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An Qytjlin ftnnfi . ~<!• - . rf.,'- 'f • .„>■ _W I dl of the City oiJriflin that from and 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, snjgot, fire plug, curb box, or any other fixture or machinery belonging to the Water Depart ment of the City of Griffin; provided that a licensed plumber may use curb service box to test his work, but shall leave ser vice cock as he found it under penalty ot €n ßea°2nd! e it , Bhall be unlawful for any consumer to permit any nlovad bv them, or not a member ot their familv to use water from their fixtures. “shall be unlawful for any nerson to use water from any spigot or spigots other than those paid for by him. Sec. 4th. It shall be unlawful tor any person to couple pipes to spigots unless paid tor as an extra outlet. Sec. 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. Sec. 6th. It shall be unlawful for any person to allow their spigots, hose or sprinkler to run between the hours of 9:00 o’clock p. m. and 6:00 o’clock a. m., tor any purpose whatever, unless there is a meter on the service. Spigots and pipes must be boxed or wrapped to prevent freezing; they will not be allowed to run for that purpose. Sec. 7th. The employes of the Water Department shall nave access to the premises of any subscriber for the purpose rereading meters, examining pipes, fix tures, etc., and it shall be unlawfin 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 not exceeding sixty days, or be im prisoned in the city prison for a'term not exceeding sixty days, either or all, in the discretion of the court. Bee. 9th. The employees of the Water Department shall have the same authority and power ot regular policemen of the City of Griffin, for the purpose of enforc ing the above ordinance. Sec. 10th. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict of the above are hereby repealed. . An Ordinance. An ordinance to prevent the spreading of diseases through the keeping and ex posing for sale ot second hand and cast off clothing, to provide for the disinfection of such clothing by the Board ot Health of the City of Griffin, to prescribe fees for the disinfection and the proper registry thereof, and for other purposes. Bee. 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 certificate of said Board ot Health giving the number and character of the garments disinfected by them has been filed in the office of the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin; provided nothing herein contained shall be construed as depriving individual citizens of the right to sell or otherwise dispose of their own or their family wearing apparel, unless the samd is known to have been subject to conta geous diseases, in which event this ordi nance shall apply. Bee. 2nd. Be it further ordained by the 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 ot twenty-five cents, and to the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin for the registry of said certificate the sum of fifty cents. Sec. 3rd. Be it 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 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. Be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here with are hereby repealed. An Ordinance. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun- : cil of the City of Griffin, That from and after the passage ot this ordinance, the bl owing rates will be charged for the use of water per year: 1. Dwellings: One f-inch opening for subscribers' use only $ 9.00 i Bach additional spigot, sprinkler, bowl, closet or bath 3.00 Livery stables, bars, soda founts and photograph galleries 24.00 Each additional opening 6.00 2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s expense, at the rate of 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 beheld proof of use of water, but should meter fail to register, the bill will be averaged from twelve preceding months. 3. Meter rates will be as follows: 7,000 to 25,000 gals, month.. 15c 1,000 25,000 “ 50,000 “ “ 14c “ 50,000 “ 100,000 “ “ 12c « 100,000 “ 500/XX) “ " 10c “ 500,000 “ 1,000,000 “ “ 9c “ The minimum rate shall be SI.OO per month, whether that amount of water has been used or not. 4. Notice to cut off water must be given to the Superintendent of the Water De partment, otherwise water will be charged , for foil time. 1 5. Water will not be turned on to any premises unless provided with an approved stop and waste cock properly located in an accessible position. i . 6-The Water Department shall have the right to shut off water for necessary repairs and work upon the system, and i they are not liable for any damages or re- '■ bate by reason of the same. Tjfpon application to the «frater De partment, the city will tap mains and lay pipes to the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest 1 of the piping must be done by’ a plumber at the consumers’ expense. I BOCKS ONBOTH SIDES DR. TALMAGE ENCOURAGES PEOPLE WHO ARB ,N_T BOUBLE . Wbat We Ar. Taught by the Triumph *f Jonathan Over the Phlll.tine.