The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-11

The paper you hold in your hand, as you read this, is made or wood, tl fs the product of a ground-up or ma cerated tree, and if you LOOK very closely you can see the wood npets' like small splinters, all through tho paper but more discernipIe m e margins where the printing does not cover the surface. And not only are ali newspapers made of wood-puip' hut so are almost all other cheap pa ners Book papers are generally made from wood; so are wallpapers cheap writing papers, wrapping papers and a variety of others. Bnt the man use of wood-pulp paper IS Tor prlhtlns; pIl; A clever statistieian nas calculates how many acres of forest go into "hest seller" by Winston Churchiii' and the resultant figures are appan- ing. especially when one realizes thas tbe wood used is practically all or one kind, spruce, found chiefly In the northwestern United states ana m Canada. ,. s.or,
 Paper always has been made from ,,asetahle dber. Material for receiV- inc nrinted or written characters have not always been of paperi the Assyr- ians used clay tablets, mediaeVal Flu ro,a ,,sed parchment made from sheep akin But paper, by it's very deriya- tion from the Egyptian papyfus' the pIant from which the oldest known naner was made Is of vegetable origin sn1 ts now made principally of rags
 vood straw and like substances the rags themselves being generally or cotton or flax. .,.
 Tbe demand for paper mas made the sunnlv problem one Lnat has grown and is growing rapidly, There mas never been an era like the present TOT shean printed matter. This Is the day nnWgnADer uses v,ood-pulp paper. The drain upon the snruce forests is so great that there nav be a famine of thaI wood. There eore an effort Is being made to get another wood to replace tt-a nara thing to do since spruce IS adnlttea- ly superior to others. since paper making began there mas been con stant search for paper material. Egypt has an ideal plant for its own uses in inc papyrus. It's paper was not made by reducing the pEant to mass and then spreading 1t out into sheets bv pressure. The stem was split, the outer layers were peeled ofr and their edges glued together 10 form long sheets The papyrus stems also fur nished material for sails, mats, cloth and cords; the pith was used for food; sandals were made or 8 material pro- vided by papyrus and the seams Of ships were calked with a tow made
 As the word paper" comes from the name of a paper making plant, so the word library" has . similar deriva- tion from the bark (lfDer) of trees because books were once made on sheets of bark, just as our American Indians have put records on the paper thin bark of the birch. Book" comes from Rglo- Saxon "boe." or beech, since early TeutonIc tribes used the bark of that tree for writing material.
 The>eastern nations have used paper for a long time, the Chinese and Jap anese have made paper from cotton, from straw and wood fibers, and from the pith of various plants, Japan now uses a number of fibers, including bam- boo and many grasses the Polyne- sian islands make use of tapa cloth and paper made from gne paper null berry.
 When the Arabs captured the won derful city of Samarstand. 704 A. D.. they found a people skilled in the manufacture of paper rom cotton and they in turn disseminated the art throughout their empire. Their prod uct became known us ''ehara," which has given name to "card," and to charter" The makag of paper from cotton was common throughout Flu rope later linen rags and flax were used. Stlll the deman0 grew and 1t became necessary to Search new fields ish grass, was finally Gecided on as the proper material. and for many years it was used, ann stiil is used About 200. 900 tons are annually im- ported into Great Britain for paper