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An Ordinance.
An ordinance to prevent We spreading
of diseases through the ?“*P in 8
such clothing by the Board oiHealth of
the City of Griffin, to prescribe fees for
the disinfection and the proper -registry
thereof, and for other purposes.
Bee. Ist. Be it ordained by the Mayor
and Council of the City of Griffin, that
from and after the passage of this or U
nance, it shall be unlawful far any person
or persons, firm or corporation "eep
office ofthe Clerk and Treasurer of the
City of Griffin; provided nothing herein
contained shall be construed as depriving
individual citizens of the right to sell or
otherwise dispose of their own or their
family wearing apparel, unless the same
is known to have been subject to conta
geous diseases, in which event this ordi
nance shall apply.
Sec. 2nd. Be it further ordained by the
authority aforesaid, That for eachgarment
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 of twenty.flve 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with are hereby repealed.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 ot the City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage ot this ordinance, the fol
owing rates will be charged for the use
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One f-inch opening for subscribers’
use only..s 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, closet or bath 3.00
Livery stables, bars, soda founts and
photograph galleries24.oo
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 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 fall 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 ofthe same.
7. Upon application to the Water De
partment, the city will tap mains and lay
pipes to the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest
of the piping must be done by a plumber
at the consumers’ expense.;
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 oi 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 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 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 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 ofthe public debt ofthe city and
for the maintainance of a system of electric
lights and water works.
Section 3.—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
Firafcsf-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, Sec >nd 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 agai net this ordi
nance be and the same are hereby repeal
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Take Cascareta Candy Cathartic. 10e orSe.
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BEGGAR, BUT NO LIAR.
A Msndloent’s Account of How Ho Loot a
Lc» In Cub*.
“Yes, air,” said the one legged man
mournfully to the man whose attention he
had attracted by addressing him as “Sav.
friend’’—“l lost this leg at Cuba, and
that’s tiie truth.”
“You don’t say,” the other observed
sympathetically. “ I’ve been reading about
the trials and troubles of you poor fallows
—that is, allowing you are telling facta
and really were there.”
“Friend, I hope I may die in this spot
and die painfully if it isn’t just as I tell
you. I know I am suspected as a fraud
because there are so many liars who try to
work on people’s sympathies, but I am
telling the actual, honest truth. I lost
this leg in Cuba. If you’ll give me a dime,
mister, I’ll tell you all about it. It’d a
very interest! g story. ”
The sympathetic stranger, being assur
ed, complied:
“It was a dark night, friend,” the crip
ple began, “and nobody but a fool or a
man who was half drunk would have
thought of doing such a thing. I s’pose in
all honesty I ought to confess I’d took a
drop that night.”
“I can understand. I have heard about
that rainfall and the mud and exposure.”
“Yes, it wasa dark night, and youoould
not sec a thing. Suddenly a bright light
flashed over to tho west. It was ahead
light.”
“Ah, yesl a searchlight, you mean.”
** And then there came tho roar and rat
tle of”—
“A rapid Are gun. Was there any smoke
to It?" '
“Too dark to see, but I know there was,
though, for I’ve gone against the same
game in daylight, and I know how it looks.
Well, the fellow who was firing”—
“Only one! But, of course, there was
but one handling it.’ T
“There was only one of ’em firing, but
he was a daisy all right. ‘Will it never
stop?’ I asked my mate.
“ ‘We’ll just take it anyway,' says he;
“As I said, we had been drinking. No
body but one who had would ’a’ tried to
dolt.”
“Heroic man!” murmured the sympa
thetic stranger.
“So, when she came up close I, seeing
she wasn’t going to stop for the crossing
at all, made a grab for the hand bolt on
the first box oar. My mate jumped for a
flat and made it, but I missed and fell to
the track, and the wheel went over this
leg.
“That’s the way it happened. If you
don’t believe it, you can write to the doc
tor at Cuba, Missoury, and he’ll tell you
it’s gospel truth. I may be a mendicant,
sir, but I am no liar.”—Chicago Record.
A Sample of a Good Moro.
Professor Dean C. Worcester contributes
to The Century an article on “The Malay
Pirates of the Philippines.” Speaking of
his guide, Professor Worcester says:
Toolawee was considered a good Moro,
and we were therefore interested in certain
incidents which gave us an insight into
his real character. After satisfying him
self by observation that we could use our
rifles with some effect, he made us a rather
startling business proposition in the fol
lowing words: “You gentlemen shoot
quite well with the rifle.” “Yes; we have
had some experience.” “You desire to get
samples of the clothing and arms of my
countrymen for your collection?” “Yes.”
