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e—— —■ I - - ... I-. -- ■ An Ordinance. An ordinance to prevent the of diseases through the keepingandex noting for sale oi second hand and cast off clothing, to provide for the disinfection of such clothing by the Board of Healthof 'the City of Griffin, to prescribe fees for the disinfection and the proper registry and Connell of the City of ?»«.“• from and after the passage of nance, it shall be unlawTalfor any person cast oFdpthing within the corporate lim os of Griffin, and the auinfooted by them has been filed in the SKtheClerßand 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 Hoard of Health of Griffin, there shall be paid in advance to said board the actual cost cf 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 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 titan one hundred dollars, or sixty days in the chain gang, either or both, in the discretion of the Judge of the Criminal Court, fir 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ordained by the authority aforesaid, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here with are hereby repealed.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 ol 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. 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 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 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.; 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 ol the same, that the sum of 25 cents be and the same is hereby imposed on each and every one hundred dollars of real estate within the corporate limits of the 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 of the 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 npon 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 of the city of Griffin for the payment of the public debt of the 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 all 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 are hereby repeal cd. —r~ ——■. .fl in .< Fowver. it a C a S ™fTA Can ‘ 1 i V Cathartlc - 10c or J&. ■ v. u. C. tail to cure, drvzgists refund moue». THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS. Elizabeth Flint Wade has an Ulna trated paper on<iPhotography—lts Mar tels” in St. NioEWas. The anther says: Ths first accounts of this great dis covery are very entertaining reading. Professor Morse, the inventor of ths telegraph, was in Paris when the news was published, and at once went to see Daguerre’s wonderful pictures. In de scribing them afterward he said that moving objects made no impression on the plate, for a picture taken of a crowded boufikard showed it as if an* tirely deserted, with the exception of a marl having his shoes polished." The man’s feet, he said, were well defined, because they were kept stationary, but he was without head or body, for these were in motion. To America belongs the honor of making the first photographic portrait, the artist being Professor John Draper, a professor and afterward the president of tha University of New York. Hie victim was his sister, Miss Catherine Draper. He powdered her face, that the likeness might be more quickly im pressed on the sensitive plate, and for 80 minutes Miss Draper sat—or, at least, tried to sit—as immovable as a statue. The first class in photography was formed in Boston in the spring of 1840 by Daguerre’s agent, Gourad of Paris. The Rev. Edward Everett Hale, then a student in Harvard, became an enthusi astic member of the class. In his diary, hfider date of April 1, 1840, is this en try: “On my way home I stopped at the shop and got my daguerreotype ther mometer. There seems to be a great de mand; there were three or four others there.”' , THE RICH RUSSIAN. He Hu a Weakness For an Army of Fam ily Servant*. We were a family of 8, occasionally of 10 or 12 says Prince Kropotkin in The Atlantic, but 60 servants at Mos cow, and half as many more in the country, were considered not one too many. Four coachmen to attend a dozen horses, three cooks for the masters and two more for the servants, a dozen men to wait upon us at dinner time—one man, plate in hand, standing behind each person seated at the table—and girls innumerable in the maidservants* room, but how could any one do with less than this? Besides, the ambition of every landed proprietor Was that everything required for his household should be made at home by his “own” men. “How nicely your piano is always tuned. I suppose Herr