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Knots or Minie Balls

The other day I saw a picture in a magazine by E. L. Bruce company, of a piece of oak flooring with a lead bullet imbedded in it. The bullet had been in the heart of the tree, and there the saws found it.

And it reminded me of a dear old story that a drawlingSouthern-Accent friend of mine in Nashville loves to tell. He says that an old hardwood manufacturer near Memphis, imported a hardwood inspector from Indiana to handle the shipments at his mill. He went out to watch the new man inspect a load of oak that was going into a car, and found that the inspector had set out a dozen or more boards, not

Congratulations Fred

Fred Roth, Sales Manager, J. H. McCallum, San Francisco, has been wearing a smile that won't corne off the past two weeks and has been the recipient of manv congratulations from his lumbermen friends. A fine ba6v bov arrived at his home on February 18. Fred states tfraf nlri. Roth and the future young lumber king are doing nicely.

allowing them to be loaded. The boss approaches and looks them over, and inquires what they have been culled for. The inspector pointed to some strange-looking spots. in each of these boards, and replied that he culled them for those knots, remarking at the same time that they were the funniest looking knots he had ever seen in oak lumber.

The old lumberman looked at him with much disdain. "Son," he said, "them ain't lsrots. Them's minie balls. We cut this timber on the ground where they fought the battle of Stone's Landing, where we buried three thousand of you damned Yankees. Put them boards into the car."

And they went in.

NORRIS K. WENTWORTH VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

Norris K. Wentrvorth, Bay City, N{ichigan, has been a recent visitor in San Francisco where he spent two weeks on business matters. Mr. Norris is associated with Ross & Wentworth, extensive lumber operators and manufacturers, at Bay City, Michigan.