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V. VOL XLVI NO,.18 NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY. M AR011 ,2 1909. TWIOE A WEEK. $1.50 A YEAR CORPROXISE AGREED 10 BY THE HOUSE SENATE AMENDME'QT ADOPT ED BY VOTE 45 TO 41. Srveral Prohibitionists P'otest Against Any iWthdrawal From Original Idea. The State. By a vote of 45 to 41, the house yesterday adopted the senate amend ments to the prohibition bill introdue ed by Senators 'Christensen and Wil liams and referring the whole matter to a vote of the various wet counties. This was not done, however, until Re presentative Richards made a vigor ous protest and urged that nQ com promise be made. This amendment was in the nature of a compromise, he said, and the prohibitonists were fighting for a principle and not for a compromise. There was not much de bate on tthe amendment and the vote was taken within 20 minutes after -the senate sent over the copy. Many of the members were out of the house and there were about 30 not voting, in addition to the pairs. The lineup on the vote presented an interesting situation. The local optionists were divided on the ques tioll, as were the prohibitionists. Some of the local optionists wanted to fioht the entire matter out and if possible send it to free conference, with the hope that it would be killed there. Mr. Richards, one of the leaders in the fight for prohibition, found his own forces divided, Mr. Kibler, who had voted with him, urging the pas sage of the amendment. So the vote was not what might be called a "fac tional test." There was no, doubt early in the morning session but that the amendment would be passed, but the smallness of the majobrity was somewhat of a, surprise. After the passage of the resolution, Mr. Hall had a resolution introduced. which waz, that the house felt them selves in nowise bound to not work for prohibtion at the nxt session. The resolution was not considered, how ever, as it was brought up after Mr. Hall left the city during the after noon session. The vote on the motion of Mr. Richards to refuse to concu in the senate amendment, which was defeated, was as follows: The Vote. Yeas-Amick, M. J. Ashley, Bodie, Bowman, W. D. Bryant, Carey, Clary, Cosgrov.e, Dar, E. C. Edwards, Isaae Edwards, Foster, Fultz, Garris, Gas que, W. J. Gibson, Horger, Hughes, Hydrick, McColl, Mann, Mars, Mob lev, Niver, Patterson, Paulling, Rich ards, 0. L. Sanders, Sawyer, Scarbor ough, B. A. Shuler, Singleton, C. A.' Smith, Spears, J. D. Sullivan, P. P. Sullivani, 5uyd.am, Wade, Wiggins. WilliAms, 0. D. A. Wilson, W. B. Wilson. Nays-Speaker Whaley, J. W. Ash ley, Bowers. Brice, Brown, Carter, Celer. Daniel, Duvall, Fraser, Gra ham. Greer', Girifln, Hall, Harmon, J. R. Harrilon. W. C. Harrison, Hines, ollis. Jackson. Kib1er. Lawson. Les gue. McEaehern, Moseley, Nesbit, Nicholson. Nunnery, Ridgell, G. M. Riley, Roberts on, Roessler, C. T. Sim kins, K. P. Smith. Stubbs. Tobias. Vander Horst. Vaughn. WVells, What ley, Wingo. Wyche. SWhen the amendment was brought ,er Mr. Richards at once moved non oneurrence. Mr. Kibler wanted the amendment ~dopted. He had supported thie pro hibition bill and considered the fight had been won.in part. A compromise was better than nothing and it wvas a step in the right direction. Mr. Richards' Position. . Mi'r. Richards then explained his po :sition.' It was no individual fight. but a matter of principle. After 10 days of continued work the house had put ithelf onl reco)rd as favoring State wide nroibionx. It would be a shame to '-e:-ede from this position. TH thought the State newspaper, the le:' ne exponent of local option, had correetly stated the idea when it saidl ditorially that a compromise meant that nothing w~ou1ld be done on the li quor q,eCStioni if this compromise was adopted. Ist was known to the news ,paper that this would be proposed and it might mean the defeat of pro ibition at least that was the idea of the local optionists. There was no doubt but that the newspapers mud dled public opinion and their influ ence on this question was not to be despised. The vote was then taken, after Mr. Fraser moved :the previous question, stating that it had been discussed enough and he believed the house was ready to settle the dispute. As soon as the result was announe ed and the clincher put on the action the house in eoncurring in the sen ate amendment, Mr. Sawyer moved to recall the bill from the engrossing de partment, it having been ordered for enrollment. H6 thought it should be thrown in free conference and did not see how the prohibitionists could con sent ito have such a bill