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cil of the City of Q ”®“ from and
to damage, injure, abase or
ment of the City as Griffin; provided that
a licensed Diumber may use curb service
boxTtot his work. but shall leave ser
ri«a>ckashefound it under penalty of
be unlawful for any
consumer to permit any person, not em
ployed by them, or not a member of their
family, to use water from their fixtures.
Sec. Brd. 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. fith. 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. fith. 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., 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.readlng 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 a11,4n the
discretion of the court.
Sec. 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 gnforc
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hereby repealed.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 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 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 CHy 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 oral
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 Grjffln
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. 401. 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 obthe City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage 01 this ordinance, the fol
owing rates will be charged for the use of
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One t-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 wafer, 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,ADO “ 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.
4. Notice to cut off water must be given
to the Superintendent of the Water De
partment, otherwise water will be charged
for full time.
5. Water will not be turned on to any
premises unless provided with an approved
stop and waste cock properly located in
an accessible position.
6. The Water Department shall have
the right to shut off water for accessary
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.
A TALKING NEWSPAPER.
. The Unique JoornalliUc Enterprlw Car-
Tied on In Badtpnt
A Budapest letter to the London Pall
Mall Gazette says: A small diamond
■ shaped board screwed on to the wall of my
i room and provided with a couple of hooka,
■ from which bang two tiny, round tele-
■ phone earpieces connected by two wires—
that Is all—but my proprietor haa been
• singing its praises for the laat 80 minutes,
■ and as he confidentially assured me that
It will not play any part in my hotel bill
at the end of ray stay, there la no earthly
reason why I should enter any protest
Against hia profuse encomiuma
“This,” said he, “is the telephonic
messenger, or talking newspaper—the
only thing of its kind in the world. It
baa now been established in Budapest
about three years. It differs from the or
dinary telephone in the fact that the latter
is directly connected with the central of
fice, whereas we arc able to connect from
800 or 300 subscribers in one circuit. The
city is divided Into 80 circuits. AH day
long news is spoken into a specially con
structed apparatus at the central office,
varied with entertainments, the opera and
linguistic lessons. It is not a telephone
in the strict sense of the word and there
fore does not infringe the telephone rights
of the government. It combines the func
tions of your tape machines and jelectro
phonea, while it is ten times cheaper.
That buzz you hear just now was to pre
vent subscriberstalking to each other on
their own account.”
“It seems strange that such an excel
lent idea as this appears to bo should not
be Introduced In other towns than Buda
pest,” I ventured.
“The answer is very simple. Os course
the newspaper feature would be impossible
in London, where time is everything, and
a man could net sit, the whole day with
the apparatus to his ear, waiting for some
particular news or exchange prices. Then,
again, other towns are not so advantage
ously situated In this respect as Budapest,
whete the law empowers the company to
Introduce the apparatus into any house in
the city in spite of the objections of the
landlord. We have here 6,000 subscribers,
and each pays only 18 florins a year. With
us it is as in England with a certain soap
—our families don’t feel happy until they
get it. It is so cheap that many of the
rooms in iny hotel are fitted up with it.
If the visitor finds it Inconvenient to go
to the opera, all he has to do is to put this
apparatus to his ear and he can bo enter
tained the whole evening. The general
public, too, can have news in advance of
the newspapers. * Why, a few weeks ago,
when the German kaiser gave that cele
brated toast of bls to the Hungarian na
tion, thousands of families were listening
to its recital half an hour later. Without
this apparatus they would have had to
wait until next day.”
“Hava you a regular dally programme!”
“Yes. It Is announced in the morning
and changes every half hour or so. The
greater part of the morning la taken up
with prices on ’change, a summary of the
news in the dailies. At noon we begin to
get a report of the doings in parliament.
Telegrams of Importance are communi
cated at once, the telephonic messenger
being In direct connection with a leading
Budapest newspaper. At about 8 o’clock
the morning news Is in part repeated, then
come exchange prices, telegrams, law re
ports, a short, entertaining story, theat
rical items and sometimes a concert, and
for an hour in the evening we get a lesson
in English, Italian and French. You
have no idea what a benefit this is to the
young generation and how popular these
lessons are among them. A complete set
of graduated exercises has been published
in these languages. Each telephone sub
scriber who cores to listen holds a copy of
the book in question before him, and the
teacher speaks into ths double microphone
transmitter at the central office.”
A Steady Timekeeper.
Ole Hanson, the Swede who Ilves out
north of Denver, has found out by acci
dent how it Is that a tin clock or watch
painted and employed as a watchmaker’a
sign always gives the time of day 8:18
o’clock, or the hour and minute of Lin
coln’s assassination. For the last year be
has been regulating his Elgin by one of
these silent sentinels on Sixteenth street,
and when pe arrived the other morning he
looked at the sign and then at his watch.
