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Surprise Party.

With a dizziness acquired by long
and patient practice the pickpocket
extracted an old but well filled wal
let from the hip pocket of the un-
s~uspecting old gentleman with the
beaming c~ountenancc against whom
he had carelessly brushed when
leaving the street car, and on reach
ing a secluded place he opened it.
The contents had been wrapped
with great care in numerous thick
nesses Of blank paper. Removing
the wrappings n by one he found
in the center of the package a card
with this inscription upon it:
young man, give up your career
Of crime. Nothing in itP-Chicago
Tribune.
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His Old Love.

Grandfather-Whatl You fallen
in love with Signora Fontalba, the
actress at the Pantheon theatcr?
Grandson (excitedly)-Yes, grand
pa, and if you have anything to say
against the young lady you had bet
ter wait till | am ont of the room.
Grandfather say a word against
her? Why, my dear boy, ! was over
head and ears in love with her N.Y.
self when | was your age!-London
Tit-Bits.
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ZEPPELIN AND ScHURZ.
A story the Count Told at the Expense
of the General,


Count Zeppelin, the famous in
ventor of dirigible balloons, gives
in his "reminiscences an amusing
picture of Carl Schurz as he saw
him at the time of the war between
the states. Schurz was a federal
general, and Zeppelin, then a very
young man and an officer in the
army of Wurttemberg, was an at
tache with the federal army.
Zone day | rode over to Fairfax
courthouse, where the Eleventh di-
vision, commanded by General
Schurz, was stationed.
There Was something theatrical
about Schurz's appearance. He lik-
ed to drape himself in his cloak,
and was obviously engaged in giving
himself a soldierly look. That effort
may have sprung from an uneasy
feeling that his military ability and
knowledge hardly measured up to
his rank and his martial exterior.
"The German officers under
Schnrz seemed to have no very high
opinion of their commanders mill
tary genius. The following little
occurrence gave me a good idea Of
the cheerful attitude Of mind that
prevailed in the division.
"Schurz invited me to dine with
him and his staff. When the talk
turned to the military operations
being undertaken, he began to give
his opinion Of how the northern
army ought to act during the next
few days. Some distance away from
General Schurz there sat an officer
named digger, who had formerly
been in the army Of the grand duchy
Of Baden. There, unless ! am mis-
taken, he had never held a commits
sion, but under Schurz he was the
commander Of q battery. As such
he had often distinguished himself,
and on account of his steadfastness
in. remaining under fire mounted on
sAise hcree he hearece!yed the
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1915-05-27

Many persons S the term ain a
trice" without at all knowing how
it arose, their only conception being
that it is synonymous with "doing
a thing with celebrity" Now, ga
trice is the sixtieth part of a sec
ond of time" The hour is divided
into sixty minutes, the minute into
sixty seconds and the second into
sixty trices, or thirds, from the
Spanish iris.
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The Point of View.

The Squire (sympathetically)-
I'm very sorry to hear hat your
husband is at the point of death,
Mrs. Hodge, but you must try to be
cheerful, as you know it will be all
for the best.
Mrs. Hodge-Ah, yes, indeed, sir.
It'll be a blessing when 'e's gone.
I'll be able to live in comfort then,
as | ave i'm in four differen. bene-
ft bs.-London Taller.
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nickname of white Horse Harry
"When General Schurz had finish
ed his eloquent outburst Dilger dry
ly called out from his seat far down
the table:
"'But, general, surely you would
do nothing so stupidP
Everyone laughed at this sally,
and Schurz was good tempered
enough to Join in the mirth and
thus deprive the incident Of serious
consequences"
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Hinged on the Cows.

The London Outlook speaks of a
lover with an agricultural cast in
his eye which BODIED i'll for his lass.
He was a dairyman who owned
thirty or forty COWS. He was II
ranging with the minister about his
wedding and was hidden to name
the hour.
"Well, sir" he replied, II Gamma
say just to an hour or so. There's
the cows, we see. But I'll be there
as soo as ever | can"
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Silent Lies.

