The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-09-10
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Carelessness adds great deal to
the cares of life. 4
Fools at the steering wheel keep
the surgeons and undertakers Fat.
Love is a surer thing ina cottage
than in a-palace. y
Let every man have square deal
and the most 81 them will have
square meals:
A long tongue is the distance which
makes some near neiehbors live very
far apart.
Any sort Of a neighborhood is good
enough for the person who sees
nothing but its faults.
The sunflower lifts high head
and takes up lots of room, but nobody
ever sings an anthem to its glory.
If you want to find pride and arro-
gance in pristine purity hunt up the
town marshal in the nearest village.
A coed many people think they
have gotten back to the land and in
tune with nature when they eat
roasting ear off the cob.
If have to listen to someone brag
loudly about himself, Id rather hear
a donkey bray, because do not ex-
pect any thing better from it.
The greatest highwayman the world
has ever known must have been that
fellow called Atlas who is reported to
have held up the whole earth.
An old book says, "Out Of the full
ness of the heart the mouth speak
eth," but there are folks. who will
not speak pleasantly unless the
stomach also is full.
1t is good thing advice is cheap.
I've had so much of it in my time
that if it had to be paid for I'd have
been looking at the inside of the poor
house long, long ago.
My little garden seldom measures
up to my springtime dreams, but it is
never a complete failure. Half full
fillment is better than no dream at
all, and am thankful.
How much better it would be to
form a ring and let the decadent
kings fight it out among themselves.
while the people could continue to
dig for living in an honest way.
Old Bill Williams says that since
God made man out of the dust of the
earth he doesn't see why he should
take the trouble of washing it off
more than once or twice year.
Our recent rains are all right for
fall blowing, but in will not do to be
very loud in their praise when talking
with those who have their grain in
the shock waiting for the machine.
The only king we must fight for
here is King Corn, and the enemy is
the weeds. l don't know how others
may feel, but would rather take off
nv hat to the man who kills weed
than to the one who kills man.
How much better it is to be pro-
Queer of those things which promote
and sustain life than of those which
make for destruction. and death. The
humble grower of wheat and corn is
far nobler than the builder of battle
ships and the general of armies.
To be tired and rest is one of the
great privileges of life. No expert
ence is sweeter than season of re-
Taxation after honest toll has been
done. 1t is natures compensation
for the pains of labor. He who is
worn out with the ennui Of his own
lazineSS is forbidden this great boon.
What waste of energy it is to
carry imaginary burdens. Nothing
is so utterly futile. And yet if we
turn the calm light of wisdom and
common sense upon life how many
of its so called hardships and trials
have no existence at all in reality.
Don't wear yourself out just to be
doing so. If you bear a burden that
is merely the result of the wrong
way of looking at things you are
worthy of very little sympathy.
A mule always brays as though it
were charmed withits own voice.
Purchased love is as false as the
money paid for it.
Aman has to be blind to a good
many things in order to be proud OF