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Scraps and Acts. ? Ben W. Hooper, the newly elected governor of Tennessee, was found on the streets of Knoxville less than forty years ago. The waif, whose parentage is not known, was committed to the care of an orphan asylum. where he received his early training. When he was ten years old he attracted the attention of Capt. Hooper of Newport. Term., who gave him an education and his name, and before he was twenty-one he had graduated with distinction. While he has achieved some distinction in his home county, having been sent to the legislature for two terms. Hooper was not known generally in the state before he was nominated as the Republican candidate for governor. He is a successful lawyer and is considered wealthy. ? The census bureau report, issued at 10 o'clock last Wednesday, shows 7.339.9S3 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned from the growth of 1910 to November, compared with 7,017,849 for 1909; 8,191,557 for 1908 and 6.128.562 for 1907. Round bales included this year are 81.187 compared with 109,621 for 1909; 149,866 for 1908 and 125.785 for 1907. Sea island this year is 40.516 bales, compared with 55,237 for 1909: 45.479 for 190S and 33,331 for 1907. The ginning by states follows: Alabama, 747.162; Arkansas. 323,674; Florida. 38,287; Georgia. 1,241.138; Louisiana. 154.756; Mississippi, 576,373; North Carolina. 386",114; Oklahoma. 584.850; South Carolina, 729,023: Tennessee, 129,781; Texas. 2,403,981. All other states 24,838. The distribution of sea island cotton for 1910 by states is: Florida, 15,191; Georgia, 22,507: South Carolina, 2,818. ? Bowling Green, Mo., November 9: Downward revision of the tariff is the pledge made for the new Democratic house of representatives by Champ Clark, who is a candidate for speaker. "The landslide was in keeping with my predictions," said Mr. Clark. "The people are tired of the present administration and are provoked to just the extent that the returns indicated, with the tariff deception. The first and greatest proposition the Democrats should stand for is a reduction in the tariff to a revenue basis. I would reduce it scientifically and gradually and put into it a sliding scale, much like there was in the tariff bill of 1833. There is no question that the Democrats will be on their good behavior in the next congress and the future will depend largely on our conduct, Democrats now nave a goiaen opportunity for constructive statesmanship and should seize it and demonstrate once more their fitness for legislation, wisely and patriotically." ? The result of Tuesday's election in Illinois and Chicago furnished one of the greatest surprises in the entire country. Although pictured as in the best shape of any state in the middle west from the Republican standpoint, nowhere was the Democratic landslide more pointed. The Democrats made a clean sweep in Cook county and for the first time in fourteen years they reign supreme. With pluralities ranging from 15,000 to 25,000 they captured the offices of sheriff, county treasurer, county clerk, probate judge, and in fact every county office. The Republican members of the sanitary district board met defeat in the general cleanup. For the first time in its history a Democratic member was elected to the board of review. Local Republican leaders were staggered by the result. They had predicted election of their entire county ticket with pluralities varying from 30,000 to 45.000. Aside from the actual conquest of county offices the election is important to the Democrats as indicating their chances for electing a mayor for Chicago next spring ? Henri Dunant. famous as the founder of the International Red Cross society, died on October 30 in Switzerland. Henri Dunant' was of Ct..ieo KirtVi nnri liverl in Geneva. At the battle of Solferino, June 24, 1859, he witnessed the needless suffering and loss of life resulting from days of neglect to care for the wounded. Realizing that such conditions need not exist he conceived the idea of pledging the nations of the earth to regard and protect as neutral all sick and wounded combatants and all persons giving succor. He elaborated his ideas and through the co-operation of the Swiss Federal council brought about an international conference at Geneva in October, 1S63. Sixteen governments were represented. This was followed by the Geneva convention of August 8, 1864, which adopted nine articles of agreement "for the amelioration of the conditions of wounded in armies in the field." These articles were signed by twelve governments and the signatory powers have since reached forty. A uniform Hag made of a red cross on a white ground was adopted as a compliment to the Swiss confederation whose national flag is the reverse. ? The Spanish senate on November 4, by a vote of 149 to 58, passed the "padlock bill." which prohibits the creation of further religious establishments in Spain until the revision of the concordat with the Vatican has been completed. The revision of the concordat of 1851 has long been the cause for diplomatic negotiations between liberal governments in Spain and the Vatican. The modifications sought affect chiefly the clauses relating to liberty of conscience and education and the limitation of religious orders. With the advent in February last of the present ministry. Premier Canalejas announced that the negotiations begun by his predecessors with the Vatican would be continued, but this programme, which called for the abridgment of the influences of the Catholic churches and the inauguration of a broad system of public education, would be proceeded with regardless of the wishes of Rome. Much opposition on the part of the clericals has been brought to bear against Canalejas' programme and especially the "padlock bill." which prohibits the creation of further religious orders until the question of the revision of the concordat has been settled. The Vatican made frequent vigorous protests against the bill. ? Conditions looked quite serious in the City of Mexico Wednesday, and for a whole day there was danger of a mixup between the United States and Mexico. The trouble grew out of the lynching of a Mexican, Antonio Rodrigues, at Rock Springs, Texas, on the night of November 3. There is in Mexico a large and formidable antiAmerican sentiment, and this was aroused against America, because of the lynching. A great mob of Mexicans made a demonstration against the Americans in the city and started toward the American embassy. As soon as the Mexican authorities began to realize the situation, they put soldiers and police alter the mob and , mi..a bevcrai ui uic i iuina i\n?vu. Americans were attacked in ditYerent parts of the city, and in some cases pretty badly abused; but it was not all one way. In every case the Americans held their ground until they beat off their assailants or assistance came. Jack Davis an American automobile repair man, drove the mob from his place with such weapons as were handy. The whole thing has become the subject of diplomatic correspondence between Mexico and