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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Paste from Adulterated Food Products. 

 A prominent Kentucky manufacturing 

 company. which would not care to see its 

 name in print in this connection, recently 

 concluded to have a general overhauling 

 and redecoration of its offices. A decorator 

 and paper hanger was employed from a 

 neighboring city, and he proceeded with his 

 fieseo and papering work, but before com- 

 pleting the job he ran out of paste. He was 

 told that he could obtain some flour in the 

 company's commissary and make additional 

 paste with which to complete the work. 

 This he did. 



The job when completed was a very hand- 

 some piece of decoration, but for some rea- 

 son absolutely unknown to the company, 

 two days later the beautiful wall paper on 

 that part of the room in which the home 

 manufactured paste had been employed sud- 

 denly loosened from its moorings and fell 

 in disorder to the floor. 



The paper hanger could not explain the 

 reason of the mishap, but a thorough in- 

 vi stigation in the commissary developed the 

 fact that the storekeeper, in an attempt at 

 economical merchandising methods, had 

 been indulging in the practice of mixing 

 Kentucky cornmeal witli his white flour. 



The job was done over again, but the 

 paste was imported. 



Kentucky Colloquialisms. 

 I was walking out from the office I 



Kitchen & Co. toward the mill yard 

 the other day with R. H. Vansant, when he 

 was halted by a native who applied for a 

 job. 1 did not catch Mr. Vansant 's reply, 

 I. ni it was evidently to the import that he 

 did not have a job for the man just then, 

 but that he would have within a few < 

 •■All right," he replied, "then I'll • 

 and 'buddy' with you all summer." 



"What in the mischief does 'buddy' 

 mean?" I inquired of the tall lumberman, 

 who is known in all that country as the 

 "tall poplar of the Big Sandy." 



"Why," he replied, "he means that he 

 is coming to work for me all summer. ' ' 



One catches quite a number of colloquial- 

 isms in the river poplar country. (Jutting 

 off the end of a branded log to conceal the 

 mark, which is often practiced by river log 

 es, is known as "dehorning." From 

 strange analogy of meaning the mass 

 of loose logs floated down stream surrounded 

 by rafts is known as a "brail." Again, 

 down in the mountain country, when a man 

 bores you, he "augers" you. 



It is remarkable to note t li < • difference 



Lai expressions meaning the same 



thing in different parts of the country. In 



the north woods a laborer is known as a 



"lumber jack" and in "West Virginia he 



"hick;" the "cookee" of the North 



thi "lobby hog" of the South. 



In the North, when a man is dismissed from 

 camp he is "tired;" in the mountain coun- 

 try he is "sent down the hay road." 

 Good Lasting Qualities. 

 One often hears a relation of the last- 



ing qualities of certain woods, but there 

 never has been very much bragging done 

 about the enduring life of poplar. I met 

 A. C. Campbell, an old-time banker of Ash- 

 land, Ky., down in that town the other day, 

 and he tells me that an eight-foot fence 

 made of poplar boards was built about the 

 old Ashland National Bank building in 1S59. 

 He says that twenty-five years later he re- 

 built the fence from the same materials, 

 cutting it down to a height of four feet. 

 The fence stayed in good repair until it 

 was removed to make room for building im- 

 provements. The only preserving material 

 ever employed on the fence was an occa- 

 sional coat of whitewash. 



E. H. Vansant, president of R. H. Van- 

 sant & Co., Inc., says that the house in 

 Elliot county, Kentucky, in which' he was 

 born in 1852 was covered with poplar sid- 

 ing, and that the house is still standing in 

 very good repair. 



Good Advertising. 



Lumber trade newspaper publishers have 

 some queer experiences with advertisers. The 

 average lumberman thinks he has spent his 

 money wisely and fulfilled his duty toward 

 himself and his advertising expenditure when 

 he has inserted in the space which he has 

 bought practically an announcement that he 



• ither a manufacturer or a wholesaler of 

 lumber at some point. 



Taken far and near, lumbermen are not 

 very judicious advertisers. They fail to 

 re alize the first, principle of advertising ex- 

 ploitation. They seem to think that the 

 bare announcement above noted is sufficient 

 to attract buyers. However, a moment's 

 thought on the subject will convince them to 

 tli' contrary. When the}- employ a travel- 

 ing salesman by no chance would they send 

 1 1 i in out on the road with the bare infor- 

 on that he was sent out to sell lumber. 

