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An Ordinance.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City oi Griffin that from and
after the passage of this Ordinance:
Sec. IBt. That it shall be unlawful for
any person to damage, injure, abuse or
tamper with any water meter, spigot, fire
plug, curb box, of 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
the above section. . ' .
Sec. 2nd. It shall be unlawful for any
consumer to permit any person, not em
nloved bv them, or not a member oi 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 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 tq premises or add
any spigot or fixture without first obtain
ing a permit from the Water Department
Bec..6th. It shall be unlawfill for any
person to allow. their spigots, hose or
sprinkfer 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 nfSters, 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 ofthe above ordinance shall
be arfested 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 ofthe City of Griffin for
a term not exceeding sixty days, or be im
prisoned in the city prison fur a term not
exceeding sixty days, either or all, in the
discretion of the court.
Sec. 9th. The employees of the Water
Department shall have the same authority
and power oi regular policemen of the
City of Griffin, fbr the purpose of enforc
ing the above ordinance.
Sec. 10th. All ordinances and parts of
ordinances in conflict of the above are
hereby repealed.
An Ordinance.
* An ordinance to prevent the spreading
of diseases through the keeping and ex
posing for sale of second hand and cast off
clothing, to provide for the disinfection of
such clothing by the Board ot Health of
the City of Griffin, to prescribe fees for
the disinfection and the proper registry
thereof, and for other purposes.
Sec. Ist Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Council ofthe City of Griffin, that
from and after the passage of this ordi
nance, it shall be unlawful for any person
or persons, firm or corporation to keep
ana expose for sale any second hand or
cast off clothing within the corporate lim
its of the City of Griffin, unless the said
clothing has been disinfected by the Board
of Health ofthe City of Griffin, and the
certificate of said Board ot Health giving
the number and character of the garments
disinfected by them has been filed in the
office of the Clerk and Treasurer of the
City of Griffin; provided nothing herein
contained shall be construed as depriving,
individual citizens of the right to sell or
otherwise dispose of their own or their
family wearing apparel, unless the 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 ot twenty-five cents, and to the
Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin
for the registry of said certificate the sum
of fifty cents.
Sec. 3rd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That every person or
persons, firm or corporation convicted of
a violation of this ordinance, shall be fined
and sentenced not more' than one hundred
dollars, or sixty days in the chain gang,
either or both, in the discretion of the
Judge of the Criminal Court, for each of
fense. It shall be the duty of the police
force to see that this ordinance is strictly
enforced and report all violations the
Board of Health.
Sec. 4th. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That all ordinances
and parts of ordinances in conflict here
with are hereby repealed.
An Ordinance.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage ot this ordinance, the fol
owing rates will- be charged for the use of
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One f-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 be held
proof of use of water, but should meter
fail to register, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding months.
8. 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 “ 1,000,090 « “ 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 posiUeu.
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 ofthe 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.
TU» Bule* of the Hou*.
“How can I learn the rules of the
house?’’ asked a. newly elected Irish
member of the late Mr. Parnell. “By
breaking them,*' was the prompt reply
of the Irish leader, who, as is well
known, spdfce from experience on the
point But few members would care to
adopt that heroic method of obtaining
the desired knowledge, and their task
in mastering the rules is rendered all
the more difficult by the curious fact
that many of these regulations are un
written.
Some will be found in the standing
orders, or permanent rules; but those
that deal with etiquette and decorum
have not been officially recorded any
where, save in a few quaint and obso
lete regulations to be found in the old
issues of the journals of the house or in
the minutes of proceedings taken by
the clerk and published daily during
the session.
For instance, a strange rule for the
guidance of the speaker is set down un
der thd 15th of February, 1620, “The
speaker not to move his hat until the
third congee. ” Propriety of carriage in
leaving the chamber is thus enforced,
“Those who go out of the house in a
confused manner before the speaker to
forfeit 10 shillings. * * This rule is dated
the 12th of November, 1640. Again we
find that on the 23d of March, 1693,
it was ordered, “No member to take
tobacco into the gallery or to the table
sitting at committees. ’’—Nineteenth
Gentry.
' Useful Slwash Dags.
If you are going to prospect in Alaska
and expect to a pair of
good “Siwash” dogs are very essential
—almost indispensable. These dogs
greatly Suffer from our domesticated
dogs, taking to*the harness- like a duck
to water. They do not bark at stran
gers. They are kind and affectionate,
showing the wolf in them only among
their kind. It seems to be against their
principles to get off the trail to let an
other team pass.
