VOL. XXXXII. THE MODERN STORE.-- — Midsummer Remnant Sale All This Week. See Printed Circulars. All over the store great piles of remnants and store ends of all kinds of Dress Goods, Silks, White and Color ed Wash Goods, Embroideries, Laces, etc. Also many odd lots at 25c to 50c on the dollar. Colored Organdies and etc., that sold from 18c to 25c originally and that have been on 12ic tables, now 9c per yard. Silk Organdies, Colored Wash Silks, Blue, Brown and Black Polka-dot Foulard Silks, that I we re 50c now 25c per yard. Choice of any hat in the store now $1.98, others at 98c. 48c and 19c. Big bargains of all kinds during the closing days of this bargain month. EISLER-MARDORF COftPANY, SOUTH KADI STREET | AA4 SmS" D f Samples sent on request. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA J We will furnish your house from cellar to attic kl with furniture and carpet of guaranteed LI % reliability and save you a handsome M 4 sum ,on the total cost. pi M We have no ready-made "housekeeping outfits." We find our customers are better pleis«Hl to select what suits their individual > 1 fancy from our big stock, at our regular low prices—and then we ( A make a liberal discount on the whole amount > Our lines of Dining Room—Library—Kitchen and Bed Room I Furnitnre are fnll of the latest and best. The $25 and S3O Bed i . Room Sails are fine specimens of the designer's art and maker's f-kill. i V' Oak Extension Tables, worth $lO, going this week at <B. Side-" ' > boards of Golden Oak, handsomely carved —only $25 to S3O. ( i > ► A Store Filled With Good Values. < < ► l Every article sold on honor. If it proves imperfect we want to 4 know about it and make it right. ( Call and look around. It's a pleasure to show goods, f ► < i BROWN & CO, : A No. 136 North Main St.,. Butler. v ? We wish to announce to the people of Butler County S 5 that our SEMI-ANNUAL MIDSUMMER < \ CLEARANCE SALE Is In progress. < n We are giving the same large discounts as here-to-fore j f and we solicit your patronage for the sake of J pocketbook. You know us and know what our sales > \ have done for you in the past. We quote below a fewr S Men's, boys' and children's suits at the following discounts: J ) One lot of boys' suits were $1.50 to $4, sale price sl.f Y Same discounts on shirts, hats, coats and vests, fancy) y vests, etc. Top coats at same discounts. Bring this! lad. with you and compare prices. Yours for bargains, S I Douthett & Graham. | 1 SEE AVIKDOW DISPLAY FROM TIME TO TIME. V § CLEARANCE SALE! § 8 Are you looking for a Surry, Spring Wagon or Buggy O to go to the Fairs, if you are we have them and at prices O Othat will surprise you, we are crowded for room and still O O have a good many.buggies coming in, that we will have O Oto make room for and in order to do so will sell O 0 SSO BUGGIES AT S4O. § O $60.00 Buggies at $50.00 and all others in proportion, © O good Harness at SIO,OO, a few more through Rawhide © © Whips at 25 cents. Come quick before it is too late and © © the bargains all gone. © © Trunks to close out at cost for the next thirty days. © iMartincourt & Thom« 0 (LIMITED) © o 128 E. Jefferson St., Butler, Pa. g 0 Headquarters for Kramer Wagons. 0 GQQQ&OOQQ® 000(90® 03000000000 i * ' * * is g AN UNUSUAL CHANCES j| 1 Wall Paper at Cost. | From July Itolo we will give 40 per cent, off *s• fb on our entire line of Wall Paper! Here's a bargain for yon if yon need any Wall Paper! & Need a Hammock? We've reduced our hammocks! I EYTM BROS., I NEAR COURT HOUSE- $ "THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Schaul & Levy's Great July Clearance Sale Of Clothing 1 . * The usual accompaniment of a great business is the ac cumulation of small quantities and small lots. Then too, the strict adherence to our policy of never carrying goods over from one season to another necessitates at this time of the year A General Clearance Sale. In looking over our immense stock it shows that it is better to cut out many lines. No store can afford to merely store merchandise, every space is needed for quick selling goods. The new must replace the old. Whatever has not sold quickly, or whatever we have too much of or what is left from our former big sales must be sold at this Great July Clearance Sale. SCHAUL& LEVY SUCCESSOR TO SCHAUL & NAST, 137 South Main Street. Butler, Pa. A Bickel's Footwear. | A Grand Display of Fine Footwear in M 4 All the Latest Spring Styles. M Jwi We are showing many A Jmmw JB pretty styles in Ladies' Fine fe ] Shoes and Oxfords at prices Ts J r SUre interGßt U Mi 4 « Big bargains in Misses' W N -1 