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Be It ordained by the Mayor «d Coop
oil ofthe City ot Griffin that from did
after the passage of thia Ordinance:
Bee. Ist. That it shall be unlawftd for
any person to damage, injure, abuse or
tamper with any water meter, spigot, fire
plug, curb box, or any other fixture or
machinery belonging to the Waterd*®P* rt *
ment of the City of Griffin; provided tnat
fa licensed plumber may use curbierttoe
box to test bis work, but shall leave ser
vice cock as he found it under penalty of
the above section. far
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.
Bec. 4th. It shall be utflawftil for any
person towanple pipes to spigots unless
-SIKSJKXa for
person to turn on water to premises or add
any spigot or fixture without first obtain
ing a permit from the Water Department
Sec. fitb. It shall be unlawful for any
person to allow their spigots, hoee or
sprinkler to fun between the hours of 9:00
o’clock p. m. and 6roo 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 tonsun
of ifS
Department shall have access to the
premises of any subscriber for the purpose
ofjreading 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
Cohrt 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 opt
exceeding sixty days, either or all, in the
discretion of the court.
Bee. 9th. The employees of the Water
Department shall have the same authority
and power of regular policethen 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hereby repealed. .
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An Ordinance.
1
An ordinance to prevent the spreading
of diseases through the keeping and ex
posing for sale of second band and cast off
clothing, to provide for the disinfection of
such clothing by the Board of Health of
the City of Griffin, to prescribe fees for
the disinfection and the proper registry
thereof, and for other purposes.
Sec. Ist, Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Council of the City of Griffin, that
from and after the passage of this ordi
nance, it shall be unlawful for any person
or persons, firm or corporation to keep
and expose for sale any second hand or
* cast off clirtbing within the corporate lim
the OTLuSber 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 fell 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 oral
naneeshsSl apply. ** ' l
Sec. 2nd. Be it further ordained by the
v authority aforesaid, That for each garment
disinfected by the Board of Health of
Griffin, there shall be paid in advance to
said board the actual cost of disinfecting
the said garments, and for the issuing of
the certificate required by this ordinance
the sum of twenty-five cents, and Sto the ,
Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin
for the registry of said certificate the sum
of fifty cents.
Sec. 3rd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That every person or
persons, firm or corporation convicted of
a violation of this ordinance, shall be fined
and sentenced not fiiore 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 is strictly
enforced and report all violations the
“sg-SK'n further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That all ordinances
and phrte 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 1-inch opening for subscribers’
use-only $ 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl* cloeet or bath 3.00
Livqry stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries 24.00
Each additional opening 8.00
£ ,N- Meters will be furnished at the city’s
expense, at the rate of SI.OO per year
rental of same, paid in advance. A mini
mum of SI.OO per month will be charged
for water while the meter is on the service.
The reading of the meters will be held
proof of use of water, but should meter
fail to register, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding months.
3- Meter rates will be as follow#:
7,000 to 20,000 gals, month.. 15c 1,000
25,000 “ 50,000 “ “ 14c “
50,000 “ 100,000 “ “ 12c «
100,000“ 500,000 “ “ 10e *
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 out off water must be given
|P to the Superintendent of the Water De
partment, otherwise water will be charged
for full time.
5. Water will not be turned on to any
premises unless provided with an approved
stop and waste cock properly located in
a ° a ®g“ Bi We position. . .9*
Department shall have
the right to shut oft water for necessary
repairs and work upon the system, and
toqr are not liable for any damages or re
bate by reoon of the same.
' *PPHcation to the Water De-
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SAVED BY A POCKETKNIFE.
■WrWvor of the Vlllo 4® Hom T.U» ot a
I Bomarkablo Escape.
By the sinking of La Bourgogne and
the awful loss of life is recalled the acci
dent to the Ville do Havre of the same
lino in 1879, when the latter named ship
was struck at night and went down at
once, carrying almost all on board. Piti
ftally few wefe those who were saved from
the Havre, but among them -was the
prominent New York lawyer Witthaus,
and the way in which he escaped is so ex
traordinary that it sounds like a well con
ducted tale Instead of the plain fact that
Mr. Wltthaus vouches it to be.
