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Show and the ayes and the nays, for and against the measure, lie noted and put on record. The people, genei- j ally, are groping in the dark on this question, and are anxiously await- j ing enlightenment. Let the City Council move. Chicago is mti atkd on a thin crust which it is rumored the heavy buildings will sink through. The water in Michigan lake lias gone down a toot lately, some fearing it will eventually fall so low that the great city will one day be left high and dry. Chicago is too American to be much discomfited should either of these conjectured dangers befall her. Should the houses sink below the surface, she would simply brush the debris away and go on nourishing in the basement. The , lake will never dry up, because if 1 it falls too low, that city of gigantic enterprise would merely lay a huge tube across the country, and fill , up Lake Michigan with water from ! the Atlantic inmdc of a fortnight. Tiik l-Kori.K of lirigham City should hold out more inducements to foieigu capitalists to come here j and help open up our undeveloped undevelop-ed resources. It is not every moneyed man who will intrude himself without invitation. We have excellent mining prospects, superior water power, a fine location loca-tion for a good hotel and unsurpassed unsur-passed natural advantages for fruit-drying, fruit-drying, pickling and canning establishments, with the one powerful power-ful desideratum lacking the necessary nec-essary wherewith. If we rightly strive for the necessary capital it can be had. The business men must pull together for the City. If we are to have water works next spring, now is the time to get the pipes and other material in convenient shape. Should requisition requi-sition for necessary material be postponed until spring, the work of construction will be greatly impeded im-peded on account of unreliable freight trains and other unforeseen delays. Decisive action should be taken in this matter; a decision arrived at immediately, whether we are to have water works nest spring or not. -r ii 35 S'Kwsi'APEit is the mirror or the city. In its local paper, a town is reflected. If the columns are bristling with fresh local news and replete with good, healthy ads. and lots of them every one instinctively in-stinctively argues the place is sound and nourishing. There iB a world of truth in these few sentences, over which every merchant, mer-chant, particularly those who do not advertise, should ponder. Last issue The Bugler contained I twenty long columns of live home news. Many local papers never contain more than four columns, not over one-fifth as much, and charge from $2.50 to $3.00 a year for that. We think we are giving the people even a little more than their money's worth in making the subscription price for The Bcglek j onlj' $2.00 per annum. j We have been the recipients of scores of congratulations on the ; bright, newsy appearance of the i improved Bugi.eh. The change , seems to be universally apprcci- uted. We are honestly glad of this, 1 as our chief aim is to furnish the I people with a good home paper of J which they can justly he proud. The kind of a school teacher that should be in great demand, in this enlightened age, is ho who first teaches the child to be tidy in person: to regularly black his shoes and comb his hair; to keep clean his ears and finger nails and brush his teeth at least once a day. When these little, but mighty, daily toilet vocations are indelibly written on the mind of the infant in-fant student, then, and not until then, is he a fit subject for the "cram-jams, ?' consisting of arithmetic, arith-metic, geography, etc., which he is too often forced to gulp down in great cart loads before he even has the remotest idea that lie should brush his teeth Mid scrub his finger nails. This is a duty of parents, but parents do not always do their duty ami tfuur negligence, the teachers must amend. We do not know how much the schools of lirigham City need a "general scrubbing " but a walk around the school room will soon convince any observant teacher. Ark we to have a system of water works next summer, or not? We can all guess and surmise, conjecture con-jecture and hope but the viul (jueMion still remains unanswered are we l have water works or n-t? Our representatives, the Mayor and City Councilnieu. can and should decide on this matter, uf vast importance to all, and notify the penple a:crdingiy. L t us hope that a d finite and intelligent intelli-gent stand u ill be taken at once. |