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An Ordinance.
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cIhS theCiiy^f
after the passage oi this ordinance, the fol
lowing rates will be charged for the use of
water per year : a
,1. Dwellings:
One f-inch opening for ; subscribers'
use only i $ 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries 24.00
Each additional opening . 6.00
2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of SI.OO per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
mum of SI.OO per month will be charged
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 oi 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
and Council of the City of Griffin, that
from and after the passage of this ordi
nance, it shall be unlawful for any person
or persons, firm of corporation to keep
and etpose 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 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 beoonstrued 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.
Bee. 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 oi twenty-five cents, and to the
Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin
for the registry of said certificate the sum
of fifty cents.
Sec. 3rd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That every person or
persons, firm or corporation convicted of
a violation of this ordinance, shall be fined
and sentenced not more than one hundred
dollars, or sixty days in the chain gang,
either or both, in the discretion of the
Judge of the Criminal Court, 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 farther 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 oi 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 ot 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 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 tfnlawfal 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.
SBec. 7th. The employes of the Water
apartment shall have access to the
premises of any subscriber for the purpose
meters, examining pipm, fix
tures, etc., and it shall be unlawfalfor any
person to interfere, or prevent their doing
fib,
Sec. Bth. Any person violating any of
the provisions of the aboveordinance 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
ana 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.
Gyp., Ba O N or Girl, of SerUh.
In The Century Mr. Stephen Botuai
writes of ’Holy Week In Seville.”
He says: On returning homeward
we enter a gypsy garden, where, in
bowers of jasmine and honeysuckle, the
Gaditan dancing girls disport them
selves as they did in the days of the
poet Martial. Penthelusa is as graceful
and as lissom today as when, in the
ages gone, she captured Pompey with
her subtle dance—as when Martial de
scanted upon her beauties and graces in
classic words centuries ago.
The hotel keepers in Seville are gen
erally very careful to introduce their
patrons only to gardens where the Bow
dlerized editions of the dance are per
formed, but I commend to those whe
think they can “sit it out” the archaic
versions which are danced naturally to
day, as they were in the days of the
Caesars, by light limbed enchainen of
hearts and fiamenca girls with brown
skins and cheeks that are soft like the
side of the peach which is turned to the
ripening sun, and in their dark, lus
trous eyes you read as plain as print the
story of the sorrows and the joys of a
thousand years of living.
Now they dance about with the grace
of houris, the abandon of msenads or of
nymphs before Actaeon peeped, and
now, when the dance is over, the mo
ment of madness past, they coves their
feet with shawls, that you may not see
how dainty they are, and withdraw se
dately and sad from the merry circle
and sit for hours under the banana trees,
crooning softly some mournful onplet in
the crooked gypsy tongue.
* Just Like > Girl.
He is a very young boy. His is the
age when a lofty contempt for the oppo
site sex manifests Itself, the contempt
which usually finds merciless retribu
tion in later years.
His task of watching the baby was
not as distressing as it might have been.
He had utilized the bassinet as a cra
dle and had found a place where the
floor sloped a little.
Behind the vehicle he extended him
self and with head on hand proceeded
to read a story paper. An occasional
pull at a string fastened to the rear axle
imparted the motion necessary to keep
the slumberer from waking. But the
baby soon had its nap ont and began to
cry. The boy paid no attention to the
noise, and after awhile his sister came
to investigate.
“I suppose you are going to lie there
and wait for the baby to learn to talk
so it can tell you what it’s crying
about?”
“No;” he answered, “being able to
talk wouldn’t make much difference.”
“Why not?”
“Because it’s a girl. Girls never
know what they’re crying about. It
just comes natural to them to do it. ”
Pearson’s Weekly.
He Turned the laugh.
President O’Hanlon of the Penning
ton (N. J.) seminary used to preach
every Monday morning at Ocean Grove,
and one of his regular hearers was
a good Methodist brother who used
to shout “Glory!” whenever anything
pleased him. Once in awhile this shout
would come in at an inopportune mo
ment.
After Dr. O’Hanlon had been preach
ing on Monday mornings for a number
of years he arose one day to announce
his text. He introduced his remarks
with these words: “Brethren, I have
been preaching here at Ocean Grove on
Monday mornings for a number of
years, but some of these days when you
are gathered here I will be missing, for
the grass will be growing over my
grave.” Just then the shouter uttered
a shrill “Oh, G-l-o-r-y!”
Sedate as was that congregation, there
went up a hearty laugh. The doctor
was ernal to the occasion. He put his
hands in his pockets, leaned back and
said, “Well, brother, what have you
got against me?” The laugh was turn
ed, order was soon restored, and the
doctor preached with his usual power
and acceptability.—New York Tribune.
