Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-09-18
LUNAR
The Wonders of the Sky IN the
Great Dakota.
New York Sun

Great Dakota.
New York Sun.
Nowhere III earth are the phenomena
of air and sky and light more marvel.
ously beautiful than in this glorious,
golden Dakota land. 1t is Il region Of
rainbows and halos, mirages, ~aureoles,
and auroras where snowstorms fall and
lightnings flash amid all the glory ORA
diant sunlight, and moonlight. and star
light where ebon thunder clouds frown
in n horizon while a dazzle of radiance
bathes the other. Nowhere else Is the
nightly sky more purely blue or lumin-
Gus with large .iewel-like stars. 1t is a
realm Of meteoric wonders, of prismatic
miracles. Lunar rainbows, scarce seen
once in a lifetime in other lands, are al
most every night occurrences here.
But never, even here. never since the
strange, resplendent token of Jehovah's
covenan, with a dripping world first cast
Its luminous o around the frown.
ing brow Of Ararat, has the heaven.
turned eye beheld a richer, rarer mani
festation OF the divine handiwork than
that which Toasted the gaze of late
vigil.keeping Devils Lakers last night.
The display Of decorative taste and gem
Jus was transcendently glorious and sub
lime. Omnipotence itself, with all the
dazzling prismatic stores of the universe
at its command, could have devised
nothing more enchantingly beautiful.
The mysterious inland sea, which the
Indians called "Minnewaukan,' or
"Strange Spirit Waters but styled in
the blasphemous tongue of the frontier
paleface Devils lake, stretched far away
to the west and south a mirror of CLEAN.
ing ice. All earth was wrapped in a
mantle Of glittering snow, white as the
robes of angels are. The sky was blue
as ever bent above the ripping waters
of the Golden Horn blue and clear as
the pure, translucent crystal that
arches the gold-paved. .jewel-gated city
Of God not made with hands. The
moon. radiant queen Of love and ro-
nance, sailed up the ieckless azure at.
tended by a royal retinue of gem-like
stars. a flood of soft, delicious light fell
like a silvery pension on plain and wood
land, lake and encircling hills. All
nature seemed bathed in sweet eful.
gence and holy calm.
About midnight a vast, weird mass OF
teecy cloud swept slowly up from the
horizon, q floating island of supernal
snow in a glowing sapphire sea. 1t
drifted on till, enveloping the moon,
she peeped out from behind it like a fail
girl face through a bridal veil. A ring
of light, colorless as pearl, white as the
ghost Of a dead sunbeam. gradually sur
rounded her. Once having caught hel
in its coils, it rapidly expanded, and it,
outer edge took a pale lemon hue. Their
came a circle of green, so tender, so del
icate, that it could haye been wloush
by mermaid's hands in ocean palaces o
shadowy shells. The deeper cmeral,
came next, followed by blue of heaven
own liquid dyes. An airy scarf of dain
test violet and a broad border band O
rose color b~lushing nto aerial crimson
completed the ravishing c%oncentri'
tiara. And over it all fitted a yauz,
cloud Grape, varying in tint from thu
ethereal pink Of peach.bloomy beauty
cheeks to the faint spirit Of green tina
dwells in an opal's heart not a color
but a mere gentle dream Of color.
Two large golden stars twinkled IL
and out amid the gorgeous deity-wovel
drapery Of film, as if enraEtlred will
the loneliness OF which they formed
part. And ever and anon a rift in tn,
great now bank OF cloud brought GU
the queenly moon in full splendor an
sent ten thousand g%littering RAINBOW
fragments whirling about the sky, onl,
to unite again in Kaleidoscope ring
without end and glorios unparalleled il
all lifetime's recollection of empyrea
~pyrotechnics.
For two full hours almighty power an,
skill kept the curtains up and the mag
n%ifcent spectacle in view, until even a,
untutored frontier son OF toll could no
refrain from thinking if the wrong sid
of heaven is 50 transportingly beautiful
what must the right side be?
Piles are frequently preceded ny
sense Of weight in the back, loins AM
lower part Of the abdomen, causing tn
patient to suppose he has some affection
of the kidneys or neighboring organs
At times, symptoms Of indigestion ar
present, fiatulency, uneasiness of tn
stomach, etc. A moisture like perspira
ton, producing very disagreeable itch
ing, after getting warm, is a common at
tendant. Blind, bleeding and itchinI
piles yield at once to the application O
DR.. Bosanko's Pile Remedy, which act
directly upon the parts affected, absorb
ing the tumors, allaying the intense itch
ing, and effecting a permanent cure