Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-01-11

new and wonderful fire-spitting can
non might fail to annihilate the Swiss,
who fought on foot with arrows aid
mammoth, clumsy, two-handed swords.
He said to the Swiss deputation that
had come to beg for peace:
"a deputation of your most notable
persons who shall meet me ON your
frontiers with halters around their
necks and their swords held by the
points, may learn from me on what
conditions we will grant peace"
"Then farewell, peace, and welcome
war;" said the undaunted Swiss dele
gates. I'VE will meet you on our from
tiers with our naked swords, but the
hits, not the points. shall be in our
grasp. Charles Of Burgundy, we bid
you defiance, and declare war against
you in the name of the Confederated
Cantons!"
Margaret's nephew, Ferrand de
vaudemont, whose heritage was the
dukedom of Lorraine, Joined with the
Swiss. Charles laughed when he heard
it. ION to Neuchatel!" he said. 1--WE
will teach these beggarly peasants a
lesson!"
At Granson, near the great lake Of
Neuchatel, the beggarly peasants
caught Burgundy's army in narrow
pass and so fell on it from all sides
that by nightfall the shining host was
In mortifying flight.
The check merely Infatuated Charles.
Before midsummer Of the next year he
had ready a new army Of at least sixty
thousand men with one hundred and
fifty pieces of cannon. They entered
the land Of the Swiss, who had called
on the Free Cities Of the Rhine to help
them. At Morat, near Berne, the Bur-
gundian cannon battered the walls
around Swiss ears; but the artillery,
novel though it was, failed to terrify
them. 1t plowed great gaps among
them, but before it could fire again
the survivors rushed in with those
clumsy five-foot swords and hewed
mailclad men down as If they were
saplings. Charles himself had to ride
for his life with the steer-horns of
Uri, which the Swiss blew as war
trumpets, braying behind him as he
aed.
Even he was stunned for a time;
but when word came to him that Fer
rand and the Swiss had dared to leave
their mountain Businesses and had
overrun Lorraine, taking the city of
Nancy, he reused himself and laughed
again, gleefully. "They have trapped
themselves" he cried. II swear that
I shall destroy them utterly before
two weeks have passed.
Three days before Christmas his
army sat down before Nancy in
strong position. That night there was
a great commotiOn in the dukes tent.
When his officers rushed in, they saw
him standing undressed, with his
sword in his hand. He roared that
strangers had been by his bedside.
The bodyguard was incredulous, for
there were many there who could
swear that they had not closed their
eyes. But he pointed to table.
Pinned to it with dagger was parch-
ment signed with three crosses. Ev-
eryone present recognized at once
what it was, and even in that armed
camp many of them trembled; for the
parchment was a summons from the
ireaded Vehm-G erlcht, the mysterious,
mighty secret tribunal Of Germany,
whose secret, unknown and powerful
Judges exercised jurisdiction that
lived even emperors.
The summons called on Charles to
appear at given place and time I'M
attended and deliver himself to the
officers of the tribunal, who would lead
lin to the place of trial. Failing ap-
3earance, he was outlaw and doomed
% death without hearing.
II know from what culver this ar
low comes!" said Charles, his lips
white with rage. "1t is shot by that
degenerate noble, Albert Of Geierstein.
By St. George of Burgundy! Nothing
shall save him after such an insult as
this! I will hang him to the highest
steeple in Nancy and his daughter
shall choose the meanest herdboy in
my army for husband!"
Little more than week later, on
the list of January, 1477, in a bitter
dawn of ice and snow, there came a
sound like the roar of an avalanche.
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