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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-03-27
oTTERBEIN.

Otterbein. March &.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Grove will have a public sale. March rs.
The Sunday school at Groves. follow
ed by preaching services iwes well at
tended last Sunday. They also. reor-
ganized their school
The trustees OF Otterbein u B. church
day evening. Ln1
Mr.. Caiendine and wife OF Bolivar, q.
w. Hay and wife and sons, took dinner
with Mrs. II. Grove and daughter Alice
Sunday.
Mrs. Rosanna Yutziey is reported sick.
q. G. Lieghtenwalter and family spent
Sunday with Mrs. Maggie Young at OF
terbein.
Vera Baidsr is better.
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and Jacob Rhodes Of Meadvllle, Pa, wer,
here to attend the funeral OF their
brother. II. Il. Rhodes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. E. Bletzer. of Cleve-
land. spent few days with relatives
here.
George w, Fitch made a business trip
to Uniontown, Saturday.
Marie and Florence Fox Of Akron,
were home Saturday and Sunday.
Erwin ID. Fritch and wife. ~ Akron,
spent Sunday with Mr. Fritch's par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. George Fritch.
Dominic Wise Is putting a new roof on
his house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose Gehrls visited
relatives in Nogadore Sunday.
The NTH and last number of our
lecture course will be given at the town
hall Friday evening by Ash Davis, car
toonist.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-03-27

Sisler house soon.
Mrs. Jacob Fraze has gone TO Akron.
TO stay with her daughter Mrs. L. M.
Kittingor for a short time.
Miss May Taylor OF Akron, has re-
turned home after q, short stay with her
mother.
Mrs. Cornelius Kipiinger, OF this place,
Ia spending a short time In Akron.
A literary will be held by e.se grammar
school next Friday evening.
Mrs. Mary Sorrick has returned from
her trip to San Francisco where she
has spent the winter with her sons.
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Mrs. Burton Sefong and children. of
louisville, are visiting her parents, OF
this place.
Isaac Haines visited over Sunday with
his daughter. Mrs. Charles Maurer. OF
Minerva.
Vernon Dourm. who has been sick, is
improving
Reuben Dourm made business trip to
Canton, Saturday.
Arthur Baughmnn spent Saturday
night and Sunday with relatives at osna-
burg.
school house Saturday evening March &.
Jerry McEndarffer transacted business
at Carrollton this week.
Laurence Miller has moved his saw
mill In Daniel Ringles woods, south OF
here. =
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MANCHESTER.

Manchester. March 25.--Jacob Butter
moves on the George Helfnstetter farm
Tuesday of this week.
Cassius Slsler md brother George
from Butchtel College. spent Sunday at
homo.
az home with his family on account Of
illness.
Mrs. w. II. Stamm has returned home
from her visit at Cleveland with Rev. A.
II. Mavis and family.
Jesse Dettra will move in to the DIR.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-03-27
pILEsi PILES, PILES,

williams India Pile Ointment will cure
Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles. II no
serbs the tumors. allays itching at once.
acts as poultice, gives instant relief
Williams indian Pile Ointment II pre-.
pared for Piles and Itching OF the pri
vate parts. Sold by druggists. mail t0c
and h00. Williams Mfg Co. Props
Cleveland. o.
Sold by M. A. FISHER.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-03-27

Mr. and Mrs. Snyder Of Canton. were
the guests Of Miss Isa kochler last Sun
day.
The Rebekah Lodge at meeting in the
l. o. q. +. building Tuesday night initi-
ated six new members.
ID. @. Kline, OF Mansfield, is circulating
among relatives and friends Of this place.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-03-27

observation-disclosures smolysk. "a.
sentenced 10 reformatory by Judge
Baboook for bigamy. Truth came out
when second wife attended christening
OF first wife's baby.
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-14
Rhymes for To-Day
,runv AM, Am III is.


