Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. In the interest of equal rights and equal justice to all men and for "all men up." A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. 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, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South IS SPIRITUALISM POSSIBLE. How much there is in the idea of spiritualism is more by far than the one who does not believe there is anything at all in it, can faintly express it. It, however, is quite safe to say that almost from the original birth and death of man, spiritualism, in some form or manner, has possessed the minds of the living, due, it is herewith surmised, largely to the fact that the living so sorely regrets to have one near and dear silenced in death, and their bodies return to the elements of mother earth. A great majority of the poeple have always believed that in every human body there is an inner men, which seeks some other abode after the death of the body. Where that abode was or is, has been, is and will ever be the problem of solution. If that abode is in some haven of rest, where the Creator is the center of attraction, and the earth departed souls live there on flowery beds of ease, then it would seem that the departed would have no desire to return to or even visit with their dearest ones on earth. If, on the other hand, the earth-departed souls are consigned to a place of perpetual punishment, then there would be no means of escape therefrom or all so incarcerated would escape and the alleged place of punishment be deserted. Therefore, viewing spiritualism in the light of either the affirmative or the negative, as sated above, he whole spiritualistic fabric is a delusion and a snare and those who claim they can communicate with the dead are either deceivers or mentally incapacitated. Spiritualism ahs always flourished after destructive wars, in which multiplied thousands of human beings lost their lives, and their spirits would visit their loved ones at home. Whether they actually did or whether the wish was father to the thought is another unsolved phase of the spiritualistic propaganda. Caesar's ghost, so says mythology, visited the arch-enemies of the Caesar living, while they were bivouacing in their tents at night planning a decisive battle and said, "I will meet you at Phillipi," Whether true or not Caesar's enemies were defeated at the battle fought at Phillipi and if his ghost was there it had its revenge for the cowardly assassination of the living Caesar. Throughout England at present spiritualism seems to be possessing the minds of a great majority of her citizenry in all walks of life. In the late world war the English lost a great many men, which means many home mourners, all of whom are anxious to, if possible, communicate with their dead and so it is an easy matter for the spiritualistic propaganda to spread from center to circumference in the English domain. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919 and especially so if it be enocuraged by the leading citizens thereof. Millions, billions, trillions and numbers beyond computation of human beings have lived and died since man first inhabited this world, and if their spirits are always about us as argues the spiritualist, then almost every conceivable square inch of space about us is pregnated with spirits, and it would be utterly impossible to communicate with one without doing so in the presence of hundreds of others. If everybody has a living soul which after death returns to the Creator, even that abode by this time must be badly overcrowded, and the same is applicable to the alleged place of everlasting torture, but to God all things are possible, and He, therefore, will make ample preparations for all who live and die. As said above, where the spirits of those who die go after leaving the body is and ever will be an unsolved problem, but certain it is there is no sufficient evidence to justify the belief that they hover about the living and if they do, they are far from being at rest. IT WAS A DREAM "The house will come to order, it now being 8.30, and we will have a word of prayer from Rev. Consistency. Now, ladies and gentlemen, this meeting is for the purpose of formulating plans for the betterment of the colored citizens, not only here, but throughout the United States. We have among us men and women of varied experience and the ideas of each are wanted at this time. We will first hear from Mr. Corn Tassel, who is thoroughly conversant on agricultural economics. You have heard the report, what is your pleasure? The same has been uannimously adopted. We will now have the report of Mr. Rich Fellow, who has had much experience in financing, as to the advisibility of opening a banking institution. The motion to adopt the report is unanmiusly carried. It has been moved and duly seconded that Mr. Business Man present the conclusions of this meeting to the mass meeting, which has been called for November 15th, that the same may be taken under consideration by "our people." If there be no further business before the house a motion to adjourn is in order. It now being 9.30, the meeting stands adjourend, subject to the call of the chairman." Well, who would have thought a few puffs at a pipe, which seemed to have a little or nothing in it, would have caused such a peculiar dream. The above must have been a dream, because we do not conduct meetings so smoothly as this. RACE AGAINST RACE There is grave danger in the position that some of our race leaders are taking in charging that the white race as a whole is an enemy to the Negro race, and therefore such race leaders are seeking to array race against race and to meet prejudice with prejudice, hatred with hatred, and bitterness with bitterness.