The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-01-31

SATAN APPEARS
 without, however, much hope of his ap peal being responded to.
 Nevertheless, one day Satan sent ur his card, and Dr. Canamus sent down word that he would be delighted to see him.
 Satan came in and modcstly said: "I come to offer you my services as have heard you are in quest of a secretary. Without possessing your wonderful genius, think 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 condition.
 The new secretary had given himself an ineHorablc and pitilcss master He was compelled to submit to much harsh treatment.
 But the time came when Canamus 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 of doctors, he wished to rank among the Viennese nobility and marry titled lady.
 Satan soon brought him an invitation for the court ball. Canamus went there in a magnificent carriage drawn by four horses. He wore full court dress and had a sword hanging by his side.
 When the orchestra struck up qua drille, the empress herself walked across the ballroom to the doctor, and introduced him to one of n 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:
 ''I can see, doctor, that your partner has captured your heart. Your bash fitness needs assistance. I will help you. The young lady you have danced with has not remained indifferent to your homage. I have asked her for you in marriage. She is vours."
 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 CrCesus and a savant into the bargain; Emily came of one of the most ar1sto- 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 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 him believe that even woman of the people 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 pluclSy and lucky spcculation-or, at most, the lifetime of one man-was amply sufficient, whilst to constitute nobility many generations were indis- pensablc.
 Emily dcplorcd her mesaHiance 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 n tremendous genealogy.
 Twcnty-four hours later Satan re- turned to the doctors study holding a parchment in his hand-a parchment of such dimensions that it required full ly ten minutes to unroll it.
 "It is impossible" said Satan, ''to find anything more genuine. Your an. ccstors were born in Cana, Palestine, and by special permission they ob- taincd the right to prefix Cana to the family name of Mus Your forefather, Candnus. was born about 50 E. C., and had nu.1erous posterity. It is herein stated t!tat one of his descendants founded Canada and another the