Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1911 — May Happen So. [ARTICLE]

May Happen So.

"Paw, is there any difference between timber and lumber?” “There is no necessary difference in kind, my son; they differ merely in degree or stage of development For example, a man may be spoken of as good timber for some high office, and yet represent nothing but lumber when he gets there.”