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Straps and jfucts. ? Confronted with the tank of checking up <Ai 25.000.000 income tax returns since 3917, the United States TKpasury department has hung out the "Help Wanted" sign. Salaries ranging fi^ni $1,800 to $3,000 a year were the inducements offered. Examinations will be held November 15, in various cities. Since 5,000,000 now returns .are added to the pile each year, the prospects are that the jobs will he permanent, according to internal revenue service officials in charge of the work, 4- Eighty coal miner? lost their lives because of a gas explosion in one of tlw mines of the Reilly Coal Company, n^ar Speagler, Pa., last Monday. The djjuster occurred shortly after the men -1 ntlnn TVl..ff?! nati jjonc uuwii niiw int.- miiwv. *... . .. was a tremendous flare of flame that issued from.the top of the shaft and sent death and destruction Into the rcoesses of the mine. Most of the miners made their way to fresh air, and some thirty or more escaped with their lives. ? Miss Alice Robertson of Oklahoma, the only woman member of the G7th congress, conceded her defeat for reelection by W. W. Hastings, Democrat, the man she displaced from congress two years ago. Smiling wanly, but her ejpts sparkling, she held high a campaign placard. She laughed and said: "I am ready to concede the truth of the statement made so often in the cam piign that Democrats controlled the governor, the militia and election machinery?what more could they want?" ? The Turkish Nationalists have taken over the Constantinople government and de prived the sultan ofullcivil power. Heretofore the Allies have recognised only the sultan's government; but .when the Nationalists under the lertd ot' Kemal Pasha, demonstrated their dominating strength, the Allied commission acquiesced. Rafet Pasha has been made governor of Constanti- J nople. The Nationalists made demand on the Allies for the military evacuation of Constantinople but this the Allied commission, speaking with author- | ity from Great Britain and France, promptly refused. The indications are that Kemal Pasha proposes to ignore the armistice agreement reached at the Mudunia conference. Among other things the Turks have demanded that warships shall' not pass the Straits without their permission, and thqn one at a time. This the Allies* hjivo not agreed to. It is commonly" understood that the Turkish Nationalists are being bucked by the Russians. ? Preparation of a bill establishing national marriage and divorce regulations for introduction in tiic next congress was announced from Washington Wednesday by the general federation I of women's clubs, which has authorized Mrs. Edward Franklin White, clepu.. t'j ilii i , ty attorney general 01 maiunu, 10 uian the bill and a resolution amending "the constitution of the United Slates if such course is necessary to make possible Hu" Federal marital law. Provisions of the bill would make marrlrgc > more difficult, the announcement stated, and would allow divorce on one of only five grounds, enumerated as follows: Infidelity, incurable insanity, abandonment for one year, cruel and .inhuman treatment or conviction of an infamous crime. Once granted, such a divorce would be valid in every state, but neither party to a div'orcp yrould be permitted to remarry until* one year after the interlocutory decree was granted. The bill would provide <plso that applications for marriage licenses be posted two weeks prior..to the ceremony. ? As chairman of the national Ik nioc rat it senatorial campaign committee. Senator David I. Walsh on Wednesday gave out tiiis statement: "The election returns from the country cannot be construed otherwise than as a repudiation of the Republican party. The landslide in New York which returns "Al" 'Smith to the governor's chair, making him a strong presidential candidate, and sends Dr. Copeland to the United States senate, was not local in character. Senator Gerry lias been triumphantly re-elected in Rhode Island and the overwhelming majorities of 1920 in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut have been reduced almost to the vanishing point, 't is the verdict of the voters upon the twenty months of the Harding administration with its record of protection of the privilege interests and utter disregard of the rights of small business and the vast "consuming public. When the country awakens to the iniquity of the tariff and taxation legislation of the Harding administration the rebuke of today will be turned to an utter Republican rout in the presidential campaign of two years hence." ? Assisted