THE HARDWOOD RECORD, 



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ness in his father's office. We wish tlie 

 young couple every possible good thing. 



THE RAILROADS. 



The railroads are mighty independent. 

 If ■ you get to the depot on time and see 

 marked on the blackboard "On time," and 

 then watch the time slip by, five minutes, 

 ten minutes, and you vainly look up the 

 tracks until the train reported "on time" 

 is an hour late, and when it comes in the 

 passengers are so glad to get started that 

 they instantly forget all about the things 

 they had resolved to do to that railroad, 

 and they climb aboard and end by not 

 doing anything. 



The American people are very patient. 

 The only time I have known of a train be- 

 ing exactly on time to the minute was when 

 I arrived at the depot one minute late. 

 You see, the train being late probably 

 causes the passengers to miss connec- 

 tions or to lay over a day, which causes 

 not only expense, but no telling how much 

 loss In what Wall would call "consequen- 

 tial damages," and the passengers have 

 to stand it all. 



And in case of wrecks. In going up to 

 Sandusky from Mansfield there was a 

 wreck and we had to walk around it while 

 transferring from one train to another, and 

 carry our grip and overcoat. It was nearly 

 a mile; it was a warn day and we walked 

 through a wheat field. Did the railroad 

 suffer anything? No, sir. Did the officers 

 of the road offer to carry our grips? Not 

 at all. No, sir; the passengers carried the 

 grips, and it was the passengers who were 

 delayed and inconvenienced. 



While we are moving in this railroad 

 matter, there should be a law passed that 

 the president, vice-president and general 

 manager should be made to carry the pas- 

 senger's grip, at least. This matter is re- 

 ferred to the Indiana Hardwood Lumber 

 Association to see that something is done 

 about it. 



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And as we had to wait until all the bag- 

 gage was transferred, we had to wait about 

 an hour and a half, and there was noth- 

 ing to do but listen to the wind whistling 

 about the car eaves. 



It was a nice day for the time of the year, 

 but the wind whistled strangely, telling 

 of falling weather; telling of storms brew- 

 ing — storms of sleet and snow and rain. 



The wind tells lots of things to people 

 who know how to interpret it. You see, it 

 goes so far and sees so much, whistling 

 around houses and peeping in at windows, 

 it learns an awful lot, and if you only 

 know how to interpret the language of the 

 wind you've got a cinch. 



There were men at work in the wheat 

 field and we watched them quit and go 

 to dinner. We had no dinner ourselves 

 and the officials of the road didn't bring 

 us any, so we could only speculate upon 

 the dinners those ignorant farmhands got. 



I'll bet they sat down to eat a dinner 

 fit for a king. I suppose they had fruit 



and vegetables of all kinds, for that was 

 a fruit and vegetable country. And, like 

 as not, they had fresh spareribs and back- 

 bones. Lots of farmers kill a hog for 

 early meat. The idea of such men sitting 

 down, in their uncouth way. to such a din- 

 ner, while I, who am superior — vastly su- 

 perior, I hope — don't get a thing, is ridicu- 

 lous. 



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I don't care. We'll talk about the 

 weather. This has been a beautiful fall 

 and it doesn't seem that there has been 

 weather severe enough to dislodge the 

 leaves from the trees. When it comes lo a 

 certain season, however, they go. 



As a man's friends forsake him in time 

 of trouble, so the leaves forsake the trees 

 when the storms of winter come, but that 

 doesn't matter to the trees. They man- 

 age to pull through till spring without any 

 leaves, and then they get a new crop. 



And what do they raise around here? 

 Not bananas and oranges and other trop- 

 ical fruits, for we are up n,ear the lakes, 

 and if a man should attempt to raise trop- 

 ical fruits they would all be frozen. But 

 they raise wheat and potatoes, to which 

 the soil and climate is adapted and which 

 the world cannot do without. 



