The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-09
Disposed tc Crow.

The Minnesota Pioneer, over the fact that they
not near the North Pole some people imay-
ine-havins had only little more than three months
winter. Wait while, Mr.. Brown-just hold on,
and tell us how many months summer you have on an
average Minnesota is great country for spectators
and consumers of our produce, and will one day do
something in the producing line doubtless; but, Mr.
Brown, you make us suckers laugh when you talk
about corn-that is "piling it ON little too steep
The above is from the Oquawka Spectator,
and sounds very much like lines written be-
tween two shakes Of the Ague. Laugh when
ace talk about corn" indeed. Well, we see no
particular reason why you should laugh, for the
fact that we can raise corn is a very strong in
dication that we will not long continue 'con-
sumers of your produce"
"Tell you how many months of summer We
have" is it? Why we can tell without an
arithmetic. We have had each year for the
last thirty, just three as pretty, pleasant, grow
ing summer months, as you can imagine, with
clear, healthy, invigorating air to breathe and
shield the system against the undue influence
of Old Soils rays. None of your summers that
have fogs until ten or eleven o'clock, so thick
and dense that it is necessary to have road
opened to enable a man to penetrate it, and
each pound of fog containing sixteen ouuces of
Fever and Ague.
But this is not all neighbors we also have
three of the most delightful Spring MONTHS
Not months characterized by snow to-day, fc-
yer heat tomorrow, and hail, rain and sleet the
next day. Spring in Minnesota, like health
and vigor in youth, answers the ends of nature
in developing and improving all things within
its influence. The weather, generally mild and
clear, at intervals affords variety by those show
ers so necessary to health and vegetation; and
which like interrupted prosperity, prepare is
to appreciate fully the beauty of a clear, ur-
clouded sky. In Minnesota the spring is made
up of just such weather as lambs delight to
gambol in and vegetation rushes forward with
an alacrity which would disturb the nerves,
and astonish the eyes, of those who live in
your country of moderate grOwths.
But, friend, Minnesota has yet another 81 a.
SUI, peculiar to herself Oh yp Oqnawkians
who are doomed to suffer from the wet, chilly
months Of Fall, which are only cndurabc by
systems that have been shaken by "intermi
tants'' the previous six months, to such de-
gree as to he deprived of all sensation, come
up here and enjoy Minnesota Fall-come and
breathe the balmy air of Minnesota Indian
Summer. Even with your joints shaken asun-
der by the Ague of Spoon river you can enjoy
life in connection with the beauties of the In
dian summer of Minnesota. Come and see old
Sol put on that beautiful azure veil with which
he covers himself before his power to warm
the breath of Borcas has entirely ceased, and
in which he trcads "dOwn SOUTH" leaving us
some three short months, to battle on our own
hook against the "winters Winds"
Come and see our fields remain and see our
harvests and then, if you can make up your
minds to SO great a sacrifice of the enjoymcnts
of this life, go back to Oquawka, and in the
midst of the walking skeletons of the Ague-
shaken population, modestly whisper that you,
are not "dispOsed to crow