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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-09
BILLS PASSED
INSURANCE.

Recurring that fraternal insurance
companies hereafter organized shaii
have the National Fraternal Congress
rates as a minimum.
Recurring that no insurance COM
pany shall make any disbursement OF
500 or more without a voucher.
Increasing the salary of the actuary
i'm insurance department from $2,0OO
to $4,000.
Permitting the operation OF frater-
nal accident companies in the state.
Providing method whereby assess
ment life associations may be REIN
corporated as legal reserve compan-
les
Restricting the removal of goods and
merchandise covered by insurance
without the consent of the insurance
company.
Prescribes form of investments of
securities of fraternal beneficiary So
cieties. orders or associations, but ex-
empting associations organized solely
for benevolent purposes and whose
members are Of one occupation.
Exempting Iowa companies from
taxation on business done outside the
state.
RECURRING the level premium COM
panies to submit their articles OF in
corporation to the auditor of state for
his approval.
Prohibiting Misrepresentation by
life insurance com panies, their officers
or agents.
Establishing a uniform policy of fire
insurance.
Revising the law as to the valua-
ton of policies in the matter of filing
securities.
Limiting life of proxies.
Revising and rewriting the law as to
county and state mutual associations.
Providing for taxation on the net
amount of business done instead of
gross amount.
Permitting fraternal benefciaries
associations to purchase real estate for
their own use.
Prohibits the organization OF stock
insurance companies with capital of
less than 100000 and regulates the
giving of notes in payment of stock
of these companies.
RAILROADS.
Two-cent fare.
Anti-pass bill
Authorizing railroad commission to
make investigation Of railway freight
rates.
Recurring front platform Of street
cars to be entirely enclosed during GER
tain months Of the year.
Requiring railroads to destroy weeds
along the right-ofway.
Providing for reports and investiga-
fiooa of o,oidanfS
Requiring building OF shelters oppo-
site depots on double track roads.
Authorizing the railroad commission
to put in schedule Of joint rates.
Requiring railroads to pay for Gull
verts, where drainage bitches cross
their right-of-way.
Defining the character of fences
along railroad right-of-ways.
Authorizing the railroad commission
to fix express company rates.
Revising the law as to assessment
of express companies.
Authorizing reconsignment Of freight
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state regardless OF the operations OF
the prohibition law and to place Iowa
dealers on a par with those of other
states
Bills to require annual accounting on
insurance policies and dividends also
TO limit the expense of insurance COM
panies, and the bill to establish a sep
arate insurance department
Bill to relieve mortgage of taxation
and 81 resolution looking to commits
sion to investigate and report on the
laws as to assessment and taxation.
Bill to place the state educational
institutions under one board of re-
gents
State marshal bill, and the bill to
give governor power to remove county
attorneys who do not perform their
duty.
Bill to appropriate for publication of
complete roster of the soldiers and
sailors living in Iowa with their war
records and other data.
Bill 10 reduce the exemption oil
wages of laboring men so that only so
per cent would be exempt for a short
period.
Bill to establish four state high
schools for agriculture and manual
training and to equip the same with
millage tax.
Establishment of binding Irvine plant
at penitentiary.
RedistrictingN state as to congress-
men.
Abolish office of state printer ana
state binder and to let out state PRINT
ing by contract to lowest bidders.
Providing for a four-year term for
county officers.
Demurrage bill train speed bill and
sleeping car reduction
Woman suffrage.
Transfer of bank department to
| treasurer of state.
Providing for district sanitary con-
vention.
General district court for state to sit
at Des Moines and try cases from any
part of state.
Abolish office of school treasurer.
Pensions for firenen and pensions for
| school teachers.
Build mansion for future governors
of Iowa.
Anti-lobby bill
citation
Sunday theater and Sunday amuse-
| ment bill
Referendum and initiative and postal
voting bill.
Laboratory on criminology.
| Giving banks authority to act as
trust companies.
Woman's reformatory at Waverly.
Optometry and osteopathy bills.
Building for adjutant general and ma
| tional guard.
Bill to require that city funds be put
out at interest.
Bills changing court rules as to APP
| peals and new trials
Bills affecting the G. o. d. liquor
| business.
Anti-treating bill
ORA WILLIAMS.
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dogs, reviving the cd law on this SUBJ
ject as desired by the sheep grow
ers.
Giving certain powers to the boards
of supervisors In relation to the alter
alton Of highways and to prevent the
encroachment Of streams thereon and
to condemn land necessary for this
work.
Providing for the distribution OF the
reports Of the academy OF sciences.
A law to make a closed season for
pheasants until 1911 to encourage their
propagation.
a law to provide for uniform sys-
tenn of accounts for counties.
Authorizing a canal between Spirit
lake and East Okoboj
Authorizing the licensing OF peddlers
going thru the country, fixing the II
cense at from $40 to $50.
Giving the guards at the state pen-
itentiaries fifteen days vacation each
year on full pay.
Increasing the support OF the state
soldiers home from $14 to SIS a month
for-each person.
Permitting the location Of consent
highways as narrow as 30 feet.
Forbidding the sale OF liquors to
minors and drunkards and making It
apply to others than druggists or sa-l
loon men.
Forbidding COMPUTATIONS in the grain
trade and Furnishing for the making Of
rates by agreement, etc.
Forbidding bucket shops" and pun
fishing for dealing with them.
Revising the law as to the executives
council and defining the duties Of the
secretary.
Law to enable the board of supervis-
ors to buy tools and machinery for
road work.
Law to forbid tipping or the giving
OF favors or commissions.
Changing the time Of meeting Of
boards of supervisors SO as not to have
meetings on holidays.
Permitting the use OF convict labor
at the penitentiaries for domestic serv-S
ice Of the wardens
Changing the law as to tho state
ments to the auditor of state as to 'ac-
counts with county treasurers.
Requiring express companies that
keep depots for c. o. d. liquor busi-
ness to pay the mulct tax.
Permitting the laying OF water mains
and pipes In highways.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-09
FREELY Hatpins.

