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An Ordinance. An ordinance to prevent the spreading of diseases through the keeping and ex posing for sate ot second hand and cast off clothing, to provide for the disinfection of such clothing by the Board ot Health of the City of Griffin, to prescribe fees for the disinfection and the proper registry thereof, and for other purposes. , Sec. Ist. Be it ordained by ihe Mayor and Council of the City of'Griffin, that from and after the passage of this ordi nance, it shall be unlawful for any person or firm or corporation to keep and expose for sate any second hand or cast off clothing within the corporate lim its of the City of Griffin, unless the said clothing has been disinfected by the Board of Health of the City of Griffin, and the certificate of said Board ot Health giving the number and character of the garments disinfected by them has been filed in the office of the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin; provided nothing herein contained shall be construed as depriving individual citizens at the right to sell or otherwise dispose of their* own or their family wearing apparel, unless the same is known to have been subject to conta geous diseases, in which event this ordi nance shall apply. Sec. 2nd. Be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That for each garment disinfected by the Board of Health of Griffin, there shall be paid in advance to said board the actual cost of disinfecting the said garments, and tor the issuing of the certificate required by this ordinance the sum ot twenty-five cent#, and to the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin for the registry of said certificate the sum of fifty cents. Sec. 3rd. Be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That every person or persons, firm or corporation convicted of a. violation of this ordinance, shall be fined and sentenced not more than one hundred dollars, or sixty days in the chain gang, either or both, in the discretion of the Judge of the Criminal Court, for eaeh of fense. It shall be the duty of the police , force to see that this ordinance is strictly enforced, and report all violations the Board of Health. Sec. 4th. Be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here with are hereby repealed. An Ordinance. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun cil of the City of Griffin that from and after the passage of this Ordinance: Sec. Ist. That it shall be unlawful for any person to damage, injure, abuse or tamper with any water meter, spigot, fire plug, curb box, or any other fixture or machinery belonging to the Water Depart ment of the City of Griffin; provided that a licensed plumber may use enrb service box to test his work, but shall leave ser vice cock as he found it under penalty of the above section. Sec. 2nd. It shall be unlawful for any consumer to permit any person, not em ployed by them, or not a member ot their •family, to use water from their' fixtures. Sec. 3rd. It shall be unlawfal for any person to use water from any spigot or spigots other than those paid for by him. Sec. 4th. It shall be unlawful tor any person to couple pipes to spigots unless paid for as an extra outlet. Sec. sth. It shall be unlawful for any person to turn on water to premises or add any spigot or fixture, without first obtain ing a permit from the Water Department. Sec. 6th. It shall be unlawful for any person to allow their spigots, hose or sprinkler to run between the hours of 9:00 o’clock p. m. and 6:00 o’clock a. m., for any purpose whatever, unless there is a meter on the service. , Spigots and pipes must be boxed or wrapped to prevent freezing; they will not be allowed to run for that purpose. Sec. 7th. The employes of the Water Department shall have access to the premises of any subscriber for the purpose of reading meters, examining pipes, fix tures, etc., and it shall be unlawful for any person to interfere, or prevent their doing so. Sec. Bth, Any person violating any of the provisions ofthe above ordinance shall be arrested and carried before the Criminal Court of Griffin and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or sentenced to work on , the public works ofthe City of Griffin for a term not exceeding sixty days, or be im prisoned in the city prison for a term not exceeding sixty days, either er all, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 9th. The employees of the. Water Department shall have the same authority and power of regular policemen of the City of Griffin, for the purpose of enforc ing the above ordinance. Sec. 10th. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict of the above are hereby repealed. An Ordinance. , Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun ' cil of the City of Griffin, That from and after the passage ot this ordinance, the fol lowing rates will be charged for the use of water per year: 1. Dwellings: One 4-inch opening for subscribers’ use 0n1y,.... $ 9.00 Each additional spigot, sprinkler, bowl, closet or bath. 3.00 Livery stables, bars, soda founts and photograph galleries 24.00 Each additional opening 6.00 2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s expense, at the rate of SI.OO per year rental of same, paid in advance. A mini mum of SI.OO per month will be charged for water while the meter is on the service. The reading of the meters will be held proof qf use of water, but should meter fail to register, the bill will be averaged from twelve preceding months. 3. Meter rates will be as, follows: 7,000 to 25,000 gals, month. .15c 1 000 25,000 “ 50,000 “ “ 14c “ 50,000 * 100,000 “ “ 12c “ 100,000 “ 500,000 “ “ 10c “ 500,000 “ 1,000,000 “ " 9c “ The minimum rate shall be SI.OO per month, whether that amount of water has been used or not. 4. Notice to cut off water must be given to the Superintendent of the Water De partment, otherwise water will be charged for full time. ■ < ' 5. Water will not be turned 'on to any , premise® unless provided with an approved stop and waste cock properly located in in accessible position. 6. The Water Department shall have the right to shut off water for necessary repairs and work upon the system, and : they are not liable for any damages or re bate by reason of the same. 7. Upon application to the Water De- ; partment, the city will tap mains and lay pipes to the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest : of the piping must be done by a plumber ( at the consumers’ expense. THE JACK POT TEST. HOW A MEAN GAMBLER SPRUNG IT ON SISTER ABIGAIL He Wasted Another Proof of a Theory Concern Inc a Womanly Weakness and Got It at the Kxpenso of Uncle Uriah’s Opponents at Poker. • Bent, but tall, with sparse whiskers seldom trimmed, nearly 70 years old, Uncle Uriah used to sit in the poker game in Omaha, his long, thin fingers tremblingly placing his chips and his old eyes glittering as he timorously skinned his hand. Pathetically like Lit tle Nell’s grandfather he looked some times, but he was at no desperate shift to obtain a stake, for he was the pos sessor of a competence, and he brought into the game the caving grace of the parsimony to which he had been habit uated in his earlier days in a New Hampshire home. He never bought more than $5 worth of chips at a time. These he would for the most part ante away waiting for aces or better, and when he finally did get a good hand a bare call represented the climax of his enterprise. In those days thero was always a game on Sunday afternoons, and Uncle Uriah, although a devout Methodist, could be counted upon to arrive directly after service and to sit in until the time 'for afternoon Sunday’school. The boys used to joke him at first and ask him if he had sneaked his stake out of the con tribution box, but to this question and to air others of similar levity he op posed a scared Seriousness which showed that his passion for the game was more a weakness than a vice. Uncle Uriah lived with his two sis x ters—Abigail,* aged 63, and Ann, aged 55. In New Hampshire they had been called “the girls,” but in Omaha the irreverent with rude directness, referred to them as “ Uncle Uriah’s old maids. ” It did not take the boys in the game long to discover that Uncle Uriah was in much fear of Abigail in general and in mortal dread that she would discover his besetting weakness. He would al ways shy at a new player, and he fre quently held forth to the boys on the impropriety of talking on the outside about the features of the game. “I sh’d hate .to hev the parson know, ” he used to say. “I wouldn’t keer so much ’bout Ann, ’cause she’s easy, skeered, but I wouldn’t hev Sister Abi gail know fer the biggest jack pot t’was ever played on this here table!” There was never any solution to the mystery of how Sister Abigail discover ed the obliquity in Uncle Uriah’s life. Some officious neighbor may have told her, or in an excess of caution Uncle Uriah himself may have aroused her definite suspicions. At any rate, on a particular Sunday afternoon he arrived at the room at the regular time, but without the key with which he, in common with other participants in the game, had been provided. The negro at tendant admitted him, and ho was soon engrossed in the play. There was a good jack.pot on the ta. ble. Uncle Uriah was in and was deal ing. It was his last say, and the two men ahead of him had bet $lO each. He had drawn one card, and the play was up to him. He had not, however, look ed at his draw when the key turned in the snap lock of the front door, and Sis ter Abigail, pale