The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-07-29

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II days, l appear in print paper
again. have been as busy as a
Colorado beetle since comm to Kan
sas. What with dodgin' street cars,
autos and office seekers my wakin'
hours have been filled to repletion
and my night with pink elefants and
kangaroos wearin' red pajamas and
green ears. Today bein' Sunday and
havin' attended to my devotional
duties l will forego my p. m. siesta
and write you. Possibly l am con-
ceited, but l feel that you have
missed me. Conceit i'll ones self IS
all right, but it looks bad in others.
But yet and still a person without
conceit is about as useful as fish
worm. He has no backbone. Call it
conceit, swell head, vanity, self as
surance or what you please, all OF
us are Ito some extent) afflicted
with it, and l think rightly so, too.
The world in general takes US at our
own valuation and if we wait for
somebody else to toot our horn
mebbe it won't be footed. We get
no higher than we aim. SO go ahead.
Have good opinion of yourself.
Pat your own back. Swell out your
breast bone till the buttons on your
B. V. DIS bust off. I'm for the con-
ceited chap first, last and for by.
golly always.
One of the things that make me
weary of life and causes rne to long
for the peace of the sweet subse-
Cuently is the way folks in high "sas-
s:ety' are cuttin' up nowadays.
hold that only those who have
seen nothing of life save natures
pure and visible face can be wholly
good and kind and wise.
Quite So.
A little bit of water
Keeps the corn and taters CROWN
And very little labor
Will start the sweat a-flowin
{P. Sin Kansas.)
How do I like the city? Well, l
amt sayin'. You know / want city
born and l opine the time will come
And the call of the Wild will prove
too strong. And then, "oh, boyv the
way Ill burn the road gettin back
home" will make Barney Oldfieid
look like a sellin' platter or an also
ran. Still hope to keep my self re-
spect, while in the city.
T'other day while waitin' for a
street car, l witnessed a very seri-
Gus accident A fellow came dashin'
down the street in car and struck
another Teller in the safety zone"
l. opine that good many turnip
greens will go to waist pretty soon.
Sow bosom is gettn' cheaper and
aim to begin eatin' EN-.
Eagle Eye (of The Times) took a
nasty fling at me t'other day when
he said that while he hated to see
me leave Missouri he felt sure that
his tobacco would last longer. All |
the reply l shall make to this sour
rillous remark is that if said tobacco
lasts as long as the taste of the one
(and only pipefull tried to smoke,
it will last forever. 1t was vile.
The most useful book an autoist
can take with him on a trip is a
pocket book.
| am told there were several very
good speeches of acceptance" that
were not used at Chicago, which can
be had for the askin', owing to sick
ness (and some other reasons) the
owners are leavin' the city and have
no further use for en.
When folks find fault with Sum
beams, | just catalog 'em branless
and let it go at that. When they diff
fer with my political or religious
faith I pass 'em up as hopeless, hut
if any of these long-eared, bewhis-
kered natives goes to knockin' on my
home town there'll be slow singin' at
his house next day at 2:3o p. M, and
the epitpah on the pine board will
look like this F.:
He said, "I'll abide here
And say what l please"
Rut he didn't he died there