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■ r ..-.W -- ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Mayor, At the •oilcitation of many citizens I hereby respectfully announce myself • candidate for mayor, subject to the prim mary of October 11th, promising if elected to faithfully perform the duties of the of fice In the interest of all concerned. JNO. L. MOORE. ■ IW Having faithfully served the City of Griffin as Mayor for one term, I announce as a candidate for reflection and respect fully solicit the votes of the Z p“y ig For Ald»rm*n- I hereby announce myself a candidate for Aiderman from the First Ward, and If elected! promise to do what in my honest judgment is to the good of the greatest number of tax payers, regardless of friend Y °°”’hOMßß WOLCOTT. I respectfully announce myself as a can didate for Alderman 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 Ai 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 eyery 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, I 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 ior Aiderman from Second Ward, and respectfully ask your support. M. J. PATRICK. TAX GROINANCE 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 se mos 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 B.—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 the maintainance of a system of public schools The ftmds 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 s.—That all ordinances or parts of ordinances militating against this ordi nance be and the same are hereby repeal ed. 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 iol owing rates will be charged for the use water per year: 1. Dwellings: One f-inch opening for subscribers’ use only $ 9.00 Each additional spigot, sprinkler, bowl, closet or bath 8.00 . 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 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 atop 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 PjP® B We sidewalk for $2 50; the rest of the piping must be* done by a plumber at the consumers’ expense. To Cnre Constipation Forever. Take (^ va , c^r etß Candy Cathartic. 10c or JSc. M C.-C. C. fall to cure, drußdaU refund met* No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes w—a men strong, blood pure. 60c, 11 All druggist* hAVAJO BLANKETS. A Woaderfwl Fro Anet of the Frimt, five Loom* Used by the S«wawa. Americans are a traveling people, but how many outside ot army circle* have visited a Navajo camp or witnessed tbs manufacture of a Navajo blanket? It is a product of the loom really wonderful in design and texture when the disadvan tages under which it was made are consid ered. The Navajoes are a peaceful people of the Pueblo type. The squaws weave blanket* and the men tend sheep and ponies. Many of them are rich, and most of them are self supporting, deriving their Income from their herds, the wool of their flocks and the manufacture of their blan kets. The wool of what is termed “the native wool blanket" is taken from their own sheep, and native dyes produced from various herbs give the blanket its peculiar coloring. A Navajo blanket belongs to the Navajo, anfl to him alone. In fact, it is a part of him. In every hogan, or hut, you win find these blankets, and a short distance away amid the sagebrush or on tho windward side of a rock you can see a Navajo squaw squatted on the ground busily engaged weaving another. The outfit is very simple. Two sticks on which strings are strung a long flat stick to ram each thread home, a cylinder shaped one to keep the threads straight, a small one similar to a comb to prevent any tangles—this is the loom which pro duces the weird Navajo blanket. Yet with these tools a Navajo squaw manu factures a blanket which may be used for a rug and will last half a century. It may seem an easy thing to produce one, but just make the attempt I In these days, when Navajo blankets have become a product of the market and when tho Indian Is surrounded by civiliza tion, with traders' stores enabling him to exchange his blankets for articles of Euro pean make, there has arisen a new Navajo blanket made from Germantown wool. It is certainly a work of art, handsome as well as unique in appearance. The In dians buy this wool from the traders, and ft is a curious fact that of the multitude of blankets produced no two have been known to be alike. I visited the store of the largest collector of these blankets when he had over $20,000 worth in stock, and I could discover no exact counterpart. The Navajoes, as a rule, are cute and sly in the business. Their contact with civ ilization has taught them the "Yankee method" of driving a bargain. At Fort Wingate, a regular army post situated on the edge of the Navajo reservation, it Is not unusual to see an Indian begin at one end of the officers’ quarters and enter ev ery house trying to sell hie blankets. Sometimes he meets with success at tho first house, but it is a well established fact that with each refusal the price of his ar ticle decreases. The spring and early summer are the best times for buying. Dur ing the winter the squawS are busy weav ing, and then as the summer approaches they are brought into the settlements. Sometimes the squaws come, but never alone. The "buck" accompanies to see that they are not cheated. The buck stalks ahead, followed by the blanket laden squaw. The Indian has no com punction in loading his "better half" with all she can carry. To find a real Navajo blanket weaver you must go away from the towns and villages. Walk across almost any level plain until you come to the bluff, and there among the hillsides you will find her home. I have thought as I watched her at her work, which goes on from morn till eve for months at a tlme, how wearied she must get and have asked myself, Does she ever want to stop? Ido not know that, but I have learned that when money is scarce she cannot stop, but must work on and work on, content to receive as her share of the profit some poor tobacco or bright calico.