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Be it ordained by the Mayor and Goun
eil of the City of Griffin, That from and
After the passage oi thia ordinance, the fol
lowing rate * b® charged for the use of
One Finch opening for subscribers’
use only. | 9.00
Bach additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or Mtn 8.00
Livery stables, ban, soda founts and
2. Meters will be tarnished 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 beheld
proof of Use of water, bat should meter
fail to register, the bill Wilt be averaged
from twelve preceding months.
B.' Meter rates will be as follows:
7,000 to 25,000 gals, month. .15c 1,000
25,000 “ 50,000 “ “ 14c “
50,000 “ 100JOOO “ “ 12c “
100,000 “ 500,000 “ “ 10c “
500,000 “ 1,000,000 “ “ 9c “
The minimum rate shall be (1.00 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 tall time.
5. Water will not be turned on to any
premises unless provided with an approved
stop and waste cock properly located in
an acceasibln position.
6. The Wafer 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 consurAers’ expense. ’
An Ordinance.
An ordinance to prevent the spreading
of diseases through the keeping and ex
posing for sale di second hand and cast off
clothing, to provide for the disinfection of
such clothutfHto the Board of Health of
the City of wiffin, 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 rtf the Oty of Griffin, that
from and after the passage of this ordi
nhf" u fW* be unlAwralfor any person
orOtons, firm or corporation to keep
ana 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, and the
certificate of said Board oi 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 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 for the issuing of
the certificate required by this ordinance
the sum of 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.
Bee. Brd. Be it tarther 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 each of
fense. It shall be the duty of the police
force to see that this ordinance is strictly
enforced and report all violations-4he
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 leave ser
vice cock as he found it under penalty of
the above section.
Sec. find. 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 unlawful for any
person to use water from anv spigot or
spigots other than those paid for by him.
Sec. 4th. It shall be unlawful for any
person to conple 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 foOO
o’clock p. m. and 6:00 o’clock a. m., for
apy 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.
■gßec. 7th. The employes of. the Water
Department shall have: access to the
premises of any subscriber for the purpose
ofjreading meters, pipes, fix
tures, etc., and it shall be unlawful for any
person to interfere, or prevent their doing
Sec. Bth. Any Arson 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 publid works of the City of Griffin for
a term not exceeding sixty days, or be im
prisoned tn 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 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.
STICKS.**
Colcmbu*’ ImpreMiona on Hla nrrt la
trodaetlun to Smoking Toboeoo.
It was on the island of Cuba, in the
autumn of 1492, that the use of tobacco
was learned by Europeans. Columbus
makes the first mention of the weed in
his diary under date of Oct. 15. When
he and his men landed on Cuban shores,
the kindly natives, who mistook them
for messengers from heaven, brought
them numerous offerings. Among these,
as stated by the admiral in his diary,
were some “dry leaves, which must be
something much prized by them (the
natives), for they had already brought
me some in San Salvador as a present. ”
Little heed was paid to these leaves
in the beginning by the Spaniards. They
were in search of geld and saw no pos
sibility of converting miserable weeds
into that precious commodity. In the
course of time they began to notice that
as the natives went to and from their
villages and the shore smoke escaped
from their mouths, “in a truly diabol
ical manner.” Soon they discovered
that these unclad children of the wilds
carried in their hands a “burning
stick, ” which every now and then they
would put into their mouths and blow
out a cloud of smoke. This had a most
heathenish look, as it is reoosded. to the
Spaniards, and they inquired, as well as
they could by signs, into the custom.
They learned that the burning sticks
were composed of the dried leaves so
treasured by the natives, and that the
custom of smoking the fragrant weed
was supposed to lessen fatigue on long
journeys. They tried it for themselves
and found this actually to be the case.
On many a troublesome jaunt thereafter
they were refreshed as the pleasant per
fume curled upward from their own
“burning sticks.” —Detroit Journal, 1 .
• SPECULATING ON SHIPS'.
How Uaderwriten Gamble on Overdue
Teasel* Posted at Lloyds.
When J ship is overdue, an opportu
nity is sometimes afforded for a gamble
at Lloyds. It can be readily .understood
that underwriters who are interested in
the “overdues” are only too willing to
get rid of the risk by paying a premium
on the insured rate to those who are
willing, on their terms to relieve* them
of their responsibilities. The premium
varies with the chances of the vessel
turning up; the smaller the chances the
higher the premium and vice versa.
The rates paying on “overdues” serve
as accurate barometers of the probabili
ties or otherwise of the ship ever being
heard of again. These underwriters who
speculate on “overdues” are generally
known by the significant name of “doc
tors.” The insurance on an “overdue”
may pass through many channels before
the ship is, on the one hand, “posted”
at Lloyds as “missing,” or, on the
other hand, she arrives in safety.
