Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, March 13, 1920 --- 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 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South THE PASSING THRONG At the funeral of Thomas E. Wilson, I was much impressed with what the officiating clergyman had to say about him while alive and in the performance of his daily duties, among which was the words of the manager of the concern, which, for the past nine years had employed Mr. Wilson as night watchman and shipping clerk, "A more trustworthy and reliable man could nowhere be found. We turned over our entire plant after closing hour to the care and custody of Mr. Wilson and felt absolutely satisfied that the whole would be watched over with as much care and consideration as if we ourselves were there. It just seems to me his place cannot be refilled," and in verification of this splendid tribute some thirty or more of the white employees were present at the funeral and, in this connection, it might also be added, Mr. Wilson was the only colored employee out of a hundred or more, and held one of, if not the most, responsible positions in the concern. What a tribute to the memory of a man, who made no pretense at being what is commonly called, "A big man." In other words, day in and day out for nine long years, he went about his duty with no desire to attract any attention or to impress anyone that he was IT, but he realized he had a duty to perform and did so with no show or ostentation. All he had to say was "I do my duty." No man ever lived bequeathed a greater legacy to those left behind. Rev. W. D. Carter, pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of this city, informs me that the first stroke toward the erection of the new church for his congregation has been made, the preliminary steps of moving the building now on the lot to the rear. This building will be converted into a club house for boys, with a few sleeping rooms in connection. The present church property has been sold and the new owners will be in possession about April 1st. The drive for funds to complete the proposed $35,000 edifice has already begun. * * * I have been a resident of Seattle since 1890 and during all that time I have used the street cars, on which to travel from one section of the city to another, that is, to be more accurate, when I had the nickel with which to pay for the ride, and last Monday evening I was in my first street car accident, and I was surprised at myself remaining perfectly quiet while men and women were trying to get out of the car any old way, just so they got out, and I am of the opinion as many got hurt trying to keep from getting hurt in the accident as were hurt in the accident. I was neither hurt or frightened and saw no sense in joining the mad scramble, even though I might have thought the car would have run away down the hill. Keep cool in the time of trouble and in 99 times out of 100 you will fare better. I sat for ten or more minutes holding an injured man who seemed to be in great misery. The ambulance finally came and as he was being taken out of the car he opened his eyes and said, "don't forget my package of sugar," and the big policeman smiled as the man and the sugar were tucked away into the ambulance. The most of the day my home telephone was kept busy by persons inquiring if I were seriously injured and, to cap the climax, a claim agent visited my home, requesting me to state to what extent in dollars and cents I was injured, which was the straw that broke the camel's back and I said to him, "beat it." THE HOUSE OF JACOB Where is the chief seat of lawlessness in this land? The South. Where is the highest murder rate in the land and the fewest convictions? In the South. Where is education at its lowest ebb, school terms shortest, teachers, wages lowest, school children fewest? In the South. Where is the percentage of child labor highest and the "age of consent" lowest? In the South. Who has defied the Constitution of the United States, the statutes of their own states, and the decalogue? The South. Who has disfranchised its citizens by wholesale, and for fifty years lynched, burned and tortured them? The South. Who holds forty-two "rotten borough" seats in Congress, stolen from black men, and uses them to defeat the will of the voters of the land? The South. Who elects the President of the United States, in defiance of the number of votes cast? The South. Who hates racial amalgamation so bitterly that it has raised three million mulattoes? The South Who is leading the fight in Congress to stop "lawlessness' 'and "sedition?" Southerners. What do they really want to stop? Criticism of the South. Who has a body of intelligent, just, men who know that these things are wrong and foul and