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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER- THURSDAY. JUNE 2.1910.
THE TIMES-RECORDEP
daily and weekly.
THE AMERICUS RECORDER,
Established 1879.
THE AMERICUS TIME8.
Established 1890
Consolidated April 1891.
Entered at the postofflce at Ameri
cas as second-class mall matter.
THOS. GAMBLE, Editor and Manager
J. W. FURLOW ....City Editor
W. t. DUPREE. Asst. Business Dept.
Editorial Boom, Telephone 99.
Americas, (la., .lane 2, 1910.
TOO MANY YOUNG GEORGIANS
TURNING TO THE LAW.
In looking over the lists of the grad
uating classes of the several Georgia
colleges one's attention i3 inev.tably
attracted by the large number of these
young men who contemplate making
the law their profession. The num.be
entering the legal fraternity appears
to be out of all proportion to those
who have other pursuits in view, al
together out of proportion, we imag
ine, to the state's real needs in that
line or the Increasing volume of busi
ness from which attorneys must d,g
their livelihood.
It is really lamentable, the large
number of healthy, vigorous, ambi
tion, bright and well trained young
men who propose to bury themselves
in the practice of the law. with such
doubtful prospects of any decided p-o
fesslonal or material success. In ev
cry city, town ani hamlet In Georgia
the number of attorneys is out of all
proportion to the business offering. If
the briflless barrister is not a prepon-
pondering element in the profession in
this state the attorney whose clients
are few and 'far between, and whose
earnings are so meagre as to const! 1
tute a very poor living, are to be met
with ’Ti a 1 sides.
Many of those who start off with
brig! t hopes are soon discouraged at
the i aspect and fortunately for them
selves betake themselves to som
other calling that promises more !u
crati " returns. Others hang on and
"skin out a living." And not a few
become anything but a credit to the
bar by the methods to which they
resort to earn the elusive dollars nec
essary to maintain existence. The
number of pronounced succeses is very
small, and even the number credited
■with making ordinary good incomes
Is not so great as not to leave a vast
army whose earnings must fail to a
very low . basis.
It is a great pity that so many Geor
gia young men are deluded into adopt
ing t ’a law a3 their life’s calling at
a tin v when there are so many open
ings : >r the trained Intellect and tho
ambit.ous soul, openings that would
yield :’ar richer 'material fruits for
the Individual <jnd far greater bene
fits to the state. There Is no pecu
liar honor attaching to the profession
of tli ■ law these days. Just as much
honor is awarded the man of equal
calib' 4 ' in other avocations. And the
tendency to accord just as great a
meed of praise and honor to tha sac-
cessf 1 agriculturalist, the successful
merchant, the successful manufac
turer, 'ho successful engineer, Is con
stant! growing. Many of the young
men cn cring the law year after year
would bo immeasurably better off
if they would devote their time and
brains and energies to scientific. Inten
sive f rmlng, for instance. No calling
greater opportunity for men-
anslon than this, none gives
idependenee of action, greater
for study and the. prac
tical application o' the results of ner-
vci al research and experience In a
das like this, when science and inven
tion are the handmaidens ct agri
culture, when in eVsry department
of agriculture the highly trained mind
13 needed, it Is more than a pity that
ao many misguided boys stray off
after the barren husks that come to
du many struggling attorneys from
one end of the state to the other, in
stead of consecrating their lives to
a pursuit that not only gives dally in
dependence of life, amp’e leisure for
study and reflection, hut rewards its.
Intelligent and progressive iServitor
with a larger reward than any but the
very exceptional among the legal fra
ternity over obtain.
An overloaded profession with
mighty few prizes, is the Impression
one must have of the legal life in
Georgia. Why cannot the fact be im
pressed on the young men and the
thoughts of more of them diverted in
to other channels It would save
many of them from cruel, blighting
disappointment and secure the state
their services In lines where their use
fulness would be unquestionable and
their rewards more commensurate
with their efforts.
FACTORS PULLING FOE SUMTER’S
RAPID DEVELOPMENT.
The fact that home-seekers’ rates
will he in effect from South Carolina
points to Americus, beginning with
July, Is one of the most important
news events of the day, locally coi-
sirered.
