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An Ordinance.
clothing, to provide for the disinfection of
such clothing by the Board of Health of
the City of Griffin, to prescribe fees for
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 thia ordi
nance, it shall be unlawful for any person
Griffin, and th,
certifloite 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 aa 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 tor 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 farther 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with are hereby repealed.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 oi 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 8.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries 24.00
Each additional opening 6.00
2. Meters will be famished 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 thff 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 “ 1,000,000 “ “ 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 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 tfie 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.'
TAX ORDINANCE FOR 1898.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun
cil of the city of Griffin and it is hereby
ordained by authority of the same, that
the sum of 25 cents be and the same is
hereby imposed on each and every one
hundred dollars oi real estate within the
corporate limits ofthe city of Griffin and
on each and every one hundred dollars
valuation of all stocks in trade, horses,
mules, and other animals, musical instru
ments, furniture, watches, jewelry, wag
ons, drays and all pleasure vehicles of
every description, money and solvent
debts, (except bonds ofthe city of Griffin)
and upon all classes of personal property,
including bank stock and capital used for
banking purposes, in the city of Griffin on
April Ist, 1898, and a like tax upon all
species of property of every description
held by any one as guardian, agent, ex
ecutor or administrator or in any other
fiduciary relation including that held by
non-residents, to defray the current ex
penses of the city government.
Section 2nd.—That the sum of 65 cents
be and the same is hereby imposed upon
each and every one hundred dollars valu
ation of real estate and personal property
of every description as stated in section
First of this ordinance, within the corpo
rate limits ofthe city of Griffin for the
payment ofthe public debt ofthe city and
for the maintainance of a system of electric
lightsand waterworks.
Section B.—That the sum of 20 cents
be and the same is hereby Imposed upon
each and every one hundred dollars valu
ation of real estate and personal property
of aM descriptions, as stated in section
First of this ordinance, within the corpo
rate limits of the city of Griffin, for the
maintainance of a system of public schools
The funds raised under this section not to
be appropriated for any other purpose
whatever.
Section 4.—That persons failing to make
returns of taxable property as herein pro
vided in Section First, Second and Third
of this ordinance shall be double taxed as
provided by the laws ot the state and the
clerk and treasurer shall issue executions
accordingly.
Section s.—That all ordinances or parts
of ordinances militating against this ordi
nance be and the same repeal-
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so Cure Cwstittfttioc Fureter
Take Cascurets <C?.thart ic 10c np-gsA.
it C. C. C. fail to cure, drvzaists refund nw«r
hyphenated names.
5 Bisir~r~ Why She Fashion of Ualag Them
la Becoming Popular.
f One of the fashions which, at first sight,
f seem difficult to account for is that par
• I ttealar weakness which causes an endless
' | number of people to change their sur
. I names. But a little thought will give the
; clew to the rapidly increasing army who
. go through the world labeled in a form
i differing from the original advertisement
' ot their known male ancestors. It is
strange, but nevertheless a true fact, that
the undoubted tendency of aristocratic
families is to become extinct, or to end in
heiresses. There is no legitimate male
; descendant of any king of England who
' sat. on. the thrqne before the reign of
George I.
Os the 25 barons who set their hands to
Magna Charts not a single male descend
ant remains. There is not a single Eng
lish barony by writ (heritable by ot
through females) now held by a male of
the family In which it was originally
created. There are only about 800 noble
or gentle families now holding the same
land in male succession which their male
ancestors held even as recently as the reign
of King Henry VIL There Is scarcely an
English pedigree without a break. It is
dauJ)tful if there are 50 authentic male
p|a!|grees today in England which can be
taken back to the conquest.
Thus the necessity of changing one's
name argued a connection with and de-"
scent from an ancient family—ergo, it was
an aristocratic thing to change one’s name
or take a double name. After that ot
course came the deluge of such changes.