This means a fight, an exciting epi
sode if the teams number five or six
dogs each. In an instant the wildest
confusion takes place. Dogs, harness
and each driver with a club in his hand
form one grand jumble from which or
der can oply be restored by some of the
dogs being knocked senseless. The dogs
are trained to “gee” and “haw,” like
an ox and stop at the word “whoa!’’
“Mush” is the word used generally by
the whites to indicate go ahead, a per
version of the Indian worct “husoh.”
The dogs prefer their master, but if
lent for use they work as faithfully as
for their master. —San Francisco Chron
icle.
Damaging.
A Chicago politician—a veteran in
the ranks—was -recently accused by a
former henchman of having offered him
a bribe of SSOO to do a job for him.
The wily “second fiddle” kept the SSOO
and afterward brought it in evidence
against his former chief. While the
scandal was being blown about town an
acquaintance of the accused met him
one day and slapping him good natured
ly on the back said chaffingly:
“Well, John, so you were going to
drop SSOO in Bill’s way, were you?”
The politician colored, or, to speak ac
curately, his already florid complexion
took on a purple tinge, as he said by
way of explaining his agitation (his
original language is revised):
“Now, I don’t give a hang for the
talk about bribing him. That ain’t
nothing. But it hurts my reputation to
have my friends think I was such a
clam as to give that heeler SSOO when
I could have bought him with a ham I”
—New York Commercial Advertiser.
Forgot Something.
Helen and her father and mother
were (lining in a hotel, and Helen, who
was 6 years old, had never before dined
in a public place.
The waiter was so attentive and cour
teous that Helen’s mother said that he
must be tipped at the end of the meal.
The word tipped was one Helen had
never heard used except in connection
wth a dump cart on her father’s prem
ises. When they got up to leave the
dining room, she said:
“Oh, papa, papa! You forgot to
dump the waiter!”—Youth’s Compan
ion.
Both Satisfied.
Hicks—Wheeler and Brassey met for
the first time yesterday, and they got
on together famously. They kept up
their talk until late in the evening.
Wicks—What were they talking
about?
Hicks—Bicycles and golf.
Wicks—But Wheeler doesn’t know
the first thing about golf.
Hicks—Neither does Brassey know
anything about bicyclyig. But that
makes no difference. Each kept it up
on his favorite topic without listening
to the other. —Boston Transcript.
His Umbrella.
The other evening a man was rush
ing through the streets of London hur
rying to an appointment when a swell
passed in front of him who held his
umbrella at a dangerous angle. The
hasty pedestrian pulled the umbrella
away from the swell, and then, step
ping around to him, said in suavest
tone: "Oh, by the way. here’s your um
brella. I found it in my eye.”—Pick
Me Up.
Wealth on Its Travel*.
Miss Ollabrod There’s a clever
sculptress down this way. You ought
to see what she can make out of butter.
Miss Ritchley Greest—She’s a good
one if she can make as much out of it
as my pa makes out of oleomargarine.
—Chicago Tribune.
Good Impulse*.
A man should allow none but good
impulses to stir his heart, and he
should keep it free from any evil that
may teat it down aud harden it.—Rev.
J. D. Hammond.
Old Thing*.
** ’As easy as an old shoe,’ IsaM
miliar saying," said Mr. Staybolt, “and
there can be no doubt that an old shoe
is a mighty comfortable thing. After
we have worn the'new shoes, dose fit
ting, hard and formal, bow gladly we
put them off, and with what joy we put
on the shoes that are old and worn and
familiar to the feet! Old shoes, how
ever, are not the only things old that we
like. We like an old bed, if it is not
too old, but just old enough, so that
while still soft and comfortable it is
also shaped somewhat to the body,
which it supports at every point, yield
ing a degree of comfort which not the
finest of beds can afford when it is new.
"But it is so with all things old, that
are not too old, including old habits.
We cling to them so long as they give
us oomfart, and we hate to change. We
are creatures of habit, who would if we
could follow to the end along the first
comfortable rut we fall into and never
look out above its sides. And it is well
for us that our shoes wear out and that
we have to buy new ones and wear
them, that we are in various ways
compelled to change, that we are root
ed out now and then and set going
anew.”—New York Sun.
The Passion of the Hour.
Every year modem habits become
more unlovely and modern sensibilities
more blunted. The preservation of what
is beautiful, per se, at the present time
is almost always ridiculed, unless it can
be shown to be joined to some profit or
utility.