The afternoon preceding the accident to
the Havre Mr. Wltthaus, with another
man, was on deck, and Mr. Witthaus was
leaning against the taffrail under the flag
staff in the stern. As the two men stood
there talking the friend put his hand on
the large life buoy that was hanging over
the side and called Mr. Witthaus* atten
tion to it
“Look,” he said, “these life buoys are
simply screaming farces. This one out
here is so stiff and hard with coats of paint
that you couldn't get it free except by
cutting ft with a knife.”
Mr. Witthaus attempted to move it, but
found it glued hard and fast The friend
took out his knife and began idly sticking
it Into the: soft pine of the flagstaff and
amused himself so the test of the timethat
they talked before they were interrupted
by the dinner gong." They both went be
low. . ■
Early the next morning while the pas
sengers were still asleep the collision oc
curred, and ih the mad pan io that at once
followed Jfr. Witthaus did what he oonld
te get the women and children into the
lifeboats. From the first he regarded him
self as doomed, for there were not nearly
boats enough for all the passengers, and it
wre evident that the ship would float on ly
a few minutes. Several women whom he
knew on board he found places for at once
oply to see the boat overturn as soon as it
was launched and all go down, one of
them with her two little children in her
arms.
• Horrified and sickened by the sight, he
went back to the stern of the ship, which
: wag highor out of the water than the bow,
to wait until he, too, went down, and
stood leaning again on the taffrail. As he
did soln a flash he recollected the conversa
tion of "the aftei noon before and looked
over the rail. There still hung the life
buoy stiff and immovable, and the in
stinct o< self preservation sprang to life
once more. A knife to free the buoy and
he might be saved, but he had none with
him, and to find one was impossible with
the ship liable to go down at any second.
At the same moment his eye caught the
flagstaff, and there, where his friend had
evidently forgotten it the afternoon before,
stuck the knife. With the haste of life and
death Mr; Witthaus pulled it out be
gan to saw away at the buoy, and he freed
it and threw himself off the deck into the
(sea just in time to get beyond the vortex
that came as the great ship went down,
sucking hundreds of victims with it. Mr.
Witthaus floated about for some time, and
was at last picked up by a small boat that
was waiting about for chance survivors
and was brought back to New York to tell
the most awful eatastrophles that
ever happenfcd’at sea.—New York Press.
J
» w S ■ A Hew-Explosive.
French chemists have for some time
past been experimenting with a new ex
plosive called promethee, invented by T.
Jowler, which, according to the Revue
possesses some remarkable
propertiespeculiarly its own. The solid
portion is made up of 56 per cent potash,
20 per odnt manganeSe dioxido and 24 per
centferric oxide. ThUfotriturated, mixed
in a mill and filled into cartridges, a per
meable cartridge being employed to facili
tatetho penetration of the vfl, the latter
consisting of 50 per cent of petroleum and
10 per cent oil of bitter almonds.
This prepared liquid,-which is not ap
plied to the cartridges until just before
use, is stored in metal flasks holding about
[one-tenth of a gallon; 2.8 pounds Os the
exptosivAconftflns I.ooo*ol cartridge
contents and .55 pounds of theoll, this
quantity being sufficient to Impregnate
the cartridge. Before being steeped in the
oil the cartridges are nonlnfiammablo and
nonexplnsive, even by shock from steel
plates, are unaffected by frost, moisture or
sudflen changes in the surrounding me
dian and do not undergo any change dur
ing storage. The oil is not readily inflam
mable; ..
It is claimed that the disruptive force
exerted is at least as great as that of dyna
mite; also that it Is directed in the line of
greatest resistance and acts with equal ef
ficiency In dense rock, light Assured rook
and in water. • '*» ’
Bulletin Board Fun.
The boy who gets, up the war bulletins
was working with a speed which showed
that he realized an eager public was wait
ing on his efforts. The characters went
’upon the paper with swiftness under his
practiced hands, and'now and then he
drew back and contemplated his work
with the pride of an artist. Presently the
than of carping tendencies passed. A sneer
came upon his countenance, and the boy
anticipated his criticism with the inquiry:
“Well, what’s the matter with it?”
