Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. 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 THE PASSING THRONG BRANDED SENATORIAL ASSES It is doubtless the first instance in the history of the United States, when a president thereof felt justified in publicly pronouncing U. S. Senators ignorant asses, because forsooth, the senators opposed measures he advocated. If any class of the citizenry of this country is posted on the public policies hereof it must be the United States senators, and if they are not, then they hinder instead of help the onward march, the great rank and file of our citizenry, think they are making. In view of the above facts it seems almost preposterous that President Woodrow Wilson would make the declaration that the senators, who oppose the Marseilles treaty, are ignorant of the facts. Out here we think Miles Pointdexter a very brainy man and are willing to rely upon his recommendations. We have no quarrel with Hyram Johnson, though he did make it possible for a man to be re-elected president of the United States on the pretext "he kept us out of war," and as president to gallavant about the country branding Johnson and other senators of a like mind on the peace treaty, ignorant asses. Johnson, we repeat, is alright in spite of all this and we are willing to trust his judgment on this peace pact proposition, but our veneration for a president of the United States of North America was badly shaken when we read, if not the vulgar declaration, the rather uncooth one. On leaving Washington City it was given out, "the president has his fighting clothes on," and since reading his speeches there is no doubt in our mind of the fact that he has. We have always willingly taken off our hat to Our President, and we will do so today, but, believe me, it goes "damn" badly against the grain. DISARM ALL NEGROES In the Washington City riot the first step taken by the authorities of the law to bring about normal conditions was to disarm the colored folks and to also deny them the freedom of the city, but the white folks were permitted to retain their arms, which enabled them to shoot such colored persons, as wandered from the restricted zone. In the Chicago riot the same method of peace restoration was resorted to, which gave the whites a most decided advantage over the coloreds. In the Knoxville riot the disarmament of the colored beligerents enabled the white intolerants to even up their losses in battle. If at either of the above riot centers the whites had have been disarmed at the same time as were the coloreds the riot would have been of short duration and the loss of life much less. No effort was made at either place to disarm the whites and if so the Associaed Press made no report of it at the time it told about the efforts put forth to disarm the colored disturbers. The only way to restore peace under such circumstances is to put the fear of the law SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1919 into the hearts of every disturber whether white or black. Despite the fact that this is a white man's country, if the white men so run it and that too at the expense of the colored men, it will soon be no man's country. BAD BRAND OF PATRIOTISM Millions of dollars have been squandered, if not actually stolen, by high government officials, who, owing to their alleged intense patriotism in times of war, gave their services to the country for one dollar per year, but who instead of being intensely patriotic were only seeking opportunities to get theirs while getting was good. Even at the time we had our suspicions of the honesty of the one dollar per year patriot and Cayton's Weekly so expressed itself when Schwab, on meeting Skinner, the Seattle ship builder for the first time in life, embraced him like he would have a long lost brother. The recent investigations of Congress as to the expenditure of government funds for war preparations has brought out the fact that as much or more money went into the pockets of home patriots in the shape of graft, greed and gain than went to the prosecution of the war. It is now developing that the men who preached patriotism the loudest did so for the express purpose of attracting public attention from their emisaries, who were stealing the government blind to subsequently divide the swag among the patriots. Of course none of them will be punished, for it will be a case of we patriots must hang together or we will hang separately. HE IS OUR GUEST President Woodrow Wilson is Seattle's guest today and is receiving a warm reception, no warmer reception, however, than have been given to former presidents of the United States, who have from time to time visited Seattle. Owing to the fact that he is president of all the United States our citizens will say nothing that will mar the pleasantness of the occasion and that too regardless of what he may say in support of his League of "Nations", which, by the way, is the most dangerous document that has ever been advocated for adoption by a citizen of this land of the free and home of the brave. In Seattle it is safe to say that ninety per cent of the voters who will line the streets, to almost suffocation to but get a glmipse of the president as he passes will vote to discredit the League of Nations as will be urged by our president in his public address in this city. The rank and file of the voters of Seattle are against the Shantung outrage and that alone overshadows in their minds any merit the treaty may contain. Our citizens have no desire to force Uncle Sam to police Europe and they do not give a tinker's damn whether Woodrow Wilson is made the peace treaty IT or at the end of his term made the chief executive of the land of Inocuous Desuetude. WHO IS TO BLAME? Labor's unrest is to say the least, bringing the business man of this country face to face with many peculiar, and in some instances, laughable, situations, which seen as a whole causes the man of affairs to ask himself, what of the future. Without, however philosophizing on the situation permit us to briefly relate to you some of the VOL. IV., NO. 13 experiences of the editor hereof with labor within the past ten days. The day after Labor Day we were informed that the printers were on a strike and Cayton's Weekly would not be published in its wonted quarters. Such shops as had accepted the demands of the printers would not accept it because it came from a rat shop unless a six months contract was entered into. "Well," said the editor. "I have some building to do and while the printers and the master printers are