~ln.plra tfbn In Persecution and New Us. I a Adversity. (Copyright. 1898, by American Press Ajuo- Wasihngton, Aug. 14.—This discourse of Dr. Talmage is full of encouragement for those who know not which way to turn because of accumulated misfortunes; text, I Samuel xiv, 4, “There was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side.” The cruel army of the Philistines must be taken and scattered. There is just one man accompanied by his bodyguard to do that thing. Jonathan is the hero of tho scene. I know that David cracked the skull of the giant with a few pebbles well slung, and that 300 Gideonites scattered 10,000 Amalekites by the crash of broken crockery, but here is a more wonderful conflict. Yonder are the Philistines on the rocks. Here is Jonathan with his bodyguard in the valley. On the one side is a rock called Bozez; on the other side is a rock called Seneh. These two were as famous in olden times as in modern times are Plymouth Rock and Gibraltar. They were precipitous, unscalable and sharp. Between these two rooks Jonathan must make bis ascent. The day comes for the scaling of the height. Jonathan on his hands and feet begins tho ascent. With strain and slip and bruise, I suppose, but still on and up, first goes Jonathan, and then goes his bodyguard. Bozez on one side, Seneh on the other. After a sharp tug and push and clinging I see the head of Jonathan above the hole in the moun tain, and there is a challenge, and a fight, and a supernatural consternation. These two men, Jonathan and his bodyguard, drive back and drive down the Philistines over the rocks and open a campaign which demolishes the enemies of Israel. I sup pose that the overhanging and overshadow ing rocks on either side did not balk or dishearten Jonathan or his bodyguard, but only roused and filled them with en thusiasm as they went up. “There was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side. ** Sharp Boeks of Trouble. My friends, you have been or are now, some of you, in this crisis of the text If a man meets one trouble, he can go through with it. He gathers all his ener gies, concentrates them on one point and in the strength of God or by his own nat ural determination goes through it. But the man who has trouble to the right of him and trouble to the left of him is to be pitied. Did either trouble come alone, he might endure it, but two troubles, two disasters, two overshadowing misfortunes, are Bozez and Seneh. God pity him I “There is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rook on the other side. ** In this crisis of the text is that man whose fortune and health fail him at the same time. Nine-tenths of all our mer chants capsize In business before they come to 45 years of age. There Is some collision in commercial circles, and they stop payment. It seems as if every man must put his name on the back of a note before he learns what a fool a man is who risks all his own property on the prospect that some man will tell the truth. It seems as if a man must have a large amount of unsalable goods on his own shelf before he learns how much easier it is to buy than to sell. It. seems as if every man must be completely burned out be fore he learns the importance of always keeping fully insured. It seems as if every man must be wrecked in a financial tern? pest before ho learns to keep things snug in case of a sudden euroclydon. When the calamity does come, it is aw ful The man goes home in despair, and he tells his family, “We’ll have to go to the poorhouse.** He takes a dolorous view of everything. It seems as if he never could rise. But a little time passes, and he says: “Why, lam not so badly off after all. I have my family left. ” Blessing of a family. Before the Lord turned Adam out of paradise he gave him Eve so that when he lost paradise he oould stand it. Permit one who has never read but a few novels in alibis life, and who has not a great deal of romance in his composition, to say that if when a man’s fortunes fail he has a good wife—a good Christian wife—he ought not to be despondent. “Oh,” you say, “that only increases the embarrass ment, since you have her also to take care of.’’"