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AS TO RAIN AND THE RAINMAKER.
BDITOU GONSEKVATIVB :
Although a. Inymnn , mid confessedly
unqualified to settle the main question
in your initial article , August 1st num
ber , yet perhaps I may get in under the
"sincerity" clause , and call your atten
tion to the following news item clipped
from Council Bluffs ( la. , ) Nonpareil of
July 30th :
Pottawattamie County.
AVOCA , July 29. The latter part of
the week a subscription paper was cir
culated and enough money raised to buy
200 pounds of block powder , and Satur
day afternoon the twelve-pound Parriott
cannon , belonging to the town , was
taken out two miles west , upon the
ridge of hills and a cannonading was
begun and continued until dark , the
clouds in the meantime gathering con
tinuously and rolling off to the north
and northeast.
At dark it began to lighten and
thunder , and at two o'clock this morn
ing a heavy rain fell , sufficient to re
vive vegetation and to put new life into
the corn crop. Pastures were drying up
rapidly and many were feeding stock ,
and this rain will revive the fields and
make pastures green again.
And now also , comes Rainmaker
Wright with the followingfrom Omaha
Bee < 3f August 4th , 1901 :
LINCOLN , Aug. 3. The gathering
clouds this morning filled Rainmaker
W. F. Wright with ecstatic joy. For
several days he has been discharging his
mortars at the heavens , and when the
clouds began to darken in the northwest ,
ho claimed all the glory for his own. He
said :
"This is my rain. My experiment has
been a grand , a complete suoces. This
is due to my efforts at inducing arti
ficial rainfall. The weather bureau pre
dicted that it would be fair today. The
rain that really came is mine. It took
the preachers twenty-four hours to
bring it. I got mine in thirty-six hours.
My experiment has been a success ; my
theories have been proven to be true. "
There are skeptics in the laud as to
the merits of the "percussion theory"
of inducing precipitation , as there ore
rationalists who hesitate to admit divine
interposition in the natural order of ma
terial things. Since Elijah held his fa
mous rain-service on Mt. Carmel , his
example has been followed many times ,
with varied results. So whether prayer
is effectual in varying the visible order
of things is a mooted question. Per
haps , else , the modern rain-maker
would deduce from the violence of the
supplication of the prophets of Baal , a
cause for the down-pour which so op
portunely followed Elijah's service. It
appears to be one of those interminable
controversies that one century inherits
from the preceding one ; and better than
courts of inquiry and ecumenical coun
cils for the settlement of such questions ,
is Admiral Schley's "honor enough
for all. "
W. H. P.
Nebraska , City Neb. , Aug. 5 , 1901.
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HERMAN KOUNTZE , President. F. H. DAVIS , Cashier.
J. A. CREIGHTON , Vice Prest. * C. T. KOUNTZE , Ass't Cashier.
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