The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-10-08

down to intermediate speed. No use
to wear out your gear and get no
where either.
It is worth while remembering that
you are always expected to pay a
good round price for anything that is
offered to you free. The world is
not a benevolent institution, and if
you get anything Of worth in it you
must put up the price. Readiness to
pay the price adds to the dignity OF
your character, and when the pur-
chace is reasonably just it is the
measure of your appreciation and
enjoyment.
In our good old boyhood days we
used to hear a good deal Of preaching
about the importance of learning to
say mo-" We were taught to sing a
song the refrain of which was "Have
courage; my boy, to say no." But
good many Of us old dodgers fear
have learned the lesson entirely too
we'll, and practice saying that great
little word to everything that comes
along. We do not know just what it
is, but whatever it is we are down.
right against it.
l have never been to a political con-
vention, although have certain polit-
ical convictions which hold to with
considerable fidelity. Likewise l
have never heard very many political
orations; however, the effusions of a
few of the silver-tongued notables
have tickled the tympanums of my
ears. But / have scanned the news
paper reports of the speeches made
by certain candidates this season, and
it has occurred to me that some of
them must have been written by the
medical takers which the postal
authorities have recently put out of
business. A good many men have
yet to learn that the farmers of the
country have passed beyond the stage
where they could easily be buncoed
with orotund phrases and buncombe.
Homemade love is the best sort.
A pessimist would have said, "A
rose by any name would fade as
luickly."
Many a man has enjoyed building
4 new house better than living in it
after it is finished.
The man who understands himself
The least always feels the most put
out about it when he thinks he is mis-
understood.
Some fellows blow their automobile
horns in thesam spirit in which a
jackass brays, and it sounds a good
deal the same also.
As long as the Lord keeps you
blessed with two good, sound legs you
have no call to be jealous of the way
other folks get around the world.
The corncrib tests the crop esti-
mates of the summer time, but there
are always some men who will never
admit that they have overestimated
beforehand.
Old Bill Williams says that he is
not at all interested in what the war
may do to the Paris fashions, but he
S a little ticklish about what may
to French briar pipes.
have seen smiling faces in the lit
lie car just as often as in the big one;
and, for that matter, the one-horse
buggy is still capable of transporting
4 good deal of bliss down the pike.
While knocking around the state
'air was approached by several peo-1
Die who mistook me for another,
nan whom do not know. l have
oeen wondering just what sort of a
fellow he is.
It will soon be time to clear away
he dead vines and rubbish from the
garden so that it can be MANFRED and
3lowed before the plows are put away
.or the winter. It will not do to neg
ect the best part of the farm.
If you can't wear anything but a
crouch on your face better keep off
he highways, or else hang your head
and keep your hat brim pulled away
Town over your eyes. Don't rob other
people of happiness by hanging your
own ugliness out for public display.
A septic tank costs money, so does
an air pressure tank for water, but it
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