The following good story is told
of a Jamaica Plain. Mass,, republican
who told his wife, a few days before
election, that if Massachusetts went
democratic he shouid leave the
state, and added that he meant it,
too. Upon waking the morning
after election, he remarked that his
olfactories were not greeted with the
usual odors from the kitchen, and
going to the door, he called his wife
to inquire the cause, noting, at the
same time that preparations to move
were going on down stairs. She
informed him quietly that the State
had gone democratic, and he called
savagely for a paper that he might
know the worst. It was brought to
him. and he was closeted with it for
some time, then, coming to the door,
he shouted h> Ins wife: “Get the
breakfast. Mary, no matter about
moving—there isn’t any place to go
to.”
Paying Her Elect lon Bel.
('iiioago HeraM.
M..rblehead. Mass. Nov. 14—This
usually quiet old ftshing town
revelled m excitement to-night
over the fulfillment of an odd
election wager. It is, and has been
for years, a Butler stronghold, yet
Mrs. Martha Chapman, one of the
“suffering women” of Marblehead,
had the audacity to make a wager
with Mrs. Hannah Perry, another
strong-minded but sensible female,
that the red.outable General would
not carry Marblehead. When the
election returns were compared it
was found that the fisherman’s
town was the banner Butler town,
the General polling 585 majority
in a a total of J,500 votes. To-night
Mrs. Chapman wheeled Mrs. Perry,
esconsced as comfortably in a big
wheelbarrow gaily hung with bunt
ing as 300 avordupois would per
mit, down State street, around the
square and Town Hall home again.
