The Mitchell capital., February 07, 1908, Image 12

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Navigation Congress Recalls
Golden Days on River Be
tween I 83 I and 1885.
ASSINNABOINE'S ILL FATE
.American Fur Company Steamboat
With $400,000 Cargo of Pelts Des
troyed Off Hart River
Landing.
Sioux City, !«.. Special: The rrccnt
gathering In this city of the Missouri
River Navigation congress, attended oy
many delegates from the seven Missouri
Irtver states—among them several gover
nors and other prominent state off.dais—
tiaa greatly revived Interest In the sub
ject of the probable profitable navigation
•f the "Big Muddy." As a result of this
G&therlng, a concerted arid determined ef
fort will be made, through congrcss and
toy the co-operation of the states Intor
•Bted, to revive the once extensive r.ver
traffic.
F6w residents of Missouri river towns
Mid cities will scarcely believe that tills
aluggish stream was once the great thor
oughfare for commerce that the pioneers
describe It to have been. In 18.S5 stearn
toatlng on the upper Missouri river had
Wactlcully censed, the railroads having
machwl and crossed that stream In the
Morthwest, taking with them the govern
ment contracts for the transportation of
Indian and army supplies and troops.
It never was a question of profit In run
ning the boats If the freight could have
Ceen secured. But time figured extensive
ly In the shipment of freight and the
Steamboats were too slow. They could
mot at that time secure enough "long
time" freight to load their boats and they
•were transferred to the southern trade.
Fur Company I* Pioneer.
Prior to
1831,
no steamboat had piled the
paters of the Missouri river above the
mouth of the Big Sioux, now the divid
ing line between Iowa and South Dakota.
The American Fur company, which had a
number of stations along this river as
#ar north as Hart river, near Mandan. N.
£., made the first expedition above. Pre
vious to
1831
this company annually
•hipped Its furs down the river to St.
Louis In as many flat boats as were re
quired for that purpose.
In
1831,
the company equipped a side-
Wheol steamboat which they named the
"Yellowstone," and sent her from St.
C«ouIs to old Fort Pierre, under the com
mand of Captain Bennett. This venture
proved so much more satisfactory and ex
peditious than the old method that the
company, In the following year, sent the
"Yellowstone" as far north as the mouth
Of the Yellowstone river. In
1S33
a stern
Wheel boat was sent up as better adapted
to combating the current and evading the
•andbars, and the "Asslnnaboine went up
the river as far as old Fort Miner, a few
miles above Fort Buford.
VANITY, TOO, LAUGHS
AT LJCKSMiTHS
Women in Prison Manage to
Powder, Paint and Even
Make Corset.
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Bui theU* vanity, their coquetry, remains
.as strong a passion as ever. All orna
ment Is forbidden In the dreary cells of
the Milan prison, yet the prisoners suc
ceeded in painting and powdering them
selves. It was observed that a number
-sought to streaK their yellow or pallid
faces with white to resemble powder, and
It was discovered thai they were in the
habit of licking the whitewashed walls of
their cells and chewing the lime fragments
to get a white paste, which they smeared
on their faces with their lingers.
"Rouge" Puzzled Keepers.
One woman appeared regularly every
svening with her face painted an artllicial
red, just, as Slgnorina Lombroso says, like
the face of a ballet dancer. She refused to
tell where she got the paint, and for a
long time the prison authorities were my«
tilled. At length they noticed that portions
of her clothes had red thread woven Into
them. They watched her. These threads
she extracted with infinite pains and
soaked them until they began to coior
the water with which she "roughed" her
self to her entire satisfaction.
Another prisoner had been pining for a
corset. Little by little she obtained wire
from a cell window grating. With this
and a few rags she made an ingenious
corset which enabled her to squeeze her
waiet into the desired sllmness. It was
only discovered when she fainted in the
chapel from "tight lacing." The cell
where she got the precious wire was the
punlsnment cell. She regularly broke the
prison rules In various ways In order to be
shut in that cell.
To Improve the women's conduct Slg.
Cadalso provided three sorts of costumes.