At a much later date came the class who,
with no inherited obligation to do so,
were glad enough to perpetuate by a
change of surname or by the adoption of
a double surname the fact of their descent
in a female line from an ancient house.
At a still later date, probably within the
last 50 years, has arisen yet anothea class,
a typical product of the' days we live in,
who for mere purposes of distinction, one
might say from the necessity of distinc
tion, have been glad to seize any plausible
excuse to either make a complete change
or more often to hyphen on some other
name in the hope that the combination
will be more or less distinctive. While
such names as Plantagenet, Maltravers,
Mauleverer, Conyers, Fitzalan, De Bohun,
etc., have become extinct, the names of
Smith, Brown, Jones and Robinson still
increase and multiply as the sand upon
the seashore. And with this ghastly mul
tiplication and duplication, small wonder
that distinction becomes advantageous.
It seems to be a very general idea that a
man may change his name, as, how and'
when he likes, seeking the approval and
authorization of no one save himself.
Nearly every solicitor will advise you to
this effect, because the textbooks he crams
from and relies upon do not teach him to
the contrary. This idea, unfortunately,
is rapidly spreading and to a great extent
dates from the following dictum of a
judge, who remarked from the bench, “I
know of no law to prevent any man chang
ing his name as often as he likes, provided
that It Is not done for the purposes of
fraud.” This is not the only case in
which a judge has gone wrong by endeav
oring to apply ths rules of law court law
and jurisdiction to matters of “honor,”
which are In the sole prerogative of the
crown and which are within the jurisdic
tion of the earl marshal’s court. —Genea-
logical Magazine.
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Life on a Transport.
You have no Idea of what a transport Is,
and especially one that is overcrowded. It
Is really a hell on earth, or rather on wa
ter! Thank heaven, the weather has been
fine, and I have slept on deck every night,
not even going below when it rained. I
never felt better in my life and have come
to the conclusion that I can stand any
thing.
As I have not been at all seasick, I vol
unteered for the stable police, who have
to clean up below decks where the horses
are. If you could put all the terrible
smells in the world together, you would
get some idea of what it is. We can only
stand it for about half an hour at a time
and then have to take a spell on deck to
recover. If we had a storm, I am afraid
it would go hard with some of the lads, as
a good many are pretty seasick now.
The .' >od is fierce, and we only have oon
densed steam to drink, which is almost
hot, but still I seem to thrive upon it.
Every morning we get up at 5 and form a
line In our birthday suite and have a great
hose played on us. Then we have break
fast, and after that comes target practice
at boxes over the stern. We were on fire
three times in two days and only had hard
tack and rotten coffee to eat and a little
dirty water to drink.—Harper’s Weekly.
Bismarck’s Head.
Some accurate particulars as to the form
and measurement of Prince Bismarck’s
head have been contributed by Herr Fried
rich H. Kranz, the present head of the old
Frankfort firm of hatmakers, Martini &
Co., to the Hamburger Nachrichten. As
the Bismarck family objected to a cast of
his head being taken after death, the trade
statistics supplied by Herr Kranz may be
valuable to future biographers and physi
ologists. Fifty years ago, according to
the first record of the Martini Kopfmass
machine, Bismarck’s head had a width of
59)4 centimeters. During the later years
of his life his head had swollen to the
width of 62 centimeters.
His skull was of a peculiar formation,
the “bumps” being considerably larger on
the right side than on the left. Perhaps
this was a phrenological symbol of his po
litical sympathies, for, though he once
said that the old Adam in him was in
clined to republicanism, he never allowed
these early inclinations toward the left to
influence his resolute determination to up
hold the contrary side in politics, and the
physical development of the right side of
his skull may have been a trophy of the
Victory of his Will over his inclinations.—
London News.
i- An Qdd~H«ntueklan.
