NEW AUSTRALIAN BALLOT
Form of, as it Will Appear at the Polls in Nebraska, November 2,1897.
STATE TICKET
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For Judge pf the Supreme Court
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JOHN N. DRYDEN,
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HRS. ISABELLA SPURLOCK,
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' For Judge of the Supreme Court
WARREN SWITZLER, |“
For Regent* of the State University
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J. STERLING MORTON
JAMES C. CRAWFORD,
INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS
Bead Carefully the following Taken from
*he Klertton Lawk
tj 1. Persons desiring to vote must
procure tlicir ballot from a judge of
the election board.
3. They must then, without leaving
the polling place, proceed to a com
partment and prepare their ballots.
3. The ballots are prepared as fol
lows: If yon wish to vote a straight
ticket, make a mark in the circle at the
top of the ticket, and your ballot will
then be counted for every candidate on
the ticket under the circle. If you
i f: wish to vote otherwise than the straight
ticket, you pluco a cross with an in
delible pencil in the square on the right
margin of the ballot opposite the name
r’ Of each person for whom you wish to
I
vote; if you wish to vote a straight
ticket with the exception of certain
offices, place a cross in the circle at
the head of the ticket you wish to vote
in the main, and then place a cross op
posite the names of the candidates you
wish to vote for on other tickets, or
when two or more candidates are
grouped on the ticket for the same
office, as two or more representatives,
and the voter wishes to vote for one or
more On another tlckot or tickets in
any .group, the voter must make the
cross mark after each candidate in the
group on his own ticket that he wishes
to vote for, and also after the name of
each candidate on any other ticket or
tickets grouped for the same office he
Wishes to vote for. Be careful that
you do not mark the names of persons
for whom you do not wish to vote. Do
not make any mark on the ballot, save
as above directed, or , the ballot
will not be counted. If yon
spoil a ballot return it to a
judge of the election board and obtain
from him a new ballot; yon cannot get
more than four in all; take this to a
compartment and mark it properly.
4. Having marked the ballot, fold
it so as to conceal the names and'
marks on the face and to expose the
names on the back.
5. Take it to the judge of election
before leaving the enclosure, and see
it deposited in the box.
0. Immediately leave the railed en
closure.
7. If you wish to vote-for any . per
son whose name does not appear upon
the ballot, write or Insert his full name
in the blank space on the ballot under
the proper office you wish him to hold,
and make a cross mark in the proper
margin opposite the same.
8. Do not take any ballot from the
polling place; you thereby forfeit the
right to vote.
• No person whomsoever shall do any
electioneering on election day within
any polling place, or any building in
which an election is being held, or
within 100 feet thereof, nor obstruct
the doors or entries thereto, or prevent
free ingress or egress from said build
ing.
Any election officer, sheriff, con
stable, or other peace officer is ' hereby
authorized and empowered, and it is
hereby made his duty, to clear the
passageways and prevent such obstruc
tion, and to arrest any person so do
!ing
No person shall remove any ballot
from the polling place before the clos
ing of the polls.
No person shall show his ballot after
it is marked to any person in such a
way as to reveal the contents, thereof,
or the name of the candidate or candi
dates for whom he has marked his
vote, nor shall any person solicit the
elector to show the same; nor shall
any person except the judge of elec
tion receive from any elector - a Dallot
prepared for voting.
No elector shall receive a ballot
from any other person than one of the
judges of election having charge of
the ballots, nor shall any person other
than such judges of election deliver a
ballot to such elector.
No elector shall vote, or offer to
vote, any ballot except such as he re
ceivcd from the judges of election hav
ing charge of the ballots.
No elector shall place any mark
upon his ballot by which it may after
wards be identified as the one voted by
him.
Every elector who does not vote the ■
ballot delivered to him by the judges'
of election having charge of the ballots
shall, before leaving the polling place,
return such ballot to such judges.
< Whoever shall violate any of the
provisions of this section shall, upon
conviction thereof in any court of com
petent jurisdiction, be fined in any .
sum of not less than $25 and not more
than $100 and adjudged to pay:''the ~ ‘
costs of prosecution.'
Mick (writing)—“Dear Briget: If I
ain’t back before I comes, I shall ar
rive as soon as I can get there, so mind
and don’t miss me when we meet.
' fA DEVOTEE OP MORPHEUS.
*frhs Oak* of DoTonihlr* Stoop* la tho
' House of Lords.
, It is said the Duke vt, Devonshire
/ goes to sleep in the house of lui-Uo.
/What else is he to <io should that au
gust house sit late, as it does three or
four times a year? ltestdes. lt is the
.custom to go to sleep in parliament
when you have a mind to. The rules
.... forbid the perusal of a newspaper, a
magazine or a book. If a peer or a
member of'the commons desires to
| read he must go to the reading-room
Igor the library.
