The morning call. (Griffin, Ga.) 18??-1899, September 25, 1898, Image 3
MSMMMMMMMMHM An Ordinahce. An ordinance to prevent the Spreading of diseases through the keeping and ex posing for sale ot 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 of the City of Griffin, that from and after the passage of thrsj ordi nance, it shall be unlawful for any P««o“ or persons, flrm or corporation to Beep anaexpoee for sale any ° r cast off clothing laki the City Os Griffin, and the certificateof said Bo ard °* 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 appaßfl, 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 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ordained by the authority aforesaid, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here with are hereby repealed.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 oi 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 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 white 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 “ 1,000,000 “ “ 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; thd 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 traie, horses, mules, and other animals, musical instru ments, furniture, watches, jewelry, wag ons, drays ana 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 purooses, 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 water works. Section 3.—That the sum of \2O cents be and the same is hereby 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 maintainanoe of a system of public schools The fends 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 jamyided by the laws oi the state and the werk and treasurer shall issue executions accordingly. Section s.—That all ordinances or parts of ordinances militating against this ordi- Mnce be and the same are hereby repeal- Con » t, P“«“« Former. THE EPES WE FACE. THE SINS THAT BESET THE END OF THE CENTURY. God Comes Before Man, Sara Dr. T*l mace -The Prevalence of Blasphemy. The Sins of City Life—And the Vinal Judgment. (Copyright, 1898, by American Press Asso elation.] Washington, Sept. 18.—This arousing discourse by Dr. Talmage will excite inter est by tl»e manner in which it assails some of the great evils now abroad. The sub ject is “Enemies Overthrown,” and the text Psalms Ixviii, 1, “Let God arise, let hie enemies be scattered. ” A procession was formed to carry the ark, or sacred box, which, though only 8 feet 9 inches in length and 4 feet 8 inches in height and depth, was the symbol of God’s presence. As the leaders of the pro cession lifted this ornamented and bril liant box by two golden poles run through four golden rings and started for Mount Zion all the people chanted the battle hymn of my text, “Let God arise, let hie ene mies be scattered. ” The Camoronians of Scotland, outraged by James I, who forced upon them reli gious forms that were offensive, and by the terrible persecution of Drummed, Dalziel and Turner, and by the oppressive laws of Charles I and Charles 11, were driven to proclaim war against tyrants and went forth to fight for their religious liberty, and the mountain heather became rod with carnage, and at Bothwell bridge and Aird’s Moss and Drumolog the battle hymn and the battle shout of those glo rious old Scotchmen was the text I have chosen, “Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered.” What a whirlwind of power waff Oliver Cromwell, and how with his soldiers, named the “Ironsides,” he went from vic tory to victory I Opposing enemies melted as he looked at them. He dismissed par liament as easily as a schoolmaster a school. He pointed his finger at Berkeley castle, and it was taken. He ordered Sir Ralph Hopton, the general, to dismount, and he dismounted. See Cromwell march ing on with his army and hear the battle cry of the “Ironsides,” loud as a storm and solemn as a deathknell, standards reeling before it and cavalry horses going back on their haunches, and armies flying at Marston Moor, at Wlnceby Field, at Naseby, at Bridgewater and Dartmouth— “ Let God arise, let his enemies be scat tered!” What Battlecry? So you see my text is not like a compli mentary and tasseled sword that you some times see hung up In a parlor, a sword that was never in battle and only to be used on general training day, but more like some weapon carefully hung- up in your home, telling Its story of battles, for my text hangs in the Scripture armory, ■ telling of the holy wars of 8,000 years in which it has been carried, but still as koqp and mighty as when David first unsheath ed it. It seems to me that In the church of God, and in all styles of reformatory work, what we most need now is a battle cry. We raise our little standard and put on it the name of some man who only a few years ago began to live and in a few years will cease to live. We go Into con test against the armies of iniquity, de pending too much on human agencies. We use for a battlecry.the name of some brave Christian reformer, but after awhile that reformer dies or gets old or loses his cour age, and then we take another battlecry, and this time perhaps we put the name of some ctie who betrays the cause and sells out to the enemy. What we want for a battlecry is the name of some leader who will never betray us and will never sur render, and will never dla All respect have I for brave men and women, but if we are to get the victory all along the line we must take the hint of the Gideonites, who wiped out the Bedouin Arabs, commonly called Mldlanites. These Gideonites had a glorious leader in