The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-01-04
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The President has tackled few diff
ficult jobs, but preserving Niagara
Falls from the commercial vandals will
try all his mettle.-Chicago Post.
Millionaires who claim pensions ito
perfect their army records" must have
peculiar views of what an honorable
discharge means.-Philadelph Inquir-
or.
The canal men want clubhouse
and the Canal Commission has agreed
to furnish it. The Home for Super
ANIMATED Ditch Diggers can be built
later.-Puck.
China's demand for the evacuation
of Manchuria within six months" some
how rings Familiarity on the ear as IL
history were repeating itself.-St
Louis Republic.
The New York Four Hundred has
now been cut down to 81. If it were
reduced to one the general public
would be but little the poorer.-Jack-
sonville Times-Union.
Let us build the canal for ourselves,
not for our grandchildren. If our
grandchildren want to be prominent in
the game they can pay for it.-New
York Evening Mail.
If New York's 400 has shrunk to 20,
how long will it take the exclusive set
to become extinct? This sum cannot
be worked by vulgar fracticns.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Secretary Shaw says that we want q
more elastic currency. Right you are,
Secretary; something that will stretch
from one pay day to another.-Phila-
delphia Evening Telegraph.
The report that gold has been dis
covered on the Isthmus of Panama il
probably founded on the fact that a
good deal of it has gone there that new
er came back.-New York Mail.
1t is evident that the Car intends to
keep Poland for the purpose of having
something to kick when he feels the
necessity of giving expression to his
feelings.-Chicago Record Herald.
Chicago people are now Directing to
the public use of toothpicks. For peo-
pie who have just learned to use tooth
picks, those Chicagoans are becoming
awfully fastidious.-Atlanta Journal.
1t is gratifying to know that the
new battleship Virginia has broken
the speed record, but may she never
have to show her quality when the
enemy is behind her.-Indianapolis
Star.
Several military and naval officers
are predicting another war. The wish
is father to the thought, for period
of profound peace is not conducive to
glory or promotion.-Duluth News
Tribune.
Mr.. Rockefeller attributes his riches
to association with good men and the
influence of the church. 1t will be OBJ
served that not even Mr.. Rockefeller
is Dragging about the secret rebate
Kansas City Star.
A Chicago Salvation Army girl beat
a little sense into the head of mash.
er who attempted to fiirt with her in
park the other evening. 1t is the
big stick kind of Christianity thai
counts.-Burlington Hawkeye.
1t is estimated the Sultan could
present every man, woman and child
in his country with an ultimatum from
his large collection and still have
enough left to lay under all the carpets
in his royal palaces.-Pittsburg Ca
zette.
Certainly, hazing should be rooted
up at Annapolis, if all four of the
classes there have to be kicked out
and brand new start made. Better
so than that young ruffians should
defy the authority of the United
States.-Boston Journal.
1t is pretty hard to figure out
whether that false Car who is trying
to start something somewhere in Rus
STA is man of remarkable bravery, of
almost unthinkable rashness or merely
doesn't grasp the horrors of the situa-
tion.-Indianapolis News.
The determination of the New York
reformers to get the imam higher up
and connect him b the election ir-
regularities is commendable, provided
they get him. AS a rule he takes his
vacation after election and allows the
other fellow to go to 5ail.-Pittsburg
Dispatch.
After nearly nine years of street
railway reform agitation we have sue
coded in introducing the thermometer,
which, by the way, does not indicate
how hot the passengers are after they
have been clinging for five miles to an
unelastic strap. But it is something
Chicago Inter Ocean.
At any rate, Haakon, of Norway,
won't be under the disagreeable neces-
sity of wearing mailed shirt. When
the N0rsemen want to be rid of him
they won't do anything more than
shoot him out of the country, with q
return ticket to Denmark
Commercial Tribune.
The only thing lacking in Russia at
present is as fair trial for the constitu-
ton which has not as yet been formu-
lated owing to the fact that the par
ties most deeply interested in it will
not agree to drop everything else
while they are trying on little real
liberty Chicago Inter Ocean.
Here comes China with a claim for
damages against Russia and japan
for injuries sustained by the waging