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THE PASSING THRONG
At his monthly covenant meeting hist
Sunday forenoon, the pastor of the Mount
Zion Baptist Church, Rev. W, D. Carter,
admonished his members to forget the in
eidetii of their conversion to Christ and tell
of some recent blessings from the Creator,
which set us to thinking, and we mentally
concluded that every day, every hour and
every minute, those who would open their
hearts and let the Savior in, a new bless
ing would come to them. With the Savior
in full control of your heart and the "love
your neighbor as yourself radiating in
every di feet ion, there is no doubt hut bless
ings from all sides, from above and below,
will freely flow in upon you. Who loves
his neighbor as himself is a radiator of help
.-Hid happiness and such person is already
God's elect and, like Enoch Arden, his or
her name in the book of life, will lead all
the rest.
Hundreds of voters may be signing the
"wet" petitions that are being- circulated
in Seattle, but those muliplied hundreds who
are doing so must be doing it in secret, if
at all. Though the speilers implore the men
and women who pass them on the streets to
halt for a moment and sign their names, yet
but few do so. Occasionally, one more curi
ous than the multitude will stop long
enough to read the introduction, but hurry
away as soon as the nature of the petition
is learned. Perhaps the petition will get
the re<|iiisite number of signers, but it is
seriously doubted, after observing the
indifference shown to it in Seattle, where
the petition expects to get the greatest
number of signers. It's hard to find even
a man mean enough to want Old Man Booze
brought to life in this state again.
"Strew some flowers along my journey
through life and cut out the gorgeous floral
designs at my funeral," exclaimed Uncle
Josh, who had soon a wagon load of flowers
going fo the grave of one who in life had
been pronounced a common nuisance and
not worth a confound. Everybody and his
relations will rush to the funeral of some
one they did not know when living-, and if
they did they had no use for him. It ofen
happens that flowers will be sent to the
funeral of one for whom the sender had no
use in life, but the flowers are sent because
it's a Cad and the sender does not want to
appear less important than his neighbor. If
the living would send more flowers to the
living and less lowers to the dead, truly
would the millenium be with us.
Thai the most of you in whoso hands an
occasional copy of Cayton'a Weekly falls
nre well pleased with its contents and are
not adverse to subscribing for the same,
providing some one solicits you to do so,
which is almost impossible for the most part,
proes without saying, but if it pleases you
and you think it worth the $2 that it costs,
then why not order the paper either by tele
phone or by mail. It is a fact that we
seldom ever solicit one to become a sub
scriber but that we get a favorable reply,
which is evidence conclusive that, if you do
nol think it a necessity, you at least are
willing to tolerate it. The management
would be doubly delighed to receive your
order for the paper either by telephone or
by mail. Beacon 1910 or' 303 Twenty
second South, Seattle.
In one week more the high schools of the
city -will hold their annual graduating exer
cises, when hundreds of lads and lassies will
be given their coveted sheepskins, behind
which many of them will endeavor to fight
the battle of life, Avhile others will use them
as stepping stones to a higher and more
thorough training to meet the successes and
reverses of the commercial world. Out of
these multiplied hundreds of graduates
there will be but three colored children
—Miss Maggie Bevels Cayton, Miss Ida
May Brown, and Mr. George Green—by
no means a fair average for the colored
population of Seattle. Entirely too many
young colored boys and girls are dropping
out of school illy prepared to meet the trials
and tribulations of after life and it is hoped
that he future will see an improvement in
this situation.
It is a fact that no two human beings, like
no two leaves on a tree, are exactly alike.
No two animals, birds or fish are exactly
alike. God in His wisdom has created all
things to differ. However, in the case of
the animals and things there is no alterna
tive but to continue in a statu quo, but
with human beings, however much they may
differ in color, condition and stature they
have the knowledge and wisdom to suffici
ently harmonize their incongruities as well
as differences to meet on a common middle
ground. Persons who find themselves at
variance from their fellowmen in general
would do well to right about face and en
deavor to bring themselves in harmony with
the balance of the orchestra. This veiled
lecture may be far fetched, but there is a
valuable lesson in it, if you will only seek
to get it out.
Once on a time few men in Seattle were
more ready to serve the public than J. W.
