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*- An Ordinance. ■ ™ ill ofy. °l.y tom m 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 All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict of the above are hereby repealed.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. - '■ z .. 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. h Kk-oehi'M&fe . t ’—.'.■if- V ■ 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.” i 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. FoUties hr tire Forelock. The Denver Post takes time by the forelock and launches the following : - Ttetdy Roosewlt of Tcxm Terrors. BtorViee President. Colonel Torrey the Wyoming Wildcats. 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