Schimmel must be your tuner?” one of the visitors would remark.. To be able to answer, “I have my own piano tuner, ” was in those times the correct thing. “What beautiful pastry!” the guests would exclaim when a work of art, composed of ices and pastry, appeared toward the end of the dinner. “Confess, prince, that it comes from Tremble” (the fashionable pastry cook). “It is my own confectioner, a pupil of Tremble, whom I have allowed to show what he can do,” was the reply which elicited general admiration. To have embroideries, harnesses, fur niture—in fact everything—made by one’s “own” men was the ideal of the rich and respected landed proprietor. Bismarck u Dr. Jekyll. No greater contrast could possibly be imagined-than that which existed be tween the Bismarck of private life and the Bismarck of politics. “In the home circle,” writes a correspondent who knew him well, “he was perfectly charming, easy going and goodnatured. He was passionately fond of children, and I have seen him over and over again have a game with the little ones of his gardener, who were very familiar with him and would not hesitate to climb upon his knee. “Once when his gardener’s little girl died the great statesman went to con dole with him. He was dreadfully up set and while holding the poor father’s hand burst into tears, for he was very fond of the child. He kissed the little corpse and himself placed a bunch of roses in its hand. He was always eager to assist his poorer neighbors and en joyed chatting with them on all sub jects but politics.' These he never men tioned.”—London Chronicle. The Profeasor’* Wisdom. The stern professor of the feminine preparatory school sat at his desk try ing to unravel a knotty problem when a fluffy haired miss of 16 approached. “Please, sir,” she began in a tremu lous voice, “will you grant me permis sion to go out riding with my brother this afternoon?” Now, the old man had not forgotten the days of his youth, neither was [he a fool, and looking over his spectacles he slowly said: “So you want to go riding with your brother, do you? By the way, is this brother of yours any relation to you?" —Chicago News. Servian Marriage*. Servian men do not marry for love, but to secure an additional worker for the household, so‘ very young men mar ry women several years older than themselves, as girls are less experienced in housework. In the lower and mid dle classes women are always helped last, and may not sit down unbidden in the presence of the men. There are only 8,842 left of the Ainos of Japan—the “Indians” of that coun try. Nearly all of them live on the* northern island of Yezo. It has been estimated that it wouldi take a man 3,000 years to read all the 1 standard works. The British postoffice makes 820,000 a year by unclaimed money orders. - STREET GAMIN IN REAL LIFE. Wo* Bo Nobl* In Charaeter a* th* Story Writer* Picture Ilian. “I have read a good many stories," said the city man, “about the honest newslxjy who chases a man three blocks to return the *6 goldpiece given in mistake for a nickel, the sympathetic bootblack who protects the widow’s son. or the heroic street gamin who gefl run over by a dray while rescuing another boy and murmurs, ‘ls Jimmy all right?’ and then dies. I have oome to the conclusion that these stories are written by girls fresh from school or refined old maids Who live in a village, and they are read by men who thought fully stick the ■ tongue into the cheek while reading. Yet there are men who read and believe. > “Lsaw one of this class the other day who went to the rescue of a bootblack who was trying to fix his broken box. “ ‘My lad,’ said the good man—they always call them ‘lads’ in there stories —‘you are in trouble. Let me assist you.’ “Then he knelt on the sidewalk in his good clothes, used a half brick for a hammer, raked up some twine from hid pocket and after 16 minutes’ hard work made a creditable job. Mean while about 30 street boys gathered around. One slipped a piece of old iron into his pocket, the grateful bootblack with a bit of chalk decorated his back with a hideous caricature, his hat was knocked into the gutter as be arose, and one of the boys accused "him of stealing a ‘dabber. ’ “The man flushed with natnral in dignation, and immediately there arose a whoop of derision, and as he strode away he was guyed-by the whole crowd for two blocks. While in this frame of mind it would have done him good to have interviewed some of the ladies who write the picturesque tales about the imaginary street boys.”