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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

was burned. Was it all accidental that
| the merchant. to escape splash from
horses foot, stepped into the insur-
ance office? No; it was providential.
And what mighty solace for busi-
ness man to feel that things are provi-
Dental! What peace and equilibrium
in such a consideration, and what a
grand thing if all business men could
realize it!
AdjOurning joys.
Many, although now comparatively
straitened in worldly circumstances,
have goodly establishment in the fu-
ture planned out. They have in imag-
ination built about 20 years ahead
house in the country not difficult of
access from the great town, for they
will often have business or old ac-
counts to settle or investments to look
after. The house is large enough to
accommodate all their friends. The
halls are wide and hung with pictures
of hunting scenes and branch of
antlers and are comfortable with
chairs that can be rolled out on the
yeranda when the weather is invit-
ing or set out under some of the oaks
that stand sentinel about the house,
rustIing in the cool breeze and songful
with the robins. There is just land
enough to keep them interested and its
crops of almost fabulous richness
springing up under application Of the
best theories to be found in the agri-
cultural journals. The farm is well
stocked with cattle and horses and
sheep that know the voice and have
kindly bleat when one goes forth to
look at them. In this blissful abode
their children will be instructed In art
and science and religion. This shall be
the old homestead to which the boys
at college will direct their letters, and
the hill on which the house stands
will be called Oakwood or Ivy Hill or
Pleasant Retreat or Eagle Eyrie. May
the future have for every business
man here all that and more besides!
But are you postponing your happi-
ness to that time? Are you adjourn
ing your joys? Suppose that you
achieve all you eXpect-and that the
vision | mention is not up to the reali-
ty, because the fountains will be
brighter, the house grander and the
scenery more picturesque-the mistake
is none the less fatal.
What charm will there be in rural
quiet for a man who has for 80 or 40
years been conforming his entire ma
ture to the excitements of business?
Will flocks and herds with their bleat
and moan be able to silence the in
satiable spirit of acquisitiveness which
has for years had full swing in the
soul? VIII the hum of the breeze
sOothe the man who now can find his
only enjoyment in the stock market?
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
AFRAID TO TELL THE TRUTH.

A Manila correspondent, writing
to London, condemns the rigorous
censorship established by Otis at
Manila, as follows:
1.-The correspondents are all very
tired of this arrangement, which
simply means that they must go out
and run large chances of getting
shot, several times week, with no
chance of making regulations, be-
cause their stories must always re-
fleet Otis views. 1t is impossible to
write the truth about the situation.
The resources and fighting qualities
of the natives are quite misunder-
stood by the American papers, and
we cannot write the facts without
being accused of treason; nor can we
tell of the practically unanimous op-
position to and dislike of the war
among the American troops. The
volunteers, or, at least portion of
them, were at one time on the verge
of mutiny, and unless Gen. Otis had
begun sending them homewards
there would have been sensational
developments. We have abso-
lutely refused to accept hospital
ngureS as accurate.
An uncensored dispatch reports
that 5000 American soldiers are now
in the hospitals provided for the
army, with large number ill in
quarters at Manila. Besides. many
of the men are reported by regimen
tai surgeons as unfit for service, their
''powers of resistance to malarial
influences and epidemics and zymotic
diseases" having been weakened by
the exhausting campaign in the
spring. The people are beginning to
learn something of the truth, despite
the Otis censorship, and it is not
assurance of a very comforting kind.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
LAST OPPORTUNITY
To Hear H. Evan WiIIiams-WiII
Travel In Europe.

