial percentage of the whole. In their sad story we find the Jews in the middle ages seeking refuge from the oppression and cruelty of Western Europe and rushing to the great empire of Poland, then stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black sea, to take advantage of a charter of religious tolerance and opportunity granted by one of the liberal Polish kings. The Polish kingdom and a large part of it was turned over to Russia, which ground the Jews under its tyrannous heel. That is why half of the 13,000,000 Jews living in the world at the beginning of this war were to be found in the Russian pale in which Jews were permitted to live, to which they were limited, and which was practically coterminous with the territory which Russia had taken from old Poland. One of the great projects of this congress of powers at Versailles is to set up independent governments in these territories of the Jewish pale. We shall be derelict in our duty if we do not require as part of the fundamental law of these new republics that the Jews shall have as great religious freedom as they have in the United States. But we must do more. We must have a league of nations to see to it that such funda- mental law enacted by the treaty shall be enforced. We find full precedent for such a provision in the law in the treaty made by the congress at Berlin in which Bulgaria and Rumania were established as independent countries. Rumania, which had long been a heinous sinner against the Jews, was forced by the Berlin congress to accept as part of its constitution a declaration that there should be complete religious freedom and that no citizen should be discriminated against on account of his religion in any respect. The Rumanian government had the audacity, after incorporating the guaranty in its fundamental law to declare and hold that Jews who had lived in Rumania for 200 or 300 yeras, father and son, were not citizens, but were aliens. In this way the protection of the Jews provided for in the treaty of Berlin was flouted and this was after Rumania had secured recognition as a government on an additional promise of fair treatment of the Jews. Let us have no farcical result in working out this treaty at Versailles. Could we find a stronger argument for the continuance of our league of nations than this ignominious failure of that congress in 1879 under the presidency of Bismarck to carry out its declared purpose? If there be any people who should be earnestly in favor of a league of nations as the outgrowth and the condition of this treaty now being framed at Versailles, the Jews are that people." Whether Mr. Taft's accusations against the various European powers be correct is a question as may be seen from the following press report of but recent date: "While there has been talk in the outside world of disorderly conditions in Poland, it would seem that there have been gross exaggerations as to conditions here. Unbiased and semineutral opinion is expressed to the correspondent by Leon Coldstand, a member of the Polish conservative party, although a Jew, who said: "The whole agitation seems to me to be largely manufactured and based on false rumors. "From what I know, I believe these rumors were started by a large number of Jews interested in securing peculiar political rights of their own," he continued. "It is my opinion that if the Jews would accept Polish nationality and act in the interest of Poland, they would be adopted as political equals by every one. "During German occupation of Poland Jews were employed as food buyers and army furnishers by the German army officers. They grew rich by this work and there is now a natural suspicion among the Poles that the Jews wished to defeat the attempt to unite Poland and that they are acting as tools for the Russian Bolsheviki." Prof. E. Romer of the University of Cracow pointed out that there is no doubt that there is a large number of Jews in Poland who are attempting to claim international citizenship. "There are three parties of Jews in Poland," he said. "Those wishing to be Poles; Zionists wishing to establish themselves in Palestine, but privileged to travel and live elsewhere, and Nationalists, by which I mean those wishing to live among the Poles, but having special privileges which would make them VOL. 3, No. 28 a separate body of citizens. The last two classes have been especially opposed by the Polish government. "The Poles have recently formulated two popular charges against the Jews. First, that they speculated in foodstuffs and clothing, raised prices and worked into the hands of the Germans; second, that they attempted to get Lemberg included in Ukrainian territory for the alleged purpos eof securing Ukraine for themselves. These two reasons have been the cause of pogroms, but these disorders have been limited and only a few persons have been killed. "In Lemburg, however, there seems little doubt that the Jews failed to support the Poles in defending the place; if they did not actually help the Ukrainians with money and men." WHAT OF THE COLORED MAN? And thus are the great men of the United States among the whites moved to rise in defense of the Jews, and their words are taken up by the all powerful public press and taken to the utmost ends of civilization that public opinion may be moulded accordingly and we hope it may, for wherever a human being is oppressed by another the evil should be remedied during this great reckoning period. But Mr. Taft have you nothing to say for the betterment of the condition of the thirteen million colored persons in the United States, the majority of whom are in the former eleven states of the South, where they have neither civil or political rights, yea not even human rights—not given the same protection of life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness as the fishes of the sea, the fowls of the air or the beasts of burden? Have you no plea to make Mr. Taft for the multiplied hundreds of colored folk, who have been lynched without judge or jury? Have you no condemnation for the hundreds of white men in Georgia from the best homes of that community, all Christian gentlemen(?) and more or less college bred, who, because a colored woman protested against the lynching of her innocent husband, strung her up by the heels, disemboweling her and then stamping into mincemeat the unborn baby that rolled from her stomach? Can you not have the all-powerful press register your protest against a colored woman being tarred and feathered and driven in a nude state through the streets of Vicksburg? Why, Mr. Taft do you not condemn in unmeasured terms your brother Charlie and others all over the North, who will not prevent colored persons to ride in their passenger elevators? Say something to the world through the powerful press condemning the practice all over this country of refusing colored persons employment even though competent and thereby forcing all of them to "hustle" for an existence. Have no fear, Mr. Taft, that if you do all of these things and if the World and his family follow in your wake that "your daughter will have to marry a nigger." Remember, Mr. Taft, that the average colored man has no more desire to marry your daughter than you have to marry his. Its not social equality that the colored folk want, but judicial equality. The colored man wants the same protection from the flag that is given to the white man. He has fought as hard for it and in proportion to their number as many have died for it. To Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1918 --- 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. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter. August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 302 23nd Ave. South THOSE EUROPEAN JEWS Its highly commendable on the part of William Howard Taft to speak out in meeting in defense of the oppressed Jews throughout Europe, who, according to reports in the press from time to time, have had troubles enough, and it should be remedied by the Peace Conference, if such be possible. Mr. Taft's plea is as follows: The earnest effort of the Jaws of the United States to induce our executive to remedy the intolerable condition of their coreligionists in the backward countries of Europe has often been met and defeated by the argument that our government cannot interfere with the domestic affairs of another nation. This argument has little if any application to the present situation. There is much evidence accumulating to show that the pogroms and abuses of the Jews continue in the countries where they have heretofore existed, and that the chaotic and lawless condition in these countries has offered an opportunity for the cruel gratification of race and religious prejudice. On the whole it is not too much to say that the people of the Jewish race have suffered more in this war as non-combatants than any other people unless it be the Serbians and the Armenians. In Poland and in Galicia the true story of their agonies and losses is heartending. Now we five nations who are to draft the treaty at Versailles, are setting up governments in Poland, in the Ukraine and in the Baltic provinces. In all of these the Jewish population is a substantial percentage of the whole. In their sad story we find the Jews in the middle ages seeking refuge from the oppression and cruelty of Western Europe and rushing to the great empire of Poland, then stretching from the Baltic Sea to the Black sea, to take