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‘An Ordinance. ?
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil ot the City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage oi this ordinance, the fol
lowing rates will be charged for the use of
One f inch opening for subscribers'
use only| 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries24.oo
Each additional opening 6.00
2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of |I.OO per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
mum of $ 1.00 per month will be charged
for 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 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. „
An Ordinance.
An ordinance to prevent the spreading
of diseases through the keeping and ex
posing for sale of 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 the Mayor
andCounc.il 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 bean 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 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 ordaiwed by the
authority aforesaid, That for eachgarment
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-fiv&ucents, 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 farther 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 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 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 unlawful for any
person to use water from any spigot or
spigots other than those paid for by him.
Sec. 4th. It shall be unlawful for any
person to couple pipes to spigdts 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,
KSec. 7th. The employes of the Water
Department shall have access to the
premises of any subscriber for the purpose
meters, examining pipes, fix
tures, etc., and it shall be unlawful for any
person to interfere, or prevent their doing
sb.
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 of regular policemen of the
City of Griffin, for the purpose of enforc
ing the above ordinance.
Sec. 10th. AU ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict of 'the above are
hereby repealed.
Beal Masis Mombar.
“I often hear of the magic number, ”
said some one, “ What number is it?”
‘‘Why, nine, of course,” replied
some one else. *’There are nine muses,
yon know, and you talk of a nine days’
wonder. Then you bowl at nine pins
and a oat has nine lives.”
‘ Nonsense,” broke in another.
“Seven is the magic number; seventh
heaven, don’t you know, and all that;
seven colors in the rainbow; seven days
in the week; seventh son of a seventh
son—great fellow, and’ ’ —
“Tush, tush,” remarked a third.
“Five’s the number, you mean. A man
has five fingers on his hand and five
toes on his foot, and he has five senses,
and”—
“Three is undoubtedly the magic
number,” interrupted another, “be
cause people give three cheers and Jonah
was inside a whale three days and three
nights, and if at first you don’t succeed,
try, try again—three times, you see!”
This was received with some con
tempt by the company, and a soulful
youth gushed out:
"Two, oh, two is the magic number.
Oneself and one other—the adored one 1
Just us two!”
A hard featured who had
been listening to the conversation hith
erto unmoved, here remarked in a harsh
voice:
“The magic number is Na 1 in this
world, and if 'you want to succeed never
forget it”
An interval of deep thought on the
part of all followed, after which they
went in silently to supper.—Brooklyn
Citizen.
Jean Richepin** Career.
The story of how he came to adopt a
literary career is sufficiently picturesque.
For some time be had picked up a pre
carious livelihood by doing “odd jobs, ”
including eueh prosaic occupations as
that of bootblack and casual porter on
the Quai Marseilles. One day he was
engaged by a gentleman to carry to the
railway station a heavy trunk. Arrived
at the station, there was an instant
mutual recognition. They were old col
lege chums. “What are you doing
here?” asked his friend. “Carrying
your trunk, I believe,” said Jean.
“Why do you do this?” “Because I
must.” “Where do you live?” “Come
and see, Richepin.
The future dramatist took his friend
to his dwelling—a miserable room in an
attic in the poorest quarter of the town.
Upon the table lay scattered heaps of
manuscripts—Jean’s incursions in the
realms of poetry when the more prosaic
duties of the day were over. Looking
through them, his friend was astounded
at their quality. “Why do you carry
trunks and blacken boots when you can
do work like this?’ ’ he asked. Riohepin
had never given the matter a thought ;
he had never deemed these products of
idle hours worthy of publication. Pub
lished they were, however, in a very
few weeks and created an immense
sensation. From that moment Jean
Richepin has never looked back. —West
minster Gazette.
The Widow’s Opinion.
In one of the suburban towns near the
capital lives a widow well endowed
with worldly goods, whose husband,
with a sort of posthumous jealousy, has
guarded against her re-marriage by
providing that she shall lose all her
property if ever she takes another hus
band. She has been receiving attentions
for several years from an elderly Grand
Army of the Republic veteran. She has
been very good to him too. Once when
he wanted to parade with his comrades
she bought him an expensive blue suit
with brass buttons on it. He wanted to
marry her, but the will of the selfish
dead man stood between. So after a
time he married somebody else. The
widow was broken hearted. She recalled
the suii with the brass buttons. She
recalled a hundred kindnesses shown
the old soldier. She bewailed his perfi
dy to her friends.