No singer has attracted more at
tention in musical circles than II.
Evan Williams. The people of Ak
ron have a personal interest in Mr..
Williams, and therefore a personal
qualification in the distinction which
he has won as musical artist. His
time is wholly taken up in the large
cities, where he appears before the
most select audiences. While spend
ing his vacation about his former
home, he has been induced to give
one recital. He will be assisted by
Miss Minnie Henneberger of this
city, who is very favorably known in
musical circles. The entertainment
is under the auspices of the Epworth
League of Grace M. E. church, and
for the benefit of the new church,
now being erected on East Market
st. Mr.. Williams expects to travel
in Europe for some time, and this
will be the last opportunity the peo-
pie of Akron will have to hear him
sing for quite while. He will ap-
pear at the First M. E. church, Tues
day evening, Aug. L.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
NOTICE
TO CONTRACTORS.
Board of City Commissioners' ottict

Board of City Commissioners office,
Akron, o., July IL. 1879.
Sealed proposals will be received at the
city commissioners office until u O'Clock,
noon, Saturday, August 10, 1899, for the con-
struction of a main trunk sewer in sewer
districts Nos. eight (Sl and nine I9l with all
the necessary catch basins, lamp holes.
man holes, ventilators and appurtenances.
in accordance with the plans. profiles and
specifications relating to said sewer on file
in the office of the city civil engineer. where
plans. profiles and specifications may be
seen and bidding blanks may be obtained.
Bids for labor and material must be
separate.
lEach bidder In addition to the amount of
bail required in proposal must deposit
with the clerk Of commissioners ut the
time of filing his bid, y certificate OF de-
posit certified check on some bank doing
business in Akron. or cash To the amount OF
two hundred (S20O) dollars.
Each proposal must contain the full
name of the person or persons making the
same.
or reject ali bids.
BY order of the Board of City Commits
sioners.
July 10 70 Aug 20 Clerk.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
THE WEAPON OF SCIENCE.


Any disease NAV be deadly enough
when Won have no adequate means
at hand to confront it. Plenty OF peo-
pie die every day of durable diseases,
simply because the stereotvped, routine,
senseless methods and remedies usually
employed are not halfway equal to the
occasion.
But when truly scientific remedy like
DR.. Pierce's great +" Golden Medical Dis
covery" is brought to bear upon the
complaints which it is designed to cure,
it penetrates the tough hide-bound arrnor
of obstinate disease with the same un-
erring accuracy and power with which a
modern rifle penetrates savage shield.
Il had been doctoring and using patent medi-
cine for about year and half, being unable to
work most of the time says John l.. Cough
enour. Esq, of Glensavage, Somerset Co., Pa.
" The doctor said had heart disease and indi-
gestiou. 1t began with choking and oppressed
my throat clear down into my stomach. My
appetite was usually poor. and was as weak
and nervous though had been starved out
for months. My heart kept throbbing contin-
ually and was short of breath
Finally wrote to DR.. K. V. Pierce, Buffalo,
N ", for advice and he informed me that had
indigestion and torpid liver. did not think
that diagnosis was right, but ordered six bot
ties of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
and began its use. After using three bottles
began to improve slowly and soon went to work;
and have been working ever since"
For obstinate constipation Dr. Pierce's
Pleasant Pellets are the most perfect
medicine ever devised. They give
prompt, comfortable, permanent relief
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