That is the secret of all farming— to find 

 out what the soil is adapted to raise, and 

 raise it. A man in Louisiana will make 

 $50 per acre raising cotton, while a man 

 in Michigan will make $50 an acre raising 

 potatoes, but if the Michigan man should 

 attempt to raise cotton and the man in 

 Louisiana would attempt to raise potatoes, 

 they wouldn't either one make a cent and 

 would declare that farming didn't pay. 



So it is with men. They must find out 

 what they are adapted for and do it. 



There is many a man wasting strength 

 enough pounding the pulpit to make him 

 a success at splitting rails. That is the 

 secret of success in life — to know what 

 you are adapted for. There is an old say- 

 ing, "Man, know yourself," and that is all 

 there is to it. You may not be adapted to 

 secure a very high or important position 

 and a thorough self-examination may re- 

 veal the fact. Someone, however, must 

 fill subordinate positions. And to fill a 

 subordinate position thoroughly and ac- 

 ceptably is no slight matter. It is better 

 to be the best, bricklayer in town and earn 

 good wages than to be an attorney and 

 starve to death. 



These things have nothing to do with 

 the lumber business, but I have to think 

 of something, and not havir.g anything to 

 eat is an advantage in thinking. 



THE BLESSEDNESS OF GIVING. 



While in Grand Rapids recently I read 

 in the daily paper that they had quite a 

 "doings" at Muskegon. Mr. Hackley, of 

 the Hackley-Bonnell Lumber Company, of 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., had given to the 

 city of Muskegon a free hospital, thus 

 raising the total amount of his benefac- 

 tions to that city to a milion and a half. 



E. E. Taenzer & Co. 



(Incorporated) 



MANUFACTURERS 

 AND DEALERS 



— HIGH -GRADE - 



Hardwood Lumber 



Band Satm Thin Sfock 

 a Specialty 



MAIN OFFICE AND MILL : 

 Florida Ave. and Y. & M. V. R. R. 



MEMPHIS, : TENN. 



ALSO MILL AT SHORT BEND, ARK. 



WANTED. 



We are in the market for 

 the following lumber, must be 

 in good dry condition, and if 

 can furnish any or all, please 

 quote US f. o. b. cars shipping 

 point, describing stock, and 

 how soon same can be 

 reached. 



10 to 20 cars 1 In. 1st and 

 Oak. 



2 cars IJi In Island 2nd 



1 car ly. in. 1st and 2nd 



3 cars 1%, in. 1st and 2nd 



2 cars 2 In. 1st and 2nd 

 1 car 2!4 in. Ist and 2nd 

 5 cars 3 in. 1st and 2nd 

 1 car 4 in. 1st and 2nd 



2nd Plain White 



Plain White Oak. 

 Plain White Oak. 

 Plain White Oak. 

 Plain White Oak. 

 Plain While Oak. 

 Plain White Oak. 

 Plain White Oak. 



The above stock must be well manufact- 

 ured, equalized trimmed lengths. Prefer 

 band sawn stock. Could take 154 to 254 of 

 good Common with same. 



We are also In the market for the following: 

 10 cars 1 In. Commoii Plain White Oak. 

 5to lOcars 1 in. Island 2nd Plain Red Oak 

 10 cars 1 in. Common Plain Red Oak. 



FOR SALE. 



2 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nd Quartered Red Oak. 

 2 cars 1 in. Common Quartered Red Oak. 

 1 car 1 in. x 10 In. and up 1st and 2nd 



Plain Red Oak. 

 1 car IX In. x 10 in. and up 1st and 2d Ash. 

 '4 car IH in. X 10 in. and up 1st and 2nd Ash 

 1 car \^ in. x 12 in. and up 1st and 2nd Red 



Gum (two years old). 

 1 car 2 in. X 6 In. and up 1st and 2nd Bed 



Gum (3 to 4 months old). 

 10 cars 1 in. Gum Crating lumber, can ship 



rough or d. 2 s. 



3,000,000 ft. 1 in. Poplar. 

 IH. IH and 2 in. bang up slock, all grades 

 and good lengths. 



E.E.TAENZER & CO. 



(Incorporated) 



MEMPHIS 



