E. HIGGINS LUMBER co.

My Mother

Some one I love comes back to me

With every gentle face I see; Beneath each wave of soft, gray hair I seem to see my mother there, With every kindly grace and word, It seems as if I must have heard IIer speak, and felt her tender gaze

With all the love of olden days, And I arn moved to take her hand And tell her, now I understand How tired she grew beneath the strain Of feeling every loved one's pain. No further burdens could she bear; The promise of that land more fair Alone could tempt her from her child; And now, if I could keep her herc, No sacrifice could be too dear.

No tempCred winds for her too mild.

Then I would smooth and kiss her face, And by her side take my old place, And sob my years and cares away.

The tears I have so long repressed

Would losc their ache upon hef breast; I think if I could feel her touch

Once more, it would not matter much poverty is uncomfo:3t""::I1 can testiry; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself-James Garfield.

How sunny or how dark the day.

-Author Unknown.

The Road To Success

There is but one straight road to success, and that is MERIT. The man who is successful, is the man who is useful. Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

Relieving The Pressure

A drunkard of long standing has been reformed by an operation which removed a bone that pressed against the brain.

The Detroit News says that lots of cures have been affected by removing a brass rail that used to press again the foot.

The Happy Medium

i The householder carefully surveyed the seedy looking \ individual standing before him.

"You look like a big, healthy fellow," said he, "why don't you go to work?"

"\f,fell, sir," said the hobo, "I'll tell you my troubleI'm an unhappy medium."

"'What on earth is that?"

"Why, I'm too heavy. for light work and too light for hearry work."

BUDDHA'S GOLDEN RULE

"The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me."-Buddha.

LAUGHTER.TOWN

Would ye learn the road to Laughter-town, Oh ye who have lost the way?

Would ye have young heart though your hair be grey? Go learn from a little child each day. Go serve his wants, and play his play, And catch the lilt of his laughter gay, And follow his dancing feet as they'stray; For he knows the road to Laughter-town, Oh ye who have lost the way.

-Katherine D. Blake.

Napoleon

His dispatches are fiUed with the wdrds: Success, Riches, Glory, Fame-these were the talismanic words of Napoleon, and yet there is in all the tragic history of man, no sadder failure. Even in the days of his power ho was called "the Great Unloved." Though master of the world, yet of him his friend could only affirm: "Napoleonr grindl gloomy and peculiar, sits upon his throne a sceptered her' mit, wrapped in the solitude of his own ambitiel."William Day Simonds.

i DARKEST HOUR r./ fte darhest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.-Horace Greeley.

Greatness

It is great-and there is no other greatness-to make one nook of God's creation more fruitful, better, more worthy of God; to make some human heart a little wiser, manlier, happier-more blessed, less cursed.-Carlyle.

Bucking the Game

When a sad, disgruntled farmer Tires of mowing down the hay, And looks abotrt to find a job He thinks wiil really pay, Off he rushes to the city

Filled with dreams of wealth and fame, And without a thought or worry ' Jumps into the lumber g'ame.

When a staid, old country doctor Cures ? his patients in a day, And longs to spend declining years

Upon the gay, white way, Quick he hies him from the suburb, And proceeds to park his frame, In a little lumber office.

Where he bucks the lumber game.

So they gather from the far east, And they gather from the west, These experimental ltrmbermen

Who think they k4bw what's best, And the tale of theii adventures

It most generally the same, For it.takes a man-sized human

To buck the lumber game.

You've got to know the business

From the forest to the mill, You've got to use your massive brain

In "Robbins" Flooring you are assurd of the very finest that has e1er been, or ever will be produced. Our geographical location, t h e modern machinery in our mill, and the type of men who make our fooring, all go to make this statement_poqsib_le. "Robbins'l Maple and Birch Flooring is the best.

Southcrn California: C. J. LAUGHLIN

535-6 Petroleum Sccuriticr Bldg, Lor Angclcr

WEetmorc 9055

Northcrn Californie: GEORGE C. CORNITIUS, Amcrican Bank Bld3. San Fraacirco

And exercise your will.

You've got to meet the public

And treat the salesmen white

Or they'll help slip you a dimension

That's not exactly right.

You've got to render service

Or the builder'll have a fit, You must have personality

That's recognized as "It,"

For the rough 1og road you've chosen

Ain't no royal road to fame, And no inexperienced2by 4

Should buck the t$fitf,:ff.

Building and Loan Association Establishes Record Growth

Concluding its third year with assets of $3,825,000, the Pacific Coast Building-Loan Association of Los Angeles has established a nation-wide record for growth among building and loan associations, according to a statement made by A. A. Anderson, secretary.

.In reviewing the prog'ress of the association since organization on May 20, 1925, Anderson's statement points out that when Pacific Coast was two vears old it had assets of more than $2,000,000. This was hailed by building and loan people throughout the country as a record. In- adding nearly two million since May 20, 1926, the association now lays claim to the record of being the first building and loan association in the United States to attain approximate- Iy four million of assets during the first three years of its corporate existence.