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Interesting Items Gath cred
by Our County Reporters
HIGHLAND, KAN.

IllIIlLAND MAN..
Mrs. Bert Carr of Red Cloud return
ed home Saturday.
Howard Wilson was in Esbon Tues
day.
Miss Beulah Francis returned from
Grand Island Friday.
Mrs. Matt Baker. who has been sick
for sometime, is no better.
Mrs. Abby and son Elmer left We'd
nesday for an overland trip through
the western part of Kansas and Ne
braska.
Mrs. Jas. Hassinger, who has been
quite sick for sometime, is improving
under the care of DR.. Cook of Red
Cloud.
Mr.. and Mrs. JAS. Lake of Missouri
are spending this week visiting Mrs
N. Collins.
jeff Beauchamp and wife of Posey
Ridge spent Sunday at the home OF
Chas. Herrick.
The Highland lasses have organized
a basket ball team.
w. Green, the windmill man, was VI
from Burr Oak and put up "a number
of windmills in Highland last week.
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Tuesday, November q, A. ID. 1906.
BE it enacted By tile Legislature Of tile
State Of NebraSkd.:
Section /. That at the general cleo
ton for state and Legislative officers
to be held on Tuesday. succeeding the
the first Monday in November. 1906.
the following provision be proposed
and submitted to the electors of the
State as an amendment to the consti-
tuition.
Section .. There shall be a State
Railway Commission, consisting of
three members, who shall be first
elected at the general election in 1906,
whose terms of office, except those
chosen at the first election under this
provision. shall be six years. and
| whose compensation shall be fixed by
the Legislature.
OF the three commissioners first
elected. the one receiving the highest
number of votes. shall hold his Office
for six years, the next highest four
year, and the lowest two years. The
powers and duties of such com
mission shall include regulation
of rates. service and the gen
eral control of cOmmo carriers.
AS the Legislature may provide by
) law. But in the absence of specific
legislation, the commission shall eX-
ercise the powers and perform the du-
ties enumerated in this provision.
Section 3. That at said election in
the wear 1906. on the ballot of each
elector voting thereat, there shall be
printed or written the words: For
Constitutional Amendment, with ref
erence to State Railway Commission
And Against Constitutional Amend
ment, With Reference to State Rail
way Commission" And if. IA majority
of all votes cast at said election, shall
be for such amendment, the same shall
be deemed to be adopted.
/. A. Galusha, secretary of state o.
the state of Nebraska, do hereby Ger
tify thai the foregoing proposed
amendment to the Constitution of tn,
State of Nebraska is n true and cor
rect copy of the original enrolled anc
engrossed bill, as passed by thu
Twenty-ninth session of the legisla
ture of the State of Nebraska, as APP
pears from said original bill on file il
this office, and that said proposed
amendment is submitted to the quail
fled voters of the state of Nebraski
for their adoption or rejection at tn
, general election to be held on Tuesda.
the 9th day of November. A. ID. 1906
In testimony whereof, | have here
unto set my hand and affixed tn
great seal of the state of Nebraska.
} Done at Lincoln this Gath day o
|, July. in the year of our Lord On
, Thousand Nine Hundred and Six, o
the Independence of the United State
, the One Hundred and Thirty-second
} and of this state the Fortieth.
!, A. GALUSHA,
, (sEAL) Secretary of State
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GUIDE ROCK

/. ]. b. Colvin is going west on land
business soon.
NJ. G. Hagan and wife are the proud
parents of "A fine daughter that ar
rived at their home July 30th. All do
ing well.
A gang of telephone men are work
ing from this place putting on larger
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Notice.

In the District Court OF Webster County, Ne
braska.
Thomas j. Rodgers Plaintiff,
VS..
Loretta Rodgers, Defendant.
To Loretta Rodgers, Non resident Defendants:
You are hei eby notified that on the 18th day
of July. 1905. Thomas j. Rodgers filed n petit
ton against you in the District Court of Web
ster County. Nebraska, the object and prayer
of which are to obtain a divorce from you, on
and abandoned the plaintiff, without good
cause, for the term OF two years and more last
past.
or before the 3lst day of August, 1919.
THOMAS j. RODGERS.
By Keensy 4 Saylor, his Attorneys. sugl0
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live STOCK MARKETS Al
KANSAS CITY.
THE WEEKS TRADE REPORTED BY
CLAY. ROBINSON q COMPANY.
GlvG STOCK COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.
CcFiCEs At CHICAGO. KANSAS CITY,
OMAHA, SIOUX CITY ST. Joseph
AND DENVER.

