Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1907 — Omissions of History. [ARTICLE]

Omissions of History.

Socrates was busily engaged in writing. “Why do you keep on grinding out that stuff?” shrilly asked Xantippe. “It doesn’t seil. Nine-tenths of it comes back from the publishers.” “I know it,” he said. “I am writing for the benefit of posterity, in the .belief that ” “Posterity 1” snapped Xaptippe. “What has posterity ever done for you, I’d like to know!” “Posterity, my dear,” mildly frejoined Socrates, “has always been polite enough not to interrupt me In the naiddle of a sentence.” Which crushing retort silenced the good dame for the space of nearly thirty seconds. —Chicago Tribune.