—Kansas City Journal. A Xalllea* Horseshoe. One of the most recent novelties, which will, we think, be welcomed as a boon to horse keepers as well as the animals un der their charge, is a shoe patented by Mr. R. McDougall of Wellington street, Glas gow, which can be affixed to the hoof without nails. The new shoe takes the familiar form, but has two projections, one on each side at the back, which en gage rings at the ends of a band which passes over the front of the hoof and is fastened in the middle by a screw attach ment to the center of the shoe. The en tire arrangement is simple, and the Inno vation means that When a horse casts a shoe it will not be necessary any longer to seek the aid of a farrier, for the new shoe can easily be fitted in a few minutes by an Inexperienced hand. In a recent trial of the nailless horse shoe the new invention was put to a se vere test, the horse on which the shoes were fitted being attached to a heavy laden van and worked up and down steep gradi ents and on granite paved streets. Not withstanding this rough work the shoes showed no sign of shifting and were not removed until worn out. The new shoe obviates all risk of pricking or laming by nails, and a slight rasping of the hoof is all that is required in attaching it to its bed. —Chambers’ Journal. The Tired Preacher. Physiologists have been investigating the nature of the poison which Is engen dered by fatigue. If the blood of a fa tigued animal be injected Into another animal that is fresh and unfatigued, all the phenomena of fatigue will be produc ed. The poison which is produced by fa tigue is of the same nature as that into which the Indians used to dip their ar rows, and a most deadly poison it is found to be. In case it is created more rapidly than can be carried off by the blood, the organism suffers seriously. A preacher should make it a rule never to work at his sermons when he is tired. Tired composition is sure to tell injurious ly on the sermon as delivered, and tired preaching makes tired hearing. The biographer of Dean Stanley says that one main source of the freshness which per vaded hi* sermon* wa* the economy of his strength. He bad most elearly recognized the extent and the limitations of his pow ers. It is top often forgotten that a ser mon haaa physical as well as an intellec tual and spiritual basla—Homiletic Re view. Tho WaM* Irobflter. A Chicago police justice holds that the word "lobster" applied to a human being is not one of reproach, insult or abuse, and that the person to whom it is applied ba* no reason to complain. As the lobster mind* its own business and is one of the most important and cherished elements of civilisation, a contumelious use of its name is not to be admitted. To call a man a "lobster" ought to imply that be is a public benefactor and a person of taste ’ Even slang should respect one of the chief characters of sea and land.—New York Sun. A TALKING NEWSPAPER. Th* Dal««e JearoaiMle Knterprts* Caw rted on la Itadapest. A Budapest lottar to th* London Pall Mall Gazette says: A small diamond shaped board screwed on to the wall of my room and provided with a couple of books, from which hang two tiny, round tele phone earpieoM connected by two wires— that is all—but my proprietor has been singing its praises for the last $0 and as he confidentially assured •* that it will not play any part In my hotel bill at the end of my stay, there is no fflpthly reason why I should enter any protest against his profuse encomium* "This," said be, "is the telepbonio messenger, or talking newspaper—the only thing of its kind in the world. It has now been established in Budapest about three years. It differs from the or dinary. telephone in the fact that the latter is directly connected with the central of fice, whereas we are able to connect from 200 or 800 subscribers in one circuit. The city is divided into 80 circuits. All day long news is spoken into a specially con structed apparatus at the central office, varied with entertainments, the opera and linguistic lessons. It is not a telephone in the strict sense of the word and there fore does not infringe the telephone rights of the government. It combines the func tions of your tepo machines and electro phones, while it is ten times cheaper. That t?uzz you bear just now was to pre vent subscribers talking to each other on their own account." "It seems strange that such an excel lent idea as thia appears to bo should not be introduced in other towns than Buda pest,” I ventured. "The answer is very simple. Os course the newspaper feature would be impossible in London, where time is everything, and a man could not sit the whole day with the apparatus to bls ear, waiting for some particular news or exchange prices. Then, again, other towns are not so advantage ously situated in this respect a* Budapest, where the law empowers the company to Introduce the apparatus into any bouse in the city in spite of the objections of the landlord. We have here 6,000 subscribers, and each pays only 18 florins a year. With us it is as in England with a certain soap —our families don’t feci happy until they get it. It is so cheap that many of the rooms in my hotel are fitted up wlthlt. If the