The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-07-02
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and stoekman.

farmer and Stookman.
There is no Joy like the homemade
sort.
Stubbornness is substituted for will
power by great many folks.
When a man starts in to speak his
mind right out it is usually a poor
piece.
II is strange that the kicker never
seems to get sore hoofs; it must be
that his heels are mighty tough.
H Money is not such great comfort
to own; one has to hold it so tight in
order to keep it from slipping away.
Sometimes when one sets out to
see how fast he can travel he is not
able to tell the results Of his expert
ment afterward.
There is a vast difference between
the smile which is given for your
pleasure and the one which is intend
ed to exact homage from you.
Old Bill Williams says that he can't
understand why folks raise such a
hue and cry against the dandelion; it
is the only flower that he cares about
troubling himself to grow.
l suppose that a shade over the
seat on the corn pillow is fine thing,
but cannot speak from experience.
When it is too hot for me to ride the
corn pillow it is too hot for the horses
to work.
Don't forget that even hens need
fresh, cool drinking water when the
weather is as hot as it has been now
and no doubt will be for some time.
Everything that adds to the comfort
of the animals on the farm adds to
the profits of the farmer.
Pushing the lawn mower is hard
work and it is hard to see where the
returns come from in dollars and
cents, because they never come, but
the appearance of a well-kept lawn is
a thing to excite admiration, no mat
ter whether it is in the town or in the
country.
When farmers begin to hire mar
ried men to work for them the "back-
to-the-land" movement will start in
earnest and this will come, because
the farmer can afford to pay more for
help than anyone else. Steady work
and sure pay will appeal to the wage
Garner who supports a family.
I don't know my neighbor very
we'll. The most Of his life is sealed
book to me. He gives me only Gimp
SEES of its pages now and then. look
at the binding, the title page, and the
fly leaves. Therefore my opinion Of
him, in the very nature of the case,
must be rather tentative. will not
Judge him, because but a very little
of the material upon which a just
judgment should be based is availa-
BILE to me. To do so would be both
unjust to him and a reproach to my
self.
The power to think is mans dis
tinction. He should put thought into
his work whatever it is. The aim of
all education is to develop the ability
to use the mind. Every occupation
affords opportunity to use the mind.
The mistake which the mass of folks
make in life is to assume that an oc-
cupation which requires the use of
the hands gives little or no scope for
mental exercise and they allow them
selves to become mere machines in
following it out. No work into which
one puts brains as we'll as muscle is
mental.
It seems to me that the world needs
to change its notion about what con-
stitutes heroism, or at least to learn
the great. lesson that heroes may be
made elsewhere as well as on the
field of battle. All good men pay
tribute to what they consider the he
roic, and, as long as war seems to be
the most productive field for this
quality in human character it will be
esteemed as the special arena of glo-
ry. If we want wars to cease let us
learn to recognize the heroism which
may be engendered in the often-try-1
ing walks Of civil life and weave for
it its proper crown Of applause.
There is a heroism Of mortal and spir-
itual life which cries out for recogni-
ton, and which it is far more honor
able to glorify.
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