The Bev. Charles Kesterson is an odd
Kentuckian who has been on both sides
of the law. His father was one of the
early pioneers of Hancock county, Tenn.,
and his mother was an Indian, being a
member of the tribe of famous Malun
geona. The Rev. Mr. Kesterson is 7 feet
8 Inches tall, though he claims when in
the prime of manhood he was over 8 feet
tall. His weight is 809 pounds, and he is
73 years old.
When lawlessness was at its height, the
Rev. Mr. Kesterson was the terror of that
country. He never heard the whistle of a
locomotive or saw the iron monsters till a
year or so ago, when he went to Knox
ville. ' . ialmed by many of his neigh
bors . !> s killed at least seven men.
i Tb< • ;«jher denies this. He ao
kn< 1 e errors of his youth, but
says ;. • nwrir killed so many.—-Oln-
rinnati r.irer.
THE FARMER WON.
■at SohMfar CwShn It Um Htarteel
Oarn. Ute Ute.
“Some years ago,” said a sporting
man, “when Scnaefer kept a billiard
room in this city, he was always ready
to play all comers who desired a game.
Many strangers and people unknown to
Schaefer naturally strolled in; many,
too, who probably did not know him.
But it made no difference to Schaefer.
Sometimes strangers would desire to
play for money, but this Schaefer would
never do. To all such propositions he
would say: ‘No, I won’t play for mon
ey, but I’ll tell you what I will do—l
will play a game, the loser to treat the
house. ’
"One day an old farmer entered the
place, and after wandering about look
ing at the pictures on the walls and ex
amining the tables be asked if there
wag any one present who would like to
play him a game of billiards. Schaefer,
as usual, said that he would play the
stranger.
“ ‘How much shall we play for?* ask
ed the farmer.
“*1 never play for money, ’ replied
Schaefer, ‘but I will play you for the
drinks for the house.’
“ ‘All right,* said the farmer. ‘How
many points shall we play?*
‘Oh, ’ replied Schaefer demurely in
all the consciousness of his superior
powers, ‘we’ll just play until you are
satisfied, and we will call that a game. ’
"The crowd smiled as the players
prepared for the contest The balls were
placed on the table, and Schaefer
brought out his favorite cue, and it fell
to his lot to open the game.
"The opening shot in a billiard game
is a somewhat difficult one, as most
players know, and Schaefer, probably
through indifference, missed it He not
only missed it, but left the balls close
together near one of the cushions. Il
was what is termed In billiard parlance
a‘set up.*
"The old farmer carefully chalked
his cue, and after deliberation made the
shot He then gazed at the balls a mo
ment, laid down his cue and exclaimed:
** ‘I am satisfied.*
"The score was then 1 to 0 in favor
of the old farmer, but as Schaefer had
agreed to make the gamers long or
short as the farmer desired he had to be
satisfied. Schaefer of course had to in
vite all present including his conqueror,
to partake of the hospitality of the
house. As the crowd laughed and drank
Schaefer remarked that the game was
the shortest he had ever played, and
probably the shortest on record. '' —New
York Tribune.
LOVED LIFE TOO WELL.
Ancient N»toh«i Indian Who Rebelled
Against Belnf Sacrificed.
One of the repulsive features of the
laws under which the Natchez Indians
were governed was that when a mem
ber of the royal family of the nation
died it was necessary that several others
of the people should accompany him to
the tomb by suffering death at ths
hands of executioners. "When ths
"great sun,** the hereditary chief at
the whole nation, died, all his wives,
in case he were provided with more
than one, and also several of his sub
jects, were obliged to follow him into
the vale of shadows. The "littlesuns,”
secondary shiefs, and also members of
the royal family, likewise claimed,
when dying, their tribute of death from
the living. In addition to this, the in
exorable law also condemned to death
any man of the Natchez race who had
married a girl of the royal line of the
"suns. ** On the occasion of her death
he was called upon to accompany her.