visitor finds it inconvenient to go to the opera, all he has to do is to put this apparatus to bls ear and ho oan be enter tained the whole evening. The general public, too, can have news in advance of the newspaper* Why, a few weeks ago, when the German kaiser gave that cele brated toast of bls to the Hungarian na tion, thousands of families were listening to its recital half an hour later. Without this apparatus they would have had to wait until next day." “Have you a regular daily programme?" "Ye*. It is announced in the morning and changes every half hour or so. .The greater part of the morning is taken up with prices on 'change, a summary of the news in the dailies. At noon we begin to get a report of the doings in parliament. Telegram* of importance are communi cated at once, the telephonic messenger being in direct connection with a leading Budapest newspaper. At about 2 o’clock the morning news is in part repeated, then come exchange prices, telegrams, law re ports, a short, entertaining story, theat rical items and sometimes a concert, and for an hour in the evening we get a lesson in English, Italian and French. Yon have no idea what a benefit this 1* to the young generation and bow popular these lessons are among them. A complete set of graduated exercises has been published in these languages. Each telephone sub scriber who cares to listen bolds a copy of the book in question before him, and the teacher speaks into ths double microphone transmitter at the central office." A Steady Tinrekeeper. Ole Hanson, the Swede who live* out north of Denver, has found out by acci dent bow it is that a tin clock or watch painted and employed as a watchmaker’s sign always gives the time of day 8:18 o’clock, or the hour and minute of Lin coln’s assassination. For th* last year he has been regulating his Elgin by ofie of these silent sentinels on Sixteenth street, and when foe arrived the other morning ho looked at the sign and then at bis watch. There was a discrepancy somewhere, so b* called- John Vaughan, the assistant city clerk, who happened to be passing on tbs way to hi* office. "Say, master yentieman,” he accosted the clerk, "Aye want to ask yo* ’bout somet’ing.” “All right,” was the reply. "What is it?” "Vai, Aye tank Aye akal bane cracker jack bay Yerusalem. Aye leaf mae home tan miles out en t'e country bay twanty minute* ester 8, an Aye get en town ai teen minute* ester 8. Ho yo’ maken out de* out?” "Ob, it’* pretty near 10 o’clock now.” “Botdaa vatoh oop ofer yewelry store says es bane aiteen minutes ester 8." "Yes, but that’s a tin sign—there are no works in it." “Es das trute?” “Os course. Can’t you eee?” “Vai, Ayeskal sct maevstch bae di* efery tem Aye com to town for poorty nar hull y’ar." “I don’t know anything about that, but it is a sign, and you will see all the watch signs point to 8:18, for that’s the hour and minute President Lincoln wa* assassinated at Ford’s theater in Washington.” The Swede was satisfied and wondered bow many times be had eaten breakfast just about sunset just because his watch didn’t happen to be right—Denver Times. The Making of Plate Oiass. To cast a large sheet of plate glass is in modern band* a very simple affair. A ta ble is prepared, with sides made of stripe of iron, forming a shallow, level tank. Into this the molten glaee, which le made from the whitest send, glaee fragmente, lime, manganeee soda, cobalt and other chemicals, is poured. Immediately the operator bogins smoothing and leveling the mass with a great iron roller, which brings it down exactly to the level of the iron rim. It is then put through anneal ing and tempering prooeueeo, whlcL oucupy several days. After this it is ground to a perfectly uniform thickness, then polished until it acquire* the utmost brilliancy. The cost of glass is greatly increased in proportion to its size. This io due to th* fact that a large sheet may turn out im perfect flaws and ripples, which utterly destroy it* value as a strictly first class commodity. Small pieces ore cut from the perfect places in the large plate, and in this way the most serious loo* is avoided. —New York Ledger. I*oeate<i« “Are you in pain, my littlo man?" naked the kind old gentleman. “No," answered the boy. “The pain’s in me.”—Fannon’s Weekly. ~ - r ■ . ■ J: ' • ■ J/ ja' ' SPANISH WAR DOGS. They Wore Armor and Were Mare Biased Th jmi INN* Jj*4UMmnn» Apcrrosdo is a Spanish word which in the days when Spain was busy with tbs conquest of the West Indies and Central America struck cold terror to the hearts of the Indiana The word means "given to the dogs,” or, to translate tt yet more dis tinctly, it means death by bloodhounds. In Spain magnificent specimens ot this famine rare hare always been bred, and When Columbus set out on hi* first voyage a few fine hound* conatfltated part of his fighting oqulpmunt. Not knowing with what enemies he might have to contend, he took the hound* along to aid bi* men, but Columbus wa* one of the few invaders owning from Spain who treated the In dians humanely, and not until after bo had gone back to Europe, broken and dis graced, were the hound* used to torture tho poor NavagaL On all the do?s a* wall a* the hors** tho Spaniards brought over with them the In dlians looked with fear and reverence, The Wert Indian savages had not only never seen animals so large, but the fact that both dogs and horses performed tasks and obeyed masters filled the natives with respectful amazement. Their interest in these new brutes was soon, however, turned to dismay when the horses’ Iron shod hoofs struck down wom en and children and the dogs were em ployed in