—The position is wrong. In the first place, it is wrong as a matter of policy. We will get nowhere in our effort to secure justice and equity if we array ourselves as a race against a race that has superior numbers, intelligence and wealth and social and political advantage. It would be far better to seek to show the white people themselves and the world the fairness of our appeal. We do not underestimate that element of the white race that is disposed not to give us an even handed justice. This element is considerable in number, persistent in its attitude and determined so far as possible to see to it that the Negro is hindered at every point and is reduced or kept into practical peonage. But another fact is equally apparent. There is a large and growing element of white people, South as well as North, that is anxious for the Negro to have a square deal. There are individuals in this group who, because of this attitude, are going up against social embarrassment and, in some instances economical boycott and political discord. They are fighting with might and main to maintain a good conscience and a sense of self-respect and therefore to accord to all men, including the Negro, a square deal. It is an easy matter for our race orators, agitators, debaters and writers to charge the entire white race as being opposed to the best interests of he Negro. While it is easy to do this, it is exceedingly hazardous and unfair. We must not forget the individual white men and women and large and influential groups South and North who are doing their level best to improve our condition and make life all the more tolerable. We must not forget the millions of dollars spent and the lives given for our uplift. In our effort to secure justice we must not be unjust. In our effort to break down prejudice, we must not endorse prejudice by being prejudiced ourselves. People who know the bitterness of mistreatment, injustice and prejudice must first of all be those who know how to treat others right and treat them fairly and to measure their deeds correctly. We will lose friends rather than gain them if we fail to do this. From the "Southwestern Christian Advocate," New Orleans, La. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS After having religiously voted against all woman suffrage bills that came before congress as long as the Democrats held the majority in Congress, those self-same Democrats fell all over themselves to vote for the woman suffrage bill that passed the House last Wednesday. Trust a Democrat to do the right thing at the wrong time. In our opinion, President Wilson is going to have a monkey and a parrot time to pass the buck up to the Republicans in his "wet" campaign. When you go to a public meeting and you do not object to everything that is proposed and rise to a point of order every time someone gets up to speak, then who the devil will know you are there. "Wilson certainly made Rome howl," says the Indianapolis Star, and, believe me, Rome certainly made Wilson run to cover. Cayton's Weekly appreciates the fifty new subscribers that have come its way the past week. It never rains but it pours. British India has lost nearly 5,000,000 persons dying from the Spanish influenza. --- ```markdown ``` EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS A move is now on to unite the northern and southern branches of the Presbyterian Church of the United States. A couple of years ago an effort was made to unite the northern and southern branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the movement was working like greased lightning until hte Negro question was struck and in almost the twinkling of an eye the whole scheme exploded into a thousand atoms, which moved some one to compare the unity scheme to a fellow that had worked faithfully from January to July and then spent the most of his savings in fireworks for the of Fourth of July. On that glorious day he called his friends about him to help him celebrate and watch the display. He ligted the great pile of patriotism, and, using his own words, "Fizz, fizz, bomb! and my money was all gone." We suspect the unity efforts of the wings of the Presbyterian Church will meet a similar fate as did the wings of the Methodist Church. The southern wings of these two great religious bodies are religionists, but they are not Christians, and they never will be until they have been born again and give up that