A ship is never “posted” until the
committee is thoroughly satisfied that
her case is hopeless, and until the own
er is of the same opinion.. Before “post
ing” a notice is put up for a week in
viting any information concerning the
vessel. If this elicits no news, the com
mittee at its next meeting votes the ship
as “missing, ” and a notice is posted ac
cordingly. The loss is then settled and
paid for. It may be incidentally re
marked that “posting” at Lloyds con-’
stitutes a legal death certificate for any
one on board the missing ships.—Good
Words.
Smallest and Oddest Republics.
Goust is the smallest republic as to
area, but Tavolara is the smallest re
public as to population. Goust is only
one mile in area. It is located on the
flat top pf a mountain in the Pyrenees,
between France and Spain, and is recog
nized by both of those countries. It is
governed by a president and a council oi
12. It was established in 1648 and has
180 inhabitants. The president is tax
collector, assessor and judge. Goust has
no church, clergyman or cemetery. Ths
people worship in a church outside oi
their own territory, and the dead bodies
are slid down to a cemetery in the val
ley below. In that valley all the bap
tisms and marriages are performed.
Tavolara is 12 miles northeast of Sar
dinia. It is an island five miles long by
a half mile wide. Its total population
consists of 55 men, women and chil
dren. The women go to the polls with
the men and elect every year a presi
dent and council of six* all serving
without'jhy. The inhabitants support
themselves by fishing and raising fruit
and vegetables. The republic has no
army and no navy.—Cincinnati En
quirer.
' Market Quotation* on Scalp*.
The market price of “scalps,” al
agreed upon between the early French
colonists of Louisiana and the Indians,
with whom they bargained to fight out
their battles with hostile Indians fox
them, varied with circumstances. At
the time the French were at war with
the Alibamons a “scalp” of one of the
last named, when brought to them, was
paid for at the rate of a gun, five pounds
of musket balls and as much powder.
“On the 14th of March” (1704), writes
De La Harpe, “a party of 20 Chioacboe
(Ohickasaws) brought in foxfr Alibamon
scalps. They were given for each scalp
a gun, five pounds of balls and as muob
of powder, according to the contract
made with them.”—New Orleans Pica
yune.
Sawed With Cable*.
In the French quarries of St Triphon
stone is sawed with steel wire cable*
moistened vyith wet sand and passing
in an endless rope over a series of pul
leys. The wire, which runs from 1,000
to 1,200 feet per minute, is charged a*
it enters the cut with a jet of water and
siliceous sand, which forms the cutting
material. A. running cable of 500 feet
can make a cut 100 feet long.
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Errand Banning.
A boy of 15 thinks be Is too aid to
ran errands, but after be is 25 and mar
ried he begins again.—Atchison (Kan.)
Globe.
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HOT BLOOD nfciSE
ARMY QUARRELS THAT ALMOST ENO*
ED IN TRAGEDIES.
of a Captain Who Had Murdo? I
In HU Heart—A Mery Lieutenant Colo
nel Who Wanted to Kill HU Superior
OMeer—A Feenentalrlnp Adjutant.
“Tragedies in our own camps, out
side of battles, were more common than
the public knows,” said a distinguished
soldier.
“The shooting of Major General Nel
sen at Louisville by Brigadier General
Jeff C. Davis because Nelson in a fit of
anger had called Davis a long string at
hard names, is one of the few that came
to the surface. Yon wouldn’t think it
probably, but I myself was once so close
to a tragedy that it makes my gray hair
rise up as I recall it
“While a number of officers of the
regiment were in the major’s tent I said
something that a captain took excep
tions to, and a war of words followed.
When he plumped out, ’You are a liar!’
I struck out with my right and set him
to bleeding. He came back at me like a
tiger cat. We clinched and for three or
four minutes had it hot and sharp; then
the others separated us. He made all
sorts of threats. I was adjutant. He
ranked me, and I confess that for a time
I did fear he would make me trouble in
the way of court martial, but the mat
ter seemed to blow over.
“One fall afternoon the captain invit
ed, me to take a walk with him. Think
ing that our troubles had completely
healed, I consented. On the way back
to camp we passed through an orchard.
I climbed a tree to get seme apples.
Just as I reached for an apple I saw the
captain reach for his revolver and glare
at me like a very fiend. Instantly I loos
ened my hold ana dropped to the ground.
Seising a stake, I took my place by his
side and said, ‘Now, you cowardly dog,
put up that gun or I’ll brain you. ’ Thia
time he was kept on a hot griddle for a
month, though I made no threats and
had no thought of reporting his attempt
to assassinate me.
