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'?,-' -, T A -V, THE EVENING BULLETIN VOLUME XIX. MAYSVILLE, KY., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1900. NUMBER 296. 'ft fjw.l ' llllv i I i 1 iVi S & r " -A . i. 3k fc-r I'' v fet' I ' UNIFORM DIVORCE LAW Agreed on by CoiTimissioners From Various Slates Provisions of tbe'Act. (From the Richmond Time's. At tbe next session of the Legislature a bill will be offered changing the law in relation to divorce. It will be presented by three commFs3ioners from Virginia on Uniformity of State Laws. After the commissioners from various States agree npon a bill it generally receives the ap proval of the American Bar Association and then is presented to the Boveral State Legislatures. . The bill in relation to divorces, which will promptly be adopted by every State, it is expected, is as follows : Section 1. No divorce shall be granted for any cause arising prior to the resi dence of the complainant or defendant in this State, which was not a ground for divorce in the State where the case arose. Sec. 2. No person' shall be entitled to a divorce for any cause arising in this State, who has not had actual residence in this State for at least one year next before bringing suit for divorce, with a bona fide intention of making this State his or her permanent home. Sec. 3. No person shall be entitled to a divorce for any cause arising out of this State unless the complainant or de fendant shall have resided within this State for at least two years next before bringing Buit for divorce, with a bona fide intention of making this State his or her permanent home. Sec. 4. No person shall be entitled to a divorce unless the defendant shall have been personally served with pro cess, if within this State, or if without this State shall have had personal no tice duly proved and appearing of rec ord, or shall have entered an appear ance in the case, but if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court that the complainant does not know tbe address nor the residence of the defendant and has not been able to ascertain either, after reasonable and due inquiry and search, the court or Judge in vacation may authorize notice by publication of the pendency of the suit for divorce, to be given in manner provided by law. Sec. 5. No divorce shall be granted solely upon dcfmlt nor solely npon ad missions by the pleadings, nor except upon hearing before the court in open session. Sec. 0. After divorce either party may marry again, but in cases where notice has been given by publication only and the defendant has not appeared, no de cree or judgment for divorce shall be come final or operative until six months after bearing and decision. Sec. 7. Wherever the word "divorce" occurs in the act, it shall be deemed to mean divorce from tbe bond of marriage. Sec. 8. All acts and parts of acts in consistent herewith are hereby repealed. In its report the Committee on Uni form State Laws says: , "It may not be out of placo in this connection for your committee to say a word as to the purpose, wisdom and practicability and effect of this short, simple and most moderate act which is the outcome of much deliberation and discussion extending over three years' eesflions of . the conference. The act proposed attacks directly and we believe effectively three of the greatest evils, considered from a legal standpoint, of the present condition of our various and conflicting divorce laws. First, it does away largely with the Bcandal of migratory divorces. Second, it prevents the wrong of fpeedy decrees against ab sent defendants who may be ignorant of any suit pending. Third, it does away with the interstate confusion, arising from eomo few States forbidding remar riage, while a great majority of the States permit it." CLOCK REFORM IN SPAIN. The Hoars Will Run From One to Twenty-four. Philadelphia Record. The Queen of Spain has signed a de cree establishing the method of account ing time which omits the "A. M." and "P. M." of the present universal sye tem. In all railway, mail, telegraph-, telephone and steamship service in the FemnBula and tbe Ballearic Islands, and in all the ministerial offices, the courts and all public works-, time will hereafter be regulated by the time of the Green wich Observatory, commonly known as Western European time. The computa tion of the hours will be made from the hour of midnight to the following mid night in hours from one to twenty-four, omitting the words "tarde" (afternoon) and "noche" (night), heretofore in cus