Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY 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. TELPHONE: REACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS If General High Cost Living is not soon put down for the count then we miss our guess. The following brief facts have been taken from a statement by a public official: "There is tremendous prdouction going on in this country. Extreme prices have encouraged the raising of everything. There is a bumper crop of wheat and corn. Therefore cows and hens will be well fed, and they will be productive. In the United States there is today $575,000,000 worth of cattle more than there was a year ago. There are large holdings of poultry all over the country. There are such tremendous quantities of food that I don't know what we're going to do with it. Schwab has warned us that the export trade is going to be very disappointing. Already England has canceled meat contracts. And the United States Government, formerly the largest purchaser in the market of every commodity, has withdrawn from competition. "Last year the Government commandeered 40 per cent of all the butter for the soldiers and corresponding quantities of other products. Imagine the effect of the withdrawal of this factor will have. With this outlook in supply, prices will go down inevitably. "Federal reports show that holdings of meat in refrigerators are 65 to 85 per cent higher than in 1914; in other words, there are 900,000,000 pounds of frozen pork, 350,- 000,000 of frozen beef, and 106,000,000 of frozen poultry." When the necessities again reach a normal condition that will adjust wages and then there will be less labor troubles throughout the world. Cataloguing the colored voters of Seattle and King County is to be undertaken and, if accomplished, the one or ones holding the cards will possess quite an asset on which they can do considerable bartering and trading, but those who hope to accomplish the undertaking have no intention of permitting any such speculation and we therefore trust the same will be successful, which will be for the benefit of the King County Colored Republican Club, which is planning to have every colored person in the city and county qualified to vote at every election. But however useful the cataloguing may be, it is some undertaking and will require either a large sum of money or the united work of a majority of the colored voters themselves to succeed. While enroute to Olympia a few days ago to watch the deliberations of the solons of the State of Washington, the train on which we were traveling had a short breakdown at Steilacoom and as we sat quietly awaiting, the all-aboard order, we looked across the bay and the McNeil Island Fed- SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1919 eral prison glared at us like a dismal nightmare and no less ominous stared the buildings of the Steilacoom insane asylum. To make the scene even more gruesome a small boat just then started across the waters with two unfortunates and about the same moment a bus drove by carrying a howling idiot to the asylum. Revolving the whole situation in our mind and drawing a mental picture of the same, we wondered which of the three groups of buildings, the prison, the assylum or the capitol had the most inviting reception ahead. Ambition does no exactly produce immortal youth but it does drive away old age. The ambitious man, who has spent forty years from twenty to sixty—fighting for achievements without aparent results is just as hopeful of the future at sixty as he was at twenty. There is but little for man to accomplish after sixty save a ripe old age, but ambition urges him on to reach the goal of life which drives dull fears of the aproaching end away. Most men at sixty have no more of the goods the gods provide than they had at twenty, but they continue hopeful. When twenty, the man sixty seems to be a very very old man, but the scenes change when the man twenty becomes sixty—not so old. Despite the fact that but a few days ago the editor hereof passed his sixtieth milestone, yet when we hear our high school "kiddies" bubble all over about their studies we get all het up and kinder regret that Ponce de Leon failed to find "the fountain of immortal youth" that we too might drink of its adolescent waters and with the knowledge we already have, take up our books and charts anew and join in the days of school enthusiasm. To hear a boy and girl of like intelligence discussing the momentus questions of the day as learnedly as mature men and women, makes us realize that our beginning must have been built on a sandy foundation, and we really envy them. Perhaps organized labor in the Northwest will be able to survive the awful ordeal that it is now undergoing, superinduced by its own rashness, but we seriously doubt it. Radicalism on the part of a few is responsible for the sickness of the whole, but its a case of the innocent bystander getting struck in the