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An Ordinance.
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after the passage oi wbb wainwicß.
Bec. Ist. That it shall be unlawnu 101
any person to damage, injure, abuse oi
temper with any water meter, spigot, fire
plug, curb box, or any other fixture or
staass*®
a licensed plumber may use curb service
box to test bis work.* bn to shall leave
vice cock as he found it under penalty oi
the above section. .
Sec. 2nd. It shall be [° r ,
o ts other than those paid for by him.
P Bec 4th. It shall be unlawful for any
n«r«nn to couple pipes to spigots unless
as an extra outlet,
P Sec. fitb. B shall be unlawful for any
person to turn on water to premises or add
any spigot or fixture without first obtain
ing a permit from the Water Department.
Sec. 6th. It shall be unlawful for any
person to allow their spigots, hose or
sprinkler to run between the hours of 9:00
o’clock p. m. and 6:00 o’clock a. m., for
any purpose whatever, unless there is a
meter on the service. Spigots and pipes
must be boxed or wrapped to prevent
freezing; they will not be allowed to run
for that purpose, ■ ,
Sec, 7th. The employes of the Water
Department shall have access to the
premises of any subscriber for the purpose
of 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 a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or sentenced to work op
the public works of the City of Griffln 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. 1
Sec. 9th. The employees of the Water
Department shall have the same authority
and power of "regular policemen of the
City of Griffin, for the purpose of enforc
ing the above ordinance.
Sec. 10th. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict of the above are
hereby repealed.
An Ordinance.
An ordinance to prevent the spreading
of diseases through the keeping and ex
posing for sale of second hand and cast off
clothing, to provide for the disinfection of
such clothing by the Board of 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 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.
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 of 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. fie it farther ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict here
with are hereby repealed.
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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
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
‘Cue f inch opening for subscribers’
use onlys 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries..24.oo
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 rpuUng 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 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
I accessible position.
~°- The Water Department shall have
‘be right to shut off water for necessary
repairs and work upon the system, and
•bey are not liable for any damages or re
b«e by reason of the same.
<• tpon application to the Water De
tepa rt ment, the city will tap mains and lay
so the sidewalk for $2 50; the rest
at n? pi P in ß must be done by a plumber
«the consumers’expense.
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E BROWN WINO OF CONNAUGHT.
J he W uXd C^oTn gh ‘ I
(The brown wind of Oonn.ught)
Tuma my heart to M atone.
* for H oriea tny name at twtb B ht
r And cries it at the noon-
e “Oh, Mairgread Hani Oh. Mairgread
r Ban!”
k Just like a fairy tune.
Che brown wind of Connaught,
When Dermot came to woo
* (The brown wind of Connaughtk
f I* heard hi. whisper., too
And while my wheel goes whirring
f -J.*. taps on my window P«ne
TIU I <men wide to the dead outside
r And the sea salt misty rain.
The brown wind of Connaught
With women wailed one day
r (The brown wind of Connaught)
For a wreck in Galway bay,
r And many the dark faced Ashers
I That gathered their nets in fear.
Bat one sank straight to the ghostly gate.
And he was my Dermot dear.
—Shan Van Vocht.
’ ACTING AFRAID OF DOGS.
r
r I* Is the Surest Way In the World to
> Provoke an Attack.
r It is curious, to mu wonderful, how
I well dogs understand people. They
1 seem at aglanoe or very soon thereafter
' to decide in their minds whether or not
1 it would be safe to assail one Who en
. tors their owner’s premises, aaysLip
, pihcott’s Magazine. My own opinion is
i' that every one of them, big or little, of
* high or low degree, would like to bite
’ every stranger that he sees. Their love
’ for their master makes them jealous or
, makes them pretend 'to be jealous of
[ everybody who approaches them, and
[ they debate momentarily whether or not
I a comer is afraid of them.’ If he is not,
> they either extend a friendly salute,
I which always is deceitful, or assume to
be indifferent. If he is, they give him
; a bite, more or less deep, then slink
; away from possible consequences.
For years and years I have followed
. the rule, when visiting a person rerid-
■ ing out of town, unless I know positive
! ly that he keeps no dog of any size, to
■ halt at the gate, raise a halloo and
await not only my host’s invita-
' tion, but his approach and his ao
-1 comphniment- into his house. I could
, not tell the number of times wherein I
have been barked at furiously from the
inside by dogs whose owners declared
that in all their lives they had never
done such a thing before to a man of
■ genteel appearance.
