The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1899-03-04
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HONOR TO PARENTS.

Proportion In MaHsachusefts to-
Make the Commandment a Law.
"Filial ingratitude, which Shake
speare likened in it's biting wickedness
to serpent's tooth, and which the Al
mighty in the Ten Commandments
warned people against. writes State
Senator W. J. Donovan of Massachu-
setts. "does not appear to decrease as
the world increases in wealth and pros
perity. III
"It is because right here in Massa-
chusetts I have known of cases so flag
rant that my heart has been touched
that have introduced in the legislature
the following bill
"Be 1t enacted by the senate and house Of
representatives Of the commonwealth of Mas.
sachusetts, in general court assembled and by
the authority Of tn Q same, as follows:
"Section Amy adult person, a resident OF
this state, having parent within this state,
said parent being destitute of means OF SUBJ
sistence and unable either by reason OF old
age. infrmity or illness to support himself or
herself, who is possessed of or able to earn
means sufficient to provide such parent with
necessary shelter, food, care and clothing and
negects or refuses SO to do shall, upon convtc-
ton, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
punished by imprisonment in Jail or in a work
house at hard labor for not moro than one
year nor less than three months; provided.
however, If after such conviction and before
sentence such person shall appear before the
court in which such conviction shall have talk
en- place and enter into bond, with good and
sufficient surety, to be approved by said court,
to the commonwealth in the penal sum Of 81.
600, conditioned that he will furnish such par.
emit with necessary and proper shelter. food,
care and clothing, the said court shall suspend
sentence therein. .,
"a hearing has been had by the COM
mittee on probate and insolvency, to
which it was referred, and, no opposi-
tion being made, expect favorable
report and shall with all my energy
urge its passage. H..
II was. when a member Of the Bos-
ton board of aldermen, which acts as
the Suffolk county commissioners
obliged by statute to make a semian-
nual tour Of the public institutions Of
the city and county, to talk with the
i inmates and learn their wants Our,
visits to Che paupers developed a great.
many painful facts but none more pain
full than the abandonment Of old peo-
pie by their children.
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men and women, inmates of poorhouses,
who had children living in luxury-or.
at least, in comfortable circumstances
These children lived all over the state
some in other states-and the facts
thus brought to my mind stirred my
nature. found upon inquiry that
there was in some states law against
this wickedness, and resolved to in
| troduce bill in our legislature to pre-
vent it.
"Aside from the baseness of abandon
ing old people in this way and the in
congruity of placing legal safeguards
around children providing for their
education and proper care, I think it
right that the county should be saved
the expense of supporting people whose
relations are able to care for them.
Practical Uses of Kites.
Kite photography, says w. A. Eddy
Of Bayonne, N. j.. seems to have been
| first tried by E. D. Archibald of Eng
| land in 1885. Wenz Of Paris took it up
in 1901. and Batut Of France is also
on record as an early experimenter. The
European kite photographers seem to
have attempted map views only. and
Mr.. Eddy claims the first perspective
view taken from Kite, at Bayonne.
I May 80, 1895 Since then he has taken
about 400 views, nearly all perspective
In 1894 Mr. Eddy. for the first time.
lifted "orgraph 1.400 feet into the
air ala" ought it back with q clear
record Mr. Eddy has also tried kite
telephones, a self recording ''rain kite.
an aerial camera obscura. for observing
distant objects by the aid Of a powerful
telescope directed to the dark cavity Of
the camera. kites for measuring wind
velocities by the pull of string balance.
self illumined. single plane kites, shoot
ing star signal lanterns. etc In 1898
26 Eddy kites were sent to Porto Rico
by order of General A. w. Greely. to
be used in photographing the enemy's
Notifications. but no report has yet
been made on their use, though they
were employed for military flag signal
ing.