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 THE PASSING THRONG RACE RIOTS CONTINUE Let no one feel unduly alarmed over the more or less bloody race riots in Washington City and Chicago of recent date for they and others that will periodically follow, there and other places, are but the fore-runners of the adjustment of long standing differences between man and man—white and colored. All such riots, as bad as they are, will produce a better understanding between the whites and coloreds and in the future there will be less class intolerance on both sides. In the recent riots the result was far different than at East St. Louis and that, too, will have a most salutary effect on that class of white citizens who in the past precipitated such riots to "teach the niggers their places." Nor do we think there is any danger of a war of extermination of the colored citizens of this country, though the same may be advocated by such white citizens as those who begun the Washington City and Chicago race riots, for the peaceful law abiding white citizens are ten to one to them and will not permit such bloody barbarity; and, again, these self same peaceful white citizens are not averse to the colored men protecting themselves. When colored men learn to fight back and fight to kill it will put the fear of God into the hearts of white men who form mobs to shoot colored men down just to see them fall. At no place and time in the history of this country has the colored man fought back as he recently did in Washington City and Chicago, and it is here predicted that, in future, race riots between whites and blacks in the United States will be less frequent. Of course, the colored man in this country as a whole is no match for the white man as a whole, but the colored man, neither as a whole or as a part, has no desire to cross swords with the whites. He wants peace and happiness to reign and will put up with most any kind of insult in order that they may do so. Seventy-five per cent. of the white men of the United States favor a like state of affairs and will see to it that peace does reign, even though they have to take the bull by the horns and punish the 25 per cent. of whites that want chaos and confusion to reign in order to keep the "niggers down." To be sure, this fighting back on the part of the colored folks is an entirely new phase of the alleged race problem in the United States, but it is one that should have been, and yea, verily, has been expected for all these years of lynching and burning at the stake. That it will spread goes without saying unless the law abiding white citizens put the kibosh on both sides. Some of these days a reign of terror is going to prevail in some of the communi- SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919 ties of the South where such atrocities as have been recently published are perpetrated on the colored folks. Desperation knows no fear, nor stops at no retribution. The colored man in the South is almost desperate. He outnumbers the whites and has less to lose in a general conflict and unless there is a let up on him he will become desperate and then, believe me, hell will pop. So long as he can be kept in subjection most anything can be done to him, but, like the beast, when driven to a corner he will turn on his pursuers with a madness that the blue imps of hell will have no terrors that will deter him. But, as said above, there will be no war of extermination of the blacks in this country, because the Christian whites will not stand for it. Unfortunately, however, thus far they have hoped against hope that they would not have to interfere, but the situation is daily growing more acute, and it is here suggested that they do not procrastinate in this matter until they will have to repeat the bloody days of 1861 and 1865 inclusive. Two hundred thousand black soldiers in France drank deep at the fountain of world-wide democracy and as fast as they return its effects are imparted to those who did not go, and the refrain has been taken up by black folks from the Lakes to the Gulf and the Atlantic to the Pacific, and they are going to insist on something of a square deal. And, as in Chicago, so will it be in other places. They will demand democracy or death, and in this they are going to be backed by the Godfearing white men who believe in what they wrote in our immortal Constitution: "All men are born equal and with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness." An allwise Creator seems to have set apart this country as a home for the free and the brave and none others can long remain herein. This country is beginning to reap the rewards of seven years of theoretical Woodrow Wilson and most damnable and tyrannical southern Democratic demagogry into the everlasting haunts of innocuous desuetude, anarchy, no less pronounced than that that now runs riot throughout Russia will be her portion. It was for the perpetuation of this dangerous political dogma that took our president to Europe and there sold his country for a mess