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An Ordinance.
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Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Griffin feat ftom 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
i* meet 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 hot a member 01 theu
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.
See. 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.
, t 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.
afiSec. 7th. The employes of the Water
Department shall have access to the
premises of any subscriber for the purpose
ofjreading 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 conviction shall
be punished by jk 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 ihall have the same authority
and power of regular policemen of the
City of Griffin, for the purpose of enforc
-4 ing the above ordinance.
Sec. 10th. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict of the above are
1 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, thefQl
owing rateayvill fr? charged for the use of
water per yearT (
1. Dwellings: \
One 1-inch opening! for subscribers’
use only J................ $ 9.00
Each additional/spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet of bath 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries 24.00
Each additional opening 6.00
. 2. Meters will bp furnished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of SI.OO per year
| rental of same, paid in advance. Ajnlni
” tnnm of fiLOO 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.
3. Meter rates will be as follows;
7,000 to 25JpOQ gats, month..lsc 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
monfe, 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 Ou 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 tQ the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest
of the piping must be done by a plumber
at the consumers’ expense.
An Ordinance.
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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
sttetr 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»unlawml 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 of Health giving
the number and character of the garments
diinfacted by them has been filed in the
office ofthe 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 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 ot twenty-five cents, and to the
Clerk and Treasurer of the City ©f 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 further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict here
with are hereby repealed.
DYNAMITE GUNS.
fifteen Men In Relays Are Required *4
Work Them.
Dynamite guns, such as are used upon
the Vesuvius, are operated upon an en
tirely different principle from the ordi
nary powder gnus. They have engines
and boilers and air compressors and
coolers and all sorts of intricate ma
chinery in a house not far away, by
which the projectiles are fired. The
dynanrte or gun cotton or explosive
gelatin or whatever the explosive ma
terial may be is contained in the pro
jectile only. This projectile is called an
“aerial torpedo” by the manufacturers
and is exploded by means of a fuse
similar to any powder gun’s.
Dynamite or any other high explosive
cannot be used in an ordinary cannon,
because the powder would explode the
dynamite before it left the gun, there
fore the system of using compressed air
came into vogue as the only method of
throwing dynamite to any distance. The
air is compressed and passed along
through various tubes before reaching
the gun and is used at about 1,000
pounds pressure to the square inch,
which is much less than the power of
powder. will be exploded at
about 5,000 pounds pressure to the
square inch. These guns are enormous
affairs, smoothbore, 50 feet in length,
made of the best iron, in three sections;
flanged and bolted together and support
ed on a steel carriage. The carriage is
mounted upon a steel racing ring, sc
called, and the system of handling is by
means of an electric motor. As these
guns are covered by a large number of
patents they are very expensive, costing
the government many thousands of dol
lars each. Fifteen men in relays are
required to work them.
The gunner stands upon a platform
on the left side of the carriage, uses a
fine telescopic sight, and when all is
ready* he pulls a lever which allows the
compressed air to enter the gun, and
the discharge takes place. These gun»
are all loaded at the breech, and ths
projectile is handled by a separate car
riage The projectile is about 10 feet in
length for the 15 inch gun, and when
charged with 500 pounds of dynamite
or gun cotton weighs fully 1,000
pounds. It is a steel tube composed of
walls three-sixteenths of an inch thick
and has a spiral vane at the rear. The
fuse, is a foot in length and weighs 20
pounds. This fuse contains two pounds
and a half of dry gun cotton and a few
grains of fulminate of mercury as a de
tonator. It is set to explode at impact
or as the gunner may. desire as to time.
—Leslie’s Weekly. w ‘
A TRANSPOSITION.
It Mangled the Salutation, but the King
Controlled Hi» Face.
An American who years ago served
as ouf minister to Spain was fond of
telling the fallowing joke upon himself:
Shortly after he had become settled
in his new home he was bidden to a
state ceremonial, where he was to be
presented to the king. His knowledge
of languages was limited* to English
and French, and being desirous of ad
dressing the sovereign in his own tongue
he took pains to “coach” for the occa
sion. Several phrases were rehearsed
until he felt that he had mastered them.
When the critical moment arrived, he
saluted the king with great dignity,
spoke a few words in Spanish and pass
ed on.
“What did you say?” asked an Eng
lish gentleman.
“I spoke in Spanish, ” was the rejoin
der. “I said, ‘I cast myself at your
feet, ’ which I am told is the most re
spectful form of salutation.”