“ Why, ” said one of them, “what did
you expect? He wanted a wife to make
a home for him. You couldn’t marry
him. So why do you complain?”
The widow wiped her eyes.
“I know I couldn’t marry him, ” she
said. “I didn’t really want to marry
him anyway, but, you see, it was such
a heap of comfort to have a steady
beau. ’’—Washington Post.
Peculiarities of the Potato.
The opinion has prevailed among
housekeepers that it is the good potato
which breaks open when it is boiled.
A scientist who has made potatoes a
study insists that the good potato is the
one that remains quietly in its coating
of brown during all of the processes of
cooking. Instead of the swelling and
bursting of the skin being caused by
the presence of starch it has been as
certained that albumen is the substance
that causes this breaking open. An or
dinary potato is made up of three
fourths of its weight in water, two
tenths in starch and one-fiftieth of ni
trogenous matter. If it cracks and falls
to pieces during the process of boiling,
it is deficient in albumen, and therefore
lacking in the most important constit
uent.—New York Ledger.
A Duma* Story.
Dumas the elder was rarely spiteful
to or about his fellow men, but one day,
when he happened to be in that mood,
a friend called to tell him a piece of
news. “They have just given M. X
the Legion of Honor, ”he said. Then
ho added, in a significant tone, “Now,
can you imagine why they should have
given it to him?”
“Yes,” answered the great dramatist
promptly. "They have given it to him
because he was without it”
Good Progress.
“How are you getting along with
your housekeeping?” asked the young
wife’s mother. - - *
“Oh, splendidly!” she answered. “I
have almost got so I can do things
to suit the hired girl.”—Washington
Star. '
HE SAVED TH EM ILK. ‘
n Bequlred Gen lam to Do It. bta He Was
Equ*l to the Oeeaaloa.
“Talking about cow*,” mid Andy
Henderson, “I really think that I had
one of the moat peculiar experiences
with the animals in question that ever
befell a citizen of west Texas. It was
soon after I went to El Paso, some ten
years ago, and before I had got familiar
with the vagaries of Hie El Paso cli
mate.
“I had settled on a very pretty ranch
some miles out of the progressive fron
tier city and was doing nicely until I
decided to go into the butter business.
I sent east for a dozen fine Jersey oows
and began operations. Well, the cows
came on, and I hustled the butter busi
ness from the jump. Things progressed
nicely for a month, when the weather
grew very warm and the atmosphere
very dry. The Rio Grande dwindled
until a roach could have waded across.
Every bit of moisture disappeared, but
this did not affect me, because I had a
fine artesian well on the ranch and
plenty of water. I observed, however,
that my cows were losing milk day by
day, until at last they were perfectly
dry. I was astounded, for they had
plenty of feed and lots' of water from
the welL I couldn’t understand it and
determined to investigate.
“I got up an hour before daylight and
examined the cows, and, to my aston
ishment, I found the udders of the oows
heavy with milk. I did not milk the
the animals, but simply watched and
waited developments. Day dawned and
the cows lazily meandered into the pas
ture, and I followed. The sun came up,
and with the sun came the terrible dry
ness, but it didn’t feaze me in the least.
What knocked me out was the sight of
my cows’ udders. They were growing
smaller and smaller as I looked until
they were as flaccid as a punctured tire.
Then I tumbled- The dryness of the at
mosphere simply evaporated the milk
through the walls of the udder.
“What did Ido? Why, I varnished
the milking apparatus of the beasts and
the milk couldn’t ooze through the
flesh. That stopped it. ” —New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
A SENSE OF HUMOR.
It I* a Preclou* Clift and Help* to X.iKht
en Ufe’a War.
I regard a sense of humor as one of
the most precious gifts that can be
vouchsafed to a human being. He fa not
necessarily a better man for having it,
but he is a happier one. It renders him
indifferent to good or bad fortune. It
enables him to enjoy his own discomfi
ture.
