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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25
"NOW LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP"

Who wrote that child's prayer? His work
has done more for humanity than all the
creeds of councils, or all the systems OF dlVlnl-
ty put together. 1 fancy some gifted and
loving mother composed it for her own darl-
ings, not dreaming that for centuries it would
be taught by innumerable mothers to millions
of children that indeed it would be trans
mitted from generation to generation, through
all revolutions, all political and social changes
to the end of time. How many men and wo-
men, brave boys and gentle girls, to-day date
their first impressions, the first awakening of
conscience, the first thought of God, the Gra-
cious Guardian of his children on earth, to
that precious prayer? &? How many aged men
and matrons, sitting serenely in the golden
glow of life's cloudless evening, trace with
gratitude to God, the promise and the potency
of their characters and destinies the twilight
worship of the bedside when kneeling at their
mothers knees they said that prayer?
Happy child whose mother solemnly and
tenderly teaches her little ones the simple, the
immortal words
In the very impressive and touching ad-
dress of the late Judge Thomas Thompson, of
the South Carolina bench, to five young men
convicted of murder, he remarked that he
pitied them and had thought that perhaps no
tender mother shielded their infant inno-
cence, and taught them kneeling at her knee
the prayer, "Now lay me down to sleep"
81 know not," said the Judge, ''who wrote
that prayer, but would rather be the author
of it than the finest poem in the world, for it
it has shaped the destiny Of millions and mil
lions of the human race. Courts and codes
of law may pass away, but prayer will endure
to the end of time to bless mankind"
When listening to Judge Thompson's words,
1 was reminded of a touching, beautiful Incl
dent in the last hours of that noble and just
man, Judge D. L. Wardlaw, of Abbeville, S.
G. The grand old Judge lay on his death.bed.
His family did not suppose that his end was
so near. In perfect peace he bade them good
night, saying that he thought he would sleep
we'll. He seemed to sleep sweetly and only
a little granddaughter sat in his chamber.
The silence of the night in the old patriarch's
room was softly broken by his voice, repeating
the prayer Of his infancy. AS a little child,
the learned and able jurist and statesman, with
his hands folded on his breast, said, "Now
10y me down to sleep, pray thee, Lord, my
soul to keep; if l should die before I wake,
pray thee, Lord, my soul to take"
The payer concluded, he fell asleep and died
before he woke, and the Lord took his soul
"And Jesus called little child unto him and
set him in the midst of them and said, Verify
I say unto you, except ye be converted and
become as little children, ye shall not enter
into the kingdom of heaven"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25

WHEN TO GET MARRIED.-Among the per-
picking conundrums which come to the Times
is one from young man who wants to
know when he had better get married. He
SAYS he is without fortune and has very
small income. He really doesn't talk as if he
ought to get married at all. He doesn't seem
to have made the first preparation. He has
little better sense, however than the average
of young men of his class, because he seeks
advice before he rushes into marriage. The
most of them wait until it is too late and then
wish they had done something else
There used to be an old-fashioned notion
that a young man should not think of mar
ryng until he could provide proper home
for his wife, and girls were hard to find who
were willing to marry without such provision.
All that sort of bother is now dispensed with.
Girls don't trouble themselves about home;
it is the nice, perfectly lovely young man
they want, and no worrying thought OF any
thing else dsturbs them till after marriage.
Sooner or later they realize how much better
a little patience and discretion would have
been.
Many young women Of real refinement,
possessing something of an education and
with many social graces, are whlrled away
to ordinary boarding houses within month
of their marriage. This is a great misfortune
to any girl The life of a boarding house is
well calculated to unfit young woman for
those domestic and social duties which every
man has right to expect of his wife; it will
almost inevitably destroy her home accom-
plishments. 1t requires the strongest charac-
ter and severest training to escape such de-
moraliZation, and few young women escape.
No young man can afford in this way to
spoil girl whom he expects to make him
happy through life. No one who sincerely
loves and has the ability essential to the pro.
lection and support of wife will think of
doing young woman such wrong. II
man does not so love and has not that ability
he has no right to get married His time has
not come All cannot live in palaces, but no
young man can take young woman from the
refnements and comforts of home to the ter
rors of a common boarding house and then
expect her to make him good wife. He has
taken the most direct measures to spoil her,
even though she .be an angel.-Philadelphta
Times
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25