advantage of a charter of religious tolerance and opportunity granted by one of the liberal Polish kings. The Polish kingdom and a large part of it was turned over to Russia, which ground the Jews under its tyrannous heel. That is why half of the 13,000,000 Jews living in the world at the beginning of this war were to be found in the Russian pale in which Jews were permitted to live, to which they were limited, and which was practically coterminous with the territory which Russia had taken from old Poland. One of the great projects of this congress of powers at Versailles is to set up independent governments in these territories of the Jewish pale. We shall be derelict in our duty if we do not require as part of the fundamental law of these new republics that the Jews shall have as great religious freedom as they have in the United States. But we must do more. We must have a league of nations to see to it that such funda- mental law enacted by the treaty shall be enforced. We find full precedent for such a provision in the law in the treaty made by the congress at Berlin in which Bulgaria and Rumania were established as independent countries. Rumania, which had long been a heinous sinner against the Jews, was forced by the Berlin congress to accept as part of its constitution a declaration that there should be complete religious freedom and that no citizen should be discriminated against on account of his religion in any respect. The Rumanian government had the audacity, after incorporating the guaranty in its fundamental law to declare and hold that Jews who had lived in Rumania for 200 or 300 yeras, father and son, were not citizens, but were aliens. In this way the protection of the Jews provided for in the treaty of Berlin was flouted and this was after Rumania had secured recognition as a government on an additional promise of fair treatment of the Jews. Let us have no farcical result in working out this treaty at Versailles. Could we find a stronger argument for the continuance of our league of nations than this ignominious failure of that congress in 1879 under the presidency of Bismarck to carry out its declared purpose? If there be any people who should be earnestly in favor of a league of nations as the outgrowth and the condition of this treaty now being framed at Versailles, the Jews are that people." Whether Mr. Taft's accusations against the various European powers be correct is a question as may be seen from the following press report of but recent date: "While there has been talk in the outside world of disorderly conditions in Poland, it would seem that there have been gross exaggerations as to conditions here. Unbiased and semineutral opinion is expressed to the correspondent by Leon Coldstand, a member of the Polish conservative party, although a Jew, who said: "The whole agitation seems to me to be largely manufactured and based on false rumors. "From what I know, I believe these rumors were started by a large number of Jews interested in securing peculiar political rights of their own," he continued. "It is my opinion that if the Jews would accept Polish nationality and act in the interest of Poland, they would be adopted as political equals by every one. "During German occupation of Poland Jews were employed as food buyers and army furnishers by the German army officers. They grew rich by this work and there is now a natural suspicion among the Poles that the Jews wished to defeat the attempt to unite Poland and that they are acting as tools for the Russian Bolsheviki." Prof. E. Romer of the University of Cracow pointed out that there is no doubt that there is a large number of Jews in Poland who are attempting to claim international citizenship. "There are three parties of Jews in Poland," he said. "Those wishing to be Poles; Zionists wishing to establish themselves in Palestine, but privileged to travel and live elsewhere, and Nationalists, by which I mean those wishing to live among the Poles, but having to live among the Poles, but having special privileges which would make them VOL. 3. No. 28 a separate body of citizens. The last two classes have been especially opposed by the Polish government. "The Poles have recently formulated two popular charges against the Jews. First, that they speculated in foodstuffs and clothing, raised prices and worked into the hands of the Germans; second, that they attempted to get Lemberg included in Ukrainian territory for the alleged purpos eof securing Ukraine for themselves. These two reasons have been the cause of pogroms, but these disorders have been limited and only a few persons have been killed. "In Lemburg, however, there seems little doubt that the Jews failed to support the Poles in defending the place; if they did not actually help the Ukrainians with money and men." WHAT OF THE COLORED MAN? And thus are the great men of the United States among the whites moved to rise in defense of the Jews, and their words are taken up by the all powerful public press and taken to the utmost ends of civilization that public opinion may be moulded accordingly and we hope it may, for wherever a human being is oppressed by another the evil should be remedied during this great reckoning period. But Mr. Taft have you nothing to say for the betterment of the condition of the thirteen million colored persons in the United States, the majority of whom are in the former eleven states of the South, where they have neither civil or political rights, yea not even human rights—not given the same protection of life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness as the fishes of the sea, the fowls of the air or the beasts of burden? Have you no plea to make Mr. Taft for the multiplied hundreds of colored folk, who have been lynched without judge or jury? Have you no condemnation for the hundreds of white men in Georgia from the best homes of that community, all Christian gentlemen(?) and more or less college bred, who, because a colored woman protested against the lynching of her innocent husband, strung her up by the heels, disemboweling her and then stamping into mincemeat the unborn baby that rolled from her stomach? Can you not have the all-powerful press register your protest against a colored woman being tarred and feathered and driven in a nude state through the streets of Vicksburg? Why, Mr. Taft do you not condemn in unmeasured terms your brother Charlie and others all over the North, who will not prevent colored persons to ride in their passenger elevators? Say something to the world through the powerful press condemning the practice all over this country of refusing colored persons employment even though competent and thereby forcing all of them to "hustle" for an existence. Have no fear, Mr. Taft, that if you do all of these things and if the World and his family follow in your wake that "your daughter will have to marry a nigger." Remember, Mr. Taft, that the average colored man has no more desire to marry your daughter than you have to marry his. Its not social equality that the colored folk want, but judicial equality. The colored man wants the same protection from the flag that is given to the white man. He has fought as hard for it and in proportion to their number as many have died for it. To --- 9 us its straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel to gallavant over to Europe to make demands for the Jews over there, when you have as many colored persons in the United States as there are Jews all over the world, who are being persecuted, butchered and burned at the stake at a rate ten per month and the bloody work shows no signs of cessation. We realize this article will do little or no good toward remedying evils herein contained, but they are cold, hard facts and though they are passed unnoticed, yet there will come a day when they will all have to be talked over. THE BLACK MAN STOOD PAT The war did more for the Negro American than had been accomplished in several decades of peace. He demonstrated that he could fight, that his willingness and capacity for work were unlimited; that he could easily adapt himself to strange surroundings, and that he understood the purpose of Liberty Bonds, which he almost invariably bought until it actually and positively "hurt." One of the most glorious things that happened to the Negro, however, was the revelation of his absolute, unshakable loyalty to the Stars and Stripes. Evidence adduced before the Senate committee now sitting shows that German propagandists failed miserably in their efforts among the blacks. That they operated principally among the plantation Negroes of the South and there made no headway whatever is significant. It is a splendid tribute to the Americanism of the Negro. It might be supposed that among men and women who are not regular readers of the newspapers, who trust to the "grapevine", which makes a wireless station of every cabin, for most of their information, the fairy tales of the paid German agents would find fertile ground. But the Negro stood pat. "You have no country," was an insidious remark that was dinned into his ears night and day. "You'll never get your Liberty bond money back," was another. "You'll get forty acres of land if the Germans win," they were told. And they were assured that victory for the "humane" Germans meant an end of all hanging and instant leveling of all social lines in the United States. Many white "intellectuals" in the North succumbed to sophistries and lies, but those black millions did not. Their hearts proved pure gold and they stood by Uncle Sam. The secret service needed no special trains for Negro excursions to internment camps. It is that same inborn spirit of loyalty to the government that has prevented the I. W. W. from gaining converts among the blacks of the South, no matter how poor they are or how unjust their position economically. The Southern Negro who remained at home to till the fields was proud of his part in the war. He was quick to realize a situation which he expressed thus: "We've sure got to work hard and feed our soldiers and all their friends or they can't fight for us." But the Negro is not unduly proud of the proofs of his loyalty. He knew he was 100 per cent American all the time. He knows, incidentally, a lot of other things that many people don't know he knows. Any intelligent Southerner will tell you that one of the greatest mistakes of Northern theorists in considering the Negro is the belief that he is simple and easily fooled. It is true that he often takes adavntage of this supposed simplicity as a convenient camouflage in an argumentative pinch. But watch your step before you pick a plantation darky out for a "boob." Ask the Kaiser. (From the "Herald-Examiner," Chicago, December 11, 1918). "Why is Wombat hustling so strenuously? I thought he retired with enough to live on." "It looked like enough to live on—ten years ago."