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 7.-Receipts of
cattle thus far this week are 1880;
last week, 1880; last year, 32,4OO. On
Monday steady to 10 cents higher
rates prevailed and today firm figures
ruled for all but grass beef steers,
these latter being weak.
The following table gives prices
pnw rulipp
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Receipts Of hogs thus Tar this week
are 20,500; last week, $4,000; last year,
$500. Yesterdays market was steady
and today steady to strong; bulk OF
sales $3.50 to GAO.
Receipts of sheep thus far this week
are $500; last week, 1900; last year,
200. Mondays market was steady;
todao 10 to go cents higher.
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Proposed Constitutional Amendment.

The following proposed amendment
to the constitution of the State of Ne
braska. as hereinafter set forth in full,
is submitted to the electors of the
State of Nebraska, to be voted upon
at the general election to be held
Tuesday, November 8, A. ID. 1906.
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Improving on Orders.

4 Philadelphia politician was talking
about the late Samuel H. Ashbridge,
former mayor OF the city. II worked
under Mr.. Ashbridge for three years, -
he said, and found him a good mas
ter, considerate, kind and just mas
ter.
But one thing he always insisted
on. That was implicit obedience to
orders. If he told you to do a thing,
that, and nothing else, was what you
were to do. He didn't like to have a
subordinate try to improve on his
orders
I once tried to improve on an order
of Mr.. Ashbridge's. An errand I had
been sent on did better, as I thought
than had been told to do. But when
came back the mayor smiled and told
me a story.
He said there was a young man in
love with a rich and beautiful girl.
The girl informed him one afternoon
that the next day would be her birth
day He said he was glad to hear it.
He said he would send her the next
morning a bouquet of roses, one for
each year.
So that night he wrote a note to
his florist, ordering the immediate de-
livery of twenty roses to the young
lady. But the florist, reading the or
der, thought he would please the young
man by improving on it, and so he said
to the clerk:
Here's an order from young Smith
for twenty roses. Smith is one of our
best customers. Throw in ten more
for good measure American Spec
tator
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Some girls sling on a heap O. side
With neckluses an rings
An lockuts, an dey take a pride
In all dem sort O. t'ingss
Dey wear desc dshnet waists an lace
De1rSelves up good an tight,
Name makes her KILN on her face,
An Name she looks all right.
Some girls I know is pretty flip;
Dey've got lot to say
some fellers seem to ike DER lip.
But amt built dat way.
Name she's not fresh wit every guy
But all de same she's bright,
S1e talks little-dat's no lie,
But what Name says is right.
I like de way she looks and acks.
Her line O. talk de same,
An when you get right down to lacks
L m raider stuck on Name.
Dem odder girls may have a bunch
Dey,r simply out o. sight,
But I've looked over all de bunch
An Name she's just all right.
s-(tliCaC0 News
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RAILROAD AssEssNrENT.

If, as Mr.. Ripley asserts, the Santa
Fe is worth all it is capitalized for, its
real value is something over $4,000 a
mile as it is bonded for $29,49O a
mile, and stock is issued to the
amount of S2S,75O per mile. But it is
paying taxes only on an average of
about $3.50 a mile, or on about u x
per cent of its real value as given by
President Ripley.
Most property in Kansas is sup
posed to be assessed at about 80 ner
cent of its real value. From which L
looks as though the railroads are in
the favored classes of property that
escape paying their just proportion Of
taxes-if they are really worth what
they are capitalized for.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Once more has the belt received
black eye. so to speak. as an article of
apparel for men. If H S. Hines, of
Arkansas City. had placed dependence
in a belt instead Of wearing a pair of
suspenders, he would have had no sus-
pender buckle on to ward off the assas-
sins bullet. Moral: Wear suspenders-
=
Judge Weakly. who is running for
office in Alabama is said to be strong
candidate in spite Of his name.
X X
A Topeka woman is asking for di-
vorce because her husband won't go
calling with her. If that were a valid
excuse for divorce half the men in Kan
sas would be guilty.
y
People who don't like crowds better
keep off the trains during the next four
days. The railroads propose to cancel
a lot of passes on Angus %, and the
pass holders will work overtime riding
on them before the dreaded cancella-
ton takes place.
X
Quite a while now since one of the 327
members of the Original Florodora
Sextette has got into trouble.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Giobe.l

