THE HARD W OOD RECORD. 



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ing my stay upon the earth. It Is property 

 and should be cared for. Moreover, it is 

 my property and if I do not care for it nO 

 one else Avill. If it is good enough to be 

 a habitation for my immortal soul it is 

 worthy of the best I can give it, and I feel 

 it my duty to keep it clean and comfort- 

 able without and -within. 

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As I have before said, however, the doc- 

 trine that every man should do only that 

 which he feels it would add to his enjoy- 

 ment to do. may only safely he preached 

 to the mature mind. The immature mind 

 has no clear conception of what would add 

 to its pleasure and would he apt to in- 

 dulge in some very \inwise experimenting. 



The man of immature mind may oliey 

 the ten commandments through fear of the 

 law. The man of mature mind obeys them 

 because he knows there is more of pleasure 

 to be had in obedience. When a man has 

 learned that and enough of the laws of 

 nature to realize that it is in moderation 

 that the secret of happiness, or at least of 

 enjoyment, lies, he may safely be turned 

 loose with no guide but his own pleasure. 



And that brings us to the subject of this 

 essay, "The Pleasures of Jloderation." 

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The old Greeks were the greatest race 

 of people the world has produced, for they 

 lifted civilization bodily out of savagery 

 in but little more than a century, and set 

 it so high that, it having fallen, mankind 

 has not been able in all the thousands of 

 years to raise it again so high. 



And the motto of her artists, whose like 

 the world has not since seen, was: "Noth- 

 ing in excess." And the sum total of the 

 deductions of her philosophers, whose 

 philosophy dominates the world to-day, as 

 regards the rule for living was, "Nothing 

 in excess." 



A man should be moderate in all things; 

 in his love, his hatred, his friendship and 

 his ambition. For if a man love in excess 

 he clothes his mistress with attributes she 

 does not possess and his false state of 

 mind either brings him bitter disappoint- 

 ment, or leads him into folly which des- 

 tioys his peace of mind. 



It is the same with friendship, and if hi? 

 hates inordinately ho goes as far wrong the 

 other way. 



But of all the unhealthy and unsatisfac- 

 tory excesses, that of excessive ambition is 

 probably the worst. Kor it lends a man 

 to minor excesses of all kinds and to neg- 

 lect the pleasures and wholesome enjoy- 

 moiits of everyday life to attain that 

 wliiTli, when he has it. is certain to be dis- 

 api)ointing and liable to be of no value 

 whatever. Anything which impairs a 

 man's healthy enjoyment of every da.v of 

 his life is an evil; and while an excess of 

 love or hate may spoil the pleasure of a 

 few days or a few years, an excess of am- 

 bition may ruin the enjoyment of an entire 

 life. 



I have much more to say about the 

 "I'loasures of Moderation," but as we have 

 a report of the annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional association this issue, we will be 

 forced to leave the matter incomplete at 

 this time. 



From Nea^r ©Liid Folf. 



LOCAL GOSSIP. 



F. H. Cass, lumber agent of the C. & E. 

 I. R. R., is handling the Queen's English 

 somewhat carelessly nowadays. He an- 

 nounced the other day that he was about 

 to have an addition to his family, the sex 

 being predetermined in favor of a girl, he- 

 cause, as he explained, after everybody 

 around the exchange had bet their spare 

 change the other way, his son was going to 

 marry a charming young lady from the 



western slope. 



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E. B. Lombard, the junior member of 

 the arm of W. O. King & Co., has sold his 

 interests in the business to W. O. King, the 

 other partner. Mr. Kmg states that the 

 business will be continued on the old lines 

 and under the same firm name. 



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James Trainer, manager of the H. M. 

 Nixon Lumber Company, has completed a 

 tour of their southern interests, and also 

 spent a few days in the Memphis district. 

 L. A. Smith, who represents the company 

 at their mill near Jackson. Ky., was visit- 

 ing among the Chicago trade the latter part 

 of the week. 



