Show OUR WATER SUPPLY the present condition of our water supply may well make us pause and what may be done to better alio senico in unusually dry seasons such as vi 0 are now experiencing it la many months since ram fell and list w deposit of snow in tho surrounding mountains was much below the av crage As a con be quence we are informed eliat the santa clara crick is dry 01 nearly hv at santa clara and where the crick is running the water supply is much less alian 13 usual there seems to be but one for this and we may be accused of springing a chestnut upon our reader swe bayas we did through the columns of the or fifteen years ago and since that a cicat effort be made to obtain pine valley for a reservoir site and the winter water and water when it 13 not needed so tint it may be held until wanted one water district could be form cd instead of the several now existing and much diw land could be brought under cultivation des tivo floods would be mini mazed and a great benefit conferred user of water aiom the S int i clara creek we do not believe there would be any serious objections made by primary water right holders to such a scheme aliey would be to such a great extent that they would be more alian likely to help it along all could exactly how the reservoir site could be obtained we arc not cd to say it would of course hive to bo bought and it will tike a lot of money to do this probably outside kielp could obtained bc if auf focient capital could not be locally the effort certainly be and that too delay the old saw delays arc dangerous might be but we know our readers arc well aware of the been pressed home to them in connection with this self same pine valley reservoir site dalai no longer but buckle to and blut can be done in alie matter the man alio to do anything for posterity beci WiO so lit said had done nothing for him and alie old man who would not plant a tree where one was needed because he would not live to aco it become a largo tree affording grateful shade took a cry narrow and falsco view of life the truth is we owe miny of our bliss ings to people who lived before u and men w ilk under aind delight in alie beauty and baule of trees eliat thoughtful men planted in former days and that fact is genei illy recognized and if alicie are people go selfish thas the will do nothing for alio benefit of future generations theio aio far more people bo ante ful ind so lencious gen cious and wie eliat alic delight to do eliat will prue a hlis sing to alie folks who comai after them wh it is inot needed is not to get inck to the land aa to keep people on it slam of tho firby cla who have taken alie adice have made because i ate i they could not adapt to changed conditions those who are on the land are fi with conditions and have not to learn b unlearning whit is needed with them is to show that farming properly conducted is not only a healthy and highly useful occupation but that thero is also mono in it an uninterrupted flow of success is just as bad for the individual as uninterrupted days of sunshine arc for crops people aa a rule do not like rainy days neither do they experiences in life both arc to win best results grumbling kills friends the business mancho is ever grumbling and growling about bilings macci a blue atmosphere about him people somehow or other seem to prefer a rosy atmosphere to a blue how often does one ask what time is it it is always time to do alie thing that to be done it is that which spells the one word opportunity the progressives progress ives arc becoming unpopular in some quarters what will we call the party that progress the progressives progress ives alio college professor who wrote alio screed against nudes statuary rv probably thought ho was confining himself to bare facia there are lawyers in congress and a lot of others who think they know what the people ought to want the man who argues to learn is somewhat like the beau who did his courting with a club lery oung man who wastes his auth is putting a mortgage on his prime the man who noer gives up will some da leavo money out at interest tho whom people criticism criticise critic ise most arc whom they mot anvy hallba Ha lloa belll have ou aicard about jimmy strong getting locked ap bill no he bin locked up for tom why ho was outside a pub last night when the told him to move on but dimmic ba the copper called for assistance and coming on tho scene jimmy got and them all over the place after a while he was locked up taken before alie magistrate and find bici shillings shil lingi and costs for gambone bill for gambling I 1 cant ae that torn why for tossing coppers in the street 1 london paper |