[From the Atchison Globe.1
The most acceptable form of polite
ness is cleanliness.
About all some men are good for is to
SECOND the motion"
We have noticed that most people die
after "a long and painful Illness"
Kansas pastures are having as hard
a time just now as Kansas Populists-
The larger the town. the larger the
holes a girl dares to wear in her peek
a-boo waist.
What has become Of the old-fashioned
boy who couldn't work unless he stuck
out his tongue?
The man in a dangerous location never
thinks he is a dangerous location, or
he wouldn't be there
The first insurance against trouble
that children learn about is to get
promise from mother that she will not
tell father.
If we owned a $4,000 automobile, and
were running It along the street, ii
would make us mad to be chased by q
thirty-cent cur dog.
A man who loafs has a hard time of
it. He IS not wanted at home and if
he wanders into The stores and occu-
pies the chairs intended for customers,
he is frowned at.
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John Philip Sousa was condemning
the law that allows certain talking
machines to make records of his fam
Gus marches and sell them broadcast
without paying him a single penny for
the privilege.
4 have only contempt for such a
law as that" said the great band
master. when I think of the in
justice of it 1 boil over with contempt.
I remind myself of a Washingtonian
who was hauled before a magistrate
for committing nuisance.
THE Washingtonian had commit
ted no nuisance, but nevertheless the
decision went against him, and he was
naturally incensed. Forgetting him
self. he told the magistrate what he
thought of him. and was fined So for
contempt.
He produced a ten-dolIar bill to
pay the fine with. The clerk took it.
searched his drawer then made as if
to hand the bill back again.
I have no change he said.
oh, never mind about the
change snorted my friend. Keep it.
I'll take 1t out in contempt Los
Angeles Times.
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A LABOR FANTINE.

There is a labor famine in Califor-
mia. Kansas knows something Of
what a labor famine means, for we
have one every year during the har-
vest season, but the famine in Car-
fornia promises to be a continuous
performance.
Even before the San Francisco dis
aster the Pacific coast was using all
the laborers and mechanics 1t could
find. Railroad building is active west
of the Rockies. The Western Pacific
is pushing a line from Salt Lake City
across the desert and over the Sierras
to San Francisco. The Santa Fe and
salt Lake roads are both building
branch lines and making extensive
improvements. The Southern Pacific
needs 1000 more men than it can
get. and electric lines are building
everywhere.
Besides that, there are great crops
to be h vested on the farms and
ranches i California. the mines are
using all the men they can get, and
Los Angeles expects to shortly begin
the construction of a conduit $40
miles long to supply that city and its
vicinity with water a project that will
cost more imam twenty nlllllOn Q0liaIS.
All this demand is aside from that
in San Francisco, where It is said
fifteen thousand laborers are needed
at once. 1t is estimated that 10000
houses will be put up there as fast
as they can be built, and this. in its
turn. creates great demand for labor
in other lines of industry.
And in the meantime there are no
idle men anywhere-unless 1t be along
the Atlantic coast. Here in Kansas.
for instance. everyone who will work
Is well employed, and the same con-
dition prevails all over the middle
west. We have no men to supply the
demand on the Pacific slope. If the
famine is relieved at all it must be
by the east.
Some people are inclined to believe
that We are suffering from too much
prosperity. Still. we will try to wor-
ry along and bear It.
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THE cUBAN Boss BUsTERs