Behold the very latest" said a girr.
with q perky little hat, as she stood
before a jewelers. window yesterday
afternoon, her eyes fixed upon q case
OF FREELY hatpins. These famboyant
ornaments have one supreme merit at
all events, for they are one OF the most
expensive fashions Of the winter. It
is true that Mrs. Longworth received q
set for wedding gift. but as that
fortunate young matron has 50 many
treasures to display she hasn't worn
them when she has ventured abroad.
The set is made up OF a high comb
with twelve hairpins and under artificial
light the flies, which are OF gold and
brilliant enamel, sparkle like theiD
prototypes. They are intended to be
worn with what is called a Mercury
couture. in which the hair Is puffed
and raised at the side in a manner
which may be intended to suggest the
wings Of the heavenly messenger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-09
Puzzled.

(Washfngton Starr
DO you think you will learn to Ike
your titled son-in-lawo"
II don't know" answered Mr.. Cum
rox. II can't quite tell where to place
him In my expense account. He 10
neither recreation nor an invests
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-09

There is quite as much of interest
in the list of bills not passed by the
legislature as in the work actually
done. The number of strictly freak
bills" introduced was not large, but
there were many bills that had doubtful
value and were either disposed of in
committee or met their death on the
floor. Here are some of these:
The bulk sales bill, defeated in the
house after passing the senate, a bill
to prevent sales of stocks of goods in
bulk without making provision for the
payment OF current debts to jobbers
and manufacturers in relation to the
business.
Bill to give liquor dealers right to
sell and ship into any county ofrthe
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-07
Tho A!liaater's Sleep.

