The Butler weekly times., 1917-11-15

ye-more noise than you all made in
Butler on Taft" day. You see sew
eral things have occurred lately to
sorter upset the kaiser-first Of all
and (worst of ally he has found that
we on this side of the briny WASH t
bluffin-our men are there and are
workin' on the Huns proper. Then
his father (the deviD wrote him a
letter recently telling him of some OF
his cussedness and Bill is so nervous
and scared" that he is livin,' in a
concrete dugout 16o feet deep. He
won't come out for his meals, so they
squirt soup (bean soup) down to him
: through pipe. He hasn't taken a
bath or drawn a long breath since
the Sammies arrived.
Not long since l was approached
by sad faced individual who said to
me, which would you rather do, go
to bed at 8 and get up at S or"
Nov stop right there" says /, Il
don't know who you are, nor what
your past life or previous conditions
of servitude has been-you look hon.
est, but you are treading on danger
Gus ground. l have jined the Red
Cross, ! am conservationist, I only
cat meat on legal holidays-or when
company comes, we have wheatless,
eatless, mcatless and restless days
in fact obey all the laws, l even
help buy cigarettes for the soldiers,
but III be darned if any galoot shall
tell me when shall go to bed or get
out That's one privilege I'll fight
for. Because it's only when sleep
that l can forget how hungry l am
He said, Il thank you, friend, I'm
much obliged"
cards. Just matter of form. Ne
cessity and the preservation of life
compels US to be careful. Waste?
Why there's not enough food at our
place goes to waste to feed hum
ming bird once month for two
weeks. HUH! Conservative? Welt,
L should say.
When l hear anybody say, don't
worry just have one thing to say
and say it. It's this, the people who
don't worry amt got brains enough to |
appreciate proposition Of any kind. |
They are mental derelicts and should
be interned.
l am informed that 10000 cars will
be needed to move this -ear's pota-
to crop to market. A car will hold
7 or 8 hundred bushels-figure it up
and see if you think we can have
spuds on the table once day.
Pumpkin pie time, yes, but be gosh,
'whars' the milk, sugar and eggs |
comm from? Plenty of pumpkins
but the balance of the fixin's are
scarce. Too bad by jing-I do like
pumpkin pie and mustard greens.
There are 1864 German prisoners
of war in this country actual prison.
ers and there are about 400 interned
alien enemies. So far so good, but
at that, think there are quite a lot
of aliens runnin' around loose yet and
they amt all of them Germans. either.
The high cost of bakers bread is
workin' hardship in a good many
homes How SO? Just this-a lot of
us men folks are havin' to eat bread
baked at home and bravely try to
make believe its like mother used to
make AriE, the heroes are not all
on the firing line.-Not yet.
Don't be in too much Of a hurry to
credit the news of the day, for a deal
Of life's cares and its worries Is
prefaced by two words, they say"
T'other day read an article in q
paper entitled What the Kaiser
Stands to Lose" Quite an article.
too. Gave list Of things Bill will
lose. But it didn't mention one little
bit of personal adornment that Bill
will lose if Sammee gets to him,
and that's his scalp.
You see I've been runnin' buck
saw quite some this fall. One day .
man stopped and asked me If could
tell him the difference between a buck
saver and a soldier. said. mo, sir.
l never was a soldier. But can tell
you all that is demanded or expected
of the man with the saw" And what
is that" says he. 'Just a strong back
and weak mind" said l, and kept on
sawin' wood.
o, give me home where the buf-
falo roam. where the deer and the
antelope play; or give me a home
where the waves break and foam, and
I will be happy alway. But take all
of these and give me a place. in the
trenches in front of the Hun, with
orders to kill-then trot cut K Bill
and I'll sure bring the bacon back
home |