There is nothing surprising about
the row that is now going on IN Cuba.
II any. surprise is due it is because the
Instruction has been so long post
poned-
Instructions are Indigenous TO the
Cuban soil. They spring up there just
as sunhowers do in Kansas. It is as
natural for a Cuban to insurge as it
is for him to breathe or take his noon
day siesta. During the centuries Of
Spanish misrule Instructions were a
regular thing. They were handed
down from father to son and from
generation to generation, until the
Cubans, as a people. got the insur-
rection habit to such an extent that
they can not shake it off now on short
notice.
So it is very natural, when a Cuban
finds time hanging heavy on his
hands, that he should organize an in
surrecion-that is, if he happens to
be among the "outs." of course if
his crowd constitutes the "fns." he
doesn't care TO insurge, but naturally
there must always be considerable
number of outs" and the outs" in
Cuba are like they are in Ireland
they are "agin the government"
A Cuban Instruction is just like
boss buster movement in Kansas-the
fellows who haven't the jobs want
them. and they set about prying the
job-holders loose. The difference is
that they do it with guns and sabers
in Cuba, while in Kansas the work is
done with hot air, and ballots instead
of bullets.
AS long as these Cuban boss busters
do no particular harm, they will be
allowed to amuse themselves by in
surging. but if they make too much
trouble your Uncle Samuel may have
to take hand in the game.
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Robert Watchorns the well known
commissioner of immigration, has
made a sympathetic and thorough
study of the immigrant types that
reach New York.
Discussing these types the other
day, he said:
THE most naive are the Germans
from the smaller and remoter states.
They have the charmingly simple and
quaint minds of children.
A beautiful German girl disem-
barked here the other day. She was
tail and strong, blue-eyed and yellow
haired. She wanted to know at once
if there were any letters for her.
1.-The postmaster at the pier, after
getting her name. said, by way of a
joke:
g Is it a business or a love letter
that you expect?'
THE girl faltered:
q A business letter.
=" Well. there's nothing here said
the man, after looking over the as
sortment.
THE girl hesitated. Then, blushing
as red as a rose. she said:
Would you mind just looking
among the love letters. now, sir p -
Exchange.
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Handy Telephone.

The team of a farmer near Sherwood
sank in mire on his farm and the
horses were slowly going under when he
thought OF his telephone. Soon he had
a gang of a. dozen phone wire stretch
ers, with implements. on a race for the
farm. Their arrival was timely, the
breathing apparatus of the animals be-
ing still above ground. By using the
stretching machinery the horses were
dragged from the bog. The rural tele-
phone is itself great thing for the
farmers, but this being provided with
troop of roustabouts for emergencies,
all for the low price Of the phone, is
News.
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Colonel Henry Watterson desires to
abolish the primary and return to the
convention in Kentucky. Commenting
on this desire, the Washington Star
remarks: "Of all the states Kentucky
has had the bitterest experience with
the convention mode of making nonai-
nations. Out of that have grown all
the political woes from which the
bluegrass commonwealth has suffered
these past seven years. In 1899 Will
liam Goebel, a masterful politician,
dead game physically but thoroughly
INSCRIPTIONS. took a state convention
by the throat, with the aid of Iieuten-
ants as INSCRIPTIONS as himself. and,
robbing his rivals. made himself the
candidate for governor. and threw the
state almost into civil war. Surely
Kentucky would not benefit by return
ing to that sort of thing. The primary
plan is not perfectzand some of the
smaller Kentucky primaries have
shown queer workout there should
be better safeguards in it against Goe-
belisn than in the plan that developed
Goebeiism- The primary has come 10
stay It is open to Improvement, and
improvements win be made. but it has
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS


