THE WEATHER IN 1906. 



Year Was Warmer And Dryer Than 

 Usual, According To HSue Hill 

 Observatory Statistics. 



During 1906 the weather was, with 

 tew exceptions, warmer and dried | 

 than usual. Only three months of the 

 year were below their average temper- 

 atures, and the mean temperature for 

 the year was about 2.5 degrees higher 

 than normal. The winter of 1905-1906 I 

 was one of the warmest on record 

 and January was the warmest month 

 of that name for many years. March 

 was unusually cold, but the remain- 

 ing spring months were warmer than 

 norma'. A warm summer and au- 

 tumn were followed by an unusually 

 cold December. 



The total precipitation for the year 

 was about two inches less than the 

 average amount. There was less 

 snow than usual, the total fall of 56 

 inches being Hi inches below l he nor- 

 mal. Very little snow fell during Jan- 

 uary and February, but during March 

 2G inches were recorded. There were 

 fewer rainy days than usual, although 

 there was a greater amount of cloudi- 

 ness than normal and the total amount 

 of sunshine was less than the average. 

 The spring and summer were the sun- 

 niest, averaging about 7 percent more 

 than usual, but this was offset by an 

 excess of dull and cloudy weather dur- 

 ing the winter and autumn months. 



Dates of miscellaneous phenomena 

 follow: 



Lowest temperature of the year: 5 

 below zero on February :!. 



Highest temperature of the year; 

 90 on August 19. 



Greatest depth of snow on ground: 

 15 inches on March 20 and 21. 



Last snow in spring: April 10. 



Ponds free from ice: April 4. 



Last frost in spring: June 13. 



First frost in autumn: September 5. 



First snow in autumn: October 31. 



Ponds frozen over: December 4. 



Greatest snowfall in 24 hours: S 

 inches on March 15. 



Greatest rainfall in 24 hours: 2. 48 

 inches on May 28. 



li. A. Wells. 

 Blue Hill Observatory, January f>, 

 1907. 



The preface to "The Coast of Bohemia," 

 by Thomas Nelson Page (Seribners), offers 

 a fine confession of the faith of a minor 

 poet: 



There is for the minor poet also a music 

 that the outer world does not catch — an 

 inner, day which the outer world does not 

 see. It is this music, this light, which, 

 for the most part, is for the lesser poet 

 his only reward. That he has heard, how- 

 ever brokenly, and at however vast a dis- 

 tance, snatches of those strains which 

 thrilled the souls of Marlowe and Milton 

 and Keats and Shelley, even though he 

 may never reproduce one of them, is more- 

 over a sufficiently high reward. 



The poetic sensibility foreshadowed in 

 the above is very evident in Mr. Page's 

 verse, and he has an admirable command 

 of traditional poetic tone, as may be seen 

 from these stanzas taken from the titular 

 poem of the volume: 



There not alone the great and lofty sing; 

 But silent poets too And there the song 

 They only sang in dreams when wandering 

 Amazed and lost amid the earthly throng; 

 Their hearts unfettered all from worldly fears, 

 Attuned to meet the spacious music of the spheres: 



Gray, wrinkled men, with sen-salt in their hair, 

 Their eyes set deep with peering through the gloom, 

 Their voices low with speaking ever, where 

 The surges tweak beneath the mountains' loom; 

 But deep within their yearning, burning eyes 

 The light reflected ever from those radiant skies. 



There fadeless youth, unknowing of annoy, 



Wialks aye with changeless Love; and Sorrow there 



Is but a memory to hallow Joy, 



With chastened Happiness so deep and rare, 



Well-nigh the Heart aches with its rich content, 



And Hope with full fruition evermore is blent. 