How TO WARM COLD FEET.-People who
write or sew all day, or rather those who take
but little exercise, may warm their cold feet
without going to the fire. All that is necessa-
ry is to stand erect and very gradually to lift
ones self up upon the tips of the toes, so as to
put all the tendOns of the foot at full strain.
This is not to hop or to Jump up and down, but
simply to rise-the slower the better-upon tip
toe, and to remain standing on the point of
the toes as long as possible, then gradually
coming to the natural position. Repeat this
several times, and, by the amount of work the
tips of the toes are made to do, in sustaining
the bodys weight, a sufficient and lively cir
culation is set up. Even the half-frozen Car
driver can carry this plan out. 1t is one rule
of the ''Swedish movement" system, and, as
motion warmth is much better than fire warm
ing, persons who suffer with cold feet at
night can try this plan just before retiring to
rest
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25

TIE CREOLES ABOUT 1745.-AmOng the
people a atransmutatiOn was going on. French
fathers were moving aside to make room for
Creole sons. The life of the seniors had been
what the life of redemptorists and liberated
ccnvicts, combining with that of a French
and Swiss line and staff in and about the out
posts of such frontier, might be; idle, thrift
less, gallants, bold, rude, free and scornful OF
labor, which the company had brought into
permanent contempt by the introduction of
African slaves. In this atmosphere they had
brought up their children. Now these chill
dren were taking their parents places, and
with Latin ducility were conforming to the
mold of their nearest surroundings They diff
fered from their transatlantic stock much as
the face of nature in Louisiana differed from
that in France. a soil of unlimited fertility
became, through slavery, not an incentive to
industry, but promise of unearned plenty.
A luxurious and enervating climate joined its
influence with this condition to debaSe even
the Gallic love of pleasure to an unamortlous
apathy and al unframed senSuality. The
courteous manners of France were largely re-
tained, but the habit of commanding dull
and abject slave class, over which a "black
code" gave every white man full powers OF po--
lice, induced certain fierce imperiOusness OF
will and temper, while that proud love of free
dom, so pervasive throughout the American
wilderness, rose at times to an attitude of az
rogant superiority over all cOnstraint, and be-
came the occasion of harsh comment in the re-
ports to France by the officers of their king.
In the lakes, canebrakes, and swamps and on
the bayou ridges of their dark, wet forests,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25

COLD FEET.-Don't go to bed with cold
feet better still, don't 60 about your daily
work with cold feet if you can help it. 1t is
the cause of many of the ellis that the flesh
is heir to- If sitting quietly in the house
and your feet are cold, take off the shoes, and
give the feet good warming by the fire. On
no account ever retire to bed with cold feet.
If you do you will be apt to experience cramp
or the nightmare. Warm feet prevents cold
and headaches, ,and promotes sound and re-
freshing sleep. Look to the chiidrens feet
Many Group and cough is due to wet and
cold feet in winter. Frequently foot-baths in
warm water are a necessity in winter. Re-
move the cause of cold feet and youprevent the
trouble
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25
THE EDITOR OF 1888.

