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An Ordinance.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Conn
ail of the City ol Griffin that from «c
Wssw to
anyperson to damage, injure, abure «
tamper with any water meter, spigot, fin
plug/curb box, or any other fixture m
machinery belonging to the Water Depart
ment of the City of Griffin; provided that
a licensed plumber may use curb servlet
box to test his work, but shall leave ser
vice cock as he found it under penalty ol
the above section.
Sec. 2nd. It shall be unlawful for any
consumer to permit any person, not em
nloved bv them, or not a member of their
gj> c 4th. It shall be unlawfal for any
person to couple pipes to spigots unless
paid for as an extra outlet.
*BOO. 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.
Bee. 6th. It shall be unlawfal 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. 7tfi. 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 unlawfal for any
person to interfere, or prevent their doing
so.
Sec. Bth. Any person violating any of
the provisions of the above ordinance snail
be arrested and carried before the Criminal
Court of Griffin and upon conviction shall
be punished by a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars, or sentenced to work on
the public works of the City of Griffin for
a term not exceeding sixty days, or be im
prisoned in the city prison for a term not
exceeding sixty days, either or all, in the
discretion of the court.
Sec. 9th. The employees of the Water
Department shall have the same authority
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hereby repealed.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, flrm or corporation to keep
and expose for sale any second hand, or
cast off clothing within the corporate lim
its of the City of Griffin, unless the said
clothing baa been disinfected by the Board
of Health of the £<ty of Griffin, and the
certificate of said Board at 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 eacbgarment
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 tor 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 farther 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 tiie 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.
- 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:
One Finch opening for subscribers’
use only $ 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 'B.OO
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries. 24.00
Each additional opening 6.00
2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of |I.OO per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
mum of gl.'OO per month will be charged
for water while the meter is on the service.
The reading of the meters will beheld
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
so 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 property located in
•a accessible position.
.. The Water Department shall have
the right to shut off water for necessary
repairs and work upon the system, and
Ejhey are not liable for any damages or re
hate by reason of the same.
7. Upon application to the Water De
partment, the city will tap mains and lay
to the sidewalk f0r52.50; the rest
piping must be done by a plumber
the consumers’ expense.
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__ FERTILE PORTO RICO
1 THE ISLAND IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS IT
* IS PRODUCTIVE.
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It Xu Thirteen Hundred Stream., n
t_ Wealth of Vegetation, Highly CulUreble
It SoU and Vaet Depoeito of Minerale— Few
« Reptiles, but Many Ineecta
Frederick A. Ober, late oommis
doner in Porto Rico of the Columbian
exposition, contributes to The Century
r an article on “The Island of Porto
Rico.” Mr. Ober says:
F .In the extreme northeast rises the
highest peak of the central cordillera
* in the Luquillo Mana, known as “El
s Yunque,” or “The Anvil,” variously
estimated at from 8,6*0 to 4,500 feet in
7 height. The hills are of lesser elevation
1 toward the west and southwest, but
• tiie whole north central country is rug-
• ged and uneven. Between the spurs
from the main range lie innumerable
j secluded valleys, whore the soil is of
r great fertility. The impressive features
l of the landscape are the rounded sum
i mits of the multitudinous Mils, which
( leave the coast ip constantly rising bil-
I low< that finally break agnbrnttee oor
, dillara vertebra; yet all are cultivable,
, and cultivated to their very crests,
; though the higher mountain peaks are
fewest
More than 1,800 streams, .it is said,
r of which number perhaps 40 or 50 at
tain to tiie dignity at rivers, rise in the
[ hills and seek the coasts, most of them
running northerly, though the best har
bors are in the west and south. But
s notwithstanding the great river flow
, portionsuf the island in the southwest
> are afflicted with drought at times,
. owing to the precipitation of the nprth
« east ‘ ‘ trades” against the northern hllla
: The higher hills are clothed in the
. exuberant and diversified vegetation of
. the tropical forest, where tree ferns|
, flourish, and great gum trees and moun-|
, tain palms tower aloft At lower levels
are the cedar and mahogany, walnut
[■ and laurel, with many others noted for
s their useful woods Throughout the
island are found those trees and shrubs
' valuable for their gums, as the mamey,
gnaiacum and copal, while the list of
medicinal plants includes most of those,
, invaluable to our pharmacopoeias,
' which tropical America has given to
> the world. These are the silvestres, na-
F ture’s wild children, but of cultivated
r plants there is no species peculiar to
' the tropics that does not flourish here.