rammed down their throats and did not see how the local optionists could consent to the passage of such a measure. Anyhow, there were errors in the wording and he was opposed to any such legisla tion. Mr. M. L. Smith, in a point of par liamentary inquiry, which was sus tained held that the mill had been or dered for enrollment and th:at now nothing could change the bill. He did not want to be misunderstood as changing his position. but he thought an action of this kind would be out of order. When Speaker Whaley an nounced that the point was sustained the fight was ended and the house turned to the consideration of other matters. There is now some questions as to the election. No funds are provided for holding the election and unless or-. dered by Gov. Ansel no election can be held. Should it be held, the gener al assembly will have to make an ap propriation for the expenses and ev en then it is not believed that a hilf dozen counties will change their posi tions. JNO. Y. GARLINGTON ARRESTED Requisition Made on Governor of Tennessee and Sheriff Ooleman Goes Today to Serve Papers. The State. John Y. Garlington, of Laurens, has been arrested in Chattanooga as a re sult of further proceedings in the celebrated case of the Seminole Se curities company. Two requisitions' have been issued in the case by Gov Ansel-one against Garlington and the other against Garlington, J. S. Young and M. J. Jeanes, all being connected in some capacity with the concern. Sheriff Coleman leaves to day for Nashville with the requisiti6n papers. The case is familiar to the public. Te setion for a receivership after the purchase of the Southern Life Insurance company, the meeting of stockholders, at which time newv di retor.; were elected: the charges that tle sale of stock was at an exorbitant price and that Garlington and his as sociates took a part of the margins on the sale of stock, have been publish ed and created much comment at the time of the proceedings in the courts. It was announced when the litiga tion ended that erimninal proceedinigs woud be commenced against Garling o and other directors, and the wvar rants for the arrests were issued yes trday. The charge against Garling ton is obtaining money under false pretenses and the charges against Garin2gton, Jeanes and Young are breaches of trust with intention to de frad. While Garlington is under arrest, the others have not yet been served with the papers, although it is pro bable that when the announcement is made that criminal proceedings are pending all will make arrangements to give bond. Helping the Police. Phils delphia Inquirer. Policeman (:to l.oierer)-Now, t.hen, w4vt are you doing bare? Loiterer-Wh-a-t are you a-doing here? Policeman-Can' you see? I'm do ing my duty. I.oit eer-An ' ennt y ou see I'm :a makn' the duty for you to do? As it Was in the Beginning. Life. The good things .that some men deid -aml wling aronnd on two feet. W. B. SEABROOK SHOOT AND KILLS FOOT-PAD Mr. Seabrook Tried to Escape From Robber, But He Came Upon Him, Knife in Hand, and Augus tan Was Compelled to Fire or Forfeit His Life. (By W$illiam Buehler Seabrook.) Copyright, 1909, by W. B. Seabrook. Published by Permission of Author. Arles, Bouches du Rhone, France, Feb. 28.-Beneath the ancient ram parts of Arles, near the Porte de 'Or, in a deserted valley shaded by cypress trees and littered with the de bris of ruined sepulchres, extends the Avenue des Aliscamps, a celebrated cemetery of the middle ages, once the holiest a:nd most carefully guarded spot in Europe, now the most deso late.. The history of the Aliseamps, ac co'iin to monkish chronicles, is mingled from earliest times with mys teries and marvels. Formerly a pag an burying ground, it was dedicated to Christi.anity during the reign of Constanitine, and when the first bish ops of Gaul were assembled for the consecraition rites, so runs the story, Jesus Christ descended from the skies, accompanied by a multitude of angels, and, with His pierced hands out stretched, pronounced 'the benedic tion. A granite boulder marks the spot, .and to this very day credulous Provencals point out a, curious de pression in the rock, said to be the Saviour's footprint. Inaugurated un der such dramatic and unprecedented auspices, the cemetery was soon re nowned throughout all Christendom; hosts of aged pilgrims, including kings and princes, traversed rivers; seas and mountains in order to die at Arles and sleep within ithese hallowed precincts. Around 'this mortuary field are clustered myriad ghostly legends, and when the Arlesia.n greybeards ga.ther on winter evenings to doze and