... 'l'he first was "tailor made," a smart
looking dress fitting the figures. The sec
ond was a checked goods with far less
sty.e, and the third was a coarse, clumsy
thing. The governor let It be known that
he would parcel out these garments ac
cording to conduct. The prisoners sud
denly turned'angels and In a few months
every woman had a "tailor made" gar
ment.
Millionaire's Ruse.
Slgnorina Lombroso tells of an Amerl
can millionairess who expected a visit
from European royalty and ordered two
magnificent gowns at $10,000 a piece, one
rose colored, the other white. When fln
lshed the gowns were "sublime creations,"
snd the lady could not decide which to
•wear, for the royalty was to stay only
for one dinner. In the pink dresa she
locked like a tempting Eve, in the white
creation she was all seraphic grace.
The dinner came and the lady appeared
tn rose—the fascinating Eve. The butler
ha been ordered to spill a dish of gravy
in her lip by "accident.". He did so to
the consternation of the company, but the
lady rose with a bow, retired and in ten
minutes returned in white—the seraph.
Berlin, Special: Paolo Lombroso, __
daughter of the eminent criminolOo.bl, has in their eves, nnd without it life would be
^contributed a remarkable article lo tne deprived of much of Its joy."
..Revue on feminine coquetry, full of
Strange stories bearing on th.s eubjuet.
Borne of these stories were told to her •''&>»•
toy Slgnor Cadalso, the governor of a
woman's prison in Milan. Although the
women In that prison never get a gumpse having told his men to have two Ingots
©f a man they are as eager aa the most of gold sent to his treasury for pur
fashionable dame to decorate Xhelr persons
Of the prisoners are devoid of every trait taotai, tola him that the price \\as so
which ennDbles and beautilies the lives of ,, tacls, but added 'This is
women. tne ordinary price, but for your honor
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REVIEW OF A PROFITABLE QUARTER
CENTURY'S TRAFFIC ON THE MISSOURI
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Government Supplies.
The American Fur company was the
pioneer in steamboatlng on the upper Mis
souri river and for the next two decades
following the burning of the Asslnnaboine,
employed several boats and transported
government Iroops and supplies. It was
the American Fur company's boat Ante
lop!. which, in 1S3!. left St. Louis with
John C. Fremont's exploration party,
bound for Fort Pierre. Seventy days were
required to make the journey. The Ante
lope was a stern wheeler, as were, nearly
all of the boats on the upper river dur
ing and since that time.
Passing from 1S39 to 1S59. the situation
on the river was little changed. Occasion
ally a steamboat burned, was wrecked by
ice or sunk from collision with a snag,
but nothing notable occurred during that
period other than the gradual Increase of
trafllc as Uncle Sam threw Ills soldiers
Into the northwest ,and erected new forts.
The discovery of gold In Montana brought
a stream of prospectors and the passenger
Slgnorina Lombroso, "Is not distinguish
able from the act of the savage woman who
once walked 230 miles through an African
jungle infested with poisonous reptiles and
beasts of prey In order to get a piece of
red cloth two feet by three."
Thfc author of the article comes to the
co'.cluslon that this coquetry, which be
gins as soon as the female is able to creep
to a looking glass and uooa not end until
her race Is run, Is not a wholly bad qual
ity. "To It we owe all the decorations of
our homes and many of the graces of life.
Were women not coquettes our homes
would be liKe rooms In monasteries, se
vere, monotonous, chilling, and men can
easily excuse tne exaggerations of
coquetry, since it Is all done to find favor
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Chinese Justice.
From the Cleveland Leader.
A certain Chinese taotai (.magistral)
chase,
"The net of the millionaire lady," says was arranged in a stiff bow in the back.
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In 1S34 and IS35 this boat made the trip
from St. Louis to Fort Union and re
turn and In I'M she went to T'op'ar river,
100 miles above the mouth of ilu Yd
stone. But it was late In the season when
sh«) reached this point and the water be
came so low that she was obliged to tie
up for the winter at Fort Feck. The fol
lowing spring she returned to Fort Union,
where she took on a cargo of furs for St.
