Show there is a trite saying that a barking dog ne neer ir hates bites to which wine come c cynic me has added that you never can tell when he is going to ta stop barking and bite it maybe may be well for lor wine some of us to apply that last thought in connection with eith the went recent actions of city officials for a long time they have threatened to discontinue service to those who fall fail to pay their lights and water rentals and on ottie occasions haw have even instructed the supervisor to cut delinquents off but so far as we can learn they have only bar barked kealand and never bitten with the recent matt change in their sin method ethod of collecting however they are am not making any threats that we a can learn of about all we can find out is that the new collector will call once for the rental what will happen if he down t get t they lelle leave us to guess and so we wonder lf if they haw have stopped barking with a ide termination determination to bite whatever their intentions in this connection we venture the assertion tb that at if they say cut em off the collector will respond with the same promptness and thoroughness that tbt characterized his actions when they said keep stock off the streets and after all we can it blame the city council if it does resort to 11 biting last spring people could not act pay until they sold their wool but they pay any more prompt amm t after they sold now the ald chave Y sold their lambs and another liy of wool and still about tuo alaras of us were delinquent in tte tre payment of those rentals at the time of the ther meeting on cia IN wednesday ednes day last so if some of us discover one of these days that we have neither lights nor water we may be able to gum guess the reason the cattle business is es still off fery aery other branch of oc agriculture shows signs of improvident and some of 0 f them th in t are in really good con ee but cattle attle particularly feeder cattle will hardly pay their way to market how long such condition ill 1 I 1 continue is is see gue s Z but u t everyone is agreed that sooner or later cattle will hava bave their the min inn ng and there them is et a growing fedeli g th U t a in marked abdia d improvement is due in the alear it future the prudent miu is cons y improving the quality of his ca atle e against the time boia c they thoy will M deworth ie worth rth something and he be la is the m it who will most by advances ILL cattle P times wh when the na matt who Is they do mine come neglecting tins this in bi cimalli of h his actis decidedly short hurt ties is taking sighted view of the nation the man who would keep cattle at all 11 livestock or r thit that matter or any other constantly to im in should strive prove them to make them better a a result of it his milito influence oe or JOT lu ill nt n by way wa Y ci I 1 I 1 improving the cattle of 1 aliu ih lucidity too to the officers of the 11 1 1 livestock li recent ly re elected 1 t d have hava an 1 opportunity tze their m att clude do depends is the kind of cat a tie we shall have here in the fu future lice by their insistence ins istance I 1 that ordy only aire res of a high stand ird go BO onto the alie public range they can constantly cone ly improve our bera tor for the future if they are indifferent erent atura but vita that te if the inferior an animals mile are allowed a place on our open a dere simply because can be purchased a little cheaper cheapen theys they are sure atol to lae their stamp on future generations of the bovine palmist population 1 in ti the of the officers offic cas la largely the ability for fee the I 1 future ii of our or t berf cattle lither a our cattlett will tatu improve in quality or thoo will deener ate am according to the maintained by the officials official |