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greatly entertained by the amount of wood carried by some self satisfied youth of very slender physique. There is a considerable colony of Americans in the city of Mex. They are mainly railroad men & are, as a class, the same men that one finds throughout the newer west - young, bold, hardy & adventurous. There are a great number of beggars everywhere in the streets. Deformed or crippled beggars are given a license on application to the city authorities - but the