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ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Mayor. At the solicitation ot many citizens I hereby respectfully announce myself a 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. Having faithfully served the City of Griffin as Mayor for one term, I announce as a candidate for reflection and respect folly solicit the votes of foe For Aiderman. I hereby announce myjelf a candidate for Aiderman from the First Ward, and if elected I promise to do what in my honest judgment is to the good of the greatest number of tax payers, regardless of friend or foe. Yours, etc., C. HOMER WOLCOTT. 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 folly 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 Alderman 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 lor Aiderman from Second Ward, and respectfully ask your support. M. J, PATRICK. TAX ORDIMANGE FOR 1898. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun cil of the city of Griffin and it is hereby ordained by authority of the same, that the sum of 25 cents be and the same is hereby imposed on each and every one hundred dollars of real estate within the corporate limits of the city of Griffin and on each and every one hundred dollars valuation of all stocks in 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 ope 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 ofaH descriptions, as stated in section First of this ordinance, within the corpo rate limits of the city of Griffin, *Tor 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, Second and Third of this ordinance shall be double taxed as provided by the laws of 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. i An Ordinance. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Coun cil of 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 t-inch'opening for subscribers’ use only. $ 9.00 Each additional spigot, sprinkler, bowl, closet or bath 3.00 Livery stables, bars, soda founts and photograph galleries 24.00 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 pf 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. v 3. Meter rates will be as follows: 7,000 to 25,000 gals, month. .15c 1,000 25,000 50,000 “ “ 14c “ 60,000 “ 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 uses! 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 foil timev 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. T«f Cure Con«U |m Uon Forevet. TakeCuiuxirets Candy Cathartic. 13c orfSc. k C C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money No-To-Itac tor Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco haWt cure, makes weak meu itrong, -'ood pure. 50c. tl All druggists RACE WITH LOCOMOTIVES. Maar Wild Animals Make a Trial at S»eed nt Sight. Running through the forest and swawp lands ot Ohio and Indiana, thoinglneero and firemen who watch ahead of the great engines that haul the flying express trains see many wild animals dashing along the track, and frequently denizens of the for ests are run down, and the trackmen find their mangled remains in the morning. Coons, wildcats, rabbits and sometimes wolves are caught by the fast flying limit ed trains, and even siy reynard, with all ais cunning, is often ground up under tbs wheels. For many miles the Baltimore and Ohio. Fort Wayne and Lake Shore roads run through a wild, swampy woodland country in western Ohio and Indiana. These densely wooded swamps are almost Impenetrable, and they harbor nearly all kinds qf indigenous wild animals and birds. In the moonlight or by the aid of the headlight the animals can be seen scampering across the tracks, and often the foolish rabbit takes to the middle of the track between the rails and races the locomotive for miles until he plunges into a culvert or a bridge. “It has occurred to mo several times in my railroad experience,*’ said the old en gineer, “that the American skunk can make himself conspicuous longer and louder than any other living thing. Fre quently as we fly along 60 miles an hour through the gloom of night a littlo wab bling body, dark and gray, is seen by the glare of the headlight running diagonally across the track. The animal may possi bly by quick action and a skillful maneu ver escape the wheels, and distantly our nostrils are saluted with an overpowering scent which almost makes us faint. We are 200 yards away from the cause of the smell in an Instant, but it dings to us for miles, and the passengers in the oars who are awake wonder what kind of oil is burning in the supposed hotboxes. If we happen to kill the little animal, his mem ory clings to us still for at least five miles. *’ One night a few weeks ago, as the flying fast mail on the Lake Shore was making up lost time across the Indiana swamps, a big red fox dashed out ahead of the loco motive and took the straight, level track right ahead ot the train. In another in stant a great black and tan hound, with his tongue protruding and his long, lank body stretched out at full speed, took the roadbed just 50 feet behind the fox. More steam was turned ou, and with their heads out the engineer and fireman watched the contest of speed. It was a grand race be tween the two animals, with the mighty engine coming close after them 