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r' p ' THIS JUSTICE WRITES A GEM When he Filed His Resignation With Governor Sheppard How many of us ever take the < < I time to think what a burden of J > <> a job the office of Magistrate is; < < [ and as compared to the hard J J < > work and toil of it, how small < J [ the pay of these officers is. J o Plowing, reaping, cutting wood, < [ anything is easy compared to X the worry and the burden of a 0 < * magistrate which he is obliged < to carry in this State, and for JJ 4 > pay so smsffl that he could not < y exist without working hard at < other things. < 4 * Times have not changed since < J [ long ago, and even in the year 0 o 1885, the position was about the < same, though we do not know ^ < * for certain that the pay was not < y more then than it is now. In * * o connection with this article we o < publish a letter of resignation < written by one of the Trial 0 o Justices in the time of Governor < t Sheppard. Read it and enjoy X it?Ed. * ' Every now and then we succeed in diging up from the past some gem of thought of literary ability, which, coming from some unexpected source, give us delight in the contemplation oi it; and when such things are found, whether a little bit of interesting history, or a little pleasant wit is out of the ordinary, the whole world should have the benefit of it. The Herald did not find this example that we are about to display, neither did it originate in The Herald's part of the State. To the Greenville Daily News belongs the credit of getting hold of it and publishing it first to the world. All papars are free to copy it and thus The Horry Herald gives this gem to its readers hoping that they enjoy it as the editor has done. It is the letter of resignation of J. B. O'Neall Holloway, as a trial justice. holding office in the year 1885 under Governor John C. Sheppard. Let us digress for a minute to sav that many of the trial justices (now known as magistrates) in this section of the State have contributed things in their lives which afforded amusement of the richest kind to those who heard them or saw them. Many tales of this kind are told of Uncle William J. Privett, who filled such a position during some of the years of his prime. A certain justice of the peace in this county, just after the war was over, undertook to sentence a man to be shot, while in Georgetown County, John Ford, as is often told, undertook to grant divorces. But aside from the mistakes that some of them made, ther? were others of a high order of judicial ability, yes. the equal of any judge on the bench of the higher courts today. When Holloway saw fit to resign he wrote a letter to do it and addressed it to the Governor. Pomaria, S. C., Nov. 1, 1885. His Excellency Governor John C. Sheppard, ColuiVibm, S. C. Honored Sir: For six years I have sat on the bench of the Ninth Judicial circuit, Newberry county, Heller's township, as a trial justice, enjoying its high honors and emoluments, enduring its official cares and grave responsibilities an aquanimity that was perfectly astounding and surprising; dispensing in the great name of the State "equity to all, justice to none" (!!!); uniting in holy wedlock some whose union proved a disgrace to all concerned; patiently bearing the curse and escaping the blessings of all parties brought before "His Honor," receiving freely the contempt and Solomonic criticisms of the numerous wiseacres with which this community is unfortunately flooded and afflicted, suffering a mental agony from my complex and onerous duties that made my midnight dreams "fade as did the hill of Uheda before the bewildred gaze of the Italian knight," converting what should have been a couch of sweet repose to a bed of tempestuous restlessness. For six years I have been "Sir Aracle" of this community, relieving myself of : JL After Every Meal | WRICIEYS Chew your food well, then use WRIGLEY'S to aid digestion. It also keeps the teeth clean, breath sweet. lemral lore that put to flight the erudition of Blackstone, disdaining the "General Statutes" and the Consti tion and all "authorities" with a selfcomplaacency and self-opinionated wisdom characteristic of my fellow brethren on the bench, delivering1 my opinion and the law with a pomposity :ind arrogance that struck terror to all malefactors brought into my august presence. I have endeavored to settle cases of all belligerents, determined on a lawsuit with an eye single to the interest and purses of A No. 1, and my constable, with a very distant thought of any good to the state or the ligitants, my observation among my brethren leading me to believe this to be a very distinguished trait of their judicial character. Now, sir, after these long years of tedious and irksome duties, frought with tremendous usefulness, with shattered nerves and broken health and old age, and a numerous and constantly increasing and dependent family growing on apace, I am reluctantly (oh! how reluctantly!) compelled to tender my resignation and doff my judicial robes and I do so with 1 - !