"I will narrate to you upon this sub
ject,” writes an old French chronicler
of Louisiana, "the story of an Indian
who was not in a humor to submit to
this law. His name was EtteacteaL He
had contracted an alliance with the
‘suns. ’ The honor came near having a
fatal result for him. His wife fell sick,
and as soon as he perceived that she
was approaching her end he took to
flight, embarking in a pirogue on the
Mississippi, and sought a refuge in New
Orleans. He placed himself under the
protection of the governor, who was at
that time M. de Bienville, offering him
self to be the governor’s hunter. The
governor accepted his services, and in
terested himself in his behalf with the
Natchez, who declared, in answer, that
he had nothing to fear, inasmuch as the
ceremony was over, and as he had not
been present when it took place he was
no longer available as a candidate for
execution. ’’—New Orleans Picayune.
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Flower Painter®.
About the last literary work complet
ed by the late Cora Stuart Wheeler was
a beautiful tribute to "Some Court
Painters to Queen Bose" published in
The Woman’s Home Companion, in
which she says: a »
"As a rule, women make the best
flower painters. The men who excel in
this branch cd art are comparatively
few, even when we consider the small
number of artists of both sexes who
have acquired reputation in the pictur
ing of flowers. The reason is not diffi
cult to see. The average woman has a
fondness for flowers which brings her
into the closest sympathy with them
and enables her to appreciate and un
derstand them as men seldom do. In
the interpretation of certain subtle
phases of floral life her sensitive tem
perament and the peculiarly sympathetic
feeling that she is apt to bring to her
labor of love especially qualify her for
engaging in this department of picture
making. In point of technical ability
some marvelously clever work has been
done by artists of the gentler sex in the
reproduction of flowers and in the
treatment of difficult subjects. *’
-
The Guest (an art connoisseur) —Su-
perb! Simply elegant!», ?.
Hostess—l’m glad you like it Soups
are my hobby.
The Guest—Oh, 1 meant the tureen.
—Jewelers' Weekly.
THE ROMAN WALL PICTURE
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was at first thought by archwologfate to
be possibly a rude contemporary repre
sentation of the crucifixion. According
to an article by Dr. Albert Battandter in
Cosmos, experts hare now quite abandon
ed this view of the meaning of the picture,
though they are not yet agreed about
what it does represent. After quoting ths
earlier theory of the Italian antiquarian
Marucchl, the article to which reference
has been made, Dr. Battandlcr goes on to
say:
“We must confess that the Impressions
received at first sight have begun quickly
to disappear. Other archaeologists see
quite differently, and M. Marucchl him
self has become leas positive, as the eha--
acters, having been washed repeatedly,
come out mare clearly. It is now impos
sible to defend the curliest explanations,
and we are obliged to mourn the loss of a
discovery that would have been valuable
for many reasons, but useless for our
Christian faith. The irospcls ought to
suffice us.
“Let us spook frat of the scene repre
sented at the bottom of this series of graf
fltte. There are, lu fact, a large number
of inscriptions, one above the other, and
we should be foolish to suppose that all
must necessarily be on the same subject.
We should observe first that the design is
very rough. The part of it that is clearest
represents perpendicular poets united by a
transverse bar and forming a sort ot por
tico, with ladders for mounting. Several
of the persons represented have aunoo
written over their heads, for the most
part illegible ones. Thus we have Nostu
lus, Eulogius, Secundus, ot, better, Jocun
dus, and finally Pilatus, of which there
remain only the syllables‘ll* and‘tus. ’
Higher up we find numerical signa
‘‘Now, the explanations of this scene are
as numerous as they are hypothetical.