A man who passed himself of as
an animal keeper at zoo had one
spring an experience with an alli-
gator which cost the concern dear.
The alligator had not awakened
from his winter nap when t.le keep
er appeared on the scene ct the
park. He could not understand
why the saurian slept and thought
it was sick. He punched the alli-
gator and tried in many ways to
wake it up. He also noticed that
the creature did not eat. Finally.
growing desperate for fear that he
would have a death on his hands,
the keeper bought ten pounds OF
beef, pried open the saurian's huge
jaws and poked the meat down his
throat with a fence rail. a few
days later the thick skinned crea'
ture died. The keeper later ex-
planned that he did not know that
alligators slept in the winter and
did not eat anything during their
long maps.
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Mr.. MeKinIsy's Flower.

MIR. Mckinley was interested for
many years in a girls school In
Ohio. When he was congressman
and governor of Ohio political meet
ings often took him near the school,
and he visited it when he could. On
one of his visits he was made an
honorary member of the class OF
'94. He was loyal member and
wore the class flower, a red carna-
ton. The message of his nomina-
ton for president reached the class
during a reunion. The girls rang
the college bell and sent a telegram
of congratulation and box of car
nations. Another box of the class
flowers was sent on the day OF Mr..
McKinlcy's Inauguration. 1t may
be that this association accounts for
Mr.. McKinley's fondness for the
red carnation, which has come to be
the mckinley flower" Youths
Companion.
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HoIyrood's Cha pei Royal.

Those who lament the results OF
much of the so called restoration in
our ancient buildings will not be
sorry to know that Holyrood's Chap
ell ROYAL is to be left untouched, for
with that crumbling pile are bound
up many historical memories. In
that chapel the beginnings Of Anglo
Scottish union were made when at
the altar there James ". was unit
ed to Margaret Tudor, tie "mar-
riage of the thistle and the rose"
There Queen Mary was twice mat
ed-to Darnley first and afterward
to Boutwell,. Holyrood palace, as
we know it now, was mostly the
handiwork of Charles H.'s crafts
men. James II. turned the Chapel
Royal into a Romish building. In
deed, he wished to rcstore Holyrood
entirely to its original monastic
purposes. But he reckoned without
the dour Scots temperament, and
the vestmcnts and ornaments were
ruthlessly torn from the chapel and
burned BY an Edinburgh mob
London Chronicle.
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All He Asked.

Stephen A. Douglas, who will be
remembered in connection with Lin
coin at Springfield, was very demon
strative in his professions of friend
ship. One day he sat down on Bev-
erly fuckers knee and, throwing
his arm around the Virginian's
shoulder, said, 'Bev, old boy. I love
you"
Douglas" said Tucker, "will you
always love me?"
eyes, Beverly, I surely will"
"But," persisted Tucker, "will you
love me when you get to be presi'
dent?"
'1ndeed I will. What do you
want me to do for you?"
"Well," said Tucker, call 1 want
you to do then is to pick out some
public place and put your arm
around my neck just as you are do
ing now and call me Bev."
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Left His imprint.

"Count Julius Andrassy," says the
Budapest Neue Presse, 'swas hand
some man and was particular about
his appearance. He had habit of
smoothing with his hand his richly
oiled and creased hair. One day
an important document had passed
the Austrian council of ministers,
in the contents of which Count An
drassy was interested. Shortly aft.
er l met the Austrian president OF
the ministry, Prince Auersperg, who
said to me:
"'Count Andrassy has read the
latest document
"'How do you know? 1 asked.
"I have discovered on it the i'm
prints of Count Andrassy's fingers,
Prince Auersperg answered, laugh
inpo
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-07