Louis. On the way down, while tied up
for the night at Hart river, fire broke
out and destroyed the boat with its $400,
000 cargo of furs and buffalo tongues.
the shopmen brought thorn in,
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MILLINERY.
The exquisite hat shown above was constructed of white felt, with a border
of pearl white uncut velvet, edged on the inner side with a fold of light blue
velvet. The top was covered with huge ostrich plumes in shadings of light
blue and white. A band of ombroidery encircled the crown. Grosgruin ribbon
business became a great factor and
brought more boats into he sf ice. In
tS.V.i the Chippewa r. utd a point very
••eur ort ci ton, and in 1SG0 the Chip
pewa and the Key West succeeded in
reaching that post The Key West was I
afterward seized by the ^.ovcrnnv.-nt and
converted into a trans] or for troops on
the lower Mississippi during the civil war.
Slie afterward became the pro' ei ty of the
Coulson line of steamers and was in
the service for 20 years.
Most Prosperous Time.
From 1S71 to 1S79 was the most prosper
ous season for transportation on the Mis
souri river, Sioux City and Yankton be
ing then the only railway terminal points,
and the government quartermaster's head
quarters being at the latter place. It was
not uncommon to see from 10 to 15 steam
boats loading at either place, and often
a score or boats wintered on the ways at
Yankton while repairs were being made.
After the Northern Pacific reached s
marck and the Nortliwcs:ern road reached
Pierre, river traffic began to wane. The
railroads got the business because the
steamboat companies had not got a line
on the new order of thincs aiul dropped
out. The country along the Missouri riv
er has increased in population several
hundred thousand and since the discon
tinuance of steamboatlng. and an effort
to restore the trafllc should meet with
ilie same success that is characterizing
the revival of commercial traffic on the
Mississippi river between St. Louis and
St. Paul, which has increased 30 per cent
during the past three years.
we will knock oft one-half of the
price."
Then the taotai said to his under
lings "Seeing that they arc to sell to
me at only half price, just give them
back one ingot of gold, and put the
other in my treasury, an 1 thus their
account is set* led. Goodby."
The underlings of the yamen did so,
but still the shopmen hung around
waiting. The taotai asked them why
they were waiting, when their account
had been already settled. Said the
shopman: "When did your honor pay
your humble servants?"
Then tl.e magistrate answered with
a very fierce air: "Tiao nu ts'al! (im
pertinent slaves). Did you not say
that these two gold ingots were half
nrice to m"? Then did I not give you
back one ingot and keep the oth"r, and
thus settle your account wi bout the
I'-ast injustice, according to your own
proposition? So be off with you, or
my lictors will give you taste" of the
scourge!"
No matter how much a man's funeral
costs, it save him a lot of money aft
erwards.
Coffee is a bad thing for a man's
tri.iper—especially if his wife doesn't
know how to make it.
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"Cinderella over again the cruel sis
ters (bless their heart) gone to the ball
and the ill used youngster (fancy me
ill used) left at home to croon over the
lire."
Nell sunk back among the cushions
of her basket chair, planted her feet
on the bright brass fender rail, helped
herself to a chocolate almond, and
opened an uncut volume of her favorite
author. She looked very enticing as
she sat here. The rosy lamp shade
shed a becoming tint over her long,
slim figure, the eyes under her straight
blows were just the right shade of
brown, and so was the very wavy
hair which had not even a bowing
acquaintance with methylated spirits
of patent wavers. The room she was
in also maJe a becoming setting the
coloring was artistic and there were
plenty of easy chairs about, and piles
of cushions, plenty of girls' fal-lals,
too, and heaps of flowers—pink and
white, and golden brown chrysanthe
mums, their pleasant, pungent. In
describable smell vying with that of
the ragged terra cotta ones in the gar
den outside, for, in spite of it being
late October, the long French windows
were open to the ground, and the even
ing alt floated in at them soft and
mild and scented.
"The tire is a perfect farce," Nell
thought. "I would let it go out if it
were not that I am just the least lit
tle bit dull, and the blaze is so bright
and companionable. After all," she
went on, "I really am like Cinderella,
for I wanted intensely to go to this
particular ball, more, I think, than I
ever wanted anything in my life before.
