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it most desirable, especially as it takes 
a fine polish. Many of the finest 
residences and offices are finished with 
redwood in its original “local” color. 
Redwood makes a lasting foundation, 
solid, impregnable walls, and an almost 
imperishable roof. As a finishing wood 
it is unequalled, and for cabinet material 
it is superior to most other wood. East¬ 
ern breweries use redwood in the con¬ 
struction of brewing vats; it is also used 
for water reservoirs, and shipped to the 
Eastern States in competition with their 
white pine, which is becoming scarcer 
through vandalism similar to that which 
is denuding our forests. The redwood 
shrinks less than any other timber, and 
is all the more valuable on that account. 
The small shrinkage is lengthwise in¬ 
stead of across the grain. 
Man seems to be the only enemy of 
the forests. Insects, so destructive to 
other woods, hesitate to attack the 
redwood, whether alive or dead. The 
outer covering of the trunk is decayed 
by time when the tree has fallen; but 
the saps and acids in the body of the tree 
seem to battle with time and to preserve 
the fallen tree for generations.— J. M. 
S. in the N. T . Evening Post. 
SOME REMARKS ABOUT PLASTIC 
ROOFING 
TT has been repeatedly said—and with 
much justification—that there is a 
greater difference between first-class plas¬ 
tic roofing and shoddy plastic roofing 
than in any other building material. The 
opportunity for the substitution of the 
spurious for the meritorious, the chance 
for covering up worthless goods, and the 
scope and latitude which the unscrupu¬ 
lous plastic roofer finds to be his for 
putting on a very low-grade roof, some¬ 
times for a very high-grade price, are 
unmatched in almost any other busi¬ 
ness. 
Beyond a doubt, for certain very 
substantial flat-roofed buildings the plas¬ 
tic roof is the very best sort of roof that 
can be specified. It adjusts itself to 
heat, cold, and every conceivable variety 
of weather. But, of course, the debased 
members of the craft had to drag down 
the plastic roof into the very hades of 
disrepute. They endeavored to sub¬ 
stitute any and every shoddy article 
which could be made to do duty to serve 
their trick of imposture. They prac¬ 
ticed all kinds of “skin games” on the 
Mr. Dooley on 
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