The counsels and admonitions bestow-
* ed'npon me might have excited some
; gratitude if they had not been wholly
’ useless. I have been asked so many
times that it makes me almost sick to
. have the question repeated, “Why don’t
i yon just go along without noticing
* such things, not being or at least pre
i tending not to be afraid? Not one dog
; in 10,000 will try to bite a gentleman
unless he is provoked or sees that he is
’ being avoided. ”
.—
A Cheap Decoration.
A prominent German actor, relates
Albert L. Vandam in The Illustrated
London News, had fulfilled half of his
“starring’’ engagement in the capital
of a grand duchy, and as yet no recog
nition of his talents had been forthcom
ing in the shape of a decoration. Dis
i gusted, the player announced his inten
tion of departing the following morning.
Early on that day the theater intend
ant acquainted his grand ducal master
’ with what had happened. Theconver
j. sation took place in the garden of the
, schloss, situated on the road to the sta
. tion, and suddenly an open carriage
f with the actor in it hove in sight.
) “Be quick!” said the prince. “Get
) me that box on my writing table. If go
1 he must, we’ll at any rate try to satisfy
1 him in his ambition. ” The Intendant
( ran, and returned just as the vehicle
, passed the gates. “One moment. Hen
f B .’’ shouted the prince. “Here is
[ something to remember me by. ”
I The actor bowed low, and went his
, way. In anotheT moment, however, his
s conveyance reappeared at the gates.
' “There are two crosses, your highness, ”
; he exclaimed.
( “Never mind,” replied the prince.
“Give the other to the coachman.”
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I Tlt-tat-to. •
In the Century Dictionary the deriva
tion is given from tit, tat, to, “three
> meaningless words'* used in counting.
However, the East Friesio name (see
Koolman’s “E. Fr. Diet”) is tik-tak
tuk, evidently a more original form. In
■ this name the word tik has the same
t sense as E, tick, a mark, inaliurian to
■ the mark made by the player on the
slate, while tak, tuk, are variants ci
the same theme, made on the principle
of altering the vowel, as in Germanic
I verbs of the third strong conjugation,
such as sing, sang, sung.
I Hence the name is by no meant
“meaningless,” but has an obvious ref-
* erenoe to the ticks, or marks, made by
* the players, and the word is threefold
* instead of reduplicated, because the ob
ject of the game is to make three tick!
i in a row. —Notes and Queries.
Merely From Observation.
“Is Miss Blinkins at home?” asked
1 Mr. Saunders of the Irish girl who an
swered his ring at the door.
. “ Yes, I b’lave she is, sir. ”
“Is she engaged?”
’ “An Is it engaged you say? Falx, an
I can’t tell you, sir, but she kissed Mr.
Vincent last evenin as if she had nev-
* er seen the like uv him, an it’s engaged
1 I b’lave they are, sin Exchange.
1
1 Thoae Girls.
She—He kissed mewhen I was not
dreaming of such a thing.
Her—-I’ll wager you were not You
I always were wide awake when kissing
i was in sight.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
> Ha man could yell as loud in proper
[ tion to his size as a baby can, telephons
companies would soon be unable to de
clare dividends.—Atlanta Constitution.
r People who think they are muunder
t stood often are really understood toe
r we il._Chicago Record.
LOSS OF VISUAL ACUTENESS. |
Bmimhm nurt TeoA to Mteka ChlMroa NmU
Giaaaaa.
It is interesting to compare the visual I
acuteness of the normal eye before and
after the effect of some purely physical
cause that may be within the realm of
either nature or civilization. Taking a
few instances of each for illustration, I
will cite from nature first. It is well
known that severe illnem greatly impairs
the acutenem of vision of an otherwise
strong eye. Almost the first thing a con
valescent will do is to call for a book <*
newspaper to while away the tedium of
the sickroom. Unless warned not to try
hie eyes too much, he is apt, through for
getfulness, to overtask his accommodative
powers or injure the already weakened
ciliary muscla When the rest of his body
recovers its normal strength, the eye con
tinues weak. After straining the eyes
more in the vain hope that his sight will
Improve the person, If he is wise, win con
sult experienced help If otherwise, he
will pick up the first pair of spectacles
available, regardless of whether they
should be too strong or too weak for his
eyes. Should he finally go to an optician,
the latter will often find it difficult to fit
glasses satisfactorily.
Other natural causes that affect eyes are
wind, dust, light and heat when excessive.
Eyes otherwise good enough become weak
under such conditions. The weakness
may be due to an egror of refraction, and
under most conditions the accommodative
power of the eye is strong enough to over
come the error. But under such atmos
pheric or climatic conditions as I have
mentioned the accommodation is lessened,
and toe eye cannot find relief except by
the use of glasses. They should generally
be convex.
