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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. r .' ■ *. ■ ■>" 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. ZZZ ... , i 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. —* < .. I I i THE FRENCH NAVY. .. —■ 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. c> THE eCMVAMM 9MMRV, rt MUMAV OTIIKCT, kCWVWk ffiiTE. —ii ■■■ i W I. , —.■■■■■■ mm ita—wmqs— '■■ ' ■■!? ■ JIJ ” * —GET YOTJH — JOB PRINTING DONE The Morning Call Office. We have just supplied oar Job Office with s complete line oi StaHoAer* kinds and can get np, on short notice, anything wsnted in the way oi LETTER HEADS, BII.L HEADS i "C.' STATEMENTS, t IRCULABB, . 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