by peaceful Eskimos, a RritiSh rescue party is in an aero; lane scouring the barren wastes of Lab'adoH-'in a search for trace of the "wih? fish fang" tribe, who, it is boliove^B have abducted Miss Marguerite Liadjpy, a London society favorite. M'.ss J.indsav, who is 21. went ?o ,al? rndocto work with missionaries. She went* over the objection of her mother ami Either, the-latter a retired stock Soke* of wealth. She occupied a hut with smother girl and one day announced her intention of going < own to tltr sea to bathe. Her companion warned her not to go alone, but Miss Mndsty laughed and srid she would he b:ik for lunch. She has never been n Since. As no trace of her clothing was to and. it was assumed that she was tfhductcd by the "!lsh fangs," a \ Id Xtibe of Kskimos. and carried into toe interior. It is thought that imjicrs of the fish fang tribe lay i" j it for h? r and probably can-led her ' heir chief for a wife. Her brother, ho ts an aide-de-camp to a high oflicer In the Itritish army, shipped lo| the eastern shores of Canada, and*. procuring1 an aeroplane, has started to searching for the "fish fangs." Other Eskimps, enemies of the fierce tribe, are joining in the search, which will continue into the winter, even after the snow blizzards start. The rescuers have not abandoned hope. (The \lorkviUc (tnquivrr. Entered at the Postoffice at York, as Mail Matter of the Second Class. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1922. The. Associated Press carried the news to the nation that South Carolina went Democratic. _ The president has called an extra ' session of congress to meet November 20. The Republicans will hold their present big working majorities in the house and senate only until March 4 next and it is necessary to push j I legislation while the pushing is good, j I This bungling in the printing of the j York county Democratic tickets for | general election is not unprecedented, j Some years ago the sheriff and clerk were left off the county ticket for York I county, and at another time the county j :n nM r.n thp tmllnf. I *.*i ?IIuJur^Aiynci *> vi u |/w? - ? i although the office is not even elective. We have not heard any complaints j from other counties; hut the probabil- | ity is that the same bungling that occurred in York county was more or less common throughout the state. As we see it, the only way the State Democratic Executive committee can hope to avoid such confusio as occurred in the county tickets last iTuesday is to leave the printing of the tickets to the executive committees of the various counties. The local printers, being familiar with the names of candidates and offices to be filled in their respective counties, can he more surely relied upon for accurate service. The plan that has been followed during the past several years is simply absurd. The dispatches indicate that the Allies are going to be forced to es^ tablish martial law in Constantinople, because of the insistence of the I Turkish Nationalists (Kcmalists) that military control be surrendered to them. Steadily since the Mudania j armistice conference, the Kemalists have been increasing the strength of their'forces in Constantinople and they are now demanding in effect that the I Allies get out. The understanding is [ that the Allies do not propose to do anything of the kind and the danger [ of war seems to he looming up more ominously than heretofore. That is a most commendable piece of enterprise on tin- part of Messrs. J. 11. Carroll and T. C. Marshall, who are endeavoring to divert the automobile traffic between Florida and the North by way of Yorkvlllc. They have quite an undertaking, and they will not only need, but deserve liberal help, not only from YorkviJle, but from all points along the North and South road between (iastonia and Chester. There is a great deal of ignorance on the part of northern tourists on the subject. Their maps and directions tell them that it is a good road from points in Florida up to Columbia; but the road from Columbia up to < Iastonia is evidently marked as a wild .inn- j gio, wmi . as a inam-r 01 mci u is iiuuui as good as any hundred miles over the entire distance. This happened during the early' part of the summer. A young lady from the west had spent the winter in Yorkville, while her parents had wintered in St. Petersburg. Florida. The parents were traveling by automobile, and their plans contemplated taking their daughter back home with them; but because they had been led to believe that the roads up this way were impossible, the father insisted that the daughter should join j them in