Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1912 — A Word to the Wise. [ARTICLE]

A Word to the Wise.

The proverbial advice, "Cobbler, stick to your last,” had an apposlts exemplification in the following anecdote, for which Zion's Advocate is responsible: A colored man was brought before a police judge, charged with stealing chickens. He pleaded guilty, and received sentence, when the judge asked how it was managed to lift those chickens right under the window of thqir owner’s house when there was a dog In the yard. “Hit wouldn’t be no use, Judge,” said the culprit, ”to try to ’splain dia thing to you at all. Es you was to try it, like as not you would git yer hide full o’ shot, an’ git no chickens, neither. Es yon want to engage in any rascality. Judge, yo’ bettah stick to de bench, whar yo’ am familiar.”