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after the passage of thia Ordinance :
Bee. Ist. That it shall be unlawful for
any person to damage, injure, abuse or
tamper with any water meter, spigot, Are
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 of
I»o.taw«W tor
consumer to permit any person, not em
ployed by them, or not a member ot their
familv to use water from their fixtures.
Sec Srd. It shall be unlawful for any
person to use water from any spigot or
snlxots other than those paid for by him.
fee. 4th. It shall be unlawful for 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.
Bee. 6th. It shall be unlawfhl for any
person to allow their spigots, hoswor
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
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
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.
r Bee. 9th. The employees of the Water
Department shall have the same authority
and power of regular policemen of the
City of Griffin, for the purpose of enforc
ing the above ordinance.
Sec. 10th. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict of the above are
hereby repealed.
An Ordinance.
An ordinance to prevent the spreading
Os 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
<md Council of the City of Griffin, that
Trom and after the passage of this ordi
nance, it shall be unlawful for any person
■or persons, flrm 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 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 Griffin; provided nothing herein
contained shall be construed as depriving
individual citizens of the right to sell or
otherwise dispose of their own or their
family wearing apparel, unless the same
is known to have been subject to conta
geous diseases, in which event this ordi
nance shall apply*.
Sec. find. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That for eachgarment
disinfected by the Board of Health of
Griffin, there shall be paid in advance to
said board the actual cost of disinfecting
the said garments, and for the issuing of
the certificate required by this ordinance
the sum 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 itforther 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 fol
owing rates will be charged for the use of
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One J-inch opening for subscribers’
use only $ 9.00
Each 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 “ 500,000 “ “ 10c “
500,000 “.1,000,000 “ “ 9c “
The minimum rate shall be SI.OO per
month, whether that amount of water has
been useaor not
4. Notice to cut off water must be given
to the Buperintendent>>f 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
an accessible position.
6. The Water Department shall have
the right to shut off water for necessary
repairs and-work upon the system, and
they are not liable for any damages or re
bate by reason of the same.
7. Upon application to the Water De
partment, the city will tap mains and lay
pipes to the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest
of the piping must be done by a plumber
at the consumers expense.
g- DR. GATLING’S GRIT.
I—. .
«1M Famous Inventor Passed Throngh
Many Hardships to Final Saeeeso,
In spite of a trade with an unhappy
name there is a kind of humane seepnd
thought in the ingenuity of the death in
strument make*.
He may invent something so terrible as
to make war impossible. This view lends
an interest to the work of Dr. R. J. Gat
ling, the creator of the famous gun that
fires SOO shots a minute. Our surprise to
be told that be is really a tender hearted
man grows less when we know how he
was led to contrive his murderous weapon.
Seeing the train loads of wounded and
wrecks of regiments return from the front
during the great war for the Union, he
thought of the waste of industry and time
and life in sending so many men into a
deadly service. If war must slay, what a
saving would be a single firearm that
would shorten the slaughter from months
to minutes and finally appall contending
armies so that they would refuse to face it I
Dr. Gatling was a man in middle life
then, but from the ago of 21 he had shown
skill as an inventor. The first fruit of his
genius was a steamboat propeller wheel.
He had also originated several labor saving
devices for use in cotton culture, made a
furrow drill that brought him a fortune
from the western wheat farmers and pat
ented a hemp breaking machine and a
steam plow. He is 80 years old now and
still inventing. Lately congress voted him
•40,000 for his proof experiments in a new
method of casting cannon.
When he invented his propeller and~tbok
it to Washington, he found that Ericsson
had just secured a patent for a similar de
sign, and all his labor was thrown away.
A few years later he lost two-thirds of the
money he had realized and invested from
the sale of his wheat-drill. After he com
pleted the “Gatling gun” a fire destroyed
all his work and his patterns. When a
year or two later he had duplicated. his
patterns and placed an instrument before
the public, a rascally agent ran off with
every cent of the sales. It is a robust
quality of soul that can fight disappoint
ment repeatedly and try again.—Chicago
Tribune. , ,
Wanted, a Cat.
A firm which deals in Angora cats re
cently received two applications for pets
which read as follows:
From an engine builder in Kansas City:
“Specifications for cat—not too vicious,
not too gentle, not too old, not too young,
any color except Spanish.”
And the following from a druggist in
Grand Rapids:
“ It seems ridiculous to introduce anoth
er cat to the already overcrowded cat pop
ulation of Grand Rapids, because in these
warm summer evenings a stranger might
readily infer that the cats own the town.