—Judge. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Two heads for one institution would result in a disorganized institution and Supt. Ross is on the right road when he protests to the Mayor against the appointment of a business manager for the lighting department. The creation of such an official sinacure would give Mayor Hanson another opportunity to reward another political parasite, but the people would be the sad losers thereby. We feel like apologizing for the last issue of Cayton's Weekly, for when we ourselves saw it after it had been run off and made ready for mailing, it occurred to us that it too, had suffered as severely from the influenza as had the entire family of the editor. This operating a one-man paer is a rather strenuous proceeding at times, but at others it is quite pleasant. The coming legislature of Washington should pass a law making it a penal offense for any one to bring either distilled or malted liquors into the state, contrary to the statutes regulating the same, and likewise the illicit selling of liquor or liquors be made a penal offense, the punishment therefor not less than one year in the state penitentiary. It is in our opinion a mistake to permit a soldier to wear the uniform of his country twenty-four hours after being finally discharged and after reaching his home or the place he expects to temporarily reside. The average man only wants to do so for sinister motives or aparently so. Lets have peace with no reminders of the bloody past. Switching tubes in a blood test is laid at the door of Dr. Simpson, a former medical director in the city internment department, for which he received $150. If a fellow is so cheap as that when a "good thing" is at his mercy, then the penitentiary is entirely too good for him. Plead guilty and ask for the least thing in the books. SOUTHERN YELLOW YAMS Fresh carl oad will arrive Monday, December 23rd. Phone your order and get the Choicest. CHRISTMAS SPECIALS Happy Home Corn .....23cts. Reliance Corn .....23cts. Delmonte Corn .....23cts. Ultra Brand Peaches .....27cts. Ultra Brand Pears .....27cts. Ultra Brand Appricots .....27cts. Raisins, Cranberries, Figs and Dates Finest Apples and Oranges A Merry Christmas to each and all of the customers of this establishment and may the ensuing week be one of happiness to all. THE ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY H. LEGG, Prop. W. H. BANKS, Mgr. 1201-3 Jackson St. Tel. Beacon 505 Of course, Willie Hearst is "American through and through," but we have our suspicions that that is so only when it's dangerous to be otherwise as it has been for the past year. In deciding to run many co-operative stores throughout Italy the capitalists had better keep an eye on the guns lest the government ownership idea gets rooted therein and becomes a permanent fixture. From accounts sent out by the Associated Press even President Wilson is willing to ascribe to the principal, "peace hath her victories no less signal than that of war," and Mrs. Wilson chimes in with "me too." Better jail conditions for King county are being advocated, which may be right and proper, but making soft places for criminals is the same as creating resorts, in which criminals can recuperate. War between Peru and Chilli is daily threatened. Since no one save themselves would be aware of the fact that they were beligerents we suggest that they go to it, and may the best man win. If the present winter wheat crop proves to be "the biggest in the history of the country" then Mr. Hayseed will find himself once more in the "dollar wheat" zone, when he goes to market his coming crop. Should the next speaker of the House be the present Republican floor manager in Congress then you can bet a real Mann will direct the affairs of the House of Representatives in Congress. Why spend more money investigating Hog Island? Democrats will be selected to investigate Democrats and all stealing men will stand together—especially all stealing Democrats. Seattle's influenza epidemic is reported on the wane. After a siege of ten days with it, "believe me" it's not waning any too soon for the good of the community. If any one can conceive of a more torturing punishment for Billie Kaiser than that he is now undergoing, then such a suggester will have to go some. The "Reds" of Germany seem to stand about in the same light as did the "Rebs" of the United States immediately after the great Civil War—both border outlaws. "Wilson's jokes tickle 'em all," says a head line. And we have our suspicions that it is a case of too much jokes. Germany's Debt to Belgium—The Westminster Gazette has received from an official source some of the items that will figure on Germany's bill in Belgium. They run: "Local contributions and fines levied by Germany on Belgium in 1914, $40,000,000. "War contributions extorted from November, 1914, to October, 1916, $192,000,000. From November, 1916, to May, 1917, $70,000,000. From June, 1917, to June, 1918, $114,000,000. From June, 1918, to October, 1918, $75,000,000. "Raw material and machinery, taken by the Germans up to January, 1915, were estimated by them at $400,000,000. "Damage up to December, 1914, estimated by the Nordeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung at $1,000,000,000. "This does not include materials, destructions, or requisitions since January, 1915, and this item alone must be reckoned at several hundred millions. "In addition, during the winter of 1916-1917, 150,000 workmen were deported to Germany, the whole of whose production is totally lost to their country."—Literary Digest. Judge—"The police say that you and your wife had some words." Prisoner—"I had some, but didn't get a chance to use them."—Puck. --- --- ```markdown ``` us its straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel to gallavant over to Europe to make demands for the Jews over there, when you have as many colored persons in the United States as there are Jews all over the world, who are being persecuted, butchered and burned at the stake at a rate ten per month and the bloody work shows no signs of cessation. We realize this article will do little or no good toward remedying evils herein contained, but they are cold, hard facts and though they are passed unnoticed, yet there will come a day when they will all have to be talked over. THE BLACK MAN STOOD PAT The war did more for the Negro American than had been accomplished in several decades of peace. He demonstrated that he could fight, that his willingness and capacity for work were unlimited; that he could easily adapt himself to strange surroundings, and that he understood the purpose of Liberty Bonds, which he almost invariably bought until it actually and positively "hurt." One of the most glorious things that happened to the Negro, however, was the revelation of his absolute, unshakable loyalty to the Stars and Stripes. Evidence adduced before the Senate committee now sitting shows that German propagandists failed miserably in their efforts among the blacks. That they operated principally among the plantation Negroes of the South and there made no headway whatever is significant. It is a splendid tribute to the Americanism of the Negro. It might be supposed that among men and women who are not regular readers of the newspapers, who trust to the "grapevine", which makes a wireless station of every cabin, for most of their information, the fairy tales of the paid German agents would find fertile ground. But the Negro stood pat. "You have no country," was an insidious remark that was dinned into his ears night and day. "You'll never get your Liberty bond money back," was another. "You'll get forty acres of land if the Germans win," they were told. And they were assured that victory for the "humane" Germans meant an end of all hanging and instant leveling of all social lines in the United States. Many white "intellectuals" in the North succumbed to sophistries and lies, but those black millions did not. Their hearts proved pure gold and they stood by Uncle Sam. The secret service needed no special trains for Negro excursions to internment camps. It is that same inborn spirit of loyalty to the government that has prevented the I. W. W. from gaining converts among the blacks of the South, no matter how poor they are or how unjust their position economically. The Southern Negro who remained at home to till the fields was proud of his part in the war. He was quick to realize a situation which he expressed thus: "We've sure got to work hard and feed our soldiers and all their friends or they can't fight for us." But the Negro is not unduly proud of the proofs of his loyalty. He knew he was 100 per cent American all the time. He knows, incidentally, a lot of other things that many people don't know he knows. Any intelligent Southerner will tell you that one of the greatest mistakes of Northern theorists in considering the Negro is the belief that he is simple and easily fooled. It is true that he often takes adavntage of this supposed simplicity as a convenient camouflage in an argumentative pinch. But watch your step before you pick a plantation darky out for a "boob." Ask the Kaiser. (From the "Herald-Examiner," Chicago, December 11, 1918). "Why is Wombat hustling so strenuously? I thought he retired with enough to live on." "It looked like enough to live on—ten years ago."