The Editor of 1883 will be geographically
bright, witty and wise to the extent of COL
unn or more six times a week, twenty-five
days a months and some three hundred odd
days during the year-even though his head
have cold in it or his stomach have dyspep-
Sia in it, or in his bones be rheumatism, or in
his liver excess of bile.
And as to regularity of intellectual effort
he is to be a cast-iron man, not affected by
changes of the weather, by cold rooms or rooms
over-heated, or by discOrdant or harsh sounds
about him as he endeavors to change his
thought by pen and ink to paper.
And he shall ever write in the cheerful,
hopeful, genial strain though there be sickness
at home and debts due abroad-though he sees
one wolf at the front door and two at the back
door.
And his thought shall ever be clear and its
measure and soundings deep, though cOrns
twinge and bunions atfiict though teeth ache
and his epigastrum through sensation proclaim
itself an abused organ; though his head throb
by reason of some nocturnal passing indu-
gence towards which there may be that natu-
raj tendency on the principle that the hest
bow must at times be unstrung, and that there
is even painful tension in the steady and long
continued habit of hard, conscientious pains
taking work.
The editor of 1883 will never sigh for relax
alton, never wish to 60 a-fishing, never crave
nor ask a vacation, never long to be rich that
he may work when he feels most like it. He
will never become tired nor nauseated as he
looks over the daily exchanges and finds them,
as ever, filled with the same mOnotOnouS re-
cord of Deaths murders, suicides, fires, bur-
glaries, entertainments, defalcations, ''run
over and killed, ''run away with and killed., J"
"death by Paris green," shipwrecks, drown
ings-all the same, the same and the same,
from years end to years end. with but a
change of name and locality. So firmly based
will be his mind that his lively interest in all
these things shall never flag, and he will 60 on
to the end until stretched out in his journal
istic colln) the lively, sharp, incisive chroni-
cler of this eternal round, of human events.
Happy though unknown, happy though poor,
happy though dyspeptic, happy though denied
the green pastures of his youth, happy though
seeing naught else from his sanctum window
but two brick chimneys and one iron shutter
happy at the sight of others making $40 to his
81 by one-fourth the labor, happy though he
rests on Sunday in studying what to write on
Monday, happy in seeing the pettifogging law
yer sent on foreign missions by the man he
first nominated to the Presidency. Happy
and cast-iron. Happy and insensibe to vary.
ing moods or physical pain. Happy Happy !!
Happy So happy he shall long to live on in
the flesh, a dweller in this earthly tabernacle,
a sojOurner in this vale of Transformer =
NeU York Graphic.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-01-25

WoMAN's PowER.-The mothers solicitude,
the wife's patience and anxiety, the sisters
love, have proved in nine cases out Of ten, the
strong cord that pulled at the heart of the
wanderer, till son, or husband, or brother
could no longer bear the the strain, and loos-
ened it by coming nearer and nearer home.
Some woman's hand holds the key, uncon-
sciously and carelessly perhaps, but holds it to
almost every mans heart, and the closed doors
will be unbarred to her, and yield to her touch
when no other power will stir them on their
rusty hinges. Let any woman who finds her.
self thus inside beware how she works In
clearing out the darkened chambers SO that
Gods light can enter, let her work with such
skillful touches of prayer and tenderness as
shall do nothing better than stir, like an un-
skillful servant, all the DUST only to see it set
tie thicker in another place. 1t is no light
work, this leading of human souls, and any
woman who undertakes it needs to bring to it
all there is of her. She will need all her
knowledge of God, and perhaps never discover
how little she possesses till she tries to open it
for another soul to measure her treasure. She
will need her knowledge of people, her dis
elimination of character, her intuitive dis
cernments of mental conditions, and her SYM
pathetic perception of feeling. All the bright
est and best that she can command is not too
good nor too fair to be used in the saving of
what is best and fairest in others.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12
SMOKED OUT.
FOrak er Declares gaInst the Amendments,
And Tells the PrOhibItiOnists to Go.
lI2.O)

