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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

tion that the five million dollars of
last years pension appropriation
which the Commissioner has turned
back, into the Treasury would figure
as a principal count in their indict.
ment of this faithful official. He has
not allowed them either to steal out.
right or to secure the sharks rake
offense in the eyes of the band Of
pension leeches who insist that the
Federal Treasury exists for their sup.
port.
The great majority of the banded
pension robbers are not as frank, how.
ever as was Corporal Tanner, whose
historical ejaculation; God help the
surplus.' has been their real motto
ever since the Tanner regime. They
want pension appropriations cXpend
cd, not carried back into the Treasury
They favor deficiency appropriations
for pension purposes in addition to
the regular appropriations made upon
the estimates and recommendations
of the Pension Commissioner. BY pro-
fligacy and fraud they swell their own
profits, but they prefer to stalk behind
such respectable soldier tigureheads
as they are able to delude into the
belief that the old soldiers are being
denied full justice rather than to ap-
pear In their true character before
the public.
But an intelligent public should be
able to penetrate the transparent mo-
tives which inspire this vocifcrous de-
mand for the removal of an honest
official for no other cause than faith
ful performance of his duty. And
President Mckinley should refuse to
either remove or side-track by appoint
ment to another place Pension Com
missioner whose administration of his
Office has been such a conspicuous sue
cess.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12
HOW THEY STOPPED A CRITIC.
From the Hartford Tim es.

y dispatch announces that ii. Phelps
Whitmarsh, governor of Benguct pro-
vince, has been called to Manm to
explain to the United States Philip
pine commission certain allegations
that he has been using his position
TO his personal advantage in acquiring
land and mining rights from the ma
tives. lie is at present charged with
indiscretion and violation of his in.
structions.
The dispatch plainly intimates that
the army people do not like the ways
of Gov. WhItmarsh. Who, then, In
Whitmarsh? we will let the Boston
Globe tell little about him:
II. Phelps Whitmarsh is an English.
man. He began life in the quiet Of
a country parsonage. His father was
an English clergyman, who, accord
ing to the son, kept his boy studying
the Bible while he longed for novels
to read. The Waverley series and
Capt. Marryats stories helped develop
the disposition for rowing which he had
inherited from sea-following ancestors
and led him to adopt the life of 4
tramp, silver miner, a sheepherder,
Il laborer, a beachcomber, barber,
n clerk and pearl diver in succession
He was born in Canada, where his
father was serving as a missionary,
but when three years of age was
taken back to England.
He was wild boy and went to
sea, sailing three times around the
globe before he attained his majority.
lie then studied medicine awhile, and
next wandered away to Australia,
where he led n varied and eventful
life Then he came to this country,
and gained living in a dozen ways,
finally turning up in Boston as busl-
ness man and commercial agent. He
entered the field ns "A correspondent
in Cuba at the outbreak of the war
with Spain, and afterward went TO
the Philippines. He wrote with some
ability and showed disposition to
tell the truth about the failure of our
scheme of benevolent dissimulatlon.
+ Then a happy thought struck the
Taft crowd at Manilar-to make him a
provincial governor and stop his
criticisms, "a plan which seems to have
been successful in its chief object.
| WhitnlarSh Is still an English subject,
and if he gets into any serious rou-
bic. the long arm of John Bull eau
reach out and protect him. For the
present he seems to he in no danger.
| The dispatch from Manila plainly in
/ dicates that Taft & Co. intend TO
, stand by him. In opposition to the
| fault-fnding army officers.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12
SOME QUEER PHILOSOPHY.

