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Show iiivu am; 411. wk-; i..ijal I he ) ,rt-. I l'iiL I'lurixliius and y ii n ie:i 1 lav.'; J i;'u-'j V iiave aiiyiiiiii In u-i w'uli j lilt; MUtU-i' at plVSrut. a ml let till.' ' cities 1 1i.1t wuul sueh laws miiel 1 ttioiii anions Ukmi" nainifijial ordi- I iKiiH't-s. nf tviiipt'liin;; a ihiriaii :-. u-d twu or 1 'nn e hundred ntili-s di.-iant to come to S ill Lak'-, pay '2, and go lnlute a ' s: ol wise'iie-ivs to answer tjiR'.-Lioiis w licdi X'rliai In' knows n- a-b a-b ml than Lht'V do, i-xivpt as t!u-y have had iuvt.'S.s to h.ioks to pick tiu-in oui. OIeu Sl-inhirl. In sin:aki.(j of Booth's fw bill, which has bt'en killed by the Legislature, Leg-islature, the J If mill tersely Pays: We would have pointed out the in consisU;iu:ii'ri and i iiji'stiee oi' the cuts that it made, hut believing they would be seen by the shrewd men of the lieislature we reiVaineil from attacking it. Economy is a good thing when not carried to extremes. ex-tremes. It is an evil when it reaches the line of parsimony. Public Pub-lic service should not occasion extravagant ex-travagant pay, but it ought o carry fair remuneration and such as will secure elhcient men lo perfi inn the ttutiea required. If competent men are wanted sufficient suffici-ent pay for services should be supplied. That does. not mean extravagance ex-travagance nor does it signify stinginess. stin-giness. These truths are not only applicable appli-cable to Legislators, but to all officers in tlvir appointments of men to office, or 111 their handling of the public monies. When you want to sound a man on an7 public improvement proposition, prop-osition, simply touch his pocliet r iie'll do the rest. Thruk oroiiT to he a, boom in the ranks of all volunteer fire companies com-panies now that the Legislature hiH created a law relieving all such members from the un pleasantries of the poll tax. To snow how far gone some of our Legislators really are wc need only to refer to a bill introduced this week entitled "a bill to en con r-age'the r-age'the practice of surgery," which goes on to pray the Legislature to enact a law making it compulsory that the dead bodies of nil poor old paupers be turned over to the cru-el cru-el dissecting knife of the surgeons! Of course this monstrosity (not the futhcr of the bill) was killed. In e.nlauuing on the hard times in Salt Lake, the Ogden Press tells : a pitiful story which it received "from a reliable source," of a hungry workingman stealing a sack of flour from a grocer, and the officer "'ho was sent in pursuit fuu nil the starving children of the poor man actually devouring the raw flour, so hungry were they, and the big-hearted ollicer forgot the duty which brought him to the house and paid for the sack of flour out of bis own pocket. Tlie story might have brought tears to our eyes had we not read the very sam o th i n g in a Lead v i 1 1 e pa per several months ago. That tiik kind and quality of food eaten gets into a man's thought ami disposition is not to be denied. says a contemporary. The physicians at Sebastopol, after the Crimean war, testified that when a Russian soldier was intoxicated he became disgustingly maudlin, affectionate and silly, while the liriton in that state became at once ''full of fight." and they accounted for it by the fact that the first lived un black bread and the second had meat. Dogs that are quiet and subdued on vegetable food grow fierce on meat, and there are persons of fine nervous organization who find in meat a stimulous similar to that of wine. Woclii not the Utah Legislature 'act wiely; would tby ivt meet tlie approbation of their consti-J consti-J tuents; if thv would once fur nil j dismiss all those disgruntled and grumbling physicians and medical |