was discovered in the coal tar
reservoir and seething tanks at
the Enterprise Distilling and
Chemical Company's plant.
The alarm being given the new
fire engine was hurried forward,
but when it reached the plant
the flames had gained such
headway upon the highly in
fiammable materials on which 1t
was feeding that any efforts
seemed utterly useless. But the
gas attachment was Immediate
ly put to work and so quickly
and admirably did it perform,
that by the time things were in
readiness to start the water en-
gines the fire was completely
extinguished in every part OF
the plant which could be pene-
trated by either gas or water.
The fire continued to burn in the
closed copper retorts where 1t
fed upon the wood and gases.
These were kept tightly closed
in the hope that the fires within
would be eventually eXtinguish-
ed. it being fully realized that
were these retortS opened, the
whole thing would be swept out
of existence in a flash, as the
gases generated are as highly
inflamma BILE as gunpo wder. AT
nine O'Clock that night the in.
ternal fires seemed to be ex-
Eausted, but near morning the
heat melted some of the pipe
connections, letting in the air,
when the retorts, condensers
etc, were melted and destroyed.
The loss will foot up some $4,000
to S.. 900, the parts ruined being
conner. which, aS is we'll known,
is costly. The company has not
indicated what will be done to,
wards starting up again. The
work of the engine fully demon
strated it's usefulness and ETH
cheney at this it's first fire at
which it paid its cost several
times. Without it the entire
plant would have been destroy
ed.
w. L.. B.
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CONSUME MPTI0N.
The Proper Way of Treating This In
sidious Disease.

One of the earliest signs of con-
sumption is a loss of strength and
flesh, and this should always arouse
suspicion in the case of a young man
or woman when there is no other
evident cause for it. In addition to
the gradual emaciation, there will
usually be found a rapid pulse,
shortness of breath, anaemia, as
shown by pale lips and extreme
whiteness of the eyes, poor appe-
tite and Indigestion. There may be
feverishness in the afternoon, to-
gether with a hacking cough and
sometimes a little splitting of blood,
but this is more commonly sign
which appears in the later stages.
The two mainstays of the person
threatened with or actually suffer
ing from consumption are fresh air
and a generous diet. In no disease
should the injunction to ::'throw
physic to the dogs" be so faithfully
obeyed.
If possible, the consumptive
should sleep actually in the open
air, on a balcony sheltered from
the north and east winds, but if this
cannot be done the windows of the
bedroom should be kept wide open
at night, and the bed should be so
placed that it is bathcd in the air
entering from without. The pa
tients often fear this will give them
colds or increase the cough, but it
does just the opposite. Of course
the sleeper should be well protect
ed, with hood in very cold wealth
er and a warm sleeping robe so as
not to become chilled if the bed
clothes are accidentally displaced.
The daytime should be passed in
the open air. The patient, if weak
ness or a fever keeps him from
walking, should sit all day on a
porch or by an open window on the
sunny side of the house and should
practice full, deep breathing for a
few minutes at a time frequently.
The diet should be as nutritious
as it is possible to make it. Eggs
and milk should be the standbys,
with a good allowance of meat and
also of fat if fat can be digested.
Care must be taken not to upset the
stomach, for much depends upon
good digestion, but patient living
in the open air day and night will
be astonished at the quantity OF
food he can eat and assimilate.
Fever at any part Of the day is a
sign to avoid fatiguing exercise.
The. bowels must be kept in proper
condition.-Youth's Companion.
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LEGENDS OF SCIENCE.
Toads In Solid Rock, the Moa and the
Gigantic Minhocao.

