Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-02-01

SATAN APPEARS.
without, however, much hope of his APP
peal being responded to.
Nevertheless, one day Satan sent up
his card, and DR.. Canamus sent down
word that he would be delighted to see
him.
Satan came in and modestly said: II
come to offer you my services, as have
heard you are in quest of secretary.
Without possessing your wonderful
genius, think l shall be able to be of
use to you"
The doctor accepted the offer. A
contract was signed between the two
parties. The devil undertook to satisfy
all the desires of Canamus, without be-
ing able to claim his soul anywhere
else but in the city of Rome. Cana
mus, who had already been all over
Italy, and had no desire to pay the
pope a second visit, gayly accepted the
condit,S
The 'new secretary had given himself
an memorable and pitiless master. He
was compelled to submit to much harsh
treatment.
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seemed to get tired of science for the
love of science itself. He went from
Brussels, in Belgium, to live in Vienna,
Austria, where, not content with being
cited as one of the most clever and the
richest = doctors, he wished to rank
among Ne viennese nobility and marry
a titled lady.
Satan soon brought him an invitation
for the court ball. Canamus went there
in magnificent carriage drawn by
four horses. He wore full court dress
and had sword hanging by his side.
When the orchestra struck up a qua
drille, the empress herself walked
across the ballroom to the doctor, and
introduced him to one of a group of
most handsome young ladies, who ap-
peared to have absorbed the doctors
attention most, not only by the fire of
her lovely eyes, but also by the rich
ness and beauty of her costume.
The dance over, Canamus was over
come by an emotion quite new to him.
The empress spoke to him again:
81 can see, doctor, that your partner
has captured your heart Your BASH
fitness needs assistance. | will help
you. The young lady you have danced
with has not remained Indifferent to
your homage. | have asked her for
you in marriage. She is YOURS"
Never was marriage concluded more
rapidly. Satan, as is generally known,
is most powerful at court. Two weeks
after the ball DR.. Canamus was the
happy husband of Emily of Knisberg-
the Knisbergs were one of the oldest
and most noble families of Austria.
Conjugal happiness, is the shortest
of all felicity. The husband was a
Croesus and savant into the bargain;
Emily came of one of the most aristo-
cratic families of the country. Unfor-
tunately their characters were essen
italy different, and husband and wife
were never of the same opinion.
Their honeymoon lasted barely a
a month. The doctor would be wont
to say that with his immense fortune
he might have obtained the hand OF an
English princess, or at least of Ger
man one; his wife would try to make
hiEH believe that even woman OF the
pei ple would have been too much honor
for him.
In the discussion the doctor, for once,
got beat. For Emily had no difficulty in
proving that to make big fortune one
plucky and lucky speculation-or, at
most, the lifetime of one man-was
amply sufficient, whilst to constitute
nobility many generations were indis-
pensable.
Emily deplored her mesdliance and did
all in her power to humiliate the doc
tor. Canamus grew angry. He sent
for his secretary and ordered him to
confound his wife by procuring for him
tremendous genealogy.
Twenty-four hours later Satan re-!
turned to the Doctors study holding
parchment in his hand-a parchment
of SUI Ii dimensions that it required full
ly ten minutes to unroll it.
ut is impossible" said Satan, Ito
find anything more genuine. Your an
cestors were born in Cana, Palestine,
and by special permission they OBJ
tanned the right to prefix Cana to,the
family name Of Mus. Your forefather,
Cauamus, was born about 80 Is. G.. and
had numerous posterity II is hersin
stated that one OF his descendants
founded &canada and another the