; Therefore, when a bore is on his
legs about 10 or 11 o'clock,"and bis dlf
;.fuse and uninteresting commonplaces
- nre running out in turgid verbosity,
., what better thing can a statesman do
..than go to sleep?
When in - the lower house as Lord
Hprtington the duke was a confirmed
"sleeper, with his legs against the
- clerk's table, his hat tilted down over
• ,'his eyes, his mouth open and < arms
' ^ fol^fid, or balancing Ills body upon the
, seat. At times his lordship was guilty
of an approach to snoring. People
'.who go to bed about 3 or 4 in the
‘nioming must take their sleep some
Where. _ &■
A Otesntlo Goddess of War. <
fr: - In the. Japanese capital there Is a
gigantic.image of a woman made of
wood, iron and plaster. The time of
*r Ha eroctkiu and the name of its design
er are in dispute, but it is known to
'■it have been dedicated tp Hacbimau, the
igod of war. In height U measures si
feet, and the head alone, which is
I reached by.a wtadipg stairway in the
^ Interior of xne figure. being capable of
holding a company of 30 persons. The
\ goddess holds a sword in her right
; |!hand and a huge painted wooden ball
in the left., Internally the statue is
fr the flnost ariatomk-al model in exist
•nee, every bone, joint and ligament
being represented on a gigantic a .-ale
,■ la proportion to the height and gener
. al size of the huge figure itself. The
large eyes are magnifying glasses,
. through which a fine view of the sur
rounding country may be had.
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- M tkalii With a Htrinjr to la
Th# Qther night a very young Amer
ican was being pnttobed by bis gentle
little |^>tber.' The youngster had just
been engaged in an affray with a
neighbor’s boy, and had got deeidedly
the worst of the battle. His mother,
thinking it m good time to inculcate
the principle* of forgivenesa to our
onomlea, told young James that he
moat auy. “God bieos Blohard!” Rich
ard being the dame of the odious and
victorious antagonist. James demur
His mother insisted. After some
ion Jamee yielded, with a very
•God bless Richard,” be
with grim satis
I lilt lias liek In the
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8MAKT RATS,
They Found n Way to Got at the
Cakea.'
The reasoning bump in a rat’s head
is not as distinctly visible as the same
protuberance in an elephant, yet the
rodent occasionally shows a fair sup*
ply of horse sense. Mrs. James How*
lett of Somerset, Ky., recently wit
nessed an exibition of intelligence on
the part of a couple of rats that raised
the genus io her estimation. Mrs.
Howlett has for some time been miss
ing little cakes or cookies from the
pantry after her Saturday’s baking.
She kept these cakes in an old soup
tureen, and would carefully place the
cover on. Sho would invariably find
this cover raised out of the groove in
which it fitted tightly and turned cross
wise over the tureen.
At last she determined to wait for
the depredators, and this is what she
saw: First an old gray rat came cau
tiously on the shelf where the tureen
sat. He reconuoitcred, then made, a
Slight noise, and another rat appeared.
One of the rodents went to each end of
the tureen and backed up against it,
the hind legs stickiug up against the
aides of the cake box. Their tails were
then .wrapped around the handles on
each end of the cover, .and at a given
signal the rodents pushed upward to
gether,'and the cover was raised. It.
.was.an easy matter after this to turn
the cover so as to rest crossways on the
tureen. This left an opening at both
ends, and the rats went in and helped
themselves.
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Fm Soda Water,
An up-town dry goods store in New
York last summer tried the expert-,
meat of giving soda water to Its pa
trons free. An enormous fountain,
well equipped for service, was placed
in the back part of the store, and on
each hot day half a dozen attendants
were kept busy serving adamorous,
thirsty and never diminishing crowd.
One day upward of 7,000 glasses of
soda water were drawn from that free
fountain. This year the firm charges
three cents a glass for its soda water,
and m» result the patronage has fallen
off to a remarkable extent. On two
very hot days some time ago, although
the store w as well filled with custom
ers, the soda fountain at no time was
overworked.
Origin of Donning.
During the reign of Henry VIL there
lived in Lincoln, England, a famous
bailiff named Joe Dunn. Joseph waa
very clever in the management of hia
business, and ao dexterous in annoy
ing those who lefused the payment of
an account with which he had been in
trusted that, “to set Dunn on him,” or
“to Dunn him,” became common ad
vice to the owner of a bad debt To
this personage we owe what to not a
few people is one of the most disagree
able words in tbe language.
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HOW Hg TESTED THE TRAIN.
Dom Padro'a Way of Trying • Now Brake
and Its Inventor.
The late Emperor Dom Pedro, of
Bazll, once gave audience to a young
engineer who came to show him a new
appliance for stopping railway engines.