Columbia. Friends who bad frequently? made automobile trips from Yorkville to Columbia and back in a day and who knew what they were talking about, insisted tbal the parents come this way. At h ngth there was reluctant consent, and on arrival in Yorkville the father frankly idmitted that he had been wonderfully surprised, lie made the trip with considerably less mileage and over as good road as be voi. have traveled otherwise, in spite of the fact that even as it was he had gone < onaiderably out of his way over roads that were, not as good as those by the more direct route between Columbia and Vfii'lfvillii T!u> flivPfl vmifo I'olumbia and Yurkville .is by far the best route to the north, and it is wi ll worth the while of the people ;o go to the trouble and ex pens' to make the fact generally known. The time is i corning. if indeed it is not already ' onie, alien the big arteries of automobile travel will be as important as the trunk lines of railroad. Vigilance In Elections. There was a narrow escape from serious complications in connection with ?ur county election last Tuesday, and ight now is a good time to sound a warning that unless the Democratic arty officials exercise greater dili:< nee in the future, they ore liable to , run upon unpleasant conseciueru es tli.at ; vill make them take notice thereafter. I'or one thin;', to be l igbt plain about I it, there la. not enough familiarity with the general election laws. This is not to be said of the primary. Those who have to do with elections know all about that. But somehow they fall to realize that the primary, hedged about as it is by all kinds of safeguards, is only for the purpose of making party nominations, and that it is without any legal relation to the actual election. No matter who might have been nominated in the primary, whoever gets the most votes in the general election gets the office. A Democratic candidate may have received five thousand votes in the primary; but if he gets none in the general election and an opponent gets one legal vote, then the office must lawfully go to that opponent. There are no restrictions, under (he laws of this state as to who shall be a candidate in the general election, cx cept that he or she must be a qualified voter, and to bo eligible as a representative or a senator he or she must be not loss than 25 years of age. The age limit for governor is 30 year::. But even these ago limits have nothing to do with the right to he a candidate. That is*a matter for subsequent adjudication. Under the law as It stands, each candidate is supposed to furnish his own tickets; but, tinder custom, this duty is assumed by the Democratic executive committee, which the candidate has provided with funds for the purpose, and therefore of course, the candidate, nominated under the rules of the Democratic party, is nof supposed to give the matter any further concern. It is specified in the law that the names of stale and county offices bq on the prune ticket, and that no other ticket be counted. The tickets furnished to York county by the state Democratic executive committee containd the names of the Democratic candidates for state offices; but omitted the.names of one of the candidates for the house .and all three candidates for the county offices to be filled at this election?county superintendent of education, county supervisor and probate judge. These incomplete tickets were distributed all over the county, and except for the accidental discovery of the omission in Yorkville and several other precincts, the election for these officials would have gone by default, necessitating their being filled by spec.al elections to be held hereafter, and probably only on the specific authority of the legislature. There could have arisen another contingency that would have made the matter still more awkward. If it had so happened there had been in existence hero another party organization, and the leaders of it had gotten iijfor.nation of these incomplete tickets as early as last Saturday, it would have been 110 difficult matter to'quietly procure complete tickets with the names I of their. ,0wo party candidate* for county offices thereon, and elect the same. It is possible that the thing could have been so managed that it could have been accomplished with only a hundred or so votes. Hut the lesson of the whole matter Is that those having the thing in charge must give closer attention to their business, or else sooner or later they might have serious occasion for regret. WHERE GEORGE WAS RIGHT France Had Her Way, But Lost in The Having. The seizure of Constantinople by