of prospective peace and is also bringing him West to try to further spread the revolting propaganda. THE WORLD NEED FOR RELIGION "The world need for religion keeps pace with the growth in population." says the Religious Digest. "Each added individual life is an added need for religion, exactly as in a family each new life adds to the demand for food—and for charitableness. How great, how real, how practical is this need for religion, you can determine approximately by multiplying your own sense of that need by 800,000,000. Religion has to do with man's relation to his Creator—his one and only owner "Society judges a religion by its expression in the believer's conduct toward his fellowmen; not by the expression, be it ever so devout, in his conduct (form of worship) toward God. "Do you judge religion by that standard? Is it the right standard by which to judge VOL. IV.. No. 8 religion? If not, by what standard would you judge a religion? Jesus Christ said: 'By their fruits ye shall know them.' What did he mean by 'fruits'? "In the world today there are little children compelled to toil like strong men for their own and their parents' support; denied home life, school and play. "There are vast businesses built upon the ammufacture and sale of commodities that depreciate human efficiency, debase morals, multiply crime and misery. "While countless millions of human lives are daily dragging out a horrid existence of poverty, hopelessness, despair, other millions are lavishly spending their money solely for their personal pleasures, ever demanding newer and costlier and emptier forms of amusement. "With notable exceptions, business the world over is a six-day get-ahead-of-others race. The greediest keep going through the seventh day. "In a crowded street car today three tired women stood while a dozen men sat in comfort. A fourth woman, evidently on her way to the theatre with her sturdy grandchild, also stood. An aged man surrendered his seat to her, which she took without a word of thanks. Presently the seat next to her was vacated, and with greedy haste this woman dragged the child into it, while the aged man still stood. Which in that earful of human beings had 'religion'?" SAW IT IN THE TIMES? DAMN LIE There are ways of agitating and then there are ways of agitating, but of all the ways of agitating that pursued by the editor of the Seattle Daily Times takes the cake, using the vulgar vernacular of the street. It has not been so very many years ago when the Times had a new Japanese man of war clandestinely poking its nose into every port along the Pacific Coast every evening, but the readers of the vulgar publication paid no attention to what it said, for they had long since learned—Saw it in The Times? Damn lie. It did that to gain prestige with the anti-Japanese agitators. But, presto, change. Almost in a night the Times lost all of its vitrolie billingsgate against the Japanese and it went to the other extreme. Whether Japanese gold was responsible for that sudden change of heart was the secret of the editor thereof, but the citizens had their suspicions. But the Times had to have an under dog to pick at and being Japanese converted it selected the colored man as its next national menace, and it has surely held his feet to the fire. That you, dear reader, may get some idea of the cussedness of the editor of the Times so far as the colored man is concerned, read the following editorial from its last Monday's issue, under the caption of "New Issue in America": "With Ambassador Ishii urging Japan to continue demanding 'racial equality,' with Negroes in New York proposing to use 'all methods, even force' to 'stop the white man from treading on our toes' and with serious race riots occurring at Washington and Chicago, the indications are that the United States may be brought face to face with a problem which, under certain circumstances, may become extremely annoying. --- ```markdown ``` "That there is any direct connection between the Japanese 'racial equality' campaign and the clashes in American cities is so improbable it may be dismissed without further consideration. No evidence has been unearthed tending to prove the existence in this country of Nipponese propaganda to excite unrest. "By making the question an international issue, however, Nippon has dignified it to an extent and the clashes in the United States may be an indirect result of the situation thus created. "The 2,000 Negroes who clamorously approved 'radicalism' on the part of members of the race as a 'means of obtaining their rights,' in the course of a meeting held yesterday at New York, were tinkering with edged tools. They could not have appreciated the gravity of their utterances or the danger of the policy they noisily approved. "The Chicago race riots, following on after those in Washington, probably will not be permitted to pursue the same course. The capital policy were slow to act and the demonstrations became uncontrollable before they adopted drastic steps to preserve public order. "With this