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B tec. fat. Thatlt 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 ofGriffin ; 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 J* 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.
Sto Wd. It shall be hnlawful for any
person to use water from any spigot or
person to couple pipes to spigots .unless
paubfbr hs an extra outlet.
Sefc. Sth. It Shall be unlawful for any
person to turn on water to premises or add
asy f pivot or fixture without first obtain
ing* pernfit 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 c n the service. Spigots and pipes
must b$ bpyed or wrapped to prevent,
freezing; they will not be allowed to run
fortha purpose.
MBec. 7th. The employes of the Water
Department shall have access to the
premises of any subscriber for the purpose
oQreaffing meters, examining pipes, fix
tures, etc., and it shall be unlawful for any
person to interfere, or prevent their doing
so.
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 convictjon Bijall
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
priaoned la.the city prison for a term not
exceeding sixty days, either or all, in the
discretion of tbd court.
, Sec. 9th. The employees of the Water
Department shall have the same authority
and power ot 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hereby repealed.
An Ordinance.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage ot this ordinance, the fol
owing 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 8.00
Viveryjrtables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries 24.00
Each additional opening 6.00
2. Meters will be fttrnished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of f 1.00 per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
wnn of |I.OO por month will be charged
for witter while the meter is on the service.
The reading of the meters will be held
proof of usWK 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 •» “3 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 so the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest
of the piping must be done by a plumber
at the consumers’ expense.
An Ordinance.
An to prevent the spreading
of diseases through the keeping and ex
posing for sate 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.
See. Ist. Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Council of the City of Griffin, thsft
from'ana after the passage of this ordU
nance, it shall be unlawful for any person
or persons, firm or corporation to keep
ana expose for sale any second hand or
cast off clothing within the corporate lim
its of the City of Griffin, unless the said
clothing has been disinfected by the Board
of Health of the City of Griffin, and the
certificate of said Board 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. ; ' f 37' -" k '
Bm. 2nd. Be it further ordained by the
authority 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 ot 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. Brd. Be ft farther ordairfed by the
authority aforesaid, That every person or
persons, firm or corporation convicted of ;
a violation of this ordinance, shall be fined
end sentenced not more than one hundred '
dollars, or sixty days in the chain gang,
either or both, in the discretion of the
Judge oftte Criminal Court, for each of
enforced and report aH violations the
Sec. 4th. Be It farther ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That all ordinances
“d parte of ordinances in conflict here
with are hereby repealed.
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BABIES IN CHINA.
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Little Ones In the Celectlnl Empire Ito.
oeive Mach Attention.
Babies are made much of all the world
over, but In China especially they are sur
rounded with a host of mysterious super
stitious and practices.
They are very comical, to look at, these
children of the Celestials. From the day
they are born they are put Into a little
coat and trousers, with a wee cap to keep
. the head warm, and little shoes on their
feet. In fact, they are the exact counter
parts of their parents In miniature.
A child is not bathed until the third
day. It is not considered lucky to do so
before. When this has been done, charms,
consisting -of lucky cash (smallest coin)
and Small silver toys are attached by red
cord to the child’s wrists and worn for
many months. This Is to keep away all
evil spirits. '
Red strips of paper with certain char
acters written on them are also nailed up
outside the door of baby’s room to ward
off all evil Influences.
These strips are kept up until after the
eleventh day, and It Is usual for no stran
ger to enter until they have been removed.
When a Chinaman has lost several chil
dren, on the birth of another he Is espe
cially careful to guard it from evil spirits,
who evidently have a spite against him.
He therefore Invests in a sword made out
of cash and strung togethhvwlth red cord.
This is hung up by baby’s bed as a
charm and is considered very effective.
The child generally leaves the room at
the end of the month, and on that day the
head la shaved for the first time.
I cannot learn that any great Importance
is attached to the giving of a name to the
child. It is, as a rule, the grandfather or
grandmother on the father’s side for choice
who names It, but if they are dead it de
volves on the mother’s parents or some
elderly relation. . ‘
y iWhen baby has arrived at the mature
age of 4 months, the maternal grandmoth
er makes it a present of a most elaborate
chair with a table attached. There is gen
erally a feast on this day, and mahy friends
are invited.
A curious custom Is observed when the
child is a year old. Again a party Is given
to celebrate the event, and a large sieve is
placed upon the table with various arti
cles laid upon It—books, writing imple
ments, gold, silver, fruit, etc. Baby, at
tired in new red cloths with red cord braid
ed in his hair, is placed in the center of the
sieve, and according to what articles he
seizes first will his fortune be told. If he
takes up the money, of course he will be
come a merchant and rich; If a book, why,
he will be learned and distinguish himself
in literature.