and Children's Shoes. ►J iWW? Large stock of Men's and k' - r r i fords in many styles. k rA a Ijff' Repairing promptly done. L |] JOHN BICKELt M 128 S Main-St., BUTLER, PA. n ,l«! ,#r MEN /s'l I li Won't buy clothing for the purpose of J |j'» lyjH II spending money. They desire to get the iTI I Al // / If best possible results of the money expended. ijl | J Q/ \ Wj JJ Those who buy cnstom clothing have a / ' LJILffl'S/jt/i right to demand a fit, to have their clothes A 1 § correct in style and to demand of the /, • • J&Z 4r 1 seller to guarantee everything. Come to JL/\ \ I'll''*! S us and there will be nathing lacking. I pjV JsF'KfidS&iC:\ \ have just received a large stock of Spring 'in « and Summer suitings in the latest styles, \ I!l I (? shades and colors. fH f G. F. KECK, ** / P H MERCHANT TAIfeOR, IjLJJ 142 N. Main St., Butler, Pa _ M HV * mHH, E J^Bsi»r f Do More Work, !|! Better Work, § $ ™ Less M i aD anj ° tiiei was|,er M 1 on the market, f ii y § J. Q. &W. CAMPBELL, ' 3- BUTLER, PA. jg B Free Bus to and From Trains, ■ fij Rates Reasonable at all Times. M B Water Free to Guests. If B Open the Year Round. I HOTEL DE VITA, I I CAMBRIDGE SPRINGS, PA. ft ■ -MARTIN It. PAIIKJSR, Mgr. |p I In connection with the De Vita Mineral Springs. j|| ■ Electric and Vapor Baths. g ■ The Magnesia Spring is found at a depth of 109 ■ feet and the water rises to within four feet of the H surface, whence it is pumped direct to the hotel. I® H As a water for bathing it isuneijualed on account B °f its softness and medicinal properties. Being a S'| 81 laxative, it is one of the best known specifics for 3-»; mfj all blood and skin diseases. && H These waters have made wonderful cures and. SO' are recommended for the following diseases: \ Bright a Disease of the Kidneys, Rheumatism, T my. Prostration, Diabetes, Dropsy, Catarrh of the Stomach and Bladder, Nervous Prostration, iff Rheumatic Gout, all poisonous conditions of the : y blooa and gastric conditions of the stomach. * BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY. JULY 27, 1905. | The Witch of I i Cragenstone m S By ANITA CLAY MUNOZ, ' iji A ijifc ,411 Author of "In Love md Truth" ZXw , Coputiflht, 1905. bu Anita CUi' Manoz • CHAPTER XXI. AT the Sign of tlie Rod Heart La Fabieune fouud a scene of uu k usual excitement and commo motlon—soldiers just arrived and moving about jesting among them selves or calling roughly for bed and supper; the busy landlord cursing and giving angry, excited orders to a simpering housemaid, and horse boys, agape with admiration of the scarlet coats, glittering cuirassiers and hel mets of the newcomers—for soldiery was an unusual sight In Cragenstone— were hurriedly piling hay in the corners of the large, low roofed kitchen for the men to sleep upon. Catching a glimpse of Sir Godfrey making his way through the throng to the foot of the narrow staironse, his host ran after him and, touching him on the shoulder, whispered anxiously, "My lord." La Fablenne paused. "I have been forced to put the young officer in charge of these men into thy room for the night," the innkeeper said. "He will not annoy thee, sir. Wo ha' spread a rough pallet In th« farthest corner, an' thy man Gaston hath consented to lie in the stable for the night." The excited man rubbed his hands together propitiatingly. "Thou'rt ever generous, my lord, and readier with thy gold than most, bo I would not offend thee, although there are some as say thy presence in my house doth bode me evil," he ven tured to add. Suppressing the inclination toward anger that he felt, La Fabienne said hastily. "Say no more, good host. The man may lie in the corner for aught I care, and the worst I wish him is that he may rest easy on his pallet," he con cluded indifferently as he walked away. "When thou canst get thy breath, send me a tankard of ale. I will drink in my room tonight." The landlord, whose mind was great ly relieved, after profuse bows with drew hastily, and Sir Godfrey, alone on the dark, crooked stairway, where there was no need of hiding the deep feeling that stirred him by forcing a calm exterior, paused, thinking deeply, great anxiety showing itself on his countenance. '• 'Tis well, good landlord, that thou didst give me the proper man, who happen hath a taste for home brew that taken in quantities enough may loosen his tongue," he said under his breath. "If my suspicions are correct, that these men have been sent here to get evi dence against Margaret upon Josiah Taunstoq's representations and then to take her into custody, by my faith, to morrow at sunrise Is