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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES RECORDER. THURSDAY. MORNINGAUGUST 18, 1910 [HE TIMES-RcCORDER daily and weekly. Entered at the postofflce at Ameri cas aa second-class mail matter. XHE AMERICUS RECORDER, Established 1879. THE AMERICUS TIME!, Established 1890. Coeeolldated AprU 1891. EHOS. GAMBLE, Editor and Manager 3. W. FURLOW city Editor Official organ of the City of Amerlcus. Official organ of Sumter County. Officio! organ of Webster County. Official organ of Railroad Commis sion ef Georgia for Third Congres sional District Official organ U. S. Court, Southern District of Georgia. PROTECTING THE CHILD. The matter of prevention of child labor in Georgia, has gained an added impetus in the victory at the recent session of the legislature. When /.ie bill was passed prohibiting ti-'e em ploying of messenger boys at night, a strong point was scored In favor* of further prolilbition of child labor. The general child labor law was passed in 1906. This is only an entering wedge, as it were, In the campaign in behalf of tic betterment of the working children of Georgia. The battle for the emanci pation of the child is being waged vig orously throughout tfJe state, the V NEWPAPEB WITH A VISION. Among the few northern newspapers that seem to be able to approach and discuss matters of a strict,y Southern nature dispassionately stands out the New Haven Register, whose recent as sertion in regard to the preposition to place a statue of Jefferson Davis in the Hall of Fame at Washington that no man has more truly honored the state of Mississipl and the South, will meet wl:h universal approval from the people of*the Southern States. Continuing Its discussion of the question tine Register says: “Is It too much to conclude not merely that t v. North has forgiven Jeffers;n Daris. FULL ELECTION RETURNS ON NEXT TUESDAY Times-Recorder Will Give Complete Reports. COL. SHEPPARD TOURING COUNTRY AN^UNGi^ FOR BEPREsEM lTIn Friends Say is Makin Magnificent Headway. Editorial Boom, Telephone W. Amerlcus, Gn., August 18,1910. Vote for cooler weather. i Stuff the box, if you wish. ' jysss than a week before the land slides. Aeroplane racing is blooicurdlingly exciting. The Southern eorn crop is said Le a "whopper.” The freak election bet3 won't published this year. The light against child labor in the etate is still going on. i The legislature is over. We get rid Vt one evil at a time. Those science believers who spurn medical aid continue to die. It will soon be too late to visit fho Seashore to get a coat of tan. It is a hard job to thoroughly choke bff Uncle Joe Cannon’s grip. That Chatham county Brown torch light parade will be a corker. It Is pleasing to learn that IKlbUcome Riley will recover. A New York girl saved the life of a Canary, then took her own. The people will heave a long sigh at relief—after tine primary. Many people are ready to vote for the discontinuance of voting. South and the entire natfon. The Na-jbut that at length It has come to tiu tional Child Labor Committee, which! realization that its bitter hatred of him has general charge of the nation-wide was without ground, and that here al- movement, has its,offlces in New York j so was a man of honor, a man who City, whence it gives general directUm fought and suffered—oh, re —uch— and supervision to the efforts of those for his fidelity to an eternn. yr'nclpb. 1 . who are working for the prohibition of, The North even y#t underst-od little child labor throughout the entire conn- of the Southern vlewpo.nt, but the try. light is dawning. And its failure to The National committee has issued express heartier approval of the al as its pamphlet No. 138 an illustrated ( vocacy of justice to Jefferson Dav:s exposition of conditions in the cotton is due in part to shamefacedness at tiu mills of Georgia, where most of the'error which has been nursed so long.’ child labor Is employed. This pam-j Coming as this does from a repre- phlet is being sent out through Dr. A. sentative New England newspaper, it J. McKelway, secretary for the South- is like a heart-to-heart talk with the eru states, of the National Child Labor people of the South. It U spoken In a committee. The initial statement of spirit of breadth and sanity that s the pamphlet is that Georgia was the genuinely refreshing. This spirit is ast of the manufacturing states in what will do more toward removing the Union to pass a child labor law. the remaining traces