spectacle before them, the authorities in the Middle Western metropolis may be expected to act energetically in order to prevent future clashes. "Thus far, the South has been immune from disturbances of this kind. It is sincerely to be hoped that the conditions which obtained for several days in Washington and which kept the Chicago police busy Sunday will not be duplicated in the states and cities where the mass of America's Negro population is domiciled." Because the colored man defended himself in a life and death struggle, the Times subtly implies it may have been at the behest of the Japanese, but then, doubtless remembering its monetary obligation to the Japanese, it qualifies the remark and apologizes. It then condemns an audience of 2.000 colored persons who demand justice for the colored citizens and brands it as "radicalism." The Times shows its antipathy for justice being given the colored man by hoping the conditions that prevailed in Washington would not extend to the South, where the colored man is in the majority. In heaven's name why does the Times, or any Christian citizens, want to protect the South in its barbaric treatment of the colored man? It is unfortunate, if such scenes had to be, that they did not occur in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where a few days ago thousands of white men and women dug a hole in the ground and buried a colored man, all but his head and then, after tantalizing a vicious bulldog to a frenzied state, put him in the iron cage that covered the head of the doomed man and then danced with delight while the maddened brute tore the man's tongue and eyes out and likewise scalped him. It's too bad, it is repeated, that the streets of Vicksburg were not flooded with human gore and her buildings consumed with flames. Oh, horrors of horrors, such a city should have been sunk by a frowning God and a second Dead Sea occupy its place. Papers of wide circulation, who in every race clash, seek to throw all the blame on the colored man are but sowing to the winds that the country may reap a whirlwind. 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. CAYTON'S WEEKLY wants two columns of classified adds made up after this style and fashion. Rates very reasonable. Beacon 1910. P. FRAZIER Real Estate, Insurance, Collections. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle Main 4554. I. W. EDMUNDS, OPH. D., Graduate Op- Eye Specialist. Personal attention given in Eye examinations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS With money to burn the Seattle school board is rapidly moving in the direction of an all consuming fire. Not to be outdone by his brother Max, comes now Norman Wardall and wants old lady King County to adopt him. Now that Colonel Roosevelt has decided to trail President Wilson, knowing ones are of the opinion that Ted the Second has an eye isngle to Woody's job. According to posters, Cle Elum is to have her usual annual August 4th barbecue, and, Oh, Boy! the time they will have. You may not always see things in newspapers that are to your liking, but persons differ and editors are either men or women. Men in Tacoma may not have taken the necessary interest in the stockingless girl, but if she comes to Seattle, believe me, she will have to go some to prevent the men from displaying a touching interest in her. May, perhaps, Irving S. Cobb "is a good reporter," which he himself openly admits he is, but he left out a very essential part in that brief remark—for nothing—which would make it read, "a. good for nothing reporter." In turning over Shantung to Japan, Uncle Sam lost the respect of Japan and the freindship of China and gained the reputation of being a straddier among the Europeans. That's diplomatic strategy to read about. Unless the unexpected happens it's a foregone conclusion that the late grand jury indictments will be quashed, not, perhaps, because any law has been violated, but, "jest 'cause." That heat that delayed the president's "swing around the circles," it occurs to us, emanated more in the senate than in Old Sol. As did Peter deny Christ, so let Seattle deny that baseball aggregation down in California claiming her as its parent. It's simply a liar and the truth is not in it, as Seattle has no such good for nothing "onry chilluns" as that. Though the "immortal" William Jennings Bryan made Woodrow Wilson president of the United States, yet in his lectures he is painfully silent about his creation, which leads us to think he has had reasons to change his mind as to the usefulness of his work. According to the Associated Press reports, the colored folks got all the worst of the rioting in Chicago, but it did admit that more whites than coloreds got killed. Oh, well, the A. P. was just born that way. With the Union Record damning capital and the Business Chronicle damning labor, there is a most beautiful chance to adjust the differences between the two. Two extremes never give a mean. Who knows but that Chicago's unexpected street car strike is a blessing in disguise so