Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — Where It Grinds. [ARTICLE]

Where It Grinds.

“Tell me, O Aristarchus, tell me by the shield of Pallas Athene, what find you in exchanges this day that you briskly apply your never-to-be-satiated and early devouring shears. “Of a truth, O Mnestheus, the times go hard, for neither on the all-thunder-ing editorial pages, nor in the columns of the argus-eyed local reporters, nor yet even in the from-everywhere-se-lected miscellany, can I find matter worthy to be culled for our all-pervad-ing sheet. And, by the gods immortal I do esteem it to be cruel fortune that at this time, when news is scarce and advertising slow, it is required of me to bring to the altar of the remorseless printers fresh and plenteous hecatombs of reprint!” “You speak true things, O Aristarchus, wielder of the nimble scissors! But, by the dog, how hardly shall it go with me who, when these papers bear me no word-provoking pointers, am forced to sit me down to gaze at the four walls and to invoke of mendacious Mercury the aid which he alone with his inventive arts can bring!”— Eugene Field, in Chicago News. If you have catarrh, use the surest remedy —Dr. Sage’s.