In every household there is an image of
the goddess of children, who is supposed
to have the care of the little ones tlll they
grow up. Many offerings are made to
her, especially on the child’s birthday.
When a child reaches the age of 16 years,
he is supposed to pass from the control of
his particular goddess, and a ceremony is
gone through called the “going out of
childhood.” Afterward thank offerings
are made to the goddess of the children for
the care bestowed.
But to return to our babies. As I men
tioned before, the head is shaved when a
month old—sometimes entirely—but very
often a small patch is left at the crown of
the head and the hair plaited into a stiff
little cUej which stands out straight from
the head through a little hole in the cap.
It it is a little girl, her head is often not
shaved, but her hair plaited into two plaits
above the ears. Red cord is plaited in
with the hair as a charm, for spirits can
not face red, hence baby's red clothes.—
Ladies’ Pictorial.
Remember the Baker.
Dbn Carlos Is thoroughly familiar with
the history and legends of Venice. Re
turning recently from mass at St. Mark’s
cathedral, he paused before a statuette in
mosaic on the front of the cathedral facing
the Adriatic and said:
"My dear friend, you see this Virgin
before which these two lighted lamps
keep watch day and night It was put
there In expiation of an error of justice by
the Senate in the time of too republic of
Venice. Let me tell you the foie. A
young baker, accused of a crime, was
hanged, and a little while after it came to
light that the poor fellow was innocent.
Then the senate had this statuette placed
in commemoration, and every timq that
the supreme court of the republic pro
nounced sentence of death on a criminal a
herald entered and said, ‘Remember the
baker,’ and they commenced a new trial
and gave judgment again. The republic
has passed away; the statuette remains.”
Extempore Prayers.
Division seems imminent in the local
Congregational organization over the
question of the use of liturgical forms in
public worship. The principal opponent
of the present custom of uttering extem
poraneous effusions in preference to set
prayers is the Rev. George B. Hatch. In
advocacy of the formal plan he tells a
story of a certain pastor in this city who
prayed in jpubllo for 25 minutes and then
begged the Almighty to "forgive his short
comings!”
“I also know a moneyed and miserly
deacon,” says Mr. Hatch, "who in plead
ing at the throne of grace for himself, his
children and his grandchildren offered this
unique and humble supplication, though
the petitioner was in reality a very proud
and vain individual:
"O Lord, save thine unworthy dust,
and thy dust’s dust, and thy dust’s dust’s
dust!”—San Francisco News Letter.
A New “Heated Term.**
We have a little 4-year-old tot at our
boarding house named Teddie, who daily
enlivens his parents with some original
speech or other, with which of course the
boarders are regaled at mealtimes. The
latest was listened to this morning at
breakfast. A local pain made the applica
tion of a hot water bag desirable, and
when it began to cool Teddie said:
"Papa, won’t you ‘hotten’ this up
again?”
"And did you?" asked “Hop.”
“Certainly,” the happy father made re
ply.
“Well, don’t keep it up,” said “Hop,”
“or you’U make a ‘hotten’ tot of that cher
ub. ” —Hardware.
May Pay His Million.
Charles Broadway Rouss, the blind mil
lionaire of New York, who is said to have
offered 91,000,000 for the restoration of
his sight, is perhaps in away to have the
opportunity to pay the money. His offer
has been regarded as a standing one and
has brought such a luge number of spe
cialists and doctors of all kinds with cures
that for the past two yean Mr. Rouss has
employed John F. Martin, afflicted with
the same sort of blindness, to test the
many treatments offered. Naw Mr. Mar
tin is under the care of a Dr. Cassidy and
with some new methods is reported as be
ginning to regain his vision.
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THREE QUEER CITIES.
1 Eack Oa« Is Balls oa Islaada Cnaa.skei
* by Manx Bridges.
The city of Ghent, in Belgium, is
built on 26 islands. These islands are
connected with each other by 80
bridges. The city has 800 streets and 90
public squares. It is noted for being the
birthplace of Charles V and of John of
Gaunt, whom Shakespeare called "time
honored Lancaster. ’ ’ and as the scene at
the pacification of Ghent Nov. 8, 1578,
and of several insurrections, sieges StedL
executions of well known personages. It
is associated with American history by
the treaty made there Deo. 84, 1814,
terminating the second war between
England and the United States, known
as the war of 1812.
Amsterdam, in Holland, is built on
piles driven far below the water into
the earth. The oity is intersected by
many canals, which are spanned by
nearly 800 bridges, and resembles Ven
ice in the mingling of land and water,
though it is considerably larger than
that city. The canals divide the city,
which is about ten miles in circumfer
ence, into 90 islands.
