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Page No. 8 WRITERS OF FALSE ITEMS Would Bring Embarrassment I to Their Neighbors if They Could ONE RECENT INSTANCE I Such Writers May do it Once 3 But May Never Again It appears that a writer sent in for publication #weok before last an item v that is said to be absolutely false. \ The Herald invites the bringing: and sending1 of news items to its office. They come in by hand and by 1 mail every week. Now and then there 1 is some man or woman who evidently ! wants to get off a joke on either the ' paper or on some neighbor. When ' the H^raM knows this or suspects it, ' there is not a line of the objectionable 1 stuff that ever goes into the columns c cf reading matter. Tt is often impossible to discover the j imposition and an item will get slip- , ped in to the delight of the person / wno nxea it up. it is not otten, out now and then it may happen. Such thing's makes it embarrassing for the paper and every man connected with it. The paper wishes to pub-( < lish the truth and nothing but the ] truth. When the paper has unbounded confidence in some writer and learns later that the writing contained a false and misleading statement of j some neighborhood matter, it is : enough to make the management of the paper declare that it will never again publish anything which is sent ' in by a correspondent unless the truth' of the facts stated can be first verified. The one who puts this kind of thing over is <ruiltv of a wrong. They are putting themseVes in the vnrs* position they could he in. Not only the newspaper but the communitv at large will mark t^em down as being liars and incapable of telling the truth even in situations where the would know that they were telling lies. It never Happens but once in regard i: to anv particular writer who would < send in something that is false to fool 1 t>e Herald and its readers with. A jnan or a woman either who does this oncp i? forever marked by the paper and they need not suppose that any confidence will ever be placed in what they say by the editor or any of his assistants. We repeat that we want the news sent in to the paper. Such assistance is necessary to make the paper beter and of more interest to the readers of it . 1 The item which slipped in last week was maliciously done. It was intended to spite others who were entirely innocer.t of any intent in the matter. It is an offense which the Herald would punish without the benefit of doubt if there was anv criminal statute under which it might be brought. As it is this instance must be allowed to pass with this writing of a short article calling it to the attention of others' who may be inclined to play the same trick on the paper, and on their neighbors. Those who will do such a thing are unworthy of having good neighbors. They have not the least idea of decency and good breeding. Of such! people the Herald wishes to steer perfectly clear and it will hereafter. A correspondent who thinks it is nice to publish something that will cause embarrassment and bring disrespect to somebody is not welcome in any way at the Herald office nor within its columns at any time. HEAVY RAINS ,, CHOKE DRAINS Sunday Afternoon brought a Heavy rain in This Section of county The outlets for water provided in the l>asin which has always given more or less trouble in the business section of the town, had been given i scant attention during the dry season,' as of course they were not needed at that time. The heavy fall of rain last Sunday afternoon filled the basin and as it could not escape it had to run out slowly; and for some time there was a pond of water in rear of the main business buldings between Main Street and Laurel. There was also some trouble at the corner of 3rd Avenue and I^aurel Street where the drains had been stopped up during tne dry weather with trash and debris and the water which comes down Laurel Street could not escape except by running over the cement sidewalk for a distance of about two hundred feet. The passing of the water over the walk left a coating of mud on it. It was on this slippery surface that men and women had to walk in passing along that way later in the evening and on the next morning. A number of business men complained about these conditions and said that they would be^in a movement to petition the town council and insist on having 'hi * condition remedied so that it may not be repeater .when the next heavy rain comes down o FOR THE VACATION " A box of the flat drinking cup.? Pito* Cured In 6 to 14 Day! Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails Rcure itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding led. Instantly relieves Itching and you jan get restful ) *?? if?e- tirst anolicatkin. tJflI . I WHY WAITTILL ELEVENTH HOUR Before Starting to Plough up The Roads Impeding Travel NOT ALL OUR FAULT Notice of Effect on Outsiders may Result in Change The Marion Star in its issue of last veek contained the following' editorial ii relation to the plan of working- the National Highway in this county: "We have never been able to figure ust why Horry County waits until nidsummer to plough up the road Yoiu Gallivants Ferrv to Mvrtle Seach. At this season people are locking to Horry's beach resorts and >ne trip through the dust and sand iow found on that road is enough to nuse one to enjoy the surf in his own mth tub, at home. Horry gets more idvertising and makes more friends ;hrough Myrtle Beach than through my other agency, and just why her road officials select July 4th as the proper time to scarify her roads is a nystery beyond our knowledge. A wealthy banker, from a city in tnids'.ate was heard to say the other day I like Myrtle Beach very much, but I| hate to go there on account of road londitions.' " The Horry Herald is not taking <ide^ against the Horry people who are in charge of this work, and hates very much to see them criticized in any respect by outsiders. Yet there appears to be some justification for this complaint by visitors to our shores. It may be that this could not be helped this time. Even if that be so it is no reason why they cannot see to it that this does not occur any more. It may be too that the State Highway Department is to blame and we suspect that it is to a large extent. For a long time it was in contemplation that additional work would be done on the Myrtle Beach road from the steel bridge to the Red Hill, making that road high enough to be out of reach of a sudden freshet, and making it wider in several places and a smoother way to go. Just why this work was- put off until the season at, Myrtle Beach was in full swing is | more than has been explained. It would cost no more to do it in advance of the season than it would after the season had commenced, perhaps it would have been less if the work had been undertaken several months ago and plenty time had for getting right materials and equipment for doing the work. As it was the work was done at the opening of the Summer travel, and if it should set in to raining the condition of the added clay will be certain to create a bad state of affairs until the season is entirely over. In the meantime, while the weather has been dry, the condition of the road bed from the bridge to the hill has been bad enough, and the dust has been awful to behold. Let us thank The Star for calling our attention to the fact that this delay in working the roads has been noticed by travellers enough that they have complained about it. This editorial has been clipped and published here f^r the sole purpose of bringing it to the attention of all those who have anything to do with the improvement of these roads. We want them to see nnd know that this thing is operating against us and by that means we hope they will take time by the forelock hereafter and do this work at the right time to suit the convenience of those who will want to visit us during the vacation season. Why wait to do the work until te Fourth of July comes round? We who live here all of the time can put up with the plowed roads as well at one time as another. o kept for sale at The Herald office is the very thing for the vacation trip, when you will not be anxious to drink out of all sorts of things and run the risk of getting disease germs. The cups lie flat in the baggage, and a handful easily fit into the pocket. Ruy them and use them and feel better 'satisfied when you go ofT to the mountains or the seashore. 9 * ENVELOPESIN PLENTY I here is a* large stock of envelopes in commercial size just received at The Herald Job Printing Department. The envelope is an important thing in business and pleasure. The Herald believes in keeping plenty of Fx OPTICAL WORK DONK ON CREDIT. Don't worry with or about youi eyes. Come to see us and let us solv< your problem for you. It is better t< know that your eyes are all righ than to guess. We have the lates styles in glasses. We will be at Horry Drug Btor every l?t and 3rd Mondays of eacl ' month. Yours for service, L. A. WOODRUFF, D-Opt. Eye Sight Specialist. 