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...i.n ini,.. 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 All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict of the above are hereby repealed. . *. -A - - JU .J_ 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- I 4 I - - ....... ... 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. [ 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. » 'III- L I ' - ' 1 ’ 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. I 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 ill H i . ■llll > I IIKII Il 118 w ‘'f- a. - ‘l”' w *s s I and knudre**’ I 'w Ml Tkl/'tnrl Vrui Uaiie I /l I lie MflU lull naVS I 11; ’-'■4 ■> as ■s aw 9 ■ f t,lr< zy,r I not Nakcotic. ■ f ■ i A X/ SmJ - I I I 1/1 ’ i ' ■ h fill*’ 1 111 * i i\ j4i laSyniffifriw / M f II Q A perfect Remedy for Constipa- Ml ■ IF tiftn.Sour Slomach.Diarrtoea.!■>;:> Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- Jf * LftF IE If OF .1 oess and Loss OF SLEEI 1 . M IUI U¥ UI TacSimite Signature cf —, _ _ • ’L- I Thirty Ysars I* ITOTMh B, EXACT COPY OF W3APPEB. 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