nineteen eight being leap year, OF
course, gets no Valentine poem from
All, the days are getting longer!--1
can tell 1t with my eye,
can spot It with my tlIneplece
az the sun goes mareflng Ply,
can measure out the daylight ana i
find 1t more and more,
And do. not snap the lights on now
at A.
oh. the days are getting longer-I can
see 1t In the air,
In the soft and drowsy drooPiHess
that's dreaming everywhere.
In the faces OF the people, IN the TOOK
of every back,
In the gas-bills that they mana me
at my shack.
oh, the days are getting longer-l can
feel 1t In my bones,
I can feel It in the sympathy I'm WORK
Ing up for drones,
can feel 1t when I'm Sinking, can
feel 1t when | toll, I,
1 can feel 1T in the wad / save on OIL.
Yes, the days are getting longer am
very sure OF that
l can tell 1t Mt my office, / can swear
II Mt my fiat:
And Ieknow the hidden meaning when
this feeling doth appear =.
Viz, to-wit-that Gentle SprlnK is
drawing near! II. D. II.
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.r.oui.n,s True Democracy"

Editor of the Times Dispatch
Sir-Please allow an old subscriber
and lifelong Democrat q small space in
your columns.
am happy to see through your
paper that Hon. Judge Rhea. who has
been sorely, tried by his antago or,iSi..
weighed in the scales of true Demo-
cracy, and not found wanting. It has sI;
fair thinking people. that the whole
of these unealled.for charges es. were for y
few despotic Republicans, who seem
not satisfied to try and run their own ,
counties by every cunning device, but
want to control the whole Legislature
and even dictate to the Governor OF
the State whom he shall appoint to
office. l congratulate our dear. good
Governor in the noble, stand he has
taken. Would to God we had more
men OF such sterling character as the
Hon. Judge Rhea! I trust he Will be
seated, as l certainly think he Will be
and receive all the glory and homo!
that can be placed upon him by al
true Democrats. Y. L. PERKINS.
Louisa, Virginia.
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The force of character Is cumula-
tiye.-Emcrson.
Kn1En 1N coMM1rrEE.

Despitc the unanswerable and as yet
unanswered arguments for improving
the oyster conditions in Virginia, the
Senate Committee on Fish and Game
killed the Watkins bill, which was
designed specifically to remedy the
existing grave defects in that industry.
1T is admitted that the present situa-
tion in cultivation of oysters can be
greatly improved, and it is fact that
SO far nothing has been done to develop
this industry. The Times Dispatch
had hoped that the exgencies of the
case would have inspired some COM
prchensive and effective legislation on
this matter. A false idea of the real
interests of the tongers and the
apathy and ignorance of the rest OF
the state have, however, apparently
combined again to defeat any rea
remedy for the threatened decadence
of the oyster industry.
One week yet remains in which bill:
can be introduced, and for the goot
of the whole State-Tidewater Pied.
mont, Southsde and Southwest-we
hope that some constructive plan vii
be advanced for dealing with this ques
tion. Such a plan is essential ant
capable of working incalculable goo
TO all the ctzens-if man can b.
found with the brains to suggest
and the force to carry it through.
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In the parks are against public morals
is equally absurd. on the contrary,
publicity Is always conducive to good
morals. Our people are decent and
well-belaved. and Richmond crowd
Will not tolerate indecent or disorderlS
conduct on the part Of any possible
delinquents The more our people are
brought together in the parks the bet
ter 1t will be for public health and
public morals and manners. Rich
mond crowd Is in Itself a disciplinnrian.
If the city can afford the expense.
let us continue the open-air concerts
during the heated season. They give
pleasure TO thousands OF stay-at-
homes, and encourage recreation, 'o-
ciability good fellowship and u love
for music.
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| tai service which was submitted to
Congress on Monday. The report calls
| for simplifcation OF system and I'm.
provement OF business methods all
along the line. 1t recommends the
Capitalization OF necessary book
keeping, the doing away with
superfluous reports from small Of
fees, the introduction of labor-sav-
| ing devices and many changes In the
present system of auditing. forganiza-
ton and the transaction of business.
More radical and far more important
Is the recommendation that the active
management of the post office be en-
trusted to new special officer. Sc
lected for his qualifications and with
out regard to politics and appointed
for a long term on a. salary large
enough to hold man OF the calibre
which this position would demand. I'm
der this plan. the Postmastcr.General
supervisory control and the determi-
nation of questions of policy.
The desirability of this change is
manifest The post-ofce has been we'll
called the right hand OF commerce. It's
efficiency affects. virtually, every man,
woman and child in this country. 1t
is the largest business under singla
head in the United States. employing
over 10000 persons No one can run
a gigantic business like this who has
not trained executive ability of a very
rare sort. Generals never
have abilities OF this sort, except by
accident. They are appointed to the
post merely as n symbol of political
preferment They occupy 1T as a kind
of temporary thlf way house between.
let us say, Secretaryship of Commerce
and Labor and diplomatic berth
abroad. Not in any way fitted for their
gigantic task to begin with, they do
not associate with it long enough even
to acquaint themselves With it's diff
cuIties. They halt there for a year or
SO, perhaps, and then they unfold their
political wings and fit on.
1t is not surprising under these con-
ditions that the post-ofiice should be
badly organized and badly run. A large
private business conducted upon any
such basis would have gone bankrupt
long ago. Only the liberal backing
afforded by the United States Treasury,
as the commission points out. has
saved the post-office from that fate.
Now tho commission propoSes to nav
a high-priced man to come and run
the post-oftice as any private business,
to hold together. must be run. Tho
obvious merits of this proposition will
instantly commend it to every thinking
man.
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OPEN An CONCERTS.