pernicious doctrine that white folks are God's elect and darker folks, like the beast of burden, were created to serve them without reward or remuneration. No one now living will, in our opinion, ever see either the Methodist Episcopal Church North and the M. E. Church South or the Presbyterian Church of the North and of the South united. The leaders of these two churches split on the Negro question more than a half a century ago and the members of neither side have changed their minds on that subject, and until they do unity is impossible. Crimes more diabolical than those perpetrated by the white men of the South upon the colored folks also of that section may have been committed somewhere and some time, but if so they are not of historical record. The alleged crimes of the German soldiers during the late war upon the French and Belgium women in comparison to the crimes of the Southern white men upon the colored men, women and children are like Sunday school misunderstandings between two rivals as to which one can repeat the greater number of verses. There is, however, one consolation in this lynching affair, those white men who participate in such outlawry are cowardly curs and will not even attack a colored girl without a great crowd of whining whelps. Get the bravest of them out of their native heaths and they won't even talk back to a colored person, let alone try to kill him. Congress has convened and is now grinding away. The chief thing for calling the solons to the national capital was to consider the league of nations covenant, a draft of which, in the very near future, will be in the hands of the senators. If Senator Lodge speaks with authority the covenant is already defeated in the senate, which will mean Uncle Sam will not participate in that august assembly when it first meets. Cayton's Weekly is violently opposed to the United States government becoming a party to this League of Nations covenant, and it therefore will oppose any candidate for the United States senate next year who favors the proposition. We have all we can do to look after the affairs of this country without meddling in the affairs of Europe. In a public address of recent date, Julius Rosenthal, the great philanthropist, said "the colored man needs the help and assistance of the white man of this country." Not necessarily so, Mr. Rosenthal. The colored man needs the white man to get out of his sunlight and if you characterize that as help and assistance, then we agree. The colored man of this country is of the asme temperament as the white man, and the only reason that he is not of the same constructability as the white is because the latter, being overwhelmingly in the majority, do more to prevent the colored man from progressing than to assist him. The colored man needs neither pity nor sympathy, but let severely alone. President Wilson, in his recent wireless message to Congress is trying to place the responsibility of the nation-wide prohibition edict, which will take effect July 1 next, on to the Republicans. Woodrow Wilson is certainly a great president, especially when it comes to pulling political potatoes out of the fire with the other fellow's hand. If the Republicans are wise, they will have nothing to do with Wilson's dry program. In other words, if Wilson did the hiring, then let Wilson do the firing. We hope, politics to the contrary notwithstanding, that the country will go bone dry July 1st, as has been fully arragged for. That judge of the Superior Court at Wenachee, Washington, who made that anti-divorce speech from the bench the other day, and yet granted the usual grist of diverces, preaches one thing and practises another. It was Ben Butler who said, the way to resume is to resume, and applying this principle, the way to fight divorce procedure is to fight it. But the judge, from our viewpoint, is wrong. If a man and wife find it impossible to agree, thein they shoud agree to dlsagree, and the sooner they are legally separated the better for both as well the community in which they reside. The stories which Dr. E. E. J. Brown is causing to be printed in the Star, ought to make the chief of police set up and take notice. Either Dr. Brown has criminally libeled Chief Warren or he has told the truth. If the former, the chief should cause him to be arrested and tried for the crime. If the latter, then mum is the word for Chief Warren. We have no interest in the controversy, but we rise to remark, peace officers should not thus be talked about unless true, and in that case they should cease to be peace officers. Public debates as to whether Frederick Douglas was a greater leader than Booker T. Washington is to our minds devoid of beneficial results. Their lives were not contemporaneous and whatever prominence each attained as leader or forerunner was done so by traveling along different routes. Both gave their all that the world might be better and their memories should not be beclouded in the minds of the living by discrediting their efforts. The reply of the Bocehs is nearing completion and will doubtless be in the hands of the Allies