The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-12-07
Nyhart Sunbeams.

"adios. / thank you for tn
kindly manner in which YEN re
ceived "Sunny jim" feel tina
my usefulness in the journalism
field is not over, not by ain,
means, but | received a macaron
wireless by telephone" from tn
cditorship asking me to lay of
my stuff. Since the Sunny jim
items began the circulation of tn,
Weekly Times has Increased Sc
much that he finds it impossible,
to supply the demand and so
must bid you a very reluctant
adicu until-next week.
When I hear folks "talkin dis
couragin" like, | cant helr
feelin' like telling them that il
took Noah 624 years to build his
old boat. Folks laughed at him
but he never lost his "ncrvc"-
went right along and bye and bye
came the big rain. He may have
felt afraid at times, but the main
fact is that he was no "quitter.
Q, what lesson for us at this
time. "Do'nt quit BE brave
and sunny.
Why are eggs so high? Now
that looks easy. Some one an
swcred because they are scarce,
but are they? No. Another says
"a corner on eggs" Wrong
again. What's the answer just
this, some fellow has placed on
the market an egg producing
stimulation and his add reads
as follows: Money in eggs -
and? "Bingo"' every preson who
gets hold of an egg proceeds to
break it open expecting to find a
lone dollar William" packed in
side the shell. Ain t it awful.'
OF course | read all the adver-
tisements. That's why know
so much" Some queer ones too
there be. Other day | saw one
Hike This this .B+ttt Buggy tops for Sufr
And do you know it recalled the
days when was a small hoy 60
ing to school. There fellow
could get a ''buggie" top for
nothing. Several of us had them
too well. Yes. we "sho" did.
Sam Patterson, time keeper for
the K. G. S. railroad, came in to
spend the week end with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. lattcr-
son, of Nyhart. Sam is one of the
get there Sort and altho he, sui
fcred the loss of his left hand a
few years since, he can 'do more
work (or does more work than
most men do with two hands. You
see Sam uses his head as well as
his hand. And that's what
counts.
A village is an assemblage of
houses smaller than town or city
and larger than a hamlet" Now
what in sam hill is a "hamlet.
What | want to say is, Nyhart is
better than either of 'cm. Quite
so.
| heard two fellows "talkin'
the other day. One said it was
239 thousand miles to the moon.
The other one said it was
mile farther and | just spoke
mp and said, says |, l don't know
how far it is to the moon, but it s ,
some distance to roasting ears"
and "new potatoes. We would
better be "figerrin how to get 5
through the winter. The moon
will go on doing business at the
'ame old place regardless. Ain t i
IT, S
Oh, | may be a little plain in '
ny talk at times but | never lose '
light Of the "main. chance" and
f folks would "work more" and $
talk less of hard tines they d
would have more to eat and wear 4
nd things would look brighter.
let the habit.
Some one once said conscience
lakes towards of us ALL" May
e that s true, but l don't believe :,
!, for if it were true l know ~
ONE folks who would have killed II
themselves long while ago
running away from conscience. Ii
Most of us think of "tomor- 81
)w' too few of us think of our n
yesterdays. Tomorrow never sc
,mes. 1t is always in the future. ::
Ut. what did you do "yester-
ovov Tot ~, th:,,I, II