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existence, their twin destiny called them
both to the army, in which they are now
serving as brother captains. Thursday
they will celebrate their seventh birth
day. If you will watch the army register
closely you will note that all officers re-
firing for age are placed upon the in
active list upon their sixty-fourth birth
day. But if the date of retirement OF
Capts. Berry and Rowell fall on their
sixty-fourth birthday they will be en-
titled to active service and full pay as
long as they live. for that event will not
fall due until the year 2162.
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Two other Leap Year day twins are
the Rev. Arthur Henry Faber, Canon of
York Cathedral England, and Thomas
Edie Hill, author. of Chicago. Both were
born February %, 1882. and, although
they will be eighty next Thursday, it will
be their nineteenth birthday. Mr.. Hill
tells me that he has been too busy
throughout his life to celebrate even one
of his nineteen birthdays.
1t is an interesting coincidence that the
Rev Mr.. Faber should be Canon OF YORK
Cathedral, which was once the seat of st
Oswald, patron saint of Leap Year day.
Oswald, an Anglo-Saxon ITelate, became
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born in Prussia. while on February -,
1860, Fraulein Pauline Gross was born i'll
Baden Baden. The odd date worked its
magic upon them. for destiny called them
both to Wurttemburg, although neither,
up to this time, knew the other. Here fate
brought them together and the fact that
each was child of Leap Year day
wrought an affinity between them. In the
late seventies they became engaged. but
still under the spell of this odd date. Feb
ruary 49, they chose it for their wedding
day and waited impatiently for it to
come around. This it did in the leap year
1880. and their nuptials came off as per
schedule Then they emigrated TO Ameri-
ca. where they were happy ever after
ward. At their receptions, celebrating
their birthdays and wedding annlVer-
saries. they limit their list of guests 10
twenty-nine. which has ever been thelr
lucky number.
Another coincidence which may FUR
Their convince some readers that there is
an affinity between persons born upon
this yegarious date was this:
February 90, 1880 that same date upon
which James Scherer married Pauline
Groas there was born, in New Jersey,
baby christened John A. Berry, and upon
precisely the date, in far-of Idaho, FRANK
w. Rowell first saw the light. Although
neither of them dreamed OF the otner
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birthday next Thursday will be So small
that skates, shiny sticks or bob sled
would seem to be the only birthday gifts
suitable for the occasion. Those who
would thus favor him will find him in
charge of the government fish hatchery
at Tupelo, Miss.-a station immortaliZed
by John Allen. the former humorist OF
Congress. who. in asking his republican
rivals to appropriate for the establish
ment, brought down the House of Repre-
sentatives by the plea: MIR Speaker,
countless millions of unborn fish are
clamoring to this Congress for the honor
of being Matched at Tupelo.'
Having been conceived. thus. in clever
ness, tbs meet that the Tupelo hatchery
should be directed by clever genius.
Another author and NJ d. who will
celebrate on the same scarce date is DR..
John Bingham Roberts, PHILADELPHIA dis
tinguished surgeon and medical professor.
who has written long list of medical
text books. At the time of his seventh
birthday he was publishing a profound
treatise He will be entitled to only four
teen candles on his birthday cake this
year.
Only thirteen will adorn that of Har-
wards learned professor of law. DR.. Ell
gene Wambaugh. whose many legal text
books are well known to our rising young
barristers. The fact that he. along with
DR.. Henshall and Miss McCracken. are
all c'ereymen's children doubtless sill
set students Of heredity to work in search
of new law bearing upon the relation
ship of rectories and Leap Year day ba-
bies.
That the planets governing the destinies
of these rare youngsters are as favorable
to political careers as to more profound
callings is proved by number of in
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indiscretions of my teens. said Rossini
February %, 1864, when seventy-two
But his estimate of his birthdays was
incorrect, as he had counted the year
1900 as a leap year-which, like 1900. it
was not (for years designated by two
ciphers are leap years only when their
first two numbers can be equally DIVIDED
by four-for which reason the year 2oon
win be a leap year,. In 1865, the year OF
his death, the great composer represented
himself as nineteen, although he had cele-
hrated his eighteenth birthday that year
His death on Friday. the 18th of Novem-
Der, was the fulfillment of a lifelong
morbid fear of both Friday of each week
and the 18th day Of each month.
