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ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Mayor, At tbs solicitation ol many citizens I hereby respectfully announce myseif ■ candidate for mayor, subject to the prlm mary of October 11th, promising if ejected to faithfully perform the duties of the of fice in the Interest of all concerned. JNO. L. MOORE. „ Having faithfully served the City of Griflin aa Mayor for one term, I announce as a candidate for re-election and respect fully solicit the votes of foe For Alderman- I hereby announce myself 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 foe greatest number of tax payerejcegardless 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 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, I announce myself as a candidate for re election and respectfully solicit the. votes and support of the citizens. • M. D. MITOHELLi To the Voters of Griffin: am a can didate lot Aiderman from Second Ward, and respectfully ask your support. M. J. PATRICK. 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 hereby imposed on each and every bne hundred dollars of real estate within the corporate limits of foe 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, forniture, watches, jewelry, wag ons, drays and all pleasure vehicles of every description, money and solvent f debts, (except bonds of foe city of Griffin) and upon all classes of personal property, including bank stock and capital used for banking purposes, in foe 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 foe 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 foe city of Griffin for the payment Os 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 foe 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 foe 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, 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 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 0n1y... $ 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 furnished at the city’s expense, at foe rate of fI.OO per year rental of same, paid in advance. z A mini mum of fil.oo per month will be charged for water while the meter is on the service. The reading of foe meters will be held proof of use of water, but should meter fail to register, foe 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 “ “ 9e “ The minimum rate shall be fil.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 foe Water De partment, otherwise water will be charged for foil time. 5. Water will not be turned on to any premises unless provided with an approved Mop"and waste cock properly lecatodin an accessible position. 6. The Water Department shall have the right to shut off watej for necessary repairs and work upon foe 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; rest of the piping must be dope by a plumber at foe consumers’ expense. Tn Care Constipation Forevei. Take Cascaretg Candv Cathartic. 13c or 25c. C, C.C. rail to cure, druggists refund money. Eliacuta Tout Howels With Viecarets. Candy Cath.riie, cure constipation forever. Wc. 25c. If C. C. C fail, druggists refund mono’ QUEER IDEAS OF FUN. SAVAGES WHO LAUGH ONLY WHEN SOME ONE IS HURT. j' ’ Tho Wrttfctaaa of a Vietlm Osier Torture Seed Them lato a Franny as Merriment—Fearful Paalahatoata That Broke Yelia of CI M . The laugh, which is now so closely associated with good humor and kindly feeling, originally implied nothing of the sort. It expressed almost the reverse. It was the crow of triumph over a fallen foe. Such is its nature still among savages and barbarous peoples, and its unexpect ed manifestations are occasionally very startling. Dancing on the body of a prostrate enemy is to them hilarious business. The writhing of a victim un der torture is the funniest thing imagi nable. A now device for torment is a clever jest. The inflicting of a ghastly wound as some poor wretch runs the gantlet makes them yell with glee. The things that shock or horrify or disgust the civilized man are about the only things worth laughing at from a sav age’s point of view. With the exception, therefore, of rough practical jokes, which may possi bly wrinkle his stolid features with* momentary grin, the barbarian has no appreciation ot civilized humor. He can’t see where the fun comes in if no body is hurt. This was curiously illustrated not long ago when a considerable number of Chinamen went to a New York theater to see a burlesque performance. When the American part of the audience lapghed, the delegation from Chinatown sat with faces absolutely blank, but the moment any hint of brutality, tragedy or tears appeared on the stage their heavy features lighted and were wreath ed in smiles. It was a strange thing to witness, but it was all in perfect hoep ing with the cruel instincts of their race. Even the knowledge that he is him self to be foe next victim does not spoil the fun of a cruel spectacle for a bar barian thoroughbred. Hero is an in stance : A number of Siamese, who had been engaged in a bloody revolt were cap tured red handed and sentenced to mili tary