far as the race riot in concerned? The curious are forced to remain home nights. For some reason President Wilson suddenly changed his mind and forwarded the Franco-American treaty to the senate. It begins to look very much like that the Republicans have His Excellency on the "beat it" at a J. I. C. gait. Not being able to brow beat any of the Republican senators into supporting his private peace pact, President Wilson will leave Washington City August 10th to convert the dear people to his way of thinking, and what a hell of a time he will have in doing so. One hundred half colored and French babies were reported in one town in France where colored soldiers had been for nearly two years camped. It's an ill wind that bloweth no one good. There is one thing certain, Professor Pickens is an amoosing little cuss, his streaks of seriousness to the contrary notwithstanding. Race riots is a familiar headline in the United States this summer. Evidently the colored man is still fighting to make the world safe for democracy. We suspect that that fellow in Yakima now realizes that Ole Hanson is just as full of fight as he is of hot air. "Is Democracy a Failure" is a headline. Not in a thousand years, but those who manufacture democracy, in some instances at least, are most miserable failures. From the signs of the times, Mr. Black Man has said to the Lord to whom he has been praying for help: "Now, Mr. Lord, if you won't help me do not help the other fellow and you will see one hell of a fight." Without inquiring into the legality of the appointment of E. B. French by Governor Hart, we trust the Legion will succeed in knocking his appointment into a cocked hat. French is a political stiff that won't stay put. The fight films of the Willard-Dempsey fight are worthless as they cannot be taken to other states and the Ohio authorities declare the fight too worthless to be shown. Good bye, old Willard, good bye. If Japanese are able to buy apartment houses and groceries and the white owners of them are willing to sell to the Japanese, who delegated the power to an inconsequential little snoty nose whipple of the Miller Freeman type to interfere. The white men who sold the groceries have almost as much intelligence as has Freeman, and they would not have to have very much to have a hundred times more than has he. Miller Freeman seems about as badly alarmed about Japan dominancy over the white man as he has always been about the colored man. The fact of the matter is, Miller is not all there, which is largely responsible for his spasmodic outbreaks. WHERE TO EAT 1207 Jackson Street At the Diamond you will find every- thing as you like it. Chaffen Dishes Our Specialty. So long as you eat, so long will you live. If, therefore, you want to live long, come to the Diamond to eat. Boxes for ladies. WE NEVER SLEEP GEORGE SIMMONDS, Proprietor William McHinton, Manager 1207 Jackson Street SANDERS & COMPANY LOANS NEGOTIATED 1003-1004 L. C. Smith Building Office Hours From 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Seattle, Wash. Elliott 4662 Phone East 179 Calls Made Promptly Day or Night PENN UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS H. Alfred Lewis, Funeral Director 1215 East Marion St., Seattle RICHARDSON'S UNDERTAKING PARLORS Embalmer and Funeral Director 1216-18 Jackson Street Office, Beacon 103; Res., Main 5610 POLITICAL POT PIE "I am against Miles Poindexter for president," said a prominent Seattle Republican, "and that, too, if I am the only person in the state that is against him." That's a political blunder, Mr. Prominent Republican, and should you ever come up for an office again that stand will cost you some votes. Climb into the band wagon and make it unanimous for Senator Poindexter and you will lose nothing by it in the long run, even if he should not be nominated. The concensus of opinion is the voters of Washington are as ignorant now as to where Senator Jones stands on the treaty as they were prior to making his speech before the Young Men's Republican Club. The more those who heard the speech think about it, the less pleased they are with it. No one save those who favor the treaty seem to approve of the speech. The Democrats have already begun to bestir themselves to give President Wilson a pleasant reception, so far as they are concerned, when he visits Seattle, but it is more than possible that if he attempts to defend his actions at the peace pact in a speech he will get a heckling that will make his blood run cold. When President Wilson takes the stump to dfeend himself he will lay aside his presidential dignity and will be forced to give and take like any other person on trial. The ghost of the Lamping bill in the late legislature has appeared before Governor Hart and has demanded that its murderer (Kuykendall) be beheaded, but Governor Hart is from Missouri and replied, not in a thousand. Much was promised for the ghost of the Lamping bill to accomplish in the coming campaign and it has already begun to do the work even before its sponsors had fully