The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, March 01, 1923, Image 8
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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.
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' 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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<
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Farmers in 1922, on th
1 EVERY FARMER W*
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agent in your territory
show you testimonials
from the President of \
; dorsing Hill's Mixture.
'' R. P. BLACI
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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
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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,
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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.
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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
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"California Fig Syrup" is
Child's Best Laxative
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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.
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>// 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
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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.
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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
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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
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Machinery and night
latest objections to tbm H
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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
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