“Ah, no,” corrected a Spaniard, who
had been observed to smile at the em
bass;.dor’s greeting. “ You are mistak
en. Yau transposed, your words, and
quite altered the meaning. ”
- “What did I say?” asked the diplo
mat.
With a twinkle in his eye the Span
iard made answer, ‘What you really
said was, ‘I throw my heels at your
head. ’"
But the king had not betrayed by so
much as the 'fluttering of an eyelid that
anything unusual had occurred. —Har-
per’s Magazine.
No Fixation In Space.
The common idea as to the path of
the earth being “fixed in space” is tak
en exception to by astronomers on the
ground that there are few if any things
in the domain of astronomy that can
really be called fixed space, that fact
being that unceasing changes are going
on, though these changed are generally
so slow as to escape the notice of a su
perficial observer, but are fortunately
periodic, so that they fall within the
possibility of computation. Thus the
earth’s path is not fixed, since the
ecliptic undergoes a very slow change,
so that, while at present it is a few sec
onds more than 23 degrees 27 minutes,
in about 15,000 years, astronomers cal
culate, it will be reduced to 22 degrees
15 minutes, after which it will begin to
increase again, a change so slow and
within such narrow limits that it can
produce no sensible alteration in the
seasons.—Kansas City Journal.
Even Up.
While some Swiss militiamen were
resting from their drill one of the men
stepped from the ranks to light hia
cigar from that of the officer. The lat
ter took this evidence of the “spirit of
freedom” in good part, but said, “In
the Prussian army you could not have
done thiscWfigy
“Right you are, ” was the prompt re
ply, “but in the Prussian army you
could not be an officer. ”
Red Pipestone Quarry.
Every one familiar with Longfel
low’s “Hiawatha” remembers the refer
ences to the famous red pipestone quar
ry, which is situated at the extreme
eastern boundary of South Dakota.
This is. the only quarry of the kind
known to exist on the American conti
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“©•Mak.- In Church.
The Utestand most novel entertainment
among the colored population of Jeffwuon
ville and vicinity is a “cat shake.” In ths
colored Baptist church of that Indiana
town a fuw nights ago the congregation
gave one of these performances.
A nickel each is charged the participants
in the festivities. A large, scary cat is
secured, and the minister stands in the
pulpit with it in h»har.l. The people
group about him with outstretched hands.
He shakes the bag several times and then
suddenly opens it and lets the oat out.
The one who catches the animal gets 60
cents in cash.
Rev. Mr. Rice, the pastor, had charge
of the affair. He mounted the pulpit
promptly at 8 o’clock and made a state
ment in regard to the rules governing the
contest. He then took the cat and held it
up for inspection. It was a brilliant anL
mal, with a strident voice. Then the min
ister called “Time!" The lights had been
turned low, to give the cat a chance to
escape. The bag was swung around and
around the head of the minister, and sud
denly the cat flew out into the center of
the room. Women shrieked as he raced up
and down.
At last, after 15 minutes’ struggling,
Fannie O’Bannon clutched the cat firmly
and held on to him. She flung her most
persistent pursuer, Barker Hill, back into
the crowd and made her way to the pulpit,
where she presented the frightened animal
to the pastor. The lights were turned up,
there was a shout from the people, and in
a neat little speech Bev. Mr. Rico present
ed tho winner with a silver half dollar. —
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
A Funny Burglar Story.
An elderly woman and her daughter,
living in Walnut street, have been spend
ing tho last few days in recuperating from
a nervous shock, each blaming the other
as tho cafiso of tho trouble. The elder
woman lives inconstant dread of burglars,
and to additionally fortify her room at
night she has taken to -standing a stick
between the lower sash of her window and
tho casing above, so it cannot bo opened.
The other night she was awakened by
hearing a racket In her room and finally
mustering up enough courage to look
around she discovered that her stick had
fallen from the window to the floor, be
hind the sewing machine. She arose, went
to the machine and leaned over it to reach
the stick. - 7*
In the meantime the daughter had been
awakened by tho same noise, and, fearing
that a burglar had entered her mother’s
room, she hurried to investigate. Reach
ing the door, she saw, to her horror, that
her mother was lying, head down, over
the machine, evidently dead or uncon
scious. Running over, she clasped the
supposedly unconscious body around tho
waist. Immediately tho mother gave forth
such a succession of blood curdling shrieks
as might have been heard for squares as
she struggled in the grasp of the long ex
pected burglar; but tho daughter, certain
that her mother had gone mad with
fright, held on for dear life, and the two
struggled and swayed till finally they both
fell exhausted on tho bed. Then they real
ized the true situation, and they’ve been
blaming each other ever since.—Philadel
phia Record.
