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ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Mayor. At the solicitation at many citizens I hereby respectfully announce mytelf, a candidate for mayor, subject to the prfm mary of October lltb, promising if elected to faithfully perform the duties of the of °r gars&Bß Having faithfully served the City of Griffin as Mayor for one term, I as a candidate for reflection and respect folly solicit the votes of the g tt^y IS For Alderman-/ SLted I promise to do what in my honest good of the greatest number of tax payers, regardless of friend nr foe Yours, etc., 01 roo, C. HOMER WOLCOTT. “W I respectfully announce myself as a can didate for Aiderman from the first ward and solicit the support of my friends. J. H. SMITH.; At the solicitation of friends I respect* fully announce myself a candidate for Al. derman from the Fourth Ward, and so licit the support of the citizens. Having a pride in the welfare of our city and her institutions I promise, if elected, to act for the best interest of the city and citizens and perform conscien tiously every duty assigned me. DAVID J. BAILEY. Having served the city as Aiderman from the 4th ward for the past two years, and conscientiously discharged my duty, J announce myself as a candidate for re? election and respectfully solicit the votes and support of the citizens. M. D. MITCHELL. To the Voters of Griffin: lam a can didate lor Aiderman from Second Ward, and respectfully ask your support. . M. J. PATRICK. An Ordinance. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun cil of the City of Griffin, That from and after the passage oi this ordinance, the fol owing rates will be charged for the use water per year: 1. Dwellings: One 1-inch opening for subscribers’ use only. $ 9.00 Each additional spigot, sprinkler, bowl, closet o.r bath 3.00 Livery stables, bars, soda founts and photograph galleries......-. 24.00 Each additional opening 6.00 2. Meters will be furnished at the city’s expense, at the rate of SI.OO per year rental of same, paid in advance. A mini mum of SI.OO per month will be charged for water while the meteris 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. W Meter rates will be as follows: 7,000 to 25,000 gals, month. .15c 1,000 25,000 “ 50,000 “ “ 14c “ 50,000 “ 100,000 “ “ 12c “ 100,000 “ 500,000 “ “ 10c “ 500,000 “ 1,000,000 “ “ 9c “ The minimum rate shall be SI.OO per month, whether that amount of water has been used or not. 4. Notice to cut off water must be given to the Superintendent of the Water De partment, otherwise water will be charged for full time. 5. Water will not be turned on to any premises unless provided with an approved stop and waste cock properly located in an accessible position. 6. The Water Department -shall have the right to shut off water for necessary repairs and work upon the system, and they are not liable for any damages or re bate by reason of the same. 7. Upon application to the Water De partment, the city will tap mains and lay pipes to the sidewalk for $2.50; the rest of the piping must be done by a plumber at the consumers’ expense.; TAX ORDINANCE FOR 1898. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun cil of the city of Griffin and it is hereby ordained by authority of the same, that the sum of 25 cents be and the same is hereby imposed on each and every one hundred dollars ot 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 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 First of this ordinance, within the corpo rate limits of the city of Griffin, for thd* maintainance of a system of public schools The funds raised under this section not to be appropriated for any other purpose whatever. Section 4.—That persons failing to make returns of taxable property as herein pro vided in section First, Second and Third of this ordinance shall be double taxed as provided by the laws ot the state and the clerk and treasurer shall issue executions accordingly. Section 5.—-That all ordinances or parts of ordinances militating against this ordi nance be and the same are hereby repeal ed. DR. E. L. HA.3STES, dentist. Office upstairs in building adjoining, on the north, M Williams A Bon. YOUR LOCAL PAPER. «r HAVE YOU ANY IDEA OF WHAT IT HAg DONE FOR YOU! Ab*, m to WhMt Yon Ml*ht De I* Retorn, Hare You Ever Given That a PualU Tkonaktr—An EAltor'a Intereatlna Review of tke Subject. The paper has done 50 things for you and is only anxious to do 50 more. It told your friends when your par ents were married. It announced to the world when yon were born. It recorded the great events of your childhood, when you were lost as a wandering baby, when you had £he measles and scarlet fever, when you fell into the washtub and nearly drowned, when you fell from the cherry tree and broke your collar bone, when you first started to school and when you earned your first prize. Later on it told how you had com pleted the studies of the district school and how eloquently you recited your "graduating oration. It told of your entering high school or academy. It told of your contests in baseball and tennis. It told of your’de parture for college or your first venture in business. It told of your various visits back to the old home neighborhood, and it al ways wished you well in your greatest undertakings. It hinted modestly about the first time you went a courting and gave timely warning to “her folks” that the neighbors knew that matters were grow ing interesting over their way. It announced the time of your expect ed wedding, and it published the notice of the marriage license and gave you a bice puff concerning the wedding cere mony. ~ - It told of your extended honeymoon tour and of your settling down to house keeping. When you were sick, the home paper week by week informed your more dis tant neighbors of your lapses and im provements. It told about your lost cow and led to her recovery. It told how your horse had been stolen and led to the arrest of the thief. When you were getting dull and tired through the monotony of your labor, the paper urged that the people get up a celebration, and you were named as one of a suitable committee on arrange ments. And when it was all over, it gave you just praise for the success of the undertaking. In numerous ways the paper has helped to put your name before the peo ple. And you would never have had your lucrative office or your honorable recognition from the community but for the kind aid of the local printers If you are a member of a Bunday school or society of any sort, that same paper publishes your announcements and the various proceedings of your meetings. It tells the people much which you would like to have known, but which modesty or necessity prevents you from telling. If you and all your folks have been prosperous and fortunate in your affairs, the paper has boosted you all the way. If you have had misfortune, the paper asked for sympathy in your behalf. Thus the paper has rejoiced when you rejoiced and wept when you wept. If you are a good and enterprising citizen, the paper will always be your friend and will back you in your enterprises and will help to find your business friends. " It tells you where to buy and where to sell. It tells of rogues to be avoided. It tells you of current prices and pre vents you from being cheated and swin dled in 100 ways. Finally, when you die, the paper will publish your obituary and will cover over your faults and will recite the story of your good deeds. All these things the local editor will cause his paper to do, but no one else in the world will do them or can do them for you even for love or money. The outside paper is a stranger to your little world and is not at all interested in its improvement Yet your local pa per does all this free of cost to you, if you are willing to receive it that way. However, for your sake, we hope you are too generous to accept so many un requited favors and that yon are-willing to reciprocate the same. Help the editor. Be his friend, and he will prove his friendship to you. Subscribe for his paper and pay for it regularly in advance and get your neighbors to do the same. Send him the news or occasionally a watermelon or a peck of peaches. Invite him to your picnics anti fam ily dinners, so that he can eat a square meal occasionally. Don’t call the ticket you give him to the church concert a deadhead. He can’t buy tickets from everybody to everything, but he will say kind words of your performances and thus lead oth ers to buy your tickets. If you have anything to buy or sell, let the paper assist you to find custom ers. Advertising that really pays the printer benefits both advertisers and readers. \ If you have any job printing to do, don’t take it to an outside office, but give your newspaper therfirst chance. Give the editor a pointer occasionally or write him sensible short articles and don’t get mad if he fails to see every thing your way. When he does say a good thing, tell him so. In short, remember the golden rule and don’t forget the editor of your local paper.—Richmond (Ind.) Enterprise. A Severe Tfeamp. He—l was reading somewhere the other day that no woman should ever marry a genius. She —Oh, well, don’t let that worry you. Even if the girls were disposed to heed such advice the bars would still ba down for you.