Washington. The Mexican authorities disclaim sympathy with the rioters and promise t<i see that proper punishment is meted out. Washington is satisfied with the attitude of the Mexican government. ? Washington. November 8: President Taft and his advisers in the state and treasury departments will probably soon confer over the severe blow dealt the American fertilizer industry by Germany's rejection of the American proposals for adjusting the German potash controversy. The state department received no message yesterday from Ambassador Hill at Berlin or from M. 11. Davis, the department's commercial agent there, who has been inquiring into the situation but an official cable report may reach the department today. Millions of dollars loss to American contractors are involved in the position taken by Germany which restricts the output of the several potash mines, imposes heavy taxes and virtually put.the mines in the hands of a syndicate under governmental supervision. Germany is substantially the only source of potash supply in the world and tin United States, purchasing annually approximately $7,000,000 worth, the use of potash salts constantly increasing in cotton fertilization, is by far the largest consumer. Germany had ample notice before its reiehstag passed the law during last spring, for Ambassador Hill, under instructions from Washington, acquainted the Berlin foreign office with the American view and six months ago had to report to the state department that the law with its obnoxious provisions from the standpoint of the American contractors had been passed. (The \tcrkrillr (Enquirer. Entered at the Postofflce in Yorkville as Mail Matter of the Second Class. YORKVILLE, S. C.i ? FRIDAY. NOVEMBER II, 1910. The Republicans are now beginning to learn how it feels. Did President Taft take his smile with him to Panama? Wonder what the papers keep on 1 trying to discredit Dr. Cook for? The high cost of living brought about by the Republican tariff, is what did it. North Carolina is getting to be eminently resectable in a political way. Of course Champ Clark is going to be the next speaker of the house of representatives. Everybody is glad that the election is over, because now there stands nothing in the way of business. The present congress has three months more to serve, and after that, the Democrats will need to he consulted. "S?*e Charleston first" is the slogan finally adopted bv the city, and it is a very good slogan, for Charleston is worth seeing. The Enquirer hopes to see some Yorkcounty corn farmer pass the hundred bushel mark next year. Perhaps one of the corn club boys will do it. The market price of votes is not so high in New York as it used to be. Better election laws properly enforced, make the traffic in votes more dangerous and difficult. The Democrats now have the house, and it is up to them to demonstrate what they can do with it. With the senate and White House in control of the Republicans, the house is a dangerous charge. When the reporters went after him at Oyster Bay, last Tuesday night, the colonel sent word that he had "absolutely nothing to say." Wasn't that really a stranger thing than the Democratic landslide? In the north. New York especially, the watcher at the polls is a recognized necessity. Down here in South Carolina, where all are Democrats, and nobody will cheat, but little need is felt for anything of this kind. The governor has seventeen applications for the position of railroad commissioner so far and the applica tions are still coming. Wonder why some of these fellows did not go into the primary and thresh the matter out with the people? F. H. Weston, a bright lawyer of Columbia, has thrown out the suggestion that because the newspapers queried the credit of the dispensary, it became necessary for the whisky houses to overcharge. That is a real good one from away back. Hurrah for Greenville! The exact figures cannot be quoted yet; but returns so far received show that that county has refused by an overwhelming majority to allow the re-establishment of the dispensary. The good people of the county were not asleep as there was reason to fear. The Republicans of the Ninth North Carolina district had actually gotten themselves to believing that they were going to defeat Yates Webb; but what Webb did for them was a plenty. The voters of the Ninth district evidently know a good thing when they see it, and Mr. Webb represents the district to perfection. He is a thorough-going Democrat, too. There#is no getting away from the fact that by all the rules of fairness and right, the appointment of railroad commissioner to succeed the late Mr. Sullivan, belongs to James Cansler. In saying this, we express no opinion as to qualifications further than to assert that the office has been held by others who were no more competent from any standpoint, and there are people now in the office who are in no way superior to Mr. Cansler. It will have to be admitted that the ch.'si.T inrv which is trvimr to do the right tiling in those graft cases, has a nig undertaking on its hands. Maylie a lawyer can do it. hut for a layman to distinguish between the graft ( that was taken out of the original transactions and the graft that has been extracted in the winding-up process. is an exceedingly difficult matter. We do not know certainly; hut ' we do not think that it is even ' charged that any of the defendants in the case made as much out of rebates as has been paid to some of the lawyers who are conducting the present prosecution. We reproduce front the Columbia 1 State today an interesting communi| cation from Mr. W. 1'. Calhoun of Kdgctield county, on the question of substituting a county court system for th" present magistrate system. We | agree with Mr. Calhoun in most that ; he says and we think the change would be for the public benefit, especially in a county like York. We do not believe a county court system would cost as : much its the present magistrate sys tem. < ?u the contrary, we believe it would b? cheaper and much more effi. cieiit: but for the reasons given by Mr. Calhoun, we have but little hope of seeing the change for many years to come. Democratic Victory. Of course, it is always pleasing to know that your side has won, and all Democrats will he gratified that the party is to have a majority in the next house of representatives; but at the same time, in view of the circumstance it is well not to he too enthusiastic over the prospects. The Republicans have lost the house simply because they failed to measure up to the very reasonable expectations of the people of the country, and they I a i K'u 10 mtasui c 11 \} iu iiicr ? vc.sonable expectations of the people of the country, because too much power had made them so proud and arrogant that they had begun to feel that they could with impunity, openly and flagrantly disregard even the fundamental principles of popular government. That control of one branch of the government is better than the control of none, there is no question. For quite a long time, the Democrats have had no say at all in the affairs of the