“Look at the spelling!”
■ “It’s according to copy."
“But the word‘Spain!’ See bow you
have divided it! ‘Spa’at the end of one
line and then on the next ‘in. * ”
The boy gazed at his work for a moment
or two and then proceeded with his stamp
ing. iF* '■>- , J, \
“Aren’t yon going to change It?"
“No, I’m not.”
“But it’s palpably wrong.”
“Not these days. The way things are
going now you’re liable to find pieces of
Spain scattered around anywhere.”—
Washington Star.
Spanish Lack of “Gumption.”
Closely akin to the Spaniard’s mediaeval
and aristocratic attitude toward life, says
Irving Babbitt in The Atlantic, Is his
curious lack of practical sense and me
chanical skill. “The good qualities of the
Spaniards,” writes Mr. Butler, “alike
with their defects, have an old world flavor
that renders their possessors unfit to excel
in an inartistic, commercial, democratic
and skeptical age.” Jtuui Valera admits
this practical awkwardness and ineffi
ciency of the Spaniard, but exclaims,
“Sublime Incapacity!” and sees in it a
proof of his “mystic, ecstatic and trans
cendental nature.” The Spaniard, then,
finds it hard to light a kerosene lamp
without breaking the chimney, in much
the same way as Emerson made his friends
uneasy when he began to handle a gun.
Unfortunately nature knows how to re
venge herself cruelly on those who affect
to treat her with seraphic disdain or on
those who, like the Spaniards, Sec in a
lack of prudence and economy a proof of
aristocratic detachment.
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BANK’S PART IN FARMINGS.
‘ Haw the Traders In Henry Enable Soil
niton to Work.
How does a bank help the farmer?
With the approach of the time for
’ plowing and planting, seeds and fer
. tllizer will he necessary. How can the
' farmer buy them If the last season was
spoor one? He has spent allot his
, earnings in running the household dur
ing the long winter. He goes to the
dealer in fertilizer in the nearest vil
lage and asks, “What is the price of
1 fertilizer a ton?”
“Fifty dollars,” the dealer replies.
! “Well, I will need two tons, and
i that will amount to $1 Ofc”
“Yes. JTake it along now?”
"I haven’t the ready cash just now,
but”—
“Oh. that’s all right I know you’re
good for it Take it along and give me
your note payable in four months. By
that time your crops will be yielding a
profit. ’ ’
The farmer gives his note; the dealer
indorses it and gives it in payment to
i the wholesaler from whom he gets the
- fertilizer; the wholesaler sends it to the
' manufacturer. f the fertilizer, who in
turn takes it to his bank and borrows
J the money on it less the interest-.
.. The farmer gets his seed in the same
way and at the time of the expiration
of the notes is able to meet his obliga
tions. « . e * , . « ,
i Thus, instead of the farmer being
1 compelled to wait until he cau get the
1 cash to pay before he can buy the fer
tilizer and seed, he obtains them when
. he needs them. The dealer, instead of
having to wait until the farmer gets the
, money before he can sell his goods, sells
> them in the proper season and receives
i what is to him practically cash. The
wholesaler receives from the retailer
what is as good as cash to him, and the
r manufacturer receives virtually cash
from the wholesaler.
How would all this be possible were
1 it not that the bankers had collected the
i idle money of other people and were
able to lend it obt to good advantage?
The farm would go unplanted; the
1 ground would go untilled; there would
( be no crops to yield a profit.
That’s where the bank helps the
i farmer.—New York Press.
t GOLD FILLED TEETH.
I More of the Metal Goes Into Them Than
Can Be Got Out.
