New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-06-29
heart. Jupiter was well pleased,

metheus' heart. Jupiter was well pleased,
also. as it made his son famous: but he re-
solved to punish mortals in different way.
and took from them the knowledge of the
future. and proposed to wipe GU. all man
kind and create an entirely new race, that
should be everything in general and moth
ing N Darticular-a sort Of uniication race
llike the party proposed in New Orleans ss
a new thing, warranted to live in harmony
with all future mankind, provided the new
corners had no sense Of justice or right, no
desires. wishes or ambitions of their OWE.
Prometheus came again to the front. and
saved our race. He compromised. by let
ting Jupiter get away with certain knowl-
edge OF the future, and invented blessed
hope. IL all the dark days that have come
to us. since then. hope has worked well. 1t
has held us to duty and labor that some
thing better might come. II helped to
make us suffer the ills we have, and gave
shape to an indefnable future reward.
That hope might go with reason. Prone.
! tbeus taught his neighbors architecture.
| astronomy. mathematics, writing. Rarey's
sy stem of horse manship, navigation. medi-
cine. metal working, boxing and swimming
| without master. roller skating. and such
other fine arts as their gentle natures could
| grasp.
Like many another man who has worked
| for the good of future men, Prometheus
| ca He'd down upon his head the vengeance
Of the unjust god. Jupiter was business
| god of the old style and wanted no I'M
provements. He went for Prometheus
| again. and ordered his blacksmith, Mr..
Vulcan Hephaestus. to chain him to a rock
| in Scythia. This was relig!ously done, in
the presence Of two clergymen. named
Cratos and Bia. Bia did not drink and
! had the confidence of Jupiter.
On this rock, away from his friends.
! Prometheus suffered untold anguish. His
life was spared, but he lost his liver again.
| T his time tho bird of freedom made free
| to drop it into Tartarus, place indefinite
| ly located and described as being as tar
below HaGes as Heaven is above earth.
where. by Jupiter. it was decreed to re-
m ain until some one volunteered to 90 for
il. The condition Of Prometheus was al
| most hopeless. but the man who invented
hope could not despair, and his wonderful
luck did not desert him. That man would
have ruined Charley Howard, or any lot
terry company in existence, it he had had
the policy to play.
As il was. Chiron. who was a star, and
had been with Saturn, and the rings around
that headlight, until Disguised, determined
to 90 below. and at the same time to help
PrOmetheus out of his trouble. Chiron was
the IN ost sensible suicidian on record. The
average man who destroys himself destroys
property, also. and benefits none save the
coroner. Chiron was hero. He wen. to
Tartarus for . friend.
Prometheus. repaired again. became an
altered man. He no longer sought to i'm
prove the race then existing. He went into
business with Minerva, and designed new
kind Of man to be made from mud. Min
erva supplied the mud and Prometheus fur
nish ed the breath OF life. Why Panopeus'
mud was chosen as man material is not as
clear as that al ticle. Hesiodic legends say
because it was dirt cheap; but pecuniary
considerations seem beneath man able to
create, and a more probable reason is that
Prometheus wished to construct a man
without a liver.
At this point. regarding the life Of Pro-
metheus. history becomes obscure. The
mud men shed no additional lustre upon
his name. Many Of them have descended
to US. but they are not success. Prone.
theus. in his day, was the light and life Of
the world. He has suffered more. and done
more. and got less for it, than any man
known. We owe him much. Let us drop
a tear for his memery, wherever it is.
Spea king of mud. "Pulris ct umbra s'tmns."
and Of Prometheus, "quando nAum inrenie.
mus paremf-when shall We look upon his
like gain! Prometheus is dead.