- i ?? ieeuugs aKin to tnose stirring one parting forever from the idol of his heart. I suggest and nominate, with your kind permission, as my worthy successor, competent to wear the judicial ermine, the Hon. Maximus Damnatus Stulus Asinusque. I take leave of you and the "oligarchy at Columbia" or "at Philippi" with extreme sadness and with my eye suffused to overflowing with tears and my good heart heaving with groans of titanic convulsions, I stretch forth my right hand, bid "the boys" a sad, long farewell! With the harness off, I am, Yours respectfully, J. B. O'Neall Holloway. o VIRGINIA RULING RESTRICTS CATTLE SHIPMENTS Many South Carolina Counties Can't Send Cattle to Richmond or Baltimore Clemson College.?A ruling of Virginia authorities, effective since Sept. 1, 1922, is working severely against farmers in Charleston, Beaufort, Georgetown and a half dozen other coastal counties in this State, according to facts brought out by Dr. W. K. Lewis, State Veterinarian, and several county agents at the meeting of Extension Service workers of the Pee Dee district in Florence last week. It seems that the new Virginia regulations prevent the shipment to or through Virginia points of cattle from any county in other states under quarantine even though the cattle are shipped as "free or non-quarantined cattle" and are from farms or areas known to be free of ticks. The following statement of the situation by Dr. Lewis makes clear the fact that the restrictions are solely the action of the Virginia State Livestock Sanitary officials, and that the L.ivesiocK sanitary Board or this State is in 110 wise responsible for a condition which is working much hardship on our coastal section farmers. On September 1, 1922, a proclamation by the Governor of Virginia became effective, forbidding the transportation of cattle? to any point in that state for any account of Southern, Splenetic or Texas fever. This order in effect means that no cattle can be shipped from the counties of Horry, Williamsburg, Georgetown, Berkeley, Dorchester, Charleston, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper, and Beaufort in this State, for the reason that these counties are under State quarantine on account of more or less infestation with cattle fever ticks. Dr Lewis Seeks Better Ruling Upon being notified by the Virginia authorities concerning this quarantine, the State Veterinarian of South Carolina immediately took the matter up with the State Veterinarian of Virginia, explaining fully the conditions that existed in these counties of South Carolina that are under State quarantine and requested that he Per_ mit the shipments of cattle to be made to Richmond, Va., the same as they have been made for the past several years, that is, permit only thbse cattle known to be free of ticks to be shipped from such farms or areas known to be free of ticks, the cattle to go to market as "free or non-quarantined cattle." The State Veterinarian of Virginia replied that the proclamation of the Governor of Virginia must be construed literally and that under the present conditions Virginia could not receive cattle from the counties in South Carolina that are under State quarantine, and inferred that when the tick-infested cattle were quarantined to the individual farms and there are camparatively few infested A ? _ J.-- il !- - - 1? rarms in a county, men tne county would be released as a whole with the exception, of course, of the farms that were under State quarantine, He was advised that at* present this could not be done, for the reason that the cattle in the counties still under State quarantine are not as yet all confined to the owners' premises; but he replied that he had no authority to change the wording1 of the Governor's proclamation, and could not receive cattle from any county in this State which was under State quarantine. The State Veterinarian of South Carolina wishes it to be clearly understood that the Virginia ordei against receipt of cattle from the counties in this State under State quarantine is an action wholly of the State Livestock Sanitary officials ol Virginia and not of South Carolina as has been inferred by parties whe have no connection whatever with th< Livestock Sanitary work of eithei State. ... Good paper is used at The Heralc office. # THE HORRY HERALD, QQN1 LIVE AT HOME WEEVIL PLANS Interesting Report is Voted by Special Committee In Memphis WELL DRAINED SOILS Several Other Things Are Highly Recommended by Experts Memphis, Tenn.?The importance of a live-at-home program of farming, the use of cultural method, including a well-drained fertile soil, ample seed of early varieties, closer spacing, liberal fertilization for quick growth and early maturity, etc., and poison ing oy tne calcium arsenate dusting method and the Florida method are suggested and advised in the report of a special committee on boll weevil control at the gathering of agricultural workers in session in Memphis, Feb. 6-8. The committee consisted of Dr. Bradford Knapp, Dean of Agriculture, University of Arkansas; Dr. W. D. Hunter, Entomologist in Charge Southern Field Crop Insect Investigations, U. S. D. A.; Dr. Wilmon Newell, Director Florida Experiment Station; J. A. Evans, Consulting Agronomist, States Relations Service U. S. D. A.; Dr. H. A. Morgan, President University of Tennessee; Dr. W. M. Riggs, President Clemson Agricultural College. The report, which was unanimously adopted, is given below. Report of the Committee on Boll Weevil Control. 