execution. A platoon of soldiers was drawn up with loaded muskets, be fore whom the doomed men were led out in squads of five or six to be shot, while those who were waiting their turn stood by, under guard, looking oh. When the first volley was fired, the victims, torn by the storm of bullets, leaped into the air with violent contor tions and fell dead. And this to the poor wretches who were about to go through the same experience seemed so fine a show and so excruciatingly funny that they were fairly convulsed with laughter. Such is the humor of savages, and such doubtless were the beginnings of mirth the world over. Strange as it may seem, there are many hints of this barbarous origin in the fun of the most highly civilized. We no longer laugh at really tragic occurrences, it is true, for other and more humane emotions are too strongly excited. But if we chance to see a ridiculous mishap which does not quite rise to the dignity of tragedy—an accident by which some one is greatly inconvenienc ed and annoyed without being seriously injured—the remnant of the savage breaks loose in us, and we laugh till the tears come. Why else are we amused when we see a well dressed man thrown sprawl ing in the mud or deluged with dirty water from an upper window or driven up a tree by a cross dog or an ugly bull? Why else do we so keenly enjoy the agony of a man who has accidentally pounded his finger nail, instead of the tack he was driving into the carpet, or laugh at the unfortunate who blindly . steps on a stray barrel hoop which flips up and slaps him in the face? Instances might be multiplied without limit. It is noticeable that children often laugh at things which do not amuse adults, but, on the contrary, shock and pain them. That is because the child’s finer sensibilities are as yet imperfectly developed. He is still near the savage state. There is a very prevalent senti ment to the contrary, but this is the fact. In proportion as men become truly civilized, however, their sense of humor becomes refined, and they revolt at any suggestion of brutality. Yet it is worthy of remark that the gentlest among us are frequently amused at a picture or a story representing things the actual oc currence of whioh would shock us great ly.—Boston Post. Cabby’a Rich Fare. “Princess street, sir?” said a cabby outside a Yorkshire street railway sta tion to his fare. “ Why, that’s not half a minute’s wauk from ’ere.” “Never mind, drive away,’’ answer ed the gentleman. “But I can*l charge you less than 18 pence, sir; that’s the legal fare.” “All right, my good man, only start quickly, and I’ll give you a couple of fares.” Cabby jumped upon *be box with a beaming face, flicked up his horse and shouted jocosely to an imaginary wife: “Don’t wait dinner if I’m late, Mary Ann I I’m taking the king o’ Klondike to ’is himperial habode!”—London Telegraph. The laoaraace Man's Guess. “He is foe stupidest man—he never opens his month without putting his foot in it,” said the young girl of the clerk who had taken her to the nata torium. “Perhaps'that is the only way he can make both ends meet on his small sal ary,” remarked the insurance man.— Spokane Spokesman-Review. The desert of Sahara is as large as all that portion of the United States lying west of the Mississippi. BABIES IN CHINA. Uttl. Ones In the Celestial Empire Bo otj»» Monk ItteaUM. Babies an made much of all the world over, but in China especially they are sur rounded with a host ot mysterious super stitions and practices. They are very comical to look at, those children of the Celestials. From ths day they are born they are put into a little coat and trousers, with a weu cap to keep the head warm, and little shoeswn their feet. In tact, they are the exact counter parts of their parents in miniature. A child is not bathed until the third day. It is not considered lucky to do so before. When this has been done, charms, consisting of lucky cash (smallest coin) and small silver toys are attached by red cord to the child’s wrists and worn for many months. This Is to keep away all evil spirits. Red strips of paper with certain char acters written on them are also nailed up outside the door of baby's room to ward off all evil influences. These strips are kept up until after the eleventh day, and it is usual for no stran ger to enter until they have been removed. When a Chinaman has lost several chil dren, on the birth of another he is espe cially careful to guard It from evil spirits, who evidently have a spite against him. He therefore inverts in a sword made out of cash and strung together with red cord. This is hung up by baby's bed as • charm and is considered very effective. The child generally .leaves the room at the end of the month, and on that day the head is shaved for the first time. I cannot learn that any great importance is attached to the giving of a name to the child. It is, as a rule, the grandfather or grandmother on the father's side for choice who names it, but if they are dead it de volves on the mother’s parents or some elderly relation. When baby has arrived