PROFITS AHEAD

The anticipated rise in prices is materializing. profits are going to him who is well-stocked in readiness for increasing business on a rising market. See the McCormick man without delay. Direct service from the forest to your yards.

An Unusual Visitor

He dropped into my of;fi,ce with a grin on his face, He talked about the weather and the college football race, He asked about the family and told the latest joke, But he never mentioned anyone who's suddenly gone broke.

He talked of books and pictures and the play he'd been to see.

A clever quip his boy had made he passed along to me, He praised the suit of clothes I wore and asked me what it cost.

But he never said a word about the money he had lost.

Ife rvas with me twenty minutes, chuckling gayly rvhile he stayed,

O'er the memory of some silly little blunder he had made, He reminded me that tulips must be planted in the fall, But calamity and tragedy he mentioned not at all,

I thought it rather curious when he had come and gone, lfe must have had some tales of woe, but didn't pass them on.

For nowadays it seems to me that every man I meet Ifas something new in misery and moaning to repeat.

And so I wrote these lines for him who had his share of woe to meet a man who wasn't spreading gloom

But still could talk of other things and let his troubles go. f was happier for his visit-in a world that's sick with doubt, 'Tlvas good about.

Credit Managers Ass'ociation of Northern and Central California, San Francis'co, Calif.

Will Promote Bark Sales in Eastern Territory

Edric E. Brown, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, left September 4 for Chicago to spend two months establishing an organization to market Palco Redwood Bark in the Eastern territory. Mr. Brown will make his headquarters at the Chicago office during this period.

Security And Securities

We freed our homes from mortgages as quickly as possible. All this happened in the days when the country was prosperous. Many of our friends told us how foolish we were. They argued that if instead of paying our indebtedness we should use the money for the purchase of securities, we would be far better off. They told us the profits alone would more than pay what we owed.

We didn't follow their advice. We had sense enough to know that all we really need is food, clothing, and shelter. A mortgaged home is not a secure home. Someone else is part owner.

Many of those who failed to Pay their mortgages and used the money in speculation now have neither their homes nor their securities. The trouble with them is they thought in terms of securities dnd not in terms of security. -The Vagabond.

Ben Franklin On Virtue

It is said that the Persians, in their ancient constitution, had public schools in which virtue was taught as a liberal art or science; and it is certainly of more consequence to a man that he has learned to govern his own passions in spite of temptation, to be just in his dealings, to be temperate in his pleasures, to support himself with fortitude under his misfortunes, to behave with prudence in all his affairs, and in every circumstance of life; I say it is of much more real advantage to him to be thus qualified, than to be master of all the arts and sciences in the world. Virtue itself alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happv.

ALL OF'EM

District Attorney: "\ll/hat possible excuse could you jurymen have for acquitting that bloody murderer?"

Juryman: "Insanity."

District Attorney: "What? The whole twelve of you?"

Guess Where

Manager: "Have you seen the cashier this morning?"

Office Boy: "Yes, sir. He came in early and borrowed a time table. f noticed that he had shaved off his rnustache."

When I Am Done

When I am done with worldly things that blind me, Like a swift light that flashes and is gone, Deep in a forest the long slow years will find me Waiting for the twilight, listening for dawn.

I shall have time to see a fern uncurling Its emerald fingers like a child asleep; To watch gold fire-fies, gypsy-hearted, swirling In beauty that the night alone may reap.

I shall have time to hear the scarlet sobbing Of shattered roses on a frosted bough; To hear the breath of early autumn throbbing fn every grass I trample lightly now.

Then shall I know, and let my heart run over, With secrets that shall open like a flower, And I will lie in deep sweet-scented clover And count the shining minutes of each hour.

-Daniel Whitehead Hicky.

Just Like One

The big darkey who acted as doorman for the rich and formal City Club, started down the front steps to open the door of a big car that had just drawn up to the curb, when he tripped, lost his balance, and fell all the way down the steps to the sidewalk.

The big cop who was just sauntering past, ran and picked him up, handed him his hat, and then grinningly remarked:

"Cut that out, Mose! What the Hell? Do you want folks to think you're a member of the Club?"

He Knew The Answer

A girl met an old beau who had successfully resisted her efforts to lead him to the matrimonial counter, so she decided to hand him the high hat, to repay him for his rebuff of days gone by.

"So sorry," she said, when the hostess introduced them; "I didn't get your name."

"Sure you didn't," he said, say you didn't try."

"but no one can