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COIPROMISE REACHED ON PROHIBITION BILL AMESDMENT PROVIDIN( FOR EELECTION IN WET GO JN TIES PASSED. State-Wide Prohibition for Fifteen Days-The Local Optionists and Prohibitionists Reach an Agreement. The State, 26 Feb. After more than three hours' dis cussion, much of which certainly looked like filibustering, the senate last night passed an amendment to the prohibtion bill-the compromise proposed by Senator Christensen. This amendment was framed up by senators in conference during the dis cussion on the bill. The Christensen amendment which passed provides, in brief: Hold an election July 15 in coun ties now having dispensaries to de termine whether they shall continue the sale of whiskey. This would give prohibition for two weeks under the opening provisions of the prohibition bill. All counties voting to retain the -dispensaries will be under provisions of Carey-Cothran act. After the passage of this amend ment at 11.25 o'clock, Senator Smith spoke upon a motion to indefinitely postpone the bill. The discussion of the prohibition bill created much interest and there were members of the house, which had adjourned, present in the senate chamber, . including Representatives M. L. Smith and Richards, among the prohibition leaders of the house. Messrs. Smith and Richards stated that the house would not adopt the amendment passed by the senate. At 11.40 an adjournment was taken until 10 o'clock today. The Night Session. Senator Smith, at the evening ses sion of the senate, resumed his re marks upon the liquor question. He stated at the outset that he could not agree to the proposition to take an im mediate vote. He would not act upon any one else's judgment except his own. Senator Smith reiterated his state ment that no prohibition or referen duim would be agreeable. After Senator Smith had spoken for 35 minutes there was some effort to adjourn debate but this failed. .Senator Smith had the floor and con tinued to speak. He said that this situation was somewhat unusual, especially for the senate. Senators were seen convers ing in the lobby, apparently trying to reach some agreement. It is under stood that the Christensen amend ments were agreeable to several of the local optionists, but the prohibition side seemed for the most part to rath er wish to put their side of the ques tion to the senate first and then if this would not go, to consider these amendments of Mr. Christensen. Senator Smith stopped speaking at 8.45 o'clock and Senator Clifton of Sumter took the floor to speak upon the bill.* He stated that he had no desire to prevent a vote being reached and pro ceeded to speak as to Senator Otts' position, stating that the senator from Oherokee had always changed to be with the majority. In the course of his remarks Sena lor Clifton stated that the enforce mnent of prohibitionl lawv in this State is not possible. The memorial exercises in honor of the memory of the late Senator Nath an S. Gibson had been set for 9.30 o'clock but a motion to reconsider was made and the 'hour set for 1.30 Saturday. The changing of the hour for the memorial exercises left the senate still considering the whiskey bill with Senator Clifton holding the floor. Senator Clifton proceeded to urge against a State-wide referendum and against the larger counties saying what shall be done in the smaller counties. Senator Clifton referred to Rev. Jno. L. Harley 's work in the prohibi tion fight. He spoke of the chart wvhich had been drawn showing the ''wet'' counties in black and the dry counties in white. Senator Otts called attention that this chart was prepared by the Wo man's Christian Temperance union. Senator Clifton claimed that prohi bition is a political question--not a moral question. He added thrat- there is no provision in the constitution for any referendum en the whiskey ques tion. He would never agree for the Piedmont section to vote whiskey out of Sumter county. There 'had been an effort at a compromise, but this has not been done. Senator Clifton threw out the stat? ment that he and some of the sena tors w.r willine for an election in the "et ' 1 Ut iq?. b)ut he woul.d not be willing for the State-wide referen dum. nRfrring to the operations of pro hibition, Senator Clifton stated that he had heard .it said that out of Rich mond one car load of whiskey was shipped each day for North Carolina, where there is prohibition now. At 10 o'clock the galleries of the senate were crowded, many ladies be in present to watch the interesting fight in the senate on the prohibi tion question. Senator Clifton referred to reports and observations of the non-enforce ment of the prohibition law in parts of Georgia. Motion to Adjourn Debate. An effort was made at 10.20 o'clock to adjourn debate until 1 o'clock Sat urday, which motion was tabled by a vote of 32 to 4. Senator Weston moved to adjourn debate untitl 10.30 o'clock Saturday, which motion was also tabled. Senator Clifton concluded his re marks at 10.25 o'clo k. Senator Bass moved to table the amendment of Senator Appelt and de manded the ayes and nays. Before the vote was put the reading of the amendments printed in the journal was requested by Senator Kelley and was done. An Agreement. The question came up as to some agreement. Senator Carlisle stated he was no party to the agreement, also Senator Smith. Senator Walker stated that the had submitted the proposition to local op tionists providing for prohibtion for 15 days, commencing July 1; the elec tion to be held July 15 -in the wet counties, those voting