Thu Americana In Egypt.
Americans occupy an important posi
tion in extending the prosperity and
civilization of modern Egypt.
Not only do they form at least one
third of the tourists visiting Egypt, and
number some of the leading Egyptolo
gists, but the beneficent effect of their
missions and schools is everywhere ap
parent throughout Egypt The magni
tude of their Christian operations may
be gathered from the fact that the
Egyptian mission of the American Pres
byterians has 100 stations, 20 churches
and 97 schools. Ask a little Egyptian
child where it has learned its English,
and it will very probably answer, “At
the American mission.” The mission
doctors, too, are of much service. An
English lady might have died on board
our mail steamer had a telegram not*
been sent to an American mission physi
cian, who same on board, attended to
her and removed her to the hospital at
Assiut.—North American Review.
Mr. Boffin Snubbed by Dickens.
“Dodd the Dustman, ” who founded
the barge race, meant to be the founder
of the Royal Dramatic college. He offer
ed the money to Benjamin Wmister and
Charles Dickens and was not altogether
well treated in the matter. He was cer
tainly not an aristocratic donor, and the
source of the money might have been
materials for ridicule, but he certainly
merited more civHity than he got. Web
ster shelved him rather shabbily, and
Dickens caricatured him as “Boffin, the
Golden Dustman. ’’—London Mail.
Will Cure Hl tn Kventually.
“I feel considerably encouraged about
Slusher.” ' ;
“Why, I thought you told me he was
incurable—that he smoked the nasty
little things incessantly, and they had
given him. a constant cough. ”
“That’s why lam encouraged. The
cough is getting -worse.”—Chicago
’tribune.
JAPANESE DECORATION DAY. i
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•porta and Picnic*.
parade, with magnificent decorations, flags
and symbolism in leaf, flower and extem
porized material, form the first part of the
celebration exercises. Then follow wor
ship, the ceremonies of religion, visitation
of the shrines and cemeteries by soldiers,
people, dignitaries and priests. After re
freshing the Inner man come the afternoon
sports, picnics, fireworks and general re
laxation with lanterns, boats, river Joys
and promenades or moon viewing at
night Let me describe an occasion that
I remember well. It was in the far in
terior, away from the seaports, whore the
true life ot the people is seen.
In the days of 1871, when the national
spirit wns bursting the cocoon of feudal
ism, it would be like describing “the Mul
ligan guards” or Falstaff’s company to tell
of tho parade of a provincial regiment in
hybrid transition dress. Uniformity was,
however, gradually established in a na
tional army, navy and civil administra
tion, and then I saw in Fukui these seme
Echizen troops smartly dressed in neat
uniform of French style with the mikado’s
crest on their eape. They looked very
promising. In Tokyo afterward, during
throe years, I saw 10,000 troops at a time,
With their drills, evolutions, dress parades
and details of barrack Ute and training.
In earnestness and perseverance they al
ready showed what loyal soldiers could do
in the Satsuma rebellion of 1877, and
what, with tho uprising of tho nation, was
possible fa Korea and China in 1894-5.
On May 4 ds T remember, tens of thou
sands of people Visited the new cemetery
tn Fukui, called the Sho-Kon-Sha, ot Soul
Beckoning Rest. Among tho sew tombs
of the loyal men slain in the civil war of
1868-70 fluttered many colored streamers
and banners with memorial inscriptions.
Hundreds came with beautiful flowers to
lay before and upon the monuments. In’
the afternoons the ladies of the prince’s'
household visited the cemetery in their
gorgeous embroidered silk gowns and gir
dles. Then I thought myself back in the
middle aged, u When the figures now on
playing otodawme realities, as gorgeous
with their colors. Their hair was dressed
In magnificent stylo In an exaggerated- sort
of pompadour, outraging from tho fore
head, flanking the temples in a sort of
semicircle or halo and gathered backward
into a long, single tress, which in most
cases went down to the waist and in some
almost to their feet, the back part of the
hair on the head being held together by a
pretty horn or tortoise shell comb. One
gracious lady, the prince’s wife, who with
her husband did so much, in my year of
loneliness, when I saw only rarely a white
man’sface, to make my lot comfortable,
was dressed in a simple but very rich garb
of white and crimson silk. ;
The flower decorated monuments, the
streaming penqants, the fluttering banners
and the new and shining monuments,
with the reverent and exceedingly polite
and well bred crowds of people in that new
cemetery—which contrasted in its fresh
ness with the century old daimios' ances
tral burying ground not far away, where
the mosses and lichens seem to have been
feedingon tho granite for ages, and, on
the other hand, with the large city ceme
tery below, with its cremation furnaces
and ascending columns of smoke, having
near bys great mound many rods long
and wide and several feet high, where in
indistinguishable mass lay the ashes and
bones of humanity swept off in successive
and old time periodical famines—made a
scene forever impressed on my memory.
b Tradition locates the burial place of one
of Japan’s 123 emperors on this hill.