the Kcmalist Turks and their reported invasion of the neutral zones around the straits constitute a dramatic vindication of Lloyd George. The essence of the Iiritish policy was that in older to negotiate with Kemal i n tolerably own terms for the freedom of the straits and the protection .,r ...;..?in? * 11:.... - .strategic points which command the road from Asia to Kurnpe. The essence of French policy, with Italian approval, was to let Kernel seize everything and to negotiate with him afterward. So the French and Italians withdrew, ; deserting the I'.ritish in the face of the oncoming Turks. The British, umjde to hold all the positions alone, then stood at Chan ;k, thus protecting the I)nidandles. They could not hold the , road to Constantinople, and Kemal ( has therefore seized it. 1 The British force at Ghanak is the i only leverage that the western world can now exert on Kemal. If that i should be lost, the French program, Mr. Hughes's program and all other . demands made by the western powers will not he worth the paper they are i written on. With Kemal in possession j of every vital point the peace confer- ( enee at Bausannc would have to 1 choose between hypocricy and acting i s a mere rubber stamp. It is no won- i dor that this conference is postponed. France lias been very proud of her i diplomatic victory over Great Britain in Turkey. The day is probably not 1 tar off. however, when Frenchmen will \ say to I'oinearc, "Another such victory and we are lost." For France made Ketnal. and Kemal's doings are charge- 1 able to France.?New York World. i ? Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, defeated for re-election by K. 11. Howell, Itepubliean, in Nebraska Tues . ^ >Hru .1 oi<ici. iti< i11 ? nuii'suay in which he declared his defeat duo to , "deep l?ul powerful undercurrents of J political thought and resentment growing1 out of the war. No hotter fight ould have been made and it was niach with zeal and enthusiasm. From the tint the tight was hopeless, although 1 wo eouhl ii"t in advanee realize it as 1 we do now because we could not measure the deep hill powerful undercut-- ' ids of political thought and resentment growing out of th- war,' he declared. ' LOCAL, .AFFAIR8, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. A. M. Grist, AV. M.?Regular communication next Tuesday night. John M. Crawford, Trustee?Notice of sale 111 tho matter of C. E. Porcher, bankrupt. Carroll Eros.?Red Rust Proof wheat. Sliieder Drug Company?Toilet articles. I). M. Parrott, Clover?Specials for Saturday. First National Rank of Clover?Never was a better year than this to sow wheat and oats. First National Rank of Sharon?The right course. Rank of Clover?Here's the proof. Vorkvllle C'anip No. 38, W. O. W.?Tho ladies are cordially invited. Kirkpatrick-Belk Co.?Notions, school s'Uimlics and hosiery. Southern Ca.'h Store, G. C. Pccse, manager, Bock Hill?Aluminum tea kt:ttl?s. York Candy Kitchen?Peter Culgin proprietor?Live anil let live. J. .0. Wilborn?For sale. W. VV. Barron?Radio telephony. Harry E. Neil, Treasurer of York County?Tax bosks to open Novembe 2f?. Star Theatre. J. (J. Wray, Manager? Earl Williams today in a "Master Stroke." He sure to sec Buffalo Bill on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Chesterfield Cigarettes?Now 8 cents for 10. J. F. Faulkner, Town Treasurer?Town taxes now duo. It is a remarkably low price at which The Yorkville Enquirer is being offered for 1923. It is hut 25 cents more than the pre-war price and then the paper was only little more than half as large as it is now. Not only that, the postage rate has been doubled since then and we are paying twice as much for materials of all kinds and for labor. In fact the cost of publication is three times as great as it was in 1914. We have made this price not in the expectation that it would yield more income; but rather more in the hope that it will dishtly, increase our circulation. We want the paper to go into a larger number of hands, in the belief that the more readers it has the more worth while it will he. Frankly we are not sure that we can afford the reduction. On that point we ore merely experimenting. Of course wc are reasonably certain of our financial ability to carry out our proposition through next year, that whether the subscription receipts pay their fair share of the expenses or not; but if it shall turn out that we cannot furnish the paper ia clubs at $2, why next year we win ruise m? inuc, that's all. In the meantime, we are asking all our friends everywhere to please do all they can to increase the circulation of The Yorkville Enquirer as much as possible. THE BIG TREES. In addition to these already mentioned the following big trees have been reported: White oak on \V. F. Boyd's place in Fort Mill township. White oak at the Joe L. Hughes place, on York Xo.'