with a righteous and terrible rage, strode into the room and up to the table. , * “Gamblin!” she cried. “And on the Lord’s day, with the church bells ringin outside and decent people flockin to his worship. I expected to find you here, you hypocrite!” she went on, turning to Uncle Uriah. “You better get on your duds right now and come home.” “I was comin in a jiffy,” the old man sail, weak with fear. “I guess I might as well go ’long with you as with anybody else. ” He rose and steadied himself by holding the chaar. Seth Coe was the coolest hand in the game. Even Sister Abigail-had not dis concerted him. He reached over and turned up Uncle Uriah’s hand. It was a flush. “You better straighten this pot out before you go, uncle,” said Coe. “You call, of course. I suppose a flush is good?’ ’ Coe asked, turping to the other players. They nodded assent. Coe stack ed up the chips. “Forty-three dollars here,” he said, pushing them toward Uriah. The old man started instinctively to ward the pot and theniremembered Sis ter Abigail. He stopped and waited tremblingly for her decision. It seemed to the -players, who turned from the weak and timid old mam to the dominant woman, thatiat this cru cial test something of her moral rigidity relaxed. She'did notjSweepitho qhipsto the floor. She said nothing about ill gotten gains. With.a visibfle effort she overcame a slight nervous Iconstriction of the throat. She grasped her skirts firmly and swept toward the < door. “Uriah,’’she said, with great dig nity, “I will wait for*you in the hall at the foot of the stains. ” After Uncle Uriah had obtained his $43 and departed Seth Coe said in his leisurely way: “The old man didn’t have a flush. I slipped in a card to fill it out for him. I reckoned you fellows wouldn’t mind payin once more for positive-proof that, no matter what kind of a woman she is, she’s always in with your play when you win the pot.”*—New York Sun. Careful. It is related of a certaiu< clergyman in Edinburgh thatdiewas so careful of. his quotations and/so fearfuhof the charge of plagiarism that once, in addressing the Deity, he surprised the congregation by saying, thou knowest, dear Lord, that, to quote a writer in a late ntimber of 'The Quarter lyißeview, ” eta —— l Though the Ereach are the greatest mushroom eaters in the world, cases of poisoning veryy rarely occur owing to the fact that abnost all the mushrooms eaten are raise/L '.-■■’“S’ ■ : -■ ■ ■ ■: ’*• ■ ■■ V s. ‘ £ • BANK’S PART IN FARMING. Hat? the traders Id Money Bnaklo SeO Tlllere to Work. How does a bank help the farmer? * With the approach of the time for plowing and planting, seeds and fer tilizer will bo necessary. How can the farmer buy them if the last season was a poor one? He has spent all of his earnings in running the household dur ing the long winter. He goes to the dealer in fertilizer in the nearest vil lage and asks, “What is the price off fertilizer a ton?” “Fifty dollars," the dealer replies. “Well, I will need two tons, and that will amount to $100." « “Yes. Take it along now?” . “I haven’t the ready cash just now, but”— “Oh, that’s all right. I know you’re good for it. Take it along and give me your note payable in four months. By that time your crops will be yielding a profit. ” The farmer gives his note; the dealer indorses it and gives it in payment to the wholesaler from whom he gets the fertilizer; the wholesaler sends it to the manufacturer of the fertilizer, who in turn takes it to his bank and borrows the money on it less the interest i The farmer gets his seed in the same way and at the time of the expiration of the notes is able to meet his obliga tions. Thus, instead of the farmer being compelled to wait until he can get the cash to pay before he can buy the fer tilizer and seed, he obtains them when he needs them. The dealer; instead of having to wai t until the farmer gets the money before lie can sell his goods, sells them in the proper season and receives what is to him practically cash. The wholesaler receives from the retailer what is as good as cash to him, and the manufacturer receives virtually cash from the wholesaler. How would all this be possible were it not that the bankers had collected the idle money of other people and were able to lend it out to good advantage! The farm would go unplanted; the ground would go untilled; there would be no crops'to yield a profit That’s where the bank helps the farmer.