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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: TUESDAY, JULY 25,Wll. 1 ATLANTA GEORGIAN 1. (AND NEWS) T. L. SEELY. Publlahar. EDWIN CAMP. Manaqlng Editor. Published Evary Afternoon By THE < ^EORO*AN d *COMPANY At SO E. Alabama St.. Atlanta. Oa. SUBSCRIPTION RATES! On# Vaar “ Thraa Months *•*" Ona Month By Carrlar. Par Weak Fnt-red aa second-class matfar at the poatntrire al Atlanta. Ga.. under the sot of March I, l«7t. ft Palmer; Poretgn Traveling Rapre- arntallve. Addrraa. care Tha Georgian, Atlanta. Ga. .. ymi have any trouble getting The Georgian and New*. telephone Ihe cir culation deportment and have It pm- remedied Roth jmonea anno Ruhacrlhera dealring ' i ■ c: enr|f1an and Newa dlaconllrued mint notify tnia office on ihe date of expiration, otherwise It will ha continued at Ihe regular auh- ecrip^lon rates'until notice to stop la re- fn ordering a changs of addreaa. pleaaa live tha old as wall aa tha naw addraaa. ft la desirable that all communications Intended for publication In The Georgian and News fra limited to 990 words In length, ft la Imperative that they be •tgned. aa an evidence of good faith, se lected manuscripts will not be returned unless stamps am sent for the purpose. The Georgian and News prints no un clean or objectionable advertising matter. Neither does It print whisky or liquor ada 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.