^/aix miles northeast of Yorkville. f Keel oak on W. I,, llill's1. Yoiingblood place, eight miles southeast* of Sharon. Poplar on L. A. McUill lands, 5 1-2 miles west of Clover. COLLECTION OF TAXES The books of the county treasurer for the collection of state and county taxes will not be opened this year until Monday, November 20. The time prescribed by law is October 15; but because of the delays occasioned by the work of the state tax commission, the auditor was unable to complete Hs book by that date. The work of putting on the levies is not. yet complete; but it is being hurried as rapidly as possible, and Treasurer Ned proposes to commence collecting tax s on Xo\ ember 20 whether he is entirely ready or not. The ccncr.ii levy this year is 20 1-2 mills*, made, up as follows: State purposes, 7 1-2 mills; county purposes, C> mills; constitutional school, 3 mills; roads, 2 mills; courthouse bfmds, 1-2 mill; York-Mecklenburg bridge, 1-2 mill; Bullock's Creek Bridge, 1 mill. To the 20 1-2 mills general levy is to be added the various special school and school bond levies. LARGEST TREE The Yorkvillc Enquirer desires to locate the largest forest tree in York countv and to that end is willing to contribute a year's subscription to [lie paper to the individual sending in the information. The contest is open to all who desire to enter and will close on Saturday November IS, no further entries being considered after that date. The following information will be required of competing trees: 1st. sj ecics, whether oak, poplar, hickory, to. 2d, circumference, estimated height, and location, with reference to direction and approximate distance from nearest incorporated town. Only standing live trees are to be Eligible. In case the largest tree is reported by two or more contestants, the award is to go to the contestant reporting lirst. The measurement of the winning tree must be proved by the affidavit L>f the contestant; but the affidavit ivill not be necessary until after the selection of the winner. WITHIN THE TOWN ? II is estimate*? 1 y one local buyer lhat at least 1,000 bales of cotton been sold i!:is week by farmers living within a radius of ten miles of Vor kville. A colored woman shopper was .eized with a spell of some kind while in the store of the McConnell Dry ! JoihIs Company last Saturday. She ell through a show (rase; but some- | iow or other esenpt-d injury. ? The chai mains continues to make I headway in buildin.cr the West i oad into Yorkvill-j b> way of West' Liberty street. One squad from the chaingiwig is still engaged in topsoiling a section of the Yorkville-Rock Hill road between Tirzah and New- ' port. ? The Church Home Orphanage of Yorkville, has bought .10 acres of land including a home and barn from D. D. Thomas, who lives near the orphanage. The orphanage originally intended to buy the entire Thomas farm; but later decided to buy only a portion of the place. ? King's Mountain High outplayed Yorkville High in each quarter of a football game hero Tuesday afternoon and deserved the big end of a 27 to G score. The locals were unable to score until the last period when they completed three forward jkisscs in suCcesMion, an end run and a center plunge carried the ball over for six points. Woodward, McCinnis, Matthews, .Anderson and C. Saunders were the stars for King's Mountain while "Little Hob" IirJce, diminutive quarterback of the locals seemed to be carrying the big part of the load for Yorkville, H. R. Mackorell refereed the contest and there was no squabbling. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Real estato transfers have been indexed in the office of the county auditor as follows: Catawba?\V. Frank and Minnie E. Moore to J. 11. Moore, 10 acres, $700. Catawba?Moggie C. Tl.'unilton to Mrs. Kate Hutchinson, 1 lot, $3,200. C. E. Strait to llyers and London, 1 lot, $5. W. H. Griffin to J. M. Chapman. 