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Show I ! It would be only fair for the electric light com- i jf pany of this city to supply its customers with jj j coal oil lamps that they might be able to get a M 1 1 & good look at the light supplied by the company. m 'it!1!! In furnishing a pillar of cloud from the smoke- M ! ? stacks of their plant, to be a guide to this peo- H j 'ijj pie, and a perpetual inspiration to such washer- B jl X '? women as laundry collars, cuffs and shirt waists, B i1 j (4 . l the company is a triumphant success, but the pil- m J fm lars of incandescent fire, which it supplies the BB 1 m f people, fall altogether short of the scriptural de- j ! I j' The writer once heard a flighty crank explain- m 1 JK j, ing Uiat electricity was the life of the world, but H iffi a that there was only so much, that with the rapid B kK tf increase in electrical plants that quantity would BH ; ' m iw e raPdly diminished, that then the diminished H : Uj JM vitality in the air would bring upon mortals new H wft h diseases and a great falling off in the power of B I $ mortals to resist disease, etc. To judge by the H i jJlj ? Salt Lake electric lights the depletion and ex- H 1 fu , haustion are coming on by leaps and bounds. II: |