melee. The sins of the fathers will be visited on the children, even to the third and fourth generations" and we suspect it will be many many a day before organized labor will hear the last of that sympathetic strike. Be sure you are right and then go ahead, was a lesson those strike leaders never learned, and so they struck without regard to the aftermath, but they now know to go on a general sympathetic strike is a mistake. An epicurean feast followed by an oratorical outburst at the Lincoln Day Banquet put new blood into the King County Colored Republican Club members and more of them were out at the last regular meeting than had been seen out for months. President Cooper throughout the meeting continued to impress those present that unanimity of action should be the watchword of the club and at the last meeting those present for the most part observed VOL. III. NO. 38 it. There are upwards of a thousand colored voters in the city of Seattle and yet not one hundred of them are registered." declared one of the members of the club, and to "induce all of the qualified voters to register." is the aim of the club. In dismissing Mr. Byele from the Franklin High School, the school board has done what the politicians were afraid to do. Every man in the City of Seattle, who struck and thereby broke his civil service pledges, ought to be permanently fired even though the services of the city be temporarily crippled. If under the civil service law an employee could not be dismissed then when such employee quits of his or her own free will, then such employee has wilfully broken the contract between himself or herself and the city and once broken it should remain so. Every city employee who went on the late sympathetic strike should not be permitted to return to work and the jobs should be given to the returning oversea soldiers. Judging from the rebuffs Germany is getting at the hands of the Allies in the peace conference the German people to an extent realize the condition of the colored people of the United States at the time of the Dred Scott decision—Germany not only has no rights the Allies are bound to respect, but she has no claims that they (the Allies) intend to respect. We are dead opposed to the principle of "might makes right," but in the light of the past we can not see on what grounds Germany can expect any consideration. Better throw yourselves on the mercy of the court, Mr. Hun, and say, "your will is our pleasure; we acknowledge the corn, we have been whipped." Over in Chicago the jarring factions among the colored voters of the third ward are up and at it again and if the Anderson-DePriest colored factions do not eat themselves up instead of the Democrats then we miss our guess. But white politicians do the same thing and why not the colored politicians, but on the other hand the opportunities of the colored potician are so few and far apart that when one does come his way the others should be slow to move to tear him down. In the Chicago case it seems that DePriest had things all his way once upon a time, but the jingling sheckels led him from the straight and narrow path and he fell by the way side. Anderson was his successor and he hopes to tear him dwon. A white man with colored blood in him has renuonced his white associates and allied himself with the colored folk of the country, "for the reason," he says, "I can be of more service to the colored folk of this country, who need my aid and assistance, as a black man than as a white man." In our opinion, any one so white that he or she can be white and that too without question is a genuine damphool to try to be black. Such an one is looked upon as having something up his sleeve, an ax to grind or something to gain when such is done. The white folks of the United States are rapidly absorbing the black folks and it is under such full headway that nothing but immediate extinction of the blacks can prevent it from going the limit and that being so why one or two persons rise up against it. If, how- ever, the man in question has so much love for the colored folks, if he had used his think tank he would have readily seen he could have been of far greater service to the colored folks by remaining a white man and using his influence with his white friends to bétter the conditions of the black folks. What the black folks of this country need more than anything else is a strong friend at court, who eats and sleeps with the ruling class of white folks, and who will plead their case when they are not present. TOPICS IN BRIEF —Newark News. 2 So far it seems to be ‘‘victory without peace.’’—Pittsburgh Dispatch. The line that stood at Chateau-Thierry must not become a _ bread-line.—Detroit News. When national prohibition goes into effect even Maine will be dry.—Arkansas Gazette. Now that women are no longer knitting sweaters, we fear a return of the doily peril. —Washington Post. Berlin, once ambitious to run the govern- ments of the world, is now unable to keep the street-cars running.