gossip in some hospitable - chimney corner, they tell strange tales of saints and devils and grim speetral bands, un happy spirits who return by night to prowl like ghouls among the sunken graves, searching in vain for bodies that vandal hands have long since scattered to the winds. Its massive stone sarcophagi are yawning and empty as if -the Trump of Doom had already sounded for th'eir countless vanished de.ad, and its barren, crumb ling toombs recall Ezekiel's prophetie Visior 'The weird tr,aditi'ons, recorded by the monks as veracious chronicles and ree.ounted to me as solemn facts by the Provencal peasantry were a strangely fitting prelude to a start - ling adventure tha,t befell one night, while I, a matter oif fact ahd sceptical American newspaper reporter, was wandering among ithese haunted sep ulehres of the Old World. While sojourning at Arles, it occur red to me 'that the Aliseamps would present a. superb p)ict1ure by moon light. Choosing a favorable occasion, leaving my hotel at an htour whlen hon est people usually seek their beds, 1 threaded my' way th rough the narrow, deertedl streets, p)assed the Roman amphi-theatre, a.nd emerged upon the amparts. Enc'onering a belated pedestrian, I hailed him and made some trifling inquiry concerning the ro:id to the cemetery, fo I w-a..s not qute sure that I could find my way inte .semi-darkniess. He furnishedi the desired informiation i-ith a p)olite ness and intelligenee that proclaimed the gentleman, and then, eyeing me in a very queer manner, said:-"I bez pardon, but is it your intention to vis it the Aliscamps alone at this hour of the night?'~ T-t was obviously none of his busi e; wxhat I intended doing, hat his tone and atti,tudeC were not offi(cions, and I re=ponded civilly and told him of my desire to see tne spot by moon lght. "If yon will aecept a bit of unsoli ied advice, '' saidl he, "yvou will abandon youri implIrudenVt project.' and when I asked an explana.tion of his words, he added somuethiing which I did not ca.tTh. about dane.er and dia !e. Taking him for a superstitious erank. I lanighingly experwsed my dis !,elif in h;-is or) devtils, and wen my warv. I will not try: to portray the over that met my gaze when I entered the once sacred confines of that ruined city of the dead. The pale uncertain light, ibscured by fleeting clouds, re vealed mysterious avenues and vistas, half-hidden by t'e trees, passing be -tween long lines of eip-ty granite cof fins and leading to the black itouth of some charnel vault. It was a pic ture worthy of Dante's pen or Gus tav Dore's pencil. ideed, the fa mous Florentine visited the Aliscamps during the period of his banishment and bore away a profound impression of the scene, as testify the lines, "Si come ad Arli, ove'l Rodano stagna, fanni i sepolehri tutto '1 loco varo.'' In truth, if certain of his biographers are worthy of belief, it was here that he received the inspiration for the sombre poem in which he chanted the resurrection of the dead and the eternal agonies of the inferno. As I stood beneath the stars, I strove to picture the commencement of that tremendous drama: "And now the Fields Elysian trembled. And the sepulchres were opened as on the last day. And the granite coffin lids were lifted. And from their graves a migh ty company of the dead marched forth with inarticulate murmuring.. But my phantastic musings were brought to an abrupt, unlooked for termination. Down there among the ruins, something was stirring, some thing was emerging from the door way of a 'tomb. "A rabbit, or per haps a fox," I thought, but as I was about to toss -a pebble in tha direc tion of the apparition, a moonbeam filtered through: the tree stops, and for an instant the moving figure was distinctly visible. It was a bony, hu man arm, !a ghastly, groping arm, from which the shredded flesh seem d hanging in tattered ribbons! Then the shadows closed, while a tall, gaunt form glided swiftly from the sepul cr-re, and, crouching like a tiger, dis appeared among the rocks. The blood seemed frozen in my veins.' .and I stood paralyzed in my tracks, helplessly waiting for I knew not what. My first emotions were those which such a sight would natur ally awaken in the breast of the aver age man, terror in the presence of an appareLI supernatural vision, ming led with a deeprooted fear of . the dead; but gradually this unreasoning, childish fear was dissipated by the increasing intensity of a radically different sensation, a lively and intui tive apprehension of imminent bodily danger coupled with the animal in stint of self-preservation. Bending low to e'arthi, avoiding