REDWOOD

FI,LL STOCI(S GREEN LUMBER COMMON AND UPPER!' AT MILIS; AIR DRY UPPERIi AT SAN PEDRO

Mrin Selor O6co Lor Aa3clcr OEco Hobrrt Bldr. 39? Prcific Elcctric Bld3. SAN FRANCISCO Phonc TUchcr 5779

Memberc California Reduood Associqtion

SAN DTEGO

320 SprccLclr Bldg., Fnnhlin ll53

The Buyer

The typical buyer is a man past middle life, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, passive, noncommittal; with eyes like a codfish, polite in contact but atthe same time unresponsive, cool, calm, and damnably composed as a concrete post or a plaster-of-paris cat; a human petrification with a heart of feldspar and without charm or the friendly germ, minus bowels, passions, or sense of humor. Happily they never reproduce, and all of them finally go to Hell.

-Elbert Hubbard.

Truth

Evil is unnatural-goodness is the natural state of man. Earth has no hopeless islands or continerrts. We live in a redemptive world. Poverty will end, sin will die, love will triumph, and hope will plant flowers on every grave.

-David Swing.

Not Bad

"I see you have a sign in your store, 'We aim to please, ", remarked the irritated customer.

"Certainly, sir, that is our motto."

"Well, you ought to take a little time off for target practice."

DECOYS

Grocer: Rastus:

Grocer: Rastus:

"Ilere's your fly-paper. Anything else today?"

"Yassuh, I wants bout six raisins."

"You mean six pounds?"

"Nossuh, jes six-jes nuff fo decoys."

BEN FRANKLIN'S OWN EPITAPH

"The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, fts contents torn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here food for worms. Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will (as he believes) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by The Author."

An Glish Ation

An Englishman voring get a connection with a friend over the telephone, was having difunderstand the name of the said: "E-for 'erbert, . Finally in desperation, he 'orses eat, I-where yer goes when yer dies, f-for ingine, them things in front of trains, N-what lays eggs, G-for gor-blime. Now, 'ave yer got it ?"

ficulty in making exchange, which

Confirmed His Suspicions

A Georgia statesman tells a story of an aged negro who saw an extraordinary looking instrument in the shop of an optician. He gazed in open mouthed wonder, and, turning to the optician, inquired:

"What is it boss?"

"That" said the optician, "is an Opthalmometer."

"Sho'," muttered the other, his eyes still fastened on the curious looking thing on the counter as he backed out, "sho', dat's what I was afeared it was."

Beecher On Friendliness

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them.-Henry Ward Beecher.

The Chance To Go Straight

There is no world, there can be no world, in which every human being will not have the opportunity of doing righ1."

-Robert Ingersoll.

THE GOOD FORTUNE OF BErNG POOR

l I congratulate poor young men on being born to that ancient and honorable degree which renders it necessary that they should devote themselves to hardwork.-Andrew Carnegie.

Lley Lumber Company Open Their New Offices

The Valley Lumber Company report a large crowd in attendance at the recent formal opening oftheir new offices and display rooms at El Centro. The offices are very attractive, being finished in Philippine mahogany, and brought many favorable comments by visitors.

San Joaquin Lumber Company Elects New Officers

At a recent meeting of the San Joaquin Lumber Company, Mr. George S. F-inkbohner wai elected president, Mr. A. A. Hauerbach vice-president and Mr. Dan H. Schroebel manager. The business will proceed with the same personnel and policies as in the past.

The Tally Clerk

By J. O. Main, American Lumber Co., Modesto, Calif.

I've read about the Lumber Jack away up in the woods, And I guess at He-man stuff he surely is the goods. The boys around the mills, are all heroes we are told. In fact, I guess all lumbermen are all so very bold. The Salesman out upon the road is gathering some glory, At least he gets his mention in many a pleasing story; And so it goes, along the line from the woods right to the yards,

But, there's one whose praises are unsung by any of the "Bards."

This one's a tally-clerk, he's seldom seen at all, But he's the one that makes the boners in all yards, large or small.

He's the one that does the guessing for the brainy office bunch,

When he cannot read their orders and he has to use his hunch.

If he guesses right, he should have, if he's wrong he is a 5?p,

And they vow by all that's holy, that they'll run him off the maP.

But.these things don't get his goat, he knows it's in the game.

If he ever gets a job "up front" he'Il no doubt do the same.

He's the guy that fills the orders as thev're loaded on the truck,

Easy when luck. the stock is large, when it's small it's just hard

And it's then he has his troubles, sometimes has to use his head.

Also has to use his feet a bit, till at night they feel like lead. He must figure if they're cutting these, or using it full length.

Can he skimp upon the grade of these, or must they have full strength?

So by cutting, and by ripping, he gets his orders out. Believe me, friend, he has to know just what it's all about.

Oh ! Yes he makes some errors and some of them are good. He'lI sometimes send some kind of pine when it should have been Red-Wood.

He may send some party common, when the order called for Clear.

Oh, yes he makes some errors, and some of them cost dear. But he'll try to even up the score before the day is done. So you can hardly blame him, if, when they have him on the run,

IIe goes a wee bit woozy, and his head is in a whur, And he goes to bed a'dreaming, of Red-Wood, Pine and Fir.

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