Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-09-23
WHOLE NO. 1884.
Black Walnut Lumber.

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A short trip among the lumbermen
iully substantiates the statement made
lew days since that the Eastern furni-
ture manufacturers are seriouslv
troubled at the scarcity of black walnut
timber. and that the whole supply in
the United States has now become an.
tirely inadequa to the demand. The
difficulty OF obtaining this wood, which
Is now so popular, is so great that the
question is brought sharply home,
What is to be done in the future, and
to what place are the dealers to look for
supply?" Within the last year the
price has increased 25 per cent, but
even at such advanced figures it is
almost impossible to secure the needed
stock. A few years since man would
60 West and purchase 100000 feet of
one dealer, but now he must journey
from town to town, picking up few
thousand feet wherever he may chance
70 find any for sale. and accounting
himself lucky if he obtains the desired
amount at almost any cost. There are
dealers always ready to pounce down
on any lot of walnut that 3 farmer NAV
wish to dispose Of, and, as one Of our
dealers said, If you get your eye on Q
Few hundred feet you must sit down on
1t Immediately. and stay there until
you clinch the bargain. for If You leave
1t Tor an instant some one else will take
advantage OF your sbsence, and when
you return you will to certainty find
it goRe.'"
The supply in the country was never
very large. not averaging more than ono
tree to the acre, and such has been the
demand that now States in which il
formerly abounded are almost entirely
denuded. and in many of those from
which the present suppl5-eomes it has
to be hauled across country for dis
tance of twenty or thirty miles. The
principal sources of supply were for.
merly Canada West and Indiana, but
they are now denuded, and tho lumber
men had to 60 further south into Mis-
rouri. Kentucky, Tennessee and Kan
sas. where the wood obtained is consid.
erably inferior, seemingly deterierating
in quality the farther south it grows.
Not only have Eastern dealers this
scarcity to contend against, but, a be-
fore stated, the Western manufacturer,
being On the spot, secure the lions
share and leave their Eastern compet-
itors ont in the GOLD. In fact, compsr-
atively but little work is done here; il
man wishes nice walnut set and
sends an order into dealer it will be
turned out for him, but otherwise little
work is done. Buttsrntt has been sub
stituted to some extent; and when it can
be obtained of the best quality il equal,
and by some considered superior. to
walnut, but ss it can seldom be obtained
without flaws it can never take the place
among furniture manufacturers Of the
time-honored Walnut Boston Globe.
The Other Kind of Grandmother.
We all know the usua! kind of grand
mother. who wear lovely white kerchiefs
about their necks. and have nice things
put away in drawers for the children,
and get boys excused when they come
IN with their tr0users torn, and beg of
little girls from hard tasks, and see the
good side of everybody, and would like
to let nearly all the prisoners out ef
Jail, and are forever knitting warm
things for poor people.
DR.. Franklin tells story OF Q little
girl whe dropped pitcher in the street,
and stood'crying over the pieces, fear
ing to 60 home, when another child
came Glong and seeing the catastrophe,
said,-
why does she org? Has she no
grandmother
She meant, Of course, grandmother
OF the regular pattern. There is IN.
other style of Grandmother not 90 COM
mon. A distinguished French writer,
named Edward Qainet, had . grand
mother of most terrible description.
She had been herself educated in &C.
clusion, and she governed her house-
hold in the severest manner.
Once week she employed . police
man to como in and whip all her chill
dren, two boys and girl, whether they
had done anything wrong or not. She
shut up one of her boys in drawer
when he was three years old. Nor did
she change her style OF treatment when
they grew older; for when this same
boy was Q young man, she had oil his
favorite flowers torn up by the roots.
Even when he was fifty she scolded him
'as though he were still child.
This tremendous and awful grand
mother hated everything ugly. She
filed her house with beautiful eugrav-
ings and other works of art, and would
employ no domestic who was not good
looking. That is the kind OF grand.
mother some children are blessed with.
A very few such may be needed in .
country, jus. to show what q grand
mother ought not to be.