“Papa (General Arolas) told you if you
met armed Moros outside the town to or
der them to lay down their arms and re
tire?” “Yes.” “Papa does not understand
my people as I do. They are all bad.
When we meet them, do not ask them to
lay down their arms, for they will come
back again and get them and probably at
tack us. Just shoot as many of them as
possible. You can then take their arms
and clothing, and I will cut off their
heads, shave their eyebrows, show them to
papa and claim the reward for killing
juramentados.”
He never really forgave us for refusing
to enter into partnerhip with him on this
very liberal basis.
She Bobbed Royalty.
Among the guests at Monte Carlo last
year were a very ordinary looking couple
who kept to themselves and paid but
slight attention to the passing throng, but.
one night two English royalties arrived,
and after dinner the princess went up to
the couple and spoke most graciously to
them. Then every one wanted to know
who they were. Undeniable evidence of
breeding was observed about their man
ners, and their unobtrusive ways indicated
exclusiveness, An English lady was ob
served talking to them one night, and the
inquisitive crowd surged round her. “Do
tell us who she is!” they chorused. “Oh,”
was the reply, “that is the queen’s mas
seuse, who is now on her wedding trip.
She has rubbed her royal highness’ knee
and her majesty’s feet, and—she has rub
bed me all over!”—Exchange.
She Objects to Cigarettes.
A ridiculous rumor Is current that the
recent illness of the czarina has been due
to slow poisoning, the arsenic being ad
ministered—so it is said—by a trusted lady
in waiting in the empress’ morning cup
of chocolate. Sensational rumors of this
kind are continually cropping up, and the
mere fact that the czarina has long been
in ill health was quite sufficient basis on
which to found this highly colored story.
That the empress is unpopular is certain
ly not true. On the contrary, she has
won the confidence of her husband’s peo
ple by hpr gentleness and tact, her edict
against her ladies in waiting smoking
cigarettes being the one trivial grievance
they have against her.—London Letter.
Van Been* Violet Dining Boom.
Jan Van Beers’ dining room in his Paris
home is a scheme of violet and silver col
oring. Every shade from deepest purple
to palest mauve is represented, even the
windows being filled in with deep violet
glass and studded with round disks simu
lating amethysts. The dining table was
made, after the artist’s own carefully
thought out design, of the finest plate
glass and copper. From the Interior come
shafts of light, and the tablecloth used at
night is transparent. The whole building
is planned with similar magnificence-
Strand Magazine. j
Let Them Ge On.
If it is true, as stated at the Detroit
conference of boards of health, that one
seventh of all the deaths are caused by tu
berculosis and that the interruptions to
commerce caused by the disease represent
1100,’000,000 in two or three months, it la
evident that the science of medicine has a
great work before it in fighting consump
tion for both humanitarian and pecuniary
reasons. And R the sanitarians can fight
it as effectually as they say they can they
should by all means be given every facility
fordoing so.—Philadelphia Ledger.
"I MIND THE DAY."
I mind the day I’d wish I was a say gall fiyta
lir,
For then I’d fl, and find yon in the west,
And I'd wish I was a little tXMM M M I
rOMBBFB,
For then you'd maybe wear it on your bcaaah
Achray!
You'd maybe take and wear it on your breast
rd wish I could be llvln near, to love you day
and night,
To let no throuble touch you or annoy,
I'd wish I could be dyin here, to rises wdtM
light.
Bo them above *ud let me bring you joy, *
Mavroae!
If them above W let me win you Joy.
Ahd now I wish no wishes, nor ever fall a tear.
Nor take a thought beyont the way I'm lad-
I mind the day that’s overbye and bless tho
day that's here.
There be to come a day when we'll be deed.
Achray!
A longer, lighter day when we’ll be dead.
—Moira O'Neill in Blackwood's Magarino.
BILINGUAL TELEPHONES.
A Story at the Expense of a Milwaukee
Millionaire Brewer.
J. G. Nolen, who is an old timer in
the electrical construction business, tells
a story 00 “Vai” Blatz, the millionaire
brewer of Milwaukee.
