The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-24

forth strains of the most sublime melo-
dy, when fertile wales and fowery
plains express the glory OF life and the
beauty of peace.
The two colors which nature has
tinted more than one half of her pro-
auctions are blue and green. The
skies are blue and so are the waters
when Illuminated with sunshine Green
is natures garment of royalty. There
are other colors, and solar rays falling
upon them making beautiful pictures of
the shrines of nature tinted with the
colors of the prism, or the dyes of the
rainbow. The heavens are blue and
the earth is green, two colors that
never weary the eye, never blind the
organs of sight, and yet those colors
have a thousand diversified shades
which in autumnal seasons produce a
variety In the glory Of the foliage and
landscape. The gardens in spring and
through the summer are respondent
with brilliant colors. Behold the lilies
of the field, how they blossom; and the
roses of June are never rivalled in
their beauty, while the sounds that fill
the atmosphere in this season of beau
ty and bloom are filled to convey ethe
the ears Of the soul sensation of har-
mony and inward peace which is be-
yond the power of language to describe.
Even the murmurs Of the brooks and
the soft, sweet whisperings of the
breezes playing among the quivering
leaves, combined with the hum of bees
and the musical chipping of the birds
while nesting among green branches,
give a variety of pleasing sensation
which tend to purify and elevate the
souls of men. The sounds heard on the
mid-summer's eve, call mans wonder
ing heart toward the one divine par
emit.
The late Poet whittier once said
that the Lowing of the herds, the
melody Of the feathered songsters, the
murmuring sound Of the ocean, the
dashing of mighty cataracts over the
western boulders gave him more real
pleasure than all the sermons in the
world" No music of human voices
can be half so sweet, nor the grand
harmonies of the old masters can bring
me SO near to heaven as the music that
comes through nature, and her many
singers we hear see and are made hap
py. The flowers are another source of
pleasure which goes far towards
| Frightening the humblest life. The de-
| licious odors exhaled from innumerable
| wild flowers, plants and cultivated
blossoms, beautify the whole face of
| nature, and no one can feel rude or vile
| in the flower garden or near a pond or
| loIr uyitt VIII rx,I,f oI
are light and beautiful and set like
| nesting doves upon the waters. The
| whole universe has a certain power TO
act or impart happiness, for at night
| the clustering stars shed a glad radi-
ence downward upon the earth and
thus convey to the human family a
sense of infinite protection and a desire
| to learn more and more of the creative
| power.
The blending of the immense variety
of colors and shades which adorn the
beautiful landscapes of the earth
through the solar rays, with the soft
ened glow of silvery light falling
| through the cloud-mist, teach lessons
| of harmony and the power of atmos-
pherc elements which supply the earth
with needed forces to develope the veg
| table productions of the soil
| The atmosphere that surrounds the
earth presses our bodies downward
with the weight required to keep us In
place, without which the great combi-
nation of light, fire and flame would
raise our animal natures to the high
est pitch of ecstasy and cause our de-
struction. The air is also capable Of
being compressed into many thousand
times less space than It now occupies.
The production of science, music and
voices depends upon the conditions of
the atmosphere; animal life and also
| that of vegetation depends upon the
atmospheric conditions, and it's many
agencies which are kept continually in
motion We learn also through scien-
tific discovery that certain fluids or
electric forces connected with the at
mosphere pervades all things in nature
and are capable of giving a shock to
the animal organism, and the same
shock may communicate in an instant
with many thousand bodies, and that
this electric fluid moves with great We
Iocity and 1t may be done from the
clouds in the form of fire, strong enough
to melt iron and all metallic substances,
and increase the evaporation of all
fluids, and completely destroy the po-
larity of the magnetic needle and does
many strange and dangerous things.
These electric currents enter into the
combination of everything that de-
ponds upon atmospheric influences. 1t
is often displayed in the summer sea-
son among the clouds in the form of
chain and forked lightning, and when
very energetic it spreads over the
realms of space in the form of sheet
lightning. All electric forces have
their origin in the electricity pervading
the atmosphere. Science has taught
men how to use those electric currents
for many useful purposes especially in
modern times, and the electric power is
still in it's infancy or at the door of its
utility. Coming time will reveal TO
human minds thousands of new and
wonderful inventions by which the
races of earth's laborers may be made
more comfortable. Electricity contain
ed in the atmosphere may be made to
serve humanity on land and sea. Ships