by the time this issue of Cayton's Weekly is in the hands of its readers, all of which is wasted wind. Bitter or sweet, fellows, you ahve got to take it and making ugly faces will do no good. You bought the dirty dose and now you have to pay for it. Take your medicine and die like men. Stump speaking seems to be a weakness of the colored mana and wrangling in public meetings his delight. "I am agin everything I am not for," forcibly exclaimed a colored man who was given to opposing everything that came up in a public meeting. One may derive a great deal of personal amusement out of such, but its always at the expense of the people. Publishing such stories as "The Triple Tragedy," in last Saturday's issue hereof, and the Shubula lynching in another column hereof, will doubtless not deter similar outbreaks of lawlessness, but it will convince the thinking classes that the world has been made doubly safe for that form of democracy that spells degeneracy. Perhaps the Hon. James Weldon Johnson will fill the Y. M. C. A. hall of this city twice over when he comes to Seattle June 5th next, but at that the Y. M. C. A. hall is far more preferable than the Washington hall. James Weldon Johnson of New York will lecture in Seattle, June 5th, at the Y. M. C. A. hall, for the benefit of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Admission, fifty cents. We quite agree with Ruth Garrison that, "it will be much nicer (for me) to stay in Walla Walla than in the insane asylum." Water will seek its level and birds of a feather will flock together. An army officer says: "The nation needs more airmen. If the nation had more Christian men she would have more airmen and even airwomen, all going to Heaven. Evidently the courts plan to make "dry" "wet," and thereby force the dirty saloon back on to the people, but let the courts not forget that the people have rights that even the courts are bound to respect. Wire our wandering chief executive that the United States Senate is Cumming and the house is Hunting(ton) for him. The Boches went home as mad as wet hens, but they came back. Congress convened last Monday and President Wilson, working on the theory, "discretion is the better part of valor," remained in Europe. Recently we read an account of a praying palm tree and we wondered if the trees had taken up the praying where the people had layed it down. Talk about winter hanging in the lap of spring, but the grizzly old rascal is now threatening to take a seat in the lap of summer. STOLEN FROM THIEVES He was not a man of wealth, but of comfortable means; all the same, he resented the exorbitant charges which the hotel manager imposed. "Why, look here!" he complained, thrusting the bill into the manager's face. "I see you have charged up 50 cents a day for attendance, and I couldn't get any. I'm sure I tugged at the bell rope in my room dozens of times, but got no answer!" "In that case you had better give me the bill and I will have it altered," was the reply. When, however, the bill was again presented the total was found to be the same, and upon the visitor's pointing it out the manager explained: "Yes, sir; but I have substituted 'physical exercise' in place of the attendance items." "Physical exercise!" repeated the bewildered visitor. "Quite right, sir," was the answer. "According to your own statement you have been exercising on the dumb bells for a week." "Are you sure you love me?" said a pretty girl to her admirer. "Love you!" echoed the smitten one. "Why, darling, while I was bidding you good-by on the porch last night your dog bit a piece out of the calf of my leg, and I never noticed it till I got clear home." ENTERTAINERS' CAFE Open to the Public EVERY EVENING From 8 to 12:30 P. M. Come and See Something New With Up-to-date Music M. C. HARRIS & ROBT. DISHMORE, Props. 1238 Main St., Seattle Phone, Beacon 136 TOO NAUSEATING TO PUBLISH. Last week Cayton's Weekly published "The Triple Tragedy." Though, as bad as it was, it ended well, and this week it is the Shubuta lynchings, and if your blood does not run cold on reading this latter gruesome story, then it's because you have ice water instead of hot human blood in your veins. These blood curdling stories (all true) pains to have to publish them because we hate to have children read them, but, for the good (we hope) of our fellow man, we are almost compelled to do so. The following, taken from the May "Crisis," which was recently held up by the postal authorities, doubtless because it contained this and like articles under the caption of "The Shubula (Mississippi) Lynchings, is so nauseating that after reading it you stop and wonder if the United States is safe for democracy, in what country is it unsafe. But here is the story: On Friday night, December 20, four Negroes—Andrew Clark, age 15; Major Clark, age 20; Maggie Howze, age 20; and Alma Howze, age 16, were taken from the little jail at Shubuta, Mississippi, and lynched on a bridge which spans the Chickasawha River near the town. They were suspected of having murdered a Dr. E. L. Johnston, whom the papers stated was "a wealthy