cleared the field in which it is to frighten the office seekers into political submission. Governor Hart has started with a vengeance to put up his political fences in the way of his gubernatorial appointments. will be howling "Hart" twenty-four hours In six months time, so goes the political story, the governor will have Republicanized the entire state official roster, all of whom every day on state time and on state pay. It was thought some time ago that Clark Savage would not oppose Hart, but at this writing Savage is not sure. Should Claude C. Ramsay run for mayor and be elected, as he would be, it has been decided by the court house ring that Commissioners Lew Smith and Tom Dobson will elect Norman Wardall county commissioner in lieu of Ramsay and one of the faithful in Wardall's office at present will be elected county auditor, all of which would mean that the dear people would have no more chance than a jack rabbit in front of a pack of greyhounds on a smooth prairie to save their white aunty. Now, if Jack Stringer is able to name his successor to the sheriff's office he will have another four years in the office, and then his machine will be strong enough to elect him for another four years, and by that time he will have been in the office something like twenty years, and if by that time he is not able to retire and live off of the interest of his money then there must have been a hole in his money pocket all the time he was sheriff. Rumor has it that C. W. Claussen will have to go some to again succeed himself as state auditor. It seems that he has locked horns with every legislature for the past eight years and the break between the leaders of the last legislature and himself was so serious that an overwhelming majority of them agreed to oppose his reelection. It will be remembered that he ran behind his ticket at an alarming rate the last election. "Say for us," said a bunch of representatives and senators, "that Cap. Howell will not have a walk-over for secretary of state. He is not our kind of a Republican and if he is not defeated for another nomination it will be no fault of ours." Both Howell and Claussen have been fought before, but not so determinedly as they will be this time. Insurance Commission Fishback will also have bitter opposition. THEY TURNED WHITE Once in my early manhood I was invited by my college chum to spend one of the summer months at his home in Natchez, Mississippi, which invitation I readily accepted in view of the fact that he had impressed me as coming from one of the leading families of that rather antiquated city, long acknowledged by both the white and black folks thereabouts as the social hub. In the course of human events I showed up at the depot in Natchez, where I was met by my chum, who took me to his more or less palatial home in his family vehicle, in which I was made very, very welcome. I had been in the home but a short while before I was introduced to his four beautiful sisters, of whom I had previously heard but little. While being introduced, if I did not show a bit of embarrassment it was because I was able to control my feelings, for, had not my chum himself done the introducing, I would have suspected that I was in the right church but the wrong pew, and that I had been inveigled into the home of some prominent white family for an excuse to call a necktie party, and I would be the center of attraction. There, however, later on was a party and I fear I was the center of attraction, as will be subsequently related, though no violence was attempted. The four young ladies proved to be just as entertaining as they were fair to look upon and soon they had me feeling awfully glad to be there, and I soon saw in my mind's eye that my chum's sisters would get a great deal more of my time and attention than would my chum, at least until we returned to school in September. "You are just in time to attend one of our most select social functions," joyously exclaimed the youngest one of the quartet, "and knowing you would be here we have had an invitation sent to our address for you, and it gives me pleasure to present the same to you," to which the other sisters acquiesced. That evening with a sister of my chum on either arm I walked into the assembly room, and I thought myself the unqualified lion of the occasion. While my chum and his sisters were presenting me to some of their more immediate associates, a voice clear and distinct sarcastically exclaimed, "Well, L wonder what the nigger wants here? Surely I was at a party and that, too, the very center of attraction. Though in complexion I was between a mulatto and a quadroon, yet I was the darkest person in that room, and there was no doubt as for whom the insult was intended, but neither my chum, his sisters nor myself made any reply, or either by look or action showed the slightest emotion, nor was the matter ever subsequently referred to. I fully realized that I was in a strictly blue veined colored society, where darker persons were not wanted and such societies, be it