It does stem hard that I should have
to stay at home just the very night
that the gunboat happens to be in the
harbor: however, it's only my usual
luck—pas de chance ought to be en
graved on my tombstone."
Nell gave her pretty shoulders an
other discontented little shrug, nibbled
her almond, and opened her book. But
the essays were as flavorless as the
sweets, and the long, dreary evening
seemed to stretch before her in mel
ancholy perspective.
"I wonder what they are doing now?"
she meditated. "Ten o'clock—dancing
I suppose the Hallowe'en games will
come after. Oh, how I should have
loved ther.*."
Suddenly her face brightened she
started up with sparkling eyes and the
merrimest of smiles. "I know what I
will do," she cried. "I shall have Hal
lowe'en spells on my own account, and
try my fate all by myself with nuts
and apples and things."
Nell flew out of the room and came
back with a laden plate.
"I am going to have a splendid
time," she said, resolutely defying dull
ni ss. "I mean to try all the things
that jolly, musty, fusty old book, "Pop
ular Antiquities,' talks about on Hal
lowe'en. Now, what shall I do first?
Burn nuts, I think, for a happy mar
riage—that will be splendid fun. Here
is a little one for me, and a big one
for—yes, I'll own it here to myself.
Captain Kit Stevens, of H. M. S. Agile,
now heartlessly disporting himself at
the Hallowe'en dance, while I, who
would dearly love to be there, sit mop
ing at home."
The pretty, soft color rose to Nell's
cheek as she bent down and placed two
nuts side by side on the bars, just
where the fire burnt bright and clear.
"Burn away, Nell," she whispered,
"and, oh, burn away, burn away. Kit."
All went well at first, for the Kit-nut
caught fire at once, and smouldered
steadily, but then came a harrowing
moment, for it seemed as thought Nell
would never follow his example. "Just
as it was, really," Nell murmured.
Presently, however, a little blue tongue
of flame curled round the Nell-nut, and
in a trice it was all aflame. Then Kit
gave a hiss and a splutter, and Nell
held her breath, for it seemed as
though he were going to hop away al
together. "Oh, Kit, Kit," she cried, and
there must have been magic in her ap
pealing tones, for Kit made up his
mind to stay, and, after one or two
false alarms, the two fateful nuts
burnt out slowly side by side. Nell
•watched them with a little satisfied
s=m\le. "Dear old Hallowe'en spells,"
she murmured, a deligntful sense of
mysticism stealing over her. "I always
did believe in tliem. But I'll moke as
surance doubly surs I'll whirl the ap
ple-peel to form my love's initial tin
old book says it is an unfailing test."
Diplomatic Nell chose a soft, tough
skinned apple, and began paring away
at it cautiously, with knitted brows
and pursed-up lips, trembling lest the
peel should break, for if It did old
maidhood stared her In the face. It
held, however, and presently she was
standing in the middle of the room
twirling it solemnly three times round
her head and finally letting it drop
gently to the ground over her left
shoulder.
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upon it almost before it had fallen. "I
am sure it is a 'K!'" The peel lay on
the ground in a jumble which might
have been anything, but Nell had a
brilliant imagination, and she saw in
it a perfect "K."
"You dear, delightful apple," she
cried, "to bring me such luck! I will
work all the spells I can witti you.
Now, isn't there something to be done
with your seeds? Yes. I thought so"—
seizing the book—"here it is. "On Hal
lowe'en girls make trial of the fidelity
of their swains by sticking an apple
kernel on each cheek. That which
remains longer indicates that the love
of him whose name it bears will prove
faithful.' Oh, that will be splendid!
Now for It. This little pip is Bob Lis
ter he likes me, but I don't like him
and this is Kit I like him, and I think
he likes me!"
Nell drilled her face into the preter
natural solemnity, stuck a pip on either
cheek. Kit on the left, Bob on the
right, and with a perfectly rigid,
Dutch-doll-like countenance, stared at
•im.iw.