The characteristic passion of the hour
is greed—greed of possession, desire
of acquisition and passion for osten
tation. Trade has become an octopus em
bracing the whole world. The thirst
for gain engrosses all classes. Beauty,
unless it be a means of gain, is to this
temper a useless, or worse than a use
less, thing; it is regarded as.a stumbling
block and incumbrance. It is doubtful
if even the power of perceiving wha| is
beautiful has not in a great measure left
a largo part of the population in all
countries. Modern cities would not be
what they are now had not the race to
a great extent grown color blind and be
come without the sense of proportion.
Modern builders and modern engineers
would remain unoccupied were not the
generations which employ and enrich
them destitute of all artistic feelings.—
Ouida in Fortnightly Review.
Th® Birthplace of Josephine.
Fort de France, Martinique, is the (
strongest fortified point the French own
in America. It is both a military and
naval station, and a fort was erected on
a mountain top there years ago, which
has since been improved and strength
ened by some of the most modern guns
known in warfare - i
During the civil war the United
States cruiser Kearsarge chased the Con
federate blockade runner Alabama into
the harbor, and was on the point of
opening fire on her when the authorities
forbade it. Here they remained for some
time, and during a stormy night the
Alabama slipped out and disappeared in
the : Caribbean sea.
Several times the place has been bad
ly damaged by tropical cyclones, during
which hundreds lost their lives. It is
noted as being the birthplace of the
Empress Josephine; a life size piece of
statuary of her adorns the principal
plaza. The fort has had for years but
one family—the king of Dahomey and
his six wives, whom the French captur
ed after great trouble in the African
wilds and imprisoned.—Philadelphia
Record.
Hl* Two Question*.
“I say, pa," began little Clarence
Callipers, with the rising inflection of
one who earnestly desires to acquire
important information, "what” —
“Oh, I don’t know, ” replied his long
suffering sire wearily.
“Yes. But the question I wanted to
ask isn’t foolish, pa. ”
"H’ml If it isn’t foolish, you may
ask it But remember, just one ques
tion and no more.”
“Well, pa, there are two of ’em that
I want to ask. One is, which Is the
smartest the man who knows enough
to know that he don’t know much ot
the man who knows enough to look aS
if he knew everything? The other is, if
the end of the world was to come and
the earth be destroyed while a man was
up in a balloon, where would he land
when he came down? And, pa, I don’t
know which one of ’em to ask. ”—Pear
sou's Weekly.
Hunger Madness.
The sufferings of pellagra are those
well known in times of famine. The
effects sometimes do not entirely disap
pear. A woman of my acquaintance
near Monza, who had the pellagra some
years before, was considered cured. She
was the wife of a prosperous shopkeeper
when I knew her. The onjy remaining
trace of her malady was that from time
to time she stopped in conversation, a
lock of anguish came into her eyes, and
she would say in her dialect: "H pan
l’e bon, e il vin l’e bon ma il pan l’e
bonl”—Bread is good, and wine is good,
but bread is good! The horror of that
suffering from starvation had never left
her.—“ Hunger and Poverty In Italy,"
by Mrs. Dario Papa in North American
Review.
Anchovies. .
Sir Walter Scott used to tell a story
of one of the nursery gardeners of his
day: "Anold friend of mine having
asked him to supply him with a dozen
anchovies, he replied, ‘He had plenty,
but being a delicate plant they were
still in the hothouse. Household
Work.
The library of congress ranks sixth
among the libraries of the world in its
present contents. France has the largest,
England next; then comes Russia, and
Germany follows with her libraries in
Munich. Berlin and Strassberg, the last
named bolding almost equal rank with
ours in Washington
PEBTILEPORTO BICO
THE ISLAND IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS IT
IS PRODUCTIVE.
It Ha* Thirteen Hundred Strewn*, •
Wealth ot Vegetation, Highly Cultivable
Soil and Tart Depoalta of Mineral*— Few
Reptiles, but Many Inaecta.
Mr. Frederick A. Ober, late commis
sioner in Porto Rico of the Columbian
exposition, contributes to' The Century
an article on "The Island of Porto
Rica ” Mr. Ober says:
In the extreme northeast rises the
highest peak of the central cordillera
in the Luquillo sierra, known as “El
Yunque," or "The Anvil," ration-1 y
estimated at from 8,600 to 4,500 feet in
height The bills arc of lesser elevation
toward the west and southwest, but
the whole north central country is rug
ged and uneven. Between the spurs
from the main range lie innumerable
secluded valleys, where the soil is of
great fertility. The impressive features
of the landscape are the rounded-sum
mits of the multitudinous hills, which
leave the coast in constantly rising bil
lows that finally break against the cor
dillera vertebra; yet all are cultivable,
and cultivated to their very crests,
though the higher mountain peaks are
forest dad.
