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Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20


War may be just what Phil Sheridan
said it is, but it is gain instead of hell for
the average citizen Of this country, for
every article he handles is done so from
profit standpoint Here's time to get
rich quick, the dead and the dying to the
CONTRARY Notwithstanding, so reasons the
profiteer, and Uncle Sans grave robbers
90 not propose that the opportunity pass
without them getting theirs Even the
vegetables that are by no means war neces-
stiles you have to pay twice as much for
them at present as you did year ago In
the commercial world of this country everv
fellow IS grabbing all he can get away with
and is wholly Indifferent as to the actual
outcome of the war. If the Almighty does
not permit our Money Mad Craft to be to-
tally wrecked then we will be surprised.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON SATURDAY, APRIL TO- 1913
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS
Winter weather still shows it's fondness
for lounging in the lap Of spring.
SO soon as a woman thinks she is old
then she is so old and decrepit that it gives
one a pain to look at her. but so long as
she thinks she can make you think she is
young she is thing Of beauty.
A seven million dollar girl is attending
school at Fisk University and her income
is $SOO,OO0 per annrm. eff dat gal don't
turn white 70 she's growed up den Marsc
Henry's rabbit foot won't work.
All that proposed Alaska railroad build
ing that was to be done Immediately if not
sooner. seems to have been a camoufage to
give the Gugenheims time to get a better
grip on the Alaska situation
In diplomatic circles it is still rumOred
that Japan and Germany understand each
other and sooner or later Russia will be di-
Vlded between the two. 1t occurs to us
that Uncle Sam will make no mistake to
sleep with one eye open.
If the Mt Zion Baptist Church of this
city does not get $4,000 instead of $4,000
the amount it set out to raise by July 1st
it will not be because the members one and
all are not bubbling over with enthusiasm
in the dollar campaign.
We have our doubts as to the Germans
prose yting among the cOlOred folk of Mis-
sissppi, but, judging from the accounts Of
the unpreparedness of Uncle Sam for the
hoy, f,,11x dol,
among those who are at the head of the
preparedness game.
A Canadian soldier who recently return
ed from the front, told to Seattle audi
ences the barbarity practiced on the cap
tured soldiers of the Allies by the Ger
mans and Huns, and it's simply awful. He
might have added why it's just as bad as
the barbarity practiced on the colored men
of our own sunny South by the white
Christians
Evidently Hoover and Garfield have lost
control Of the food and coal situations as
the price of both Of those articles has stead
lily grown higher, in spite of their promise
to lower the price of both. When the
''Morgans" Of this country set out to pick
up few billion dollars by raising prices
they do so Hoover and Garfield to the con-
trary notwithstanding.
The automobile accident that crushed the
life out Of E. M. Williams, a former state
senator from Seattle, was most lament
able one. In life Mr.. Williams was a very
likable fellow and had many political
friends throughout the state. He was al
ways associated with the vets of the state,
but had many warm friends among the
drys. The editor hereof was intimately ac-
quainted with him and often met him in
political confabs around the camp fire of
the late John Lockwood Wilson, as he
did hundreds of others, the death Of anyone
whom brings more wildly to our mind
the memories Of those bygone days.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20

SO soon as a woman thinks she Is old
then she is so old and decrepit that it gives
one pain to look at her, but so long as
she thinks she can make you think she is
young she is thing Of beauty
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20
CAYTON'S WEEKLY

Published every Saturday at Seattle Washington.
U. S. A.
In the interest Of equal rights and equal justice to
all men and for "all up
publication of general information but in
the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored
Citizens.
1t is open the towns and communities of the
state of Washington to air their public grievances
Social and church notices solicited for pub
lication and will be handled according to the rules
of journalism.
Subscription 50 per year in advance Special
rates made to clubs and societies
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. Editor and Publisher
TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20

A seven million dollar girl is attending
school at Fisk University and her income
is $S0OOO0 per annum. eff dat gal don't
turn white 70 she's growed up den Marse
IIenry's rabbit foot won't work"
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20

Winter weather still shows it's fOndness
for lounging in the lap of spring
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20

