Everybody in the court-room knows that the District Attorney must prove what the witnesses have to answer, what the jurymen must decide in their minds, what the Judge will pronounce as sentence. A witness is swearing that he has heard her utter such sentences. The Star Spangled Banner. Life comes into the Judge. The soldiers poke their neighbors, court attendants run about the room pushing men and women into patriotic attention.
Some persons refuse to get up.
The Judge excitedly issues orders. The objectors are dragged out. Everyone who wears a badge seems eager now to earn his livelihood by bullying people into patriotic attention. . . . All is over. The jurors again sit down indolently in their seats, the witness continues his narration.