6|21-tf. , ' THE HORRY HK1MT.D, CO DOES GAS KILL BOLL WEEVILS Florence, July 2.?As a result of tests just completed here at the Boll Weevil Control Division of Clemson College and the United States Deinrtment of agriculture, Dr. N. E. Winters. who is in charge of the work, announces that the average results would seem to indicate that Cox's gas, used in the tests over a three day period, did not kill any weevils. Cox's gas is a material supposed to contain chloride of lime and arsenious oxide in combination with copper, being sold by the Boll Weevil Destroyer Company, with main office at College Park, Ga., and sub-office at Goldsooro, N. C., and the test was put on by Dr. Winters because of calls from influential men in the Southeast who were interested in the possible efficiency of the material in gassing the weevil. A. P. Petway and J. W. Daniel are managers of the North Carolina office of the Boll Weevil Destroyer Company and E. W. Rutledge, salesman for the company, brought the material here for trial, states Dr. Winters in discussing tl*e tests, which are explained below by him. "Twelve large screen cages, four feet square and four feet high, wpre placed out over cotton plants growing in the field. In three of these cages the plants were thoroughly treated with Cox's gas material; in three cages, the plants were sprayed with pure water; in three cages the plants were dusted with calcium arsenate; and in three cages, tho plants were untreated. Mr. Rutledge was present when the treatments were made and made the statement that the gas material was thoroughly applied. "Twenty weevils were introduced in each cape at 10:45 A. M., June 10. Plants were treated at 6:30 P. M. on the same date. The plants were dry when treatments were made. AH weevils not actually on the plants at the time of the treatment were removed from the capes, as this condition was requested by the pas salesman, Mr Rutledge. Observations were made C.:'0 A. M., il 'OO A. M., and 5 P. M. on June 20 and 21, and at O.xV) A. M. and 5:00 P. M. June 22, and (5 80 A. M. June 23. "Sometime during the night of Thursday, June 21, before 1:00 A. M. next morning, without our knowledge or consent, the plants in all three of the gas cages were thoroughly drenched with gas material, by whom we do not know. "The results at the end of the test on June 23 were as follows: "With 20 weevils under no treatment, 30 percent of the weevils died; with 20 weevils on the plants sprayed with water, 25 percent of the weevils died; with 15 weevils on the plants at the time the treatment was made with the gas', 26.7 percent of the weevils died; with 21 weevils in the three cages treated with dust, 61.9 percent of the weevils died." them. Leave your order there today and have plenty of the fine, well gum med envelopes that you need for business and private correspondence. CURING METHOD" . ... WAS FOR SALE (Continued from page one) ed his labor to the growers. He was not able to publish this information, gratis, altogether. I am sending out this information this season and will discontinue the efforts in the future. I find that the world is not looking for a genuine thing?they want a fake. This is a grand boon to the tobacco men, and I shall not fool with and contend with the opposition that my father encountered in dispensing the information. If you do not care to publish the letter, alright, but it will be more of a loss to those of your readers who might profit from it than to me. You are the first one to hesitate to publish Iuhhuui | The Woman's Tonic | ,1 used two bottles before I could H see any great change, but after ?j that it was remarkable how ju much better I got. I am now H well and strong. 1 can recom- xj mend Cardui, for it certainly Fj benefited me." |H If you have been experiment- H ins on yourself with all kinds of rJ different remedies, better get JH back to good, old, reliable E Cardui, the medicine for fwomen, about which you have r" always heard, which has helped ? many thousands of others, and E n which should help you. too. f* La Ask your neighbor about it; she ? M has probably used it. f For sale everywhere. E Pl E 93 t. NWAY, S. C, JULY 12, IMS the letter, and if you choose, may n* fuse entirely. It makes very little dif- 1 Idereuce. I am not as interested as my father was. It appears from the reading of the 1 answer that this information is for sale, and not to be given away free. i Is the information worth anything? As the Herald asked last week, is it possible that certain dates are better than others for placing tobacco in a l>arn for curing? It does not look possible to prove by any sort of reason- ; ing that certain dates during the weeks of the tobacco curing season could be better dates than others for the curing of tobacco, other things on other dates being equal, or perhaps ; better. It is of course the best for the < grower of tobacco, or the grower of any other crop to use his good ci mmon sense and wisdom in the handling of the same. There are better days for 1 the curing of tobacco. Those days, however, in our opinion, must be determined by an examination of the leaves in the field and the conditions of the weather as to rain and sun. There is no other test that we can possibly think up and of course we do not work in the tobacco fields every day. as every reader knows. Now, he says that his father had opposition in trying to introduce his plan of fixing the dates for the curing of tobacco. You will notice that. Per haps he sold his secret to many who tried it out and