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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 25,Wll.
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THE WILD BEES' INN.
Here’s the tevern of the babe:
Hem the butterflies, that swing
Velvet cloaks, and to the breeae
Whisper soft consulraclaa,
Pledge their lord, the Faery Klngi
Here the hotspur hornets bring
Fiery word, end drink away
Heat and hurry of the day.
Hem the merchant bee, hie gold
On hit thigh, fella feet eeleepi
And the mailed beetle bold.
Like an errant knight of old.
Feeds and slumbers long and daapi
While tha friar erlekete keep
Cmaking low a drinking song,
Lika an Ave, all day long.
Ham the heron bumblebee
Drowse*, grumbling In bit cup.
While hie follower*, lean of knaa.
Dragonflies, alp awaggarlngly.
And the grigs, hie henchmen, eupi
Hem the gnat* com* whining up—
Thieves that tap the tiny tuna
Of the honey muak that run*.
Ham the Jeweled waap, that go**
On hla awtft highwayman way.
Seeks a moment of repose,
Drains Ms eup of win* of mas,
Shaaths* hla dagger for the day|
And the moth, In downy gray,
Like some Lady at the Gloom,
Slips Into a perfumed room.
When the darkness com at h on.
Round tha tavern, golden-green.
Fireflies flit with toreht* wan.
Looking If the gueete be gone,
Llnkboy* of the Feery Queen i
Lighting her who rid**, unseen,
To her alftn tweet-pea bower. ,
Where eh* mete a scented hour.
-Madison Caweln In Tha Outlook. '
Locating the
Governor’s Mansion.
The committee* of the house
and genate charged with the
duty of selecting a site for
the new governor’s mansion are
pursuing the wise eourse of mak
ing haste slowly. Before arriv
ing at any decialoa, they will
personally inspect all the sites
that have been offered, that they
may act in the light of the full
est information possible and
their action be therefore for the
best interest of the state.
Bach of the sites undoubtedly
ha.-t its advantages and diaadvan
tap'd. These are to be weighed
and properly balanced against
each other. It is undeniable,
however, that there ia a strong
sentiment in favor of the men
tion being retained somewhere
on Peachtree-st., not only because
of the dignity and prestige of
that thoroughfare, but also be
cause it is the best known and,
most frequently visited residen-'
tin! street in the South. The
press of the state, to far aa it has
expressed itself, favor* a Peach
tree location.
We would commend this faet
to tho consideration of the com
mittees and of the assembly,
and on the score of Us saving to
the state we would likewise be
speak consideration for the free
offer of the lot on Peaeh-
tree, with a frontage of 300 feet
and a depth of 400 feet, valued
at $24,000. Other, things being
found equal in the estimation of
the committee, no mistake, of
course, could be made here, with
respect to pxpenditnre. The sav-
ing on the lot could he used in
the erection of the mansion.
The most suitable property for
the least money is undoubtedly
the policy of wisdom in' ranking
this, aa well aa ail other pur
chases. In any event, however,
the interest of the state and the
comfort and convenience of its
governors mnst he paramount to
all other considerations.
An Exponent of the
Old-Time Trust Doctrine.
John E. Parsons, stock owner
and former general counsel of the
sugar combine, is what may be J
called an ardent subscriber to
the doctrine of the divine right
of trusts.
In his testimony before the
congressional investigating com
mittee at New York he disclosed
himself ns the staunchest of. all
the staunch standpatter* among
trnst magnates. He insisted {hat
he was the original trnst organ
izer in America, and viewed his
work with a large degree of what
he was certain was commendable
pride.
While the rest of the Country
and even many farseeing trust
officials are talking of Federal
control of trusts even to the ex
tent of fixing prices, Trust Pro
genitor Parsons spoke to the com
mittee in effect as follows: “Rot,
all rot, this idea of eurbing tho
trusts. The tr.'"'.i ire stronger
jhnu iY> .- i,:.- u- the govern?
l ■ ;.\.ay, and in a contest
...Lwecu the two, it isn't the
trust that will got stung. And
then, if you did succeed in hurt
ing the trusts you would hurt the
people worse, for if you want
sugar, oil or other commodities,
you must allow the men who give
them to you to make a little
money. You need not worry
about watered stock cither, that
will all come right of itself some
aweet day. Let the trusts
alone." \
Perhaps there was never a
franker statement of the prin
ciples on which the groat monop
olies of American commodities
were organized and in most cases
are maintained today, and surely
there never was a better illus
tration of the boastful pjido suc
cess has given them. It is repre
sentative of the spirit out of
which have grown the most fla
grant trust abuses, and which
have given rise to the demand
of the people that the trusts be
brought under the subjection of
the Federal government, the only
power indeed capable of coping
with them.