—Judge. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Two heads for one institution would result in a disorganized institution and Supt. Ross is on the right road when he protests to the Mayor against the appointment of a business manager for the lighting department. The creation of such an official sinacure would give Mayor Hanson another opportunity to reward another political parasite, but the people would be the sad losers thereby. We feel like apologizing for the last issue of Cayton's Weekly, for when we ourselves saw it after it had been run off and made ready for mailing, it occurred to us that it too, had suffered as severely from the influenza as had the entire family of the editor. This operating a one-man paer is a rather strenuous proceeding at times, but at others it is quite pleasant. The coming legislature of Washington should pass a law making it a penal offense for any one to bring either distilled or malted liquors into the state, contrary to the statutes regulating the same, and likewise the illicit selling of liquor or liquors be made a penal offense, the punishment therefor not less than one year in the state penitentiary. It is in our opinion a mistake to permit a soldier to wear the uniform of his country twenty-four hours after being finally discharged and after reaching his home or the place he expects to temporarily reside. The average man only wants to do so for sinister motives or aparently so. Lets have peace with no reminders of the bloody past. Switching tubes in a blood test is laid at the door of Dr. Simpson, a former medical director in the city internment department, for which he received $150. If a fellow is so cheap as that when a "good thing" is at his mercy, then the penitentiary is entirely too good for him. Plead guilty and ask for the least thing in the books. SOUTHERN YELLOW YAMS Fresh earl oad will arrive Monday, December 23rd. Phone your order and get the Choicest. CHRISTMAS SPECIALS Happy Home Corn .....23cts. Reliance Corn .....23cts. Delmonte Corn .....23cts. Ultra Brand Peaches .....27cts. Ultra Brand Pears .....27cts. Ultra Brand Appricots .....27cts. Raisins, Cranberries, Figs and Dates Finest Apples and Oranges A Merry Christmas to each and all of the customers of this establishment and may the ensuing week be one of happiness to all. THE ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY H. LEGG, Prop. W. H. BANKS, Mgr. 1201-3 Jackson St. Tel. Beacon 505 Of course, Willie Hearst is "American through and through," but we have our suspicions that that is so only when it's dangerous to be otherwise as it has been for the past year. In deciding to run many co-operative stores throughout Italy the capitalists had better keep an eye on the guns lest the government ownership idea gets rooted therein and becomes a permanent fixture. From accounts sent out by the Associated Press even President Wilson is willing to ascribe to the principal, "peace hath her victories no less signal than that of war," and Mrs. Wilson chimes in with "me too." Better jail conditions for King county are being advocated, which may be right and proper, but making soft places for criminals is the same as creating resorts, in which criminals can recuperate. War between Peru and Chilli is daily threatened. Since no one save themselves would be aware of the fact that they were beligerents we suggest that they go to it, and may the best man win. If the present winter wheat crop proves to be "the biggest in the history of the country" then Mr. Hayseed will find himself once more in the "dollar wheat" zone, when he goes to market his coming crop. Should the next speaker of the House be the present Republican floor manager in Congress then you can bet a real Mann will direct the affairs of the House of Representatives in Congress. Why spend more money investigating Hog Island? Democrats will be selected to investigate Democrats and all stealing men will stand together—especially all stealing Democrats. Seattle's influenza epidemic is reported on the wane. After a siege of ten days with it. "believe me" it's not waning any too soon for the good of the community. If any one can conceive of a more torturing punishment for Billie Kaiser than that he is now undergoing, then such a suggester will have to go some. The "Reds" of Germany seem to stand about in the same light as did the "Rebs" of the United States immediately after the great Civil War—both border outlaws. "Wilson's jokes tickle 'em all," says a head line. And we have our suspicions that it is a case of too much jokes. Germany's Debt to Belgium—The Westminster Gazette has received from an official source some of the items that will figure on Germany's bill in Belgium. They run: "Local contributions and fines levied by Germany on Belgium in 1914, $40,000,000. "War contributions extorted from November, 1914, to October, 1916, $192,000,000. From November, 1916, to May, 1917, $70,-000,000. From June, 1917, to June, 1918, $114,000,000. From June, 1918, to October, 1918, $75,000,000. "Raw material and machinery, taken by the Germans up to January, 1915, were estimated by them at $400,000,000. "Damage up to December, 1914, estimated by the Nordeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung at $1,000,000,000. "This does not include materials, destructions, or requisitions since January, 1915, and this item alone must be reckoned at several hundred millions. "In addition, during the winter of 1916-1917, 150,000 workmen were deported to Germany, the whole of whose production is totally lost to their country."—Literary Digest. Judge—"The police say that you and your wife had some words." Prisoner—"I had some, but didn't get a chance to use them."—Puck. --- CHRISTMAS "Christmas comes but once a year Let every nigger have his shear." Let every nigger have his shear, ran a plantation jingo in ante-bellum days of the South, and he or she, who failed to get his or her share of such as there were for distribution was due more to the incapacity of not holding it than to any niggardliness of the people of the community. "Christmas is not what it used to be" is so often heard and we take pleasure in joining in that refrain. No, to us the Christmas of today is not what it used to be. The joy and hapiness of the Christmas of today are dependent on the amount of money you have to put into it. Each child must have not less than $10 to make his or her purchases for the other members of the family and in addition the head of the house is expected to see to it that Santa Claus leaves a substantial present for each one. Summing it all up Santa Claus of today, in order to supply the ordinary family, must be prepared to expend anywhere from $50 to $100 and at that no extravagance need be indulged in. The hapiness of the Christmas of yesterday, so to speak, came from the heart rather than from the pocketbook. Each one exchanged a mouth and face full and overflowing of good cheer rather than "What did you get? What did it cost." The Christmas holidays season was always fraught with never-ending social gatherings. Jones visited Brown and Brown visited Jones and as with these so with the entire community. Those who indulged in dancing could do so every evening and frequently in the day. In other words, the two weeks of the year known as the Christmas holidays—the week from Christmas day to New Year and the week following New Year were full of good cheer for all manner of man. But in complaining about the Christmas of today not being so full of good cheer as were the Christmases of our childhoods we are but admitting that as grownups we have fallen far below the high moral standard of doing unto others as we'd have them do to us." so characteristic of our parents. Our mothers and fathers succeeded in making things better for us as children than we are making for our children, and while our children are registering no complaint, since they get the money, we ourselves realize our short comings and ourselves make the complaint. Before, however, another issue of Cayton's Weekly greets you another Christmas will have come and gone, so we take advantage of this advanced opportunity to truly wish you and each of you a Merry Christmas and may we live to exchange like greetings one year from now and then not die. CONVENTION OVERDOES IT Rev. W. D. Carter has been selected as one of the ten delegates to represent the Equal Rights League of the United States at the Peace Congress in Europe. Why the need of so many delegates is more than we can figure out. Yea, we are not only unable to figure the necessity of so large a number of delegates from one organization, but we are thoroughly convinced that it is a mistake. The League would have shown wisdom to have selected one of its foremost men to have gone to Versailles and done whatever he could in connection with other colored men there to better the colored man's condition throughout the United States. But this League has sent more delegates to the Peace assembly than has the United States Government. In other words the Washington convention of the League adjourned to meet in Versailles, and to do nothing more than it did in Washington City. