The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1881-03-10
THE SPIRIT DISCUSSION.

THE SPIRIT DISCUSSION.
10 the Editors Of the N. P. Farmer.
I did not get the last FARMER
till this week, and the letter of W.
S. H., in that issue, will cause me to
write new and different letter,
which may he too late for this weeks
paper. Since l came to Wadena I
have employed my scraps of leisure
time in writing short articles on cur
rent topics, for the entertainment
and instruction of your various
readers; and the crusading letter of
Viola Cole, suggested the growing
reversion of public opinion on the
temperance problem, as suitable
subject for few letters. / stated
several important facts, which ex-
perience and science had lately es-
tablished, and gave quotations from
governors, judges, ministers and 9TH
er prominent leaders of temperance
in Massachusetts and Maine, in sup
port of these facts. At this stage,
your correspondent, WIS H., crushed
into print to say that all my facts
were taken from DR.. Garcelon, the
late Gov. of Maine, a renegade poll
tician. and from ''decaying races of
men," which are the various prohib-
tied races Of the old world, and
THE PROHIBITED YANKs AND INDIANS
OF THE NEW WORLD.
lie next employs his evident abi]i-
ties as Il 2ettDoger, to prove that l
don't understand the English Ian
guage; that when I say black, mean
white, and if I say white, that means
black, and no one but he can tell what
my writing means. In his last letter
he virtually accused me of general
ignorance, dishonesty and falsehood.
This makes it necessary that your
readers should know my character
and credentials, and those of w. S.
H., and be able to compare the two
records. Mine, they will find IN
lengthy editorials in the Scientific
American. the Scientific Journal, of
San Franscisco, or the London En-
gineering. AS sample of these, l
quote the follow extract from the
Scientific American, of Sept. Sd, 1873,
which says: 'sThe writings of D.
give evidence that he is one Of those
comparatively rare individuals, who
can observe with discrimination, and
draw accurate differences. We full
ly endorse the clear comprehensive
style of his works, which we heartily
recommend to all who are interested
in the subject upon which he writes.'
When W. S. II. gives his credentials
to your readers, they will know which
Of us to believe and follow.
TO those light headed correspond
cnts who are so anxious to tread on
my professional toes, I will only say:
That my professional. and my natural
toes, are all perfectly free from corms,
and they may walk onto any of them,
whenever they choose. But ! fire.
quently dance yet, and when any of
my partners have corny toes, these
sometimes get ':hurted."
The Scientific American, Of Jan.
Sth, 1872, says: ''Science now shows
that thought force, like muscle force,
comes from the food; that the force
produced by the brain, comes not
from the disintegration of it's own
tissues, butis.~the converted energy
Of burning carbon. The brain is
therefore machine for the CONVEX
sion of energy, and we have only to
lubricate it well, and supply it with
fuel to enable it to perform great
things.'' God breathed into man A
LIVING SPIRIT, and made the brain
for it's organ of communication with
the outside world. Then he furnished
in mans food, q similar spirit, an