Show I is less than a generation since wood pulp for making paper was invented in-vented but an Eastern paper tells us that a rapid and increased demand for newspapers Is exhausting the supply sup-ply of wood necessary for Its provision provi-sion and now inventive genius of man is being taxed to find n substitute for wood which tool the place of rags and oilier material used in paper manufacturing manu-facturing only a few tar ago One would think that experiments would be made vrlthbamboo and other plants that grow perennially in tho tropics Tho bamboo has 0 fibre quite a strong as that of spruce Certainly something some-thing ought to be done to stop the aw iul demands upon the forests of the < ouiilry 1C we remember correctly a big edition of the New York Journal exhausts the wood on two acres of ordinary Eastern forests They cannot can-not quite do that on a State of Washington Wash-ington forest but still tho drain Is something Immense I |