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The Common Man in Britain
A story.has been going great guns in England. It is from a book written by C. V. R. Thompson, and goes like this:
An agitator was addressing a crowd of workingmen'
"Comes the era of the common man," he said, "and you will enjoy the pleasures of the rich. You will walk down Park Lane wearing a top hat ."
"Excuse me," interrupted a member of the audience, "but Hi'd rather 'ave a cloth cap."
". or, if you prefer it, a cloth cap," went on the speaker. "You'll wear a cutaway coat and pinstripe trousers"'
Carl Crow To Speck ct Meeting of Scn Frqncisco Lumbermen's Club
Carl C. Crorv,.editor and publisher of Cron''s l'acific Coast Lumber Digest, Portland, will be the speaker of the day at the luncheon meeting of tl-re San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, to be held in the Comstock Room, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, at noon on Tuesdal', February 15.
"Excuse me," interposed the interrupter again, "But Hi'm more comfortable in corduroys."
"Very well, corduroys, if you insist," continued the annoyed orator. "And you'll ride to rvork in a Rolls-Royce"' ' "Excuse me," said the Cockney, "but Hi'd rather use me bike."
The agitator left the platform, grabbed the man by the sleeve and shook him roughlY.
"Listen, you," he said between his teeth. "Comes the era of the common man, and you'll do what you're blooming well ordered to do !"
New Record Price Pcid For Idcrho Pine Timber
The Diamond Match Company bid $1'097,000 for a tract of Idaho wl-rite pine timber, rvith an appraised value of $526,000, January 7. The price rvas $23.50 a thousand feet' The sale included 55,000,000 feet of sarv timber and 31,0U0 feet of poles. Joe E. Beaudoin, deputy State forester, said it rvas the largest cash timber sale in Idaho history'
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