His twin leap year Mminary, Won Baer
was a distinguished professor Of zoology
and later librarian of the st. Petersburg
Academy of Sciences. He published a
work on embryology which made great
splash in the scientific world, and which
esta blished his reputation as one OF the
greatest naturalists of the nineteenth
century. A coincidence also attaches to
his case. In the early twenties he held
the chair of zoology at Konigsberg,
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Archbishop of York in 972. and was can
onized for his zeal in reducing the an
cient Church of England to the complete
domination of Rome.
He was awarded Leap Year day on the
calendar of the Catholic Church because he
died on the day before the calends of
March-that is, the last day of February,
$50 which was a leap year. After the revi-
sion of the calendar by Pope Gregory
this day became the Goth of February, al
though no one knew it as such in Os-
wald's time or until centuries afterward.
But because of the designation St Os-
valid has his day only once in four years,
while the other saints have theirs annu-
ally.
The subject of Leap Year day twins
cannot be passed without mention of the
most distinguished pair that has adorned
the part. These We're Ross!ni, the great
composer, and Karl Ernst Won Baer, the
naturalist. Both were born February %
1892. Those who may have grown rusty
in their memory of Rossinis ach eve
nents will have their interest awakened
by the recollection that he composed the
great opera "William Tell"-which. by the
way he gave. to the world before his
tenth birthday.
This being my eighteenth birthday.
will now turn over a new leaf and dis
regard the frivolites of youth and the
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Inky Stamps.

LOW dirty can postage stamp become
- and still retain it's usefulness in the
eyes of the government? was a question
propounded to muddle the already over
worked brain of busy man. Happening
to meet postman who was collecting
mail, the man handed him a stamped let
ter.
That won't CO." said the postman.
Stamps dirty
AS was his wont on special occasions,
the busy man resorted to sarcasm.
"Since when,'' he demanded, did the
United States government become SO i'm
maculate that 1T requires none but UNI
sullied stamps stuck on its letters"
well, they've always been pretty par
ticular,' returned the unperturbed post
man, but there are some kinds of dirt
that count for more than others. That
stamps got ink on it. Inky stamps wont
go, because an ink spot could be used to
disguise a Cancelled stamp"
Then l suppose every stamp l happe1
to drop speck of ink on is wasted?
"Oh, no. Turn 1T in to the office where
you bought ii, and after a certain period
You will get your money back"
How long will that take?' the man
asked.
"A bout three months.
I'm afraid l can't wait" said the man.
and over the discredited stamp he stuck
spotless stamp
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PROF. WAr1BAUGH

stances There is DR.. II. y. Jameson.
naval officer Of the port Of Chicago. who
was republican national committeeman
from Illinois al the Bryan-Mck inley
campaign days. Having come into tho
world February a. 1913. he will celc-
brate his fifteenth natal day in the west
ern metropolis Thursday. And i'm the
same city and at the same time George
Buchanan Armstrong, former govern
ment official, journalist music and art
critic will reach another milestone. On
his last birthday, that of 1908, his FIVE
brothers presented him with loving cup
which will he again passed around
Thursday next Former Representative
George Douglas Perkins. who sat for
eight years in the federal Congress, and
who has edited the Sioux City Journal
since the sixties, will on the same date
be entitled to his seventeenth birthday
party. He has been an editor since his
fifth birthday. When I asked him the
other day whether he regarded the fact
that he was Leap Year day baby as a
lucky or unlucky circumstance, he re-
piled:
!. ::
Yes; l was born on the Doth of Feb
ruary. 1t was in the log cabin year. re-
membered by all students of the history
of their country.
in the early years Of my life the pecu-
liarity OF my birthday was not impressed
on my mind. l believe l am making
more of it now than ever before Under
the common reckoning / have had too
many birthdays, and / am willing to
divide.
ION the whole l think have benefited
7 have had something coming to me
every twelvemonth. and about every
fourth year a little extra has been pro-
vided out of the goodness of family and
friends
Copyright, 1912, by John Elfreth watkins.)
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where, at the same time. the chair of
theology was held by the distinguished
German pedagogue, Friedrich Dinter. an
other Leap Year day baby, born in 176o.
Two other great geniuses born Feb
ruary %, were Leo Won Klenze. the Ger
man architect, who was given to the
world in 1854, and Morten-Muller, the
Norwegian landscape painter. who fol-
low in 1898.
