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not nppear heroic, nor does be take a suc- 

 cessful pliotosrapb. 



But the vacation in the national park 

 was very fine. Oh; it was magnificont'. 

 There, in a Rough Rider uniform, with a 

 Imwie Icnifo stuck in his belt, a revolver 

 on his hip and his trusty rifle in his 

 strong right hand, the president of our 

 great republic could cavort around and 

 have a great time. And he could call out 

 all the soldiers he wantetl to cavort around 

 with him, and not cost a cent. You and I 

 can look back, dear reader, to the time 

 when as boys we would dream of having 

 such fine times. 



And then the night he slept out in the 

 snow all night with nothing over him but 

 the "blue canopy of the heavens" and 

 things like that! How fine that was! 

 Indeed, he said afterwards it was the hap- 

 piest night of his life. 



And how he squelched the small boy, 

 who, seeing him cavorting through a 

 mountain village on his trusty mustang, 

 with his spurs jangling and his bowie 

 knife gleaming in the sun, called out: 

 "Hello, Teddy!" How he wheeled his 

 pony and dashed recklessly up to the boy 

 and .skinned his teeth at him and just 

 gave hiin fits for talking that way to the 

 president of the United States! Oh, but 

 it was tine. And the soldiers just broke 

 out into a cheer. They just couldn't help 

 it. 



The vacation at Oyster Bay is not so 

 fine as the vacation in Yellowstone Park 

 was, but it is tolerably fine. He cannot 

 wear his Rough Rider uniform there — 

 tlAat is,^ not all of it at once — but he can 

 have a good deal of fun. The newspapers 

 — those faithful servants of the public — 

 tell us with praiseworthy minuteness how 

 our chief executive puts in his day. for 

 they know we ai'e anxious to learn that 

 the cares of public office are not wearing 

 him out. 



And, my! but he leads a strenuous life! 

 He gets up early in the morning, so the 

 papers say, and takes a long walk, as 

 much some days as five or ten miles, be- 

 fore breakfast. Then, as soon as he has 

 had breakfast, he takes a horseback ride — 

 a long ride — and he makes his pony rini 

 and jump fences and things. .\n<l all the 

 papers publish snapshot pictures of him 

 seated firmly on his pony, and urging it 

 on in its wild career. 



Then, after the ride, which the jiapers 

 say he takes rain or shine, and indeed 

 seems to prefer the rain, and we have seen 

 pictures of him riding rapidly along, his 

 head proudly erect, in a regular downpour, 

 after the ride, they say, ho has a set-to 

 V. ith somebody or other with the boxing- 

 gloves and the foils and the lifting ma- 

 chine, etc. Then, after a hasty lunch, he 

 goes out to row and hunt anil fish, stop- 

 ping occasionally to cut down a few trees, 

 until tlie very first thing you know night 

 lias come and he isn't nearly through. As 

 he aptly remarked to one of his reporters. 



"the days are hardly long enough for 

 liim." 



He is our prize vacationist. 



And he is so strenuous! I..a! you have 

 no idea how strenuous he is — at every- 

 thing except work. 



WHAT CAUSED IT ? 



The daily papers gave an account of a 

 man who got started to laughing and 

 couldn't stop. His family was out of town 

 and he got started to laughing Sunday 

 night and laughed all night and was still 

 at it Monday morning. The neighbors had 

 heard him, of course, he living in a closely 

 settled community, and they became 

 alarmed and telephoned to the police sta- 

 tion. A couple of officers were detailed to 

 investigate and when they entered the 

 room where the man was they found him 

 sitting in an armchair, laughing till the 

 tears rolled down his cheeks. 



You know how it is when you see a per- 

 son laughing heartily. Yon can't keep 

 from laughing yourself, and the two of- 

 ficers, being jolly fellows, with a keen 



sense of humor, got to laughing too. And 

 the more they laughed the harder they 

 laughed, and the three of them made such 

 an uproar that the neighbors crowded in, 

 and when they saw the man in the chair 

 and the officers sitting on the bed, all 

 laughing so heartily, the neighbors began 

 laughing too, and they raised, such an up- 

 roar that somebody sent in a call for a 

 patrol wagon. And finally they got the 

 laughing man into the wagon and drove 

 him to the station. 



