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Mark Twain On Honesty

Mark Twain was once called upon to speak, and took for his subject-Honesty. As an illustration, he told of a time when he was a boy, he saur a cart load of melons. He was tempted, and fell. He sneaked up to the cart, grabbed one of the melons and went up an alley to devour it.

"But," said he, "No sooner did my teeth set into it, than a feeling of regret came for what I had done. I took the stolen morsel from my mouth, and returning to the qart, replaced the melon-and took a ripe one.

WHERE TROUBLES GO

A crowd of troubles passed him by As he with courage waited.

He said, "Where do you troubles fly When you are thus belated?"

"W" go," they said, "To those who mope, Who look on life dejected, Who weakly say goodby to hop+ We go where we're expected."

TO REMOVE FRECKLES

Hang your head out of the car window while going through a narrow tunnel.

THE THREE R'S

In the old days the three R''sReading, Writing, and Arithmetic-were the foundations of our college education. But since athletics have taken so firm a foothold, the three R's of modern times seem to be Rah ! -Rah ! Rdh !

HOWARD GUNTON RETURNS F'ROM NORTHWEST TRIP

Howard Gunton, Gritzmacher & Gunton, San Francisco, has returned to San Francisco after a short business trip to the Northwest where he rvas calling on their mill connections and the lumber trade in the Portland and Columbia River DistrictA. He was also a visitor at the A. F. Coats Lumber Co. plant at Tillamook, Oregon, whom they represent in the California market.

Nor Us

Notwithstanding the life of a paper dollar is only eight months, we have never had one of them die on our hands.Toledo Blade.

Dealing In Futures

"Say, Joe, you're a broker, can't you give me a tip?"

"Sure. I know something that is now about twenty and within six months I will guarantee it to be over ninety."

"Sounds fine. What is it?"

t'The temperature."

DR. ELIOT TO YOUNG FOLKS

"If f had the opportunity to say a final word to all the young people of America, it would be this: Don't think too much about yourselves. Try to cultivate the habit of thinking of others; this will reward you. Nourish your minds by good reading, constant reading. Discover what your life work is, work in which you can do most good, in which you can be happiest. Be unafraid in all things when you know you are in the right."-Dr.

Charles W. Eliot.

HERE'S ONE ON SALESMANSHIP

Seth thought he was something of a salesman, so his father sent him to town to the produce man to see if he could sell him their season's crop of apples. He took a bag of samples along.

"How many barrels of apples like these has your father got?" asked the produce man.

"Ffe ain't got no more like these," replied Seth. "It took him all afternoon to pick these out."

Eastern Hardwood Flooring Man A San Francisco Visitor

Mr. W. H. Holt, president of the Holt Lumber Co., Oconto, Wisconsin, attended the meetings of the National Wholesale Lumbermen's Association in San Francisco the early part of August. The Holt Lumber Co. is said to be the largest manufacturers of maple flooring in the United States. They are represented on the Pacific Coast by the Strable Hard.wood Co., of Oakland, California.