Show SOTTO VOCE THESE was a pretty kettle of fish set to cooking in town yesterday when the Tribune announced what John M Young had said in the Fourth of July meeting the night before If the City Council wont give us the streets lets get our guns and take them I On hearing a thing of that kind ones mind involuntarily goes hunting about for some terse juicy expressive expletive that will fully express and do full justice jus-tice to ones feelings Not finding any the irresistible impulse is to gag and cry ior nux vowica or lobelia I WE wonder how that beautiful brotherly broth-erly confid neeinspiring tradebuild ing utterance sounded against the walls of the Chamber of Commerce How it struck men like McCornick and institutions like the Union National Na-tional Bank What the Auerbachs must have thought of it We fancy we can hear one good round old fashioned English oath proceeding from the lip of everyone of them in unis In as they read of it WE have just got this far when we are advised and assured by a committee of the Fourth of July people that Mr I Youngs remarkwas intended as a joke teat all the tempest that has oeen aroused is due again to the blunder of that infinite source of blunders the Triunes Innocent reporter So many things have been laid to the san e door that the first impulse is to cry CheslJ nut But knowing the Tribune ana its reporters as we do we feel constrained con-strained to accept the explanation All that has been said of Mr Young therefore he will consider as trans ferred to the Tribune and its reporter But Mr Young should know that joking jok-ing with firearms Is always a dangerous danger-ous practice and especially so in the presence of Innocence like the Tribune reporter e TM f 5 f fct fa i THEY tell a certain story oli one of pur locajrin jmstfrg o frhat nomination nomina-tion we shall noLjsay He is a strict a bstaineriromthe licup that cheers inallits formA ant UhV tyber night calling on a lady friend where wine was served he resolutely declined even looking at a glass of the ruby At least you wont refuse a glass of homemade beer with me urged the lad of the house Well if itd homemade I see no harm in it was his response and two or three foaming tumblers were dispatched dis-patched by the parson with relish and gusto The evening wore on and the reverend gentlemansitting in the heated room began to grow conscious of a feeling of strange exhilaration exhilar-ation He knew at once recalling recall-ing the days of his youth what was coming over him but he was not so far gone as to fail to realize that he must depart before the growing feeling had taken entire possession of him He arose quickly and called for his hat When he reached the door he fixed a glance in which stern reproach and a jovial twinkle were struggling hard for the mastery upon his fair hostess and saidDidnt Didnt I understand you to say that beer was homemade So it was innocently replied the lady It was Fishers made on the banks of the Jordan River |