Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Among the Ancients. [ARTICLE]

Among the Ancients.

Aristides had been sentenced to banishment from Athens for ten years. "Just my luck,” he said, “because it is my luck to be just.” But when he heard the newsboys yelling "Ilextry! All ’bout old ’Stides canned fer chinptn’ de unjp.re: ’ and listened to the graphophones playing the latest minstrel song to the effect that—- “ Then go yob mi)st, Aristidie the Just! Skiddoo For you! Git up an’ dust!” he said bitterly that he’d go*—but he would return some day.—Chicago Tribune.