It is said that among the feline tribe we
have an undue number of what are called
ffidbn cats. This special variety of cats
when the moon is shining bright are ad
dicted to what doctors call curvature of
the spine.
“They are called moon cats because it
has been ascertained from reliable sources
that their tails during the process of spinal
curvature are pointed in the direction of
that luminary. The electricity from the
moon is attracted to the end of the tall
and runs along the course of that append
age to the spinal column. From this it
travels to the cerebellum, which organ be
comes surcharged and finally emits sound
through the natural aperature.
"I take it for granted that the Angora
belongs to a distinct breed, domestic in its
habits, will not go out with the boys at
night and return with mutilated features
in the morning. We will await its pres
ence with anxiety, will treat him well and
trust that his respectable surroundlings in
New York have so Impressed him that he
will never wander from his own fireside."
—New York Mail and Express.
A Daring Robbery.
Between 1 and 2 o’clock on a recent
afternoon a daring theft was committed in
the banking department of the Bank of
England which is reserved for purely
banking transactions, general or public
banking business being done in other de
partments. Two “walk clerks” or mes
sengers were sent from Messrs. Coutts to
the Bank of England with an order for
£3,000. One of the clerks, it appears, re
mained outside in a cab, while his col
leagues proceeded to obtain the money,
which was handed to him across the coun
ter in three canvas bags, each of which
contained £I,OOO. The clerk seems to
have had his attention diverted in some
way, and he left the counter. His absence,
however, was quite momentary, but on
his return one of the bags was missing.
An alarm was at once raised, and the po
lice of Old Jewry station were immediate
ly communicated with. It is stated that
almost at the moment of the discovery of
the theft a respectable looking, well dressed
man left the banking department, carry
ling a bag in his hand, and it is assumed
that this was the stolen property. The
thief or thieves, however, succeeded in
escaping. The robbery was a particularly
audacious one and it is believed that the
culprit had “shadowed” Messrs. Coutts’'
messengers for some time in order to as
certain the latter’s movements before act
ing.—London Times.
Is the Klondike Kxhausted?
“ The Klondike bubble has about burst, ”
said Mr. W. W. Altman of Colorado to a
Post reporter. “While millions have been
taken out of the placers, all the best
claims have been appropriated long since,
and it is problematical whether any fresh
discoveries approaching these in richness
will ever be made. The experience of pros
pectors this season in the Copper river
country, of which so much was expected,
has been an unvarying record of hardship,
failure and disaster. Scores of men in try
ing to get over the glaciers have lost their
lives, others have had their health ruined
permanently by exposure to the intense
cold, and all have suffered financially. I
caw a number of old friends after their re
turn from that section, and I scarcely rec
ognized a man in the party. Nearly all
of them seemed physical wrecks. They
sold their outfits for less than one-fourth
what they cost, and they will never again
turn their faces toward Alaska in search
of the yellow metal.”—Washington Post.
Hi* Profit*.
The Kennebec Journal prints a story of
a witness who refused to tell the amount.
of his gross income. Finally when the
judge ordered him to answer the question
he said: “Your honor, I have do gross ini
come. I’m a fisherman of Machias bay.j
and it’s all net.”
The Toil of Search.
“Well,” said the patron of the arts and
muses, “what do you think of the girl’s
voice now that you have heard her? I—it
was I who discovered it ”
“I cannot,” said the critic, “say too
much for your industry.”—Town Topics.
S':’SfWOSS
CrethSMHM Sea Serpaat*.
In the latter part of the mesoaoio age
there was a great inland ocean, spread
ing ovpr a large part of the present con
tinent. The lands then above water
were covered-with a flora peculiar to
the times and we?kjnhabited by some
of the animals whicn lator- distingniah.
ed the cenozoio age. In the seas were
reptiles, fishes and turtles of gigantic
proportions, armed for offense or de
fense. There were also oysterlike bi
valves, with enormous shells, three or
four feet-in diameter, the meat of which
would have fed many people.
In time this great ocean, swarming
with vigorous life, disappeared. Moun
tain ranges and plains gradually arose,
easting forth the waters and leaving the
monsters to die and bleach in tertiary
suns. As the waters remaining divided
into smaller tracts they gradually lost
their saline stability. The stronger mon
sters gorged on the weaker tribes until
they, too, stranded on rising sand bars
or lost vitality and perished as the wa
ters freshened. In imagination we can
picture the strongest, bereft of their
food supply at last and floundering in
the shallow pools until all remaining
mired or starved. It would be interest
ing to know how much of the great
cretaceous ocean forms a part if any of
the vast oceans of today.—Popular
Science.
Surgery on Snake*.