—Washington Star. Marshal Foch wants the watch on the Rhine permanently equipped with French works.—Arkansas Gazette. The Peace Conference will probably fur- nish barber-chairs for the Bolshevik dele- gates at Princes’ Islands—Brooklyn Eagle. There is no ‘America irredenta,’’ but America will be satisfied to annex all the world to the democratic idea.—Chicago Daily News. What perfectly lovely husbands those re- turning soldiers who have learned to obey orders are going to make.*-Peekskill Even- ing News. Ex-King Manuel of Portugal says he is in the hands of his people. That’s just where he will be if he doesn’t wateh out.— Omaha World Terald. “One thousand innocent bystanders killed in Berlin.’’ hat’s frank exaggeration. There aren’t 1,000 innocent persons in all Germany.—Washington Herald. The cootie killed a million people during the war, it is claimed. But we have reason to believe that fatalities among the cooties were even larger.—Tacoma edger. Harried Poland needed a emoposer.—Col- orado Springs Gazette. It may be that we had this year’s winter last winter.—Detroit News. Of course a cat may look at a king, but it will have to hurry.—Chicago Daily News. John Barleycorn naturally thinks nation- al prohibition is a rum go.—Arkansas Ga- zette. What is to beeome of the barkeepers? Easy. Make them revenue officers.—Chi- cago Tribune. Mr. Marcosson says the American ‘‘melt- ing-pot’’ has become a caldron. Yes, and it needs skimming, too—Omaha Bee. Colonel Tlouse is one delegate the Ver- sailles Conference will never grow tired listening to.—Arkansas Gazette. The Siberian railroad is losing only $40,- 000,000 a month, but it may eateh up with our speed, some day.—New York Evening Sun. The ex-Kaiser’s sudden devotion to liter- ary pursuits looks suspiciously like a be- lated attempt to write his wrongs.—Manila Bulletin, Several bars will be added to the musie of the worl when our mahogany of the tap- rooms is sawed into piano legs.—Brooklyn Kagle. The trouble with the Trish question is that too many of the Trish people want what too many of the Irish don’t want.—Detroit Free Press. These reports that the Prussian children are cheering for the Allied troops make it look as tho those Germans were trying to kid us along a little—Manila Republic. Pershing’s drastic orders against the Yanks flirting with German women are go- ing to give his Presidential boom a big im- petus in the suffrage States—Arkansas Ga- zette. EVOLUTION By Langdon Smith In the Palazotic Time; : And side by side, in the ebbing tide We crawled thru the ooze and slime, Or skitted with many caudal flip, Thru the depth of the Cambrian fen My heart was rife, with the joy of life For I loved you even then. Mindless we lived, and mindless we loved, And mindless at last we died; And deep in the rift, of the Carodic drifts, We slumbered side by side, The ages turned in the lathe of Time, The hot lands, heaved amain; Till we caught our breath, From the womb of death, And crept into life again. ‘We were Amphibians, scaled and tailed, And drab as a dead man’s hand. We crawled at ease, ‘neath the dripping trees Or trailed thru the mud and sand, eG and blind, with our three clawed eet, Writing a language dumb; With never a spark, in the empty dark, To hint at the life to come. Yet happy we lived, and happy we loved And happy we died once more And our forms were rolled in the clining mould On an Necomonian shore The Eons came and the Eons fled, And the sleep that wrapped us fast Fled swift away in a brighter day And the night of death was past. Fled swift away in a brighter day And the night of death was past. Then light and free, thru the jungle trees We swung our airy flights Or basked beneath the fronded palms In the hush of those moonless nights, And oh, what beautiful years were these, ‘When our hearts clung each to each; When our souls, were filled and our senses thrilled : In the first faint dawn of speech. Thus life by life and love by love We passed thru the cycle strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change, Till their came a time in the law of life When o’er the nursing sod The shadows broke, and the soul awoke In a strange dim dream of God. I was thewed like an Aurox bull, And tusked like a great bear; And you my sweet, from head to feet Were gowned, in your glorious hair. = There in the gloom of the fireless cave When night fell o’er the plain The moon hung low, o’er the river bed, As we munched at the bones of the slain. I flaked a flint, to a cutting edge, And shaped to with brutish craft; I broke a shank, from the woodland dank, And fitted it head and haft; Then I hid me in the ruddy tarn, Where the mammoth came to drink, Thru brawn and bone, I drove that stone; And slew him on the brink! Loud, I hwoled, thru the moonlit waste Loud answered our Kith and Kin; From West and East to the crimson feast The clan came trooping in. O’er bone and gristle and padded hoof, We