The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-04-22
A POLITICAL KINDERGARTEN.
Election Judges to He Taught How to
Count votcs on Bulling Ballots.


Count votos on Buiiing Ballots.
Sr. Louis, No., March 25.--A firm
here that manufactures school sun.
Flies was astonished the other dav
when there came in the mail an order
for 500 blackboards from the cam
paignccommittec 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 elec-
ton there will be 1000 or 1000 black.
boards for sale cheap to schools in
smaller towns or in the country. The
blackboards are to be used to teach
voters how to scratch the Australian
ballot, and to train the Judges
and clerks of election how to count
the ballots after they are cast.
Five per cent of the city's vote was
thrown out at the last election on ac-
count of the errors made by the voters,
and the ballot will be still more puz.
zling at the approaching election, on
account of the many tickets in the
field, regular and independent. The
BALLOT will be nearly yard wide and
about foot long. The Recorder of
Voters has toekeep an extra supply at
the polls, for an emergency that may
arise through theft or by loss, and he
has ordered 31O,000 ballots from the
printers. Each vote cast will cost the
the State cent.
AS soon as the regular amusement
season closes next month, the summer
opera gardens will open. There are
several of these, in different parts Of
the city. and 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 arc of the free-and-casy
kind, where beer is sold decorously. To
be sure, but still with the result OF
keeping many away who are pre- JUDGED
music while sitting at 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 a month then ii 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
of the streets.
At the Press Club banquet to Wilson
Barrett IA few nights ago, the new
Hamlet said that he had found, gener-
ally, that the people of the West APP
preciatcd the legitimate drama much
more than those of the East. That
the actor was not INDUCING in mere
complimentary phrases was shown by
his playing here for two weeks.
his usual term of engagement.'beng
only one. He drew crowded houses
every night. playing in one OF the
largest theatcrs of the city, and rails
ing his prices. Nor was his success
due to any special fondness of the
people of the city for him. The ordi-
nary theater reserved seat price here is
81. When actors of extraordinary merit
come, they invariably put that up TO
81. so or 81 a scat. The theater where
they play will be filed every night.
and the other houses where the usual
attractions are do not feel any loss.
At present.cve this late in the season,
when theater-goers. cannot be blamed
for feeling trifle jaded, and with po-
litical meetings being held every night.
all of the eight high-class places of
amusemement are making money.