Every infringement of human
rights, whether legal, economic,
social or political, cv$ry en
trenched wrong, wherever and
whenever it has been attacked,
has always shown its testh and
growled s "Let me alone."
The doctrine of iaissez-faire has
never been successful except for
oppressors. Nothing has ever
prospered under it except aver-
ice and cruelty. The American
pqpplc. never have and neyer will
subscribe to It. They regard Mr.
Parsons’ remarks merely as the
chaff from a threshing floor, and
a last year’s one at that.
UNCLE WALT * PHILOSOPHER
— - — - ■
“And now I’ll write my sermon," the preacher said, .per
plex'd, “if I can but determine upon a, fruitful text." He,
took his pen and started his labors to pursue: a woman
broken-hearted came in and wept a few; and
THE when he had consoled her, and shooed her
from his den, encouraged her and told her to
PBEAOHEB'S call around again, this news to him was car
ried—a pair of country folk were waiting to be
SNAP married; of course the groom was broke. And
having duly spliced ’em, and blessed them
from his door, he shook his brains and ioed ’em, and tried to
, write some more. The telephone is. ringing, a summons sharp
and clear; his paper from him flinging., he bends attentive car.
Thp voice of some one crying comes sobbing o’er the wire:
“Old Quackenbusli is dying—come quick, ere he’ll expire!”
And when (hat errand’s ended, and to his little den his weaty
way he’s wended, and seized his trusty pen, a large donation
_party comes smiling to his shack, with greetings loud and hear
ty, and pattings on the back. They give him carpet slippers
and hand-made woolen caps, and galvanized tin dippers, and
other useless traps. And when at last he preaches, the leader
of the choir-in strident whisper screeches: "Our minister
lacks Are!" WALT MASON.
Copyright, 1911, by George Matthew A damn.
Army-Navy Orders
A tid Movements of Vessels
Taft’s Triumph.
In the . Anal' passage of the
Canadian reciprocity agreement,
Freaident Taft scored what ia
perhaps his first personal sncceaa
since he heeame head of the na
tion. This it, of eourse. not to say
that to him alone ia due the en
tire credit of the adoption of the
measure, because, as he himself ac
knowledges, it would have gone
to inevitable defeat without the
aid of the Democrat* in both the
honse and senate.
But this is the first measure
with respect to- which the presi
dent dropped his wonted passive,
judicial attitude and assumed the
role of the aggressive advocate,
ne negotiated the measure, thru
his secretary of state, and pre
sented it to the last session of the
sixty-flrst congress. When the
senate'at that session permitted it
to die in the committee, he called
the present extra session for the
■ole purpose of having it passed.
In addition he brought all the
power of his position into play
in its behalf, and after a lotjg
and bitter tight met with vie-
tory.
President Taft has declared
that the passage of the measure
will mark a new era in the pro
motion of jieacefnl and friendly
relations between Canada and
ihe United States, aa well as in
the promotion of closer trade re
lations.
And so it will indeed, but it
will also mark the beginning of
another era—the era of lower tar
iff and cheaper living—and it
was for this reason chiefly that
the Democrats gave it their
whole-hearted support.
The next big temp scheduled In the
senate Is the wool tariff debate. It la
expected that tho fur will fly In vai
nest.
"Old-time worm now threatens cot
ton.” How can cotton survive with all
these naw Insects and tho bears, too.
after It?
A Georgia pearn tree is said to bear
clingstone peaches one year and free
stone peaches the next. With a llltlf
training perhaps It could be taught to
bear oranges.
”A new sensation In the l-o timer
rase.” Rut the sensation the pcvple
want to experience la that which will
follow the announcement that L*»rlm*-r
has been kicked out of the I’nited
States senate.
THE TYRANNY OF FASHION
By ELBERT HUBBARD.
(Copyright tay the International News Service, 1911.)