tomary use. The hour of midnight will be designated at twenty-four. These reg ulations are designated to take effect January 1, 1001. Government officials aro directed to obBervo and carry out the decree and all of their respective depart ments and bureaus. IIU Opinion. FIddleback Are you going around to Miss Muffin's tomorrow night, Mrs. Von Blumer? Mrs. Von DIumer She gives. n chaf ing dish party, doesn't she? Fldtlleback-Yes. Mrs. Von Blumer Wo may. Are you? FIddleback (smiling) Well, hardly. Mrs. Von Bluiuur Why, I thought you were fond of Miss Muffin. FIddleback I am, but not of her chafing dish parties. Mrs. Von Blumcr -You mean FIddleback I mean the chafing dish part. Mrs. Von Blumer You don't like that? FIddleback Well. I can stand n good deal, but the concoctions Miss Matiln gets up in that Instrument of torture are too much for me. Mrs. Von Blumer You are too hard on her, I am sure. FIddleback Hard on her, do you say! Well, I guess she is pretty hard on the rest of her victims. Mrs. Von Blumer What particular dish of hers don't you like? FIddleback Well. I can't say that I am partial to any of them. I've tried them all, and there Isn't much choice. Her lobster Newburg can pro duce about as much complex agony as anything else. B.ut I think for suf fering long drawn out, for steady, un Intermlttent. nblebodiod pain, her Welsh rabbit takes the blue ribbon. Have you ever tried Miss Muffin's Welsh rabbit? Mrs. Von Blumer Oh, yes. Indeed! Why, I have been giving her cooking lessons for the last six months! Har per's Bazar. Ills Moments of Joy. Did you ever hear of the strange man who went out to a summer hotel once for a holiday? Ho Impressed ou the clerk the first day he was there that it was of vital Importance that tie be called at C o'clock next morning. He was called. lie didn't come down stairs till 2 In the afternoon. The in junction to the clerk was repeated ev ery day, and every day the mysterious guest staid In his room till late In the afternoon. When he had been at the placo a week nnd was about to leave, the clerk said to him: "I beg your pardon, sir; It's none of my business, but why have you left or ders to be called at 0 o'clock every morning and never got out of bed till several hours later?" "Well," he replied. "I'll tell you. Back In the city I've got n job that compels me to get up every morning, summer nnd winter, nt 0 o'clock. This Is my first vacation for Ave years. Ev ery day when your bellboy has come up stairs ami banged at the door I'vo started up to dress and get down to the office and then suddenly let the convic tion steal blissfully over my brain that I didn't have to. Then I've gone back to bed, hugged the pillow nnd dreamed that I was In the Elysian fields. That moment of joy that has followed the bnuging on my door every morning has been worth three times the price of the bill." Chicago Times-Herald. Sympnthy Misplaced. One day during a cold snap last win ter I saw an old man In a grocery act ing rather suspiciously, and spon I saw him steal n potato from a barrelful of the tubers that stood outside the coun ter. The old fellow slipped out of the house as soon as he could convenient ly nndIlmped away. I followed him. thinking to give him what change I could spare, for I thought he must b desperately poor if he must stenl a po tato. When I caught up with him and of fered hlni a little money, the old man roared with laughter. When he had got his breath again, he said: "You saw me steal the potato, didn't you?" "Yes. sir, I did." 'Well, lemme tell you, my son. I've got potatoes to sell. I raise thousands of bushels of them. I've got the big gest market garden In this county, and I've got more money than you ever saw. Carryln a potato In your pocket will cure the rheumatiz, but fgr it to do nny good you've got to steal the potato. See? I saw. And I sawed wood. Will VIsscher in Woman's Home Compan ion. Bnd Manners. An old gentleman, walking up Cork Hill, Dublin, overtook a coal cart heav ily loaded and drawn by a wretched quadruped with Its legs bending under It, Its bones sticking through Its skin. "How can you 111 treat your horse so?" he cried, addresslug the driver. "It Is quite exhausted. Look at the way Its tongue Is hanging out." "Exhausted, Is It?" answered tbe boy. "Why, 'tis the bad manners of hlui. ne's putting It out at you!" London Tit-Bits. Hnjoynble. Teas How did you enjoy yourself nt her wedding? .less Very much. ner,gown was a wretched bad tit, nnd everybody was remarking how poor the presents were. -Exehung. OUR WINES AT PARIS. Ke-nHvcd Slany Avrnrda, hat Deferr ed More. The remarkable success of American wines at the Paris exposition thor oughly astonished the French. nnd when the fact becomes better known In this country It will he a cause for congratulation on the part of all loyal Americans. Every wine producing country hi the world sent samples of Its product to the exposi on. All told, there were 0.000 different exhibitors, presenting approximately nn average of five kinds of wine each. This made a total of about J5(i,000 samples which the wine jury was obliged to test and pass judgment upon. Of these ."