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Jock Dionne I have told lor 20 years---Some less

No Tracks

Some of the darkey sto,ries that drop around are not essentially colored. Whereas others come alorg that are just plain "cullud" and couldn't by any possible stretch of the imagination be anything but colored. A friend of mine, f. F. Wallace, of Monroe, Louisiana, sends me such a one in a recent mail, and I got a great kick out of it, because it is a nigger remark pure and simple.

Out in the Tensas Swamp near St. Joseph, Louisiana, there is a variety of black mud so surpassing in its sticking qualities that it is called throughout that section, "Buckshot mud." When it is dry it is like fint itself ; but when it is wet the foot of the unfortunate who steps in it comes up with fifty pounds of this clinging, sticking stuff. That is, it comes up if the owner of the foot has the strength to lift it.

The sender of this yarn overheard one of the negro camphelpers answming questions from a Northern gentleman who was about to go hunting in the Tensas Swamp and had heard a lot of talk about the fearsomeness of the "Buckshot mud." The Northern gentleman said to this boy who is called "Dead Red":

"Red, what is this stuff that they are all talking about, this 'Buckshot mud'?"

"Well, Suh," replied Red, "hit's dat kind o' mud dat y'all don' make no tracks in a'tall."

"What do you mean, you don't make tracks in it?" asked the gentleman.

"Well Suh," said Red, "hit's dis way. When hit's dry, yo' feets don' make no tracks in hit. An' when hit's wet, y'all jes nachally carry yo' tracks away wid yo'."

"Mountain Cabins ol Redwo od" Pacific Y eneer Definition

"Mountain Cabins of Redwood" is an attractive and beautiful book that has been published by the llammond Lumber Company of Los Angeles. The book contains the designs of mountain cabins which were submitted by Southern California ar.chitects in the recent architectural competition conducted by the Architects Building Material Exhibit of Los Angeles for the Hammond Lumber Company. The purpose of the competition was to create an interest in better architecture for vacation homes.

There arc 70 mountain cabin designs in the book, one on each page, and each design shows an exterior perspective of the cabin, the floor plan, and an interior view of the living room. The book is SlxIL inches in size, and is being retailed by the Hammond Lumber Company, 2010 So. Alameda Street, Los Angeles, at 75 cents each. The price to the lumber trade is 4O cents each plus postage from Los Angeles.

M. R. Gill With Schaler Bros.

M. R. Gill has joined the Los Angeles sales Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. Mr. Gill calling on the Southern California retail lumber the past several years and was formerly connected sales force of the Union Lumber Company.

staft of has been trade for with the

Washington, D. C., Aug. 13.-NRA has announced approval of Amendment No. 72, which is a new definition of the products and area of the Pacific Veneer Package Subdivision, Schedule A (28). The amendment eliminates the overlapping of jurisdiction between American Veneer and Pacific Veneer Subdivisions and includes certain items, particularly wooden veneer baskets, which logically belong under this subdivision but which were not included in the list of products as previously approved. The definitions as to products is now identical for all three of the fruit and vegetable veneer package subdivisions, American Veneer, Standard Container and Pacific Veneer.

Pewy Dame With Upson Co.

P. A. Dame, formerly Pacific Coast manager of the CreoDipt Co., is now representative of The Upson Company, Lockport, N. Y., in California, Arizona, Oregon and Washington, with headquarters at 1550 N. Wilcox Avenue, Hollywood.

Returns From San Francisco

Ted Wright, Los Angeles, California representative for the Washington Veneer Company of Olympia, Washington, has returned from a short business trip to San Francisco.