Alderman Wentz, of Brooklyn, has
achieved fame by buying 10 tickets
to the Buffalo Fair for his wife, his II
children and himself.
Here are some of Mr.. VENTS
writings on the philosophy of raising
II children:
ITS a great thing to go home at
night and find nineteen or twenty
pairs of shoes waiting in the hallway
to be cleaned. You can't come home
feeling lively with the danger of wax
ing UP twenty-three people.
Think if people knew the satisfac-
ton of having babies about the house
they would not want small families
/ don't feel old as the little ones multi
ply. | feel younger and younger, and
think I'll become u child again myself
some day"
and shepherdess of seventeen-she toe
is philosopher:
Its great time getting the child
rem off to school. | line them up like
an inspector of rifle practice.
II don't think our family could get
along on one of those dollar dinners
provided for in the evning papers.
I'VE let the babies have lots of fresh
air, and when they come in at even
ing they are anxious to go to bed
Everyone helps here or 1t would be 4
task beyond my powers.
I'm very happy with the little ones
about. The work doesn't seem to tire
me-. i love every one of them and they
love me, and there is something il
that.
1--WE don't spoil our children by
pamperlng. We expect them to he lit
tie men and women, and they are
They are placed upon their honor tC
behave, and they do so without mucl
rod"
The Munroe Falls man who is alst
father of seventeen children shoult
try to form the acquaintance of Alder
man Wentz.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12
WHY HYMNS ARE POPULAR,
CFrom the Chicago Inter.Ocean.

The Sunday School as it should
Be was the theme discussed by the
Society of Religious Education in De.
troit on Sunday. Among the speak
ers was Colonel Francis w. Parke",
the Chicago educator. He urged that
the Sunday school be put upon "a
more common sense and practical
basis AS step In that direction b :
advised the abolition of such hymns
as II Want to Be an Angel"
Doubtless Colonel Parker's objection
to such songs Is that they are not suf-
fcicntly ntellectuul--that they ex-
press only the ''rudimentary emotions" I"
SO a conference of divines in New
York some years ago went on record
against Jerusalem the Golden" that
popular hymn, rescued by Or. Neale
from Bernard of MorlaiX's medieval
Latin satire, as TOO tlorid and pagan"
In like manner ''rhere is n Fountain
Filled With Blood that old Metho.
dist faVorite--has been cenSured as
grossly MATERIAL and There Is Rest
w WV N'hiS wv 'tl bhllN III
its imagery"
The critics of such hymns as these
forget that the average man does not
sing TO express his adhesion to some
iine-spun theory of transcendcntal
philosophy. If he did, George Elot's
Choir Invisible" might well stand first
in all our hymn books, lie sings to
express his emotions to voice n be,
lief that is felt and lived rather than
defined with scholastic precision.
And II he takes the concrete symbols
of the Orient rather than the mental
imagery OF the Occident to embody
his feelings il is because they better
serve his need. Christianity is an
Oriental religion, and nineteen hundred
years use of its forms has ingrained
them into the popular consciousness,
Who that has succeeded In mental.
ly Visualizing Gustavus Adolphus sing
ing at the head OF his troops on his
dcath,hcld, Fear Not. Little Flock
or Oliver Cromwell chanting his
Ironsidcs to victory with Let God
Arise" or has heard men sobbing in
an old.fashloned Methodist meeting,
as they sang Of tho fountain whose
food alone could wash clean their
souls, can doubt the power of ouch
hymns?
And they have power because they
express no mere intellectual concept,
but the emotions of a living belief
TO the great majority OF mankind re-
ligion always has been and doubtless
ever win be matter Of nrultive feel
ing rather than of reasoned conviction
TO express that feeling they sing, and
they prefer those hymns which give
their emotions concrete form. When
they consent to abandon such hymns
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12
THAT OFFER TO Mr., BRYAN.
From the Springfield Republican.

William j. Bryan, upon being asked
to confirm or deny the New York
Worlds story that the Filipino lead.
ers during the last presidential cam
paign offered to surrender if he should
be elected and also to contribute $780,
600 to the Democratic campaign fund,
provided that in the event of his cleo
tlon an independent or constitutional
government were conceded them, re
plies: "Thc report Is substantially cor
rect, but | do not care to discuss the
details AT this time" BryDn's course
in the mater was wholly creditable to
him. He refused to have any dealings
with the cmissarics of the Filipino
government who tried to see him in
New York 1t was home question,
and for the people of the United States
to consider ANA decide upon themselves
This was his attitude in the campaign,
and he could not regard aS Seemly or
proper any such arrangement as was
proposed, no matter how inst may have
been considered the Filipino resistance
to an alien conquest As for the Fill
pino leaders. they appear simply as
believing that the success of Bryan in
the campaign would be more favorable
~ their aspirations for Independence
than the success of Mckinley, and they
accordingly wanted to render what as
sistance they could. Their pledge of
instant surrender goes to prove what
was evident throughout, that the
overthrow of Mckinley would imme-
diatcly bring peace in the Philippines,
and the needlessness of maintaining
shcrc more than a small body of
American troops to assist in preserving
order while the natives We're rebuild.
ing the government we had wautonly
and bloodily destroyed.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12
SETTLING QUARRELS BY WAR.
(st, Louis Post Dispatch