Recently there hoe been a very
rloas strike of the garment maker* In
the city of Cleveland.
Many thousand, of dollars have been
loet thru tho disruption of trade, tho
the loaa of time, and, worst of all, the
engendering of hate, suspicion, the de
sire for revenge, nnd all of the disease
and misery that follow Idlenees and
broken buaineea Ilea.
At least three deaths have followed
thru violence, and how many more thru
the evolution of the gloom germ no man
can aay. .
My heart goes out to Ihe striker In
eympathy, beeauee If any man needs a
friend he Is the partlculas one. for often
he has failed to be a friend to himself.
The striking policy very seldom leads
anywhere except to defeat.
Even If a transient victory Ia achiev
ed, It Is charged up on the hooka, and
the striker pays for his victory dearly
a little later on.
Just what tho Immediate cause of
this Cleveland strike was I can not aay;
but I know the orlslnel culminating
cause was the tyranny of fashion.
The peopM who make women's gar
ments are Idle nbout one-half the time,
and the other half of the time they are
worked like galley slaves. The speed
ing up, the rush, the push, the erusli,
the worry, tho excitement, the conse
quent depresalon—all thla hurly-burly
—la caused by this one thing of fashion
atone.
Dealer* will not buy until they know
positively what the fashions for tha
coming season are to be. They wait for
tho vogue. Then they buy. and they
want the-thing, by Saturday night.
Theri cornea the lash, the crock of
the whip, and the workers bend to
their tasks to a point reaching the
breaking strain; and, when their
nerves can stand It no more, the strike
follows.
To be out of fashion I* to be In mis
ery. Fashion decrees thst A woman's
cloak, say, should take the form of n
Jacket like unto that worn by bullfight.
era.
Next year this Jarket fall* to the
knee. In the form of n cloak.
The following year It may be to the
hip*.
Two row, of buttons, or one, means
•oclal position or out of the swim. Then
follow* dire waste, thru the necessity
of a woman throwing away a garment
that might be worn for several years
were it not for the fact that It Is out
of fashion.
I speak here of the fashion of wom
en's rlothss; but the earn* sad condi
tion, In degree, exists In men'* apparel
also, and causes the sweat-shop meth
ods to prevail for six months of the
year.
Then follows Idleness and plenty of
time to waste all the money that has
been saved.
Imagine, too, the people of moderate
Income, where the wife must have Ihe
new dresa or the new cloak In order to
be tn fashion-, the peevish protest, and
anally the quibble which evolves Into
a quarrel between mnn and woman
over the matter of how much a wlfa
shall spend. ’ •
There Is no other existing cause, I
believe, that lesde tn so much' marital
misery aa this thing of fashion.
The average woman feels that she
can not go out In society unices she Is
clothed tn fashionable attire. Bhe does
not realise that her acceding to the
demands of fashion may raute the
murder of a garment worker In Cleve
land—seemingly -so separated are
causes from events! But the murders
In Cleveland ean be traced directly by
the psychologist to the dictate* of
the people, who launch the fashions In
Paria, London and New York.
Anothar fearful form of waste la
manifested jutt now In Ihe fashion In
automobiles. The difference between
the 1919 and the 1911 model* constats
practically tn just one thing—and that
ia tha fore doors. .
Any man who bought an automobile
In 1911 without the fore doora adver
tised himself as a cheap skate—or at
least he thought he waa to advertising
hlmsatf.
For all practical purposes the auto
mobile without the fore doora la Just
aa good a* the ono with. 1 have auto
mobile* of both types and And
ft decided objection to the fore
doors, which need not here In:
stated. Let the men who want
the fore doora have them, hut why
should we all be socially ostracised be
cause we ride In an automobile with
out the fore doors?
Recently l visited the great and
splendid factories of the Wlllya-Over-
land Automobile Company at Toledo.
Thera I was shown an actual acre of
automobile bodies, made with open
doors, In anticipation of the trade of
1911. Beautiful workmanship, grace of
Une*. strength and efficiency were tn
these automobile bodies. But, unfor
tunately, they were built without the
fore-door Idea,
When the fact became fixed In the
popular mind that only the fore-door
automobtlo would go, Mr. Wlllys, know
ing the futility of lighting a popular
crate, without first inaugurating tn
educational campaign, carried these au
tomobile bodies out Into the open, and
there they were piled high and a bon
fire made of them.
