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.AN ANCIENT MONASTERY. Will Seabrook Visits the Abbeye de Montmajour-The Legend of ... The Wine. (By W. B. Seabrook.) Special to The Herald and News. Les Baux, France.-Three miles from Arles. at the end of a poplar shaded lane. surmounting the crest of a. hill, whos-e flowery slopes are the delight of botanists and artists during all seasons of the year, rises the Ancienne Abbeye de Montmajour. This venerable monastery., founded by Saint Cesaire in the sixth century, survived the stormy period during -which Provence was ravaged by ra pacious robber lords, 'and 'eventually became the largest religious commun ity in southern France. Its name is intimately connected with the real and legendary history of the Midi during the Middle Ages, and the dramas enacted within its walls form ed a favorite theme for mediaeval trouba,dours and poets. Among the ancient i'emances preserved in the library of manuscripts at Avignon, one encounters frequently the follow ing phrase. usually terminating some tale of unrequited love.' "Ainsi il se rendit moine a Montmajour." (So he 'became a monk at Montmajour.) The concierge, or guardian, of the -abbeyis a dear little woman. whose tiny, wrinkled face beamed with pride and pleasure when she learned from my questions that I was already somCwhat familiar with the wonder fil past of "her monastery." Armed with a bunch of gigantie keys and followed by a yellow dog a solemn, silent beast, whose tem perament had evidently been affect ed by countless promenades in mon kish cells and cloisters, not to men tion the fact, which I discovered by ,chance, that it was his regular cus 'tom, when thirsty, to drink the holy water from a. dismantled baptismal font in the court-yard-we entered the chapter hall and descended into the crypts, a series of chambers hrawn in the living rock, from which rise the columns supporting the colossal superstructure. Nowhere,. -except at M<ynt Saint Michel, have I seen such heavy pillars, such noble, massive arches. Most of the subterranean apartments had served as chapels, anottuary vaults, or simple store rooms, but there was one dismal cay ern that had, beyond question. been 'a prison and torture chamber; its lo cality is too definitely indicated in the chronicles of the abbey to leave :any doubt; roughly carved in the roeky wall, there still exists the fa 'mous ''lit de penitence,'' a coffin shaped bed of stone, with the bottom intentionally left irregular and jagged -upon which the unhappy prisonet was chained, at full length, and left for days at a time to ''meditate'' up on his sins. The holes through which the chains were passed are still in tact. After visiting the donjon tower and the .beautifu-lly sculptured cloistei, -during which excursion the conci-erge :andi I had become fast friends, we 'repaired to her kitchen, and she pro <-duced a bottle of rich, golden wine. manufactured with the aid of herbs :and simples gathered on adjacent hill sides. We had been talking of the curious traditions clustering around the abbey, and while we drank out e)rdial, the good dame. ehuckling ov er some evidently amusing recollec tion launched into the story, which 1 will .endeavor to recount. Variations of the same tale, I have learned, are :mingled with the legends of several -other abbeys in Province, and Al phonse Da-udet has given one of them a piace among his humorous contes, but I douxbt if t-he curious recital -which follows has ever found its way .into English print. Thpring a certain epoch, says the legend, the county round-about was, kept in a state of terror by marapding -bandits, and the helpless farmers of the districts, more intent on saving their mortal skins than their immortal souls, began to stake their afith upon the sword of some powerful pirotecting baron rather than~ on the crucifix of the good father- ab hot. As a consequence, the monastery fell upon hard times-, the poor monks *watched in vain for the procession of d onkeys which had formerly wound i ts way up from the valley, loaded dith itithes of grain and oil and sinig; Yasfing 'became a necessity rather than a virtue, and every day was Friday for the hungry