There are silent lies in addition
to those spoken aloud. And these
are equally d~espieahle. Living a
lie, turning life into a deceptive
machine, is not only demoralizing,
but it is always a confession of
weakness. The strong, balanced
mind does not resort to subterfuge.
1t can afford to be transparent,
open, because it is conscious of
strength and does not need to hide
anything. Great minds are open to
the light, with no dark corners.
With them nothing is hidden or veil
ed. Everybody is afraid of the
opaque mind-the mind that acts in
the dark, underground. Nobody
trusts the man who is always cover
ing his tracks. We all love a trans
parent mind.
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Man .. ri. Weakest.

Experiments with the dynamom-
eter show that a man is his weak
est when he turns out Of led. Our
muscular force is greatly increased
by breakfast, but it attains to its
highest point after the midday
meal. It then sinks for a few hours,
rises again toward evening, but
steadily declines from night to
morning.
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Henry Jacobs. of Logan twp. went
10 Pierre last night where he will
Undergo an operation for appended
els. He was accompanied by DR..
McWhnrssr.
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Pasture Land for Rent

NJ. f of Is and S. E of Sec. lib
20. All persons are warned not to
srespass on the above lands without
permission of owners.
j. M. Dennis.
I'll Galesburg, I'll.
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Peck pays the market price. in
cash. for eggs and cream. Try him
oinee.-Ady.
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From h to Dairy

Eureka. May 2l.-Special: The
cream receipts for n day this week
ID Eureka we're 1863 en-gallon cans.
Or 1880 gallons. At the market
price Of 26 cents per pound paid on
inst day. the approximate amount
raid out for cream that day vas
81, 267. so.
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Twenty years ago Eureka was the
greatest primer, wheat market in
the world. with more than a dozen
big elevators. The surrounding
country was settled by German
Russians. and they have gone into
mixed farming.
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A carload Of barbed wire.
Scefelds.
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CALLS UPON JURORS
TO WITNESS GUILT.