clawed and chewed and tore; And cheek by jowl, with many a growl, We talked that marvel o’er. I carved that fight on a reindeer bone, With a rude and hairy hand, I pictured his fall on the cavern wall, That men might understand ; That we lived by blood and the right of might . And here tonight in the mellow light, We sit at Delmonico’s. Your eyes are as deep as the Devion springs, Your hair as black at jet, Your life is new, your love is new, And your soul untried as yet. Our path is on the Kimmeridge clay, And the scarp-of the perbeck-flags, ‘We have left our bones in the bagshot stones In the deep of the Coraline crags. Our life is old, our love is old, And death shall come amain, Should it come today ‘What man shall say, We shall not live again. Nature sowed our seeds in the Tremadoc beds, And furnished them wings to fly. She sowed our spawn in the world’s dim dawn, And I know it will not die; Tho cities have sprung above the graves, Where crooked boned men made war, And the oxwain croaks o’er the buried caves, Where the mummied mammoths are. Then as we linger at luncheon here, O’er many a dainty dish; Let us drink anew, to the time when you, Were a tadpole and I was a fish. —Exchange. GENERAL RACE NEWS At a recent mass meeting in Wilmington, Del., a number of prominent race men passed resolutions demanding jobs in the court house for colored people from the officials elected in the recent election. In Gillipolis, Ohio, white students walked out of the city schools when the Common Pleas Court decided that there could be no restrictions placed on the schools regarding the color of people who attended. The effort was being made by certain citizens to exclude dark races from the student body but the courts refused to uphold the evil practice. Silas Gooch, once a slave of the late Wil- liam Gooch (white), produced this year with a grubbing hoe $400 worth of tobacco and three barrels of corn. Gooch’s chil- dren are all said to be college graduates. He lives in Oxford, N. C. A committee representing the Internation- al League of the Darker Races conferred with the Japanese Peace Delegates at the Waldorf in New York recently. It sug- gested for Africa that its civilization had been arrested by the brutal arm of world finance and that Africa must be lifted up by the humanitarian hand of a new world democracy. No league of nations can long endure wihch ignores the just claims of Africa.” Emmet J. Scott, Secretary of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, of which the late Colonel Roosevelt was a Trustee, attended the funeral services of Colonel Roosevelt, held at Oyster Bay, L. I., New York, Wednesday, January 9th, in Christ Protestant Episcopal Chureh. Dr. T. B. Ford, a graduate of Howard University, Washington, D. C., had the dis- tinction of being the first colored doctor to ride out on a Bellevue Hospital Ambulance. Ile was assigned to Bellevue following his graduation, last October. He is 28 years old. THE EMPORIUM Soft Drinks. A Choice Line of Cigars and Tobacco. Candy Meals from 6 a. m, to 2 p. m. Chillie Con Carnie C. GREER, Proprietor 24th and E. Madison East 207 Pier et; Be iG Be A ees emuatal Ad ” . ‘ x. Ades? — Be RE eR Te eee Mae m oy oats aaa artes nan OSI NNT an or ton ts talc eR Negro organization, speaking, it says, tor “15,000,000 Americans notoriously suffering flagrant deprivations of democracy,’ calls on the peace delegates to insist upon the principle of ‘‘elimination of civil, political and judicial disabilities and distinctions based on race and color in all nations for the new era of freedom everywhere.”’ The 28th Annual Tuskegee Negro Con- ference was held at Tuskegee Institute be- ginning Wednesday, January 22, 1919, and concluded Thursday, January 23rd. A London dispatch announces that Gen. Smuts, leader in England’s military control in South and East Africa, had called into conference representatives of allied news- paers, and aroused much interest. He fav- ored a policy of concilation with reference to African peoples. Sergeant Hardy of the machine gund company of the 369th infantry was the editor of a trench newspaer he called the “Black Herald.’’ His publication was a one sheet typewritten daily, which was printed in a dugout and was circulated among the comrades during the lulls in the battle. The ill treatment of the natives of Africa under German rule is outlined in a book published by the British Colonial office. It is brim full of statements of the native chiefs in the Samoan Island, the Kameruns, Togoland, Southwest Africa and East Afri- ca. The statement shows that the natives everywhere hope to remain under British rule. A judge in Jackson, Miss., pulled a new one recently where a white man was pitted against a colored man and he ruled that he had no grounds for believing the white man’s word any more than he did the col- ored man’s. Dr, R. R. Morton landed from France Tuesday, January 21st, on the steamer Can- ada, accompanied by Lester A. Walton and Nathan Hunt. The return of War Correspondent Ralph Tyler from France is delayed by the can- cellation of the order for the convoying home of the 92nd Division with whom he has been assigned for the past few weeks. William TI. Mays, chairman of the Repub- lican National Committee, is about o tackle the solid South in a serious effort to up- heave the Democratic foundation. He will establish southern headauarters at Ashe- ville, N. C., Knoxville, Tenn., or Atlanta, Ga.. and campaign for electoral votes for 1920. : First Tieutenant Ulus ©. Miller. 