All that proposed Alaska railroad build
ing that was to be done Immediately if not
sooner. seems to have been a camOuhage to
grip on the Alaska situation
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20

We have our doubts as to the German 3
proselyting among the colored folk Of Mis-
sissipp, but Judging from the accounts of
the unpreparedness of Uncle Sam for the
war, they are very successfully doing so
among those who are at the head of the
preparedness game.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20

In diplomatic circles it is still rumore'
that Japan and Germany understand eac1
other and sooner or later Russia will be di
vided between the two. It occurs to u
that Uncle Sam will make no mistake t.
sleep with one eye open.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-04-20

If the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of TIN
city does not get $4,000 instead of $500
the amount it set out to raise by July Is
it will not be because the members one an
all are not bubbling over with enthusiast
in the dollar campaign.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-01-11

them back into their fortl Ayei we
slew many!"
''Not jihad YETI" King asked, as if
the world might be coming to an end.
The words were startled out of him.
Under other circumstances he would
never have asked that question so di-
rectly; but he had lost reckoning of
everything but these poor devils dread
full need of doctoring, and he was like
a man reused out Of dream. If a
holy war had been proclaimed already,
then he was engaged on forlorn hope.
But the man laughed at him.
"Nay, not yet. Bull-with-a-beard
holds back yet. This was little fight.
The jihad shall come later ~
"And who is 'Bull-with-a-beard'? %
King wondered; but he did not ask
that question because his wits were
awake again. It pays not to be in too
much of hurry to know things in the
"Hills."
AS 1t happened. he asked no more
questions, for there came shout at
the cave entrance whose purport he
did not catch, and within five minutes
after that, without word of explana-
ton, the cave was left empty Of all ex-
cept his own five men. They carried
away the men too sick to walk and
vanished, snatching the last man away
almost before Kings fingers had fin
ished tying the bandage on his wound.
''Why is that?" he asked Ismail.
"Why did they go? Who shouted?"
'It is night" Ismail answered. ut
was time"
King stared about him. He had not
realized until then that without aid Of
the lamps he could rot see his own
hand held out in front OK him; his eyes
had grown used to the gloom, like
those of the surgeons in the sick-bays
below the waterline in Nelson's feet.
"But who shouted?"
"Who knows? There is only one
here who gives orders. We be many
who obey" said Ismail.
''Whose men were the last ones?"
King asked him, trying new line.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS"
"And whose man art thou, Ismail?"
The Afridi hesitated, and when he
spoke at last there was not quite the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-01-11
CHAPTER XII.

They came and changed the guard
two hours after dawn, to the accom-
paniment of orders growled through
the mist, and the crash Of rifle-butts
grounding on the rock path. King went
to the cave entrance, to look the new
man over; he was a Mahsudi-no
sweeter to look at and no less treacher-
GUS for the fact. Also, that he had
boils all over the back of his neck. He
was not likely to be better tempered
because of that fact, either. But it Is
an ill wind that blows no good to the
secret service.
"There is an end to everything" he
remarked presently, addressing the
world at large, or as much as he could
see of it through the cave mouth. "A
hill is so high, a pool so deep, river
SO wide. There is an end to pain ~ he
went on, adjusting his horn-rimmed
spectacles. 81 lanced a mans boils
last night, and it hurt him. but he must
be well today"
$50 in!" growled the guard. "She
says it is sorcery! She says none are
to let thee touch them!
81 can heal boils y said King, retir-
ing into the cave. Then, from a safe
distance down the passage, he added
word or two to sink in as the hours
went by. At intervals throughout the
day Yasmini sent him food by silent
messengers. It is not easy to worry
and eat heartily at one and the same
time. Having eaten, he rolled up his
sleeves and native-made cotton trou-
sers and proceeded to clean the cave.
After that he overhau1ed his stock of
drugs and instruments, repacking them
and making ready against opportunity.
"As I told that heather with gun
out there, there's an end to every
thingl" he reflected. MAY this come
soOn!"
The second guard that afternoon
proved even less communicative than
the first, up to the point when, to les
sen his ennui, King began to whistle.
Each time he came near the entrance
the new guard could catch few bars
of the tune. After a little while the
hook-nosed ruffian began to sing the
words to it, In a voice like forgotten
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-01-11