that they must be righted? The South. Where are these men when they are needed for action? God knows! What are YOU going to do about it? "Cry aloud and spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression and the House of Jacob their sins." The above questions and answers from the Crisis, hit the bulls eye at every point and Cayton's Weekly takes pleasure in helping to spread the propaganda. In our opinion there is still another most serious question that should have lead all the rest. Who hangs women up by the feet and then disembowls them and then lynch their unborn babies and also burn them at the stake for raping innocent white men, who loaf about and seek the companionship of the colored girls in their tender years? The South. The white men of the South, who fear "nigger dominancy," and the mixture of the white and colored folks of this country. --- Vol. IV. No. 39 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS We are of the opinion that Hoover has gotten the swell head from merely smelling the stuff. The whiff of sunshine the past week smelt a bit like Spring and, in fact, we really believe it was. Hoover, it seems, has his lamp trimmed and burning, ready and willing to receive the presidential boom. Nine hours from Seattle to San Diego is certainly "flee as a bird to yonder mountain" in all of its stern reality. In spite of the country-wide profiteering, the whole dam family of us seems to be suffering of a complete money shortage. Most every one has a different definition for home and we have ours, but we refuse to answer, lest we incriminate ourselves! Every life has a silver lining," but we have observed that the lining of things does not count for very much without the outside. So long as a black man is to be the anchor J. A. Hassell is of the opinion a black star line would be right and proper. Both the mayor and the mayor-elect are suffering from attacks of the flu. What a pickle we would be in if they should both flew. We know that "success" often turns men's heads, but there does not seem to be very much success perambulating these days. "Reading maketh a full man," so says a sage. No more does it do it as its against the law to advertise "Jesse Moore Whiskey, that's all." After all the U. S. A. is going after woman suffrage with a vengeance, that is, if it be true, a woman is and has been president in fact. Surely, surely, the Times is making a mountain out of a mole hill in its reports of the Red riots, but it has to say something to sell its papers. Everyone may have something good in him, but it so often happens that the good never gets out during life and is therefore interred with his body. From the federal court proceedings we learned that "bug-juice" comes from prunes instead of from bugs, as its name would seem to indicate. When we told that healer we were suffering from financial despondency and he replied, "go to work and you will be healed." he must have prejudged us. If it be true that the physicians of Seattle are responsible for the Miracle Man moving on then its another instance of the trust getting in its dirty work. In Seattle the other night father and son got together and the meeting was neither in the barn nor in the cellar, much to the satisfaction of the heir apparent. We suspect that the California woman who got $60,000 and a divorce would have felt just as well satisfied to have gotten the $60,000 and forgot all about the divorce. Some of our city ladies do not have quite as much in view as do many of the show --- + women, but they have entirely too much in view for the moral good of the community. A Kansas church has staged a regular ring fight and that, too, in the basement of the building and the "mill" was closed with bloody faces and blustering prayers. Persons who have been so patiently waiting for the coming of the millenium will be much surprised to learn that it has come and gone, according to a wise one. Too darn bad. Presidential hats continue to fly into the ring, and that too from uncertain quarters. We are of the opinion that a bit of Hooverizing along this line might relieve a seemingly ugly situation. Now that the railroads have been returned to their alleged owners those owners, under the rules of the Cummins senate bill, will not only own the railroads, but the U. S. Government as well. While at a funeral the other day we learned that Seattle possessed some rare musical talent among her colored citizens, which to our mind was hardly the time or place for the exhibition. The Portland Advocate objects to Cayton's Weekly, dubbing that city a tale to Seattle's kite, and it is quite correct, because the sleepy old burg don't get up in time to see Seattle's passing show. What we cannot understand is why some people get good and mad when they