remembered, were more or less common in the South, owing to the concubinage of white men and colored women—master and slave—and there was nothing to do but to make the best of the ugly situation, which I endeavored to do. As time rolled on many of those white colored folks realized that they were entirely too white to be black and, by designation, too black to be white, at least in and about their native heaths and so they began to scatter and seek other places to cast their lots, where they could throw off their color handicaps. The north, east and west soon contained many blue veined colored persons from Natchez, Mississippi, some of whom I have periodically met or read of in the newspapers. From Natchez many of the young men went to Washington City prior to the civil service law taking effect and under the Republican rule secured splendid positions, which they retained under civil service. Even in Washington City they had little or no trouble in turning white and I am told many of those I knew well and with whom I mingled socially in Mississippi, on going to the national capital married "marble fronts" and would now know me no more. As I now remember, among those to whom I was introduced on that rather eventful blueveined party evening, so far as I was concerned were Douglas and Wallace McCary, two magnificent specimens of the genus homo, not quite so fair in complexion as the most of those present, but with shapely features and raven black hair that gave them much the appearance of Spaniards, though they had an Irish or a Scotch name. Unlike some of the others they possessed a congeniality that made the stranger within their gates want to get up against them. Subsequent to that social gathering, I met those young men on the college campus of my Alma Mater and while they were not sport lovers to the extent of being mixers, yet they had with them a spirit of congeniality that made of them good fellows. But parting day finally came, as it does to all schools of learning, when chums, classmates and acquaintances go their respective ways, the most of them to never meet again. Periodically I saw the name of Douglas McCary in print, and for a minute bygone days came to my mind. Thirty odd years thereafter a military attache applied to me for an apartment for himself and family in the Caytonian Court in Seattle, and in reply to "Name, please?" came "Wallace McCary." It was some days thereafter, while talking with him about the Twenty-fifth Infantry, which was then stationed at Fort Lawton, that I realized a familiarity in his features that made me stare him in the face and say, "I had a college friend of the same name as yours." A smile spread over his face and he replied, "And I am that friend." He and his family soon moved to the fort, where Wallace soon thereafter took suddenly ill one day and died the same day. His family went to California. From Wallace I learned that Douglas was in Omaha, but of him I knew nothing. Like most of the young men of the blue vein colored society of Natehez, both of the McCary boys became political proteges of John R. Lynch, the only colored congressman from Mississippi, and for some years Doug's name often appeared in public print in connection with that of Mr. Lynch, but as already said, after leaving Washington City and going to Omaha he dropped out of sight and so continued until the following excerpt was flashed over the wides some days ago: "Omaha, Neb., July 18.—Douglas McCarry, the father of Mrs. Clara Dwyer, was the star witness in District Judge Troup's The Grand Opening of the ATLAS POOL HALL Is Announced, with BOB DISHMORE, Proprietor, M. C. HARRIS, Manager Every Accommodation 1212 Main Street Seattle To Spend Your Leisure Moments at the GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. Courteous Treatment BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. py = darned Ae einige? 1 a ri Ihe ri : ans S.A ma. Re, Po} ar hae en Geek ayaa ce et eae ome ae anes ue, Sa er PE apis Me aaa to have their marriage annulled on the ground that ‘‘Negro blood flows in her veins.”’ The trial is in its second week. Judge Troup said after the arguments from both sides had been heard that he would render his decision the latter part of this week, The courtroom was crowded during the few days the trial has been heard, and Mr. McCarry, a man of very swarthy com- plexion, the front half of his head bald and the back half covered with straight gray hair, was the center of attraction. He denied that there is any ‘‘eolored blood?’ in his veins, and testified to his ancestry as follows: “Father, a politician in Mississippi, post- master of the city of Natchez for four years and sheriff of the county for ten years and a slave holder, Mother, a white woman, living now in Washington, D. C., 1523 Columbia street. Mother’s mother, a school- mavam in Massachusetts, who went south to teach school. Father’s father, a red- headed Trishman.’’ Opposed to this testi- mony rgearding his being white, are the following admissions of Mr. MeCarry : “Tle was cashier of the Capital and Savings bank, Washington, D. C., an insti- tution operated and owned by “colored people.’ Tle stated that he didn’t remem- ber whether he had registered his name as white’? or ‘‘colored’’ in applying for a civil service position. Assistant Postmaster Wood (white) testified that MeCarry had worked at the postoffice for several years, but on objection by MeCarry he was not allowed to testify regarding the color under which he had registered there. At- torney Yeiser asked MeCarry whether he would consent to have his photograph taken to be put in the record of the case when it goes to the supreme court. MeCarry would not consent.’? Whether the parents of the MeCary boys were actually white, but for a purpose played colored, deponent knoweth not, but he does know they played the colored man game bang up. Tt was not unusual for colored men to own slaves in and about Natchez, T have no eriticism of Mr. MeCary and his family for turning white, even though they had a strain of colored hlood in them, but it does seem to me that in going into court to establish his anti- Negro blood he was put on the defensive with the odds very much against him. In turning white however, Mr, MeCary did no more than did scores of others of his social cireles and such may be found from Natchez to Seattle, with the most of them doing it. The first seenes of this story oceurred in IS86 and about twenty years thereafter I was in Chieago and by chance got ac- quainted with a former Natchez young lady. It seems that her mother was at the party in which T was the black sheep, and she had related the incident to her children, who.thy the way, had never tumed white. Of course T was anxious to learn of what had become of my chum’s. sisters, and especially the baby one, for it was no fault of mine that she did not become my wife. She quickly told me about three of them and their brothers and then slowly said, “Maggie is in Chicago, but.’ and again she hesitated, when T suspected the rest, she too had turned white. T could not resist the temptation to call upon her when her husband was out to at least bid her a for- ever farewell, and the brief parting was more pathetic than T had bargained for. I have not written this story for sinister motives, but to give to the publie some idea of how general is the mixture of white and colored bloods even in the far West. where the colored is so limited that the slight mix- teamia -aavAee lak stak Ice 22282 ee 2 a? aS City of Unexcelled Opportunities. Manufacturing City of Northwest. R.R. Centre, where rails and sails meet I am offering nice cleared leevl lots ready to build on for $25 and up per lot on easy payment plan. City houses and lots, farms, improved and unim- proved, cheap and on easy terms. Five nice cleared lots ready to build on for only $150 for the bunch on terms of #25 cash, balance monthly, H. P. LAWHORN, 403 National Bank of Tacoma Bldg., (18th and Pacifie Avenue) Tacoma, Wash. God works in mysterious ways His won- ders to perform and He seems to have adopted the Douglas MeCary way to work out His color scheme in the United States. The amalgamation of races in the United States will he the ultimate outcome of this human juggling that has been going on since 1620, when that Dutch trading vessel landed twenty black persons on the shores of this country and sold them as slaves. I am of the further opinion that Mrs, McCary was a white woman and also of the opinion that Mr. MeCary, Senior, was one-quarter Negro, and T base my conclusions on the fact that his boon companions were John R. Lynch and other prominent colored men of Natchez and vicinity of like color as him- self and on the further fact that his sons in their childhood and youth and even in their early manhood days associated with colored girls and boys and colored men and women exclusively, all of which has come out in the divorce proceedings. PURELY PERSONAL John T. Gayton is now subbing at the postoffice. The Northwest Coast Baptist Association will convene in Everett next Wednesday, August 5th, 1919. Henry Gregg, who has resided in Seattle for the past thirty years, has moved his household effects to Yakima, where he plans to live another thirty years. Clarence Jones of Kennydale, who is well known in Seattle, is completing a sixroom cottage on his ten-acre tract and making other improvements on the acreage. Bob Ryan is nursing a broken arm as a result of trying to tame his brother Will’s bucking Ford. Bob says ‘‘it ean’t be did.” Mrs. Cayton writes from Santa Moniea that at the beach she has met Mrs. Norris and her granddaughter, Mr. and Mrs. Shel- ton, formerly of Seattle, now of Phoenix, Arizona, and Miss Oma Neal, who is now married and has two children. Rey, D. A. Graham will take for his text next Sunday evening, ‘‘Race Riots, Their READ BOOKS OF NEGRO AUTHORS History of the World’s War by Prof. Kelly Miller 21... 0... cece eee cce eo GQ25 Race Adjustment, by Prof. Kelly Miller... 