Between now and the date for the
first cheap rate trip to this point there
will be considerable advertising cf
Americus and Sumter county in the
territory from which' it is expected
to draw excursionists to study the
agricultural outlook here.
HOW MUCH DO YOU
MAKE? THEY ASKED.
But Officials Replied. Nay.
Nay, Pauline!
A Grand Jury Incident
That Has Aroused
Much Interest.
Affor
tai e
truer
scop-
FOLEYSHONEMCAS
Cures CoHsg Prevents Pneumonia
A little difference of opinion is said
! ha-.e arisen this‘week between
A large number of the pamphlets I £0me members of t..e grand jury and
, ... the county officials, a difference noLat
sued bv the Americus Board of.
| ail serious and yet said to have been
Trade will be placed in tile hands cf
progressive farmers at various points
In that state. In addition advertise
ments are being carried already in
several papers In that state and there
is much correspondence on between
real estate dealers here and parties
who are interested In the matter of a
removal to this county.
There has been no time since the
war when the outlook for the agri
cultural development of Sumter coun
ty was so strikingly promising as it
is today.
The initial movement of new blood
into the county has begun, the stream
will soon increase in size, and within
a year or two a flood of farmers of
the most desirable type wjll be pour
ing in.
fIThat now seems to "be the out
look. \
Five things have conspirVd to this
end, good lands, good climate, good
people, good roads, good advertising.
We have had the first three for
many years. But the last two are
new factors. Good roads are but
matter of the past two years, and
good advertising has only come with
in the same period of time.
The first three are the basis on
which to build, but with them alone
progress would have been slow.
It has taken the good roads and the
good advertising to awaken the inter
est elsewhere, to concentrate atten
tion ou the good lands and the good
climate.
The fruits of the good roads and the
good advertising were not long In
coming. Two years ago we had prac
tically nothing in either line. Now
Sumter's good roads are known
throughout the Souht, and, Indeed, in
other sections of the country as well.
In themselves they are a magnificent
drawing card, one of the greatest ad
vertising assets the county has.
And then the Board of Trade hat
been a persistent advertiser of the
city and county. To many people do
not apreciate what the organization
has done in this direction. If ttJe Boa”d
of Trade had not been organized four
rs ago Americus would be no
where near as well known as It Is to
day.
Good Iand3, good climate, good peo-
ple, good -nads, good advertising. How
can Sumter county fail to move on
rapidly with such a quintet pulling for
it as tbit?
Of every gubernatorial candidate
except "Little oJe” it will he written:
“He was a candidate for governor m
1912 and came out second, third or
fourth In the race,” as toe case may
be. There is only one first place, and
Brown has go: this nailed down se
curely.
Nobody ever accused the Havemey-
ers. head of the sugar trust, of being
possessed of any high sense of moral
ity in business or otherwise. But It
Is painful to realize what a contemp-
ih’e lot they and their chief as
sociates really have been.
» Follow this advice.
Quaker Oats is the best of ail foods;
It is also the cheapest. Wiicn such
men as Prof. Fisher of Yale University
and Sir lames Crichton Browne,
LL.D.-F.K.S. of London spend the
best parts of their lives in studying
the great question of the nourishing
and strengthening qualities of different
foods, it is certain that their advice is
absolutely safe to follow.
Professor* Fisher found in his ex
periments for testing the strength and
endurance of athletes that the meat
caters were exhausted long before the
men who were fed on such food as
Quaker Oats. The powers of endur
ance of the non-meat eaters were
about eight times those of the meat
eaters.
Sir James Crichton Browne says—
eat more oatmeal, eat plenty of it and
eat It frequently. 59
Packed in regular size packages, and
hermeticallysealedtinsforhotclimates.
quite marked.
It appears that some of the grand
Jury, according to the reports, we-e
desirous of ascertaining how much
mon-.y the various officials working
under the state fee system made. Tile
purpose, it Is said, was to make a
public statement of the income from
the various offices.
The law fixes all the fees that are
collectible in any office, and lays down
very rigid rules governing the busi
ness of tbe officials. Heretofore the
grand jury members have contented
themselves with seeing that the fee
schedule tvas not violated, that the
books were kept properly, and that
otherwise the business of the several
offices was conducted as It should be.