Here Waa a terrific economic waste
forced upon a manufacturer by the
tyranny of fashion. This loss waa
boldly charged by Mr. Wlllya to profit
and loss; but I am glad to aee that he
le now agitating a plan whereby the
big automobile manufacturers shall get
together and stand out against this
Iniquitous dictating of an arbitrary
fashion of every year bringing out a
new model.
Recently we have heard much about
comblnea In restraint of trade and for
selfish and personal reasonabut the
real fact Is that combines Mr mutual
good are what the country now needs
and must have.
I wish tho great garment manufac
turers would get together and qttflc the
arbiters of fashion, Just a* the automo.
bile maker* are surely going to rise to
the level of events and let common
sense have Its way, and cease thla
senseless, crawling, cringing catering
to the fetish of fashion.
Washington, July 25.—The following
orders have been leaned:
Navy Order,.
Commodore H. Phelpa, retired, from
navy yard. New York, to home.
Commander J. C. Leonard to navy
yard. New York.
Commander J. H. Owen, retired, from
Maine to home.
Lieutenant Commander Y. 8. Wil
Hams to the Salem.
Lieutenant .Commander R. K. Crank
from Wisconsin to the Maine.
Lieutenant Commander R. C. Bul-
mer from Salem to home.
Movements of Naval Vassals.
Arrived—Nanshan at Hankowf West
Virginia at Vancouver; Solace at Boa-
ton; Patapseo at Rockland. Maine;
Brutus at Boston: Connecticut, Yank
ton, Vermont, Nebraska and Montgom
ery at Provlncetown; Peoria at Cape
Haytlen; Petrel at Oonalves; Mis
souri. Mississippi, Maine, Ohio. Wash
ington at Tompklnnvllle: Cheyonne at
Bremerton; Marietta at Port Ltmon,
and Pontiac at navy yard, New Tork.
Sailed—North Carolina from Cristo
bal for Ponce; Leonidas from Havana
for Key West; Sylph from Nyaek for
Washington: Caesar from Guantanamo
for San Juan.
Army Ordsrs.
Captain G. M. Cochuc, coast artillery
corps, to West Point.
Second Lieutenant C. L. Wyman,
Seventeenth Infantry from maneuver
division to Fort McPherson. Ga.. thence
to his station at St. Paul. Minn.
Second Lieutenant F. C. Rogers. Six
teenth Infantry, to pay department,
Fort Davis. Alaska, relieving First
Lieutenant R. R. Pickering, Sixteenth
Infantry.
First Lieutenant W. O. Selkirk, coast
artillery, to Fort Screven, Ga., relieving
Captain C. D. Winn, In charge of con
struction work.
THE BUSINESS DOCTOR
, iBy ROE FULKERSON
A Grand 8tova.
From Tha flaered Heart Review.
A Georgia woman who moved to Phila
delphia found ahe could not he contented
without the colored mammy who had been
her servant for many years. Hhe sent
Ing she had Just time to explain to mammy
waa the contrivance which Tntereated the
colored woman moat. After the mistreat
of the household had lighted the oven,
tha broiler, and the other burners and
felt certain the old servant understood
Ita operation*, the mlatreea hurrted for
her train.
Hhe waa absent.two weeka and one of
her first questions to mammy waa how
she had worried along.
’Te fine* ever.” wu the reply. “And
dat air gas stove—oh my! Why. do you
know. Miss Flo'ence. dat fire ain’t gone
Sure Wind-Raiser.
From The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The ship had lain becalmed in a trop
ical era for three days. Not a breath of
air stirred the tnlrrorllke surface of the
see. and the aalla hung limp from the
and requested all passengers to come for*
ward.
“I must ask all of you.” he said, ”to
give me every match you have."
NVonderlngly all obeyed.
The captain collected every match on
the ship In this manner. Then he threw
them overboard, all but one.
Then he took hla nip* from his pocket
and filled It with tobacco. As crew and
passengers looked breathlessly on. he
struck that one match, the only one
aboard—and attempted to light hla pipe
with It.
