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•il of the City oi Griffin that from Ad
after the passage of thia Ordinance :
Bea Ist. That it shall be unlawful for
any person to damage, injure, abuse or
tamper with any water meter, spigot, Are
plug, curb tnx, or any other fixture or
a licensed plumber may use curb service
box to test his work, but shall leave ser
vice cock as he found it under penalty of
the above section. „ . .
Sec. 2nd. It shall be unlawful for any
consumer to permit any person, not em
ployed by them, or not a member ot their
person to use water from any spigot or
spigots other than those paid for by him.
Bee. 4th. It shall be unlawful for any
person to couple pipes to spigots unless
paid for as an extra outlet.
Sea 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.
Sea 6th. It shall be unlawfol for any
person to allow their spigots, hose or
sprinkler to rim 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,
Sea 7th. The employes of the Water
Department shall nave access to the
premises of any subscriber for the purpose
of.'reading 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 on
the public works of the City of Griffin for
a term sixty days, or be im
prisoned In the city prison for a term not
f 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.
Sea 10th. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict of the above are
hereby repealed .
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An Ordinance.
An ordinance to prevent the spreading
qf 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 oi 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
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.
Sea 2nd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That for eachgarment
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 oi twenty-five cents, and to
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
I authority-aforesaid, That every person or
persons, firm or corporation convicted of
| a violation of this ordinance, shall be fined
i 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. Belt further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict here
with are hereby repealed.
AnOrdinance.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Griffitf, That from and
' after the passage oi this ordinance, the fol
owing rates will be charged for the use of
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One f-inch opening for subscribers’
use only.-$ 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 8.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries.24.oo
Each additional opening. 6.00
2. Meters Will be forniahed at the city's
expense, the rate of |I.OO per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
mum of |I.OO per month will be charged
for water while the meter is on the service.
The reading of the meters win beheld
proof of use of water, but should meter
fail to register, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding month*.
3. Meter rates will be as follows:
7,000 to 25,000 gals, month. .16c 1,000
25,000“ 50,000 “ “ 14c “
50,000 “ IOOjOOQ. “ “ 12c “
100,000 “ 500,000 “ “ 10c “
500,000 “ 1,000,000 “ “ 9c “
The minimum rate shall be gI.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 foil tima
6. Water will not be turned on to any
premises unless provided with an approved
stop and waste cock properly located in
an accessible position. .
6. The Water Department shall have
the right to shut off water for necessary
repairs and work upon the system, add
they are not liable for any damages or re
bate by reason of the same.
7. Upon application to the Water De
partment, the city will tap mains and lay
pipes to the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest
of the piping must be done by » plumber
st the consumers’ expense.
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THEY MET IN AFRICA.'
Tlu> Lieutenant Becegntaed tbe Barbari
an. Who Never Came Beck.
Here i* a good Missouri story, which
r possesses not only the merit of being ab
r solutely true, but the additional one of
never having appeared in print. Its au
thenticity is vouched for by one of the
- most accurately informed and widely
t known public men in the state.
e An elder brother of Frank P. Sebree of
- Kansas City is Captain Uriel Sebree, a
i distinguished officer of the United States
navy. The Sebree boys are the sons of the
f late Judge John Setwee, who in his day
- was one of the prominent citizens of old
r Howard county—' ‘ the mother of Missouri
statesmen.” Back in the early seventies
r Captain Sebree, then a lieutenant, Was
r coasting with his vessel along western
■ Africa and oast anchor one day at a small
' village for the purpose of taking on a sup
> ply of fresh warn-and vegetables. He soon
observed among tbe natives who were en
, gaged in bringing the supplies on board a
I negro who spoke the English language
• very plainly, although he wore the garb
■ and had the appearance of a native. Lieu
tenant Sebree walked up to him on the
' deck and said: “I notice you speak the
English language. Where did you learn
it?”
“In the United States, sir. I was born
in that country.*’
"Born in the United States, what
state?”
“Missouri, sir.”