man. that just one wrong INTO which
| you may slip may be link of long
| chain of circumstances from which
| you cannot be eXtricated by any in
| genuity of your own or any help from
others, and the tides will roll over you
as they have over many.
Righteousness Rewarded.
Again, business men are sometimes
| tempted to throw off personal RESPONSE
| bility, shifting it to the institution to
which they belong. Directors in banks
and railroad and insurance companies
sometimes shirk personal responsible
ty underneath the action of the cor
poration. And how often, when some
banking house or financial institution
eXplodes through fraud, respectable
men in the board of directors say,
"Why, thought all was going on in an
honest way, and l am utterly con-
founded with this demeanorr' The
banks and the fire and life and marine
insurance companies and the railroad
companies will not stand up for judg-
ment in the last day, but those who
in them acted righteously will receive,
each for himself, reward, and those
who acted the part of neglect or trick
cry will, each for himself. receive
condemnation.
Unlawful dividends are not clean be-
fore God. because there are those as
sociated with you who grab just as big
pile as you do. He who countenances
the dishonesty of the firm or Of the
corporation or association takes upon
himself all the moral liabilities. If
the financial institutions steal, he
steals. If they go into wild specula-
tions, he himself is a gambler If they
needlessly embarrass n creditor, he
himself is guilty of cruelty If they
swindle the uninitiated, he himself is
defrauder. No financial institution
ever had Il money vault strong enough,
or credit stanch enough, or dividends
large enough, or policy acute enough to
hide the individual sins of its men,
bers. The old adage that corporations
have no souls is misleading. Every
corporation has as many souls as it
has members.
Again, many business men have
been tempted to postpone their enjoy
ments and duties to a future season
of entire leisure. What a sedatiye the
Christian religion would be TO all our
business men if, instead of postpon-
ing its uses to old age Or death. they
would take it into the store or factory
or worldly engagements now! 1t is
folly to go amid the uncertainties of
business life with no God to help. A
merchant in Il New England village
was standing by horse, and the horse
lifted his foot to stamp it in pool Of
water, and the merchant, to escape the
splash, stepped into the door of an in
surance agent, and the agent said. II
suppose you have come to renew your
fire insurance. oh" said the mer-
chant, 81 had forgotten that" The in
surance was renewed, and the next
day the house that had been insured
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
No Ghosts Could Fool Him,

A naval officer who held civil em.
ployment at Rhode Island during the
American war Of independence and
who was of a remarkably spare, skele-
tonlike figure was stopped by a SEN
tinel late one night on his return from
q visit and shut up in the sentry box,
the soldier declaring that he should re-
main there until his officer came his
rounds at u o'clock.
"NIy good fellow" said MIR. W, 81
have told you who l am, and I really
think you ought to take my word
''It will not do" replied the soldier.
II am by no means satisfied"
Then, taking from his pocket n quar-
ter of dollar and presenting it, "Will
that satisfy your
"Why, yes; l think it WILL
"And now that l am released, pray
tell me why you detained me at your
post?"
apprehended you," said the soldier,
"as deserter from the churchyard."--
Mirror.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

The milkmen of Naples have way
of carrying concealed II their waist
coats bladders full of water.
From these bladders india rubber
tubing stretches down their arms. and
by simply pressing their sides while
they are drawing the milk they are
able, to squirt water from the bladder
into the jug or basin simultaneously
with the milk. So it is quite a COM
mon plan for woman who is getting
her jug filed with milk to hold the
milkman's wrists while he milks his
COW or goat. Until the stranger has
the reason explained to him he thinks
it very odd to see women crouching
down by the milkman, keeping a tight
hold on to each of his wrists San
Francisco Call.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
NOTICE
TO CONTRACTORS.

Board of City Commissioners Office.
Akron, o., July L. 1899.
Sealed proposals will be received at the
City commissioners office until l2 O'Clock
noon, Saturday. August 10. 1899. for the i'm
provement of Johnston street from Airing
ton street to McGowan street by grading the
same to the established grade, curbing with
stone, guttering with brick and improving
the roadway with Stag and limestone, all
in accordance with the plans, profiles and
specifications relating TO said improvement
on file in the office of the City Civil Engi-
neer. where plans. profiles and specifica-
tions may be seen and bidding blanks may
be obtained.
Bids for labor and material must be sepa-
rate.
Each bidder in addition 10 the amount of
bail required in proposal must deposit with
the Clerk of Commissioners at the time of
filing his bid, u certificate of deposit, a GER
titled check on some bank doing business in
Akron, or cash to the amount of two hum
dred 5000 dollars.
Each proposal must contain the full name
of the person or persons making the same.
The city reserves the right to accept any
or reject all bids.
By order of the Board of City Commits
siOnerS.
CHARLES H. ISBEIL. Clerk.
July 1926 Aug 2-9
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
NOTICE
TO CONTRACTORS.
Board of City Commissioners office

