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anv ne.rson to damape inture. abuse or “ J ® fl re * plug, curb box, 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 be unlawful for any consumer to permit any person, not em ployed by them, or not a member <rt their family, to use water from their fixtures. Sec. 3rd. It shall be unlawful for any person 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 for 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. Oth. It shall be unlawfill 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., 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. Sec. 7th. The employes of the Water Department shall have 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. Bee. Bth. Any person violating any of the provisions ofthe above ordinance shall be arrested and carried before the Criminal Court of Griffln 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 Griffln 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. Oth. The employees of the Water Department shall have the same authority and power of regular policemen of the „ City of Griffln, 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 All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict of the above are hereby repealed.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. J An ordinance to prevent the spreading of 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 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 Griffln, 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 Griffln, and the certificate of said Board of 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 Griffln; 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. Sec. 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 of 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 or 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 ordaiqed 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 or this ordinance, the fol owing rates will be charged for the use of water per year: 1. Dwellings: One i-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 24.00 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 11.00 per month will be charged for water while the meter is on the service. The reading of the meters will be held 1 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 25,000ga15, month..lsc 1,000 25,000 " 50,000 “ “ 14c “ 50,000 “ 100,000 “ . “ 12c “ 100,000 “ 500,000 “ “ 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 i 4. Notice to cut off water must be given to the Superintendent of the Water De- ; 5 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 an accessible position. «• The Water Department shall have i tie right to shut off Water for necessary ( repairs and work upon the system, and j they are not liable for any damages or re bate by reason ofthe same. ! 7. Upon application to the Water De- ■ ffi! a * en k the .? u * wm te P mains “ d 1 pipes to the sidewalk for $2.50; the fest i of the piping must be done by a plumber I at the consumers'expense. . INDIAN AND TIGER. , I A Clever Trick toy Which the Former Out witted the letter. According to a good and true tiger I story in Cornhill, an Indian who had t learned some of the elementary princi ples of jugglery and contortion went out one evening to walk upon a ridgy plain. When he reached the top of ouo •f the mounds, he saw a tiger ahead of ■ him, 500 or 600 yards away. Before the man could hide behind a mound the tiger had seen him and begun to bound toward him at its topmost speed. Having no means of defense, there was nothing for the man to do but to race for the nearest tree, but though he tried it and put forth his utmost strength the tiger steadily gained upon him. What was he to do? In sheer despera tion he resolved upon an unusual scheme. Just as he disappeared for an instant from the tiger’s sight in run ning over a ridge he halted, stretched out his legs at right angles, curled down his head so as to look between his legs to the rear and extended his arms upward in a fantastic manner, like the sails of a windmill. In a few seconds the tiger hove in sight, and at that instant the face of the object assumed a hideous grimace. A prolonged yell arose, such as had per haps never before pierced the ear of any tiger, and the sails of the windmill be gan to revolve backward and forward as if a sudden whirlwind had burst upon the scene. « The tiger recoiled. What, he evi dently thought, is this? There stood a ferocious star shaped monster, gigantic against the sky. Its hideous head was situated in the very center of its body —nay, its viselike jaws, between which those fiendish roars were issuing, were actually placed above its two fiery eyes. Its limbs were furiously clamoring for action, and the mon he had been chas ing, where was he? 