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PREHISTORIC STAMP FOUND.
One of the most lemarkable arch
aeological and ethnological discoveries
made in Mexico since Prof. William
Niven found the famous clay tablets
of life and death down in the jungles
of Guerrero, has been made amid the
buried pile of petrified idols uncovered
by the sand diggers of Atzcapoalco.
This find consists of nothing less
than an official seal, or stamp, used by
some prehistoric emperor or king in
affixing his O. K. to papers of state.
The discovery was made about eigh
teen feet beneath the surface of the
old river, or lake bed, which exists
near the pretty suburb above named.
This stream or pool has long been
dead, the waters having been diverted
by Nature in another direction, so
that now it is merely a basin of gravel
overlaid with sand.
The artifect, which is about two
inches in diameter, and in a perfect
state of preservation, is remarkable
for the fact that it contains on the side
used for stamping, several concentric
circles at the margin, then a ring of
hieroglyphics much resembling the
characters of the ancient Russian
alphabet, and around the ceuter three
more concentric rings.
The center itself is a corrugated
hole, evidently used for the insertion
of a wooden or stone' handle. The
upper surface of the seal, which is, of
course, circular in shape, is rounded,
so that the entire object forms almost
a perfect hemisphere. On the top are
other marks, evidently carved in the
seal after the clay had hardened, and
possibly intended to represent the signs
of the zodiac, as they were known to
the primitive astronomers of Mexico.
When found, particles of some black
substance, evidently either wax or
some ink-like fluid, were still clinging
to the face, showing that the seal had
not been subjected to very great action
by the waters. Mexican Herald.
LAYMEN FOR THE BENCH.
One of the peculiar forms which
criticism of the courts has recently
taken is disclosed in the suggestion of
Lieutenant Governor Strange of Wis
consin, who declared that laymen
rather than lawyers should be called
to the bench for interpretation of the
laws. He made no exceptions, con
tending that laymen should fill the
judicial chairs in the United States
court, and in all other courts.
This suggestion is quite contrary to
the conventional idea. The presump
tion has always been that judges were
selected largely for their judicial tem
perament and knowledge of the law.
Everybody knows that the presump
tion is a violent one in possibly half
the cases.
It has not escaped notice that some
very bad lawyers have made very
good judges. They may not have
disclosed much judicial erudition or
literary excellence in their opinions,
but there has been justice, palpable
right and respect for good law.
Too often the learned lawyer, when
elevated to the bench, is seemingly
bent on determining causes that come
before him on laws that are quite sur
prising and wholly inexplicable to the
layman.
Too often the learned judge seems
ambitious to show the unlearned just
what manifestly ridiculous things can
be done according to certain law and
precedent of which they may not have
previously heard.
Possibly the non-professional would
always be able to get away from law
and precedent long enough to admin
ister justice, especially where the re
quirement of justice is plain. From
many decisions of courts it is quite
easy to conclude that the trained
lawyer could not adhere to justice if
it entailed a rejection of the "weight
of opinion."
Then it is possible that a layman,
if elected to the bench, might realize
how important time is in litigation.
A. o - - i
Vi and actually hurry important cases to I
trial. Or he might manifest some con
ception of how expensive the services
of lawyers are, and seek rather to free
the litigation from professional entan
glements than to multiply them about
him.
In short the layman on the bench
might seek to make of courts avenues
wherein differences may be speedily
adjusted with fairness to all concerned,
rather than fee mills for lawyers and
laboratories for judicial experimenta
tion. Lincoln Star.
TRUTH ABOUT ANANIAS.
"Who was Gamaliel?" asked Profes
sor James Russell Lowell of a student
in his Dante class. "A little moun
tain in Judea," came the prompt ans
wer. In these days when the Bible
stands duaty on the shelf every one
knows of the Ananias club and its
founder, who, being also the committee
on admissions, has modestly declined
election, although many, including
such prominent persons as Mrs. Storer,
Judge Parker and Baldwin, Mr. Dix,
and the late Mr. Harriman, have con
sidered him eligible and urged his
claim to membership; but astonishing
ly few know who Ananias was and
how he achieved his fame.
