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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 All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict of the above are hereby repealed.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. ■ ■ j— , 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 Transcript. \ % £ '^'' ■-? ■' 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. TM( *C«rT*U* CMIMUV. VV >UM*V *TMMT. 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