Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-11-24
A<<e<setese---s--,7s<ef <<<3S
: gatherings by the Wayside =
" /" Know Not What the Truth May Be- =
~ IN Tell 1t as twas Told to Me-" v
4
$s.Ss.ss3Ssa<e<eeG<<<e

Hall Caine, the novelist and play
wright defines gentleman's code
to be "to live extensively, cheat in
business but never at cards, and al
ways lie in defense of women"
4 r 4
And now the delegation from Cali.
fornia are urging Congress to deepen
the channel of the Sacramento river.
1t seems that the prevailing trend in
commerce is for Use of onger.legged
craft.
A person born in this country oil
Chinese parents has the right of suf'
frage. In Wong Kim Ark's case Qe
Supreme Court Reports. 1860 it was
held that a child born in the United
States to Chinese parents lawfully
married, is by birth an American citi.
zen.
A woman in Virginia, of resolute
mould, who is suing for a divorce
drew chalk-line through the middle
Of the house and told her husband to
stay on his side of the mark. But no
intimation is given whether they re.
garded it as an imaginary line, fic.
ton OF law as it were, or will rigidIy
"toe the mark"
The detective force of the United
States Government is known as the
Secret.Service division OF the Treasury
Department. 1t is under the direction
Of Chief John L. Wilkie, Washington,
ID. c. The service is principally en-
gagged in detecting and prosecuting
makers and dealers in counterfeit pa
per money and coin, although its oper.
ations include the detection of all vic.
lations OF the laws OF the United States.
4 X X
A larger cave than the world-famous
Mammoth cave, has been discovered,
likewise in Kentucky. 1t is situate
in Barren county and has been ex-
plored thirty miles, and there are
many passages extending in all direc-
tions. A swiftly flowing river stopped
progress on the passageway explored,
and as the lights were insufficient to
afford a sight of the opposite shore the
explorers were unable to Judge OF its
exact width.
The Secretary OF the Interior has
issued orders forbidding the filing of
entries for any purposes on islands of
less than 40 acres in extent, announces
a report from Washington. He be.
lieves that in many cases islands have
been taken up ostensibly for farming
purposes, but really as sites for sum-
mer residences and resorts, which
have become very valuable. The Sec.
rotary will ask Congress to enact q
special law to cover these cases.
Miss Hattie Doney, a Northwestern
University "co-ed," has braved a TO-.
00O-mile journey to be married TO a
man of her choice, engaged in mis-.
sionary work in Darjeeling, India. 1t
was understood that she should fol-
low on completion of her college
course, but after graduation was, for
some minor cause, rejected by the
board. She wrote her in.
tended, offering to release him from
his engagement. He Immediately
cabled. "See Ruth, chapter I verse
IT," 1t was brief, to the point, de.
cisive, and eminently satisfactory.
r 4 4
Before the Society for Political
Study. last week, in New York city,
Mrs. S. M. Corey exploded this boom
IL The better class OF people in this
city cannot afford large families. New
York property owners" she affirms,
pay increasingly large taxes every
year, due mainly to the enormous
number OF immigrants. Who, may
ask, want to pay taxes to educate
children that should never have been
brought into the world? Why should
the thrifty pay for the shiftless? 1
am not so unchristian as to say that
the child, once here, should not be
cared for. But just so long as tax.
payers pay for expensive play grounds,
etc., the children of the poor will in.
crease like rabbits in q burrow. No
wonder our houses OF refuge and re.
are filed"
Buxton, Iowa, is inhabited almost
by negroes, and entirely
governed by that race. The popula-
lion is about 5000, and all are negroes
except 200 or 300. The town has
never been Incorporated, but it has
Two Justices OF the Peace, two Con.
stables and a deputy Sheriff. The
colony operates on self.government
plan, and violations of the law are
heard and tried by committee and il
viOlators Of law or propriety persist in
their ill-doing, they are given five
days to leave town, and if the order is
not obeyed they are forcibly elected
from the city limits. Nearly all the
male inhabitants are employed in the
coal mines near by. 1t has grown to
its present population in five years.
Buxton is said to have the only col.
ored industrial Y. NJ. G. A. in the
world.
4 4 4
Hong Kong. China, is not city, but
a magnificent bay, 10 miles square,
and an leland p by 3 miles in size,
the city of Victoria, the
only one near there. The name Hong
Kong means "Sweet waters" Vic.
toria stretches some four miles along
the northern shore. Hong Kong is
the name of the island, Victoria of the
city; but Great Britain owns also the
extremity OF the peninsula of Kow.
loon, nearly three square miles in ex-
tent, and the official name OF the
whole dependency, including island,
city OF Victoria and the portion on the
is Hong Kong. Hence the
usage of dating dispatches from Hong
Kong, which, when seen in print refers
to the whole dependency, not to the
city, nor the leland, but all taken to.
gether. Probably because there is no
city there except Victoria is the reason
it is called Hong Kong instead of Vic
toria, but usage is the only rule in
such cases, and the usage is to say
Hong Hong.
r 4 K
The Gulf Stream is q remarkable
Ocaanic cuyyapt 1h,oh dar;voo &c