The prevalent impression is that
Ananias was a notorious and unmiti
gated liar. History does not depict
him. It gives us only these facts:
The primitive Christians adopted a
scheme of socialism, which was quick
ly abandoned, as all such .schemes
have been. But when it was organiz
ed enthusiastic believers sold their
possessions and put them into the com
mon fund, administration of which
was centralized in apostolic hands.
These contributions were free will of
ferings. In this respect they differ
from taxes, which they resembled in
that they were payments by individuals
for the uses of the community. Possi
bly Ananias did not believe in the
"square deal." Perhaps bis wife,
Saphira, was thrifty, believed in laying
by, and exercised the influence a pru
dent wife should have over an extra
vagant husband. It may be that both
doubted the eventual success of the
socialistic plan; if so, the events justi
fied their prescience.
However this may be, they evidently
wished to keep up appearances with
the socialistic and progressive party of
their day. Even now some politicians
are "regular" with mental reservation.
So they also sold their possessions and
put part of the proceeds into the com
mon fund, but they kept back some
thing for a rainy day. It does not
appear that either made an affidavit,
or that one was necessary. So far it
appears, they were only guilty of that
secondary and very common form of
lying, suppression of the youth. Very
prominent, pious, and wealthy persons
of our own time who on general prin
ciples loudly decry dishonesty in the
abstract do every day what Ananias
did. He simply dodged his taxes.
But when this transpired to the clair
voyant vision of St. Peter, that impetu
ous saint hotly rebuked theequivocator
who was so ashamed that he didn't
answer a word. He retained no astute
counsel to argue that there was no
intent to deceive, and to demonstrate
that "truth is this to me and that to
thee, and whether truth or falsehood,
let it be." "He fell down and gave
up the ghost, and the young men arose
wound up and carried him out and
buried him." Then, although wound
up, he nevertheless stopped going on.
The incident shows that history
does not always repeat itself, and that
some folks are luckier or cleverer
than others.
There is precendent that allows a
citizen of New York to escape taxation
here by saying in an affidavit: "I
have been, and am now, a resident of
Washington," and subsequently to
explain that residence and domicile
are very different, that the former
depends upon intent, and that the
phrase "I am a resident" is susceptible
of the construction "I am domiciled."
New York Sun.
His Sarcastic Friend.
He was very proud of his new aato
mobile talked automobile, dreamed au
tomobile, read automobile. Finally M
his friends lie became a nuisance, ani
each to himself swore softly that he
would bide his time and at the prop
er moment give him a little verbal
thrust.
Finally uue Ions suffering individual
was asked to so for a ride. Excuses
were of no avail. lie was bundled
into the machine and taken for a spin
through the parks and over the boule
vards. In due course of time, without
any serious mishap, they pulled up at
the Automobile club. The auto crank
and his guest were soon surrounded by
several of their friends.
"How did you enjoy your ride?" was
asked of the auto crank's friend.
"Until today I never thought an
automobile could go so fast." was his
reply. (Here the auto crank was all
attention. That was some praise for
his car. Right out in public too. That
would silence some of the scoffers who
said his machine should be called
Snail.) '"Why, do you know there was
a car went by us at such a clip that I
could hardly see it."
The auto crank glared, and under his
gaze the group melted away. They bad
had their revenge. Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
SIDELIGHTS ON MEXICAN RE
VOLUTIONS. To any of the very few Americans
who have real knowledge of the type
of Mexican that represents the great
mass of the Mexican nation, the pres
ent uprising against the Diaz govern
ment is not surprising. The surprise
is that such manifestation has been so
long in coming and that the minor
manifestations of similar interest and
purpose has been so few and far be
tween during the more than thirty
years of Diaz supremacy. The man
who knows Mexicans knows well that
there has not been a single year in all
the years since Diaz, as a revolution
ist himself, overturned the govern
ment headed by Lerdo de Tejada in
1870, when an element just as numer
ous, strong and eager as backed him
in that enterprise has been awaiting
the chance to overthrow him and his
government in turn. That he has
been strong enough to prevent the
change and to place a veneer of mod
ern civilization over the Mexico of to
day, that has impressed the world with
the belief that the day of revolutions
is over in Mexico forever is proof of
how great a man he is, but to accom
plish such reality as he is generally
credited with, he would have had to
change the character, instincts and
habits of the Mexican race, and that
he has not done. The Mexican of to
day is the same who has revolted and
overthrown every ruler since Mexico
became independent with but three
exceptions, Victoria, the first presi
dent; Juarez and Porfirio Diaz, and
who rebelled often and at last success
fully against the rule of Spain.