More than 1,800 streams, it is said,
of which number perhaps 40 or .50 at
tain to the dignity of rivers, rise in the
hills and seek the coasts, most of them
running northerly, though the best har
bors are in the west and south. But
notwithstanding the great river flow
portions of the island in the southwest
are afflicted with drought at times,
owing to the precipitation of the north
east “trades” against the northern hilla
The higher hills are clothed in the
exuberant and diversified vegetation of
the tropical forest, where tree ferns
flourish, and great gum treesand moun
tain palms tower aloft At lower levels
are the cedar and mahogany, walnut
and laurel, with many others noted for
their useful woods. Throughout the
island are found those trees and shrubs
valuable for their gums, as the mamey,
guaiacum and copal, while the list of
medicinal plants includes most of those,
Invaluable to our pharmacopoeias,
which tropical America has given to
the world. These are the silvestres, na
ture’s wild children, but of cultivated
plants there is no species peculiar to
the tropics that does not flourish here.
In the littoral levels, between the
mountains and the sea, grows the sug
ar cane, which may be cultivated up to
an altitude of 8,000 feet It was intro
duced here from Santo Domingo, hav
ing been brought to America either
from Spain or the Canaries. The annu
al yield of sugar is estimated at about
70,000 tons.
In these fertile lowlands also tobacco
does exceedingly well, and the annual
production is said to be quite 7,000,000
pounds. It may be cultivated on the
hills, but the true mountain lover is the
coffee, which does not do well below
600 feet Jand is at its best 1,000 feet
above tire sea. It was first brought here
from Martinique in 1722, and now
yields to the extent of 17,000 tons an
nually. Maize, the true Indian corn, is
indigenous, as is the yucca, the aborigi
nal "staff of life, ” and both grow ev
erywhere, as well as the pineapple,
which is more reliable and more uni
versal than the peach of our north tem
perate zone. Cotton and rice are found
at nearly all elevations, the latter,
which la the chief food of many labor
ers, being what is known as the moun
tain variety.
Bananas and plaintains are wonderful
ly prolific, bearing fruit in, ten months
from planting. The plants virtually
last 60 years, being equally long lived
with the cocoa palm, which produces
nuts in six or seven years and there
after during the space of an ordinary
life, its yield being reckoned at 100
nuts a year. The annual product of
bananas is given as 200,000,000 and of
oocoanuts 8,000,000. The entire range
of tropicaLfruits is represented here,
such as the guava, lime, orange, agua
cate, sapodilla and avocado pear, while
all subtropic vegetables may be raised,
including those of the south temperate
zone, such, for instance, as are grown
in Florida.
The mineral kingdom has not been
so exhaustively exploited as the vegeta
ble, but more than traces have been
found of copper, coal and iron, as well
as vast deposits of salt. The rivers at
one time ran to the sea over beds oi
golden sand, and from the streams to
day (as in the neighboring island of
Santo Domingo, where the first Ameri
can gold was discovered) the natives
wash out nuggets by the crude proc
esses of that distant day when Aguey
naba went prospecting with his false
friend, Ponce de Leon.
There are no native quadrupeds here
larger than the agouti and the armadil
lo, but birds are relatively numerous,
with a few of fine song and some of
brilliant plumage. All domestic fowl
do well here/and the great pastures of
the northeast and southeast suppott vast
herds of cattle and horses, which suffice
not only for the needs of the island, but
are exported to all parts of the West
Indies, being held in high esteem.
There are no poisonous reptiles to be
feared, but insects of questionable char
acter are too numerous for comfort.
This island indeed were a paradise
without them; even with them the
inhabitants seem to experience little
trouble. The worst of these are the
centipeds, tarantulas, wasps,
mosquitoes, some species of anta ticks,
chigoes and fleas. The beat of a tropical
climate like that at Porto Rico, which,
though rarely exceeding 90 degrees, is
continuous, is conducive to the breed
ing of insect pests of all sorts.
“Dar isn’t much comfort indere
mahk dat contentment is better dan
riches, ” mid Uncle Eben. “One is jes’
about as hahd to git as de other.
Washington Star. . i
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AN OPEN LETTER
T o •)' WWShBBRMb . x
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” AND
“PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADEMARK.
/, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “CASTORIA,* the same that
has borne and does now bear . . -on every
the sac-simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “CASTORIA" wAicA 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 the
and has 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 Preside*.
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 ...
Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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