Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — The Winds of Heaven. [ARTICLE]

The Winds of Heaven.

If the winds of heaven could become visible to us, and if from some standpoint far out in the blue we could look down upon them, we should, no doubt, find some of our preconceived notions considerably modified. That they would present a spectacle sublime beyond conception goes without saying, and, though no doubt wild and seemingly choatic enough to baffle the eye of an archangel in an attempt to trace out the entire system of their motions, a comprehensive view would perhaps present more of regularity than we are accustomed to associate with the winds. No doubt the first thing that would strike the attention in such a survey would be, not the wild chaos of the aerial currents, but their orderly rhythmical motions. For instance, throughout the tropics at ordinary times there is a morning and evening ebb and flow of the air as regular and as pronounced as the ebb and flow of the ocean. All coasts there suck in a moist, refreshing breeze from the ocean in the morning and breathe out again at night. To the eye that could detect this grand inhaling and also exhaling over the whole tropical earth, and could see also the great trade winds sweeping down from the poles to the equator in majestic currents hundreds of miles wide, two m ghty streams that meet in the torrid zone, flow upward and move back in the upper atmosphere—to the eye that could discern all this, and the many other regular and periodical currents, aswe l as the circular whirling of storms, and, possibly, the circular movements of storm centers, the most impressive fact of our atmospheric movements would not be their capricious irregularity, their fitful uncertainty, but the sublime order and rhythm of the winds. A veteran, Mr. George Me Kona, Ashburnham, Mass., writes: “While suffering with c ronic rheumatism (result of Andersonville), I used St. Jacobs Oil, which gave immediate relief.’’ Sold by druggists and dealers.