The great bulwark, the middle class,
that prevents in the United States
such movements as Mexican revolu
tions is practically nonexistent in Mexi
co. There is but the upper and lower
class in the Mexican republic and the
latter comprise the great majority of
the people and are pure Indian in
blood. Out of the 12 million of Mexi
cans less than a million are in any part
of Spanish or other foreign descent.
It is the humble "hombre' of the
masses, the Indian, who supplies the
material for Mexican revolutions, who
by instinct and character is always
against authority and existing govern
ment and ready to take part in its
overthrow and just ready to in turn
overthrow the power he has establish
ed. The common, every day Mexican,
such as one can see every day along
the Bio Grande border working as
laborer, is type of the masses all thro
ugh the republic. Indian, as he is, he
loves to raid, plunder and loot, and
opportunity for these always comes
with such uprisings. It is this kind
of a people which the Diaz govern
ment has kept under restraint for so
long a time.
But the average Mexican is not of
himself inclined to take the initiative
in revolution or anything else, but his
instinct is to follow anyone who leads,
and there are plenty of these as the
present uprising shows. The leaders
are almost entirely of the upper class,
who have disappointments, unrealized
ambitions and grievances against gov
ernment. It is easy for any of these
to collect a following. The owner of a
great hacienda of thousands and hun
dreds and thousands of peons on his
land who hold allegiance to the master
the same as vassals to a feudal chief,
and will follow him in any enterprise
the same as a Highland cateran of old
times followed the head of his clan.
It seems strange in this age that this
should be true anywhere, but it is true
in Mexico. Let that master be in ex
ile for years and his reappearance in
revolt against the government is hail
ed with welcome, and in turn the suc
cessful leader finds that the outs have
the same disposition to overthrow and
the same elements to assist It is all
because of the Mexican character, so
different from that of the American of
the United States, that the one furnish
es no standard for estimating and
judging the other.
This writer has mingled much and
for years with the common Mexicans
along the Rio Grande, has worked
with them and over them, has eaten
their frijoles and their tortillas with
them in their jacals and slept there
with them and he has reason to like
them, but so strong is their revolution
ary propensity and instinct that speak
ing from experience, every little bunch
of such Mexicans have within them a
cabal against the Mexican government
and a disposition to resent government
al authority of any kind. In time
when there is no opportunity to take
to the larger enterprise their nature
finds vent in cattle stealing and plund
ering raids across the border. That
Rio Grande border is fifteen hundred
miles l'ing, a country sparsely settled,
rough and most difficult There are
stretches of it over which an eagle,
flying so high that the earth below
looks like a map, cannot in all the
vastness below see a single human or
human habitation. In such a country
it is easy for a body of raiders to as
semble, raid to one side or the other,
return and dispose of their loot before
word of it gets to the rurales of Mexico
on the Texan rangers, vigilant, brave
and alert as they are, and such bands
are always the nuclei of Mexican re
volutions. They attempted to start
against Diaz in 1908, captured a Mexi
can border town, raised the revolution
ary flag, were routed by the rurales
and dispersed to the American side to
plot and plan again. They comprised
what there was of reality to the Garaza
revolution some fifteen years before.
At this very day the chief hero of the
Mexican population at Brownsville,
Matamoras and the country along the
lower Rio Grande is old Cortina,
bandit and freebooter, who ruled that
district just after the American Civil
War in defiance of both the United
States and Mexico and whose memori
al health this writer has drank many
a time along with convivial and en
thusiastic Mexican friends. There
are but instances that go to prove the
manner of man that is the type of the
great mass of the Mexican people,
kindly in their way, possessing many
fine qualities but with an ingrained
spirit of lawlessness nowise unchanged
by modernity.
For some reason, the sources of
which are a mystery in greater part,
there is in every Mexican a profound
conviction that the United States in
tends to make war on their country,
to subjugate it, to turn its resources,
its railroads, eta, over to American
capitalists of the kind described by the
socalled muckraking magazines and
make slaves of the Mexicans in like
manner as did the Spaniards and the
Mexican is determined to desperate
resistance.
