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Show The Salvation Army lu Cliioogo. Sunday morning gentleman and Mb wife, who had been staying over night at the house of a North Side friend, boarded one of Mr. Yerkes' cable trains for home, and were astonished to find a section of the Salvation Army in possession pos-session of the car hey entered. The Salvationists, Sal-vationists, who were all elderly people, were flinging songs ahd praising the Lord in their own peculiar way. The gentleman had purchased a Sunday paper, pa-per, and, handing his wife the advertising advertis-ing supplement, be proceeded to scan the news. Suddenly one of the elderly Salvationists, Sal-vationists, who wore a sorrel paint brush on his chin, plumped into a seat beside him and startled him with the remark: "Do you know, my brother, that that is an instrument of Satan?" at the same time pointing at '.he paper. The gentleman gentle-man shook his head and went on reading. read-ing. Then an elderly sister tried to call him away from to Sunday reading, and then a platoon of the army assailed him for the same purpose. Finally, in spite of his wife's protests, he arose and declared de-clared himself. "Look here," he said, "I've road the Sunday papers for five years and I don't intend to be stopped now. If you don't leave me alono 111 lick the lot of yon!" Whereupon the Salvationists deserted the gentleman. Chicago Herald. |