text:  Reader if you were ever at a hard contested election where you had bet your fifty or a hundred dollars on your favourite candidate and just when you made sure of losing and your five senses were almost extinguished by noise brandy and tobacco smoke you heard the result proclaimed that secured you your stake and a hundred per cent to boot; if you have ever been placed in such circumstances then and then only can you form an idea of the joyful feeling with which we heard that shout