Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-08

different fashion than the primaries,
and that the election judges made an
effort not to conceal but to count the
ballots.
The fun of betting on election beats
that Of paying the bet.
Candidate Porter found wide ex-
tremes of political temperature be-
tween the Blythe climate of southern
Iowa and the frosty counties north.
Anyway. Mr.. Porter gained state
wide reputation.
Colonel Augur has been sent scut-
thing west to take a twist at the Ute
rebellion.
The Tenth legion was no more to be
depended upon than the Tenth dis
trict
The Oskaloosa Herald promised
election returns at the Herald office
as usual tonight" However. the re-
turns partook of the unusual.
zone section of the Iowa state cleo
ton law prohibits candidates for office
from going within 100 feet of booth
on election day during the hours OF
voting. But the law has not been en-
forced In all parts of the state" COM
plains the Davenport Democrat. The
unwritten law of Iowa prohibiting
democratic candidates for governor
from getting Within hundred miles OF
the executive mansion is still in work.
ing order.
A plotter of strife among classes
Set out to bamboozle the masses.
He said: sIll tell lies.
Throw dust in their eyes,
AM. thus get the votes of them asses"
New York Tribune.
French statistics show the expen-
SEES of the various European states for
the education of their subjects In
Germany there is one school to every
700 inhabitants. and on an average 100
children attend one school. The eH-
pense amounts to 1926 cents head
of population. In Franca there is
school to every 500 inhabitants. a
school is attended by sc children. and
every Frenchman contributes 29.5 cents
1,, %
where there is a school to every GU
inhabitants, a school Is is visited by DO
chilren and a pupil costs 1919 cents.
In Spain there is also school to every
600 inhabitants and Sc school children
constitute the average attendance. Ev-
cry child, however, requires an annual
OF % cents. In England
conditions are similar, but the cost
amounts to 1926 cents for each child.
Austria has a school to every 104 pu-
pills, and every 1900 inhabitants, at
cost of 1871 cents. In Russia there is
school to every 1900 inhabitants, and
the school expenditure of Russian
amounts to 5.5 cents.
Wears Wife sympathizingly)-NoW
that you can't get about. and are not
able to read, how do you manage to
occupy the me?
Old MAXWELL, mum, sometimes
sits and thinks, and then again just
The advance in values of the farm
ing lands in this country is so marked
that the department of agriculture is
almost astounded by it's own figures
In the six years since 1900 there has
been an average rise in farm lands
over the entire country of over SO per
cent. The North Atlantic states show
the least advance, only about 10 per
cent; but, then these states have the
least arabic farming lands to show. In
the rest of the country there are adj
yances in values of from 36 to 40 per
cent. So far as advances have been
determined by the classes Of crops
raised, cotton lands lead with a As per
cent gain; hay and grain lands follow
with 35 per cent gain; and stock
farms with about "a per cent.