The parks of Richmond are for the
benefit OF the public, and the greater
the number of persons who visit them
in the warm season, the more com
pletely will their mission be fulfilled.
Yet ii is seriously contended by some
that park concerts should be aban-
doned, because, forsooth, they encour-
age men, women and children to con-
gregate and injure the city's grass
plots and Increase the burdens of ths
park keepers. If the parks are foi
ornament only, these arguments HAYS
force, but if they are for the enjoy
ment of the people the arguments CON
Wet themselves.
The objection that large gathering
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long. Ten charitable women OF THIS
town decided to open day nursery
riear tile homes furthest away from th he
factories; to furnish II eomfor rhnrn the
matron could gather the children III, anu ai,i
read to them at times and to NJ tue
pantry with such supplies as the whoie-
some simple lunch required. 70
labor and self-denial on the part o. q
ten women, one only Of whom was ht
all wealthy. Nevertheless. they car "a,
ried it through in less than Sly motltn :,
receiving help from ina vEer c' the bret
ty nursery was entirely. ready, the ten :,
Were divided into 1--WE visiting. commit
tees to 20 to the homes and eXpialn
that the children would pc cared ioh
Tie ak work days for % cents apiece,
the the almshotse danger. After months
Of effort only six children had enterea,
decreasing in two years to one infant.
or course the nursery had to be
closed The management or the Dan
River Cotton Mills. after iinishlhs tne e
comfortable cottages for their iS9o
bands. had large, bright con,lo lasa,,s
matron The absolute failure TO secure
the consent of the Ignorant parents 10
send their children to this nursery 'e-
suited in its being converted into O.
stit,lted FOR the matron. Meantime the
neat cottages in less than three years years
typhoid and other = diseases thrive.
What solution of this dire problem can
be found? The night school out at
JSchoolfield, where the largest factory
is located, may help II give the answer
And the earnest men and women
teaching in the Sunday schools may
help to lift these people to higher
life IL sometimes they take as a text
Cleanliness is next to godliness.. Oh
course. they run the risk OF repeating
a certain teachers experience, who,
having sent a dirty child home to J, pc {,
bathed. had him return Immediately
with another. who said. MA says John
ME Amt no rose; she send him to
school to be learned. not to be smelled.
we hear that the day nursery, IN
Richmond is success, and we VIII De
deeply grateful for any Suggestions
that may result in the firm estaolisn..
ment of this needed nursery to protetct
little children physically and moraiiy
III Da' "a N-,,Yr, I1AppYsoN PONTON
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Bill sklllit In Demand.

Weldon will some time about May LIST
have a convention of old-time fddlers
from nearby towns, and old Bill Skillit,
who appears to be a ward of the eX-
cellent Richmond Times Dispatch, will
be invited to come and lead the boys.
1t will be great convention. for the
benefit of the Weldon Public School
and will be held in the new audito-
rum at such hour and date as may
Weldon people will hear those grand
old tunes. "Mississippi Sawyer" ''Ar-
kansas Traveller" "Old Gray Horse
run. Niger. Run" "Ciwine Down tc
There will be great times for all
and it Is expected that about thirty
tiddlers of Eye olden tymes" will take
part in the music.--Weldon IN. c.,
Roanoke News.
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A Republican View.