The oity of Venice is built on 80
islets, which are connected by nearly
400 bridges. Canals serve for streets in
Venice? and boats, called gondolas for
carriages. The bridges are, as a rule,
very steep, rising considerably in the
middle, but have easy steps. The cir
cumference of the city is about eight
miles. The Venetians joined the Lom
bard League against the German em
peror, and, in 1177, gained a great vic
tory in defense of Pope Alexander HI,
over the fleet of war vessels headed by
Otto, son of Frederic Barbarossa. In
gratitude for this victory the pope gave
the poge Ziani a ring, and instituted
the world famous ceremony of. "Venice
Marrying the Adriatic Sea.”. In this
ceremony the doge, as the chief ruler of
Venice used to be termed, with appro
priate ceremonies dropped a ring into
the sea every year in recognition of
the wealth and trade earned to Venice
by the Adriatic.
THE DUNKERS’ LOVE FEAST.
Feet Wa.hlng, the Great Sapper and the
Klm of Peace.
"The most important and the most
beautiful custom of the Dunkers is their
love feast, which they celebrate in com
memoration of the Lord's rapper, after
the manner of the primitive Chris
tians, ’’writes Clifford Howard in de
scribing the customs of the Dunkers of
Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa., in The
Ladies’ Home Journal.
"The celebration is held at nightfall
and begins with the rite of feet wash
ing, in imitation of the act performed
by the Master at the last rapper, when
Jae washed the feet of his disciples.
Small tubs of lukewarm water are
brought in, and those about to receive
the ordinance remove their shoes and
stockings. The brothers then in turn,
each one girding himself with a towel,
wash and dry one another’s feet, the
sisters at the same time doing likewise
among themselves in their part of the
room.
"After this follows the rapper, the
feast of love, which is spread on long,
tables and consists of lamb soup and
bread and other simple viands. It is
eaten in devout solemnity and rever
ence. At the dose of the meal the broth
ers turn to one another and extend the
right hand of fellowship and the kiss of
peace, each one shaking hands with his
neighbor and kissing him, While the
sisters at their tables perform the same
beautiful rite among themselves. The
communion is then administered. ”
Owls In Chicago.
Chicago has a novel trade in owls,
the supply coming to the commission
merchants from the farmers’ boys in
the nearby states.
The first owl which came to Chicago
in this manner was sent as a venture by
a farmer boy, who had somehow man
aged to entrap it alive. It proved so un
expectedly successful in ridding the
.warehouse of rats and mice—having
been freed at night with the idea of
making an experiment in this direction
—that it was purchased by the man in
whose care it was resting. The freedom
from rodents which it brought induced
other commission men to look out for
owls, and from the commission firms
the idea gradually spread to the grocers,
butchers and market keepers generally
of the city. Now a large percentage of
these men keep an owl down in the cel
lar during the daylight and bring it up
to the store when darkness falls. It is
said that the expense and care of main
taining owls are mare than repaid by
their services in vanquishing the rats
and mice, The owners and janitors of
the large apartment houses in the city
axe also beginning to realise the value
of possessing an owl when rats, mice,
cockroaches and vermin generally are to
be exterminated.—Chicago Timf-Her
aid.
Picking Pockets With Toes.
The gauchos, or dwellers in the ex
tensive plains ot Buenos Ayres, are
marvelously dexterous with both hands
and feet. Many of them have acquired
through long practice such skill In
using their toes as if they were fingers
that they can fling the lasso and even
pick pockets with them. Some time ago
a Frenchman who was fishing in one of
the rivers of Buenos Ayres was warned
.to be on his guard against the light fin
gered natives. He forthwith kept a vig
ilant watch on his companions, but
nevertheless one day, when his attention
was closely riveted on his float, a wily
gaucho drew near, and, delicately in
serting his foot, extracted the French
man's hooks and other valuables from
his pocket—Boston Transcript
Hl. Way of Binding I*.
Tourist—lt wears me out completely
to travel
Chance Acquaintance—Your business
compels you to do it, I presume.
Tourist—No, lam traveling for my i
health.—Chicago Tribune.
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A Has With a teaak.
The wise one was explaining to the
other that the bat cannot see in the day - I
time. It was in the basement at a but
ter, eggs and chicken place on Washing
ton street
"You see,” he said, as he stuck his
finger close to the wide open eyes of the
bat "he can't see a wing Now watch.”
He jabbed his finger into the eyeball
of the unsuspecting little victim, which
at once threw up its wings and hopped
to the farther end of the perch.
But the wise man was not satisfied.
He wanted to demonstrate his knowl
edge still further.
"No, he can’t see a bit, ” he said,
jabbing his finger the second time into
the staring eye.
"See,” he mid, as he repeated his
demonstration.
The bat in the n- runtime was flap
ping its wings excite ily and trying to
grope its way to safety.