2 lots, $125. L. Don Matthews to G. It. Matthews, Jr.. 1 lot, $23. Jenkins and London to W. L. Jenkins, 4 lots, $5. S. J. Cornwell to W. J. and R. A. Cornwall, 96 acres, $700. Hattio I. White, et al., to the Peoples' Trust Co., 1 lot, $100. Peoples' Trust Co., Trustee to Mrs. Cole G. Gregg, 1 lot, $5. Catawba Real Estate Co., to Powell and Tucker, 1 lot, $5. King's Mountain?J. F. Pursley to J. L. Wilson, 50 acres, $4,250. Est. D. A. Matthews to I. J. Campbell, 1 lot, $300. Est. D. A. Matthews to I. J. Campbell, et al., 1 lot, $1,500. York?Jos. G. Dickson, et al, to Mint Cola Rottling Co.. 1 lot, $550. R. H. Glenn, S. Y. C., to Henry W. Smith, 1 lot, $160. Dan Lowry to Mima Alexander, 1 lot, $1. M. L. Harrison et til., to Robert H. Harrison, 1 lot. $1. ABOUT PEOPLE. Miss Marion Jackson is quite ill at her home in Yorkville. Messrs. Paul X. Moore and Edward Spencer of Yorkville, were visitors in ,?AAb Miss Carrie Love of Sharon, is recovering rapidly from an attack of typhoid fever. Mrs. Fred E. Quinn of Yorkville is in the Fennell Infirmary, Hock Hill, for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Caldwell of Oafifney, recently visited the family of Dr. AV. C. Whitesides in A'orkville. Messrs. \V. S. Iteid and V. Q. Haml>fij?ht of ('lover were visitors in Yorkville yesterday. S. C. Carter of Lowryville was among the visitors in Yorkville yestcrda y. Dr. and Mrs. Alex Crawford of Outhriesville, were in A'orkville yesterday. A. C. Sutton of Fort Mill, was among the visitors here'yesterday. Robert AY. nriee, who has been in the I'. S.* navy for the past two years, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Airs. J. M. Brice on A'ork No. 4. Mr. S. Ar. Aycock of Sharon No. 2, was called to Texas last Monday by a telegram announcing the critical illness of his brother, Edward. Rev. .T. K. Walker and Prof. E. A. Montgomery of Yorkville, were among those who attended the Methodist con fnrenee, in Gaffney this weok. Mrs. Jas. D. Grist and little son James Davidson. Jr., returned to their home in Yorkville, this morning after a visit to'the family of Dr. L. IT. DuCose at Great Falls, S. C. Mrs. John K. Logan and Miss Sarah Logan have returned from Clemson College where they went to visit Rudolph Logan, who was injured in an automobile wreck near Pendleton, recently. Mr. T.ogan is recuperating rapidly from his injuries. Mrs. \V. II. Wylie, Miss Rachel Wylie and Mr. Charles Crawford of Yorkville, | wore members of an automobile party | who drove to Griffin, Ga., this week. Mesdames J. L. McGill, W. B. McGill and Grady Adams of the Bethany section, were among the visitors in Yorkville, yesterday. Hon. J. K. llenry, solicitor of the Sixth Judicial circuit which includes York county, was run down by an automobile on the public square in Chester late Tuesday afternoon and bis left leg was broken just below the knee. The automobile that struck him was driven by I. ti. Connor and the fender is said to have struck the solicitor, throwing him to the asphalt street, and 1 ;-s he fell he was ran over by the wheels of the automobile, which was being used as a taxi. The affair was accidental, it is said. Solicitor Henry was going across the street diagonally and two automobiles are said to have been approaching when the accident nnnilfrsirl 1 *r.Yirtl'f u fliiu mninini' tY<ill> Solicitor Henry's bod side wore to tlie effect that while lie is suffering much pain, still ho is getting along sis well as could bo expected. LOCAL LACONICS Making Annual Settlement. Messrs. W- l'\ Xasli and E. E. .Tones, i ropi sciitative.s of the comptroller go'i oral, arc hero this week making the < necessary audit in connection with thc> 1 animal settlement with the county ou- i ditor and county treasurer. * Commissioners Hold Session. Payment of claims totaling several thousand dollars was the principal business to come before the monthly meeting of the York county board of commissioners which meeting was held nt their office in the courthouse last Wednesday. First Cooperative Sale. A lot of three hundred hales, bought last Wednesday by Paul K. Moore, of Yorkville for the Cannon people constituted the first cotton sale by the South Carolina Cooperative Marketing association. The exact price paid was not made public; hut it was something over 26 cents rioiivcren at tnc mms. Officers Get Big Still. Three men were arrested when prohibition officers working in Broad Kiver township yesterday afternoon seized a big distillery made of galvanized iron, about three miles south of Hickory Grove. About 400 gallons of beer were found at the-place and poured on the ground. The raiding party included Magistrate R. L. A. Smith, M. M. MeKnight and Policeman Dick Lanier. Boy Went Crazy. J. R. Byers, negro boy of Bullock's Creek township, was lodged in jail in Yorkville yesterday because of insanity. The boy is said to have been rfcting strangely for several days and had annoyed a' number of families in the community in which he lived. He will probably be sent to the state hospital for the insane this week. Fred Spears Robbed. Fred Spears who runs a store near the