(1000 samples there were about 500 from the United State-?, exhibited by about 100 producers. More than SO per cent of the samples exhibited received ei ther gold or silver medals, and one wine missed by only one point of get ting the Grand Prix, says the New York Sun. Tills proportion of awards wns higher than that received by any other nation. Even France, with all Its wonderful science in grape culture and wlnemak Ing, failed to get more than 42 per cent of Its exhibits Into the honor class. And it should bo remembered, too. that the Jury was composed largely of Frenchmen, who would naturally be disposed to favor the wines of their own country. That the United States got so large a percentage shows that the Frenchmen were surely fair in their judgment. Had It uot been for the unfortunate practice of American wlnemnkers of labeling their wines with French names the percentage of awards would have been much higher. As It wns a number of the very best wines made In the United States were excluded from the awards by reason of these imitation names. To the avornge wine drinker In the United States that is, the person who Is not n connoisseur the words sherry, Kautcrne. burgundy, port and cham pagne are descriptive of a kind of witiL. Without special thought It Is taken for granted that these words are generic. And so one often sees ports and sherries and champagnes and bur gundies which are made In the United States, and It never occurs to the av erage person that there is nnything un fair or deceptive In these names. To the Frenchman, raised In an atmos phere of wine culture, nnd to the thor ough student of the subject this prac tice Is most reprehensible. The French man knows that, properly speaking, a burgundy wine can only come from Burgundy, that a port wine can only come from the district of Oporto, that a champagne can only come from the Champagne district nnd that a sherry can only come from the Spanish dis trict of Xeres. The character of the wines made in these various districts Is so distinctive nnd has gained such worldwide reputation that the names of the provinces have come to be used by the general public In this country at least as descriptive of the character of the wine rather than as descriptive of the place where It Is made. So It Is that we have American burgundies nnd Amerlcnu champagnes, American sherries and American sauternes and American St. .lullen clarets . and American Medoc clarets and many similar misnomers. How Much Sleep In Needed. Sleep Is nature's best restorative. The length of time to bo given to slum ber varies In accordance to age. In fants require at least 10 hours out of the 24; to the age of 4 or ."). about 12 hours, and from 10 to 13, about 10 hours. The most beneficial sleep Is that which is taken an hour or two be fore midnight, says McCnll's Maga zine. Those, of course, whose occupa tions necessitate their time of rest be ing somewhnt Irregular should endeav or to make up for lost sleep, otherwise Nature will have her revenge on nu overtaxed brain. A light supper should be taken at least two hours before re tiring, nnd the mind ought not to b engaged In deep study Just before bed time, otherwise sleep will be restless and nprefreshlng. Healthy sleep Is one of the grcntest promoters of longevity Insomnia- Is very prevalent nowadays, owing to the rush nnd excitement of modern existence. Sufferers from this miserable complaint should consult n good doctor. -Recourse to drugs of which one knows so little Is to be en tirely deprecated. The health of thou sands has been ruined through the ire of uarcbtlcs, for most narcotics contain some sort of poison, nud their ultimate effect Is certain deterioration of the brain power. Coir. The game of golf was put down by an act of parliament In Scotland In 1841 as a nuisance. Then fines were Inflicted on people who were found guilty of playing the game, for It inter fered with the practice of archery, as men