Having mentioned those losses of visual
acuteness due to natural causes, next in
order are causes produced by clvUlzatlpn.
At the outset I will say that If the patient
were to change his occupation and take
plenty of fresh Air and exercise the opti
cian's servloe might never be needed, but
these are in the way and' not to
be got rid of by the average individual
Take A boy from the country, bring him
to town and place him at clerical work,
writing perhaps all day and into the night;
put him behind a counter and let him
stand all day with one hour free out of 12
Or more, or set him sit at a workbench,
following a trade that keeps his eyes fixed
steadily hour after hour 12 or 18 inches in
front of him. Take this same youth with
hitherto good eyes and bid him use them
day in and day out reading for a profes
sion, or let him occupy his time in a dim
ly lighted room or bend over a desk be
neath artificial light ail the time. I might
ge on giving instance after Instance with
out particularizing any calling as more
harmful, than others to the eyes.
p Is it a wonder that the children of thia
generation are wearing glasses along with
their grandsires? Old age is no longer the
reason for wearing glasses. In nine cases
out ot ten the young man needs a convex
glass to assist his overtaxed eyes in fulfill
ing their duties.
In addition to these causes of weakened
vision it is hardly necessary to mention
the common evils of tobacco and alcoholic
stimulants. Again, if the strong consti
tution of a boy cannot save his eyes from
their thousand and one uses, how can frail
women escape? The ever increasing army
of women workers in shops and offices and
the new avenues of employment opening
to them swell the number of spectacle
wearers. It has been my purpose to point
out that it is not toe serious and very
plain errors of refraction that cause the
most of an optician’s patronage, and he
must often attribute the loss of visual
acuteness to other causes.—Jewelers’
Weekly.
Louisiana’s Tiger Zouaves.
There were occasions during the civil
war when some of the Confederate soldiers
were anything but apostles at sweetness
and light.
Early in the trouble the notorious Louis
iana Tiger zouaves came through Atlanta
on their way to Virginia. For hours be
fore their arrival telegrams kept toe wired
hot advising our citizens to keep out of
the way. Rumors reached here of the
murderous assaults made by toe zouaves
upon people en route, and just before the
train was due in the afternoon the women,
children and timid citizens were in a state
bordering on hysterics.
When the train rolled in, the Tigers be
gan jumping off before it stopped under
the car shed, and they at once scattered in
every direction looking for liquor. The
sight of their bronzed, foreign looking
faces and their bizarie uniforms scared toe
spectators into fits, and most of the non
combatants made a rush for their homes,
where they bolted their doors and did not
again venture out until the next day.
The zouaves had a few fights among
themselves, but they did not bother the
Inhabitants as much as had been expected.
They were so noisy and threatening, how
ever, that the provost guard rounded them
up at night and penned them up in the
old courthouse yard, where Dr. d’Alvigney
made a speech to them in French, which
had the effect of putting them in a good
humor.—Atlanta Constitution.
A Gambol of the lambs.
A man who attended several of the re
hearsals of the Lambs* club great star min
strel show tells me of a bit of dialogue he
overheard the other day—a bit of dialogue
which he thinks toe public will not have
a chance to hear. Big De Wolf Hopper
was acting as interlocutor, and Bones Mar
tinotti Interrupted him constantly in the
fomHlar minstrel show manner. At length
Hopper ceased to frown upon his, aad in
the familiar minstrel show manner again
roared out:
“Now, Martinetti, what is it?”
“ Veil, Meester Hopper,” said Martinet
ti, “I want to ask you just one question.
What does your wife say when you told
her you hat been to the dub?”
The first tambourine, Jeff De Angelis,
“ Which one?” he asked.
0 Which one what?” roared Hopper.
"Why, which dub,” answered De An
gells Innocently.
“Ohs saidMf. Hopper.
“What did you think he meant, Mr.
.Hopper?” asked Martinetti.
Hopper struck the Casey at the bat at
titud©.
“I refuse to think," said he.—Washing
ton Post
Barred From ths Boor.
A man in Munich the other day was
rash enough to permit himself to make
derogatory remarks about the beer at the
Hotbrauhmis. He was cited to the man
ager’s room, and there a paper was pre
sented to him to sign, declaring that he
would retract his-shameful remarks about
Hofbran beer. The guilty man said he
could not conscientiously sign it. The re
sult has been an order that he shall never
again be admitted to the sacred precincts
of the court brewery of Bavaria’s capital I
| THE BLACK DEATH.
| THAT FEARFUL PLAGUE THAT FOL
LOWS IN THE WAKE OF WAR.
la the Fourteenth Centnry It Swept the
Wh<He of Knrope, KUlina Twenty-flvo
Million, es People la Three Yeore -Tbo
Festllence In London.