—Chicago Newa t k SLICK PETE’S WATCH DEAL. Boagfct Them at as.is lad, and Ml 1 Them to Swindlers For SIO Aptooe. An old time detective the other day . was discussing with some sleuths new < in the profession the methods of up to 1 date swindlers. After deprecating the 1 originality of the modern crook he told < of what he considered the sharpest gam* he ever saw worked. “I suppose you fellows know,” he : ■aid, ” that during Centennial year Phil* adelphia was a. hot bed of bunkoateerers : and sharpers of every description. Well, 1 I was detailed to keep an eye on these gentry, and in time I became acquainted with most of the ‘big ones, ’ who were generally exceedingly bright men. One in particular, who was known as ‘Slick Pete, ’ I took a great liking to, for he had an inexhaustible fund of humor and was a good hearted chap. Toward the end of the Centennial exhibition one day I dropped into a down town auction room where janne fake jewelry was be ing sold. A lot of watches were offered, and I saw that they had been made evi dently for bunko steering purposes, for the works were good, and the cases were made to look like solid gold. They were finally knocked down for $2.15 apiece, and I saw that the buyer was ‘Slick Pete. ’ Jewelry was out of his Hue, but I knew he had some scheme in view. Two months passed before I again saw Pete, and then I asked him what he had done with the watches. He began to laugh and said, ‘Oh, skinned some swindler with them!* Then followed the explanation. He had hired a room and inserted an advertisement in vari ous papers something like this: ‘Found —A solid gold watch; Elgin works; loser pay costs. Apply, etc.’ Nearly every crook in town answered the ad. and claimed the watch. Pete, who made up as an old man, seemed a mark, and the ‘fly’ crook, in the hurry to de part, made but a cursory examination. ‘The costs, ’ $lO, were invariably handed over, and in two days Pete had disposed of his stock.”—Philadelphia Record. THE CAMPFIRE. Wartime Reminiscences of a Veteran ol the Civil War. ‘‘Men build fires in various places to cook their coffee by or to make them selves warm or for company’s sake,” said a civil war veteran, "and any fire is likely to Jje more or less a gathering point, but I suppose that the fire to which the name of campfire properly belongs,,the campfire of song and story, is the cook’s fire at the end of the com pany street, built on the ground, under a pole supported at the ends by crotched sticks driven in the earth and from which the camp kettles are suspended. This was the gathering point of the company. ‘‘Men did not always stand about the campfire. It depended upon circum stances and on the weather. They met here, of course, at mealtimes, and there were times when men would stand around the fire and smoke and talk, and then it might be that the men would keep their tents, playing cards or smok ing there, or mending their clothes, or polishing up their accouterments, so that there were times when the fire was quite deserted or when perhaps there might be seen there a solitary figure, a man who had come to light his pipe. ‘‘But, though it might be deserted, the fire still burned. Sometimes on cold and windy nights the wind would blow it about and scatter it, and some times, when it was no longer attended, the rain would put it out black, but there was usually a living fire there by day and a bed of embers by night, and here was ths soldier’s hearthstone.”— New York Sun. Parrots Are Never Original. I have read of a father who would not let his children tell their dreams because there is in such narrative too great temptation to wander from the truth. Parrot stories are too often like dream stories—one-half true, and they are sometimes; plainly to any who knows the true talking power of these birds—made up entirely or greatly ex aggerated. While the parrot has a cer tain unmistakable sense of humor, and is correspondingly wise, none of the various species is or ever was capable of the original wise and witty talk fa miliar to us in newspaper anecdotes. In fact, the parrot is never original in speech. It is altogether imitative, and a bird that has never heard spoken words has surely never uttered a sylla ble. But, judging from parrots’ clever use of what they learn to say, it is almost certain that they come to know in a measure the meaning of the phrases they learn.—Charlotte Boner in St Nicholas. . Th« Rambo* Onn. The natives in the Bucherganj dis trict of Bengal have been deprived of their guns, and since then they have re sorted to the native bamboo in the hunt for defensive weapons. They hollow out the bamboo, load it with an gunoe or two of native powder and a handful ot iron slugs and touch it off with a fuse in the immediate neigh borhood of the offending person. Another way, as the cookery books say, is to employ the bamboo as a fork with a cobra pinned to the far end. An application of the cobra to the sleeping body of an enemy Is all that is neces sary.—London Tit-Bits. CutoaMrs. Little Boy—Please, I want the doc for to come and see mother. Doctor’s Seryant Doctor’s out. Where do you come from? Little Boy—What 1 Don’t you know me? Why, we deal with you—we had a baby from here last week.