settling their troubles I will get my winter quarters ready, but not so, for the carpenters are on a strike, and nothing doing." Last Monday the master printers decided to open shop, but the linotypes were unable to be operated because the gas workers were on a strike. And thus are those who do busniess always between the devil and the deep blue sea. It's hell if you do and hell if you don't. If law is law and if lawyers know law then lawyers must interpret law to accommodate the situation from the view point that pays them for their interpretation. A cornfield philosopher once asked, "Why is a lawyer like a sick man?" And after the answer had been given up, he himself replied, "Because he lies on both sides." The information charging Clay Allen with crime seemed absolutely convincing, and no escape from conviction seemed possible, but the instructions of the trial judge to the jury were in absolute variance with the information and the twelve men good and true must have had to decide in their minds, first of all, whether the information or the instructions was the law. Evidently it leaned to the instructions instead of the information and therefore promptly acquitted the accused. Te be perfectly plain somebody made the law wilfully lie. The public at large never believed Judge Allen guilty of the crime, for which he stood indicted and after hearing the evidence it fully coincided with the instructions of the presiding judge. It's the old, old story, "who diggeth a ditch for his neighbor will himself fall therein." Hiding behind the anti-tidal wave of the high cost of living, President Wilson is swinging around the circles and while doing so attempting to feel the public pulse as to his standing among the people of this country. The people is a unit against the uncalled for high cost of living and President Wilson has known this al the time, but it seemed to give him little or no concern until his Marseilles peace pact met such bitter opposition all over the country, when he immediately became an anti-trust advocate. Had our President have had the people's best interest at heart he would have nipped the high cost of living in the bud in its incipiency, but to have done so would have cost him the active support of the trusts and that was an entirely too valuable political asset, from his view point for him to lose. In advance of his coming his journalistic boosters are giving it out that the reception President Wilson is given on his detour of the country will indicate the feelings of the voters on the peace pact, but not in a thousand, the president of the United States will always draw a crowd when he visits among them. Thousands of persons will flock to see the President and SEPT. IS LAW ALWAYS LAW? H. C. L. CAMOUFLAGE PE Ta OB Sg cay ee Mig MMA Cot 76 tte Wisin hE irre Me Se eee eee Te ee eee MAS Sh tae SEAS YN ede 7 uN en ae even shake his hand when in their hearts they say to hell with his policies. President Wilson will receive a warm welcome in Se- attle because he is president and by no means because he put over the Shantung outrage and the less he has to say about it when here the more generous will be his reception. BUT KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY FROM “THE PUBLIC” GETTING THE DIRT With the exception of one forty foot lot this entire block is owned by colored folks,’’ said Newton Coleman, better known as **Blend’’ ‘‘and I am certainly proud of be- ing one of the number.’’ And as we look- ed over’ his almost palatial home we felt that he had just cause for feeling proud. The city block referred to is the eighteenth block on Twenty-fourth avenue and barring some millionaire’s row a more handsome block is not to be found in the whole of the city of Seattle. This is the only in- COLORED LITERATURE, anes! Sstn eriodicals. -brow Toi ‘les, | a Bens cer we nate bas aah EA cae DR. C. J Dentist. Examination free, DR. J, ALLEN, 2 (alts gia at dave bs appointment, Hesidence “isa0cedth ave CAYTON’S WEEKLY fi? ccsinea ans made up after thtis style and fashion. Rates ae Real Estate, ance, Collect- P. FRAZIER ions, “S16 Pacitie Block, Seattle J. W. EDMUNDS, OPH. D., gai%'e 22; Eve Specialist. “Personal attention Eieetiniuesler Se ee ereeucsen Gn 7 fans in Seattle stance of a colored community in Seattle and it does not extend very far. One year ago, it is safe to say, two-thirds of the property owners of this particular block were white folks, but one: by one have they been nosed out until only one remains. Speaking about the colored folks getting control of this block reminds us that within the past year the colored folks of Seattle have more than quadrupled their realty holdings and they have not let up buying as yet. as yet. WE TOLD YoU 80 Prior to leaving Washington City, Cay- ton’s Weekly warned President Wilson, ‘‘if you make a tour of this country and at- tempt to defend your peace pact you will be flayed alive by your political opponents.”’ In his Indianapolis speech he threw down the gauntlet and he had no sooner done so than Senator Johnson of California, Sena- tor Borah of Idaho, and others accepted the challenge and began to trail him. Johnson and Borah spoke in Chicago last Tuesday night and it took a police riot call to hold the people back from jaming the auditor- ium to absolute suffocation and the crowd howled for Wilson’s political scalp by im- peachment while Johnson shot the peace pact into smithereens. Johnson’s appear- ance in Indianapolis was no less demonstra- tive than in Chicago and if by this time President Wilson is not willing to quit the senators are preparing to hand it to him so thick and fast that but a political grease spot of him, who kept us out of war, will be left. BORROWED TIME CLUB Seattle’s Borrowed Time Club is to be congratulated for interesting itself in the uplift work among the colored citizens of this country to the extent of inviting the Rev. D. A. Graham and the editor hereof to speak before the club on The Abuses of the Negro in the United States. The Rev. Graham made a most practical talk and among other things said, ‘‘I am glad that the members of this club have seen fit to try to acquaint themselves as to the facts about the condition of the Negro. Unless the white and black folk get better ac- quainted with each other there will always be more or less trouble and friction be- tween them. Despite the fact the southern white man claims to know and understand the Negro better than the northern white man, yet even the southern white man knows little or nothing about him and makes no effort to learn, only when he sets out to lynch him.’’