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herself In" the glass. It was agonizing.
Every muscle of her face longed to
twitch, laughter trembled on her lips,
and presently to her horrer her left
cheek began to quiver and she felt Kit
going. This wras not to be endured, bo
she twisted her right cheek into a hor
rible contortion, and Bob dropped off,
leaving Kit in triumphant If Insecure
possession.
"That's all right," murmured ne
farious Nell with a sigh of satisfaction.
"I am really getting on excellently.
Now, what shall 1 do next? This
sounds thrilling: 'Take a candle and go
alone to the looking glass eat an apple
before it, combing your hair meanwhile,
and the face of your future lover will
be seen in the glass, as if peeping over
your shoulder.'
Nell opened her eyes wide. "O-o-h,
how creepy!" she cried. "I am sure I
dare not do that. At least"—rapidly
letting down lier hair—"I don't think I
dare. Fancy, if I did see anyone, how
dreadfully frightened I should be. I
wonder if this little tortoise shell comb
would do." taking one from her hair,
"and this little silver backed mirror?"
With a thrilling consciousness of risk
and excitement, Nell sat herself down
at the table before the glass, and took
up her apple. Every nerve was tense,
every sense on the alert even a gnat
buzzing at her ear terrified her, and
when, in the midst of her combing,
something suddenly stirred in the
creepers outside the French window,
she started to her feet with a cry, her
eyes big with terror. She recovered
herself directly, however.
"How stupid of me!" she cried, wltn
a little half hysterical laugh. "Of
course it is only Scrap—Scrap, you
wicked dog, come in, how dare you
frighten me like that?" No dog ap
peared in answer to her call, but there
was no further movement outside, and
presently Nell sat down again and re
sumed her thrilling occupation. She
combed her pretty, dusky hair, and nib
bled her apple in fear and trepidation,
little nervous smiles playing round her
mouth, and all sorts of delicious thrills
and tremors running through her, when
suddenly a shadow fell over the glass
before her. and there was'the cornel lest
of sunbrowned faces and the jolliest
of blue eyes laughing straight Into her
brown ones in the glass.
The apple fell to the ground, the comb
flew, and, with a startled cry, Nell bur
ied her face in her hands, and a shower
of wavy hair fell about her shoulders.
All her presence of mind fled, but a
pair of protecting arms went round her,
and someone said very tenderly:
"Nell, Nell, am I the lover you want
ed to see?"
There was no answer, and Captain
Kit went on: "The dance was no good
without you, so I slipped away here.
Nell, dear, don't torture me, was it I
you wanted?"
And a very small and smothered lit
tle voice from somewhere in the region
of his necktie answered. "Yes."
Self Defense.
From the Washington Star.
Professor Ogden Chalmers Lorlmer,
Toledo's veteran educator, is one of the
few remaining schoolmasters who still
cling to corporal punishment.
"I believe in corporal punishment."
he said stoutly in a recent address.
"I take no stock in moral suasion.
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REAL WILD MAN IS
FOUND IN IRELAND
Said Never to Have Had
Home But Roams Through
Bogs and Fens.
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From the Kansas City Star.
Certain villages in Ireland are ring
ing with the story of a wild man, who
lives In the woods and eats berries,
roots, fish and small quadrupeds, just
like a prehistoric savage. He has silv
ery locks, a long, snow white beard.
He dresses in garments old, scanty,
tattered and torn. It is said he has
never had a home—that the whole of
his wretched three score and ti years
or threabouts, have been spent In ths
open air—and I hat as far as is known
ho has no name. The story told of him
by the peasantry is that ho was
dumped on a desolate Irish moor, when
a little child, by a loathsome, vaga
bond mother of terrible to say. gentl®
birth and education, and that alons
he lias wandered ever since, fleeing
from his fellowmen as though soms
wild, timid creature of the night, and
making his home in the densest woods
and on the most lonesome commons
and wastes
It is said, though doubtless no ons
knows for certain that the man can
not talk plainly and that his vocabu
lary is limited to but a score of words
or so. In the more poverty stricken
and desolate districts in the Emerald
Isle the man familiar to most of
4he peasantry, who give him clothes
from time to time. The clothes are
dropped on the ground, and when tho
givers have withdrawn to a distance,
then and only then will he come and
pick them up. As a rule, no sooner
has he got them in his hands than
runs off as fast as his legs can
carry him.