Gideon, but what was the battlecry with which they flung their enemies into the worst defeat into which any army was ever tumbled? It was, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.” Put God first, who ever you put second. If the army of the American Revolution is to free America, It muwt be, “The sword of the Lord and of Washiu o ton.” If the Germans want to win the day at Sedan, it must be, “The sword of the Lord and Von Moltke.” Wa terloo was won for the English because not only the armed men at the front, but the worshipers in the cathedrals at the rear, were crying, “The sword of the Lord and of Wellington.” , God First. The Methodists have gone in triumph across nation after nation with the cry, “The sword of the Lord and of Wesley.” The Presbyterians have gone from victory to victory with the cry, “The sword of the Lord and of John Knox.” The Baptists have conquered millions after millions for Christ with the cry, “The sword of the Lord and of Judson.” The American Epis copalians have won their mighty way with the cry, “The sword of the Lord and of Bishop M’Dvaine. ” The victory is to those who put God first. But, as we want a bat tlecry suited to all sects of religionistsand to all lands, I nominate as the battlecry of Christendom in the approaching Arma geddon the words of my text, sounded be fore the ark as it was carried to Mount Zion, “Let God arise; let his enemies be scattered.” As far as our finite mind can Judge, it seems about time for God to rise. Does it not seem to you that the abominations of this earth have gone far enough? Was there ever a time when sin was so defiant? Were there ever before so many fists lifted toward God, telling him to come on if he dare? Look at the blasphemy abroad! What towering profanity! Would it be possible for any one to calculate the num bers of times that the name of the Al mighty God and of Jesus Christ are every day taken Irreverently on the lips? Pro fane swearing is as much forbidden by the law as theft or arson or murder, yet who executes it? Profanity is worse than theft or arson or murder, for there crimes are attacks on humanity; tK> tean attttok on God. The Career Cursed. This country is pre-eminent for blas phemy. A man traveling in Russia was supposed to be a clergyman. “Why do you take me to be a clergyman?” said the num. “On,” said the Russian, “all other Amer icans swear.” The crime is multiplying in intensity. God very often shows what he thinks of it, but for the most part the fatality is hushed up. Among the Adiron dacks I met the funeral procession of a man who two days before had fallen under a flash of lightning while boasting after a Sunday of work in the fields that he had cheated God out of one day anyhow, and the man who worked with him on the same Sabbath is still living, but a helpless invalid under the same flash. I Years ago in a Pittsburg prison two meh were "talking about tU liibie and Christianity, nrfl me of them, Thompson by name, applied to Jesus Christ a very low and villainous epithet, and as he was u'. t ring it i.j fell, A physician was called, but no help could bo given. After a day lying with distended pupils and epalsied tongue he passed out of this world. In a cemetery in Sullivan county, in New York State, are eight headstones in a line and all alike, and these are the diphtheria raged in the village, and a physician’ W.-A remarkably successful in! curing his patients. So confident did he become that he boasted that no case <rf ; diphtheriA-eould stand before him ana finally defied Almighty God to produce a case of diphtheria that he could not cure. His youngest child soon after took the disease and died and one child after an other until all the eight had died of diph theria. The blasphemer challenged Al mighty God, and God accepted the chal lenge. Do not think that because God has been silent in your case, O profane swear er, that he is dead. Is there nothing now in the peculiar feeling of your tongue or nothing in the numbness of your brain that indicates that God may come to avenge your blasphemies 'or is already avenging them? But these cases I have noticed, I believe, are only a few cases where there are hundreds. Families keep them quiet to avoid the horrible conspicu ity. Physicians suppress them through professional confidence. It is a very, very, very long roll that contains the names of those who died with blasphemies on their lips. _ Still the crime rolls on, up through par lors, up through chandeliers with lights all ablaze and through the pictured cor ridors of clubrooms, out through busy ex changes, where oath meets oath, and down through all the haunts of sin, mingling with the rattling dice and crackling bil liard balls, and the laughter of her who hath forgotten the covenant of her God, and round the city and round the conti nent and round the earth a seething, boil ing surge flings its hot spray into the face of a long suffering God, and the ship captdin curses his crew, and the master builder his men, and the hack driver his horse,-and--the traveler the etone that bruises his foot or the mud that soils his shoes, or the defective timepiece that gets him too late to the rail train. I arraign profane swearing and blasphemy, two names for the same thing, as being one of the gigantio crimes of this land, and for its extirpation it does seem as if it were about time for Goff to arise. The Day of Drink. Then look for a moment at the evil of drunkenness. Whether you live in Wash ington or - New York or Chicago or Cin cinnati or Savannah or Boston or in