brethren; the bells rang for mass, but nobody came; broken window panes were left -anrepaired, and soon winter winds -were whistling through -the chilly cor - idors, putting out the tapers on the altar and blowing 'the holy water from its shallow basin to scatter it upon the shivering bare legs of the devoted b&nd. Driven to desparation, the unfor *nmate men of God 'began to take eounsel among themselves if it were not better to disperse i order that each might seek for himself more fertile pastures. It was while this grave question was being discussed ini the assembly room-the very chap ter hall through which I had just ] Ipassed with the conscierge and her ipious dog--that Frere Miron timidly .i appeared in the doorway and begged permission to be heard. Now Frere Miron was the cowherd of the com munity, a simple soul, kind of heart and thick of head, who had never penetrated deeply into the holy mys teries, and whose duties consisted solely of driving his cows to pasture and reciting his pater nosters. But his cows had all been eaten, and his pater nosters had grown wearisome by force of continued repetition. Finding himself without occupation, he set himself to thinking-probably for the first time in his hitherto tranquil life, and finally, by dint of thumping upon his shaven bu!et head, had hit upon an idea, an idea Jthat 'he was about to communicate to Ithe assembly and which was destined to deliver the community from pover ty. . At an early age, said he, he had been confided to the care of an aged aunt, an Ald she-goat, who knev. the secret virtue of every herb on the' mountain-side and who possessed the unwritten formula of an incompara ble cordial which she manufactured I by mixing six or seven of these sim n a t ples. With the aid of Sainte Marie and the permission of the father ab bot, Frere Miron believed he could I recollect the formula of that my-ter- f ions liquor, it could be' bAtt!ed, sold at a good price, and soon MGunajor f would be as rich as ChartreuLs- or La r Trappe. The abbot fell u; on his neck t and wept, and the brethr:n. not de terred by certain stains and odors re miniscent of the barnyard, kissed the o hem of his threadbare robe.-after which Frere Miron hied him to the mountains. t At the end of six months the mar velous elixir was on every shelf from t Arles to Baux, the monks were fat. I and Frere Miron, the cowherd. who 1 had now become th-e Rev-,eni Pere Miron, was shut up all. day in an C abandoned chapel, which had been converted into a distillery while a score of monks scoured the moun tainside for herbs and simples. All was well. But one evening during vespers- A Fere Miron entered the chreh in a I state of extraordinary agitation, I lurchinz from side to side like a sail- I or. wetting his arm up to the elbow in the holy water~ and bowing bef-r e I the organ instead of the R.w Dur mng the psalm. in lieu of chamnting the I usual response-he laun m~ed into a I rollieking, licentious ballad. Tie r'ev- A erend father than toppled over on A the floor and was dragged t.o his e::? A by the neck and heels. summaril;, but respectfully 'withal, as .vas befitting t for the saviour of the community. 3 The ~next morning he confesszd i Tipsy on his own liquor. The victim ~ of his own invention. The~ father ab- F bot seratched his head. mneditated 0.4 the splendid revenues which were P pouring into the monastery treasury, 0 and granted his unqualified absolu- n tion. The case was simple. said he. Pere Miron was compelled to taste the liquor in order to give it the proper flavoir. and he had east rd too free'v; henceforth it woik be neessary to count the drops. Voila tout.. But in order to forestall trouble he excused S Pere Miron from atte in r espers mn the future. Like Frankinstein. Pere Miron found him~self overpowered by the creature he had brought in to being. He prayed .and wrestled with the d temptation,..and in the and he count- 0 ed by goblets and not by drops. Sev eral weeks rolled by, .and then, one evening, he staggered into the chap- I ter hall where all the monks were as semnbled to render their accounts to the father abbot. "It is finahd," cried the unhappy Miron. "Not an-. other drop r>f