—New York Press. GOLD FILLED TEETH. Moro of the Metal Goes Into Them Than ' Can Be Got Out. An example of some of the queer ex periences people have when they are called upon to buy a thing with which they are not familiar and which they have need of only on rare and unusual occasions is thus set forth by ths Mil waukee Sentinel: A young woman who worked as a domestic went to a dentist to get her teeth repaired. He repaired them and sentabill of SBS. He justified himself for the charges by explaining how much the fillings cost him. In one hol : low tooth, he said, he put $lO worth of gold. The bill was paid, and recently, when the little nugget (said to be worth $10) came out, the woman took it to a goldsmith and had it appraised. He weighed it scrupulously and valued it at 48 cents. She no longer has faith in her dentiqt. It seems to be always good taste to “go shopping” among the dentists be fore having any considerable amount of work done. There is considerable hum buggery about the business in some quarters. The public is told that sls is a fair price for a crown and stands ready to pay it, on the ground that good work deserves good pay. A few blocks away the same work was done last week for $5, just as well as if sls had been paid, and it was done by a reputable dentist. One dentist figured on SBS for six teeth, and another 200 yards away performed the service for S3O. —Philadelphia Times. The First Chinese Baby Show. The first Chinese baby show in the world has just been held here. There were 200 of them. From embroidered slipper to shaven poll they were arrayed in their best. They wore satin blduses that shone in the sun with a silvery shimmer. They wore embroideries of wonderful birds and bees and flowers never seen on land or sea. The little boys were shaven, and the little girls had their hair stiffened and polished and dressed as though for the grandest function, with little birdcages and fringes of beads and paper atop. There were great tinklings of metal and much shining of green jade. A new fashion in infant headgear showed a halo of stiff pompons that rose above the infants’ somber eyes. Others wore huge rosettes of silk on each temple, like a joss, and one little girl had a mane of black silk cue strings hanging down from the back of her head. Even the baby com plexions had been looked after. On the smooth, yellow cheeks appeared the most lovely patch of pink rouge, put on quite frankly in the Chinese fashion. The rosebud mouths were touched up, and the narrow brows beautifully pen ciled.—Penang Gazette. Humors of the Dublin Gallery. The humor of the Dublin gallery has long been proverbial Macready, in his “Reminiscences,” relates that on one occasion when playing Otway’s “Venice Preserved,” Jaffier’s long and rather drowsy dying speech was interrupted by one of the gallery, in a tone of great impatience, calling out very loudly, “Ah, now die at once!” to which an other from the ether side immediately replied, “Be quiet, you blackguard,” then turning with a patronizing tone to the lingering Jaffier, “Take your time. Conihill Magazine. The Russian Soldier. The common soldier in Russia re ceives 3 rubles per annum—about $2.25. The day rations consist of two pounds of suchary, which is a very coarse kind of bread made of cracked rye, baked bard at first, then cut into small pieces and further dried in a heated oven; a small quantity of salt and some soup. - * • *' IN NEW YORK’S EARLY DAYS. The Bowery Wae the Reaort of Wealth, Beauty and Faabion. , “A pleasant picture occurs to me of a summer progress of the family of Governor Stuyveaanl to and from the meeting house, for divine wonhip in » the fort near the Battery, New York,*’ writes Mrs. Burton Harrison in Ths Ladies* Home Journal, describing “When Fashion Graced the Bowery. ” “In a brave coach, drawn by shining hones, is ensconced the governor him self, whose long, laced coat half hides his wooden leg handed with silver. He wears a carefully curled peruke and holds his hat upon hia knee, in order to court tho cool sea breeze that fans tail rugged visage. Hia lady, sitting in state beside him, is, in their staid and phleg matio community, accounted a brilliant personage; her gowns came out from her native Paris, and her silken hood ii Worn over frizzled and powdered hair; her embroidered hose and high heeled shoes, her rings, bracelets and lockets, with the gorgeously bound book of de votions supended by a golden chain to her waistband, may be depended Upon as models of the very latest modes. Mrs. Bayard, the widowed sister of the governor, occupies a seat in tho coach facing them. “After service in the bare colonial church—where tho dominie’s sermon, however eloquent, was always brought to an end by three raps from the clerk’s stick at the moment when the sands of the hourglass had announced that the preacher’s limit of time had been reach ed—the Stuyvesant party passes out be tween rows of respectful gazers. ” Diseases of Miners. As to whether there are any diseases peculiar to the miners* calling there is evidence that, with one, or perhaps two, exceptions, there are none suph. These