The Shining Pathway

Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, a pure Azetc Indian, was born of impoverished parents in the town of Tixtla, state of Guerrero. His habits of industry and study raised him to positions of trust and political power and brought him fame as journalist, teacher, and man of letters.

I sarv his portrait in a humble dwelling And found his words upon a faded page, And I am one with those who knew and loved him And traced the path he trod from youth to age.

Fancy portrays the little Indian village In which his boyhood days were spent In sordid tasks which could not daunt his courage Nor hush the murmurs of his discontent.

As to the silent, brooding desert Comes the mirage r,vith luring, mystic smile, So to his hungry heart came gleaming visions Toil burdened days and hours to beguile.

Ambition whispered in the dark night watches, He raised his dark eyes to a star, Knowing that race and place can hi-nder-never, Nor poverty an upward journey bar.

And so to him came honor, fame and power. To him, a ragged Indian boy, Who by his faith and courage won the guerdon Of useful service, manly pride and joy.

And achievements told in song and story, Adorn the simple annals of his race, Giving new strength to hearts bowed down and weary, Lightinglvith hope full many an upturned face.

And in the company of earth's immortals Whose fame time cannot dim nor years destroy, "We find these words beside a shining pathway, "Altamirano, Azetc Indian boy."

Adeline Merriam Conner.

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Washington, November N,-A revised edition of the Manual of Timber Connector Construction, providing the latest information on Teco timber connectors as applied to iood structures has just been made available by the Timber Engineering Company of Washington, D. C. The new manual will be of particular interest to structural designers, railway engineers and architects.

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(Continued from Page 6) products and commodities that people buy at all too infrequent intervals. But I was reading about a worse case -the pillow industry. Did you know that the average pillow used in thls country is more than 25 5zears old? Fact. Some wag suggested to the National Association of Bedding Manufacturers that they increase their pillow business by starting a national campaign promoting pillow fights as good' clean sPort

The world's largest pineapple is 64 feet lnigh, 24 feet in diameter, and weighs 36 tons. When you sail into HonoIulu Harbor you see it on top of the big plant of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company, where I2,OOO workers are employed during the busy season. I say yOU see it, because I never have. I'm willing, but have never made the grade.. fn case any of my rich friends feel like remedying this sad situation, f can get ofi any time.

A friend of mine died the other day. He is one of those imperishable men who, through the years, has wound the tentacles of his fellowship and fineness around my heart. He enjoyed life immensely. He helped many others to do likewise. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world and those he loved, he passed suddenly to silence and pathetic, unreplying dust. Yet, while my heart bled at his going, I rejoiced at the manner of it. No lingering illness ! No pathetic wreck ! Wise was the poet who wrote: "Let me go quickly, like a candlelight, snuffed out just at the heyday of its glow; give me high noon, and let it then be night-thus would I go."

Tom Dreier writes of a man who lay dying, and a priest

A. D. BELL, JR. IN LOS ANGELES

A. D. Bell, Jr., Hammond Redwood Company, San Francisco, left November 20 to spend several weeks in Southern California, and while there will call on the trade. He will make his headquarters in Los Angeles.

at his bedside sought to arouse in him regret for the sins of his past life. But the dying man said: "I cannot speak badly of my past life; I enjoyed it immensely." I love that spirit. Die as you live. Deathbed repentances can hardly interest an Intelligent Deity. As the colored brother said: "De Lawd don't pay no tenshun to scared prayers." But Dreier's story reminds me of the one about the confirmed pessimist who lay dying, his family gathered around his bedside. All his remarks as he approached the end of life, were criticisms of life as he had found it. lle hadn't enjoyed it much; hardly thought it had been worth while. One of his people, seeking to console him, said: "Don't worry about those things any more. Soon you'll be in your long, long rest, and you can quit worrying." And the dying man said: "If I could depend on that, I would die h"ppy; but it would be just my luck to have Gabriel blow that dad-blamed trumpet just about the time I settle down to rest."

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It was Cardinal Newman who said: "Fear not that thy life shall come to any end; but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning." ***

Over the grave of Thomas Jefferson is the remarkable epitaph that some say he wrote himself. It is remarkable in that it speaks naught of the great honors that were bestowed upon him by a grateful nation; only of those great things that he GAVE the world. That epitaph is a gospel of service. It reads: "Ilere was buried Thomas Jefferson, Author of the American Declaration of Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia."

JAMES L. HALL BACK AT DESK

James L. Hall, wholesale dealer in lumber and piling, San Francisco, has returned to his office after a severl months' siege in the hospital. His many friends will be glad to hear the good news.

Mr. and Mrg. L. B. Laughlin Celebrate 65th Wedd:ng Anniversary

Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Laughlin, parents of C. J. Laughlin of Los Angeles, manag'er of the Wholesale Lumber Association of Southern California, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on November 5. They reside in Minneapolis, Minn., with their daughter, Mrs. C. L. Jones.

Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin lived in Chamberlain, South Dakota, for many years and in a recent issue of the newspaper there the Chamberlain Branch of the Northwest Security National' Bank saluted them with the follorving tribute :

"Two in two th,ousand-Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Laughlin, married sixty-five years ago November fifth.

"Last spring in thinking over ideas for this colttmn we hit on one which we knew everybody 'r'r'ould approve-the fact that right here in Chamberlain rve had two folks who would celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary this fall.

"We thought it would be interesting to knor.v horv many married couples do that. So rve wrote to insurance- companies, to the census and other places. Some said one in a thousand, some more, some less. Anyway, anybody who knows the Laughlins would say they are one in a million.

"The fact that they moved to Minneapolis a month or so ago does not lessen Chamberlain's right to claim them. They lived here well over half their married life. And while we jokingly say the first 100 years are the hardest, we know in all seriousness that it 'takes a heap of living to make a house a home' f'or 65 years."

Charles K. Field also saluted them from New York City on Sunday evening, November 12, during his "Cheerio" radio program on a coast-to-coast broadcast over the National broadcasting system.

Besides C. J. Laughlin and Mrs. C. L. Jones, they have three more children, R. A. Laughlin of Omaha, Neb., Mrs. C. W. Raw of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. W. S. Burroughs of Tacoma, Wash.

Carl Bahr On Coast Trip

Carl Bahr, manager of California Redwood Distributors, Ltd., Chica$), recently visited San Francisco and the Redrvood mills. lle was in attendance at the N. L. M. A. annual meeting in San Francisco