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An Ordinance.
An ordinance to prevent the spreading
of diseases throagh the keeping and ex
nOdiDß for 8816 Oi BCCODQ 11811(1 find. off
clothing, to provide for the disinfection of
snob clothing by the Board oi 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 the 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 persons, firm or corporation to keep
and expose for sale 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, anti 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 of 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 Sy 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 for the issuing of
the certificate Required by this ordinance
the sum ot twenty-five cents, 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, f>r each 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with are hereby repealed.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 curb service
box to test his work, but shall ledve ser
vice cock as he found it under penalty of
the above section. f
Bee. 2nd. It shall be unlawful .for any
consumer to permit any persony not em
ployed by thempor not a memwr oi their
family, to use water from thaw- fixtures.''
Sec. Brd. It shall be unlavfful for any
person to use water from any spigot or
spigots other than those paid for by him.
Sec. 4th. It shall be unlawml for 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
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 lor any
person to interfere, or prevent their doing
so.
Sec. Bth. Any person violating any of
the provisions of the 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 of the 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 or all, in the
discretion of the court.
Sec. 9th. The employees of the Water
Department shall have the same authority
and power ot 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 t-inch opening for subscribers’
use only $ 11.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 7. 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda fount? 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
tor water while the meter is on the service.
The reading of the meters will be held
proof of use of water, but should meter
fail to register, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding months.
8. 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
premises unless provided with an approved
stop and waste cock properly located in
an accessible position.
6. The Water Department shall have
the right th shut off water for necessary
repairs and work upon the system, and
they are not liable for any damages or re
bate by reasoif of the same.
7. Uppfa 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.
I
Old Tiling.
’As easy as an old shoe, ’ is a fa
miliar saying,” said Mr. Staybolt, "and
there can be no doubt that an old shoe
is.a mighty comfortable thing. After
we have worn the new shoes, close fit
ting, hard ajid formal, how gladly we
put them off, and with what joy we put
on the shoes that are old and worn an ri
familiar to the feet! Old shoes, how
ever, are not the only things old that we
like. We like an old bed, if it is not
too old, but just old enough, so that
while still soft and comfortable it is
also shaped somewhat to the body,
which it supports at every point, yield
ing a degree of oomfort which not the
finest of beds can afford when it is new.
“But it is so with all things old, that
are not too old, including old habits.
We cling to them so long as they give
us comfort, and we hate to change. We
are creatures of habit, who would if we
could follow to the end along the first
comfortable rut we fall into and never
look out above its sides. And it is well
for ns that our shoes wear out and that
we have to buy new ones and wear
them, that we are in various ways
compelled to change, that we are root
ed out now and then and set going
anew.”—New York Sun.
The Passion of the Hoar.
Every year modern habits become
more unlovely and modern sensibilities
more blunted. The preservation of what
is beautiful, per se, at the present time
is almost always ridiculed, unless it can
be shown to be joined to some profit or
utility.
■ The characteristic passion of the hour
is greed—greed of possession, desire
of acquisition and passion for osten-
has become an octopus em
bracing the whole world. The thirst
for gain engrosses all classes. Beauty,
unless it be a means of gain, is to this
temper a useless, or worse than a use
less, thing; it is regarded as a stumbling
block and incumbrance. It is doubtful
if even the power of perceiving what is
beautiful has not in a great measure left
a large part of the population in all
countries. Modern cities would not be
what they are now had not the race to
a great extent grown color blind and be
come without the sense of proportion.
Modern builders and modern engineers
would remain unoccupied were not the
generations which employ and enrich
them destitute of all artistic feelings.—
Onida in Fortnightly Review.
The Birthplace of Josephine.
Fort de France, Martinique, is the
strongest fortified point the French own
in America. It is both a military and
naval station, and a fort was erected on
a mountain top there years ago, which
has since been improved and strength
ened by some of the most modem guns
known in warfare.
During the civil war the United
States cruiser Kearsarge chased the Con
federate blockade runner Alabama into
the harbor, and was on the point of
opening fire on her when the authorities
forbade it* Here they remained for some
time, and during a stormy night the
Alabama slipped out and disappeared in
the Caribbean sea.
~ Several times the place has been bad
ly damaged by tropical cyclones, during
which hundreds lost their lives. It is
noted as being the birthplace of the
Empress Josephine; a life size piece of
statuary of her adorns the principal
plaza. The fort has had for years but
one family—the king of Dahomey and
his six wives, whom the French captur
ed after great trouble in the African
wilds and imprisoned.—Philadelphia
Record.