An example of some of the queer ex-
I periences people have when they are
> called upon to buy a thing with which
they are not familiar and which they
have need of only on rate and unusual
■ occasions is thus set forth by the Mil
‘ waukee Sentinel:
' A young woman who worked fBS a
domestic went to a dentist to geßher
teeth repaired. He repaired them and
sent a bill of SBS. He justified himself
for the charges by explaining how
much the fillings cost him. In one hol
low toqjh, he said, he put $lO worth of
- gold. The bill was paid, and recently,
when the little nugget (said to be worth
1 $10) came out, the woman took it to a
’ goldsmith and had it appraised. He
weighed it scrupulously and valued it
. at 48 cents. She no loriger has faith in
[ her dentist
It seems to be always good taste to
“go shopping” among the dentists be
: fore having any considerable amount of
1 work done. There is considerable hum
buggery about the business in some
quarters. The public is told that sls is
, a fair price for a crown and stands
, ready to pay it on the ground that
t good work deserves good pay. A few
i blocks away the same work was done
i last week for $5, just as well as if sls
> had been paid, and it was done by a
reputable dentist One dentist figured
on SBS for six teeth, and another 200
yards away performed the service for
SBO. —Philadelphia Times.
The First Chinese Baby Show.
> The first Chinese baby show in the
; world has just been held here. There
_ were 200 of them. From embroidered
slipper to shaven poll they were arrayed
in their best They wore satin blouses
that shone in the sun with a silvery
shimmer. They wore embroideries of
i wonderful birds and bees and flowers
l never seen on land or sea. The little
- boys were shaven, and the little girls
: had their hair stiffened and polished
' and dressed as though for the grandest
’ function, with little birdcages and
, fringes of beads and paper atop. There
. were great tinklings of metal and much
r shining of green jade. A new fashion
: in infant headgear showed a halo of stiff
pompons that rose above the infants’
somber eyes. Others wore huge rosettes
of silk on each temple, like a joss, and
( one little girl had a mane of black silk
cue strings hanging down from the
; back of her head. Even the baby com-
- plexions had been looked after. On the
smooth, yellow cheeks appeared the
most lovely patch of pinX rouge, put 00
quite frankly in the Chinese fashion.
The rosebud months were touched up,
, and the narrow brows beautifully pen
. oiled.—Penang Gazette;
Humors of the Dublin Gallsry.
The humor ot the Dublin gallery has
I long been proverbial. Macready, in his
i “Reminiscenoes,” relates that on cue
i occasion when playing Otway’s ‘ ‘Venice
’ Preserved,” Jaffier’s long and rather
’ drowsy dying speech was interrupted
’ by one of the gallery, in a tone of great
l calling out very loudly,
, “Ah, now die at once!” to which an-
B other from the other side immediately
- replied, “Be quiet, yon blackguard, ’’
, then turning with a patronizing tone to
» the lingering Jaffier, “Take your
’ tima ’’—Cornhill Magazine.
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’ The Bmstan Soldier.
, The common soldier in Russia re
, ceivea 3 rubles per annum —about $2. 25.
- The day rations consist of two pounds
t of suchary, which is a very coarse kind
‘ of bread made of cracked rye, baked hard
‘ at first, then cut into small pieces and
r further dried in a heated oven; a small
quantity salt and some soup.
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It is always with a vngue regret that
we read the sagas, and are thrilled by
the viking's exploits. It seems as rtthe
deeds of daring had gone by forever,
and as if the heroes of the deep were a
myth of the cast Absorbed in the
Norse romance, we forget that the vik
ings were only pirates, and that they
dared for slaughter and for booty. If
the Gloucester of today had only existed
then, what heroic saga would it not
have inspired! For to risk life for glory
or riches or rescue or love is in the
heart of every man to do, but to risk
Bfeforabare existence, for other peo
ple's profit and for an anonymous end
partakes of that commonplace sublimity
which does not form the favorite plot of
poets, although once i:i awhile it is the
subject of a daily paragraph.-
For the vikings arc not dead. From
Portland to Now Orleans, our harbors
are full of them. They lounge upon our
wharfs, and we do not recognize them.
They loiter on onr streets, and we know
them not But if there Is a more mod
est unconscious, or braver fellow than
Jack the Fisherman, onr eyes have yet
to rest upon his face. Ho is the hardiest
and most daring, the best sailor in the
, world today. Any continental kingdom
would give its wealth to possess him for
its defense. He is the envy of every
maritime nation. Haa he no value tax
us, beyond the halibut and the cod, the
haddock and the ouak?—Herbert D.
Ward in Century.
< Ths D»bo* «T tb« Bewfe Knife.
