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■ ~~ — —■ . I An Ordinance. I An ordinance to prevent the spreading al dismasts through the keeping and ex- ■ posingSfor hale of second hand and cast off clothingkto provide for the disinfection of such clothing by the Board of Health of | the City oi 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 Connell of the City of Griffin, that ■ from and after the passage of this ordi- I nance, it shall be unlawful for any person I or persons, firm or corporation to keep and expose for sale any second hand or ' cast off clothing within the corporate lim its of the City of Griffin, unless thei said clothing has been disinfected by theßoard of Health of the C.ty of Griffin, and the 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 tn 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 oi twenty-five cents, and to the Clerk and Treasurer of the City of Griffin for the registry of said certificate the sum 1 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, fjr 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ordained by the authority aforesaid, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here with are hereby repealed.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 0n1y...9.00 Each additional spigot, sprinkler, bowl, closet or bath 3.00 Livery stables, bars, soda founts and photograph galleries.24.oo Each additional opening. 6.00 2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s expense, at the rate of f 1.00 per year rental of same, paid in advance. A mini mum of |I.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 wister, the bill will be averaged from twelve preceding months. 3. Meter rates will be as follows: 7,(D0 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 of 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 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 of the city of Griffin for the payment of the public debt of the city and for the maintainance of a system of electric lights and waterworks. Section 3.—That the sum of 20 cents be and the same is hereby imposed upon each and every one hundred dollars valn atlon of real estate and personal property of ail Cesctiptiona, as stated /n section r irst of this ordinance, within the corpo rate limits of the city of Griffin, for the “"ntainance of a system of public schools the funds raised under this section not to whatever Priated for other P ur P o9C persons failing to make of u * a ble property as herein pro ™First,Wmd and Third nrnv 3^1 na .v Ceßhallbedouble Uled “ riTrl 'b® aws 01 the state “d lhe k rd“lly reaßQrer Bhall ißßue executions of ordin ances or parts nSS militating against this ordi nance be and the same are hereby repeal- • C. fail to cure. refund ■——• 1 A SCENE OF HORROR. , SLAUGHTERING A CRIMINAL BY TH6 1 GUILLOTINE IN PARIS. ?; .Ji A Woman'i Deacrlptioa of the Sheek iig Spectacle That Always Attracts the Outcasts of the French Capital. After the Feartai Knife Haa Fallen. In these rushing times we might take for our motto “Something New, Al ways Something New. ” Consequently, I imagine that the impressions of a woman at the foot of the guillotine would not be comraonpfoceT I was pres- • ent at one performance in the Place de la Roquette, where M. de Paris and his assistants officiated in the name of so called justice. The horrible spectacle haunts and racks the mind and tends rather to re-enforce the partisans of the abolition of capital punishment. The horror of the punishment imposed ren ders a guilty man almost worthy of pity. The sight of a human being, dragged like a beast to the slaughter house, up even to the sinister seesaw, is terrible. I know many people may be astonish ed that anybody could be moved to pity for the ferocious brute, Carrara, who transformed his mushroom establish ment into a crematory and had no mer cy for jhs unfortunate young man, La marrs, whom he threw into the fire after having murdered him for the pur pose of robbery. I know all that, mid I do not dispute the fact that the Italian was a monster, but that is no reason why we should not be disgusted at the spectacle which was presented to our eyes and which I will now endeavor to describe with themnpartiality of a sim ple spectator, without resentment dr prejudice, but with a heart that revolts against a scene that has neither the grandeur nor the majesty of a punish ment inflicted, but rather exhibits the cowardice and baseness of a vengeance which hidesitself from the light of day. The execution was fixed for 4 o’clock in the morning, but from the hour of midnight the neighborhood of the Grande Roquette was swarming with' an undulating and mocking crowd. Jailbirds, murderers, footpads and wom en of the streets assepabled there to see, as they said, “the Italian animal short ened.’’ Journalists were admitted into the narrow space so often described, with its five sinister stones and its legendary gas jet which is never lighted except on the evening before an execution. There in the rain we watched the set ting up of that horrible machine which, according to the legend, Oagliostro showed in a glass of clear water to the terrified Marie Antoinette. In the yel low and spectral light of the gas jet that flickered in the wind these prepa rations Were hideous to witness. Al most on a level with the ground stands the scaffold with its two arms in the air brandishing the sparkling knife. And I, a woman, in the presence of these preparations, could not help think ing of the family of the wretch whose head was soon to fall into the basket I thought of his little children, who were at that moment sleeping soundly some where, and of his wife, equally guilty with him, and Who, as it were, pushed her husband into the arms of the execu tioner as a last resort to save herself. What remorse will be hers when they tell her abruptly: ‘'Carrara has suffered his punishment. You are a widow I” But the day was dawning, and the lamps were going out. At the windows and even on the roofs numbers of spec tators were gathered as if to witness some carnival. The sight was heart rending. Mounted gendarmes and sol diers gradually came out of the dark ness, and one might be inclined to rail at such a display of force at the execu tion of a wretch paralyzed by fear, who in a few moments would appear upon the scene tied hand and foot. There was some little commotion among the crowd when people began to point at a thin, old man who hobbled about with the gestures of a dancing jack to see if the knife in the brass run ners was in good working order. This was Deibler, the executioner, a ghost with a white beard, who adjusted the instrument with the indifference of a grocer weighing his goods. Suddenly there was profound silence; the rain was over, heads were uncovered and motionless. Breathless and almost in agony the crowd followed with staring eyes the movement of the doors of the prison, which at last opened wide. A suppressed “Ahl’’ came from many contracted chests, while with pale faces all gazed upon the assassin, whose crime the mountebanks of the fairs pop ularized. He was simply frightful to look at, bowed down as he was with terror. He did not look like a human being. He looked like a beast. His in telligence was already dead and his heart had lost all feeling. The instinct of the animal still remained. The sight was dreadfully sad. What followed beggars description. The executioner and his aids seemed no longer to be'men employed to carry out the ends of justice; they looked like butchers. They seized the condemned man, some by the ears, some by the legs, while others held down the center of the body and kept holding him up to the very moment when, with a sudden rumble, the knife fell, the head re bounded into the basket and the abomi nation was at an end. But one should be present and see the pavements covered with blood, the gory knife, the blood spurting from the de capitated trunk, the ignominious wash ing at the nearby fountain and the gut ters rolling to the sewer a purple color ed mud, in order to be able to compre hend all the horrors pf an execution in Paris. —Exchange. Buried With Eyeglasses. Margery—Papa, why did they bury Mr. Goodman with his eyeglasses on? Papa—Well, my pet, he was near : sighted, and his widow framed he might miss the pearly gates and come back.—- Jewelers' Weekly. § ’ • I GRAVE OF PATRICK HENRY. Not in Rt.hmoud, bat In Charlotte Where He Lived. Every now and then we see in some newspaper the query, “ Where is Pat rick Henry buried?” and tourists in Richmond constantly ask to be shown his grave, with the mistaken idea that it is in that city, where much as his public career was passed. Few people comparatively know that the man who acquired the title of “The Tongue of the Revolution” lies in a quiet grave on the estate in Charlotte county where he formerly lived. Over It is a marble slab inscribed with one line, “His fame his best epitaph. ” The estate lies on Staunton river, 38 miles from the town of Lynchburg, near the border line which separates Char lotto and Campbell counties. It derived its name of Red Hill from the peculiar color of the soil in that vicinity. When Patrick Henry bought the place, it com prised about 8,500 acres. The land is rich—there was a saying in the neigh borhood that poor land and Henry could never be mentioned together—corn grows there as high as a man on horse back ; there is a general air of smiling fields and abundant prosperity. Its sit uation in early times was very remote. Neighbors were few, one of the nearest being the celebrated John Randolph of Boanoke, who lived in his chosen soli tude 15 miles away. Red Hill is now owned by Henry's grandson, William Wirt Henry, a clever, cultivated gentleman of the “old school. *’ He has in his possession some relics of his cele brated grandfather, including the desk he always used, which still contains his letters from Lafayette, Washington, Madison and other great men of early days; the large, round backed chair in which Patrick Henry died and a portrait of him by the elder Sully, under which hangs a yellowed slip of paper, signed by Chief Justice John Marshall and several others of his friends, testifying to the faithfulness of the likeness.