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ANNOUNCENENTS.
For Mayor.
Al the aolldtaUon of many citizens I
hereby respectfully announce myself a
candidate for mayor, subject to the prim
mary of October 11th, promising if elected
to faithfully perforin the duties of the of.
flee in the interest of all concerned.
JNO. L. MOORE.
Having faithfully served the City of
Griflm as Mayor for one term, I announce
as a candidate for reflection and respect,
folly solicit the votes of the citizens.
W. D. DAVIS.
For Aiderman.
I hereby announce • < '? nd ‘ d ?*£
for Alderman 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.,
0 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 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; lama can
didate lor Aiderman from Second Ward,
and respectfolly 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 sum of 25 cents be and the same is
hereby imposed on each and every one
hundred dollars of real estate withm 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 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 of the City of Griffin, That from and
after the passage ot this ordinance, the iol
owing rates wjll be charged for the use
water per year:
1. Dwellings:
One £-inch opening for subscribers’
use only $ 9.00
Each additional spigot, sprinkler,
bowl, eloset 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 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 Qf use of water, but should meter
fail to register, the bill will be averaged
from twelve preceding months.
3. Meter rates will be as follows:
7,000 to 25,000 gals, month.. 15c 1,000
25,000 " 50,000 “ " 14c “
50,000 “ 100,000 “ “ 12c “
100,000 “ 500,000 “ “ 10c “
500,000 “ 1,000,000 “ “ 9c “
The minimum rate shall be SI.OO per
month, whether that amount of water has
been used or not
4. Notice to cut off water must be given
to the Superintendent of the Water De
partment, otherwise water will be charged
for foil 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.
Tn Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
k C. C. C. fail co cure. dnißKists refund mono
K.locate Your Bowels With Vareareto.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
iOc.ZSc. If C. C. C tall, druggists refund monev
TREE Jf TIBET.
Fafealaaa Prloew Paid For the Leaves
at the Sacred Growth.
Few persons probably have heard ot
the marvelous tree of Tibet. Neverthe
less for a long time it has enjoyed a
great reputation in the east. It is a sa
cred tree, and fabulous prices were paid
for a few of its leaves.
In bis “Souvenirs de Voyage an
Tibet’’ Pere Hue speaks of this won
derful tree. It is essentially of a literary
and artistic turn of mind and has the
strange habit of producing images and
hieroglyphics upon its leaves. Some
times religious figures take the place of
the letters. Pere Hue called the myste
rious thing “the tree of a thousand
images.” These images are found on
the leaves, on the stems and on the
trunk. Near the temple of Buddha, in
the village of Tibet, this
great tree has stood the plague
and the puzzle of all the botanists who
have ever received the gift of faith.
A great antiquity was given to the
tree; indeed it was claimed that it had
existed from time immemorial. But an
investigation not many years ago proved
the images on the tree to be fakes. The
trick was simple enough, like every oth
er trick when it is found out. In the
spring and in the summer on dark
nights a lama, endowed with acrobatic
power, with his pockets full of hand
stamps, climbed all through the tree
and stamped the leaves with all sorts of
holy images and characters, the moat
numerous being the following formula:
“Om mane padone om” (Glory to
Buddha in the lotus). This is also
stamped upon the bark, and the leaves
and portions of the bark are sold to vis
itors.
GENUINELY HARD UP.
Out ot Three Hundred Accepting Free
Beds Only Five Had “the Price.”
A short time ago a curious test was
applied at the London Congregational
Union’s Free Shelter For Homeless Men
at Medland hall, in the east of London.
The object of the test was to ascertain
if the men were really as penniless as
they represented themselves to be. The
free shelter is intended for men who
have not the fourpenoe necessary to pay
for a night’s lodging elsewhere, and one
night Edward Wilson Gates, the shrewd
superintendent of the philanthropic
work of the union, announced that he
would give sixpence to each man present
who could prove that he had some
money, but less than fourpence. A chuc
kling laugh passed over the 800, that
being the maximum allowed in the hall.
“But how shall I know that you have
less than fourpenoe?” asked Mr. Gates.
“Search us!” cried the men.
“You really mean it?”
“Yes.”
“Very well, but if any one objects let
him go to the gallery, and I guarantee
that he shall not be turned away.”
Only five of the 800 went up stairs,
and the others were thoroughly search
ed by experienced men. Two hundred
and forty-nine had nothing, one had a
farthing, 11 had a halfpenny, one had
three farthings, 13 had a penny, two
had a penny farthing, four had three
halfpence, nine twopence, three two
pence halfpenny and two had threepence
halfpenny. Thus out of the 800 men
295 had not the fourpence necessary for
a “fo’penny doss” at a lodging house.
