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Show In Bt. Louis n mortgage for (50,000,000 Laa ln lUeJ by the bt Lonlt aud Ban Franciaco HUroad company. Tho mortgage It drawn In favor of a New York company and has 100 years to run, villi interest at a per cent. Thii stu-! stu-! ndous morlgsge Is no more In this day of gnat enterprise than the eaiue number num-ber of thousands would have len en-ty en-ty Bt 0 j car ago. When that mortgage) come due hardly anybody will be llvlug that no In the world when tho docu-inent docu-inent was recorded, Mottof the jwrni-Utlou jwrni-Utlou of the globo will bato been changed threo time over, twlco In any rate, even If life lengtheni out at It ll cicled to do Iu tho neit century. There will certainly bo'not many of tho preaent Uuropiian govirniuenta and dy-natllei dy-natllei In eilttriice then. There may not o en be any United Stale. |