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Show 1 even now gradually forming and gaining power behind the nonprogressive non-progressive school walls that surround sur-round our city, and very soon the light will burst through and over these walls, Hooding our homes with waves of unprecedented intelligence in-telligence and enlightenment, the inseparable sisters of advanced ad-vanced school ' methods. God speed the day that our city-is city-is drowned in such a Hood. The police went forth on their regular monthly raid last night and returned with the net filled with nymphs of all color and nationality. na-tionality. Five keepers were mulcted of $17 each, while forty-eight forty-eight inmates contributed $-lis, making a total from this source of $498, a considerable decrease since last they were called upon lo pny tribute. While this raid was being prosecuted on the avenue, another expedition was being pressed against the proprietors of the clubrooins, gambling hulls the proceeds of which amounted to $235, running the cash receipts of the night up to $728, with a few stragglers yet to ante. Salt Lake Tribune. And this "blood money" is taken to administer tiie municipal miim of the chief city of the Latter-Day Saints! (The Mormon voters, by thn way, are now in the minority in Salt Lake.) It is a disgrace to the people peo-ple of the entire Territory. If it is fr the suppression of vice that these poor devils undergo a "regular "regu-lar monihlv raid " Int. t.hU m.mnv It is said thai the frigate bird can lly at the rate of 100 miles an hour and live in the air a week at a time without touching a roost. At this astonishing speed this wonderful bird could carry a message from Utah to England and return with an answer inside of a week. That wide-awake paper, the Coalville Times, says its Peoa correspondent missed sending his usual correspondence last week, which was the first time he had failed them for nearlv a year. ' I Such faithful correspondents are so rare, the Utah country editors; ought to "chip in" and present this Peoa man with a medal. Xo othku individual should more fully appreciate the poor school facilities and behind-the- be used to alleviate the misery caused by these '"social lepers." Let it be used for the foundling and insane asylums; for the feeding feed-ing of the destifuto and starving this winter. The pride -of Utah, as our beautiful temple city, will never be what its founders intended intend-ed as long as sin is licenst-d and the filthy lucre derived from these winked-at hell holes is depended on to carry on the city's affairs. timet: methods in vogue in this city than the County Supt. of Schools. As he does not seem to have taken the numerous rather broad hints we have thrown out during the summer, and as it is his duty to strive at all times for the advancement advance-ment of school matters throughout the county, we hero come out plainly, but with the best of motives, mo-tives, ask Mr. Vance if he will be so kind as to give an explanation why he does not head a movement whose object is to consolidate the four districts of this city and take at least the initial steps toward the erection of a central school building, one that would be a credit toonr prosperous city ? There-is There-is a work here almost worthy the time and efforts of a Washington. A i ; a i n we suggest that a central school Imilding is becoming a necessity neces-sity an urgent necessity. The present facilities are already becoming be-coming crowded and the houses are scattered. Some kind of a new Imilding will have to be put up soon, and the better way would be to begin lo plan for one good central cen-tral school building. Here all the schools ( excepting a primary school in each of the four wards of Brigham Brig-ham will be united in one institution, institu-tion, the teachers thrown in close communion and a much more satisfactory grading of the pupils can be had. It must come sooner or later, and the sooner the better. Ml. Pleasant Pyramid. The foregoing is as aplie;ible to the situation in Brigham as it in to our sister city, if not more so. We may stave off for a few years longf-r the incalculable advanlage-i to be derived by our child ren from h central school system, but not for long. ;i neeans of light are |