'Already devoured by this terrible beast? The tiger could not pause to reflect. He turned tail, and as he disappeared over a friendly ridge a last awful yell caused him to redouble his pace. He was conquered by the unknown. THE POWER OF SHADOWS. • A Gloomy View of the Power of Certain Popular Superstitions. As antique runners passed from hand to hand the sacred torch, so the genera tions transmit to the generations which succeed them all that they have of light and knowledge, leaving them as a heritage the care of continuing the di vine work of enfranchisement and of helping to dissipate the shadows of ig norance. Little by little these clouds are van quished and disappear, and the touch of intelligence flames the more radiantly in the midst of the travailing masses. But all of a sudden a veil covers the torch—something surges up which seems like the darkness of another age. One feels that in a corner of this civi lization monstrous things have place. Here they burn a woman accused of sorcery; there in Suabia a tribunal con demns to four days of imprisonment a laborer who had disinterred the corpse of an infant. He wanted to make brace lets of its finger nails, which, according to a belief held in that country, consti tute a sovereign remedy against colic. And all the stories of vampires, of elfs, return to the mind with all the victims they havo made and are making still. It seems in reading such things that the “power of shadows” is still impen etrable to all that science has done and that, as I have saifl, the effort is vain.— Figaro. On the Eating of Loons. Man is a creature of prejudice. In Scotland he will not eat eels; in Con necticut he will not eat sturgeon, the royal fish of England, where the first one taken in the Thames goes to the queen’s table; in New York he will not eat lampreys, miscalled “lamper eels,” which are delicacies in Connecti cut, and in England some old king—l never could keep a record of kings— died from a surfeit of lampreys. With these prejudices in mind, and I hate all prejudices except those which I enter tain, I decided to eat the loon. There may be differences among loons, as there are between pigeons and squabs. I prefer an adult pigeon to a squab, there is better chewing on it, but if a man wants real hard chewing, with a flavor of raw fish, let him tackle an adult loon. That bird could not be picked. It was skinned, and in its stom ach there was a catfish recently swal lowed, one partly digested and the bones of another. The triggers of the pectoral fins of the catfish were set, but the stomach of the loon did not seem to be troubled by that fact.—Fred Mather in Forest and Stream. A Baldheaded Reply. A naval officer, very well and favor ably knowiv in London, has for some unknown reason been advanced in his profession very slowly, though he has grown gray in the service and indeed lamentably bald. Recently one of his ; uniors was bold enough to question him as to his remarkable absence of hair. “How comes it that you are so very bald?” The officer replied promptly and with much vindictiveness: “You, man, you would be bald, I think, if you had had men stepping over your head for years in the way I have. ” —London Judy. Different Ideas as to Clothes. If the native women of Sumatra have their knees properly covered, the rest does not matter. The natives of soma islands off the coast of Guinea wear clothes only when they are going on a journey. Some Indians of Venezuela are ashamed to wear clothes before strangers, as it seems indecent to them to appear unpainted. THE HEIGHT OF SOUDIERS. ’ T’jp ' pean Armies Are Inereasod. As the size of modern armies is increased the average height of fighting men to di minished. The Togeblatt of Berlin ascribes the reduction in the average stature of soMicrs in modern armies to conscription and )says that in the Gorman army it is now only 60.68 inches. In the British army the height is 64.96 Inches, showing the tallness of tho average Englishman and Scotchman. Frenchmen and Span iards are taken at 1.54 meters, Italians at 1.55 meters (61 inches), and the same minimum measurement is the rale in Austria. The Russian minimum is 1.54 meters, and in tho United States it is 1.619 meters (68.78 inches). In 1860, before the beginning of tho American civil war and before the general arming of Europe, the average height of men serving in the various European armies was as follows, given in inches: Italian, 65; Spaniard, 65.5; French, 66; Hungarian, 66.1; Austrian, 66.5; Belgian, 66.9; Russian, 67; English, 67.5; Irish, 68; Scotch, 68.5; Norwegian, 69. Although the average height of soldiers has decreased during the last few years considerably in those countries in which conscription is the rule, it is found gener ally that in countries in which peaceful conditions prevail and no groat standing army is maintained tho stature of new soldiers is gradually increasing. This is shown conspicuously in tho case of Swe den, where the average of height of now soldiers between 1840 and 1850 Was 66 inches, 66.9 between 1850 and 1860, 66.6 between 1860 and 1870, 66.8 between 1870 and 1880 and 69 between 1880 and 1890. The proportion of rejected soldiers in France has decreased from 37 per cent in the decade beginning 1840, 35 per cent in the decade beginning 1860 and 83 per cent in tho decade beginning in 1880 to 30 per cent at present. ■ The number of conscripts now rejected on account of height is less every year in consequence perhaps of the fact that the minimum height limit of the French army has been steadily decreased. American soldiers have preserved dur ing many years the same height substan tially, though the fact is well known that soldiers from the western and southwest ern states are, as a rule, taller than those from the east and from the southern At lantic states. Jamped Into the Ball Bing, Apropos of Second Lieutenant J. H. Scott, the Philadelphia boy, who is the executive