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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28
Opposed to Insurance Bill.

Opposed to Insurance Bill.
Des Misunderstanding that the
state of Iowa needs no insurance de-
oartment and that the business of the
department is better handled in the
office of the auditor of state than it
could be in any other way, Senator
Quigley of Clayton is devoting much
lime to arguing against the Dowell
oil for the establishment of sepa-
rate department.
The Clayton county senator has fig
Ired it out, from reports in the audi
;or's Office that the insurance business
handled by that Office is decreasing
from year to year instead of increas-
ing, and he has prepared table show
ing that in 1906 the taxes paid into
the Iowa treasurer's office and credit
ed to the life and fire insurance COM
panies their business in Iowa amount
ed to 1921 ,699.36. In 1907 the total
was 1907 ,499.57, and Senator Quigley
says this in itself is an indication that
the business is becoming smaller than
greater.
"There was a time" said Senator
Quigley. when this plan, no doubt,
would have been feasible. This was
before the insurance business was
taken in hand by Governor Carroll,
then state auditor. He made it one
Of the principal parts of his depart
ment and he systematized it so we'll
that there is now, believe, no reason
for changing the present plan, even
# there were not additional reasons
against such a change"
He favors instead of relieving the
auditor of the insurance work, the re-
moving of the banking department
to the treasurer's office and that of
city accounting to the office of the
| secretary of state. This division, he
thinks, would be a wise one and would
be the more economical one.
Economy is the keynote of Senator
| Quigley's opposition ~ the Dowell
measure; and he has gone to the
| trouble to secure information regard,
ing the cost of handling separate in,
surance departments in states where
such departments exists.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28
Wine. Out Color Line.

s. Joe Brown, a negro attorney of
Des Moines, is the author of a bill,
which will probably be presented in
either the house or senate, and which
will throw down the bars to colored
students, allowing them to enter any
educational institution in the state on
the same basis as white students.
The state institutions are now open
to negroes, as are the public schools.
The new bill has for it's purpose the
establishing of an open door in col
leges conducted by private corpora
tons.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28
Compel Officers to Testify.

His elevation to the speakership
has caused Speaker Guy Feely to find
another representative to introduce
measure which he has prepared,
which will put a kink in Iowa trusts
by compelling officers and agents to
testify as to the real inside history
of the corporations when summoned
before grand juries or into court.
Speaker Feely also has a measure
providing that the state reimburse
stockmen whose cattle are killed as
the result of tubercular experiments.
He has not yet decided who will In
troduce these measures for him.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Millions of those who have attend
ed the schools of the country, as well
as the present generation of pupils.
will utter protests both loud and deep
against the idea of turning down"
that story of Paul Revere's riC5. With
the stirring poem laid on the shelf
what will become of those who have
made it favorite theme at prize
speaking contests2
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28
Blow to LIQUOR Interests.

In the senate was introduced bin
affecting seriously the liquor inter-
ests, although the proposed enact
ment is short. 1t was introduced by
Senator Van Law and places public
libraries and dwelling houses occu-
pied by families in the same class
with churches and public schools in
relation to the location of places
where intoxicating liquors are sold
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Now that the United States govern
ment has received 5000 volumes of
Chinese learning in the language Of
the yellow philosophers of the orient,
let us hope that no congressman win
have them Incorporated in the Con-
gressional Record under leave to print
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

The directions for the ''roller-skate
walk" which is the very latest among
society girls in st. Louis, are: Keep
your legs straight. Don't let your
knees wabble, stand erect, just touch
the ground with the ball of the foot,
and off you glide" We doubt if it
will become popular with the bellies
of society here in Boston, says the
GlOhp
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

The French court trying the case of
the Count de Castellane against his
former wife has a thoroughly impair
tial prosecutor. He gave about the
same certificate of bad character to
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Now that an Englishman claims to
have discovered a way of making I'M
happy marriages impossible, there are
many who will jump at the conclusion
that his solution consists of the sim
pie little word don't"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28
Junkets as Usual.

