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An Ay'dinarinci < >- JUr w wAJLJLJI CXi w*/ • K,’ ' « " , - lie il oraaiueu oy wio mayor ana voup •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 All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict of the above are hereby repealed . .. A. FMllgW ffj- "to 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. box vice the s cast '■■l. , I 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. - ' - i, j., <* A. ■■ ' .. • 3 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 > ’ «. - » ■ ----- «■■* * THE JACK POT TEST. BL. - 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. --4' ?■': ( sh jn n B n ■B - k l|U IA 1 . ’BliUh* I Imu ’ 1 ttow j I Uli j,/ I’l 1 ’ I Trl fl M Ulf! VaII k sSUKIIiB ’no niiiu luu itaVu siimlaiinStteToodandKe^ula-» # ling the Stoaachsandßoweisflf BeaiS ■'the Z t ——oigii3,Lure nessandHestjContaitHneittar H Z Ifajr Opium. Morphine norMtneral. ■ | NOTNAHCOTft. AWtf’lT B?. I I(\ Jfv In J* Hqp Apcrfcct Remedy for ConsUaa- Ml 1 W tion. 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