II ne did write that financial sheet
saturday afternoon, thing ] submit
ne dldnt do-lm willing to admit he
"rote that letter. ask you, as fair
men and honest men and disinterested
jurors representing the people OF this
community In seeing that justice is
uohe and that the man who committed
that dastardly deed has hneted ont to
hlm that which he metcd out to this
poor little girl. IL this documentary
evidence these papers, don't have the
impress or a guilty man" You know It..
why was Frank SO anxious - go up
th'"e on that fourth fl1or tho rucsday
after the murder? Why? It was be.
cause he wanted to see this man Jill
Co2lcy that nc thought wes going to
protect him. Mr.. RosSer characterized
my suggestion that this man Frank
called upon and expected jim Conlev
TO conceal the crime as a dirty sug
sestton, and | accept it as absolutely
true and | 90 step further. and say
1t was not only dirty, 1t was infamous
And he CFrank) would to-day sit here
IN this Court House and sec jury Of
honest men put rope around jim
Conley's neck, -the man that was
brought into it by him; and he didn't
mean TO bring Jim Conley in unless
he had tO-and he had TO. Jim says
the first question he asked him when
he saw him down there after this das-
tardly crime had been committed was.
Have YOU seen anybody. 90 up?'
Yes" says Jim, II have seen two
girls go up, but ] haven't seen but on-
come down" And then it was that
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have been obviated. and confession
might have been obtained.
You, Frank. didn't get your lawyer TO
sustain you and support you a moment
too soon. You called for barley, and
you called for Haas, and you called for
Rosser, and you called for Arnold, and
1t took tho combined efforts OF all or
them to keep up your nerve. You know
that I'm telling you the truth, don't
you? And I don't want to misquots
and I won't misquote, but / want to
drive it home with all the power that
possibly can or that I possess The
only thing in this case that can be said
to the dscredit Of the Police Depart
ment of the city of Atlanta is that you
treated this man, who snuffed out that
little girls life on the second moor or
that pencil factory, with too much con-
sideration, and you let able counsel and
the glamour that surrounds wealth and
influence deter you.
honor--1 had nothing to do with it
but ] nonor the way they went after
Minola Mcknight. 7 don't know whether
they want me TO apologize for them or
not, but IL you think that finding the
red-handed murderer of a little girl like
this is a ladies' tea party, and that the
detectives should have the manners OF
dancing master and apologize and
palaver. you don't konw anything about
the business.
honor Mr.. Hill. 7 am as proud Of
having succeeded him as I am that I
was elected to the position by the
people of this community, to the Of
flee of Solicitor General. but I have
never yet seen the man that I would
take As my model or pattern: fol-
low the dictates of my own con-
science. And il there Is one act since
I have been Solicitor General of which
7 am proud it is the fact that Joined
hand and glove with the detectives in
the effort to seek the murderer of
Mary Phagan. and when your infu
ence poured letters in to the Grand
Jury, in an effort to hang an innocent
man, negro though he be, that I stood
firmly up against it. II that be tres-
son. make the best of it. And If you
don't want me to do it, then get some
body else to fill the job, and the
quicker you do it the better it will
suit inc.
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this man saw the absolute necessity
of taking Jim into his confidence.
"Jim, have you seen anybody go up7'
Yes" said Jim, "r see two girls 20
UP, but only one came down. And
you tFranb told Jim to protect you,
and jim tried TO do IT. and the sug-
gestion was dirty, and worse than that,
IL Is Infamous, to be willing to see
Jim Conley hung for a crime that Leo
Frank committed.
But I'm coming to that after a
while. I haven't got to the States
case yet, I'm just cutting away some
of the underbrush that you have tried to
plant in this forest of gigantic oaks
TO smother up their growth, but you
can't do II, the facts are too firmly
and too deeply rooted. oh, yes. says
Mrs. Small, saw Frank up there on
OH that fourth floor between eight and
nine o'clock Tuesday morning, and
the other lady saw him up there be-
tween nine and eleven, shd wouldn't
be sure the day he was arrested-1
say arrested, according to Frank s
own statement himself, they got him
and just detained him, and even then,
red-handed murderer as he was, his
standing and influence, and the stand
ing and influence OF his attorney,
somehow or other-and that's the
only thing to the discredit of the po-
lice department throughout the whole
thing, say what you may-they were
intimidated and afraid because OF the
influence that was back Of him, to
consign him to a cell like they did
Lee and Conley, and it took them a
little time to arrive at the point
where they had the nerve and cour-
age to face the situation and put
him where he ought to be.
Now, III tell you another thing, too,
II old John Black-and Mr.. Rosser
didn't get such triumph out Of him
as he would have us believe, either.
Blacks methods are somewhat like Ros-
ser's methods, and IL Black had Rosser
where Rosser had Black. or If Black
had Rosser down at police station,
Black would get Rosser; and II Black
had been given an opportunity to go
after this man, Leo NJ. Frank, like he