Sebree had become thoroughly inter
' ested.
“What county in Missouri did you come
from?” he asked.
“From Howard county, sir. I was born
there, near a town called Fayette," was
, the reply.
“When did you leave there?"
“In 1860, sir."
Light began to dawn upon the lieuten
ant. He looked at tbe negro closely, and,
although many years had passed, he recog
nized Hi the apparently wild barbarian of
Africa, the breechclouted saVXge, q boy
he had known in his childhood. In 1860
an atrocious murder had been perpetrated
in Howard county, a murder such as was
sometimes, though not often, committed
in the south before the war—a negro killed!,
his master in cold blood. Search was at
once begun for the assassin and every ef
fort made to apprehend him, but he escaped
to Canada, and, the war beginning short
ly thereafter, all trace of him became lost.
It all came back to Sebree like a revela
tion. Here, then, was the murderer after
all the long years. He was fully recog
nized by the lieutenant, who decided, how
ever, not to allude to the crime, but again
began his questions.
“So you lived near Fayette. Did you
know Judge Sebree, who lived there?”
It was now the negro’s turn to be sur
prised. “Fo’ God, man, who is you, any
how?"
*‘l am the little boy that you used to
play with, Uriel Sebree. Don’t you re
member me, Sam?”
They sat down on the deck of the ship,
the polished and gentlemanly officer of the
United States navy and the wild and al
most naked savage, and talked over the
days of their boyhood in faraway Mis
souri. No allusion was made by either to
the tragedy that had caused one to leave
his native land and become a barbarian.
Old friends were spoken of, and the negro
made many inquiries about those he had.
known in his young days. At last as the
sun went down they parted, the negro go
ing ashore to his hut. He told Lieutenant
Sebree that he would return the next day
and bring with him some presents that
he would like to have taken to some of his
old friends in Howard county, but he
didn’t come back, and that was the last
seen of him. He evidently had become
suspicious and feared being kidnaped
and carried back to America to be tried
for his crime.—Jefferson Tribune.
Man With Variegated Sight.
Eugene Saulley H chalrman of the Indiana
Republican central committee, is strange
ly afflicted. Some time ago he became en
tirely blind, and it was feared that he was
hopelessly robbed of his sight.
Gradually his sight returned, so that he
could see indistinctly as he was led or
driven about the city, and he improved
until something like his old time vigor
was restored.
One day while stopping at a florist’s
viewing a handsome wreath of vines his
sight changed, and for three weeks every
thing upon which he looked, whether man
or beast, fowl or plant, showed a bright
color of green.
In time this disappeared. Again his
sight has undergone a strange transforma
tion. Now, if he looks at his watch the
whole face is a gleaming sheet of brass,
but where the figures stand there is a
wreath of blua Everything at which he
looks now appears the same. Speaking of
his peculiar affliction, Mr. Saulley says:
“It is not pleasant when talking to a
friend to see instead of a genial face a hid
eous, bright yellow countenance embroid
ered with a wreath of blue.”
Physicians are at a loss to account for
the strange peculiarity.—Cincinnati En
quirer.
Secretary of State Day.
Secretary Day is a delicate looking man,
with quiet and unobtrusive manners. The
other day a policeman who has been on
duty at the White House for the last three
months called a newspaper correspondent
aside and inquired: “What is the name
of that man you talked ’to so long this
morning? I’ve seen him around here quite
often.”
“That,” answered the correspondent,
“was Judge Day, the secretary of state.”
“What!” exclaimed the policeman.
“That was Secretary Day? I knewhcwas
one of the war board, but I had no idea it
was Day. Why, good Lord, he looks as if
a puff of wind would blow him away. ”
Exchange. . ..®
On Vivo Fifty Year*.
A coal mine In Scotland which caught
fire over 60 years ago and has been burn
ing everstnoe has at last burned itself out.