The emperor was pleased with the
thing and said:
“We will put It at onoe to a practi
cal tost The day after to- morrow have
your engine ready; we will havh it
coupled to my saloon carriage, and
then yon can fire away. When going
at full speed l will unexpectedly give
the signal to stop, and then we will
see how the apparatus will work.”
At the appointed time the emperor
entered his carriage and the engineer
mounted his engine, and on they went
for a considerable distance; indeed, the
young engineer began to suspect that
the emperor had fallen asleep, when
the train suddenly came to a sharp
curve round the edge of the cliff, ou
turning which the driver saw, to his
horror, an immense bowlder lying on
the rails.
He had just sufficient presence of
mind to turn the crank on his brake
and pull up the engine within a couple
of yards of the fatal block.
Here the emperor put his head out
'.of the window and asked what they
were stopping for. The engineer
pointed to the piece of rock, on seeing
which Dom Pedro burst into a merry
laugh.
“Push the thing on one side!” he
hailed out .to the engineer, who had
jumped down from the locomotive; and
.When the latter in his confusion blind
ly obeyed, and -kicked the stone with
his foot, it crumbled into dust
i It was a block of staroh that Dom
Pedro had ordered tb be placed on the
trails the night before._
Cash and Credit.
An enterprising grocer in the town
of Santa Clara, California, has adopted
'an original method of trade. Each
aide of the store is fitted up for busi
ness on its own account In the
general arrangement each side is a
duplicate of the other, the difference
being that one side is for cash and the
other for credit When a customer
comes in, the first question asked is,
“Do you wish to buy for cash or on
account?” If it is a cash customer the
goods on each aide are shown; but it
it Is one who wants credit he is shown
to the other side, and for the first time
in his life perhaps made to realise the
value of ready money.
Her Day Would Como.
We are all prone to retaliate for pen.
sonal slights, but perhaps the funniest
incident of it is one of an old Irish
woman, who, seeing a funeral to
which she had expected an invitation
pass her door, expostulated angrily:
“Oh, go on wid yo! go on wld ye! go
on wld ye! But maybe there'll be a
funeral at oar house soon, and thin
we'll see who’ll be axed!”
A RUSSIAN BELL.
Returned to Its Home After a Banishment
■ of Three Centuries.
A distinguished Siberian exile snug
ly packed in a wooden box and honored
.with the regretful farewells of a whole
population has just been returned to
European Russia under an escort of a
committee of citizens glad to receive it
back after its many privations. The
said exile is no other than the famous
bell of Uglich, banished to Tobolsk in
1593 by order of the Czar Boris Godu
noff for having rung the signal for the
insurrection in Uglich at the time of
the assassination of the Crown Prince
Dimitri. Writing of it in his book Mr.
Kennan says: “The exiled bell has
been purged of its iniquity, has re
ceived ecclesiastical consecration, and
now calls the orthodox people of To
bolsk to prayers. The inhabitants of
Uglich have recently been trying to
recover their bell upon the plea that !
it has been sufficiently punished by ■
three centuries of exile for its political
untrustworthyness in 1593, and that it
ought now to be allowed to return to
its home. The mayor of Tobolsk
argues that the bell was exiled for life,
and that consequently its term of ban
ishment has not yet expired. He con
tends, furthermore, that even admitting
the original title of the Uglich people,
three centuries of adverse possession
by the city of Tobolsk have divested j
the claimants of all their rights, and ]
that the bell shall be allowed to remain :
where it is. The question, it is said,
will be carried into the Russian
courts. ” The latest news from Tobolsk,
besides showing that a decision has
been reached in favor of Uglich, illus
trates the inconsequential character
of Russian justice, which closes its
tribunals to the wrongs of thousands
of sufferers in Siberia and opens them
to a miserable squabble about a belL
BRITISH CONSCRIPTS.
The Unpopular Law Adopted In British
Guiana.
The absence of the conscription is
one of the distinguishing features of
the British empire. In one portion of
the empire, however, namely, British
■Guiana, the conscript has just been
adopted. The ordinance in question
met with the strongest possible oppo
. sition in the colony on the ground of
its “un-English” character. However,
in the face of the fact that it has been
found impossible to maintain the vol
unteer force at anything like an effi
cient numerical strength, and as the
governor pointed out that unless they
had a drilled force they would he at
the mercy of a wretched mob of a hun
dred well-armed Venezuelans if they
came, the ordinance was agreed to,
and now, at the proclamation of the
governor, every male resident in the
colony between the ages of 18 and 45
is compelled to turn out and drill with
a view to making himself an efficient
member of the colony’s forces.
CURIOUS RAILWAY RELIC.
Specimen of the Flint Passenger Ticket
Used on the Railroads.