are forced to pay their newspaper subscription, and at once command the publisher to "stop the paper." Don't all answer at once. No. we take no stock in the theory that, man descended from monkeys nor monkeys from men, but if some men we know should become monkeys there would be an awful protest go up from the present monkey kingdom. A six million dollar church edifice for Seattle, among the members of the First M. E. church, is being talked of. A million dollars worth of church and the balance of the six million in Christianity might act and look better. It is a fact that the editor hereof was among the injured in a street car wreck, but it did not necessarily follow that we were injured and "believe me." we were not, that is, if the court knows itself and it believes it does. He who sleeps on a piece of a friend's wedding cake may not have neither good or bad dreams, but if he is so foolish as to eat a piece of it he may have a nightmare sufficiently terrorizing to cause him to take to the woods clad only in his night clothes. "Thou shalt not steal" admonished the preacher in his Sunday sermon, and to cinch his point he told a couple of stories and palmed them off as his own, whereupon an interested listner spoke out in meeting and said, "Had you not better practice what you preach?" From the number of murders that are being almost daily committed in Seattle, a society for the committing of red handed murder must have been recently organized, which is doing its work bang up. "Whatever you do, do it with your might, for work done by halves is never done right." A man no sooner becomes the husband of some woman than he immediately plunges headlong into everlasting fame and some men no sooner break the chains of matrimony than they step into a fortune. Either of the above allegations are quite capable of a dual construction, and you will construe them as you are effected. According to the report made by the Hon. I. F. Norris, the Lincoln League is still on the fence, politically speaking, and may be Republican, Democratic or Know Nothing. After reading the report of the League meeting in the papers and then listening to the report of Mr. Norris, it occurs to us that the latter will be its ultimate end. RECREANT JUVENILES The Cook County (Illinois) Juvenile Court—the oldest juvenile court in the United States, according to Victor P. Arnold, presiding judge—counting hearings and rehearings, handles about 15,000 cases a year. In addition to this, according to Mr. Arnold, taking the year ending December, 1918, as an example, the court handled 21,000 violators of the law, boys between the ages of 10 and 17 years and girls between the ages of 10 and 18 years, in cases that did not primarily get into the court. Out of this number 17,000 were adjusted out of court. "In other words that many boys and girls were saved from a court record. The juvenile court has a preventive work, too. It is constructive instead of seeking to tear down, and if possible the cases are kept out of court. It does not mean much to a boy to have a case in the juvenile court." continued the judge, "as a rule, but we like to prevent such a record if possible as 10 or 15 years from now a man may be a leading citizen and there are always groups of people who look for something not praiseworthy in one-s record and they like to call attention to the fact that this man has a court record. To many that means only one thing—that he has a criminal record. "The same is true of 12,000 cases in the same year of children who were dependent because of the neglect of their parents. Of that number we made a thorough and careful examination. The court deals with the family as the unit of society and not the individual. The court," said Judge Arnold, "has been able to improve conditions in homes, and, as a result, the environment of the child in over 9000 of the 12,000 cases. "Personally." continued Judge Arnold, "I do not believe in institutional training. I spend a great deal of time trying to impress up to the parents to do the fair thing. It is better to work out the problem in the home than to send the children to an institution if this is possible. The children sent to institutions become institutionalized. A fairly good home is a little better than the best institution. Every child is entitled to a home. "There is a great deal in environment. Many of us do not understand the child's problems. Too often we are too apt to condemn the child. This court is not trying to punish anybody. A problem is presented and the court tries to find out what it is and then makes efforts to work out a solution that is practical. With reference to that, anyone may get a better idea by spending an hour in court and observing the cases. All the patience in the world is