There was a discrepancy somewhere, so be
called John Vaughan, the assistant city
clerk, who happened to be passing on the
way to bis office.
“Say, master yentieman,” he .accosted
the clerk, “Aye want to ask yo’ ’bout
somet’ing. ’’
“All right,” was the reply. “What is
it!”
“Vai, Aye tank Aye skal bane cracker
jack bay Yerusalem. Aye leaf mae home
tan miles out en t’e country bay twanty
minutes ester 8, an Aye get en town al
teen minutes ester 8. Ho yo* maken out
des out!”
“Ob, it’s pretty near 10 o'clock now.”
“Bot das vatch oop of er yewelry store
says es bane aiteen minutes ester 8.”
“Yes, but that’s a tin sign—there are
no works In it.”
“Es das trute!”
“Os course. Can’t you see!”
“Vai, Aye skal set mae vatch bae dig
efery tem Aye oom to town for poorty nar
hull y’ar.”
“I don’t know anything about that, but
it is a sign, and you will see all the watch
signs point to 8:18, for that’s the hour and
minute President Lincoln was assassinated
at Ford’s theater In Washington.”
Tbe Swede was satisfied and wondered
bow many times he bad eaten breakfast
just about sunset just because his watch
didn’t happen to be right.—Denver Times.
The Making at Plate Glass.
To cast a large sheet qf plate glass is in
modern bands a very simple affair. A ta
ble is prepared, with sides made of strips
of iron, forming a shallow, level tank.
Into this the molten glass, which is mads
from tbe whitest sand, glass fragments,
lime, manganese soda, cobalt and other
chemicals, is poured. Immediately the
operator begins smoothing and leveling
the mass with Iron roller, which
brings It down exactly to the level of the
Iron rim. It is then put through anneal
ing and tempering processes, which occupy
several days. After this it is ground to a
perfectly uniform thickness, then polished
until it acquires the utmost brilliancy.
Tbe cost of glass Is greatly increased in
proportion to its size. This is due to tbe
fact that a large sheet may turn out Im
perfect flaws and ripples, which utterly
destroy Its value as a strictly first class
commodity. Small pieces are cut from the
perfect places in the large plate, and in
this ■wtfy the most serious loss Is avoided.
—New York Ledger. i
located.
“Are you in pain, my little man!” asked
the kind old gentleman.
“No,” answered tbe boy. “Tbe pain’s
tn me. ’ ’—Pearson's Weekly.
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LOSS OF VISUAL ACUTENESS.
Bwou That Taad to Make ChUdrea Maad
It is interesting to compare the visual
acuteness of the normal eye before and
after tbe effect of some purely physical
cause that may be within the realm of
either nature or civilization. Taking a
few instances of each for illustration, I
will cite from nature first. It is well
known that severe illness greatly impairs
the acuteness of vision of an otherwise
strong eya Almost the first thing a con
valescent will do is to call for a book or
newspaper to while away the tedium of
the sickroom. Unless warned not to try
his eyes too-much, he is apt, through for
getfulness, to overtask his accommodative
powers or injure the already weakened
ciliary muscle. When the rest of hts body
recovers its normal strength, the eye con
tinues weak. After straining tbe eyes
more in the vain hope that his sight will
improve the person, if he is wise, will con
sult experienced help. If otherwise, he
will pick up the first pair of spectacles
available, regardless of whether they
should be too strong or too weak for his
eyes. Should he finally go to an optician,
the lattsr will often find if difficult to fit
glasses satisfactorily.
Other natural causes that affect eyes are
wind, dust, light and heat when excessive.
Eyes otherwise good enough become weak
under such conditions. The weakness
may be due to an error of refraction, and
under most conditions the accommodative
power of the eye is strong enough to over
come the error. But under such atmos
pheric or climatic conditions as I have
mentioned the accommodation is lessened,
and the eye cannot find relief except by
the use of glasses. They should generally
be convex. - _ -
Having mentioned those losses of visual
acuteness due to natural causes, next in
order are causes produced by civilization.
At the outset I will say that if the patient
were to change his occupation ana take
plenty of fresh air and exercise the opti
cian's service might never be needed, but
these “ifs" are in the way and are not to
be got rid of by the average individual.
