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On Seeing the Sea

There are trvo good olcl stories in the South of the effect on the mind of a colored brother of the first sight of the ocean.

One concerns the old colored Uncle who had made a trip to the Gulf coast for the first time, and returning to his inland horne, told of what he had seen. "Man" he said, ,vouall rvon't believe it, but Ah come to a rivah was so wide Ah couldn't see the othah side, an' the wateh wa'nt no count."

CHAS. R. McCORMICK LUMBER CO. FURNISHES MATERIAL FOR STANFORD STADIUM

Lumber in excess of three-quarters of a million feet, has been sold by the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company to Stanford University for seating capacity for 16,800 spectators in the Stanford Stadium. This makes five and a half rniles of seats, nosed for seat-boards and is in addition to the necessary creosoted piling and creosoted caps. All the lumber supplied to Stanford University is from the Charles R. McCormick Lumber Company's own stand of virgin timber at their Ludlow and Gamble mills, Washington, stated Walter Kellyof San Francisco, sales manager of the company's lumber department here.

The other one isof the inland nigger rvho was caught in the draft during the war, and shipped to Europe. When he first set eyes on the broad Atlantic he stared 'ivith wide spread eyes at the great expanse of lvater, and then rvas heard to remark:

"Men, that's the fust thing Ah evah saw there wuz enough of."

STEAMER CORSICANA CHARTERED BY COOS BAY LUMBER CO. OF CALIF.

.A. H. Paulsen, secretary and treasurer of the Coos Bay Lumber Co., of California, which is the operating company for the Pacific States Lumber Co., announces that the steamer Corsicana has been chartered to take the place of the steamer Coos Bay which rvas wrecked recently in the Golden Gate Strait. The Corsicana will carry about 1,500,500 feet of lumber and will operate between Marshfield, Oregon, and Bay Point, California. The Coos Bay Lumber Co.. have taken a bare charter on the Corsicana from Pillsbury & Curtis rvho are owners of the vessel.