The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-07-27
Letter From waynesburgh.

MIR. .EDITOR:-Being confident that you
will welcome communication from
this portion of the county, for you have
many friends here,we undertake to send
you few items of interest. Though
you will be pleased to hear from me, we
doubt not that there are others in the
county to whom our letter will be of
more direct Importance from a moral
point of view, and of more or less value
in social and business way. But busi-
ness Is quite dull at present, so that Just
now no remaIk of any kind could either
injure or improve the means by which
our good people gain their livelihood.
Still none are idle. Actual idleness is a
vice unknown among the better portion
of our citizens. Among the ill-bred,
now and then, it results in Outbursts of
grOundless passion, which, however, our
officials through immediate and timely
interference quell by the authority of
the law.
Our town is we'll remembered by visi-
tors this season, and the presence of 80
many pleasant ana entertaining people
from other localities makes us happy in
causing to study their pleasure. No,
there IS no idleness. We are all busy.
Some are entertaining company, some
attending to necessary business, some
go fishing whilst others play cTOquet,
and many of us who are destitute of
literary tastes are regaling ourselves by
deVouring with ayidity the back num-
bers of the Enterprise"
THAT MYSTIC JOURNAL
makes no nOpretensiOn to continued purity
of Language OF of thought, and it ex-
hibits anger when some of us who lend it
support in kind way for the good of
the community, point out here and
fhnrn INN nvNA
Strange caper this, but true. 1t declares
openly that its aim is not very exalted
and proves not only this declaration but
also that 1t lacks what in common
faTlance is called tone" 1t proves
these things by an article on the first
page of the last issue. If we cannot
aim to attain literary merit we should
at least strive to use pure linguistic
style, If not free from grammatical er-
rOrs, at least free from Yulgarisms, free
from contradictions, in which impure
language and scripture quotations are
careleSsly mingled in support of one
another. 1t is not right to use and
abuse the sacred text at the same time.
Do the Scriptures not also declare: "But
whoever shall say thou fool shall be in
danger of hell-fire?" Such incOngrui-
ties ought not to occur. If the writer
of the article referred to could be pre-
vailed upon to confess his mental state
at the time of composition doubtless he
would say:
'Sae gat paper In blink
And down gaed stumpe in the ink;
QuOth L; Before sleep wink
wow III close 1t,
And II ye Wilma max II Clink
By JOve I'll prose it,
sac I've begun to scrawl but whether
In rhyme, OF prose, or bath thegither,
or some hotchpotch that's rightly neither.
Let time max proof;
But shall scribble down some blether
just clean atf-OOf."
To many it will be of interest to
know that certain
CHARGES OF BRIBERY
on the part of members of the old school
board are entirely without foundation in
fact and have become a source of shame
to those persons who claimed to have
discovered evidence of their truth.
These charges received premature pub
licity in a neighbOring paper through a
prejudiced correspondent. We can con-
sole ourselves that we are not of them.
The wraDgling is confined to the stall
warts and half breeds. Since the late
change in our town school board the
educational ring is perfected and all our
citizens are living in earnest eXpecta-
ton of an improvement in the condition
of our schools. More anon.
PASCAL.
The New York Clothing Store, Oper-