The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-03-01

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is erected and another comes that Is
practically on the way, some people
will be looking about for place to
live. There are not enough desirable
houses in Canton. A whole lot of house
owners have failed to comply with
the plain provisions of the ordinance
and have not connected their res.
idences up with sewers. This pre-.
cludes, in many instances, the possi-
bility Of putting in modern improve.
ments and thus many people live as
they did in primitive days. The en-
forcement of that ordinance would
help matters amazingly and tend to
make some people understand that a
tenant has some rights on earth and
has right to as many conveniences as
the man in whose house he lives.
Among other booms a building boom
along the lines suggested would do Can.
ton as much good as any one other
thing. There ought to be, in this city,
a great many more houses of five or
six rooms. each, with modern conve.
niences. But then the rent might go
up. There is always a drawback to
progress, but houses like those sug.
gested ought not to be held too high.
It ought not to take long to get back
the first investment incident to put
ting in the improvements, and people
are entitled to live civilized. 1t ought
not to be necessary to put rents up to
a top notch because house is modern
They ought to do away with all houses
that are not modern.
Let me today do something that shall
take
A little sadness from the worlds vast
store,
And may be so favored as to make
OF joys too scanty sum little more.
Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed
Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe
or friend;
Nor would pass, unseeing. worthy
need FL
Or sin by silence when I should de-
fend.
However meager be my worldly wealth
Let me give something that shall aid
my kind.
A word of courage or a thought of
health
Dropped as I pass for troubled hearts
to find.
Let me tonight look back across the
span
'Twixt dawn and dark and to my
conscience say,
Because OF some good act to beast or
man,
"The world is better than I lived to-
day."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Democrats are going to name
the right kind of ticket next Saturday.
1t is sure to be one of the best tickets
that the party has put up at spring
election for many years. With such
men as Reinhart, Sommer. H. A. Smith
and Joseph Dick as certainties and a
number of others from whom the voters
will make choice-all first class men
it will not be difficult to select a
ticket that will sweep the city.
While the Honorable Denver Grip
plecreek Hughes and the Honorable
Daniel Webster Shelter are explain
ing that mayoralty-solicitors scheme
that didn't go through, the friends of
the Honorable James H. Robertson are
kind of hedging around to the Honor
able William Hatsoff Smith. The Hon.
orable William Hatsoff will not show
his whole hand till next week, but
when he does there will be some dila-
tion Of pupils Of the eye. The fight is
simmering down SO that about all there
is of a contest now is between the Hon
orable William Hatsoff and Plain Dea
con Smith.
The Rumiator, in the East Liverpool
Crisis, calls her Mrs. Carrie Conster
Nation.
Hammering typewriters has sort of
taken the taper off our fingers and we
would probably not now be eligible to
the navy.
Nobody is seriously considering a
Republican candidate for street com;
missioner. 1t will Just about be unan.
imous for David Sommer.
Brother Douglass, of the Salem News.
admits that he was disappointment
on Washingtons birthday, and adds
that he hopes the purveyor of this hash
will have something first class on the
18th of March. Now the News-Demo-
crat is law abiding, Sabbath observ.
ing institution, and will have no issue