60th Pioneer Infantry. has been dismissed from the armv by order of the president. Tieu- tenant Miller was convicted by a court-mar- jtal at Camp Wadsworth. S. ©.. of the charges of striking two colored soldiers on their hands with a elub and with striking another colored soldier on the head with his fist. Rev. David Sneed. 72 years of age of Renton. Tll.. is the father of his third set of twins. THe is the father of twenty-two children, most all living. The War Camp Community Service is now holding its fourth school for the train- Cote kc Ne) ArT LC ee Re cr eee Serene eee ee, Nan) | SUE eee eci o a AVE ae: eee Se eee Se ae soldier and sailor a months’ pay, mileage home at the rate of 5 cents per mile, a uni- form and overcoat and permission to wear it for a month. The 370th Regiment U. S. A. was former- ly the old 8th Illinois State Guard. It pre- sented its colors at Vernevil sur Rene Thanksgiving day to General Joseph Marie Vineendon, commanding the 59th Division, French Army, by Lieutenant Commander Otis B. Duncan. Details reached Chicago recently in a letter to Major W. H. Roberts, brother of Col. Thomas A. Roberts of the regiment. Germans in Africa ask President Wilson to permit the German Colonies to determine their own form of government. Martinque, largest island of the French West Indies, may come into the possession of the United States as the result of negotia- tions at the Peace Conference, it was re- ported recently in diplomatic circles. According to a report of the Entent Powers have decided to give to Czecho-Slovakia the former German Colony of Togoland, in West Africa. James Scott, a young colored man, Tues- day, December 10th, was elected to the Phi Bet Kappa honorary fraternity because of his attaining highest rank among men stu- dents of the Kansas university in scholar- ship. Scott lives in Kansas City. Announcement is made that Julius Ros- enwald, Chicago philanthropist, has given $25,000 to complete a Y. M. C. A. building for our people in Columbus, 0. This is the twelfth building to be erected through the co-operation of Mr. Rosenwald. Mayor Charles McGrew has received a petition signed by 328 white persons asking that ‘‘Huntington’s (Ind.) Negro popula- tion be deported.’’ The citizens have been so bitter their denunciation of our people that trouble is feared. This year, just ended, has been an event- ful and busy one for the New York branch of the Urban League. In the Industrial De- partment, where there is a secretary and an assistant secretary 2,458 placements were made out of 6,289 applicants. During the summer months nearly 1,000 students from southern schools were given employment with the Connecticut Leaf Tobacco Associ- ation. During the influenza epidemic the league did noble work in fighting the dis- ‘ease. Its convalescent home, Valley Rest, at White Plains, N. Y., now closed, was used extensively the whole year. The printed reports of the fall rally of St. Mark’s M. E. Church of New York City, which constitute the final report, were out in January. The total amount noted on the sheets was $10,026.53. The starting of a colored daily newspaer in Richmond, Va., now under consideration, will be fully discussed in the near future at a special meeting for that purpose. The promoters aim to establish a non-sectarian and non-partisan paper. At a meeting of the directors of the en- dowment department of the Grand Lodge yardsmen employed by the Y. & M. V. rail- road at the Noneonnah yards on the 4 o’elock shift did not go to work Saturday, January 11th. This action was taken fol- lowing the failure of the management to discharge the colored switehmen and yatd- men as was demanded in a petition by the whites. Colored passengers on the Texas & Pa- cifie railroad will be allowed access to din- ing cars after all white passengers have been served, according to a bulletin issued from the Division Superintendent’s office at Marshall, Texas. Indianna’s contribution in down-trodding the colored people is as follows: ‘‘The mi- litia shall consist of all able-bodied white males between the ages of 18 and 45 years, except such as may be exempted by the laws of the United States or the State of Indiania.’’ Henry Banks, born a slave on a Virginia plantation in 1789 is dead at his cabin at Paw, near Detroit, where he lived as a her- mit. He remember a visit by President Washington to his master’s home, and La- fayette’s tour of the United States in 1824 was fresh in his memory. He was cared for in the past by a granddaughter, now 70 years old. Lieutenant Henry Johnson, the Negro who, with Needhom Roberts, received the Croix de Guerre is a native of Mobile, Ala. He lost his right leg on the battle fields of France. He has been in the military service since he was 15 years of age, having served 24 years. He won eight medals for his exploit in routing 29 Germans along with Roberts. An ‘‘ark’’ of conerete, 85 feet long, to transport colored missionaries of the Church of The Living God to Liberia, where they will be able to extol the doctrines of the denomination, is being built by James E. Lewis, Pastor of the Cult’s Church in Los Angeles. Although Rey. Lewis, who is the arehitect and designer and contractor as well of the giant craft, has labored hard for more than, a year, performing most of the work himself. Te has sueceeded in con- structing the frame of the vessel so far.— The Half Century Magazine. STOLEN FROM THIEVES A Mississippian was to be baptised in the river but when it came his turn he was looking at the water just beyond the parson and refused. “Come right in, my brother,’’ said the parson, ‘Come right in.’’ But the candidate for baptism kept his eyes on the water beyond the parson and still refused. ‘‘Don’t like de looks ob dat black object back ob you, parson. May be a alligator.’’ “Nonesense,’’ replied the parson, ‘‘has your faith stumbled? Don’t you remember when the whale swallowed Jonah, God Al- mighty smote him on the back with a wag- on whip and the whale cast him up on the sand. Don’t you know that if your faith is right and an alligator swallows you he You Are Welcome To Spend Your Leisure Moments at the GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. Courteous Treatment BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1932 Jackson St. --- --- will cast you up on the sand. Whereupon the convert said, "May be so parson, maybe so. Parson you may know whales, but you don't know these Mississippi alligators. If ever a Mississippi alligator swallows a colored man he'd go off and go to sleep and forget all about him." Mike was on a sinking ship and was watching with interest the frantic passengers grabbing life preservers, putting them on and jumping overboard. "Shure," he said, "if ivverybody's stealing, I kin too." Immediately he picked up a heavy piece of iron and jumped overboard. Sallie and Jane fuond themselves seated next to each other at the Christmas dinner party and immediately became confidential. "Molly told me that you told her that secret that I told you not to tell her," whispered Sallie. "Oh, isn't she the mean thing!" gasped Jane. "Why I told her not to tell you." "Well," returned Sallie, "I told her that I wouldn't tell you she told me—so don't tell her I did." Mrs. Jones: "Have you heard any good news from your husband since he's been in France?" Mrs. Smith: "Well, I know he's all right. He sent me a couple of needles in his last letter and asked if I would thread them and send them back to him right away because he wants to mend the holes in his socks and underwear." A dog was watching his master in khaki kissing the family goodby. "Gee," said the dog to himself, "I hope he's going to take me along. I'd just love to bite a German." Manuel, a colored man with a record previously clean, was arraigned before the justice of the peace for assault and battery. "Why did you beat that man up. Man- "Why did you beat that man up, Manuel?" asked the squire. “He called me sump'n Jedge.” “What did he call you?” “He called me a rhinoceros, sah, a rhinoceros!” “A rhinoceros! When did this occur?” “'Bout three years ago!" “Then how did it hapen that you waited so long to resent it, Manual?” “awd, Jedge, I ain't never seen an rhinoceros till dis mawnin.” A man came into the ticket office at Waycross, Ga., and asked for two round trip tickets to Denver, Colo. The agent knew the man and asked who was going with him. "My brother." answered the traveler. My brother, answered the traveler. "Your brother?" asked the agent, "where is he?" "Out there in a box. He's dead." "Well, if he's dead, you don't want a return ticket for him." "Yes I does," said the traveler. "I ain't a goin' to bury him in Denver; but we've got so many kin folks out there that it's cheaper to take him out there for the funeral service and bring him back here, than it is for all the family to come to Waycross. Pupil: One cannot be punished for what he hasn't done, can he Miss Oldham? Teacher: No, Johnnie, of course not. Pupil: Well, I haven't washed my face this morning, I haven't studied any of my Phone 2647 1034 Jackson GOLDEN WEST Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest lessons for today, and I haven't any excuse for being absent yesterday afternoon. The governor of a western state was determined that he should not be interrupted by so many callers, so he instructed the doorman to tell all callers