“That's* peculiar thing about owls
and bats,” the wise one went on, "that
they can soe only in the nighttime.
Now, you just watch for yourself.”
Again he tortured the frightened night
bird.
By this time the worm turned. The
bat fought back, and by a quick move
ment caught the torturing finger in its
beak. The wise man jerked his hand
away, and with a loud "Onoh!” put
the digit into his own mouth to rack
the blood.
"Yes, I see,” said his friend.—Chi
cago Journal.
French Loal Papers.
The French local papers are the
merest rags, conducted in many cases
by people who appear to be totally
ignorant of everything that goes out
side their own department The result
is that the most extraordinary state
ments appear. In a paper local* to the
Riviera there once appeared the an
nouncement:
"Cowardly attempt on the life of a
president Mr. Jameason has been ar
rested for the attempted assassination
of M. Johannes Burg, the president of.
the Transvaal republic.” This was at
the time of the Jamieson raid.
This same paper recently noted the
arrival of "Lady Killarny” on the Ri
viera and added that "Lady Ki Harney”
was a daughter of the Prince of Wales
who had married an Irish nobleman of
high rank and had been obliged to re
nounce all her royal rights in order to
do so. This was why she did not go to
the same place as the queen or the
Princess of Wales. "Lady Killarney”*
Was the Duchess of York.
Another French local paper of equal
standing once announced that “Lord
Balfour, president of the Liberator club
and son-in-law of Lord Salisbury, ” had
been Imprisoned by "Sir Gladstone” in
the Tower of London. —London Graphic.
Swallowing Salt Water.
One of the most beneficial features of
a sea bath is the saltwater inadvertent
ly swallowed by bathers. It is a won
derful tonic far the liver, stomach and
kidneys. In many cases it will cure
biliousness when all drug preparations
have failed. It is peculiarly effective in
ordinary cases of indigestion, disordered
stomaoh and insomnia, and has been
known to produce excellent results in
many case%of dyspepsia.
Clean sea water is full of tonic and
sedative propertiea It won’t hurt any
body. Indeed, two or three big swal
lows of it would be of positive benefit
to nine bathers out of ten. It is not of
oourse a palatable or tempting dose to
take, but neither is quinine nor calomel.
You saldfjto, ever see an old sailor
who is bilious or dyspeptic or a victim
to insomnia, and why? For the reason
that an ocean of good medicine spreads
all about his sky, and he doses himself
copiously with ip whenever his physical
mechanism becomes the least bit de
ranged.—Washington Star.
Th* Humidity Mater.
The amount of moisture present or
the humidity of the air is determined
by a comparison of dry and wet bulb
thermometer* They are both ordinary
thermometers, but the bulb of the latter
is covered with muslin that is wet In
the latest form of instrument the ther
mometers are mounted on arms carried
by a shaft that is rotated by a crank
which is geared to the shaft The mo
tion of the shaft rotates the thermome
ters in vertical planes and causes the
water in the muslin to evaporate more
or less rapidly, according to the amount
of moisture in the air. This evaporation
lowers the temperature of the thermom
eter, and from tables constructed after
long experiments the degree of moisture
can be determined by the difference in
temperature between the two thermom
eters.—E. J. Prindle in Popular Science.
Washing la Hard Water.
It is difficult to wash our hands clean
with hard water, because the soda of
the soap combines with the sulphuric
acid of the hard water and the oil of
the soap with the lime and floats in
flakes on the top of the water. Sulphate
of lime consists of sulphuric add and
Una. It is difficult to wash in salt wa
ter because ft contains muriatic acid,
and the soda of soap combines with the
muriatic acid of the salt water and pro
duces a cloudiness.
He Kaaw later.
"It is a pretty name, ” the impres
sionable traveler murmured. "But tell
me, why do they call you Manita?”
There was an arch smile on the Rav
age maiden’s face.
"Evidently, ” she said, as she signal
ed to her brothers, who were concealed
in the bush with clubs, "you do not
know ouj favorite food. Harlem Life.
H* Kji*w Him.
Bay—Mr. Smittexs wants to know if
you’ll lend him an umbrella. He says
you know him.
“You may eay that 1 do know him.
He win probably understand why you
| didn’t bring the umbrella.’"—Boston
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To MOTHERS.
WF ARF ASSERTING INTHE nrYnrr.rr
THE I-XCLUSrVE USE OF THE CAS
"PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “CASTORIA,” the same that
has borne and does now bear - -on every
the sac-simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “CASTORIA” which has been used in
the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years
LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that U 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.
Bo not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know.
“The Kind Yon Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF
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Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Filed You.
THE CCNTAUN COMPANY. Ts MVRIIAV NTRCrT. NCW VOfM CITY.
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