Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1907 — Side Lights on Mythology. [ARTICLE]

Side Lights on Mythology.

“Sister,” asked Melpomene, “why art thou so gloomy?” “Because,” said Calliope, who, In her capacity as the muse that presided over eloquence and epic poetry, had done a hard day’s work at her desk, reading manuscripts and firing them into the waste basket. “I am oppressed by a foreboding that all my labors have gone for naught. I shall die utterly unknown and my name will perish from the earth I” Little did she think that the most diabolical and soul destroying instrument ever devised for the purpose of torturing the ears of mankind would send her name screaming and tooting down the ages!—Chicago Tribune. It has been ascertained that cancer occurs rarely very far south or far north.