Editor of The Dispatch:
Sir-It is evident to all that no
specific charges will be proven against
Judge Rhea, but from the evidence all
must see that Judge Rhea is regarded
as. a shrewd politician, and in view Of
the cloud of suspicion In which he
stands it is thought by many that he
will decline the appointment on the
Corporation Commission after he has
been vindicated before the commit
tee. In this event will you allow a
lifelong Republican OF the great South
west to make a suggestion? The ap-
pointment must certainly so to Dem
ocrat, and l would like to see Henry
c., Stuart succeeded by a man W tne
masses Of our people-a man who is
above politics when confronted by
plain duty and simple questions OF
right Such man is Robert P. Bruce
of Wise, and suggest his name fol
the appointment in case Judge Rhei
declines. He is man Of scrupulou'
honesty, large capacity and will adorr
place on the State Corporation Com
mission. The asses-Democrats ant
Republicans alike-will exclaim: wei
| done, Governor! You could not hav'
selected better man." VOTER.
| Norton. Va,
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Tax Burden.

Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir,-I see there is a bill before the
Legislature to pension teachers. If this
is done, then all other ofFceholders will
demand and get them, too. The LeSis-
lature, having given itself more pay,
will have to do the same for the other
otiiceholders to keep them quiet But
why should the teacher be pensioned
any more than the farmer, merchant
or mechanic? His pay is not affected
by money panics or poor crops. The
poorest paid teacher. when you con-
slider the time he malSes--siX hours
day and twenty days month-makes
more than the average man. But If he
is not satisfied let him try something
else. This is what other people have
to do.
All this hue and cry about education
is nothing but move of the teachers
and other school officials for more pay
and more places. Paying little or no
tax themselves they care not what a
burden taxation becomes. Let them
alone, and they will bankrupt the tax
payers. 1t takes every cent the peo-
pie can now rake and scrape to pay
taxes, and although the States net in
come Is over $1,000.000 a year, taxation
| Is not reduced one penny. This is
money wrung from the people and
piled in the treasury to be squandered
| And the tax eater" must retire on a
pension, while the old taxpayer retires
to the poorhouse!
/ Because a rich Northern State pays
school superintendents exorbltant sal
aries is no reason this one should.
State, like an Individual, cannot enricf
itself by aping the rich. man o.
!. fair Intelligence can fill the office a:
well as a profound scholar. If thei
, salaries We're ten times larger thes
could do no more.
And now, Mr.. Editor, instead of beg
ging the Legislature to increase appro
, priations 1t would be far more mer
: ciful to beg that taxation be reduced
With the financial crisis stlll on, am
! nearly everybody hard pressed 10
money, 1t is an inopportune time TO b
J. advocating moro taxes. The Leg1sia
. ture is always but too ready to IN
crease the taxpayers burdens II re
y FARMER.
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-oe rna ,r,,, !, ]. I,isnatct

Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Philanthropy has advanced to
such high plane that 1t has leaped tar
ahead of the development and compre-
hension of the class it tries to elevate
and help. Starvation accepts 1894 3sit
nakedness clothes, and cold 1ue1; Nv,
when to these bodily needs IS aaue ei
the attempt to cleanse the dirty not So.
co9yered with dust and Crime. GOES sro oue
sufficient; or do soap and towels and q
impressive hygienic information result
IN patronage OF the bath? Every ~.
did worker in the city missions ,tn ,l,n
answer these questions in the neEa,s ada
W WI the effort is made to p schools
the night schools or even 70 induce
parents TO send neglected ehildreh az ~
the day nurseries. how OFTEN ~ ~!
proves a failure, There are N a p4m,
Vile, Va, several OF the largest cos,o'1
mills in the South, employing se Sc, are
parents. who leave small children IN,
der the care Of n larger one al uas
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'a' FANNIE HARRISON PoNToN
Cali. pol,cc Court n Side show