government. They could say but that is all they could do. They had neither authority nor responsibility; but now that they have control of one branch jof the government, they have both authority and responsibility. Heretofore the Republicans have had | both authority and responsibility, and whether they did do or did not do, they had to answer to the people. They had | a lot to answer for and that is why the | people turned them down. But during the two years following the 4th of next March, the Democrats will have their work cut out for them, and upon their 'conduct will determine the question as to whether the people of the country will be willing to restore them to power. The whole game for the next two years is comprehended in the idea of .v. nr tn crat ororlit for all oiuc u,o?a the good things that may be done and putting the onus of the questionable things on the other side, and whichever side succeeds best will carry the country in 1912. POLITICAL TIDAL WAVE. Democratic Jackass Kicks G. 0. P. Elephant Sky-High. The Democrats have no cause to complain on account of the result of last Tuesday's election throughout the country. It was a veritable landslide against the Republicans, who lost many representatives in congress, and experienced slumps from their former strength in nearly every state of the Union. Latest calculations on the national house of representatives, based on complete but unofficial returns, show that the Democrats will have a safe working majority of 30. The outcome of the United States senate is now definitely settled. The Republicans are assured of 16 new senators, which, with 34 holdover senators, gives them a total of 50. The Democrats are assured of 15 new senators, which, with 25 holdovers. gives them a total of 40. Two senatorships are still in doubt, namely, the successor of the late Mr. Dolliver in Iowa, and of Mr. Carter in Montana, where there is prospect of a tie. These determined totals, however, leave a Republican majority In the senate as follows: Total membership 92; necessary to majority 47; Republicans 50; Democrats 40; doubtful 2. The 1? KepuDucan wnawis tu..sidered assured are from California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan. Nevada, North Dakota (2), Pennsylvania, Rhode Island. Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The 15 Democratic senators considered assured are from Florida. Indiana, Louisiana, Mpine, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York. Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. A summary of the contest for governorship shows the following Democratic governors elected, with the approximate plurality: New York, Dix, 66,000. New Jersey, Wilson. 30.000. Connecticut. Baldwin, 3,500. Massachusetts. Foss. 33,000. Ohio. Harmon, 60,000. Oklahoma. Cruce, . Oregon. West. . Wyoming, Carey. . Alabama, O'Neal. 50,000. South Carolina, Blease, 60,000. Texas, Colquit, . North Dakota, Burke, 3,000. The Republican governors elected with approximate pluralities: Pennsylvania, Tener, 20,000. New Hampshire, Bass, 7,000. Rhode Island. Pothier, 9,000.Iowa, Carroll. 10,000. Kansas. Stubbs, 5,000. Michigan. Osborne, 40,000. Minnesota, Kberhart, 50,000. Nebraska. A'drich, 5,000. South Dakota, Vessey, 12,000. Wisconsin. McGovern, . California, Johnson, 25,000. Nevada, Oddie, . Tennessee. Hooper, (Fusion), 12.000. The governorships in two states are not yet reported as being beyond doubt, namely, Colorado and Idaho. The congressional gains made by the Democrats in the states named below are as follows: States. Dem. Rep. Connecticut. 2d 1 0 Illinois, 6th, 7th, 9th, 16th..4 0 Indiana. 6th 1 0 Iowa, 2d, 4th 2 0 Iowa, 8th 0 1 Kentucky. 9th 1 0 Maine. 2d. 3d 2 0 Maryland, 3d. 6th 2 0 Massachusetts. 3d 1 0 Massachusetts, 14 th 0 1 Michigan. 1st, 5th 2 0 Missouri. 13th 14 th. 15th. 16th 4 0 Missouri. 11th 0 1 Nevada at large 0 1 New Jersey, 3d, 6th, 7th, 8th.4 ft New York, 1st. 3d, 4th, 5th. 13th. 15th. 17th. 21st, 25th, 27th, 33d, 36th 12 ft Neww Yorw, 32d 0 1 North Carolina, 5th. 8th, 10th 3 ft Ohio. 2d. 7th. 11th. 15th. 18th. 19th, 21st 7 0 Oklahoma. 3d 1 0 Pennsylvania, 5th, 8th 12th. 14th. 22d. 24th 6 0 Pennsylvania, 10th 0 1 Rhode Island, 1st 1 0 West Virginia. 1st. 2d, 3d 4th 4 ft Totals 58 6 Net Democratic gain. . . 52 HICKORY GROVE NOTES. Correspondence The Yorkvllle Enquirer Hickory Grove, November 11.?Miss Leila A. Russell of Winthrop, spent Monday in the Hickory Grove school, Mr. M. W. Smith, who was formerly employed by the Thomson rvj., at Yorkville, is now general manager of the new ginnery of Hickory Grove, owned by Pollock & Smith. The infant child of Mr. Sam Kell, is very seriously ill now. The Rev. Mr. Kerr is conducting a series of meetings near Rock Hill. The Rev. L. T. Pressly of Lexington, Va., is visiting Mr. J. N. McDill here. Mr. Stark Slaughter of Hickory Grove, is visiting friends and relatives in Spartanburg. Mr. Bud Brannon and Miss l^aura Roach of Smyrna, were quietly married at the Methodist parsonage Sunday, November 6th. Election in Gaston.?K. V. Webb carried Gaston countv last Tuesdav over S. S. McNinch, 2,491 to 1,504. Webb ran about oftft votes ahead of the county ticket. J. IX B. McLain was elected sheriff by a majority of 35ft. He ran behind the county ticket. The Republicans had a real good man against him, and it was on him that they concentrated 'heir light. LOCAL AFFAIRS, < NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Dr. C. C. Leech, Hickory Grove?Will pay reward for return of black, white and tan hound. Pollock & Smith, Hickory Grove?Are ready to pin your cotton, solicit your patronage and guarantee first-class service. T. E. McMackin, Supt. Ed.?Gives notice of postponement of date of meeting of public school trustees to December 3, in Yorkville. Dr. J. I. Barron?Offers reward for loss of an overcoat between Yorkville and Tirzah. Williamson Bros., and R. M. Bratton, Guthriesville?After November 14, will gin cotton only three days a week. i Jos. W. Smith, Yorkville No. 1?Has a 2J-year-old filly and a Tennessee j mare for sale. Enquirer Office?Has old newspapers J for sale. M. S. Carroll, Filbert?Will sell barred Plymouth Rock cockerels or ex- j change for pullets. W X*. Hanna. Smyrna?Lost $10 in j Yorkville on Monday and will appreciate its return. A. D. Dorsett?Will have 5,000 cabbage plants the first of next week. Last order of season. Old George, the Butcher?Wants hogs. He also tells about his meat market, creamery butter, etc. Loan and Savings Bank?On page three, tells you about a good feeling that will be yours when you open a savings account with it. D. E. Boney, Manager?Is ready to write insurance on your life, and protect you against loss by fire and death of live stock. First National Bank, Yorkville?Says there are great fortunes scattered over the country. You will have to get yours by saving and it offers its help. Carroll Furniture.?With a big stock of furnishings in its store, asks you to come and see its lines before buying. with it. See page six. J. L. Williams & Co.?Offer a variety of special values, including matting, rugs, men's shoes, blankets, outYorkville Hardware Co.?Wants to supply machinery owners with leather and canvas belting, lacings, hooks, dressing, piping, fittings, etc. J. Q. Wray?Tells you about the good values he is offering in men's and boys' hats, clothing, rubber shoes, etc. National Union Bank, Rock Hill? Suggests that you get ready for your i opportunity by saving a part of your 1 earnings and opening an account : ings, canton flannels, etc. i Thomson Co.?Emphasizes the point 1 that you get goods of quality when I you buy merchandise of It. A word about blankets, comforts, bed- i spreads, etc. f First National Bank, Sharon?Insists i that you be sure in selecting a bank l to select one that will be perfectly l satisfactory. It will satisfy you. t Herndon & Gordon?Recite their ex- I perince while trying to do business on "promises to pay." Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Invites you to ] trade with it and bank the difference, t m i The open season for game, com- . mences next Tuesday. There are six pages of The Enqui- < rer today. Be sure that you get all 1 of the paper. i The commissioners of election will 1 meet in Yorkville next Tuesday for < the purpose of canvassing the returns. 1 The Yorkville Enquirer has a big ( list of subscribers; but it would be worth more to the country if it had 1 more. } There is quite a gratifying demand s for agricultural implements, such as ^ stalk cutters, harrows, chilled plows, etc., this year. The sale of these im- ( plements promises to be larger than < usual. Jj New subscribers to The Enquirer ] on clubs get the paper from the date of s the entry of their names to January j 1, 1912, for the price of one year's sub- 1 scription. That means that subscrib- I ers who subscribe this week get the paper six weeks for nothing. j ^ Subscribers to The Enquirer who r desire their addresses changed for any reason, should notify their postmaster 1 or rural carrier. The postmasters are provided with, or should be provided 1 with cards, by which they can notify 6 the publisher without charge to the subscriber. ^ Referring to the double entry ques- A tion, Mr A. L. Black, road supervisor , for York township, a day or two ago, showed The Enquirer his list of people y who are liable to road duty, and point- , cd out on the list four people of the same name?all John Thomasson. The , remarkable point about it is that the ^ list is really correct, and all four of the John Thomassons are performing r road duty, either by work or paying r the capitation tax. No reader of serial stories should c miss the opening chapters of the "For- ( tune Hunter,"' the publication of which j is commenced today. The theme is s life in a small town. The particular r small town is located in Pennsylva- s nia; but discriminating: readers in oth- 1 er small towns will he able to see also r a picture of things with which they c are also familiar. The characters are j nicely drawn, and most readers will > he able to find somebody they know to t lit nearly all of them. The moral of i the story is very good and the narra- t live will hold interest from beginning to end. Everybody should read the "Fortune Hunter." It is worth while. WITHIN THE TOWN. ? Manager Johnson has booked "The Runaways" for Wednesday, November 16, when they will appear in the Yorkville opera house in a musical comedy, entitled "A Japanese Honeymoon." There are twenty-five people in The Runaways, and they make a lively t show. t THE REAL ELECTION. \ "Why, what are they voting on today. I thought they had the election 1 last summer?" was a question asked 1 last Tuesday. I "That was on0 the primary where i the candidates were nominated," came 5 the explanation from a man who knew, t "But everybody was voting then, and 1 nobody is taking any interest today," j observed the first speaker. "Why is today's election necessary?" 1 "Well it is like this. There was east ( in the primary last summer about 3,500 1 votes. Today the total vote is not 3 likely to amount to more than 1,500, if i that. If some other man, other than 1 a candidate nominated last summer i should get 751 of these votes he would be elected." < ABOUT PEOPLE. < Mr. Ed Hall of Davidson college, Is ) spending several days in Yorkville this ] week. s Miss Marcella Willis of Rock Hill, is J spending this week with Mrs. M. C. Willis in Yorkville. I Mr. G. H. O'Leary of Yorkville, is up < and about again, after having passed 1 through an attack of pneumonia. i Mrs. H. M. crosiana ana cnuaren returned to their home in Bennettsville yesterday, after spending nearly ii month with relatives in Yorkville. Rev. J. L. Oates and Elder J. M. Stroup are representing the Yorkville A. R. P. ehureh at the Associate Reformed synod in session in Charlotte. Mr. J. E. Castles and family of Smyrna, have moved to Spartanburg, and Mr. J. J. Scoggins and family, also of Smyrna, are to move to Due West Mrs. Minerva Mary Humbert, who was nine stationed in Yorkville with her husband, Rev. J. W. Humbert of the South Carolina conference, died in Newberry last Tuesday. Mrs. W. B. McCaw and children. Misses Agallee and Belle and Master Henry, who have been spending some time in Yorkville, left last night for their home in New Orleans. Miss Mary Anderson of WinstonSalem. X. <\, a daughter of tHe late Rev. J. Monroe Anderson, formerly of Yorkville, is visiting in Yorkville. the guest of her niece, Mrs. E. E. Gillespie. Among the York county ladies who are teaching in other counties are: Miss Eunice I'laxco, No ?. Anderson; Miss Bessie Jackson, Dillon, Marion county: AIiss Eannie Allen, Belton. Anderson county; Miss Mattic Ratteree, Islandton. Colleton county: Miss Mamie Ferguson, Silver, Clarendon conn :y; Miss Wilmoth Jackson, Ellenton, \iken county; and Miss Eva Castles n Newberry county. The following Clover people left for Savannah, Ga., last night, where they jo to witness the automobile races tolay and tomorrow: H. P. Jackson, Fred Jackson, H. L. Wright, Chas. Dickson, F. E. Clinton, M. L. Smith, Fas. A. Page, W. L. Hogue, S. J. Clin:on, J. M. Smith. They were accompanied by Drs. Crutchfleld and Owens if Spartanburg; C. K. Marshall of Dastonia; A. J. Crampton of Charlotte, and W, C. Thompson of Bulock's Creek. ? THE GENERAL ELECTION. Because there was no opposition, there was very little interest in the 1 I,,., I? Ihic, nminlv loaf Tuesday, and The Enquirer did not Jeem it worth while to go to the trouble and expense of collecting a dctail?d statement as to the result of the rating. The total vote in the state election it the Yorkville box was only 86. and n the Federal election only 69. One jolting precinct was in the front end of :he court house and the other in the ear end, and probably because they had forgotten that there were two mxes, as many as seventeen of the leople who voted In the state election railed to walk one hundred feet and rate in the Federal election. As to the eight proposed constitutional amendments there was a great leal of ignorance. The ignorance was lue to the fact that the people had limply not taken the trouble to Inform themselves. In most cases they did not are. The only