Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-04-01
A POLITICAL KINDERGARTEN.
K1ectisn judges to Be fought How to
Count Votes ON Bulling Ballots.

K1ectisn Judges to Be Taught How Co
Count Votes ON Bulling Ballots.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 25.-A firm
here that manufactures school sup
plies was astonished the other day
when there came in the mail an order
for 500 blackboards 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 will be 1000 or 5000 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 &C
count of the errors made by the voters,
and the ballot will be still more puz-
cling at the approaching election, on
account of the many tickets in the
field, regular and independent. The
ballot will be nearly a yard wide and
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Voters has to keep an extra supply at
the polls, for an emergency that may
arise through theft or by loss, and he
has ordered 1000 ballots from the
printers. Each vote cast will cost the
the State a cent.
AS soon as the regular amusement
season closes next month, the summer
opera gardens will open. 1,here 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 are of the free-and-easy
kind, where beer is sold decorously, to
be sure, but still with the result of
keeping many away who are pre- JUDGED
against the fashion of listening to
music while sitting at tables, but the
most of the places are conducted under
the strict rules of a 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 month then it will be
a 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 few nights ago, the new
Hamlet said that he had found, gener-
ally, that the people of the West APP
preciated the legitimate drama much
more than those of the East. That
the actor was not indulging in mere
complimentary phrases was shown by
his playing here for two weeks,
his usual term of engagement being
only one. He drew crowded houses
every night, playing in one of The
largest theaters 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
s1.5O or 50 seat. The tbeater where
they play will be filed every night.
and the other houses where the usual
are do not feel any loss.
At present, even this late in the season,
when theater-goers cannot be blamed
for feeling trife iaded, and with po-
litical meetings being held every night,
Ill of the eight high-class places of
are making money.