The mine Is on the Dalquharran estate,
Dal Hy. It was set on fire by the engine
working foe fens, and, although many
costly attempts have been made to extin
guish It, they have been unsuccessful. The
flames have from time to time burst forth
™ was prevented from spreading beyond
on « »» by of the “dikes” at
rock which intersected it, and so saved ad
jacent mines.—Newcastle Ohronlcta.
Mot a Tory Good Boy.
Sammie had just returned from Sunday
school, and his mother asked him if he
had been a good boy. “No; not very,”
was the truthful reply. “Then you didn’t
get a good behavior card?” queried his
mother. “Oh, yes, I did,” replied tbe pre
cocious youngster. “1 raved the money
you gave me for the heathen and bought
two from the other boys.”—Troy Times.
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BUYING A BURNING VESSEL.
The BacMufal Speculation of a Poor
Toon* Collego Stedent.
There is a certain minister in a New
England town who, his friends are accus
tomed to declare, half jokingly, half seri
ously, has undoubtedly missed his voca
tion. They base this opinion not upon any
lack of the clergyman’s ability in his pro
fession, but upon unmistakable commer
cial qualifications of his which would have
made him an unusually enterprising man
of business. Their favorite illustration in
support of the idea is the story of a daring
speculation which the minister conducted
successfully in his college days.
In common with a largo number of oth
er students in the small seacoast town
where the institution was situated, young
B was desperately poor. The facilities
there were not particularly good for en
abling a man to work his way through
his college course, and he had tried in vain
to find anything at which he could earn
enough to pay his expenses. At the time
when the following incident occurred he
had just |4O left of the sum with which
he had begun the year. He owed most of
this and could see no prospect of obtain
ing any more. He had lain awake for
some time one night wondering if, after
all, he would be forced to leave college for
a year or two, and it seemed to him that
he had scarcely dropped asleep when he
was aroused by a confused noise outside
and by a brilliant glare illuminating the
sky. Going to the window and looking
off toward the sea, he was startled to dis
tinguish the outlines of a burning vessel,
which was slowly making her way toward
the shore. Dressing hastily, he rushed out
and soon reached the wharf, which was
already thronged with the townspeople
and students. The flames on the vessel,
which was a small steam propeller, were
making only moderate headway, and it
was evident that she would get ashore be
fore the lives of her crew were threatened.
This was In fact accomplished, but by the
time the last man had been brought safely
to land the fire was raging furiously, and
the little steamer seemed doomed. Her
captain, who proved to be also her owner,
stood gazing at his property ruefully for
a moment, then turned his back upon it
and started to walk away. Young B
stopped him, struck by a sudden idea.
“Aren’t you going to try to save any
thing from your vessel?” he asked.
“No,” replied the disgusted captain,
with a shrug of his shoulders. “I’m
through with her—for the present, any
way. If there’s anything left tomorrow
morning, I may try to get it, but I guess
there won’t be. I’m going to look for a
lodging now. Good night. ”
“Will you sell me that boat just as she
lies for |40?” eagerly Inquired B ,
naming the entire sum in his possession.
The captain stared at him in astonish
ment. “Yes, I’m'hanged if I won’t,” he
replied, with a grim look of amusement
“I’m sick of the whole business.”
B lost no time in making his ar-
rangements. Calling a classmate who was
on the wharf, he whispered some direc
tions in his ear. Then, turning to the
captain, he said:
“If you will go with this young man,
he wiU give you the 940 at once. I can’t
spare tbe time, because I’ve got to get
right to work'on the vessel. ”
This was no sooner said than done.
With a few students and. some of the men
from the town, whom he promised to re
pay liberally as soon as ho had disposed
of his new property, the young speculator
went to work vigorously upon the burning
steamer. Their efforts toward putting the
fire out were even more successful than
they could have hoped for, and when morn
ing dawned It was evident that a consid
erable amount of valuable property, in
cluding the machinery, had been saved.
To cut the story short, B—— sold the hull
and wreckage for 9500, only a very small
percentage of which had to be paid to the
men who had assisted him. In speaking
of the incident since he has often said that
it gave him a keener pleasure than he re
members feeling after any other achieve
ment of his career.—New York Tribune.