Food he will accept from no ona.
An adept in the art of catching things,
he prefers to cter for himself. Far
and wide might you search before
coming across one more skillful In
poaching fish and game than this old
white haired man. He will spear sal
mon with a spiked pole, catch pheas
ants and partridges when the birds are
asleep in the night and even grab
fish from streams with his hands.
There is a story that several years
ago he fell In love- with a beautiful
peasant lass, whose home he haunted
every night, howling hideously. Yet he
did not see the object of his affections
on more than a t'ew occasions and
never nearer than a hundred yards
or so.
The girl's parents, intensely super
stitious, like most Irish people, were
afraid to adopt any means to put a
stop to the annoyance. Another of the
colleen's admirers, however, was bold
er, and one pitch black night, conceal
ing himself in some brushes, fired off
a gun within a yard or so of the man
ns he was emitting one of his loudest
howls. The old lunatic fled, and from
that time his visits ceased and he has
inot been seen In the vicinity sinc.e.
GIFTS OF FRUIT
FOR LORD MAYOR
Curious Ancient Custom is Still
Carried On in
London.
From fit-Bits.
It is not generally known that veni
son warrants are sent to the lord may
er of London and sheriffs by command
of the king twice a year. In July war
rants for bucks are issued and in De
cember for does. In the year 1101 the
king then reigning granted and con
firmed by charter that "the citizens of
London shall have all the rights and
privileges to the hunt in the royal de
mesnes as well and as full as their
ancestors had."
Eventually, however, the citizens
were debarred from enjoying the chase
In the royal parks and as a solatium it
was ordered that the lord mayor of
London and the sheriffs should be sup
plied annually with so many deer from
the royal parks and forests. This or
der was issued some centuries ago, and
ever since the first commissioner of
works has yearly sent the warrant for
the venison for the occupiers of the
mansion house to the city remembran
cer.
Another old custom in association
with London's mayoralty is the pre
senting of fruit by the Fruiterers com
pany to the lord mayor and the lady
mayoress. The ceremony appears to
have originated in the fourteenth cen
tury and at one time was a very pic
turesque affair. Nowadays, however,
the presentation of the fruit is taken as
a matter of course and without cere
mony. In days gone by the master,
wardens and clerk of the Fruiterers
company attended at the end of No
vember at the Guild hall and apprised
the lord mayor of thp presentation, in
forming him that twelve bushels of ap
ples of various kinds were on the way
from Farringdon market. Twelve men,
carrying on their heads panniers con
taining the apples, headed by the com
pany's beadle in official attire, then
marched up the Guild hall and laid
their offerings before the lord mayor
and lady mayoress, each receiving In
leturn a bottle of wine.
The election of the mayor of High
Wycombe would ivt be considered
complete unless he wtre "weighed In."
His worship, as well
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every member
of the corporation, is placed on a pair
of gigantic scales and the result is en
tered in a big book kept for the pur
pose. This custom is said to date back
to the reign of Edward I.
The mayor of Plymouth is forced by
an old custom to visit at least once
during his year of office the Lake of
Burrator. When he journeys to the lake
he is followed by all the members of
the corporation. Reaching the banks
the procession forms up in two lines
and a couple of ancient goblets arc
filled with water drawn from the lake
get mouth. The mayor and the corpora-
ThLL^'i1 t'on lrink to the memory of Sir Fran
said cis Drake, who when mayor of Plym
Prcfessor Loiimer with a grim smile, puth In 1581 brought water to the town
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yours?'
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After each person has tasted the wa
ter the goblets are filled with wine and
the mayor, holding one at arm's length,
pays: "May the descendants of him
who gave us water never want wine."
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A certain preacher was conducting
a revival. "All who belong to the army
of the Lord," he said, "stand up." Ona
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