The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-05-14

up the interest in the matter OF dull
details. Plenty of people can make a
good beginning, but it takes grit and
perseverance to keep up that sort of a
good continuance which insures an
excellent ending.
The extra work on the seed bed in
the spring will usually result in an
extra number Of bushels at the thresh-
ing machine.
The more clothes a woman is able
to wear the fewer she seems to want
to.
The lightning season is with us.
When does your insurance policy ex-
pire?
When wit persists in being unkind
and cutting it would be better to be
half-witted.
If you take life too easy besure that
somebody is bearing the hardships
that you ought to.
The man who cusses his horses
ought to buy tractor to do his farm
work with and a motor car to drive
around in.
Some people would give fortune
lust to be able to see what the man in
the moon is supposed to behold these
moonlight spring evenings,
!! like to see a Eood.natured fellow,
but when man is SO good natured
that he 10 taken in by every faker
who comes along II is going beyond
the limit.
\ If things don't seem to have any
bright side at all, let me advise you
to 20 to work and see if you can't do
little polishing on them somewhere
or other.
Sowing grass seed on the last snow
is going out of practice and many of
us cannot see why the fast snow"
came so often this year unless it was
to tempt us to sow more grass seed.
The man who does the dragging on
our roads should be well paid for his
work, but the township trustees
should see to it that the pay goes to a
man who has the know how" and
willingness to work.
| A windmill makes cheap power for
pumping water, but a small gasoline
engine is such a good "all round"
helper that if one cannot have both
the Windmill and the engine ! would
take the engine.
/ A few days ago ship from China
brought g. D2, 60eggs to this country.
The oriental hen is undoubtedly some
layer. However, don't get scared
for fear of a plutted market. Missouri
hens lay that many eggs every MORN
ing.
3 It takes an ''artful dodger"' to get
around paying the automobile license
tax, but the state is full Of those who
are willing to try. No doubt, the
money spent in rounding up these
dodgers would build few culverts if
it could be used for this purpose.
Working in the fields while it is
raining does not pay. The poor
work done will not bring extra bu-
shells, nor will it improve the health
of man or beast, but it sometimes
seems that it is a wise man that
knows enough to 60 in when it rains.
The new corn planters are almost
perfect when it comes to counting out
the number of kernels to. be planted
in a hill, but they cannot tell how
many of the kernels will make stalks.
Our machinery is as good as brains
and skillful hands can make it, but
our farming must also be backed up
with brains to bring success.
When man wants to stretch the
truth the devil is always ready to lend
q hand, and so he soon finds it an
easy thing to do.
II you just can't deep from croak-
ing around all the time l would ad-
wise you to 60 down to the swamp
and cast your lot with the rest of the
toad-frogs.
To me there are two times in a
chicken.s career when it is the most
interesting: First, when it is just
and hasn't scratched yet;
Iecond, when it is placed before me
On the table. Inever grow tired Of
watching the fluffy little fellows Just