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Show Amenable to Argument. Here Is a little story thnt was told by Congressman Georgo R. Smith of Minnesota Min-nesota tho other night when reference was mado to the contrary party who deadlocks a Jury'- Somo time ago an autolst was whizzing whiz-zing it down the plko as fast an ho could Bpark tho gasoline when a country constable sprang from a clump of bushes by the wayside and held up a halting hand. "Sorry, mister," said the constable, as the autolst stopped hla car, "but Til have tor arrest yo. Yo was goln' fifty miles an hour or more." "You aro wrong, my friend," replied tho autoiat, digging Into his Jcana. "I say that I wasn't going more than fifteen mllos an hour, and liore is a $10 bill that Bays I wasn't." "Maybe I was wrong, mlater," calmly Bald tho country constable. "Leaatwlso, with eleven to ono ag'ln me, I ain't goln' SF ,P.V 1 Si? c?u,nft tor lho espenael trial." Philadelphia Telegraph. |