lighted spaces, creeping steathily from hollow to hiol low, striving t.o screen my movemgent by tree trunks and crumbling walls, I hurried toward the public road, flee in from the nameless peril that I felt was foll owing in my footsteps, east ing nervous glances behind me fromn time to~ time, and catehng mnonen tary glimnpses of the slinking form. Nearer and nearer it approachied; my knees were tre:nbling and: my pace ~as growing feeble: flight was now inossible for I d:ared ni !.onger turui :n back uponi that which was pursu ino mec. Despera.te, rather t:han coura aeous, I strode str.adight toward the pat wvhere I had Last seen the fleet a hadow. Swiftly and silently the hn rose and rushed to meet me. Pointblack I fired. guided by mnvol m!atay im)pu1le, and then, as the s~ihlrp rep):rt broke the nervous ten son and arounsed meC to volun1tary ae tivity. I fired again. Blinded by the powder's flash, dazedl aud deafened by the noise, bewildered by my srange surroundings, I st'umblett from t he cemetery without venturing to ascrtrAn the nature of my myster ios as Vadbmt, for I wa:s too) compllete lv unstrung t.o face the sigh.t which I supposed would have greeted mv'e T Returning to Aries, I went to the gendarmerie, aroused the sleeping ser et and t-old my story. I could not elp realizing that it sounded highly imp)robable, even absurb, and I was uzzled to observe tha.t -the omeiers, after su)ressing first exclamationi of aonishment, aeeepted my accoutit w .it ho t cross-questio1ning~ or conmment, fl)dd.ed his head gravely aind remark ed th.A I was extremnely fortuni~ate' n ~aterns wecre li:.ed, ai Itah L .)irmed, anid I led th wa: to the .Aliseamnp', whe.re We verified il predi,tion of thme serge.ant. Out str,tce uown the g-rass lay the body of -a villainous looking tramp, clothed in rags, his stiffened fingers still el.nehed around the hilt of a long, inurderous knife. The following day I learned that ilre Aliscamps were notorious as a rendezvous for vauriens and vag rants, who frequently sought shelter in the abandoned tombs, and that sev eral robberies and mauvais coups at tributed to these ghouls in recent years had contributed not a little to the evil reputatio-n of tlh cemetery. It was 'against these diables, or pauvres diables, as the class is commonly de .nominated in France, that the gentle man on the ramparts had wished to warn me-and I hiad been too stupid or too hasty to understand. GOVERNOR PATTERSON ON THE STAND Tennessee Executive Told of Col. Cooper's Demeanor. Nashville, Feb. 27.-Two facts stood out istrongly in the Cooper Sharpe trial today for the murder of former Senator Carmack. One w the calling by the defense of Govt., nor M. R. Patterson, the other was the failure of the State to cross-ex amine him. It has generally been con ceded, however, that innocently Gov ernor Patterson was one of the re mote causes of the killing. Gov. Patterson testified twice once before the court and again be fore the jury. To the court he hold how he was called over th-e telephone by Colonel Cooper's daughter, Mrs. Lucius Burch. What Mrs. Burch told him he did not say, but, it is known the girl was in deadly terror and appealed to the chief executive to use his influence to avert the tragedy. Whatever it was that Mrs. Burch said so impressed the Gover nor that he took his private secre tary and began a frenzied hunt for the colonel, commencing at nine o 'clock and ending at noon at the Maxwell House where he found Col. Cooper. He told of the conference there, at which besides himself were present Colonel Cooper, Attorney James Bradford and Robin Cooper. He de scribed the colonel's anger and his declaration, and told how they sooth ed the old soldier and made him pro mise to let his friends arrange a peaceable settlement. After he told his story to the court, Judge Hart listened to arguments and decided the governor could not repeat the conversation at a conference at tended but might say what the result was and describe the colonel 's manner and demeanor. The State to the surprise of all de elined to cross-examine today but re served the right to recall the gover nor later for a grilling. Immediately after the governor was exused the judge adjourned court. Attorney General Garner opened the day 's proceedings b)y asking that further cross-examination of T. L. Thompson on the subject in dispute he postponed until later. '"We have some authorities to cite and will pre pare a brief. In the meantime we will ask Thompson a few questions not connected withi his visi.t to Sena tor Carmaek. The jury wa brough.t "Mr. Thompson wvhen you