Show HIS THE HIGHEST COURT and colorado judge was well able to prove it in colorado is a small town which has the distinction of being away up above cripple chiek as well as 13 feet above sea level in the month of may not many years since they carried the mail to this town on snow shoes a dis tance of miles Soyo so you see itis it is of some importance it would be important if for no other reason than that it boasts a justice of the peace and he is as important as any other functionary of his class however he has a lot of solid horse sense A suit was vms to be tried before him and ono of the parties stirred the community from center to circum pass by sending off and importing a lawyer that case dragged itself out to an unprecedented length and the lace had never dreamed that law was so full of objections and exceptions motions protects expostulations and i the like as that lawyer proved it to be he was to them another wonder of the world but there was one thing he couldn coulden t prolong and that was the prompt crisp decisive judgment for the plaintiff that his honor snapped out as soon as the trial was fairly over and almost before well sir saira the lawyer la in tones of superiority we will have to take this case to a higher court you cant can t do that mister replied the magistrate and why not there ain t no higher court sir or this court is thirteen thousand two hundred feet above the level of the sea sir I 1 and III have you distinctly understand sir that it Is the highest court in all this broad land sir |