Instantly a furious gnle swept over the
•leek It extinguished the match, but
filled ths sails, and the good ship plunged
WHEEL TAX ADVOCATED
FOR GOOD ROADS PURPOSE
Editor The Georgian:
I wish to agree In part with those
who claim that th* proposed 11.00 for
horsepower tax on automobllea'ls class
legislation. In my opinion, the law
should be amended so as to make It a
general wheel tax on all kinds of ve
hicle*—aay from 92.50 for the light
buggy to |<0 for the large touring car.
I believe It can b* shown that that
proportion would bs about fair, con
sidering th* amount of deterioration
caused to th* roads by tha different
kind, of vehicles.
In tny opinion, this would be to ap
ply the moat Just theory of taxation—
that Is, that all should pay taxea In
proportion to benefits received. Those
using vehicles on the roada receive a
special benefit from the public and,
therefore, a special wheel tax Is emi
nently Just.
I would further recommend that the
tax be put on a sliding scale basis, giv
ing a lower rats to wide tires and a
very high rate on narrow tires.
The income from the wheel tax
should bo supplemented by a general
property tax by the Mate for the sup
port of ths roads, to be distributed
among the counties In proportion to tbs
miles of road to be kept up.
- J. K. J0NE8.
Cedartown, Ga, July 20, 1911.
i-M-H-l-H I t-f |. K"!-l
I-i-H-K-! 1 1 t H-I-fail-;-!
Growth and Progress
Of the New South
It box Just boen learned that tha
K eat 'Craggy Mountain” timber
undary and the Ree Tret rail- .
way have been purchased by Penn
sylvania capitalists, and develop
ment on a big scale is to follow
■oon, saya The Southern Lumber
man. Home time ago this valuable
tract was purchased and the Crag
gy Mountain Lumber Company
formed and tha Bee Tree railroad
hullt. Later financial difficulties
arose and only recently the prop
erty waa add to the Battery Park
bank, of Asheville, X. C.. and the
Coxe estate, who held mortgagee.
It Is understood that ♦his tract,
one of the richest timber atrip* In
weatern North Carolina, along with
railroad. trough* upward of
9140,600. Name* of the new own
ers have tjot been divulged. The
tract Includes about 10,000 acre*.
It Is understood that a large hotel
will he built on the top of Craggle
mountain. Thl* tract has changed
bands often. About ten years ago
R. H. Howland purchased It for
$40,000. The railroad will be oper
ated and lumbering on a big scale
will shortly be begun. The band
sawmill on the boundary will be
enlarged.
The D. T. McKelthan Lumber
Company, of Lumber. In Darling
ton. South Carolina, haa been
chartered with $200,000 capital
stock. D. T. McKelthsn Is presi
dent, G. Hi l>argan Is secretary
and E. M. Boston ts treasurer.
Charter'has been granted the
West Bend Manufacturing Com
pany. of Craggy. N. C.. to operate
lumber mills, etc. T. V. Davidson
and others are the Incorporators,
and the capital Is $10,000.
The Rowland Buggy Company,
of Sumter, S. C., has been char
ged with 925,000 capital stock.
W. W. Rowland and others are
the Incorporators.
“Your trouble Is* that you don't put your knowledge Into nraoti^.,
use," said the Business Doctor to the bookkeeper. "If you were to
man with years of experience tn.flounder fishing, clad In a sou'wester' h !
And oilskins, fishing at home In a f,,,
tub, you could come to no other cr,.,
elusion but that he waa craty or had
looked on the wine when It was whl-k.
colored. You are Just as Inconsistent
Day after day you sit here and flgur.
the percentage of profit on this bust
ness, reducing every Item to Its
centage basis. If a man wanted you in
Invest some of your good monev In «
piece of real estate, the flrat queatb.n
you would ask would be what per cent
It would pay on the Investment, and
yet when It comes to a question of
your personal whims, yon throw aside
all this real knowledge and cry for von?
toy Ilka a child howling for an ice
cream cone.
“Here you are figuring on taking you?
wife over to the seashore on one of
those Saturday-to-Monday excursion.
You can not make that trip, and maie
tt as you would like to, for less than
' *90. Figure out your railroad fare, ho-
tel bill, five meals and the money you
will fritter away on the boardwalk, and you will find It will knock that sura
higher than Gllderoy's celebrated kite. Now get this on a percentage b»
sla. Ninety dollar* la exactly five per cent of this year's Income, and yeti
spend It In two days. Do you get value received In pleasure for your
money? You are spending five per cent of your yearly Income In one-half
of one per cent of the time. Ia that good business? Have you exercised
ordinary business Judgment and set aside a certain appropriation out of your
Income for pleasure? Try thla once. Can you afford to spend as much aa
one-quarter of your income foolishly? That would be $450 per.year, if
that Is the sum—and that certainly Is too much—can you afford to spend
one-fifth of It In two days, when you have a long winter, with good shows
coming to the theaters and other amusements to pay for?