1. Even under the most intelligent farming, boll weevil infestation increases the risk in cotton production. Therefore, of first importance is a "live-at-home" program with something to sell besides cotton. This fundamental fact can not be too strongly emphasized by your committee at the very outset of this report. 2. Even though an ample supply of calcium arsenate were available at ? l, 1 ?..nKnUI.. *- 1 A it iCKisunuuie uuai, |;iuuuuitv iiui iu per cent of the cotton acreage of the South would be poisoned by all known methods of application. Therefore, those proven cultural methods which tend to insuie greater production and give indirect aid in controlling the weevil damage can not be too strongly stressed. These include: (a) The use of well drained, fertile soil. (b) Good seed of standard early maturing varieties. (c) The use of ample seed in order to insure a good stand. (d) Closer spacing than under 1 "Tou Hill's Mixture is con ,dttm arsenate as a poi a third (secret) elemen the mixture, and make ANY PART OP THE C< i HI I I The M Hill's Mixture was t Farmers in 1922, on th 1 EVERY FARMER W* GOING TO USE IT IN agent in your territory show you testimonials from the President of \ ; dorsing Hill's Mixture. '' R. P. BLACI ; MARlOl I Agent for Marion an i tory and the Entire C I I * VAY, B 0, MAB. 1, 1923 non-boll weevil conditions. (e) Intensive caieful cultivation. (f) Liberal fertilization to induce quick growth, and stimulate early I maturity. (g) Where practicable the early destruction of cotton stalks in the fall and of hibernating places in the field. In addition to the above when poisoning is not contemplated, and inexpensive labor is available, the picking up and deselection of all punctured or infested squares for a period of j 30 days will prove beneficial. ! 3. Of the various methods of con| trol involving the use of poison, your committee recommends the calcium arsenate method and the Florida method. There are no other methods having as yet the sanction of adequate scientific proof. Th$ limitations of the calcium arsenate dusting method lies in *the fact that it has been found profitable only on lands Ll - -i> * - * - - i-ui*iuie 01 producing one-tmrd to onehalf bale per acre or more, that it requires a maximum of calcium arsenate, and that it must be applied at nijerht and by the use of machinery Aside from these limitations, its worth, through several years and under varying conditions, has been fully and conclusively demonstrated not only by the Experiment Stations but by practical farmers throughout the cotton belt. The Florida method has been found adapted to the conditions in that state and has the virtue of being adapted to lands of low productivity. This method can undoubtedly be applied with success in adjacent sections where the season conditions are the same as those in Florida. Whether this method will succeed elsewhere has not been determined and can not be until further studies of weevil hibernation and related factors are made. It is urged that the experiment stations in the cotton gro\>ing states, as speedily as possible, determine the adaDtabilitv of this mAtVmrl to their respective states. 4. Your committee is without the scientific proof that would enable it to give a definite opinion as to the effectiveness of the molasses arsenate treatment. However, prominent and progressive farmers in South Carolina and other states claim it a very decisive measure of control and experiments at the Government laboratory at Tallulah indicate a certain measure of control in the early stages of the infestation when the cotton plants are small. Your committee, therefore believes that this method deserves and should receive a thorough and immediate test by the experiment stations and the Government. 