Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1902 — How to Avoid Trouble. [ARTICLE]

How to Avoid Trouble.

A young oock naw a weathercock on top of the house, and. thinking him a rival, began crowing fiercely. "If'you keep on making on a noise like that,” said the old bird, “they’ll wring your neck for you.” The young cock looked thoughtful. “Take example by me. I’ve got along and have been looked up to for half a century by simply, keeping my bill shut and turning with the wind." The moral Is obvious.—Philadelphia North American.