“Our company had had some corre
spondence with Mr. Blatz regarding the
putting in of a telephone plant in his
big brewery establishment, and X was
sent up to try to close a deal
"I took a couple of phones with me
in order to make a practical demonstra
tion should onp be required, and I went
with the intention of making a sale.
“I got to talking with Mr. Blatz and
showed him the advantage of putting in
our in ter communicative system through
out his establishment. He listened at
tentively, and finally said:
“ ’Yes, that is all so; very true.
Bnt, * and he spoke with the conviction
of one who was putting a poser, ‘but
my men down in the malthouse and the
warehouses and cold storage are all
Dutchmen.
“ ‘I, myself, though a German and a
graduate of Leipsic and Heidelberg, can
speak English, but what would your
telephones be to my Dutch workmen,
who cannot speak English at all?’
“Well, I saw how the land lay. Old.
Vai could not get it through his head
that the telephone would transmit any
thing but the language of America. I
was bound to make the deal, as I said
before. So I remarked to Mr. Blatz:
“ *1 can put on some German receiv
ers if you so desire. I have some with
me.’
“I connected up the phones, made a
show of changing the receivers, and in
half an hour Mr. Blatz was talking to
one of his Dutchmen down in the malt
house. He was delighted.
“ ‘You may put them in,’he said,
‘and I shall want one German one in
the malthouse, one German one in each
warehouse, English ones in my office
andjthe business office and a German
one in the cold storage house. ’ r
“We closed the deal and Mr. Blatz
was glad to pay $2 extra for each Ger
man enunoiator we put in. "When the
phones were shipped from the factory,
I had them labeled German and English
respectively, and the big brewer was
perfectly satisfied.
“It was five years before I saw Blatz
again, ” concluded Mr. Nolen. "He rec
ognized me at once and said with a
hearty German laugh: 'You are the ac
commodating gentleman who put in the
German and English telephones forme.
Well, you are a good one. ’ ”—Milwau
kee Telephone.
A Negro Turning White.
A curiosity rarely witnessed in this
country was seen at the office of the
pension examiners in this city today. It
was a negro man turning white. The
man’s name is Sam Smith. He is 67
years old and came here today from
Georgetown to stand an examination
for a pension, he having served in the
Union army. More than three-fourths
of the man’s entire body is white, the
skin fairer by far than that of the or
dinary white man. The dark skin re
maining on the body is only in small
spots. Smith says that his skin began
turning white in 1867, and the dark
skin has been disappearing from the
body ever since. The physicians who
examined him today think that should
the old man live a few years longer he
will be entirely white save perhaps the
face. A peculiar feature of the case is
that the face has not been turning white
along with the rest of the body, the
white only showing at a few places be
neath the hair on the forehead, and not
on the face at all.—Lexington (Ky.)
Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer.
To Bxamlno the Bye.
If anything gets into your eye, don’t
rub it. Good advice, bnt a little diffi
cult to follow, for one instinctively rubs
the eye under these circumstances.
Nevertheless, don’t do so. Get some one
to turn the upper eyelid gently over a
thin penholder, so that he may see the
ball of the eye thoroughly. If lime gets
into the eye and if you see the substance
at once, wash out the eye with vinegar
to two parts of water. If, however, you
don’t see the particle immediately, sim
ply put sweet oil or olive oil into the
eye and send for the doctor.—New York
Ledger.
DMd and Dyed. .
“I noticed that Miss Sere’s curls are
of two colon—brown and gray. ”
“You remember that her father is a
safe manufacturer?”
“What has that to do with it?”
“Her curls are combination looks.
Cleveland Plain Dealer, ii
Many of the vegetables in daily use
on our dinner tables were known to
very remote times. It is known, for in
stance, that asparagus was grown 200
years B. C., while lettuce was culti
vated so far back as
The statement it Shade that during
the 97 years since the establishment of
the state untverslty «£. Georgia there
have been only Ike deaths among the
studenta
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Wk, TM Wom Dwi.
To such a pitch of exasperation did
tho practice of using buttons in the
shirt drive the men of the middle ages
that they adopted the plan of wearing
brass or steel armor, fattened together
with metallic bolts The popular idea
that men wore armor in order to fight
in it is manifestly absurd, since no man
could possibly have fought when in
cased in half a hundredweight of metal
Armor was worn solely in order to
avoid the worry of shirts with minting
buttons*
There were distinct advantages con
nected with the chain steel shirts,
When one of these garments came hone
on Saturday night from the washer
woman, the owner could feel reasona
bly certain that the metallic clasps at
the neck and in the I osom were all !-
their proper places, for no washerwom
an could have succeeded in detaching
them without the use of a cold chisel
If it did so happen that the washerwom
an’s husband had been run over by a
steam roller while wearing a steel shirt
belonging to one of his wife's custom
ers, and one of the metallic fastenings
had thereby been injured, the customer
in question could not accuse his wife
of negligence and demand to know why
she failed to keep his shirts in proper
repair.—London Answers.
