Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-01-11

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The man answered: What do you
expect me 20 do? I was taught no other
trade than the cutting OF OF heads"
To which the magistrate answered:
We are really sorry. good friend, but
there viii be no mogs heaas Tor you
to cut"
In the same manner the jailers and
I turkeys were dismissed as useless
since the jails were empty There was
only one prisoner in the world and that
was Master Werner's trunk. which Dom
/ AlOysius spriukled regularly with holy
water as a good housewife sprinkIes her
lettuce.
Judges who had nothing to do
rubbed their hands in glee. seeing
which the citizens said: As there are
no guilty ones TO judge, why should We
pay judges" Presidents. counselors.
pr0y0sts. bailins lawyers and all con-
nected with chicanery and litigation
were dying In hamilton The physi-
clans saw the practice dwindle and
| could fOresee its total extinction, for
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rOwful consequences of our excuses.
Armies were diNanded. as no more
war were possible, since princes had
ceased 10 envy each others possessions.
The beautiful lmperia, who had seen
dukes and maTgrayes at her feet was
begging for food in the streets, as well
as many others of her kind.
Along with the economic crisis-if
may use the modern term-coincided a
curious change in consciences The
world had fallen into strange inertia.
/ a sort of moral laziness that had never
existed before: no more envy. but also
no more ambition TO do good without
heinous passions but without those
feats OF devotion which had been the
honor and redemption OF preceding
ages. II would have been impossible TO
repeat the crusades. Converts were
being vacated as the iails had been.
4 No more chaste and pious maidens were
heard Of terrifying themselves in their
cells and Offering themselves In saeri-
fee TO redeem mankind from impunity
and crime.
/ Nothing looked more like anticipat-
ing death than this soft and cowsrdly
egotlsm into which mankind had fallen
Il since Satan was a prisoner
i ID Is now time to return 70 Master
| Werner and learn what was going on
/ there. Al first the locksmith was
pufed up with pride by the congratula-
, tions and compliments heaped upon
him Curious crowds came 20 Winter
berg 10 see the trunk IN which the
poor devil was confined, and they nat
lurally benefited the little town for
4 the piierims were both hungry and
, thirsty and much money was made IN
supplying their wants. But this curl
osity soon waued and the good lock
smith came to feel. like Others OF his
trade. the effects of the crisis men
toned above. All day long Mahanl
/, kent leoturing him on the subject.
"A fine idea. that Of yours. TO i'm
prison the devil who was. after all
your best customer You have had u
dismiss your apprentices, and befor
long YOU will not have enough to do t
support your wife and children As T.
!. Gretchen she was constantly bemoan
ing the unfortunate prisoners fate. AM
She visited him when the workshop wa
! vacant She had tried to entice VOL
gang her fathers apprentice. to al
her in freeing the prisoner TO ne
! great establishment the devil had re
9 fused TO consent to the project, "Fo
2 the love Of God. said he. do nothin
of the kind"
+ II was now ear since Satan wa
in captivity. when Werner stimulate
I bv the reproaches OF his wife and al
! moved by the lamentations OF D.
) daughter went to Dom Aloysius.
i Father" said he, Il cannot stand
any longer. | am a ruined man If til
continues. No matter what happens
: am going to open the trunk.
! "My friend" said the good priest,
was lust about to ask you to do so.
I also am ruined. No more masses tc
: the souls in purgatory; no more one
Z ings: no more candle-nothing. y Is II
. tolerable. All those people have the pr
tension to do without us and go
Heaven on their own hook In that the
r are mistaken, for not being temple
there is no merit in not violating Il
II law II there is no more hell, there
no more Heaven. Do give that po'
q fellow his liberty. After all we shou
not forget that he was an archang
Ie before his fall and he should not
treated as the first conner. viii ON
b that have been sparing him for son
y time and I sprinkled him only with pa
u water. Go. my friend, open the truf
and be very polite"
&c This Werner did.
al My lord" said he, in lifting the Il
r. .be good enough to get out.
n The devil got on his feet and sho'
Is himself as one does who has travel'
il an night on the railroad. Otherwise
TX appeared frisky and good-natured al
o resumed the conversation where he n
al left It a year ago.