When he was brought into court he was 

 in such a paroxysm of mirth that he got 

 the court to laughing, and the judge and 

 the bailiffs and the clerks and the lawyers 

 all laughed and laughed until you never 

 saw the like. 



After a while the judge managed to call 

 an officer and tell him to lock the man up 

 in an inner cell, where nobody could hear 

 him. Then he sent a detective to see what 

 had got the man started. 



And then it came out that the man h.ad 

 been reading a copy of "Cornield Phil- 

 osophy." 



From Nea^r ©Liid Fa^r. 



PROSPERITY ABOUNDS AT LAKE 

 ERIE PORTS. 



There is nothing sensational in the way 

 they do business at Buffalo, Cleveland, 

 Toledo and Detroit, but there is plenty of 

 liusiness being done at these points and 

 then' is a very sanguine feeling in the 

 trade. All of them pronounce the tone of 

 trade healthy and the signs hopeful. 



At Detroit the McClure, Zimber Com- 

 pany carry a very fair supply and a com- 

 plete variety. They believe there is noth- 

 ing in the air to wan-ant a slump or a 

 downward tendency of any sort, either in 

 demand or values, and are backing their 

 belief to the extent of seeking stocks for 

 early delivery through the medium of the 

 Record. 



The Dennis Lumber Company, newly in- 

 corporated, announcement of which was 

 made in a previous issue of the Record, arc 

 now an active factor in the trade. Mr. A. 

 S. Dennis, the dominating interest, states 

 that the company is looking for a suitable 

 yard location and will aim to carry an as- 

 sortment of stock for the retail trade in 

 connection with their wholesale business. 



Stillwell & Co. are now domiciled in the 

 Stevens building, a new office structure at 

 corner of (;rand River and Washington 

 streets. Mr. Stilhvoll thinks trade on a 

 sound and stable basis, but considers ex- 

 citi'd talk either one way or the other d<"t- 

 rimental to that stability. 

 * * * 



Buffalo has always been on the map in 

 hardwcx)d lumber circles. Almost at the 

 beginning Buffalo be<'ame known to the 



consumer and producer of hardwood lum- 

 ber by reason of it lieing the headquarters 

 of two of what ai-e now the oldest hard- 

 wood institutions in the country— Taylor 

 & Crate and Scatelierd & Son. They are 

 both doing business at the old stand and 

 are numbered with the other progressive 

 hardwood firms of a progressive city. The 

 elder Scatcherd is gone and also both the 

 Messrs. Taylor and Crate comprising the 

 original firm. Of the latter firm, JVIr. Hor- 

 ace C. Mills, who has been connected with 

 the firm for about a quarter of a century, is 

 one of the presiding chiefs. Messrs. Hor- 

 ace and James Taylor are also active mem- 

 bers of the firm. 



Of the newer firms, comparatively speak- 

 ing, although numy of them have lieen 

 long enough established to be numbered 

 as leading firms in the hardwood business 

 of the country, should bo mentioned the 

 Buffalo Hardwood I.tnnbor Company, The 

 Hugh McLean laimber Company, The Em- 

 pire Lumber Company, Orson E. Yeager, 

 I. .\. Stewart & Co.. A. Miller, Standard 

 Lumber Company, Ceo. H. Shepard and 

 T. Sullivan & Co. 



Mr. Shepard is probably the newest 

 member of the trade, having only recently 

 starte<I in the business on his own account, 

 coming out of that great school of Scatch- 

 erd A: Son. in which many others in the 

 I'.nffiilo trade received their education. 

 .\ngust 1 Mr. Shepard removed his yard 

 and office from his old location in North 

 Division street to larger quarters in Clin- 

 ton street, where the New York Central 

 railway crosses. .Mr. Slu'pard is in the 



