The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-03-01
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tiful weather and good roads (te
ray nothing Of the III. c. L" "
as we have had this winter,
wouldn't say he was a prevari
Gator nor a habitual preverter Of
the truth. No. But l would trace
his family history mack for about
200 years and see if somewhere
some place, and some time, some
of his "relations hadn't been
just a trifle careless and possibly
have "lied.
Soon a story will be published
entitled, "a Benevolent Liar. y
Now don't that cook you? ! will
sure read it. ] am anxious to
see the difference in his style and
that of the sort of liars | am ac-
customed to. If he has anything
on them, I'm for him. You bet.
You have never seen ''your-
self as other see you. You have
never heard your ''voice' as 9TH
ers hear it (else you would act
and speak differently. Nor do
you see anything as it really is,
for the Good Book says, "Hcrc
we sec as through a glass dark
ly.' To none Of us is the glass
clear and we get a distorted view
of life. It's easy for us to see
faults in "others,' equally easy
for them to see things about "us'
that need fixin'.> Get the "mote"
out of your own optic and then
you can pick the cinder out of
your brothers. eye. Take Il
slant on your back trail and
on some of the crooked things
you have done (and kept out of
jaiD before you point the finger
of criticism at your neighbor, and
then commit this to memory: 80
wad some power the giftic gle us,
to see oursels as ithers see us. >"
Recently | noticed an "add" of
an undertaking firm offering re-
duccd rates, etc. He said eve
lead, others follow Now l con-
slider the latter part of said
"add' incompetent, irrelevant
and immaterial. Anybody can
tell you that the 'undcrtakcr'
always leads the procession at
funeral.
Joe Stanley, brother of Mrs. J.
A. Patterson, dropped in unex-
pcctedly Tuesday and will spend
some time in Peaceful Valley.
Joe has been closely associated
with big oil interests in the west
for several years and can tell you
more about oil than anybody you
ever met. Hope he stays with us
quite ''bit."
Appendicitis was known ande
accurately described (and pos
sibly better UNDERSTOOD five
thousand years ago than it is to-
day by the 7lct me see your
tongue pill peddlers who will tell
you it is very modern complaint.
No wonder the demand for "Hoss
Doctors" is incrcasing--they at
least will tell you what 'ails'
you-whilc the up-to-the-minutc
NJ. D. begins putting you through
the Sd degree and the 4th dimen-
lion by asking-what seems to be
the trouble, and where do you
hurt mostly-Eh?
With cabbage and saur kraut
almost beyond price and famine
in "Limbcrger Cheese" what hope
can Germany have left-No Kraut
no Limberger-Himmel-
Kaiser Bill says our enemies
(meaning the U. S. have drop
ped their "mask We'll yes
seems that way--also and like
wise land much more to the
point Uncle Sammy dropped a
"Bomb" in the camp of the I'm
perial Pirate in the form Of a note
recently that caused said Pirate
some loss of sleep-Oh, tlo! it
WASH t a gas bomb-it was charg-
ed with some good advice and
some pretty straight talk-Direc-
tions said take her Bill, and Bill
took her.
This talk about Ground Hog
day is a chestnut-every day is
Ground Hog day when you can
get "Ground Hog"-My good
neighbors keep me well supplied
and believe me it is mighty fillin'
sort of feed. Yea verify | eat
Ground Hog" and like it.
Walton Steele Of St. Louis Gan
old Bntler boy) passed through