The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-22
TWO MILLION BOY SCOUTS
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY OF
BADEN-PoWELh TO-DAY

Two million Boy Scouts will ce1e-
brate to-day the ffty-sixth birthday
of their Chief Scout, Lieut.-Gen. Sir
Robert Stephenson 'Smyth Baden
Powell, the hero of Mafeking'' and
founder of the great movement which
has aroused the enthusiasm of the
youth of all lands Since his last
birthday the distinguished warrior,
long thought to be confirmed bach
elor, has taken to himself a wife, and,
curiously enough, to-day is also the
birthday of Lady Baden-Powen. The
Generals bride, who was Miss Olive
st. Clair Seames, is twenty-three to-
day, just half her husbands age. She
is described as a slender and divinely
tall brunette pretty and intellectual,
and fitting companion for the man
who has risen from the ranks to
generalship; whose heroism and mil
Itary ability won for him the distinc-
ton of knighthood, and the orders
of Knight Commander of the Bath,
Commander of the Royal Victorian
Order, and Knight Commander of the
Victorian Order; whose books have
made him famous as an author; who
is a sculptor of ability, having ex-
hibited at the Royal Academy, and
who has founded the greatest boys
organization of modern times.
Sir Robert Joined the Thirteenth
Hussars at the age of nineteen, and
as a young man served with that IA
nous regiment in India, Afghanistan
and South Africa. In 1888 his op-
erations in Zululand won honorable
mention in the dispatches. In 1895
ne commanded a native army in Ash
anti and he was chief staff officer in
. the campaign in Matabe1eland. His
defense of Mafeking has become one
of the classic events of warfare. Rir
Roberts favorite recreation is pig =
sticking, and he won the Kadir Cup,
e.
His book on that pastime is consider
ed an authority, and is the Hoyle of
the pig-sticxing game. He is also
fond of golf and polo.
Birthday congratulations are due
to-day to Jaroslov Kocian, the won
derful young Bohemian Violinist who
is how touring America. Kocian
was born in Wildenschwert, Bohemia
twenty-nine years ago to-day, and be-
gan playing the violin when a baby of
three, under the direction of his
father, a schoolmaster of musical in
rlinations. Kocian was in the same
class as Kubelik at the Pra que Con-
servatory of Music, entering that in
stitution at the age of twelve Five
years later he began his concert ca
reer, playing in all the principal cit
les of Europe, and also visited Fee
TO play in the palace of the Sultan.
His first American tour was COM
menced in 1910 as sso1oist with the
Theodore Thomas orchestra. In Lon
don he played at the concerts of DR..
Hans Richter, who declared that the
Bohemian genius was destined to be-
come the greatest violinist of the
century.
There are twelve millions of Social
list voters in the world, and to-day all
of them viii ce.eora=e, az reasS r
spirit, the seventy-third birthday of
their recognized leader, Ferdinand
August Bebel, the Social Democracy
of Germany has become the great
est political organization, numerically
In the continent of Europe. Even
his political enemies admit that Be
hel is the cost powerful man in the
fatherland. Gray and bent beneath
the weight of years, he is still Eu-