Naturally, there was some irritation
when some of the grand jurors began
to make direct inquiry as to how much
money each official of the county made.
The officials, so it is said, could not
see that this was part of the offlciil
duty of the grand Juror3, but regard
ed it as beyond their power. As a re
sult, it Is understohd, there was a
declination to get up information
along these lines.
There is no power vested in the
grand jurors, it is stated, to require
officials to make up s*atements show
ing how much income they deri
from their offices.
This has never been done here be
fore, and never, as far as known, dona
in any other county. The officials
were quite willing to have their of
fices thoroughly investigated as to th(
manner of conducting business and
keeping records, but it appears they
decidedly balked when the idea if
preparing statements of income was
put up to them.
It has been intimated that parties
thinking of entering the field as can
didates for office later on indirectly in
stigated the movement to secure a
statement of incomes for publication.
Whether this Is. so, of course, is not
ascertainable.
The grand jurors undoubtedly did
not act with any such purpose m
view, hut perhaps with the idea of
makiiig recommendations relative to
the fee system. At various times pro
positions have-been made in this legis
lature for the abolishment of the foe
ystem and the substitution of fixed
salaries, graded according -to- the pop
ulation or taxable wealth of a county.
Various grand juries have endorsed
this idea, and it Is quite possible that
some such view as this was the ac
tuating impulse that lead to the ques
tioning as to the incomes derived by
the present incumbents from their of
fices.
DR. McKFLUR WINNER |
OF HONOR IN CONTEST!
Sumter Young Man lakes
High Stand.
The many friends of Dr. Rex Me-
Keller ill Americus and Sumter county
will he pleased to hear of recent Hon
ors conferred upon him as a graduate
student of Jefferson University, Penn .
where he has completed his course.
The civil service commission has
just announced the names of ninety
applicants who had been successful
in passing the examination for the
position of interne at tile Philadelphia
Hospital under the direction of the
department of health and charities.
These places are sought by grad
uates of medical colleges for the ex
periences and work that they find in
the city’s big hospital.
No salary is attached to the posi
tion, but each one who takes up a res
idence at the Institution is provided
board and lodging. The averages of
tile applicants who passed range from
91.85 to 71.13.
Dr. McKellar stood second in the
list of ninety contestants, his per
centage being 90.68. while that of tile
man ahead was 9U85, a slight differ
ence only.
In this examination four colleg»3
were represented by their best young
men. Of sixty-four "Jeffgrson” stu
dents fifty-six won places, and of the
first eighteen places sixteen were
filled by men f rom Jefferson Uni
versity.
Places at these great hospitals a.v
much desired by the young graduates,
as the experiences tlljre obtained will
prove Invaluable In after years. Dr.
McKellar has accepted the position
and will take up his residence
Blockley and begin his duties about
the first of Ju!y.
Dr. McKellar i3 one of Sumter coun
ty’s brainy and progressive voting men
and is to be congratulated upon the
splendid achievement he has just
scored.
FIRE SAU
Joyner’s Fire and Bankrupt $1
^ I recently purchased -in Chicag o a part of a Fire stock iJ
was assorted as to amount of damage by either fire,
WILL PROVE IT BY YOU.
Here is our guess on Georgia cities’
populations: Atlanta, 125,000; Sa
vannah, 70,000; Macon, 40,000, Augus
ta, 20,000; Brunswick, 11,500; YVay-
cross, 11,00; Americus, 9,000; Albany,
7,500; Valdosta, 7,500; Valdosta, 7,-
500. And that means nine howls from
nine cities. ’
Atlanta’s nerves are on edge. Any
day now may bring the official an
nouncement of the count. Atlanta
claims 150,000, but it is probably much
safer to bet on 125,000.
% Up in Scranton, Penna.,a man claims
to have discovered a method of trans
muting silver from has e metals.
That’s nothing. The architect and
contractors for the Capitol of that
state showed how gold could he made
out of iron washed over with bronze.