of bitterness be- Other things of which Georgia cannot tween the sections than any 'thing well feel proud as regards Its child else. The Register shows further its labor record are also summarized. good sense by admitting that a “seriou* Among these Is the fact there are attempt to place the likeness of Jeffer- only two states in the Union now, son Davis in one of Mississippi's nicit- Georgia and North Carolina, in whicn es would cause a tremendous storm, children are allowed to work sixty-six blit It would clear the air.” One of the hours a week; that Georgia occupies most valuable lessons that such men the bad eminence of allowing children' as Senator Heyburn, who vainly op- under thirteen years of age to be em- posed the placing of Lee's statue in ployed for a slxty-six-hour week, or a the Hall and who has still more re- twelve-tour day; that Georgia permits cently 1 ’ made himself notorious by ob its ten-year-old children to labor for Jecting to the strains cf “Dixie,” could sixty-six hours a week, or twelve hours learn has been taught him by the ac» a day. Defective as It is, the great ‘lion of Attorney General \\ Ickershaci fault'that is found with the Georgia and President Taft In approving the law is that it is constantly violated admission of tht statue of the famou: and with impunity. Southern generals. Such storms serve Statistics Live been collected by admirably , to clarify (tie situation, these who compiled the pamphlet and The occurrence.serves to show rai- these statistics leave little doubt about ica’s like Heyburn that there Is the fact that the law is being constant- broader spirit of tolerance in the Nort a ly disregarded with reference to the than he has ever been ab’e to conceive, age limit and othor provisions concern- { There are but fen like Heyburn in ing the hours of work. There are fact, and when they endeavor in their copious Illustrations, which of them. * rabid way to defeat the more rational selves show more graphically the dead- sentiment of their section and of til ly and pernicious effects If child labor nation, defeat Is sure to meet then: than anything else could. TJie pic- The New Haven Register deserves the tures are fraught with the pathos of thanks of the nation in Its endeavor to lives blasted physically and morally.' , broaden the thinking of these intole'-. It seems from the foregoing facts ant haters, th^t the greatest need today Is the 1 enforcement of the laws that already THE REMNANTS OF THE GREAT, exist, without which further prohibit, | * Election returns will be received by the Times-Recorder In full on next Tuesday. Two years ago the Times-Recorder gave a complete and thoroughly accu rate service. T.-'is year the service will be as ac curate ae It Is possible to make it. During the day whatever developes throughout the.state will be wired to the Times-Recorder office and posted on Its bulletin boards. At.night the returns from the va rious cities and counties will be re ceived and posted as quickly as they are returned. As soon as It is definitely determin ed from the drift of the returns as to which of the gubernatorial candidates has won, the Times-Recorder will ac. quaint the Amerlcus public with the fact. It is quite probable that by nine or ten o’clock sufficient returns will be in to determine whether the next governor is to be Brown or Smith, unless the election should be reman able for Its closeness, wh'lch Is hard ily probable. Whichever candidate wins will doubtless do 30 with a sub stantial majority and the early re turns will doubtless pretty well indi cate the drift. In any event the Times-Recorder will keep the public here posted throughout the day and night. EVERY MAIL BRINGS CALLS FOR PAMPHLETS Col. J. E. Sheppard Is losing no time in pushing his candidacy In the coun try districts of Sumter. Since his re turn to the city from title legislature he has been steadily in the field and his friends report that he is thorough ly satisfied with tire outlook. On .Monday Col. Sheppard met a number of the citizens of Plains and that vicinity and laid before them his position on public questions. Yester day he was in the Seventeenth district making, a personal canvass, and to day he will be at Leslie. By contin uing Iris work in the section of the county outside of Amerlcus until the eve of the election Col. Sheppard hopes to meet the great majority of the cit izens engaged In farming and to have heart-to-heart talks with tlrem. “Col. Sheppard Is explaining h'is po sition with