BuMla’a Magnificent Churehea.
“The churches in St Petersburg are
so magnificent that they go to your
head,’’writes Lilian Bell in The La
dies’ Home Journal “We did nothing
but go to mass on Christmas eve and
day, for although we spent
our Christmas in Berlin we arrived in
St. Petersburg in time for the Russian
Christmas, which comes 12 days later
than ours. St. Isaac's, the Kazan and
Sts. Peter and Paul dazed me. The
icons or images of the Virgin are set
with diamonds and emeralds worth a
king’s ransom. They are only under
glass, which is kept murky from the
kisses which the people press upon the
hands and feet The interiors of the
cathedrals, with their hundreds of sil
ver couronnes and battlefiags and
trophies of conquests, look like great
bazaars. Every column is covered clear
to the dome. The tombs of the czar are
always surrounded by people, and can
dles burn the year round. Upon the
tomb of Alexander 11, under glass, is
the exquisite laurel wreath placed there
by President Faure. It is of gold and
was made by the most famous carver of
gold in Europe.”
Lucid Explanation.
An Irishman walking over a plank
sidewalk, in counting some money ac
cidentally dropped’a nickel, which roll
ed down a crack between two of the
boards. The Irishman was much put
out by his loss, trifling though, it was,
and continued on his way, swearing
audibly.
Early the next day a friend, while
walking by the spot, discovered the
Irishman deliberately dropping a dollar
do\vn the same crack through which he
had lost his nickel. The friend was of
dburse much astonished at what he saw,
and desiring to learn why Pat should
deliberately, to all appearances, throw
away money inquired his reasons and
was fairly taken off his feet by the fol
lowing explanation:
“It was this way,” said Pat “It’S
yesterday I was passin this way when I
lost a nickel down that hole. Now, X
reasoned thot it wasn’t worth me while
to pull up thot sidewalk for a nickel,
but last night a scheme struck me, and
I am dropping down the dollar to make
it worth me while. ” —Chicago News.
At the Wrong Door.
“There be a stranger at the outer
gate, ” said the bellboy with a low bow,
“who knows not whence he comes. ”
“ ’Tis passing strange,” quoth St
Peter. “What sayeth he concerning his
home on earth?”
“But little,” exclaimed the youth.
“He says that it be located on a river
so thick with mud it can be walked
across In summer. He says that where
he lived, life is held at naught and that
money is the one god worshiped. That
the most successful pickpocket is the
best man, and that one day he may be
■worth $2,000,000 and the next be com
pelled to borrow 10 cents for a plate of
baked beans. That it was a city of fat,
diamonds and soiled linen, and that”—
“Hold, sirrah I” exclaimed St. Peter.
“ ’Tis enough. Register him from Chi
cago and send him down.” —Detroit
Free Press.
War and Soldiers.
Old Thomas Fuller spoke thus of war
in his “Holy State:” “A soldier is one
of a lawful, necessary, commendable
and honorable profession; yea, God
himself may seem to be one free of the
company of soldiers, in that he styleth
himself *a num of war. ’ Now, though
many hate soldiers as twigs of the rod
war, wherewith God scouxeth wanton
countries into repentance, yet is their
calling so needful that were not some
soldiers we must be all soldiers, daily
employed to defend our own, the world
would grow so licentious. ”
Color Boat and Wert.
California is beautiful in color —red,
purple, yellow. No other state and few
countries can compare with it in this.
When Californians come east, however,
delighted with the scenery and
they explain that it is the greenness of'
everything. Their colors are more gor
geous, but they are high and hot and
dry, the damp, dark tones of the east
are an aesthetic bath.—New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
It is calculated that if the children
under the care of the London school
bond were to join hands they would
reach from London to Carlisle, a dis
tance of 800 milea
Aclock in St Petersburg has 95 faces,
indicating simultaneously the time at
, 30 different spots on the earth’s surface,
, besides the movements of the earth and
planets.
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