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pay him $350 a mouth nnd to considpr that sum as a donatiou to the 

 government. 



Mr. Wicbliffe declined to accept the money under that arrangement 

 until it was approved by H. K. S. Williams, who was Mi'. WioklifEe's chief 

 in the government service. With that approved, the $350 per month from 

 the Mengel company was accepted. It was soon arranged that the 

 Mahogany Manufacturers" and Importers' Association should assume the 

 payment of this sum monthly. This continued until the bureau of air- 

 craft production disapproved the arningement and Mr. Wickliffe was 

 requested to decline further conipcnsarinn from the mahogany associa- 

 tion. He was promised that steps would be taken to increase his pay from 

 the government to $S.20O a year. 



The facts were brought out by the Hughes report of the airplane pro- 

 duction, and the matter was turned over to the Federal Trade Commis- 

 sion to determine whether the government had been overcharged for the 

 mahogany it had bought. The question of the reasonableness of the prices 

 paid has not yet been passed upon. 



Pertinent Information 



Schools and Prisons 



Finland has prepared a budget uf expenses for the first year as an 

 independent country. Among the items to be provided are education, 

 $3,860,000 ; army. $23,160,000 ; prisons, $38,600,000. If they would spend 

 a little more on education they might not need to spend so much on prisons. 

 An interesting point is that they expect to raise a large part of the 

 revenue from tax on forests and lumber. 



A Memorable Mahogany Bridge 



The Insular Lumber Company of Manila, Philippine Islands, has on its 

 right of way a bridge of solid mahogany which probably is the largest 

 ever made of this wood. Its extreme length is 468 feet, and its extreme 

 height is thirty-nine feet. It has three spans, each of eighty-six feet. A 

 number of the timbers are ninety-six feet long and thirty inches square. 

 The bridge was built by Fred McCurdy, who was shortly afterw^ard killed 

 by a native who took that method of showing his disapproval of the build- 

 ing of the logging road across land belonging to natives. The company 

 had proceeded according to law, I>ut the half savage native was not dis- 

 posed to abide by the law. 



National Receipts from Interest 



The receipts from interest wliiib foreign governniouts will pay yearly 

 to the United States will amount to $500,000,000. This is for money 

 loaned during the war. That will go a long way toward paying the 

 interest to our own bondholders and should reduce by that amount the 

 taxes which our people must pay in order to take care of our indebtedness 

 on account of the war. We have more gold than any other country in 

 the world, and our resources exceed those of any other country, while our 

 national debt is comparatively smaller than the delits of most countries. 

 The president of the National City Bank of New York recently expressed 

 it as his opinion that we came out of the war actually richer than we 

 went in. 



The Englishmen Are Puzzled 



Where some of the English forests were recently cut, a growth of furze 

 has taken possession of the log roads and tracks, causing green lanes 

 and lines by which the roads can be traced in all their meanderings and 

 branchings. The grounds outside of the roads are for the most part bare. 



Some people are puzzled to account for what they regard as a miracle 

 or special creation ; for it is claimed that the furze was not on the ground 

 before the trees were cut. and whence came the seeds from which the new 

 growth has sprung up? 



t It is not easy to account for it. as far away as we are; but it is prob- 

 ably no more mysterious, or miraculous, or a "special creation," than is 

 the phenomenon seen frequently in this country when fire cherry springs 

 up by millions on tracts suddenly stripped of timber by fire or otherwise. 

 Nobody had noticed any cherry on the ground before, and some people 

 are sure none was there, and they concluded that only some sort of special 

 creation can account for such multitudes of seedings springing up from 

 nothing. 



A little scientific investigation, however, has revealed that the cherry 

 seeds were on the ground before the trees were removed, having been 

 carried there by birds. The seeds may lie a long time on the leaves and 

 litter, and cot germinate; but remove the tree canopy and the leaf cover 

 and the seeds will germinate. Fire usually is the agent that removes the 

 leaf cover to let the cherry seeds down in the mineral soil where they 

 liogin to grow. 



The growth of gorse which seems to be puzzling some of our kinsmen 

 in England, can probably be accounted for in the same way. In the log 

 roads the mineral soil is stirred and the seeds come in contact with it and 

 grow there rather than where the soil has not been disturbed. Gorse is 

 a shrub closely resembling our ground cypress or ground juniper iJiiniperug 

 communis:) in the northern states. 



We have the 

 Following Stock : 



HIGH CLASS STOCK FOR PROMPT DELIVERY 



PELICAN LUMBER CO. 



MOUND, LA. 



Swain-Roach Lumber Co. 



SEYMOUR, IND. 



White Oak Elm Ash 



Red Oak Maple Walnut 



Poplar Gum Cherry 



Hickory Sycamore Chestnut, Etc. 



Plain Oak — i car 2~ , 2 cars zM,', i car % FAS. Soft 

 Maple — 2 cars 2%" No. i com. (r better. Soft Elm — ^4 Mr 

 .1", % car 2^2" and 4 cars 8/4 hog Run. i car 4/4 No. t 

 & No. 2 com. Red Gum, ^/2 car 10/4 No. i com. & better. 

 Quartered Red Gum, i car 4/4 Log Run Quartered Blmck 

 Gum; 3 cars 4/4 FAS Quartered IV hilt Oak. 



At Two Band Mills 



STRAIGHT or MIXED CARLOADS 



PROMPT SHIP.MENT 



We Want 

 to Buy 



"POPLAR" 



1" Firsts and Seconds, 

 Selects and Saps. Any quantity. 



Can use stock 30 days or 

 longer on sticks 



J.V.STIMSON&CO. 



OWENSBORO, KY. 



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