never got any better results from the practice or the innovation that he tried to bring1 about. We admit that there is yet something to he learned about the curing1 of tobacco. We have no idea that any grower, no matter how long his experience, knows all that there is to know about the work. It is indeed true that the tobacco leaves must have in them the sap that all plants have, more or less, and the leaves have m them the wax or gum which makes them different from other leaves. There may be something in choosing the right state of maturity in the leaf as the best time 'for placing it in the barn and curing it for the market. But in what other way can the right condition of the leaf be determined except by looking at it? Some growers have better success, than others in curing fine grades for the market by watching the tobacco fields and picking the leaves at just the right time for ruling into a good grade. But they do this by their experience in judging when the leaves are ripe, and not by some arbitrary method of fixing certain dates beforehand on which they are opposed to know what the leaves will do when placed in the barns. The Herald took the position that if Fa 1 I ^ ? m to please < || Visit our m methods Order a case tods 1 m i from your grocer ar jljj: j . cerve it in your horn I Enjoy tl II Drin 1 Delici the information itt fwf it could, do no harm. If it \? something to4>e sold then tho Herald wants to know what (hetv \s to it before it is offered through the columns for a consideration that the author would no doubt ehnrii*. o ji ih;k ivvssks ON KIKE CASE (Continued from page one) uway from the right of way of the tram road and spreading .out to Mr. Mishoe's lands where-his fencing was destroyed, some houses and lumber burned up and his strawberry patch ruined. The first action was not brought under ? statute law of this state which makes a railroad company liable for damage by fire originating on the right of way and burning out to plaintiff's lands, regardless of whether or not there was carelessness or negligence in allowing tho fire to do that. It was brought for what is known as negligence at the common law. In this first action tried' two years ago, Ml*. Mishoe lost out by a verdict of the Jury. The case was lost after a hard fight put up by summoning many witnesses on both sides. Immediately after the first suit was tried and lost by the plaintiff, he brought a second action, this last time under the statute. There had been some doubt, at the time the first action was brought, whether the statute applied to a private company operating a tram road,' and this was the reason why the action was first brought under the common law and not under the statute. Before the first case was disposed of however, and before the second suit had been brought which is now pending, the supreme court of this State in the case of Crawford against Mullins Lumber Company decided that statute covered even private companies or even individuals operating a line of railroad. This secon'd suit is the one which is now pending. The defendhnt raises tlie question whether he is entitled to maintain this second suit after having lost out in the first suit. Judge Sliipp has taken the matter under advisement and will render his decision later. An interesting question was asked during the course of the argument. If Mr. Mishoe had won the first suit and recovered damages could he now maintain this second action ? The plaintiff argues that he could not and agrees, in that case, with the defendant that he could not. The reason, however, why he could not have maintained it in that event is not far to /I pleasing evt Young and old?your and your guests?all wi this pure and wholesor erage that delights tas quenches thirst. Keej s-cold in your refrigerat< ays find it convenient ai iverybody. plant and see how our : provide for absolute puri Bottled _ _ Uy/0 zs&MDCi lous and Refresl Coca Cola Bottling Compan Conway, S. C. find; Th?.v Ifcur would: not allow him* recover twice for the same deficit. If He had recovered any amount whatever in the first suit it would havebeen payment in full for all the damage he suutbinvtL' by reason of' the fire,, although he charged that damage as arising by reason of negligence* instead of liability created by the statute. However, as he lost on the question of negligent burning by the company, he still has the remedy which has been provided for him by the sta- i tute which holds that the company is Z liable regardless of whether negligence caused his loss or not. In this Jast case he seeks to hold the defendant liable under the statute, which is an entirely different remedy from that which he sought under the commonlfcw; It' is a different cause of action^ HI'S word ra the best bond that any honest business man can put up. 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