65 miles an hour and the headlight showing the fleet fox straining every limb and muscle, and his enemy slowly falling behind. The old bound appeared to know that there was danger in his rear and took to the west bound track, and in another minute the rushing train went past him, but the fox, taking advantage of the complication, disappeared in the woods again. On the Pennsylvania railroad east of Al toona a few weeks ago the track inspector found tho remains of a wildcat on the track, and on the Philadelphia and Erie away up beyond Lock Haven last winter a largo black bear ran out in front of a freight train and wa« killed. Deer are often seen crossing the Philadelphia and Erie tracks in the Pennsylvania moun tains, and in the wild, lonesome places where tho trains stop to water, if the at tentive passenger who is awake will put his head out of the window and listen, he will hear the scream of the panther and the hooting of the owl.—Pittsburg Post. New Selections. The wise elocutionist is now laying in her winter stock of selections. We say “her” because the masculine elocutionist has become rapidly extinct since the regu lations against lynching were so easily evaded. This has left the business largely in the hands of a few professional women and a large number of promising ama teurs. In a community with as many churches as ours it Is our proudest boast that lovely woman is not amenable to re straint in the same degree that ruder man is; hence tho number of uninterrupted re citers. But the coming season offers a pleasing diversion from the prevalent monotony of the art. A brand new lot of selections, all founded on the war, will be launched upon a patient public. There will be, among others: “The Boy of El Caney.” “The Dying Marine” (piano accompani ment). “The Child of Guantanamo.” “The Tale of a Turret.” “Tho Powder Monkey of the Bomba zeen.” “The Mule of Matanzas” (with imita tions). “What Captain Philip Said." “The Bursting of the Dam” (dedicated to Captain Bob Evans). —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Wanted to Unload. Captain Barnaby of tho .United States coast survey steamer Blake tells a charac teristic anecdote of Captain Robley D. Evans of the United States battleship lowa. While aboard the Blake at Key West Lieutenant Commander Edward D. Tausig, hydrographic inspector, went alongside the lowa, which was lying eight miles off the port. Hailing Captain Evans, who was loaning against a rope life line which had been substituted for the rails removed in cose of action, Mr. Tausig asked the doughty commander if he had any message to send to the depart ment at Washington, as he would leave for there next day. “Tell them for me, Tausig,” said the captain, “that I have a cargo of ammuni tion on board tho lowa that I am mighty anxious to be allowed to discharge. ” The reply produced a laugh, which was heartily joined in by the bluejackets on the lowa who were grouped neor the cap tain. The message was subsequently de livered, and it was not long after that the cargo of ammunition was being vigorous ly discharged from the lowa. Jo«s La la a Baafiy. Jung Lu, the new viceroy of China, is one-sis the most popular generals in tho imperial army. Ho has always been a dandy in dress and has tho reputation of being the best dressed man in Peking, while the glided youth of the Mantchoo nobility always copy his dress and swear by “Jung Lu’s style.” His horses and mules also have ever been the finest in Peking, not even excepting the emperor’s stud, and he loves to mount tho most fiery and restive cattle when riding out. This has led to several picked horses sent as tribute to the emperor from Kuldja and Mongolia, but which no one could ride, owing to their untamed and restive spirits, being specially presented to Jung Lu by the emperor's command. This is the man who now holds the responsible post of guardian of the dragon throne at Tien -tain. —Tien tsin Times. STERN DISCIPLINE. It Is XeoMsary la War aad Uta Mdtar Mast l««r» to Submit. One of Detroit's retired offioen, who fought in two wars and helped for years to restrain the savage outbreaks of oar Indians, thus delivered himself to tho writer: “The very hardest lesson a young American has to learn when he enters the army ia that of obodieuoa. For the first tima, hie individual authority is de throned. He is an fractfoubae a thor oughbred colt that long rebels against the whip and spur. It is hard for him to understand that his freedom of action must be subordinated to military neces sity. He chafes, if he does not openly rebel, but when once whipped into line he makes the best soldier on earth. “My first drillmaster had been my friend and the friend of my family from my boyhood up. We had hunted and fished and courted together and ex changed secrets with a freedom that does not obtajp among brothers. One day, early in my experience as a soldier, and while every thing was being hurried with a view to getting da into Mexico, w< had been drilling till I felt ready to drop. The repeated orders struck pain to my ears and I would hate conscien tiously sworn that my musket weighed a tom At length, when Within easy ear shot of him, I shouted, ‘For heaven's sake, Bob, stop this tomfoolery and let's go over to the tavern. * “He