officer of the Hudson, who pulled the Winslow out of a hole when disabled at the bombardment at Cardenas, a story of his love of excitement is given by a classmate while the pair were on the Unit ed States boat Chase as cadets on their practice cruise. The vessel was at Lisbon, Portugal. The starboard watch of cadets were ashore on leave. Some, with “Hutchy,” as Scott was familiarly called, went to see a bullfight at a suburb of Lis bon called Clntra. In the royal box that afternoon in Au gust of 1888 sat the present ruler of Portu gal, then a debonair and democratic youth. Suddenly a cadet’s cap was seen to fly through tho air and drop in the center of the arena. The owner, none other than “Hutchy,” jumped into the ring, grabbed a spear from a dazed matador© and after giving his trousers a sailorlike hitch the hero of Cardonas proceeded to assail a lively runt of a bull. The multitude that crowded tho tiers recognized the uniform and yelled, inon, women and children, “Viva el Americano!” Suddenly tho bull felL The first bull killed in a Portuguese arena for 90 years, and that by a Philadelphia boy. However, with spear in one hand and his oap in the other,looking very much soared, “Hutchy” was conducted by some attendants to the royal box and received, much to his sur prise, not only congratulations, but Prince Carlos, removing a signet ring from his finger, presented it to Scott. The affair was the talk of Lisbon for several days, and as a result of the cele bration that followed, for the ring had to be wetted, “Hutchy” and his chums were kept on board the Chase for a month or more. The Army Paymaster. The most popular officer holding the commission of the United States govern ment is the paymaster. In the eyes of the troops at the front he is only a little lower than the angels. When he arrives in camp, he is received with something Ilka the en thusiasm that surprised the prodigsrt. son. The best that -there is in the way of tent, things to eat and things to drink are at his disposal. The colonel smiles, and the majors smile, and the captains smile, and the smile progresses on down to the small est drummer boy. Everybody spruces up, puts on his best available clothes and does his best to do credit to the regiment You would think that the businesslike man in a major’s uniform was Miss Co lumbia, the president and the general com manding rolled into one. And then the paymaster reciprocates. He loses no time in getting through the books. He has been known to toil half tho night so that the boys might not have to wait for their money any longer than was absolutely necessary. As a rule, there is a day’s work in tho regimental rolls, but the paymas ter doesn’t spare himself or his assistants. Ho looks as satisfied when his task is done aa if he were about to go out with the boys whom he has made so happy. But he doesn’t, for he has to fly away to fresh acenes of activity.—New York Sun. How He Kept Out of th* Deal. Sinoe the collapse of tho Leiter wheat deal brokers on the board of trade have been telling many stories about past “cor ners” and big market manipulations. One of the stories concerns Leopold Bloom. Yean ago Mr. Bloom conducted a big wheat campaign and made a fortune. Unlike many others, he quit then and there. But often he felt tho speculative mania return and he had a hard time keeping his hands off the market. Once particularly he almost fell, but he finally managed to stay away from the board of trade through a little trick of his own— that is, if the stories of the brokers may be believed. In order to prevent himself dabbling tn futures ho told his valet to lock him in a room at his house, and no matter what the plea was not to let him out until the great deal on the board of trade was over. His faithful valet did as he was ordered, and Mr. Bloom kept his hands off the market.—Chicago Journal. International Buddhist Monastery. The Japanese press is printing articles headed “Revival of Buddhism in India.". Burma, Siam and Japan arc to raise fuffds to found an international Buddhist njrinastcry and missionary college in Cal cutta for the training of young men as Buddhist missionaries ro be sent to Eu- . rope and the United States.—St Louis j Star. I 1— # WW- . a paper in his desk w completely worked to Xplm’tnd*siaiTnd Metz wore the consequences is going the rounds of tho press with brilliant varia tions. The latest variation la that Von Moltke was awakened from a sound sleep to lie told that France had declared war, that he instructed thoaid to goto cabinet A and take from drawer 28 a paper mark ed schedule Z and resumed his slumber. Inasmuch as the Prusdan embassador left Paris several days before the declaration of war by France and ns the order for mobilizing went out from Berlin while public peace was yet maintained, there was no need to break Von Moltke’s slum be - to tell him what ho k: cw in daylight. France decided on war July 15, but the formal notifleati m to that effect was not sent to the nearest Prussian outposts un til four days lat-r. Neither Bismarck, Von Roon nor Von Moltke was caught napping either literally or metaphorically. On the contrary, they were arranging even before Franco voted its fateful decla ration to make war inevitable. Franco de clared war, but it was Bismarck who forced her to do it, and both Von Moltko and Von Roon were in tho game