Lumber Lyrics

There is many a prank You can play with a plank And a board is just plumb full of tricks; You can saw it, and cut it, And mortise and butt it, And 94 things it will fix.

A one-by-six-twelve Is quite useful to shelve, The pots and pans used round the sink; To put up the which in Most any old kitchen Is easier far than you think.

You can tend to that fence

With but little expense, For your shoes you can make a nice box; You can mend the back gate And with aid of a crate, Build a home for your egg-laying flocks.

A stand for your books, And a rail for 6ome hools, In the clothes pre$; a box for a hat. A one-by-six four, (Perhaps less, perhaps more) Is a good thing to have in your fat.

Don't fear lest your neighbor, Obiect to your labor, His Sunday sleep wrecked bv your knocking.

If, while you are pounding, You hear aome words sounding, 'Twill be Mrs. Neighbor a-talking.

"Don't grumble and holler, But put on your collar, And get from John Lumberman's Store, Some lath and a stanchion, To fix up our mansion, As that handy man'E doing, next door."

Modern machinery, methods and specializa- tion lower costs at factory; quickness of assemblv savcs the builder time, iabor and money on the lob.

'Write for latest information on Andersen Standard Frames, stating whether you arc an architect, buildcr, dealer or prorpective homc owner.

A man's house should be on the hilltop of cheerfulness If you can, pull, and yet avoid disaster. and serenity, so high that no shadows rest upon it, and If you can slice but not go out of bounds. where the morning comes so early, and the evening tarries If you can press, yet not make force your master, so late, that the day has twice as many golden hours as And keep it up for countless futile rounds. those of other men. He is to be pitied whose house is in If you can shoot a good consistent eighty, some valley of grief between the hills, with the longest And keep it up in sunshine or in fog, night and the shortest day. Ffome should be the center of And dodge those traps, just let me tell you mateyjoy.*Henry Ward Beecher. The fact is this: you're just a lucky dog.

There are five kinds of men whose lives are complete failures, even though they may become very wealthy and powerful. These five are:

1. The Machine. The man who puts routine first. He is often efficient, but he pays a high price for his success. He may be envied by those who do not understand, but there is ashes and cinders in his heart.

2. The Miser. The man who holds fast to all he gets. lfe loves gold and property more than anything else. His life is wrapped up in getting and holding, while all real happiness comes from' giving and enjoying.

3. The Hermit. The man who, instead of being A PART of society-a working, useful part-lives APART, keeping to himself, giving nothing of himself to others, and therefore getting nothing.

4. The Snob. The man who despises and imposes upon those who are beneath him in worldly station. He is always a toady to those above him, to the extent that he snubs those below him. There are not many of his sort in business because business weeds them out. But there ARE some.

5. The Autocrat. He knows no opinion but his own. Keeps his heel on those under him in authority. He lives to rule, to dominate. IIe represents force and authority. He is often very successful financially, but always hated. The best way to avoid being one of these human misfits is to take an interest in the other fellow, and.make it a business to lend a hand to others less fortunate than yourself.

Learn. Then. teach. Get. Then give.

This is the law of life. It is one of the bed-rocks that cannot be changed by legislation.

A dear old Quaker lady was asked what she used to make her complexion so lovely, and her whole being so bright and attractive, and she answered: "I use for the lips, truth; for the voice, prayer; for the eyes, pity; for the hands, charity; for the figure, uprightness, and for the heart, love."

MUST HAVE BEEN SMUTTY

He (trying the new radio)-I think I've got Pittsburg She-Why, are they cracking dirty jokes?

There little murderer, don't you cry, Just plead crazy, and you'll get by.

God bless our little home, To come back to when we roam. Low walls and fluted tiles, Wide windows, view for miles. Red firelight and deep chairs, Small white beds upstairsGreat talk in little nooks, Dim colors, rows of books, One picture.on each wall, Not many things at all. God bless our little ground, Tall trees standing round. Homely flowers in brown sod, Overhead Thy stars, O God. God bless, when winds blow, Our home, and all we know.

Florence Bone.

Twenty Varieties of Hardwood also Oak & Maple Flooring-Panels in stoch at all times

Business cards of real California Redwood and Douglas Fir_ are quite a novelty, and we are receiving replat orders from customers who have tried them. The cards are the same size as the illustration, are three-ply veneer, using the real wood, are very pliable and strong and command instant attention when used. Fine foi wholesale salesman, for retailers, and they make an appreciated gift for contractor customerg. Use them this Chrietmas. Prices are, 97.50 for 250 cards, $ | 0.50 for 500$18.00 per thousand. Lower rates on Iarger quantities. 'We can make deliveries in about two weekg after receipt of order. Printed any color, and with your own copy. Send for samples, tr send order to The California Lumber Merchant, 3lB Central Building, Los Angeles.

The following is from the u'ill of a Wall Street man, rvhich has recently been Probated:

"To my wife, [,leave her lover and the knowledge that I wasn't the fool that she thought I was.

"To my son, I leave the pleasure,of earning a.living. For thirty-five years he thought the pleasure was mine. He was mistaken,

"To my daughter, I leave $100,000. She will need it. The only good pie-e of business her husband ever did was to marry her.

"T-o my valet, I leave the clothes that he has been stealing from-me regularly for the past ten years. Also the fur .oit thut he wore lasl winter when I was in Palm Beach.

'To my chaufieur, I leave my cars. He almost ruined them, and I want him to have the satisfaction of finishing the job."

Jack Dempsey is one.

So is Babe Ruth.

What do you think William Jennings Bryan was doing at that Evolution Trial ? Right. He was grandstanding, too.

Teddy Roosevelt grandstanded all over the place and made the people like it.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. A bit of grandstanding that the world hasn't got over talking about yet.

What good does it do, you ask.

Why, it gets you in the papers. You become in the language of the newspaper men, "good copy."

People know you are alive, up and coming, ready to hit or be hit, a gogettergiveandta-kesonofagun who knows that there are a lot of noises in this world and he has to do some noise making on his own hook or else the gentle public will say, "thumbs down."

And he is right.

The world travels around the sun every twenty-four hours, which is 'teen million miles.

No wonder you are left behind unless you grandstand a bit.

But get the difference between a grandstander and a fourflusher. The grandstander has the goods. The fourflusher tries to blufi with a pair of deuces.

Called, the fourflusher has nothing to show. Call a grandstander and he is ready to give you a run for your money.

We have been suPPlYing the rarh and door trade of Southern Califor' nia for a number of Yeara, and feel well jrutified in stating our claims of "The Bect at all Tirnea, at the Proper Price.tt

Marshfield, Ore.,-More than three million feet of Port Orford cedar has been sold by local mills recently'for use in four bridges and one dock job. All of the bridge jobs were under supervision of the state highway department and local millmen state this preference for Port Orford cedar by state engineers is in recognition of its unusual durabilily and the-ease with which is may be worked.

For bridge decking the highway department uses 2x6 or 2x8 surfaced one edge. This is laid on edge and toe-nailed. In addition to the decking large quantities of piling from the same cedar are also used in local bridges.

A large percentage of the Port Orford cedar locally manufaciured is cut by the Coos Bay Lumber Co', cutting about l00,O0O feet of this wood each working day.

Recent jobs where Port Orford from local mills rvas' used, together with the quantity, follow:

Flarrisburg bridge, 1,250,00 feet; Myrtle Point bridge, 500,000 feet; North Bend dock, 500,000 feet; China Camp bridge, 250,000 feet, and the Marshfield trestle, 600,00 feet.