Snakes in captivity, it seems, some
times find difficulty in getting rid of
the skin which is shed every year, and
an Australian diamond snake in the
Bombay museum appeared likely to
succumb. It was quite blind and re
fused all food.
A European sympathizer therefore
pressed the native snake keeper into
service to hold the snake, and himself
With a pair at sharp pointed scissors
performed the delicate and risky opera
tion of clipping away the membrane
which adhered to the eyes.
J. M. Phipson, editor of The Journal
of the Bombay Natural History society,
performed a far more dangerous opera
tion a couple of years ago. His patient
was a large hamadryad, or king cobra,
the most vicious and poisonous of all
Indian snakes, and a most powerful
creature to boot Mr. Phipson gripped
tho king cobra round the neck, and a
native literally held on for his life fur
ther down, and when the reptile’s
struggles were over a third man, armed
with a surgeon’s scalpel, removed eight
layers of membrane from each eye.—
Sketch.
Gladstone’* Eloquence.
His persuasive witchery of eloquence
will be poorly understood by generations
to come, says The Atlantic. It is not
found-in the word, the phrase, the argu
ment or the thought. It came for the
most part from the spirit that warmed
the breath of the man, sounded in his
voice, looked out of his eyes. It was
personal to him, and largely part of the
moral qualities that seemed to be his
greater distinction. No man of his day
has had such power of persuasion as he.
It may not be too bold to say that no
man of any time has surpassed him in
that power. Yet he was never logically
strong. His argumentative writings, the
most carefully and deliberately com
posed, show defects of reasoning that
are marked. From controversy with an
antagonist like Professor Huxley he was
sure to come with wounds. Yet his
masterful influence over minds of every
class is a certain fact. It was once said
by somebody that “Gladstone could per
suade anybody to anything—himself
included,” and the epigram carries no
doubt a significant truth.
Preaaure of Che Sea.
There are spots in the ocean where
the water is five miles deep. If it is
true that the pressure of the water on
any body in the water is one pound to
the square inch for every two feet of
the depth, anything at the bottom of
one of the “five mile holes” would have
a pressure about it of 13,200 feet to ev
ery square inch. There is nothing of
human manufacture that would resist
such a pressure. That it exists there is
no doubt It is known that the pressure
on a well corked glass bottle at the
depth of 800 feet is so great that the
water will force its way through the
pores of the glass. It is also said that
pieces of wood have been weighted and
sunk in the sea to such a depth that the
tissues have become so condensed that
the wood has lost its buoyancy and
would never float again. It could not
be even made to burn when dry.—Chi
cago Chronicle.
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A* Arixoaa Hair Oat.
“Doesn’t it disturb you when they
have a shooting scrape next door?” ask
ed the tenderfoot who was undergoing
an Arizona hair cut.
“Disturb nothin!” answered the bar
ber. “It gener’ly makes it easier. ”
At this juncture the shooting began
at Red Mike’s saloon next door. The
tenderfoot’s hair rose on end, and the
barber trimmed it as expeditiously as if
he were shearing a hedgehog.—Chicago
Tribune.
He Ha* Been There.
Little Elsie—Here in this book ft tells
about the tree of knowledge. I wonder
what kind of a tree that can be?
Little Horace—l guess it must boa
cherry tree. Whenever you climb up
into one of them, you always know bet
ter than to doit again if you get caught
—Cleveland Leader.
/ Diplomatic.
/ Dutiful Son—Yes, mother. I know
Miss Golightly is both extravagant and
lazy, but I’m engaged to her.
Mother—Well, tomorrow’s her birth
day. Give her a silver thimble, and
she’ll break the engagement —Jewelers’
Weekly.
The spiders that spin webs are in an
infinite minority compared with those
which do not. Ground spiders, as the
spin spinners are called, abound every
where and depend on agility and swift
ness of foot to catch their prey.
A B»t With * Beak.
The wise one was explaining to the
other that the bat cannot see in the day
time. It was in the basement of a but
ter, eggs and chicken place cm Washing
ton street
“You see,” he said, as he stuck his
finger close to tho wide open eyes of tbe
bat “he can’t see a thing. Now watch. ”
He jabbed his finger into the eyeball
of tho unsuspecting little victim, which
at once threw up its wings and bopped
to tho farther end of the perch.
But the wise man was not satisfied.
He wanted to demonstrate his knowl
edge still furtber.
“No, ho can’t see a bit," he said,
jabbing his finger the second time into
tbe staring eye.
“See,” he said, as he repeated his
demonstration.
Tho bat in the meantime was flap
ping its wings excitedly and trying to
grope its way to safety.