In the littoral levels, between the
mountains and the sea, grows the sug
’ ar cane, which may be cultivated up to
’ an altitude of 8,000 feet. *lt was intro
duced here from Santo Domingo, hav*
ing been brought to America either
’ from Spain or the Canaries. The annu
al yield of sugar is estimated at about
70,000 tons. .. |
In these fertile lowlands also tobacco
does exceedingly well, and the annual
productton is raid to be quite 7,000,000
pounds. It maybe cultivated on the
hills, but the true mountain lover is the
coffee, which does not do well below
600 feet and is at its best 1,000 feet
above the sea. It Was first brought here
from Martinique in 1732, and now
yields to the extent of 17,000 tons an
nually. Maize, the true Indian com, is
as is the yucca, the aborigi
, nal “staff of life, ” and both grow ev
; erywhere, as well as tiie pineapple,
I* which is more reliable and more uni
-1 versal than the peach of our north tem-
L perate sone. Cotton and rice are found
‘ at nearly all elevations, the latter,
; which is the chief food of many labor
ers, being what is known as the moun
tain variety.
Bananas and plaintains are wonderful
i ly prolific, bearing fruit in ten months
■ from planting. The plants virtually
; last 6u years, being equally long lived
with the cocoa palm, which produces
nuts in six or seven years and there
! after during the space of an ordinary
; life, its yield being reckoned at 100
. nuts a year. The annual product ol
bananas is given as 200,000,000 and of
i oocoanuts 8,000,000. The entire range
of tropical fruits is represented here,
1 such as the guava, lime, orange, agua
-1 cate, sa podilia and avocado pear, while
all subtropic vegetables may be raised,
including those of the south temperate
zone, such, for instance, as are grown
in Florida.
The mineral kingdom has not been
so exhaustively exploited as the vegeta
ble, but more than traces have been
found of copper, coal and iron, as well
, as vast deposits of salt. The riven at
one time ran to the sea over beds of
golden sand, and from the streams to
day (as in the neighboring island of
i Santo Domingo, where the first Ameri
can gold was discovered) the natives
1 wash out nuggets by the crude proc
esses of that distant day when Agney
[ naba went prospecting with his false
. friend, Ponce de Leon.
There are no native quadrupeds here
. larger than the agouti and the armadil
lo, but birds are relatively numerous,
. with a few fine song and some of
I brilliant plumage. All domestic fowl
' do well here, and the great pastures ol
1 the northeast and southeast support vast
herds of cattle and horses, which suffice
( not only for the needs of the island, but
are exported to all parts of the West
Indies, being held ta high esteem.
Thqre are no poisonous reptiles to be
insects of questionable char
acter are too numerous for comfort
1 This island indeed were a paradise
without them; even with them the
inhabitants seem to experience little
i tron bl.. The ol the» .re <he
scorpions, centipede, tarantulas, wasps,
mosquitoes, some species of anta, ticks,
L chigoes and fleas. The heat of a tropical
1 dimate like that of Porto Rico, whiih,
though rarely exceeding 90 degrees, is
! continuous, is condudve to the breed
[ ing of insect pests of all sorts.
“Dar isn’t much comfort in de re
- mabk dat contentment is better dan
r riches,’’said Uncle Eben. “Oneisjes*
1 about as hahd to git as de other.
r Washington Star.
AUSTRALIAN SHEEP YARDS.
Work That Is Uk« War as Gen.ral ®hw
man Doseribed tho latter.
The shearing season in the wool coun
tries, says a writer in The Sketch, is the
most Important and the busiest of any
which oocur in sheep rearing. Tho swag
man has an opportunity which he does not
like and usually disregards, and the Eng
lish cadet has no reasonable excuse to re
main idle. The opening of the sheds is not
simultaneous, for, as the hot weather
comes down from the equator, those runs
away back—where it is too hot to curse
and one never seed the kangaroo—start
cutting out some weeks before sheep walks
in less temperature, but cooler regions.
The shearers and the musterers travel in
their own mobs and in many cases work
the same circuit. Shearing in Australia
is earlier than in New Zealand, so much
so that when the merry band has tallied
out the contracts with the "oomstalk, ’’
"gum chewing” and “banana” squatters
of New South Wales, Victoria and Queens
land it ships to Maoriland and, plying the
blades on the sheep of the Three Islands,
returns in time for the early wool dips
among the God forgotten backs of Queens
land.
Prior to the* shearing is the sheep mus
tering. For weeks tho homestead has been
bathed in red clouds of sand, which rise
from the drafting yards as the sheep play
“silly devils” when they are worked. The
yarders with despair written on their faces
know that they arc coming to the end of
their oaths and the dogs to the limits of
their endurance. Drafting on cool days is
possible and may be compassed with but
few detonations of a sulphurous character,
but on a scorcher, when meat can bo cook
ed on the zinc roofs and blisters are raised
by the drinking water, yard work of any
description is—.hell, to accept the merest
and inadequate Australasian colloquial
ism. The wool-washing crew is another
band of experts who “hump the billy” from
shed to shed. They scour the wood and
attend to drying and packing.