leads 10 the Heart Of the Hills - And
after that King had to do his best to
keep the Afridi's back in sight.
They began after time to hear
voices and to see the smoky glare made
by other torches. Then Ismail set the
pace yet faster, and they became the
last two of procession of turbaned
men, who tramped along winding
tunnel into great mountains womb.
The sound of slippers clicking and
rutching on the rock floor swelled and
died and swelled again as the tunnel
led from cavern into cavern.
In one great cave they came to
every man beat out his torch and
tossed it on heap. After that there
was a ledge above the height Of
mans head on either side of the tun-
mel, and along the ledge little oil-burn-
ing lamps were spaced at measured
intervals. A quarter of a mile farther
along there were two sharp turns in
the tunnel, and then at last sea Of
noise and veritable blaze of light.
Part Of the noise made King feel
homesick, for out of the mountains
very womb brayed a music-box, such
as the old-time carousals made use Of
before the days of electricity and
steam. 1t was being worked by mex
pert hands, for the time was some
thing jerky: but it was robbed of its
tinny meanness and even lent majesty
by the hugeness of cavern's roof, as
well as by the crashing, swinging music
it Observation-Disclosures derful-invented
for lawless hours and kingleas peo-
pie.
"Marchons &c itoyens -"
The procession began to tramp in
time to it, and the rock shook. They
deployed to left and right into space
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-01-11

the cave-She, the woman Of the faded
photograph the general had given him
in PeshaWur-and that the cave be
came filled Nth the strange intoxicat-
ing scent that had first wooed his
senses in her reception room in Delhi.
lie dreamed that she called rim by
name First, "King sahib!" Then
s'Kurram Khan!'' And her voice was
surprisingly familiar. But dreams are
strange things"
"He sleeps!" said the same voice
presently. "It is good that he sleeps -
And in his sleep he thought that q
shadowy Ismail grunted an answer.
When he awOke at last it was after
dawn, and light shone down the pas
sage into the cave.
'Ismaill" he shouted, for he was
thirsty. But there was no answer.
''Darya Khanw
Again there was no answer. He
called each of the other men by name
with the same result. He decided to
go to the cave mouth, summon his men,
who were no doubt sleeping. But there
was no ISmail near the entrance-nO
Darya Khan-nor any OF the other
men. The horse was gone. So was the
mule. So was the harness, and every
thing he had, except the drugs and in
struments and the presents the sick
had given him; he had noticed all
those lying about in confusion when he
woke.
sIsmail ~ he shouted at the top of
his lungs, thinking they might all be
outside.
He heard man hawk and spit, close
to the entrance and went out to see.
A man whom he had never seen before
leaned on magazine rifle and eyed
him as tiger eyes his prey.
mo farther!' he growled, bringing
his rifle to the port.
"Why not?" King asked him.
"Allah! When a camel dies in the
Khyber do the kites ask why? Go in y
He thought then of Yasmini's brace
let, that had always gained him at
least civility from every man who saw
it. He held up his left wrist and knew
that instant why it felt uncomfortable.
The bracelet had disappeared!
He turned back into the cave to hunt
for it, and the strange scent greeted
him again. In spite of the surround
ing stencil Of drugs and filthy wounds,
there was no installing it. If it had
been her special scent in Delhi, as
Saunders swore it was, and her special
scent on the note Darya Khan had car
ried down the Khyber, then it was hers
now, and she had been in the cave.
He hunted high and low and found
no bracelet. His pistol was gone, too,
and his cartridges, but not the dagger,
wrapped in a handkerchief, under his
shirt. The money, that his patients
had brought him, lay on the floor IN
touched. 1t was an unusual robber who
had robbed him.
''Who's 'Bull-with-a-beard'?" he Won
dered Nobody interfered with me I'M
til I doctored his men. He's in OppO-
sition. That's fair guess. Now, who
in thunder-by the fat lord Harry
can sBull-with-a-beard' be? And why
fighting in the Khyber SO early as all
this? And why does 'Bull-with-a-beard,
whoever he is, hang back?"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-01-11