? Mr. Cayton also spoke on the subject. IF YOU WERE A WOMAN ae, ar ee ere ee: If you were a woman and about to be- come a voter, and if you believed: 1—In Free Trade, not only between the States of the United States of America, but between the countries of the world; 2—In a method of taxation which would take for the benefit of the community com- munity-created values; 3—In no discrimination in courts of law against citizens because of race or color or creed; 4—That it is a violation of constitutional rights and of our most cherished traditions as a nation to send men and women to prison for opinion’s sake, either in time of war or in time of peace; 5—That it is wicked to permit specula- tion on stock exchanges in the necessities of life; 6—That coercive trades-unions are a di- rect result of oppressive organizations of capital, and that both are wrong in prin- ciple; 7—That the class-war doctrine preached by Socialists is morally wrong, and that State Socialism may be as subversive of liberty as is autocracy ; 8—That ‘self-determination’’ should ap- ply equally to Ireland and Russia as to Japan or France, to Great Britain or the United States; 9—If you believed that the claim of the National Administration that the League of Nations is a step toward permanent world peace is absolutely incompatible with the proposed program of the Democratic Sec- retary of War for the institution of the system of universal military training and conscription in this country ;— If you were a woman and about to be- come a voter, and believed all these things, which political party would you join? PERSONAL Rev. and Mrs. W. D. ‘Carter have gone East and wil be absent a month. Newton Johns has returned and reports a most enjoyable time. Among other points East he visited was Washington City, where he met Senator Jones and Representative Miller. In Germantown, Pa., he was given a royal stay by Mr. and Mrs. McGowan and at Piqua, Ohio, by Mr. George Bowles. Cayton‘s Weekly failed last week to meet you and each of you on account of the printer’s strike and it is with you under most trying circumstances this week. Equal rights, so far as the colored folks of this country are concerned, bear no rela- tionship to social equality, so far as the white folks are concerned. Political and equal rights are or should be the heritage of every citizen of this country while social rights are the concern of man and man. The political question of the hour is, Did Hyram Johnson of California defeat Charles Evans Hughes for the presidency with an eye single to his own candidacy? If he did, and it certainly looks that way, then why not the Republican party administer to him a dose of his own medicine. The various branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the various branches of the Equal Rights League should insist that the institutions come together and be one, the loggerheading of Monroe Trotter and Du Bois to the contrary nothwithstandine. 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 The Grand Opening of the Is Announced, with BOB DISHMORE, Proprietor, M. C. HARRIS, Manager Every Accommodation 1212 Main Street Seattle 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 --- ```markdown ``` even shake his hand when in their hearts they say to hell with his policies. President Wilson will receive a warm welcome in Seattle because he is president and by no means because he put over the Shantung outrage and the less he has to say about it when here the more generous will be his reception. BUT KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY However lamentable the race riots of this country may be, they are demonstrating the fact that the colored man is no longer folding his arms and depending upon "the salvation of the Lord to save him from the mobs", but has come to the conclusion that his alternative is to fight back even though death be his portion. He long ago found out that it's death for him, if he does not fight back, and now he knows it's death if he does fight back, but in fighting back he dies with the satisfaction of knowing he is not going to cross the dark river all by his lonely. The mob did not lynch the colored man it made arrangements to lynch at Knoxville, Tennessee last Saturday night and it did not do so because it met an anti-lynching mob, if you please, at the jail, which gave the lynching mob a warm reception. More colored men are dead as a result of the fighting back than there would have been had they permitted the jailed man to have been lynched, but equally as many white men are likewise dead and the lynchophobia has been administered a severe remedy that will have a more or less soothing effect on its future ebilutions. FROM "THE PUBLIC" "Lest anybody should doubt the fitness of Texas to 'clean up' Mexico, and teach the 'greasers' how to observe law and order. County Judge Dave Pickle, and Constable Charles Hamby of Austin, Texas, aided by some other law-abiding citizens, gave a conclusive demonstration by beating up John R. Shillady, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as he emerged from a public hall in that city. Having thus expressed their devotion to law and order, these Texas heroes put Mr. Shillady on a train, and warned him not to leave it till it got out of the State. We trust that President Carranza will be properly impressed by this demonstration, and will instill in the minds of his judges such a love of order and justice that if anybody in Mexico says anything against the ancient and honorable custom of lynching they will vindicate the law as Judge Pickle did when he pummeled Mr. Shillady with his bare fists. It might be said by way of extenuation that the Judge said he had acted in his capacity as a gentleman, and not as a member of the bench. We trust that Mr. Shillady will note the distinction."—The Public. GETTING THE DIRT With the exception of one forty foot lot this entire block is owned by colored folks," said Newton Coleman, better known as "Blend""and I am certainly proud of being one of the number." And as we looked over his almost palatial home we felt that he had just cause for feeling proud. The city block referred to is the eighteenth block on Twenty-fourth avenue and barring some millionaire's row a more handsome block is not to be found in the whole of the city of Seattle. This is the only in- COLORED LITERATURE Books, Magazines, Eastern Periodicals. High-brow Toilet Articles. First Class Tonsorial Articles at Tutt's Shop, 300 Main Street. 