The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-06

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 No measure shall .bs-set TOT your de- sire" ,said Mephistopheles. You may taste. seize, take whatever pleases youl Grasp at life now with unembarrassed handt eA
 "I do not desire pleasure" said Faust My breast. once healed from it's burn ing thirst for, Knowledge, shall feel the lot common to all mankind. My spirit shall comprehend humanity's heights and depths will broaden my own self to theirs and perish with them in the end"
 Mephistopheles spread out his cloak and beciSoned to Dr. Faust to step on It. "A little fiery air" muttered he. "A little fiery air. Now up we go and ! congratulate you on your new career"
 Before the scholars senses compassed 1t he found himself in roaring scene, such as had been strange to him for thirty years, The. Satanic equipage had taken his companion and himself into AGerbach's famous drinking cellar in Leipsic. t-f
 Mephistopheles advanced to table where sat noisy band of galiants with slashed sleeves and sillSen hose. They were drinking wine from great goblets and their roaring songs and wild cries and laughter gave evidence to tffe magnitude of their previous po- tations. S a. saz.. ss.S ..seassz sss, 5.,
 Faust. observing them curiously and with disdain, sat down by them, while Mephistopheles retorted to their sim- pudent salntstions with replies still more impudent. that brought anger and laughter together from the drunkards. Soon he was hail fellow with them. They sang songs and drank to each other; and at last Mephistopheles brought forth an auger and bored holes into the table, stop ping them up with waxen shoppers. Asking each man what wine he pre- ferred, he told him to draw stopper and hold his glass underneath. Cham pagne, rhine wine. Tokay gushed forth according to the demand of the drinker.
 The drinking bout turned into a bestial revel. Faust gazed on it with disgust but Mephistopheles delighted in it. He urged the. senselessg band to drink still more. Suddenly one spilled his wine. The instant the fluid touch -ed the floor, flames burst from it and licked at him. Help! Help! Hell burns!" cried the frightened toper
 "Be peaceful, element!' said Mephis- tonheles. and the flame vanished "This time" said he turning to the party. twas but drop of purgatory." $, Let us have no more of your hocuspocus here" said another, draw ing a stopper. Immediately fire gush- ed out instead of wine. T burn! ] burn" he screamed.
 Thrust at him! Thrust! The knave is a soreerer!" exclaimed the rest, closing in with their daggers.
 .Mephistopheles waved his hands and uttered an incantation. The revelers stopped, looked dazed and grasped each others noses. crying:
 What glorious grapes" Each man raised his dagger to cut off his neigh bor's nose, when Mephistopheles cried: Clear your eyes! And henceforth re- member how the devil cracks jokes!"
 The drunkards suddenly. sobered and pale, sank helplessly and trembling to their seats and glared with fearful eyes at Mephistopheles. The next moment they saw him swing himself astride of one of the great wine casks and beckon to Dr. Faust to do the same. There was flash and the casks leapei through the air and out of the vault like horses.
 From reveI to revel, from dissipation to dissipation, did Mephistopheles. now carry pr Faust The blindness in- separahle from evil forbade him to perceive that the excesses of humanity produced only loathing and increased longing for ultimate knowledge in the soul that he was striving to degrade.
 At last Faust demanded that the riot of sorcery cease. Think you" demanded he. that there is cure for me in your chaos of madness?
 Mephistopheles immediately turned to new temptation. Carrying Faust to witch's hut. he showed him magic mirror Reflected in 1t swan the form of a woman whose beauty of face and form was unearthly and fIeshly at the same time.
 Faust. whose eyes had been bent through all his vanished youth on folios and crucibles. felt sensations in his heart and brain that he could not understand with all his wisdom.
 What" cried he. "Is 1t true that woman is as fair as this? Is there such beauty on the earth?"
 T know where I can find you such one." said Mephistopheles. Drink but the portion brewed for you by this old dame"
 Faust lifted the bowl to his mouth. A pale flame rose from 1t. brink! Drink" urged Mephistopheles, and Faust drained the vessel. Immediate ly it was as if the flame had entered his blood The years fell from him Through his veins pulsed the heat. the ardor, the desire and impatience of youth.
 "Whle that love-potion courses through him." chuckled Mephistopheles to himself, he will see q Helen in every woman"
 He hurried Faust into town where the citizens wives and daughters were going home from church. and showed him Margaret, the daughter of a widow. Faust. young in spirit and appearance from the magic liquor. pressed to her side and whispered My fair young lady. may l offer my escort to you?"
 T am neither lady nor am l fair replied Margaret. frightened, and can go home without escort" She stepped away quickly and fled.
 You must win her for me-" cried Faust to Mephistopheles. The child Is beautiful and good and pure. I love her!''
 Margaret, hurrying to her home with the panting breast of startled wood land creature, sank down in her room. But in all her fright there came the wish: "I wonder who he was?"
 Mephistopheles placed casket filled with jewelry into her home and Marga- ret, although puzzled and alarmed when she found it. could not refrain from trying the trinkets on and admiring herself in the little mirror. Alas" she sighed "of what avail is it to be fair and young without these? One gets but pitying admiration. Gold, gold All things depend on 1t, and 1t alone attracts. Alas, we poor ones!" She showed tn jewels to her mother, who took them from her at once and surrendered the mysterious gift to the church.
 Impatiently Faust ordered Mephisto- pheles to produce another and more ] F~.Vr- 1zrI-m naI hns