Foraker Declares A gaInst the Amendm ents,
And Tells the PrOhibItiOnists to Go.
Fosters candidate for Governor has
been forced at last to show his hand as
10 the proposed amendments to the Con-
stitutiOn en- the liquor question. Dur
ing the several weeks he has been upon
the stump, although repeatedly Ques-
toned whether he intended to vote for
or against the Second or Prohibition
amendment, he stubbOrnly refused to
answer. He was afraid evidently of
offending the temperance people, and
wished to get their votes. But his pro-
found silence finally alarmed other
friends, and they insisted he should
speak out. In a speech delivered at Lud-
low Falls on Friday, August 3lst, and
reported in the Commercial. Gazette, he
yielded and declared himself against
both amendments, as follows:
ut is not right that 1 should seek to
drag these nOn-pOlitical questions that
don't belong to politics into political
discussions. And, therefore, with re-
spect to those amendments, both of
them, as a candidate of the Republican
party, standing on 1JS platform, III is my
duty, as well as my pleasure, to leave
them alone, both in the campaign and
in the election. For that reason L shall
neither discuss them nor vote for them.
And that is the answer | gave to my
friend, Judge HOadly, when he asked
the question, as he did the other day,
whether or not l intended to vote for
this Second Amendment? We leave that
Second Amendment for the people to de-
termine as they see it, just as we have
the First Amendment. 1t is not for me
to champion the one and oppose the
other, or to champion the other and Op-
pose the one"
Foraker claims to be lawyer, and
was a Judge, and his refusal to discuss
the propositions sought to be engrafted
into the fundamental law of the State,
will not recommend him to the favor of
intelligent and honest voters.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

DIR. HARTMAN-Dear Sir-I am indu-
ced by a sense Of duty to the suffering
to make brief statement of your re.
markable cure of myself. | was a most
miserable sufferer from the various an
eate:persOns, which confined me to bed
for long time, being too weak to bear
my weight upon my feet. was treated
by the most reputable doctors in our
city, each and all saying they could do
nothing for me. 1 had given up all
hopes of ever getting we'll. In this con-
ditiOn began to take Manalin and Pc
Tuna, and am most happy to say, in three
months L was perfectly we'll, entirely
cured without any appliances or sup
port of any kind. Yours truly. MRS.
HENRY ELLIS, 500 Scott st., Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

THE BOSS" of the Republican party in
Ohio is Charles Foster. The Enquirer
of Friday gives an interview with ex-
Representative Licey of Medina, who
freely expresses himself and gives de-
tails.
Mr.. Eicey was candidate for the Sen
atOrial nomination, and two different
emissaries of Foster interviewed him as
to how he stood towards the "BOss." Be-
ing an independent man, he would not
commit himself. The promise was held
out that. his campaign should. not. cost
him anything; but Licey was not the
man to bend the knee, and so LOOmis
was nominated. Licey's interview shows
BOSS" Fosters ways. In a few words
Licey had with the Governor at COlum-
bus, the BOSS" said the Ewing campaign
cost him So, 600 Such is "BOss" Foster
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12
Skill ys.GIgnorance.

As a perfect pharmaceutical prepara-
tiOn, we are told that Hoods SarsapaTil.
la surpasses any proprietary article upon
the market. Even to our inexperienced
eye we see positive indications of the
truth of the foregoing. glance at the
article shows the scTupulOus nPatness
and care with which the detail of its
manufacture and putting up must be
conducted. These points are of i'm
pOrtance3.in any business, but in the
manipulatiOns of remedies for the relief
of human suffering they become of su-
preme Importance, and only such medi-
cines are5wOrthy public confidence.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

THE Massillon Independent might ex-
plain which was right, Senator Sher-
man or Major Mckinley, in voting on
the late tariff .iniquity. Sherman voted
Ter the bill, and Mckinley with the Dem
Ocrats against its passage. Let "ye" In
dependent say which. Come, speak out
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

TIE Cleveland Leader sprung the
Catholic question the other day. Editor
COwles has been crazy on that for years.
The Leader pronounces Warwick Cath
Ollie, while the little Press has been de-
claring him an Orangeman. Well, Mr..
Warwick is neither the one or the other,
but Is a liberal minded, American eiti-
zers, and a Democrat. Let that suffice.
The old Know Nothing venom crops out
In various shapes.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

THE Repository takes care to speak of
NOyes having lost leg in the war. The
same sheet only heaped abuse on Gen.
Wiley few years ago, Notwithstanding
his gallantry and loss of leg. 1t does
not count in a Democrat. LOngstreet,
Mosby, Malone and other COnfederates,
are all right, since they are Republicans.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

THE Repository claims TO be in favor
of equal taxation. Yet it approves a
protective tariff that taxes imported
woOllen fabrics three or four times more
than imported wool. This is its equal
taxation, and it is monopoly. Republi-
can farmers who grow wool begin to
see it.8And this is but one case under
its tariff iniquity.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