In N«w Zealand fleeces are baled up
without washing, but the sands of Aus
tralia increase the weight so much that
the expenses would swamp the returns.
The bales will hold about 75 fleeces,
though this is no hard and fast rule. An
approximate value is £lO, and the carriage
price is all contract. The groan of the
wheels, the cracking of the whips, the
creak of the load, denote that the dip is
almost gathered, and when tho journey
begins the patient bullocks work with a
will till they drop on the burning sand,
exhausted by the scanty food, the short
ness of water, the pitiless sun and the
strain of the weight. The journey is al
ways a far one on those back runs, but
where they ship by barges the monotony
contains a pleasant change. To load tho
barge and nowly to float down the stream
is an idleness which all men appreciate.
To lie upon a bale and gaze upon the
snow topped mountain range, the winding
river, the forests on the slopes, the undu
lating paddocks mdtlng Into spaoe, to
listen to the bleatingof the sheep, the low
ing <rf the cattle, tho neighing of the
horses, engenders a passion for the life,
which seems supreme. It is finer than the
life Os cities. It lifts the idle dreamer to a
paradise of nature where, with gun and
rod, horse and dog, he can enjoy sport, in
dulge tastes and love animals.
j ■'** Medfoal Herofom In Calm.
There seems to be no doubt that in
many respects the Cubans have received
cruel, not to say barbarous, treatment at
the hands of their Spanish masters, but
happily this grave charge is not of uni
versal application. The medical officers of
the Spanish army, as befits men practic
ing the art of healing, have in many in
stances acted noble parte, and at least one
of their number has exhibited heroism of
the very highest order. In the course of a
sanguinary engagement with the Insur
gents Dr. Duran proceeded to the front line,
with the Intention of affording aid to the
Spanish soldiers, who were falling rapidly
under a hot fire, but scarcely had he reach
ed the scene of action when he was struck
by a Mauser bullet, which shattered his
knee joint.
In this piteous condition Dr. Duran
managed, with the help of his orderlies,
to bind up his own wound and then forth
with commenced a series of no fewer than
20 major operations on others, Inclusive of
reduction of protruding intestines with
suture of abdominal opening, extraction
of bullets in various situations, adjust
ment of compound fracture of the leg, etc.
Many of Dr. Duran’s colleagues have been
killed in the course of this lamentable
campaign and others have died from dis
ease, while several more, having been un
fortunate enough to fall into the hands of
the insurgents, who do not respect the
Geneva convention, have undergone the
most barbarous treatment. One of the
latter, a young and promising surgeon,
was taken prisoner and subsequently set
at liberty, but not until both his hands
had been severed at the wrists with a
hatchet. —Lancet.
The President Believes In Forgiveness.
In The Ladles* Home Journal an illus
trated anecdotal biography of President
McKinley is published, and among the se
ries of characteristic anecdotes is one by a
personal friend which goes to prove the
president's Methodism and to attest his
quickness at repartee and his love of hu
mor. “President McKinley has always
shown the highest degree of generosity
toward his political opponents,” says the
Writer. “While governor of Ohio he was
about to appoint to an exalted and lucra
tive office a man who for many yean had
been, his ardent supporter, but who had
rtwwrted him and gone over to thd enemy
at a critical period. Later, when that arft
ical period heA passed* tiie deserter slipped
back into his party and remained unno
ticed until he became a candidate for office.
Many of Governor McKinley’? loyal friends
earnestly protested against his appoint
ment. They argued that the man had
been a traitor when he was most needed,
and that he was not entitled to considera
tion. The governor’s face lighted up with
a smile, and, taking hla cigar from be
tween his lips, he remarked, ‘Gentlemen,
you seem to forget that I am a Methodist
and believe in the doctrine of falling from
grace.’ ”
Beata the Ttek Drama.
There la to be a balloon soene in a com
ing spectacle to a London playhouse. A
real balloon is pulsed in midair. Thoropes
are about to be released, when the villain
of the play, hotly pursued by the detect
ives, rushes breathless into the crowd.
Escape is barred in every direction but
one. The balloon is released and tbs fu
gitive sees his chance. He leaps into the
car, and up goes the balloon amid the tu
mult of the spectators. And by a wonder
ful mechanical contrivance the balloon is
seen soaring higher and higher into the
air, bearing the culprit from the clutches
of the law. I
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BtattW Groat ateaaath.
Yeq the strength vs grizzly bears to
almost beyond belief. 1 Lnve road about
the powerful muscles in the arms <rf
African gorilla*, but none can compare
with those in the arms and shoulders of
big grizzly bears. I have seen a grizzly
bear with one fore paw shot into useless
ness pull its own 1,100 pounds of meat
and bone up preripices and perform
feats of muscle that trained athletei
could not da I have seen grizzly heart
carrying the carcasses of pigs that must
have weighed 70 pounds several miles
across a mountain side to their lair,
and I have heard hunters tell of having
seen.cows knocked down as if by a
thunderbolt with one blow of the fore
paw of a bear.