Take a boy from the country, bring him
to town and place him at clerical work,
writing perhaps all day and into the night;
put him behind a counter and let him
stand all day with one hour free out of 19
or more, or let him sit at a workbench,
following a trade that keeps his eyes fixed
steadily hour after hour 12 or 18 inches in
front of him. Take thia same youth with
hitherto good eyes and bld him uso them
day in and day out reading for a profes
sion, or let him occupy his time in a dim
ly lighted room or bend over a desk be
neath artificial light all the time. I might
go on giving instance after instance with
out particularizing any calling as more
harmful than others to the eyes.
Is it a wonder that the children of this
generation are wearing glasses along with
their grandsires! Old age is no longer the
reason for wearing glasses. In nine cases
out of ten the young man needs a convex
glass to assist his overtaxed eyes in fulfill
ing their duties.
In addition to these causes of weakened
vision it is hardly necessary to mention
the common evils of tobacco and alcoholic
stimulants. Again, if the strong consti
tution of a boy cannot save his eyes from
their thousand and one uses, how can frail
women escape! The ever Increasing army
of women workers in shops and offices and
thp new avenues of employment opening
to them swell the number of spectacle
wearers. It has been my purpose to point
out that it is not the serious and very
plain errors of refraction that cause ths
most of an optician’s patronage, and he
must often attribute the loss of visual
acuteness to other causes.—Jewelers’
Weekly.
Loul»l»n»’i Tiger Zouaves.
There were occasions during the civil
war when some of the Confederate soldiers
were anything but apostles of sweetness
and light.
Early in the trouble the notorious Louis
iana Tiger zouaves came through Atlanta
on their way to Virginia. For hours be
fore their arrival telegrams kept the wired
hot advising our citizens to keep out of
the way. Humors reached here of ths
murderous assaults made by the zouaved
upon people en route, and just before ths
train was due in the afternoon the women,
children and timid citizens were in a state
bordering on hysterics.
When the train rolled in, the Tigers be
gan jumping off before it stopped under
the car shed, and they at once scattered in
every direction looking for’ liquor. The
sight of their bronzed, foreign looking
faces and their bizarre uniforms scared the
spectators into fits, and most of the non
combatants made a rush for their homes,
where they bolted their doors and did not
again venture out until the next day.
The zouaves had a few fights among
themselves, but they did not bother the
inhabitanta as much as had been expected.
They were so noisy and threatening, how
ever, that the provost guard rounded them
up at night and penned them up in the
old courthouse yard, where Dr. d’Alvigney
made a speech to them in French, which
had the effect of putting them in a good
humor.—Atlanta Constitution.
A Gambol of the Lambs.
A man who attended several of the re
hearsals of the Lambs' club great star min
strel show tells me of a bit of dialogue he
overheard the other day—a bit of dialogue
which he thinks the public will not have
a chance to hear. Big De Wolf Hoppe*
was acting as interlocutor, and Bones Mar
tinotti Interrupted him constantly in the
familiar minstrel show manner. At length
Hopper ceased to frown upon him, and in
the familiar minstrel show manner again
roared out:
“Now, Martinetti, what is ft!”
“Veil, Meester Hopper,” said Martinet
ti, “I want to ask you just one question.
What does your wife say when you told
her you hat been to the club!"
The first tambourine, Jeff De Angells,
interrupted.
“Which one!” be asked.
“Which one what!” roared Hopper.
“Why, which club,” answered De An
gelis innocently.
“Ohl” said Mr. Hopper.
“What did you think he meant, Mr.
Hopper!” asked Martinetti.
Hopper struck the Camy at the bat at
titude.
*‘l refuse to think, ” said he.—Wqghing
«n Post.
Barred From tha Beer.
A man in Munich the other day was
rash enough to permit himself to make
derogatory remarks about the beer at the
Hofbrauhaus. He was cited to tbe man
ager’eroom, and there a paper was pre-
to him to sign, declaring that he
would retract his shameful remarks about
Hofbrau beer. The guilty man said he
could not conscientiously sign it The re
sult has been an order that he shall never
again be admitted to the sacred precinct*
of the court brewery of Bavaria’s capital
The wonders of surgery will, it seems,
never cease. Among the most important
achievements is the of
muscles. This has been successfully
done in the case of a patient who had
for hftlf a lifetime beeu n nit hl a tn naa
one leg on account of paralysis occur
ring in early childhood. The operation
is thus described: "A six inch longi
tudinal incision is made on the inner
side of the thigh, with the middle op
posite the top of the patella. The sarto
rius is dissected out, out off at its in
sertion, brought forward and attached
to the muscular fascia just above and a
little to the inner ride of the patella.
“The attachment must be made firmly
by splitting the fascia and drawing the
muscle through, so that it becomes ad
herent to both inner and outer surface;.
