epidemic of illness since law enforcement has become prac- papers. which liquor is wanted. Druggists to some extent have not publication of the following statement in the daily only that the druggists are insisting on affidavits in people have always been buying these large amounts tically statewide are, as Mark Twain would say, "greatly ex- Could any inference be plainer? It is not that recorded so strictly. This system of perjury and decrease in liquor sales since the brewer ouster suits were Despite all dispatches to the contrary, the reports of an suddenly betrayed great fear of the law. As a result they are now requiring that applicants for li- sands of people have been regularly perjuring them- who formerly may have ignored the statutes at will, have quor shall make affidavit under oath and give the disease for kept for many sales regularly made. This is the reason why that it makes the Kansas people jubilant. Topeka druggists, of liquor at the drug stores, only the sales were not accordance with the letter of the law. Ergo, the which is two-fold in some cases. There is, however, a great aggerated." In fact, it is such a mighty pleasant sickness previously done this, and there was consequently no record begun. their present strict observance shows an apparent increase, selves in order to get a drink. So they secured the people are buying more liquor at the drug stores, but