retired dentist." These were the meagre facts as given in the press dispatches. The real facts in the case are as follows: Instead of being an old man, Dr. Johnson was thirty-five years of age, a failure at his profession and living at the time of the lynchings on his father's farm, where he had with him Maggie Howze whom he had seduced and who was about to bear him a child. On the same farm were Maggie's sister Alma, also a victim of Johnson, and two colored boys, Major and Andrew Clark, who were working out a debt of their father's to the Johnsons. Major Clark began going with Maggie and they planned to marry. Dr. Johnson, hearing of this, quarreled violently with Major Clark telling him to leave his woman alone. Matters were at this point when the doctor was killed early one morning near his barn. It is common gossip about Shubuta that the murder was committed by a white man who had his grudge against Johnson and who felt he could safely kill the dentist and have the blame fall on the Negro. At any rate, after subjecting the boy to extreme torture, a confession was secured from Major that he had committed the murder. At this preparations for the lynchings began. Major and Andrew Clark, Maggie and Alma Howze had all been arrested. After Major's "confession" they were taken to Shubuta for trial and placed in a little jail there. The mob secured the keys of the jail from the deputy sheriff in charge of the place without trouble, took out the prisoners, and drove them to the place chosen for their execution, a little covered bridge over the Chickasawha River. Four ropes were produced and four ends were tied to a girder on the under side of the bridge, while the other four ends were made into nooses and fastened securely around the necks of the four Negroes, who were standing on the bridge. Up to the last moment the Negroes protested their innocence and begged the mob not to lynch them. Just as they were about to be killed, Maggie Howze screamed and fought, crying out, "I ain't guilty of killing the doctor and you oughtn't to kill me." In order to silence her cries one of the members of the mob seized a monkey wrench and struck her in the mouth with it, knocking her teeth out. She was also hit across the head with the same instrument, cutting a long gash. The four Negroes, when the ropes had been securely fastened about their necks, were taken bodily by the mob and thrown over the side of the bridge. The younger girl and the two boys were killed instantly. Maggie Howze, however, who was a strong and vigorous young woman, twice caught her self on the side of the bridge, thus necessitating her being thrown over the bridge three times. The third time this was done, she died. In the town the next day, members of the mob told laughingly of how hard it had been to kill "that big black Jersey woman." The older girl of twenty was to have become a mother in four months, while the younger was to have given birth to a child in two weeks. This sixteen-year-old prospective mother was killed on Friday night and at the time of her burial on Sunday afternoon her unborn baby had not died one could detect its movements within her womb. A press despatch from Shubuta the day after the lynching took place reads as follows: "The theory is advanced that the lynchers acted because of the fact that the next term of the court was not due to be convened until next March. It is hinted that the idea of the county being forced to care for and feed four self-confessed assassins of a leading citizen might have aroused the passion of the mob." We add to this account of an American lynching in 1919 an extract from Ambassador Sharp's account of German lynchings in 1917: "At Ham I was told by the mother of six children that her husband and two daughters, one of the age of fifteen and the other eighteen, had been carried away by the Germans at the time of their evacuation of the town, and upon remonstrating she had been told that as an alternative she might find their bodies in the canal in the rear of her home. The same woman informed that out of that town's population several hundred people had been compelled to accompany the Germans, nearly half of whom were women and girls above fifteen years of age." DID YOU KNOW THAT A Labor paper declares that the dawn of a brigther day for Chattanooga working men, both white and colored, is forecast in the formation of a federated labor union among the colored men of the city. Membership in the new organization is composed of colored mechanics and helpers from the various boiler and molding shops and other industries. The new union enters the field with a large membership, and with the undivided support and good wishes of the organized white workers of Chattanooga. Organization of the colored workingmen in Chattanooga is in line with a movement throughout the country which has gained great impetus since the signing of the armistice. In almost every city of the country the colored man is being brought to realize the meaning of unionism, and white man and black man are standing shoulder to shoulder for the advancement of their