went after that ;oor. defenseless negro,
Newt Lee, tov ard whom you would
have directe .uspici n, this trial might
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the station, then he showed nervous
hess.
But he could sit in a hall and read
and joke about the baseball umpire.
but his frivolity. that annoyed the
people Saturday night that they had
the card game, was the same kind OF
frivolity that Beattie betrayed when
he stood at the automobile that con-
tanned the blood of his wife that he
had shot. And certainly it is before
this jury that he went In laughing
and joking and trying to read a story
that resulted only in annoyance to
the people that were in that card
game.
But whether or not he made out
that financial sheet, I'll tell you some
thing that he did do Saturday after
noon, when he was waiting UP there
for old Jim to come back to burn that
body. I'll tell you something that he
did do-and don't forget the envelope
and don't forget the way that that
paper was folded. either. don't forget
it: Listen to this letter to his rich
uncle, NJ. Frank: "I trust this finds
you and dear tante CHATS the Ger
man for aunt we'll after arriving
safe In New York. I hope you found
all the dear ones we'll, in Brooklyn"
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virtues sake, lay in the dark recesses
OF that basement
at is too short a time" he says,
since you left for anything startling
to have developed down here" Too
short. Too short. Startling! But
Too short a time" and that itself
shows chat the dastardly deed was
done in an incredibly short time. And
do you tell me, honest men. fair men,
courageous men, true Georgians seek
ing to do your duty. that that phrase.
penned by that man to his uncle on
Saturday afternoon, didn't come from
conscience that was its own ac-
cursor" 1t is too short time since
you left for anything startling 30
have developed down here" What do
you think OF that?
And then listen at this-as if that
old gentleman. his uncle. cared any
thing for this proposition, this old mil
lionairc travelling abroad to Germany
for his health, this man from BROOK
, lyman eminent authority SAYS that
unusual, unnecessary. unexpected and
eXtravagant expressions are always
! earmarks Of fraud: and do you tell ME
, that this old gentleman. expecting to
sail Tor Europe, the man who wanted
, IN" price list and financial sheet cared
anything for those old heroes in gray?
=; Ana isn't this sentence itself siguifi-
cant: To-day was yontin (holiday)
mere and the thin gray lines OF veterans
! mere braNed the rather chilly weather
TO q" honor TO their fallen comrades:
| ana this from Leo VI. Frank, the statis
! tcian. TO the old man. the millionaire,
; or nearly so. who cared SO little about
; tie thin gray line of veterans, but who
cared all FOR how much money had been
! gotten IN by the pencil factory.
100 short time for anything start
| ing TO have happened down here sine.
YOU left" but there was something
i startling, and ii happened within the
space OF thirty minutes. There is moth
| ing new in the factory to report" All,
! 'Here was something new, and there
was something startling, and tho time
was not too short. You can take that
letter and read it for yourself. You tell
! me that letter was written in the morn.
| !hs' 90 you believe ii? | tell YOU that
| tnat letter shows on its face that some-
tnins startling had happened, and that
| there was something new in the fac
| tory and ! tell YOU that that rich nm
cI"' then supposed to be with his kim
dred In Brooklyn. didn't care a ftip or
ms hhger about the thin gray line OF
| veterans
| His people lived in Brooklvn. that,s
one thins dead sure and certain. and
olu jim never would have known it ex-
cept Leo NJ. Frank had told him, and
'hey had at least $4,000 in cool cash
OUT on interest, and the brother-in-law
me owner or store employing two or
three people. and we don't know how
many more; and if the uncle wasn't in
BROOKLYN he was so near thereto that
even Frank himself thought he was
,nere at the very moment he claimed
ne was there because he says you
Brooklyn" 80
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about to food everything and move
everything away the old hardshell mem
Der whose prayers had brought the rain,
scratched his chin and said, Brethren,
we have a lectlc overdone it, !: and so
Montag must have whispered into the
ears Of little Roy Bauer. Roy. you have
lcetle overdone it, and he had, too
and after dinner lie didn't know any
thing.
gentlemen. ] never have yet seen A case
where women have been suborned as in
this case Why, you take Miss Fleming
the stenographer. put up here 10 prove
one thing, and We took her up OH an
unsuspeCted line of the Investigation
and she was the stenog apher--and she
swOre that this mans character was
unusually good; she did that
The stenographer put up to prove his
character says, first she only knows
what this man did In hcr presence. and
when questioned about the financial
sheet the stenographer. Miss Fleming,
most capable of knowing exactly what
work really did occur on Saturdays be-
fore she left at O'Clock, says Franks
business was to make out the financial
sheet Il saw him making out the
financial sheet" You saw him at that.
did you?" Yes, sir" Now. you are
sure you did that" Yes. sir" you
are positive he did that" Yes SIR. he
did It always before ]: or l O'Clock IN
the morning"
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"If You Free Frank, It's Time to Quit
Going Through the Farce of
Summoning Jury.'