Blessed with this sense he is never
unduly elated or cast down. No one
can ruffle his temper. No abuse disturbs
his equanimity. Bores do not bore him.
Humbugs do not humbug him. Solemn
airs do not impose on him. Sentimental
gush does not influence him. The follies
of the moment have no hold on him.
Titles and decorations are but childish
baubles in his eyes. Prejudice does not
warp his judgment. He is never in con
ceit or out of conceit with himself. He
abhors all dogmatism. The world is a
stage on which actors strut and fret for
his edification and amusement, and he
pursues the even current of hfaway, in
vulnerable, doing what fa right and
proper according to his lights, but ut
terly indifferent whether what he does
finds approval or disapproval from oth
ers.
If Hamlet had had any sense of hu
mor, he would not have been a nuisance
to himself and to all surrounding him.
—London Truth.
Spending Money.
It is an excellent thing to give chil
dren as soon as they arrive at about 12
years, or even before, a little allowance
for spending money and an account
book. Bhoiy them how to keep an ac
count of small expenditures and make
it a condition that they do so if they
wish to receive their allowance. There
is no instruction more necessary to chil
dren than instruction in the wise man
agement of money. Children should be
taught early what true economy fa and
to exercise their judgment—not their
fancy—in making purchases. A little
instruction now, and experience if need
be, of the genuine discomforts of extrav
agance may save them from much suf
fering in after years. New York
Ledger.
He Had Changed.
A widow once called upon an artist
and asked him to paint a portrait of her
husband. “When can he sit?” inquired
the artist “He can’t sit at all, ” said
the widow, “he’s dead.” “Then you
will have to furnish me with his photo
graph,” said the artist. “He never had
his picture taken,” said fße widow.
Nevertheless the artist undertook the
job, and when he had finished the work
he asked the widow to come and see it
“It’s a fine picture,” said she, “and
you’ll please send it to my home—but
how the-old man has changed.” -Boe
ten Herald.
H« taw the Play.
They were giving “She Stoops to
Conquer” in a small provincial town.
A penniless individual, anxious to see
the play, stalked past the ticket office
in a careless, independent sort of way.
When stopped and asked by what right
he went in without paying, he replied:
“By what right! lam Oliver Gold
smith, the author of the piece they are
going to perform!”
"Ah, beg pardon, sir, ” said the check
taker, making a bow.
And Goldsmith walked in to see his
play.—London Answers.
Why I* It ET«r ¥hu»?
The whole crowd of men raved of her
beauty.
She was divine, they said, incomps»-
gbly divine, and gloriously beautiful.
So she was, just as they had said.
But one man did not think so.
Her brother. Vim
MODERN SHRAPNEL.
deadly effect of this fearful
IMPLEMENT OF WAR.
Wkat Hoppea* Wh«i a glagle FroJoctH*
Suddenly Bmt* latoTwo Hundred Sap
•rate'Mmaoagors of Death—Shell*
' ftelld Shot.
The improvements in, modern guns
have embraced all calibers, from that of
the small, arm - firing projectile only
one-third'of an inch In diameter to the
monster which sends a solid piece of
Bteel,l2 inches through and weighing
over half a,ton.'/Not only have the guns
improved, > but also all their accessories,
especially powder and projectiles. The
smokeless ■ powder of the present has
changed the conditions of war almost
as mu«h aa*modern armament
Keeping step with these advances
have been those made in the various
classes of projectiles. Even the smallest
of these, with its case hardened, bullet
is far ahead of the old fashioned lead
bullet used in the small arms of 80
years ago.
One of the most effective of modern
projectiles is the shrapnel. It is one of
the Terms of case shot .The-others were
tho'old faahioned.grape and canister. A
case'snot may be said to to a collection
of missiles in a breaks, up
either in the gun or at some point in
flight, thus setting free its death deal
ing-particles.
As soon as the broken each of
these particles goes‘orFa separate, path,
and It’s a sorry day forjthe man struck
by one of them. All of these falling
upon a piece of level ground would
mark out an irregular oval, whose area
varies with differing conditions. It has
been found .that the 'best point to bunt
the .shrapnel is about six yards above
and'so in front of the enemy.
