Show after all it seems england Is not the land grabber she Is credited with being down in lee county ION iowa a is a little strip of 0 land over aich that state and missouri lies lias been quarreling for fifty lift years now uncle sm sam Is going to take stake S it off and decide which commonwealth really does docs own it blood lias has been shod shed on oil account of it feuds family and otherwise irive hive grown up because of lt it aud and its total value either as pasture or timber laud land does doch not amount td as much as one weeks expense of the en engineers fincers who ire to survey surrey it and decide its owner sh gil p probably lu in till this qu question etton of value lies the re reason ason why england has not put in a latin claim for it no oue one lias has even hinted there is gold in that strip not a word lias has ciceu said of 01 a british settler who was nas theio beffie the original survey no whisper of fl a treaty between tile the indians and john bull has crept cut of the woods and in tact fact so eo far as the records go tile the british ile flag never dever has been hoisted there england mut mu t be asleep then or the land is not worth morth anything or perhaps the uni verse grabber has not heard beard of the disputed territory in any event the case is worthy of more than passing interest jolin john hull bull if lie he does docs know kilow of this land war has boine deep motive beneath his apparent hi indifference difference if lie he does not dot know of it lie is maligned and it not on the alie lookout for ci avry ery little bit of the cirth cirth about the ownership of which thoro there Is a question if I 1 lie he does know of it this is hla his time to ish ash ills his claim lie ho lies has jameson aud and his band and the gallant alive allo er pro ably would not want anything an tiling ietta than a brush with the nathe rian lie ile might mass oils ills mar exterminators mina tors somewhere near the hie strap in ill cut the wires again and make another babli for the glory of england and incidentally some land thrown in a augland too might be glad to have jameson take the chance the doctor Is of a white elephant at present and it MI aurl do for liim what ooin paul failed to do the british would feel fed relieved anil and jameson jaina son would wonlu once more inspire laureate austin this time to try his bis hand at an all epitaph |