How Men Fight Nowadays.
George P. Gross, the colomAof the Third
regiment, talked of war to a reporter about
as it really is. C
“There have been changes in war tac
tics since the civil war, ” said he. “For
instance, soldiers used to line up in battle
shoulder to, shoulder and stand out in the
open under a galling fire. That has been
changed. When tho regiments are in lino
firing nowadays, the mon will be three,
four, five or even six feet apart. The ex
tended order line is similar to the skir
mish line. It is a very effective way of
fighting and greatly reduces the loss of
men.
“ To march men upon the field shoulder
to shoulder in the face of rapid firing ar
tillery means a great slaughter. Gatling
and Hotchkiss guns would simply mow
them down. Then, too, thtr-’men are al
lowed to protect themselves. They lie
down and with their trench knives or bay
onets scoop up loose earth, which is a great.
protection from infantry fire. Loose earth
will stop rifle bullets.
“In the last war we used to raise earth
fortifications and tramp the earth down
hard. That is just what we should not
have done. We should have thrown up
the earth loosely. *
“In an engagement a regiment is
marched out upon the field in three bat
talions under the command of majors, the
companies—four to a battalion—com
manded by the captains. By this means
the colonel and lieutenant colonel can di
rect the maneuvering of the regiment.”—
Kansas City Star.
“John Inglesont” Declined.
James Payn has himself fold how ho
refused “ John Inglesant, ” one of the most
successful stories, of the century. He
chanced to come across a paragraph stat
ing the fact and was most indignant, tell
ing the head of the firm that he was going
to give the writer a bit of his mind. “I
don’t think I would trouble to do that,”
the publisher replied. “Why not?” asked
Mr. Payn. “Because—well, because you
did refuse‘John Inglesant,’you know.”
“I did nothing of the kind,” protested
Mr. Payn. “Refuse ‘John Inglesant!’ I
refuse‘John Inglesant!’ I never heard of
such a thing.” However, he was con-
Vmcod when his own letter of declinature
was shown and laughed heartily over the
incident, adding always: “I had refused
‘John Inglesant, ’ and my publisher had
never said a word of it to me. Wasn’t it
good of him?”
It is also an open secret that, although
Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. published
“Robert Elsmere,” tho book was rejected
by Mr. Payn. But, on the whole, he was
appreciative and quick to discern new tal
ent.—Publishers’ Circular.
An Ineffective Cure.
In attempting to cure ourselves of the
habit of smoking, which has been a suc
cess so far, we first accumulated the habit
of chewing gum until the ball bearing
movement of our lower jaw became a per
petual motion and kept us awake nights.
We paid a special jaw doctor to lead our
jaws back to the ways of civilization; then
we swore off on gum. We next accumu
lated the peanut chewing habit, which has
clogged up our entire system until we
really feel indifferent in regard to this life
or the mysterious life beyond the shadow.
If there is a doctor in this country who
makes a specialty of curing peanut fiends,
he can secure a job at this office. —Enid
(O. T.) Wave.
The Other Way.
Mr. Chick—Your father is such a pas
sionate man, Mabel! Do you think he
will be violent if I approach him with re
gard to my intentions respecting yourself?
Mabel (wearily)—No, but he will be if •
you don’t soon! —London Fun.
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A STORY OF WATSON.
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AN OCCASION WHEN THE OLD BEA
DOG WANTED TO SWEAR.
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Net Beta* a Profane Mou, However,
Gave the Job Which Ronaed Hie Wrath
to Fuller, the Bara's Mate, and Thea
let Events Take Their Coarse.
Jjjhn Crittenden Watson docs not be
long to the Hat ot "cussing officers,”
yet as aman-o’-war skipper he Never
had a man of his ship’s company aft for
’swearing. Ho was singularly indulgent
ot the hard swearqys forward.
“Hard language helps a man along
occasionally, ” he has been known to
say to one of hl?, deck officers upon over •
hearing a etrexin of maledictions from
the lips of some old Cat foot working at
•.stubborn job forwaid, “and it is bet
ter for the men to work off their wrath
over fouled anchor chains in cuss words
than to tako it cut ut each other’s
bide.”