His Two Question*.
“I say, pa,” began little Clarence
Callipers, with the rising inflection oi
one who earnestly desires to acquire
important information, "what”—
"Oh, I don’t knew, ” replied his long
suffering sire wearily.
"Yes. But the question I wanted to
ask isn’t foolish, pa. ”
"H’m! If it isn’t foolish, you may
ask it. But remember, just one ques
tion and no more. ”
"Well, pa, there are two of ’em that
I want to ask. One is, which is the
smartest, the man who knows enough
to know that he don’t know much of
the man who knows enough to look as
if he knew everything? The other is, if
the end of the world was to come and
the earth be destroyed while a man was
up in a balloon, where would he land
when he came down? And, pa, I don’t
know which one of ’em to ask. ”—Pear
son’s Weekly.
«. Hunger Madness.
The sufferings of pellagra are those
well known in times of famine. The
effects sometimes do not entirely disap
pear. A woman of my acquaintance
near Monza, who had the pellagra some
years before, was considered cured. She
was the wife of a prosperous shopkeeper
when I knew her. The only remaining
trace of her malady was that from time
to time she stopped in conversation, a
look of anguish came into her eyes, and
she would say in her dialect: “H pan
l*e bon, eil vin l’e bon ma il pan I’e
bon 1’ ’—Bread is good, and wine is good,
but bread is good I The horror of that
suffering from starvation had never left
her.—" Hunger and Poverty In Italy, ”
by Mrs. Dario Papa in North American
Review.
Anchovies.
Sir Walter Scott used to tell a story
of one of the nursery gardeners of his
day: "An old friend of mine having
asked him to supply him with a dozen
anchovies, he replied, ’He had plenty,
but being a delicate plant they were
still in the hothouse.’” Household
Work.
The library of congress ranks sixtii
among the libraries of the world in its
present contents. France has the largest,
England next; then comes Russia, and
Germany follows with her libraries in
Munich, Beilin and Strassberg, the last
named holding almost equal rank with
ours in Washington. ' ; W ?
n.rote or th. ruhtraw.
It is always with a vague regret that
we read the sagas, and are thrilled by
the viking’s exploits. It seems as if the
deeds daring had gone by forever,
and as if the heroes of the deep were a
myth of the past. Absorbed in the
Norse romance, we forget that the vik
ings were only pirates, and that they
dared for slaughter and for booty.#- If
the Gloucester of today had only existed
then, what heroic saga would it not
have inspired I For to risk life far glory
or riches or rescue or love is in the
heart of every man to do, but to risk
life for a bare existence, for other peo
ple’s profit and for an anonymous end
partakes of that commonplace sublimity
which does not form the favorite plot of
poets, although once in awhile it is the
subject of a daily paragraph.
For the vikings are not dead. From
Portland to New Orleans, our harbors
are full of them. They lounge upon our
wharfs, and we do not recognize them.
They loiter on our streets, and we know
them not. But if there is a more mod
est, unconscious, or braver fellow than
Jack the Fisherman, our eyes have yet
to rest upon his face. He is the hardiest
and most daring, the best sailor in the
world today. Any continental kingdom
would give its wealth to possess him for
its defense. He is the envy of every
maritime nation. Has he no value for
us, beyond the halibut and the cod, the
haddock and the cask?—Herbert D.
Ward in Century.
The Debut of the Bowie Knife.
To the public mind duels were really
a necessity. The man who would not
fight "at the drop of a hat and drop it
himself, ” was soon made to feel that he
had very much better not have been
born.
There were progressive duels, too,
from which the popular mind no more
revolted than it does in this era from
progressive whist or euchre. It was one
of them which gave Bowie and his
knife to fame. In some way there had
come to be bad blood, black and bitter,
between him and a certain Colonel
Norris Wright After long bickering,
it was agreed to meet upon the levee
opposite Natchez, Miss., each with half
a dozen friends, duly armed, and there
shoot the matter out There were a doz
en on each side when it came to fight
ing. The battle was arranged to begin
with threes, the rest standing by, and
coming in only when those of the first
fight were dead or disabled. But they
had miscalculated their own self con
trol. After the first fire there was a
general melee—the reserves to a man
gripped pistols hard, drew knife belts
to a handy Clutch and went into the
combat to do or die.—Martha McCul
loch-Williams in Harper’s Magazine.
The Climate of the Philippines.