any of the cities of this land, count up the sa loons on that street os compared with the saloons five years ago, and see they are growing far out of proportion to the in crease of the population. You people who are so precise and particular lest there should be some Imprudence and rashness in attacking the rum traffic will have your son some night pitched into your front door dead drunk, or your daughter will come home with her children because her husband has by strong drink been turned into a demoniac. The drink fiend has de . spoiled whole streets of good homes in all our cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on the funeral pyro of strong drink! Fasten tighter the victims! Stir up the flames! Pile on the corpses! More men, women and chtkfren,ter the sacrifice! Let us have whole generations on fire of evil habit, and at the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, saekbut, psaltery and dulcimer let all the people fall down and worship King Aloo-1 hoi, or you shall be cast into the fiery fur nace under some political platform! I indict this evil as the regicide, the fratricide, the patricide, the matricide, the uxoricide, of the century. Yet under what innocent and delusive and mirthful names alcoholism deceives the people! It is a “cordial.” It is “bitters.” It is an “eye opener.” It is an “appetizer.” It is a “digester.” It is an “invigorator.” It is a “settler.” It is a “nightcap.” Why don’t they put on the right labels—“ E ssence of Perdition,” “Conscience Stupe fler,” "Five Drams of Heartache,” “Tears of Orphanage,” “Blood of Souls,” “Scabs of an Eternal Leprosy,” “Venom of the Worm That Never Dies?” Only once in awhile is there anything in the title of liquors to even hint their atrocity, as in the case of “sour mash. ” That I see advertised all over. It is an honest name and any ono can understand it. “Sour mash!” That is, it makes a man’s disposi tion sour, and his associations sour, and his prospects sour, and then it is good to mash bis body, and mash his soul, and mash his business, and mash his family. “Sour mash!” One honest name at last for an intoxicant! But through lying la bels of many of the apothecaries’ shops, good people, who are only a little under tone 1 n health and wanting some invigo ration, have unwittingly got on their tongue the fangs of this cobra that stings to death so largo a ratio of the human race. The Deadly Cup; K Others are x ruined by the common and all destructive habit ot treating custom ers. And it is a treat on their coming to town, and a treat while the bargaining progresses, and a treat when tho purchase is made, and a treat as he leaves town. Others, to drown their troubles, submerge themselves with this worse trouble. Oh, the world is battered and bruised and blast ed with this growing evil 1 It is more and more Intrenched and fortified. They have millions of dollars subscribed to marshal and advance the alcoholic forces. They nominate and elect and govern the vast majority of the officeholders of this coun try. On their side they have enlisted the mightiest political power of the oenturies, and behind them stand all the myrmidons of the nether world, Satanic, Apollyonio and diabolic. It is beyond all human ef fort to overthrow this Bastille of decanters or capture this Gibraltar of rum jugs. And while I approve of all human agencies of reform I would utterly despair if we had nothing else. But what cheers me is that our best troops are yet to come. Our chief artillery is in reserve. Our greatest com mander has not yet fully taken the field. If all hell is on their side, all heaven is on our side. Now “Let God arise, and let his enemies be spattered. ” « , _ , Then look at the impurities of there great cities. Ever and anon there are in the newspapers explosions of social life that make tho story of Sodom quite respect able, “for such things,” Christ says, “were more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah” than for tile Chorazins and Bethsaidas of greater light. It Is no unusual thing in our cities to see men in high positions with two or three families, or refined ladies willing solemnly to marry the very swine of society U they be wealthy. The Bible all aflame with denunciation against an impure life, but many of the American ministry uttering not one point blank word agafost this iniquity lest some old libertine throw up his church' pew. Ma chinery organized in all the cities of the United States and Canada by which to put yearly in the grinding will es this iniquity ♦houaands of theiiu n usiH>utiil£df tikeoonn. try<rmhoures,onepZ—X In the courU that she had l applied the in fernal marks* with 150 victims in six months. Oh, sos SOO newspapers in Amer ica to swing open the door of this lazar house of social corruption! Exposure must come before extirpation. The City of Bin. While the city van carries the scum ot this sin from the prison to the police court morning by morning it is fuDtlrac, if we do not want high American life to become like t hat of the court as Louis XV, to put miUlonaWfitothiwiosand the Pompadours of your brownstone palaces into a van of popular indignation and drive them out ofYtospectablo associations. What pros pete of social purification can there be as long as at summer watering places it is usupl to see a young woman of excellent roaring stand and aimpor and giggle and roll up her eyes sideways before onec* those first class satyrs of fashionable Ute andon the ballroom floor Join him in the dance, the maternal < haperon meanwhile beaming from the