proposed amendment that attracted even ordinary concern ivas that providing for an increase of [he number of supreme court judges from four to five. To make this intendment effective several amendments are necessary, and most if the people who voted on the subject it all voted only on the main question. Fifteen neople were in favor of another judge and 33 were opposed. With reference to the other amendments, most of the votes were no. Vo[ers frankly stated that they knew lothing about the matter and In that ase they could think of nothing better than to vote "no." The wording in some of the tickets was so nearly identical that even the managers had lifflculty in deciding where they should le credited. AMNIIAI PREMIUM CONTEST. The attention of former clubmakers ind the public generally, is called to :he fact that the announcement of our mnual premium offers appears elsewhere in this issue today, and we incite a careful reading of it by everybody. In brief, the meaning of the anlouncement is that the yearly subscriber-getting campaign is on; that we want everybody to help us get all :he present subscribers renewed and laid for and to get as many new ones is possible, and that we are offering iberal premiums for this work. This contest is fair, free and open. ( IVhile it is with much pleasure and jride that we are reminded of the fact :hat the list of clubmakers Includes a lumber who have been making clubs 'or a generation, still, we are able to five assurance that this need not in:erfere with beginners It is a fact ?ach year for years past, beginners lave carried off some of the best preniums, and last year eight of the six:een sewing machines that we gave to dubmakers went to people who had lad no previous experience in the work >f soliciting subscriptions. That it has required no very large lumber of names to carry off the preniums except the one offered for the argest number of subscribers, is ihown by a review of the awards last ear. The largest club last year was that >f Mr. A. W. McFarland of York townihip and consisted of 259 names. The lecond largest club was that of Mr. Jeff 3. Whiteside of Broad River townihip, who was awarded a handsome rnrlor organ for 82 names. He was 'ollowed by Mr. J. F. A. Smith with 11 names. In Bethel township one machine vent for 45 names and another for 39 lames. In Broad River township, a machine vas awarded for 36 names. In Bullock's Creek township one ma bine went for 48 names and the oth ;r 46 names. In Bethesda, one machine went for 16 names and another for 31 names. In Catawba township, one machine vent for 33J names, and the other for II names. In Ebenezer township, one machine vent for 39J names, and the other for 10 names. In Fort Mill township, one machine vent for 40 names, and the other for 6 names. In Kind's Mountain township, one nachine went for 64i names and the >ther for 31 names. The matter of getting up the largest dub merely involves persistent work. }ne only needs to commence and keep it it. There is no need to be discourLged because a large number of people nay say, when solicited, that they have ilready given their names to some>ody else. The thing is to go after lew ones. There is a large number >f people who do not take any news>aper, and among them are many who vill subscribe when they are shown he advantage of having a paper like ['he Enquirer come to their homes wice each week. YORKVILLE'S TRADE. Retail merchandising $1,000,000 Wholesale merchandising .. 400,000 Banking 500,000 Manufacturing 800,000 All other businesses 225,000 Total $2,925,000 This is a reasonably careful estimate >f the total annual business of the own of Yorkville, as made up with the issistance of several business men who ire best acquainted with the affairs of he town. A similar estimate of the town's >usiness made ten years ago, and based argely on detailed statements by proprietors and managers who had exact nformation, showed an aggregate of .lightly less than $600,000. According :o this, during the ten years, there has pen an increase of $2,325,000 in the innual business of the town. There is no pretense that these figires are absolutely accurate; but we lo assert that they are approximately iccurate, and that if the tigures of ten . ears ago were slightly under the ac;ual facts, the same can be said of the Igures given as representing the busness of the town today. The increase in the town's business luring the first five years of the period nentioned did not amount to a great leal. There was increase, but there ,vas nothing startling about it; but the nerease of the past five years has been something tremendous and but few jeople have a very comprehensive apjreciation of its full significance. Included in the estimate of maiui"actures is the business of the four jotton mills. The figures represent nerely an estimate, and the estimate s believed to be rather under than >ver the actual amount. The gross nisiness of the cotton mills, however, idds very materially to the grand toal The most marked and significant nisiness development is noticeable in nanufacturing, merchandising and mnking. The manufacturing business s virtually a growth of the last fif:een years, the annual business before hat amounted to less than $50,000. Since then the cotton mill, cotton oil ind other smaller enterprises have cached proportions that are probably n excess of the figures given. The lanking business is considerably more :han three times greater than it was jeven years ago, and the mercantile tusiness Is four times greater at least. The business of Yorkville was probibly at its lowest ebb when the Hanson Dry Goods company was established here. The situation then was down :o real hard pan. The Ganson Dry "binds company was able to bring back i little of the town's natural trade that lad drifted off to Gastonia, Rock Hill, 'heater and other points. J. M. Heath t Co., afterward the Y. B. & M. Co., wiped to start the tide this way again, ind with the subsequent assistance of I. Q. Wray, the Thomson Co.. J. L. IVilliams Ai Co., and the Kirkpatrickftelk company, in the dry goods line, ind various concerns in supplies, groceries, etc., the situation has been ompletely changed. It is a matter of onnnon knowledge that where people formerly went from three or four miles of Yorkville to Oastonia, Chester and Rock Hill, for their dry goods, now people living on the outskirts of those towns are coming to Yorkville, getting what they want and coming hack again. It has been only half a dozen years or such a matter, since The Enquirer would have been very reluctant to try to say anything especially favorable of Yorkville as a dry goods market, for anything good it might have said would have surely been discredited. The merchants did not have the stuff and were unable to make good. Now it is different. Yorkville merchants are up to the minute, in dry goods, hardware, groceries, supplies, drugs, buggies and wagons, and ask no odds of anybody either as to quality or quantity And why the change? Largely because of intelligent energy on the part of a few live men. It is not worth while to