—Chicago Times-Herald. PANBESA’S LETTER. An Account of an Egyptian City Thirty Centuries Ago. Probably the oldest letter in the world is the letter of Panbesa, written 16 centuries before Christ to his friend Amenemapt, a scribe. The manuscript is of perishable papy rus, and it is amazing that it should have survived for more than 80 cen turies and still be legible. It is preserved in the collection of the British museum. It has been several times translated during the present cen tury. It presents an interesting picture of life in Egypt in the time of Ramoses IL It is more in the nature of a literary production, a poem composed in cele bration of the visit of Pharaoh to the city of Pa-Rameses, than an ordinary letter of today. Panbesa “greets his lord, the scribe Amenemapt, to whom be life, health and strength, ” and then goes on to de scribe the verdant fields, the thrashing floors, the vineyards, the groves of olives, the orchards of figs, the great daily markets, with their fish and wa terfowl and swarms of purchasers. The citizens had their “sweet wine of Khemi, pomegranato wine and wine from the vineyards,” and to these they added “beer of Kati.” There was music in plenty furnished by the singers of the school of Memphis. On the whole, Pa-Rameses seems to have been a pleasant place to live in. “The lesser folk are there equal with the great folk,” and Panbesa writes that its maidens were “in holiday at tire every day” with locks “redolent of perfumed oil. ” —Washington Star. A Method In Hl* Manner. It was raining cats and dogs outside, and the Columbus avenue car was crowded. A young woman stood looking from one seated man to another, but the men would not budge. She looked tim idly, then appealingly, then daggers, but they did not care. Finally the worst dressed and rough est looking man in the car got up. “Here is a seat for you, mum,” he said suavely. “Oh, thank you ever so much,” said the young lady, shooting glances at the other men which said, “You are gentle men, but this uneducated laborer could give you a lesson in manners. ” Presently she was shifting about on her seat, shielding now her face, now her white stand up collar and looking, with a troubled face, at a point in the ceiling from which the water came down at irregular intervals in splashes as big as a cent The well dressed men buried their smiles in their newspapers. The labor er, now ensconced in a corner near the driver, gave his vis-a-vis a wink.—New York Commercial Advertiser. Gooseberries on Trees. Travelers in Burma see many strange things, and perhaps one of the strangest is the way in which some kinds of fruit grow. l For instance, gooseberries that at home grow on small bushes in this part of the world grow on trees over 25 feet high. They are not a soft, pulpy fruit, but are as hard as marbles. The real Burman grapes also grow on high trees and not on vines. They hang from the branches and trunk of the tree in clusters on a long stalk and are oaverad with a thick enter skin, which cannot be eaten. The cachou, or monkey nut, is also peculiar and consists of a large, juicy fruit of soft pulp, with its nut or kernel attached to the outside of the fruit at the end farthest from the stalk from which it hangs.—London Standard. A Logical Conclusion. In a recent Walla Walla divorce suit, in which the defendant failed to ap pear, the referee made the following re port: “The plaintiff appearing in person and by her attorney, and the defendant not appearing and no one appearing far him, therefore he did not appear.”— Walla Walla Statesman. I- ■■ ’ ... RHYME OF RHYMES. H, ! r Wild on the mountain peak th* wind Repeat* it* old refrain. Like ghost* of mortal* who tar* sinned And tain would »in again. For “wind” 1 do not rhym* t* "mind.’ Like many mortal men. “*Again” (when on* reflects* ’tw*re kind To rhyme a* it “agon.” I never met a sing)* soul Who spoke of "wind" a* “wined. * And yet w* nse it, on the whole. To rhyme to "find" and "Hind." We *ay, “Now don’t do that agaa," When people give na pain. In poetry, nine tinea in ten, It rhyme* to "Spain" or "Dana." Oh, which is wrong or which is right! Oh, which la right or wrong! The sound in prose familiar quit* Or those we meet in song ! To hold that• ’lore” can rhyme to "prore' Require* some force of will, Tet in the ancient lyric groove We meet them rhyming stilt Thia waa our loomed fathers’ wont In prehistoric times. We follow It, or it we don't We oft run