Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1902 — INDEPENDENT CORPOREAL DEPENDENCIES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDEPENDENT CORPOREAL DEPENDENCIES.

Said the thumb to the band as the fireworks slzzed, On Independence day, “Unhand me—give me liberty; I’m tired of this dependency.” It bunt Its bonds straightway. Then the Index fingers, feet and arms, Demanded to be free; And oft they went to join the thumb ’Mid the roar of the patriotic bomb. Each an independency.