The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-12-05
YANKEE NOTIONS.

and liberality are negligible factors in
securing new industries received an
other disagreeable !, conclusion last
week in this city when factory was
lost because the required fund was not
raised until the stipulated time had
passed. 1t will not do to say now
that the proposed factory was not de-
sirable anyhow: that is merely the old
familiar talk of sour grapes that
Aesop hit off with great aptness in
his homely fable. The contract
agreed upon by the Business Men s
association was good one and had
responsibility back of it. There is no
reason to doubt the good faith of par
ties. The thing to do now is to be
prepared for the next proposition and
to treat it in accordance with good
business principles, as the association
will do if the people will back it in its
laudable efforts to build up the bust
ness of the city.
1t may be recorded upon the highest
authority that everything is complete
ly inharmonious in local democratic
circles. The courthouse clique has
made itself thoroughly disliked to the
large contingent of party men who are
not permitted to share in its benefits
and are excluded from the snaps that
are from time to time handed out by
the officials to their political favorites,
the district chairman has declared his
independendence of the state com
mittee at the beheSt of his local boss
es, Martindale's aggressive candidacy
for judicial honorS is diStasteful to all
the lawerS in the circuit a newspaper
war has long been threatened and is
now on with as much asperity as can
be crowded into it, and the faction
tn + demands harmony is determined
to have it even if the refractory silver
ties must be dubbed into a Semblance
of submission. Marshall county DEM
ocra S will be too busy with the fights
in its own ranks to pay much atten-
tion to the opposing party in the inn
pending campaign.
Did it ever occur to you that it
takes great deal to make children
happy and did you ever see the like of
the way grown people will work to ac-
complish the stupendous task? Look
at Thanksgiving and Christmas and
Fourth of July, think of the
birthdays scattered throughout the
entire year, recall the school,
Sunday school and social entertain
ments that are cheerfully prepared
and carried through for the young
sters. What parent or grandparent,
uncle or aunt, brother or sister, can
remember small part of the multi
tude of little things done daily for the
enjoyment of their little relatives?
Who can say, nevertheless, that any
of this enormous effort is wasted? If
it is blessed to receive the benefit of
these kind deeds it is surely more
blessed to give all that is required to
accomplish them.
One of the peculiar situations that
are constantly arising in interna-
tional commerce pertains to the ex-
ports of wheat and -four. The cost of
carrying wheat, both on land and
water, is considerably less than the
cost of carrying flour. Within the
past two or three years foreign millers
have come to realize the force of that
fact and they are now grinding Ameri-
can wheat in such quantities that the
exports of wheat have doubled while
the exports of flour have been CORES
pondingly reduced This develop
ment is hard on American millers but
as yet they have failed to discover any
adequate remedy.
The phlegmatic and apathetic
Dutch have i'm the last few weeks been
stirred almost to the point of giving
some expression 10 their feelings. In
deed, they do smoke faster than is
their wont. 1t is about love affair.
Less than yes ago their young and
much-loved queen, the beautiful
Wilhelmina, contracted matrimonial
alliance with the German Prince
Henry and they had their picture TAX
en- in attitudes denoting affection
and everybody said it was case of
true love and was SO pretty. Now the
prince consort il banished from his
bride and she is contemplating a d.
vorce. 1t seems that Henry's wild
oats had been extensive and expensive
and Wilhelmina objected to paying for
them. Henry slapped the queen in
the face and cruelty stabbed a MEM
Der Of the royal household who was