Kangaroo tendon is used for sutures,
being the best material. The wound is
then closed, and the whole thigh is
bandaged, and finally a plaster of peris
bandage, or a long splint, is applied.
The patient is kept recumbent for two
weeks at least, gentle motion is com
menced at the end of three weeks, and
the plaster is entirely omitted at the
end of from five to six weeks. This op
eration hap been performed several times
with great success, the only failures oc
curring where the muscles were imper
fectly attached. This state of things
was entirely remedied, however, in the
later operations. ” —New York Ledger.
Gssiswiaish
Guatemala might easily sustain ten
times its present population. The soil is
rich and easily cultivated, and, unlike
the other Central American republics,
there is plenty of labor. Some parts of
the country are quite thickly populated,
but the others are covered with dense
forests and a variety of timber, which
might be easily made marketable if
means of transportation were provided.
But, although Guatemala is much
farther advanced than the rest of Cen
tral America, her railway system does
not exceed 250 miles; there is no inter
nal navigation, and the wagon roads are
in a deplorable condition. The mineral
wealth of the country is supposed to be
large, but it is only slightly developed.
The mines are inaccessible, and, in the
absence of modern machinery, which at
present cannot be conveyed to them,
cannot be worked with profit.
The government offers generous in
ducements to immigrants. The land
laws are liberal, and efforts have been
made from time to time to secure the
establishment of colonies and the pre
emption of public lands by private set
tlers. But all the accessible area is at
present occupied, and no foreigner can
expect to prosper in Guatemala unless he
has abundant capital which will enable
him to purchase at high prices planta
tions already developed.—Forum.
Hi* Own Composition.
A recent article in Le Figaro of Paris
is devoted to the American colony in
that city. It says that the colony has
always played the important and bril
liant role in society chiefly because
most of the Americans were “Ameri
caines.” “It is certain,” continues Le
Figaro, “that out of ten ‘Americaines’
reriding in Paris there is but one Amer
ican. Affairs—’business,* as they say
over there—absorbs the sterner sex in
the United States. In that country the
men have neither the inclination nor
the opportunity for much leisure, and
only pay us very short visits.
“While their wives install themselves
here the ’good’ husband only makes fly
ing visits and is very seldom referred
to in the elegant salons of the wives.”
The writer, continues: “I was at an
official ball not long ago, where one of
them was the herb of a curious ‘his
toire. ’ He wore on the lapel of his coat
a brilliant star, which struck me as
original and somewhat curious in form.
Although very artistic, the order was
unknown to me. Some Indiscreet per
son inferrogated the Yankee as to what
order it was. The Yankee replied in a
phlegmatic tone, ‘lt is my own compo
sition. ’”
Superstitious Bonaparte*.
The Bonapartes always were super
stitious, especially the mother of Napo
leon. She always had a presentiment
that the rise and fall of her family
would occur in the same century, that
the glory which was prophesied for
them would be followed by disaster.
And the prediction was verified. She
died in her eighty-seventh year, having
lived long enough to see the downfall
of all her children.
. Napoleon I always feared Dea 3 as
an unlucky day, and it is related of him
that before every important battle he
would throw dice to ascertain if he
were to lose or win. The “red men”
whom he always saw going to battle
with him was »■ delusion that caused
him much suffering.—Toronto Saturday
Night __
Mot Worried About That.
Her Father—Well, if you are deter
mined to marry my daughter, I shall
offer no objections, but before you take
thia farevocable step I think it is only
right to let you know that X have de
cided to leave all my money to educa
tional and charitable institutions.
Glib Suitor—Oh, that’s all right
I’ve got proof that you bet on a bicycle
road race once. It’ll be easy enough to
show that you’re of unsound grind. —
Chicago Newa
An v-Mra** —
“He, ” said the fond but firm father,
*ta, I fear, a young man of extravagant
“Yea,” the daughter admitted, “ho
wants me for a wife. ” —Cincinnati En
quirer.
The largest coffee plantation in Bra
sil arid perhaps in the world is the Du
mont plantation, established by a
Frenchman in the state ot Minas Ge
nes. Tbe number of coffee plants io
1890 was 4,718,000.
The first sermon in Maine was deliv
ered at Monhegan Aug. ». 1007.
AN nPPN I FTTCD
To MO mHERS.
WE ARF. ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA," AND 1
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
Z, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “CASTORIA,” the same that
has borne and does now bear on eoer U
the sac-simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “CASTORI A" 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 have always bought , - —on //n?
and has the signature of wrap- j S
per. No one has authority from me to use my name except
The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President.
March 24, J
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yon
(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?
Insist on Having
The Kind That New Failed You.
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