— Philadelphia Press. READING SEALED LETTERS. _2_ A German Scientist Shows How This May Be Accomplished. It is not generally known that sealed letters may in many cases be read with out opening the envelopes or doing them the least injury. It was discovered by a German physiologist by the use of an embryoscope, or egg glass, that the shells of eggs were of very unequal thickness. It occurred to him to make experi ments in order to ascertain how many leaves of ordinary letter or official pa per must be laid above and below a written leaf in order to make it illegible to a highly sensitive eye in the direct sunlight. He found that after he had rested his eye in a dark room for 10 or 15 minutes he cold read a piece of writ ing over the mirror of the embryoscope that had been covered with eight layers of paper. He called in other observers to con firm this. The letters, however, that could thus be deciphered were written in dark ink on one side of the paper only. If four written sides were folded together, and especially if there had been crossing, it was hard to make out the drift of the writing, and there are some kinds of writing which, when folded twice or thrice, admit too little light for the purpose of decipherment. In this way possibly many of the per formances of “clairvoyants" maybe ex plained. By means of the egg glass it is, as a rule, easier to make out the con-1 tents of letter or telegram without the slightest tampering with the envelope than it is to detect the movements of the embryo in the egg. Suppose the writer of a billet, the contents of which are known only to himself, lets it out of his hand and loses sight of it for five minutes. It may be readily carried either into the direct sunlight or into electric or magnesium light and be read by the aid of the egg glass. The placing of a piece of car tridge paper in the envelope or the col oring of it black is a means of defense at hand. A Burmese School. The uproar was like that of a run away engine tearing through a tunnel. The floor was littered with youngsters lying on their stomachs, and all bawl ing with an energy indicative that somebody was hurting them. Long, slim, scratched upon slips of palm leaf, tha equivalent of books in Burma, were spread before the scholars. Making - the lads shout is the approved method of elementary instruction. When the master discovers any lagging in Imig ' exercise, a long switch begins to sing through the air. Quiet, serious study is exploded. The Burmese educationists argue that so long as a boy is shouting his mind is occupied. When he is silent, he is certain to be scheming mischief. Therefoi the best shouters are the best pupils.—Travel. Cruel Spaniards. Spanish officers as well as men gener ally incline to cruelty and treachery. Here is a story in point, told by an ex cellent authority: “In Alcala, the Guardia Civil—that is, one of the crack troops—was after a | robber band. One of the robbers was caught. Being promised a full pardon, he gave away his comrades. This man had no sooner signed the paper that served as his death warrant for his late friends when the officer in charge said, ‘We will begin with him. ’ The robber was immediately shot in the back of his head. ’’ - 1 ' v In 1870 Japan was visited by a terri ble epidemic of smallpox, which almost decimated Yokohama. Vaccination was made compulsory in 1896. The Japanese are said to have been struck with the fact that pockmarked foreigners were rarely seen in Japan. In the Bank of England there are many silver ingots which have lain un touched for nearly 200 years BALLOONS IN WAR. A Novel Hettle In CloedUud Naarly Thfe ty Years Ago. The announcement that the balloon is destined to play a rote tn the present war with Spain recalls tho aeronautic experi ments made by the French during the great war in 1870 and 1871. As early aS 1792 balloons were used for military sig naling in France. But in our times dur ing tho siege of Parte by the Gorman troops frequent attempts were made by Frenchmen to communicate with those inside tha beleaguered city and to dis patch men and matter from tha capital by means of balloons. In Paris itself, under the direction of Postmaster Ramport, a balloon post and transport service was established for carrying persons and gov ernmental as well as private mail matter from the• besieged capital. Among the public men leaving tho city to this way M. Gambctta will ever bo nmiembered. Homing pigoors wore also sent by this route to carry news buck to Paris. A total of 66 balloons, according to Tlssandler's “En Ballon Pendant le Siege de Paris,’’ left the besieged city, and 168 persons, 10,- 194 kilograms of postal matter, including 8,000,000 letters, 863 homers, five dogs and two boxes of dynamite, were dispatched by the aerial route. Os tho balloons 52 descended In France, five in Belgium, four* in Holland, two in Germany and one in Norway. Only five of them were captured