at the mature age of 4 months, the maternal grandmoth er makes it a present of a most elaborate chair with a table attached. There Is gen erally a feast on this day, and many friends are invited. A curious custom is observed when the child U a year old. Again a party to given to celebrate the event, and a large sieve to placed upon the table with various arti cles laid upon it—books, writing imple ments, gold, silver, fruit, etc. Baby, at tired in new red cloths with red cord braid ed in his hair, is placed In the center of the sieve, and according to what articles he seizes first will his fortune be told. If he takes up the money, of course ho will be come a merchant and rich; if a book, why, he will be learned and distinguish himself in literature. < tn every household there is an image of the goddess of children, who is supposed to have the care of the little ones till they grow up. Many offerings are made to her, especially on the child’s birthday. When a child reaches the age of 16 years, he is supposed to pass from the control of his particular goddess, and a ceremony is gone through called the “going out of childhood.’’ Afterward thank Offerings are made to the goddess of the children for the care bestowed. But to return to our babies. AS I men tioned before, the head is shaved When a month old—sometimes entirely—but very often a small patch is left at the crown of the head and the hair plaited into a Stiff little cue, which stands out straight from the head through a little hole in the cap. It it is a little girl, her head is often not shaved, but her hair plaited into two plaits above the ears. Red cord to plaited in with the hair as a charm, for spirits can not face red, hence baby’s red clothes. A Ladies’ Pictorial. Remember the Baker. Don Carlos is thoroughly familiar with the history and legends of Venice. Re turning recently from mass at St. Mark'd cathedral, he paused before a statuette in mosaic on the front of the cathedral facing the Adriatic and said: “My dear friend, you see this Virgin before which these two lighted lamps keep watch day and night. It was put there In expiation of an error of justice by the senate in the time of the republic of Venice. Let me tell you the tale. A young baker, accused of a crime, was hanged, and a little while after it came to light that the poor fellow was innocent. Then the senate had this statuette placed in commemoration, and every time that the supreme court of the republic pro nounced sentence of death on a criminal a herald entered and said, ‘Remember the baker/ and they commenced a new trial and gave judgment again. The republic has passed away; the statuette remains.” Extempore Prayers. Division seems imminent In the local Congregational organization over the question of the use of liturgical forms in public worship. The principal opponent of the present custom of uttering extem poraneous effusions In preference to set prayers is the Rev. George B. Hatch. In advocacy of the formal plan he tells a story of a certain pastor In* this city who prayed In public for 25 minutes and then begged the Almighty to “forgive his short comings!” “I also know a moneyed and miserly deacon,” says Mr. Hatch, “who in plead ing at the throne of grace far himself, his children and his grandchildren offered this unique and humble supplication, though tho petitioner was in reality a very proud and vain individual: „“O Lord, save thine unworthy dust, and thy dust’s dust, and thy dust’s dust’s dust!”—San Francisco News Letter. A New "Hooted Tenn.” We have a little 4-year-old tot at our boarding house named Teddie, who dally enlivens his parents with some original speech or other, with which of course the boarders are regaled at mealtimes. The latest was listened to this morning at breakfast. A local pain made the applica tion of a hot water bag desirable, and when it began to cool Teddie said: “Papa, won’t you 'hotten* this up again?” “And did you?” asked “Hop.” “Certainly/* the happy father made re ply. “Well, don’t keep it up/’ said “Hop,” v or you’ll M kea ’hotten’ tot of that cher ub. ’’—Hardware. May Pay His Million. Charles Broadway Bones, the blind mil lionaire of New York, who is said to have offered <1,000,000 for the restoration of his sight, is perhaps in away to have the opportunity to pay the money. His offer has been regarded as a standing one and has brought such a large number of spe cialists and doctors of all kinds with cures that for the past two years Mr. Rouss has employed John F. Martin, afflicted with the same sort of blindness, to test the many treatments offered. Now Mr. Mar tin is under tho care of a Dr. Cassidy and with some new methods is reported as be ginning to regain his vision. The cockatoos const it"! to a touch of I foe great parrot family, and. with the | exception of the species which Inhabit* I the Philippine islands, an peculiar to I the Australasian region, Leadbeator’s oockatoo is one of the I most beautiful of the group, his white plumage being tinged with rose color— I W. T. Greene, the gnat authority on tags parrots, describes