Up to date the Boer war has cost
England $775,000,00o.
Since 100 that nation has spent SS,.
GOJ,00O,000 in wars, big and little.
Scarcely a day has passed in which
Great Britain has not been at war.
During these two centuries England's
dag has been planted In every CLINE,
aud English trade has expanded I'M.
I'll there Is not u corner of the world
whore II does not penetrate.
Does II pay this enormous expcndi,
lue?
Probably the net return in pounds,
shiilngs and pence is "to the good"
But It may we'll he questioned
whether nj this day war eau ever be
made profitable to nation Individ-
uals may prosper by II, hut il is very
doubtful IL in modern conditions the
iustest war helps the material well.
being of any country.
Is II probale that the British pco.
pie will ever recoup themselves 81 600,
Oo0,00O which the South African wal
~ e''HB w ''Sh 'h'h' nc NoUll
African company will no doubt gair
in the end. And other spectators Will
make fortunes. But win the British
people over he the richer for 1t OF
the British nation stronger?
The cost of huge armaments vii
probably act as n bar more or less
cfcctual to future wars. When a peo
pie once discovers that losses in wa,
cannot he made good. they will linC
some other mode of settling quarrels
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

that discriminating people, respecting
its old age, have been reluctant to
call the turn upon 1t, But when such
n Journal as the Cleveland Leader
prints the old gag as If 1t were an
original production, IL is time to hold
the post mortem. The fair applicants
for certificates says the Leader,
were confronted with n long list of
verbs. among which was the word
tree. ' This is enough to make n
willow weep. When was the dignified
aud respectable noun tree reduced
to the humiliation of being a verb?
There is every indication that the
city editor of the Leader should re-
quire one of his staff humorists to
acquaint himself with the principal
parts of grammar.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12
WISE ss w
ss " Otherwise.


Green apples are becoming more
tempting. 9as
The sugar trust rcjoices over a large
gooseberry crop.
Re good and you'll he lonesome, is
not always the truth.
The wonder is that those policemen
have never become professional ball
players.
Large demand for liniment and porus
plasters in the police department. since
Thursday.
Paths in country fence corners in
dlcatc that homegrown raspberries
are in their prime.
1t was a token of their hospitality
and yet not conducive to the best re.
suits on the diamond for the police to
give their visitors n big dinner at the
NN h'Nl JbN' b'loIt IihlhS lii'il w INV
ball game,
Thomas A. Edison's recent advice Ia
n young man who queried of him ad
vice ms to success. Don't watch the
clock" deserves place In the rules
of any young man who is ambitious
and striving for success in any line
Don't be tme-server. Remember
that you are working for something
more than stipulated sum for n Ger
tain number of hours Keep your em
ployer in your debt by doing little
more or little better work than Il
actually required of you, and sooner
or later there will come n day OF
reckoning when YOU will get your pay
j. T. =
The manner in which young girls
even little grls-are doing their hail
up on the back of their heads gives
them an appearance of maturity no.
altogether in keeping with their shor
skirts remarked the Observing Citi
zen, Thursday night. 1T seems rather
ridiculous to me, but after all II Ii
more becoming than some of the very
short rainy-day skirts and coloret
hosiery which l have been unable tC
keep from noticing that the grown NJ
sisters of these little girls sometimes
wear. Rainy-day skirts are all right
except when they approach too clos(
to the bnthing-suit length"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12
WHO'S THE JOKE ON?
A few days ago the Cleveland lie

A few days ago the Cleveland Lea
der got off the following:
During the recent normal school
teachers examination the fair appli-
cants for certificates We're confronted
with long list of verbs, of which they
We're directed to give the principal
parts. Among the list was the word
tree One of the brightest students
of the class, who had been graduated
from West High school with high hon.
ors, was unable to answer the quNtion.
She was effecrually treed' by the sim
pie word. The more she thought about
1t the more nervous she grew until
just before the papers We're called in
she hastily wrote down: The princi-
pal parts of tree are roots, trunk, aud
branches
This old fraud has been roaming
up and down the highways and by,
ways of journalism for so long a time
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12
THE SODA FOUNTAIN CLERK.