"The whole proposition Is to get your expenses figured out against
your Income on a percentage basts. No on* can do this but you! What t*r
cent of your $1,100 should go for Jioust rent? -What for food? What for
clothes? What for hooka and educational affairs? What for amusements’
Use some of the Information you gain here In your work In year private at'
fairs and get busy parceling off this »I,*00 Income of yours Into per cent
appropriations, and you will find yon will coma nearer getting value re
ceived for tho money you spend foolishly even.”
There are some things In this world that can not be explained. The
chemists can make synthetic salicylic arid which no analysis can detect from
that made from the bark of a willow tree, yet the willow tree kind will
cure rheumatism and the other won't. Two ealesmen may seem equally
good In handling cuatomers, and yet one makes the money for the house
and the other doesn't. This le the reason that employers are 10 Interested
In results and so Indifferent to methods. A sick business or a man with the
rheumatics Just wants to get well.
John Wanamaker has put In an all-night telephone service In his New
York store, sp that his patrons may call up the store and leave an order
.at any hour Of the day or night. In any large city there are a great num
ber of night workers to whom this will be a boon.
a esldent George L. Chennell, of the Billposters association, has ex-
I his entire willingness to co-operate with the W. C. T. U., the art
leagues and any sort of civic organisation In censoring the bills for advert!,.
Ing, and explains at the same time, however, that the billposters themselves
have? for some time been working with the show printers to eliminate all ob-
Jectlbnnble pictures. •
Henry A. Thels. vice president of a savings Institution In New York,
gives figures which show that on an advertising appropriation of $3,000 he
Increased the deposits of his concern $179,000.
THE DAY OF SOBRIETY
From The Rome Tribune-Herald.
The ever-increaaing hostility of the
business world toward the man who
drinks Is doing more for the cause of
temperance than all the prohibition
laws ever enacted, or that aver will be
enacted.
Tho man who lets drinking Interfere
with his business soon finds nowadays
that he haatrt any business,. Those who
can "take It or. let;lt alone" are all very
well In their way: but the business
world has come to the point where It la
strictly from Missouri with respect to
the latter clause In that motto, any
way.
Concerning this matter. The Macon
Telegraph recently said:
"Ths manager of a wholesale grocery
house at Atchison, Kans., casually In
formed a reporter the other day that
the establishment had nineteen travel
ing men In Us employ and not one of
them ever took a drink. If the young
man with a star-spangled breath and
red eyes applied to that manager for a
Job how long do you suppose he would
last? Just long enough to push him
out of the office. Long. long ago whea
the world was full -of Jolly good fel
lows and everybody had the hiccoughs,
and It was fashionable to go to bed
feet first, the high-rolling traveling man
was ths usual thing. It was a part of
his business to be a Jolly good fellow.
When he called upon a merchant hla
flrat act was to Invite all hands to the
fusil oil warehouse, and he was ex
pected to get everybody mellow before
he hinted his business That sort of
traveling man Is ms much of an an
achronism nowadays as the town crier
who used to wake them up at t o'clock
In the morning to tell them what the
weather was Ilka The present-day
merchant would send In a riot alarm
to the police station If a commercial
traveler with a low-necked Jug called
upon him and tried to sell him goods.
And the conditions are similar In all
branches of business and Industry. The
drinking man Is down and out; there
la no place for him except the Jump
ing off place.”
John L. Sullivan says In the mono
logue he Is using this year: "It la per
fectly proper for the man to drink who
can drink' Ilka a gentleman, and never
drinks any other way. I suppose some
few such men exist; personally, I am
yet to meet my flrat one."
In the rush and competition of every,
day buetneea Ilf* In this year of oui
Lord 1911 the man who doesn’t drink
at all ls on the eafe side—the only
guaranteed safe side, too.