The plague, or pestilence, that mys
terious and fearful visitation which has
moved its hosts tn the wake of armies
to slay more than war itself, is supposed
to have first among the dense
masses of people who crowded together
in the great cities of Aria and Egypt, or
who formed the encampment of Xerxes,
Cyrus and Tamerlaro the Tartar. It
probably sprang fr in the impurity
which must have existed in the midst
of such vast gat herb.and in part also
from leaving the unburied dead upon
the field of bnUle. At any rate the
germs of this fearful human poison have
always been most active where condi
tions similar to those have prevailed. It
has always been war and the march of
armies that has spread it broadcast over
the world from time to time, and as
war became less frequent and leas
worldwide the frequency and extent of
these ravages have lessened also.
The first recorded outbreak of the
plague in Europe occurred in the six
teenth century. It camo from lower
Egypt. This was the first lapping of the
wave that reached into the east again,
there to stay its movement so for as the
west was concerned until 544 A. D.,
when the returning legions of the Em
peror Justinian brought it again into
the western world from the battlefields
'ot Persia. Constantinople was the flrat
place it attacked. Here in a single day
as many as 10,000 persons ore said to
have fallen victims to it But the plague
did not stop with Constantinople. It
had found a too congenial soil in Eu
rope, which was little else than one
great battlefield at the time. It was
carried into Gaul, where it followed
close in the wake of the Frankish
armies, and from Gaul it moved into
Italy, with the Lombards, and so devas
tated the country as to leave it entirely
at the mercy of the invaders.
The various crusades, which extended
over a space of about 200 years, no
doubt did much to hold the pestilence
In Europe, for they served to keep open
the channels of intercourse between the
east and the west Periodic epidemics
were common during their continuance,
and these seem to have culminated in
the fourteenth century with what is
known in history as the black death.
The black death waa more fatal to hu
man life tban any other single cause
since the world began. The havoc of war
was nothing in comparison to it. It
swept the whole of Europe, leaving in
its path such misery and destitution as
the world had never known. It killed in
three years some 25,000,000 of people.
Such figures stagger the comprehension,
but the records of the time cannot be
doubted. The entire population of Eu
rope is estimated to have been about
100,000,000 —kept down as it was by
the constant warfare—and of these 100,-
000,000 at least a fourth perished.
- The ravages of the plague in Italy,
where it came in the track of the war
of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, was
particularly disastrous to mankind. It
raged with terrible fury in Naples,
where 60,000 persons are said to have
died. It fell upon Pisa and seven out of
every ten perished. It utterly and for
ever destroyed the prosperity of Siena.
Florence also suffered severely, while
100,000 of the inhabitants of Venice
were literally wiped off the face of the
earth. From Italy it moved into France,
where the mortality was almost as
great; in Paris alone 50,000 people died
from it. One of the worst features pre
sented by the history of the black death
was the cruel persecution it aroused
against the Jews. They were supposed
to have Infected the air in some mys
terious manner, and they were accused
of having poisoned the wells and
springs. In Strassburg 2,000 of them
were buried alive in their own burial
ground.
The order of the Flagellanto arose at
this time, coming from the belief that
the sinsof the world had at last brought
down the wrath of heaven. It was the
beginning of the so called Hundred
Years’ war that carried the black death
into England, where in London its vic
tims numbered 100,000. When at last
the plague had worked its ravages, it
doubled back over its course, to disap
pear in the east In 1845 it appeared
again in England, first among the sol
diers of Richmond after the battle of
Bosworth Field, and when the victo
rious army marched to London the
plague went with them to work its
havoc there. As long as it lasted the
mortality was as great as that caused
by the black death half a century be
fore. Five thousand people died in five
weeks, and then the plague left London
as suddenly as it had appeared there, to
sweep Over the rest of England.
In Scotland the plague of J 568 came
iramedfateely after the battle of Lang
side, when Queen Mary was dethroned,
but no records ot the mortality it occa
sioned seem to have been preserved.
The plague visited London in 1675.
This followed after the civil war which
ended with the death of Charles n, bat
so many years intervened that it is im
possible to trace any connection between
the two events. In modem wars danger
from the plague seems gradually to
have lessened, perhaps as a result of
better sanitary conditions maintained
by the armies of today.—Philadelphia
Press.
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Ttetdy Roosewlt of Tcxm Terrors.
BtorViee President.
Colonel Torrey the Wyoming Wildcats.
Tighten yer with the spurs
end git there! /
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