The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-20
PasSaic lite ms.


Unfortunate is the song bird which
has the merits of It's music passed
upon by jury of crows. In other
words, unfortunate is the man whose
motives are judged by an individual
with an uncongenial and unsympa-
thetic nature. That it takes all kinds
Of minds to make a world, seems TO
be hard TO understand by some. The
genius Of Napoleon should not have
been passed upon by Judge utterly
devoid of martial spirit. The sweet
cadences of the English eloquence
OF Clay would have fallen upon I'M
appreciative ears, in a Chinaman.
The earnest appeals of a Moody
would descend upon stony ground in
heather audience. The Wit and
gentle humor of Mark Twain and
Bill Nye would never have been the
delight of nation if all their readers
had been of bitter and morose ma
ture. He who ''spake as never man
spake," saw how this would be when
he gave us this immortal command,
Cast not your pearls before swine
Even this man had his motives mis-
construed. So We need not bemoan
our mistake when some brother mis-
takes our intentions. However, l
will just say that | can put up with a
great deal of misunderstanding il the
offender will only show some merit
by clothing his ideas with honest
courtesy. For | can but impute unto
all men that which l think | am at
all times consistent in-viz: an honest
purpose.
We wonder if any of our amateur
astronomers have noticed what ap-
pears TO be two maids milky ways"
athwart the starry heavens these
clear January nights. The main one
rises in the southeast and passing up
to the right of "Orion," and the
"Pleiades" with the clipper" on the
left, far to the north, cleaves the
heavens in about equal parts and APP
parentlv settles down in Alaska, while
the other makes tangent with the
horizon little south of west and GO
ing up intersects the main one in the
center of the heavens. While this
may be an old phenomenon 10 regu
lar star -gaZer>, il Is something | had
never noticed before, aud l trust
you vii! be 30 liberal in YOUR critl-
cismS upon my first attempt in astron-
| omy a. to not make my remarks ap-
pear ill-starred.
Ivan Reeder, our democratic tax
collector for Mound township is now
engaged in making his required
rounds in search of revenue. As he
is the first democrat to fill this office
for long time no doubt it is pleas
ant variety to our citizens to see
something beside a populist in office
up here. He is making good officer,
and has the ability to further serve
his party should it ever be necessary
to do. He complimented us by taking
| dinner with us.
Four more cars of corn ordered last
week. Two cars to Ed Boswell and
two to uncle Dick Wilcox, Mr. Bos-
well who is a large cattle feeder will
feed his to his cattle. Uncle Dick is
feeding hogs.
Mrs F III Maddy gave her good
| looking son Jake, a birthday dinner
and a pair of breaches the other day.
| Wonder If Jake had about run out OF
grub and pants.
So young Aaron actually travelled
in the outskirts Of Passaic for fear l
would immortaliZe him with a poem.
Don't be SO timid, young man. If
that had been your father he would
have driven right through the main
boulevard Of the town, and not have
lost the opportunity of seeing a real
live place, with ''Park" in it, al
though 1 believe Virginia has sew
eraD just because he was afraid OF