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. J. W. EDMUNDS, OPH. D., Graduate Op- Eye Specialist. Personal attention given in Eye examinations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. stance of a colored community in Seattle and it does not extend very far. One year ago, it is safe to say, two-thirds of the property owners of this particular block were white folks, but one by one have they been nosed out until only one remains. Speaking about the colored folks getting control of this block reminds us that within the past year the colored folks of Seattle have more than quadrupled their realty holdings and they have not let up buying as yet. WE TOLD YOU SO Prior to leaving Washington City, Cayton's Weekly warned President Wilson, "if you make a tour of this country and attempt to defend your peace pact you will be flayed alive by your political opponents." In his Indianapolis speech he threw down the gauntlet and he had no sooner done so than Senator Johnson of California, Senator Borah of Idaho, and others accepted the challenge and began to trail him. Johnson and Borah spoke in Chicago last Tuesday night and it took a police riot call to hold the people back from jaming the auditorium to absolute suffocation and the crowd howled for Wilson's political scalp by impeachment while Johnson shot the peace pact into smithereens. Johnson's appearance in Indianapolis was no less demonstrative than in Chicago and if by this time President Wilson is not willing to quit the senators are preparing to hand it to him so thick and fast that but a political grease spot of him, who kept us out of war, will be left. BORROWED TIME CLUB Seattle's Borrowed Time Club is to be congratulated for interesting itself in the uplift work among the colored citizens of this country to the extent of inviting the Rev. D. A. Graham and the editor hereof to speak before the club on The Abuses of the Negro in the United States. The Rev. Graham made a most practical talk and among other things said, "I am glad that the members of this club have seen fit to try to acquaint themselves as to the facts about the condition of the Negro. Unless the white and black folk get better acquainted with each other there will always be more or less trouble and friction between them. Despite the fact the southern white man claims to know and understand the Negro better than the northern white man, yet even the southern white man knows little or nothing about him and makes no effort to learn, only when he sets out to lynch him." Mr. Cayton also spoke on the subject. IF YOU WERE A WOMAN By Elizabeth J. Hauser If you were a woman and about to become a voter, and if you believed: 1-In Free Trade, not only between the States of the United States of America, but between the countries of the world; 2-In a method of taxation which would take for the benefit of the community community-created values; 3-In no discrimination in courts of law against citizens because of race or color or creed: 4-That it is a violation of constitutional rights and of our most cherished traditions as a nation to send men and women to prison for opinion's sake, either in time of war or in time of peace; 5-That it is wicked to permit speculation on stock exchanges in the necessities of life; 6-That coercive trades-unions are a direct result of oppressive organizations of capital, and that both are wrong in principle; 7-That the class-war doctrine preached by Socialists is morally wrong, and that State Socialism may be as subversive of liberty as is autocracy; 8-That 'self-determination" should apply equally to Ireland and Russia as to Japan or France, to Great Britain or the United States; 9-If you believed that the claim of the National Administration that the League of Nations is a step toward permanent world peace is absolutely incompatible with the proposed program of the Democratic Secretary of War for the institution of the system of universal military training and conscription in this country;— If you were a woman and about to become a voter, and believed all these things, which political party would you join? PERSONAL Rev. and Mrs. W. D. Carter have gone East and wil be absent a month. Newton Johns has returned and reports a most enjoyable time. Among other points East he visited was Washington City, where he met Senator Jones and Representative Miller. In Germantown, Pa., he was given a royal stay by Mr. and Mrs. McGowan and at Piqua, Ohio, by Mr. George Bowles. Cayton's Weekly failed last week to meet you and each of you on account of the printer's strike and it is with you under most trying circumstances this week. Equal rights, so far as the colored folks of this country are concerned, bear no relationship to social equality, so far as the white folks are concerned. Political and equal rights are or should be the heritage of every citizen of this country while social rights are the concern of man and man. The political question of the hour is, Did Hyram Johnson of California defeat Charles Evans Hughes for the presidency with an eye single to his own candidacy? If he did, and it certainly looks that way, then why not the Republican party administer to him a dose of his own medicine. The various branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the various branches of the Equal Rights League should insist that the institutions come together and be one, the loggerheading of Monroe Trotter and Du Bois to the contrary notwithstanding 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 The Grand Opening of the ATLAS POOL HALL Is Announced, with BOB DISHMORE, Proprietor, M. C. HARRIS, Manager Every Accommodation 1212 Main Street Seattle 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 NOT OF POCAHONTAS BLOOD "Not only unfaithful to your marriage vows have you been, but that infidelity was in the form of consorting with a niggah, thus adding insult to injury," almost pitiably did Gerald Mightyrich upbraid his young wife, who stood before him holding in her arms her first born, so swarthy in complexion as to almost make her doubt herself. While a great tear stole down her cheek she suddenly pulled herself together and in an almost defiant tone exclaimed, "Absolutely innocent." Then again she softened and as her great wistful, loving eyes met his steady gaze she finally said, "Trust me, Gerald, trust me. I am innocent." For a minute his mind waivered but being of high southern blood the thoughts of a niggah baby in his house soon overcame any compassion that might have momentarily lurked about his heart, and without a word of reply he abruptly turned from her. And then a great gloom like the