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Show known to sleep there, but casting iU eyes over the landscape they rested on the man with the cane rack. This per sonage was labori3usly making a living on the sweat of other people's elbows and was empowered so to do by a license from Pottawattamie county. There is a county in Nebraska which is called Sarpy and which lies right across the river. Tho people of Sarpy county, remembering re-membering the indignity heaped upon their state by the action of that land company, set to liguring, and tho result was the cane rack man and likewise a man who was engaged in selling damp goods on tho shores of Lake Mauawa were called out in the night and informed in-formed that their several places of business busi-ness and all spurs, dips, angles, lodes , and drifts appertaining thereto, are in Nebraska and they must take the oath of allegiance. And that went, too. Nobody knows where it will end. The people of Council Bluffs, Iowa, are uncertain whether they hare or have not a voice in the Nebraska state campaign, cam-paign, and the residents of Omaha do not know what state they really belong to. And still the river goes meandering across the country, changing its course as frequently as if it were its shirt, and causing mental travail in the hearts of all. The people are alarmed and don't sleep o' nights. No man knows the end, and the futures of Iowa and Nebraska Ne-braska seem to be fraught with trouble as long us the river remains unchained over night. A TRAMP IlIVKR. Tho residents along the Missouri river arc having a hard time of it these days. This stream, which has more sense than some men, takes it into its head, if that be permissible, at odd times to go loafing about the country seeiug the sights. It is not an infrequent infre-quent case that a man who went to bed at night in one state fiuds himself called upon next day to pay a poll tax iu another. an-other. A few months ago a Nebraska company was organized with a dollar sign and a whole chain of ciphers after it to put an addition on the market. Tho addition lay along tho river bank and when it had been graded and all that tho Nebraska tax collector went down to get a pocketful of money. The real estate people gave him a harsh but cordial laugh and showed him cortain documents which told that tho land was in Iowa; and, moreover, they proved their caso. This was all very well, but Nebraska is an enterprising sort of stato and usually usu-ally limls a rule to work both ways. There is a summer resort over in Iowa which is called Alanawa. Theru is a lake there, also a hotel aud a man with a caue rack. Nebraska cared little for the lake, for it is muddy, and less for the summer hotel, for nobody was aver |