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Show HER FIRST VOTE, f It was tho evening of election day, i-nnd i-nnd Higgleby had just returned home. f. "Well, my Jear Jane,'' said he, as ho kissed his wife, "did you vote to- : day?" J "Yes," replie'd tho lady. "Straight ticket, I suppose?" smiles hor husband. ' "Well, no," said Mrs Higgleby, "After thinking it all ovor and reading read-ing the platforms of both parties, I felt that one was about as good aa I the other, so I split my ticket " j; "Split it?" roared Higgleby "Why, ' how did you do it?" 'Why, Instead of putting an X over . tho name of one candidate," said Mrs. HIggloby, "I diided it in half and '' put a V over both," Harper's ' Weekly. |