It seems pretty clear, therefore, that the
men were genuinely “hard up.”—Lon
don Quiver.
Goldsmith’* Generoalty.
A beggar once asked alms of Oliver
Goldsmith as he walked with a friend
up Fleet street, and he gave her a shil
ling. His companion, knowing some
thing of the woman, censured the writer
for his excess of humanity, saying that
the si: i Hing was misapplied, as she
would spend it for liquor. “If it makes
her happy in any way, my end is an
swered, ” replied Goldsmith.
Another proof that the doctor’s gen
erosity was not always regulated by dis
cretion was at a time when, after much
delay, a day was fixed to pay the £4O
due his tailor. Goldsmith procured the
money, but a friend calling upon him
and relating a piteous tale of his goods
being seized for rent, the thoughtless
but bepevolent author gave him all the
money. The tailor called and was told
that if he had come a little sooner he
could have had the money, but that he
had just parted with every shilling of it
to a friend in distress, adding, “I would
have been an unfeeling monster not to
have relieved trouble when in my pow
er. ”
8wli» Funeral Customs.
Swiss funeral customs are most pecul
iar. At the death of a person the fam
ily inserts a formal black edged an
nouncement in the papers asking for
sympathy and stating that “the mourn
ing urn” will be exhibited during cer
tain hours on a special day. In front of
the house where the person died there
is placed a little black table, covered
with a black cloth, on which stands a
black jar. Into this the friends and ac
quaintances of the family drop little
black margined visiting cards, some
times with a few words of sympathy
on them. The urn is put on the table
on the day of the funeral. Only men
ever go to the churchyard, and they
generally follow the hearse on foot.
Tuuark Fare.
In a New Zealand town one of the
municipal candidates, a pronounced.
Scotsman, had received a present of a
huge Scotch thistle, which at the mo
ment happened to be lying on the table
of his committee room. A friend, enter
ing, withdrew suddenly with the re
mark, “I beg your pardon; I didn’t
know you were at luncheon.”—San
Francisco Wave.
Two Ways of Futtia* It.
“I notice, Miranda,” remarked Mr.
Neggschoioe, “that your first husband’s
clothes do not fit me.”
“No, Cyrus,” coincided Mrs. Neggs
choice, with a little sigh. “You don’t
fit them. ” —Chicago Tribune.
DYNAMITE guns.
IlftMa Maa la Balay* An Sto«atMg«S
Work lh«m.
Dynamite gun*, such as are used upon
the Vesuvius, are operated upon an en
tirely different principle from the ordi
nary powder guns They have engines
and boilers and air compressors and
coolers and all sorts of intricate ma
chinery in a bouse not far away, by
which the projectiles are fired. The
dynamite or gun cotton or explosive
gelatin or whatever the explosive ma
terial may be is contained tn the pro
jectile only. This projectile is called an
“aerial torpedo’’ by the manufacturers
and is exploded by means of a fun
similar to any powder gun’a
Dynamite or any other high explosive
cannot be used in an ordinary cannon,
because the powder would explode the
dynamite before it left the gun, there
fore the system of using compressed air
camo into vogue as the only method of
throwing dynamite to any distance. Ths
air is compressed and passed along
through various tubes before reaching
the gun and is used at about 1,000
pounds pressure to the square inch,
which is much less than the power of
powder. Dynamite will be exploded at
about 5,000 pounds pressure to the
square inch. There guns are enormout
affairs, smoothbore, 50 feet in length,
made of the best iron, in three sections,
flanged and bolted together and support
ed on a steel carriage. The carriage it
mounted upon a steel racing ring, so
called, and the system of handling is by
means of an electric motor. As there
guns are covered by a large number of
patents they are very expensive, costing
the government many thousands of dol
lars each. Fifteen men in relays are
required to work them.
The gunner stands upon a platform
on the left side of the carriage, uses a
fine telescopic sight, and when all is
ready he pulls a lever which allows the
compressed air to enter the gun, and
the discharge takes place. There guns
are all loaded at the breech, and the
projectile is handled by a separate car
riage. The projectile is about 10 feet in
length for the 15 inch gun, and when
charged with 500 pounds of dynamite
or gun cotton weighs fully 1,000
pounds It is a steel tube composed of
walls three-sixteenths of an inch thick
and has a spiral vane at the rear. The
fuse is a foot in length and weighs 20
pounds. This fuse contains two pounds
and a half of dry gun cotton and a few
grains of fulminate of mercury as a de*
tonator. It is set to explode at impact
or as the gunner may desire as to time.
