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i9e ergl i t ewE. XLV O.9 NEBEIIRY S.0..TUESAY.DECMBE 1.908 TWCE A WEEK. S1.50 A YEAR ER FROM FRENCH CAPITAL . B. Seabrook Writes of His 6 Famous Cemetery and Si perience Placing Wreath On Tomb Abelare. (By W. B. Seabrook.) ial to The Herald and News. Paris, France. 'sIli never cease to regret visiting ere La Chaise, the most famous metery in the world, for 1* buried ere the lifeless remains of an ideal. e disappointment was in no sense fault of the cemetery, but rather result of a certain preconceived, neous mental picture I had form Q after eading Guy de Manessant d other authors, who use the histor spot as a background for their ro es. I had imagined a dark, ma jestie garden with silent, shaded ave nues, peopled' by shadows odorous with the perfume of immortelles. and enshrined in some secluded spot the tomb of Heloise and Abelard sacred to illfated lovers. What I found was a literal "city of the dead," densely populated, with paved streets, only occasional lawns, interminable houses, a police system, and all the other drawbacks of the ordinary munici pality; while the tall chimney of the crematory, smoking like a Pittsburg factory, seemed to carry out the illus ion. It was difficult to recollect that the principal inhabitants of this com munity were corpses, for eight out of ten of the tombs were in the form of little houses, not vaults, but actual miniature dwellings, with front doors, windows, occasionally a chair visible in the "hallways," and for the most part topped by mansard- roofs, at though in the aristocratie quarters of the city flamboyant gothic and pure classic architecture predominated. Of course there were hundreds of statues, slabs and shafts, but these were in the minority. A moment ago I use,d the liackneyed phrase "aristocratic quar ter," Nut perhaps it was well chosen, for here, as in any other city, the dis tinetion of rank and caste are rigor ously observed, not only preserved but emphasized so that he who runs may read. In one quarter are the mur We mansions and brownstone fronts of the nobility and rllionaires; in an other the respectable bourgeoisie in their neat slate roofed homes, con nt to pass without pretense for What they relly are; in another section are the parvenus, the neuveaux-ri-ehes, and how easy it is to distinguish them by their gaudy and ostentatiously expen sive habitations. Over the gateway of this city, at everywgere in France, appear the bit terly ironic words, "Liberte, Egalite, et Franternite." Monstrous, mirthless mokery, true nowhere on earth, eith Ser in life or death. Iii the northwest corner of the emetery, in an isolated byzantine palace, surmounted by bulbous, gild ed domes, dwells, I mean, lies-a Rus sian prince of the blood, and in a lo ality just to hiis right, the foreign quarter, as it were, the cross and cru ifix disappear, and in their place is raised the Moslem crescent: by pass ing beneath a Moorishi horseshoe arb, richly carved with arabesques, 1 entered an avenue reserved for the Musselmans, and strove, naturally in vain, to decipher the inscriptions. A sergeant de ville told me one of the tombs was that of a Tuntish noble man, uncle af the reigning Sultan. As everybody knows, the Pere La Chaise contains such illustrious citizens as Moliere, La Fontaine, Chopin, Cheru bini, Thiers, Casimer Perier, la Due de Valmy. Felix Faure, and number less other great men-but the guide books and encyclopedias tell all that. About some of the tombs there is a frankness. consisteney anti sense of the appropriate that is peculiarl.v French. Moliere's monument bears no symbol suggestive of grief, but is decor' ted instead by a series of lughing figures in bronze, embody ing the soul of ra.i3ery and mirth. The omb of a notorious alchemist and astrologer of t-he early eighteenth entury, whose name I have unh.appi forgotten, is embellished by death 's ads, owls. eats and devices sugge e of the black art. More than one lehre bears the candid announee t that it holds the body of an is.a sceptie. an agnostic. a free thinker, or whatnot contrary to the Christian doctrines. Not exactly in I r any of these categories is a curious and impressive tomb on the slope be- i low the Demidoff mausoleum. It was c erected recently by the family of t Guet, and is a granite incarnation of , the question of the ages. Above the r sarcophagus is a female figure with fingers pressed upon tightly closed I lips-the silence and mystery of the grave. On the right and left are two unshapen, roughly quaried monoliths. r From the rugged surface of the first emerges the faint outline of a h