Sl9dntlC WIfnCCdo.
''Stories of long suffering toads
and frogs, entombed in solid rocks,
represent myths such as arise from
imperfect observation of the cir
cumstances under which such an
imals are discovered" writes Dr..
Andrew Wilson. "These creatures
can certainly live for long periods
of time-Dr. Buckland's experiment
set the limit at about two years
inclosed in cavities and deprived of
water or other food. But the fable
credits these pent up amphibians
with lasting for untold geological
ages. If this were the case, these
geological Rip Van Wrinkles would
prove really to be far older than the
Oldest fossil frogs and toads, which
is, of course, absurd. When a rock
is smashed up, no one can then as
sert that it was a solid mass, and
the possibility of a toad or frog in
it's young state gaining access to
the interior of the. rock through
some crevice and growing so that it
could not escape from its durance
vile never seems to occur to the
minds Of those who are fond Of per-
petuating stories of such modern
miracles.
"The notion that certain animals,
supposed to have long been extinct,
may still live on in remote and in
accessible parts of the earth is one
frequently exploited. That gigantic
bird of the New Zealand islands, the
moa, is said every now and then to
have been discovered alive, but no
living moa has ever been found,
though its bones are common
enough in the superficial deposits
of its native land. Hidden in the
sea depths and rising seldom from
the ocean abysses, reptilian forms
of huge size have been credited with
occasionally revisiting the glimpses
of the moon. But reptiles require
to come to the surface to breathe,
for they possess lungs alone as re-
spiratory organs. Even the turtles
and alligators, that are capable OF
remaining for long periods below
water, must now and then take in a
fresh supply of atmosphere.
zone very curious illustration OF
the alleged revival of some gigan-
tic animals is found in an account
given seriously and exactly in scien-
tifc journals in 1878. The animal
in question was called the minho-
Gao. 1t was believed to be an earth
worm of gigantic size, inhabiting
the highlands in the south of Bra
zil. This underground monster was
said to attain a length of fifty yards
and breadth of five yards and was
covered with bony armor. Popu-
lar accounts credited it with being
a worm, but it is hard to conceive OF
any worm exhibiting the character
istics given of this creature, which
was said to uproot trees and to
cause very grave disturbances of the
soil in its burrowing operations"
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Very Much Heavier.

Church-At a recent church fair
in England one of the means used
for increasing the receipts was a .!
guessing contest as to the weight OF
the pastor.
Gotham-Before or after?
Church or after what:
Gotham-Before or after preach
ing.
Church-What difference wo2id
that make?
Gotham-A good deal. Some pas
tors are much heavier when prcaca-
ing,-Yonkers Statesman.
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JorTINGS FROM JOHNSOEVILLE.
School MatterS-The New Railroad
AHOt Supper, Etc.

Friends of the school will be
glad to learn that Prof. Jno. 6
Clinkscales, of Wofford college,
has consented to deliver the
commencement address for the
Johnsonville school. 1t is both
a pleasure and a pri !ilege TO
hear such great and good man,
a man that has done so much
for the boys and girls of South
Carolina, and | feel confident
that all who have ever heard
him will let nothing rob them
of this opportunity.
By the time of commencement,
May 25, We are expecting to
have our school building COM
pleted. 1t will be one of the
finest buildings not only OF the
county but of the State and will
reflect honor upou our people
and be a lasting monument to
their interest in education. 1t
is being built according to plan
No 2, suggested by the State
Board of Education. The audi
torium will have a seating capa'
city of 500.
The Georgetown-Marion rail-
road, which is being surveyed
through our community, will add
greatly to our material, social
and intellectual life. And it is
a fact worthy of note, that,
while it will to some extent
demoralize the farm labor, the
majority of the people welcome
the railroad as a great civilizer.
1t is a matter of much interest
and speculation as to when the
road will really be completed;
and the consensus of opinion
seems to be that it will not be
more than three years.
A hot supper was given at the
school building on Friday night,
March l. The pupils of the
higher grades had prepared a
play for the evening, but one of
the characters taking suddenly
ill, this part of the entertain
ment had to be given up. But,
Notwithstanding this fact, the
evening was spent most pleas
antly and proftably, too, for We
succeeded in raising about $40
tor the school.
D. NJ. C.
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His Surprise Party.

Tramp-Madam, can you help a
Door man with a wife and eleven
children at home?
Housewife-Are you very needy?
'Needv is no word for it, ma'am.
/ couldn't see the little ones suffer,
so l left them to ask the assistance
of the charitable"
"Did you leave home today"
"No, ma'am. 1t will be seven
years tomorrow. Can't you help a
man who wants to surprise his little
ones!"
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Notice.

ALI creditors of the estate Of g s M
Simmons, deceased, are hereby notified
to render an account of their demands
against the said estate, duly attested,
and all persons indebted to the SAID
estate are requested to pay the same
at once.
T;mmonsville. 6. C.. Executor.
2-2l-4t.