Hence it to a place of much interest—ln
dependent.
The Ameer of Afgkanletaa.
There Is nfitMhg of that slatternly un
tidiness, combined with lavish expendi
ture, in the ameer’s establishment that
characterizes the- residences ot Indian
princes. Except on state occasions, When
he dresses in a sort of European uniform,
he wears a long, loose coat made of some
lovely pale colored French brocade or sat
in, lined In winter with fur—sable, stone
marten or red foxes’ feet perhaps—and in
summer With the shot glace Silks that
come from Bokhara. Harmonizing with
these, but seldom matching them, are his
skullcap and handkerchief, the whole
making a charming mass of color with his
couch, which is draped in tho most elab
orate style and is constantly being altered.
In summer it is generally covered with
silks and satins, and in winter with cash
mere shawls, furs, etc., and has a velvet
valance bordered with a massive gold
I have constantly seen him throw off a
shawl that offended his eye because it did
not harmonize with tho rest and order in
another, and When he chooses his handker
chiefs for the day (never less than three or
four, for he snuffs, as do most Afghans)
ho mechanically, as it were, holds first
one and then another up against his coat,
and if he does not fancy the shade throws
that one down and takes up another, and
so on until he is satisfied, talking all the
time as if he were hardly conscious of
what ho was doing.—Pearson’s Magazine.
The Frenoh Red Crore.
According to the Figaro of Parte, the
FrendißedCroM has recently opened a
subscription for the benefit of the future
wounded of the Spanish-American war
and has headed it with a contribution of
50,000 francs. “To speak frankly,” says
tho writer of the article, “we owe this ac
tion to foreign nations, for they ail showed
an admirable generosity toward our
wounded during the war of 1878-1. The
United States rent ns at that time 600,000
francs; Canada, 800,899; Spate, 94000;
Italy, 19,000; little Denmark, 180,000;
tho Argentine Republic, 250,000; Chile,
100,000; Peru, 60,000; Russia, 80,000; in
all about 8,000,000 francs.
“Our Red Cross, having spent more
than 12,800,000 faanea for our wOunded
during the fatal year, had still remaining
in its treasury more than 2,000,000 franca
At present the society has on hand 8,000,-
000 francs. It sent to Spain 30,000 franca
for the wounded in the Cariist war, 297,-
000 in the Turco-Russian war, 90,000 for
the wounded in Tunis, 530,000 for Ton
quin, 816,000 for Madagascar—in all
8,000,000 francs since tho war With Ger
many. The president of the society to now
General Fevrier.”
f Cuba aad Junta.
A woman who speaks Spanish tells ma
that we don’t even pronounce the name ot
the Island we’re fighting about correctly.
She conferees that she has heard “junta”
pronounced “hoonta,” which I believe to
the proper pronunciation, frequently, but
i she declares that even those among us who
say “hoonta” call Cuba “Kewba.” It
Isn’t “Kewha” at all, she says. It's*’Koo
ba,” and hereafter let us try to pronounce
it correctly.—Washington Poet
Mosafi i* 1 3Va*>.
as a factor ga armaments. The
of mL, but by tho slow? wearing flnan-
of staying power, and that will be •
money even mere than a military ques
tion. Inker costly ware of recent times
Russia has not distinguished herself much
financially. She was completely worn out
by two years* fighting in a small corner of
the Crimea. Her short campaign against
the Turks in 1877-8 so disorganized her
finances that it took them 15 yean to re
cover. ’
. The Russians themselvcsare well aware
of this vital defect in their military pow
er, and they have of late years made stren
uous efforts to remedy it. To that end
both their foreign policy and their finan
cial policy are Iwlng studiously directed.
Assistance In strengthen!ng Russian credit
abroad and replenishing tho treasury at
home has for the past ten vyears been the
price of Russian friendship.
Prince Bismarck, much as he coveted
the prise, seems to have thought the terms
demanded too high. He would not throw
open German savings to be exploited by
the loan mongers and mortgage brokers of
St Petersburg. Ro little did he like these
gentry that he had Rutwiah securities ta
booed in Berlin, and tho Imperial Bank
of Germany ceased to make advances on
them.—National Review.
Tommy Stringer a Botanist.
At the commencement exercises of the
Perkins Institution and School For tho
Blind Tommy Stringer—now promoted to
Thomas on the printed programme—gave a
fine little address on botany—a study for
which he has developed a wonderful apti
tude. Through the medium of his teacher
and the deaf and dumb alphabet he told
much that was interesting and astonished
the audience by his accurate knowledge of
tho science, speaking of oak and pine,
chestnut and maple, like familiar friends.