dry to be clos ed December 1, 1909. The injunction proceedings were not in his proposition as were includ ed in the bill and was not acceptable to some. This was the reason debate was asked to be adjourned so that an agreement fully might be reached. Senator Walker wished for some settlement to be reached. Senator Christensen stated that it would be impossible to reach an agreement on the floor of the senate; wait until the matter is straightened out and then debate it. Senator Mauldin stated that he looked upon prohibtion as an econo mie proposition. He had changed .his views that the measure of prohibition could not be enforced and now be lieves it would work all right. The agreement is tentative. This would give the liquor coun ties the right to vote themselves wet again after the 15 days' prohibition. Senator Otts would not agree to this proposition. Senator Clifton stated that he had not agreed to the proposition and would like to think it over. The vote to table the Appelt amend ment resulted: Ayes-28. Nays-9. The Rogers amendment was tabled, also the Charleston referendum amendment. The amendment referred to as the "compromise'' amendment was offer ed by Senator Christensen. Senator Christensen state~d that this amendment was his first amendment, changed so as to meet the favor of some of the prohibitionists, according to the understanding. The Carey Cothran enforcement feature is in serted in the amendment. The expen ses of the elections in "wet'' counties is to be borne by the State. Senator Lide opposed the kind of referendum that was proposed. He felt that it would create strife in the counties now "wet.'' Senator Clifton moved to indef initely postpone the bill, but Senator Lide 's motion to table the Christen sen amendment had precedence. Upon the motion to table the Chris tensen amendment (compromise) the vote resulted Ayes 9; nays 28. So the senate refused to lay on the table the Christensen amenament. Senator Otts moved to adopt the .qo'mittee amendment, the State wide referendum measure. The Christensen amendment was adopted.. Senator Clifton moved to indefi nitely postpone the bill. The vote to table the Christensen amendment resulted: Ayes-Black, Clifton, Carlisle, Cros son, Griffin, Johnson, Lide, Otts, Smith-9. Nas-Appelt, Bates, Christensen, Croft, Earle. Forrest, Hardin, Harvey, Hough, Johnstone, Kelley, Laney, Mauldin, McCown, McKeithan, Mont gomery, Muekenfuss, Rainsford, Sinkler. Spivey, Waller, Weston, Wil liams, Wharton-28. ,* ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * WILL SEABROOK'S TRAVELS * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * * * (By W. B. Seabrook.) Special to T,he Herald and News. Saintes Maries de la Mer. France. -In the eyes of the "true believer'' this little fishing village on the Medi erra nea n shore is the eradle of the Christian faith in Europe; it was here that the first missionaries to miraculously condueted across the sea; it is here that the bones of the three Saintes Maries are exhibited once every hundred years to the ec static gaze of the faithful; it is to ward this consecrated spot that a great pilgrimage wends its way every year, a pilgrimage that has preserved in a wonderfully vivid manner the picturesque .customs and curious -re dences of the middle ages. The strangest part of this pilgrim age is the pant played by the Bohem ians, that mysteriously organized and secretly governed race of nomads, who are incorrectely termed "Gyp sies" in America, and sometimes, more properly, Zingari. These pro fessional wanderers, whose patrie is the public highway, come hund'reds of leagues to take part in the religious procession and pay special honors to the remains of their celebrat-ed pat ron saint, Sarah. This famous shrine is the Mecca of the Gypsies. During the days which precede and follow the fete, the Bohemians, flocking from all directions, form an encamp ment on the outskirts of the village, with their queen, their chiefs, itheir picturesque wagons, their dreamy eyed, undulating, velvet-clad beauties, their ragged and pitiful infants, their dogs and horses. Kneeling in rever ent devotion, they pray Saint Sarah for the salvation of their souls, and at the same moment skillfully pick the pockets of some bourgeois Gatho .lie pilgrim. They are very devout and very clever; the result is they are seldom, if ever, detected in their ro guery, but during the period of their sojourn rthey are the terror of the -neighbothood. "Look here," said one of them to a comrade, "what -a splendid candle I have brought to illumine before Saint Sarah's shrine.'' "Where did you get iti'' inquired the s6econd. "I stole it from the cathedral of Baxbbentan on the day of ithe last communion," was the reply. The church of the Saintes Maries is composed of three superimposed chambers, a crypt, and a chapelle su perieure. The orypt -is Saint Sa-. rah's exclusive domain, and her pre cious casket, exposed to view during the fete, is guarded by the. Bohe mians. During the great revolution, when so many shrines were violated, this ,casket disappeared mysteriously, to 'be replaced only upon the corona tion of Napoleon. It had been seized by the IBohemians and 'hidden in a place of safety. In this crypt, upon the night of the fete, .the Bohemains choose their queen. The ceremony is seven centur ies old. Above the crypt is the chapel, .that is to say, the main part of the church in which the French pilgrims assemn ble. The chapelle superieure forms a higher story in which are preserved the venerable bones of the Saintes Maies. The caskets, which, by