Show A rain doctor A man by the name of buggies a general of course for all southern men have their titles has coma to get congressional appropriation to pay for rain lie wants to be attached to the agricultural dep irti nent as a rain producer tind if the government will pay him ft liberal salary and hia expenses ho will hold himself in readiness to bring rain upon a famished cornfield corn field or potato patch whenever it shall be needed lie claims that h can fetch the rainstorm as easily as franklin brought the lightning his method is to send up ft balloon to the cloud realms carrying a cartridge similar explosive material which can be exploded by electricity when it has reached the proper height the scheme is under consideration by the committee on agriculture but they have not yet developed much faith in its oui cacy and general promises to make a test and wet washington one of these days |