The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-04-01
a POLITICAL KINDERGARTEN.

Election Judges to Be Taught How to
l. Count votes on Pulling Ballots. q
ST. LOUIS, No, March 25.-A firm
here that manufactures school sup
plies was astouished the other day
when there came in the mail an order
for 500 black boards from the cam.
paign committee of one Of the political
parties. The other campaign commit
tees are placing the same kind of orders
with their favorite manufacturers, and
the result will be that after the cleo
ton there viii be 1900 or 1000 black
boards for sale cheap to schools in
smaller towns or in the country. The
blaclboards are to be used TO teach
voters how to scratch the Australian
ballot, and 20 train the judges
and clerks of election how to count
tins ballots after they are cast.
live per cent of the c,tys vote was
tirown cut ct the last election on nc-
count OF the errors made by the voters,
und the ballot will be still more puz-
cling ut the approaching election, on
account OF tine many tickets in the
field, regular and independent. The
ballot Will be nearly yard wide and
about foot long. The Recorder of
Voters has to keep an extra supply at
the polls. for en- er,c~rencv THAI NV
has ordered 2.0,Oo1 ballots from the
printers. Each vote cast will cost tho
the State n cent
AS soon us the regular amusement
season closes next month, the summer
opera gardens will open. There arc
several of these, in different parts of
the city, aud although they have to get
along without The patronage of the
thousands who go TO the seashore and
the mountains, their managers are well
enough supported to justify them in
bringing to their theaters the very best
companies that sing comic opera sum
mer after summer. One or two OF
these resorts are OF the frec-and-easy
kind, where beer is sold decorously, to
be sure, but still with the result of
keeping many away who are pr. JUDGED
against the fashion of listening to
music while sitting ut tables, but the
most of the places are conducted under
the strict rules OF winter theater.
The summer gardens will hardly be
closed long enough for the people to
miss them when the fall carnival will
begin, and for q month then it will be
very melancholy individual indeed
who can prevent himself from being
entertained, unless he shuts himself up
in his room, and away from the sights
Vi ilt bNtttlS
AT the Press Club banquet to Wilson
Barrett few nights ago, the new
Hamlet said that he had for nd gener-
ally, that the people of the West APP
pr, ciated the legitimate drama much
more than those OF the East. That
the actor was not indulging in mere
complimentary phrases was shCwn hy
his playing here for two weeks,
his usual term of engagement b' ing
only one. lie drew crowded house,
every night, playing in one OF h
largest theaters of the city, AMI rails
ing his prices. Nor was his succ, IS
due to any special fondness of the
people of the city for him. The ordi-
nary thcater reserved seat price here is
81. When actors Of extraordinary merit
come, they invariably put that up to
tl.5O or 81 seat. The theatcr where
they play will be fllei every night.
and the other houses where the usual
attractions are do not feel any loss.
At present, even this late in the season,
whom theater-goers cannot be blamed
for feeling trihc jaded, and with po-
litical meetings being held every night,
all of the eight high class places OF
Commencement are ma ring money.