TWENTY YEAQS AGO

From the November lr lg28,Issue

C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier, was re-electea presiae"t cri the California Retail Lumbermen's Association at the annual meeting held in San Francisco on October 26-27. Other officers elected were: F. Dean Prescott, Fresno, first vicepresident; E. q. Robie, Auburn, second vice-president; M. A. Harris, San Francisco, third vice-president, and J. H. McCallum, San Francisco, treasurer.

Curtis Williams, retiring Vicegerent Snark of the Los Angeles district, was presented with a pair of binoculars by the members of the Los Angeles lfoo-Hoo Club at the club luncheon meeting on October 18.

The Wm. Smith Lumber Company of San Francisco stalled two dry kilns and storage sheds at their plant.

Sixteen Kittens were initiated at a concatenation helcl by the Bay District Hoo-Hoo at the Commercial Club, San Francisco, on October 27. During the dinner hour there was' a fine entertainment.

The members of the Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco held their annual ladies night and dinner dance at the Cliff House, Thursday evening, October 18. president Richard C. Jones acted as master of ceremonies.

A. J. Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, was the speaker at the monthly meeting of the Richmond Builders Exchange, Richmond, on Friday evening, October 12.

The Cook Lumber Company opened at Lawndale. a retail lumber yard

Teams representing E.J. Stanton & Son and Woodhead Lumber Company, Los Angeles, bowled the night of October 10. The Woodhead team came out victorious.

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The Lost Compcnion

Somewherg in a nameless yesterday, We parted 1nths, myself and I; ' He took a road leaf-fringed and gay , That wedged into a wood and sky. I took another, thronged by men, The path that fools and dullards know; Sometimes we almost mcet again, , As in the old days, long ago.

' Sometimes I glirnpse him in a town, : In a wintry dusb when twilight falls, ' Like the tawny hand of time across I A street of old, familiar walls; ' And there are days his path meets mine Down a wood we loved in a long-lost spring, But his eyes have a stranger's vacuous look, Unwarmed and unawakening.

His was the secret way of dream; Mine was the path of the world's command. Oh, when shall we ever wdk again, As in the old days, hand in hand?

-Anderson M. Scruggs.

Tried

The foursome of oldsters got caught out on the golf course in a sudden cold rain, and by the time they got back to the clubhouse they were both wet and chilled. Promptly they got into hot shower baths, and three of them ordered hot liquor to help warm them up. The fourth member, the old Judge, was bone-dry both in his politics and in his living, and declined to accept any whiskey, although the others urged hinr- One of them said:

"Judge, haven't you ever tried a good stifr slug of whiskey?"

"No," said the Judge, with a grin that was also dry. "But I've tried many a fellow who had."

Origrn oI "Ycrnkee"

"Pathfinder" says that the term "Yankee" is thought to be derived through the word Yengee, an American Indian corruption of English. In J. Fenimore Cooper's "Leatherstocking" tales, the Indians always refer to the Americans as "Yengees." Or it may be made over from the French "Anglais," which they used in our early days.

Pcrrsley on Plates

A fellow by the name of Garry Flinn writes that the American Association for the prevention of Putting Parsley on Plates isnft making the progress that it should. There are still too many restaurant and hotel pcople who persist in putting parsley on plates. When. members of the Association have thrown said parsley on the foor, the attendants have simply picked it up and put it on olfier plates. It is now recommended t'hat members throw the whole plate and its contents on tlre foor, and walk out without paylng. It is admitted that this will lead to unpleasantness with the police, but as Flinn dopes it out, the Association for the Prevention of Putting Parshy on Plates \riU get some valuable publlcity.-Thomas Dreier.

Pcge Orson Welles

The great scholar-soldier Marguis Montcalm had a brother, Jean, who was equipped to be a competitor of young John Stuart Mill. At the age of three, Mill was a Greek student and at eight had read many Greek authors. Jean Montcalm could read both Latin and Greek at three, and, as Prof. George M. Wrong tells us, astounded gro\pnups at the age of five by making translations from both Greek and Hebrew, studied art, and held his own conversationally with learned men. Unfortunately (or fortunately) he died at scven.

How They Got to Texcs

There is an old story in Texas about how the state was populated back in the early days when the people of the East were turning their faces and their feet westward.

The story is that when these Eastern folk reached a certain major river crossing on the Mississippi, they found a road with many forks, and a number of signs pointing into these various roads. One said "To Kansas"; another ttTo Oklahoma"; another "To Arkansas"; and so on. There were many of them. And one said "To Texas." And, says the story, the folks that could read all went to Texas.

Home

A little place of inglenooks and books;

. A place where still and cool a quiet pool

Of candlelight upon the table sleeps;

A spot that keeps unbroken, ready for our need, Peac*that is home, indeed;

Enter, tired, resttess one, and dream, and read.