not one hour too early for us to ride away. Fool, fool that I have been to treat the deep laid schemes of that villian with such con tempt: Dlable! Almost—almost, I say, the net he threw did catch us In its meshes!" A few steps brought him to his room, and, throwing open the door, he saw by the flickering light of the candle a pinn of about twenty-live years of age, a dandified looking fellow, with weak blue eyes and light hair, strutting proudly up and doitn the room in the riding suit that Sir Godfrey had thrown oft before Jiis visit to Margaret. The officer, being a man of lower stat ure than La Fabienne, the long leather boots reached fairly to his hips, and his sword, that he had Just adjusted, clank ed against them as he walked. At the sudden appearance of tlieir owner he fell back against the wall, with pale face, hanging Jaw and a look of great abashment on his countenance. La Fabienne entered with easy famil iarity, giving the discomfited captain, who at once began to tug at his boots In a desperate endeavor to get them off, a word of friendly greeting, "Pardon, my lord. I long have want ed such a suit," the fellow explained In great confusion, "an' I but took the opportunity, without meaning ofTense, of seeing how the fashion would be come me." La Fabienne regarded him with an appearance of the utmost satisfaction and good humor. "And so well it suits thee, good fel low, and becomes thy dashing style," he said, "that methinks 'twere a pity to deprive thee of it Thou may keep it and welcome." Walking to the small window, he threw open the lattice. "By the mass, but It's warm in here! Such holes as they have out out to let the air In one can hardly get his hand through!" The soldier, who had accepted the suit with many expressions of pleasure and gratitude, now approached La Fa bienne, but at that moment, a house maid entering with the ale, he turned about suddenly, drew himself up to his highest stature and strutted before her conceitedly. Smiting at his airs, his companion took the tatokacfl, bade the girl bring up another, and, inviting his new ac quafcitance to drink wifh him, they sat down on the bench together. "Art fond of ladles, good sir?" the captain inquired, with a roguish shake of his blond head. "I warrant that wench was not ill looking, barring the wart on her chin." It being his turn, he lifted the tank ard and after taking a long draft held it on high, exclaiming with dra matic emphasis, "Whate'er of faults John Blngall hath, a slow eye for a fair lass can ne'er be counted amongst them." The housemaid returning with the second order, he waved his hand to ward La Fabienne with a graceful mo tion and, still holding the ale above his head, cried gayly: "Women, lovely women! Let us drink to the ladles, Sir Roommate." Sir Godfrey echoed his companion's boisterous laughter with an appear ance of great enjoyment as the maid, blushing and simpering, left the room. By now the house below had fallen into complete quietness, the only sounds audible being the loud breath ing of the soldiers, who lay about on the straw asleep. "Thy men rest heavily and breathe as if greatly fatigued," La Fabienne observed after further conversation of a light nature regarding the captain's pet theme—women. "Didst march far today?" "From Sterndorf," he answered, with darkening face. "Beshrew my heart! But this coun try must ha' been intended for wild i beasts with claws instead of human below wjitb only and poniard* I Our orders came to march at once across the footpath over the mountain, and such crawling, climbing, tearing and cutting our way none will ever know." " 'Twas well when so weary that thou found the Sign of the Red Heart to rest at ere thou ,pursued the rest of thy Journey," his companion observed quietly. The captain glanced up quickly. "Oh, we have reached our destina tion," he said. "We have business in this village on the morrow." "I' faith, a stranger just arrived, as I am, hath had little chance to liaar of the happenings round about," La Fa blenne observed carelessly. "But this sober peopled vlUage looketh not like a warring center. Here, good fellow, finish thine ale," he cried as the of ficer, opening his mouth to speak, was about to ask him a question, "so that I can offer thee some red wine that I bave in yonder flagon on the table. So thou'rt not on thy way to join com rades?" The captain finished his ale as di rected, and the empty pewter tankard came down on the bench with a ringing Bound. "My business in the village," he said, lowering his voice and looking toward the door apprehensively, "hath