In every Mexican revolution Ameri
cans have taken part and in every in
stance their experience has been that
of the traditional man who interfered
to prevent a husband from beating his
wife, both man and wife turned upon
the interloper. The healthiest thing
in the world for an American to keep
away from is civil war in Mexico.
Kansas City Star.
THE THINGS THAT ARE
CAESAR'S.
A woman living on an income of
81,000 a year recently paid mt of it
an annual tax of 8425 nearly half.
Another living on an income of
81,200, paid 8250 one fifth.
Asiatic Russia? some may ask. No.
New York. They live in New York
City and paid these taxes there.
The first is the wife of a paralytic.
The disease impaired his mind, he be
came incapable of managing his affairs,
made ducks and drakes of most of his
property and finally the courts ad
judged him incompetent. A trust
company God save the mark! took
over the remnant and invested it in
corporation Bonds. Under the New
York law these are taxable, and his
wife had to pay.
She did not know the difference be
tween taxable and non taxible invest
ments. Few small investors do. The
trust company knew, and was guilty of
plain misfeasance for not investing her
money otherwise. But she was small
fry, and the company probably did not
waste much thought on her or her
affairs. At all events, between the
New York tax law and the trust com
pany, she was knaved out of half her
income.
The second woman is a widow whose
whole capital is invested in mortgages
on New Jersey real estate. Her law
yer had given her a curbstone opinion
(she also being small fry) that these
were not taxable, and he was wrong.
They are exempt if the holder lives in
New Jersey, but not if he lives in
New York. Ignorance again, coupled
with professional carelessness, cost that
woman one-fifth of her income.
We are told that Russian taxation
sometimes takes away all a man's
income, but as far as I know it has
never tried to take any more. New
York taxation, however, has done just
that, and succeeded.
Some years ago a farmer and his
wife, advanced in age, sold the farm for
85,000, and let the money stand in a
mortgage, intending to live on the
interest They discovered, too late to
do any good, that the mortgage was
taxable. In the first year, local cir
cumstances put up the tax rate above
the rate of interest. The poor man
did not get enough out of his invest
ment to pay his tax, and had to go out
to day's work to raise the balance.
We will now look at the other side
of the picture. In the stringency of
1007 Mr. August Belmont, finding
that a little ready money would come
handy, proposed to mortgage the Park
Row building to the Rothchilds. The
tax on this mortgage would amount to
840.000. Now Mr. Belmont is not
small fry. His lawyers are never
careless and never give him any curb
stone opinions. So among them they
arranged the following plan. Mr.
Belmont deeded the property outright
to the Rathchilds, and had the deed
recorded deeds arje, of course, exempt.
At the same time he drew up a "gen
tlemen's agreement" with the Roth
childs' representatives, calling for the
return of the property when the con
ditions of payment should be fulfilled.
This agreement wa marked "private."
Bat by tome oversight of the Roth
childs' attorneys, when the deed went
down to the registrar's office for rec
ord, a copy of the agreement went
along, too. The recording clerk is
paid by the folio, and copies whatever
is set before him. He entered agree
ment and all into the record of the
deed. Nobody in the office noticed
the peculiarity of the transaction; but
one day an outsider leafing through the
records saw it and showed it to the
authorities. Perceiving at once that
the' instrument was no true deed at all,
but really a mortgage, they tried to
have the mortgage tax collected; but
for some reason the state's attorney,
Mr. Jackson, did not see his way to
move in the matter, and Mr. Belmont
never paid.
Just such iniquities are perpetrated
from year to year under the rickety,
shambling, inhuman anachronism
called the general property tax the
idea of which is that taxes should be
levied equally on all kinds of property.
Not in proportion to one's ability to
pay, nor in proportion to the benefits
received from government, but equal
ly, at the same rate, upon all aggrega
tions of property.
The United States is the only civil
ized country that adheres to this
insane idea of taxation. England,
Continental Europe, Canada, all have
abolished general property tax as
unsound in theory and outrageous in
practice. The United States retains
it Nearly all the states have as bad
a tax system as New York some
worse but New York does very well
for an example because it is conspicu
ous. Albert J. Nock, in the Decem
ber American Magazine.
Burma's Gilded Pagoda.
