The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-01-08

in riches will never gain it without a
changed mind.
How is the seed corn drying out?
Perhaps the mice are getting at it. So
much depends on our corn that it
will not do to pick the seed and leave
it until planting time without looking
it over occasionally to see that every
thing is all right,
If some men with whom we are
acquainted came to know how pleas
ant it is to smile, they'd certainly
swear off being so glum.
Do you ever stop and wonder what
has become Of the old-fashioned, kind
hearted man who used to haul a load
Of wood and a sack of flour around
to the poor widow now and then?
Maybe he has become acounty super
visor and has had her sent to the
poor farm. .-..
Wouldn't it be great if some one
would invent an irrefragible New
Years resolution.
I'm great believer in the plan of
being brought up as member of
large family. If there is any better
agency for taking the conceit and
selfishness out of you than four or
five big brothers I haven't run across
it. The treatment is sometimes he
roic, but it does the work in most
cases. Therefore, boys, appreciate
your big, awkward brothers even if
they do boot you around some.
Old Bill Williams says that he hates
the old seed catalogs like poison; be-
cause, just as soon as they begin to
arrive along about this time of the
year, his wife starts in to plan a lot
of spading for him to do in the spring
so that more than half of the whole
winter is is spelled for him. He -swears
that he has big notion to notify the
various seed firms to take her name
off their mailing lists or he willss
them for damages to his peace of
mind.
A nincompoop classes all the world
with himself.
Those who gettheir garden truck"
by the can-opener route do not know
The pleasure and profit of a home
garden. The things for the table that
come in tin cans help pad the store
dill and do not seem to fit in the
farmers bill of fare.
It.requires so much effort for some
men to get out bed in the morning
hat they seem to be entirely exhaust
I'd all the rest of the day.
The stalwart young woman who
vent into the cornfield and demon
'trated her ability to shuck from
eighty to 100 bushels of corn day.,
lid more to prove her right to the
ballot than if she had smashed Win
low, demolished a mail box, or help
,d'to mob minister of the govern
nent.
Some men have a way of standing
lgainst every good thing that comes
long. All their advantages have to
'e forced upon them. Nothing at all
,ver looks good to them as it ap-
,roaches. They just have to be bowl
ID over as progress moves along.
But just as soon as society can begin
o reap the fruits of an advanced
they are up again, and
eady to get hold of as much more
han their just share of them as they
can cabbage. A hog never
ooks up much, but it has great facili-
y in getting its snout into the trough.
More corn has been sold here this
all than for some time, but none has
'een shipped out. 1t seems that the
eeders are willing to feed high-priced
orn to high-priced feeders. Here is
oping that they win.
The man who leads a creditable
fe never finds much difficulty in OBJ
aiming all the credit he wants.
All the profits cannot be shown on
he ledger. 1t is a good thing to live,
nd to support a good home, and to-
urture and bring up children, and to
elong to the social scheme, and to
cunt for something in the neighbor-