The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-19

shows a beautiful, thoughtful young man,
standing on a globe-the earth-whlch
rests on the devil, crushing him. The fol-
lowing is the story as 1t was told by a
japanese student az the worlds fair.
One night, as the devil was crossing q
bridge on the outskirts of large city, his
attention was attracted by a faint cry
from the dark waters flowing swiftly many
feet below. Swooping downward, he dis
covered very small baby tossing on the
waves and being carried rapidly out to
sea. Sights such as this were of nightly
occurrence and of no interest 20 him, yet
something In this particular case caused
him to rescue the child and take 1t to q
place Of safety. 1t certainly was not pity.
For since the awful expulsion from the
beautiful garden, hadn't his hand and
heart been always against anything bear
ing the semblance Of humanity?
No; the reason was this: The harvest
of suicides and murders of late had been
so great that, omnivorous as his desire
was, he was a trihe weary, and a new
idea at the saving of the child had taken
possession OF him. He resolved to raise
and educate 1t after his own style and
see what would be the result. The expert
ment was well worth trying, 50 from that
time all his leisure hours were spent in
teaching and ingtructing his protege. The
latter proved exceedingly intelligents
healthy and apt.
As he grew older nothing seemed TO give
him greater pleasure than to carry out his
instructors wishes in every respect. 1t
was not strange il the devil conceived an
affection for him. This, of course, was
entirely wrong and must not be entertain-
ed. The idea of liking one of the hated
race was too muchl So for the period of a
month he remained away and in that time
the number Of his victims were twice as
great as ever before, so much was his
pride hurt al his weakness and so strong
was his endeavor to atone for il.
The years flew by. the boy had grown to
manhood and the devil had nothing more
to teach, 50 he concluded the time to test
the result Of his labors had arrived. So
one day he told the youth that, consider
ing him sufficiently educated, he desired
to try him on some things. The first trial
would be obedience, the task easy and con-
genial He showed him the vast earth
from pole 10 pole on all sides, with it's
myriads Of people, some living for pleas
ure, others finding it difficult 10 get enough
food TO live on. These people, he said,
were of a very inferior and degenerate or
der Of mortals and Of no account. I'm
order to celebrate in an appropriate man
ner your graduation and coming of age
we will have a sacrifice before which those
of the pagan emperors or latter day Turk
were as nothing.
Il will give you the power" he said ito
roll this densely populated human hive
around few times, as you were wont to
do with your iron spheres in the gymnasi-
um We will then listen to such music as
no mortal ears ever heard or VIII again.
In order that none Of the sights or sounds
of the show escape me, l will take my
position away down i'm yonder valley
From there l will give the signal to start
the ball" So saying he descended to the
spot designated and held up his hand as
agreed The earth commenced rapidly TO
a q hf hast
on himself grinding him to dust and Gauss
ing him to tear his hands.
The moral of the above Is that despite
the teaching and training Of half life
time the good or bad in one cannot be
wholly eradicated