Editor Of Tho TimesDispatch:
Sir.-Relative to the Sociaiist, mass
meeting. held Tuesday night III Eiie. ia
Hall. an account OF which appeared I Tea,
in your paper of yesterday morning,
would ask that you publish the tol-
lowing brief statement of facts:
In the first Place; no one hsal pdles me use
the words bully and braggart' IN con
nection with my criticism OF Justice
Crutchfield. My comment on the per
son OF the Police Justice was IN con-
nection with his recent declaration to
us from his bar that II am the great
/ am / did strongly criticize his
methods as being a travesty on JUS
being a disgrace to the city Of Rich.
mond. | asserted that dignity. courtesy
and equity should mark every pro
ceeding in the Police Court 10 the
that Justice Crutchield's court had for
years been notorious as "one OF the
sights of the city in the estimation OF
enough about the city to attract sight.
seers, some more legitimate place OF
amusement than Police Court should
be established In the interests OF all
concerned.
AS to the second instance in which
The Times Dispatch reporter uses quo
tation marks with regard to my criti-
cisms of the local press), ne Is again
the Richmond papers as capitalistic
but at the Socialist meeting l singled
out for attack one particular paper
which had published insulting edito-
rails and denounced Young and Camp
| bell in most unsparing terms. ex-
| pressed no criticism of any other pa
| per for the reason that there was
| nothing offensive in what they pub
| lished concerning us.
! do not object to being criticized fol
! any utterance ] make in public, but
! do protest against being quoted az
using language which I did not use
ALEX. 3. McCULLOCH.
4 February 13 1908.
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REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT

The terms popular government and
democratic government are often loose
ly used. A popular or democratic form
of government is not necessarily a
government directly by the people. The
nearest approach to direct popular gov
eminent that we have had in this coun-
try was the town government of New
England, under which the people met
in mass meeting and transacted af-
fairs of local government. But that
has been for the most part abandoned.
1t is impracticable for the people OF
| the nation or of any State TO as
semble en- masse. make laws and trans
act other matters of public business
Our government is democratic, but REP
resentative in form The Federal Con-
stitution provides that the United
States shall guarantee to every State
in the Union a republican form of gov
eminent, and Judge Cooley. an emf
nent authority. says that by republican
| government is meant a government by
| representatives chosen by the people.
| All power belongs to the people. but
| it is both impracticable and unsafe for
| the people to exercise it directly under
/ all circumstances. The people must OF
necessity delegate some of their pow
| ers to chosen representatives. Even
Constitutional Convention, which
more nearly than any other approaches
an assembly of the people, must be
composed OF representatives elected by
the people from this community ant
that.
4 Some things can be done better by
agents, wisely chosen, than by the
principal. This is true of private
transactions, no less than of public
affairs. The most intelligent men offer
employ an agent to execute their com
} missions, and pay literally for tht
! service, because the agent has an eX
pert knowledge, which they do not pos
t sess 1t is so also in the affairs o
popular government, and experience
E has shown that it Is wiser for the PEG
( pie to delegate to their representative
o men to I'LL certain positions of trust
for the representatives are in bette
:, situation to inquire into the relativ
= merits and qualifications OF the severe
~ candidates
= But 1t requires no expert knowlede
on the part of the voters to choose tt
right sort of men to represent them
Congress, in the Legislature and
other similar bodies, and that shou
be the first care of the voters. The
~ should select the best agents to
~ found; and then hold them to strict a
'e count for the manner in which thu
G. discharge their trust. and they shou
tie be sure that the agents thus select
~ arc truly representative men, wi
of stand for no individual, corporate
wv peculiar interest of any character b
to for the public welfare. The man wi
d, enters Congress, Legislature or CT
ty Council in any other spirit is trait
at to the people, and unfit to hold al
I; post of public trust.
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LAy,1EN,s MISSIONARY MOVEMENT

The movement among the men of the
missionary work Is one of the greatest
propagnndas OF the age, and marks an
era In religious energy. The mission
airy spirit is the spirit of progress, and
there is no progress without 1t In any
department of 1ifc's activities. Every
movement, therefore, whether religious
or secular, which tends to encourage.
develop and propagate the true spirit
of missions, is a forward movement In
the interest of liberality and advance
ment, and deserves the support of all
progressive citizens.