2.00 Progress and Achievements, by Prof. Melly, BOM CE eee ete eens) LOS Out of the House of Bondage, by Prof. Keoly) Beller os. ccccccscceesccsscccess 1:60 Zife and Works of Paul Laurence Dun- bar, by Lida Keck Wiggins ........... 2.00 Booker T. 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George Simmonds, who has an up-to-date restaurant, an advertisement of which may be seen in another column hereof, says there is always somebody home. I have for sale a six-room house near Thirteenth and Denny Way for $4,250. The house is in Al condition and possession can be had any day. There is a well built garage on the property.—I1. R. Cayton, 303 22nd Ave. So. Beacon 1910. Rev. W. D. Carter reports the collection of #2.000 last Sunday at his church to be turned into the building fund, which the membership of the church hopes to have completed in the very rear future. In Kennydale lives Sam A. Franklin, a bachelor and in his fifties, who owns twenty acres of land with nice home con- veniences. About his home there are enough fruit and berries to supply a dozen persons and yet Mr. Franklin lives there all alone. Ile is one of the electricians at Newcastle and gets a handsome salary. After visiting with him last Sunday it was plain to be seen that he was sorely in need of a good better half, though he does not think so, and:so it is suggested that a hen party be ar- ranged for him by the marriageable widows. Mrs. M. II. Thompson announces that Roseoe Conklin Simmonds will appear in one of Seattle’s leading auditoriums Octo- ber 15th, 1919. Tle will be here under the auspices of Company K. In other places Mr. Simmonds has spoken to record break- ing houses. At this time Mrs. Thompson wishes to thank all who so liberally res- ponded to the calls of Company K_ for funds for the new church and to especially thank Mrs. Jennie Vrooman for her liberality. IN |THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Dominico Lipari, De- ceased.—No, 25287. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and ‘has qualified as Administrator of the estate of Dominico Lipari, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said_ deceased are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Administrator or his attorney of record at'the address below stated, and file the same with the Clerk of said Court, together with proof of such service within six months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication July 12, 1919. NICHOLAS MONTERUSS, Administrator of said Estate. Address 1617 Lane St., Seattle, Wash. JOHN J. KINNANE, Attorney for Estate. 1927 L. C. Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash. July 12; Aug. 2, 1919. IN| THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. John J. Shirley, Plaintiff, vs. Frank T. Rawlings and Jane Doe Rawlings, his wife (whose true Christian name is unknown); Jesse W. Rawlings and Mabel F. Rawlings, his wife, and Emma T. Rawlings, De- fendants.—No. ——. Summons for Publication. The State of Washington to Frank 'T, Rawlings and Jane Doe Rawlings, his wife (whose true Christian name is unknown), Jesse W. Rawlings and Mabel F. Rawlings, his wife, and Emma T. Rawlings: You and each of you are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, sixty days after the 21st day of June, 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 the plaintiff at his office below specified in Se- attle, King County, Washington, said King County being the place designated by the plaintiff as the place of trial of said action, 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 fore- close a certain mortgage executed by the defend- ants Jesse W. Rawlings and Mabel F. Rawlings, his wife, bearing date the 16th day of December, 1908, and filed for record in the office of the Auditor of King County, State of Washington, December 23, 1908, in Volume 424 of Mortgages, page 315 of the Records of King County, Washington, whereby there was mortgaged to the said Emma 'T. Rawlings the following described real estate situate in King County, State of Washington, to-wit: The North twenty and six one-hundredths (20.06) feet of Lot two (2) and the South nineteen and ninety-four one-hundredths (19.94) feet of lot one (1) in block one (1) Leschi Heights Addition to the city of Seattle, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances there- unto belonging or in any way appertaining. That said mortgage and notes were duly assigned, transferred and set over for a valuable considera- tion by the said Emma T. Rawlings to said John J. Shirley, the plaintiff herein. That said assignment of mortgage was dated the 23rd day of September, 1918, and duly recorded in the office of the Auditor of ‘King County, State of Washington, no the 28th day of January, 1919, in Volume 760 of Mortgages, page 406, of the Records of, King County, Washington, The object of said action is to exclude defend- ants herein and each of them from any lien or in- terest in said property and otherwise as will more fully appear from said complaint. JOHN J. KINNANE, ‘ Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: 1927 L. C. Smith Building, Seattle, Washington.