—Leslie’s Weekly.
A TRANSPOSITION.
It Mangled the Salutation, but the King
Controlled Hi* Face.
An American who years ago served
as our minister to Spain was fond of
telling the following joke upon himself:
Shortly after he had become settled
in his new home he was bidden to a
state ceremonial, where he was to be
presented to the king. His knowledge
of languages was limited to English
and French, and being desirous of ad
dressing the sovereign in his own tongue
he took pains to “coach” for the occa
sion. Several phrases were rehearsed
until he felt that he had mastered them.
When the critical moment arrived, he
saluted the king with great dignity,
spoke a few words in Spanish and pass
ed on.
“What did you say?” asked an Eng
lish gentleman.
“I spoke in Spanish, ” was the rejoin
der. “I said, ‘I cast myself at your
feet, * which I am told is the most re
spectful form of salutation.”
“Ah, no,” corrected a Spaniard, who
had been observed to smile at the em
bassador’s greeting. “You are mistak
en. You transposed your words, and
quite altered the meaning. ”
“What did I say?” asked toe diplo
mat
With a twinkle in his eye the Span
iard made answer, ‘What you really
said was, ‘I throw my heels at yopr
head.”’
But toe king had not betrayed by 90
much as the fluttering of an eyelid that
anything unusual had ocou/’ed. —Har-
per’s Magazine.
No Fixation In Space,
The common idea as to the path oi
the earth being “fixed in space” is tak
en exception to by astronomers on tha
ground that there are few if any things
in the domain of astronomy that can
really be called fixed space, that fact
being that unceasing changes are going
on, though these changes are generally
so slow as to escape the notice of a su
perficial observer, but are fortunately
periodic, so that they fall within the
possibility of computation. Thus the
earth’s path is not fixed, since toe
ecliptic undergoes a very slow change,
so that, while at present it is a few sec
onds more than 28 degrees 27 minutes,
in about 15,000 years, astronomers cal
culate, it will be reduced to 22 degrees
15 minutes, after which it will begin to
increase again, a change so slow and
within such narrow limits that it can
produce no sensible alteration in the,
seasons.—Kansas City Journal
Bvew Up.
While some Swiss militiamen were
resting from their drill one of the men
stepped from the ranks to light his
-cigar from that of the officer. The lat
ter took this evidence of the “spirit of
freedom” in good part, but said, “In
the Prussian army you could not have
done this, John. ”
“Right you are, ” was the prompt re
ply, “but in the Prussian army you
could not be an officer. ”
Bed Pipestone Quarry.
Every one familiar with Longfel
low’s “Hiawatha” remembers the refer
ences to the famous red pipestone quar
ry, which is situated at the extreme
eastern boundary of South Dakota.
This is the only quarry of toe kind
known to exist on the American conti
nent
THEY MET IN AFRICA.
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Hero is a mod Missouri etorv. which
POMMSM not only the nwrit ot botag ab
solutely true, but the additional one ot
never haring appeared tn print. Its au
thenticity 1. vouched foe by one of the
mote accurately Informed and widely
known public men tn the state.
An elder brother of Frank P. Sebree ot
Kansu City 1* Captain Uriel Sebree, a
dtetisguiahed officer of tire United States
navy. ThoSeteea beys are the sons of the
late Judge John Stores, who In his day
wb* one of the prominent oitteensof old
Howard county—“the mother ot Missouri
Statesmen.” Back In the early ■svantiM
Oaptaln Sebree, then a lieutenant, was
coasting with hi* vessel along western
Africa and oast anchor one day at a small
village for the nnrpoao of taking on a sup
ply of fresh waSr and vegetable*. He soon
observed among the natives who were en
gaged in bringing the supplies on board a
negro who spoke ths English language
very plainly, although he wore the garb
and had the appearance of a native. Lieu
tenant Sebree walked np to him on the
deck and *ald: “I notice you speak the
English language. Where did you learn
it?” •
“In the United States, sir. I was boro
in that country.”
the United States—what
state?” V\
“MiasouiKlr.’’
Sebree bad become thoroughly inter
ested.
“What county in Missouri did you come
from?” he asked.
“From Howard county, air. I was born
there, near a town called Fayette,” was
the reply.
“When did you leave there?”
“In 1880, sir.”