‘•You are an ingrate, for the woman as often supports the man as the man sup ports the woman. The man may bring all the dollars, but the woman generally brings the courage and the faith-in God. Well, this man of whom I am speaking looks around, and he finds his family is left, and he rallies, and the light comesto his eyes, and the smile to his face, and the courage to his heart. In two yean he is quite over it He makes his financial ca lamity the first chapter in a new era of prosperity. He met that one trouble — conquered it He sat down for a little while under the grim shadow of the rook Bozez, yet he soon rose and began like Jonathan to climb. But how often is it that physical ailment comes with financial embarrassment! When the fortune failed, It broke the man’s spirit. His nerves were shattered. His brain was stunned. I can show you hundreds of men in our cities whose fortune and health failed at the same time. They came prematurely to the staff. Their hand trembledwrith incipient paralysis. They never saw a well day since the hour when they called their cred itors together for a sompromlse. If such men are impatient and peculiar and irri table, excuse them. They had two trou bles, either one of which they oould have met successfully. If when the health went the fortune had been retained, it would not have been so bad. The man could have bought the very best medical advice, and he oould have had the very best at tendance and long lines of carriages would have stopped at the front door to Inquire as to his welfare. But poverty on the one side and sickness on the other are Bozez and Seneh, and they interlock their shad ows and drop them upon the poor man’s way. God help him I “There is a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other ride.’’ I Sunlight of God’S Bavor. I Now, what is such a man to do? In the name of almighty God, 1 will tell him what to do. Do as Jonathan did—climb; climb up into the sunlight of God’s favor and consolation. I can go through ths 'churches and show you men who lost for tune and health at the same time, and yet who sing all day find dream of heaven all night. If you have any idea that sound digestion, and steady nerves, and clear eye sight, and good hearing, and plenty of friends are necessary to make a man hap- Ipy, you have miscalculated. I support --- that these overhanging rocks only made Jonathan sorambiu the harder and the and financial embarrassment has often sent a man up the quicker into the sunlight of God’s favor and the noonday of his glorious promises. It is a difficult thing for a man to feel his dependence upon God when he has SIO,OOO in the bank, and $50,000 in gov ernment securities, and a block of stores •nd three ships. “Well,*'the man says to himself, “it is silly tor me to pray, ‘Give me this day my daily bread,’ when my pantry is full and the canals from the west are crowded with breadstuffs destined for my storehouses.” Oh, my friends, if the combined misfortunes and disasters of life have made you climb up into the arms of a sympathetic and compassionate God, through all eternity you will bless him that in this world “there was a sharp rock on the one ride and a sharp rock on the other side. ” A of th* World. Again, that man is in the crisis of the text who has homo troubles and outside persecution at the same time. The world treats a man well just as long as it pays to treat him well As long as it can man ufacture success out of his bone and brain and muscle it favors him. The world fat tens the horse it wants to drive. But let a man see it his duty to cross the track of tiie world, then every bush is full of horns and tusks thrust at him. They will be little him. They will caricature him. They will call bls generosity, self aggran dizement and his piety sanctimoniousness. The very worst persecution will sometimes come upon him from those who profess to be Christians. John Milton—great and good John Mil ton—so far forgot himself as to pray in so many words that his enemies might be eternally thrown down into the darkest and deepest gulf of hell, and be the under most and most dejected, and the lowest down vassals of perdition. And Martin Luther so far forgot himself as to say in regard to his theological opponents, them in whatever sauce you please, roast ed or fried or baked or stewed or boiled or hashed, they are nothing but asses!’’ Ah, my friends, if John Milton or Martin Luther could come down to such scurril ity, what may you not expect from less elevated opponents? Now, sometimes the world takes after them, the newspapers take after them, public opinion takes after them, and the unfortunate man is lied about until all the dictionary of Billings gate is exhausted on him. You often see a man whom you know to be good and pure and honest, set upon by the world and mauled by whole communities, while vicious men take on a supercilious:air in condemnation of him, as though Lord Jeffreys should write an essay on gentle ness or Henry VIII talk about purity or King Herod take to blessing little chil dren. Persecution Is an Inspiration. Now, a certain amount of persecution rouses a man’s defiance, stirs his blood for magnificent battle and makes him 50 times more -a man than he would have been without the persecution. So it was with the great reformer when he said, “I will not be put down; I will be heard.” And so it was with Millard, the preacher, in the time of Louis XL When Louis XI sent word to him that unless he stopped preach ing in that stylo he would throw him into the river, he replied, “Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner by water than he will reach It by fast horses.” A certain amount of persecution is a tonic and in spiration, but too much of it, and too long continued becomes the rock Bozez throw ing a dark shadow over a man’s life. What is he to do then? Go home, you say. Good advice, that. That is just the place fora man to go when the world abuses him. Go home. Blessed be God for our quiet and sympathetic homes I- But there is many a man who has the reputation of having a home when he has none. Through unthinkingness or precipitation there are many matches made that ought never to have been made. An officiating priest cannot alone unite a couple. The Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There are many homes in which there is no sym pathy and no happiness and no good cheer. The clamor of the battle may not have been heard outside, but God knows, not withstanding .all the playing ot the wed ding march, and all the odor of the orange blossoms, and the benediction of the officiating pastor, there has been no marriage. So sometimes moa have awak ened to find on one side of them the rock of persecution and on the other side of them the rock of domestic infelicity. What shall such a one do? Do as Jonathan did —climb. Get up the heights of God’s con solation, from-whloh you may look down ln< triumph upon outside persecution and home trouble. While good and great John Wesley was being silenced by the magis trates and having his name written on the board fences of London in doggerel, at that very time his wife was making him as miserable as she could—acting as though she were possessed by the devil, as I sup pose she was, never doing him a kindness until the day she ran away, so that h« wrote in his diary these words: “I did not forsake her. I have not dismissed her. I will not recall her. ** Planting one foot upon outside persecution and the other foot on home trouble, John Wesley climb ed up into tho heights of Christian joy, and after preaching 40,000 sermons and traveling 370,000 miles reached the heights of heaven, though in this world he had it hard enough—“a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other.*’ ThWpßlTlDg Wnmnn. Again, that woman stands in the crisis of the text who has bereavement and a struggle for a livelihood atthe same time. Without mentioning names, I speak from observation. Ah, it is a hard thing for a woman to make an honest living, even when her heart is not troubled, and she has a fair cheek, and the magnetism of an exquisite presence. But now the husband or the father ia dead. The expenses of the obsequies have absorbed all that was left in the savings bank, and, wan and wasted with weeping and watching, she goes forth—a grave, a hearse, a coffin behind her—to contend for her existence and the existence of her children. When I see such a battle as that open, I shudder at the ghastliness of the spectacle. Mqn rttwlth embroidered slippers and writb heartless essays about woman's wages, but that question is. made up of tears and blood, •nd there is more blood than tears. Oh, give woman free access to all the realms where she can get a livelihood, from the telegraph office to the pulpit! Let men’s wages be cut down before hers are cut down. Men have iron in their souls and can stand it Make the way free to her of tiie byoken heart. May God put Into my hand the cold, bitter cup of privation, and give me nothing but a wtndowleM hat for shelter for many years rather than that after lam deed there should go out from my home into the pitiless world a wom an’s arm to fight the Gettysburg, the Aus ‘terlitz, the Waterloo of life for bread 1 And yet how many women there,ore. seated be- side and the rock at dtetitntion on the other! Borez and Bench interlocking thrir shadows and dropping then, upon her mbs erebloway. “There is a sharp rock on the onu side and a sharp rock on the other What are such to do? Somehow let them climb up into the heights of the glorious promise: “Leave thy fatherless children. I will preserve them alive and let thy widows trust in me.” Or get up into the heights of that other glorious promise, “The Lord prererveth the stranger and re lievoth the widow and the fatherless. ** O yo sewing women on starving wages! O ye widows turned out from the once beau tiful home! Oyo female teachers kept on niggardly stipend 1 Oye despairing wom en seeking in vain for work, wandering along the docks and thinking to throw yourselves into the river night! Oye women of weak nerv. s, and aching sides, and short breath, un< broken hsut, y< .i need something morn than human sym pathy. You m.d the sympathy of God. Climb up into his am s. He knows it all, and he loves you mure than father or mother or husband ever could or ever did, and instead of sitting down, wringing your hands in despair, yon had better be gin to climb. There are heights of conso lation for you, though now “time is a sharp rock