Consider now the meek and humble
soda-fountain clerk
Who draweth Off the moistened air
with nimble turn and jerk.
His garb is always spotless white
when first he puts it on,
But, 10, before an hour hath passed
It's spotlessness hath gone.
For then he hath vanilla on the
bosom of his vest, and strcaks of red
raspberry make his trousers seem Il
jest.
While chocolate and ginger give a
tiger-like effect to the balance of the
garments in which he is proudly deck
ed.
His hair is limp and languid, and is
parted square and true
Above the very centre of his nose,
which turneth blue,
Because he hath TO linger in the acid
and the lee, to fix up funny mixtures
for the one that hath the price.
He maketh strange concoctions in
the line of fancy drinks, and all the
while he watcheth for persuasive sorts
of wlnks.
From early morn he twisteth at the
soda water spout, and turneth the ice
crusher till the ice hath given out.
He diggeth in the ice cream and
rusheth with the glass, while his dead
ly hated rival buys the soda for the
lass.
Yea, verify, the soda clerk, he hath
sorry time, for he must know the
way to get nine cents out of each
dime.
And he must be hustler. that there
will not be loss of ice or gas OF
water, or he'll tremble at the boss.
How often, oh, how often hath the
soda jerker grinned at the one who
payeth nickels for a penny's worth
| of wind,
/ How often, oh, how often doth a
calm and peaceful smile so tiitting o'el
4 his visage when Il drink goes out OF
style.
| But, ah, alas, my son, sometimes
he feeleth very bad and then is wher
the ladies' come with garments rich
/ and glad,
The ladies fill the rockers and the
doorways and the stools, and insist
upon liquid that both clevates and
| cools,
And one declareth that she'd like
some chocolate with cream, and, wher
he draweth II, straightway "Oh, no!
the maid doth scream.
] And then she voweth that she hatl
already changed her mind, and want
eth Just phosphate with piece OF
! lemon rind.
And, yet again the other maids de
clare they do not know just whaI
they wish--and on and on their milo
objections flow,
The weary soda fountain clerk sug
gesteth this and that, from plair
old lemon phosphate TO a dose oI
anti-fat,
And finally the ladies fair will
one consent conclude that chocolate
and cream shall be their soda-fountaiI
/ food,
Now. when he draweth all the drinks
his troubles are not done
Nay, verify, my trusting child, the,
are but half begun;
! For each and every maiden ther,
doth straightway rise and say,
Nov, girls. Ill think it's awful /
you do not let me pay"
II And all protest, and all object, an,
all their plans defend,
And not one takes out her purs
her lovely cash TO spend.
1 Now, finally. the soda clerk sue
gesteth that each maid shall pay 70
Y what she drank-and then beginnetl
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

The gentle soda fountain clerk, he
falleth in a daze, and leaneth on the
vlchy tube and wicked things he
says.
Is this not true, Just as we have
composed it, with much work?
1t surely Island II you doubt. 20
ask the soda clerk Baltimore Ameri.
can.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12
GOD HELP THE SURPLUS!
From the Philadelphia Record,)

If the pension sharks who arc max
ing the welkin ring with their clamor-
Gus demands for the removal of Pen
sion Commissioner Evans could he pre-.
vailed uppn to be honest for the mo,
ment, and to tell the plain truth about
their motives 1t Is beyond contradic.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

the trade,
For all the ladies vow in wrath--yea.
yea, they almost sob--that they will
his employer see, and take from him
his job.
And then they take their parasols,
and sternly so away, and not cent
Of all that bill do they take steps to
pay,
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

