The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-10-15
FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and Stockman.

| FARMER and StOckmAn.
The right kind of a disposition il
sunny under every sort of a sky.
The true believer in universal peace
bears no grudge agains this neighbor
An honest man doesn't mind being
observed, but he hates the inquisi
tive eye.
The most irksome WEAKNESS or
earth is the tiredness Of the lazy fel
low.
Nothing is known so positively as
the the things folks imagine they
know and don't.
If money were everything then
some folks would be justified in
working so hard to get more than
they need.
One can talk quite glibly of some
thing he knows nothing at all about,
for then he doesn't have to be exact.
When fellow is too much alarm
ed with the sound of his own voice it
takes good deal of the charm out
of it.
Old Bill Williams says that in his
opinion no man is successful smok-
er until he can light his pipe out of
doors with one match in wind or
rain.
The man who can forget that he
has an automobile when the roads are
very bad is sometimes considered
rather slow by some of his neighbors,
but he is usually there with the goods
when his accounts are due.
It will not do to "bank" too heavi-
ly on the future prices of farm pro-
ducts, especially if this war proves
to be long one. Remember that it |
is possible for us or anyone else to
live on almost nothing when we have
nothing to buy with.
AS soon as you get friendly with
some folks they want to make all
sorts of use of you. think it is a
great thing to be of service to others,
but am inclined to balk when they
begin to count upon the service as
one of their regular assets.
The blackbirds which in the early
'all gather in great flocks in the
groves and along the hedges are a
,hattering lot, but it is a great deal /;
more entertaining and profitable to !
listen to them than to gossipy gath
ering Of men and women.
The hired men in this vicinity are
beginning to look upon silo filling as I
"cruel and inhuman" mode of pun
shment. Silo owners and others {
should remember hard driving and r
heavy work now will make hired 4
,elp more scarce next spring. s
Don't be grouchy, oh, don't be
my dear sir, for what sweet t
less can you find in acidity? And,
ince sugar has gone away up in F
rice, you must sweeten yourself,
ir, if sweet you are to be, because il
lobody would be willing to waste '
!ood sweetness upon you. F
Our feathered friends are leaving
IS for the year. Let us hope that S
heir visit was pleasant enough to c
hem so that we may have them all T
ack dext season. A visitor that b
forks all summer for his board and
oes his own cooking is rather a
leasant thing to have around. b
The increased demand for kerosene ii
nd gasoline seems to have lowered
le price instead of increasing it and ~ J,
ill we do not hear any words of u
raise for the great octopus" This u
hardly fair. If the farmers had
omplete control of the prices of
lrm products it is doubtful if they o
'ould try to put them within reach r
ALL" n
Of course, we have no disposition D
rejoice because our brothers
ross the waters are engaged in the es
vful carnage of warfare. With the ie
aiser, we must all say that it makes 70
If hearts bleed. And yet, as we Ia
de home from market with a large
increased check from the proceeds az
our crops we just pat ourselves =.
the back little and feel mighty Vi
ad that we are at peace with the
orld and can just 90 on thinking Az
'out and enjoying our quiet and so
aceable little farms, while they IN
hit it out il it takes all summer. az