Show LOUISVILLE KY made an effort on v Sunday to enforce the law that prohibits pro-hibits any unnecessary labor on the Sabbath Among those whose names are to ba presented to the grand jury were editors reporters bRe kmen ealoonkeepers barbers etc It needs no prophet to foretell tho result of this freak of Puritanic piety The literal enforcement of an absolutely prohibitory Sunday Jaw is impossible i in an American community It I cant be did however desirable it may be and however vigilant and determined lawmakers and law officers may be It has failed wherever wher-ever tried and will fail whenever tried until society undergoes a radical radi-cal change Whatever laws may bo enacted to the contrarypublic opinion wm nut aiiow oi ino punishment of a newspaper editor reporter or printer I for laboring on the first day of tho week of a coachman for driving his S master to and from church of a man for bathing or shaving on Sunday J Yet all of these things are not abso f lutely necessary on the Sabbath fr There need bo no Sunday morning or Monday morning papers neither of which can be gotten out except by encroachments upon the twentyfour hours included in the Sabbath a man may do his shaving on Saturday or go unshorn until Monday he can go to church in dirty boots and can avoid calling the housewife to work by eating cold victuals But he will do none of these things no matter what the laws may prescribe pre-scribe nor how many policemen may be employed to compel him to be a Puritan He will have his Sunday andMonday paper he will have hia food cooked and eorved will ride to church if he prefers to do EO and can aflord it and rill do many things that them nonsensically strict t laws Bay he ehall I not i do 4 i |