The Washington Bee Newspaper, September 14, 1901, Page 2

WORK OF THE WORLD] jan People, Rich and Poor, Should Do Their Share of It. California Judge Declares It Is the Daty of a Wife to Bear Some of the Financial Responsibil- ities of the Home, ath nae pepe Judge Waldo M. York, of Los An- @eles, Cal., is not the most popular man in southern California just now. He has bro head by that women shc Tesponsibility of the support of the family, and that the husband’s failure to support the neces- Sarily valid groun This ds the ju “A t down wrath upon his declaring from the bench »uld have some of the was not for divorce. wife easily earn enough wife 1 to support th herself and husband. I believe that women should bear some of the responsibility of the sup- port of the family upon their own shoulders. We ought all of us te work and do something to keep the world going. The mere fact that this woman and her daughter have had to help support the family is not in itself sufficient grounds for divorce.” = decision, which is holding first place with the weather and other tepics of conversation, was in the di- vorce suit of Mrs. Flora E. Stephens against Henry G. Stephens, which was decided in favor of the plaintiff. Mrs. Stephens brought action for freedom from her husband on the ground of cruelty and nonsupport, end told a pitiful story. The wife left the husband, but the tase is one which under the law con- étitutes a desertion by him, as Ste- phens told his wife she would have | to go. They were living at the time in East Los Angeles, and she took her two children, who were living at home, and left the man who had failed to support her. Before the Stephens family moved to Los Angeles they resided at Po » | | =~. JUDGE WALDO M. YORK. (He Thinks a W nould Help Support a Family.) mona, where the husband’s neglect ef and cruelty toward his family roused such indignation that the citizens threatened to tar and feather him if he did not leave town. The man has no trade, and, according to the woman's story, no ambition and no inclination to work. Since leav- ing him Mrs. Stephens has been com- pelled to take in washing in order to support the family. Although poor, the plucky little woman is ambitious for her children, and is putting one son through a college at Healdsbur, The boy, un- like his father, is energetic and a hard worker, and he is paying a part before and oldest in Riverside of his tuition by working after school hours. The son, has situation county, but little toward the support of the family. The oldest daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Woolacott, is happily married and does much to assist her mother. The young i @ child of eight. After these facts had been proved Amos, a does is to the court, Mrs. Stephens’ attor- ney, Charles Lantz, submitted the ease, and Judge York rendered his decision. Touching upon the matter of nonsupport, the jud “A wife might easily earn enough to support both herself and husband “The fact that the husband has not contributed to the support of the family without his ability to do so, or proof of his neglect to p said: proof of do so by reason of his idleness, prof. ion, is insufficient te Besides, the law ligacy or dis justify a divorce. does not contemplate that a poor : man, relying solely upon his labor 4 for support, should be the only la- "pe borer in the family. In this case the wife and her daughter, by honest and honorable employment, were able to a living and had the courage to do so. Their work was no harder than that ordinarily done by laboring people, and for aught that appears the husband may not have been able to find employment, and, if able to find employment, may not have been physically able to labor. All people, rich or poor, should de their part of the work, and not be drones, whose existence is useless. “But it does appear in this case \that the husband, prior to the sepa- ration, was extremely cruel to his wife in many ways, and that without cause he inflicted upon her grievous mental suffering and physical inju- ries, and upon that ground she is en- titled to a divorce. “I do not look upon this mattetr of women helping to support the family @s such an extraordinary state of af fairs as to warrant anybody apply jing for legal separation upon that ground.” ime. earn : | Nbc ngis tami ox LUMINOUS FLOWERS. Whey Have Been Fre tly Ob- served in Golden Gate Park, Francisco, Cal. To a woman belongs the honor of having first discovered flowers that emit light. This woman was the daughter of Linnaeus, the celebrated Swedish naturalist. One evening, when the aged man and his daughter alking in their gardens, she his attention to some nastur- tiums glowing with a faint phosphor- escent light. They removed these to a perfectly dark room and there d the ghostly illuminated flowers for hours, trying to solve the mystery. that time a number of differ- t flowers have been found to give led viewe Tag ies Wily AU er a i alt FLOWERS THAT EMIT LIGHT. (Observed in Golden Gate Park, San Fran- cisco, Ca.) forth a light, among them being the eorolla of the common sunflower; o a species of tagetes, called by the | French botanists the “rose d’Inde,” and the large and beautiful compound flower called in s country the dahlia. “Lumino nasturtiums,” writ Prof. A. Frederick Co ‘have been | frequently observed in Golden Gate | park, San Francisco, I observed one evening a number of persons bending over an iron pot full of nasturtiums. Curious to know what the attraction was | fell into line until it became my turn to inspect the range. 