by tha Germans, and two were never heard of, having been lost In the ocean. Os all voyages of that time, however, none could compare for exciting and peril ous incidents with that of tho well known aeronaut, M. Nadar, who left Tours for Paris with important government dis patches at 6 o’clock one fine December morning. At 11 he was in view of the capital on the Seine, While floating about 8,000 meters above Fort Charenton, Nadar suddenly observed a second balloon on the horizon. Thinking it to be one leaving Paris, tha French aeronaut at once dis played the tricolor of his country, and the other balloon responded by exhibiting the name flag. Gradually the two balloons approached one another, being drawn in the same direction by the same currents of air. When they were separated by only a short distance, several explosions wore heard. The stranger had commenced to flro shots at Nadar’s balloon, tho Intre pide, which regan to descend rapidly. The French flag had by this time been replaced in the other balloon by the Prussian col ors. The Parisians, who were watching tho affair from the forts below, and who now realized the true character and object of the last arrival, cried out that their plucky compatriot was lost, but they were mistaken. Nadar had scrambled from the car up the network of his airship after the first shot from the enemy to stop a hole made in the tissue. Presently he descended to the car as the balloon righted itself, and, throwing out a quantity of ballast, caused it to rise higher and higher. Then, seiz ing his rifle, he fired shots with rapid suc cession into the Prussian, which suddenly split and sank to the earth. On reaching the ground a detachment of uhlans, who had been watching the combat from the plain, picked up the German aeronauts and rode off to the Prussian outposts. Nadar then alighted in safety within the girdle of tho Paris forts, meeting with an enthusiastic ovation for his victory in tho first balloon duel.—Baltimore Sun. Approved by His Son. In a certain west end family there is a youngster who has original ideas as to who should be tho virtual head of the fam ily. The mother has been talking about visiting the Omaha exposition and began discussing the subject in the family cir cle the other evening. With a knowing wink at his wife (which escaped the boy’s notice) the father firmly said: “I don’t see how we can afford to have you go. ’’ Promptly entering upon the spirit of the play, the wife responded: “I’vedetermined to go, and I’m going!” “You are not going," affirmed the hus band. “I’ve made up my mind to that. And when I set my foot down, that set tles it!” Tho discussion ended and the wife left tho room. The boy had been an interested witness, but he had said nothing. When his mother had withdrawn, he approached his father’s chair, patted him on tho back and in patronizing tones sold: “That’s right, papa! I’m glad to see you’ve got grit!”—Pittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph. An Indian Cradle. E. E. Miller, who through his long years of residence in this region and his ability to talk to the Indians in their own language is counted as their chief friend, has collected many valuable relics and curiosities/one of which he displays in his show window this week. In an Indian tent is a doll papoose, strapped in a rude Indian cradle which is nearly 100 years old and which rooked the little Indian ba bies to sleep among tho pines many years before white men settled in the region. He obtained the cradle from an aged squaw, who said her mother had carried her in it when she was a papoose, and it was old at that time. It is rudely out from pine wood and made in the shape of a shallow bog with pieces on the back to al low of its being slung from the mother’s back or hung from the branch of a tree, to be rocked by the wind. Over the front is an arch of wood from which the babies’ playthings were suspended.—Traverse City (Mleh.) Herald, Born In Modern Times. This boy was born in modern times and comprehends modern history. Ho pre sented himself for admission to one of tho schoolships at which sailors are trained for the navy and was asked the usual questions at the examinations: “Where were you born?" “In Modern Times." “The question is not when, but where you were born.” * * Aboard the brig Modern Times of Port land, Me., bound for Havre with a cargo of phosphates.” “How old are you?” “Sixteen last March.” “Whois the ruler pf England? 0 “Queen Victoria.” ‘ ’ ’’ Who is the ruler of the United States?” ‘President McKinley." “How do queens and presidents acquire power?” “Queen* are boro so, and presidents git there because they’re smart.”—Christian Work. Hamler aad Woodbury. The death of Charles Levi Woodbury of Boston recalls the old story in which hie father and Hassler, the great coast survey or, figured. Hassler applied to President Jackson for such an increase of salary that the latter pointed out that it would exceed the remuneration of tho secretary of the treasury. 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