80 vast that the eye at first refused to
try to measure it. It was the hollow
core of mountain, flied by the sea-
sound of a human crowd and hung with
huge stalactiteS that danced and shift
ed and flung back thousand colors at
the Pickering light below. Across the
cavern's farther end for a space of two
hundred yards the great river rushed,
plunging out of a great fanged gap and
hurrying out of view down another one,
licking smooth banks on its way with
hungry sucking sound.
There were little lamps everywhere,
perched on lodges amid the stalactites,
and they suffused the whole cavern in
golden glow. In the midst of the cav
ern a great arena had been left bare,
and thousands of turbaned men squat
ted round it in rings. At the end
where the river formed a tangent to
them the rings were f1attened, and at
that point they were cut into by the
ramp of bridge, and by lane left
to connect the bridge with the arena.
The bridge end formed a nearly square
platform, about fourteen feet above the
floor, and the broad track thence to
the arena, as well as all the arenas
boundary, had been marked of by
great earthenware lamps, whose greasy
smoke streaked up and was lost by the
wind among the stalactites.
"Greek lamps, every one Of 'em I"
King whispered to himself, but he
wasted no time just then on trying to
explain how Greek lamps had ever got
there. There was too much else to
watch and wonder at.
No steps led down from the bridge
end to the floor; toward the arena it
was blind. But from the BRIDGES far
Their end across the hurrying water
stairs had been hewn out Of the rock
wall and led up to hole Of twice a
mans height, more than fifty feet
above water level.
On either side of the bridge end a
passage had been left clear to the
river edge, and nobody seemed to care
to invade it, although it was not
marked off in any way. Each passage
was about fifty feet wide and quite
straight. But the space between the
bridge end and the arena, and the
arena itself, had to be kept free from
trespassers by fifty staggering ruff
fans, armed to the teeth.
Every man OF the thousands there
had knife in evidence, but the arena
guards had magazine rifles as well as
Khyber tulwars. Nobody else wore
firearms openly. Some of the arena
guards bore huge round shields of pre-
historic pattern of size and sort he
had never seen before, even in mu-
seums. But there was very little that
he was seeing that night Of kind that
he had seen before anywhere!
The guards lolled insolently, con-
scious of brute strength and special
favor. When any man trespassed with
so much as a toe beyond the ring of
lamps, guard would slap his rif1e-butt
Sntil the swivel ratified. and the Of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-01-11

same assurance in his voice as once
there had been.
81 am hers! Be thou hers, too! But
it is night. Sleep against the toll to-
morrow. There be many sick in kim
JAM"
King made little effort to clean the
cave, but the task was hopeless. For
one thing he was SO weary that his
very bones were water. He appointed
two-hour watches, to relieve one an
other until dawn, and flung himself
on clean bed. He was asleep before
his head had met the pillow; and for
all he knew to the contrary he dreamed
OF Yasmini all night long.
It seemed to him that she came into
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-01-11
KING is LED TO VISIT AvAsT CAVE THROUGH WHICH AN
UNDERGROUND RIVER FLOWS, AND IN A GREAT
CAVERN MEETS THOUSANDS OF FANATICS

beginning the Athestan
the British Indian
Delhi Yasmini
outlaws who
had holy his Delhi King quietly fos plan
him evidence Yasmini
Yasmn's
Yasminis
him. trucking Hangar going
there
the composing
caves guides.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-01-11

King witnesses wild doings In
the cavern and sees narrowing
sights. Yasnini appears, a love-
Iy vision, and the army of fight
ers 90 wild with enthusiasm.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-01-11

(TO BE CoNTINUED.l
The Springfield herald., 1918-04-05

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tarily."
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brought Thedford's Black. k.Draught In
to common use in Thousands Of Amer
ican homes. Every member Of . fam.
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The Springfield herald., 1918-04-05
TORPID LIVER, DIZZINESS
INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION
A These Tross Relieved One Family By The Use Of Tedor.
BlaekDsausht Nothing Found That Could Take LII Place.