individualize. It is better to leave each one to take all the glory to which he considers himself entitled. But it is a fact that the biggest part of the work has heen done by a few. However, the field has hardly been scratched. It is difficult to point out another town in the state that has a trading territory equal to that of Yorkville. either as to extent or as to wealth and intelligence of the people within easy reach. It is one of the prettiest fields for business of every kind that is to be found anvwhere and there is really no limit to the development that ian be brought about with the right ki..d of effort. THE CREAMERY. So long as the local creamery is to be regarded in the light of an experiment. and that means until it has been proved to be a success or failure, the whole proposition and everything connected with it, is naturally possessed of considerable interest to a large proportion of the public, and this Is the reason of the attention it has been receiving from The Enquirer. The result of the first day's churning was very satisfactory. The statement published Tuesday to the effect that the first day's milk receipts amounted to 1,000 pounds was incorrect. There was only 867 pounds of whole milk. Mr. Brvdges, from whom the information came, thought that the deliveries amounted to 1,000 pounds, but afterward found he was mistaken. The first churning was done Tuesday morning, and the yield of 867 pounds of milk was 58 pounds of butter, which means that the butter yield was Just one pound over 6 per cent of the total quantity of milk churned, a showing that was highly satisfactory. Throughout the dairy territory of the central west, Illinois, and surrounding states, the average percentage of butter fat in milk is 3.97 per cent, and the average yield of butter is 4.97 per cent. | The average percentage or nutter iat here, according to the showing just made is 5, or a little more than 1 per cent over the average of the great dairy section. The creamery people argue that this section has every advantage over the Illinois country. In the first place, the Illinois folks have to feed their cows in harns for seven months of the year and we can have ours on pasture for nine months. Their pure breed cows yield only 4 per cent of butter fat in their milk and our common cattle are yielding 5 per cent. During the winter and practically all of the time, the northwestern people have to feed their cattle on exactly the same thing that we are using, cotton seed meal and hulls. And on an average, we get a better price for butter than do the people of Illinois. One effect of the creamery locally, will be to increase the price of butter, which is now retailing around Yorkville at 20 and 25 cents. The creamery nrice will be 40 cents. If the contention of the creamery people is correct, individual butter makers will also go up to 40 cents. The advance will be perfectly natural, for individual producers will find it more profitable to sell to the creamery at a price that will net them about 30 cents a pound for their butter fat than to go through the trouble of churning and selling their butter at from 20 to 25 cents. It is claimed also by the creamery people that their butter is as cheap at 40 cents as is ordinary home made butter at 25 cents. They say that a umimi ill t"i rainci ,y i/uv.iti ?* im ?v?. ly as far as two pounds of the best home made butter. It is a fact that the Elgin creamery butter is a standard commodity in the markets of all the great cities of the country and that it brings higher prices than ordinary home made butter, which in fact is I not salable in competition. The creamery people say that there is no limit to their market. They can [dispose of all the butter they can make in any of the great cities; but they do not have to go to the great cities. Statistics show that the states of North Carolina and South Carolina are consuming more than 2,000,000 pounds of butter a year from other states, and it will be a long time before the home supply can be brought up to the home demand. LOCAL LACONICS. Mr. Manning Bolin Dead. Mr. Manning Bolin, who lived on Mr. FL J. Love's plantation near Piedmont Springs, dropped dead yesterday afternoon. Heart disease is supposed to been the cause of his death, as he was thought to be in good health up to the time of death. He was, at the time engaged in sowing wheat. Mr. Bolin was about 55 years of age and leaves a widow and nine children. The funeral will take place at Canaan church this afternoon. Mrs. Bolin is seriously sick. "GENERAL BOYD'S tvlutiNDt. Columbia State Makes Interesting Comment on Interesting Interview. The contribution made yesterday by Adjutant General Boyd to the history of irregularities in the military department Is interesting but not surprising. According to the adjutant general. Colonel Brock and Lieutenant Colonel Lindsay attended the Camp Perry shoot without his authority and no order was issued for such service until after the encampment, when Colonel Brock wrote out and signed the order himself. General Boyd says that Colonel Brock was recorded as "spotter" and Colonel Lindsay as "coach." It Is essential for good work by a rifle team that the coach be a scientific rifleman. a master of the intricacies of the art; the superior should be an experienced rifleman, alert and observant. Instead of having the assistance of such men, the Palmetto team might as well have ha't wooden Indians holding the jobs. General Boyd admits having ordered General Boyd to attend the Camp Perry shoot, and having gone there "after the money"?$16.67 a day. We rise to inquire of the authorities that be what fund was drawn upon for the general's pay and expenses to Camp Perry? He was not a member of the rifle team, those 19 berths having been filled, and, according to a published ruling of the war department (Xo. 20, June 6,. 1905), expenses of officers not members of a rifle team attending these shoots can nut he defrayed from funds advanced to a state for payment of expenses for actual field and camp service for instruction. General Boyd says other encampments were attended by Colonels Brock and Lindsay on orders issued subsequently by Colonel Brock. He might have added that there were also as many separate encampments and rifle shoots as possible.?Editorial In Wednesday's State. ? Columbia Record: The wheat crop for South Carolina for the year 1910 has broken all records in this state. The figures on the crop were given out Wednesday by Commissioner Watson. During 1910 the wheat crop was 4.756.000 bushels, while for 1909 the number of bushels was 3,810,000. Calculating the value at 95 cents a bushel, the 1910 crop showed an increase of $723,000 in value over the 1909 crop. "The increase in wheat production," sail Col. Watson Wednesday, "goes to show that we are raising our own foodstuffs in this state now." DISPENSARY CASES. Trial Commenced Tuesday Likely to be Concluded Tomorrow. Chester. Nov. 10.?The testimony in the prosecution of Jno. T. Black. Jodie Rawllnson and Lee Solomons was concluded today at noon. Argument was commenced this