man form, as if the rock were on the point of being transformed into liv ing flesh, and graven below in Latin, t the question "Whence?" On the see ond pillar is an indistinct figure merging back into the rock; the low er limbs disappear in the unhewn stone: only one or two strong lines suggest, or rather indicate, a body, and the face, contorted in agony, seems about to lose all expression. Be- t neath is the query. "Whither!" After a deal of trouble I found the resting place of Heloise and Abelard, but not in the secluded depth of a sad cypress grove, not surrounded by kneeling maidens, not the rendezvous of pensive, love-sick, hungry poets. In lieu of lawns and weeping willows, I found hard cobblestone and gravel; instead of the expected circle of love lorn damsels and long haired poets, there was nothing but a rusty iron fence. The spot was deserted. If the romantic essayists are worthy of belief, it is a favorite French pastime to deposit wreaths of immortelles upon this tomb. Such is the particular function commonly as signed to the spot, just as the Alps is famous for mountain climbing, Coney Island for sea-bathing, India for ele phant hunting, Heaven for climate, etc., etc. Little children hearing at 1 their nurses' knees the pretty story of the monk and his charming pupil, gather huge bouquets of flowers and' hasten toward the cemetery, school girls suffering from their first attack of puppy love weave fragrant gar lands and fly to this'sympathetic spot for consolation; yellow haired griset tes from the Latin Quartet-, abandon ed by their student lovers, deposit here the little pot of geraniums that .bloomed in their garret windows, and then drown themselves in the Seine; 1 gray haired couples totter hitherward arm in arm to drop a blossom and a& tear in memory of their own departed youth: in fact all France, from the, radle to the grave, spends its idle moments in sentimental pilgrimage to this hallowed shrine. If you don 't believe it, pick up at random any continental novelist and be convinced. Judge then my consternation in be holding the tomb and its environs dry and barren as Sahara. Not a petal, not a tear. Was I, perhaps, mistaken in the spot?i No, the inscription was distinct. It flashed across my mind that there might be two pairs of Hel oise and Abelard, just as there are two brands of Baker's Chocolate in America, and that I might have hap pened upon the imitation. I decided Ito "insist on the original'' and call ed a policeman. "No,'" he had never heard that there was competition in the Heloise-1 and-Abelard business. and this tomb< was the only one he. knew of. Dis satisfied and disappointed, I lingered I in the vicinity and marvelled at the I mendacity of all the tribe of scribes and poets. The desolation palled up- I on me. Abelard in particular seem- I ed sad and neglected. Reposing at full length ipi granite effigy, his dis consolate expression seemed to reflectr the thought that he had loved and died in vain. A noble emotion stirred within my breast. I, a stranger, would lay my humble tribute at his Ifeet, as 'an example to his forgetful countrymen. Moved by this lofty re-t solve, I hurried outside the cemetery gate, and sought an establishmenti dealing in floral decorations. "A wreath of immortelles?'' 4 "Certainly, for the price of onei franc"' Diable. what had she handed me? Blossoms, think you? Bricks. A terra cotta wreath. painted yellow and I evered with humps supposed to rep- 1 rsenlt flowers, but really resembling I wat on the hack of a toad! A life ( p-rsrr suffring from jaundice andi mallpox! When power of speech was estored, I protested. "But m'sieu asked for a wreath of nmortelles, n'est ce'pas? Eh bien, 'est ca,'' and this vendor of flowers, his stonemason rather, explained that uch was the species of funeral orna nent universally in vogue. So I ac epted the monstrosity and trudged >ack to find poor Abelard. A new i.ifficulty presented itself, namely the ron railing. I reconnoitred but found io opening; the gate, fast locked,,was -usting on its hinges. While, collect ng these discouraging data, I obser ed a detail that had previously es aped me. Abelard's feet, or rather he feet of Abelard's effigy, were en ased in long pointed shoes, with the oes turned upward and on one foot vas dangling a terra cotta "wreath' imilar to that which I held. Appar mtly, some admirer had stood out ide the fence and skillfully launched is token through the air, like a coun ;y lad pitehirz horse shoes. This nethod of rendering homage to the nost fr-n,us of all lovers seemed in ppropriate, so I climbed the fence nd laid my offering with a stony