Aboard ono of- tfeo ships under Wat
son’s command there was an old bos’n’e
mate named Fuller, who had the call
throughout the whole navy as the cham
pion profane man of the government’s
line of packets. Fuller never raised hia
voice when he swore. He would simply
stand back and quietly regard the inan
imate Abject of hia wrath—a bent be
laying pin perhaps or a slack ridgff rope
—and then he would open up in an or
dinary conversational tone. But the ut
terances he gave vent to were sulphur
ous. It always took Fuller a good five
minutes to work off what he considered
the necessary number of remarks on
such occasions, and it always seemed,
When he was through, that he bad quite
exhausted the whole vocabulary of pro
fanity. But this was a mistake. The
very next time anything went wrong
with a bit of Fuller’s gear he would
start in on a new line that would con
tain absolutely not a single repetition
of any of his previous performances. It
was always a source of wonder to Ful
ler’s shipmates, even the old timers,
where he picked up the new ones, all
of which were of startling originality
and force.
, These shipmates related only one in
stance in which he found himself at a
loss for words. He was with a landing
party from his ship, marching on the
outskirts of Chemulpo, Korea. He stub
bed his toe on a loose bowlder in the
road and fell on his face in the dust.
He picked himself up and looked at the
road. He opened his mouth to say some
-1 thing, but he had no words. He was
dumb with wrath. Two or three times
he attempted to begin, but it was no
go. He was stuck for once, so he pulled
out a pistol and deliberately fired it into
the air five times. He had to express his
feelings in some way.
When Fuller was serving aboard
Watson’s ship, he was in good shape,
and his frequent quiet outbursts kept
the forward part of the ship keyed up
with wonder as to what was coining
next. One morning at big gun drill
Captain Watson himself was superin
i tending the exercise. One of the wooden
cartridges became jammed in the breech
of the 6 inch rifle to which he was de
; voting most of his attention. He
, wouldn’t permit any of the gunner’s
mates around him to attempt to loosen
the but essayed the job him
self. He tugged at the jammed'eartridge
: and broke his finger nails over it, and
still it wouldn’t come out. It was a
pretty hot morning on deck, and the
perspiration began to roll off his face in
streams, but he persisted in trying to
loosen the stuck cartridge. He looked
as if he would like to say a heap were
he a swearing man, but he wasn’t a
swearing man. When he had been
working for five minutes over the jam
med cartridge with no success, be look
ed pretty helpless and miserable. He
gave one final tug, but the stuck car
tridge remained in the gun’s breech.
The skipper gathered himself together,
mopped his forehead and looked at the
gun.
“Confound it all,” he broke out,
“where’s Fuller? Send me Fuller, some
body. ”
Fuller was on hand directly. He
wasn’t a gunner’s mate, and he had
nothing to do with the guns, but Wat
eon wanted Fuller to tackle the jammed
cartridge all the same.
“Fuller,” said Watson, “try and get
that dummy out of that gun.”
Fuller looked at the stuck cartridge,
and Watson retreated to the starboard
side of the quarter deck. Fuller made
two or three daws at the wooden car
tridge, but it wouldn’t come out. A
gunner’s mate could have got it out in
a jiffy, but Fuller wasn’t in that line
of the service. He tugged away, but it
was no go. Watson stood regarding the
horizon on the starboard side of the
quarter deck. Fuller spat on his bands
and made one more try. The dummy
didn’t move a tenth of an inch. Then
Fuller mopped bis forehead with his
Deckerchief, clapped his cap on the back
Ot his bead and opened up. It was great
work, this performance of Fuller’s, and
bo mistake. He edipsed all of his for
mer efforts. He stood with his hands on
his'bides, looking at the gun breech and
saying things at it that no Morgan or
Kidd or Teach or other heaven defying
pirate could ever have equaled. The
jinen stood around, just looking at Ful
ler in open mouthed amazement They
couldn’t make out where he got them
all They were all in English, but the
combinations were weird. The perora
tion was frightful, although delivered
in the mildest tone imaginable.
When Fuller finished, he mopped his
forehead with his neckerchief again and
Walked over to his commanding officer,
who was looking over the starboard
rail, apparently thinking deeply. Fuller
saluted.
■’lt’s stuck proper, sir,” said Fuller.
“I can’t get it adrift ”
“Well,” said Watson, “I didn’t
think you could. Fuller, but I needed
‘ you. Thanks. You did very well Go
forward.”—New York Sun.
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