Rangoon, the principal city of Burma,
grew up around the sacred spot on
which is built the great Shoay Dagon
pagoda, one of its principal wonders.
"Rising to a height of SCO feet, its size
is greatly enhanced by the fact that it
stands on an eminence that is itself ItiG
feet above the level of the city," says
a writer. "It is covered with pure
gold from base to summit, and once in
every generation this gold is complete
ly renewed by public subscription. Yet
throughout the interval the process of
regilding goes on perpetually. Pious
people who seek in this way to express
their veneration and to add to their
store of spiritual merit climb up daily
with little fluttering packets of gold
leaf, which they fasten on some frac
tion of its great surface. There is no
more picturesque sight offered by it
than that of a group of these silken
worshipers outlined high against its
gold in the act of contributing their
small quota to its splendor. The pago
da itself has no interior. It is a solid
stupa of brick raised over a relic
chamber."
Old Man of the Mountain.
The title "Old Man of the Mountain
was first applied to Hassan Den Sab
bal. who founded a formidable dynas
ty In Syria A. D. 1090. He was the
prince or chief of the sect of the Mo
hammedans. Having been banished
from bis country, he took up his abode
In Mount Lebanon and gathered round
him a band of followers, who soon lie
came the terror alike of Christians.
Jews and Turks. They paid the most
Implicit obedience to his commands
and believed that if they sacrificed
their lives for his sake they would be
rewarded with the highest joys of
paradise. For 200 years these "assas
sins," as they called themselves, con
tinued to be the terror of the country.
Whenever their chief, the "Old Man
of the Mountain," considered himself
Injured be dispatched some of his as
sassins secretly to murder the aggres
sor. This is the origin of our use of the
word assassin for a secret murderer.
Serpents and Music
Barnard concludes from his personal
observation of cobras in Ceylon, says
the Scientific American, that the ser
pent's traditional love for music is a
pure fable and that the only effect of
music is to arouse the reptile's curios
ity, which is excited by any loud and
acute sound. The cobra protrudes its
head from its burrow alike on hearing
the snake charmer's flute, the rattling
of a chain or the sounds made by
beating the ground with a switch. It
appears to perceive only sounds of
high pitch, for it pays no attention to
the low notes of the flute or the beat
ing of the drum. Barnard also con
firmed in Ceylon the results of obser
vations made in the London zoological
garden on the supposed power of fas
cination exerted by serpents upon
birds, and he concludes that this pow
er of fascination is also purely imag
inary. Arms and the Men.
"I see you have your arm in a sling,"
said the inquisitive passenger. "Bro
ken, is it:"
"Yes, sir." responded the other pas
senger. "Meet with an accident?
"No. Broke it while I was trying to
pat myself on the back."
"Great Scott! What for:-"
"For minding my own business."
"I see. Never could happen to me.
could it:-"
"No."
"And If it did I wouldn't be blame
fool enough to tell it."
Then there was silence in the car.
Chicago Tribune.
Music.
Of all the fine arts, music Is that
which has most Influence on the pas
sions and which the legislator ought
the most to encourage. Napoleon Bo
naparte. In Portions.
Host (at Tillage Inn. entering bed
room at 3 a. m., to occupant of the
bed) Beg pardon, sir, but two more
tourists have arrived. Have you slept
enough?
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Not many years ago telephone service was confined
to the larger cities, but now twenty millions of people
throughout the country are at the other end of every
Bell Telephone.
Twenty millions of people, day and night, up in Maine or
out in California, connected by eight million miles of
wire, await at the far end of your line. That is why your
Bell Telephone is valuable.
nAn
Solon's Answer.
"What is the most perfect form of
government?" was once propounded at
the court of Perlander, king of Cor
inth, one of the seven wise men of
Greece. His six fellows were present,
and of them Was answered first, giv
ing as his opinion, "Where the laws
have no superior." Thales of Miletus,
the great astronomer, declared. "Where
the people are neither too rich nor too
poor." In his turn said Anacharsis.
the Scythian. "Where virtue is honored
and vice detested." Said Pittacus of
MItylene. "Where dignities are always
conferred upon the virtuous and never
upon the base." Said Cleobulus.
