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An Ordinance. ________ 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 • •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. •;i■ ■ - S' ?? —GET YOUR — JOB PRINTING ■ The Morning Call Office. 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