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Show Directing the Rainfall. The Mandans, a tribe of American Indians, hare a curious custom as regards re-gards producing and stopping rain. This business Is mainly In the hands of the young men, who volunteer to stand in turn upon the root of a hut rrom sunrise to sundown vociferously commanding the rain to fall or cease. They are assisted by the medicine men, who meanwhile perform their mysteries Inside tho hut The young men who faU retire in disgrace, but the winner ranks as a medicine man, an honor always won, for the ceremony cere-mony Is kept going dally sntll success suc-cess Is attained. |