a deal of secrecy about it, as my first and most important instructions were to hold converse with no one but the mem bers of the council." Sir Godfrey rose and, bringing the jug of wine, commenced to ply the man with liquor, laughing and jesting merrily as he did so. At last the captain, who was very weary from his long day's march and whose face was red from excess of drinking, cried that he had had enough and must keep his senses, as he and his men were under orders to rise at daybreak. "Uds daggersf he continued under his bieath, with a drunken laugh. "An the witch escapes any other way than up i' the air astride a broomstick I lose the king's favor." "Thy business here concerneth a witch V" his companion questioned carelessly. The captain was hiccoughing slight ly, and he reeled and almost fell as he tugged at his boot. "Beshew me, yes. Such devil's work and devil's luck as hath been mine this day doth keep me cursing. Two long weeks we have been burled In Sterndorf, an' just as we were ex pecting instructions to go back to Loudon we were ordered here to cap ture some old beldam who hath been doing serious pranks and stirring up devils in the community." "An old woman!" La Fabienne look ed up eagerly. "Hast thou her name, man?" The captain fumbled among his pa pers and, drawing forth n sheet of parchment, spelled out with difficulty the name—"Margaret Mayland, accus ed by Josiah Taunston and Adam Browdie," he read slowly. "And so thou takest the witch at daybreak?" La Fabienne observed lightly. "What reason for such haste, good fellow?" •'I know not the reason of such haste, gooil sir. Diable! A soldier asks not reasons, but obeys orders." La Fabienne yawned. "Thy tale, forsooth, hath a touch of Interest in it, friend, with a promise Hls companion took the tankard, at excitement for the morrow," he said. "Hast not a similar document, captain? Of what portent is that?" "This other paper?" The man low ered his voice. "Prithee, 'tis u warrant for the arrest and custody of some Frenchman she hath bewitched, or is an accomplice to th« old hag in her be devilmeut, I wot not which. My in formation is but vague." He stretched out his arms and rub bed his eyes sleepily. "Methinks he doth Jive with her at the hous«. Our orders, however, are to take the woman first." The soldier, having loosed his tongue by his many and frequent potations, continued with an air of mysterious se crecy. "I* truth, if they attempt to es cape they will find that all the roads leading from the village are guarded." "Ha! Is't so?" La Fabienne's manner betrayed such ill concealed astonishment and agita tion that had his companion's senses not been dulled the fact would not have escaped his notice. "Aye, comrade, by Puritans heavily armed and with orders to take them dead or alive. So, I ween, the poor dev ils' case hath not much of hope in it." By the uncertain light of the candle La Fabienne's face looked extremely white. Rising suddenly, he untied the lace bow at his throat. "Come, let's to bed, good captain. I must rise with thee at the dawn!" he cried boisterously. "Methiuks 'twere rare sport to see a witch taken. What punishment is meted out to such?" " 'Sdeath, hanging or burning," the other replied carelessly. "Of a surety the king will interfere." La Fabienne's hand trembled as he unbuckled hia sword. "Nay!" the officer cried hastily. "Thou'rt wrong there, friend! The king bothers not his head with such small kind as dwell hereabout. Why, his majesty's as variable as a woman, go ing from one side to the other as often as the wind changeth. Just now he's all for the papists, au' if there is a thing he is more against than another it is witchcraft. Uds blood! At the last burning at Sterndorf the woman's brother appealed to him, and the king sent word back that they could all i burn each other up an they so willed for aught he would Interfere, and J 'twould be a p>o<l riddance when 'twas over. He's changeable, but as a rule thou canst count on Ills not interfering at a witch burning." "God's pity!" exclaimed La Fa bienne under his breath. Then he continued hastily, seeing the map had grown more communicative, "The witch, methlnks myself, 'twere well to capture, but the Frenchman of whom thou spokest, what want they of him?" "It seemeth he hath great influence both at home and abroad," the captain whispered, looking furtively at the closed door. "If they can hold him safely in prison until the woman is tried and executed they will let him go, or mayhap prefer charges against him and bring him to trial also." He threw himself