Akron, Ohio, July 18th, 1899.
Sealed proposals will be received at the
City Commissioners office until u O'Clock.
noon. Saturday. August 10. 1899, for the i'm
provement of Buckeye street from EX-
chage to Grant street, by grading the same
to the established grade, curbing with
stone and guttering the same with brick.
all In accordance with the plans, profiles
and specifications relating to said improve
ment on file in the Office of the city civil
engineer, where plans. prOttles and specifi-
cations may be seen and bidding blanks
may he obtained.
Bids for labor and material must be
separate.
Each bidder in addition to the amount of
bail required in proposal must deposit with
the clerk of commissioners at the time of
filing his bid certificate of deposit, GER
titled check on some bank doing business
in Akron, or cash to the amount of one
hundred (sl0O) dollars.
Each proposal must contain the full
name of the person or persons making the
same.
The city reserves the right 10 accept any
or reject all bids.
BY order of the Board of City Commits
missioners. CHARLES H. ISBELL.
July 10 % Clerk.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
When You Ride Your Wheel

Always shake into your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. 1t keeps your
feet cool, prevents sweating feet, and makes
your endurance ten-fold greater. Over one
million wheel people are using Aliens Foot
Ease. They all praise it. 1t gives rest and
comfort to smarting, hot, swollen, aching
feet, and is a certain cure for ingrowing
nails. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c.
Sample FREE by mail, Address. Allen S.
0lmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y. 8
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
Generous.

Il am willing to bear my share of the
expenses OF procuring the divorce, Har-
DID," remarked the mismated wife who
had been freed from her bonds.
''No, Georgiana," said the ex-husband,
with a wave of his hand. "You have al
ways bought my ties. l will pay for
the untie."-Chicago Tribune.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

Nor long ago the Administration
organs were boasting about the
''wise, firm, courageous policy at
Washington that directed the destiny
of the nation in the late war with
Spain. In the Philippine crisis this
policy seems to run largely to censor
shin
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
HEADQUARTERS
OF Reorganized Eighth Regiment In
This City.

Akron will be made the headquar-
ters for the new Eighth Regiment.
The Eighth Regiment band will be
made a part of the regiment and
Col. Dick also proposes to have the
band enlarged. 1t will be offered
better opportunities than heretofore.
Ten thousand demons gnawing
away at ones vitals couldn't be
much worse than the tortures of
itching piles. Yet there's a cure.
Doan's Ointment never fails.
If you think of changing your heat
ing boiler call on Oberlin; get prices
on the Cottage boiler for soft coal.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

VIII leaf and clJad and fountain
charm the eye that has for three
fourths of a lifetime found its chief
beauty in hogsheads and bills of sale?
Will parents be competent to rear their
children for high and holy purpose if
their infancy and boyhood and girl
hood were neglected when they are
almost ready to enter upon the world
and have all their habits fixed and
their principles stereotyped? No, no;
now is the time to be happy. Now is
the time to serve your Creator. Now
is the time to be Christian. Are you
too busy? l have known men as busy
as you are who had a place in the
store loft, where they went to pray.
Some one asked a Christian sailor
where hesfound any place to pray in.
He said, Il can always find a quiet
place at masthead" And in the busiest
day of the season, if your heart is
right, you can find a place to pray.
Busy thorOughfares are good places to
pray in as you go to meet your various
engagements. Go home little earlier
and get introduced to your children.
Be not galley slave by day and night,
lashed fast to the oar of business. Let
every day have its hour for worship
and intellectual culture and recreation.
Show yourself greater than your busi-
ness
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

In addition to having opposed the
Administration Philippine war pol
icy, Gen. D. B. Henderson, who is
slated for the Speakership, opposed
the increase of the standing army to
100000 men. Gen. Henderson will
have to do some unusually lively
Topping within the next few months
if he gets in line with the Admins
tration's devious policy.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