1 was surprised to see a flash of light dart repeatedly from the yellow petals. The next day I photographed it. “A strange fact regarding the phos- phorescent light emitted by certain flowers, it has been observed, is that those in which the yellow and orange predomin exhibit the greatest of Prof. Haggern, the amount ronounces the light of ralist, } electrical origin, declaring that when the pollen bursts electricity is pro- duced, and li follows.” A MOTOR FOR BOATS. Unique Electrical Contrivance That Is Situated Entirely Outside in the Water, Practically all boats which are pro- pelled by electric power have the motor, as well as the battery, inside, and a long,.horizontal shaft, which carries the screw, passes through the stem. An innovation has been made by a western inventor. He incloses | the motor in a water-tight, globular shell, which combined with the rudder, post and screws in is rudder such a manner that they all are out- There is no shaft at all. side. The ,EW MOTOR FOR BOATS. and Situated Outside in the Water.) dt is Portable storage battery is inside, of course, and wires lead the current from it to the motor. The especial virtue of that the motor is this arrangement is portable, and can be attached to} boat having a square not necessary to build for the use of electricity. be attached to and re- almost any It expressly The apparatus can the boat in a few moved in an equally quick fashion. stern. is minutes, The batteries are placed under the} seats of the boat. The motor not only propels the boat, but steers it as well, the boat | answering to it more readily than to} an ordinary rudder. The motor drives the boat forward or backward, and can be regulated to run at any speed up to four miles | four | an hour, using two boxes of cells, and will run from 20 to 30 miles on“one ch More cells may be used, and a speed of six miles an hour attained, if desired. Each bat- tery box containing two cells weighs about 50 pounds, and is provided with a comfortable handle for carry- ing. Tailor Bird Is Ingenious. The tailor-bird of India is a shrewd and ingenious little fellow. To es- cape falling a prey to snakes and mon- keys, the tailor-bird picks up a dead leaf and flies into a high tree, and with a fiber for a thread and its bill for a needle sews the leaf to @ green one hanging from the tree, the sides being sewn up, and an opening left at the top. That « nest is swinging in the tree no suake or monkey or even & man would suspect. flowers at closer | | the worst of it 46 8 oy 524 Poe oe sav THE WASHINGTON - ooo OE™EE”E THE BASEBALL ROW. Settled by the Expulsion of Shu- gart from the League. Decision, Although Seemingly Se- vere, Is for the Good of the Sport History of the Disgrace- ful Episode. The case of Shortstop Frank Shu- gart, of the Chicago baseball team, who has been expelled from the Amer- ican Baseball league by President Ban Johnson, brings to a crisis the recent outbreak of rowdyism in baseball. There are many baseball enthus- iasts who criticise most severely Pres- ident Johnson's radical course in dis- barring Shugart the American lea But before such a view is taken of the case the facts must be considered, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. forever from rue. Shugart’s offense occurred in the game of August 21 at Washington. The Senators were at bat and two men were out. Clark and Foster were Coughlin came to bat, and had three balls and two strikes called on him. The next ball appeared to be a strike, and if so declared would have ended the in- ning, but Umpire Haskell said “ball,” and Coughlin took first. Jack Katoll, pitching for Chicago, protested. Cling- man came to bat and hit for three bases, sending in three runs. The next ball pitched went through Catch- er Sugden’s hands and hit Umpire Haskell on the shoulder. He gave Clingman a base, scoring another run. It was an extremely aggravating case, a tes! of the Chicago’s player’s good temper. Katoll, enraged, threw the ball at the umpire and hit him on the leg. Shugart came up and struck Haskell a blow on the mouth, cutting his lip. Both Chicago players were ar- rested by the police. It may be true that Umpire Haskell Chicago on first and second bases. had been generally “giving AN B, JOHNSON (The Energetic Pr ent of the American Baseball League.) It may be true that the two decisions he gave were unfair to Chicago. But the umpire is desig- nated by the rules of the ame to de- cide such péints, and a method of pro- test is provided in case he makes mis- } takes. cuse for a play The love of fair play is the strong- est characteristic of the American pub- lic in sporting matters. For each game of skill or chance or strength which In any event, there is no ex- | r’s losing his temper. | | enjoys popularity there is a well-de- fined set of rules. We believe that the public desires in any game that the rules should be followed by all con- testants—in other words, that there should be fair play. Shugart undoubt- edly broke the baseball rules most flagrantly. Furthermore, he lost his temper completely, and a man who cannot keep his temper has no place in | any game Aside from general considerations, if baseball is to remain the national sport—and we earnestly hope it will— it must be kept a clean and fair test of skill. Once let dirty play and rowdy- ism