. Annals of Iowa. wledge of the State, her history andpeople; a virile and well poised intellect; a thoroughly judi-cial temperament; a keen and unerring sense of justice; amind disciplined by years of the closest legal study, and, asthe result of scholarly promptings and wide reading, enrichedwith varied learning. His opinions from that bench, as well as from that of theUnited States Circuit Court are, by reason of his name andfame, as well as the general soundness of the opinions them-selves, deferred to as authority by all the courts of thiscountry. Those of the State Supreme Court run thro
. Annals of Iowa. wledge of the State, her history andpeople; a virile and well poised intellect; a thoroughly judi-cial temperament; a keen and unerring sense of justice; amind disciplined by years of the closest legal study, and, asthe result of scholarly promptings and wide reading, enrichedwith varied learning. His opinions from that bench, as well as from that of theUnited States Circuit Court are, by reason of his name andfame, as well as the general soundness of the opinions them-selves, deferred to as authority by all the courts of thiscountry. Those of the State Supreme Court run throughfourteen volumes of the Iowa Reports. The first case is thatof AVelton vs. Tizzard, 15 Iowa (7th of Withrow) 495; thelast one Greenwald vs. Metcalf-Graham & Co., 28 Iowa (7thof Stiles) 363. Those of the Federal Court will be found involumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, of Dillons Circuit Court Reports. Therethey will stand as perpetual memorials of a great Judge andas beacon lights in judicial history. (To be Continued.). Dlt. WILSONS SWASTIKA 19 A REVIEW OF DR. WILSONS SWASTIKA. BY ALBERT NEWTON IIARBERT. The request for American literature on the Swastika ledDr. Thomas Wilson to make an exhaustive search for informa-tion on the subject. Such material as was obtainable concern-ing the meaning and history of the Swastika, was presentedin an interesting form, and as positive evidence was notobtainable, the author makes no attempt at conclusions regard-ing the time and place of origin of the primitive meaning ofthe symbol. His paper was published in the Report of theUnited States National Museum for 1894, and as a reprint in1896. It is the earliest known symbol, and is itself so simple thatit might have originated among any people however primitive,and in any age however remote. The straight line, the circle,the cross, the triangle, are forms easily made, meaning muchor little, and different things among different people or atdifferent times among the same people; or they may have hadno set
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