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* II —. — 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 All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict of the above are hereby repealed.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. i __ FERTILE PORTO RICO 1 THE ISLAND IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS IT * IS PRODUCTIVE. >r 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 bil oor- ible, 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 lem Lite - - "''"'l9ll Ira h I ; BITtM ■ 114 11 BBkWIBI wP/ rASTQBH The Kind You Have uoiigni || IB Bears the Z t PromotesDigeslioaCheerfal- B Jr ncss and Rest. Contains ndlter B Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. ■ U1 I Not Narcotic. 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