The times., 1898-06-05
THE GLORY Of JUNE SKIES
SpIend0rs of The Shining Moon
and Glowing Planets.
MARS THE STAR OF MORNING
While Uranus. Looking Like
Grcnt yellow Orange, DiH:s the
Iuster of All the TyvinIIers of the
ENcninG-The Month in which As
Economical Summer Begins.

June roses have ever been accounted
the crowning glory Of the floral offerings
Of the year. They are but a type Of other
splendors presented by the most delight
fun month in the series, for all who dwell
north Of the tropics The grandeur of
night in June surpasses the power or
imagination. Her early dawn as well
presents pictures that have graced the
SONGS of poets and glorified the painters
easel.
First on the list of the blessings be-
slowed by June is the Summer solstice,
the elimination Of soar glory. This oc~
ours early on the 2lst. when the sun en-
ters the Sign Gemini and astronomical
Summer begins. At this period the sun
Is said to stand still for several days,
and such is the case according to common
observation and the figures in the ordi-
mary almanacs. where only the degrees
and minutes are given. II, however, the
computation is carried to still further
nicely and TO lengths that are only inter
esting 10 the professional cOmputer, it
viii be found that the sun moves an al
most inappreCiabie distance. When the
sun in its furthest norther movement
change begins. Not one second further
north does he move. not one second ear
lier does he rise. Days will pass before
the decrease in the length of the day
amounts TO minute, or before the suns
Iessening altitude is perceptible to the
unframed eye. But the change, though
slow. is sure, and early in July observers
will plainly perceive that the days are
shorter. and that the sunrise and sunset
a,.a svnfF RI no Ffsgh+ NJ of pp-
spectively- The great empty streets are
already flooded with broadening clearness
at an early hour. and long before the get
ting-up bell warns Us Of the duties of the
day the glorious Light Of the sun has per-
meatel far and pierced TO the very Gel
lars lying in the narrow high back alleys.
In the country ii is fascinating TO watch
the beautiful colors Of the eastern sky
where Gods great pictures of the morning
are hung and see them melt into each
other like the variegated Innings of a
Eeashell.
The suns journey southwark is not
without its comDensations in the earlier
portions Of its progress. The celestial
machinery does not always move by line
and plummet, but it's gradations succeed
each other like dissolving views While
the days shorten, the heat increases from
the stores Of garnered sunshine. flowers
deepen in c0lorinE, harvests ripen and the
whole earth in the perfection of develop
ment pays tribute 10 the all-powerful sun,
whose beams wakened TO life her slumber-
ing energies, and made this belt of her
territory like the garden of the Lord
On the 4th as the western skies a tvyi-
light mark where the sun is seeking rest
after the labors of the day the moon
comes out in the east, all clad in the
splendOr Of her fullness. On the IIth
there is the phase of last quarter, while
the first moon for the Summer comes to
Us on the 18th, followed by the quartering
on the 26th. On the Sd Uranus and Luna
are in conjunction, while the same phe-
nomenon takes place again on the Both
On the 4th Saturn and the moon are in
conjunction, and this meeting is repeated
on the 30th. reckoning astronomically OF
these four meetings not one is of any es-
pecial interest to US. Mars is visited on
the 18th, but most too distantly for our
purposes, and the same can be said of
Mercury on the 18th and of Neptune the
day following. Even fair Venus in all her
radiance is barely presentable as a tab
leau in conjunction with the moon on the
2lst, and Jupiter on the 26th is not in II
at all The beautiful fun moon on the 4th
Is well down in southern declination, and
when light has wrested the scepter from,
the day we shall have her going along
with a lantern lit almost with the power
OF daylight until the latter again appears
10 show how everything pales before ii.
Uranus Is still ranked among the eve
Sing stars. and shines among the stars