on one ride and • sharp rock on the other side." Th* Sharpest ot AU Boeks. Again, that man is in the crisis of tho text who has a wasted life on the one ride and an unilluminated eternity on the oth er. Though a man may all his life have cultured deliberation and self poise, if he gets into that position all his self posses sion is gone. There are oil the wrong thoughts of his existence, all the wrong deeds, all the wrong words—strata above strata, granitic, ponderous, overshadow ing. That rock I call Bozez. On the oth er side are all the retributions of the fu ture, the thrones of judgment, the eternal ages, angry with his long defiance. That rock I call Seneh. Between these two rocks 10,000 times 10,000 have perished. O man immortal, man redeemed-, man blood bought, climb up out of those shad ows! Climb up by the way of the crore. Have your wasted' life forgiven. Have your eternal life secured. This hour just take one look to the past and see what it has been, and take one look to the future and see what it threatens to ba You can afford to lose your health, yon can afford to lose your property, you can afford to lose your reputation, but you cannot afford to lose your soul. That bright, gleaming, glorious, precious, eternal possession you must carry aloft in the day when the earth burns up and the heavens burst. You see from my subject that when a man gets into the safety and peace of the gospel he does not demean himself. There is nothing in religion that leads to mean ness or unmanliness. The gospel of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb as Jonathan did—climb toward God,climb toward heav en, climb into the sunshine of God’s favor. To become a Christian is not to go meanly down. It is to come gloriously up—up Into the communion of saints, up into the peace that passeth all understanding, up into tiie companionship of angels. He lives upward; he dies upward. Oh, then accept the wholesale invitation which I make this day to all the people! Come up from between your invalidism and financial embarrassments. Come up from between your bereavements and your destitution. Come up from between a wasted life and an unillumined eternity. Like Jonathan, climb up with all your might instead of sitting down to wring your hands in the shadow and in the dark ness—“a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock 6n the other side. ” Saved the Doctor's BUI. In a Massachusetts seaport town there is a retired sea captain who makes a fre quent boast that he has the “smartest woman along shore.” New instances of her enterprise are constantly coming to notice. The last one refers to an exploit by which she saved herself a doctor’s bill. The captain tells the story with great relish. “She’s getting pretty heavy,” he be gins, “and now and again she’ll miss her footing. Well, not many months ago she missed It on our stairs and fell all in a heap down three steps on to her side. “When I got to her, she said just as brisk as usual: ‘Don’t ask me if I’ve hurt myself, cap’n, for of oourse I have. I reckon I’ve unjointed a bone in my left leg, falling on it. Now don’t try to pull me up. Let me scrabble round a minute and you go for the doctor. * “Well, the doctor’s our next neighbor, so it didn’t take long to get him. He looked her over and said there was a bone somewheres round her left hip that was out of kilter. “At that mother rose right upon her feet and toppled over the opposite way from what she’d fallen down stairs, and we heard a kind of a crack. “She looked up at tho doctor with her mouth kind of whitish, but the same old twinkle in her eyes, and she says, *1 be lieve I’ve set that bone myself, doctor.’ And she bad!”—Youth’s Companion. The Truth About Convict* In Uteri*. The most conclusive evidence as to what the life of the average convict really is is furnished upon the best evidence by the convicts themselves, who certainly ought to know when and where they are well off. Not more than one-fourth of the exiles when their time has expired elect to re turn to Russia, whither they are attracted by that love and attachment to home so strong in every human breast, so particu larly strong in the Slav. The fact is that they have found life in Siberia pleasanter, the road to ease, a competency and even to wealth less rugged, leas crowded with competitors. So they become colonists and-of their own free will and choice re main in Siberia, throwing their fortunes in with the destiny of the new land, and L knowing something of the conditions of life which obtain in Russia, think they do well.—Stephen Bonsai in Harper’s. Lol l Wife Island. Lot’s Wife, perhaps the strangest island in the Pacific, is in latitude 29.41 and longitude 140.22.80 east and Is southeast of the Island of Nippar, the largest of the Japanese group. Means, the explorer, ran stross it in 1788 and at first mistook It for » ship. 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