blue imps of night seemed to envelop the two of them, and in her desperation the young woman prayed aloud, "Oh God for a ray of light." In a two-room cottage in the piny-woods of Mississippi a kindly disposed white man, hailing from another section of the state, met a more or less refined colored woman, who had imbibed her feminine foibles from acting as maid to three young white girls, to whose parents she belonged. She too, many years prior, had lived in the same section from whence came this pleasant faced white man, and as the two gazed upon each other their enthusiasm almost overcame their wonted modesty and a joyous handshaking and an old time recounting of days gone by was the result. Many changes had taken place between the time she had quit "de ol plantantion my home and my relations" and when she sat talking to Mr. Reed, direct from the old home scenes. The slaves after the emancipation had scattered and they had only been incidentally heard of. Even Maryellen and her two girls had gone and only rumors as to their actual whereabouts had reached the old home. Everybody knew that the father of Maryellen's two girls was Major Thompson, for whom Maryellen had kept house, and he having never married, gave Maryellen and her two girls as much of his consideration as the customs of the country would permit him to do. That's a handsome Indian half-breed lady, who has purchased the Brown estate, commented the gossips of a fashionable Boston suburb, and her two young danghters are perfect beauties. Little was known of the actual nativity of this family, but it had plenty of money and the girls dressed in the height of fashion. It however was making haste slowly in getting acquainted with society. The private seminary to which the girls applied as day pupils received them with open arms and few girls had more personal friends than did the Thompson girls. Their father often spent the summer in Boston and seemed devoted to his family. Mrs. Thompson made no effort to join high society, but held her own when thrown in with it. She was quite dark for an Indian half-breed, but since she claimed to be of Poachontas blood there was no doubt as to her racial identity. "Dat Henry Jones, who com to see his pepul las week, hasjes been all over dis country, an he knows evy body. He is a potah on a train an maks lots er money," related Aunt Hester, who had lived on this particular plantation belonging to Major Thompson, for sixty odd years. "Lisen honney, dat boy says he saw Majah Thompson on de train in de Nof wid a ooman dat lookedjes lak Mayellen, but de Majah did not pay any tention to him." Rumor had it that Major Thompson had CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, FULLY PAID, $700,000.00 Assets. 4 MILLIONS sent his concubinage wife and her two children North, where he had subsequently married Maryellen and his long stays from the plantation were to be with his family. The major was a hot number among the whites of his section and however strong the rumor might have been none of them had the courage to confront him with it. He eventually sold his belongings and went somewhere else to live. Hastily getting his traps together after the stormy interview with his wife Gerald Mightyrich took passage to Europe and from plae to plae he went, hoping thereby to completely forget the past. A year had elapsed and he had seen much, and being a man of high mental qualifiations, he was much wiser than when he had quit his home in dear old New York. Apparently he had no desire to return to his native land lest he meet or hear of the woman that had deeived him and to an extent wrecked his life. "And yet," he said to himself, "I never saw one thing in my wife's deportment that would lead me to mistrust her. Perhaps, after all, I have done her an injustie, and, if I have not, I should at least, know the facts, and, perhaps, then murder the black brute that consorted with her. I am going home." Nothing transpired in the Thompson family different from that of other families. The young ladies graduated with high honors and their parents were present and as proud of their children as all parents are when they succeed. One after the other married to good advantage and each reared large and interesting families, who grew to manhood as well as womanhood and they too married and the grand children of Major and Mrs. Thompson were proud of their ancestry. Mrs. Mightyrich, junior, did not commit suicide as she frequently thought she would do to end her troubles, but took a new lease on life and determined to know the cause of the complexion of her baby, which she seemed to love doubly dear. A detective was hired to trace the lineage of her own family and one to trace that of her husband. The detective, looking up the pedigree of her husband, had found that his grandmother claimed to be an Indian and a direct descendant of Pocahontas but for months he was baffled as to her exact place of birth. A chance business relation that was a matter of record in Boston indicated that Major Thompson was from Mississippi, and from that time the plot was rapidly unfolded. His visit to Mississippi confirmed his suspicions and the whole story was told. "I am delighted to see you Gerald, and in spite of our parting I still love you. I felt that you would some day realize your mistake and at least come back to assist me in solving our family mystery. Your mother has told me all, of which you knew nothing. Instead of your grandmother being an Indian woman she was a colored woman and our child bred back, which, the scientists tell me, periodically happens." And after the happy couple had wept in each others arms and were thoroughly reconciled they turned to their baby and he said, "and we two have an Indian in our family,' whom we both will love even as much as I love my dear old Indian grandmother." WOMEN'S CLUB NOTES The Hayward Unit, a colored women's motor crops, branch of the National League for Women's Service in New York City, is doing a great deal of work among the returned soldiers. Especial attention has been given to the sick and wounded men. At their headquarters they have rest rooms for reading and writing, piano, player-piano and Victrola, which are at the disposal of the men. They also have placed at the disposal of these men the three ambulances, two busses and a dozen motor cars which are owned by the members of the company. The upkeep of the motors and the other expenses are met by contributions and donations of the members of the corps and the public. Mrs. Mary B. Talbert is in France with the Y. M. C. A., doing