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Show THE MM fAS STILL .That i Partly, But Not ..Altogether, For The8 Was the Prescription and Back Door " LETTER OF TEE SUNDAY LAW. Movements of the Liquor Dealer' Association Asso-ciation and Attitude of the Lawyers, i "Positively no admittance behind the prescription case today." Ttiia was the temporary restraining rdcr that confronted tho patrons of a J prominent drug store when they arose euerday morning and sought their j matutinal bracer from tho big fat hot- llo of spirits frmnenti that posed lazily I ud almost laughingly on the shelf. "Barred out, by gosh!" exclaimed tho wrwstfallcn visitor. "Nothin' today?" ho asked, with a dry, beseeching in-locliou. in-locliou. . "Kot a sup!'1 "JUow'll a prescription do?" "All riclit if vnn've i?ot it. The new order don't apply to sickness." A atumcnt later The Worm of the Still bad crawled down from its moorings nd began to gurgle as it fell into a two-ounce graduate and finally vanished van-ished in the neck of the visitor who i macked his lips, threw down the toll nd with a brighter look in his eye he departed, disappeared around the corner cor-ner and a moment later was on his way to church. "How 'bout that?" asked a rounder, laconically. "Got to look after the ncens'ites of the sick." "Then gimme 'bout three finger of your cookin' whisky for tned leal purposes." The applicants for , Medicinal Purposes numbered just five whilo the renorter waited the filling of a bona fide prescription pre-scription that contained eight pans of water to one of anything else. The tame might have been seen in other localities, but there was too much of the liquidescent about the streets and the "Jeged sidewalks for ny extended pillage. pil-lage. Vihc saloons the doors generally ise(l- Here and there the prime V was permitted to snesk an vbut no money was produced. Ved VlJ-uil Rnnitay -liiH ,brrn wit- i "'Vwwtr-TO f V " Sy f T v A-y TieveoV . , .if ua MoJb wTTX jT - I l ! sell, giv-aw or otherwint Atspom r ,y ti t )U'tfcn I drink, at any t,m i Aurlug t!-J ,'nrstday of tlw week, rommonly called Sund"5 WfPt for tneilleal purposes upon the p. i rclpilon of clt. 7,en. or. ,2 Who shall permit on bis premise wher such intoxiratnlg drink Is sold obiinr ty means of dominoes, cards, dice or othei tcli s or any other discrtptlon of gambling, or. Who shall p'rmlt dancing, ilrunksnne-s, sleeping or lodrinu In the night time or who slal permit any disorderly conduct In his . ra.o in licenced for the sale of liquors shall be dnsmed guilty of a misdemeanor and shsll be punished by a fine In any sum less than Honor Impi l oiiment In the county iall not en ending six moutns. or by lob such line and Imprlaont at the discretion of the coutt. This is the stern rhetoric which the liquor dealer has to fight, if he con eludes to tight at all and The Average Lawyer will hardly advise his client to adopt heroic measures. "What did you decide on at the meeting?" meet-ing?" was asked of a well known vender ven-der of the vinous. , "Dunno, didn't attend." "Why not!1' "Well, there's polities in it." "How did you discover it" "By my own knowledge. There was an understanding last spring that the saloon men would not he interfered with on Suudays any further than that the front doors should bo kept closed. I know they remember that. I do, and its going to lead to politics." "What course will the movement take?" "It will remind Mayor Scott that they are entitled to A nllTerent Poliry and I suppose they mean to tight his renomination. I doubt if he warns that o there is very little show of his relenting re-lenting now. I believe we are all willing will-ing to close our doors but when the loss is heavy as it is the matter should be carefully considered." "Would you undertake to fight the ruso?" was asked of a well known attorney at-torney who had arrived in tho meantime. mean-time. "No air," was the blunt replv. "Why notr "Because I decline to lead an army Into a place where there is no earthly hope of getting them out." i . - . . |