that the "governor is not in." "But, governor," said the doorman, "suppose they tell me that they have an appointment with you." "Just tell them 'they all say that,'" instructed the governor. Next day a lady called, and when told that the "governor was not in" she replied: "I know better than that. He is in. I am his wife and he is to take me to the theatre." "Oh," replied the doorman indifferently, "they all say that." She had been watching the soldier intently for some time. Then she ventured to ask: "Is the chinstrap there to keep your hat on, my man?" "No," replied the Yank, "it's to rest the chin after answering questions." A big Irishman was brought into the base hospital pretty well shot up. After giving his name the doctor asked him: "You're Irish aren't you?" "Half o' me, sir." "Half of you?" asked the doctor in surprise. "And what's the other half?" "German, sir," was the prompt reply. "German shrapnel, bits of iron and holes." "The blue jay, in spite of his faults, is a fine fellow," read Jane of the fourth reader class. "What are faults?" asked the teacher. Jane was silent. "Doesn't any one know?" asked the teacher of the entire class. Forty-five faces looked blank. "Faults," said the teacher encouragingly. "I have them," and turning to the visiting member of the Board of Education who hapened to be there, "even Mr. Jones has them—we all have them." A light flamed up in Louis eyes. He wiggled his hand. "Well, Louis?" "Hair and teeth," said the boy triumphantly. The horrendous thought occurs that Russia was the first nation to adopt prohibition. Anw now look at the darned thing.—New York Tribune. It is one of life's ironies that the saloon-keeper in politics was largely the cause of the passage of the prohibition law.—Philadelphia Evening Ledger. A lot of women are going to regret prohibition, the way it will lead to their husband's staying around home.—New York Evening Sun. The late Senator Tillman was a staunch opponent of autocracy, and bitterly opposed to the kaiser and his creeds, and used to delight in recounting a meeting between Wilhelm and an American pork packer on the latter's yacht. During the conversation the packer not in the least impressed by the kaiser said to him: "Autocracy to me is like potatoes. The best part is under the ground." "And would you believe it," added Tillman, "the kaiser never got the point." After coming in from a twenty mile "hike" the officer in command of a Negro company said, before dismissing them: "I want all the men who are too tired to take another hike to take two paces forward." All stepped forward except one big, husky six footer. Noticing him, the officer said: "Well, Johnson, ready for twenty miles more?" A. D. Richardson Undertaker and Embalmer Fully preared to handle those who pass away by the latest and most improved methods. Day and night service A. D. Richardson Undertaking Co. 1218 Jackson St. Beacon 103 --- UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF CHEMISTRY Phone East 179 PENN UNDERTAKING COMPANY Funeral Directors and Embalmers The only Colored Undertaking Establishment in the Northwest Owned, Managed and Financed by Colored Brain and Money. "Best service at moderate prices," is our motto. Your business will be highly appreciated. Calls promptly answered day or night. P. FRAZIER Funeral Director and Manager Parlors, 1215 East Marion St., Seattle IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for the County of King.—No. 133363. Summons by Publication. J. Abe Fisher, Plaintiff, vs. Fred Therriault, and William Fisher and Eve S. Fisher, his wife, Defendants. The State of Washington, to the said Fred Therriault, Defendant. 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 1st day of February, A. D. 1919, 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 said action and the relief sought to be obtained therein is fully set forth in said complaint, and is briefly stated as follows: To partition the following described real property: The East Forty-five (E. 45) feet of Lots Eighteen (18), Nineteen (19) and Twenty (20) in Block Thirteen (13) of Front Street Cable Addition to the City of Seattle, King County, Washington. ANDREW J. BALLIET, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address: 320 Railway Exchange Bldg., Seattle, County of King, Washington. First publication Feb. 1, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KING COUNTY, State of Washington.— In the Matter of the Estate of Erick J. Edlund, Deceased.—No 24729. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Executrix of the Estate of Erick J. Edlund, deceased, that all persons naving claims against said deceased are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Mary M. Edlund, or on Andrew J. Balliet, 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 the first publication of this notice, or the same will be barred. Attorney for Estate. 320 Railway Exchange Fldg., Seattle, Wash. First publication Feb. 8, 1919.