fair grounds on the western outskirts of Rock Hill reported to the police of that town that he was held up in his store Saturday night and robbed of $30. According to Spear's story a bftndit who was masked so as to conceal his identity entered the door shortly before closing time and demanded that what money was on hand be turned over to him. Jail Population Light. With the November term of the court of general sessions less than two weeks away, the population of the York county jail just now is very small, according to Deputy Sheriff Tom Quinp. There are nine prisoners in jail, all colored. Five of these are to be tried for various alleged crimes at tlie iNovomDer term. xnree are unueu States prisoners and one is serving a sentence in jail following conviction in the city court in Rock ,HilI. The General Election. There was but little interest in the general election throughout York county last Tuesday until after the discovery of tho incompleteness of the county ticket as furnished to the voters and then there was more or less excitement at some of the precincts. The total vote at the Yorkville precinct was 88 for state offices. 83 for county of rices and 78 for. congress. The total vote, over the county was very light; but the exact figures cannot be stated for the reason that no effort was made to collect the returns. Stocking Cherokee Ponds. (iaffney Ledger, Wednesday; About twelve dozen fish, of tho Bream variety, were received this morning from the United States government hatchcry by Messrs. J. W. Watters, E. Wright Jolly, J. I'. Blanton and W. L. Self, with which they will stock up their private ponds and waters. The Bream fish is a finely shaped one . nd is excellent eating, also he furnishes lino fishing sport as he is of the carp family. The above named gentlemen announced that there would be strictly no fishing yet awhile, for the little fellows, finger length, will have to grow. Medicos Hold Meeting. Several York county physicians were in Lancaster Wednesday in attendance upon the semi-annual meeting of the Fifth District Medical Society, hold in that town. The society ?mbfnces the counties of Chester, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster and York and the officers are: Dr. It. O. Hamilton of Winnsboro, president: Dr. S. L. Allen of Lancaster, vice president; and Dr. George A. Henr.ies of Chester, secretary. At the meeting Wednesday papers were road by Dr. \V. S. Itankln of Raleigh, N. C.; Dr. James A. Hayne, Columbia; Dr. W. P. Cornell. Columbia; Dr. T. C. Bost of Charlotte and Dr. C. A. Mobley of Orangeburg. Dr. M. B. Neil of Clover was on the programme to read a paper but was unable to be present at the nceting. RESULTS OF THE ELECTION Voters of Nation Replace Many Republicans With Demccrats. There was a great political landslide 1 Tuesday throughout the nation as the 1 result of which many Republicans in- 1 eluding prominent leaders, were re- ' placed by Democrats. It is certain that the overwhelming Republican majority in tlie house has been very much reduced, and it is possible that it has : been wiped out; but whether wiped ' out or not the Democrats have won a ' dominating position in the delibera- ' tions of that body. Opinions as to the ( cause of the upheave!'are as various ' t:? the sources from which they come. 1 Some attribute the upheaval to penoral dissatisfaction with the Harding 1 administration, alleged unredeemed 1 [dodges, etc. Some say that the tin- ' reasonably high tariff schedules have i ' caused the dissatisfaction. Dissatisfaction with the prohibition situation I' is assigned as a reason by others, and | still others claim that failure of the 1 president to approve the bonus bill ' liad its weight. Along with all these j * xplanations is included the activities'' af the office seekers who failed to land under the Harding administration and the redoubled efforts of other office seekers previously turned out to tret back. All those things qf course played their respective parts. The control of the house of representatives remained in doubt until an early hour yesterday morning when the returns showed that the He publicans had finally won 225 seats the Democrats 207, the Socialists 1, Independents J, and Former-Laborltes 1. Nine districts were still unreported, with the chances favoring the Democrats in several of them. Although there was no serious threat of loss of control of the senate by the Republicans, the Democrats made a net gain of sexen in that body. Nine Republican senators were defeated and two Democrats lost their seats. The defeated Democrats are Hitchcock, of Nebraska' and Pomerlne of Ohio. The indications are that the Republicans will have 11 majority. There tfill be no women in the next congress. Mrs. Alice Robertson, of ni/lnborvm loot Dcai no/1 \f.