5. Your committee would remind the public that the solution of any great scientific problem such as boll weevil control is likely to be the work ich the nposed of three elements; cal sun, niuuMues as a uinaer, ana t, which attracts the weevil to a him eat it in preference to >TTON PLANT! itsm rost Successful Be ried out by scores of Georuria ousands of acres of land, AND 10 USED IT LAST YEAR IS 1923. I can send you, or my whose name appears below, will from prominent farmers, and the American Cotton Assn., enCWELL, n s. c. f d Immediate Terri- f FOR ounty of Horry, S. C. 1 of many scientists* extending over a period of years and at an expenditure of considerable money* Prompt and adequate support of experiment stations' projects along this line by the legislatures of the cotton states is an essential element in the early solution of this, the most important prob~ lem confronting the cotton growers of the South. In times of emergency, such as the present, numerous paaaceas will be proposed. It is a safe assumption that most of these will prove worthless to the farmer, however profitable to their promoters. Care and economy should be exercised in their purchase and use. As the responsible agencies for scientific research in the states, the agricultural colleges can recommend to the people only such methods as have been fully established by adequate and dependable scientific data. Until such proof shall be available, new or untried methods and devices should be used with caution and with a view of testing their efficiency rather than depending upon them for successTui control. o TINNED FOODS AS SAFE AS FRESH, SAYS EXPERT London.?Tinned foods are just as safe as fresh foods, if not safer in the opinion of Sir William Wilcox, one of the greatest authorities on poisons, who for more than 20 years has been scientific analysist and medical adviser to the home office. To support his contention he recently pointed in a speech to the eviMOTHER! MOVE IHlLirS BOWELS I "California Fig Syrup" is Child's Best Laxative / Even a sick child loves the "fruity" taste of "California Fig Syrup." If the little stomach is upset, tongue coated, or if your child is cross, feverish, full of cold, or has colic, a teaspoonful will never fail to open the bowels. In a few hours you can see for yourself how thoroughly it works all the constipation tender, little bowels and gives you a poison, sour bile and waste from the top?ar they c With my method, it is protect his cotton from t V. this pesky insect from get All you have to do is fill i ^ Mixture, make a mop of i &C end, and walk through y ing each stalk as you pasf jj? every weevil on the pla Sjj Mixture, get one good mo a dead weevil. Full Protection S Weevils at J Five to six gallons of rv AV\ W 111 A.11? . w ]jaiiviir mil iliiijr i S the boll weevil. This is protection that you can b Not only is Hill's Mixture tl weevil poison, but it does noi chmery for its application, ahc TO BE PUT ON AT NIGHT, work have always been the gi dusting method. ' jriMlxT >// Weevil Poison < My Company sells Hill's M $36.00 per barrel. Freight pr South Carolina point; a srhall states. There will be a charge which will be refunded when it dition. If you want to raise spite of the boll-weevil, use place your order now in order t requirements. ( HILL'S M the 1 CORPOH ( augusta, < dence presented by the greatest experiment in history?the feeding during the war of rovtjf millions of troops for years on canned foods. There were only four cases of foodf H poisoning during the warr he said, three of these being in France and one at Port Said. Nowadays, Sir William declared, the Is such that the danger of metallic ' is such that the danger of metalline poisoning is almost nil. Any idea of food poisoning being due to ptomaines also could be dismissed, he said. This form of poisoning was often confused with bacterial contamination of fresh foods, usually by living carriers of diseases who handled the food. The Merchants' Credit Association says that it is better to credit a poor man who pays his bills promptly than o ?? ...v- j ?a ' " m uvii man wiiu uoes not pay ms duis ih until made to do it They are right. Kills rats i and mice?that's RAT-SNAP, the old Reliable rodent destroyer. Comas in H cake?*?no mixing with otfier food. Your money back if it fails. 35c size (1 cake) enough for Pantry, H Kitchen or Cellar. H 65c size (2*cakes) for Chicken House, coops, or small buildings. H $1.25 size (5 cakes) enough for all farm and out-buildings, storage buildings, or factory buildings. Sold and Guaranteed by Piatt's I Pharmacy, Conway, S. C. m I I well, playful child again. Millions of mothers keep "California Fig Syrup" handy. They know a teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for genuine "California Fig Syrup" which has directions for babies and children of all agea printed on bottle. Mother! You must say "California" or you may get an imitation fig syrup, I id off I irop" I easy for the farmer to ihe boll-weevil, and keep B /ting one boll of his crop. an old bucket with Hill'a H a stick with a rag at the 1 fl our cotton fields, touch- H i. Inside of a few hours, I nt will go to the Hill's H uthful?and off he drops, H t Against Bolt I Lowest Cost I Hill's Mixture, 72c per I in acre of cotton .against I the cheapest and surest lie most economical bolt- I t require expensive m*? m I IT DOES NOT HAVE Machinery and night latest objections to tbm H URL of All! I ixture in 50-gal. bbls., epaid to any Georgia or I freight charge for other I i of $3.00 for the barrel, I ; is returned in good con- I a full crop of cotton in \ I HILL'S MIXTURE, and o be sure of getting your \ B L. D. HILL,. IXTURE I ATION 1 GEORGIA I I