Gray, and often he did so at a personal
sacrifice, and few men in Seattle were any
better qualified from an educational as well
as from a general information standpoint, to
serve the public for the general uplift than
he, but all of a sudden and without explana
tion he withdrew his helpful hands and, if
not in so many words, by action he solemnly
announced, "I am no longer my brother's
keeper." Probably Mr. Gray has abundant
as well as justifiable reasons for thus seclud
ing himself, but whether he has or has not
his conclusion to do so meant quite a loss
to the uplift work among the colored citi
zens in this community, and Cayton's
Weekly truly hopes that Mr. Gray may sec
his way clear to break into the harness
again.
Despite their inability to break into the
higher-up circles of the baseball game.
nevertheless, those colored men who play
baseball are exceedingly clever at the game.
A bnnch of professional fans sat watching
a local colored baseball team operating on
the diamond and unanimously agreed that
the colored man under the circumstances
beat the world at baseball, but there are
two things to their detriment, they make
more noise than an army of Comanche In
dians and do more squabling than a pack
of hungry wolves, both of which completely
exasperates the spectators. If it were pos
sible for them to eliminate those two short
comings they might stand a much better
chance of breaking into the professional
leagues.
Tt may be a fire when it burns, but unless
yon nurse it very attentively it will only be
a bit of steam. Who thinks that the efforts
put forh by him or her will set the world
on fire and <ro and sit supinely down and
wait to see the big flames tower heaven
ward will have a long 1 and interesting wait.
In other words, no one person can do it all
and if you would have success attend your
efforts, then ask your fellowman for either a
helping hand or a bit of counsel or for both.
The person who starts out to run the world
will not travel very far before he or she
will wake up to the fact that he or she will
have to step lively or the world will run all
over him or her and thus will a would-be
brilliant career end in a bad smash up.
"I am agreeably surprised to find yon
the congenial fellow that I have found yon
to be since undertaking this work," said one
man to another not lonff since. "For some
reason I had formed the opinion that you
were arbitrary and egotistic and it was next
to impossible for anyone to work with you
unless he perimtted you to have your
own way from start to finish, but here we
have worked together without .jar or fric
tion and I have not seen one thing: in your
disposition that would remotely justify my
former opinion of yon," and thus are we,
one and all, frequently mistaken in our
fellowmen. Often the faults we seem to see
in the other fellow are really in us and
when we think the other fellow has changed,
we ourselves have opened our hearts and
let the Saviour in. You smile first and you
will be surprised at the number of persons
that will smile in return.
"That man is a chronic grouch," said an
acquaintance to the writer. "Xo, it's no
peculiarity, it's just the worse dose of
grouch I ever met. One troubled with
eccentricities might be termed grouchy in
spots and at times, but that man is grouchy
twenty-four hours per day and HG.")I/^ days <i
year, and year in and year out. He opposes
everything that is proposed, whether good
or bad, and never has a pleasant word for
friend or foe. Why, he even speaks dis
paragingly of his wife and children. ITe
claims to be not only a Christian, but an
ardent churchman, and yet he does not
warm up to the members of the church, to
which he belongs any more than he does to
total strangers. I know of no remedy that
will relieve persons thus troubled, but it
would be a great blessing if "my friend"
could in some way get relieved of the body
of this dead one."
The editor of Cayton's Weekly is looking
for ten persons to join hands in the pur
chase of a twenty-acre tract of land in
Ranier Valley, not to exceed five blocks
from a street car line. The price of the
property is $10,000 and can be sold in
quarter-acre tracts for more than twice that
amount. In case it is not desired to put it
on the market at this time, it is a capital
investment and ten years from now (not
very long) the same land will bring at least
three thousand dollars per acre, but if put
into quarter-acre tracts it would mean
eighty suburban homes for working men,
which would give old High Cost of Living
the jim jam jeans. Not a cent of expense
attached thereto except a thousand dollars,
which, if divided between the ten, would
mean two acres for each of the investors.
Are you interested?
Ruth Garrison is again in Okanogan to
testify in the Storrs case. She broke down
on entering the hotel. Judge Jurey will sit
in the Stores case.
Riots in Cleveland, Ohio, assumed such
alarming proportions that state troops were
called out.
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