In regard to the climate which a for
eigner encounters it is easy to exagger
ate its discomforta Although it is
tropical, still even in summer the cli
mate may be called healthy. From De
cember to March there are warm days,
with cool nights and little rain. Dur
ing March, April and May the days are
hot, dry and dusty, while the thermom
eter rises to 96 degrees at noon, but the
nights are not uncomfortable. In the
latter part of May and of June there are
thunderstorms every afternoon with a
tremendous downpour of rain. The
greatest heat occurs in these months,
the thermometer rising frequently tp
-105 degrees in the shade. July, August
and September are the months of the
great typhoons, and while Manila es
capes tiie greatest fury of these still
enough of their force remains to demol
ish many houses. During October and
November storms lessen in frequency
and severity, and the weather gradual
ly settles into the fine days of Decem
ber.—lsaac M. Elliott in Scribner’a
Hl* Only Opportunity.
"Hattie, ” said the clerk at the blan
ket counter in the department store,
speaking rapidly and in an undertone,
"just a moment. Will you—what is it,
sir? Harness department? Six aisles
down—Hattie, do you think you could
—furniture, madam? Third floor. Take
the elevatorr—Hattie, I’d like to know
handkerchiefs, ma’am? Third counter
to your right Blankets, sir? Right
here. Wait on you in a moment —Hat-
tie, will you marry me?”
"Yes, Tern,” whispered the girl at
the notion counter, still tapping with
her pencil on the showcase. "Ca-a-a-a
a-ashl” —Chicago Tribune.
Ike*. No End.
Up at New Haven, W. Va., there are
so many people named Isaac Roush that
to avoid confusion they are thus desig
nated:
Big Ike, Gentleman Ike, Spectacle
Ike, Ike on the Hill, Ike In the HoUow,
Rosa’s Ike, Little Ike, Soldier Ike, Lazy
Ike, Thirteenth Virginia Ike, Fifer Ike,
Aunt Cassy’s Ike, Drummer Ike, Fourth
Virginia Ike, Hartford Ike, Dam It Ike,
Kanawha Ike, Sally’s Ike, Helliky Ike,
Trotter Ike, Fiddler Ike, Ten Mile Ike,
Mart’s Ike and Aunt Betsy’s Ike. —Gal-
lipolis Tribune.
Hi* Distinction.
The following is said to have occurred
to ja distinguished but modest divine
who had undertaken the duty of a
brother clergyman at a cathedral church.
"I am come, ” said he, addressing the
silk gowned verger, "to take Canon
Blank’s place this morning. ”
"Pray, sir,"replied the official pom
pously, "are you the‘man’who is to read
the prayers or the ’gentleman’ who is
to deliver the sermon?” —Household
Words. - '
The Brooklyn Bridge.
The greatest suspension bridge in the
world is the Brooklyn bridge, which
also leads the world in the number of
jts daily passengers. Its length, includ
ing approaches, is 5,989 feet, the dis
tance between the towers 980 feet, the
weight of the structure is 6,4T0 tons, its
cost was over $16,000,000 The bridge
ears carry over 46.000.000 people every
year
. A FRENCH HARNESS.
Information For a Judge XVhe Wm 1*
Search of M toy Patent Care.
When a judge has once had to deal with
a case Involving potent rights, he la apt to
retain forever thereafter a Ann disinclina
tion to hear any more of the sort. It hap
pened that sever nitentcase* were on the
.docket of a N.-a .ferxey court, and the
judge managed to defer each one as it
esnui up and slide It down the list When
the end of the term was well within roach,
the patent practitioners began to demur a
little at this procrastination, and finally
the loader of their bar was deputed to ask
the judge to set some of these cases for
bearing. He oftrried with him a list of
the cases, with a sido memorandum to in
dicate what class of machinery waa in
volved.
The judge looked down the list, not at
all anxious to hear ary patent case, but
recognized that l:o would have to do so
in the end, and therefore prepared to yield
M graciously as possible. He noted that
this case involved un ore separator, that
the next had to do with some electric ap
paratus, that almost all of them promised
to involve him in the deepest physics and
the most complicated mechanics. At last
his eye rested on case 5287, against which
was made the memorandum •‘French har
ness. ”
“There, I’ll take up that cose,” he said.
“There isn’t much time left in this term,
but you cannot spin that thing out very
long. I was brought up with horses, and
I have had them all my life. I know all
about a harness to begin with, and It
won’t be any trouble to pick up the French
twist to it. We’ll get that case out of the
way in short order.”
The trial opened at the time appointed.