"Where the citizens fear blame more
than punishment." Said Chilo. the
Spartan, "Where the laws are more
regarded than the orators."
Tim Incf tn rwnlir wne tlira vmifi"Pif '
but wisest of them all. Solon of Ath- " sat throughout the meal commun
ens. who said. "Where an injury done ' 'K w" ,,,s 'u bas,,ul sou, ata
to the meanest subject is an Insult to I by speaking he betray his soplus
the whole community." tication. Dessert being served, he felt
I he must have some of the candied
.. j fruit at the other end of the table.
is rurpuii. r
They stood in front of one of Wash
Ington's leading furniture stores. The
windows were full of beautifully in
laid pieces of furniture, such things as
arc only within the reach of the rich
and are meant to lend an additional
touch to the already perfectly appoint
ed home. Among them was an after
noon tea table. It was a frail, deli
cately constructed piece on rollers and
brought to mind an artistically gown
ed hostess serving tea to a select co
terie, while the conversation dealt with
nothing more heavy than the latest
fiction and comic operas. With a long
icawn out sigh the woman contem
plated it. The man, following her
gaze, saw It and was unimpressed.
She hastened to explain.
That there is a tea table. It's just
grand to use when you ain't got no
cook in the house and have folks in."
Washington Star.
IN THE. SUNNY SOUTH: Every first and third Tuesday very low home
seekers excursion rates ate in effect to the South with 25 day limits, and
every day the winter tourist rates are in effect with all winter limits.
TO CALIFORNIA: Daily excursion rates with attractive conditions, Iimit9,
atop-over privileges, side trips, etc, are in effect. The annual winter move
ment to Southern California by thousands of Americans who desire to
escape the rigors of the North is now under way.
COLORADO: A two or three weeks sojourn in the winter climate of Colorado
is recommended by physicians as one of the best up-bnilding tonics available.
The great National Western Stock Show is held at Denver, January, 16-21.
The Burlington takes excellent care of on to California, either
in through standard or through tourist pleepers with conductors in charge;
via Denver, Scenic Colorado and Salt Lake Oi'y.
WESTERN LUND PRODUCT EXHIBIT will be hi Id in Omaha, January 18 to
28th. All new western localities should be represented; all farmers and
prospective farmers should see this instructive exhibit.
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Columbus. Nebr.
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The Change of a Name.
How family names change in the
course of many years is illustrated by
the conversion of "Botevile" iuto
"Thyune." An Kuglish deed bearing
date in the closing days of the fifteenth
century shows three brothers then
flourishiirz-.I)hn liotevile or Botevile
and Thomas and William Botevile.
The trio are distinguished from all oth
er Uoteviles by the explanation "of the
Inne." or family residence, the title to
which had come to their joint posses
sion. John's grandson was known as
Ralph Botevile-of-the-lnne, from which
the transition to Ralph Thyme is easy.
Ms descendants have been Thyunes
ever since.
Ho Wanted Figs.
At a small stag dinner the on!y
I voung and unnoteworthy person pres-
Clearing his voice, he fixed the nearest
, waiter with a glittering eye and. amid
J a sudden total silence, peremptorily
called out at the top of his voice, "Pigs,
fleas!" Exchange.
PROBATE NOTICE.
Ktnte of Nebraska. Platte county. 89.: la tlio
County Court, in and for raiil county:
In tlio matter of tli" ttttateof Hannah Davit,
deceased, late of Mtiil county.
At a sesHion of the County Court for wiM
county, hohlen at the County Judge's otKce in
ColumbuH. in said county on the Ittth day of
November. A. !.. 1910, present John Ilattenimn,
County Judie. On reading and filing the duly
verified iietition of (eo. E. Dnvi. prayinc that
letters of administration tie itiued to Ilaniel
Schram on the estate of said decedent.
Thereupon, it is ordered that the 10th day of
Deremlter. A. !., 1910, at 2 o'clock p. tn.. Iw
aftsiinieil for the hearing of said petition at the
County Judge'it office is said county.
And it is further ordered, that due legal notii
he given of the pendency and hearing of t-aid
tietition by Dublication in the Columbus Jour.
ml three consecutive weeks
(A true copy of the order.)
tSeal) JOHN KATTKKMAN.
County Judge.
Dated. Columbus, Neb.. November 21st, MO.
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