never locked at me but roared, 'Corporal, take that man and drill him like the devil,’ “The corporal did, and I thought I’d die of exhaustion. I fully meant to challenge the drillmaster and whip him if he declined, but he succeeded in mak ing me understand the imperative neces sity of unquestioning obedience in the soldier. It's tough with the raw re cruit, but the quicker he learns his part the better it is for all concerned. ”—De troit Free Press. WAYS OF THE BLUE CRAB. Some of Its PaculiarXMss as Observed at New YoVk’t Aquarium. While the blue crab is-not commonly thought of as a swimmer and does in fact spend the greater part of its time on thp bottom, yet it can very easily sustain itself in the water and swim at a very fair rate of speed. It swims end wise, and when swimming it carries one big claw thrown forward and bent back at the middle joint, making a point projecting at that end of the body, while the other big claw trails straight out astern. If it changes direc tion, it crooks the claw it had been car rying straight and lets the other go free. If it sustains itself in the Water without progressing, it carries its big claws in front of itself as it would nat urally do under ordinary circumstances on the bottom, but it has to keep its little claws in motion to sustain itself, and in swimming the little claws are kept actively at work. Besides making a good degree of progress through the water in swimming the blue. crab can change its course or swim to a higher or lower level with facility. When frightened, the blue crab moves off side ways, but when moving about at home and undisturbed it may move straight forward. Its body may be inclined at any angle to the line of progress, but its motion still be forward, the big claws carried crooked around In front It may be seen moving thus in one of the larger tanks at the aquarium, in which there are blue crabs, lobsters and other things. The temperature of the water now just suits the crustaceans, and they are very lively. Blue crabs may be seen swimming here, and also walking about stepping down from stones that are as high as they them selves are wide with perfect dignity, if not grace of manner, and walking or carrying their claws before them.— New York Sun. The First Teacups. Even after tea was introduced into Europe and had come into general use teacups were scarce. At the same time coffee was introduced; but, apart from Constantinople, the first coffee cups in Europe date back only as far as 1645 in Venice, 1059 in Paris, 1652 in London and 1094 in Leipsic. From the first, however, the conventional oriental oof fee cup, without stem or handle, was little used, and in Germany not at aIL The Chinese teacup was used for tea, coffee and chocolate as welL Specimens of porcelain were undoubtedly intro duced into Europe in the middle ages, yet not till the sixteenth century were cups imported from China in any great quantities, and even then it was as arti cles of vertu. Most of those found their way back into China again, as collect ing porcelain is a lasting fad there, and high prices are paid for good specimens. The collection of Chinese porcelain, If only the genuine specimens are desired, requires immense study and knowledge, as the Chinese are skillful imitators and put numerous falsifications on the market. Individual Odon. Every human being has a specific odor of his own, according to A. Bethe in the Arehiv der Gesammten Physiolo gic, by which he can be recognized not merely by dogs but by persons with sen sitive organs of smell The case is men tioned of a man who blindfolded could pick out each individual in a company of 20 by his odor. The smell is not born with us, but develops gradually till the age of puber ty, after which it remains unchanged. Members of a family have a kind of common odor, which persists even when they have lived apart for a long time. The entire area of the United States is placed at 1,885,017,692 acres, of which 741,702,365 acres are now owned by individuals or by corporations or states or have passed out of the control of the general government Savages, on the whole, live longer than civilized people. SAVED BY A POCKETKNIFE. ■urvtTw Um VHU <te II Talto M a By the sinking of La Bourgogne and foe awful loss of life is recalled the acci dent to the Ville do Havre ot foe same line in 1879, whan foe latter named ship was struck al night and went down at once, carrying almoat aU eg beard. Piti fully few were thoae who ware saved from the Havre, but among them was foe prominent New Ywft lawyer Witthaus, and the way In which ho eeosped is so ex traordinary that it sounds like a well con eooted tale instead at the plain fact that Mr. Witthaus vouches It to be. The afternoon preceding the accident to foe Havre Mr. Witthaus, with another man, was on dock, and Mr. Witthaus was leaning against foetaffmll under foe flag staff In the stern. As the two men stood there talking the friend put his hand c the large life buoy that was hanging over the side and called Mr. Witthaus' atten tion to it. “Look,” bo said, “these life buoys are simply screaming farces. This one out here is so stiff and hard with ooataof paint that you couldn’t get It tree except by cutting It with a knife.” Mr. Witthaus attempted to