common interests in the industrial field. Two Negro students from Boston, whose names are kept secret, were tarred and feathered by white students at the University of Maine in Orono, led through the streets of the college town with halters about their necks, and finally chased from town, according to a New York "World" special on the 1st. Both scholastic and State authorities are trying to keep the affair quiet. The Negroes had been expelled from the institution, after which eighty white students invaded their rooms. The two escaped down a rope ladder and ran to Old Town, several miles away, pursued by a yelling mob. When they were caught, halters were placed around their necks and they were led back to near the college campus, where the "tar and feathers" had been prepared. Bystanders made futile efforts to dissuade the white students. Municipal undertakings yielded the local authorities of England and Wales, in the year 1914-15, a surplus revenue (transferred DR. C. J. ALLEN, Dentist. Examination free. 211 Globe Bldg., 1st and Madison. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 6 p. m., Sundays by appointment. Residence 1830 24th Avenue. East 6419. DR. F. B. COOPER, Dentist. 362-3 Empire Bldg, 2nd and Madison. Special appointments for evenings and Sundays. Office hours 8:30 to 12 and 2 to 6. Main 6093. Residence. East 5056. CAYTON'S WEEKLY wants two columns of classified adds made up after this style and fashion. Rates very reasonable. Beacon 1910. STONE THE CATERER will serve your parties and banquets cheaper than you can do it yourself. Stone's ice cream leads. East 275. in aid of rates) of £1,485,759. Details, as given in a Blue Book just issued, are as follows: Electric light supply undertakings, £228,146; gas supply undertakings, £437,250; harbor, dock, pier, canal and quay undertakings, £11,550; tramways and light railway undertakings, £588,936; water supply undertakings, £219,877; total, £1,485,759. Other receipts from these services, not including receipts from public rates, were £40,692,674. To stimulate passenger traffic on the railroads of this country, government officials will spend this season $1,000,000 in advertising the scenic beauties of the different sections of this country. So successful was the municipal lighting plant of Chicope, Massachusetts for 1918 that the price of street lighting will be reduced to 4 cents per kilowatt hour. Japan has 2,700,000 acres of land for reclamation and the financiers, aided by the government officials, plan to raise $15,000,000 for the work. Denver, Colorado, has purchased the privately owned water plant of that city, paying for the same $13,922,836. The government will take out $2,500,000 hail insurance on the wheat sewn in Kansas and Oklahoma. The winter wheat crop of this country is estimated to be 900,000,000 bushels, the largest in many years. Within the past eighteen years the number of farm tenants in Kansas has increased 40 per cent. Portland, Me., has a municipal fuel yard that sells the best grades of coal at $10 per ton. Great Britain is to replant 200,000 acres forest land at a cost of $17,000,000 for ten years' maintenance. Rev. J. B. Barber made a splendid fight for the late Dr. Washington at the literary Sunday afternoon. PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. Puts the Best COAL on the Market Phone Main 5080 You Are Welcome To Spend Your Leisure Moments at the GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. 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FORENOON. John T. Gayton, Speaker. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. McCants, Solicitors. EVENING. I. I. Walker, Speaker. A. E. Lewis and Mrs. Drake, Solicitors. SUNDAY, JUNE 8. FORENOON. Mrs. Clara Bonner, Speaker. A. E. Lewis and Mrs. Drake, Solicitors. EVENING. Rev. D. A. Graham, Speaker. A. E. Lewis and Mrs. Drake, Solicitors. GRACE PRESBYERIAN, MAY 26. FORNEOON FORENOON. B. F. Tutt, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. EVENING. John T. Gayton, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. SUNDAY. JUNE 1. C. R. Anderson, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. EVENING. Dr. F. B. Cooper, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. Phone 2647 1034 Jackson GOLDEN WEST Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest SUNDAY, JUNE 8. FORENOON. Rev. E. A. Johnson, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. EVENING. Rev. J. B. Barber, Speaker. Mrs. Howard Brown, Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. James A. Coombs, Solicitors. THE COLORED MAN'S WIT. Here is another bunch of pleasing stories, which deal with the colored soldiers and like that other bunch published in this paper some weeks ago, some of them are so clever that they are admost witicisms. It gives me pleasure at this time to tell you what the black man had to say about his war experience: There was the story of the Negro troops coming across the Atlantic in a transport. A submarine was sighted. The six sharp blasts from the whistle shrilled out and the order was given to the colored troops to fall iln on