The opposing briefs were volumes crowd
ed with working drawings of the most
complicated sort, the letterpress was filled
with equations and mathematics in gener
al, all necessary to elucidate some of the
most intricate processes in the arte. In
addition the courtroom was filled with
Working models until it took on the ap
pearance of a factory or an industrial ex
hibition, and this was but the beginning.
The counsel cited a host of decisions in
conflict upon every essential point. At
last the cose was submitted. After the re
cess some one congratulated the judge on
having but one case unfinished.
“Don’t speak to me,” ho groaned. “I
told those patent lawyers that I knew all
about harness and selected that caso be
cause it was easy. It knocked blazes out
of my vacation. It took up two months
before I could make head or tali of it, and
then I was six weeks writing the deci
sion.”
A French harness is an appliance In
connection with the weaving of figured
cloths, the intricate ingenuity of which
has inode it possible to employ the loom in
the reproduction of any design. In com
parison with it ordinary machinery is as
simple as. a grindstone.—New York Sun.
What Shall Be Done With Clausen?
The case of Cockswain Clausen of the
Tfruiser New York, and later and illegiti
mately of the stopper Merrimac, will re
quire the attention of Captain Chadwick
and of Admiral Sampson as soon as the
young man gets out of the hands of the
Spaniards, by exchange of prisoners or
otherwise and returns to hl* duty.
The cockswain has committed an offense
which has some parallels in naval history,
but which never loses its interest, however
often repeated. It would have rejoiced
Marryat's heart to tell about Clausen’s
sin. In leaving his own post without or
ders and stowing himself away upon the
Merrimac, so that ho might share the glory
of an expedition which seemed to mean
almost certain death to all concerned,
Clausen not only violated discipline in an
unpardonable way, but he was also guilty
.of gross unfairness to the 4,000 men or
thereabouts in the fleet who had volun
teered for the same perilous service, and
were just as crazy as he was to go along
with Hobson.
This latter aspect of the case is that
which will principally strike the blue
jackets and others who volunteered to sac
rifice their lives with Hobson for the sake
of their flag and were not accepted. Clau
sen stole a march on them. They and he
had the same courage to go, but they had
what he lacked—-namely, the courage to
obey orders and stay behind. He is a brave
man, but so are they brave men and he
roes, and they are all better sailors than
Clausen in one all Important particular.
Nevertheless, whatever martial law may
say on the subject, it is written that no
man’s life shall be put in jeopardy twice
for the same offense, and the insubordi
nate cockswain’s life has certainly been in
jeopardy once already for his offense.—
Now York Sun.
Enoch Arden With Variation*.
Tennyson has enshrined in verse the
story of the sailor who returns home after
years of absence to find his wife married.
M. Zola has also written a short tale on
the same sort of subject, and a real ver
sion of the well worn theme comes from
the prosaic district of La Chapelle in Paris.
It appears that during the Franco-Ger
man war M. Binot, a grocer of Vincennes,
was supposed by his wife to have been
killed in one of the battles around ths
city. Previously hi* house had been shelled
by the Prussians, and his wife went away
from Vincennes with her child. When
the war was over, Binot returned to his
suburban town, and* seeing his old resi
dence destroyed, arrived at the conclusion
that his wife and child were killed and
buried beneath the ruins. Drying his
tears, he set to work again, made money
and remarried. Meanwhile his wife heard
of his return, but kept away from him
and brought up her son Gustave, who is
now a married man, under the impression
that his father was killed in battle.
Lately -the original Mme. Binot had •
dispute with one of her friends, who hap
pened to be in the possession of the secret
The friend, in order to have revenge, told
Mme. Binot’s son that his father was alive
and living at La Chapelle. Thither Gus
tave Binot repaired and found him dining
with the other Mme. Binot in a restau
rant.—Paris Letter.
Horse** Expressive Heel*.
“Talk about education, that horse *f
Major Bartlett’s, of the First regiment,
ha* got more sense and patriotism than a
whole lot of people.” The speaker was
Robert E. Loe, the now famous private,
who, after being rejected a half dozen
time*, finally got into the Second battalion
and was assigned to duty as orderly to
Major Bartlett “That horse, sir, ” con
tinued the "General,” as he is known,
“was being curried by a recruit. The man
didn’t know his business, sir, and lie
didn’t half do his work. Just as he baa
combed out the horse's tall as a finishing
touch and was getting away, the horse
shot out his hind legs, snorting, as the re
cruit went up into the air, ‘Remember
the mane.’ "—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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