Show water for the at the session of the council last evening it was agreed with the help of the citizens to extend toe water work system to the city cemetery came tery the city will furnish the pipe provided citizens citi zons will die and be credited in advance on water rates we believe the citizens will do that every on who loves the prosperity of the city will be glad to see the cemetery improved those who own lots at tha cemetery and havo been trying to ceab the graves green with water carried in tin cans will be doubly anxious for the proposed im of course they will work on the trenches and esteem it a a favor to be thus to pay their water rabea in advance the city tha girat party to the will extend the mains as n shrewd business proposition the nek revenue from its water works system is only about two thousand dollars a year and it is believed another thousand dollars can be fie curad from the cemetery at an out liy of about three thousand dollars salt lake city has found its aeme tary extension the best paving portion of its water system aud the same wilt be true in prove ofle ENQUIRES favors the extension bacasse it will be a good thing all around to boch the citizens and the city it is alee ia the line of needed progress civilization can ba gnagey by the care a community takes of its dead the american indians leave their agod to die by the wayside and their burial consists of a few and stones thrown over the naked body the savages of africa leave thaia dead in the densa jungle to be devoured bv wild beasts the barbarous or semi civilized nations of the orient consign the bodies of their dead dressed in a shroud without coffins to shallow graves the writer has witnessed many seeh funerals often the skeleton or decaying body of a grave is dug up to make room for one freshly dead As one reaches more civilized countries the proper care for departed friends increases until we haye the enchanting greenwood cemetery of new york among the finest sights of many of the most civilized cities on the globe are the beautiful came teries provo should rank among the most civilized and one mark of our superior civilization should be a beautiful well kept the first step in that direction is the extension 0 the waier mains |