The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-03-24

out of every child that's born"
You are making good many vacan-
cies. Any moreP"
eyes, there's Hope. don't want you
to let Hope have even deskroom in your
head. It's always retarded the lost sin
ner's progress to hell. AS the poet says
Hope springs eternal in the human breast
Just as think I've got sinner sure, Hope
breathes into his soul an encouraging word,
and away goes my sinner towards the gate
OF Paradise"
"Surely," said 10, "that is enough of
the old occupants to exclude from my re-
constructed head"
"No, no." said Satan; I'm not through
yet. Human Nature must be excluded.
ruin people, and especially young people,
by hiding my motives and your young
man or young woman who has Human
Nature dvines these motives, and lose
my prize"
Still more exclusion ?"
Yes Veneration must be shut out.
Respect for parents and veneration for the
Supreme Being are bad for me. 1t costs a
world Of trouble to counteract their inhu-
ence when they have taken root in child
hood. Benevolence, too,must be excluded,
unless, indeed, it be SO very large that a
man will cheat and lie and steal for the
purpose of having means wherewith to ex-
ercise his Benevolence.; but this is so rare
| that I thin1 = had botta ba nv,1,IaJ
81 hope you are near the end of your
prescriptions" said 10.
Zone more" answered Satan, "and a
very important one. 1t is Spirituality. On
no account allow Spirituality to cross the
threshold of your brain. It's a very Jacobs S
ladder to heaven, and once firmly ensconc-
ed into mans brain, may as well aban-
don him.
Is that the end ?"
"That will do do not think that what
good will be left can possibly keep you
from me. And now, to close the business,
must have a second mortgage on your
soul that you will fill these vacant places
in your skull with such tenants as Destruc-
tiveness, that kills his fellow-man; Secre-
tiveness, that makes men liars and thieves;
Acquisitiveness, that gets money for its
own sake, and does no good with it; Com
Latitveness, that is ever the foremost in
tenants that must occupy your reconstruct
ed skull"
"Your conditions are hard" said Jo,
"and what if do not fulfill them?"
"Then shall call for you at the earliest
convenient moment, and you go back to
earth no more"
"Bnt if fulfill them?'
"Then you eau stay upon earth as long
as you choose"
"Thanks, thanks p cried 10; sand
can arrange my affairs"
"YOur skull shall be made whole -
cried Satan, and without more words his
architects fell to work ON JOS skull. What
with pounding, chiseling, and making the
partitions, they drove him to distraction
and to add to his horrible agony and ter
ror, when it was nearly completed the
walls began to settle and the whole con-
cern to lurch as If it would fall. Then
came the jack-screws that were put under
to raise it up. The planks upon which to
work them were thrown remorselessly upon
his soft brain, and the power Of hundred
imps applied. Jo yelled in agony as they
turned the screws. At length his skull
was completed, and 10 found himself with
a whole head.
" Now" said Satan, "lie down and rest
yourself before undertaking your journey
to earth for assure you it is much more
difficult to get out Of hell than to get into
it,"
Following the advice of Satan, 10 laid
himself down in the coolest spot he could
find, and so fatigued was he with the pain
of the operation, that in dreams he was
waited back TO earth again. His old COM
panions welcomed him, but his heart was
heavy with the thoughts Of his terrible
contract with Satan. "How isit possible" 4"
thought he, F." to fill the empty chasms in
my head--once the homes of my best aud
truest fiiends-with such demons as Satan
would hayeP All, me would that had
never been born p
To add to his misery, Consclentiousness
came and wrapped at the door of it's accus-
toned home. II see, friend Jo, thou art
here again. I've been searching for thee
far and wide, that / might occupy my old
place again, although You shut me close,
and stihed my voice when tried TO save
thee from harm"