IMPORTANCE OF A FULL VOTE.

A year ago conditions in the state government were so bad that every thinking voter felt it incumbent upon himself to assist in correcting them, and the result was the wresting of the control of the state from the Democrats. A full vote this fall will insure the continuance of the work begun a year ago.

A WARNING.

After the third of November,

When the vote is counted and won,

Suffragists all, remember,

They will come to you one by one.

Those who were bitter and hateful,

Those who were comic and gay,

And they’ll think you ought to be grateful

When they come to you and say:

“Oh, no, indeed,

I was never opposed.

You must be mixing me up with somebody else.

I own I did not do very much,

But I was always in favor of votes for women.”

Suffragists, will you, I wonder,

Make an unfriendly reply?

Will you frown, threaten and thunder,

Tell them you know that they lie?

Will you be tactful and gracious,

Smoothing their errors away?

Will you be dumbly pugnacious

Or will you merely say:

“No, not at all.

You were always opposed and said so.

When I asked you for a contribution

You said you would rather give your money

To teaching guinea hens how to turkey trot.

You were never for suffrage

Until it happened.”

— Alice Duer Miller in New York Tribune.

SILVER ANNIVERSARY

Rev. George W. Furbeck and Wife Married Twenty-Five Years, Last Saturday — Give Reception to Friends and Relatives.

The Reformed church parsonage was the scene of a most enjoyable reception last Saturday afternoon and evening, when over two hundred friends and relatives gathered to celebrate the silver wedding anniversary of the Rev. and Mrs. George W. Furbeck.

The house was prettily decorated with evergreens, autumn berries, and yellow and white chrysanthemums. Mr. And Mrs. Furbeck received in the parlor beneath a bower of evergreens. Mrs. Furbeck wore her wedding dress and carried an immense bouquet of white chrysanthemums tied with silver colored ribbon.

During the afternoon the Misses Ina L. Sand and Leah E. Mynderse played, while the church orchestra furnished music through the evening.

The members of the Laurel Band of the Sunday school served the refreshments, which were of most tempting natures.

Baby on Her Arm, She Votes.

At the Mineola fair last week one woman insisted upon going through all the maneuvers of voting at the mimic voting booths with her baby in her arms, “just to show how easy it is,” she said. She registered, marked her ticket and triumphantly deposited it with the baby crowing over her shoulder all the while. “Do you know what the baby is saying?” asked the mother — “ ‘Come on in, voting is fine.’ ”

It was at the Mineola fair, too, that the boy scouts found a lost baby and promptly took it to the suffrage booth, “ ’cause we know you suffragists know about kids,” as the spokesman put it.

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