this accursed liquor will C I distill. Its odor has driven from ~ my mind the fear of perdition. I have C become a disgraceful drunkard, and have been preparing for myself an eternity of flames ." "And what is to become of us, if our only source of revenue is cut off ?" cried his brethren. ''You will ruin the monastery.'" "Do you prefer that I damn my eternal soul?" responded Pere Mir on. But the father abbot was equal to the occasion. "It is only in the evening that thre demon tempts you?" he asked. "Yes." "WVell, henceforth every evening after vespers we will recite in your behalf the Oraison de St. Augnstin. which has the virtue of granting ab solution during the commission of the sin.", Eoah dlay therafter Pere Mirn listilled his marvelous elixir, and !ach evening fell a victim to its se luetive odor, while this invocation tseended from the lips of his thank Aul brethren: "0 Lord, we pray for our poor ather Miron, who is sacrificing his ;oul in the interest of the commun ty.'' BLUE RIDGE SCHEDULES. Eastbound. No. 18, leaves Anderson at 6.30 a. n., for connection at Belton with southern for Greenville. No. 12, from Walhalla, leaves Ar lerson at 10.15 a. m., for connection it Belton with Southern Railway for 3olumbia and Greenville. No. 20, leaves Anderson at 2.20 >. m., for connections at Belton with 5outhern Railway for Greenville. No. 8, daily except Sunday, from ffalhalla arrives Anderson 6.24 p. a., with connections at Seneca with 5outhern Railway from points south. No. 10, from Walhalla, leaves An erson at 4.57 p. m., for connections t Belton with Southern Railway for xreenville and Columbia. Westbound. No. 17, arrives at Anderson at 7.5) .., from Belton with connections rom Greenville. No. 9, arrives at Anderson at 12.24 . m., from Belton with connections rom Greenville and Columbia. Goes o Walhalla. No. 19, arrives at Anderson at 3.40 iM., from Belton with connections rom Greenville. No. 11, arrives at Anderson at .29 p. m., from Belton with con ections from Greenville and Colum ia. Goes to Walhalla. No. 7, daily except Sunday, leaves Lnderson at 9.20 a. m., for Walhalla, ith connections at Seneca for local oints sauth. Nos. 17, 18, 19, and 20 are mixed rI'ns between Anderson and Belton. Nos. 7 and 8 are local freight rains, carrying passengers, between Lnderson and Walhalla and between Valhalla ane Anderson HAMLESTON & WESTERN CAR OLIA RY. Schedule in effect May 31, 1908. v. Newberry(C N & L) 12:56 p.m. r. Laurens 2:02 p.m. v. Laurens (C & W C) 2:35 p.m. r. Greenville 4:00 p.ni. v. Laurens 2:32 p.m. r. Spartanburg 4:05 p.m. v. Spartanburg (So. Ry.) 5:00 p.m. r. Hendersonville 7:45 p.m. r. Asheville 8:50 p.m. v. Laurens (C & W C) 2:32 p.m. r. Greenwood 3:32 p.m. r. McCormick 4:33 p.m.1 r. Augusta 6:15 p.m. Tri-Weekly Parlar Car line be ween Augusta and Asheville. Trains os. 1 and 2, leave Augusta Tuesdays, hursdays and Saturdays, leave sheville Mondays, Wednesdays and 'ridays. Note: Thre above arrivals and de artures, as w-all as connections with, ther companies, are given as infor ation, and are not guarantead. Ernest Williams, Gen. Pass. Agt., Augusta, Ga. Geo. T. Bryan, Greenville, S. C., HERIFF'S DELINQUENT TAX: SALE. TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry.1 By virtue of an execution to mei irected by Jno. L. Epps, Treasurer i f Newberry county, I will sell on [onday, the 4th day of January, 909 (Salesday), within the legal 1 ours of sale, at Newberry Court1 [ouse, the following property for de-] nquent taxes for the year 1907, viz: A traet of land in Reeder Town hip No. 5, assessed to L. C. Sheeley, ontaining one hundred and thirty eres more or less. bounded by lands f Dorothy Davis, W. F. Kelly and enry Kinard. Terms of Sale-Cash. Purchaser o pay for papers. M. M. Buford, Sheriff N. C. Sheriff's Office, Dec. 12, 1908. .2-15-08-St-taw. NEWBERRY U1HON STATION. Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains-Effective 12.01 A. M. Sunday, June 7th, 1908. Southern Railway: ~n. 15 for Gre'enville .. . . .57a.m NTo. -18 for Columbia .. .. 1.40 p.m NTo. 11 for Greenville .. . .3.20 p.m To. 16 for Columbia . ....8.47 p.m C., N. & L. Ry. No. 22 for Columbia .. ..8.47 a.m. NTo. 52 for Greenville .. 