Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-03-30
A POLITICAL KINDERGARTEN
Election Judges to BE Taught How to
Count Votes on BulIinE Ballots.

Count Votes on hullins Ballot.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March ga Arm
here that manufactures school sup
plies was astonished 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 elec.
ton there will be 1909 or 1900 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 tho judges
and clerks of election how to count
the ballots after they are east.
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-
cling 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 a foot long. The Recorder of
Voters has TO keep an extra supply at
the polls, for an emergency that may
arise through theft or by loss, and he
fas ordered 1000 ballots from the
primers, Zach vote cast will cost the
tho State q 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
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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 prs 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 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 it will be
a very melancholy individual indeed
who can prevent himself from being
ENTERTAINERS 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 ap.
preciated 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 being
only one. He drew crowded houses
every night, playing in enc % H.
largest theaters of the city, and rails
ing his prices. Nor WAS his succC SIS
due to any special foadness of the
people of the city for Lin. The o:Ci-
nary theatcr reserved seat price here is
81. When actors of extra ordinary merit
come, they invariably put that up 10
81. so or g. a seat. The tEcat,r whc~a
they play will be tillel every night.
and the other houses where the usual
attractions are do not feel any loss.
At present, even this late in the season,
when theatcrgocrs cannot be biz mel
for feeling trihc jaded, and with po-
litical meetings being held every night,
all of the eight high-class places OF
amuscmemcnt are making money