So Tired
It may bn from overwork, but
the chances arc Its from an in
active LIVER. —
With a well conducted LIVER
one can do mountains of labor
without fatigue. •
It adds a hundred per cent to
ones earning capacity.
It can bpkeptin healthful action
by. and only by
TutfsPills
TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE.
That Dodson’s Liver-Tone Takes the
Place of Calomel.
If you are bilious or suffering from
a torpid liver go to Dodson's Phar
macy and get a bottle of Dodson's
Liver-Tone. Take one dose and this
one dose will convince you that Dod
son's Liver-Tone is a perfect substi
tute for calomel; possessing all tho
good medicinal virtues and none of the
disagreeable effects of calomel. Re
member you do this under our guar
antee. If for any reason you are not
pleased with Dodson's Liver-Tone, it
will, not cost you a penny, for Dod
son’s Pharmacy will give you your
money back.
Our buyer was very careful and picked only the
" ater M J
' *> es t loti I
things were only slightly damaged by smoko, or a ij tt | e J
water, while others were not damaged at ail
While away our buyer attended a big bankrupt sale of a 1J
partment store in Cleveland, Ohio. Tills, too, was sold j., j
we got only the very cream of this bankrupt stock to offer you ^
Just U.'ink what the very choice of a Fire Stock and a
Stock means to you in tills sale. Article after article will
11 to 25 per cent on the dollar. Don’t delay. Be 011 time.
s
m SAT
Fire and Bankrupt Sale Pried
15 Yds. Cloth For 25 Cents.
Tills lot is put up in 15 yards to
the bundle and contains short lengths
of madras, percale, suitings, etc.,
worth up to 15c yard. They are
slightly damaged.
Mudnis, Percale, Suitings 2 l-2c Y'd.
Some of these are rull yard-wide,
good quality, except slightly soiled or
stained You can get a shirtwaist,
boys' waist or shirt out of tDls for
almost nothing.
25c Ilcp uud Satin fitripes 5c Y'd. .
In this lot we have many patterns
and colors of fine corded, plain and
fancy weaves, all slightly damaged,
hut are great values.
Y’ard YY'lde Drapery 5c Y’ard.
Beautiful patterns of fine yard-wide
floral silkiline and other soft patterns
of art drapery Only stained a little.
Worth up. to 13c yard. See this.
Genuine Cretom 5c Y'd.
A great lot of regular 10c to 75c
Creton in extra goodxquality and large
showy Moral patterns. S'ow is the
time ta buy. Y'ou an hardly tell tills
from regular goods.
15c Fancy Sattcen 5c Yard.
These goods are nearly yard wide
and conies in fancy colors, in dark
and light blue, brown and red. They
are sligbt'.y damaged, hut are very
cheap at 5c yard.
25c Satin Gloria 5c Yard.*
Fine satin finish Gloria in beautiful
shades of tan, champagne, h'ue, brown,
etc., with a large, showy side hand.
Looks like pure satin. Only the pa
per around this is smoked a little.
Goods perfect
15c German Linen 3tj
Arnold’s full 31-inch (; e J
in an extra good quality J
weight. This came from
rupt stock and comes in g
25c Fine White Goods | J
Exquisite patterns of |J
bar lawn and dimity in vetjl
Ity. This Is out of the |
stock and is perfect, wort!
anywhere 25c yard.
Fine Swiss Embroider;
Very sheer Swiss Embr
neat, showy edges of fine 11
!>• oldery. Worth up to lk|
none worth less than 10cg
ly soiled by smoke for 8
yards.
$1.50 Long Silk Glovni
These are pur? silk witi|
ped fingers and full 16-i
Being part of the bankraji|
are in good shape,
few brown.
$3.98 Silk Umbrellas
Many of tbese
sold formerly for $3.9S.
lote are marked $2.00. jit
are part of the bankrupt!
good condition.
35c Hose Supporters!
Ladies' Ilose Supporf
and' blue with satin fr^
strong elastic supports,
tdltion. Only 10c each, j
25c Ladies’ lleits a|
A big lot of ladies heiij
In leather, silk anil in
in good condition.
Bargain after hargihl
thrown out all over tbrj
ular stock.
w. a. joym