reached Senator Carmnack 's body did you see a hat.' "Not until after we puLt the bodyv in the wagon when some one handed me a green hat and said it was his. "Was it Carmack's?" "'I understand that was not the senator's."' Witness told how upon hearing Senator Carmack had been shot he ran from the capitol block away to the scene of the tragedy. "YXou came down Seventh avenue ou the same side of the street that John Sharp, one of the defendants, laims he wvent up towards the capi tol ''' "'It was a most unusually smoky day, forest fires had been raging, it was c.oludy and as there wvas no wind a p)all of smoke hung over the city,'' the witness said. ('ould von tell or see a blue steel 'itol hailf a block away ?" "I eoulld not." "Did you see as you approached n\y onie at the scene of the trage dv?"'' sI saw a group of people indis inetlv."' "Could you recognize any of threm." .No, sir, it was too smoky and dark.' "When you got near to the group did you find any of your friends?" "I did.' "But you could not recognize them from the corner of Union street and Seventh avenue?' "No, sir.'' "Would it be possible for any one to recognize from the corner a man standing near th-e scene of the kill ing?" "I do not think so" The aim of the State was to show that it was impossible for the Coop ers to recognize Carmack nearly a block away or for John Sharp to see the tragedy in every detail from the corner, as he swore he did. Roscoe Matthews Taylor, the next witness, told of meeting John D. Sharp, in the Arcade the afternoon of the tragedy, of stopping him and soliciting an order for a suit of clothes. This corroborates Sharpe's testimony to the same effect. When Matthews was talking to Sharp Col onel Cooper and Robin came up and were introduced. Dr. Richard Doke, whose office was :aciross the istreet from where the killing took place, said he heard five shots. He rushed out, he said;' and saw Robin Cooper leaning against a pole, Colonel Cooper with an arm around his son and Carmack's body. in the street. He said he saw a revol ver near the senator's right hand. The witness testified that he thought Mrs. Eastman was highly excited. "RECEIVED AS INFORMATION." Roosevelt Shows Some of the News paper Correspondents a Lively Article on G. Washington. Washington, Feb. 26.-Mr. T. Roosevelt is like Mr. G. Washington. He admits it himself. Just about to retire from the office of president of the United States, with men saying all manner of evil against him and desnitefulIy using him, he sent today for some half dozen of the faithful among th-e Washington correspond ents, and, taking them into his inner office, he reached over and took up a faded, yellow and worn periodical of the vintage of 1797. After shak ing off some of the dust and must, it was seen to he a copy of The Aurora, a paper edited by Philip Freneau at Philadelphia. The date was March 6, 1797, two days after George Wash ington retired from office, and an edi torial article in it read as follows: 'Lord, now lettest thou thy sev vant depart in peace.'' This was the pious ejaculation of a pious man who beheld a flood of happiness rushing ini upon mankind "'If ever there was a time that would license a reiteration of the ejaculation, that time has ar rived now, for the man who is the source of all the misfortunes of our country is reduced to a level with his fellow-itizens and is no longer pos sessed of power. to multiply evils up on the United States. Every heart in unison with the freedom and hap piness of the people ought to beat high with exultation that the name of Washington ceases from this day to give currency to political insults, and to legalize corruption. A new era is now opening upon us, an era which promises much to the people, for pub lic measures must now stand upon their own merits, and nefarious pro jects can no longer be supported by name. When a retrospect has been taken of the Washington administra tion for eight years, it is a subject of the greatest astonishment that a sin le individual should have cankered the principles of Republicanism im an enlightened people just emerged from the gulf of despotism and should have carried his designs against the public liberty so far as to have put in jeopardy its very -existence; such, however, are the facts, and with thee staring us in the face, the day ught to be jubilee in the United Sta tes.' But in spite of Mr. Frenau 's ser jous reflections on the first president at the timne of his retirement from fice. G}eorge has come to be quite a figure in history. So will it be with fieodore. And the newsp'rer cor .. pon1nt rec-eived it as infrorma