Im, by the way, what he thought of his Labor Day speech. Smit

Ed at one
time two hundred and thirty-seven billion, five hundred
million (237,500,000,000) feet which would make a column one foot square and three million miles
high. Although controlled by only three holders, that interest comprised over eight percent of all the standing timber in the United States at

that time." The above illuminating figures,
quoted from "The I.W.A. in the Lumber Industry," by James Rowan, will give some idea of the magnitude and power of the lumber trust. [Illustration:

"Topping a Tree" After one of these huge trees is "topped" it is called a "spar

tree"--very necessary in a certain ki