.j Colonel Shrapnel of the British serv
ice first invented shrapnel in 1803. This
early form consisted simply of aspher
ical shell filled with bullets and a burst
ing charge of powder in 'the spaces be
tween. This was a crude Invention,
which scattered the fragments too much
and was liable to go off when. not ex
pected and not do so when desired.
This form was improved upon during
our civil war, and;the modern shrapnel
can be considered the most dangerous
of all life destroying projectiles. It con
sists of three parts—the tube, the base
and the. head. The powder charge is.in
the base, which is firmly attached to
the body either by electric welding or
by screwing. Leading from the base
through the center of the body is a tube
which is also filled with powder, which
is ignited by the fuse at the point of the
shrapnel and carries the fire to the main
charge. Between 200 and 800 bullets
rest upon a diaphragm just over the
powder charge. These are held in place
by a matrix of rosin which is melted
and poured upon the bullets when in
place. A skeleton case of cast iron con
taining receptacles for each bullet is
sometimes used instead of the rosin.
The head is put on in the same man
ner as the base, and when the fuse is
inserted the projectile is ready for use.
Some shrapnels have the bursting charge
in the head instead of the base. The
fuse used is rather complicated, but the
States, has as good a one as
there is. It fa a time fuse and in actual
tost, has shown its reliability.
> It'can readily be seen that one great
objection to the, shrapnel is its high
cost. The fuse alone costs about *2.50.
The same gun is usually supplied with
three styles of ammunition—the solid
shot, the shell and the shrapnel. Some
batteries are also supplied with canister
for use at'close quarters. The bullets
in the canister have a wider dispersion,
because the case -breaks up in the gun.
Ganister'was used to repel'the famous
charge led by the Confederate general
Pickett at Gettysburg. A perfect hail
of | missiles swept the slope leading up
to J Cemetery -Hill, - against whose de
structive effects human valor was of no
avail.
The shell fa used to destroy inanimate
objects as well as animate ones* It con
sists of a hollow cast iron shell, with a
fuse and bursting.charge .of powder.
The famous shot fired during the cut
ting of the cables at Cienfuegos is a
good- example of its use. The Spaniards
having taken refuge in and behind a
lighthouse, a shell was ‘fired by one of
jour ships, which, striking it fairly,
burst and utterly destroyed the struc
ture, killing many of the soldiers.
1 But against men in battle formation
the shrapnel is the more effective. It
sends a perfect shower of missiles which,
falling in the'midst of » company,
would almost annihilate it Many tests
have been made to show this.
far Shrapnels-fired from; a gun a mile
away in»one;instance and a mile and
two-thirds in the other were made to
strike aboard target-one inch thick.
The fuses were set-off by the contact
and burst the projectile into 200 or 300
parts, each of which” was capable of
dealing death to any living thing in its
path. Screens were placed at indicated
distances behind the target 'These may
betoonsidered as representing a battalion
of 1 -infantry-in’column of companies.
From, the, number of hits upon allof
them the efficiency’'of shrapnel fire
"order formation may be
In oneeshot ,152. hits,were made,by a
singlejshrapn& Jm another 215 hitsfare
recorded, butjtheee arejnoteo well scat
tered. ■ Tmagtwe, then,;the effect of a
jwell placed shrapnel J upon a group of
men.such'as is here represented.
: The reader-can readily understand
why wan are now waged at greater
distances and why hand 'to hand, con
flicts are almost udheard of.—New
York Herald.
Hl* Ml--*- 1 --
“That politician is a ‘has been, * isn’t
he?” remarked the observer.
“No/’ replied the captious friend,
"he isn’t even that He’s merely a
•used to think he was/ ” - Washington
Star.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHPDQ
ADV
COURTS OUR BIGHT TO
USE ° P THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AMD
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ AS OUR TRADEMARK.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “CASTORIA," the same that
has borne and does now bear on cvery
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 gou 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 y-.'u
(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 Tailed Yea.
' TH * cIHTr m R com v*nr, TT *HMMMt* a-rnerr. New Ton* c.l/.
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