regard to the convicts, the public roads and every other question that Iris arisen In the campaign,” said one cf his staunch supporters yes terday, “and he is making magnificent headway In tearing down the misrr, presentations that have been clrci; lated about his attitude toward the country. We feel tiroroughly confi dent that he will win In this fight and make this district one of the best sena tors it has ever had.” Col. Sheppard returned to the city late yesterday afternoon, tired out but thoroughly pleased with tbe re sults of his campaign. “Everywhere I have been." said he, “I have had numerous assurances of support, and the outlook is brighter than ever. I am a candidate for - from Sumter County, ,„-J^ primary of August i‘3rd* S y 11 pidciaie your support’ ’ J - T - FERi FOR BEl'RESEMiuj] To the Voters of Sumter i At the solicitation of a t the good people of Sumter t have decided to enter the ra- Legislature in the primary 0 ;| 23rd. Should I be honor;] J nomination for Represe,J pledge my best efforts. t„ progressive upbuilding of City and State. My candidi nounced subject to the Democratic primary. CALVIN’ ( Good Work of IJoard Trade Goes Right On. ory laws will be useless. It Is neces- (Savannah Press.) A. youth stumped a barber by asking for his hair to be dyed gray. New York gets Into the llrae-llght Wth‘ the first hobble-skirt race. Certain large drug companies merging. A deadly combination. The campaign’ dopesters have “fit,” bled and died many times already. The New York automobile^ seem to be leading in deadly effectiveness. pary to awakefl in the parents of many' The Atlanta Journal of a recent date of the children a more vital sense of had a splendid editorial upon “The their responsibility. The owners of Thirty Surviving Generals" of the the mills can be brought into a broad- Confederacy. It was a fine tribute to er sympathy with the movement, as It the leaders of the Lost Cause and to is shown that in some of the North the intrepid army which followed and Carolina mills that with the factory faltered not. , schools and other Improvements that As each year goes by an age set- have ibeen Inaugurated that the moun- ties upon some and death clones on tain children ate far better off at the others, we pause In the Hurry of our factories than in their former homes, dally routine and note the event with Factory labor for the child Is not all sadness. So many of the men, wo- bad, and It should not be proceeded men and children of the South to- agalnst In any such light. Sanity and day have been born and reared since thoughtfulness must be employed here the war that the realization of that as In other reforms. '■Sunday lid at Coney stops a snake Gance.” Evidently a case of T. D’s. FARMERS, TAKE NOTICE. How long will It require for the aer oplanes and autos to exterminate the people? awful period comes but infrequently to them. We are of a different time, a different pepple in a measure, but with a mutual aim. However far we may drift from conditions which surround ed the men of secession, we cannot cs- \ Tbe Carnegie Hero Fund has made a report. Now we may know who the bezo.es are. Since Ahe Blakely affair Georgia mayors have been trembling violently In their boots. Attauta and New Orleans are having a battle royal for the pennant In th Southern league. “Spain and the Vatican both stand firm.”—News Item. That is, as firm os each can Btand. English labor unions are advocating (be abolition of war. That doesn't In clude strikes, of course. '■ The campaign organs have two edi torials prepared. One to ibe used ii they win, the other If they lose. The last session or Congress appro priated a billion dollars. Gee, that's spending the people's money. A tiring Island man has a pig that will climb a tree. That pig Is versa tile enough to be a campaign speaker, i Tbe druggists of the country are up In arms against the soothing syrups. They are the cause of most of the dope fiends. It Is said. Standard Oil Company In Chicago baa asked to have its taxes raised. Mr. (Macon Telegraph.) ' v ■> The Hoke Smith primary law denies to the farmers the right to come \o' ca P® tbe thou 8 :, t of them. We glance town on primary election day and voce kack uVott the immortal memories of at the court house, while doing a little Jackson and Albert Sidney Johu- shopping, as has been their right from s t° Il I upon Forrest, Ashby and Hamp- the beginning in Georgia. ; ton; upon Cleburne, Cobb and Beaure- Each' man will hqve to vote in his « ard - and thc ro11 I*-hardly begun, own district precinct, or not at ail. ' | Thirty generals left. The very sound It has been the custom and the prlv- of these word3 makes one respect the Hege of the farmers In Georgia ever rava * oa of time. One lieutenant, four since there was a state of Georgia, ma Jors and a quarter of a hundred to kill two birds with one stone by brigadier generals constitute tlx sur- making election day their trading day I vlv3rs — 1111 'bowed with jago and revoiv- in town. But now they will have to' ,nf? ln theIr mlnda the eventful past. WHEATLEY HOME IS LEASED FOR TERM OF ONE YEAH go to the district precinct to vote.! A natl on's glory In her past makes Thiey cannot vote at the court house. the '"tegrlty of her future the greater. This is one of the “reforms” which' " 1ic “ the Soutb begins to forget her will make It Inconvenient for many. I immortals we are ready for oblivion. As long as we keep fresh their mem- The railroads of the nation are plan- orles we wln he a great people. The nlng to Increase their rates. Turn the more we teach our youth our history interstate commerce commission loose * be better prepared are we to maintain on them! , the Ideals of our forefathers, and whether conditions arc changed and There are few men as discontented ' be kray chieftains gradually refj^ond as the man who doesnit own an auto- Adsum,' we are yet to refrain ths mobile but envies that owned by his 8am ® loyal race, whoso first principle more fortunate neighbor. i® loyalty to tradltlonn. The book is NEW BANK IS STARTED IN TOWN OF ELLAVILLK not yet closed, though' nearly com pleted. We have the last few pages left us to linger over a while. When the covers are finally shut the South J. H. Stevens Is President; W. J. Mank, wlu WPe P with) sorrow and put away Cashier. | “P° n th ® shelf of Immortality the rec ollections of an era pregnant with Amerlcus little neighbor, Ellavllie.' herioslm and devotion. MH. THORNTON MILL Bl’ILD NEW DWELLING ON COLLEGE Is to have another bank in addition to the one long established there by the The story will bp told next Tuesday, Bank of South Western Georgia, of’and hen will the disappointed candl- thls city. The new bank will open'dates ln Sumter proceed to figure up- about September lOtki with J. H. Stev 'on tbe list of liars here. ens as president and W. J. Mauk, as]* It wHj be one of tU Wit a am I Experience Just makes love READY 10 LEAVE OLD GAROLINA Hardly a mall comes to Amerlcus that does not bring requests for cop ies of the recently Issued Board of Trade pamphlet and the addresses ot real estate agents and parties desir ous of selling farm land^. These inquiries come from all over the South and abundantly bear testimony to the results" of the advertising done by the Board of Trade. They are also a suf ficient proof of what could be accom plished if tbe organization in question were ln position to continue this ad vertising propaganda and expand Its scope. t Mr. J. R. Britton, who was ln charge of the work of making the soil map of Sumter, is now engaged in a similar work ln Arkansas. But he has not lost his interest In Amerlcus and Sumter county and has forwarded a list of people to whom pamphlets are to be sent, farmers who ere likely to feel ai Interest In the opportunities offered here. Other former citizens of Ameri- cus have afso shown their devotion to the city and county by similarly sending names of parties whom they have found Interested in Georgia and considering a ohange of location. During the summer months the Board of Trade, like all other ibodlei. Is resting a little on Its oars, so far as meetings go, but the work of ad vertising still goes on, and with the advent of cooler weather and the re turn of all tbe business men to th; city, a determined effort will be made to swell the membership, awaken * greater interest and put the Board in posAlon to broaden V,; advertising and accomplish more tor Amerlcus and Sumter. RYLANDER LED HOOKS IN BOTH AUTO RAGES. Snipes Outdistanced King in Motorcycle Race. Handsome Home on College Street Is Disposed Of. The residence of the late Col. Charles M. Wteatley on College street, has been leased to Mrs. M. G. Boyd of this city for one year, and at the expiration of that period It will prob able be again occupied by members of the Wheatley family, shouid they de cide to return to Amerlcus to reside. Mrs. George W. Bacot and little daugh ters will go to North Carolina today to remain for gome time before return ing to their hoipe