Congressman Beidler is trying to
placntc the farmers of Medina county
who voted for Judge Phillips, the indc-
pendent candidate for Congress last
fall, by advocating n good roads move
ment for Medina. A government cX'
pert will be sent to Medina to build
nm experimental section of road, to be
adopted generally by the farmers of
that county If ii suits them.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

Gov. Stone, Of Pennsylvania, is am
bilious to go to the United States
Senate, but his ambition fails to please
the Hon. NJ. S. Quay, to whom the
Governor owes his political eleva.
ton. Senator Quay is quoted in the
Pittsburg Press as saying: 81 never
elected q Governor yet that he did
not want to go to the Senate at the
end of his term. None OF them ever
went. They never seemed TO he sat.
isied unless they could get on the
seat beside me-" This bold assump.
tion on the part of Pennsylvania s
boss that to him belongs the credit
for the election of Pennsylvania Gov.
ernors, is splendid compliment to
the voters of that State The citizens
whose votes contributed to Pennsyl
vania's annual 25o,000 plurality fol
the Machine ticket are merely an in
cident in the transaction.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

reorganize the Democracy Of Ohio
backwards to Cleveland times and
Cleveland policies, was completely
frustrated.
1t only remains for the people to
carry the good work forward by noml-
mating and electing to the Legislature
men who, by precept and example are
fully abreast of the position taken by
the convention.
And so we repeat in this connection,
what we have before said in another
that this requirement will not be met
by any who are not wholly above sus-
picion of the intirmities of ax.dodgers
or representatives or beneiciaries of
the tax-avoiding policy.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

An elevator in one of the New York
department. stores fell fifteen stories
Wednesday,, but neither of its two oc.
cupants was hurt, Modern elevator
building seems to have been reduced
TO something more than Il science.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

In IN address at the annual festival
of the Salters company. at London,
LAST evening, Mr.. Chas. r. Yerkcs. the
American millionaire street railway
magnatr, had something to say about
the South African war. "rhe Beers are
brave soldiers ana resemble the early
American fronticrsmcn," he said, 'but
Great Britain cannot afford half way
measures. DO not pitch into them I'M
mercifully, but pitch into your own peo-
pie who oppose the war and make
them keep their mouths shut until
the fight is over. Then settle your
differences amongst yourselves If
the British people are satisfied with
this cheap advice from American mil
lionnircs, they are welcome to all
there Is of H.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

Canton has tax rate Of three per
cent, and the City Tax Commission
of that city has had a meeting and
declared the tax to he prohibitive Of
locating new industries in that city,
The Akron tax rate is nearing the three
per cent limit, and II will be well
for the Akron officials to heed the
warning that comes from their Can.
ton nclghbors.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

The question involved in the steel
trust labor trouble concerns simply the
employment of union labor, says the
Springfield Republican. 1t resolves it.
self into about this; Shall the trust be
free to run union or non-union plants,
aS II plcases, or must it operate only
union plantSI. Few corporation
managers Il year or two ago
would have consented to confer
with union officials raising such ques-
tion as that and the fact that the big
steel trust managers are willing to talk
the matter over in conference with the
representatives of organized labor is
significant cf some change in the at
titudc of capital. The change would
take on tho character of II revolution
If the trust should yield to the anal
gamatcd association demand for the
uni0nizng of all its plants.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-07-12

for mere ryhthmical definitions of alb
stract principles they will cease to be
religious. A.,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-03
Tolstoi on Modern Americans.

Frank Leslies Popular Monthly. rFdnn 1:Emt The American army is much ,orger ,It than t it was. It seems to me 1t iargsr araw very tsSA quickly Only a short time ago read it was less than han STOO Si ,oo HS% oSS IL it IS tHs msximum; that the minimum was was ,n',ch rne ,'' less. "But you build great vas st,eshins-the niTI best in any nation;" agreed to tthis. Tt is pity xfter to tnihs ths yTpo,.d y1u, % of writers America produced in the ple'"J civtI H' war you can now only show show sne as your c most brilliant brain, Carnegie ghe the millonalre. ae naG gr9nOanesG TSoreaS. Bai. M Wat wa Them M m ' rose the Achilles among among aEs statesmen AOrahamf hnoOn Yoar these were giant eonste1iatnoI1, con xan now. Your Sreat war is men U are your millionaires."