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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ordained by the authority aforesaid, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict here with are hereby repealed.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 eJ - 7 lo Care Constipation For»w. Take Cascareta Candy Cathartic. 10e orSe. It C. C. C. fan to cure. 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 in—w i . ■ ■ ■ 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. LiCftSTDRIfi li ; I For Infants and Children. CASTORIA | The Kind You Have I ■ " M,S Bo " 6 , h ' Bears the / \ I 1 fl Signature /Ayr Promotes Digestion,Cheerful- ■ J WF'* - : W|s ness and Rest. Con tai ns neiihtr M A >a ■ Opium .Morphine nor Mineral. M U1 Not Narcotic. ■ MJ* ■ ArJww- 1 M Isl K -'SM /inMUSJti - I * 2 k) I x 9fv |n b* sis I i ( ■lx Vi > ' UseH A perfect Remedy for Constipa- Ml ■ IF tion. Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea. M I ILT I Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- Ml If £a m |3 V I* ness and Loss of Sleep. ■Vr |UI UVu! Tac Sitnik Signature of M —. B . I Thirty Years m -A IS ' K 2 I pft QTftp i y ] tXACTCOPYOr WRAPPEB. 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