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Show MUmiPAL CHARITY. It iB always a delightful task to witness wit-ness the exhibition of genuine charity by county and municipal bodies, but Monday evening the city council of Provo missed a chance to do a very small bit of chanty work which would have cost the city, nor a sirgle tax payer therein, a single nickle in money. It is true the matter was a very email one indeed, but it seems we have truly fallen upon the time for exceedingly small things, and this action of the honorable hon-orable body is of the emallest.The facts in the case are as follows: The Odd Fellow's lodge of Provo 1b maintaining the widow and three helpless children of a deceased brother. To accomplish this, in these pinching times, they have at short intervale given parties or ball8 tO which a SDn,n nnH . ii r . ... ., -TOj,ifct of lessening the cares of this poor widow, of wiping from her eyes the tears of anguish, .removing tbe terrible fear of the suffering suf-fering of her fatherless babes, by reason rea-son of her helplessness and inability to adequately provide for their wants. It is the law that the city may assess a tax of three dollars for every such entertainment en-tertainment where money is collected or a price for admission is exacted. The lodjre applied for the remission of this tax in consideration of the charitable charit-able disposition of the proceeds and the committee whose duty it waB to examine ex-amine and report on this application reported adversely. Jhis refusal which .robs the poor widow of three dollars for each occasion of these balls, does not put a single nickle into th city treasury. We feel eure the committee did not and does not understand all the circumstances, or surely they would not have so reported, or they will fj icaii lue question and make a report recommending the desired conceBeion. The late legislature did better than this. It passed a bill permitting the levying of a certain tax in each county so thai poor laborers might be usefully employed in improving the road9 but mainly that they might be employed and paid a mjdest wage to assist them in keeping the wolf from the door in these days of general poverty and distress dis-tress which bear so heavily on the j poor. Such enterprise will cost each tax-payer a pittance more, but one bears no dissent because the holy purpose pur-pose of the act is seen and recognized by all, and we might add, approved by all. With this worthy example before it we fail to understand the act of the council in refusing the favor even the wicked and worldly minded newspapers of the city advertise these charitable enterprises free of cost to the Jodge.and surely the city can afford to remit, tho liciincn t . . , "-uuo iui cum uu ouject when it costs it not obe cent. Will not the council reconsider the qaeetion? It is ' but a pittance tbty give up. But this pittance is all important im-portant to the poor widow and her tender babeB. We haye faith to believe be-lieve they will act promptly, because of the urgency of the case. The lode Is poor and it feels the pressure of the times as does every individual in the community and cannot carry on work ui mis jtiuu ii u is compelled to pay a license for the privilege. To make good the loss let the council cinch 8om e other enterprise, especially those dealing deal-ing in luxuries, a little closer. The people will applaud. I Tennvson on Spring". We have the word of Alfred Tennyson Tenny-son foi it that in the spring the young man's fancies lightly turn to thoughts of love. It is singular that the great laureate omitted to mention the fact that it is in the spring that a considerable consider-able portion of the human race turn to taking Hood's Sarsanarilla. Probably nothing but the difficulty of finding a good rhyme for that invaluable remedy deterred him. Certain it is that the old-time domestic remedies are generally gener-ally discarded in favor of the standard blood purifier, Hood's Sarsaparilla, which has attained the greatest popularity popu-larity all over the country as the favorite favor-ite Spring Medicine. It purifies the blood and gives nerve, mental, bodily and digestive strength. |