BY a viva voce vote, the lower
house applied the steam roller to OPP
position to visiting committees for
each of the state institutions and de-
cided to adjourn for five days, to give
these committees chance TO make
personal investigation of the institR.
tions under the board of control.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Ii Hung Chang has, since his death,
been proclaimed a deity, and a temple
said to be the finest of it's kind ever
erected in China has been erected in
his honor at Lu Chou, in the province
of Ngan-hwei, where he lived.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

+. If the st. Louis man who makes the
assertion that not one of his 200 hens
ever lays an egg on Sunday will come
on to Massachusetts, challenges the
Boston Globe, we can show him some
hens that don't lay on Sunday, or on
any other day.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

mo case of yellow fever or plague
has occurred in the canal zone in the
last two years" DR.. Gorgas, the chief
sanitary officer of the Isthmian canal
commission, must have written that
sentence Of his annual report with
justifiable professional pride.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Reports Cost More Than the Goods.
According to the report OF the
executive council the state of Iowa
spent for printing and binding dur
ing the two years from July, 1906.
to July 1908, the sum of $136,42S.62.
The sum for the stock used in the
printing and binding brings the total
for the two years up to $166,S59.17.
OF the first named sum, SSS,37S.90,
was paid for printing and $51.049.72
for the binding The report itself
emphasizes the need of printing re-
form. Items are recorded In the re-
port, whose cost was not so large as
the cost Of the printing of the item
in the report This occurs time and
again in the lists of expenses OF
travelling representatives of the diff
ferent state departments and while
they ere demanded by law, and de-
partment heads large printing charges
have brought the matter to the au-
| thorities, and it is likely that some
| measure will be asked in the next
few weeks which will change the laws
upon the subject of printing reports.
Important Liquor Case.
Final arguments were made before
the supreme court in the case that
will decide the right of the state to
prohibit the soliciting of orders for
whisky and other liquors by agents of
| liquor dealers. Attorney General
| Byers made a short oral argument
| for the state and written briefs were
submitted by the appellants. County
| Attorney G. A. Dewey of Washington
county sought to enjoin agents of IL
| quor statesmen from taking orders
from consumers. Judge Preston rul-
ed for the state, and the defendants
appealed. The United States supreme
court has ruled that states may pro-
hibit such soliciting, even by agents
of liquor dealers in other states.
Tax State Banks Same as National.
Representative Grier has a bill on
bank assessments to meet the COM
plant of discrimination as between
the banks organized under the feder-
al laws and those under state laws.
Mr.. Grier would have the assessment
of the stock of state banks made as
now upon reports from the bank and
the assessment to be at the bank, so
that taxes are paid in the township
/ where the bank is located, but he
would have the assessment to run
against the owners of the bank stock
and be paid by them. This would
come near to placing state banks on
par with national banks as to
taxes. In the meantime it is propos-
ed to memorabilia congress to have
the national bank act amended SO
that national banks will be assess
abe the same as state banks in each
state.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

The whales of the Arctic are going
to have a better chance for a while.
The scarcity of whales and the COM
paratively low price Of the CONNER
cial product they yield will prevent
the sailing of the whaling feet from
San Francisco in the spring.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28
New Years and Lincoln Win,

The bill by Senator Stuckslager
and Representative Moore to make
February ~ a legal holiday passed
both houses. An effort was made in
the senate by DeArmand to cut out
New Years day as holiday, but this
got only six votes. The Lincoln day
Sill was approved unanimously in the
senate and only one vote against in
the house.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

A Pennsylvania rooster stole q
300mile ride on a, car truck. This is
liable to cause the railway people
some expense in further revising their
arrangements to shut off all free trans
portation.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28
New Coal Car Ruling,

The railroad commissioners handed
down an important ruling as to
weights in shipping of coal. The
Iowa Central tariff has provided that
the visible weight of the car shall
stand as the weight for which pay
ment shall be made on coal ship
ments. Mine owners complained that
pea coal and slack weighs less than
the visible weight and that they were
paying for more than they shipped.
The commissioners held that actual
weights must govern and the railroad
has accepted the ruling.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Naturally the suicide of the hus-
band of mind reader suggests the
notion that, being united to an indi-
vidual who can constantly read your
thoughts, complexities matrimony.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28
To Honor Burns,

One of the most remarkable resolu-
legislative body was adopted by the
lower house of the Iowa legislature,
providing for special programme to
celebrate the birthday anniversary or
Robert Burns.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

1t cost $4,OOO,OOO to bury the late
emperor of China, yet he probably
isn't any more thoroughly buried than
he would have been if the funeral eX-
penses had amounted to only $50.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

1t takes the French royalists a good
many years to learn that by even the
most fluent conversation they cannot
turn back the wheels of time.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

The founder of the first English
penny newspaper is dead; but he
lived to see the development of the
American comic supplement.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

