Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1905 — Fate of the Three Men. [ARTICLE]

Fate of the Three Men.

There were once three men who gave a great deal of thought to the problem of what to do the first of the year. The first man announced that he had sworn off all his bad habits. Everybody said he always was a wild character, and it would be well to keep closer watch than ever on him, as now there was no telling when he would cut loose worse than ever.* The second man, seeking to profit by the experience of the first, declared that he had not sworn off because he had no bad habits to discard. The result was that everybody pronounced him a hardened wretch, who was insensible and Indifferent to the duties of life. ~ The third man studied their cases and concluded that the best thing he could do would be to say nothing whatever. Whereupon everybody asserted that he was too calloused to reform ahd was not worthy of any respect at all. This simply goes to show that, no matter how you guess, you will guess wrong.—Judge. ,