The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-26
TRYOUR PATIENCE
Those Who Wait for Help ana THINK
They Are Unlucky./
4rns Modern Jekyn and Hyde-The Sweet
Tempered womAn-A Kind Doctor
-ACantOn Story Constructed
on Old Lines.

them. There IS no use IN arguing WIN
such people or in giving them advice
1t is cheaper to lend them the So at
once and get rid of them. You meet
them in Canton daily, and they rail at
fortune, swear at their bad luck n
drink at your expense. Possible they
have as much talent-probably more
ability-then have those who have
become successful in business, and
whom they envy. But their talent and
ability are of the passive kind. They
wait for somebody to give them a start,
They want to begin at the top, and so
they loiter along, waiting for some one
to hoist them up there. WhaC they
lack, and what successful men possess,
is energy, tiXity OF purpose, tenaclty,
and a determination to achleVe success
unaided by other.
Hyde sort OF people there are IN canton.
4 meet them every hour. 40 not
mean the man who keeps two estab-
lishments, with a blonde wife in one,
a brunette spouse in the other. | do
not refer to the man we so frequently
read of, whose name is Smith on the
east side and who is known as Jones
by his neighbors on the west side OF
town. | do not mean the men, and
" women too, whose whole nature, con-
duct and language seem to change I'M
der varying conditions and circum-
stances There is Van -Steuben, for
instance: | have been in his house often.
In his domestic affairs he practices
cheese-paring economics, changes his
milkman because some one offers him
milk a cent a quart cheaper than the
price he has Deen paying, grumbleS
about the cost of his children's school
books, tells his wife that he cannot
buy this, that and the other trifle, and |
have heard him swear at his son and
ID act in a rude and diScOurteous manner
toward his wife. But down town what
~ a reputation he has for l%iberality, gem
, iality and politeness. Yesterday | saw
him in a street car. How cOurteOusly
he raised his hat, and how Sweetly he
smiled when he arose to give his seat to
alady. You will see him every after
noon in a down town bar-room treat
ing his friends to 15-cent cigars and
expensive drinks. Down town he is as
genial and big-hearted as DIR. Jekyll; in
his home he is almost as d~espicable and
small seuled as Hyde.
You have noticed the wife who keeps
her children dirty and untidy. She
wears that abominatiOn calleda Mother
Hubbard, and has a general slipshod
appearance. Her servants are continu-
ally leaving her, and | understand that
her husband is almost driven crazy by
her temper and slovenly housekeeping.
met her lately at a meeting of a liter
ary society. Her drug store complex
ion was dazzling, her dress was exqul
site and artistic, and she read an orig
inal paper on Happy Homes and How
to Make Them So" that would have
brought the
PERsPIRATIoN OUT ON A CAST IRON
..... DOG.
DO YOU see that sad-faced, wise-look-
ing doctor? know him. If you could
follow me into that sick room, and see
the gentle touch of his hand as he
places it on the brow of his dying pa
fient, and if you could hear the soft,
sympathetic voice in which he speaks
hopeful words to the sobbing relatives,
Won would wish you we're sick that you
might enjoy the pleasure of having
such a sympathetic and aesthetic doc
tor pour pills into you. Then If you
could come with me tomorrow night to
a certain club room up town l could
show you the same man. You would
see him sitting in his shirt sleeves,
smoking a clay pipe, and later you
would see the hand of the gentle touch
pounding a beer mug on the table,
and the soft, sympathetic voice you
would hear joining in the chorus OF
"We won't go home till morning"
But why multiply examples. You
,,,ol, nanp1a anh If Won will
think of it. YOU will find that there are
INF few of your acuuaintances who do
not live a kind of double life. They at
least appearin two roles. In one, prob
ably, they are themselves; in the other
they act a part. Yes, most of us are
built that way.
To change the subject-Have you
seen Mr.. Potter, of Texas, yet? / was
on a Cleveland & Canton train the other
day when the train boy rushed into the
car and yelled: "Mr. Potter, of Texas;
lust out" "What was he in for? 2" ask
ed one. "How did he get out?" said
another. ibid any one else escape,
Sammy? ?" questioned an old granger.
The boy controlled his voice long
enough to say "rats," then it got away
from him, and again howled: Mr..
Potter from Texas, just cut" until
the windows ratified. Then l
discovered that Potter was a
fictitious character, and that "Mr. Pot
ter from Texas" was the name of a new
novel by an author of repute, whose
previous books have had large sales. |
bought a copy from the boy, and the
reading of it both amused and exasper-
ated me. There is in the story the
usual pair of lovers, who have the usual
misunderstanding, and who live in an
atmosphere of accusation and explana-
tions, and there is the good man, who is
wrongly accused of a crime; the detec-
tive. who DISCUSSES himself and says;
GNOw I I'M on her trail; !" the "would-I,
were dead" young woman, who inno-
Gently gets everybody into trouble; the
william who begins with, "She must,
she shall be NINE" and ends with,
Courses on We all" and the proud old
father, with his priceless heritage OF
AN ~untarnished name" who relents
only at the bottom of page 1897. You
know them all, Of course. They arr
old timers but the author of the bool
has really put him through some move
naces and his plot is new in spots. 4.
rive him credit for considerable origi
Salitv. Init Potter Potter, Of Texas, 1
niohfmare. a delirium tremens OF char
acterization. l c~an1orglVe the aueaio
for making Mr.. p. wear q wig TAX
it off at every opportunity 70 shoN
strangers where he was scalped' l ca
pardon him for representing MT. FotLel
who is a rich Texas cattle KING an
member of Congress, as gong aroun
London and Paris