move it, but found It glued hard and fast. The friend took ent his knife and began idly sticking it into tho soft pine of the flagstaff and amused himself so the rest of the time that they talked before they went interrupted by the dinner gong. They both went Iv low. Early the next morning while the pas sengers were still asleep the collision oc curred, and In the mad panto that at once followed Mr. Witthaus did what he oould to get the women and children Into the lifeboats. From the first be regarded him self as doomed, for there were not nearly boats enough for all the passengers, and it was evident that the ship would float only a few minutes. Several women whom lie know on board ha found places for at onto only to see the boat overturn as soon as it was launched and all go down, one of them with her two little children in her arms. Horrified and sickened by the sight, he went back to the stern of the ship, which was higher out of tho water than the bow, to wait until he, too, went down, and stood leaning again on the taffrail. As ho did so In a flash he recollected the conversa tion of the afternoon before and looked over the rail. There still hung the life buoy stiff and immovable, and the in stinct ot self preservation sprang to life onoe more. A knife to free the buoy and he might be saved, but he had none with him, and to find one was impossible with the ship liable to go down at any second. At the same moment bls eye caught the flagstaff, and there, where his friend had evidently forgotten it the afternoon before, stuck the knife. With the haste of life and death Mr. Witthaus pulled it out and be gan to saw away at the buoy, and he freed It and threw himself off the deck Into the sea just In time to get beyond the vortex that came as the great ship went down, sucking hundreds of victims with It. Mr. Witthaus floated about for some time, and was at last picked up by a small boat that was waiting about for chance survivors and was brought back to New York to tell of one of the most awful catastrophic! that ever happened at sea.—-New York Press. A New Explosive. French chemists have for some time past been experimenting with a new ex plosive called promethee, invented by T. Jowler, which, according to the Revue Technique, possesses some remarkable properties peculiarly its own. The solid portion is made up of 56 per cent potash, 20 per cent manganese dioxide and 24 per cent ferric oxide. This is triturated, mixed In a mill and filled into cartridges, a per meable cartridge being employed to facili tate the penetration of the oil, the latter consisting of 50 per cent of petroleum and 10 per cent oil of bitter almonds. This prepared liquid, which is not ap plied to the cartridges until just before use, is stored in metal flasks holding about one-tenth of a gallon; 2.2 pounds of the explosive contains 1.65 pounds of cartridge contents and .55 pounds of the oil, this quantity being sufficient to Impregnate the cartridge. Before being steeped in tho oil the cartridges are nonlnflammablo and npnexplosive, even by shock from steel plates, are unaffected by frost, moisture or sudden changes in the surrounding me dium and do not undergo any change dur ing storage. The oil is not readily inflam mable. It Is claimed that the disruptive force exerted is at least as great as that of dyna mite; also that it is directed in the line of greatest resistance and acta with equal ef ficiency in dense rock, light fissured rook and in water. Balletin Board Fun. The boy who gets up the war bulletins was working with a speed which showed that he realized an eager public was wait ing on his efforts. The characters went upon the paper with swiftness under his practiced hands, and now and then he drew buck and contemplated his work with the pride of an artist. Presently the man of carping tendencies passed, A sneer came upon his countenance, and the boy anticipated his criticism with thr inquiry: ‘[Well, what’s the matter with it?” “Look at the spelling I” “It’s according to coot.” “But the word’Spain!* See how you have divided it! ‘Spa’ at the end of one line and then on the next ‘in. ’ ” The boy gazed at his work for a moment or two and then proceeded with his stamp ing. “Aren’t you going to change its” “No, I’m not.” “But it’s palpably wrong.” “Not these days. The way things are going now you’re liable to find pieces of Spain scattered around anywhere.”— Washington Star. Sytah Leek of “Gumption.** Closely akin to the Spaniard’s mediaeval and aristocratic attitude toward life, says Irving Babbitt in The Atlantic, is his curious lack of practical sense and me chanical skill. “The good qualities of the Spaniards,” writes Mr. Butler, “alike with their defects, have an old work! flavor that renders their possessors unfit to excel in an inartistic, commercial, democratic and skeptical age.” Juan Valera admits this practical awkwardness and ineffi ciency of the Spaniard, but exclaims, “Sublime incapacity 1” and sees in it a proof of his “mystic, ecstatic and trans cendental nature.” Tho Spaniard, then, finds it hard to light a kerosene lamp without breaking the chimney, in much the same way as Emerson made his friends uneasy when ho began to handle a gun. 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