Shut Off Drinks

vvnen tne communicauon irora the Schwabian Aid Society, withdrawing its invitation to the Council to take part in the Society's 4th ffi July exercises, was read, the city fathers spit cotton and glared at each other with a sort of "we'veraised-Cain" expression. With the saloons all closed on the 4th and the Schwabian invitation revoked, the council was contronted with the prospect of the dryest Fourth it had ever experienced. The council had kicked a hat with a stone under it. Aid. Manly, after getting his wind, said he was not a bit surprised at the communication. It was the Schwabian habit to celébrate the 4th of July, and, although they may have slightly bent the state statute, no damage had resulted. He then proceeded to lay the "black thorn" over the organic body of the present administration for tolerating club rooms where liquor was sold late at night and on Sunday. The Aldêrman seemed to think that the authorities in giving blind-eyed indulgence to the liquor drinking in club rooms and girding up against the Schwabians were straining at a mosquito and swallowing a dromedarv. Aid. Prettyman deplored the disposition of some of the society to load him up with the responsibility of the situation, and argued that the statutes, not he, had drawn the Unes. The statutes were on the books to be enforced. Aid. Manly returned to the assault on the club rooms and would be glad to see an ordinance forbidding liquor being taken into society houses, and added that unlesssomething were done, the legislature would et pass a law forbidding the sale of liquor within ten miles of the University.