NEW AUSTRALIAN BALLOT Form of, as it Will Appear at the Polls in Nebraska, November 2,1897. STATE TICKET f| £ ■. SR1 : fe y For a straight ticket mark within this circle. For Judge pf the Supreme Court ALFRED M. POST, - f~ ...□ For Regents of the Stste University Vote for Two CHAS. W. KALEY, - JOHN N. DRYDEN, ;, t a ' , $ ...... Peoples Independent For a straight ticket mark within this olroie. o For Judge of the Supreme Court JOHN J. SULLIVAN, . .<••••.•••••□ For Regents of the State University Vote for Two E. VON FORELL, - - GEO. F. KENOWER, - f” Democrat For a straight ticket mark within this circle. Forjudge of the Supreme Court JOHN J. SULLIVAN, - | For Regents of the State University Vote for Two E. VON FORELL, - GEO. f. KENOWBR, - Silver Beplcan For a straight ticket mark within this circle. For Judge of the Supreme Court JOHN J. SULLIVAN, - ^ For Regent* of the State Univenity Vote for Two E. VONFORELL, - GEO. F. KENOWER, - For a straight ticket mark within this circle. o For Judge of the Supreme Court D. M. STRONG, - - - □ □ For Regents of the State University Vote for Two HRS. ISABELLA SPURLOCK, D. L. WHITNEY, - - For a straight ticket mark within this circle. o *>■' ■j, • ' For Judge of the Supreme Court WARREN SWITZLER, |“ For Regent* of the State University . Vote for Two > 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 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 v ** r ••••* ... *4 ■ I '.... 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. Vfc.,. 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. : ' V. 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. 7 - - -■ .. — 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.