their size and shape, remind one of minia tu're trunks, are formed of sculptured cypress, lined and draped with cloth of gold. Each easket is locked with four keys. At the supreme moment of the fete, a trap door is opened in the ceiling of the main chapel and the sacred relics are lowered by a windlass, descend ing slowly through the space above the iheads of the crowd, and drop ping gently into place upon the altar, where they are approached and touched by the pilgrims, especially by the unfortunates who 'hope, by the contact, to be cured miraculously of their diseases and afflicetions. At this hour the church is packed and jammed by pilgrims who crowd the aisles and clamber upon the pews, cling .to the columns, climb upon each other's shoulders in sort of religious frenzy, and encumber the steps cf the altar; the great brazen bhells clang in the .trembling tower, enormous bombs and cannon-erackers are exploded each moment outside the windows; the itrap-door opens, while from a thousand t!hroats arises the cry. ''Vi vent Les Saintes Maries,'' and to the thundering accompaniment of a medi aeval anthem the caskets descend, suspended by an almost invisible sil ver wire, which, in the dimness of the church, gives one the illusion .that :the relics are floating unsupported in the air. ''Plan, plan, ]ei caisso da valoun!'' A sea of waving arms are outstretelh'ed toward the trelics, the lame, the halt and the blind s rge forward, each striving to be the first to touch the .easkets; a crippled girl is trampled under foot, the priests re store a semblance of order and the other pilgrims approach, many touching the relics with a tiny eruci fix or some other object of piety, with wihich they hope, upon returning bore, to cure the ailments of afflicted relatives, who have not been able to make the journey. Throughout the entire day the crowds thronir the hurch, circulate around ithie altar. sing, pray, and even lie down at njiht to sleep in thre conseerated spot. Upon the following' day. the same scenes are repeated, the pilgrims are, shouting and mareiing to and fro with an indescribable enblusiasm. The young priests circulate among ithe crowd, and distribute to those who have been unable to enter the church a reliquary in the form of a miniature female arm, which the faithful believers kiss devoutly and preserve until their death. However, the hour for the great procession arrives, announced from the belfry. A long line of pilgrims emerges from the chu>reh, and march es toward the beach, pilgrims from Toulouse, Montpelier, Narbonne, Bez iers, Lunel, Taraseon, Beaucaire, Saint Remy, Arles, from all Pro vence; women, children, cripples, con sumptives, robust, red-cheek-ed farm ers, hardy peasants bronzed by the meridianal sun, fishermen and sailors, who have come from afar to chant once more the old canticles, which have come down through the centu ries, and which they learned at their grandmothers' knees. "Dans un vaisseau sans cordage, Au naufrage, On vous exposa soudain. Mais le Dieu la Providence De Provence Vous fit trouver le chemin." Each parish has its special banner, its priest, and chants its particular local canticle: The effect is very ori ginal, very imposing, and frightfully discordant. At length, as the proces sion grows longer, the sacred caskets emerge from the doorway of the church upon a flower covered 6hariot, drawn by Mediterranean sailors, whose foreheads stream with perspir ation as they march and sing. The caskets are followed by a happy fath er, carrying in ihis arms a baby, whom, upon the previous day the saints had "cured" of some imaginary malady. The procession, augmented by the chariot and composing a total of five or six thousand souls, is now march ing along the sands, the banners float in the fresh breeze, the surf breaks upon ithe shore, the bells clang and the bombs detonate with the sound of artillery in action; the high-priest, re splendent in a gorgeous robe of red and gold, advances toward the sea un til the wavelets break over his feet; then he holds aloft ithe reliquary said to -contain the arm of one of the saints, and, according to the popular belief, the waves miraculously recede. The ceremony is com.pleted, the ranks of the procession are broken, and, after the caskets have been re turned - to itheir resting place, the flowers, which have decorated the chariot are scattered upon the heads of 'the crowd. Happy is the sailor or fisherman, who 'has the good luck to seize one of these blossoms flying through the air. The next 'morning, 'he will fasten it sto the prow of his fishing boat and will 'expect it 'to ren der the sea propitious, and conduct him to a spot where fish are -abund ant. At three o'cloek in the afternoon, the church-bells ring once more for vespers, and for thre last time the pil grims enter the chapel. While they chant and Magnificat and illumine 'myriad candles, the sacred easkets are -again attached to the silver wire, and as the splendid old Gregorian hymn 'rolls upward, the relics ascend through a cloud of smoke and incense. A Hurry Up Call. Qutick! Mr Druggiist-Quick !-A box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve Here 's a quater-For the love* of Moses, hurry ! Baby's burned him self, terribly-J'ohnnie cut his foot with the axe-Mamie 's scalded-Pa 'can't walk from pilas-Billie has boils-and my corns ache. Sh'e got it and soon cured all the family. Its the greatest healer on earth. Sold by W. E. Pelham & Son, Newberry, S. C. Only Now andt Then. Kansas City Times. 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