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, days before even President Wilson sailed for Europe, had sent Dr. DuBois to Versailles where he has been laboring without fuss or feathers, but weeks after President Wilson has reached the Peace table this League sends a whole convention of men over there, who will be able to accomplish nothing, but show the Europeans what fine looking colored men the League is made up of. Summing it all up Cayton's Weekly does not believe that that convention will help things for the colored man, yea not only will not help, but will hinder. However, one level headed man, as said above, would have been a tower of strength. MOTHER AND FATHER "No love like a mother's love" has always appealed to us as more sickly sentiment than real facts, but in as much as the idea has been prevalent since "way back yander when the world begun," we suspect we will have to acknowledge the corn in order to not go on record as a cynic. But may perhaps some mother may have more love for her children than does the father of said children, and may perhaps there is some mother, who has less love for her children than does the father of said children. In either case however the slacker is a "lusus naturae"—freak of nature—and should become amenable to the law and be compelled to contribute largely to the support of said children without ever being permitted to look upon them while yet children. We have no doubt, but that the average father loves his children just as distractedly as the average mother and no less ready to desert them at the behest of another wife though we must admit the husband is often grossly deceived about his children by a former wife by his present wife. Women on the other hand can not be deceived in a like manner as the men. In the human family parental love is equally as strong with the father as with the mother. While we have nothing particular to relate at this time concerning the strong parental love of a father, yet as we pen this article we are reminded of the strong parental love of a mother. Some ten days ago six members of our family went down with the influenza, one after the other, and to save the lives of all of them began the battle royal of that mother and wife. Though of a naturally weak constitution, yet the strength and endurance of Hercules came forward and possessed her. "This one is threatened with pneumonia and to save her the disease must be headed off before morning," gravely announced the attending physician, "but you have been on duty all day and the assisting nurse must relieve you," he continued. "All right, doctor," she locanically replied. But through the long hours of that night, not the nurse, but mother stood watch and slid from the bed to the stove for necessary hot applications. "She is out of danger and the work was well done," was the comment of the physician next morning. CHRISTMAS BELLS The Young Men's Efficiency Club of Seattle, has risen victoriously and will give its first entertainment and dance at Rentotn Hill Hall, 18th and Madison, Christmas Eve. This will be one of the grandest affairs of the season. All members and friends are cordially invited. As it was impossible to secure all the addresses we want everyone to be welcome. Dancing begins at 8:30 sharp. Tickets 50c. Committee—Clarence Miller, C. R. Anderson, Wm. Dixon, Geo. Wright, Ed. Gardener, Edw. A. Pitter, Arthur Williams, Leo Fletcher, Everett Daniels, Edw. Saunders. Don't forget the Efficiency Club dance Christmas Eve. That mother looked pleased at the statement, but said nothing of not having lain down one minute since the doctor left the evening before. She will be able to rest tonight, thought father, who though unable to assist, rolled and tossed in agony all night, but kept silent watch, but not so, for the evening call of the physician had another surprise for the faithful watcher. "This boy is in a bad way and it will require double the attention you gave the girl to pull him through." She listened in almost heart-broken silence for she had alreaedy been on duty twenty-four hours. "But you must let the nurse stand watch tonight," reasoned the father. "No, I must save my boy and work with him as long as there is a hope," she bravely replied, and the weary of twenty-four hours of duty fell from her and a bright, hopeful face, went on duty and the work was begun. A long story short, as we left our home for the city Friday morning and said, "Watchman, what of the night?" a clear, distinct voice replied, "Ten days out and all is well." Nothing, to our mind, is more responsible for "no love like a mother's love" than such heroic efforts on the part of mothers in nursing their loved ones back to health. If we did not have to pay Dr. Cardwell we would say in this connection that in a battle with six against one he handled himself as few others would or could have done. But Mr. and Mrs. Cayton are delighted to report the entire family out of danger. TOPICS IN BRIEF Gott strafed Germany.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Dispatches indicate that the Chilean bite is worse than the Peruvian bark.—Springfield Republican. It isn't so much a question of what Germany should pay, but of what she has got.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Let us all join fervently in hoping that Mr. Glass, the new Secretary of the Treasury, doesn't crack under the strain.—Newark News. The Hun's greatest insult to civilization is his assumption that by whining he can win the world's sympathy.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Alarmists who talk of a wrangle at the peace table should note that the President has made certain the presence of General Bliss.—New York Sun. The George Washington's farewell toot did not sound anything like Washington's farewell warning against entanglement in European affairs.—Washington Post. From all indications the German delegates to the Peace Conference will open the proceedings by asking who will take them out to lunch.—Knoxville Journal and Tribune. The Montenegro Congress is called the "Skupshtina." Even in a free country like ours nobody has ever had the nerve to call our Congress anything like that.—Houston Post. The Bolshevist Minister at Stockholm has started in business as a talior. Only in this way, it appears, will he enjoy an opportunity of occasionally letting out a little gore.—London Punch. The Allies already have simplified the task of establishing a new government in Germany by making it unnecessary to have either a Minister of Colonies or a Minister of the Navy.—Arkansas Gazette. The problem of finding employment for our released man-power is settled in advance. Enough reconstruction conferences, subconferences, and sub-subconferences have already been scheduled to take up the time of the whole Army for the next three years. New York Evening Post. In 1848, when James K. Polk was President, the German Government asked the United States for an experienced American naval officer of suitable rank to take command of the German Navy. The Cabinet was unanimously in favor of granting the request, but Mr. Polk refused it. It looks now as if the project had merely been postponed. Youth's Companion. ```markdown ``` CHRISTMAS "Christmas comes but once a year Let every nigger have his shear," ran a plantation jingo in ante-bellum days of the South, and he or she, who failed to get his or her share of such as there were for distribution was due more to the incapacity of not holding it than to any niggardliness of the people of the community. "Christmas is not what it used to be" is so often heard and we take pleasure in joining in that refrain. No, to us the Christmas of today is not what it used to be. The joy and hapiness of the Christmas of today are dependent on the amount of money you have to put into it. Each child must have not less than $10 to make his or her purchases for the other members of the family and in addition the head of the house is expected to see to it that Santa Claus leaves a substantial present for each one. Summing it all up Santa Claus of today, in order to supply the ordinary family, must be prepared to expend anywhere from $50 to $100 and at that no extravagance need be indulged in. The hapiness of the Christmas of yesterday, so to speak, came from the heart rather than from the pocketbook. Each one exchanged a mouth and face full and overflowing of good cheer rather than "What did you get? What did it cost." The Christmas holidays season was always