down wearily on the pallet of straw in the corner. "Poor devil!" observed La Fabienne lightly. "But 'tis ever the way of those that consort with evil. Marry! The wretch is fairly caught in the trap these God fearing Puritans have set for him." His companion grunted a sleepy re sponse. "If 'tis as thou hath stated, that all the roads are stoutly defended but the footpath through the fljonntain for est"—La Fabienne eyed the man nar rowly—"the witch's accotaplice. bap-, pen he got wind of his intended arrest, hatli small hope of escape." The captain laughed a drunken laugh of enjoyment; then, raising up in bed on his elbow, he said: "My lord, 'tis truth thou speakest. The man is fairly caught. But If the wretch had knowledge of the hard ships my men and I have endured to day he would prefer the hanging that the people have In store for him to attempting escape through the forest. By blood and nails, it was an awful ordeal, an' but for the fact that it was as difficult to retrace our steps as to proceed, my fellows would have re fused to advance. A curse on this wraggy top notch of nowhere!"' he cried. "Tomorrow, our work done, we march down you mountain road to London, or I'm but half a man and know not mine own will!" As his companion did not reply or seem inclined to hold further converse, the captain stretched himself out on the pallet at full length and, throwing an arm up over his head, was soon sleeping soundly. La Fabienne waited, making sure ' that the prostrate man was uncon scious of all else but his dreams, then threw himself hopelessly into a chair and let the pent up feelings in his heart break through the quiet mask he had worn on his face, and an ex pression battled and desperate took its place, while under his breath he cursed himself "roundly for his stupid lack of foresight and his contempt for Josiah Taunston's plotting. Springing to his feet, he paced lightly up and down the room like one bereft. Once he paused at the aperture and looked long in the direction of the Mayland farm, the tops of the tall trees in the forest being all that was visible, then strode fierce ly across the room again as if unable to contain his emotions. Unlocking a chest that stood in the corner, lie re moved from it to his person a bag of gold and a brace of pistols, put on his hat and cape and noiselessly buckled on his sword. "If I allowed her to attempt the for est she would die," he said under his breath, "and if I told her of my inten tion she would not let me go alone. Oh, God, 'tis hard!" He shook his head hopelessly. The candle, now burned down to the edge of the socket, threw weird, smoky rays on La Fablenne's white face as he seated himself, in great perplexity and sore distress, upon the wooden bench. "Margaret, oh, my love! God help me! There is no other way," he said after a few moments' consideration, and as his bent head fell forward on his hands the candle near him splut tered and went out as If in very sum pathy for his sorrow and despair. Ris ing, he groped his way to the door, down the stairway and out of the house so silently that no one, not even the innkeeper, sleeping in his chair by the chimney place, heard him or knew that ho had gone. CHAPTER XXII. THE next morning at the earliest hour of dawu, before even the birds had wakened, when the only light on the earth was that received from the rising sun's re flection on the sky, Margaret Mayland, dressed in her riding habit of crimson cloth, moved about the house, busily making her preparations for departure. " 'Tis strange, Elsbeth," she said as she finished fastening a large, square locker, "that Gaston is not here. Hath thou the saddlebags packed? Metliinks by now the horses should be fed and in readiness for our Journey." Elsbeth drew her breath sharply. » "j w ju a g] at j hour when thou an' I are far away from this domain," she said. "Since we came here, sweet, I ha' been defiant, ever scornful o' the sueers of the people and their sinister glances, but this morning I woke from my fitful sleeping with terror in my heart and a dreadful fear that these villagers, led by thy cousin, would seek to wreak their hatred and Intolerant vengeance on thee." Margaret patted the older woman's shoulder reassuringly. "Thou'rt overworked, Elsbeth, and hath the megrims as a consequence," she said. "Why talk of fear when we have a strong protector so close at hand? Hast tlion yet to learn, foolish old woman, that Sir Godfrey is a man to put dependence on? Last night when he left me he said, 'Trust me, Marga ret,' and he needed not mine assurance to know that I did so with all my heart." Elsbeth walked to the window, look ing out anxiously toward the village. "The hour of dawn is full upon us," she said solemnly, "an* neither thy lov er nor his servant is approaching. Hap pen he meant the morrow, sweet?" Margaret frowned Impatiently. "Godfrey said this morning at day break, and ho did not mean any other time," she said crossly. "Mark me, a La Fabienne would ne'er break his word to any one, much less to the wo man he loves. See, Elsbeth," she cried a moment later, "the sun is only just above the mountain tops. 