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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/. ■ . ''' ’i sF . ~.. ■ ■ - GET YOUR — ■ ■ • ■ : I JOB PRINTING DONE The Morning Call Office ■■MS—*■——MM*—l . 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