preferred wielding the club to pulling the bow, To prevent obstruction to traffic' In Hip main streets of Boston In the day time all tln repalis are made at ulglu. Ullnre Wnter. I am q lite well aware that there are objections to hospital ships In the trop ics. When they are moored, there Is the burning question of bilge water. I will not discourse on the subject of bilge water, as inexperience thereof might make the explanation weari some. Any one acquainted with the bilge wnter question knows It Is of en grossing Interest. BllgO Is a prince among smells, and If you have ever fallen under Its power you will always think that every terrific thing In smells Is a manifestation of bilge water. I remember ou one occasion when on board a moored hulk, uot a hospital ship, smelling in the evening some thing that called for mention, so I mentioned it. "Oh," said my com panions, more under the sway of bilge water than I was, from their greater knowledge of its power, "It's only our bilge water." In the morning we found it was the rotting carcass of an ele phant that had floated down the river und now hung In the mooring chain. After a considerable time was spent In getting rid of the carcass I said, "For goodness' sake, gentlemen, stir up your bilge water, and let the smells fight It out together while we go ashore for a spell." "No," said my companions, terror stricken at the sug gestion. "You do uot know our bilge water when its back's up. It would Btretch you If you were half way across Africa. This elephant Is mere lavender water to It." This was a more dreadful bilge water than a hospital ship would have. Still, though had, bilge water Is uot neces sarily fatal under proper management. Chambers' Journal. Paid Ills Debt. When Joe Chamberlain entered the house of commons, he was anxious to try his oratorical powers. A certain leading politician, who was piloting a bill through the house, was approached by one of Mr. Chamberlain's friends, who said: "Chamberlain would like to speak on the bill. Can you give him a chance?" "Well, you know, I think it would not do. He's a new member, and no body knows what the dickens he might say." Time went ou. Chamberlain gained ground beenmo a power In parlia ment. The leading politician, on the contrary, had made a series of blunders which had Imperiled his position. An election was Imminent. Forgetting his previous record, he thought that If he could get Mr. Chamberlain to speak for him he would strengthen his position. He, therefore, applied to the right hon orable gent)"inan. The latter calmly surveyed him through his eyeglass and said: "Well, you know, I think It would not do. I am a uew menibpr, and no body knows what the dickens I might say!" Chinese Porcelain. Chinese porcelain was common In Europe for 400 years before a German potter succeeded In flndlug out the process of making It. This Chinese pottery is scnttered all over the world and everywhere valued, but nowhere was the distribution more curious than In western Canada. Early in the nine teenth century a Chinese Junk wns cast away ou the Pacific coast of America Just south of Vancouver island, and Its cargo of willow pattern plates fell into the hands of the Hudson Bay compa ny's officers. Still In the remotest trad ing posts of the fur traders a few tine specimens remain. THE HOUSEHOLD. The Peniiul na nn Ornnment The Cook's "IIclpItiK Hands" Clilck- rii Bouillon nnd Cream. KiirnliiK Ont SIiiiiin, The easiest way to get rid of stumps in field or meadow is to burn them out. Dig a trench around the stumps about two feet wide and two and n half or three feet deep, cut off all projecting roots quite close and remove the soil as well as possible. Then leave the Stump for a few days to dry. Gather up a lot of dry sticks, brush, etc.. and fill up the trench nil around nnd on top of the stump nnd set It on lire. The stump will be consumed In n day or two. Even green stumps may be burn ed out In this wny. although It may re quire a second or third supply of dry sticks on the fire to accomplish It. Contributor American Agriculturist. The cable companies as a rule do not lay their own cables, although they have large and well equipped steamers with which to make repairs. There are several British companies which make n business of laying cables. They own their steamers and train their officers and crews to the work. New York Trlbuue. A writer In the Now York Medh al Journal says that the curved pages of the ordinary book are Injurious to the eye of the render. The curvature ne cessitates a