ang, upon the poor monk's breast. It was at this moment that the po iceman aforementioned arrived, in a tate of perturbation terrible to be old. "Mon dieu! Didn't I know it was igainst all rules to climb this rail ngo'' No, I didn't know it, but since he iad told me, I offered profuse apolo ies, explained that I was a stranger, d expressed the hope that I had lone no serious harm. Then I essay d to clamber outside the enclosure, >ut the officer interfered. "Pardon, m'sieu, but it is expressly "orbidden to climb the railing," re >eated he. Still supposing he referred :o my original fault, I apologized qgain, but no, it was just as much tgainst the rules to climb out as it vas to climb in, and he, a sworn of ceer, might condone a fault commit ed in ignorance and with no guard in ;ight, but certainly could not permit mother breach of the regulations to ;awke place benea-th his very eyes. I >egan to comprehend, and produced a ;mall silver coin. The conscientious ;ergeant t4hen discreetly turned his ack, while I regained my freedom. HITCHCOCK IN CABINET. aft Chooses His Postmaster General -None Others Selected. New York, Nov. 27.--The Associat ad Press was today authorized to an iounce that Frank H. Hitchcock was ffered and has accepted the position f postmaster general in Taft 's cabi iet. This is the first cabinet position tilled. TELEPHONES IN COUNTRY. ell Telephone Company Extending System to Farmers-Excellent Plant and Good Service. The new telephone directory of tFhe outhern Bell Telephone company, ~ontaining a list of the subseribers inj fewberry and Prosperity, has just een delivered to subscribers in New erry by Manager J. E. Robinson, Jr. ['he number of new names indicates hat there are constant additions to he list of subscribers in Newberry d vicinity. The telephone is becomiig more a iecessity, not only in the city, but the ural districts and the Southern Bell iompany has evolved a plan to fur 1iish telephone service to farmers on m economical basis. As a result elephones are the rule, rather thani he exception on farms, and farmer, n all sections of the State are instalh g telephones in tPheir homes. The plant in Newberry is maintain id at a high state of efficiency and s rendering satisfactory service. Mid-week services at the Lutheran 'hurh of the Redeemer Wednesday iight at 7.0 The Sunday school esson will be explainedl by 'J. B. )'N'll T-olloway. The public is cor allo invited. DR. CROMER ON PROHIBITION. a[ m< Delivers Address at Lutheran Church pe -It Is The Boys He Wants to T1 Save-No Boys No Traffic. H1 Taking as his theme the decision of ed the supreme court of South Carolina, ve which, in upholding the constitution- to ality of the dispensary law, laid down pr the principle tat hquor in its na- lai ture is dangerous to the morals, good sti order, health and safety of the people, sa and urging that an argument for pro- th hibition was not an argument against its the liquor seller, but an argument for go the boys, Dr. Geo. B. Cromer deliver- pe ed a scholarly and forceful address in sa the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer m< on Sunday evening, before an audience to which taxed the seating capacity of the church auditorium and Sunday th school room, which had been thrown N together for the occasion. ne The program for the evening had na been arranged by the local chapter of T1 the W. C. T. U., under whose auspices pc the exercises were held, and all the w( other city churches were closed in or- dr der to join in this union service. Tak- th ing part in the exercises were the Rev. ta: Edward Fulenwider, pastor of the pu LutAeran Church of the Redeemer; th the Rev. D. G. Phillips, pastor of the dr A. R. P. church; the Rev. J. E. James, n' pastor of Aveleigh Presbyterian wi church; the Rev. George A. Wright, he pastor of the First Baptist church, wl and the Rev. A. J. Bowers. After the reading of the Scripture, a lesson by Dr. Phillips and prayer by Dr. Bowers, a solo appropriate to the a occasion was beautifully and effective- to ly rendered by Mrs. R. Z. Thomas. m( Dr. Cromer, in beginning his re- ag marks, said that recently he had made o three prohibition speeches in Laurena en on one day, and there were some er thirigs which he had said in those S speeches which he would probably re- tr peat on this occasion. He was going M4, to say the things that he wanted to say, and he was not going to keep any thing back because some one had pos- a sibly heard it before. Taere were some things he would repeat, he said, as often as he talked prohibition in South Carolina. id If there were no boys, what would id become of the liquor