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.. Downwat the Young Men's Club House, Enoeh Brand. Daniel Cobb. Archibald Fletcher, Mr. Palmer. F. Rudolph and sevural other more or less mhutrantial citizmls guarded the 0r annexing the Phillipines and Cuba. We heard several speak highly of Foes and a good many of Smoot and Mawman and Lyun. VOL IV. ELECTION NOTES. In Deerfield everything was as quiet and orderly. as an old Puritan Sunday. Up at the North End some of the oldest, wisest and best men presided/fiver the day’s doings, no one said a word about “expansion” Pon alum Jlmu. looking nonb- HIGHLAND PARK, ILL., NOVEMBER that female ballot. Fred Rudolph ran .over to Dunn’s store and got an empty cigar bux, and in that Mrs. Fessendeu’s ballot was placed. After an hour‘s patient study of the law. Enoch Brand startled his assciatea by telling them} their improvised bal lo? box mth hava a lock. Themâ€" upnn M r. Fletcher went, (War to his boxes. Everything wan going nicely when Mrs. Ben. Fessenden went to the polls to vote, and lo, there was no box for her ballot and as the Aus- tralian ballot is like a Quaker meet- ingâ€"each sex must have a pen by itselfuthey had to have a box for ’. JI. Montgom': beautiful «mm bone to the left. and then locked it with the greatest care. While Mr. Fletcher was gone for the wire and lock Fred Rudolph sat on it to keep the solitary ballot from flying out. But disasters come not singly. No sooner was the locking problem solved, tlmn ex Alderman Cohl) broke forth saying “Gentlemen. you know old office and returned in about half ankhour with ten feet of No. 16 icop- 'per wire and a brass padlock, suita- ble for a freight car or tin cash box, and they wound every inch of that wire around that cigar box length- wise and crosswise, one ballot inside, 11 I898. NO 24.