! Mark Twain has incorporated his
name. Now we shall see whether or
not he puts shares on the market at
three cents with the promise they will
soon go to one dollar.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Still, the scientist who discovered
the new kind of flea can hardly hope
to be rewarded with the Nobel peace
prize.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Champ Clark says the average wom-
ans hat is worth five dollars. Puzzle
find the average woman.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Now they want to put Castro into
prison. A wave of reform is well
enough, but to flood the world with it
may work indiscriminate havoc.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

Venezuela can better Afford to let
Castro remain in Paris and spend his
ill-gotten wealth than to bring him
back and let him carry off what he
left behind.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

! Natives Of German Southwest Africa
are on the warpath again, but not be-
cause of anything Emperor William
has said.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

1t Is as old as civilization that the
baby is the tyrant of the household.
China must be up against it hard.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

/ Where is our country going tor"
shouts the Texas Star. A conspicuous
part of it counts on going to Africa.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

: London has a woman chauffeur.
Now let English statesmen who are
opposed to woman suffrage have a
care when they cross the public
streets.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28

The treasury department contem-
plates new designs for nickels and
cents. Leave the one-cent piece alone.
It's the most artistic coin we have.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-01-28
Puts Tax on Mortgages.

The first bill to tax mortgages OF
several that are expected before the
Legislature is ended was introduced
in the house by Ward OF Wood
bury. 1t provides for a payment OF
a fling fee of so cents per 500 In
volved, and relates only to mort
cages on real estate.
Dabney presented bill to compel
express companies to maintain an Of
fee in all town of over 400 popula.
ton, and giving the railroad COM
missioners power to enforce tbs
law.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-18
No Stops at Switches.

ton consists of signal post like the
usual signal post with the signals
operated by means OF lever which
passes under the tracks. A person
wishing to board the car pulls cord
or wire which swings the semaphore
arm to horizontal position, if it be
daytime, or lights an electric light.
II 1t be night. AS the car passes over
the switch, after taking the passenger
aboard. the automatic action drops
the semaphore and extinguishes tire
light or changes its color.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-18
Non.Maqnetic Shin.

The first ship ever constructed in
which iron and steel and other mag
netic metals will practically have no
part is described in Popular Mechan-
les. With the exception of thin cast
iron liners in the cylinders of the
bronze internal combustion engine,
and the steel cams necessary for op
Grating the valves. aggregating less
than 600 pounds, there will be nc
magnetic materials used The hui
will be constructed as thoroughly An,
substantially as any merchant shi.
afioat The keel. stem. stern post
frames and dead-wood will be Of
white oak; the deck beams, planking.
and ceiling will be of yellow pine, and
the deck of Oregon pine IN long
lengths.
The fastenings will consist of locust
wood nails, copper and bronze bolts
and composition spikes. All metz
deck fittings, and metal work on spai
and rigging win be of bronze, coppe,
and gun-metal This unusual vessel
viii be used in making 2 non-magnet q
survey Of the oceans.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-18
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

New York city will have a new FIRE
alarm system costing 100000.
A measure has been passed by the
Connecticut legislature providing for
the compulsory extension of telephone
lines
Snow slides, billiards and rock
slides play such havoc with the tele-
graph lines in the Yukon country that
wireless systems win be substituted
where these troubles prevail.
About 100000 automobiles are now
in use in the United States, of which
10000 are electric. About $4,000 of
the total number are owned in New
York state.
An electrical ferryboat plies across
tho river Rhine.
A 600-foot wireless telegraph tower
in Washington is expected to place
the capital in communication with
the fleet at a distance of 5000 miles.
Nearly hundred electric automo-
biies for pleasure service are in use
in Hartford, Conn.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-18
DAGUERRE--- The Man Who Made
Sunlight Work for Him.

