The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-09-18


He gets no love-no well meant thanks;
He's a blot on one of natures blanks.
Chicago Record.
Dealers in provisions, including wet
goods, are yearning for front porch
philosophy.
Members of the Canton city council
are in training today. preparatory to
wrestling with the telephone ordinance
tonight.
If the manufacturers can produce an
automobile that will eat hay, corn and
oats the farmers will take more kindly
10 the new vention.-Mansfield News.
AS will also the sparrows.
Akron papers have an unmitigated
nerve to refer disparagingly to the Can
ton census. Go, hide your heads, you
town hall burners!
"welty & Albaugh filed at Wooster,
Ohio, a petition for divorce that is Of
, interest to Cantonians.' said the Sun
day organ. 1t was SO interesting that
the News Democrat printed 1t Satur-
, day.
The United Presbyterian church peo-
pie are erecting a new parsonage at
East Palestine and the good ladies Of
the church are now organizing pound
party, to give the house proper warm
ing.
Chief Harrison, of the Akron police
force, after wandering around over the
country while the militia was organ
izing his force, now declines to resign.
With danger far off, Akron's chief Is
nervy fellow.
New Waterford Magnet: A resident
of Lisbon has a hen three years old
which is turning gray-with grief, no
doubt. 1t would cause almost anything
to turn gray that was compelled to live
in Lisbon few years.
Mansfield had another riot Sunday,
but 1t was tame affair in comparison
with previous efforts. They seem to
have lost their cunning over there, but
then the town has only about $4,000 in
habitants. Just wait till about next
Sunday. Akron IL due again and will
show the country what she can do with
her $4,000.
How many Canton ministers who
have heretofore been diligent in their
research for something with reference
10 Sabbath observance and the Sunday
newspaper, will preach sermons next
Sunday on the evils Of putting the I'm
ishing touches on lettess Of acceptance
on Sunday morning and putting them
on the wires and in the hands Of the
type-setters on Sunday night, when
good people" are at church? Gentle
men Of the cloth, here is an opportunity
for a lesson in consistency.
Manager Solon G.. Thayer, of the Co
lumbiana County Telephone company,
possesses persuasive eloquence seldom
equaled. Few citizens can move a mu-
nicipal body to action when it does not
want to. act, but there was notion
in the minds of the Alliance council
| that the telephone franchise ought not
, to be granted at the last meeting Of the
, council, on technical grounds. Mr.
Thayer talked ten minutes and, presto,
the ordinance went through without a
dissenting vote.
The Honorable Cassius Miller has
broken cut again. This time he is not
running for mayor. nor is hA picking out
a base ball player to recommend to an
eastern league team. He Is simply ex-
cited. He has called at the North Mar
ket street shrine and has been captured
body and breeches, In the. local Sunday
organ he rants much about Imperialism
and other things he knows naught Of
and relates that he once saw the ex-
ecutive of this nation shake hands with
molder. Taking courage he tried it
himself, and, as he relates the story in
a portion Of the two columns or mare
allotted to him, he walked to the front
porch and sent in my card to see the
president" Then he wrote after the
exciting fashion of the great Gessnsr:
I am always proud to say that 1
know the President personally. The
president made his appearance and
gave me all the time that felt justi-
fled in taking. He well knew that 1
had been antagonistic to him politi-
cally, for the last few years .
kilograms were coming and going
| almost at the rate Of one minute, and
| the thought occurred to me, here is a
tun rsl la hon dc
| political campaign. and the executive
| officer of upwards Of seventy-five mil
lions of people; and yet he can find
time In the midst Of his official duties
to receive former acquaintance, a
private citizen, and even one politically
opposed"
| Then the former candidate for mayor
began to expand. He covered the whole
territory. He annexed Louisiana,