'Tis but now the break of day! They'll come anoo'" The women moved about, completing their arrangements with nervous haste, from time to time pausing In their la bors to listen for sounds of approach ing horses' feet. Suddenly Elsbeth clutched her companion's arm. "Hist!" she whispered. "What strange sounds fall on mine ears! Dost not hear voices loud calling an' the tramp of many feet?" Both hastened to an aperture in the hallway that commanded a better view of the road and gates. For a moment they looked on with beating hearts; then Margaret, uttering a groau, cow ered against the wall, covering up her face with her hands. "Oh, God's pity! If Godfrey hath met my cousiu Josiah and in bis just . anger hath killed him!" she moaned. J jhe other stood looking out of the 1 wjjtduw faorele—ly. "Elsbeth. say that thou doth see ray Godfrey riding this way unmolested!" Margaret cried tearfully. "I see thy cousin Josiah, an' me thinks 'tis the old elder who is the Judge or superior in the council on horseback advancing toward this house," Elsbeth announced dully, "an" a party of soldiery surrounded by a throng of excited people do follow them. They are turning in this gate way. Margaret!" the woman fairly shrieked as she turned and threw her arms about her young mistress. "Hide, sweet: mayhap 'tis thee they want. Holt the doors an' bar the windows! liefuse them admittance!" Mart&ret's face was white and star tled. * "Elsbeth. calm thyself. Cease thy niaunderings," she answered sternly. "I hide! Margaret Mayland hide her face as though she had done wrong! Shame on thee, Elsbeth! Rather bid me throw open wide the door." "Margaret, sweet babe Margaret," the old woman cried, almost beside herself with fear and apprehension, "then take off the cross thou wearest that doth anger them." At these words Margaret raised her head haughtily and drew away from the woman, but Elsbeth clung to her wildly. "Remember that I have loved thee so that thou hast ne'er missed thy mother!" sl.e cried. "Thou hast told me so, sweet, many times when 'twas thy mood to be tender. Margaret, for the care I have given thee I demand a return. Take off the cross that doth anger tbem!" The noises outside came nearer, growing louder. Margaret stooped and kissed the sobbing woman on the fore head. "And have I not loved thee, too, Els beth?" she asked as she pushed her gently from her. Heavy tramping on the steps was heard, then a loud rapping on the door. Margaret's eyes gleamed strangely. "Go, Elsbeth, throw open wide the door," she said. "Bid our visitors en ter." "Nay, nay, Margaret, I cannot go!" Elsbeth crouched down In the corner on a chair, trembling as with a fit of ague. "Open, in the king's name!" It was a man's voice shouting. Then he knock ed again louder, this time with bis sword hilt. Scarce had he ceased when the door was swung back on its hinges, and a young woman, more beautiful than he had ever seen before, with long skirts of red cloth trailing about her and the rose tinted rays of the early morning sun falling on her yellow hair and showing the dazzling whiteness of her skin, stood before him on the threshold and gazed at him, then over liis shoulder at the soldiers and throng of curious, excited people with quiet severity. "Who knocks so rudely at my door and doth bid me open?" she said. The captain of the guard, who had his papers in his band, looked about him uncertainly; then a gleam of ar dent admiration came into his eyes, and he advanced toward Margaret, pulling his hat off to the ground, with profuse bows. The soldiers at atten tion awaited orders, and the crowd. whose crying and hooting had sunk to low murmurs of curious interest as the startling sound of the officer's loud rapping ffell on their ears, now at the sight of the mistress of Mayland farm began to gesticulate wildly, pointing in her direction and calling loudly: " 'Tis she, the witch! The devil's beldame! Take her, good offi cer, an' thou'lt be doing God's work!" As she saw the menacing actions and heard the