necessary. The court must impress the boys with one great thing and that is that they do not realize their own power. "I try to impress and encourage them in theh view that they can, if they have average intelligence and are ambitious, go right through and attain what they seek. I try to get them acquainted with themselves. They do not realize that each has certain functions to perform in the world and that things do not work out right unless they perform their part. Often it is necessary to take a boy into my chamber and work out a plan of procedure. "A lot of my time is spent with parents, although this court has no jurisdiction over parents, some times with the children and the parents together, and at other times the children are dismissed and the parents are talked to alone. It is sometimes necessary to change conditions in the home. When a boy is put on probation, we do not require the boy to come to the court. We go to his home. We talk with the father, the mother, the sister, the brother. In this way the court gets a contact that cannot be had if the boy is sent to court. The result is that in many cases the probation officers, and most of them are college graduates, become advisers to the families. Many of these families consult the officer if they are considering an investment. This is an ideal situation and there is no end to the good we can accomplish.—Christian Science Monitor. WOMAN SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT The record of the states of the Union on the issue of ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment is as follows: Total number of states, 48. Number necessary to carry amendment, 36. Number that stand in favor, 34. Number that stand against, 5. Number yet to vote, 8. Number needed of those yet to vote, 2. States that have ratified, with date: Illinois—June 10, 1919. Wisconsin—June 10, 1919. Michigan—June 10, 1919. Kansas—June 16, 1919. New York—June 16, 1919. Ohio—June 16, 1919. Pennsylvania—June 24, 1919. Massachusetts—June 25, 1919. Texas—June 27, 1919. Iowa—July 2, 1919. Missouri—July 3, 1919. Arkansas—July 28, 1919. Montana—July 30, 1919. Nebraska—August 2, 1919. Minnesota—September 8, 1919. New Hampshire—September 10, 1919. Utah—September 30, 1919. California—November 1, 1919. Maine—November 5, 1919. North Dakota—December 1, 1919. South Dakota—December 4, 1919. Colorado—December 12, 1919. Rhode Island—January 6, 1920. Kentucky—January 6, 1920. Oregon—January 12, 1920. Indiana—January 16, 1920. Wyoming—January 27, 1920. Nevada—February 7, 1920. New Jersey—February 10, 1920. Idaho—February 11, 1920. Arizona—February 12, 1920. New Mexico—February 19, 1920. Oklahoma—February 28, 1920. West Virginia, March 10, 1920. States that have refused to ratify, with late: Georgia—July 24, 1919. Virginia—September 3, 1919. Alabama—September 17, 1919. Mississippi—January 21, 1920. South Carolina—January 22, 1920. Maryland—February 17, 1920. States that have yet to vote: Louisiana. Connecticut. Washington. Vermont. Tennessee. Delaware. North Carolina. Florida. “Nigger,” warned one, “don't mess wid me, 'kase when you do, yo' shuah is flirting wid de hearse.” “Don't pesticate me, nigger,” replied the other, shaking his fist. “Don't fo'ce me to press dis upon yo', 'kase if I does, I'll hit yo' so hard I'll separate yo' from amazin' grace to a floatin' opportunity.” “If yo' mess wid me, nigger,” cried the first, showing the whites of his eyes, “I'lljes' make one pass, and dere'll be a man pattin' yo' in de face with a spade tomorrow mornin'." James A. Hassell James A. Hassell Representing the BLACK STAR LINE OF NEW YORK Will speak Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the WASHINGTON HALL Fourteenth and East Fir ALL ARE INVITED ADMISSION 50 CENTS THE COLORED CITIZEN Alice H. Parker, a graduate of Howard University, has been issued a United States patent for a heating furnace. In Richmond, Va., colored people have incorporated the Union Progressive Company, and purchased a two story building for a shoe store. J. M. Nimocks, president of the colored Ideal Investment Company, of St. Louis, Mo., reports that his business has total assets of $89,237. The Chicago Ice Cream Company has been purchased by Negroes in Los Angeles, Cal., and incorporated as a stock company, capitalized at $10,000. The Twin City Amusement Company, at Norfolk, Va., composed of Negroes, has received a permit to erect a theatre, on Church Street, which will cost $125,000. In Virginia, the Brown Savings Bank, at Norfolk, paid to 3,000 Christmas savers, $80,000; the Mutual Savings Bank, of Portsmouth, paid to 5,000 savers, $10,000. Hotel Vincennes, containing 250 rooms with baths, has been opened for Negroes in Chicago, Ill., by Mrs. Elizabeth Barnett, with Mr. C. Fleming Lewis, manager. ```markdown ``` At Wichita, Kan., colored people have organized the Morris Investment Company, with a capital of $25,000. In less than two months they did $45,000 worth of business. The Universal Profit Sharing Stores Company, has been incorporated by Negroes in Chicago, Ill., with a capital stock of $10,000. Its officers have been bonded to the extent of $5,000. At Bennettsville, S. C., Jonas Thomas is treasurer of the Workers' Enterprise Bank, capitalized at $50,000. Mr. Thomas has sold 700 bales of cotton and has 200 more bales to be sold. In Chicago, Ill., the State Industrial Board has awarded Mrs. Ada Dozier, widow of a colored workingman, $3,500 under the Workmen's Compensation Law; Mr. Dozier was a victim of a mob. Eleven Negroes in St. Louis, Mo., have subscribed $1,000 each to start the Mecca Bank and Trust Company, to be capitalized at $200,000. Dr. Charles H. Phillips is president of the enterprise. Mr. A. A. Alexander, a colored contractor in Des Moines, Iowa, has been awarded the contract for the South Side sewer system, which involves a consideration of $200,000. The work will take a year for completion. The Square Deal Oil and Gas Company, a colored enterprise in Kansas City, Mo., has been authorized to increase its capittalization from $20,000 to $99,000. The president and general manager is Samuel R. Hopkins. Orkin Brothers, leading merchants in exclusive ladies' wear, at Omaha, Neb., employ three colored girls as cashiers,—Misses Ruby Thompson and Otis and Cunia Watson, graduates of the High School of Commerce. St. Philip's Church Corporation, in New York City, has recently purchased three apartment houses, and now owns a block of property, valued at one million dollars. Nail and Parker, a colored firm, were brokers for the transactions. The Dunbar Theatre for Negroes in Philadelphia, Pa., has been opened, through the efforts of Mr. E. C. Brown, the colored banker. It presented "Within the Law," and the first day's sale of tickets amounted to $1,208. Mrs. Viola Bond, a colored woman in New York City, is conducting a hemstitching and button-making business, with six operatives; connected with the business, is a manufacturing branch for the wholesale market and a department for mail orders. Mrs. Lulu Williams, a colored woman of Tulsa, Okla., owns and operates three mo- tion picture and vaudeville theatres, in three different cities. One theatre, she erected at a cost of $20,000. Mr. Wesley Williams, her husband, operates an auto garage. The John O'Daniel Hosiery Mill has been opened at Durham, N. C., as a $200,000 business owned by whites, where from 75 to 100 colored operatives will be employed. The mill is named in honor of a Negro, the late John O'Daniel, by the Carr family, for which he worked for over thirty years. The Starlight Realty and Investment Company, incorporated by Negroes in Cleveland, Ohio, has increased its capittal from $10,000 to $250,000; 40% of the increased capital has been subscribed. Plans are under way for the erection of a modern office building. The Unique Building and Loan Association has been incorporated by Negroes in Baltimore, Md., with capital stock, $100,000. It has offices in the Southern Life Insurance Building. The incorporators are Cornelius H. Jones, Alfred Nixon, Robert Thompson, Walter W. Jones, and C. C. Fitzgerald. In Savannah, Ga., the Wage Earners' Savings Bank paid to 4,000 members of its Christmas Savings Club, $40,000; the Savannah Savings and Real Estate Corporation paid to 1,005 members, $20,000; the Mechanics Savings Bank paid to 1,200 members, $14,000. In addition, it is estimated that $50,000 was issued by white banking institutions to Negroes,—making a total saving of $125,000. The Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company, which operates in Georgia and Alabama, has four million dollars worth of insurance written on its books. During 1919, it paid to policy holders, $356,000; the receipts were $723,999; the company has assets amounting to $114,352. A new building was recently dedicated, and a loving-cup and a life size painting of himself, by E. A. Harleston, was given to the president, Mr. A. F. Herndon. PURELY PERSONAL Mrs. Rebecca Asberry and Mr. Samuel M. Bent were married last Wednesday evening. Dr. Stillwell of Cleveland, Ohio, will speak Monday evening. Dr. Carstens of Seattle will speak Wednesday evening, and Dr. Beckwith, also of Seattle, will speak Thursday evening, all at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of which Rev. W. D. Carter is pastor. Mr. Thomas E. Wilson was buried from the Mt. Zion Baptist Church last Monday afternoon under the auspices of the order of Odd Fellows, the Rev. W. D. Carter officiating. Mr. George W. Jones was elected a member of the executive committee of the N. A. A. C. P. (Seattle