Preparing HwrehUght*.
The importance of the mirror in search
lights is shown bjfcthe fact that there is
not at the present time a sufficient num
ber of these articles to supply the demand
of the United States. These mirrors must
be made with the utmost nicety, and the
work is such that it is not easy to'hurry
it. It requires at least a week with pres
ent facilities to complete a mirror in the
best style of the art. The glass, which
must be of extreme fineness and purity, is
molded into foe proper form. It is in
reality a concave lens with a backing of
silver and protection of the finest hard
ened vulcanite.
THfe operations of grinding and polish
ing must be conducted on the most scien
tific principles to produce perfect results.
There is neither guesswork nor question
about it. The preparing of the arc lights
is relatively easy when onoe the mirror is
ready. The first searchlight mirror* wen
made in 1881 in England. France and
Germany took up tbe business later, mid
a majority of foe best work is done in
there two countries. It is possible, how
ever, to turn out perfectly satisfactory
mirrors from our own shops. Our fortifi
cations are at present most imperfectly
equipped, very few of them having any
facilities for producing eearefilighta In
almost all of them a dynamo must be set
up. This, however, is not difficult, the
business having been reduced to such a
fine art that within three or four months
every fortification in foe country could be
furnished with these very necessary ad
juncts.—New York Ledger.
Clock Face Without Figure*.
When you look at your watch and it
reads 20 minute* to 12 o’clock, do you no
tice the hour marks VIII and XII, or do
you only glance at the position of the
hands on the dial and instantly under
stand what time it is?
If all the arbitrary hour and minute
hands were wiped out, oouldn’t you tell
-what time it is by the town clock?
The city of Detroit is deeply involved in
foe settlement of these points. A huge
clock has been put in foe tower of foe fine
new postoffioe building. Instead of ths
customary numerals, a plain black band
has been put on foe dial and gilded dots
mark the fleeting hours.
A local inventor and mathematician de
vised it He claims, and he is supported
by Sir Edward Becket so« great elock and
watch authority, that nobody but the very
Ignorant believes that foe people “toll foe
time” from the figures on foe dial.
If foe clock proves satisfactory, proba
bly other federal buildings will bo sim
ilarly equipped. Some of the Michiganders
are grumbling, but almost everybody ad
mits that he can tell when it’s dinner time
by looking up at the big clock, so long as
the hour and second hands work, no mat
ter whether there are any numerals on it
or ant i Detroit letter
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THE JACK POT TEST.
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HOW A MEAN GAMBLER SPRUNG IT
ON SISTER ABIGAIL.
Ms Wanted Aaother Frees of a Theory
Coaeernlng a Womaaly Weakaess and
Got It at the Kxpenao of Uncle Uriah**
Opponente at Poker.
Bent, bnt tall, with sparse whiskers
seldom trimmed, nearly 70 years old,
Uncle Uriah used to sit in foe poker
game in Omaha, his long, thin finger*
tremblingly placing his chips and hia
old eyes glittering as he timorously
skinned his hand. Pathetically like Lit
tle Nell’s grandfather be looked some- i
times, but he was at no desperate shift
to obtain a stake, f<r he was foe pos
sessor of a competence, and he brought
into foe game the caving grace of foe
parsimony to which he had been habit
uated in his earlier days in a New
Hampshire home. He never bought
more than $5 worth cf chips at a tima
These he would for foe moat part ante
away waiting for aces or better/and
when he finally did get a good hand a
bare call represented the climax of hi*
enterprise.
In those days there was always a
game on Sunday afternoons, and Uncle
Uriah, although a devout Methodist,
could be counted upon to arrive directly
after service and to sit in until the time
for afternoon Sunday school. The boy*
used to joke him at first and ask him if
he had sneaked his stake out of the an
tribution box, but to this question and
so all other* of similar levity he op
posed a scared serioumess which showed
that hi* passion tar foe game was mor*
a weakness than a vice.