Light began to dawn upon the lieuten
ant. He looked at the negro closely, and,
although many years had passed, he recog
nised in the apparently wild barbarian all
Africa, the breechclouted savage, a boy
he had known in his childhood. In 1860
an atrocious murder had bean perpetrated
in Howard county, a murder such as was
sometimes, though not often, committed
in the south before the war—a negro killed
his master In cold blood. Search was at
once begun for the r— —in and every ef
fort made to apprehend him, but be escaped
to Canada, and, the war beginning short
ly thereafter, all trace of him became lost.
It all came back to Sebree like a revela
tion. Here, then, was the murderer after
all the long years. He was fully recog
nized by the lieutenant, who decided, how
ever, not to allude to the crime, but again
began hia questions.
“So you lived, near Fayette. Did you
know Judge Sebree, who lived there?”
It was now the negro’s turn to be sur
prised. “Fo’ God, man, who is you, any-
“I am the little boy that you used to
play with, Uriel Sebree. Don’t you re
member me, Sam?”
They sat down on the deck of the ship,
the polished and gentlemanly officer of the
United States navy and the wild and al
most naked savage, and talked over the
days of their boyhood in faraway Mis
souri. No allusion was made by either to
the tragedy that had caused one to leave
his native land and become a barbarian.
Old friend* were spoken of, and the negro
made many Inquiries about those he had
known in hi* young days. At last as the
sun went down they parted, the negro go
ing ashore to his hut. He told Lieutenant
Sebree that he would return the next day
and bring with him some present* that
he would like to have taken to some of hie
old friends in Howard county, but he
didn’t come back, and that was the last
seen of him. He evidently had become
suspicious and feared befog kidnaped
and carried back to America to be tried
for his crime.—Jefferson Tribune.
Man With Variegated Sight.
Eugene Saußey, chairman of the Indiana
Republican central committee, is strange
ly afflicted. Some time ago he became en
tirely blind, and it was feared that he was
hopelessly robbed of his sight
Gradually his sight returned, so that he
could see indistinctly aa he was led or
driven about the city, and he Improved
until something like his old time vigor
was restored.
One day while stopping at a florist’s
viewing a handsome wreath of vines his
sight changed, and for three weeks every
thing upon which he looked, whether man
or beast, fowl or plant, showed a bright
color of green.
In time thia disappeared. Again his
sight has undergone a strange transforma
tion. Now, if he looks at his watch the
whole face is a gleaming sheet of brass,
but where the figures stand there is a
wreath of blue. Everything at which he
looks now appears the came. Speaking of
his peculiar affliction, Mr. SauUey says:
“It is not pleasant when talking to a
friend to see instead of a genial face a hid
eous, bright yellow countenance embroid
ered with a wreath of blue.”
Physicians are at a loss to account for
the strange peculiarity.—Cincinnati En
quirer.
Secretary of State Day.
Secretary Day is a delicate looking man,
with quiet and uDcfotrusive manners. Ths
other day a policeman who has been on
duty at the White House for the last tores
month* called a newspaper correspondent
aside and inquired: “What is the name
of that man you talked to oolong this
morning? I’ve aeen him around here quite
often.”
“That,” answered the correspondent,
“was Judge Day, the secretary of state.”
“What I” exclaimed tbs poUocsnan.
“That was Secretary-Day? X knew he was
one of the war board, but I had no idea it
was Day. Why, good Lord, he looks as if
a puff of wind would blow him away.”—
Excbftngß.
Ob Itos for Ylftjr Yean.
A coat mine in Scotland which caught
fire over 50 years ago and has been burn
ing over since has at last burned itsslf out.
The mine is on the Dalquhanau estate,
Dailly. It was set on fire by the engine
working the fans, and, although many
costly attempts have been made to extin
guish it, they have been unsuccessful The
fiamw hare from time- to Mats burnt forth
te the ground in volcano fashion. The
Ire was prevented from spreading beyond
the one area by reason of the “dikes” of
rock which Intersected it, and 00 saved ad
jacent mines.—Newcastle Chronicle.
Wo* a Very Good Boy.
Sanunie had just returned from Sunday
school, and his mother asked Mm if he
had been a good baj- “No; not very,”
was the truthful reply. “Then you didn't
get a good behavior card?” queried his
mother. “Oh, yes, I did,” replied the pre
cocious youngster. “I uvod the money
you gave me for the heathen and bought
two from the other boy*.”—Troy Times.
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and Bnbetitntes are bat Ex-
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Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Caatoria is a substitute for Castor (MU Fhreforla, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Ptosssnt It
mntains neither Opium» Morphine nor other Narcotic
Rubatanco. Its age Is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Dtantona and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Prieto
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In Use For Over 30 Years.
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