branch) to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Gragwell, who resigned. REMARKABLE REMARKS Premier Clemenceau—Don't go to theatres. Minnie Maddern Fiske—Furs are unnecessary as clothing. Mrs. George Dawson—Olive Oil will remove gunm from a child's hair. Thomas L. Mason—New York has a heart of reinforced concrete. Walt Mason—I have more work than I could do if I were twins. Theatrical Producer Maurice Gest—The American theatre is going to hell. Mrs. Owen Kildare—Legs are going out and arms and necks are coming in. William G. McAdoo—Nobody will ever overthrow a government if you will let him talk. James W. Gerard-I am my first choice as the next President, but Mr. Hoover comes next. Madame Maurice Maeterlinck-When one is wearing a beautiful dress one can speak to others with great grace. Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez—And letting her spoon fall into the frying pan of rice, she wept, swallowing her tears. Health Commissioner Copeland—If in five years the dairymen's league is not throttled there won't be a Republican or Democratic party. Costumer Robert E. Jones—There is nothing that expresses cruelty and at the same time richness so well as a hard black glittering oil cloth. Thomas A. Edison—Lee Deforest made an audium so delicate that when a fly walks over the transmitter the sound as amplified will almost shatter your eardrum. Governor Coolidge—It is of the utmost importance that we use every means in our power by efficiation, agitation and prayer to re-establish religion in the New England states. Bishop Hugh L. Burleson—The hymn, "O Zion haste, thy mission high fulfilling," has been translated into pure Dakotan and five thousand Sioux members of the Episcopal Church of South Dakota have adopted it as their rallying cry. FACTS Los Angeles is the largest city in the United States—in area. There are three ships in the world of more than 50,000 tons each. Ninety per cent of the aluminum used in the United States comes from Arkansas. Sixteen Presidents had war records but only two were in the military service when elected. The agricultural output of the Southern states more than doubled in value during the Great War. Twenty years ago the United States imported al its tinplate; today it manufactures three-fourths of the world's supply. More than sixty million tons of iron ore were mined in the United States last year: 86 per cent of this came from the Lake Superior district. An American submarine holds the world's record for long-distance diving, having traveled 1800 consecutive miles without rising to the surface. The United States regular army has engaged in more than a hundred wars or military campaigns: about nine-tenths of them being with Indian tribes. The Crisis says that during the past seven months Negroes in New York City have purchased real estate totalling over $4,000,000, between 127th and 145th stretts. From 1857 to 1918 the United States produced more than three-fifths of the world's petroleum and at the end of that period the proportion had risen to seven-tenths. Rusia and Mexico are our chief competitors and might surpass us if they took revolutions less seriously. "You seem fascinated in watching that musician play the trombone." "Yes," said Mr. Cobbles. "Down in my part of the country we call one of them things a 'to and from,' an' I've never yet seen a feller playin' one that I didn't wonder what would happen if his arm got paralyzed just when he had shoved it out to its full length." Birmingham Age-Herald. "I can remember most every word of your speech," said the admiring friend. "I was afraid something like that might happen," replied Senator Sorghum. "It is most undesirable to have people quoting you unexpectedly. I tried to make that speech sufficiently long and uninteresting to prevent anybody from remembering any part of it." Washington Star. Much to his annoyance, they were late for the game, arriving at the sixth inning. "What's the score, Fred?" she asked a fan. "Nothing to nothing." "Oh, splendid!" she exclaimed radiantly. "We haven't missed a thing." CE EE EE STOLEN FROM THIEVES The foreman swore at Cassidy for not taking a full load of bricks up the ladder every trip. One morning the supply of bricks ran out, and Cassidy. after gathering every one in sight, found he was still short of the proper number, He yelled to a workman on the fifth floor: “What do you want?’’ asked the man. “Throw me down wan briek,’’ shouted Cassidy. ‘‘to make good me load.’’ “What's the hardest thing about avia- tion?” asked the would-be aviator. “The ground,’’ was the instructor’s reply. “Unele Tom,’’ said a youth to an old darky, ‘‘they tell me you’ve seen the time when Washington was President. Is that true?”’ “Well, Ah uster sede it, but dat was befo’ probishon done went ’to ’fect.’” A naval lieutenant tells of a conversation between two woman visitors to a battle-ship in Hampton Roads. ““T have often wondered,’’ said one, ‘‘why a ship had to weigh its anchor when it left port.”” The explanation of the other was unique. “Well,? she said, ‘‘the weight is constantly changing, you know, by reason of the—er— binnacles and things that accumulate on the anchor,”? “Oh. yes, sir, there’s worse golf-players in the world than you are, sir,’’ the caddie said kindly. ‘Lots worse !’” “Well, that makes me feel better,’’ the dub responded. Then he swung his club, failed to touch the ball, but lifted a section of turf as large as a diner-plate. “Yes sir.’ the caddie continued, ‘‘there’s certainly worse players, but they never let nobody catch ’em out on the links!’ “Avoid criticism,’? said the teacher. “Don’t make it a practice to find fault with people for what they say or do. Don’t pick flaws. Don’t point out mistakes.’’ “Why, Teacher,’’ said one pupil, ‘‘that’s the way my father makes his living.’’ “You surprise me, George! What is your fathers occupation?” “He's a proof-reader, ma’am.”’ When the train stopped at a little station in the South, a tourist from the North emerged and gazed curiously at a lean ani- mal, rubbing itself against a serub oak. “What do you call that ?’’ he asked a native. *Razor-back hawg, suh.’” “What's he rubbing himself against the tree for?” “Tie’s stroppin’ hisself, suh, jes’ strop- pin’ hisself.’? A young woman, anxious to do war work, decided to cheer the wounded soldiers in the hospitals, “Tlow many Germans did you conquer?’’ she asked of the first man she came to. “Bive,’’ he replied. “And how did you do it?’’ she asked. “With my right hand,’’? he answered. “You are a hero!”’ she cried, ‘‘and I am voing to kiss that hand five times!’’ The rest of the ward had been listening with interest, and at the next cot was an Irishman who instantly answered her query. ~Twenty-foive,”’ he replied. The lady looked somewhat nonplussed, but nevertheless asked, ‘* Tow?” “1 bit thim,’’ he said. Jack, to his suffering partner: ‘‘I hate to have to tell you, but we’re both doomed. She is taking more water than the pumps can manage, and is sinking slow but sure.’’ His partner: ‘‘Let ’er sink, Jack. 1 don’t eare how soon she does, if she’ll only lay still when she hits the bottom.’’ A Live-Wire suburban storekeeper got into legal difficulties, and it was rumored that he might have to give up his business. In order to hold his customers, therefore, he placed in the window a placard reading: BUSINESS AS USUAL DURING ALTER- CATIONS. A publie gathering in a country town was interrupted by the entrance of one who made his way to the platform and whispered excitedly to the chairman. “Is Mr. Smith in the audience?”’ broke forth the presiding officer. ‘‘I am informed that his house is afire.’”’ Forty gentlemen sprang to their feet. “It is the house of Mr. John Smith,’’ add- ed the chairman. “Thank God!’ feverently exclaimed one man, resuming hit seat. A submarine attack was on. The sea heaved and rolled. The destroyers were dropping depth bombs. The deck of the troopship was lined with Yankee soldiers. All was silent. Suddenly the tension was broken by a small, weary-looking soldier. “Say,’’ said he in a hollow voice, ‘‘is there any one here who wants to buy a nice watch and chain?’ The three young Jones children were visiting their grandmother, and the occa- sion was one of great merriment. Soon it proved too strenuous for her, and she said: “Good gracious, children, why are you so noisy today? Can’t you try and be a little more quiet? You are making my head ache.’? “Now, Grandma,”’ said little Willie, ‘“‘you musn’t scold us. You see, if it wasn’t for us, you wouldn’t be a grandma at all.’’ Apparently the gold medal for extreme miserliness will have to be awarded to the commuter who, on leaving his wife in the morning, forewarned her thus: “T may have to work late tonight, so in order that you won’t worry, I’ll telephone you at six o’clock. But when you hear the bell, don’t answer it—you will know what it means, and I will get my nickel back.’’ J, W. EDMUNDS, OPH. D., comecrtst 223 . . 2 » 17., tometrist and ye Specialist. Personal attention given in Hye ex- aminations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. ATLAS POOL HALL Under New Management Wishes You a Happy New Year FELIX CRANE, Manager 1212 Main Street Seattle You Are Welcome GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND | BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobaese and Soft Drinks. BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the matter of the estate of Frank DeLao, De- censed.—No. 26763. Notice to Creditors. 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