special work among the colored soldiers who are engaged in cemetery work. She is with a group of other colored women who will be sent to Verdun and Chateau Thierry. The Tennessee Federation of Colored Women's Clubs met in Nashville, Tenn., in July. Addresses on various phases of the work were delivered by Mrs. J. A. McMillan, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, Dr. Mattie Coleman, Hon. I. T. Montgomery of Mound Bayou, Miss., and a number of others. Thirty-five clubs were represented and made excellent reports on the work done in education, charity and reforms various kinds. The offcers elected were: Mrs. F. P. Cooper, Memphis, President; Mrs. F. E. Dawson, Nashville, Vice-President; Mrs. A. T. Johnson, Oakland, Secretary. The Woman's League, Incorporated, of Hartford, Conn., an organization composed of enterprising colored women of that town, recently purchased a club house. It will be equipped with everything necessary for carrying on charitable and uplift work in their community. CAYTON'S WEEKLY Regular, Reliable, Republican, Readable Wants 500 New Subscribers This is a Sample of what it sends out Every Week No Friends to Reward or Enemies to Punish A Publication of Ideas Rather Than Personalities Read for Yourself and Be Convinced Telephone Beacon 1910 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 You Are Welcome GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. --- --- AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK & TRUST COMPANY American Bank Building, 2nd at Madison CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, FULLY PAID, $700,000.00 Assets, 4 MILLIONS 4% Compounded semi-annually, Paid on Savings Our Safe Deposit Vaults are the Largest and Safest in the Northwest. Private Vaults rented at $4.00 per Anum NOT OF POCAHONTAS BLOOD "Not only unfaithful to your marriage vows have you been, but that infidelity was in the form of consorting with a niggah, thus adding insult to injury," almost pitiably did Gerald Mightyrich upbraid his young wife, who stood before him holding in her arms her first born, so swarthy in complexion as to almost make her doubt herself. While a great tear stole down her cheek she suddenly pulled herself together and in an almost defiant tone exclaimed, "Absolutely innocent." Then again she softened and as her great wistful, loving eyes met his steady gaze she finally said, "Trust me, Gerald, trust me. I am innocent." For a minute his mind waivered but being of high southern blood the thoughts of a niggah baby in his house soon overcame any compassion that might have momentarily lurked about his heart, and without a word of reply he abruptly turned from her. And then a great gloom like the blue imps of night seemed to envelop the two of them, and in her desperation the young woman prayed aloud, "Oh God for a ray of light." In a two-room cottage in the piny-woods of Mississippi a kindly disposed white man, hailing from another section of the state, met a more or less refined colored woman, who had imbibed her feminine foibles from acting as maid to three young white girls, to whose parents she belonged. She too, many years prior, had lived in the same section from whence came this pleasant faced white man, and as the two gazed upon each other their enthusiasm almost overcame their wonted modesty and a joyous handshaking and an old time recounting of days gone by was the result. Many changes had taken place between the time she had quit "de ol plantantion my home and my relations" and when she sat talking to Mr. Reed, direct from the old home scenes. The slaves after the emancipation had scattered and they had only been incidentally heard of. Even Maryellen and her two girls had gone and only rumors as to their actual whereabouts had reached the old home. Everybody knew that the father of Maryellen's two girls was Major Thompson, for whom Maryellen had kept house, and he having never married, gave Maryellen and her two girls as much of his consideration as the customs of the country would permit him to do. That's a handsome Indian half-breed lady, who has purchased the Brown estate, commented the gossips of a fashionable Boston suburb, and her two young danghters are perfect beauties. Little was known of the actual nativity of this family, but it had plenty of money and the girls dressed in the height of fashion. It however was making haste slowly in getting acquainted with society. The private seminary to which the girls applied as day pupils received them with open arms and few girls had more personal friends than did the Thompson girls. Their father often spent the summer in Boston and seemed devoted to his family. Mrs. Thompson made no effort to join high society, but held her own when thrown in with it. She was quite dark for an Indian half-breed, but since she claimed to be of Pocahontas blood there was no doubt as to her racial identity. "Dat Henry Jones, who com to see his pepul las week, hasjes been all over dis country, an he knows evy body. He is a potah on a train an maks lots er money," related Aunt Hester, who had lived on this particular plantation belonging to Major Thompson, for sixty odd years. "Lisen honney, dat boy says he saw Majah Thompson on de train in de Nof wid a ooman dat lookedjes lak Mayellen, but de Majah did not pay any tention to him." Rumor had it that Major Thompson had sent his concubinage wife and her two children North, where he had subsequently married Maryellen and his long stays from the plantation were to be with his family. The major was a hot number among the whites of his section and however strong the rumor might have been none of them had the courage to confront him with it. He eventually sold his belongings and went somewhere else to live. Hastily getting his traps together after the stormy interview with his wife Gerald Mightyrich took passage to Europe and from plae to plae he went, hoping thereby to completely forget the past. A year had elapsed and he had seen much, and being a man of high mental qualifiations, he was much wiser than when he had quit his home in dear old New York. Apparently he had no desire to return to his native land lest he meet or hear of the woman that had deceived him and to an extent wrecked his life. "And yet," he said to himself, "I never saw one thing in my wife's deportment that would lead me to mistrust her. Perhaps, after all, I have done her an injustie, and, if I have not, I should at least, know the facts, and, perhaps, then murder the black brute that consorted with her. I am going home." Nothing transpired in the Thompson