But let us return to our living Leap
Year day babies:
Our young author, Elizabeth McCrack-
en-, is of this category having first seen
the light at New Orleans only few
leap years ago Indeed. her birthday
Thursday next would be designated by
number SO small that dolls and toys
would be the only appropriate gifts to
send her. Her success as writer. de-
spite this discrepancy of birthdays, is not
due solely to the fact that she was Leap
Year day baby, but that she was prod
ICY. for she began to write TO: publica-
ton soon after her second birthday.
Then there is our modern Izaac Walton,
DR.. James Alexander Henshall, author of
I'VE Gods and Little Fishes and whole
shelf of other books, which, if con-
firmed angler. you know nearly as well
as your "Compleat Angler" Although he
has been turning out these works for
more than thirty years. the size OF his
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did not himself seek limelight promi-
nence, he would like his connection with
the monument to be made plain, ana
thereupon at the base NJ. Adamson put a
cushion with the imperial crown "a
scepter, above them a two-headed eagle
and the inscription. Nicholas H.
A third project, by the sculptor kur-
patoff, was rejected by Nicholas so We
hemently that he forgot to return it in
the brass-bound portfolio. 1t displays
most prominently Michael Feodorovitch
and takes no notice of little Nicholas.
For that reason Nicholas holds that it
ought to have no prize at all, but his low
ing subjects hold that it ought to have
first prize.
/
While Nicholas is thus busy gathering
together his views Of monumental sculp-
ture he has also found time to criticise
the sister art of poetry. He has COM
nended a st. Petersburg poet named
Apollo Apollonovitch Corinthsky. Apollo s
name is SO ultra-poetical tkat it suggests
the variety stage But NJ Corinthsky' 5
origin is itself poem. His grandfather,
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ferred another drawing by Prof. Adam
son, which had won second prize.
This monument bears the superscrip-
ton, Render unto Caesar the things that
are Caesars. and unto God the things
that are Gods. Its effect is produced
by skillful grouping of about fifty statues
of men prominent in Russian history
under the Romanoff cars, and there are
bas reliefs depicting historic events. Mich
olas was pleased with this monument, be-
cause, so he said. it is historic in spirit,
and he sent Count ApraXin to st. Peters
burS 10 ave Prof. Adamson his praise.
But since Nicholas is resolved to imi-
tate Cousin Kaiser Wilhelm he also gave
him to alter the figure of Peter the Great,
and to place Catherine Ii in a different
pose. He added modestly that though he
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Measuring Her Woe.

THRoUGHorT his career as news
paper reporter the young mans as
signments had taken him into demonstra-
tive crowds whose periods of noisy de.
monstration it was his duty to time.
"Mr. A. finally appearing. the audience
cheered for fifteen minutes" Senator
X finished his second joke amid laughter
that lasted for ten minutes" or AT the
close of the speech the audience applaud
ed wildly for thirteen minutes"
These and similar records of the public
pulse plentifully adorned nearly every
story the young man wrote. One day he
was sent to attend the funeral of rich
and crusty-tempered old gentleman whose
young wife had notoriously repented her
choice. The young man wound up his
story of the funeral thus:
I'm the silence that ensued the widow
Wept for sixteen seconds"
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\ invitation TO shaving feast is
~ not to be despised, common enough
Z = though they be in San Franc SEQ.
And what is a shaving feast? When
a. Chinese baby Of either sex is mohth
old it's hair is shaved to make 1t gro"
faster. and a dinner is given by the par
ents in their babys honor. One OF these
feasts was held not long ago On the thiro
floor of a popular restaurant. IN San
Franchises Chinatown. 1t was gwen by
Yong Kay, an interpreter in the Gus
toms house, in honor of his first porn'
Katherine Victoria Kay.
Gone, alas! is the fascinating, dirty
crowded, picturesque Chinatown OF Old
formerly a pure bit of the orient. IN
stead are large impressive stores with
plate glass windows; shops partially NIL
ed with American goods; the Chinese
themselves wearing no queues ana mostiy
clad in American clothes.
Generally women and girls still cling
to their comfortable trousers and coats
but rarely does one see the foot crowded
into a tiny Chinese slipper, and often
their hair is braided down their backs
and tied with big bows of ribbon.