Among various trophies secured by
Chief Smith, of the transportation de
partment of the world’s fair, during
his recent visit to Europe, is a small
brass pocket piece resembling aa
ordinary baggage check, which is
worth a great deal more than its
weight in gold. It ig of octagon shape
and on one side is stamped the inscrip
tion “L. and S. Railway,” “Bagworth,
No. 39.” On the opposite side the
number is repeated. This fortunately
preserved relic represents the kind
and form of tickets in use in 183:2 for
“open-carriage passengers” on the
Leicester and Swannington Railway.
The distance covered by the main
tine was a trifle over sixteen miles,
and the passenger fares charged were
one and a quarter pence per mile.
There was one class only, and passen
gers stood up in an open carriage,
generally known as a tub, which was
nothing better than a high-seated
goods wagon, having no top, no seats,
no spring buffers. These brass tick
ets were issued to the various stations,
the guard of the train carrying a
leather bag something in the style of
a collection box, having eight separate
divisions, one for each station. At the
end of each passenger's journey his
ticket was taken up and placed in the
bag by the guard to be returned, re
corded on the books and again used.
A COUNTRY OF REPTILES.
No Land Beats Australis for Snakesi
Lizards and Frogs.
A Scotchman who has lately traveled
extensively in Australia says that it is
a great reptile country. “I have
traveled" he said, "in almost every
country and I have never fonnd a land
that went ahead of Australia for
snakes, lizards and frogs. There are
some sixty-five species of snakes in
that country, of which forty-two are
venomoi^s and twelve positively dan
gerous. There are forty or fifty dif
ferent kinds of frogs, embracing every
variety from a common tree frog to a
large green variety with blue eyes and
a gold back, making a wonderful
showing of color as he hops about.
There are probably forty kinds of
lizards, of which twenty belong to a
class known as night lizards, many of
which hibernate. One species can
utter a cry when hurt or alarmed, and
another kind, the frilled lizard, can
lift its fore legs and hop about like a
kangaroo. The monitor, or fork
tongue lizard, burrows in the earth,
climbs and swims and grows to a
length of nine or ten feet. The
crocodiles of Queensland, however,
grow to a length sometimes of forty
feet. Some of the Australian species
of lizards oaa change their color not
only from light to dark but from gray
to red. All kinds of turtle are caught!
I saw one caught there that was ten
feat in length.
WHENCE CAME THE FROQS?
A Shower In Sew Jersey Suggests Some
Scientific Speculation.^ . s
During a thunderstorm in New Jer*.
sey lately it “rained frogs’’ to such an
extent that, according’ to the testi- y
mony of multitudinous witnesses, the ' ^
streets of Port Morris were alive with
hundreds of these creatures. Here’s a
state of things which science can no,
more explain to-day than it could two
thousand years ago. It is still said, of
course, that these frogs were sucked .
up in marshes and carried into the ^
clouds, hut no human being ever yet
saw a frog thus taken up, and it is odd
that nothing is ever “raised to emi
nence in this way except the frog,
though plenty of other living things
may be near by all ready to be sucked v
up.
A good many observers hold to the
curious and interesting opinion that
under certain very rare electrical con
ditions life seems generated spontane
ously. The frog is a peculiarly elec
trical creature, and in fact, first sug
gested the existence of animal mag
netism as a distinct force to science.
If any animal could be thus suddenly
and strangely called into being it .
might well be the frog. Now that the
university extension professors are
setting to work teaching the people
science, it would be interesting to
hear them explain mysteries such aa
the descent of frogs, which has been v
the talk of Port Morris and all the
region round about.
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John Johnson’s Complaint.
Men who become suddenly rich,
should be judged leniently. They
have many temptations from which
the rest of us are, happily, delivered.
Mr. John Johnson, a man of this class,
was desirous to be known as of a
literary turn of mind, and to that end
proceeded to lay in a library. One of
his purchases was an old dictionary,
which, being somewhat out of repair,
.was sent to the binders. When it was ' * ‘
returned to the purchaser he found,
printed on its back the words, “John
son’s Dictionary.” The sight threw
him into a furious .passion, and he de
manded of the messenger: “Why
didn’t he put the full name on. ‘John '
Johnson's Dictionary?1 ”
A Noted Indian Fighter.
There was dug up recently at Elliotti
.Me., a gold ring, bright and shining,
bearing the inscription: “Hon. John
Frost, Esq., ob. 35 Feb, 1833-3 x. 51."
Hon. John Frost was the son of Copt.
Charles Frost, who was killed by the
Indians near the Berwick line of Kit
tery about 1783. Capt. Frost was a
noted Indian fighter, and when he was
buried by his friends the Indians dug
him up and elevated the body on poles.
The whites were obliged to bury the
body again at a great depth, and cover
the grave with stones to prevent fur
ther desecration.