 On the contrary they would give him spe- 

 cific information concerning the stock they 

 wished him to sell, and of the kind and 

 character of lumber they were prepared to 

 manufacture or furnish. This same method 

 should prevail in a lumberman's advertise- 

 ment in the Hardwood Record, and occa- 

 sionally of late you will find an advertiser 

 who has awakened to the wisdom of this 

 idea, and will note that he advertises spe- 

 cific items of stock he has for sale, or which 

 he wishes to buy. Such advertisers in- 

 variably get results from the expenditure 

 of their money. 



A trade newspaper cannot create any 

 business. All it has for sale is space and 

 circulation. These features of the trade 

 newspaper are valuable to every man in 

 the lumber business if he will avail himself 

 of the opportunities they offer. It is the 

 desire of every trade newspaper publisher 

 to make advertising profitable to his clients, 

 but until lumbermen awaken to the prin- 

 ciples of a correct system of exploitation 

 so long will they not obtain the full results 

 i 'Mm their expenditure to which they are 

 entitled. 



It is a matter of daily occurrence with 

 the Hardwood Record to receive com- 

 mendatory letters from advertisers who 

 have made specific announcements of 

 items of stock they wish to buy or sell, but 

 it is rarely that such letters are received 

 from advertisers who say, practically, "My 

 name is John Smith, and I am in the lumber 

 business at Smithville. ' ' 



Advertising in the Hardwood Record can 

 1 i made a matter of revenue rather than 

 cosl to every hardwood manufacturer and 

 jobber. The Record, to this end, is pre- 

 pared to deliver its share of the goods. 



H. H. G. 



Annual of National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation. 



Increased interest is being manifested in the 

 forthcoming annual meeting of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, which will be 

 held at Buffalo, Thursday and Friday, May 18 

 and 10. 



As previously announced in the Hardwood 

 Rei 'iiiD, the delegates and other hardwood lum- 

 bermen intending to visit the meeting from Chi- 

 cago and nearby Illinois points. Wisconsin and 

 .Minnesota, have planned to go in a body, and 

 have arranged for special Pullmans to be at- 

 tached to the fast express train on the Michi- 

 gan Central, leaving Chicago, under the new 

 schedule taking effect May lu, at 4 :30 p. m., 

 i ii Wednesday, May 17. 



It is expected that the western Michigan dele- 

 gates will also have a special car, which will be 

 mhI to the same train at Jackson, and the 

 crowd s-'" through together to Buffalo, 

 which will be reached at 7 :30 on the morning of 

 May IS. 



Ii" Michigan Central management has ar- 

 ranged for a brief stop of this train at Falls 

 View Station, overlooking Niagara Falls, which 

 will give the excursionists a splendid view of 

 the great cataract. 



Blembers of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 latlon and other hardwood lumbermen who 

 Intend to visit the annual meeting, and have 

 not already done so, should arrange either by 

 telephone or mail with A. R. Vinnedge, secre- 

 tin . of the association, 134 Monroe street, Chi- 

 cago, t" make reservation of sleeper accommo- 

 dations and secure railroad transportation for 

 i In in. as i bey cannot he otherwise obtained to 

 insure a place with the excursion party. 



The Buffalo hardwood contingent, which is 

 the host of the visitors, has thoroughly ma- 

 its plans for giving the visitors a most 

 royal entertainment, which will include a sight- 

 I trip and a banquet at the Iroquois Hotel 

 "ii the evening of May 19. This hotel will be 

 the headquarters of the convention. Reserva- 

 tions can be secured by direct application to the 

 management, or through any member of the 

 Buffalo committee of arrangements, which con- 

 sists of O. ]•;. Yeager, chairman; M. M. Wall 

 and I. N. Stewart. 



Hymeneal. 



It will be agreeable news to a host of his 

 r friends, and equally sad intelligence to 

 no inconsiderable bevy of West Virginia belles, 

 to Know that Robert M. Smith of R. M. Smith 

 A ' ".. Parkersburg, W. Ya., is married. The 

 bride was Miss Belle Miles of Parkersburg. and 

 the nuptials took place on Tuesday, April 25. 



If Bob makes half as good a husband as he 

 is a hardwood lumberman. Mrs. Smith is a 

 linky girl. Kveryone knows Mr. Smith's good 

 taste in femininity, and therefore it is not nec- 

 essary to state that he is an exceedingly lucky 



lien. Hi. ii. is to Mr. and Mrs. Smith of Park- 

 ersburg; may they live long and be happy ! 