fraught with never-ending social gatherings. Jones visited Brown and Brown visited Jones and as with these so with the entire community. Those who indulged in dancing could do so every evening and frequently in the day. In other words, the two weeks of the year known as the Christmas holidays—the week from Christmas day to New Year and the week following New Year were full of good cheer for all manner of man. But in complaining about the Christmas of today not being so full of good cheer as were the Christmases of our childhoods we are but admitting that as grownups we have fallen far below the high moral standard of doing unto others as we'd have them do to us." so characteristic of our parents. Our mothers and fathers succeeded in making things better for us as children than we are making for our children, and while our children are registering no complaint, since they get the money, we ourselves realize our short comings and ourselves make the complaint. Before, however, another issue of Cayton's Weekly greets you another Christmas will have come and gone, so we take advantage of this advanced opportunity to truly wish you and each of you a Merry Christmas and may we live to exchange like greetings one year from now and then not die. CONVENTION OVERDOES IT Rev. W. D. Carter has been selected as one of the ten delegates to represent the Equal Rights League of the United States at the Peace Congress in Europe. Why the need of so many delegates is more than we can figure out. Yea, we are not only unable to figure the necessity of so large a number of delegates from one organization, but we are thoroughly convinced that it is a mistake. The League would have shown wisdom to have selected one of its foremost men to have gone to Versailles and done whatever he could in connection with other colored men there to better the colored man's condition throughout the United States. But this League has sent more delegates to the Peace assembly than has the United States Government. In other words the Washington convention of the League adjourned to meet in Versailles, and to do nothing more than it did in Washington City. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, days before even President Wilson sailed for Europe, had sent Dr. DuBois to Versailles where he has been laboring without fuss or feathers, but weeks after President Wilson has reached the Peace table this League sends a whole convention of men over there, who will be able to accomplish nothing, but show the Europeans what fine looking colored men the League is made up of. Summing it all up Cayton's Weekly does not believe that that convention will help things for the colored man, yea not only will not help, but will hinder. However, one level headed man, as said above, would have been a tower of strength. MOTHER AND FATHER "No love like a mother's love" has always appealed to us as more sickly sentiment than real facts, but in as much as the idea has been prevalent since "way back yander when the world begun," we suspect we will have to acknowledge the corn in order to not go on record as a cynic. But may perhaps some mother may have more love for her children than does the father of said children, and may perhaps there is some mother, who has less love for her children than does the father of said children. In either case however the slacker is a "lusus naturae"—freak of nature—and should become amenable to the law and be compelled to contribute largely to the support of said children without ever being permitted to look upon them while yet children. We have no doubt, but that the average father loves his children just as distractedly as the average mother and no less ready to desert them at the behest of another wife though we must admit the husband is often grossly deceived about his children by a former wife by his present wife. Women on the other hand can not be deceived in a like manner as the men. In the human family parental love is equally as strong with the father as with the mother. While we have nothing particular to relate at this time concerning the strong parental love of a father, yet as we pen this article we are reminded of the strong parental love of a mother. Some ten days ago six members of our family went down with the influenza, one after the other, and to save the lives of all of them began the battle royal of that mother and wife. Though of a naturally weak constitution, yet the strength and endurance of Hercules came forward and possessed her. "This one is threatened with pneumonia and to save her the disease must be headed off before morning," gravely announced the attending physician, "but you have been on duty all day and the assisting nurse must relieve you," he continued. "All right, doctor," she locanically replied. But through the long hours of that night, not the nurse, but mother stood watch and slid from the bed to the stove for necessary hot applications. "She is out of danger and the work was well done," was the comment of the physician next morning. CHRISTMAS BELLS The Young Men's Efficiency Club of Seattle, has risen victoriously and will give its first entertainment and dance at Rentotn Hill Hall, 18th and Madison, Christmas Eve. This will be one of the grandest affairs of the season. All members and friends are cordially invited. As it was impossible to secure all the addresses we want everyone to be welcome. Dancing begins at 8:30 sharp. Tickets 50c. Committee—Clarence Miller, C. R. Anderson, Wm. Dixon, Geo. Wright, Ed. Gardener, Edw. A. Pitter, Arthur Williams, Leo Fletcher, Everett Daniels, Edw. Saunders. Don't forget the Efficiency Club dance Christmas Eve. That mother looked pleased at the statement, but said nothing of not having lain down one minute since the doctor left the evening before. She will be able to rest tonight, thought father, who though unable to assist, rolled and tossed in agony all night, but kept silent watch, but not so, for the evening call of the physician had another surprise for the faithful watcher. "This boy is in a bad way and it will require double the attention you gave the girl to pull him through." She listened in almost heart-broken silence for she had alreaedy been on duty twenty-four hours. "But you must let the nurse stand watch tonight," reasoned the father. "No, I must save my boy and work with him as long as there is a hope," she bravely replied, and the weary of twenty-four hours of duty fell from her and a bright, hopeful face, went on duty and the work was begun. A long story short, as we left our home for the city Friday morning and said, "Watchman, what of the night?" a clear, distinct voice replied, "Ten days out and all is well." Nothing, to our mind, is more responsible for "no love like a mother's love" than such heroic efforts on the part of mothers in nursing their loved ones back to health. If we did not have to pay Dr. Cardwell we would say in this connection that in a battle with six against one he handled himself as few others would or could have done. But Mr. and Mrs. Cayton are delighted to report the entire family out of danger. TOPICS IN BRIEF Gott strafed Germany.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Dispatches indicate that the Chilean bite is worse than the Peruvian bark.—Springfield Republican. It isn't so much a question of what Germany should pay, but of what she has got.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Let us all join fervently in hoping that Mr. Glass, the new Secretary of the Treasury, doesn't crack under the strain.—Newark News. The Hun's greatest insult to civilization is his assumption that by whining he can win the world's sympathy.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Alarmists who talk of a wrangle at the peace table should note that the President has made certain the presence of General Bliss.—New York Sun. The George Washington's farewell toot did not sound anything like Washington's farewell warning against entanglement in European affairs.—Washington Post. From all indications the German delegates to the Peace Conference will open the proceedings by asking who will take them out to lunch.—Knoxville Journal and Tribune. The Montenegro Congress is called the "Skupshtina." Even in a free country like ours nobody has ever had the nerve to call our Congress anything like that.—Houston Post. The Bolshevist Minister at Stockholm has started in business as a talior. Only in this way, it appears, will he enjoy an opportunity of occasionally letting out a little gore.—London Punch. The Allies already have simplified the task of establishing a new government in Germany by making it unnecessary to have either a Minister of Colonies or a Minister of the Navy.—Arkansas Gazette. The problem of finding employment for our released man-power is settled in advance. Enough reconstruction conferences, subconferences, and sub-subconferences have already been scheduled to take up the time of the whole Army for the next three years. New York Evening Post. In 1848, when James K. Polk was President, the German Government asked the United States for an experienced American naval officer of suitable rank to take command of the German Navy. The Cabinet was unanimously in favor of granting the request, but Mr. Polk refused it. It looks now as if the project had merely been postponed. Youth's Companion. ```markdown ``` What a pity that the President wasn't twins!—Columbia State. Dr. Davis left Foch the final job of pulling the Kaiser's teeth.