constant change of the fo cus of the eye'ns it rends from one side to another, and the clllnry muscles are under a constant strain. Moreover, the light falls unequally upon both sides of the page, further Interfering with a continued clear 'field of vision. It Is suggested that the difficulty might be obviated If the linen should be print ed parallel to the binding instead of at right angles to It. "Few persons are perhaps aware that a thing of beauty is a common peanut plant, growing singly In nNslx or eight Inch pot nnd grown Indoors during the colder months." observed a liorist to n reporter. "Kept In a warm room or by the kitchen stove a peanut kernel planted In a pot of loose mellow loam, kept only moderately moist, will soon germinate and grow up Into a beautiful plant. It is in a similar way that the peanut planters test their seeds every year, beginning even early In the winter, and the facility with which the seeds will grow in this way has suggested to many southern flower lovers the possibility of making the useful peanut an ornamental plant for the parlor or sitting room window. "As the plant Increases In size and extends Its branches over the sides of the pot in a pendent manner there are few plants of more Intrinsic beauty. The curious habit of the compound leaves of closing together like the leaves of n book on the approach of night or when a shower begins to fall on them Is one of the most Interesting habits of plant life. And then, later on, for the peanut Is no ephemeral wonder, enduring for a day or two only, the appearance of the tiny yel low flowers and putting forth of the peduncles on which the nuts grow Im part to this floral rarity a striking and unique charm all its own. There is nothing else like It, nnd florists throughout the country might well add the peanut plant to their list of novel and rare things." Washington Star. "Hclplnu- Ilnnds." A writer In Home Chat says as she passed through the kitchen of a friend who Is an up to date housekeeper that the cook was diving with a mysterious sort of tongs arrange ment into a sauce pan and fishing up some dump lings destined to garnish the boil ed pork for the kitchen dinner. To my look of Inquiry Mrs. N. said: "Oh, those ure cook's 'Help ing Hands,' and very helpful they are. You use them to lift things out of boiling wa ter or to draw pies, etc., from the oven, and I am sure they save my poor cloths from many a burn." fi Chicken Uoulllon nud Crenui. As one course of a luuchuou or for light refreshment nothing is more generally satisfactory than chicken bouillon served with whipped cream. To make It put a three or four pound chicken into a quart of cold water with a stalk of celery, a slice of onion and a sprig of parsley. Set on the back of the range and let It come slowly to a simmer. Cook slowly for half a day, skimming It often. Then strain It into a saucepan or soup kettle, season with salt and pepper and add the white of one egg that has been beaten with one- half cupful of cold water. Wash the eggshell and add that, but do not al low any of the yolk to get In, as It will make the liou.llon cloudy. Let the soup boll rapidly for ten minutes and then turn In one cupful of cold water ami boil for five minutes longer. Re move from the fire and stralu through u flannel cloth. Salt to taste nud color with one-half teaspoonful of caramel to every quart of the bouillon. Servo In cups with whipped cream. Do Your Own Marketing. In nothing more than marketing does the old truism, "If you want unythlug done well, do it yourself," npply. The woman who buys her own provisions Is mistress of the situation In more ways than one. The butcher, the bak er and the candlestick maker all try to please the patron who knows what she wants and refuses to be pleased with anything short of It. A little woman was heard to say to a reliable butcher the other day: "1 have just moved Into the neighborhood and want a butcher that 1 can trust to give me the worth of my money nud to advise mo about the best and most economical cuts of meat. I do not want to pay for faucy cuts, but I want the best of every thing." "Thnt," said the butcher as the wom an left, "Is the kind of a customer that an honest man lles. But woe betldo the dlshouest deader who tries to get the better of her. She Is too wise to bo fooled." New York Tribune. The Price of Ten Cents' Worth. Customer Give no 10 cents' worth of paregoric, please. Druggist Yes. sir. Customer (absentmlndqdly) How much Is it? ' Druggist A quarter. Boston Chris tian Register. tf v . r