In Charleston, while Mr. and Mrs. J. Reed Curry return to Charlotte. Another handsome and comfortable residence on College street is fully as sured ln the purchase yesterday by Mr. W. J. Thornton of the vacant lot next .the residence of Mr. Henry H. Johnson, being sixty feet front-off the property of Mrs. E. P. Morgan. The lot Is a very desirable one, and Mr. Thornton proposes to erect a com modious and attractive residence there for Ms own occupancy. Work upon the new home will soon be started, FOB THE LEGISLlfi I hereby announce myselli date for representative, the democratic primary, i to be held on the 22ri| August, 1910. E. ii FOR REPRESENTS I am a candidate for rejj from Sumter county, subja primary of August 23d, ad cremate your support. J. El Two Families Preparing to Leave Anderson. FOR SEXATOK, | To the Voters of Sumter C I hereby announce my 1 for the .State senate, as r;jj for the Thirteenth Senato subject to the action o! tj cratlc primary on August! JEFF* ‘ ■ FOB THE SEMI To the Voters of Sumter 0 1 hereby announce that I| didate for the State Send Thirteenth Senatorial Ject to the Democratic pfl held on August 23, 1910. — Resjs j. e. sa Mr. Claude Wilson, of Andrews, S. C., arrived ln th.e city yesterday an! Is arranging for the removal of his family from that point to DeSoto. Mr. Wilson wants to have himself and fam ily aettled down in Sumter county ear ly In October and ready to begin op erations for the next season's crons. He will handle the 1.200 acre3 pin chased by his father from the old De- Soto plantation and expects to consid erably Improve It from an agricultu ral standpoint. Mr. R. G. Harper Is also preparing to remove his family to Sumter coun ty from Anderson. S. C. He has a 1,- -100-acre place In the southern section of the comity, and Is eager to become settled on it with his folks and put in some effective work ln Its betterment. One or two other South Carolina families who arc Interested In recer.t purchases of land ln Sumter are e pected to move ln during tbe coml. fall or winter. | A if] ANNOUNCES To the People of Georgia: | I am a candidate for! urer, subject to the zclla^ ocratlc party at the appi u'ary for the selection oiij oUttera Long and fai'.tful sen office as treasurer and t treasure. covc>mg a perlr years without censure i from any sources Is the p which my candidacy It this record I beg the i people. W.l Walter Rylauder . In an E. M. F. car, came out winner In each of thu amateur automobile races held yes terday afternoon on a stretch of the Leslie road, winning by a fair mar gin over J. D. Hooks, driving a Hudson car, and the only competitor. The first race uvas from, a runnlg start, and In two heato. The time of each contestant In each heat was as follows: ■ ^ First Heat Rylander—39 seconds. Hooks—12 seconds. Second Heat. Rylander—12 2-5 seconds. Hooks—12 Beconde. The second race was from a stand ing start, with the following results i First Heat. Rylander—18 seconds. Hooke—51 2-5 seconds. Second Heat Rylander—18 1-5 seconds. Hooka—50 4-6 seconds. The motorcycle race between King and Snipes over the same course re sulted ln a victory for Snipes, who made it in 57 seconds. King made it In 59 seconds. TO THE PEOPLE OF fi ”1 hereby announce r for the office of state r ject to the white deux of 1910, to be held oa' selected by the state utlve commtltee. “In making thi s annoi that It is appropriate that my service for both branches ot the ture, during which tia»l present laws relating Ml banking were enacted, t»l at, the same t'me on n I mittee on banks and which these given me a dear insist gla laws concerning nance ... ,< “In addition to rience, I have been. president of the z- 1 * Savings Bank, in " 6 ‘ ( , say I have K a ‘ a ® d perience concerning these laws; and, aa» 1 am in position to « improvements In • which will better safeP osts of the depositor* j state banks. , ••If elected o tion, 1 shall gue ■ the faithful dUcM'^J assist me In "Men services of trained, ble assistants. „1 "I respectfull.' rM J cons'deratlon I era of the ‘^gytoSl "Elberton. Ua-. For Nowi York, August 17.—Clear weather ln Texas and Mississippi, and Giles’ condition report of 73.2 at artel che market on an upward tendency again today. Priiy» advanced sharply and remained firm all day. -Spot sales none. Quoted twenty The Best Farm* " Adjoining ^ We have them »»• and well located . Be sure to see you buy. .pit Tracts from * & 1 promi all that p< Opard e: lent I 23 he wo the vol next kei this dl be elec; i Of Wt —