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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