angry accusations of the crowd the pallor on Margaret's face deepened, and she trembled slightly from shock and Surprise. Then, collecting herself with a mighty effort, she spoke again to the officer: "What duty brings thee to my door, good captain?" The captain, squaring bis shoulders, strutted before her conceitedly, then said in pleasant tones, with an in sinuating smile of admiration, "I am commanded, fair lady, by order of the king, to take into custody the person" —here he paused to look over the scroll of parchment be held in his hand—"of a woman, one Margaret Mayland, ac cused of the crime of witchcraft." At that moment old Elsbeth appeared in the doorway behind Margaret, ber befrllled cap awry and ber eyes red with weeping. The captain, observing ber, made another low bow to Marga ret. "With your x>ermission I will enter and take her now," he said. "Men, for ward!" The soldiers, with swords clanking, came up the steps. Margaret did not move, for, having caught sight of her cousin, Josiah Taunston, grim, exultant, solemn, astride his high horse in the middle of the gathering, she was gaz ing at him with an expression of re proachful sternness. * "Gracious mistress"—the captain laid his hand upon her arm—"it will be nec essary for me to take this woman. In the king's name I ask thee to allow me to enter!" She drew away from his touch with a quick gesture of offended dignity. "Why shouldst thou enter, man, when she whom thou hast come to take stands at thy side?" she said. "Thou, mistress!" The captain fell back a step or two In his surprise. " 'Tis no wonder that thou doth stare at me incredulous, with open mouth," she said bitterly. "Yea, I am Margaret Mayland, and a woman most unjustly accused." "Prithee, captain," cried Elder Wil lams, the chief councilor, who had been whispering aside with Taunston, "do thy duty with more speed. Happen thou stay longer thou'lt fall under the iipell of the woman, and, instead of per forming the king's work, thou'lt be do ing pranks on the green! More haste, officer." Thus sternly admonished, the captain replaced his helmet and, motioning to his men to come closer, said: "Marga ret Mayland, in the king's name I do arrest tUoe for the black crimes of witchcraft and connivance with the devil. I am under orders to see thee safely in a cell in the town prison, there to await trial for these charges, and It is my duty to command thee to come with me now." Tro Bf COWTIWTIKP.y The Benter'a Advantage*. "If we economize," said the husband, "we will soon have a house of our own Instead of having to live In rented prop erty." "But I'm not sure I should like that," answered the wife. "I couldn't drive nails anywhere I please In the walls or woodwork of our own bouse, you know."—Chicago News. Fooled lllxii. ' Why am I like a pin?" asked Mr. Jones triumphantly of his wife. He existed she was going to say, "Be cause you are so sharp," and be was simply paralyzed wben she replied: "Because if you should get lost it wouldn't be worth while to spend time looking No. 29. THE EGG IN HISTORY. I« In Surrounded by Many Aadcat Lrcrndi and Belief*. Like many another term In Chris tian nomenclature, the word "Easter" Is derived from pa gran sources. The Saxon goddess of light, Estra, was honored with an annual festival at the vernal equinox. The Jewish Passover was also regulated by the March moon, and the resurrection of Jesus occurred at this season. In later centuries the great Christian festival came to bear the pagan name Easter and to be cele brated at a time coincident with the Jewish feast. Since remotest times the egg has symbolized re creation. Persian tradi tion has it that the world was hutched from an egg at the season which cor responds to the vernal equinox, for which reason eggs are still given for New Year's presents by the Persians. The druids said that the sun, a great egg, hatched from Itself the earth and other planets. By the Chinese It is believed that the world was formed of two parts of a great egg. From the yolk man came forth. Ho then waved his hand, and the upper half of the shell went up ward and became the concave the lower half reversed, making the convex earth, and the white albanaeh became the Beas. When Christianity took over various of the Saxou rites the Paschal eggs of the Jews were vested with a new sig nificance—namely, the resurrection of Christ. They were colored red In mem ory of the blood shed for man's re demption.—Chicago News. AN ACCURSED BRIDGE. Ko wrddl&t Party In Enclut Will Pass Over the Structure. Standing In the center of an open field at Hoxne, near Eye, in Suffolk, is an obelisk erected to the memory of King Edmund, who met his death there at the hands of the Danes in 870. On the site of the monument stood an oak tree. In the branches of which the king sought refuge from his foes. At night fall he emerged from his ieafy hiding place and secreted himself under a bridge which spanned a stream called the Goldbrook. "A wedding party, however, passing over the bridge in the evening, observed the king's gold spur glittering in the moonlight, and in this way his retreat became known to his enemies. He was taken back to the tree In which he bad previously hidden himself and shot with arrows, and his body was after ward removed to Bury St. Edmunds and Interred in the monastery there. . On Goldbrook bridge is Inscribed a record of the event. Local tradition has it that many years ago the exlsttM Inscription iron fciUa-jred I>tt tho "Cursed be the wedding party thai passes this bridge." No part of thlsS anathema is now visible, but the tr&dl tlon is so well known that a bridal party will take a circuitous route rath er than pass over the bridge.—London Standard. UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN. A. Scene of Wondrous Grandeur Aivea the Beholder. Hammerfest, the most northern town of Europe, is bleak and desolate, bnt seen by the witch light of the midnight sun It touches the imagination more than many of the world's more favored spots, writes Jean Murray in the Four Track News. The traveler passing through Norway finds himself constant ly seeking for words that will express his wonder and admiration, but when at last he stands on the North cape in the light of the midnight sun and looks out over the awful solitude he no more longs for words to express what he feels, but stands and gazes into the glorious northern light that glimmers on the glittering waves of the arctic sea, while thoughts too deep for words well up in his soul. He feels that after this hour he will have a greater rever ence for this wonderful world where in he Is permitted to spend his little span of life, and that if in future yearo the touch of discouragement and dis content falls upon him he will remem ber this moment when be stood on the lonely heights of the North cape look ing out over the blue Arctic into whit seemed the shining dawn of eternity, and feel that It Is well to have lived 1 t only for this. TWO TRADE SECRETS. Oif I» Jealoaulf Guarded In Cfcißfty the Other In Turkey. "There are two trade secrets," said an artist, that the outside world, it seems, will lever learn. One is a Chi nese secret—the making of the bright and beautiful color called vermilion or Chinese red. The other is a Turkish se-* cret—the Inlaying of the hardest steel with gold and silver. "Among the Chinese and among the Syrians these two secrets are guarded well. Apprentices, before they are tak en for either trade, must swear a strong oath to reveal nothing of what passes in the workshop. These appren tices, furthermore, must belong to fam ilies of standing, must pay a large sum by way of premium and must furnish, certificates of good character and hon esty. "You have seen damascened steel, of course, and you have seen vermilion' or Chinese red. Remember the next time you look at these two things thjrt their secrets have been guarded Invio lably and have been handed down faithfully from one generation to an other for thousands of years.—Chicago Chronicle. Good Enough. "Is your name Goodenough?" asked a bill collector of a man on whom he was calling. "It Is," answered the man, with a look of surprise. "Then I have a bill against you." And he handed him a slip of paper. "That Is not my name," said the man. "But you said your name was Good enough." "So it Is," said the man as be prepar ed to close the door. "It's good enough for me." Suspicion!. Junior Partner —The bookkeeper has been married yearly six months now. Senior Partner—Well? Junior Partner —Well, he hasn't asked for a raise in salary. Senior Partner-Heavens! We'll have to have bis accounts examined.— Philadelphia Press. Be brave in trouble; meet distress with dauntless couragej but wh«p the gale for .prosperity blows be wise, no less, and shorten sail.—Horace. One of Them. "My Wife has a remarkable collec tion of curiosities." "Was she collecting when she mar ried you?" "Yes." "That's what I thought." Evidence. First Lady—Here's an article, "Do knlmals Think?" I wonder if they dot Second Lady—l've noticed that ml hus band gets off an occasional briglkt thlna—TJfa |j
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