FORAKER kicks over the amendments
which were submitted to catch extreme
temperance people and PrOhibitiOnists
for the Republican ticket. He is COM
mOn-plaee speaker and blunderer; but
the Republicans have him now, and they
will have to bear with him. He was
Fosters choice.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

For twenty years l was a sufferer
from cataTrh of the head and throat in a
very aggravated form, and during the
summer months with hay fever. pro-
cured a bottle of Ely's Cream Balm and
after few applications received decided
benefit-was cured before the bottle was
used. Have had no return of the COM
plaint. CHARLOTTE PARKER, Wayerly,
N V no NJ
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

THE Repository gang have been max
ing big calculations as to handling the
Prohibition movement, so as to help the
Republican county ticket. Honest Pro-
hibitiOnists are not to be caught so cas-.
lily by these Republican Office seekers.
Foraker and Sherman have defined
themselves on the second amendment
The Scott law knavery is their baby
to nurse.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

THE Repository has much to say about
Mr.. Cole, but nothing to say of Brown
OF Wood. Are Brown and Wood crea-
lures of BOSS" Charles FOsterP How
are they on the second amendments
How is the Rep on the second?
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

THE Republicans, from the first of
this campaign, have resOTted to the
meanest kind of lying to support their
tottering cause. They have been trying
to fool the liquor men, and use the Pro-
hibitiOnists. Their last yarn, that HOad
ly thought of withdrawing on account
of i'll health, is just mean, most as mean
as the lies against Warwick.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

EDITOR Mack of the Sandusky Regis.
ter, is fOrnenst Foster for United States
Senator, and says FOster,ean't. be elected
even if the Legislature is Republican.
We hope our friend Mack is not trOubl.
ing himself over Foster, as the Legisla-
ture is IgOing to be Democratic in both
branches
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

81 RECOMMEND A SUBSTANTIAL
REDUCTION OF THE DUTIES ON SU-
GAR, MOLASSES, SILK, WOOL, AND
WOOLEN GOODS. S."-REPUBLICAN PRES
IDENT ARTHUR's MESSAGE TO THE RE-
PUBLICAN CONGRESS, WHICH ADOPTED
HIS RECOMMENDATION AS TO WOOL.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
For Governor
GEORGE HOADLY,
OF Hamilton County.
For Lieutenant Governor,
JOHN q. WARWICK.
OF Stark County.
For Supreme Judge, CShort Term),
MARTIN d. FOLLErT,
OF Washington.
For Supreme Judge, (LOng Term).
SELwYN n. OWEN,
of williams.
For Clerk Of the Supreme Court
JOHN W. CRUIKSHANK.
of Miami
ForiAttOrney General.
JAMES LAWRENCE,
OF Cuyahoga.
For State Auditor.
EMIL KIESEwErTER.
OF Franklin.
For state Treasurer,
PETER BRADY
Of sandusky.
For School Commissioner,
LEROY d. BROWN.
OF Butler.
For Member Board of Public Works.
JOHN p MARTIN.
sOf Greene.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

UNDER the Scott law the man who
sells one keg of beer per day pays as
much tax as the man who sells hun
dred kegs day. This is not fair. We
believe in equal taxation.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

THE Youngstown News-Register is
now again whipping rebels, and wants
the eOlOred people to help. The cOlOred
people are getting tired of dropping
buckets into empty wells, and growing
"old in drawing nothing up"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

THE Repository has not yet informed
us who was right; Senator John SheT-
man in voting for the tariff iiniquity,
or Major Mckinley, in voting with the
Democratic members against its pas
sage.
Will not the Mckinley Office editor say
Are the Rep people afraid to speak outf
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-09-12

Mr.. ROBERT G. BELL, the Democratic
Fort Wayne lawyer, said to me Satur
day:
"The Germans all about Toledo are
going to vote for Hoadly, regarding the
Scott law bill as the entering wedge to
an attack on their privileges. Gath in
Enauiror