“First of all, on account of a name that
was thought to be ‘Creetus,’ at the begin
ning of the graffitte, it was regarded as a
view of the crucifixion. This Is what has
given to the drawing its great notoriety
and has already caused floods of ink to bo
shed on the question. Others have seen in
It a naval maneuver. The posts arc masts,
only unfortunately there is neither ship
nor sea. For others it is a mason's scaf
folding, traced here as a kind of rough
preliminary plan ot the proposed manner
of doing some piece of work, but this does
not account for the drawings of people
and still less for the names written over
their heads. Some archaeologists find here
the preparations for an exhibition ot rope
walkers or acrobats, and in this case the
figures would represent the principal ac
tors with their names written over their
heads. It is probable also that it may be a
representation of some imaginary scene
traced by soldiers with plenty of leisure
and not strong on perspective, who occu
pied an idle hour in drawing a picture that
had nothing real to correspond to it Fi
nally, to close this series of interpretations
with a note of humor, some have thought
this to represent the preparations tor an
exhibition of fireworks, as if powder had
been invented at this epoch I
“4-bove the scene there are numerous
Inscriptions, and it has been noted already
that these do not relate necessarily to the
design placed below them. An attentive
examination shows that most of the in
scriptions <re not fit for ears polite. Os
the words supposed to bo ‘Christ’ there
remain only the letters CRE B. A holo
In the wall has caused the intermediate
letters to disappear.
“We see how the discovery of there fa
mous graffitti that have created such ex
citement both at Rome and abroad appears
at the present time. It would doubtless
bays been very interesting if the first ver
sion had been correct, but historical truth
obliges us to confess that it was not. ** —
Literary Digest.
Spanish Pool.
“Until we began to get into hot water
with Spain,” said a naval officer, “the fa
vorite game of men forward on American
warships was Spanish pool, which is a
game of checkers of a peculiarly intricate
sort—so intricate that, after 12 years in
the service and much careful watching of
the game while officer of the deck, I
couldn’t play a game of it now to save my
soul. The enlisted men all played it,
however, and greatly preferred it to the
ordinary game of checkers, for It seems
that Spanish pool is a game wherein you
get quicker action for your brains in ma
neuvering than you do in checkers. But
I will venture to say that there has not
l>oen a single game of Spanish pool played
in the United States navy since the Maine
disaster. X was attached to a ship on the
Pacific home station when tno news was
received aboard that the Maine had gons
up in the air. After knock off work had
been piped that day the Spanish pool fiends
‘broke out’ their oilcloth Spanish pool
boards and rubber checkers as usual, and
I watched them curiously to see if they
would play Spanish pool. They didn’t.
Without saying a word as to their reason
for the switch, they all plunged into the
game of ordinary checkers. This struck
me as bring pretty significant at the time,
as evidencing the opinion of the men for
ward in our navy as to the cause of the
Maine disaster.’’—Washington Star.
Luxury Xu the WMdsresss.
A press dispatch from London stetes
that the Russian government has provided
for the Siberian line a train de luxe, com
posed of four splendid cars, built at Mos
cow. There are an open saloon ear, a din
ing oar, a bathroom, a library, telephone,
electrio lighting, refrigerators and venti
lating apparatus, piano, chessboards and
means for gymnastic exercise. This will
make the Pennsylvania and the New York
Central and the other American origina
tors of luxurious trains hide their heads In
American passengers have pcrhsjs all
the luxury that they have been taught to
appreciate, but we must admit that Rus
sia has beaten us. The first half dozen
features at the Siberian train are familiar
matim hero, even telephones bring at our
command if we want them. Moreover,
pianoshave been used in. American cars,
and something even better than a chess
board may be found in most smoking cars,
even those used by the plebeian classes,
but when it comes to gymnastics we give
up. We have no better expedient than to
stop 80 minutes and let the passengers
walk up and down the station platform.
Whether the Russian apparatus consists of
a pair of 50 cent dumbbells or of only a 88
inch cahefa not stated.—Railroad Gazette.
■Zfj,-.':.- Patriotic.
There was a remarkable instance of pa
triotic action in City Hall park yesterday
afternoon. The tramps who frequent the
park held a meeting and unanimously re
solved that while the war continued they
would use no castilc soap.—New York
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