springerton. lll.-Mr. ". F. Rister.
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have used It for indigestion q number
Of times and It gives relief. For sour
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It is splendid. And when the liver
gets torpid. 20 when you stoop and
raise up suddenly you feel dizzy. .
few doses win set you straight. We
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the above troubles and find It most
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I can recommend it to others and
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years I've used Black-Draught now. I
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-28
spsclAI oao,NANcE NO. 4se

An ordinance vacatins that part O,
IN" street in Ford's Addition 10 the
City OF Keokuk. lying between the
southeriy line Of Railroad street and
the Mississippi river, and authorizing
conveyance Of the same.
Be it Ordained by the City Coun
Gil OF the City of Keokuk, Iowa:
Section 1. That the City Of Keo
kuk hereby vacates that part and Dor.
ton OF NJ street in Ford.s Addition
to the City of Keokuk. Iowa which
hes between the southery line. OF
Railroad street and the Mississippi
river in said Ford's Addition to the
City of Keokuk.
Section 2 That the City OF Keo
kuk hereby grants and conveys unto
the Keokuk Electro-Metals Company
g corporation, its grantees, success
sors and assigns, that part OF M
street in Ford's Addition to the City
of KecEuk, Iowa, which lies between
the sou.heriy line OF Railroad street
and the Mississippi river in said
Ford's Addition to the City Of Keokuk.
Section 8. That the Mayor Of the
City of Keokuk Ed s. Lotion be and
he is hereby authorized on behalf OF
said City Of Keokuk to execute a
conveyance to the Keokuk Electro
Metals Company for that part OF M
street so vacated and described in
Section hereof
Secoioa T. That this ordinance
shall be published in The Daily Gate
City, a newspaper of general circula-
ton IN the City OF Keokuk, and the
same shall take effect from and after
its publication and ten t10} days after
fits final passage
Section s. All ordinances and parts
OF ordinances IL eosasiicc.. With the pro.
visions hereof are hereby repealed
Passed this 18th day OF Nay. A D..
1918.
Roll call:
AyeLofton. Hickey, Hemmy.
Nay-None.
Total voting aye: Three; total vo.-
ing nay: 0.
ED. s. LOTION,
Mayor.
Attest:
o. w. sANDBEEG.
City Clerk.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-28

|iTo MOVE OUT MAIN ST.
Unassas Measures Of Respect 70 be
Paid by City 70 Her Hero
Dea5-Deeerzre Al
Mounds

The oEGz1 program and line o1
march so- ERorlzI dzE ~srs made
I0~r today by an executive com
lE--ss II charge o. plans for Thurs
DAP.
The pEsas Ef1 FORM az Sixth and
Main streets and E0vs promptly II
$50 e. said Frank II Jones chair
Iaa OF TIE committee Tie line OF
march VIII be c1t Main street 10
Eighteenth s-az. thence west 70 ras
lc@s1sv
Captain CizrNcs z Porel !. u
be MARSHAL OF the dxy, WITH c. r
Miller aide
Eeo&ak VII. par unusual rsspec- ID
hsr dead heroes I the army and
nary II THURSDAYS ceremonies hsosh
IN Eas CITY and Z. the cemsSEy-
Deoorz.. AM Gvex
The annual c~E OF decorating
al Wss In Oakland. As Czsaoa5r
and JsxEa cemeteries rEM BE- car
rs6 OF. by Individuals and o-zzEEz-
1o@. Is well
In the Naaoazl es7esET the @o1-
@sar for the GlEOEn hero dead
Eiu BE- decorated as EeI a. the
mounds ot 5oEu sozEsEz
4 program Of hmi1EarSo. aid pray
- las been prepared tor the 1lhlsc
and VII take place IN Wesniasse-
caAcA - 10 q f. THURSDAY
VIA. Program, Is
TIE general Memorial days pro
gram for the afternoon EiN include
ZLsse numbers
Decoration OF MONUMENT 10 m-
00Eu dad
Decoration OF graves o. soldiers