To the public mind duels were really
a necessity. The .man who would not
fight “at the drop of a hat and drop it
himself, ” was goon made to feel that he
had very much better not have been
born.
There were progressive duels, too,
from which the popular mind no more
revolted than it does in this era from
progressive whist or euchre; It was one
of them which gave Bowie and his
knife to fame. In some way there had
come to be bad blood, black and bitter,
between him and a certain Colonel
Norris Wright. After long bickering,
it was agreed to meet upon the levee
opposite Natchez, Miss., each with half
a dozen friends, duly armed, and there
shoot the matter out There were a doz
en on each side when it came to fight
ing. The battle was arranged to begin
with threes, the rest standing by, and
coming in only when those of the first
fight were dead or disabled. But they
had miscalculated their own self con
, trot After the first fire there was a
general melee—the reserves to a man
- gripped pistols hard, drew knife belts
to a hmidy clutch and went into the
combat to do or die. —Martha McCul
loch-Williams in Harper’s Magazine.
The Climate of the Philippines.
In regard to the climate which a for
eigner encounters it is easy to exagger
ate its discomforts. Although It Is
tropical, still even in summer the cli
mate may be called healthy. From De
cember to March there are warn days,
with cool nights and little rein. Dur
ing March, April and May the days are
hot, dry and dusty, while the thermom
eter rises to 96 degrees at noon, but the
nights are not uncomfortable. In the
latter part of May and of June there are
thunderstorms every afternoon with a
tremendous downpour of rain. The
greatest heat occurs in these months,
the thermometer rising frequently to
105 degrees in the shade. July, August
and September are the months of the
great typhoons, and \yhile Manila es
capes the greatest fury of these still
enough of their force remains to demol
ish many houses. During October and
November storms lessen in frequency
and severity, and the weather gradual
ly settles into the fine days of Decem
ber.—lsaac M. Elliott in Scribner's.
Hl» Only Opportunity.
“Hattie, ” said the clerk at the blan
ket counter in the department store,
speaking rapidly and in an undertone,
“just moment. Will you—what is it,
sir? Harness department? Six aisles
down—Hattie, do you think you oonld
—furniture, madam? Third floor. Take
the elevator—Hattie, I’d like to know—
handkerchiefs, ma’am? Third counter
to your right. Blankets, sir? Right
here. Wait on you in a moment—Hat
tie, will you marry me?”
"Yes, Tom,” whispered the girl at
the notion counter, still tapping with
her pencil on the showcase. “Ca-a-a-a
a-ash I "—Chicago Tribune.
. IkM, So End.
Up at New Haven, W. Va, there are
so many people named Isaac Roush that
to avoid confusion they are thus desig
nated:
Big Ike, Gentleman Ike, Spectacle
Ike, Ike on the Hill, Ike In the Hollow,
Rosa’s Ike, Little Ike, Soldier Ike, Lazy
Ike, Thirteenth Virginia Die, Fifer Ike,
Aunt Gassy’s Ike, Drummer Ike, Fourth
Virginia Ike, Hartford Ike, Dam It Ike,
Kanawha Ike, Sally’s Ike, Helliky Ike,
Trotter Ike, Fiddler Ike, Ten Mile Ike,
Mart’s Ike and Aunt Betsy’s Ike. —Gal-
lipolis Tribune.
His Di»tlnrtlon.
The following is said to have occurred
to a distinguished but modest divine
who had undertaken the duty of a
brother clergyman at a cathedral church.
*’l am come, ” said he, addressing the
silk gowned verger, “to take Canon
Blank’s place thia morning. ”
“Pray, sir,“replied the official pom
pously, “are you the‘man’who is to read
the prayers or the ‘gentleman’ who is
to deliver the sermon?” —Household
Word a
Th® Brooklyn Bridge.
The greatest suspension bridge in the
world is the Brooklyn bridge, which
also leads the world in the number of
its daily passengers. Its length, includ
ing approaches, fs 5.989 feet, the dis
tance between the towers 980 feet, the
weight of the structure is 8,470 tons. Its
cost was over $15,000,000 The bridge
cars t arry over 45.000.000 people every
year. t
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