traffic? he ask ed. Your answer to that, he said, t makes the fight not against selling liquor, but a fight for the boys, be ause, unless they can get your boys, It they have to go out of business. e Temperance, said Dr. Cromer, was ti not tlee same as prohibition. A prohi- li( bitinist might be a teetotaler, a mod- H erate drinker, or a drunkard. He had sa known drunkards who were prohibi- fr tionists in self-defenee. wanting the us temptation removed as far as possible e from them. Temperance was not neg- T ative, he said, it was not abstinence, pc though the teetotaler is a temperate ri' man. Temperance was positive; tern- de perance was restrained indulgence. Dr. Cremer spoke of the remarkable er growth of the temlierance sentiment nc throughout the country in recent v years. It had been said by some that Le the race question was responsible for te: its growth in the South. But it was sa about to sweep Massachusetts and Illi nois. Two-thirds of this country was l under prohibition now and probably 30,000,000 of its population. Ken tucky, with its distilleries worthnI $100.000,000, was almost a prohibi- be tion State, and there was strong pro- c bability that it would be entirely pro hibition within a year or two. How do.vyou explain it ? asked Dr. Cromer. It would be a sad commentary on our ne Christian civilization, he said, if as a Ci mass we were no better than our an- du estors. wi vl In looking up some matters con- t nected with the old New'berry Aca-li demy, Dr. Cromer said that he was tr surprised to find that 101 years ago* the legislature authorized the trus tees of the Newberry academy to con-u dut a lottery to raise $3,000 for the Cl academy, and in the same Act the nI legislature had, authorized a church Tm at Beaufort to run a lottery to getq $.3.00 to complete the church. And 'et the time camei when the~ great ou Louisiana lottery was abolished as a e reelt of the sentiment of the peoph-. w alhough it offered to pay the publie in debt of Louisiana and $1.000.000 a mi yea int the ate1 trasury if it were co owed to continue its exisence. Lu L )ral and religious sentiment of the e ople had grown, said Dr. Cromer. t te ideals of the people were higher. t Dr. Cromer said that he had a text. said that he was heartily oppos- t to the dispensary law from the n ry beginning, but he was indebted y it for one principle which the sa- n eme court of South Carolina had o d down in declaring the law con- f tutional. The supreme court had id if this principle were not true a a law could not stand: "Liquor in I r :ture is dangerous to the morals, g od order, health and safety of the J ople, and 'is not to be placed on the me footing with the ordinary com )dities of life, such as corn, wheat, )aeco, potatoes, etc." Liquor, said Dr. Cromer, destroyed a body and it destroyed the mindL. > man had more intellect or more rve than were needed for the ordi ry daily occupations and callings. I ie railroad knew it, and great cor- e rations knew it. Boys and men q re often heard to say that they could d ink liquor and let it alone. But 0 at young man who thought he could 0 ,per with liquor with safety or im .nity had about as much sense as c a young woman who marries a J unkard to reform him. What does- E t it destroy? Body, mind, power of 11, character, said Dr. Cromer. And, 3 said, it will not let you alone 13 etner you let it alone or not. As a K mber of society we could not get t ,ay from it. There was some disagreement e iong scientists, said Dr. Cromer, as t] whether alcohol was necessary in t dicine or not, but all scientists m reed that the general excessive use c alcohol tends to degrade and weak- t society, lowers the social tone, low- p the social vitality, and impairs the I ial well being. And, taken as a 3 iffic, as a business proposition, no d in could maintain that it was a so-In d good. It has been urged as an argument f ainst prohibition that it would not a ohibit. No law did, said Dr. Cromer, t the law was right, the principle I is right, the ideal wa:Aright, and y1u ild the character of men by fixing1 al3 towards which they may work. a had been urged that Newberry t )uld lose business if she voted out e e dispensary, but as a business pro sition there was nothing in it. It n s a false proposit,ion in -economy. i was a waste of money and nothing e. It was urged against prohibi that the money derived from thea nor traffic was needed for revenue. I had told the people of Laurens, he id, that if they had a net profit v .m their dispensary, they ought to e it to establish Keeley cures to f re the drunkards they had made. v ie community which couldn't sup- a