Then Mr.. Arnold says, HE didn't have
time to do that Saturday morning." and
she caught it. lit on it like a duck on a
June bug and said. NO. he didn't have
time Saturday morning" She had al
ready said in the very words ! have
read you that that was his Saturday
morning work. Mr.. Arnold was so
nervous that he couldn't let me con-
tinue the examination, and he inter
polated. He didn't have time to do
that Saturday morning. thing that
was unfair-and she was telling the
truth when she said-Tvc got it here
in black and white-"I saw him max
ing out tho financial sheet Saturday
before ! left there at I o'clock" You
saw him at that, did YOU" Yes,
sir" Now, you are sure he did that"
Yes, SIR" You are positive he did
that" Yes sir" And then MIR. Ar
mold comes in with his suggestion,
and she takes the bait and runs under
the bank--he saw how it cut. Then I
came back at her again-now, just to
show how she turned turtle-"You did
see Frank working Saturday morning
on the financial sheet?" mo, he didn't
work on the financial sheet" why
did you state a moment ago you saw
him working on it?' mo, sir.
didn't"
MY LORD! Gentleme1, are you gong
to take that kind of stuff? ! know she
is woman, and I'd hesitate except l
had the paper here in my hands to
make this charge, but If you as hon
est men are going to let the people of
Georgia and Fulton county and of At
lanta suffer one of its innocent girls
20 go to her death at the hands Of a
man like this, and then turn him loose
on such evidence as this, then I say
It's time to quit going through the
farce Of summoning jury to try him.
If had the standing, the ability and
the power of either Messrs. Arnold or
R0sseH TO ring that into your ears
and drive it home, You would almost
write a verdict of guilty before you
left your box.
/ And spca king about perjury: There's
a writing that his mother said anybody
! no knew his writing ought to be able
! to identify, and yet that man you put
! up there to prove Franks writing was
| so afraid that he would do this man
| some injury, that he wouldn't Identify
| the writing that his mother says that
! anybody that knows 1t at all could
! recognize. ! grant you that he didn't
| betray nervousness, probably, in the
bosom of his family; I grant you that
! he could Ak up a financial sheet that
he had been fixing up tifty-two times u
year for fivs or six years and not be-
tray nervousness; I grant you that he
could unlock the safe, a thing that he
did every day for 800 days in the year,
without betraying nervousness; but
when he went TO run theseleVator, when
! he went 10 nail up the door, when he
talked 70 ths police when he rode 10
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in his passionate lust had put to death.
You don't show that he didn't have
the money, and the truth of the busi-
ness is, / expect, that out OF that ST.
10000 for the payroll, and $4,000 in cash
which you (FranD had, If the truth
were known, you offered old Jim Conley
and bought him with that $4,000 just
as surely as Judas Iscariot implanted
the kiss for the thirty jshekels.
He says that mo one came into my
Office who asked for a pay envelope or
for the pay envelope of another" This
running mate and friend of the dead
Girl tells YOU under oath that she went
there on Friday evening when they were
paid, with the knowledge that litts
Mary wasn't there, and as she had done
on prey ious occasions, sought to get thA
money to take to her And ri show
YOU when | get TO the States case later
on that this diaboical plot, of which
YOU have made so much fun, is founded
In reason and really did exist. and that
this maH 'eally. goaded on by passion.
had been expecting some time before to
ultimately. not murder this little SRI,
but cause her to yield to his blandish-
mruts and dcfoWer her without her re
s,stance. Let me do 1t right now
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81 HAVE WEALTHY
PEOPLE IN BROOKLYN"

Didn't have any wealthy people in
Brooklyn, eh? This uncle OF his was
mighty near Brooklyn. the very time
old Jim SAYS he looked up aud said
Il have wealthy people in Brooklyn"
And ] would really like to know, !
would like. to see how much that
brother-im-laW that runs that cigar
business has invested in that store,
and how much he has got.
The very letter that you Frank)
wrote Oh Saturday, the 26th, shows
that you anticipated that this old gen.
tleman, wnom everybody says has got
money. was then, you supposed. In
BROOKLYN. because here you say that
Il nope YOU have found all the dear
ones well"--but I'm coming back to
what Frank said to old Jim-"and ]
aWat a letter from YOU telling me
now you found things there in Brook
lyn. Lucille and | are we'll"
Now here is sentence that is
pregnant with significance, which
bears the earmarks of the guilty con-
science; trenulous as he wrote it?
No, he could shut his eyes and write
and make up financial sheet-he's S
capable and smart, wonderfully en-
dowed Intellectually. but here's sem
tence that, If l know human nature
and know the conduct of the guilty
conscience, and whatever you may say
about whether or not he prepared the
financial sheet on Saturday morning
here's a document I'll concede was
written when he knew that the body
OF little Mary Phagan. who died for