from which the king of Prussia was excluded, for he was not let into it until it was too late for hhn to undo what they had done. Nor did Von Moltke issue oniers at tho outset which made Sedan inevitable. Tho - most he did, aS ho tells us himself, was to make plans in advance against every con ceivable hypothesis of French invasion of Germany. The first position he took up was that of observation in order that Franco might not by a sudden rush sepa rate north and south Germany. When he found tho French were unequal to invading Germany, he turned the tables on them. He could not foresee Sedan at tho outset of the war, for the simple reason that he could not foresee that MaoMahon would let go his hold on the road to Paris and start off on that attempt to relieve Metz which ended at Sedan. Von Moltke candidly admits in his books on the war that he was puzzled t tho French move ments because they were so obviously wrong as to awaken his suspicion, and that he was at fault tn not pushing straight through tho Vosges, whose passes the French did not even attempt to de fend. He did not anticipate that these ’gateways would be left unguarded and lost time in working around the moun tains in consequence. Von Moltke’s books are those of a frank man who tells what he did. Possibly if they were read more Amo of those who are forever comparing our operations with those of Germany in IS7O would know better than to set up the great strategist as performing impossibilities.' Von Moltke himself found it hard to stamp out all the absurd variations of his achievements that became current in Germany. Ho was once, as he has told us, invited to a private view of a picture representing the council of war before Sadowa, in which he was grouped with other historical personages. He complimented the painter on his skill and dryly added that the picture was ef fective despite the fact that no such coun cil was held.—Boston Transcript. Wouldn’t Take Advice. / A west side youth called the other even ing on a young woman who resides not far from his home, and when he rang the bell her little brother came to the door. “Good evening,” said the little brother. “Good evening,” said the youth. “Is your sister at home, Georgie?” “Yes, sir, ” replied the boy, “she’s homo. Do you want to see her?” “Yes,” said the youth. “Please tell her I am here.” “Won’t you come in?” inquired the boy. “No, thank you,” said the youth. “I’ll wait here on the porch.” “Better come in,” said the boy. “No,” said the youth. “Better,” said the boy. “No,” said the youth. “Well, maybe you know best,” said the boy. “Yes,” smiled the youth. So the boy went in, and tho youth sat down on the porch and propped himself against a post. Pretty soon with much rustling of skirts Miss Alice appeared in tho doorway. “Mercy! Mr. Skimpie, is that you? Didn’t you notice the porch had just been painted?” And then poor Skimpie remembered with a sickly smile how urgent her little brother had been. But that wouldn’t remove the paint.— New York Journal. Jasper’s “Sun Do Move” Sermon. The Rev. John Jasper, colored, of Rich mond, Va., preached fcis celebrated “sun do move” sermon for the twentieth time recently. After quoting the passage from Malachi, “From the rising of the sun,” etc., he said: “Anybody tell me that God told a lie? You can call me a liar, but you had better not call him a liar too often. Some say that we are-living on a round earth. Did anyone ever teach you that four corners mean round? If they did, you had better get rid of those teachers as soon as you can and get an old stick and broom and sweep them aay. See Revelation vil, 1, ‘And after these things I saw four an gels standing on the four corners of the earth, holdlngthe four winds of the earth.’ Philosophers say that at midday there is a nation that have their feet right against our feet. When did God ever make a na tion of people to walk oh their heads? If there is a nation with their feet to ours, who made them? Does this book say about them? God don't know them. The prophets didn’t know them, and I’ve been preaching going on 59 years, having preached 27,000 sermons, and I don’t know them. I don't know bow to get to them.”—New York Tribune. Varied Cheek Stamps. There are stamps and stamps, and the banks are wrathfnlly aware that there are. The report of one Boston bank for stamps received on cheeks is this: Internal revenue stamps of 1860. Regular postage stamps. Omaha postage stamps, proprietary stamps. Documentary stamps of 1898. Postage duo stamps. . The receipt of two 1 cent "postage due” on a check broke the record. How any body outside of the postofficc department could have had them m possession to put on is now the mystefty.—Boston Tran script. / v American Colleges. In view of the assertion recently mads by the Spanish newspapers to the effect that “there are no colleges in America,” it f® Interesting to krtavibat to have 480 univcr.-4tics and and teachers therein end 124.684 students. WCI v V WUfCIII S I Bis r ' i® r * l I Af* «4JI I s*L * Vr njP A UJJLV _ W ' ■ M rrcnuMCSiJig»snon.v.ccnui m I uessandßest.Containsnritiw IM I Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. |» Nor Narc otic. ■ ( ■ 101 I JI >• 1 II 11 Wl ' -t'S ■ J MPM g w . n / IS 110 f) ; B A perfect Rcnwdy f rConstipa* M | 11 O' VMM tion. Sour Stomach. 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