rt its schools without the money de ed from the whiskey traffic did not i, serve schools. , Whiskey was going, said Dr. Cromn .A county in Georgia which had f t been paying a dollar in taxes had ted it out, and. only a few days ago a urens, which during the last quar received $37,000 froir the dispen- e ry, had voted it out.g Dr. Cromer sa*id it was true that a , could not, prohibit absolutely, but can maike it mighty unpleasant for! a men who violate the law, he said. h had been said that men could not made good by legislation. Buti .ild be made mighty uncomfortable e them to be bad. In view of what occurred in yourh w court house last week,'' said Dr. omer. "I want to say that it is the ty of every man in this community o means to stand for God and right, o has an ounce of manhood in him, t support the mayor and chief of po-e e of this'town in driving the illheit k iffic out of this community.'' j This occasion, said Ur. Cromer, was t der the auspices of the Women's i ristian Temperance Union, ande n were usually about as bad as wo-t n would let them be. This was as estion of influence.p When it came to the young man he a git to turn his hack on it and as- Ia - his manhood, but with others it sa question of influence, and your ~luence, he said, von owe to tXe comn mnity. He urged that thiose who ., d resis strong- 'rink should hel> )uld not; and not by their influence, iough they could resist it, keep it in ie way of their weaker brothers. Dr. Cromer closed with the plea for ie boys with which he began. "Re tember," he said, "if they can't get our boys they must go out of busi ess, and you ought to measure your pposition to the traffic by your love )r the boys of the community." Following Dr. Cromer's splendid ddress a solo was rendered by the ev. Geo. A. Wright, and the congre ation was led in prayer by the Rev. E. James. THE NEWS or WHITNIRE. Fork on New Steel Bridge Comm& ed-Happy Marriage-any Thanlksgiving Dinnemrs. Whitmire, Nov. 30.-Another 'hanksgiving is numbered ivith the vents of the past. The day passed ietly. Some of our people spent the ay with relatives in the country and ther towns, others had their loved nes here with them. Mr. and Mrs. William Coleman and ildren and Mr. and Mrs. Thad. Cole tan spent Thanksgiving day with Dr. R. Jeter and family. Mrs. J. W. Hipp and baby are at [r. Clayton Abrams for a few days. [r. and Mrs. Abrams served an ele ant dinner on Thursday, Mrs. Fos r Speer and children and Miss Ethel peer and other friends .being pres at. That night the young people of ip surrounding country cae in with ieir pounds and enjoyed thamselves ith games and merry making. All ime away with pleasant memories of iis day and night in a happy and rosperous home. Miss Mattie Young, the daughter of [r. J. I. Young, was married Wednes ay evening to Mr. Ernest J. Nunna taker. Mrs. J. E. Cofield has returned rom a visit to her son Geo. E. Cofield nd other friends at Carlisle. Miss Inez Dobbins is .at home for a aw days. The steel part of the new bridge hich will span the river between here nd Union e'ounty has--been hauled to ie river and the bridge will be push d to completion. The foundation for an enlarge: ient to the Glenn-Lowry potton mnill Sbeing laid. Mrs. Henry Parr and children, of rewberry, spent Wednesday night nd Thursday with her brother, Dr. .-A2 [. K. Boyd. Miss Sallie Sims, of Carlisle, is isiting at Mr. W. A. Andrews. Mr. Jao. P. Fant, who has been ill or a long time, was out riding today 'ith his wife, who has proved herself devoted painstaking nurse. Mrs. J. M. Major spent Thanksgiv ig day with her husband in Savan Miss Mildred Hudson has returned coin a few days stay in Columbia. Mr. Henry Taylor was in Newberry nd Clinton last week. Mr. and Mrs. Jno. S. ~Derrick and biidren went to Newberry Thanks iving day, to stay until Sanday. Rev. Foster Speer Is aw$y attend ig conference at Laurens. Mr. Hunter, of Chester, is visiting is daughter, Mrs. Zach Wright. Mrs. Mattie Spearman is at Mr. Z. [. Suber's. Mr. Jno. M. Suber is very ill at his ome near here. Nita.. A Card. Many thanks to the kind friends iat voted for me for the office of >rmmissoner of public works. But ind friends let me tell you all right yw and forever more I never intend enter politics any more. I. believe was God 's will for me not to be eted. I had a dream the night af r the election that has changed my >ul and I have been telling every erson who voted for me and those. ho didn't vote for me, to deal square nd upright with all classes both -hite and black. God has changed life and given me a different x2ling towards everybody. Very respectfully, Fred .T. Rusell.