and breaking of the rules enter, as has been seriously threatened late- ly, and it will suffer the fate of profes- sional rowing and other sports. For | this reason, the sentence pronounced on Shugart was necessary though se- | vere. It is undoubtedly hard on Shu- { gart and the Chicago club, but it means the greatest good for the greatest Fare in the eball world. President McKinley's Mail. From the on which the presi- dent begins his annual mess until | the close of each session of | from 1,000 to 1,500 letters are *s Weekly. E summer the daily average is rarely less than 300. The president sees only | the letters of his friends, and those of high officials in regard to matters. Only of obvious im- portance reach even Mr. Cortelyou, who makes a memorandum or brief of the contents of any letter that may be | likely to require the president's atten- tion. The letters are all assorted by Mr. Cortelyou’s corps of clerks, and fully 80 per cent. are forwarded to the various executive bureaus and di- visions of which each department is composed, and all that are worthy of attention are answered as promptly as possible. date daily, says Lesli personal those Would Not Kiss the A young lady student of the Univer- | sity of Prague, upon whom the degree | of “Juris utriusque doctor” was to have been conferred, refused to be | kissed by the rector of the university, | who, following en ancient custom on wuch occasion, bent down to touch the ' young doctor’s forehead with his lips. | The senate of the university will on | the reopening of the session consider the advisability of sbolishing the acad- emic custom in the ease of female grad- uates. ‘teetor, EXTRAORDINARY PLANT. it Devours Animal Food Greedily When Given to It in Small and ‘Tasty Morsels. We all know that certain plants ab sorb and live on insects, but it has only recently been discovered that there are some curious species of plants that actually devour anirsal food when given to them in small morsels. The leaves of these queer plants ap- pear in doublets, like oyster valves. This double leaf i sed up from its base to within about three-quarters of its entire length. In the front part it is detached, the two pointed tops forming, as it were, a pair of lips, or a mouth, which the plant can open at will, Inside this mouth is a kind of a pas- sage or throat which extends toward MEAT-EATING PLANT. (@Devours Animal Food When Given to It in Small Morsels.) the body of the plant. This passage has a number of hairy bits about it, which are very fuzzy, and at the end of each bit there is a sticky substance. When the plant opens its mouth it is evident that the trapis then set, for upon any insect entering it the lips close upon it at once, forcing it to the gummy substance of the throat.’ This substance properties similar to those contained ia the gastric juices of the human stomach, which help to decompose and digest the food. When has so digested the food resolves itself into a liquid which is carried all over the plant to nourish and revive it. The most marvelous thing about this says the that it can digest morsels of beef, fish of which, dropped into the open leaf, were re- tained apparently digested. At the same time anything ofa starchy or fatty substance the leaf or plant is not able to retain. It does not, there- fore, close lips upon it, and if al- to rema the mouth the plant will dee: newly-discovere New York Wor such food species, as sma and egg gelatine, some and its lowed in a FORTY YEARS A JUDGE. John Jay Jackson, Jr., of West Vir- ginia, Has Sat on Bench Longer Than Any Other Man, Judge John Jay Jackson, Jr., of Parkersburg, W. Va., celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his appoint- ment as ju of the United States district court of West Virginia on Au- gust 3. He has sat upon the bench longer than any other judge, either federal or state, in the history of the United States Chief Just and others sat over 30 years upon the bench, but no one has come within four years of the length of Judge Jack- son’s term of service. Seventy-seven years of age, Judge e Jackson might several years ago have| cer. and and H Sts.N W | William. JOHN JAY JACKSON, JR. (Virginia Juri: o Has Sat on the Bench for Forty Years.) retired, »ut he expects to die in the harness, and to judge by his present vigor it v be many years before he does. For he is ay one of the most energetic of he federal judiciary and his opinions are noted for their strength and vigor. During his term f ntinuous service on al of 40 yea the bench Judge Jackson has missed but one term of court, and that was when the confederate troops under Gen. Loring were in possession of Charleston Rebinson Crusce’s Musket. A Philadelphia firm of auctioneers recently offered at one of its sales Robinson Crusoe’s musket. It was a fine old flintlock. It was in the pos- session of a grandniece of Alexande1 Selkirk, and its pedigree is much more unclouded than is usually the case with objects of this kind. Wears a Copper Dreas. The bride of William A. Clark, Jr. the son of Senator W. A. Clark, the copper king, has a dress in her treus- sean made of hairlike copper wire that was created ia Paris especially for her. The effect is said to be unique. Dainty Menu den Servants. King Edwerd ef Eagiand has or dered that the lower servants shall fave im future net only joint for din-' STUDIO: 1348 eth St. N. 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