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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1901)
Conservative * 13 LOUISIANA WOODS. Louisiana is rich in woods. The long and short leaved pine , water elm , pecan , the southern hickory , bitter pecan , haokborry , persimmon , red oak , water onk , sycamore , beech , willow , magnolia , thorn-locust , locust , red maple , box eld er , red gum , black $ um , tupelo gum , blue ash , white ash , bass wood , cedar ash , prickley ash , red haw , wild plum , cotton wood , yellow poplar , cypress and the osage orange or bois d'arc. Bois d'aro is an exceedingly hard wood , bright orange in color , and is used ex tensively for paving blocks and fence posts. This wood is also used as a sub stitute for box-wood in making roller skate wheels and rollers for pulleys. The cypress is used extensively for mak ing posts and railroad ties , shingles , splints and is bought largely by brew ers for cooperage purposes. Cypress is more durable and lasting than cedar. Samples of all the woods mentioned are exhibited in the Forestry Building , at the Pan-American Exposition , the cross and the quarter sections being shown. Cypress knees are here shown , a pecu liar formation growing from the roots of the cypress tree in low sections. They serve as areators , carrying air to the tree roots in places where the water covers the roots. The lumber buyer in the South uses these as indication of the soundness of the tree , tapping the knees in testing his timber rather than the body of the tree to determine if the tree be hard or solid. In the knee is solid it is a sure indica tion that the tree is sound. In the Ag ricultural building at the Louisiana ex hibit are shown twenty-four varieties of the pecan nut , ranging in size from the ordinary pecan , which wo can buy in our markets , to a variety much larger than the ordinary pigeon's egg. Nearly all of these varieties are paper shelled and can be easily broken with the hand. Turpentine , tar , tar oil , creosote , pyro- ligneous acid ( wood vinegar ) , wood al cohol are produced in Louisiana from fat or refuse pine. The broken and fallen wood of the pine which has lain waste in the forests is cut into foot bil lets , put into a cooper still and heated , diy distillation being used. It first pro duces a gas , then the wood alcohol , creosote and turpentine which after ward separates , next tar oil and pyro- ligenous acid or wood vinegar , lastly tar. The charcoal derived from , this dry heat process is of a superior grade , very solid and heavy , and burns much ) , qnger than the ordinary charcoal and ives B more intense heat. This is an entirely new process of distillation , and the old process of tapping the tree being more expensive and taking more time. KIPLING'S IMPRESSIONS OP YEL LOWSTONE CANON , Of the Grand Canon of the Yellow stone , Eudyard Kipling writes : "All I can say is that without warning or Installment Income Bond. Advantages to the Purchaser. 1st. Unquestioned security furnished. Bonds issued by one or more of the oldest , strongest and best regular life insurance companies. 2nd. It pays to the purchaser at the end of 10 , 15 or 20 years a high rate of interest. 3rd. It is free from taxation , and after the first investiga tion it requires no further time or trouble for an in vestment of a like amount each year thereafter. 4th. It provides an income , for advanced age of the pur chaser , from a source entirely different from the rest of his or her estate. 5th. It cannot be attached by creditors either of the in sured or beneficiary. 6th. It is free from the inheritance tax upon the death of the purchaser. 7th. It provides at death an annual income , of a specific sum , payable upon a certain day , either Annually , Quarterly or Monthly , for one or more beneficiaries for twenty years in any event , and for life if desired. It cannot be tied up by litigation affecting the estate of insured or beneficiary. 8th. A def erred annual income is thus secured during the life of both the insured and beneficiary. Jth. No shrinkage of income is possible by payment of Attorneys' or Executors' fees , or any other expenses. 10th It is burglar proof. That is , the Company's contract would be worthless in the hands of any other than the insured or beneficiary. llth The value of the bonds never fluctuates. No one can worry over the falling price of the same , as may be the case with other securities. 12th. Bond is negotiated in the interest of purchaser without extra charge for actuarial services. Full particulars presented upon receipt of date of birth. Actuary , TELEPHONE 401-404 , 108 LaSalle St. MAIN 498 , CHICAGO. preparation I looked into a gulf 1,700 feet deep , with eagles and fish-hawks. circling far below. And the sides of that gulf were one wild welter of color crimson , emerald , cobalt , ochre , am ber , honey-splashed with port wine , snow-white , vermilion , lemon and silver gray in wide washes. The sides did not fall sheer , but wore graven by time and water and ah- into monstrous heads of kings , dead chiefs men and women of the old time. So far below that no sound of its strife could reach us , the Yellowstone river ran , a finger-wide strip of jade green. The sunlight took these wondrous walls and gave fresh hues to those that nature had already laid there. Evening crept through the pines that shadowed us , but the full glory of the day flamed in that canon as we went out very cautiously to a jutting piece of rook blood-red or pink it was that overhung the deepest deeps of all. Now I know what it is to sit en throned , amid the clouds of sunset as the spirits sit in Blake's pictures. " Join the Burlington's personally con ducted excursion to Yellowstone Park and see this grandest and most beauti ful of nature's marvels. Leaves Omaha Tuesday , Aug. 20. Gets back on the morning of the 29th. The entire expense of the trip will be less than $100. Information on request. J. FRANCIS , General Passenger Agent , Omaha , Nob. August 15 , 1901 This paper will publish contributions from the following well-known niqn , in answer to the question : "What Are the Young Man's Chances ? " W. 0. Brown Vice-Preside * - L. S. & M. S. Ry. E. D. Keuna 1st Vice-Presibient Santa Fe. James H. Eckels President Commercial Nat'l Bank. Robt. O. dowry Vice-President W. U. Tel. Co. Frank O. Lowdon Attorney. M. E. Ingalls President "Big 4" Ry. Albert T. Watkius Journalist. Fred L. Lucas Civil Engineer W. B. Barr General Frt. Agt. , Chicago Terminal Transfer Co. * IT'S A CONSPICUOUS ISSUE. It.should be in the hands of every young man. GET YOUR FRIENDS TO SUBSCRIBE ,