afternoon. B. L. Abney. In a remarkable address, explained the law as to conspiracy so clearly that If the Jury acts on his speech conviction could not but fol| low. The defense will have five speeches ana tne prosecution iuur. The defense put up no witnesses and will have the closing speech, probably by R. H. Welch. There was some good testimony for the prosecution today. Joe Early swore that his firm charged more for Congress Hall in this state than elsewhere in order to get back the rebates paid dispensary officials. He also swore to paying rebates to other boards than this one under indictment. W. D. Roy confirmed Joe B. Wylle's testimony as to the graft schedule. Roy had not been promised immunity or anything else. He swore that there was wrangling over adopting the schedule, the directors holding out for $2 a barrel and liquor men for $1.50. He also swore to comparing his graft schedule with that of Solomons and that there were a few discrepancies. Roy was tricked by Joe Wylie. The latter promised Roy all the business possible without rebates. Therefore Roy was haughty and was indifferent about the schedule. But later on he had to pay the regular old graft and pay Henry Samuels a little too, in order to get the board to order out some whisky they had nominally bought. Joe B. Wylie was brought back on the stand and told of a chanticler meeting of the dispensary board held at 7 a. m. in order to pay off liquor houses before Mr. Lyon could enjoin the board. This was the way the blacklisted houses got their money. The board of directors got $5,000 out of it. Yesterday counsel for the defense tried to belittle the evidence that the Anheuser-Busch people charged direct from St. Louis $12.02 a cask for Budwelser, while the same beer could be bought at Savannah for $10.50. Mr. Lyon today put up four witnesses and many vouchers to prove that the figures were correct and that the beer was the same quality at Savannah. This showed Jim Farnum's graft of something like $1.50 for a cask. The' bookkeeper of the Anheuser-Busch people swore that the regular wholesale price in St. Louis is $9.50 per toon. The evidence in epitome is as follows: Wylie swore to the conspiracy that certain liquor houses were to get orders by giving gratuitied in money to members of the dispensary board. Roy. Early and Dudley, liquor salesmen, swore to paying the rebates on commissions. Samuels corroborated much of Wylie's testimony, although unwillingly. In fact, there has not been a willing witness for the prosecution. This thing of alleging graft against a lot of "good fellows" is unpopular, and sometimes dangerous. Roy and Wylie have been the only witnesses from whom the testimony was not dragged like pulling teeth. Naturally this places the prosecution at a disadvantage. The prosecution has also shown that the liquors were sold in this state at higher prices on account of the money paid officers sworn to accept no rebates. Mr. Abney, in his request to charge, made it clear that if the jurors believe that Joe B. Wylie was telling the truth his testimony alone should convict. Merely because he may not be admitted in this transaction is no reason why his testimony is not the truth, and there has been, he argued, a mass of corroborative testimony to sustain this witness. There will be six hours more of speeches.?Columbia State. MERE-MENTION. The New York merchants are bringing strong pressure to bear on the express companies to settle the strike now on in the city. Business has suffered tremendously The women of Pittsburg held a straw election in regular form last Tuesday, to show that they knew how to vote. The total vote cast was 619, divided between the various parties. Five defective ballots tKrnnfn nnf TnHlanfl hfl.Q p]ppt ed a Democratic house and John W. Kern will succeed Albert J. Beveridge in the United States senate The population of Los Angeles, Cal., is 319,198, an increase of 216,719 in the past ten years.,..A Buffalo dispatch gives a good joke on Norman E. Mack, national chairman of the Democratic party, alleging that he voted the full Republican ticket by mistake It is stated from Washington that the population of the United States will be announced by the time congress meets. ....Burglars blew open a safe in Danville, 111., a few days ago, and robbed a safe of $20,000 The general conference of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, convened in Little Rock, Ark., last Tuesday Nine hundred bales of cotton, valued at $70,000, were destroyed in the burning of a warehouse at Magee, Miss., a few days ago A Missouri Pacific train ran down and killed an unidentified man near Warrensburg, Pa., last Tuesday, and the conductor, L. D. Hopkins, who had been on the road forty years and had never previously had an accident, dropped dead The women suffragists were successful in carrying the state of Washington for their cause. This will make five states in which women will have the right of the ballot .Wm. H. Hoffman, chauffeur, ran down in an automobile and killed John Kelly in New Orleans a few days ago, and Is being held for murder without bail. Heretofore such cases have been bailed in New Orleans Judson Harmon's plurality over Harding in Ohio is 98,000 The Lane Cotton mills of New Orleans, have resumed operations after having closed down since April. They employ 1,000 operatives Vivian M. Lewis, who was defeated by Woodrow Wilson for governor of New Jersey, has resumed his duties as state commissioner of insurance and banking Democratic State Chairman Ventrees charges that many frauds were committed by the Republicans of East Tennessee in last Tuesday's election A New York dispatch says that neither John D. Rockefeller, nor his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., voted last Tuesday. ....Four women were elected on the Democratic ticket as representatives from Denver district in the Colorado legislature last Tuesday President Taft would not express any opinion in connection with the result of the election As the result of Tuesday's election in Cook county In which Chicago is situated, Democrats will get 4.000 positions that are now held by Republicans The population of the state of Alabama, according to the census figures just issued is 2,138,09.1, an increase of 309,396, or 16.9 per cent. Albert Fuchs, a young mechanician, was killed in the automobile races in Savannah, Oa., yesterday, and W. H. Sharp, driver and owner of the car was seriously injured. The car swerved suddenly and went into a barbed wire fence. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ? J. C. Deaton, a white man, got out of the Saluda jail a few days ago; but afterward returned and explained that he had merely gone to get bond, in which he was successful. His bondsman oimiort fnr and he was re leased. ? Several days ago it was reported that a boy In Marlboro county had produced 258 bushels of corn on an acre this year and that Prof. Ira Williams had gone to Investigate the matter. Prof. Williams has completed the investigation and finding that a mistake has been made, has given out the fol- i lowing statement: "After carefully < investigating and having the corn measured of the reported 258 bushels per acre, I find that the world's record has not been broken, that the i boy will be second so far as the reports now stand in the yield from the i boys' corn clubs in the state. I will say. however, that there was no in- i teution on the part of the boy or the committee or the people of Marlboro county to give out any statement that was not absolutely accurate, as all of them were anxious that the facts be known. The mistake occurred in the method of measuring the corn. We do not accept any measurements in regard to the greatest yield in the state except the absolute weight of the corn. I think, however, that this production is the most remarkable in the history of the state's corn production. It is certainly more remarkable than the Drake yield, if the report as to now me uraae yiem was mane in irue; for, in cost of production, it is by far the least for the large yields produced, and the methods are such that any man could follow and expect the most profitable results. There were several boys from this neighborhood In the contest. This boy is an orphan boy. his father having died when he was small. He has two brothers about his age and size. He did not use but 2,400 pounds of commercial fertilizer and two loads of stable manure. The spirit of this boy in regard to accurate measurement was the best I have ever seen." . OUT OF DATE. Edgefield Lawyer Thinks Magistrate System Needs Reform. The following communication published in the Columbia State of a few days ago, deals with a subject that is interesting: To the Editor of The State: I have read with Interest your comments on the magistrates of the state. Lawyers can tell you a whole lot about those who now occupy the office that would be interesting reading to the people of the state. Understand me In the beginning that I mean no reflection on the occupants of those responsible offices as men, because as a rule they are upright men, but simply not qualified to fill the position of a Judicial officer requiring the knowledge of the law. I recognize the fact that in the rural districts it is a matter of impossibility to find men who have the required qualifications to make good judges. Fully as intricate and important law Issues come up before a magistrate for decision as do before the Judges of the circuit courts. But, in towns where lawyers can be found to fill the positions, the rule is that some one who has never opened a law book is appointed or elected in the primary, who. though a good man, is far from being a good lawyer; or a man who knows anything about the rules of court or of law. Under those conditions it can not be expected that our magistrates can conduct their offices properly. TV*** a!tnatinn la o Viarrl nnA tf\ rPTYl edy. The best remedy Is In county courts with a lawyer to preside over same. Such a suggestion Is not a popular one because It deprives certain men in the country of honors to which they consider themselves entitled. But we are not after "honors." We are after efficiency and the proper administration of the laws of the land. Our present system is very ancient, out of date and totally fails to meet the requirements of the age. It has been kept up for political reasons; that is, for the purpose of rewarding certain men for political reasons and not for any benefit that the public might gain from such a system. The time has arrived for a change, and there must be a change. The manner in which both criminal and civil business is hatched up in our magistrates' courts is deplorable. The election or nomination of magistrates has proved to be a farce, and this county decided to and did cut out the nominations of magistrates by the primary system, thus throwing the responsibility on our delegation. But that does not solve the situation. Favoritism and popular sentiment will still control the situation, and not fitness for the office. We must have a definite law on the subject and a county court, presided" over by a lawyer, just as are our other courts. If you will keep hammering on the situation, you will accomplish good, as the great majority of the people are ready to back any change in the present system that bids fair to bring about better results. Wm. P. Calhoun. Edgefield, S. C., November 5, 1910. AT THE CHURCHE8. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. E. E. Gillespie, Pastor. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock. Evening service at 7 o'clock. ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN. Rev J. L. Oates, Pastor. Sabbath Services?Sabbath school at 10 a. m. Morning service at 11 o'clock. Evening service at 7 o'clock. BAPTIST Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. Rev. T. Tracy Walsh, Rector. Sunday Services?Sunday school at 10 a. m. Evening serivce at 7.30. METHODIST. Rev. J. H. Thacker, Pastor. No Sunday school and no preaching service. Special JJotices. At Hebron. Rev. J. L. Oates will preach at Hebron on Sabbath afternoon at 4 o'clock. At Tavora Cotton Mill. Rev. E. E. Gillespie will preach at Tavora Cotton mill on Sunday at 3 p. m. Ladies Always attend the sales conducted by the Southern Realty and Auction Co. Bring your drawing cards and be 011 hand, Tuesday, November 15th, at 10.30 a. m., Herndon Heights, Yorkville, S. C. Services at Union. A series of services will begin at Union Baptist church next Sunday, the 13th, at 11 o'clock and continue morning and evening during the week, with the assistance of Rev. S. P. Hair of Fort Mill. W. E. Lowe, Pastor. Herndon Heights. The beautiful suburban addition now being developed by the Southern Realty & Auction Co., for Mr. W. H. Herndon, is just about ready for the auction sale, Tuesday, November 15th. Be sure and be on hand and buy you a lot at your own price. Music by a first-class Brass Band. Don't forget the date?November 15th, at 10.30 a. m. Have You Kidney Trouble? How to Find Out. Fill a bottle or common glass with your water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or settling indicates an unhealthy condition of the kidneys; if it stains your linen it is evidence of kidney trouble; too frequent desire to pass it or pain in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder are out of order. What to Do. Go to the STAR DRUG STORE and get a 50c box of BLOODINE BLOOD AND KIDNEY TABLETS and if they do not help you the STAR DRUG STORE will give you your money back. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that BLOODINE BI.OOD AND KIDNEY TABLETS the great kidney remedy fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. They correct inability to hold water nnrl araMine- nain in nassing it. or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcome that unpleasant necerslty of being compelled to go often du.'ng the day, and to get up many times dui'ng the night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of BLOODINE BLOOD AND KIDNEY TABLETS is soon realized. They stand the highest for their wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. By mail 50c. The Bloodine Corp., Boston, Mass.