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Pert, Pertinent and Impertinent. 



A Foolish Verse. 

 I s'pose you never did see 

 An angel of light climb a tree ; 

 But as she only has wings 

 And no other things, 

 It's not a great sight to see. 



A New Toast. 



Here's to the girls, God bless 'em 

 May they always be good ; 

 Not too good, for the good die young. 

 And God knows we want no dead ones. 



The Lumber "Cassies." 



Here's to the fake "Buffalo Bunch," 



Who. to "get rich quick," had a hunch. 



But the way was too steep. 



And they fell in a heap, 



And now they are eating free lunch. 



Work Your Gray 



Matter. 



He who thinks for 

 himself, and imitates 

 rarely, is sure of suc- 

 cess. — Klopstock. 



Lobster, Love, or 

 Lucre? 



You can have any- 

 thing you -want in 

 this world — if you 

 want it bad enough. 



Proposed Amalgama- 

 tion, 



Since Hoo-Hoo set- 

 tled the life insur- 

 ance problem at its 

 last annual, it will 

 doubtless be apropos 

 to adopt measures at 

 the coming Septem- 

 ber meeting at Port- 

 land, Ore., looking to 

 the proposed consoli- 

 dation with the Wo- 

 man's Christian Tem- 

 perance Union. 



Oiganization. 

 Many a man has 



missed success be- 

 cause he has lacked 

 system. A lumber- 

 man of sainted mem- 

 ory used to character- 

 ize such men as 

 ■"Those who ran their 

 business by guess and 

 by God." 



The Grand Old Oak. 

 A large, branching, 

 aged oak is perhaps 

 the most venerable of 

 all inanimate objects. 

 — Shestone. 



•OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES' 



First Boy-"I've got a bully ball!" 

 Second Boy— "I've got a cracker-jack bat!" 

 Both Boys—" Let's play ball!" 



And It's Only Janu- 

 ary 10th. 

 There's one un- 

 pleasant feature 

 about riding on the 

 good resolution wa- 

 gon — you get so 

 howling lonesome. 



Answer to Corre- 

 spondent. 



The hardwood bus 

 iness is a good bus- 

 iness for a young 

 man to undertake pro- 

 vided he undertakes 

 to be a good man foi 

 the business. 



The Calamity Howler 



The man who says 

 that 1905 will not 

 "show to the good," 

 in the language of 

 The Earl of Paw- 

 tucket, is "only 

 spoofing. ' ' 



On to His Job. 



Because a man does 

 not tell you all about 

 himself is no sign he 

 has not obeyed tile 

 scriptural injunction 

 "know thyself." He 

 may not dare to tell. 



Impaired 'Vision. 



Those Eastern fak- 

 irs and adventurers 

 in the hardwood lum- 

 lier business are 

 among the class of 

 people who "can't 

 see the third rail 

 without stepping on 

 it." 



Get Together Eight. 



Nothing in this world has ever been ac- 

 complished without organization. The finest 

 type of organization lies in the family cir- 

 cle, and the bigger the family the better 

 it is. It is not wise to organize by sec- 

 tions — to organize by halves. To make an 

 organization of value it should comprise 

 ■everj'one in interest. Every little organiza- 

 tion for itself is as much of a heresy as 

 ' ' each man for himself, ' ' and is nowadays 



heard only in the black catastrophe of ship- 

 wreck, and even then onlj' heard to be re- 

 buked by men of sense. 



Literature and a Story. 



The central incident in "Section Eigh- 

 teen, One West'' published elsewhere in 

 this issue, is reminiscent of one which is 

 told, with all the brilliancy and true love 

 of the forest, by the distinguised writer, Ed- 

 ward Stewart White, in The Blazed Trail. 



Mr. White has given his facts the fascina- 

 tion of fiction. The story however, as writ- 

 ten here, was told to the writer and written 

 before The Blazed Trail was published. Al- 

 though it cannot in any way, except in its 

 verily, be compared to that of the most sym- 

 pathetic and artistic writer on the forest and 

 its people America has yet given to litera- 

 ture, j'et as a pen picture of old time lumber- 

 ing methods it is sure to be appreciated by 

 Hardwood Eecord readers. 



