Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1918 — DEVIL’S RESIGNATION. [ARTICLE]

DEVIL’S RESIGNATION.

The devil sat by the lake of fire on a pile of sulphur kegs; bis head was bowed upon his breast, his tail between his legs. A look of shame was on his face, the sparks dropped from his eyes; he sent his resignation to the throne up in the skies. “I’m down and out,” the devil said, and he said it with a sob; “there are others who have got me beat, and I want to quit my job. Hell isn’t in it any more with the battleland along the Rhine; I’m a has-been and a piker, therefore I resign. One ammunition maker, with his bloody shot and shell, knows more about damnation than/all the imps in hell. Give the job to the kaiser, the author of this war; he understands it better, a million times by far. I hate to leave the old home, the spot I love so well, but I feel I’m not up to date in the art of running, hell.” A. Fleurnoy Simpson.