battle. So ferocious and effect ive were these canine warriors as taught by their Christian masters that in Cuba one dog was more feared than a hundred armed men. When Cortes took his famous first ex pedition into Mexico, a fine pack of blood hounds was among his most highly Valued fighters. Pizarro also took hounds into Peru, but on the continent the native war riors wore a sort of armor made of padded cotton cloth. Through this the dogs could not set their teeth, but they could spring cosily as high as a warrior’s throat, run in among the men and by butting vigor ously cause them to fall, or, more horrible still, they were encouraged to prowl over the battlefields and tear to pieces any wretched wounded Indian who showed the least sign of life. There were many among these brute fighters who rose by dint of hard service high in the Spanish ranks, and the names and deeds of some of them oome down to us in history. In the island of San Juan —now Porto Bloo—was a remarkable dog, so large that he went by the name of Ber cerrillo—little calf. This renowned man eater destroyed the lives of so many In dians that he was promoted to a military grade, receiving the pay of a sergeant of the horse and a proportionate share of prize money and spoils. It is told of Bercerrillo that he easily comprehended all that was said to him and the value of any object. On one oc casion when the governor of San Juab wished to send a written message be gave it into the hands of an Indian woman to deliver. Unfortunately her way led part a church, where a group of Spanish soldiers were lounging waiting for mass to begin. Bercerrillo was with them and in a spirit of idle brutality they proposed to set the dog on the womhn. Bercerrlllo needed but small encourage ment. He rushed at the poor creature, who fell on her knees, the governor’s mes sage In her hand, crying: “My lord dog, thy servant is sent with this to the Chris tian lords down yonder—see, here it is. Do me no harm, dog, my lord.** Sniffing at her, the sagacious creature let her pass unharmed.—Exchange. ; A Uttle Previous. One night Chaplain Jones of the Texas heard volley firing on the Cuban coast, which was being guarded by the blockad ing squadron, and was told that marines were being landed from the Marblehead. The next morning Captain McCalla came alongside of the Texas in his launch and announced that four of his men had been killed and that there was still fighting. Chaplain Jones then approached Captain Philip and said that he would like to go ashore and look after the wounded and read the services for the dead. Captain Philip gave instant permission, and the chaplain prepared to go ashore with a boat load of marines that was in charge of a young lieutenant. As the worthy chaplain clambered over the side of the Texas the lieutenant looked up from the boat and called out: “Where are you going?” "Lieutenant,” replied the chaplain, “I am going to bury the dead.” “For goodness sake, give us a chance to get killed first, ’’ rejoined the officer. “Lieutenant, I am going to bury the dead that have already fallen,” responded the chaplain, whereupon the lieutenant quickly replied: “I beg your pardon, chaplain; I was too hasty,' ’—Buffalo Express. Boys Always the Sams. The numerous papyri unearthed some time ago by Messrs. Grenfel and Hunt from the ancient city of Oxyrhyncus, Egypt, are being gradually deciphered. One of them, a letter from a boy, evi dently a petted darling, to his father sounds strangely modern, though it is at least 1,600 yean old: “ Theon to his father Theon, greeting. It was a fine thing of you not to take me with' you to the city. If you won’t take me with you to Alexandria, I won’t write you a letter er speak to you or say goodby to you, and if you go to Alexandria I won’t take your hand nor ever greet you again. That is what will happen if you won’t take me. Mother said to Archelaus, ‘lt quite upsets him to be left behind (?). It was good of you to send me presents * * * on the 18th, the day you sailed. Send me • lyre, I implore you. If you don’t, I won’t eat, I won’t drink. There, now I**—New York Tribune. >» ————————— v A British Coast Defense Scheme. Major General Crease of the British royal marine artillery has devised a new scheme for the coast defense of Britain. His plan is to build IS floating batteries Os 11,500 tons each, thickly armored from deck to keel so as to be practically torpedo proof, but of such light draft that they can fight in shallow waters. They are to be armed each with 16 heavy guns in four two story turrets and manned by naval militia. He would have besides nine “bat tleship exterminators,” armored destroy ers of gnat speed, supplied with a ram, torpedo tubes and light guns. The cost would be 5100,000,000. General Crease is now on the retired list. Xml War to Celebrate. The ruling prince of the Indian state of Bam pore has rather a novel woy of cele brating the birth of a daughter. A week’s pay has been deducted from every state employee. The hope is expressed, and just ly, too, that to make things equal the nawab will give the Mate employees a bonus of a week’s pay in the event of a royal funeral. uffi 1 — 1 **"*" l "w. 1 11 *■ {II i S For Infants and Children. CASTOR|AI™e Kind You Have RBSBHSI Always Bought Be ar 3 the / . Promotes Diges(ion.Cl«rful- iS Xa/ ■F trssand&wtContains neither ■ A Opium .Morphine nor Mineral. ■ Zlv Not Narcotic. ■ fsiV ( ■ a ijn* in M nrl—> fi fi • I 11 1J B < Uss A perfect Remedy for Constipa- Ml * tion. Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, HI INf Worms .Convulsions. 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