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

FARM BURROWS.
Farmer and seeekmAa.
The gossip's tongue never asks fol
a vacation.
1t is better to waste sympathy thar
to be stingy with it.
If you smile at some folks they won
der what you are after.
He who laughs his way through
life is apt to have good long laugh
ing spell.
The faults of your neighbors prob
ably look as great to you as yours dc
to them.
~ A talkative person is one who
knows how to make little idea 90 a
long ways.
Just doing as others do without
knowing why is, and ought to be,
mighty dull work.
When we reach our last dollar we
earnestly wish that-all the others had
been as big as it looks.
Some folks are always ready to join
the procession no matter whittier it is
bound or how dusty the path.
Spending your time calling atten-
ton to other peoples mistakes is a
bigger mistake than any of theirs. >.
Nobody ever hurt anyone with a
smile and that is just the reason some
folks wouldn't wear one for anything.
The tongues of some people are so
sharp that they seem to have robbed
all their other faculties of that quail
ity. *.
People with very little energy will
quite easily accept for the truth no.
tons which some of us find it impos-
sible to believe.
We know it is a duty to love all
men, but the fellow with an everlast-
ing crouch makes it an uphill bust
ness for us many times.
After visiting a while with some
folks you are simply compelled to
read your Bible little more than u.s.
ual in order to restore your equanim-
ity.
The world wasn't made according
to our specifications, my good friend,
and however much we may kick it
isn't going to change the general or
der of things so you could notice it.
Those who have not built silos
should not forget that good, bright
corn fodder is as good as it ever was,
and if fed without husking out the
corn it makes close second to the
best feed that is to be had.
Leaving bundles on the ground a
couple of days makes the hard work
of shocking corn lighter if it don't
rain, but shocking wet corn is the
hardest of all and the worst part of
it is that shocked when it is wet it is
almost sure to mold in the shock.
One shock of corn that stands up
straight and is securely tied at the
top is worth more than. two shocks
that are loose and twisted out of
shape. Don't forget that we would
give our noses a rather sharp upturn
if moldy food was brought to the
table.
The wind stacker makes easy work
of getting the straw away from the
machine, but in this vicinity we have
not learned the knack of stacking the
straw from the "blower" so that it will
keep. We must save the straw, and
the careful farmer finds that it pays
to put three good workers in the
straw pile and the result is stack
that will stay bright until spring.
1t will soon be time to 60 to the
polls and vote, and l don't know
whether it is right to consider it
duty or a privilege. Perhaps it is
both, but we find that there are many
who will not spend two hours to exer-
else their right that places them so far
ahead of those who are ruled by
divine (?) right. 1t is also to their
everlasting shame that they are the
ones who sit back and howl about
dirty politics and corrupt politicians.
Why don't they come on and help
clean things up?
There are those who are so little
acquainted with the good old truths
that almost any sort of strange doc