Behind him on stable lay the books which
he has made during the past year, giving
brief, comprehensive accounts of his re
searches and containing numerous speci
mens of leaves, blossoms and bits of wood
which he has collected and neatly mounted.
His exercise created so much enthusi
asm that Dr. Eliot camo forward and, tak
ing up the books, showed and explained
them to the audience. Nothing that this
school has ever done has been more won
derful—not even tho development of Helen
Keller—than tho bringing of Tommy
Stringer from a helpless mass of inert
matter—physically and mentally—out in
to the light as a healthy, handsome, happy
and studious boy of uncommon promise.
Boston Transcript.
We have been asked to give some advice
as to tho best methods of ridding dwell
ings of fleas. As to the removal of the
pest no better advice can be given than
the following: Every house where a pet
dog or cat Is kept may become seriously
infested with fleas if tho proper conditions
of moisture and freedom from disturbance
exist. Infestation, however, is not likely
to occur if the (bare) floors can be fre
quently and thoroughly swept. When an
outbreak of fleas comes, however, the easi
est remedy to apply to a free sprinkling of
pyrethrum powder in the Infested rooms.
This failing, benzine may be tried, a thor
ough spraying of carpets and floors being
undertaken with the exercise of due pre
caution in seeing that no light or fires are
in the house at tho time of the application
or for some hours afterward. Finally, if
the plague is not thus abated, all floor
coverings must be removed and the floors
washed with hot soapsuds. This to a use
ful precaution to take in any house which
it to proposed to close for the summer,
since even a thorough sweeping may leave
behind some few flea eggs, from which an
all pervading swarm may develop before
the house to reopened.—New York Ledger.
The Making of Soldier*.
It was a very earnest and enthusiastic
company drilling in Cass park. There
were not to exceed a dozen in the ranks,
and tho average ago was about 6. Broom
handles crossed their shoulders at various
angles and elevations, a few had toy pis
tols and a little chap with an eight inch
snare drum furnished music.
“Get off that grass!” shouted a big po
liceman just as a particularly difficult evo
lution was being executed.
“Haiti” screamed the little curly haired
captain, just in time to avert a disgrace
ful stampede. “Makeready! Take aim!
Fire!” and the report of throe paper caps
“rang out on the startled air.”
Every little body was fairly rigid te its
determination to fall back In good order
while loading, when the joined
in the laughter of a score of other wit
nesses.
An old gentiemap bent witlF years
walked over to the brave captain,-patted
him on the head and turned with beam
ing face to those about him, “And yet
other nations wonder where our soldiers
spring, from when the country needs them
to fight its battles.”—Detroit Free Press.
Slato on Mustor.
Many of those engaged in recruiting
regiments believe that the strict physical
examination required by the government
for the first call for volunteers will be
made more flexible for the 75,000 men in
cluded in the second call.
However, if the medical examination to
rigidly enforced it will be well for officers
to remember the experience of a sergeant
of the Eighth regiment, mustered te at
Mount Gretna. With the line officers he
took great pride in the company and ex
pected it would be mustered in entire.
Every man volunteered, but two were
thrown out in the medical examination.
One was two pounds underweight and
the other was one inch too short. “If I
had known beforehand,” said the sergeant,
“I would have filled one man up with two
pounds of beef and had the other man
measured in the morning, because every
man to taller in the morning than at
•Ight. ’’—Philadelphia Record.
A Btertltng Hereakaek yea*.
Berlin to wild over the marvelous feat
of Fedora Vona, a woman circus rider,
who has performed repeatedly perhaps the
most startling equestrian act ever seen.
Her feat to to compel her spirited hone
to leap over a carriage containing four
persons besides the driver. As none of
these people had warning of her reckless
intention it is needless to say that they
were badly shocked—not to say somewhat
frightened— by the lady’s sadden ap
proach, the swift swish of her whip, the
gleaming eyes of her wildly excited steed
and finally the rustic of her long riding
habit over their heads.
After the performance was over, how
ever, and they found themselves none the
worse for their experience they were rather
inclined to brag about it, and so the story
got out ;
WE ARE JsHV ’ MCarCS. T
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD •* CASTOR lA,” AND
PITCHER’S CASTORTA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
/, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “CASTORIA,” /Ae same that
has borne and docs 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,
Do Not Be Deceived.
Ro not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yen
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know.
“The Kind Yea Have Always Bought"
BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF
Mr
Insist on Having *
The Kind That Never Failed You.
THC CENTAUR COMFANV. TT MURRAY BTRCTT. NEW VOAR CITY.
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