family different from that of other families. The young ladies graduated with high honors and their parents were present and as proud of their children as all parents are when they succeed. One after the other married to good advantage and each reared large and interesting families, who grew to manhood as well as womanhood and they too married and the grand children of Major and Mrs. Thompson were proud of their ancestry. Mrs. Mightyrich, junior, did not commit suicide as she frequently thought she would do to end her troubles, but took a new lease on life and determined to know the cause of the complexion of her baby, which she seemed to love doubly dear. A detective was hired to trace the lineage of her own family and one to trace that of her husband. The detective, looking up the pedigree of her husband, had found that his grandmother claimed to be an Indian and a direct descendant of Pocahontas but for months he was baffled as to her exact place of birth. A chance business relation that was a matter of record in Boston indicated that Major Thompson was from Mississippi, and from that time the plot was rapidly unfolded. His visit to Mississippi confirmed his suspicions and the whole story was told. "I am delighted to see you Gerald, and in spite of our parting I still love you. I felt that you would some day realize your mistake and at least come back to assist me in solving our family mystery. Your mother has told me all, of which you knew nothing. Instead of your grandmother being an Indian woman she was a colored woman and our child bred back, which, the scientists tell me, periodically happens." And after the happy couple had wept in each others arms and were thoroughly reconciled they turned to their baby and he said, "and we two have an Indian in our family,' whom we both will love even as much as I love my dear old Indian grandmother." WOMEN'S CLUB NOTES The Hayward Unit, a colored women's motor crops, branch of the National League for Women's Service in New York City, is doing a great deal of work among the returned soldiers. Especial attention has been given to the sick and wounded men. At their headquarters they have rest rooms for reading and writing, piano, player-piano and Victrola, which are at the disposal of the men. They also have placed at the disposal of these men the three ambulances, two busses and a dozen motor cars which are owned by the members of the company. The upkeep of the motors and the other expenses are met by contributions and donations of the members of the corps and the public. Mrs. Mary B. Talbert is in France with the Y. M. C. A., doing special work among the colored soldiers who are engaged in cemetery work. She is with a group of other colored women who will be sent to Verdun and Chateau Thierry. The Tennessee Federation of Colored Women's Clubs met in Nashville, Tenn., in July. Addresses on various phases of the work were delivered by Mrs. J. A. McMillan, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, Dr. Mattie Coleman, Hon. I. T. Montgomery of Mound Bayou, Miss., and a number of others. Thirty-five clubs were represented and made excellent reports on the work done in education, charity and reforms of various kinds. The oflcers elected were: Mrs. F. P. Cooper, Memphis, President; Mrs. F. E. Dawson, Nashville, Vice-President; Mrs. A. T. Johnson, Oakland, Secretary. The Woman's League, Incorporated, of Hartford, Conn., an organization composed of enterprising colored women of that town, recently purchased a club house. It will be equipped with everything necessary for carrying on charitable and uplift work in their community. CAYTON'S WEEKLY Regular, Reliable, Republican, Readable Wants 500 New Subscribers This is a Sample of what it sends out Every Week No Friends to Reward or Enemies to Punish A Publication of Ideas Rather Than Personalities Read for Yourself and Be Convinced Telephone Beacon 1910 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 You Are Welcome GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. --- --- ```markdown ``` STOLEN FROM THIEVES Hotel Proprietor—"I trust that we shall make you feel quite at home." Henry Peck—"Please don't try it, sir, I am away for a good time." As woman loves by fit and start, She'll smile and then she'll weep it; Don't think because you've won her heart, My boy, that you can't keep it. He—"I can never forgive you. Last night you said I was a lobster." She—"But yoo know, darling, that I just dearly love lobsters." With a glad cry he folded her to his breast. Thinwun—"There have been some swell doings in that house across the way lately." Fatun—"Is that so? What kind?" Thinwun—"All nine of the kids over there have had the mumps." Carney—"I have just been reading the Constitution of the United States." Barney Well?" Carney—"I was awfully surprised to find out how many rights a fellow really had." Mrs. Savit—"Annie, I think we will have some chicken croquettes today. Make them cut of the leftover pork we had for supper last night." Annie—"Yes'm. An' we got a little bread dressin' what we had wid de pork, ma'am. Shall I make some fruit salad out'n it?" Father—"Gee you saved me a lot of money when you were born." Son—"How, pa?" Father—"By not being twins." Bridegroom—(just before the ceremony)—"I need a bracer, but I don't want to overdo it. How much of this stuff ought I to drink old pal?" Best Man—"Well if it was me, I'd keep on a takin' 'em utnil I didn't care whether I was married or not?" Shabby Young Man (to the great philanthropist)—"Can you help me sir? I was captured in infancy by the Indians and reared in ignorance of civilization." Philanthropist—"Can't you find any work to do?" Shabby Young Man—"No sir. I don't know how to lie, cheat, steal, boast, bluff or toady, and I'm starving to death, cause no one will hire me." Tramp—"Some men have no sympathy for anyone. I've been a-tellin' that feller over there that I am so dead broke that I have to sleep out of doors all the time." Hobo—"Did he give you anything?" Tramp—"Naw. He tol' me that he was a-doin' the same thing, an' had to pay the doctor for tellin' him so." Parson—"Cheer up, sister; your husband is now in heaven." Widow (sobbing)—"Yes, and so is his first wife, whom he fairly idolized." Mother—"Johnny, how did you hurt your hand? Have you been fighting again?" Johnny—"No'm. Willie Jones called me a liar, Mother, and then he hit me on the fist with his teeth." Lady—"Sonny, can you tell me where Mrs. Jones lives?" Small Boy—"Yes'm. Just go down this street to the next corner, turn to the right, and stop at the first house