!: X
very SSluOul dOcS Inc SHlHCSC "cAhoiA
adopt our costume entirely, as do the men.
On being asked Chinese girl replied that
she wore her own costume because lit
was more comfortable; and her feet
were perfectly fitted in Oxford ties. 1t
does not SAVIOR of the unusual, however,
to see at an evening gathering girl of
this nationality clad in pale mauve bro
caded silk trousers and coat, her hands
inn cod in Uhffo lids har IN tanf
leather slippers and her hair braided.
wound around her head and tied with
large bows of white satin ribbon.
Yong Kay's feast disclosed some OF the
changes in the San Francisco Chinatown.
The walls of the large room were COW
cred with hideous American wall paper,
and had no Chinese decorations, frieZes
or ornaments save one. This was a cheap
colored print thanked by hieroglyphics on
either side and denoted peace, plenty
and prosperity
AbOut 800 guests We're assembled, the
american and the Chinese women and
ter behind screens. The Chinese men
were principally merchants interpreters
students from the colleges and missions
and were nearly all sans queues an
dressed in American clothes.
*
Yon Kay. a grave, bespectacled.. mid
dle-aged Chinese, evidently weighed down
with his duties. was the host. His young
wife was gowned in a pure Chinese cos
tune; the ''salm'' or coat being thin black
brocaded silk over blue silk, and the
foo or trousers of black satin with
stripes Of blue embroidery. Her black
hair was not frizzed or braided, like many
of the Chinese girls present. but, thickly
pomaded. was simply drawn back from
her face, coiled at the back and adorned
with strands Of seed pearls. Katherine
Victoria was dressed in long white mus
lin gown such as our own babies wear
but over it she had two Chinese coats,
one of green and the other of rose pink
brocaded silk; a gorgeous gold cap was
on her head. a jade pendant at her neck
as well as an American gold chain and
, heart, while on 1.-THE second finger of her
left hand she wore a Chinese gold-cha Sed
ring
katherine Victoria behaved in the most
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of Nicholas. and when. December IA.
the poet celebrated his twenty-fifth year
of verse writing. he got quite nice
little letter from his autocrat. And this
surprised every one. for Nicholas is
himself a bit of poet-some years ago
his productions got into the Paris press
and 1t is not the custom for one poet to
praise the productions of another.
Nicholas even went further in gracious
ness. He asked NJ Corinthsky to write
a memorial ode on the tercentenary Of
the Romanoffs, and the son of Apollo
agreed. It has further transpired that.
during his stay at Livadia, Nicholas had
a book printed Of all the loyal poems
which Russians ever wrote, beginning
with Derzhavin. The number was not
great. but the little books were printed
and sent round at thrifty Nicholas ex-
pense to the peasant schools of kherson
province. and further copies of 1t We're
sent to the Boy Scouts organizations.
These scout organizations are Nicholas
latest plaything, and the minister of war,
Gen. Sukhomlinoa, tries to keep Nicholas
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Not Nowadays.
MILLIONAIRE said in the re

A MILLIONAIRE said in the restaur.
"A ant of the Waldorf-Astoria:
-T once spent Washingtons birthday
with Henry NJ Flagler In his magnificent
Florida residence. AS we took our coffee
after luncheon, under a palm in his
Palm Beach garden, Mr.. F1agler praised
George Washington's truthfulness.
He said we didn't now draw the same
sharp line between truth and falsehood
that Washington drew. He said a school
teacher once requested those children
who had never told a lie to raise their
hands.
After a doubtful pause two or three
little hands went mp. Then another hand
was raised and lowered uncertainty. and
it's small owner asked:
Teacher, is it lie if nobody finds it
nnt
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a serf who had no surname at all. sent
10 the Academy of Arts drawing OF a
Corinthian temple. which SO pleased Car
Alexander l that hergave the serf the
surname "Corinthsky.
The present poet, whose name means
apollo, son of Apollo of Cornth." has
written many poems and prose tales
mostly based on peasant life and folklore
and he has also translated into Russian
the poems of Coleridge, Beranger and
Mickiewicz Despite his long hair and
an intensely soulful gaze he is an emf
nently respectable poet, who was once
editor Of the government 'Pravitelstvenny
Viestnik." He is the only Russian poet
on record who was not revolutionary,
and his peasant stories reflect the bu-
reaucratic ideal of meek, accomplishing
muzhiks, who exist only to pay taxes,
and get whipped by "zemskie natchal-
II XII
For this reason the writings of NJ.