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Why not punish the Kaiser by turning him over to the Russians and telling them he is their new Czar?—New York Evening Sun. The grandmother of the Russian revolution is on her way to the United States. We hope she isn't bringing the kid along.—Detroit News. A few here and there are beginning to wonder whether the league of nations is going to develop into a league of notions.—Kansas City Star. "Shall we feed Germany and stint ourselves?" asks the Literary Digest. Whatl would you say was the Inevitable Answer, offhand?—Chicago Evening Post. It may interest some of the good people to know that more cigarettes are now sold by the Y. M. C. A. than any other concern in the world.—Los Angeles Times. It is said that cotton-growing in the barred zone will be permitted next year. But there will be very much more cotton-growing in the no-bar zone.—Houston Post. A good many people who are worrying themselves wobbly about what is going to become of the nation might help the situation some by getting busy on some job of useful work.—Houston Post. Most of the European belligerents seem to be agreed on what is coming to the Kaiser. Like the Missouri juror, they all are convinced he should be hanged, after being given a fair trial.—Kansas City Star. "Bread is being made in the Army by the new 'sponge' process," it is announced in Washington. That sounds very much like the way the Huns are trying to get their bread.—Knoxville Journal and Tribune. President Wilson has been asked to give aid to the Democratic party in Germany. Apparently the Huns have not heard of the results of his attempt to aid the Democratic party in this country during the recent campaign.—Topeka State Journal. THE SPICE OF LIFE "Why did you use the expression 'as pale as a doorknob'?" "Door-knobs are in doors so much, you know."—Boston Transcript. "Dead men tell no tales," observed the Sage. "Maybe that is the reason why so many widows get married again," commented the Fool.—Nashville Tennesseean. "Why do they say, 'Nobody loves a fat man'?" "There's bound to be a suspicion that anybody over weight just now is getting more than his share of the food."—Washington Star. Blobbs—"If you were going in for music, which instrument would you choose?" Slobbs—"Well, I've always thought I would like to be a soloist on a cash register."—Philadelphia Record. "She's giving a very elaborate party." "Gotten up solely on my account." "I thought you two were on the outs." "We are. And that's the reason she got up the party.—Kansas City Journal. "Oh, mama, I'm frightened!" came from little Tommie, in bed. "What are you frightened about, my son?" "I hear somebody on the roof." "Oh, well, go to sleep, my boy; it's only your father taking off his shoes before he sneaks through the scuttle. He's just got home from the club in his airship."— Yonkers Statesman. Wifey—"You must not expect me to give up my girlhood ways all at once." Hubby—"That's all right. Go on taking an allowance from your father as if nothing had happened."—Brooklyn Citizen. The Kaiser said, "What shameful fears I'm now compelled to feel; I stroked the neck before stacked the cards for thirty years And then mussed up the deal!" —Washington Star. "Si Hubbard told me he got a heap of work out of you when you was workin' fer him," said the farmer. "Wal, I allow he did," said the hired man. "Yas. Fact is, I guess he just about got it all."—Boston Transcript. A man entered a drug store, very hurriedly and asked for a dozen two-grain quinine pills. "Do you want them put in a box, sir?" asked the chemist, as he was counting them out. "Oh, no, certainly not, replied the customer. "I was thinking of rolling them home!"—Tit-Bits. Two Jews were on a journey on a hot summer day. "Have you anything with you, Matthias?" asked one. "Yes, a bottle of wine. What have you, Moses?" "Dried tongue." "Good! We'll divide our provisions." Matthias produced his wine and it was divided. Then he asked his fellow traveler to bring out his provisions. "I?" said Moses. "Why, yes, the dry tongue you said you had." "I haven't got one now," was the cool reply.—Boston Transcript. "A queer thing is on the cards in Europe." "What is that?". "The deuce is taking all the kings."—Baltimore American. "Pa, why do you always insist on my singing when Mr. Bimley comes here?" "Well, I don't like to come right out and tell him to go."—Boston Transcript. Now Wilhelm with a troubled brow Counts up his various losses. He can not pay his board bill now By giving iron crosses. —Washington Star. Magistrate—“How did you manage to extract the man's watch from his pocket when it was provided with a safety-catch?” Prisoner—“Excuse me, sir, that is a professional secret. I am willing to teach you, however, for two guineas.”—Tit-Bits. ‘Had my fortune told today, dear.’ “What a waste of money,” said her husband. “Not at all. I gave the woman fifty cents and she told me I would inherit $50,000. Wasn't that a bargain?”—Boston Transcript. “In some respects you are greater than Napoleon,” remarked the faithful attendant. “But,” protested the deposed ruler, “I'm down and out.” "Yes. Your finish is very much like Napoleon's, and it took you a very much shorter time to reach it."—Washington Star. Mr. Simpson's voice rumbled through the house. "Mary, here's the baker. How many loaves? Two, as usual?" "Two loaves, indeed," replied Mrs. Simpson. "Have you forgotten that Jack is coming home on leave today?" "Of course!" said Mr. Simpson, as he suddenly remembered his sailor son was coming home. "Here, Mr. Baker, back your cart up against this door, and tip her up."—Tit-Bits. SEATTLE LIGHTING CO. Lightens your burdens. Day or night it's always there with the goods. SEATTLE LIGHTING CO. WEST & WHEELER There are real estate dealers and real estate dealers, but— WEST & WHEELER Marion Building Cheasty's Good Clothes for Men and Women. You can't beat it. CHEASTY'S Second and Spring IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. In the Mater of the Estate of Nelson J. Wing, Deceased—In Probate. No. 23689. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Executrix of the estate of Nelson J. Wing, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Executrix or her 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, to-wit: within six months after the 7th day of December, 1918, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication December 7, 1918. VIOLA GRAY, Executrix of said Estate. Address 701 Leary Bldg., Seattle, Washington. E. H. GUIE, Attorney for Estate. Attorney for Estate. 701 Leary Building, Seattle, Washington. Dec. 7, Jan. 4, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. In the Matter of the Estate of Enoch J. Mathis, Deceased.—In Probate. No. 23991. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Executor of the estate of Enoch J. Mathis, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Executor 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, to-wit: within six months from the 7th day of December, 1918, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication December 7, 1918. WILLIAM H. CLARKE, Executor of said Estate. Address 701 Leary Building, Seattle, Washington. E. H. GULE. Attorney for Estate. 701 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash. December 7, January 4, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. In the Matter of the Estate of Cora Green, Deceased. —In Probate. No. 22412. Notice of Hearing Final Report and Petition for Distribution. Notice is hereby given that W. D. Carter, Administrator of the Estate of Cora Green, has filed in the office of the Clerk of said Court his final Report and petition for distribution, asking the Court to settle said Report, distribute the property to the persons thereto entitled and to discharge said W. D. Carter; and that said Report and petition will be heard on the 2nd day of January, 918, at 9:30 A. M., at the Court Room of the Probate Department of said Court. Dated this 27th day of November, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Victoria M. Glass and George Glass, her husband, plaintiffs, vs. Times Printing Co., a corporation, et als, Ernest Huschke, and any known or unknown heirs or persons having or claiming to have any interest in Lot 5 and W. half of Lot 4, in Block 10, of Hillman's School House Division of Green Lake Addition to City of Seattle, King County, Washington, defendants.—No. 131890. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Ernest Huschke and any known or unknown heirs or persons having or claiming to have any interest in Lot 5, and West half of Lot 4, in Block 10, of Hillman's School House Division of Green Lake Addition to City of Seattle, King County, Washington, defendants: 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 16th day of November, 1918, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiffs, 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 quiet title to Lot 5 and West half of Lot 4 in Block 10 of Hillman's School House Division to Green Lake Addition to City of Seattle, King County, Washington. Z. B. RAWSON Attorney for Plaintiffs. P. O. Address: 617 Pacific Block, Seattle, King County, Wash. Nov. 16 to Dec. 28, 1918. "What does she say?" "Says her face is her fortune." "Now I understand what they mean by inovluntary bankruptcy."—Louisville Courier-Journal. 9 What a pity that the President wasn't twins!—Columbia State. Dr. Davis left Foch the final job of pulling the Kaiser's teeth.