Uncle Uriah lived with his two sis
ters—Abigail, aged 68, and Ann, aged
55. In New Hampshire they had been
called “the girls, “ but in Omaha foe
irreverent, with rude directness, referred
to them as “Uncle Uriah’s old maids.”
It did not take the boys in the game
long to discover that Uncle Uriah was
in much fear of Abigail in general and
in mortal dread that she would discover
his besetting weakness. He would al
ways shy at a new player, and he fre
quently held forth to the boys on the
Impropriety of talking on the outside
about the features of the game.
“I sh'd hate to hev foe parson know,"
he used to say. "I wouldn’t keer so
much ’bout Ann, ’cause she’s eagy
skeered, but I wouldn’t hev Sister Abi
gail know fer foe biggest jack pot t’was
ever played on this here table 1”
There was never any solution to foe
mystery Sister Abigail discover
ed the obliquity in Uncle Uriah’s life.
Some officious neighbor may have told
her, or in an excess of caution Uncle
Uriah himself may have aroused her
definite suspicions. At any rate, on a
particular Sunday afternoon he arrived
at the room at foe regular time, but
without the key with which he, in
common with other participant* in foe
game, bad been provided. Th* negro ah>!
tendant admitted him, and he was soon
engrossed in the play.
There was a good jack pot on foe ta
ble. Undo Uriah was in and was deal
ing. It was his last say, and foe two
men Ahead of himhad bet 910 each. He
had drawn one card, and foe play was
np to him. He had not, however, look
ed at his draw when foe key turned in
the snap lock of the front door, and Sis
ter Abigail, pale with a righteous and
terrible rage, strode into the room and
up to the tabla
“Gamblin!” she cried. “And on the
Lord’s day, with the church bells ringin
outside and decent people flockin to his
worship. I expected to find you here,
you hypocrite I” she went on, turning
to Uncle Uriah. “You better get on
your duds right now and come home. “
“I was comin in a jiffy,” the old
man said, weak with fear. “I guess I
might as well go ’long with you as with
anybody else. ” He rose and steadied
himself by holding the chair.
Seth Coe was the coolest hand in the
game. Even Sister Abigail had not dis
concerted him. He reached over and
turned up Uncle Uriah’s hand. It was
a flush.
“You better straighten this pot out
before you go, uncle,” said Coe. “You
call, of course. I suppose a flush is
good?” Coe asked, turning to the other
players. They nodded assent. Coe stack
ed up foe chip* “Forty-three dollars
here/’ he said, pushing them toward
Uriah.
The old man started instinctively to
ward the pot and then remembered Sis
ter Abigail. He stopped and waited
tremblingly for her decision.
It seemed to the player*, who turned
from th* weds and timid old .man to
the demiaamt woman, that at this cru
cial test something of her moral rigidity
relaxed. She did not sweep foe chips to
the floor. She said nothing abouf ill
gotten gains. With a visible effoft she
overcame a slight nervous constriction,
of th* throat She grasped her skirts
firmly and swept toward the door.
“Hetah,” sb* said, with great dig
nity, K'l WtH wait for you in foe hall
at thsfootof the stairs.”
After Uncle Uriah had obtained his
948 and departed Seth Coe said in his
leisurely way:
“Tbe old man didn’t have a Stub. I
slipped in a card to fill it out for him.
I reckoned you fellows wouldn’t mind
payin eno* more for positive proof that,
ao matter what kind of a woman she is,
she’s always in with your play when
you win the pot “—New York Sun.
Corefal.
It 1* related <rf a certain clergyman in
Edinburgh that he was so careful of his
quotatian* and so fearful of the charge
of plagiarism that once, .in addressing
tbe Deity, he surprised foe congregation
by saying, “And thou knofrert, dear
Lord, that to quote a writer in a late
number ot The Quarterly Review, “ eta
Though foe Frouch are foe greatest
mushroom eater* in foe world, cases of
poisoning very rarely occur owing to
lift fact that almost all the mushroesn*
eaten are raised.
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