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Henry Sondheimer, of the firm of E. 

 Sondheimer Company, has been rusticat- 

 ing at the springs at West Baden, Ind., for 

 the past week, returning home by the way 

 of Indianapolis, where he was in attend- 

 ance at the National Hardwood Lumber 

 convention. 



The firm operating as William Morris &• 

 Sons, on Thirty-fifth street, interior fin- 

 ishers, have been succeeded by an $80,000 

 corporation under the firm name of William 

 Morris & Sons Company. 



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Col. W. B. Dutton of Racine. Wis., not 

 so hale and hearty as we formerly were 

 wont to call him. was a visitor in Chicago 

 last week. The Colonel has been under 

 the weather for the past six months with 

 a complication of ailments, and has been 

 bedfast a greater portion of the time. He 

 is able to get around some now, and the 

 Record voices the sentiments of his many 

 friends in wishing him a sure and speed'y 



recovery. 



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The Fred W^. ITpham Lumber Company 

 are now finely situated in their new quar- 

 ters on the thirteenth floor of the Bed- 

 ford Building, corner Dearborn and Adanin 



streets. 



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The Lignum Inversion Company is th(! 

 name of a concern interested in a new 

 departure in the world of commerce, and 

 one which bears directly on the lumber 

 business. The object of the business is to 

 produce alcohol (not wood alcohol) from 

 sawdust. They have a plant fitted up in 

 Highland Park. 111., a north shore suburb 



of Chicago. They can use the sawdust 

 from any variety of timber, l)ut hardwood 

 sawdust yields best. Clarence Boyle of 

 this city is industrial agent, which Clar- 

 ence told us was just a high-fa-lutin way of 

 saying that he was identified with the pur- 

 chase of the raw material. 



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Tlieo. Fathauer returned last week from 

 a ten days' trip in the South. He reports 

 that there is yet a bullish feeling as to 

 prices in that territory, although the strain 

 in the way of shortage of stocks is rapidly 



being relieved. 



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We don't know of any one man that 

 knows more lumbermen than Frank Fish, 

 and more than that, ho is favorably known 

 by them. His many friends in the trade 

 will then be pleased to learn that he is 

 back into the commercial agency field and 

 on broader grounds. P. F. Fish, manager 

 subscription department International 

 Mercantile Agency, 184 La Salle street, 

 Chicago, is the way the new card reads. 

 The International is a comparatively new 

 one, covering general lines, but it has been 

 making rapid progress and they have ma- 

 terially added to their prospects in this 

 territory in securing the services of Mr. 



Fish. 



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Among the visiting lumbermen in Chi- 

 cago this week were Messrs. J. O. Nessen 

 and Marshall Long, of the J. O. Nessen 

 Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn. They 

 have just got good and started at Memphis, 

 having only recently established the busi- 

 ness at that point. Mr. Nessen is still op- 

 erating a lumlior business at Manistee, 

 Mich., while for the present Mr. Long is 

 devoting most of his time to the develop- 

 ment of their southern layout. They have 

 leased the old Mm-phy & Deibold mill in 

 North Memphis, and liave begun manufac- 

 turing oak. ash, gum. Cottonwood and 

 cypress, making thin stock a specialty. 



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Joseph Schoen. of the Columbia Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company, is rusticating in 

 the Cumberland Mountains. 



The Christian-Haugh Lumber & Fuel 

 Company is the name of a new corporation 

 at Indianapolis with a capital stock all paid 

 in of $10.(100. The firm is composed of 

 H. E. Christian. Charles E. Haugh, W. F. 

 Christian and William C. Haugh, who are 

 respectively president, vice-president, secre- 

 tary and treasurer. Mr. II. E. Christian, 

 who has been identified with the hardwood 

 lumber interests of Indianapolis for a long 

 time, advises us that they have secured 

 commodious yards on Washington street, 

 next to the l>aseball park, and have ample 

 shed room and all the facilities for handling 

 a coal and luinber business. 



