The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-12


gests the Richmond Times Despatch.
The war is over, but earthquakes,
volcanic eruptions and al manner of
disasters keep up the worlds strenu-
Gus life.
Modern business enterprise has
overcome that impossibility of our
youth-to eat ones cake and have
it. There's nothing easier to finan-
cier than to sell bonds and own them.
remarks the New York American.
School gardens have passed the ex-
perimental stage. They have eStab-
lisned their educational usefulness in
many cities.
A New York servant girl is said to
have received $4,000 for refusing to
testify concerning the scandals in the
home of her employers. relates the
Atlantic Constitution. The potential
ties of graft in this humble depart
ment of human activity are simply
illimitable
The Rochester Democrat and Ciron-
icle says: 1t has frequently been
stated during the past few weeks, as
a gossippy item of news. that 1913
lawyers are serving sentences in New
York penal institutions. For some un-
explained reason the statement has
not elected great interest, either
among laymen or members of the
legal profession.
One Of the great successes of the
Americans in the Philippines is the
school system, and there is no more
encouraging sign of the beneficial re-
suits of American rule in the archipel-
ago than the manner in which the
native children are taking advantage
of that system, declares tine New York
Press. In April, 1908. there were
barely 100000 children enrolled in the
schools. Today it is estimated that
there are nearly 100000 in attendance.
At the risk of killing himself to pre-
vent running over a child, q Boston
automobile enthusiast directed his big
machine into a ditch. 1t turned com
pletely over, and he had a narrow
escape from death, being quite severe
ly injured. The child was unframed.
The man may have been operating
the automobile too fast, comments the
Buffalo Courier, but he thought quick
ly and acted heroically.
The apartment-house manager who
objects to the babies but smiles on
pet dogs has been found in New York.
1t takes all kinds of observation-disclosures
to make a city, concludes the New
York World.
All the sea-going nations will sym
pathize with Japan in her loss of the
Mikasa, says the New York Times
To have survived all the perils of the
war and to be destroyed at last by
q commonplace accident. an accident
moreover, which indicates lapse oil
that skill and care which have made
the Japanese Navy so terrible in war
this is an inglorious fate for the most
famous ship in that navy.
The New York Sun says: The not
surprising excitement at Toxic simply
proves anew that the whole world OF
! human nature is akin, pagan aid
Christian mobs, IS for example those
of the draft riots in New York during
the civil war, the pagan Japanese d
Toxic seem TO have been less hysteri-
cal, less brutal and less Dlood-thirsty
simultaneously with the Toxic des
patches telling of the riots there
came the report of the burning at the
stake of a negro in Texas by mob
of two thousand Christians.
The most significant of the new
movement is the changed attitude OF
the Chinese mind toward Western
learning, the Baltimore Sun states
Till recently this attitude was of the
litterati to the merits of anything the
foreign devils could teach. The sue
cess of the Japanese-wno have ASST
inflated Western learning-againsl
themselves and against even the Rus
slams in an object lesson which they
can no longer ignore.
A fact of much gener1: Importance
to farmers has been recently brought
out in connection with a statement
of the wealth. population and produc-
ton of the United States, says the
sachusetts Ploughman. 1t is
found that the demand and use OF
leading products Is increasing faster
! than production. During the past ten
years the wheat crop has increased
from 267, GOo0 900 bushels to 552.00O'
600 bushels, and this year the crop
will be six hundred million bushels;
but allowing for the increase of popu-
lation. it is found that the consuming
power has increased even faster, hay'
ing gained from 8 SO bushels to 6.3s
bushels of wheat and -four for each
person and from Ills to 26.74 busneis
of corn for each person