“That’s a peculiar thing about owls
and bats,” the wise one went on, “that
they can see only in the nighttime.
Now, you just watch for yourself.”
Again he tortured the frightened night
bird.
By this time tho worm turned. The
bat fought back, and by a quick move
ment caught the torturing finger in its
beak. The wise man jerked his hand
away, and with a loud “Ouch I” put
the digit into his own mouth to suck
the blood.
“Yes, I see,” said his friend.—Chi
cago Journal.
..—-A French I.o—l Paper*.
The French local papers are the
merest rags, conducted in many cases
by people who appear to be totally
ignorant of everything that goes cm out
side their own department The result
is that the most extraordinary state
ments appear. In a paper local to the
Riviera there onoe appeared the an-
“Cowardly attempt on the life of a
president. Mr. Jamesson has been ar
rested for the attempted 1 assassination
of M. Johannes Burg, the president of
the Transvaal republic.” This was at
the time of the Jamieson raid.
This same paper recently noted the
arrival of “Lady Killarny” on the Ri
viera and added that “Lady Killarney”
was a daughter of the Prince of Wales
who had married an Irish nobleman of
high rank and had been obliged to re
nounce all her royal rights in order to
do so. This was why she did not go to
the same place as the queen or the
Princess of Wales. “Lady Killarney”
was the Duchess of York.
Another French local paper of equal
standing once announced that “Lord
Balfour, president of the Liberator club
and son-in-law of Lord Salisbury, ” had
been imprisoned by “Sir Gladstone” in
the Tower of London. —London Graphic.
Swallowing Sol* Water.
One of the most beneficial features of
a sea bath is the salt water inadvertent
ly swallowed by bathers. It is a won
derful tonic for the liver, stomach and
kidneys. In many cases it will cure
biliousness when all drug preparations
have failed. It is peculiarly effective in
ordinary cases of indigestion, disordered
stomach and insomnia, and has been
known to produce excellent results in
many caste of dyspepsia.
Clean sea water is full of tonic and
sedative properties. It won’t hurt any
body. Indeed, two or three big swal
lows of it would be of positive benefit
to nine bathers out of ten. It is not ot
course a palatable or tempting doae to
take, but neither is quinine nor calomeL
You seldom if ever see an old'sailor
who is bilious or dyspeptic or a victim
to insomnia, and why? For the reason
that an ocean of good medicine spreads
all about his sky, and he doses himself
copiously with it whenever his physical
mechanism becomes the least bit de
ranged.—Washington Star.
The Humidity Mater.
The amount of moisture present or
the humidity of the air is determined
by a comparison of dry and wet bulb
thermometers. They are both ordinary
thermometers, but the bulb of the latter
is covered with muslin that is wet. In
the latest form of instrument the ther
mometers are mounted on arms carried
by a shaft that is rotated by a crank
which is geared to the shaft. The mo
tion of the shaft rotates the thermome
ters in vertical planes and causes the
water in the muslin to evaporate more
or less rapidly, according to the amount
of moisture in the air. This evaporation
lowers the temperature of the thermom
eter, and from tables constructed after
long experiments the degree of moisture
can be determined by the difference in
temperature between the two thermom
eters.—E. J. Prindle in Popular Science.
Washing In Hard Water.
It is difficult to wash our hands clean
with hard water, because the soda of
the soap combines with the sulphuric
acid of the hard water and the oil of
the soap with the lime and floats in
flakes on the top of the water. Sulphate
of lime consists of sulphuric add and
lime. It is difficult to wash in salt wa
ter because it contains muriatic acid,
and the soda of soap combines with the
muriatic acid of the salt water and pro
duces a cloudiness.
He Knew later.
“It is a pretty name,” the impres
aicuable traveler murmured. “But tell
me, why do they call you Manila?”
There was an arch smile On the sav
age maiden’s face.
< “Evidently, ” she said, as she sigual
ed to her brothers, Who were concealed
in the bush with clubs, “you do not
know our favorite flood. “—Harlem Life.
H« Kmw Hte.
Boy—-Mr. Sndtters wants to toOW if
you’ll lend him an umbrella. He says
you know him.
“You may say that I do know him.
He will probably understand why you
didn’t bring the umbrella. ’’—Boston
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AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE are asserting in the courts our right to
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA.” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “CASTORIA," the same that
has borne and does now bear every
the sac-simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “CASTORIA” which has been used in
the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years.
LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you hams always bought on
and lias the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name except
The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President.
March 24,1898. /? J
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you •
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of which even he does not know. * ’
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE SIGNATURE OF
.J a <&■
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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