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and a foreigner who served in the late civil war 
has just produced his naturalization papers and 
demanded to have his name placed upon the 
check-list. The officers object, and point to the 
book of statutes open before them, where a sec¬ 
tion states that no name shall be added to the 
list at this late hour except by way of restoring 
a name wrongfully dropped from an earlier list. 
The claimant declares that his name was or 
ought to have been on an earlier list; a candi¬ 
date for office springs upon a chair and shouts 
to the supervisors that he will “make it hot” 
for them if they refuse the veteran his suffrage; 
the crowd cheers, and the officers yield. Then 
the Warrant for the meeting is read, and imme¬ 
diately after an elder offers prayer, the hats and 
caps being doffed in obedience to a loud call of 
' ^hats off.” The prayer is simple and earnest, 
asking for help in a freeman’s highest duty. 
A moderator is chosen, and he delivers a brief 
and clear lecture upon the machinery of the new 
ballot law. Then a resolution is passed with a 
shout, allowing the old men to vote first, and 
the graybeards are pushed gently forward to the 
inclosed space in which the five little voting 
booths are built. 
The voters are kept waiting half an hour, be¬ 
cause at first no one can open the patent ballot 
box, but at last it gives way to some persuasive 