exceptions are an affection »of the eye, termed “nystagmus,” andsin a'lesser degree, that disease of the respiratory organs which usually goes by the name of miners’ asthma. Nystagmus, al though not a prevalent affection, is one With well marked symptoms directly traceable to the posture of the collier while at work. The symptoms are oscillation with more or less of a rolling motion of the eyeballs, giddiness, with headache, and the appearance of objects moving in a circle, or lights dancing before the eyes. In severe cases the person affected may stumble and be so much incon venienced as to be obliged to stop work. Dr. Simeon Snell of Sheffield has given this disease special attention for about 20 years and has published the results of his investigations, which shew be yond all reasonable doubt that nysirfg- Bius is confined almost entirely to those underground workmen who are engaged in holing or undercutting the coal, and is due to the miners’ habit of looking upward above the horizontal line of vision, and more or less obliquely while at work lying on his side. It has been observed also in firemen and others who have occasion frequently to examine the roof, turning the eyes obliquely while doing so. Any other occupation in which the person may habitually turn the eyesupward and sideways will induce nystagmus.—Coal Trade Jour nal. Artiste* Failures. “Do not, let me beg of you, be afraid of so called failures, ” said a well known artist addressing bis class. “They are only stepping stones to success, the premiums we all must pay for experi ence, I may say, without vanity, that I have been fairly successful in any pro fession, and yet to one canvas that suc ceeded there have been as many as 40 which I have scraped down with my palette knife in disgust. Even if a stu dent never succeeds, his very failures may be noble.” It is not only to art that this exhorta tion might apply. In every career, in every walk in life, the same point of view should be taken. Failures are not failures really—they are lessons; they are stepping stones. They should not be associated for a moment with despond ency or hopelessness. Just as a child tumbles and picks himself up as a mat ter of course 1 and runs gayly on, so should we children of a larger growth regard the ups and downs of life, never losing courage, however often we tum ble. Young people especially should be taught that it is not always success to succeed and that disappointments should tee taken philosophically. The idea of a booby prize in games is a good one. There fire many prizes in life for those who apparently fail, and even in worldly matters the' last shall be first and the first shall/be last in nine casea out of ten.—New York Tribune. Six Strong Words. “You may fire when ready, Gridley.” That phrase of Admiral Dewey’s as the Olympia, steaming slowly, was getting the range of her guns On the Spanish fleet, is likely to bo long quoted and wide ly remembered. Surely it breathes cool ness, care, confidence in the face of an enormous and pressing responsibility. Compare it with the thunder it instantly wakened, ’the tremendous forces it let loose, tho terrible destruction that follow ed, and you will find it the most typical Americanism of the quarter centrry. Mark, too, its politeness as well as its touch of comradeship.—Criterion. Germany's Debt. Germany’s debt in 1877 was 16,000,000 marks. In 1887 it had increased to nearly 500,000,000 marks., It is now 2,H1,000,- 000 marks, and is still going up with a steadiness which bears strong testimony to the financial resources ot the frugal fa therland. It will* soon be able to'point with pride to a national debt of the high est class, scientifically adjusted to the ca pacity of tho people to bear it, like a pack saddle to the back of an Andorra mule, just a shade easier to stand up under than to lie down under. Fined For lack «rs Good Taste. A Breslau hotel keeper has just bean fined on the ground that “by placing a tasteless and offensive wooden fence along one of the finest parts of the roadway he would wound the aesthetic feelings of tho public,” contrary to a statute book against “grober untug,” or “gross nutenoa.*” ■ ■ ■ V <■* rssiCftSTOßift f ASTO RIA I The Kind You Have - - il Always Bought gmim- II Bears the / . , —;; I Signature //d dps • Promotes Digestion,Cheerful- ■ / V |AT nessandßest.Containsneither ■ A >|l Opium .Morphine nor Mineral. ■ VI Not Narcotic. ■ . ' ■ •.\ I ■ Mx. Jmna * * ■ In Hl 1 111 I | i g g A perfect Remedy fotConslipa- M I W -O' tion. Sour Stonwich.Diarrhoea; MI tAj Worms .Convulsions,Feverish- Ml r sa uess and Loss of Sleep. M Fill Fac Sitrale Signature of M Tl 6 | Thirty Years CXACT COPYOF WRAPPER. MUHV ■ Wlllil’. "iliUHar-» ii. 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