The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-07-13

seem to be pretty well agreed that
Chinese trade shall be preserved to
everybody except the Chinese, OBJ
serves the Washington Post.
If all the bankers of the world
would agree that they would advance
no money to pay the expenses of war,
war would soon ceases, opines the
Christian Register.
Some people refuse to believe that
the man who rocks the boat is any
more of a fool than the one who
wants to run an automobiles mile
minute on the public highways, de-
clares the Chicago Record-Herald.
Hitherto it has been supposed that
electric light is more injurious to the
eyesight than any other artificial
light, but Russian oculists who have
been closely studying the subject now
maintain that, on the contrary, it is
less injurious than the light either OF
| gas or candles Or any other material.
London is the most intense of all
cities, says the Christian. New York
is noisier, there is more rattle in
! Paris: in London alone you have that
subdued roar, that indescribable muir
muir which suggests an irresistible
volume of life that is deep rs well as
strong.
The search, rather than the discov-
cry, is the thing which enlists the
imaginations and the energies of
men, says the New York American.
When the pole is found interest in 1t
will end. The game, not the stake, is
what interests. And that should be
the case with all gentlenanly sport
from steeplechasing to pole-hunting.
The children of Johnston, S. c.,
have organized Civic League.
| Twenty have given their names for
membership and the City Council has
ordered twenty-five galvanized gar
| bage receptacles to be placed along
the streets of the town. These pat
riotic little citizens will help to keep
their town neat and clean, thinks the
Keystone.
It seems to be possible to make the
automobile a law server as well as
law breaker, remarks the Boston
Transcript. A Worcester policeman
used one to chase and arrest man
who was driving at speed beyond
the safety limit.
a San Francisco woman who found
ed an institution for destitute women
in 1868, has lost her money and en-
tered the home Talk about ones
| bread returning after many days!
comments the Buffalo Express. =.
Tonsorialist Magic a ;cri5es Tie de-
feat of the Russians to their wearing
whiskers, relates the Big Rapids Bull
letin. No nation, says he, can be sue
| cessful in war unless his fighters are
| smooth shaver.
The elements supplied to the soil
in commercial fertilizers are avail
able nitrogen, potash and phosphoric
acid. If these are kept MP the essen
tials of plant food will not be found
wanting. And yet good crops may
not be produce. 1t has to be arrang-
ed so that crops can use the material.
The most common fault in case
| of this kind is that there is a lack OF
what is known as humus or organic
substances This humus warns the
soil, lets in air, aids drainage and
| also holds moisture. When there is
too little of it present the earth be-
comes soggy and cold in wet sea-
| son, and either bakes or is too wet in
! a dry season. Any one of these con-
! ditions makes it harder for plants to
grow and take food from tie soil.
Disreputable business conduct, dis
reputable methods, associations, con-
nivances and extenuations are not
nearly as disgraceful as they ought
| to be, thinks Life. If charity must
forever be stretching itself to cover
! the misdeeds of directors, there won't
be enough of it left to cover fair
proportion of the common sins OF
| common people. There isn't enough
charity to go around, anyhow. We do
heartily wish the great army of di-
rectors and big men would moderate
their demands on what there is OF it.
They can't reasonably expect to get
| far more than their share of the easy
money, and then monopolize the ex-
tenuating circumstances besides.
The demand for high grade men in
businessmen who can show results,
and by their brains and labor in
crease the earning capacity of firm
or corporation-is greater than it has
ever been before in the history of the
world. Herbert Jackson Hapgocd, in
Harper's, writes about THE Search
for Men, showing the kird o. ability
most in demand, AMI the Willingness
of employers to pay well for what
they really want. Some OF Mr.. Hap
goods statements VIII surprise read
ers who have not looked into this sub