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Why not punish the Kaiser by turning him over to the Russians and telling them he is their new Czar?—New York Evening Sun. The grandmother of the Russian revolution is on her way to the United States. We hope she isn't bringing the kid along.—Detroit News. A few here and there are beginning to wonder whether the league of nations is going to develop into a league of notions.—Kansas City Star. "Shall we feed Germany and stint ourselves?" asks the Literary Digest. Whatl would you say was the Inevitable Answer, offhand?—Chicago Evening Post. It may interest some of the good people to know that more cigarettes are now sold by the Y. M. C. A. than any other concern in the world.—Los Angeles Times. It is said that cotton-growing in the barred zone will be permitted next year. But there will be very much more cotton-growing in the no-bar zone.—Houston Post. A good many people who are worrying themselves wobbly about what is going to become of the nation might help the situation some by getting busy on some job of useful work.—Houston Post. Most of the European belligerents seem to be agreed on what is coming to the Kaiser. Like the Missouri juror, they all are convinced he should be hanged, after being given a fair trial.—Kansas City Star. "Bread is being made in the Army by the new 'sponge' process," it is announced in Washington. That sounds very much like the way the Huns are trying to get their bread.—Knoxville Journal and Tribune. President Wilson has been asked to give aid to the Democratic party in Germany. Apparently the Huns have not heard of the results of his attempt to aid the Democratic party in this country during the recent campaign.—Topeka State Journal. THE SPICE OF LIFE “Why did you use the expression ‘as pale as a doorknob’?” “Door-knobs are in doors so much, you know.”—Boston Transcript. “Dead men tell no tales,” observed the Sage. “Maybe that is the reason why so many widows get married again,” commented the Fool.—Nashville Tenneseean. “Why do they say, ‘Nobody loves a fat man’?” "There's bound to be a suspicion that anybody over weight just now is getting more than his share of the food."—Washington Star. Blobbs—"If you were going in for music, which instrument would you choose?" Slobbs—"Well, I've always thought I would like to be a soloist on a cash register."—Philadelphia Record. "She's giving a very elaborate party." "Gotten up solely on my account." "I thought you two were on the outs." "We are. And that's the reason she got up the party.—Kansas City Journal. "Oh, mama, I'm frightened!" came from little Tommie, in bed. "What are you frightened about, my son?" "I hear somebody on the roof." "Oh, well, go to sleep, my boy; it's only your father taking off his shoes before he sneaks through the scuttle. He's just got home from the club in his airship."—Yonkers Statesman. Wifey—"You must not expect me to give up my girlhood ways all at once." Hubby—"That's all right. Go on taking an allowance from your father as if nothing had happened."—Brooklyn Citizen. The Kaiser said, "What shameful fears I'm now compelled to feel; I stocked the goods for this I stacked the cards for thirty years And then mussed up the deal!" —Washington Star. "Si Hubbard told me he got a heap of work out of you when you was workin' fer him," said the farmer. "Wal, I allow he did," said the hired man. "Yas. Fact is, I guess he just about got it all."—Boston Transcript. A man entered a drug store, very hurriedly and asked for a dozen two-grain quinine pills. "Do you want them put in a box, sir?" asked the chemist, as he was counting them out. "Oh, no, certainly not, replied the customer. "I was thinking of rolling them home!"—Tit-Bits. Two Jews were on a journey on a hot summer day. "Have you anything with you, Matthias?" asked one. "Yes, a bottle of wine. What have you, Moses?" "Dried tongue." "Good! We'll divide our provisions." Matthias produced his wine and it was divided. Then he asked his fellow traveler to bring out his provisions. "I?" said Moses. "Why, yes, the dry tongue you said you had." "I haven't got one now," was the cool reply.—Boston Transcript. "A queer thing is on the cards in Europe." "What is that?". "The deuce is taking all the kings."—Baltimore American. "Pa, why do you always insist on my singing when Mr. Bimley comes here?" "Well, I don't like to come right out and tell him to go."—Boston Transcript. Now Wilhelm with a troubled brow Counts up his various losses. He can not pay his board bill now By giving iron crosses. —Washington Star. Magistrate—"How did you manage to extract the man's watch from his pocket when it was provided with a safety-catch?" Prisoner—"Excuse me, sir, that is a professional secret. I am willing to teach you, however, for two guineas."—Tit-Bits. 'Had my fortune told today, dear.' "What a waste of money," said her husband. "Not at all. I gave the woman fifty cents and she told me I would inherit $50,000. Wasn't that a bargain?"—Boston Transcript. "In some respects you are greater than Napoleon," remarked the faithful attendant. "But," protested the deposed ruler, "I'm down and out." "Yes. Your finish is very much like Napoleon's, and it took you a very much shorter time to reach it."—Washington Star. Mr. Simpson's voice rumbled through the house. "Mary, here's the baker. How many loaves? Two, as usual?" "Two loaves, indeed," replied Mrs. Simpson. "Have you forgotten that Jack is coming home on leave today?" "Of course!" said Mr. Simpson, as he suddenly remembered his sailor son was coming home. "Here, Mr. Baker, back your cart up against this door, and tip her up." —Tit-Bits. --- SEATTLE LIGHTING CO. Lightens your burdens. Day or night it's always there with the goods. SEATTLE LIGHTING CO. WEST & WHEELER There are real estate dealers and real estate dealers, but— WEST & WHEELER Marion Building Cheasty's Good Clothes for Men and Women. You can't beat it. CHEASTY'S Second and Spring IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. In the Mater of the Estate of Nelson J. Wing, Deceased—In Probate. No. 23689. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Executrix of the estate of Nelson J. Wing, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Executrix or her 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, to-wit: within six months after the 7th day of December, 1918, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication December 7, 1918. VIOLA GRAY. Executrix of said Estate. Address 701 Leary Bldg., Seattle, Washington. E. H. GUIE Attorney for Estate 701 Leary Building, Seattle, Washington. Dec. 7, Jan. 4, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. In the Matter of the Estate of Enoch J. Mathis, Deceased.—In Probate. No. 23991. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Executor of the estate of Enoch J. Mathis, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Executor 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, to-wit: within six months from the 7th day of December, 1918, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication December 7, 1918. WILLIAM H. CLARKE, Enoch J. Mathis, Deceased. Address 701 Leary Building, Seattle, Washington. E. H. GUIE Attorney for Estate. 701 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash. December 7, January 4, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. In the Matter of the Estate of Cora Green, Deceased. In Probate. No. 22412. Notice of Hearing Final Report and Petition for Distribution. Notice is hereby given that W. D. Carter, Administrator of the Estate of Cora Green, has filed in the office of the Clerk of said Court his final Report and petition for distribution, asking the Court to settle said Report, distribute the property to the persons thereto entitled and to discharge said W. D. Carter; and that said Report and petition will be heard on the 2nd day of January, 918, at 9:30 A. M., at the Court Room of the Probate Department of said Court. Dated this 27th day of November, 1918. PERCY F. THOMAS, ,Clerk of said Court. By GEO. L. BERGER, Deputy. December 7, December 28, 1918 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Victoria M. Glass and George Glass, her husband, plaintiffs, vs. Times Printing Co., a corporation, et als, Ernest Huschke, and any known or unknown heirs or persons having or claiming to have any interest in Lot 5 and W. half of Lot 4, in Block 10. of Hillman's School House Division of Green Lake Addition to City of Seattle, King County, Washington, defendants.—No. 131890. Summons by Publica- tion. The State of Washington to the said Ernest Huschke and any known or unknown heirs or persons having or claiming to have any interest in Lot 5, and West half of Lot 4, in Block 10. of Hillman's School House Division of Green Lake Addition to City of Seattle, King County, Washington, defendants: 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 16th day of November, 1918, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiffs, 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 quiet title to Lot 5 and West half of Lot 4 in Block 10 of Hillman's School House Division to Green Lake Addition to City of Seattle, King County, Washington. Z. B. RAWSON. Attorney for Plaintiffs. P. O. Address: 617 Pacific Block, Seattle, King County, Wash. Nov. 16 to Dec. 28, 1918. “What does she say?” “Says her face is her fortune.” "Now I understand what they mean by inovluntary bankruptcy."—Louisville Courier-Journal.