A little French boy lay sick in his
darkened bedroom one summer day in
1775. Outside was a glare of sun.
light, but heavy shutters rendered the
sick-room gloomy and dark. The white.
washed ceiling alone reflected patches
of light from holes and cracks in the
wooden blinds.
The little invalid was Joseph Nice
phore Niepce. AS he lay staring up
ward. very lonely and very sick, he
saw a cart and horses drive slowly
across the ceiling. Then a drove of
cattle. and after while his fathers
figure and that of his pet dog.
AS the sun went under cloud these
wonderful images faded. The child's
mother came in and he told her of the
procession that had crossed his CELL
ing. The good woman, thinking her
SON was raving in delirium, sent post
haste for doctor. When 1t was dis
covered he was quite sane the family
came to the conclusion he had been
lying. But he had not.
He had merely been side the first
camera in existence. A chink in the
blinds had served as lens and the CELL
ing had been the plate or finder"
rejecting objects passing in the road
outside. The boy did not forget. AS
he grew up his memory often returned
to the strange phenomenon, and he be-
gan to figure out in his own mind the
cause of it. At last, in the course of
time. he hit upon very fair solution
Of the mystery.
This decided, he set to work trying
to reproduce the process in real life
and to obtain some permanent image
of objects thus photographed. After
How tho First many failures
Photograph Was 1927 that I by coat t.
ing the surface of
metal plate with a mixture of Law
ender oil and asphalt, putting the
plate in primitive camera and ex-
posing It long time, very faint
image Of the object or landscape in
front of it would be cast upon the
metal He developed such plates by
washing them with combination
of petroleum and lavender oil.
Great as was Niepce's discovery It
remained for another man to put it to
practical use. This collaboration was
Jacques Daguerre, who had begun
life as a soldier and had later won
fame in Paris as a scene painter and
maker of the first Diorama. A theater
fire made Daguerre poor and out of
He met Niepce and went
Into partnership with him. Soon aft
onward Niepce died, and Daguerre car
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-18
Reel Estate Bargains

The undersigned In
woodlands good for farming
river o ane s % Be o sold on n s
which liberal arrangements
part cash. balance on time
Parties having timber for sale should
80. about
at the low figure of 50 This land
1926 Either the divided
years . per acre cash. ''A''' ana
Is good level hill land and about Is the
S. Two hundred good for poultry
tom win be sold in lots to suit purchasers
desirable com
on lots 5ixi feet each barn woodhed and
the town; win be sold for s2aeo -
two cotton and Is peach apple and per trees price
81 Desirable Hill
bottom with
vineyard pos ;45 se'i half esS
o. $40 desirable home and hammock
Of parish miles Of WOue
good sroom house with gallery kitchen outhouses 100
ASH hickory and walnut timber all $4,000
% 500 % fine cattle ranch
good farm store
n nssr 1 p mss % nsos
$780, onethird cash. balance
ent and would be glad with several citizens
the proposition a speculation
a. 10 pine oak hickory cypress,
miles northeast OF Colfax will be sold for $225
500 cash. balance years.
Also other properties for you want
and will get it for you.
No sale CHARGE and parties listing me
will have no charges to unless properly sold.
II. G. GOODWIN
REAL ESTATE
COLFAx, LA.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-09-18

10 nre 1t, Bessemsr simply set to work
to find some stronger material for
cannon. He knew little of metals, but
began careful study of them. At
that time, iron, not steel, was used for
railways. big guns and nearly every
structure requiring metal. Steel was
hard to make and was far too expen-
sive for common use. Few men were
employed in working on it, and these
used tedious. laborious process in
its production.
But Bessemer was not content with
the modes then in use. He knew that
steel was an alloy of iron and carbon
in certain proportions, and he invented
the following process for making it:
He drove a blast of air through
masses Of pig iron that was in process
OF fusing until it was cleared of car
bon. Then, by introducing the proper
proportion of carbon, he found he had
an excellent quality of steel. He could
thus make steel far more rapidly than
1t had ever before been manufactured,
and at mere fraction of its former
high price. He also found that by
blowing through molten pig iron until
all its carbon was oxidized he could
produce fine grade of malleable iron.
In 1850 Bessemer patented his steel
making process. At once it revolu.
tionized industry. Sheffield was Eng
lands chief steel center. The manu-
facturers there refused to take up
Revenge on Men Bessemer's ide a
Who Sighted u sneeu q. ~
Him. as inpracticaoie.
So he opened
steel works in the same city and under
sold his rivals until it brought them
to terms.
Steel became at bound one of the
worlds foremost industries. The
United States at once took the lead in
its production. Before Bessemer's in
vention our annual production of steel
was about 1885 tons. A few years
later 1t had risen to 3,019,906 tons
year. Bessemer was the father of
steel rails, steel frames for sky
$3.50 PSA %, StSSA ohipo, Sttei CANNON ana
modern armor-plate. His invention
gave work to millions of men.
But he had not forgotten that early
occasion when England had regarded
him as fool. When he was too rich
and famous to be neglected he de-
manded that the British government
make him some return for the stamp
ing device they had adopted and for
which he had received no pay. He no
longer needed the few thousand dol
lars that represented the devices
money value. But he insisted on some
recognition Of his service. According
ly Queen Victoria made him a knight, |
thus granting tardy reparation to the |
poor youth whom her official subordin-
ates had once regarded as mere butt
FOR their jokes.
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