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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 10, 1916 



with him strength of fiber, sturdiness and beauty of character. 

 What more happy, then, than the thought that each year as the 

 Walnut tempered its sapwood to heartwood, its spirit carved thereon 

 the record of battles fought and won, that a century later might 

 be brought forth to make men glad. 



That which is destined for perpetuity is slow of growth. It 



VENEEUS FROM THE ZACH.\RT TAYLOR WALNUT. 

 SIZE, 3x6 FEET 



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took fifty years to make a man — a century and a half to bring a 

 . Walnut tree to perfection. Great men do not die— their spirit and 

 their works live after them. The Walnut lias been changed in 

 form that it might live the longer, that it might grace men's homes, 

 adding to beauty, beauty 's self. 



C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company will keep the veneers until such 

 time as a fitting setting for them is found. As they are a yearly 

 history of what one tree accomplished, they will bo kept together 

 as far as possible, and some day by the aid of worthy craftsmen 

 and artists they will panel the walls of some great home. 



Mayhap, if their owner be a lover of beauty and a dreamer, he 

 will read in their tangled grain the tale of the Walnut that stood 

 by the spring. Alone at eventide, with the firelight reflected from 

 their brown and mottled surfaces, they may become to him an open 

 book. He may read there the story of the pioneer.s — of the dreams 

 of young Zachary Taylor — of the troths that were plighted at the 

 spring. He may see pictured the wild chase after Black Hawk, 

 following him through Illinois, Wisconsin and over into Iowa. He 



may see General Taylor at Buena Vista, where, surrounded by an 

 enemy five times his number, he refuses to surrender and cuts his 

 way to victory. Many chapters he will find devoted to the long, 

 long vigil — the years the Walnut stood guard. All is written there 

 — the story of achievement, the story of victory against odds. 



Painted by nature on the heart of a great tree there will lie 

 before the dreamer a story of accomplishment, a record of indi- 

 viduality — The Tale of the Walnut That Stood Alone. 



EoY H. Jokes. 



It was fitting that the Zachary Taylor Walnut should fall into the 

 hands of a Louisville firm, that its new birth should take place 

 almost within sight of the spot it had occupied for a century and a 

 half. And particularly fitting was it that that firm should be the 

 C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company. This concern, with an international 

 reputation, has its own holdings in Africa and South America and 

 owns and operates its own fleet of carriers. Wherever figured woods 

 are bought or sold there is the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company known. 

 While it makes a specialty of mahogany lumber and veneers, it has 



VENEERS FROM THE ZACHARV TAYLOR WALNUT. 

 SIZE. 3x0 FEET 



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always handled more or less walnut and is ever on the lookout for 

 finely figured stock that it may the better serve its customers. 



The veneers that have been taken from the Zachary Taylor 

 Walnut come under this head, and the Mengel company is fortunate 

 in being able to offer them to discriminating buyers. 



