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A$e not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some less She Misunderstood Him

When the news went round that Bill, who was notori- "You thee, it wath tbith way. I bad bc.n gging to thct ously poor and moreover lisped sadln was going to marry onb of the best looking girls in that entire farming com- her for

So when he droPPed into the corner ambitious. asked him to exPlain the mlntetY' fashion: old cronies round the stove called into t'he circle, and he did in this but watbnt gctting norrtcre, and I -my mind to thay thumpthing c bustb my thus' munity, the countryside was all agog, and wondering trtin. Tho onc night I that dorn by bcr o'd thcc on earth Bill had ever induced her to accept him, bcpn tclling me hos much prorpcrt5z hcr fathcr ha4 hot nrany theep and cowth and bogtb o-d dl thuch' an I !* only a very small farmer, and she was set thill an lithcocd. Finally I thaid'LitHG,I sint ath rich ath your pap but I got tbir thowr an flgr on rnt qrm.' Then ttee fell on my c'bcst and I honcd tbcd rth mina You thce, tbcc thoqht I thaid thir thourend pigs but I only trhaid thi: thows and Pigs."

N. B. BOWDEN VISITS NORTHWEST

N. B.-C;den, of the Pacific Manufacturing Co',-SaTIa Clara, has returned from a business tripto the Pacthc Northwest.

UARYSVILLE LUUBTRUAN VISITS S. F. Isador Cheim, of the Union Lumber Co., Marysvillc' accompanied by Mrs. Cheim, rcccntly sPent a fcw dlyr ln San.Francisco.

- Think what our servrce meant to Lumber Dealers of C.alifornia. H.rg"