“The next fight we-got into we made
up for good and all and remained fast
friends until the final round up, when
General Joe Johnston had his men
throw down their guns and go home to
‘make a crox.' It happened in this way:
The colonel had given the order to form
line of battle. As adjutant it was my
duty to see that each captain carried
out the order. When I reached the
would be assassin and had performed
my duty and started to go away, he
called out, ’Adjutant, come back.’
When I complied,’ he took xny hand,
looked me squarely*in the eye and said:
‘Lieutenant, can you forgive me for all
of my meanness to you? I hope so. I
have never had a good hour since that
incident in the orchard. ’
“ ’With all my heart, captain. No
one but yon and myself knows any thing
about that little affair. ’
“As I said, nothing else came up to
separate us while in the army. We
never met after beingmustered out He
died three yean ago. Os course X could
have sent him out of the army in dis
grace and placed him in the peniten
tiary after he was out, but I’ve always
been glad I did not He was a good sol
dier in battle, as brave as they made
them, but a bulldog in camp. He left
the army a major. His name? Never
mind that It is a true story. I wish it
were not for I cannot forget that at one
time in my life I was in a fairway to
be murdered.”
“Report to your headquarters under
arrest, sir.”
The colonel of awestern regiment
hissed that remark to his lieutenant
colonel as he dismissed the parade one
evening in December, 1864, a few miles
back at Petersburg.
“I refuse to go, d you, ” was the
reply.
“Adjutant, see that Lieutenant Colo
nel Blank goes to his quarters at once,”
said the angry colonel, who was in the
right, for the' lieutenant colonel, who
had been drinking, had disobeyed or
ders.
The adjutant knew both officers well,
and thht it would not do for them to
come together that night. He had a
merry time of it keeping them apart.
The lieutenant colonel would jump up
and start for the cabin door with a
threat to go to the colonel’s quarters
and cut him down with his sword. He
was a powerful man, able to cany out
his threat unless the colonel should get
the drop. Once the forested officer got
away and was half way to the colonel's
cabin, with sword drawn. “Stop,
naan,” said the adjutant. “Would you
blot your record of three years by com
mitting murder? Think of that. Think
of your wife and children. Come back
to your quarters. You shall not go a
step farther in that direction until you
have killed me. ”
“I don’t want to kill you, but I’m
going to kill the colonel. ”
“All right, kill him, but wait uptil
tomorrow—until it is light. Don’t shoot
a man in the dark. That is no way for
a brave man to do. ”
He went back to his bunk and slept
until morning. When he awoke, he
came to me and said:
“How can I get out of this scrape,
adjutant?”
“Write the colonel an apology ”
He wrote it, and the adjutant took it
to the colonel, who read it, laughed and
said, “Bring Colonel Blank to my quar
ters.” They met like a pair of brothers,
and to this day the adjutant believes
that he prevented an army tragedy, and
I guess he did.— Chicago Times-Herald.
b Safe Guardian.
like candy, mamma?” asked
Bessie.
“No, dear,’’wasthe reply. “It al
wavs makea me sick. ”
“I’m awful glad of it,” said the lit
tle miss “You're just the woman I
want to hold my candy while I dress
dolly.”—Chicago News.
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THE FRENCH NAVY.
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Admiral bapaet Show* Ita WoataMNl
Compared With Znslaod’s Great Klee*.
Rear Admiral Dupont, writing in the
Gaulois on French and English navtas,
**“The speech of Mr. Chamberlain, the
campaign waged against us in the Eng
lish press, the attacks of the British min
ister on Russia, the general ill humor of
the English merchants, menaced every
where In their intereete, constitute dis
quieting symptoms which it would be
puerile to ignore. The question naturally
arises, therefore, in everybody’s mind, is
the French navy ready for an eventual
struggle with the English navy? As re
gards the number of ships now available,
as regards facility of concentration of
forces, the judicious eholoe and the pre
patednqps of naval bases, our inferiority is
notorious. Since the application of the
naval defense act our neighbors have dou
bled their resources by constructing with
a feverish haste. They have been able to
launch within a single year as many as
five battleships of from 19,000 to 15,000
tons, eight large cruisers and 92 smaller
vessels, so that the disproportion, already
great, which existed between the two
navies has been enormously increased.
England can now put into line 84 battle
ships of from 9,000 to 15,000 tons, 52
large cruisers and a very large number of
smaller vessels, among which should be
noted a numerous flotilla of very rapid
torpedo boat destroyers. Besides these ves
sels, 20 older battleships, for the most part
remodeled, may be reckoned as a solid re
serve to this already formidable force.
“What have we to set against this array?
Sixteen new battleships, 8 good coast de
fense vessels, about 10 old battleships of
mediocre value and 28 modern cruisers.
