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Show A ocod story is told of tho late Frauk P. Ulair. After the war ho mado a epeech in Missouri, and in tho course of bis harangue eloquently attacked the bloody ehirt policy of the administration, when a fellow in the audience cried out: "It's a lie." Bliiir coolly p!acd bis thumba ia the aruiholes of bia vest, and, gazing for ft miuute at the mau, remarked : "1 will bet five dollars to a ginger cake that you are a hog thiif, and a deserter de-serter from the federal army." He accidentally hit the ftllow. Tb,e crowd fairly screamed with delight, and criea of " It's true," and " You hit him exactly," came from a tbous-j tbous-j and throats, white the lellow slunk I away and was seen no more. |