DAILY HEALTH CHAT ATLAI
ATLANTA PHYSICIAN
BACKACHE AND BRIGHTS
Not one rase of backache In a million
la due to. Blight's disease or to serious
kidney disease of any sort. In studying
the latest and most authoritative work
on diagnosis, a work written by one of
the brilliant members of the Harvard
medical faculty, wa find an exhaustive
analysis of backache and tha conditions
to which It may point, but nowhere In
the chapter Is either nephritis (Bright's
disease) or diabetes mentioned. The
only kidney troubles referred to as pro
ductive of backache are abscess, "stone”
and ao forth. And even these condi
tions are responsible for a comparative
ly small percentage of backache.
Named tn the order of thetr preva
lence, the causes of backache are ap
proximately as follows;
Ftetlgue and defective balanee, child
birth. Infectious diseases (typhoid,
pneumonia etc.), after-effect of surgi
cal operations, disease of the Joint at
the be so of the spine, lumbago, “shin
gles," sprain of the back, stone In the
kidney, spinal tuberculosis, abscess of
ths kidney, tumor of the kidney, cancer
of the spine, tumor adjacent to the
eplne.
The authority from whom we quote
the above Met says that simple fatigue
Is reaponslble for by far the largest
number of chronic backache*. Closely
associated with the backache of fatigue
la the "paycho-neurotlc" backache, the
pain due to abnormally heightened sen-
slbllltlea and to concentration of
thought upon the spina This condition
belongs to what the nerve specialists
call “habit pains," frequently a seri
ous enough proposition, however. Con
cerning defective balance. It la probable
that "French heels" have something to
do with It, tho slovenly posture I* part
ly to blame.
But tn conclusion, be advised and
don’t tell an Intelligent physician that
you fear Bright's disease merely be
cause your back ache*, lie might smile
at you.
Here Are a Few That Are More or Less Funny
CORRACCT
My door, why do they coll that youaa
maa Spring? U that hi* right name?”
“No, mother, I named him that bo*
A Bio Stick.
From Ths Naw York Tribune.
Captain flardresa Lloyd, polo player,
mas talking In New York about the res-
satlnn of Hogging at the great Rnglfih
public school of Kton.
”1 am glad.” he said, "that flogging
is non- done away with. Rton boys used
to suffer a great deal from the birch.
There was one Kton master In the seven
ties who tlogg.d so severely that Ms
death, when he came to die, was an
nounced tn the papers among the shin-
The Queerest Ones.
From The Louisville Courier-Journal.
"I suppose. ‘ said the city man. ’’there
are some queer characters around an did
Village like this."
“You’ll find a good many,” admitted
the native, "when the hotel* Ml up.”
Force of Habit.
From The New York Kvenlng Mall.
’’Why did‘you break your engagement
with that f*chnol teacher*”
“If l failed to show up at her house
every evening, she expected me to bring
a written excuse signed by my mother.”
Unnecessary.
From The Baltimore American.
“Are you going to Join the new Pro
gressive party?”
“I don’t have to I belong to the win-
M Tha Archbishop's Anawtr.
From The Housekeeper.
The late Archbishop Ryan, of Philadel
phia. was a diplomat of the first order,
and was possessed of a full ahara of
• Celtic wit and kindly humor.
Before The Catholic Atandard and The
Catholic Times were combined to form
one publication, there wa* keen rivalry
and much controversy between their pro
prietors and readers as to which was the
more truly representative Roman Catho
lic organ in Philadelphia. Each sought
eagerly to gain the official Indorsement
of the archbishop. On one occasion a
prominent layman tried to trap him Into
a statement as to which of the two pub-
tain that The Htandard Is /ar ahead of
the time*, and It la equally certain that
The Times is much above the standard.
Therefore I prefer to regard as most
worthy the one which Is thus proved to
be super!..
From The Barred Heart Review.
Mr. Mlllyuns (engaging valet)—I warn
am exceedingly III-
OONSiDERATB.
"1 called on Miss Sweat loot i
| thought her father 1
***** dorkea his doorf
“Ha did. so I climbed id tb«
window.’
you that frequently I
tempered and gruff.
Valet i cheerfully)—'
That's all right, air.
That Deceptive.
From The Boston Tmnscrtpt.
She—“You deceived me when I married
CALLED down.
He—Would you marry m* K 1 *** *
million dollar*? . _
8k#—Not If yon were a* niogr ««» »
ns you are with your M par.