Reckoning on both sides the vessels that
are of no use for service and taking Into
account breakdowns and accidents, we
may say on the whole that the strength of
our navy is Between a third and a half of
that of the English navy. The quality of
the smaller vessels in both navies is about
the same. The English vessels have in
general a look of greater strength, they
can go greater distances, and their ton
nage is greater, which enables them to be
better armed and equipped. Their guns
are well placed, but less powerful at an
equal caliber. Tho speed is usually infe
rior to ours and can be less easily kept up,
In spite of the nominal figures to be found
in the numerous lists published in both
countries.
“In a word, the value of similar types is
approximately the same, but we remain
in presence of a crushing numerical supe
riority, and our inferiority is increased by
the inadequate preparation of stations out
side Europe. While England is strongly
posted at tho outlets of all the great mari
time lines of the globe, we are reduced to
utilizing a few indifferently placed posi
tions.
“We shall patiently bide our time, and
it will certainly come. Meanwhile we
shall organize an implacable system of pri
vateering against the trade of our eventual
enemy. I know not what diplomatists
think of the convention of 1856, but as for
us sailors, let tho English be assured be
forehand that we shall carry on privateer
ing against them, and let them take the
ruin of the maritime trade into their fore
casts. ’’ —Loudon Times.
The Philippine Natives.
However lacking in intelligence the
natives of the Philippines generally may
be, they could not with truth be character
ized as savages. There are in the Philip
pines between 6,000,000 and 9,000,000 peo
ple—probably about 7,000,000. Nearly
half this number Inhabit Luzon, the prin
cipal island of the group. The Tagals of
Luzon are a copper colored people, and,
like all the people of the Malay family,
are short of stature. These Tagals are
the most advanced and influential element
of the whole population of the islands.
There are a great many very intelligent
and ambitious men among them, men
who got their start in the schools estab
lished by the monastic friars, whose po
litical domination tarnishes one of tho
many grievances which have given rise to
the present insurrection. Tho Tagals are
as industrious as the Chinese and Japa
nese and more easily controlled and less
criminally disposed than the latter.
That they are entirely amenable to dis
cipline when they have confidence In and
respect for their leaders and advisers is
evidenced by the fact that for over a year
General Emilio Aguinaldo, their acknowl
edged leader, was able to maintain good
order and comparatively good discipline
among his 40,000 or 50,000 followers and
under cireumstanoss where chaos and dis
order would be the most natural condi
tions. lam not a sentimentalist—not the
sort of man to go'into ecstasies of delight
over the profuse politeness and kotowing
of the Japanese—but I have observed in
tiie leading men and women a charmingly
courteous manner. Such characteristics
as rudeness, assumption or boisterousness
are entirely lacking in their tempera
ment.—Review of Reviews.
Sonatroke Infection*.
Dr. L. Sambon, who is considered by
The British Medical and Surgical Jour
nal an authority on such matters, say*
that sunstroke is infectious and is pro
duced by a specific germ.
Dr. Sambon’s theory is that sunstroke
as a germ disease requires great heat for
ita development, but is not directly caused
by heat. He maintains that ranstaoke is
unknown in many of tSOS hottest parts of
the world, nor in the temperate areas is it
prevalent in the warmest or in the
hottest season of the year.
Dr. Sambon concludes, from carefully
verified facta, that the geognqriilcal dis
tribution, the endemicity, the occurrence
of epidemics, the characters of the *ymp
toms, the very definite lesions, the liabil
ity to relapee and other points in the nat
ural history of the disease are strong
arguments for regarding slriasis as be
longing to the same category as yffilow
fever, dengue and certain other tropical
tOtvetUma universally acknowledged to de
pend on specific gwms—genua far whose
growth and transmission to man and from
man to man high atmospheric tempera
ture is nt—iy, but which, though oc
oorring in, are certainly not created by,
high atmospheric temperature.
Kot Good FM> tho Boy*. K
The officer shook his head.
“I think,” he Aid, “that meets of that
sort are not good for the boys. That kind
of a diet gets them out of condition. Os
course we are very grateful to you for re
membering us, but I really think it would
be a serious mistake to let the boys have
them
“But what shall I do with all that I
have brought them?" asked thevfaitaeto
the camp
“Um—wefi—ah—er—you might leave
it at the officers' quarter*, you know.”—
Chicago Poet.
AM OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS. O®
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS'OUR BIGHT TO ’IE
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD -CASTORIA, ” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA, ” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “CASTORIA," the same that
has borne and does now bear —> on every
the sac- simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “CASTORIA" which has been used in
the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years.
LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought on the
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name except
The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President.
March 24,1898. ‘ >
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo.i
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF
Insist, on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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