—Landon Fun. Hindoos Vve Little Soo». : The oply soap which tire Hindoos of the orthodox type employ is made en tirely of vegetable products. But soap is little used in India, being almost an unknown luxury With the native*. Captain Kidd la Sto»y aad Xa Foot. Among all the pirates who have fig ured in history, legend or song there is one whoso name stands pre-eminent in America as the typical hero of the dreaded black flag. The name of this man will instantly come to the mind of almost every reader, for when we speak of pirates we usually think of Captain Kidd. In fact, however, Captain Kidd was not a typical pirate, for in many ways he Was different from the ordinary ma rino freebooter, especially when we con sider him in relation to our own coun try. All other pirates who made them selves notorious on our coast were known as robbers, pillagers and ruth less destroyers of life and property, but Captain Kidd’s fame was of another kind. We do not think of him as f pirate who came to carry away the property of American citizens, for near ly all the stories about him relate to his arrival at different points on our shores for the sole purpose of hiding the rich treasures which he had collected in oth er parts of the world. Thia could not fail to make Captain Kidd a most interesting personage, and the result has been that he has been lifted into the region of legendary ro mance. There are two Captain Kidds— the Kidd of song and story, and the other the Kidd of fact—Frank R. Stockton in St Nicholas. In March, 1796, the sheriffs of the territory which is now Tennessee took a census of their own, and as there were 60,000 citizens of proper age the terri tory declared itself a state, proceeded to choose a governor, a congressman and a legislature, which selected two United States senators. Congress, then in ses sion in Philadelphia, had received no 'information regarding the action in the territory until congressman and sena tors walked in uninvited and announced that a state had been born, had elected its officers, made its laws and was run ning on scheduled time. Congress was disconcerted and noti fied the applicants that the sheriff’s census was irregular and they must wait at least for an invitation before they proceeded to sit at the federal ta ble. Upon second thought congress de cided to be courteous, and on June 1 admitted Tennessee,nearly three months after she had become a state by her own action. This state, whose coming into the Union was a little previous, was the third state in the Union to provide a president for the Union and the first outside the original 18, and with one exception the only state south of the Ohio and the James ever to furnish a president, and she has provided three, more than any other state except New York, Virginia and Ohio. Boston Transcript. Smart Boy This. ‘‘Father, ” asked Tommy, the other day, “why is it that the boy is said to be the father of the man?” Mr. Tompkins had never given this subject any thought, and was hardly prepared to answer offhand. “Why—why,” he said stumblingly, “it’s so because it is, I suppose.” "Well, pop, since I’m your father, I’m going to give you a ticket to the circus and half a crown besides. I al ways said that if I was a father I wouldn’t be so stingy as the rest of them are. Go in, pop, and have a good time while you’re young. I never had any chance myself I” Mr. Tompkins gazed in blank aston ishment at Tommy. Slowly the signifi cance of the hint dawned upon hinu- Producing a half sovereign, he said : "Take it, Thomas. When you really do become a father, I hope it won’t be your misfortune to have a son who is smarter than yourself.” London Graphic. Son and Weather. On the Ist of July the earth receives 6 per cent less heat from the sun than it does during a corresponding period in the month of January. But winter does not occur then in the northern hemisphere, because the sun runs high in the sky and its rays fall upon the earth more nearly vertically than six months later, and, too, the day is much longer than the night, so that while the sun sends us a little less heat in to tal amount we get a much larger pro portion of what it does give us than we do in January, when the total heat for the whole earth is greater.—New York Times. i Tun Frojn the French. A boulevardier is at once surprised and enchanted to meet an old time com panion whose suicide had been reported. “It’s true,” said the latter. “I did want to kill myself, simply from dis taste of life. And then came along the doctors and discovered that I had a grave disorder. Since then, you under stand, I take care of myself I”—Figaro. Sorely He Wouldn’t. “If I were only a man,” she said, "we could”— “Possibly we could,” he said, “but the chances are we wouldn’t If you were a man, I wouldn’t be here. I’d be saying nice things to somebody who wasn’t a man.” Sometimes it is worth while to think of such facts as these. —Chicago Post The Tongue. The tongue is divided into three re gions of taste, each of which has its own special function. The tip of the tongue is chiefly sensible to pungent and add tastes, the middle portion to sweets or bitters, while the back is con fined entirely to the flavors of roast meats, butter, oils and rich and fatty substances. Bargain In Baal Estate. Agent—l think I can sell this place for you, but I can’t get the $5,000 you ask. You’ll have to take $4,998. Owner—That’s queer. 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