itaptiy aa “rasp I berry and cream” color— but aa his penta! endowments an by no moans equal o his personal attractions he is Mm popular aa a pet than species With more intelligence than good looks. Ona point in his favor must be mentioned— he is a leas determined screamer than I the majority ot cockatoos. Thia, how- I ever, is not saying much. In his native I woods of South Australia Leadbefiter'i I oockatoo is very shy and difficult to ap- I proach. The birds sent to Europe, no doubt taken as nestlings in the majori ty of instances, remain usually wild and suspicious, though they bear con finement well and do not suffer from the cold. At home in Australia the oockatoo is I not beloved of the fanner, and it can I be well imagined that a flock of these I big birds, amounting often to thousands, I commit fearful havoc upon the crops. Hence it is shot down as remorsehssly as the sparrow in England when it I grows too numerous to be acceptable to foe agriculturist Like the rest of the genus, this oockatoo usually makes its nest in a hollow tree, where the hen lays two pure white eggs.—St Louis Republic. Mala Fellnlty. I “Talkingabout the humanity of man and tho felinity of woman,” said the independent woman, “let me tell you a little story of a man and a cat The story was told to me by the wife of the man, who is a domesticated woman. It seems that the family cat, besides being of a sportive disposition, had more in genuity than most cats or understood better how to relieve the tedium of a domestic existence. This oat caught a mouse. Being well fed, her sporting in stinct came into play, and she kept the mouse to amuse herself with. That Is a feline custom, as you are aware, but where this cat showed superior mental ity was in hitting upon a place to hide the mouse, thus protracting the amuse ment. She kept it in an. old shoe in a storeroom. The man of the house dis covered the proceeding, and was almost as much amused as the oat Did he put a stop to it? No, indeed. For several days he fed both the cat and the mouse, pfter which the cat would take the mouse out for its daily exercise, to the delight of both conspirators Then the man’s wife found them out She took foe mouse away and let it go.’’—New York Commercial Advertiser. Sport m a Developer of Character. Every now and then there crops out In this republic the - notion that if our more cultured citizens were our rulers that we should be much better off. We I very much doubt it If our more man- I ly citizens could rule us, then no doubt I we should be better off. But there is a freakiness and finicalness, an inability to give and take, a general rubbing and creaking of machinery among men de veloped only on the one side of the mind, which always everywhere makes them objectionable as rulers. Boxing is just as likely to make a man meek as books, but if you have a bully to deal with neither the boxing nor the books Will avail anything, and he becomes al most more objectionable as an editor than as a prizefighter. Os course sport will fail, just as every other agency will fail, with certain men. On the other hand, tar the great majority of I men, well conducted sport will teach I them fortitude, gentleness, meekness and fair play as no other agency yet in vented by man can da—Outing. A' Funny Mistake. A servant lass at an inn once made a funny mistake. Opening the door of one of the rooms, she saw, as she thought, the handle of a warming pan sticking , out near the foot of the bed. “Bless ' me,” she said, “that stupid Martha has left foe warming pan in the bed! She might have set the place on fire.” Taking hold of the handle, she gave it a violent jerk, when up jumped an awak ened traveler, shouting lustily: “Hel lo, there! Leave my wooden leg alone, will yen?”—London Fun. Gravestone Emblems. In a cemetery in a neighboring state lies buried a family of the name of Rosa Upon each headstone is cut this flower, broken at the stem, while upon the babe’s tomb is engraved a bud. Curious as this is in itself, however, it is emphasized by the neighboring plot, where lies a family of the name of Fish, who have followed the example of the Roses by having a small specimen of the finny tribe cut upon each of their gravestones.—New York Sun. Easy Enough to TolL Briggs—And so you -consider Mc- Faker a clever delineator of characters? Griggs—Yes. Briggs—And can you readilydistin , guish his German dialect from EB Irish brogue? Griggs—Oh, dear, yea. The pro gramme tells when he is gping to imi tate German-English and when he is going to give us a little Irish brogue. Boston Transcript. « ■ The following is a remedy for oily •kin: Liquid refined hooey, one ounce; alcohol, two ounces; cucumber emul tion, ano ounce; elder flower water, four ooncas; strained juice of two lem oua The mixture should be used night and morning and applied with a soft rag or sponge i The Sheffield club is the oldest foot ball organization in the United King dom. It was started in 1855, and its minute book for 1857 is still in exist ence. . 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