12.56 p.m. z. 53 fo. Columbi . . . ..3.20 p.m. No. 21 for Laurens .. . .7.25 p.m. Does not ran on Sunday Th!; n:e aa show th,.(e times at which trains may be expected to de part from this station, but their de parture is not guarant-eed and the time shown is subject to change with out notic-e. G. L. Rc.inson, Station Master. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. In the Probate Court. M. A. Carlisle and John C. Goggans, Executors of the la- -ill and testa ment of W. W. 6yaarman, deceased, Plaintiffs, V. Etta R. Spearman, et al., Defend ants. Complaint for Sale of Land. By order of the Court herein, I will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder at Newbesrry Court House, during the legal hours of sale, on Mon. day, th-e fourth day of January, 1909, all that tract of land, lying and being situate in the County and State afore said, containing three hundred and thirty seven, (337) acres, more or ess, and bounded by lands of D. M. Ward, Sam Nance, Walter S. Spear [nan, Mrs. Maggio-, Longshore and Mrs. E. L. Spearman. Terms of Sale: One-third of the purchase money to be paid in cash, the balance on a credit of one and two years, the credit portion to be secui ad by a mortgage of the premises sold. with interest thereon from the date of sale at the rate of eight per cent. per annum, the said mortgage to provide Cor attorneys fees in case of foreclos- I are; with leave to purchaser to antici pate payments eithei in whole or in part, the purchaser to pay for papers and the recording of the s.iid mort age. F. M. Schumpert, Judge of Probate. Newberry, S. C., Dec. 14, 1908. PORTLAND, MAINE, CHILD C1, Weak and Emaciated, Re stored to Health by Vinol "Our little daughter, six years of age, Lfter a severe attack of the measles, hich developed into pneumonia, was left pitifully thin, weak and emaciat d. She had no appetite, and her stom ,ch was so weak it could not retain ood. She lay in 'this condition for weeks, and nothing the doctor pre 3cribed did a bit of good, and we were aeginning to think she would never re :over. "At this time we commenced to give er Vinol, and the effeettwas marvel >us. The doctor was amazed at her progress, and when we told him we were giving her Vinol, he- replied, 'It s a fine remedy, keep it up.' We did so, and she recovered her health and strength months before the doctor hought she could." J. W. Flagg, Portland, Me. Vinol cures conditions like this be :ause in a natural manner it increases the appetite, tones up the digestive >rgans, makes rich, red blood, and trengthens every organ in the body. William E. Peiham & Son, Newberry, S. C. AN ORDINANCE Regulating the Transportation of rresh Meats. Be it ordained by the Mayor and Adermen of the Town of Newberry, 3. C., in Council assembled and by au :hority of the same: Section 1. That from and after the >ublication of this Ordinance all neats en route from slaughter-house ; market must be completely covered iderneath and above with clean vhite cloths and must be carried int rehiles and meats shall at all times ye subject to inspection by the police nen and members of the Board of lealth. Sec. 2. Any person or persons vio-I ating the provision of this Ordinance ~hall for each offense be punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars or y imprisonment not exceeding thirty lays. Done and ratified under the corpor ate seal of the Town of New berry, S. C., this the seventh (Seal) day of October, 1908. J. J. Langford, Attest: Mayor of Newberry. Eug. S. Werts, Clerk and Treasurer. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All persons having claims against the Electric Laundry Company of Newberry will render in their claims on or before the 18th day of January, 1909. on which date. at 11 o'clock in? the forenoon, a reference will be held in the offices of Blease & Dominick for the purpose of winding up the at fairs of the said corporation. Fred. H. Dominick, Receiver. 1tw-trl THIS I WANTS YOUF We confess it. hand, we know fied in asking yc We offer you found in a mode Open an accour THE EXCHA ON JANUA We Pay 4 Per C Our Savings I J. D. DAVENPORT, President. M. L. 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