-o vyniauwiiia iwoi n*.* n'.ai auu iui a, Winnifred Mason Huck, who was a candidate for the unexpired term of her father, the late Wm. L. Mason, of Illinois, failed of re-election.. Alfred E. Smith, Democrat, was elected governor of New York by about 400 000 n\ajority over Nathan L. Miller, Republican, and Dr. -Royal S. Copeland, Democrat, was elected United States : Befiator over Senator William M. Caltlcr, Republican, incumbent. The Republican up state plurality outside of New York was wiped out lor the first time in a generation. Meyer Lobdon1, socialist, member of the house was defeated by a Democrat and the Republicans lost thirteen congressmen to the Democrats in the state. Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, had a pretty close call, his'majority over Gaston being at first reported at less than 2,000 but afterward turning out to be 8,425. Senator Townsend, Republican, of Michigan lost to Former Governor Woolbrldge N. Ferris, the first Democratic senator to be elected from that state for seventy years. -Senator James A. Reed, noted antagonist "of former President Wilson on the League of Nations proposition, was re-elected from Missouri, in spite of active efforts on the part of Wilson to secure his defeat Mr. Volstead, of Minnesota, author of the famous prohibition enforcement law was defeated by an Independent minister candidate who claimed to be still dryer than Volstead. Victor L. Berger, Socialist, of Wisconsin was elected to tho house by a large majority. He has been elected twice before, and twice expelled becatlse of his convictiion under the espionage act. Tho supreme court however has re4 _ Ul. ?ci ncu me cuaria uciuw in ma uwe nnd this time he will be allowed to tako his seat. ~ I A. H. Donahey, Democrat, has been elected governor of Ohio over Carml A. Thompson, Republican, by about six or seven thousand majority. The Republicans elected 20 congressmen in the state and the Democrats 6, with one in doubt. MERE-MENTION The state of Illinois on Tuesday voted a $55,000,000 bonus to Illinois soldiers of the world war^ ....Albert E. Smith, Democratic candidate for governor of New York, carried New York city last Tuesday by the largest majority that has ever been given to any candidate for any office Oeorge W. Revis, Republican leader in Sylvia county, N. C., was shot and killed last Tuesday by Walter Fisher as the outcome of a political controversey Albert J. Reveridge, Republican, was defeated for the United States Senate Tuesday by Samuel M. Ralston, Democrat Cordell Hull of Tennessee, Democratic National chairman, who lost his seat in con fstroo iv?u /tina ?iKu w;u? re-?iectea Tuesday? Dr. Stelnmetz, the electrical wizard, running (or state engineer of New York on the FarmerLabor-Socialist ticket, received 207,138 votes. Lndu, Democrat, was elected. Steinmetz's vote was remarkable in that it came from all parties The name of the man who beat Mr. Volstead in Minnesota is Rev. O. Kvale, pronounced "Kwal-Ley." He is a Lutheran preacher and a Scandinavian. ? 1 h ? The observance of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, conducted by Bishop Collins Denny of Richmond, the presiding officer, marked the opening of the eighth annual session of the Upper South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in Buford Street Methodist church at Gaffney Wednesday morning. Following the calling of the roll of the members of the conference, Rev. B. Rhett Turnipseed of Spartanburg, was reelected secretary, and A. L. Gunter and L. E. Wiggins, assistant secretaries. W. B. Garrett was elected statistical secretary and It. F. Morris, R. L. Holroyd, F. C. Beach, J. F. Luppo, W. L. Mullikin, H. O. Chambers and I'. L. Bouknight, assistant statistical secretaries. The conference was wel- . mined to Gaffney by the mayor of the :ity and by local pastors of other denominations. Bishop W. F. McMurray jf St. Louis, Mo., addressed the conference in the interest of the centenary rund of S33.000.000. nlcdsred bv thn Methodist Episcopal church, South, in 1919, and SO per cent of which fund is -.ow due. The amount pledged by this conference was more than $1,000,000, 1170,000 being yet due. Dr. J. L Ruslell. of the general board of missions, ilso addressed the conference in the nterest of the centenary. The str.ndng committees and quadrennial boards >f the conference were nominated by he presiding elders and were conflrm d by the conference.