ltrom the chicago News.
More people are pinched by poverty
than by the police.
Mathematicians come under the
caption Of figureheads.
Every man knows a lot of fool
things he would do If he had the
money.
It takes a widow who is fishing for
No. 2 to distinguish between a nibble
and a bite.
Il you have money to burn save It
until next winter and turn it ever to
the coal dealer.
It's easier to do the things we
shouldn't do than it is to avoid doing
the things we should do.
It's a draw between the man who
parades his vices and the one who
boasts of his virtues.
Po1iteness forbids people telling Won
that you are fool every time they
have occasion to think you one.
Some men wouldn't mind being
born again If thereby they could ac-
quire a more desirable bunch of kins-
folk.
While you may know a spinster like
book, it isn't nice to remind her Of
the fact that she Is on the shelf.
Any misguided man who lives for
himself alone has our permission to
crawl off and die-and the quicker the
sooner
One can't put a bushel of potatoes
to get a peck of trouble out of pint
flask
When a man wants to fight don't
hold him; just permit him to wade In
and get what's coming to him before
he changes his mind
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oUAKER REFIEOTIoNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
Every dog has his day; but. unfortu-
nately. we are not all dogs.
To write your name on the scroll OF
fame
Is a pleasant thing to do;
But 1t doesn't go at the bank you
know,
When your note is overdue
Many a girl fatters herself that she
is not susceptible to fiattery.
The game laws do not provide a
closed season for the Office hunters.
The statesman doesn't always lend
his influence to an undesirable move
nnent. Som etimes he sells it.
It often happens that the people
who never heard Of germs and MI
crobes have never been sick q day IN
their lives.
Wigg-"How did you md the
weather IN London p Wagz-ssYou
don't have to ind it; Il bumps into you
at every corner
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The home life of a typical American
lady is the sincerest index of her ego.
In 1t she indeiibly expresses herself.
Here it is that she exercises to the max
imum her potentiaIity and that her per-
sonahty scores. Presumably she is
wife and mother. Her age? Poufi A
lady of cleverness nonplusses Time.
She is her sons best girl, her daugh-
ter's chum, a hostess sans reproche. She
rules her home with thrift and skill.
Her husband safely trusts in her, and
her price is above her birthstone.
PretenSe never finds a foothold in
lady's menage. Display seems to her
Well-poised mind not only belittling, but
savage. She never confounds litter with
furnishing or junk with art.
Her house is beautiful, it's atmosphere
fine and clear. She is never too busy TO
listen to her boy or advise her girl"
or read to their father. Young people
en- masse delight in her. She is their
ideal mother and friend. Laughter is
never hushed in her home. Music is
welcomed and budding merit OF what
ever sort finds iii her an earnest and
sympathetic ear.-Minna Thomas An
trim, in Lippincott's.
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gEJT.Y, T.47asF, WIRE REpORT
or THE ASSOCIATED 1,tS11'SS-
RoafF NEWS WILLIE away.

Subscribers Of the state journal
away during flle summer may have
ahe Daper mailed regularly each day
60 any address at f'>e rate OF ten cents
q week or thirty cents a month toy
mail only. Address changed as often
MS desired. While ont OF town the
state Journal viii be to you Ike
Eafly letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expense.
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REEnECTIoNs o. a RACHELoR.
LFrom the New York Press.I

from the New YORK Press.
People have a lot OF gratitude until
the chance comes to show it.
When a woman can't make a fool of
a man It is because she has never met
him.
Women wouldn't have any moral
scruples about smoking if 1t was good
for the complexion.
Some girls have such a way Of snnil-
ing with their mouth that you can al
most taste their lips.
One good thing about having poor re-
lations is It makes you feel vfrtuous
to give them wornout clothes you can't
wear.
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Senator Bard, of California. was
once conversing with a Jesuit brother
at the Georgetown university. when he
told this story illustrative of the fine
humor of Archbishop Ryan. of his
state
The archbishop had rebuked a
priest for wearing a most disreputable
looking hat.
Il would not give this hat for TWEEN
ty new ones,r said the priest. TT be-
longed to my father who fell in the
rising Of '48-"
ssAh,' was Archbishop Ryan's retort;
evidently he fell on the hats''-F7ar-
per's Weekly.
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platter. Yet it wasn't 50 very long ago
that Mr.. Hearst was running independ-
entity for mayor Of New Xork-and he
came near being elected. Hearst pro-
poses to run for governor of New York
as an Independent If the Democrats do
not nominate him. but the chances now
are that he viii be given the Democrat
ic nomination.
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FROM OTHER PENS
JAPANESE THRIFT.

The shooting of five Japanese seal
pcachers in the Behring sea is being
made the text for lot of senseless talk
about possible misunderstanding with
the japanese government over the in
cident, some people being even so rash
as to predict that war may grow out
of it. Whatever else the japanese may
be, they are a careful and conservative
nation and less likely to endeavor to
fasten a quarrel on another power
where they themselves are clearly in
the wrong than most other civilized ma
lions. Whatever the japanese govern
ment may think of the matter it is en-
tirely too wise to make trouble where
against it.-New Orleans Picayune.
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There viii be something doing at
Clyde besides the consumption Of
vatermelons at the watermelon car
nlvai there next week. Governor
Hoch and Colonel Harris are expected
70 say few things about the weather
and other topics.