window on the scene? Matches are made in heaven, they say. Not such matohe.s, for the brimstone indi cates the opposite region. The evil is overshadowing all our cities. By some these immoralities are called pec cadillos, gallantries, eccentricities, and are relegated to the realms ot Jocularity, and few efforts are being made against them. God bless the * ‘White Cross” move ment, as it is called—an organization making a mighty assault on this evil I God forward the tracts on this subject distrib uted by the religious tract societies ot the land 1 God help parents in the great work they arc doing In trying to start their ehil dren with pure principles! God help all legislators in their attempt to prohibit th is crime! The Day of Judgment. But is this all? Then it is only a ques tion of time when the last vestige of puri ty and home will vanish out of sight. Hu man arms, human pens, human voices, human talents, are not sufficient. I begin to look up. I listen for artillery rumbling down the sapphire boulevards of heaven. I watch to see if in the morning light there be not the flash of descending sclm iters. Oh, for God! Does it not seem timq. tor bis appearance? Is it not time for all lands to cry out, “Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered?” I got a letter asking me If X did not think that the earthquake In one of our cities was the Divine chastisement on that city for its sins. That letter I answered by saying that If all our American cities got all the punishment they deserve for their horrible impurities the earth would long ago have cracked, opening crevices transcontinental and taken down all our oitiei so far under that the tip of our ohurich spires would bo 500 feet below the surface. It is of the Lord’s mercies that wo Have not been consumed. Not only* are the affairs of this world so a-twist, a-janglo and racked that there seems a need of the Divine appearance, but there is another reason. Have you not noticed that in the history of this planet God turns a leaf about every 8,000 years? God turned a leaf, and this world was fit ted for human residence. About 2,000 more years passed along, and God turned anqthcr leaf, and It was the deluge. About v, TOO more years passed on, and it was the Nativity. Almost 2,000 more years passed by, and ho will probably soon turn anoth er leaf. What it shall bo I cannot say. It way*be the demolition of all these mon strosities of turpitude and the establish ment of righteousness in all the earth. He can do it, and he will do it. lam as con fident as if it were already accomplished. How easily he can do It my text suggests. It does not ask God to hurl a great thun derbolt of his power, but just to rise from the throne on which he sits. Only that will be necessary. “Let God arise!” Redemption. It will be no exertion of omnipotence. It will bo no bending or bracing for a mighty lift It will be no sending down the sky of the white horse cavalry of heav en or rumbling war chariots. He will only rise. Now he is sitting in the ma jesty and patience of his reign. He is from his throne watching the mustering of all the forces of blasphemy and drunkenness and impurity and fraud and Sabbath breaking, and when they have done their worst and are most surely organized he will bestir himself and say: “My enemies have denied me long enough, and their cup of iniquity is full. I have given them all opportunity for repentance. This dis pensation of patienoe is ended, and the faith of the good shall be tried no longer.” And now God begins to rise, and what mountains give way under his right foot I know not; but, standing in the full radi ance and grandeur of his nature, he looks this way and that, and how his enemies are scattered! Blasphemers, white and dumb, reel down to their doom, and those who have trafficked In that which destroys the bodies and souls of men and families will fly with cut foot on the down grade of broken decanters, and the polluters of society that did their bad work with large fortunes and high social sphere will over take in their descent the degraded rabble of underground city life as they tumble over the eternal precipices, and the world shall be left clear and clean for. the friends of humanity and the worshipers of Al mighty God. The last thorn plucked off, the world will be left a blooming rose on the bosom of that Christ who came to gar dCnize it. The earth that stood snarling with its tigerish passion, thrusting out its raging claws, shall lie down a lamb at the feet of the Lamb of God, who took away the sins of the world. And now the best thing I can wish for you, and the best thing I can wish for my self, is that we may be found his warm and undisguised and enthusiastMMends in that hour when God shall riseVK his enemies shall bo scattered. Modernising His Metaphor. A farmer who had lost a son in the war employed the village poet to write an obit uary, which ran as follows: He for his country fit an font Until Death blowed his candle out. "That won’t do,” said the bereaved par ent, “kaze they don’t use candles now. Take arothpr whirl at, it, ”. The poet squared his jaws and presently produced the following: He fit an font with gun an knife Till Death blowed out the gas of life. “That’s better, now,” exclaimed the farmer. “I’ve blowed out the gas myself a many a time!’’—Atlanta Constitution. An Editor's Mishap. A recent issue of the Hardeman (Tenn.) Free Press contained the following para graph: “We wish to explain our lack of editorial this week. 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