Three summon ago J spent the season
in the coast mountains up in Mon terr
county, and one moonlight night I saw
a big grizzly Lear in the act of carrying
a dead cow home to her cub. I had a
position on the mountain side where I
could see every movement or the bear in
the sparsely timbered valley below me.
The critter carried the dead cow in her
fore paws for at least three miles, across
jagged, sharp rocks ten feet high, over
fallen logs, around the rocky mountain
rides, where even a jackass could not
get a foothold, to a narrow trail up the
steep mountain. She never stopped to
rest for a moment, but went right along.
I followed, and just about half a mile
from the beast’s lair I laid her low.
The heifer weighed at least 200 pounds,
and the bear would have tipped the
beam at about 450 pounds.—Chicago
Inter Ocean.
General MeDoweU.
I have never met any one who gave
me a stronger impression of honesty and
sincerity than Irvin McDowell.. He was
then in the prime of life—4o or 45 years
old—powerfully built, but rather pon
derous in movement, kindly and sim
ple in manner, with a very pleasant,
soldierly face, a water drinker and al
most a vegetarian. After the cruel war
was over I met him one day in some
foreign city—Vienna, I think—and as
we were conversing he said, "Strange,
isn’t it, our encounter today?”
“Why bo, general?”
“Have you forgotten? This is the
21st of July—the anniversary of Bull
Run. Had I won that battle I would
have been one of the most popular men
in the United States and you would
have been another. I need not say how
much it is the other way with us now. ”
But Ido not think his countrymen
blamed him after all. When I went to
the United States some years ago, ll
found him in command at San Francis
co—much changed, aged and sad, but
courteous and kindly as ever. I told
him that I had in a place of honor at
home the photograph which he gave me
before he left my lodgings the day he
was looking for Barry’s guns. “Andi
suppose, ” he said, “your friends ask,
‘Who on earth was General Me-
DoweU?’ ” Sir- W. H. Russell in
North American Review.
A Great Sereamer.
More than 50 years ago Lachlan Mc-
Donald left his home in Strathspey,
Scotland, and went to the shores of Lake
Winnipeg. He did not neglect to carry
with him his beloved bagpipe, and many
an evening it spoke to him of the old
home beyond the seas.
Even in the daytime, when he was
busy in the woods felling trees, he
would have it by his side, and on one
occasion he had reason to be glad that
it was so near.
He was merrily swinging his ax,
when he was suddenly surrounded by a
party of Indians, who looked' very for
midable as they drew nearer, gesticu
lating in a particularly threatening
manner. Things began to seem ominous,
when a happy thought came to the
Scotchman.
Seizing his bagpipe, he blew a blast
so loud and long and shrill that the
startled red men looked upon him for a
moment in consternation and then took
to their heels, never stopping till the
thick shadows of the forest hid them
from the man who could give vent to
such an unearthly scream.
They did not forget that prolonged
cry; from that time the Scotchman was
known among them as “the great
screamer of the palefaces.’’—Exchange.
A Famous English Inn.
One of the oldest and most pictur
esque inns in all England is the Grab
Tree inn in Fordham. Here cyclist?
from all over Britain have congregated
and here men famous in literary annals
like Kipling, Haggard and Andrew
Lang have “put up” for an hour or two
to rest and quaff the ale dispensed by
this ancient hostelry.
The story runs that Robert Burns and
Sir Walter Scott once partook of the
hospitality of the place, and the queen
herself, it is reported, once stopped by
the wayside to partake of a frugal bowl
of milk and crackers. The initials of
men illustrious in Great Britain’s his
tory are graven upon the surface of its
deal tables, and its very window panes
are littered with the names of Macaulay,
Dickens and Thackeray. It has been
put in at least one book, and J. Quiller
Conch has used it as the soene for one
of his terrible tragedies.
Too Big a Contrast.
“Doctor, ” said a man to his medical
attendant, who had just presented a
small bill of 85 shillings for treatment
during a recent illness, “I have not
much ready money. Will you take this
out in trade?”
“Oh, yes,” cheerfully answered the
doctor. “I thinkjwe can arrange that,
but what is your business?”
“I am a cornet player,” was the
startling reply.—London Telegraph.
Poor Baby.
Unsophisticated Parent—Hello there,
nurse, what’s the baby yelling that way
for? I can’t read at ait
Nurse—He’s cutting his teeth, sir.
U. P.—Well, see that he doesn’t doit
anymore or you lose your place.—Har
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