where you see a bull dog. If the dog bites you Mrs. Jones lives there." A doctor who is the father of three little girls, had delivered a baby boy at the home of one of his pateints a few days before, and on making his calls a few days after had taken one of the little girls with him in the machine. Stopping at the home of TACOMA REAL ESTATE TACOMA REAL ESTATE 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 unimproved, 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., (13th and Pacific Avenue) Tacoma, Wash. the new arrival he said to Dorothy: "They have a nice baby boy in here and I don't believe they want him; shall I ask if I can take him home to mother?" "No," answered the little girl, "I think mother would rather have a brand new one that's never been used." Two Irishmen were working on a building. One of them had climbed the ladder to the seventh floor and leaving the ladder had crawled some distance away from it with a hod of morter. His friend Pat came along and took the ladder away, then thinking it best to aprise him of the fact, returned and called: "Hey, Mike, don't come down on that ladder on the north corner. I took it away." A little girl's mother bought her a bright red coat. A day or two later, there being a death in the family, the mother dressed her and decided that it would be more appropriate to wear the old black coat at the funeral. The child noticed the change and began to cry, "Oh, Mother," she said, "if I can't wear my new red coat I sure won't have a good time at the funeral." Colonel Roosevelt was invited to a banquet at a certain hotel. The cloak room was presided over by an old colored man who did not use hat checks, but depended entirely upon his memory. After the dinner, Colonel Roosevelt went for his hat, which was given to him. "Are you sure that this is my hat?" The colored man promptly replied: "I ain't sure that it's your hat, but it is the hat you gave me, sir." Casey—"Finnegan got his loif insured last June an' he's dead so quick?" Cassidy—“Sure an’ he must hav had a pull wid de insurance company.” Grace came home from a neighbor’s house munching a chocolate and her mother said reprovingly: “Now, Grace, how many times have I told you not to ask Mrs. Grey for chocolates?” “I didn’t ask her for them. I did just as you told me to do,” replied Grace. “I know where she keeps them.” IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. Mrs. J. Campion, Plaintiff, vs. Emma E. Ware, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the real property hereinafter described, Defendants.—No. 137331. Notice and Summons. The State of Washington: To the above named defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the real property hereinafter described, are hereby notified that Mrs. J. Campion is the holder of 1 certain delinquent tax certificate herein below more particularly referred to, issued by the Treasurer of King County, Washington, for delinquent taxes upon and against real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Hillman's Meadow Garden No. 3; lot 1, block 28; Emma E. Ware, owner; certificate No. C-15552; date Dec. 11, 1918; amount $1.93; year 1915. That the taxes upon said real property for prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plaintiff as follows, to-wit: **Hillman's Meadow Garden No. 3** Lot 1, block 28; receipt No. 90995; taxes for 1916; amount $1.00; rate of interest 12%; amount of interest $0.18; date paid Dec. 20, 1918; total payment $1.18. Lot 1, block 28; receipt No. 90995; taxes for 1917; amount of taxes $1.16; rate of interest 12%; amount of interest $0.07; date paid Dec. 20, 1919; total payment $1.23. Lot 1, block 28; receipt No. 90995; taxes for 1916; amount of taxes $1.28; rate of interest 12%; amount of interest $0.07; date paid Dec. 20, 1918; total payment $1.30. That the several sums hereinabove set forth bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent per annum from date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. And you and each of you. (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after August 23, 1919, exclusive of said date, and defend this action and serve a copy of your appearance or answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiff at the office address below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. And you are notified that in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered, foreclosing the lien of such taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against the same as hereinabove set forth. MRS. J. CAMPION, Plaintiff. FRED C. BROWN & C. C. DALTON, Attorneys for Plaintiff, Office and Post Office Address 431 County-City Bldg., Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of First Publication August 23, 1919. Date of Last Publication Sept. 27, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Mrs. Emma C. Williamson, Plaintiff, vs. J. B. Hanrahan, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the real property hereinafter described, Defendants.—No. 137234. Notice and Summons. The State of Washington: To the above named defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the real property hereinafter described, are hereby notified that Mrs. Emma D. Williamson is the holder of 2 certain delinquent tax certificates herein below more particularly referred to, issued by the Treasurer of King County, Washington, for delinquent taxes upon and against real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit; Hillman's Pacific City Add. Div. No. 6; lot 27, block 113; J. B. Hanrahan, owner; Certificate No. B769811; date June 1, 1912; amount $0.95; year 1910. Davis, date June 1, 1912; amount $0.95; year 1910 Hillman's Pacific City Add. Div. No. 6; lot 27, block 113; J. B. Hanrahan, owner; certificate No. B76982; date June 1, 1912; amount $0.95; year 1910 Office and Post Office address: 431 County-City Bldg., Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of first publication August 23, 1919. Date of last publication September 27, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Laura M. Proctor, Deceased.—No. 25710. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as administratrix of the estate of Laura M. Proctor, deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Lucy Scott Whitley or her attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the Clerk of said Court together with proof of such service within six months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication August 9, 1919. Attorney for Estate. 701-703 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash.