HOW THE DEVIL LOST A SOUL

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 68, 20 May 1870, Page 3

HOW THE DEVIL LOST A SOUL

The fol lowing is too- good to be lost, we clip it from a Quebec paper:— A. young man, who ardently desired wealth, was visited by-bis Satanic Majesty, who tempted aim to promise bis soul for eternity if he could be supplied on 'this earth with all the mousy ho could use. The bargain was concluded; the devil was to supply the moiiey, aud was at last to have the soul, unless the young man could spend more ?n--iney than the devil could furnish.. Years passed away; the married, . was extravagant in his living, built palaces, speculated wildly, lost"and fortunes, and yet his coffers were always fall. He turned politician, and bribed his way to power, and- fame, without reducing bis pile of gold. He became a "iiilibuster," and fitted out ships and armies, but his banker- h .-n----o red all his drafts. He went to St. Paul to live, and paid unusual.rates of interest for all the monev he. could borrow, but though the devil made wry laces when he came to pay bills, yet tley were all paid. * One expedient after another failed ; the devil counted the time (only two years) that hemus" wait for the soul, and mocked the efforts of the despairing man; '' On j more trial was resolved upon—the mail started a newspaper. The devil -growled at the bill at the end of the first quarter, was savage in six months, melancholy in nine, and broke —dead broke at the end of the year. So the newspaper went down, but the soul was saved.