short of rhyme*. —Andrew Lang in Longman** Magazine DICK’S GOOD TIME. A Vary Human Boy Enjoying Hi* Well Earned Reward. A portly gentleman sat on the porch and smiled while a small boy, also smiling, painted the front fence. . “Look at that boy,” the portly man remarked to a visitor.' “He thinks he is having a good time. A small boy is surely the drollest creature on earth. When I was a youngster, I remember that there were certain kinds of work I considered play, and one of them was painting. I was always crazy to paint. Many times I have taken a bucket of muddy water and an old paint brush and have spent a whole half day put ting a thick coat on the side 6t my fa ther’s barn. “So with my boy Dick, the little chap painting the fenoe. He hks always been crazy to paint He is enjoying himself now—you can see he is, and he will paint that whc,e fence, too, just as well as he knows how. I don’t care if it is a trifle smeared. He’s getting joy, solid joy, thicker than the paint on his hands and clothes. “There’s a mean side to it too. He wanted to paint the fence, and I wanted the weeds pulled out of the yard. So, like an underhanded rascal, I bargained with him. I told him that if he would pull all the weeds out I would let him paint the fence. He went through the other job like a soldier—he hates to pull weeds; all boys do—and now he thinks he is getting his reward. It is a downright shame to fool him that way, don’t you think so?” The portly gentleman chuckled again, and the small boy, wild with joy, went on plastering paint on the fence.—De troit Free Press. Crowing the Threshold. Crossing the threshold was and is thj most critical period of the wedding day with all races, not even excepting the Anglo-Saxon. The superstitious fears of the many, always particularly alert on the occa sion of a marriage, culminate in this final act of the drama. The lifting of the bride over the threshold or her step ping across it is the signal in Persia, Arabia and among the Oopts of Egypt for the sacrifice of a goat or a sheep. Among the Aenezes, according to Burckhardt, the bridegroom simply kills a lamb*in front of his father-in law’s tent, and the ceremony, but for the running of the bride from one tent to another, is complete. Perhaps the purest symbolical act is that of the Transylvanian Saxon bridal pair, who step over the threshold with their hands tied together. Some of these Transyl vanian customs are remarkable and must be survivals from a very ancient period. The bridegroom never wears the shirt made for him by the bride ex cept on his wedding day and at his burial, just as the veil of the Japanese bride becomes one day her shroud.— London Spectator. ' He Got the Mustard. It was in the army. The boys had a meal of beef that had been corned by a bath in a salt horse barrel. It was quite a treat. They all thought so until one of the party remarked, “A little mus tard wouldn’t go bad.” “That reminds me,” said another. “You just wait a few minutes.” A quarter of an hour later he returned and, producing a screw of paper, he said: “Oh, yes. Here’s that mustard. ” “Where did you get it?” said the others in chorus. “Up at the surgeon’s. The sick call, you remember, sounded as we were tailring about the mustard. It occurred to me that a little mustard for my lame back would be just the thing. ” “But you haven’t got any lame back.” “But I have got the mustard.” Philadelphia Press. Know* Them Too Well. Mrs. Brown—What a curious man Mr. Skowler is. He never takes the least notice of children. He actually seems to dislike them. Mr. Brown—Yes. Skowler is the man who takes babies’ pictures at Smiler’s studio. &is his business, you know,' to make the little one* look pleasant—Boston Transcript Delicately Put. He Would not flay that she painted, powdered and all that He was too much of a gentleman for that “Still I may as well confess,” be said, “that she impressed me as one who thinks die mn improve upon the Lord’s handiwork.”—Chicago Post. In the number of murders Italy leads Europe. In the number of suicides Rus sia is ahead. The trade between Japan and For mesa has more than quintupled since 1896. 5T ! - v w ■■■***■ * ■ • •; . f.- ’.ai. ' W- t I IIU In - 111 Au I Un IA M For Infant® and Children f llThe Kind You Have Always Bought AYecetable PreparatkmforAs- H * m ■ Z liiigtheSioaachsaod.Bowelsaf | ■ Bears th© t J Promote s Digestion,Cheerful-1H J * Z 1\ r lIZ ■ lAlr IM " *4 a I n A . 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