KENTUCKY's Democrats think
their chances of winning at the polls
next fall are so good that they can
afford to put two tickets in the field.
Already the factional opponents of
VIM. Goebel, who was nominated for
governor at the Louisville conven-
tion in June, have had meeting to
arrange for another convention,
which is expected to nominate
Hon. John Y. Brown for governor.
The Democracy of Kentucky seems
to need not more candidates, but
little more horse sense.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

GEN. 1. R. SHERwooD's boom for
Governor was formally launched at
Toledo last night by the Jackson
club, which gave him its unanimous
opdorcau,apt
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

It pays you ten times as
well to buy Fels-Naptha soap,
as it pays your grocer to sell
it.
Fels g. Co, makers. Philadelphia.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

THE statisticians who are trying to
figure out how the Democratic con-
vention is going to vote in the
gubernatorial contest do not seem to
know where they are at. For obvious
reasons no such hesitation and
uncertainty was evidenced prior to
Mr.. Hanna's late convention. In
that case it was simply question of
what Mark wanted done. That the
convention would sustain him was
foregone conclusion.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

which to
oppose
him,
but
where
does
either
oftlleul
nd
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26
Ubiquitous Stratagems.

But with what burning Indignation
we think of the iniquitous stratagems
by which goods are sometimes dispos-
ed Of A glance at the morning papers
shows the arrival at one of our hotels
of Il young merchant from one of the
inland cities. He is a comparative
stranger in the great city, and, Of
course, he must be shown around, and
it will be the duty of some of our en-
terprising houses to escort him. He is
a large purchaser and has plenty of
time and money, and it will pay to be
very attentive. The evening is spent
at place of doubtful amusement.
Then they go back to the hotel. Hav-
ing Just come to town, they must, of
course. drink.
A friend from the same mercantile
establishment drops in, and usage and
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

Fels G. Co, makers. Philadelph
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

man, that just one wrong INTO which
you may slip may be link of a long
chain of circumstances from which
you cannot be extricated by any in
genuity of your own or any help from
others, and the tides will roll over you
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-07-26

porter for the goods and to the land
lord whose store he occupies and to
the clerks who serve him. There are
world of traffic which ought never to
become the rule for honest men. Their
wrong does not make your right. Sin
never becomes virtue by being multi
piled and admitted at brokers' board
or merchants exchange. Because 9TH
ers smuggle few things in passenger
trunks. because others take usury
when men are in tight places, because
others palm off worthless indOrse-
ments, because others do nothing but
blow bubbles, do not, therefore, be
overcome of temptation. Hollow pre-
tension and fictitious credit and COM
mercial gambling may awhile prosper,
but the day of reckoning cometh, and
in addition TO the horror and con-
demnation of outraged communities
the curse of God will come blow for
blow. Gods law forever and forever
Is the only standard Of right and
wrong and not commercial ethics.
Young business man, avoid the first
business dishonor, and you will avoid
all the rest. The captain of n vessel
was walking near the mouth Of a rlv
er when the tide was low, and there
was a long stout anchor chain, into
one of the great links of which his foot
slipped, and 1t began 10 swell, and he
could not withdraw it. The tide began
to rise. The chain could not be loos-
ened nor filed off in time, and sur
geon was called to amputate the limb,
but before the work could be done the
tide rolled over the victim, and his life
was gone. l have to tell you, young
Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-09-06
Sham War in Germany.

Berlin, Sept 3.-The army maneuvers
which will begin today and end Septen-
Der 10Th, will be of more than usual in.
terest and Importance. The operations
will be conducted on the same grounds
and largely patterned after the Napol-
comic campaign of 1905. Half the troops
engaged, the Fifteenth corps, will ap.
proach the opposing forces, the Sixteenth
corps, by forced marches through the
Black forest passes. After striking the
plains the corps will operate along both
sides Of the river. The decisive action will
probably occur in Wurtemburg, between
Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg. Big reviews
at Carlsruhe, Strasburg and elsewhere will
precede the maneuvers Emperor Will
lam strongly hopes to see some strategic
surprises.
A noteworthy feature of the maneuvers
will be the presence of number of dis
tinguished military men from other couu.
tries.