the deck. The Negroes stood in line at attention, while the passengers gathered in the salon. Then the silence was broken by one big black man in the rear rank who asked, "Does anybody here want to buy a gold watch,?" Then there was the story of the Negro in the artillery regiment, whose job it was to feed the shells to the big gun. Each time he drove the shell into the breech and the gun boomed, he jumped high in the air and, with a characteristic crack of the fingers, shouted, "Count your men, Mr. Kaiser, count your men." Then as another shell was driven home and the gun fired, another jump, another shout of "Count 'em again, Mr. Kaiser, count 'em again." There is the story also of the Mississippi draft of cotton plantation Negroes, brought up from camp by rail to Newport News and loaded on board the transport after dark. Next morning, when the troops woke up, the ship was well out to sea and there was not a sign of land to be seen. One Negro soldier who had never seen or heard of the ocean, leaned against the rail and looked at the vast stretch of water. "Oh, Lawd," he ejaculated, "de levee is bust." A few days out when the boat began to toss and the waves became mountainous and menacing, a seasick Negro soldier looked up to the sky from where he lay on the wet deck, miserable and terrified, and groaned: "Oh, Lawd, please make that ocean come to attention." A Negro soldier in the trenches showed up with a new pair of shoes. "Where did you get dem shoes?" asked his mate. "I gotten dese shoes from a boche." Soon after this the first Negro disappeared. He was gone about four hours, but when he reappeared he, too, had a new pair of shoes. "I had to kill twenty of dem boches befo' I got a pair to fit," he answered. A captain said to his company of Negroes, "Now I want you fellows to learn this game thoroughly. Suppose our company is holding the line here and the boche makes a charge at us acros sthe field, what would you boys do?" "Well, captain," came from one member of the company, "we sho would spread the news over France." On one transport going over, one Negro trooper said to another, a very seasick boy, "Look out dere and see dat sail boat." "Don't you call me for no sail boat," came from the sick fellow lying with his head on his arms, "don't you call me at all unless you see a tree." PURELY PERSONAL James Weldom Johnson, field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with headquarters in New York City, will speak in the Y. M. C. A. hall Fourth and Madison, June 5. The doors will be open at eight o'clock p.m., and the admission will be 50 cents. First come, first served. Mr. I. I. Walker is going to return to his farm across Lake Washington, where he will try to raise hog and hominy, but in case he fails he will doubtless raise hell and hayseeds. Mr. W. L. Presto knows the constitution of the N. A. A. C. P. from A to Z, and being a gifted linguist he is a shelter in a mighty storm. Mrs. S. R. Cayton writes from Los Angeles that the eveinngs and mornings are cool and a little fire adds to one's comfort. S. P. DeBoe was out last Monday evening and had nothing to say. For heaven's sake let somebody bring Pete some talking water. Mr. Pessimist did not attend the Republican Club meeting last Sunday and for that reason the meeting was a huge success. Rev. D. A. Graham and the whole Graham family were for Douglas at last Sunday's literary meeting. President McCants and other members of the A. M. E. literary visited Tacoma last Tuesday evening. Mr. John F. Cragwell was in Tacoma last Thursday to consult with the "big 'uns over there." Dr. D. T. Cardwell will soon begin his Sunday outings, accompanied by his family. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Drake are getting the money in the N. A. A. C. P spring drive. Mrs. N. J. Asberry of Tacoma attended the N. A. A. C. P. dance the 15th. Mrs. J. A. Loup is visiting friends in Spokane. Mrs. J. N. Drake is again on the briny deep. RICHARDSON'S UNDERTAKING PARLORS Embalmer and Funeral Director 1216-18 Jackson Street Office, Beacon 103; Res., Main 5610 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. Robert W. Jeffery, Plaintiff, vs. Myrtle E. Jeffery. The State of Washington to the said Myrtle E. Jeffery, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days from and after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty (60) days after May 17, 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 attorneys for plaintiff at their office and post office address below designated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demands of the plaintiff's complaint, which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of said Court. The object of this action is to obtain a decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant on the grounds of abandonment. MORRIS & SHIPLEY, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: 55 Haller Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of first publication May 17, 1919. LOOK WHOSE COMING J. WELDON JOHNSON WILL LECTURE IN SEATTLE, AT THE Y. M. C. A. HALL, JUNE 5th, 1919, AT 8.30 p.m. ---