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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 ,
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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
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from the following well-known niqn , in
answer to the question :
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Transfer Co.
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