Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — Don’t Kick. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Kick.

A new lodge, something on the order of the Grafld and Altitudinous Association of Stub-Tailed and Left Handed Buffaloes, has been organized The name of the new lodge is the Independent Order of Knock. In this order the members are not required to lift their hats or their booze in their left band, neither are they requiredto pay 11 cents for a lot of nonsense. All that is required of the members is that they refrain from speaking in disrespectful terms of their fellow man. Whenever a member of the lodge knocks on anyone he is requ red to pay a fine of Icent. It is doubtful if people fully appreciate the seriousness of the sin of knocking. L : ves have been ruined, homes have been broken up, hearts made to ache and bleed, and lips have been moved to say things that wouldn’t do for the children to hear all on account of the knocker. The world would be better and the lives of women and men would be sweeter and happier if the common run of people were as handy with their boquets as they are with their hammers. a