Corinthsky appeal to the paternaf heart
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YOUNGSTERS cannot celebrate their first
birthdays until the year OF our Lord 1910
Upon their birthday cakes, when they
are "sweet SIXTEEN they will be entitled
10 light four candles, and they will nave
10 wait until the year 1896 for their
1wenty-frst birthdays to come around
Such of them as are born great enough
who achieve greatness enough or who
have sufficient greatness thrust upon
them to warrant the observance of their
one hundredth birthday-as We this month
observed that of Dickens-they cannot
expect this celebration to take place I'M
Ill Ammo Domini 1924.
Indeed. some IN. ghty odd paradoxes will
occur this coming week as result OF this
most eccentric of all the days in our
calendar.
For instance, over in Chaplain. suburb
of London. a father will celebrate his
eleventh birthday anniversary, and his
own daughter her twenty-sixth. both
within tile week. He was born February
p. 1864. and she in February. 1885.
And in Roxborough, suburb OF Ph1ia-
deIphia, there is a couple who-an upon
this coming Leap Year day-will celebrate
three important eyents-her twelfth birth
dav his fourteenth birthday and the
seventh anniversary of their wedding;
They were married on his seventh ana
her fifth birthday.
IT all came about in this way: On rep
ruary 30 1852, Herr James Sherer was
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THIS Eccentric Date
L Comes Again Next
Thursday, February 29, and
This Article Describes a List
of the Great and Near-Great
Who Will Then Celebrate
Their Birthdays for the First
Time in Four Years-Three
Interesting Pairs of Leap
Year Day Twins Are Also
Described and Investigation
Has Disclosed Numerous Co.
medicines Attached to This
Odd Date.
Wy JOHN ELfEETIf WATKINS.
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favor by spending all his day working at
them, much to the disgust of the army.
To be in the poetic swim, the general
even had patriotic Boy Scouts ode writ
ten, in very lame verse; and he dispatch
ed it to the Crimea for Nicholas august
criticism.
For the tercentenary memorial ode
Russia will have to wait. and quizzical
people hope that Nicholas will amend NJ.
Corinthsky's copy. AS to the monument,
the decision between obelisk and group
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design has not yet fallen. The cash is
not in hand. The obelisk would cost
$G5 600 and the group monument SlsO,OO;
while the prizes have already cost $1.75O:
But the 100, 1908, 600 refused to go beyond
their thousandth of cent. And as Rus
slams won't subscribe the money. and
Nicholas won't even pay for the brass
bound port rolios. the inn treasury
will have to stump up; which means that
in the end the hungry muZhiks will pay
the $4,000 or $1SO,OOO in taxes. They
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four rounds won. The Italians have n
game very similar to this.
At 10 o'clock the host, with a short
speech in English. concluded the fea St
and soon the guests were bidding the al
ways somnolent Katherine Victoria and
her parents goodnight.
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tions to prod the Jews. But the con.
tents are harmless. They merely mean
that Nicholas has resolved to blossom
into a Mucovite Maecenas, and devote
his future leisure to immortal art
The impressive brass-bound porto
lios contain Nicholas views on art, In
particular on architecture and the plas-
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IT'S Pet Scheme for Mon
i i ument Is Embarrassing,
However, as His Loving Sub
iects Have Only Subscribed a
Thousandth of a Cent Apiece
for 1t, and the Rest Will
Have to Be Squeezed Out OF
Them by Taxes = Nicholas
Undertook to Improve the
Work of the Winners OF Both
the First and Second Prizes,
and Would Have Nothing to
Do With the Best Design of
All, Because He Wasn't in 1t
He Has Acquired Tame
Poet, Too, With a Wonderful
Name.
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= ~ l. ~ - 49, - = - AAAAA
tating Cousin Will
helm of Berlin. He
aspires to shine as
artist and patron
of art. From Tsar-
skoe Selo palace,
whittier he re-
treated from damp
Liyadia with ca
tarrh and a swol-
len knee, there fly
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AIRING some sud
den skid by Dame
Nature from the
even tenor of her
way. about 1900
babies will be born
within our land
II h ur $ d a V next,
And as Thursday
next, { h a n k s TO
Pope Gregory, is
Leap Year day
February o.91these